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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 Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
28-02-2018
UFO’s Are Real, And This Recent UFO Incident Above The Skies Of Oregon Confirms It
In October of 2017, a mysterious object overflew the skies above Oregon and quickly turned into a massive UFO hunt.
What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series of eyewitness accounts made by commercial pilots traveling northward over Oregon.
Even F-15 fighters were launched to intercept the mysterious intruder that quickly became invisible to radar, and the F-15’s could catch up with the mystery craft.
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An audio recording released this month reveals confusion between pilots, the control tower and radar operators after they detected a mysterious flying object in the skies of the state of Oregon, in the United States, which they failed to identify.
The UFO was spotted on October 25 last year at 4:30 pm (local time) when air traffic controllers noticed the presence of an object flying at high speeds on its radar.
Upon perceiving what they presumed was an unauthorized flight, a radar operator alarmed the authorities of Sector 31 of the Oakland Control Tower.
At that time, the unknown object traveled over Crater Lake to the valley of Willamette and moved “very fast at 37,000 feet.”
“You know that target south of the boundary there that 0027 code moving very fast at 37,000?” asked the Radar Operator.
Oakland Center Controller responded: “Oh, look at that thing, to what the Radar Operator responded, yeah, that’s, uh, crazy.”
Oakland Center Controller asked: “Huh, um… and you don’t have anything on him, huh?”
“I got nothing,” responded the Radar operator.
It was cause for real concern, as the mysterious craft did something extremely dangerous; it suddenly turned into a crowded stream of commercial airliners, where it disappeared from radar, but not from sight. The UFO was not responding to any radio calls and did not have a functioning transponder, reports The War Zone.
Soon after, confused commercial airliner pilots started calling in the reports, saying that they saw a large white aircraft traveling alongside them at a distance.
“Hey, it’s United 612, it’s just a white speck out there, I mean we can see it, but there’s no identification on it, just uh, that it’s there,” reported one of the pilots.
The Air Force was also aware of the mystery encounter and followed to contact closely. The USAF’s Western Air Defense sector jumped into action.
In order to solve the mystery to what Radar and Flight control picked up, US Air Force F15C Eagles, from Portland’s 142nd Fighter Wing were scrambled to intercept the UFO and take a closer look. However, despite the Fighter Jets’ powerful sensors and speed, they could not catch up with the UFO, which eventually disappeared both from radar and sight.
What the mystery craft was, remained a mystery as neither commercial airliner pilots nor Air Force pilots were able to identify it.
What do we know about it? It was big, it was whiteish in color, it flew at approximately 37,000 feet, and it was moving relatively fast, about the same speed as surrounding commercial airliners. The UFO, however, appeared and disappeared from radar, and was not emitting any signals. Furthermore, the UFO always stayed at the edge of the visual range, which made it nearly impossible for pilots to identify it.
The radar and audio recordings released to the public reveal what can easily be said as one of the most mysterious UFO encounters.
Whether the object was a man-made aircraft or visitors from another planet, we don’t know, but anything is possible until it’s proven otherwise.
Read more about the UFO encounter on The War Zone.
The governments know the full extent of the ETs and UFOs. They have known since the 1940's. They keep it from us because they don't want us to know about the technology because then we will live free from the use from gas oil or coal ... and the powers that be don't want that they want to keep robbing and enslaving us. They are here already and have been for a long time.
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Secret Space Program: Faster than Light Technology is Real
Secret Space Program: Faster than Light Technology is Real
This is why there are no space shuttles, we don't need them.
NASA has gone basically underground, we are out there way out there! Black ops are at least 50 to 100 years ahead of what we know, your smartphone is old news!
This video takes the audience through a series of revelations as to how remarkable breakthrough technology, may have been back-engineered from recovered or captured off-world vehicles.
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Deep Bore Into Antarctica, Scientists Found Something Unexpected
Deep Bore Into Antarctica, Scientists Found Something Unexpected
Without the ice shelves pushing back the ice, the global sea level would increase rapidly. What do you think of this new finding about the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?
Could Methane on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Be a Sign of Life?
Could Methane on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Be a Sign of Life?
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Saturn's ocean-harboring moon Enceladus, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Some hardy Earth microbes could likely survive in the Saturn moon Enceladus' buried ocean, gobbling up hydrogen produced by interactions between seawater and rock, a new study suggests.
And the microbes tested in the study churn out methane as a metabolic byproduct. That's intriguing, because NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected methane in the plume of particles blasted out into space by Enceladus' powerful south-pole geysers.
"We were able to show that, under putative Enceladus conditions, biological methane production occurs in the lab," said study co-author Simon Rittmann, of the Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology at the University of Vienna in Austria. [Amazing Photos of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus]
This exploratory work identified one of the microbes, Methanothermococcus okinawensis, as the best suited for more in-depth study under Enceladus-like conditions. So the team exposed M. okinawensis to a variety of gas compositions and (relatively high) pressures at 150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 degrees Celsius) — basically, what you'd expect to find at hydrothermal vents on Enceladus' seafloor.
Astronomers have inferred the existence of such vents on Enceladus from several Cassini observations. For example, the Saturn orbiter spotted tiny silica particles and molecular hydrogen (H2) in the moon's plume, both of which are best explained by reactions between hot water and rock.
M. okinawensis grew well and produced methane in the team's experiments, which perhaps isn't terribly surprising, given that the organism was isolated from a hydrothermal vent off the Japanese island of Okinawa, at a depth of about 3,200 feet (975 meters).
Cassini image of Enceladus' geysers blasting material from the moon's subsurface ocean into space.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
In addition, Taubner and her colleagues modeled the water-rock reactions likely occurring in Enceladus' interior. They found that such reactions are likely producing lots of H2 — enough to sustain methanogenic organisms such as M. okinawensis, if any exist on the Saturn satellite. [Inside Enceladus, Icy Moon of Saturn (Infographic)]
To be clear, study team members aren't claiming that Enceladus' methane is biological; after all, the substance can be produced geologically as well (by reactions between rock and hot water, in fact). But the new results could help inform the search for life on ocean moons in the solar system, Rittmann said.
"From an astronomical perspective, future missions to Enceladus or other icy moons should be equipped to be able to detect methanogenic biosignatures related to methanogens, like certain lipids or ratios of certain carbon isotopes," he said.
There are currently no Enceladus missions on the books of NASA or any other space agency. But both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are developing missions to explore the icy ocean moons of Jupiter.
NASA's entry, called Europa Clipper, will assess the habitability of the buried ocean on the Jovian satellite Europa over the course of dozens of flybys. ESA's mission, called Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), will also study Europa, though it will focus more on Ganymede and, to a lesser extent, Callisto.
Europa Clipper and JUICE are both scheduled to launch in the 2020s. NASA is also working on a separate Europa lander mission, though that project remains a concept at the moment.
The new study was published online today (Feb. 27) in the journal Nature Communications.
Scientists have also spotted methane in the atmosphere of Mars, and they're not sure where the Red Planet's store of the stuff is coming from. But more information should be coming soon: The Trace Gas Orbiter, part of the European-Russian ExoMars exploration program, is scheduled to begin measuring and mapping Mars methane in mid-April.
It may not be as widely available as say a bottle of Poland Spring, but the water on the Moon may be more accessible than first thought, giving new hope for its potential.
The analysis, which appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience earlier this month, may wind up letting researchers understand where the water comes from. It could also indicate whether it could be used to sustain life or for conversion into rocket fuel, breaking it down into its base elements, hydrogen and oxygen.
"Regardless of the specific composition or formation mechanism, we conclude that OH/H2O [Hydroxide/Water] can be present on the Moon under thermal conditions more wide-ranging than previously recognized," the study's abstract reads. The study was conducted by Michael Poston, Joshua Bandfield, Rachel Klima and Christopher Edwards.
“By putting some limits on how mobile the water or the OH on the surface is, we can help constrain how much water could reach the cold traps in the polar regions,” said Poston in a NASA press release.
Water was first discovered on the Moon in 2009 by three spacecraft. However, it was believed up until now that the water was trapped in "cold traps" at the Moon's poles. That is no longer the case.
According to NASA, a cold trap is a region that’s "so cold, the water vapor and other volatiles which come into contact with the surface will remain stable for an extended period of time, perhaps up to several billion years."
It's still unclear how accessible the water is, but the study does suggest that it can be found on the lunar surface both during the day and the night.
It's also unclear what its source is, though the team did not rule out that the water may be emanating from the Moon itself, via minerals.
“Some of these scientific problems are very, very difficult, and it’s only by drawing on multiple resources from different missions that are we able to hone in on an answer,” said NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project scientist John Keller in the release.
The study follows recent reports that suggest there may be an underground network of lava tubes on the Moon which may provide access to subsurface ice, as well as water.
MIT and Arizona State University researchers are hot on the heels of the Universe’s first stars: they’ve traced the faint signals of hydrogen gas energized by stellar radiation just 180 million years after the Big Bang.
Image via Pixabay.
Where does everything come from? That’s one of the questions people have been burning to answer since times immemorial. It’s a hugely complicated question, but science can offer some bits and pieces to start cobbling the answer together. A paper published today by MIT and Arizona State University researchers uncovered a fundamental one such piece: the earliest evidence of hydrogen gas and the earliest evidence of stars igniting that we’ve ever seen.
The gas from whence we came
Using a table-sized radio antenna plopped down in a remote part of western Australia, dubbed EDGES (Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature), the team managed to pick up trace signals generated by hydrogen gas, just 180 million years after the Big Bang. This is the earliest evidence we’ve ever seen for the presence of hydrogen in the early universe — a very important find, considering hydrogen is the simplest, and thus first, atom out there. The team was also able to determine that by this time, the gas bore traces of the first stars in the world.
“This is the first real signal that stars are starting to form, and starting to affect the medium around them,” says study co-author Alan Rogers, a scientist at MIT’s Haystack Observatory.
“What’s happening in this period is that some of the radiation from the very first stars is starting to allow hydrogen to be seen. It’s causing hydrogen to start absorbing the background radiation, so you start seeing it in silhouette, at particular radio frequencies.”
The EDGES instrument was designed to pick up radio signals generated during a time in the universe’s history known as the Epoch of Reionization, or EoR. It’s during this time that we think the first sources of light (such as stars) sprang up in the world, from a sort of cosmic primordial soup made up mostly of hydrogen gas. Not much else was happening before this time, mostly due to a lack of energy to change objects in the universe: hydrogen, for example, was virtually invisible, as its energy state made it indistinguishable from the surrounding cosmic background radiation.
The dark Horsehead Nebula in the constellation Orion. Hydrogen corresponds to red. Image credits Ken Crawford.
But the birth of these sources of light and energy ionized the hydrogen gas, changing its energy state, and making it release energy as radio waves — and that’s exactly what EDGES was designed to pick up.
However, not all went according to plan. When the team looked at the frequency range the antenna was designed to pick up, between 100 to 200 megahertz, they hardly picked up any signal.
Void-cold
One explanation they came up with is that the theoretical models which we used to calculate what emissions this early hydrogen would give off overestimated the gas’ temperature. So they re-crunched the numbers, this time assuming that the hydrogen and its environment were at about the same, lower temperature. They decided their best bet was to search the 50 to 100 megahertz frequency range, so they returned their antenna and flipped the switch again.
“As soon as we switched our system to this lower range, we started seeing things that we felt might be a real signature,” Rogers says.
The device picked up a flattened absorption profile (i.e. a dip in the radio wave-spectrum) centered around 78 megahertz. Rogers adds that the frequency corresponds to “roughly 180 million years after the Big Bang”, adding that “this has got to be the earliest” detection of a signal from hydrogen we yet have. To put things into perspective, we know that the universe is at least 11 billion years old, and most estimates place its age upwards of 13.5 billion years.
The radio profile matches theoretical predictions of a star-hydrogen interaction. These early stellar bodies poured ultraviolet radiation out into the void, ionizing any surrounding body of hydrogen. As a result, the gas began to absorb background radiation, which changed the spin on its single electron. Ultimately, this change made the atoms emit, rather than absorb, radiation, at a characteristic wavelength of 21 centimeters, or a frequency of 1,420 megahertz — becoming, in effect, ‘visible’ for the first time.
Red-shift affected these waves, so by the time it reached present-day Earth, it was somewhere in the range of 100 megahertz.
But the dip in the radio spectrum was also stronger and deeper than the models predicted — suggesting that the hydrogen was indeed colder than previously assumed. The team estimates that the hydrogen gas and the universe as a whole must have been twice as cold as previously estimated, at about 3 kelvins, or -270.15 degrees Celsius / -454 degrees Fahrenheit.
The edges of discovery
Image credits MIT / Haystack Observatory.
The research is likely the best window we’ll have into the universe’s early history for a long time to come. It took an incredible scientific effort to obtain these results. It took years of hard work for engineers and scientists to design, re-design, and re-calibrate the EDGES instrument to even have a hope of picking up on these signals. Peter Kurczynski, program director for Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation in the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, the organization that built EDGES, compares it to “being in the middle of a hurricane and trying to hear the flap of a hummingbird’s wing.”
“Sources of noise can be a thousand times brighter than the signal they are looking for,” he explains.
It was built in the middle of Australia’s nowhere (which has to be at least nowhere squared) because it was the most remote place they could get to — and that limited interference from man-made radio signals, which would easily overpower any of the signals the antenna was designed to pick up on.
“It is unlikely that we’ll be able to see any earlier into the history of stars in our lifetimes,” lead author Judd Bowman of ASU says. “This project shows that a promising new technique can work and has paved the way for decades of new astrophysical discoveries.”
It’s also the first actual glimpse we get into this period of the universe, a particularly important one — these were, after all, the universe’s early days. The foundation of everything we see today was laid down during that Epoch.
WETENSCHAP Astronomen zijn erin geslaagd signalen te detecteren die te maken hebben met het verschijnen van de eerste sterren in het universum, 13,6 miljard jaar geleden, of dus kort na het ontstaan van het heelal. Dat staat in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
De intensiteit van de waargenomen signalen laat veronderstellen dat het universum veel sneller is afgekoeld dan gedacht. Dit kan leiden tot het herzien van de kosmologische modellen, en het mogelijk beter begrijpen van de mysterieuze donkere materie, die voor telescopen onzichtbaar is.
De bewuste astrofysici, onder wie Brian Schmidt, winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor Fysica in 2011, noemen de ontdekking “revolutionair”. Anderen roepen op tot “voorzichtigheid”. De observatie moet nog bevestigd worden door instrumenten en andere teams van wetenschappers.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Dat er water te vinden is op onze maan, weten we al een tijdje. Nieuw onderzoek heeft nu echter uitgewezen dat die waterbronnen veel beter toegankelijk zijn dan eerst gedacht.
Bijna een decennium geleden werd met sondes bevestigd dat er water is op de maan. De theorie luidde toen dat het vervat zat aan de polen in zogenaamde ‘cold traps’. Dat zijn gebieden die zo koud zijn dat waterdamp en andere vluchtige stoffen die met het oppervlak in aanraking komen gedoemd zijn om daar misschien wel miljarden jaren op rij stabiel te blijven. Maar nieuw en veelbelovend onderzoek zet die theorie op de helling, zo blijkt uit een recente publicatie in het vakblad Nature Geoscience gemeld.
Twee maanmissies, de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter en de Chandrayaan-1, geven aan dat het water op onze maan over het hele oppervlak verspreid kan zijn. Het zou dus niet beperkt zijn tot een bepaalde regio’s (zoals de polen) of vastzitten in een bepaald terrein (zoals kraters). Bovendien lijkt het water zowel dag als nacht aanwezig te zijn, voornamelijk in de vorm van OH (of hydroxyl). Dit bestaat uit één zuurstofatoom en één waterstofatoom.
Hoe toegankelijk het water is en waar het vandaan komt, is niet duidelijk. Maar mogelijk kan het uiteindelijk als drinkwater dienen, tot waterstof en zuurstof voor raketmotoren worden geconverteerd of tot lucht voor ruimtereizigers worden herleid.
That question gets more difficult to answer every day as new announcements are released about robotic achievements and advances in artificial intelligence. Just in the past week we’ve seen a realistic robotic dog that can open a door and fight off a human who tries to stop it, a realistic walking humanoid robot that puts out fires, a call to equip robots with kill switches, a warning that robots will use humans as guinea pigs and a call to be cautious rather than dystopic. Which one is it?
Boston Dynamics, a world leader in robotics, released two videos of one of its latest inventions – a four-legged SpotMini robot dog that can open a door with its ‘mouth’. The popularfirst video shows how cute the robotic pet looks as it grabs the knob without the usual canine slobber, while the second, which is called “Testing Robustness,” shows the pit bull wannabe fighting off a human who tries to stop it. Here’s a telling statement from the second video’s commentary:
“The ability to tolerate and respond automatically to disturbances like these improves successful operation of the robot. (Note: This testing does not irritate or harm the robot.)”
What about irritating or harming humans?
Not SpotMini but this is how it starts
Next, the Italian Institute of Technology’s (IIT) released a video of its WALK-MAN humanoid robot performing a simulated disaster rescue operation during an industrial plant disaster where it walks into a room, turns off a leaking gas valve, clears out debris and operates a fire extinguisher. While not fully autonomous (yet), all it will take is for one WALK-MAN to rescue a baby in a fire to move humans to embrace it like the Sony Walkman of the 80s and 90s (which ultimately took control of how humans listen to music … coincidence?).
Do we need to put a ‘kill switch’ or ‘kill chip’ in the brains of robots to stop them before their AI turns on their human overlords (if they even exist anymore) and kills their makers? Futurist Dr. Michio Kaku said in a Reddit Q/A session that he thinks it’s imperative to do this … and here’s why.
“I think we should chip their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”
Murderous thoughts in robots! The plot of many sci-fi movies, which Dr. Kaku doesn’t see happening until 2100. But what about in the meantime? Fellow futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson has his own dystopian view of the future. He told The Sun he believes robots will act like rogue states and, as they gain more intelligence than humans, turn us into their own enslaved guinea pigs.
“We’ll have trained it to be like us, trained it to feel emotions like us, but it won’t be like us. It will be a bit like aliens off Star Trek—smarter and more calculated in its actions. It will be insensitive to humans, viewing us as barbaric. So when it decides to carry out its own experiments, with viruses that it’s created, it will treat us like guinea pigs.”
Guinea pigs of robots! Another great sci-fi plot that seems awfully close to reality – far sooner than 2100. Is there any hope for humans against robots and their murderous, rogue-state AI brains?
“What we are faced with, this list suggests, is not an existential threat to humanity but sharper forms of the problems with which we are already grappling. AI should be seen not in terms of super-intelligent machines but as clever bits of software that, depending on the humans wielding them, can be used either for good or ill.”
There have certainly long been plenty of reports of reptilian humanoids reported across cultures and all over the world, some of which I have covered here at Mysterious Universe before, and such beings have become intertwined with the myths and legends of many cultures throughout our planet. But taking it to the next surreal level is a rather persistent and pervasive conspiracy theory that not only are lizard people real, but that they are taking over the world as we know it. It is an idea so far out in the fringe that it is considered pretty out there even among other conspiracy theorists, yet it has managed to become rather stubborn and pervasive, an idea that has gained momentum and just will not go away, and the notion that we are in thrall to some mysterious race of reptilian overlords seems like it is here to stay for awhile.
The main thrust of such bizarre theories originates with a man named David Icke. Originally a professional soccer player, before moving on in later years to the position of sportscaster, Icke’s calling took a sharp right turn into the bizarre when he had a “spiritual awakening” and became deeply interested in psychic abilities and various unexplained phenomena. He began to take up the reputation of being a psychic, making various predictions and outlandish claims, including one in which he insisted the world would end in 1997 (hint- it didn’t). He really found his true calling, however, when he latched onto the idea that ancient shape-changing reptilian aliens had come to Earth thousands of years ago and were in the process of infiltrating society for the sinister purposes of taking over the world to work towards some sort of New World Order.
David Icke
The theory first leapt out into the public consciousness with the publication of Icke’s book The Biggest Secret, in which he lays out the whole thing in great detail. According to Icke, his research showed that millennia ago a race of reptilian aliens called the the Anunnaki visited Earth and began to press us and mate with us, spreading out their bloodlines and working their way into society until they controlled all aspects of our life. Icke claimed that these creatures could shape-shift or possess humans, and they were claimed to have designed all of the world’s major religions, as well as government systems and other aspects of civilization as we know it, all while they fed upon us and performed human sacrifices and genetic manipulation on us.
Icke claims that the presence of these beings was well-known amongst ancient peoples, and cites as proof several passages from religious books such as the Bible, where he claims there can be found references to these Reptilians and their efforts to interbreed with and control humans. He also cites the numerous references throughout cultures to the worship of reptile gods and other entities, such as the Mesopotamian reptile serpent god Quetzalcoatl, the reptilian Naga of India, and many others. This is all evidence of out ancestors having had contact with out reptilian overlords in ancient times, according to Icke. He would say of this incredible theory:
I make these connections, not just from intuition, but from a tremendous amount of ancient and modern evidence that shows that this reptilian connection travels right through these thousands of years to the present day. Some of these references to serpents and dragons are obviously symbolic, not the least, the Kundalini energy and other things, but when you look at the evidence, there is a tremendous number of literal references to serpent people – serpent gods.
Over the centuries these Reptilians interbred with us and spread out to the world along with humankind, and managed to insert themselves into important families and organizations, from which they control religion, the government, education, and of course the media. These creatures are apparently attracted to our planet because of the “vibrations” present here, plus the fact that we give them a chance to continue to reproduce. Icke said of this:
The reptilians and other manipulating entities exist only just outside the frequency range of our physical senses. Their own physical form has broken down and they can no longer re-produce. Thus they have sought to infiltrate human form and so use that to exist and control in this dimension. They chose the Earth for this infiltration because it most resembles in vibration the locations from which they originate. These reptilians are addicted to the dense physical “world” and the sensations it offers and they have no desire to advance higher. Their aim in this period is to stop the Earth and incarnate humanity from making the shift from dense physical prison into multi-dimensional paradise.
By having power in every single country, the Reptilians have created a global prison that people don’t even realize they’re in. The prison was created by drawing country lines, which leads to endless wars and conflicts. Another way they control humans is by distracting us with media, entertainment, and even politics. They’ve also made the population stupid and lazy by poisoning food, the air, and the water.
A crucial aspect of all of this has been to create a network of mystery schools and secret societies to covertly introduce their agenda while, at the same time, creating institutions like religions to mentally and emotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other.
One common theme with the whole Reptilian conspiracy is interbreeding with human and genetic experiments upon us. This mixing of their DNA with that of humans and other genetic doctoring has been claimed to have several purposes. One is to allow them to more completely blend in and infiltrate us, and another is that it was meant to limit our mental capacity in order to keep us meek, stupid, and compliant. According to Icke, this reptilian DNA lies dormant within many of us, waiting to be activated at a moment’s notice to serve the whims of our Reptilian overlords. His whole philosophy on this is quite complex, and at times really absolutely bonkers, but he says of it:
These reptilians and their allies have corrupted Earth DNA with their own and this genetic infiltration lies dormant until it is activated by the vibrational fields generated by the Illuminati secret society rituals, and others in the public eye like the carefully designed coronations and official ceremonies of many kinds, including even the UK State Opening of Parliament and certainly those of the various religions.
Once activated, the DNA opens the body to possession by these reptilians and other beings, and this is what is happening, for example, to Freemasons in the rituals that most of them deliver parrot fashion while having no idea of their vibrational significance. This is why the Illuminati are so obsessed with knowing a person’s bloodline. They know which have the potential for this activation and possession and which do not. The Mormon Church genealogical data base and now the DNA data banks are designed to identify those with the bloodline. These are the people who are given jobs and roles that serve the Illuminati agenda, while most of them have no idea what is really going on and what they are being used for. Their DNA is then activated and they go through a change of character (a phrase I have heard so many times in relation to such people once they advance in the system) and a very different consciousness takes over their mental and emotional processes.
Each new generation of the Illuminati bloodline families is exposed to the appropriate ritual to activate their possession by the reptilian entities and so the cycle goes on. The phrase that comes to mind is “…forgive them for they know not what they do.
This all goes very deep, according to Icke, with the bloodline of the aliens getting rather complex, and with a hierarchy involved with both the Reptoids themselves and the many hybrids they have spawned that are said to walk amongst us. In particular, Icke makes frequent mention of the difference between “full bloods,” meaning they are of or close to the original Reptilian alien stock, and hybrids, which are generally lower on the totem pole. Full bloods are claimed to be in possession of a vast array of powers, such as shape-changing, which is supposedly achieved through vibrations that trick the human mind into seeing what the Reptilian wants you to see, and other abilities such as mind-control. Hybrids, on the other hand, are said to lack these powers, look very much like humans without any obfuscation, and are often not even aware of their alien ancestry. These hybrids are apparently constantly manipulated and influenced by the pureblood ruling class towards their own agendas. Icke even claims that there are two different races of Reptilian; the winged Dracos and the more humanoid Reptoids. It is a lot to take in.
Seeing as these Reptilians are said to be fond of taking over the wealthiest and most powerful of families and secret societies, it is perhaps no surprise that Icke names many of them as being without a doubt crawling with lizard people. The ever present conspiratorial society called the Illuminati is said to be basically Lizard Central, with many families of pureblood Reptilians in its ranks, and the mythology of this all incredibly complex and beyond the scope of what I plan to go into here, but which was written of extensively in Stewart A. Swerdlow’s book Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict & Creation, which goes into considerable, meticulous detail on as to how the Reptilians are connected to the dealings of the notorious Illuminati.
Of course, these alleged Reptilians can apparently be seen in powerful mainstream families politics, and other public figures and historical figures as well. The French king Charlemagne, the Pope, the Rockefellers, the powerful Rothschild family of Germany, the British Royal family, and many American presidents including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bushes, and, yes, Trump, are all named as Reptilians in disguise. Countless entertainers are also accused of being Reptilians, including Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, and many others. Virtually everyone who is anyone is suspected by Icke of being a Reptilian or hybrid, and it all serves to keep us under control and subservient to our real, Reptilian masters.
The media is also accused by Icke of being highly influenced by the Reptilians, and they supposedly use it as a tool to feed us a constant barrage of images and stories designed to dull our minds, usurp our common sense and rationality, and keep us asleep and “unconscious.” Adding to the list of conspiracies of plots perpetuated by the Reptilians is that they also seek to use medication and drugs such as alcohol to manipulate us, and that they have effectively corrupted our food and water supply with such insidious chemical agents. These are not really new ideas among those who distrust government and politicians in general, by it is all given a rather bizarre spin when it is all blamed on flesh-eating, shape-shifting reptilian aliens from beyond the stars looking to subjugate the human race for their own inscrutable purposes.
This may all sound rather insane, and in many ways it perhaps is, yet Icke and others like him have still managed to draw large numbers of people into these incredible theories and accusations. Websites and books on the Reptilian conspiracy go through great lengths to provide the “evidence,” and are often so dense with esoteric jargon and psuedo-science, and worded in such a way that it is easy to see how it might resonate with someone as true and how they might get sucked down into the rabbit hole to actually start believing this stuff. I waded through quite a bit of it while looking into this, and it is all admittedly an assault on the psyche that could very feasibly pull someone in, and by all accounts it already has. Indeed, it is estimated that a full 12 million Americans believe that this is all true, and that a secret race of Lizard People rule from behind the scenes pulling the strings and subjugating us through whatever means possible. In the end it is up to each individual to decide what one believes, but for this author if there are mysterious entities controlling our lives from the background, then I would say that it is not reptilian Lizard People. It is obviously the Greys.
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VREEMDE CONSTRUCTIE WORDT ZICHTBAAR OP ANTARCTICA
VREEMDE CONSTRUCTIE WORDT ZICHTBAAR OP ANTARCTICA
Het ijzige continent Antarctica is niet altijd bevroren geweest en door de heftige aardveranderingen en de zogenaamde wobble van de aarde wordt het op sommige plaatsen kouder dan normaal en elders precies andersom.
En dat betekent dan weer dat er op Antarctica dingen zichtbaar worden die voorheen verborgen bleven.
Wat het veroorzaakt, weten we niet precies. Het kan komen door de aardveranderingen waarbij het weer op sommige plaatsen anders wordt dan normaal of het kan een andere oorzaak hebben, maar op Antarctica wordt iets zichtbaar wat er voorheen niet was.
Het ziet er ongeveer zo uit:
Het geheel is ongeveer 300 meter lang en de muren zijn tussen de 30 en 50 meter hoog.
Het is niet iets natuurlijks en wanneer je het wat verder uitvergroot ziet het er zo uit:
Het lijkt op de restanten van een gebouw of een nederzetting waar ooit mensen hebben gewoond.
Je kunt het ook zelf bekijken wanneer je de volgende coördinaten gebruikt:: 69°53'42.03"S 8°42'22.02"E
Steeds vaker zie je beelden van mensen die vlak in de buurt van onze zon een "tweede zon" waarnemen, vooral bij zonsopkomst en -ondergang.
Al snel worden dit soort opnames verwezen naar het rijk der fabelen en afgedaan als lensflares, maar steeds vaker gaat ook die vlieger niet meer op.
Voor ons is het niet zo verrassend dat er steeds vaker een tweede zon wordt waargenomen. Maar, voor de meeste mensen is dit toch iets onvoorstelbaars, want er is toch helemaal geen vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel?
Voor hen is het misschien toch wel schokkend om te zien dat er steeds vaker beelden worden gemaakt van een soort tweede zon. De positie waar deze wordt waargenomen kan behoorlijk variëren, zeker met zonsopkomst en -ondergang en is helemaal afhankelijk van de positie op aarde.
Iemand aan wie we al vaker aandacht aan hebben besteed, is een dame uit West Virginia, Amber Williamson, die eind vorig jaar bijzondere opnames maakte. Deze zijn uitgebreid gecontroleerd door Marshall Masters en hij is ervan overtuigd dat ze echt zijn en bovendien heeft Amber deze tweede zon ook met het blote oog waargenomen.
Zo maakte zij onlangs de volgende opnames tegen zonsondergang. Je ziet de normale zon en daarachter heel duidelijk een tweede planeet/zon. Deze opname is heel mooi, want het sluit een lensflare uit, simpelweg omdat de tweede zon zich achter de bomen bevindt, wat bij een lensflare niet kan.
De volgende opname is genomen door Philip Sinclair uit Somerset in de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts. Ook deze foto is door Marshall Masters gecontroleerd en volgens hem echt en ook hier zie je de tweede zon gedeeltelijk schuil gaan achter wolken. Ook hier is de opname gemaakt tegen zonsondergang.
De volgende opname is niet tegen zonsondergang, maar wat eerder op de dag genomen door Steve Dix uit Flagstaff in de staat Arizona. Ook deze foto is na controle echt bevonden en laat duidelijk een tweede zon zien aan de hemel. (Redactie: wij hebben twijfels over of dit niet toch een lensflare is.)
De volgende opname is voor de verandering genomen tijdens zonsopkomst. Ook hier is heel duidelijk sprake van een tweede zon.
Aan de rechterkant de zon, links de tweede zon/planeet en ook hier geen sprake van een lensflare omdat ook hier de planeet gedeeltelijk achter de wolken schuil gaat.
De exacte locatie is niet bekend, maar zo te horen aan de stem van de vrouw in onderstaande video, ergens in Amerika. Wat deze video ook interessant maakt, is dat de vrouwe die deze heeft gemaakt ooit slechts enkele video's op haar kanaal heeft geplaatst en op het moment dat wij de video zagen deze slechts 22 keer was bekeken.
Het heeft dan ook alle kenmerken van een echte opname en het is zeker niet de maan, want de opkomsttijd van de maan in Amerika was op de datum van 4 februari toen deze video werd gemaakt, pas 's avonds.
ALIEN MOTHERSHIP? Huge object seen ’releasing UFOs’ over city in bizarre video
ALIEN MOTHERSHIP? Huge object seen ’releasing UFOs’ over city in bizarre video
A HUGE craft has allegedly been recorded "releasing several smaller UFOs" over a city, a video report by conspiracy theorists claims. Footage released by YouTube UFO channel Thirdphaseofmoon shows what appears to be a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky.
Another added: “I never thought I would say this but that is an alien ship.”
But a third was more sceptical, writing: “Large group of Chinese lanterns.”
Scott Brando who runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org said: "Those lights are not parachuters but military cluster flares during a usual military drill filmed several times in those skies."He provided a link to a YouTube video showing a similar operation.He later tweeted: "This cluster of lights suddenly appeared in the sky above the village of Novogradska in south-western #Ukraine are not #UFOs but were targets (parachuted flares) used during military drill involving Ukrainian Marines, confirmed by their spokesman."
Can satellites shapeshift? Thanks to innovation from Britain, they will. The Eutelsat Quantum satellite will be the first commercial satellite to reconfigure in orbit.
SHAPE SHIFTING
While the U.S. and Russia often steal the scene when it comes to wondrous space missions, in Europe the U.K is launching a new satellite that is sure to surprise its international partners. The Eutelsat Quantum satellite, built by the firm Airbus, will be the first commercial satellite equipped to shapeshift while in orbit. Operators will be able to reconfigure the satellite in real time, modifying elements such as its frequency and the areas of the earth it covers.
Speaking with Phys.org, Yohann Leroy, deputy CEO of French satellite operator Eutelsat, said that“what is really new is the level of flexibility that the satellite will provide […] thanks to a combination of technologies that we will put on board the satellite.”
The satellite, set to launch in 2019, will have a 15-year lifespan — with an additional three years taken into consideration for building — and will use its ability to reconfigure to keep up with changing market conditions and differing regulatory parameters. Instead of satellite makers having to predict the market or have their satellites become obsolete fast, the Eutelsat Quantum satellite boasts an extreme flexibility that will keep it ahead of the game.
BRITISH SPACE
To give one example of how a hyper-flexible satellite like this might be beneficial, take the marine industry. To track a terminal’s journey across an ocean, you would typically have to use multiple beams from various satellites to cover all of the different regions across the water. Using this tech, a single beam from this one satellite would do the job.
Additionally, traditional satellites are often custom produced, which makes them unique but less adaptable. This satellite, however, would be built following a reproducible standard, which means it could be mass produced. While this may give pause to those concerned about space pollution, it would definitely improve access to satellite technology.
It’s unclear yet whether or not such flexibility will become mainstream in the future, but the new model’s capabilities are promising. What is sure is that the U.K. is making headway in this ambitious niche of the space industry.
Photos shot from UFO Seekers allegedly show unknown, triangular object interacting with two U.S. Air Force F-16s.
On Feb. 15, 2017, UFO seekers Tim Doyle and Tracey Su were camping near Groom Lake to take pictures and film videos of activity in the skies inside Area 51. During their stay, they spotted a couple of F-16s dogfighting and snapped some shots at the jets. It wasn’t until they got back home, when they started reviewing the pictures, that they noticed a third unidentified aircraft that they described as a “triangular” object which appeared to be dogfighting the “Vipers” (as the F-16s are dubbed within the fighter pilots community).
The video below includes the pictures shot by Tracey (go to 19:45).
“We try to be a medium between the UFO Community and the Aviation Community. My dad worked at Plant 42 and other family had similar jobs. So people shouldn’t believe we would ever jump to advocating the existence of aliens or an alien craft at AREA 51. But that day we did catch a third craft, unfortunately we only used the photos in the video. All media from that trip was lost in a hard drive failure. In fact UFO Seekers lost over 5 months worth of media (6TB). It may have been a foreign aircraft as that is the primary purpose of the airspace at Groom Lake. Also I know the Air Force tests craft like the Polecat at the NTTR so it may have been an unmanned drone. But maybe, just maybe, it was something more,” said Tim in a message to The Aviationist.
The two F-16s flying close to the mysterious object (highlighted). This is a screen grab from UFO Seekers video filmed close to Area 51.
Here’s the mysterious object. (Screenshot from the UFO Seekers video).
The resolution of images in the video does not allow a proper identification of the object which might well be a drone (or a distant manned aircraft…such as an F-117 that was spotted flying over Nevada with accompanying F-16, in the recent past). Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F-16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird-sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F/A-18F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016. That said, the aircraft could be a prototype of some new UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), maybe a UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), a weaponized drone.
Considered the position of the two fighters, rather than a dogfight, it seems that the jets were chasing the mysterious object rather than engaging it. Maybe they had just intercepted it in a simulated VID mission, or they were simply shadowing or filming a test flight. However, unlike what happened last year with the shots of the Su-27P dofighting with an F-16 inside Area 51, these new photos embedded in a YT video can’t provide a clear picture of the interaction.
Famous Black Knight UFO satellite myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes
Famous Black Knight UFO satellite myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes
From the nervous, shaky start, you can tell it's his first ever YouTube video. The narrator even apologised for his amateur presenting style and asked viewers to bear with him.
But after an 11-minute DIY filming attempt, YouTube user NUA appears to have successfully debunked 1998 photographs of the so-called 'Black Knight satellite'.
This month new video footage from UFO conspiracists, widely believed to be a CGI hoax, did the rounds on social media as alleged further proof of the mysterious alien satellite.
Alien researchers have been calling the myth "one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life" for the past 17 years, while some claim it has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.
But NUA's video - titled "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.
The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space.
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ALIEN SATELLITE? It appears to be just a NASA thermal blanket.
He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of conspiracists branding it a huge cover up.
The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there.
Experiments in 1928 in Oslo, Norway, picked up the same signals.
In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet.
NASA*YouTube
NUA looked at the blanket from all angles to spot identical features.
Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the 'Black Knight Satellite' while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the 'Black Knight' was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
Many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
The noises from 1899 and 1928 remain a mystery, but the possible causes do not so far include an alien satellite, according to scientists.
They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.
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Do you agree NUA has solved the Black Knight mystery?
A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found.
There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the 'Black Knight satellite' on that mission or at all.
Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods.
Despite NUA's video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled 'Black Knight satellite' could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction.
One 'Black Knight' believer posted online about the thermal blanket explanation: "Classic debunking (rubbish). The things these nutters will come up with just so someone will listen to them."
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'UFO hovered over my head' Robbie Williams says a flying saucer came close enough to hit
'UFO hovered over my head' Robbie Williams says a flying saucer came close enough to hit
ROBBIE Williams claims a flying saucer once hovered over his head and was so close he could have hit the UFO with a tennis ball and the pop legend insists he was stone cold sober at the time. The former Take That star says the UFO was so close he could have hit a tennis ball at it had he been holding one and a racket.
The singer is also not the only 1990s northern music sensation to claim to have seen a UFO at close hand.
In 2015 Madchester legend Shaun Ryder told how he came face to face with a huge UFO hovering over his back garden.
The Happy Mondays and Black Grape lead singer claims he was not tripping on magic mushrooms or other hallucinogenics when a 20ft by 10ft flying saucer appeared over him in South America.
And The Beatles legend, the late John Lennon once told how he was with his secretary May Pang at his New York apartment on August 23 1974 when a flashing UFO appeared.
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Alien bases hidden across UK claims conspiracy theorist after 20-year old UFO snap emerges
Alien bases hidden across UK claims conspiracy theorist after 20-year old UFO snap emerges
ALIEN bases are hidden across Britain, one of the top UFO hunters has claimed as he suggested extraterrestrial life is working with the military underground. Scott C Waring, editor of Ufosightingsdaily.com, claims aliens are secretly working with the British military in hidden underground bases.
Alien conspiracy theorists have claimed for years that there are hidden underground bases in the US, where alien visitors held the US Air Force reverse engineer their flying saucer technology.
However, it has not widely been claimed there are any in the UK.
The alien base conspiracy theory ties in with other claims that the US Government has known for years that aliens visit earth but keeps it hidden from the public for fear of the impact the knowledge would have on religion and the rule of law.
Mr Waring published an article on hos website which claimed there was no proof of alien bases in the UK - due to an historic UFO sighting that has just emerged.
MUFON
Scott C Waring claimed there are UK alien bases after a 20-year-old UFO snap emerges.
There is just too much evidence coming from GB to deny the existence of aliens any longer. The truth is, we are not alone, and never have been.
Scott C Waring
In his article entitled "Black Disk Seen In Sky Over Great Britain, Proof Alien Bases Exist In GB" he said the sighting took place on March 8 1998, in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, but has just been reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON.)
US-based MUFON is the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO investigation and it keeps a global database of sightings going back years.
Mr Waring, now based in Taiwan, said: "I really like this photo. It shows a classic shaped UFO in the far distance above Great Britain.
"There is just too much evidence coming from GB to deny the existence of aliens any longer.
"The truth is, we are not alone, and never have been."
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UFO? A close up of the alleged UFO taken 20 years ago.
In a report to MUFON, the original witness, who has not been named, said: "I had just bought a new camera and was trying it out by swizzling around and snapping pictures to see if the was any blurring.
"I took about ten pictures doing the same thing and I only looked at the first couple and they seemed good quality.
"So I downloaded them into a file on my computer and never thought any more about it.
"Then I acquired a program called Picasa which found lots of photos on my computer looking through them I spotted this one I thought it might have been a bird in flight and passed it by. "I have never bothered to much about it and it might be nothing at all, I will let you judge."
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Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios
Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios
Source: AHORA (Argentina) Date: 02.26.2018 A report by Elias Moreira Aliendro
Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios
The mysterious lights were recorded and shared on social media, where cybernauts were consulted as to their opinion of what the objects might be in an effort to arrive at a logical explanation. What could be involved here? See the photos.
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were seen last night over the rural region of El Quebracho, Department of La Paz, over the premises of a local filling station.
The lights that could be seen and recorded by witnesses were shared on social media, where an effort to find a logical answer to the mystery was made. What could the lights have been?
"When we began asking questions, some suggested it could be a rebound effect of artificial lights, since there are dancing establishments in the local canyons. However, given the distance from where the place the photo was taken and Santa Elena, which is the nearest community, we don't believe those two single lights could have been the result," wrote local journalist Oscar Cuenca.
A major fire was unleashed in Granja Tres Arroyos, very near the area, causing considerable smoke over the region. "Given the density of the smoke in the air, others think a tube-shaped beam of light would have been necessary for the images to have been produced by a projector," said the reporter.
"Ultimately, others said on account of that the thickness of the smoke in the air, the luminous effect was caused by the atmosphere itself, as it was a clear night."
[Translation (c) 2018 IHU with thanks to Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía]
Mystery solved: Luis Burgos writes - "A local witness tells me [the lights] were produced by a floodlight from a dance hall/bowling alley located a little more than 20 kilometers from the place, on Route 12. Given the density of the smoke-saturated air resulting from fires in the vicinity, this was the result."
The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought, Hubble Data Suggests
The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought, Hubble Data Suggests
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
Researchers analyzed 19 galaxies, including NGC 3972 (left) and NGC 1015 (right), which are 65 million and 118 million light-years from Earth, respectively. Both possessed pulsating stars called Cepheid variables that let researchers determine the distance to the galaxies.
Credit: A. Riess (STScl/JHU)/NASA/ESA
Recent Hubble Space Telescope findings suggest that the universe is expanding much faster than expected — and astronomers say the rules of physics may need to be rewritten in order to understand why.
"The community is really grappling with understanding the meaning of this discrepancy," Adam Riess, Nobel laureate and lead researcher on the study describing the new findings, said in the statement. Riess is an astronomer at STScI and a professor at Johns Hopkins University. [Our Expanding Universe: Age, History & Other Facts]
The Hubble Space Telescope measures the distance to other galaxies by examining a type of star that varies in brightness. These stars, called Cepheid variables, brighten and dim in a predictable way that lets researchers judge the distance to them. This data is then used to measure the universe's expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant.
The new findings show that eight Cepheid variables in our Milky Way galaxy are up to 10 times farther away than any previously analyzed star of this kind. Those Cepheids are more challenging to measure than others because they reside between 6,000 and 12,000 light-years from Earth. To handle that distance, the researchers developed a new scanning technique that allowed the Hubble Space Telescope to periodically measure a star's position at a rate of 1,000 times per minute, thus increasing the accuracy of the stars' true brightness and distance, according to the statement.
Researchers measured the universe's expansion by calculating the distance to several very distant stars called Cepheid variables, which pulse regularly and let researchers determine the distance to them based on their brightness. The eight newly measured Cepheids are 10 times farther away than any studied previously. Then, the researchers compared the brightness of those stars to the brightness of supernovas in the same galaxies, and compare them with the brightness of supernovas that are even farther out.
Credit: A. Field (STScl)/A. Riess (STScl/JHU)/NASA/ESA
The researchers compared their findings to earlier data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck satellite. During its four-year mission, the Planck satellite mapped leftover radiation from the Big Bang, also known as the cosmic microwave background. The Planck data revealed a Hubble constant between 67 and 69 kilometers per second per megaparsec. (A megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years.)
However, the Planck data gives a constant about 9 percent lower than that of the new Hubble measurements, which estimate that the universe is expanding at 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec, therefore suggesting that galaxies are moving faster than expected, according to the statement.
"Both results have been tested multiple ways, so barring a series of unrelated mistakes, it is increasingly likely that this is not a bug but a feature of the universe," Riess said.
One possible explanation for the discrepancy is that dark energy — the mysterious force known to be accelerating the cosmos — is driving galaxies farther apart with greater intensity. In this case, the acceleration of the universe may not have a constant value but rather may change over time.
Also, it's possible that elusive dark matter, which accounts for 80 percent of the matter in the universe, interacts more strongly with visible matter or radiation than once thought, the researchers said.
Another possible explanation includes a new kind of subatomic particle that travels close to the speed of light and would be affected only by gravity. Researchers named the superfast particles sterile neutrinos, and collectively, these particles are called dark radiation, according to the study, which has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
"Any of these scenarios would change the contents of the early universe, leading to inconsistencies in theoretical models," STScI representatives said in the statement. "These inconsistencies would result in an incorrect value for the Hubble constant, inferred from observations of the young cosmos. This value would then be at odds with the number derived from the Hubble observations."
The team plans to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's Gaia space observatory to measure the precise positions and distances of stars and to further refine estimates of the universe's expansion rate.
Humans Will Hear from Intelligent Aliens This Century, Physicist Says
Humans Will Hear from Intelligent Aliens This Century, Physicist Says
By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor
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.
Credit: SETI Institute
Humans will make contact with aliens by the end of the century, theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku told Redditers last week. However, Kaku said he wasn't sure whether we'd be able to communicate directly with this unknown extraterrestrial society — one that could run the gamut from hostile to pacifist, according to Kaku.
In his AMA on Reddit, Kaku responded to a question about alien civilizations, saying, "Let me stick my neck out. I personally feel that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilization, by listening in on their radio communications. But talking to them will be difficult, since they could be tens of light years away. So, in the meantime, we must decipher their language to understand their level of technology. Are they Type I, II, or III??? [These represent three categories in the Kardashev scale, measuring technological achievement in civilizations based on their level of energy use for communication.] And what are their intentions. Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful."
Kaku added, "Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence. But I think that is unlikely, since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with." [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]
Futurists and theoretical physicists, among others, have proposed a range of ideas for when and how Earthlings could "hear from" E.T., with one astronomer's calculation predicting it would happen within 1,500 yearsand another suggesting we'll find intelligent alien life by 2040.
Though a recent survey suggests humans would be cool with alien interlopers, many scientists and thinkers have warned about the risks involved. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking has voiced his concern several times, saying that intelligent aliens would have no problem wiping out the human race. That said, the same futurists and theoretical minds also fear that the same fate could be dished out to us by human-created artificial intelligence.
Why radio signals?
When Kaku mentions humanity's eavesdropping on extraterrestrial "radio communications," he is likely referring to what alien hunters call narrow-band signals, or those that are spread over only a very small part of the radio extent of the electromagnetic spectrum — no more than a few hertz wide. By comparison, noise emanating from galaxies, quasars, pulsars and other cosmic entities typically extends across a wide swath of the spectrum. Narrow-band noise could therefore be "the mark of a purposely built transistor," according to the SETI Institute.
"Alien life" can refer to anything from little green men to microbes. But when Kaku refers to extraterrestrial life that is capable of communication that traverses light-years, he is clearly talking about more advanced beings. As a civilization grows and becomes more sophisticated, it will inevitably use more energy. As a way of measuring how advanced a society is, Russian astrophysicist Nikolai S. Kardashev in 1964 proposed using this energy as a proxy. The Kardashev scale moves from Type I, a civilization that can harness all the energy of its home planet (Earth is just about at this level); to Type II, which can use all the energy from its parent star (a Dyson sphere is the most common example), to Type III, a civilization that can control all the energy from its home galaxy.
Narrow-band signals "pack a lot of energy into a small amount of spectral space, and consequently are the easiest type of signal to find for any given power level. If E.T. intentionally sends us a signal, those signals may well have at least one narrow-band component to get our attention," according to the SETI Institute.
In his new book "The Future of Humanity" (Doubleday, 2018), Kaku paints a picture of what these aliens might be like, based on interviews with experts in exobiology. They'd have three traits: stereovision (needed to hunt prey), grasping appendages like opposable thumbs, and their own language, according to news reports.
If these "little green men" with opposable thumbs make contact, what happens next? That would depend on the beings' level of intelligence, experts have said.
12,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Culture Built The First Temple On Earth
12,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Culture Built The First Temple On Earth
Located 2,500 feet above sea level at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, some 15 kilometers (9 mi) northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa lie the breathtaking ruins of Göbekli Tepe; a Neolithic sanctuary built some 12,00 years ago by a mysterious people.
This ancient site was found by accident when an old Kurdish shepherd named Savak Yildiz discovered the ruins in October 1994. According got accounts, Savak Yildiz spotted something protruding from the ground, and as he brushed away the dust to expose the mystery object, he came across a large oblong-shaped stone. Little did he know that he had found a long-lost ancient sanctuary built thousands of years ago.
Later that year, news reached archaeologist Klaus Schmidt from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut who traveled to the location and eventually inspected the site, soon realizing it was Neolithic in origin.
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Some called the discovery of Göbekli Tepe as the discovery of the century. Now we know that this ancient site is around 12,000 years old, it was built by an unknown population and was most likely buried on purpose by its builders. Archaeological surveys have shown that the ancient site is around 7,000 years older than Mesopotamia’s Fertile Crescent, which has long been heralded as the cradle of civilization.
The age of Göbekli Tepe is of great importance. Archaeologists firmly believe it is several thousand years older than Stonehenge and The Great Pyramid of Giza.
To get an idea of its importance, if we take a look at biblical tradition, the world began in 4000 BC, yet here we have a monument that was built more than 12,000 years ago. This points not only to the fact that 12,00 years ago advanced civilizations existed on Earth, but they were also capable of erecting some of the most impressive structures on the surface of the planet.
At Göbekli Tepe we have historic evidence that contradicts our normal understanding of the evolution of civilization and therefore mankind as we know it.
However, what is perhaps even more mind-bending is that after more than 20 years of excavations and research, archaeologists exploring the ancient site have failed to recover a single stone-cutting tool.
This makes you wonder, how can you create massive, 19-foot-tall, perfectly-sculpted columns that are up to 12,000 years old, and not find any evidence whatsoever of tools used to accomplish this?
The builders of Göbekli Tepe created a work of art in stone. At the site, we can find depictions of creatures like armadillos, wild boars, and geese, animals that are not indigenous to the region.
What is interesting is that located less than 350 Miles from Göbekli Tepe is the site many biblical scholars believe to be the resting place of Noah’s ark, so the animal carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest a time in the region’s history when the indigenous animal population may have been of a different anthropological origin. We have to ask the question, could Göbekli Tepe and Noah’s ark be connected in a way?
After decades of exploration, we have learned very little about this archaeological site, and its builders. Despite the fact that progress has been made, we still do not know the answers to some of the most important questions like, who built Göbekli Tepe? To what purpose? And how was Göbekli Tepe preserved until today? Researchers point that Göbekli Tepe was “carefully” placed underneath the sand, as its builders made sure the whole site was buried. But… why would the builders bury such an incredible site? To protect it? To preserve it?
Why would ancient man build these massive structures around the world? Many of them are similar if not identical in design. Is there a connection? A pattern around the globe?
Göbekli Tepe is considered as an archaeological discovery of the exceptional importance since it could deeply change our understanding of a crucial stage in the evolution of human societies. “Göbekli Tepe changes everything,” says Ian Hodder of Stanford University. David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says that “Göbekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world.”
At present, Göbekli Tepe raises more questions for archaeology and prehistory than it answers. We do not know how a force large enough to construct, augment, and maintain such an abundant complex was mobilized and rewarded or fed in the conditions of pre-sedentary society.
We cannot “read” the pictograms, and do not know for certain what meaning the animal reliefs had for visitors to the site; the variety of fauna depicted, from lions and bears to birds and insects, makes any single explanation problematic.
Is there something more to Göbekli Tepe? Could these ruins have an extraterrestrial connection? Was Göbekli Tepe built so that the “Sky Gods” could admire it from the sky? Or was Göbekli Tepe built to commemorate an important event in ancient man’s history?
Scientists Find There May Be Water All Over The Moon, And Not Just At Its Poles
Scientists Find There May Be Water All Over The Moon, And Not Just At Its Poles
NASA researchers say that the water is distributed throughout the surface of our satellite day and night. Its presence can be fundamental for the future establishment of a human colony on the lunar surface.
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery after finding evidence that Earth’s Moon may be covered in water. New data analysis of two lunar missions has found evidence that the water on the Moon is widely distributed on the surface and not confined to a particular region or type of terrain, as was previously believed.
Also, water seems to be present day and night, although that does not mean that it is necessarily easily accessible.
The findings could help researchers understand the origin of water in our natural satellite, which is still a mystery and answer another important question: whether or not, future human settlers could use it as an accessible resource.
If the Moon has enough water, and if it is fairly convenient to access it, future human explorers could use it as drinking water or even turn it into hydrogen and oxygen to fuel their rockets.
“We find that it doesn’t matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present. The presence of water doesn’t appear to depend on the composition of the surface, and the water sticks around,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
The new results contradict previous studies, which suggested that there is more water in the polar latitudes of the Moon and that the strength of the water signal increases and decreases according to the lunar day (which lasts 29.5 Earth days).
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Taking this into consideration, researchers have proposed that water molecules can “jump” across the lunar surface until they enter cold traps in the dark reaches of the craters near the north and south poles.
In planetary science, a cold trap is a cold region, that water vapor and other volatiles that come into contact with the surface remain stable for a prolonged period of time, even up to several billion years.
However, debates continue due to the subtleties of how detection has been achieved so far.
The main evidence comes from remote sensing instruments that measured the strength of sunlight reflected off the lunar surface.
When water is present, instruments such as these collect a spectral fingerprint at wavelengths close to 3 micrometers, which is beyond visible light and in the field of infrared radiation.
But scientists have also found that the lunar surface can also be heated enough to “shine” or emit its own light in the infrared region of the spectrum.
The challenge is to disentangle this mixture of reflected and emitted light.
For this, researchers must have very accurate temperature information.
Bandfield and his team presented a new way of incorporating lunar temperature information and created a detailed model from the measurements made by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on board the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The team applied this temperature model to data previously collected by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a visible and infrared spectrometer that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, provided for India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter.
Scientists say that the water most likely is found in the Form of HO, instead of H2O. The difference is that H2O is composed of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom, whereas OH is considered more reactive, and attaches itself chemically to other molecules. In turn, this means that future colonists would most likely have to extract the element from minerals.
The study also hints that any H2 O present on the Moon is not loosely bound to the surface.
This discovery can also help experts understand water sources and their long-term storage in other cosmic bodies throughout the solar system.
At this point, experts are still debating what exactly the findings about the Moon’s water source are telling them.
So far, the results suggest that OH and/or H2O are created by the solar wind that impacts the lunar surface, although the team does not rule out that OH and/or H2O could come from the Moon itself, slowly released from minerals inside the moon where it has been stored since the Moon was formed.
Do The Mysterious Statues At Temehea Tohua Depict An Ancient Alien Race?
Do The Mysterious Statues At Temehea Tohua Depict An Ancient Alien Race?
There is an island in the Pacific Ocean that is home to a number of unusual statues left behind by its ancient inhabitants; The countless strange figures, carved in the distant past depict what many consider an otherworldly influence. Some of these statues depict what many refer to Reptilian Beings. Could these mysterious, yet beautiful statues be nothing more than mythological beings worshipped by the ancient inhabitants of Nucu Hiva, the largest of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia? Or, is there a possibility that they depict representations of ancient alien beings?
Mysterious yet beautiful places plague our planet. Through our civilizations ancient history, countless cultures erected some of the most amazing places on the surface of the planet.
And while most of us fall hypnotized by ancient sites such as the Pyramids of Giza, The Great Sphinx, Teotihuacan, and Macchu Picchu, there are many other sites equally magnificent and puzzling.
One such site is located in Nucu Hiva, the largest of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
There we find the ancient archaeological site of Temeea Tohua, home of a series of strange statues which many authors believe may depict otherworldly beings.
While other disagree and suggest the enigmatically caved statues are the result of the imagination of Polynesian settlers, others point towards a possible ancient alien encounter, which took place before written history.
As noted by recent studies, the first settlers arrived at the largest of the Marquesas in French Polynesia some 2,000 years ago, most likely from Samoa.
There, the ancient settlers of the island built a number of strange statues that depict beings that look completely different from humans. It’s almost as if the ancient settlers of Nucu Hiva worshipped some Reptilian deity. The statues look like something from an alien movie.
The question is, what did the ancient artists try and depict? Are these mysterious beings illustrations of their Gods? Or, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest, are these mysterious statues evidence of an ancient alien encounter, thousands of years ago?
The statues look terrifyingly impressive. From afar they appear as beautiful carvings left behind by the ancients, but upon closer inspection, you notice fascinating details. The statues feature bigeyes, large elongated heads, small bodies, with a mixture of statues with huge bodies, and other several strange looking features that make you wonder what could have inspired the ancient inhabitants to carve such non-human features?
Reptilian ‘Gods’?
Is it possible that the ancient settlers of Nucu Hiva depicted Reptilian Gods?
In modern times, numerous conspiracy theories have risen from the stories of Reptilians or Lizard People. Various ancient cultures like the Ancient Sumerians, for example, depicted strange beings with reptilian features. These mysterious beings are believed to have been the Gods, who one day, came down from heaven and settled on Earth.
For example, if we take a look at the Ubaid Period, we will find that more than 7,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Ancient Mesopotamia worshiped the so-called lizard people. Curiously, evidence of this cult has been found at the Archaeological site of Al-Ubaid, where experts uncovered numerous pre-Sumerian artifacts dating back at least 7,000 years. Among these items, strange looking figurines have been discovered with a mixture of humanoid and lizard-like shapes.
At Nucu Hiva, far from Mesopotamia, we find similar Reptilian-like statues.
There are certain figures at the French Polynesian Island that even depict what appear to be strange Grey-Like aliens.
The ancient artists of the island left a message in stone. They carved strange figures with small bodies and huge elongated heads that have strange, over-sized eyes.
When looking at this from a certain archaeological view, it would be logical to assume that whoever carved those statues would have followed certain patterns when carving the statues, so how could it be possible that at the same location we find two types of statues that are not very similar.
In addition to the statues with huge bodies, over-sized heads, and mouths we find other figures with different aspects such as small bodies with over-sized eyes, relatively normal mouths but with an entirely different aspect when it comes to the nose.
While on the bigger statues the nose seems elongated and straight, the smaller statues feature noses that resemble a human nose.
This mixture of different styles of art raises numerous questions. What are these statues? Are these depictions of alien races that have visited this island at some point in the past, as some researchers suggest? Or, are these statues the result of a mixture of cultural influence?
Another must-have feature is the presence of thumbs in aliens, as per Kaku. Opposable thumbs or grasping appendages played a major role in the rise of primates. The thumbs would help them catch their prey and also create tools, thus strengthening their chances of making contact.
Many people here on Earth are fascinated by aliens. Although the scientists have not been able to trace any extraterrestrial life yet, the search for the same has been intensified. Recently, theoretical physicist and Michio Kaku revealed some interesting facts about aliens in his new book “The Future of Humanity. In the book, Kaku wrote about aliens, their chance of making contact with humans and how they will react when they encounter the humans.
In the book, Kaku also mentioned the looks of the aliens. According to Kaku, in future, human civilization will become more advanced and will develop new cutting-edge technologies that will lead them closer to aiming contact with alien life. Scientists have hypothesized about the fact that extraterrestrial life might be possible in far-off worlds much different from Earth.
Like humans, they might be advancing their technology or skills to make contact with other worlds or to keep an eye on other worlds. Kaku consulted some exobiology experts and theorists specializing in hypothetical alien life forms present in distant worlds and came up with a list of necessary features that the aliens should possess to match up with the humans. According to Kaku, the aliens would have Stereo Vision, two eyes capable of focusing on a single object, just like humans. Stereo vision helps the hunters or predators to catch their prey. Kaku wrote, “In all likelihood, intelligent aliens in space will have descended from predators that hunted for their food.”
Kaku further wrote that depicting aliens as hunters does not mean that they will be aggressive or attack us but we need to be cautious about that as their ancestors long ago might have been predators. Another must-have feature is the presence of thumbs in aliens, as per Kaku. Opposable thumbs or grasping appendages played a major role in the rise of primates. The thumbs would help them catch their prey and also create tools, thus strengthening their chances of making contact. The third important feature that alien should possess is the language. In order to hand down and accumulate essential information from generation to generation, some form of language is crucial,” Kaku wrote.
Kaku also predicted that the ice-covered moons are the places more prone to hosting alien life because there the life would exist underwater. Although Kaku predicted that aliens need to have stereo vision, grasping thumps and some sort of language to have any contact with humans, he did not mention about the shape or size of the aliens or in what form they are present in the outside worlds.
Many scientists believe in the existence of alien life and they are trying to connect by sending signals in space. Stephen Hawking, a well-known scientist has warned humans on the earth to stop connecting with these aliens. He speculates that connecting with an advanced civilization might be risky for both the earth, and its civilization.
Hawking might be the person with the greatest interest in finding the civilization in the Universe, and his efforts are indeed exemplary. But, it also holds true at the same time that he has never been a supporter of the attempts to connect with the aliens. He stops humans from connecting with the aliens with fears in mind that these aliens might find us and attack us.
However, Hawking’s warnings are based on the perception that an alien civilization, which is efficient enough in receiving or answering a signal, holds every possibility of being billions of year more developed than the humans on this earth.
Meanwhile, a radio astronomer at MIT believes that aliens do exist and for some reasons they are hiding from us. John A. Ball came with a notion known as ‘Zoo Theory’ to prove why we have failed to make contacts with aliens until now. According to Ball, aliens are purposefully hiding from us and trying to avoid contact with humans.
Ball believes that extraterrestrial life is more intelligent than human race on Earth, but they are not advance enough to dominate the universe; thus, they keep an eye on our activities from far. He went on to say that the alien creatures are inquisitive and cannot keep themselves away from Earth for a long time that is why we constantly hear the stories of UFO sightings these days.
Scientists have long assumed that the earliest life on Earth required a few basic conditions which include water and a power supply — in this case, the Sun — that allows you to get going. With that in mind, it makes feel to look for similar situations elsewhere inside the Solar System if your purpose is to locate extraterrestrial existence. Earth would possibly seem special in this regard but water is in reality pretty ample in our machine, and Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is speedy becoming a high candidate within the search for life.
In a brand new examine published in Scientific Reports, researchers awareness on Europa’s doubtlessly life-giving cocktail of liquid water and gravity-generated warmth emanating from its core. The paper attracts some very exciting parallels between Europa and certain locations here on Earth in which the recipe for existence is good for bacteria to thrive without the presence of daylight.
If life exists deep inside Europa, sunlight could be difficult to come back by way of. The moon’s icy shell is the notion to be over six miles thick, with an ocean lying below that stretches over 60 miles into the planet. That’s an entire lot of water, and it’s saved warm by tidal forces generated by means of its parent, Jupiter. If this sounds acquainted, it’s probably due to the fact Saturn’s ice-protected moon Enceladus has a comparable courting with its determine planet and is also notion to have a deep ocean just under its frosty crust.
To get an idea of how life ought to potentially thrive in the inky black depths of Europa, the researchers sought examples of microbes that stay their lives without assistance from the Sun. They observed what they had been looking for in-floor water samples from the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. There, deep underground, microorganism live and die without ever seeing the sun, and it has its very very own manner of generating the strength it needs to continue to exist.
“This very deep subterranean mine has water leaking thru cracks that include radioactive uranium,” Douglas Galante, co-writer of the work, explains. “The uranium breaks down the water molecules to produce loose radicals (H+, OH-, and others), which attack the surrounding rocks, in particular, pyrite (iron disulfide, FeS2), producing sulfate. The bacteria use the sulfate to synthesize ATP [adenosine triphosphate], the nucleotide responsible for power garage in cells. This is the first time an surrounding has been found to continue to exist directly on the idea of nuclear strength.”
The scientists believe that this primitive form of life might be the important thing to expertise how lifestyles started on Earth, and also hint at what might be going on deep within Europa.
“The ocean bed on Europa seems to provide very similar conditions to those who existed on primitive Earth all through its first billion years,” Galante notes. “So analyzing Europa today is to some extent like looking lower back at our personal planet within the past.”
The idea that humans are endowed with inner cores of Divinity has been huge spread. This was unfolded by mystics and occultist, whose teachings from their “Ascended Masters” imply that there is Divinity in a guy. Even spiritual leaders have keyed into the narrative and now it has come to be a mantra for folks that suppose they’re seekers for the reality. This becomes premised at the notion that most miracles and so-referred to as energy-of-the-mind myths are evidence that there’s Divinity in the guy, and that with sure tiers of purity, the guy will, in the end, turn into godhead. They communicate of the era of God-men, while people who have developed themselves into turning into gods take over the ruler-deliver of the earth.
But everybody who truly recognise the creations, the legal guidelines governing them and that the whole thing is strictly ordered by someone-call him limitless intelligence, God, which exclusive cultures and organizations call exceptional names; the excellent scientist-who deliberate everything and ordered it through legal guidelines of nature, under which everything taking place can be defined, will realise how a lot they’re in error who trust such.
For us to apprehend this, we need to look at the shape of our Universe as a beginning. The Universe is below constant enlargement, spiraling outwards in the direction of a limitless void. Hence it’s miles in itself finite, although of such length that the human mind cannot imagine the size.Let us consciousness on most effective one of the seven universes that harbor the earth as one of the several liveable planets. Of course, there are other planets that harbor life within our universe, however, the earth occupies a satisfaction area.
Scientists had been capable of pick out minute components of relying upon, of which the atom is but a rough minuscule. And there have been investigations that indicate that there may be absolutely duality in the man or women. One wishes to take a look at the diverse money owed of near loss of life reviews, like Raymond Moody’s Life After Life to realize that the human body is but a cloak worn by means of the real proprietor. And the owner generally cannot be visible to the bodily eyes. It also approaches that there’s an inner world that exists when we drop our bodies.It opens up a contemporary international outdoor the bodily body, the sector of sports of occultists and “ascended” masters. This is referred to as the Astral plane, our instantaneous subsequent-door surroundings that harbors the “Shadow” of the earth. Everything found in the world is replicated there, that’s why it is referred to as the shadow. But it’s miles truly the prototype of every element on the physical world.
Stars around the Milky Way: Cosmic space invaders or victims of galactic eviction?
Stars around the Milky Way: Cosmic space invaders or victims of galactic eviction?
by Staff Writers Long Island City NY
Astronomers have investigated a small population of stars in the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy, finding its chemical composition to closely match that of the Galactic disk. This similarity provides compelling evidence that these stars have originated from within the disk, rather than from merged dwarf galaxies. The reason for this stellar migration is thought to be theoretically proposed oscillations of the Milky Way disk as a whole, induced by the tidal interaction of the Milky Way with a passing massive satellite galaxy.
This is the Milky Way galaxy, perturbed by the tidal interaction with a dwarf galaxy, as predicted by N-body simulations. The locations of the observed stars above and below the disk, which are used to test the perturbation scenario, are indicated.
Image courtesy T.Mueller/NASA/JPL-Caltech.
If anyone from outer space would like to contact you via "space mail", your cosmic address would include several more lines including "Earth", "Solar System", "Orion Spiral Arm" and "Milky Way Galaxy". This position within our home galaxy gives us a front row seat to explore what is happening in such a galaxy.
However, our internal perspective presents some challenges in our quest to understand it - for example for outlining its shape and extent. And yet another problem is time: How can we interpret galactic evolution if our own life span (and that of our telescopes) is far less than the blink of the cosmic eye?
Today, we have a fairly clear picture of the broad properties of the Milky Way and how it fits among other galaxies in the Universe. Astronomers classify it as a rather average, large spiral galaxy with the majority of its stars circling its center within a disk, and a dusting of stars beyond that orbiting in the Galactic halo.
These halo stars seem not to be randomly distributed in the halo - instead many are grouped together in giant structures - immense streams and clouds (or overdensities) of stars, some entirely encircling the Milky Way. These structures have been interpreted as signatures of the Milky Way's tumultuous past - debris from the gravitational disruption of the many smaller galaxies that are thought to have invaded our Galaxy in the past.
Researchers have tried to learn more about this violent history of the Milky Way by looking at properties of the stars in the debris left behind - their positions and motions can give us clues of the original path of the invader, while the types of stars they contain and the chemical compositions of those stars can tell us something about what the long-dead galaxy might have looked like.
An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Maria Bergemann from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg now found compelling evidence that some of these halo structures might not be leftover debris from invading galaxies but rather originate from the Milky Way's disk itself!
The scientists investigated 14 stars located in two different structures in the Galactic halo, the Triangulum-Andromeda (Tri-And) and the A13 stellar overdensities, which lie at opposite sides of the Galactic disk plane. Earlier studies of motion of these two diffuse structures revealed that they are kinematically associated and could be related to the Monoceros Ring, a ring-like structure that twists around the Galaxy.
However, the nature and origin of these two stellar structures was still not conclusively clarified. The position of the two stellar overdensities could be determined as each lying about 5 kiloparsec (14000 lightyears) above and below the Galactic plane as indicated in figure 1 (see image).
Bergemann and her team, for the first time, now presented detailed chemical abundance patterns of these stars, obtained with high-resolution spectra taken with the Keck and VLT (Very Large Telescope, ESO) telescopes.
"The analysis of chemical abundances is a very powerful test, which allows, in a way similar to the DNA matching, to identify the parent population of the star. Different parent populations, such as the Milky Way disk or halo, dwarf satellite galaxies or globular clusters, are known to have radically different chemical compositions. So once we know what the stars are made of, we can immediately link them to their parent populations.", explains Bergemann.
When comparing the chemical compositions of these stars with the ones found in other cosmic structures, the scientists were surprised to find that the chemical compositions are almost identical, both within and between these groups, and closely match the abundance patterns of the Milky Way disk stars. This provides compelling evidence that these stars most likely originate from the Galactic thin disk (the younger part of Milky Way, concentrated towards the Galactic plane) itself, rather being debris from invasive galaxies!
But how did the stars get to these extreme positions above and below the Galactic disk? Theoretical calculations of the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy predict this to happen, with stars being relocated to large vertical distances from their place of birth in the disk plane. This "migration" of stars is theoretically explained by the oscillations of the disk as a whole. The favoured explanation for these oscillations is the tidal interaction of the Milky Way's Dark Matter halo and its disk with a passing massive satellite galaxy.
The results published in the journal Nature by Bergemann and her colleagues now provide the clearest evidence for these oscillations of the Milky Way's disk obtained so far!
These findings are very exciting, as they indicate that the Milky Way Galaxy's disk and its dynamics are significantly more complex than previously thought.
"We showed that it may be fairly common for groups of stars in the disk to be relocated to more distant realms within the Milky Way--having been 'kicked out' by an invading satellite galaxy. Similar chemical patterns may also be found in other galaxies--indicating a potential galactic universality of this dynamic process." said Allyson Shefield, PhD, associate professor of physics at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, a co-author on the study.
As a next step, the astronomers plan to analyse the spectra of other stars both in the two overdensities, as well as stars in other stellar structures further away from the disk. They are also very keen on getting masses and ages of these stars in order to constrain the time limits when this interaction of the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy happened.
"We anticipate that ongoing and future surveys like 4MOST and Gaia will provide unique information about chemical composition and kinematics of stars in these overdensities. The two structures we have analysed already are, in our interpretation, associated with large-scale oscillations of the disk, induced by an interaction of the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy.
Gaia may have the potential to see the connection between the two structures, showing the full pattern of corrugations in the Galactic disk", says Bergemann, who is also part of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 881 "The Milky Way System", located at Heidelberg University.
The Sun’s closest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, might not be as welcoming as we believed — a team of astronomers have detected a flare so powerful from the star that it throws the habitability of its system into serious doubt.
Artist’s impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri.
A team of astronomers led by Meredith MacGregor from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the flare while reanalyzing recordings taken last year by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radiotelescope antennas nestled in the Atacama desert.
Now, by their very nature, solar flares are some of the most violent and energetic events we know of. Think of them as magnetic short-circuits in a star. What happens during a flare is that ebbs and flows in a star’s magnetic field start accelerating electrons (negatively-charged particles) close to the speed of light. Enough of these build up that they start interacting with stellar plasma (highly electrically charged atoms), ripping it out of the star, causing it to erupt. This eruption can be seen across the electromagnetic spectrum.
And that’s where the bad news starts: even by solar flare standards, what the team discovered was humblingly violent. The flare they detected from Proxima Centauri was over 10 times brighter, at its peak, than the largest flares that we’ve ever recorded from the Sun at similar wavelengths.
“March 24, 2017 was no ordinary day for Proxima Cen,” said MacGregor.
The flare increased Proxima Centauri’s brightness by a factor of 1,000 over 10 seconds. It was also preceded by a smaller flare. Taken together, the event lasted for under two minutes — which would explain why nobody noticed them in the first place. For context, ALMA observed the star for over 10 hours between January and March of last year, when the flares erupted.
We knew from previous observation that Proxima Centauri was prone to regular bouts of flares, although they were much smaller and emitted chiefly in the x-ray spectrum. However, the findings now cast a lot of doubt on the habitability of the exoplanet Proxima b, which up to now raised a lot of interest as a potentially habitable planet. Proxima b orbits its star around 20 times closer than the Earth orbits the Sun, so flares of this magnitude are a huge problem. The team estimates that a flare 10 times larger than a major solar flare would drench the planet with 4,000 times more radiation that Earth gets from a solar flare. That’s enough to raise literal hell on the planet, the team explains:
“It’s likely that Proxima b was blasted by high energy radiation during this flare,” says MacGregor.
“Over the billions of years since Proxima b formed, flares like this one could have evaporated any atmosphere or ocean and sterilized the surface, suggesting that habitability may involve more than just being the right distance from the host star to have liquid water.”
So it might be healthier to steer away from Proxima b until we find a way to accurately predict, and then successfully weather, these flares.
The findings also allowed the team to get a better image of the Proxima Centauri system, and infirm previous estimation that it contains large bodies of dust and larger particles, similar to our asteroid belt.
The paper “Detection of a Millimeter Flare From Proxima Centauri” has been published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
IMAGEGLOBEHet dorre, onherbergzame oppervlak van Mars.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers hebben in het droogste deel van de Zuid-Amerikaanse woestijn Atacama microben gevonden die decennialang in ‘slaapstand’ in de grond hebben gelegen. Tot er regenbuien kwamen, die de beestjes weer wekten. Intrigerend, want hetzelfde principe zou van toepassing kunnen zijn op Mars, stellen de onderzoekers.
Zonder water, geen leven. Maar door in een soort slaapstand te gaan, blijken organismen verbazend lang te kunnen overleven. Dat blijkt uit een nieuwe studie die gepubliceerd is in het vakbladProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. De resultaten zijn gebaseerd op bodemstalen die genomen werden tussen 2015 en 2017.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat er microben in de woestijn gevonden zijn. Maar tot nu toe was het niet duidelijk of het om oorspronkelijke bewoners ging, of restanten van beestjes die waren aangedragen door de wind.
Zeldzame regenbui
Een extreem zeldzame regenbui in 2015 bracht het antwoord. Het water zette een explosie van biologische activiteit in gang. Genetische tests onthulden nadien dat meerdere inheemse bacteriesoorten zich hadden aangepast aan het leven in de onherbergzame woestijn.
Opvolgbezoeken in 2016 en 2017 brachten aan het licht dat dezelfde beestjes langzaamaan opnieuw in een slaaptoestand gingen, naarmate de grond er omheen opdroogde.
Leven op Mars?
De microben leefden in het droogste deel van de woestijn, maar hetzelfde principe zou van toepassing kunnen zijn op Mars. “Dit zijn plaatsen waar je nooit van zou verwachten dat iets er zou kunnen overleven”, zegt planeetwetenschapper Dirk Schulze-Makuch van Washington State University aan The Independent. “Ons onderzoek toont aan dat als iets kan overleven in de droogste omgeving op aarde, er een goede kans is dat dat ook op Mars kan.”
“We geloven dat deze microben honderden of zelfs duizenden jaren kunnen overleven in een slaaptoestand, in omstandigheden die zeer gelijkaardig zijn aan de situatie op Mars”, vervolgt Schulze-Makuch. “En dat ze weer tot leven kunnen komen als het regent.”
Miljarden jaren geleden had Mars oceanen en meren, waar mogelijk vroege levensvormen voorkwamen. Toen de planeet droger en kouder werd, zouden die op dezelfde manier overleefd kunnen hebben als de microben in Atacama.
“Als er ooit leven was op Mars, zou dat volgens ons onderzoek mogelijk plaatsgevonden hebben onder het bijzonder dorre oppervlak van vandaag”, zegt de wetenschapper nog. Een robot die in 2021 op Mars zal landen in het kader van de ExoMars-missie zal twee meter diep in de bodem graven, op zoek naar tekenen van leven.
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Spannende vondst doet beeld van Neanderthalers kantelen. Hoeveel slimmer waren ze?
Spannende vondst doet beeld van Neanderthalers kantelen. Hoeveel slimmer waren ze?
Archeologen hebben ontdekt dat schilderingen in Spaanse grotten zijn gemaakt door Neanderthalers. Ze zijn simpelweg te oud om door moderne mensen te zijn gemaakt.
De moderne mens ging pas zo’n 40.000 jaar geleden in het gebied wonen. De grotschilderingen zijn minimaal 20.000 jaar ouder.
“De Neanderthaler was destijds de enige mensensoort in Europa,” zei Dirk Hoffman van het Max Planck-instuut in Leipzig.
Oudste ter wereld
“Dat betekent dat de rode lijnen op de wanden van de grotten door hen gemaakt moeten zijn,” voegde hij toe.
“Ons onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat deze tekeningen de oudste ter wereld zijn,” zei Chris Standish van de Universiteit van Southampton. “Ze moeten dus wel door Neanderthalers zijn gemaakt.”
“De tekeningen bewijzen dat ze wel degelijk creatief waren en in staat waren om symbolische representaties te begrijpen én te maken,” vervolgde hij. “Net als de moderne mens.”
Standish sprak van een ‘ongelooflijk spannende vondst’.
Nog veel meer
De schilderingen wijzen erop dat de Neanderthalers een stuk slimmer waren dan lange tijd is gedacht. En dat maakt de kans groter dat ze nog veel meer gepresteerd hebben.
Er werd altijd gedacht dat ze zulke tekeningen niet konden maken. De archeologische verschillen tussen Neanderthalers en de Homo sapiens lijken nu vrijwel geheel te zijn verdwenen.
Kantelen
De ontdekking doet ons beeld van de soort nu definitief kantelen. Archeologisch onderzoek heeft de afgelopen jaren laten zien dat Neanderthalers niet veel verschilden van de moderne mens.
Sommige wetenschappers zeggen dat de ontdekking suggereert dat Neanderthalers ook op andere vlakken ver ontwikkeld waren.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in tijdschrift Science.
Het is eigenlijk niet zo prettig om te moeten ontdekken dat dingen waar je altijd in hebt geloofd nu ineens een sprookje blijken te zijn.
Dat is het gevoel dat veel mensen zullen krijgen als ze opnames zien van Apollo astronauten die dingen doen die helemaal niet kunnen in de ruimte.
Het schijnt een wetenschappelijk feit te zijn dat geluid niet hoorbaar is in de ruimte. Dit komt omdat volgens de wetenschapje klaarblijkelijk geen geluid kunt horen omdat er geen atomen of moleculen zijn om dit geluid te dragen.
Ruimtefilms met zware explosies slaan de plank volledig mis. In de ruimte is het doodstil, want geluid plant zich niet voort in een vacuüm.
Nasa laay zich door dit soort kleinigheden niet uit het veld slaan en wil de wereldbevolking doen geloven dat astronauten op de maan met een hamer kunnen slaan en dat dat geluid vervolgens kan worden gehoord.
We kunnen daarom ook een lang verhaal kort houden dit keer, want de fameuze Streetcap heeft beelden ontdekt van de Apollo 15 missie, waarbij een astronaut druk bezig is met met een hamer een soort paal in de grond te slaan en iedere keer als hij de paal raakt dan hoor je dit.
Dat betekent dan dat de maan een atmosfeer heeft net als de aarde en als dat niet zo is, dan zijn de beelden volkomen nep en is Nasa bij deze wederom betrapt.
Fleet Of UFOs Over Hawaii Last Week Light Up The Sky!!! Feb 13, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Over Hawaii Last Week Light Up The Sky!!! Feb 13, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 13, 2018 Location of sighting: Hawaii, USA Watch as a fleet of UFOs over Hawaii are seen, then suddenly for a brief moment, together in unison, they light up, creating pillars of light above and below them. Why they are doing this is beyond our understanding, but they may be transporting their ships below the ground or communication with other aliens in an underground or underwater base nearby. Awesome evidence here! Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
These rare multiple light pillars were captured by the Gemini Observatory webcam on February 13, 2018. The camera was facing east from the top of the Mauna Kea Volcano in Hawaii. These muti-colored light pillars were created by the bright city lights of Hilo, which is located just east of the Gemini Obsevatory in Hawaii.
Giant Glowing UFO Over Cleveland Today, Feb 28, 2018, Video!!! UFO Sighting News.
Giant Glowing UFO Over Cleveland Today, Feb 28, 2018, Video!!! UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 28, 2018 Location of sighting: Cleveland, USA This UFO was seen on live internet cam for several hours today! A UFO researcher,Orlando Bosca found it and recorded it for us to see. Orlando often catches UFOs in the skies over large cities, and let me tell you, he is often right. Many skeptics call them planes, but no plane hovers in position for hours at a time. Planes have red and white flashing lights, not his catches. This is a glowing UFO seen in the day and into the evening. Amazing catch!!! Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Something is melting out of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Something is melting out of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
An enormous structure hidden under the ice sheet of Antarctica has become visible possible due to climate changes.
The structure is 300 meters long, width measures between 30 – 50 meters and walls of 10 meters high.
Image above shows a part of the structure enlarged.
Even though I do not know what it is, it looks artificial; maybe an old base or an ancient settlement built a long time ago when Antarctica was not yet a frozen contingent or could it be something else?
If you take a closer look you see that it is not something natural or a crack in the ice sheet. Here are the coordinates: 69°53'42.03"S 8°42'22.02"E
Ben Emlyn-Jones is a former hospital porter and current on line radio broadcaster, vlogger and blogger. His now independent show “HPANWO Radio” has been broadcast on several popular networks such as Planet X and Critical Mass. He also speaks a seminars across the UK.
While Ben was a hospital porter he came to realize that the world is not what he thought it was, fired for his views he indulged deeper into subjects such as government cover-ups, the paranormal, and UFO’s, concluding they are very real and extremely important.
THA Talks has continued to grow as a weekly/fortnightly produced podcast series of interviews indulging in topics generally considered marginal, strange, controversial, or esoteric and occult. Standing by the idea of creating a platform where people can share their views free of judgement. “Free thoughts and Open Minds” is more than a tagline; it’s the principle behind the project.
In April, UFO hunters claimed a 500-metre-long object off the coast of Antarctica as an underwater alien lair.
The website, UFO Sightings Hotspot, believes it does not fit the normal iceberg description. “I’m not an iceberg expert but this object is really peculiar and looks like a vessel disguised as an iceberg,” the site reads.
2. The Martian structure 'identical' to a Japanese tomb
There’s a Kofun Era tomb in Japan which looks identical to a mound on Mars from above.
Alien hunters spotted the pair on Google Maps and Google Earth’s Mars feature respectively, and believe it’s evidence that Martians settled on Earth hundreds of years ago after a terrible event forced them off the Red Planet.
They do look similar. But could it just be a coincidence?
One eagle-eyed user noticed what looks like a spaceship parked – but not very discretely hidden - in Romania.
After years of speculation, it eventually emerged that it’s actually a water tower built during the last century. No sign of alien life forms here then, but an easy mistake to make.
Could this be a crashed flying saucer? YouTube users secureteam10 spotted the strange object in a restricted area of Arizona - which only makes it even more curious.
Not everyone is convinced, of course – some say it could just be a yurt.
Alien-hunting YouTube channel sectureteam10 have spotted something on Google Earth. There's a cloud formation that stretches from Antartica across the planet to the North Pole.
While the UFO fanatics suspect something sinister is afoot, it could also be due to a glitch in Google Earth uploads.
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Ghost rocket UFOs are 1st reported, February 26, 1946
Ghost rocket UFOs are 1st reported, February 26, 1946
Suzanne Deffree Ghost rocket UFOs are 1st reported, February 26, 1946
Ghost rockets, rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects (UFOs), were first sighted on February 26, 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.
More than 2000 sightings were recorded between May and December of that year, with an increased amount of sightings in mid-August 1946.
The origin of these ghost rockets was never fully revealed. Some investigations attributed the sightings to meteor showers, making special note that the August peak coincided with such events. But most ghost rocket sightings did not occur during meteor shower activity and, moreover, displayed characteristics inconsistent with meteors, such as reported maneuverability.
A 1946 Swedish newspaper photo of such sightings
Other theories attributed the origin of the ghost rockets to a former German rocket facility at Peenemünde. Such theories claimed the rockets were long-range tests by the Russians of captured German V-1 or V-2 missiles, or perhaps early cruise missiles because of the ways they were sometimes seen to maneuver.
These missile theories prompted the Swedish military to investigate. Some investigators for the Swedish military apparently believed the objects could not be conventionally explained, and instead hypothesized an extraterrestrial origin.
The missiles were often reported as having crashed into lakes, yet no missile fragments were found in lakes. For example, on July 19, 1946, a ghost rocket was reported as having crashed into Lake Kölmjärv in Sweden. Witnesses saw a gray, rocket-shaped object with wings crashing in the lake with a noise that suggested the object had exploded. However, a three-week military search conducted in intense secrecy, again turned up no evidence of a craft, only impact at the bottom of the lake.
The Swedish Air Force officer who led the search, Karl-Gösta Bartoll (see photo of him on the search), reported back to the military that the rockets were most likely made of material that would disintegrate quickly in water. A craft built of such material, which would also have to be capable of traveling at top speeds while carrying progressive equipment for maneuverability, would be considered extremely advanced and expensive in terms of 1946 technology.
In a 1984 interview, Bartoll reiterated his material belief and said "what people saw were real, physical objects” in opposition to ideas that such sightings were delusions or sci-fi fodder.
While largely in Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Belgium, and Italy, all reported similar ghost rocket sightings in 1946.
The United States military was also involved in investigations. A US document declassified in 1997 states, "we are inclined not to discredit entirely this somewhat spectacular theory [extraterrestrial origins], meantime keeping an open mind on the subject." Related articles:
A recent paper by Michael Hippke and John G. Learned, submitted to arXiv.org on February 6, 2018, looks into the potential risk of messages received from extraterrestrial intelligence. Could such messages somehow infect our computers with alien viruses and cripple our technological infrastructure?
Turns out the answer is a solid maybe.
Their paper, which you can find over at arXiv.org (PDF is here), argues that any messages we receive from extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) will need to be handled with caution. They’ll also likely require the use of computers to understand, and therefore could pose a very real risk of being contaminated with computer viruses, either intentionally or unintentionally.
And once we’re contaminated, it’s difficult to say whether or not we could fix that problem.
“After all, it is cheaper for ETI to send a malicious message to eradicate humans compared to sending battleships.”
A Communications Disruption Could Mean Only One Thing…
What are we to do, then? The paper first suggests that “complex messages would need to be destroyed after reception in the risk averse case.”
But Hippke and Learned aren’t only concerned with complex messages. They go over a few types that could prove problematic:
A message of cultural significance, or one that could hurt planetary morale. They use the example of an alien message that reads, “We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow.” They argue this could cause global panic, and they’re probably right. I imagine messages along the lines of “Your planet was just an experiment, and we’re about to run out of funding” would throw us into a long-term existential crisis, as well.
A message, perhaps similar to the above, sent repeatedly and unable to be controlled
A complex message that contains an actual computer virus
They also consider the possibility of aliens sending messages in the form of learning AI. This, they argue, would likely require isolation — perhaps to only “a computer in a box on the moon,” they write — to contain the message and prevent the AI from spreading. Only then could it be translated or executed safely. Failure to do so could allow said alien AI to have free rein over the world, and who knows how that would end?
Possibly with human extinction.
It’s not all doom and gloom, though. The paper ends by stating that the risk of running into a malicious message from ETI is very low (but not zero), and that “the potential benefits from joining a galactic network might be considerable.” So, risk vs. reward.
I guess the question is…
Would You Open That Alien Email?
Funny enough, back in 2015 scientists were worrying about exactly the opposite — that messages we send into space might accidentally infect alien technology. Would that, perhaps, be seen as an act of war?
“Language can hide a lot of information,” Dr. Anders Sanberg said at the time, during a speech at the British Science Festival. “We’re worried about malware being sent to aliens.”
That might be useful, though.
In the event of an actual alien invasion or extraterrestrial malware, we could always pull an Independence Day and send them a copy of Windows 10.
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Does Puma Punku Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
Does Puma Punku Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
Located just 45 miles west of La Paz high in the breathtaking Andes mountains lie the mysteriousruins of an archaeological site called Puma Punku.
This ancient site is home to megalithic stones which many researchers say are among the largest on the planet. Some of the megaliths here measure up to 26 feet long and weigh more than 100 tons each.
This incredible site was built thousands of years ago by an extremely advanced culture. Today, Puma Punku is considered a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia.
Tiwanaku is significant in Incan traditions because it is believed to be the site where the world was created. Puma Punku signifies “The Door of the Puma.”
As noted by the Andean specialist, Binghamton University Anthropology professor W. H. Isbell, a radiocarbon date was obtained by Vranich from organic material from lowermost and oldest layer of mound-fill forming the Puma Punku. This layer was deposited during the first of three construction epochs and dates the initial construction of the Puma Punku at 1510 ±25 B.P.
Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was constructed and shaped and positioned, that it is the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. Mainstream scholars believe the blocks found at Puma Punku were formed by hand with primitive stone tools. But some researchers point to the intricate stonework as evidence of the use of advanced precision technology.
How exactly could such primitive people, living thousands of years ago, have produced such flawless stonework? Is it possible that the ancient builders of Puma Punku have fabricated the megalithic stones with advanced technology? Precision tools that could have facilitated them to accomplish these marvels of engineering and construction, clean cuts, precise angles, would that be really possible without the aid of “modern” technology? Many people today find that quite unlikely.
If you look at the stones carefully, you can see some intricate stonework, as though they used machine tools or even lasers. It’s incredible.
At Puma Punku you will find these incredible stones with perfect right angles, and some stones have small drill holes which have been evenly spaced along this groove which makes you wonder whether or not it is possible that the ancient builders of Puma Punku used some sort of advanced machinery.
A transportational and logistical nightmare
After years of research, archaeologists have said the massive stones were hewn at quarries over 60 miles away and then rolled to Puma Punku on logs.
However, what we seem to forget here and what nobody talks about is the fact that the archaeological site of Puma Punku is located at an altitude of 12,800 feet. This means that it is located above the natural tree line so this means that NO trees grew in that area which means that no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers.
This brings us to the obvious question as to how did the ancient builders of Puma Punku transport huge blocks of stone to their destination? Sure, they could have brought logs from elsewhere, but that would have been a transportational nightmare at that time, and even a huge labor force would not have been enough for these massive stones to arrive at their destination.
We simply have too many questions about the technology used, transportation, logistics, etc…, and it is hard to believe that all of this was achieved without the use of power tools and advanced forms of transportation.
Moving these massive blocks of granite from their quarries and bringing them to Puma Punku would have required some type of advanced technology, means by which ancient cultures could have lifted these massive stones and placed them in their positions.
Puma Punku is simply put, one of those places where, when you look at those incredible constructions, manipulated with that much perfection, your imagination just fires up, there are so many possibilities at this point, and conventional archaeological explanations just do not suffice.
The right questions need to be asked, and there are so many mysteries that surround Puma Punku… from the materials used to aid them in the constructions… to the constructions methods and transportation of the blocks and the answer probably lies in front of us.
Tiahuanaco, equally stunning and mystifying
In 1549, while searching for the capital of the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors led by Pedro Cieza de León crossed into Bolivia and found the ruins of an archaeological site called Tiahuanaco. Less than a quarter mile northeast of Puma Punku, modern-day researchers believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of civilization with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
In fact, Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest American culture that many people haven’t heard of. It was one of the most important antecedents of the Inca and their history. The level of achievement in architecture, in political development, agriculture, industries was unlike anything found elsewhere in South America, and most scholars agree that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously abandoned around 1100 AD, for reasons we still do not know.
However, numerous excavations revealed a great amount of information about Tiahuanaco. In the 1960s, the Bolivian government excavated and unearthed the Subterranean Temple at Tiahuanaco.
Within the walls of the square sunken courtyard, researchers discovered hundreds of mysterious stone heads with a diverse range of features.
Most scholars and authors agree that there are all the races of mankind represented at this wall, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues are particularly unusual because they do not seem to represent the local people.
These mysterious places seem to represent every type and shape of human head existing on the planet.
Two of them, which are very intriguing, were created in white in color, and they look very much like grey alien heads, say Ufologists.
Viracocha, the Andean Creator God
A giant statue at the center of the sunken temple depicts the creator god, known as Viracocha. Curiously, Viracocha was depicted having many characteristics which are unlike those of the native population. This raises an interesting question; Why would the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco depict their most prominent god with features unlike their own?
For example, Viracocha was depicted having a beard and a mustache, something that is a very unusual thing because American Indians do not have beards and mustaches. So, who was Viracocha, and is it possible that there is more to him than what we have been led to believe?
Sumerian writing in America?
One of the most fascinating archaeological artifacts ever discovered near Tiahuanaco is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl.
The artifact is a ceramic bowl, and it has written on its surface Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic script. This is a huge problem for mainstream scholars as these two civilizations were never connected and are located on the opposite side of the world.
In fact, these two ancient cultures were separated by more than 8.000 miles, and yet the Fuente Magna Bowl draws a direct connection between the ancient Sumerians and Tiahuanaco, and Puma Punku.
Archaeologists find Ancient Egyptian Necropolis With 1,000 Statues and 40 Well-Preserved Sarcophagi
Archaeologists find Ancient Egyptian Necropolis With 1,000 Statues and 40 Well-Preserved Sarcophagi
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis near the city of Menia, south of Cairo.
In the eight tombs of the funeral city, archaeologists have found more than a thousand statues and four dozen sarcophagi in pristine condition.
The archaeological site is located six kilometers north of another archaeological site called Tuna al-Gabal. The excavation work is scheduled to last for 5 years, in an attempt to uncover all burials in the cemetery, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said: “We will need at least five years to work on the necropolis. This is only the beginning of a new discovery.”
Image Credit: EPA
For the moment, the archaeological mission has found a group of tombs and burials belonging to the priests of the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, the main deity of nome 15 (administrative division in ancient Egypt) whose capital was al-Ashmounein.
One of the uncovered tombs belongs to a high priest of the god Thoth, Hersa-Esei.
The tomb houses 13 burials in which archaeologists discovered a large number of shabti figures carved in earthenware.
Minya is located about 250 kilometers south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
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Experts also found a collection of 1,000 statuettes in very good condition, while the rest of the statuettes were found fragmented into smaller pieces. The researchers are collecting all their pieces for restoration.
Archaeologists also came across four canopic jars made of alabaster with lids showing the faces of the four sons of God Horus.
Archaeologists report that the jars are in a very good condition and still contain the mummified internal organs of the deceased. The jars are decorated with hieroglyphic texts that show the name and the different titles of its owner, the high priest ‘Djehuty-Irdy-e’, whose mummy was also found.
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Archaeologists note that the mummy of high priest ‘Djehuty-Irdy-e’ is decorated with a bronze necklace that represents the ancient Egyptian God Nut stretching his wings to protect the deceased according to the ancient Egyptian belief.
The mummified remains are also decorated with a collection of precious pearls, as well as golden bronze leaves, two eyes carved in bronze and adorned with ivory and crystal pearls.
Four amulets of semi-precious stones were also found on the mummy. It is also decorated with hieroglyphic texts, one of which is engraved with a phrase saying: “happy new year”.
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Archaeologists also came across 40 limestone sarcophagi of different shapes and sizes.
Some of them were found having anthropoid tops decorated with the names and different titles of their owners.
Another discovered family tomb houses a collection of gigantic sarcophagi of different shapes and sizes, with ushabti figures bearing the names of their owners who were priests of the gods during their lifetime.
The Mystery Behind The “1890; A Giant In Japan” Footage
The Mystery Behind The “1890; A Giant In Japan” Footage
One of the strangest videos showing alleged giants popped up on the internet 11 years ago when in 2007, several new agencies and YouTubers started talking about a video where a massive human is seen standing among the population, somewhere in Japan.
The video claimed to have been filmed in 1890 in Japan quickly made headlines across the world as people started thinking about the possibility that there were giants among us.
Many also started speaking about the Nephilim, the Bible, and legends that suggest how thousands of years ago Giants walked on Earth.
The video raised numerous questions as people cared little for fact checks.
Many claimed it was the ultimate evidence the Bible was right about the Nephilim, and how society in the 21st century was living a lie.
Little did they know that the video was far from any actual evidence of Giants.
Simply put, people love stories about giants, aliens and paranormal things that cannot be easily explained.
Furthermore, by nature people are fascinated by things that we struggle to understand. It’s a mixture of curiosity and fascination.
While there have been numerous reports and even discoveries of supposed massive skeletons, unlike those of ordinary humans, this video footage allegedly filmed in 1890 is not one of them.
While it is surely intricately made and makes you think that someone really filmed a giant walking among people in Japan in 1890, the truth is the video is barely a decade old.
Since the video—and images from the video—popped up on the internet, people started sharing it like crazy, without considering for a moment whether or not it was real.
Dubbed as ‘the ultimate proof’ of Nephilim on Earth, the video spread uncontrollably.
But, someone actually decided to dig deeper and find out more about the video and images.
That, someone, was Dan Evon who researched the mystery Giant video for Snopes.
As Evans wrote in his article for Snopes; “Some people have claimed that the footage comes from the early 1800s (decades before film was invented), while others say that it shows a giant sumo wrestler in a parade. Still, others maintain that the video really shows a Biblical Nephilim giant.”
The truth is that the footage is in fact only 11 years old, and belongs to a scene from the 2007 movie Big Man Japan, a movie which features a wide range of bizarre creatures as Evans explains.
“The “giant,” then, is the product of standard special-effects trickery, not hidden footage that proves beyond a doubt the existence of Nephilim.”
There may be plenty of evidence of Giants existing on Earth, but this one surely isn’t one.
In an effort to become the leading country in high-speed flight, China is now testing a hypersonic plane dubbed the I Plane. The aircraft produces less drag and high lift, and only needs a couple of hours to reach New York from Beijing.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing successfully tested their “I Plane” (named because it resembles a capital ‘I’ when viewed from the front) in a wind tunnel at speeds ranging from Mach 5 to Mach 7, or than 3,800 to 5,370 miles per hour. In their research, published in the journal Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, the team explains the hypersonic plane would only need a “couple of hours” to travel from Beijing to New York. For comparison, a commercial airline flight can take at least 14 hours.
The I Plane. Image Credit: China Science Press
Testing has been successful so far, with the craft producing low drag and high lift. As reported by the South China Morning Post, the I Plane’s lift was roughly 25 percent of that of a Boeing 737; compared to the 737’s ability to carry up to 20 tonnes, or 200 passengers, an I Plane of the same size could carry 5 tonnes or 50 passengers.
A researcher familiar with the project (who went unnamed) told the SCMP the I Plane could be used to transport bombs as well, saying it could be “something like a hypersonic heavy bomber;” incidentally, China also recently developed hypersonic missiles capable of traveling at speeds above 7,000 mph.
Popular Science notes the I Plane’s development reflects China’s desire to be a leader in the hypersonic arms race. China’s next hypersonic project includes a wind tunnel that can produce speeds of up to Mach 36, making it more capable than the Mach 30 LENX-X in Buffalo, New York.
U.S. Admiral Harry Harris warned congress in February about China delving into hypersonic technology, but it’s not as though the U.S. isn’t working on hypersonic projects of its own.
Researchers from NASA discovered last year that boron nitride nanotubes could be a material that makes hypersonic air travel more feasible, and could allow NASA planes to cross the country in less than an hour. Furthermore, the U.S. Navy is testing hypersonic weapons that could hit anywhere on Earth within an hour, and Lockheed Martin hinted in January the SR-72 — the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird — is already in development, and that this hypersonic plane could be flying by 2030.
It’ll be some time before hypersonic flight comes to commercialized aircraft, but the idea of going hypersonic is already being capitalized on. At this point, it comes to to who can use it more effectively first.
En ce début d’année 2018, il est arrivé un événement inexplicable au Brésil. Après avoir entendu une forte explosion, des habitants ont découvert les débris d’un OVNI tombés du ciel.
Le 20 février 2018, sur le territoire de la ville de Salvador, un objet mystérieux s’est écrasé sur le sol. L’OVNI a très probablement explosé avant l’accident.
Les habitants ont été apeurés par ce bruit étrange. Après cela, ils ont observé un étrange objet brillant chuter à grande vitesse, brûlant l’herbe sèche environnante. Adini da Silva Almeida a réussi à trouver un morceau de l’OVNI dans les environs.
Il a indiqué que ce morceau était en métal, qu’il mesurait à peine 15 centimètres de longueur et pesait presque trois livres.
Les scientifiques croient qu’au Brésil, une météorite est tombée, ou qu’il s’agit simplement de déchets spatiaux. Les ufologues pensent, quant à eux, que les gens ont eu affaire à un vaisseau spatial construit par des extraterrestres.
Pour connaître la véritable origine de cet OVNI, il faudrait que l’artefact soit transmis aux scientifiques qui pourraient ainsi l’analyser et faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Hélas, il est peu probable que les habitants prennent cette initiative.
Many people here on Earth are fascinated by aliens. Although the scientists have not been able to trace any extraterrestrial life yet, the search for the same has been intensified. Recently, theoretical physicist and Michio Kaku revealed some interesting facts about aliens in his new book “The Future of Humanity. In the book, Kaku wrote about aliens, their chance of making contact with humans and how they will react when they encounter the humans.
In the book, Kaku also mentioned the looks of the aliens. According to Kaku, in future, human civilization will become more advanced and will develop new cutting-edge technologies that will lead them closer to aiming contact with alien life. Scientists have hypothesized about the fact that extraterrestrial life might be possible in far-off worlds much different from Earth.
Like humans, they might be advancing their technology or skills to make contact with other worlds or to keep an eye on other worlds. Kaku consulted some exobiology experts and theorists specializing in hypothetical alien life forms present in distant worlds and came up with a list of necessary features that the aliens should possess to match up with the humans. According to Kaku, the aliens would have Stereo Vision, two eyes capable of focusing on a single object, just like humans. Stereo vision helps the hunters or predators to catch their prey. Kaku wrote, “In all likelihood, intelligent aliens in space will have descended from predators that hunted for their food.”
Kaku further wrote that depicting aliens as hunters does not mean that they will be aggressive or attack us but we need to be cautious about that as their ancestors long ago might have been predators. Another must-have feature is the presence of thumbs in aliens, as per Kaku. Opposable thumbs or grasping appendages played a major role in the rise of primates. The thumbs would help them catch their prey and also create tools, thus strengthening their chances of making contact. The third important feature that alien should possess is the language. In order to hand down and accumulate essential information from generation to generation, some form of language is crucial,” Kaku wrote.
Kaku also predicted that the ice-covered moons are the places more prone to hosting alien life because there the life would exist underwater. Although Kaku predicted that aliens need to have stereo vision, grasping thumps and some sort of language to have any contact with humans, he did not mention about the shape or size of the aliens or in what form they are present in the outside worlds.
Humans have been on planet Earth for around 6 million years according to mainstream science. In that time Earth and the human race has endured many catastrophes, with the popular ones being ice ages, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and asteroids.
But we are still here, for now.
All Good Things…
As we know all good things come to an end, and one day that quote will come to fruition as far as humans and our planet are concerned.
But how would we all die, or worse, how would planet Earth be destroyed? I love apocalyptic fiction. So much so I am releasing an anthology of my short stories later this year. But before I do I wanted to write some articles about our demise, and some of the ways in which we could be destroyed. So read on for my take on what could, potentially wipe us all out.
Alien Plague
In 2013 a team of British researchers released a balloon into the stratosphere. It floated up to around 14-17 miles above the Earth, and collected samples as it flew. When it came back down to Earth, the researchers had a shock when they checked their samples. Microscopic algae called diatom were found, surprising the researchers. This meant that high above our heads potentially dangerous viruses could be lurking, ready to land and wipe us out.
But where did they originally come from?
Now Where’s that Bacteria From?
Skip forward to 2017, and there have been claims by Russian Cosmonauts that when they swabbed the outside of the ISS, the swabs contained bacteria which they claim is alien bacteria. Whether it’s alien or human bacteria I don’t know, but it just goes to show that life could have been started by bacteria falling down to Earth billions of years ago. Something which some mainstream scientists think happened. It also means that alien bacteria could also drop down on to Earth, and the consequences to life on Earth could be catastrophic.
Alien Invasion of the ‘Tiny’ Kind
We have no idea what’s out there in the vastness of space. Alien races, weird and wonderful planets, teaming with what we’d call ‘exotic alien life.’ What about alien plagues? If something did hitch a ride on an asteroid or comet, and crashed on Earth, how would we deal with it? It could be something so different from our known viruses we have no idea how to deal with it. Can you imagine the consequences to human and other life on Earth for that matter?
Not so Friendly Neighbours
Maybe an alien race has read the messages we sent out into space on board the Pioneer spacecraft, or listened to the record Voyager’s 1and 2 had on board. They then decide our planet is perfect for themselves but don’t want an all-out alien invasion. One way in which to destroy the population of Earth would be Biological Warfare, and what better way to deliver that payload by sending an asteroid our way piggybacked with a concoction of deadly bacteria we couldn’t deal with.
This leads nicely onto…
Pandemic
Have you seen the films ‘Last Man on Earth’ with Vincent Price, then Charlton Heston? How about ‘Planet of the Apes?’ There are many fictional films, books and TV shows out there that deal with pandemics, but could such a thing actually happen?
Global Epidemic
Throughout the ages pandemics or global epidemics have scythed through the human populous, decimating it as it did.
The Black Death in the 14th century. Spanish Flu in the early 1900’s. How about HIV, Ebola, and Smallpox? They are just a few of the viruses that have managed to get a foothold on the planet, and killed off many millions of people, and animals in some cases. Not all are created by humans either. In the case of the Black Death, (Rats) HIV, (Monkeys) Ebola, (Bats) and others, they have come from animals, mutated and crossed over to humans. Some are still around today, like HIV, which is still causing the deaths of many millions of people as there’s no known cure.
Could a Mad Scientist Really Create a Deadly Virus?
It doesn’t have to be a mad scientist who creates something that can wipe out mankind. As I’ve mentioned above, some of the viruses have been caused by Mother Nature herself. Called Zoonoses, (infectious diseases of animals that can be transmitted to humans),
It’s only a matter of time before the Armageddon virus jumps from an animal onto humans, and wipes us all out.
Nanotechnology
What is Nanotechnology?
The following quote is from the “National Nanotechnology Initiative.” You can find more info HERE
“Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering.”
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The year is 2066 and mankind is using nanotechnology in every aspect of their lives. Surgery is totally revolutionised by the advent of nanotech, and in particular nanobots. Most known diseases and viruses have been eradicated thanks in no small part to these ‘wonder bots’ as some people are calling them.
Cancer, one big problem with us humans has been almost defeated thanks to the nanobots. They are injected into the patient then they set about finding the disease, then getting rid of it in a matter of days. Once they have completed their task they go inert and pass through the body naturally as they are so tiny no one knows they are there.
But there’s a problem. In a rush to get the nanobots out of the lab and into everyday life, essential coding was rushed through. Instead of going inert and passing out of the body naturally, they stay there, and wait. Silently reproducing themselves until the hosts, the human patient can’t handle the sheer number of bots inside them. Its then they burst out, and start to ‘cleanse’ anything and everything in a ‘Grey Goo Revolution.’
Sounds like Science Fiction doesn’t it? Well actually within a few decades we will have nanobots, and most probably using them in all sorts of things, surgery being one. Some scientists urge caution as they could potentially replicate causing our destruction, along with our planet, galaxy and the whole universe.
This leads me nicely to my next disaster…
Rise of the Machines
Hands up if you HAVEN’T seen any of The Terminator films? I could probably count those that haven’t seen at least one of them films on one finger, as most are so good nearly everyone would have seen at least one.
Artificial Intelligence, or A.I. for short, will be the biggest thing mankind has ever invented. Such is the development of A.I. it’s no longer ‘if’ we build an A.I. unit but rather ‘when.’ We are already using some form of A.I. in technology, like fridges, cookers, tablets and mobile phones. But what I am talking about is an android, robot or whatever you want to call it.
Such is the rush to create little Tommy the Terminator that mistakes are bound to happen, and that could result in the A.I. turning against us.
When They Speak People Listen
When the likes of Professor Stephen Hawking’s and Elon Musk say A.I. could mean the end of the human race, it’s time to stand up and listen to what they have to say.
“It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,” the professor has said.
“Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
Elon Musk has warned that “A.I. is our biggest existential threat”.
Now I’m all for technology making things easier for us lazy humans, but not at the expense of us lazy humans. And while I for one welcome the advent of A.I., we must tread carefully and make sure there are no mistakes or backdoors in which it can escape.
First Thoughts
Let’s put this into context for a minute. We create an A.I. unit and switch it on for the first time. What do you think it sees when it opens its eyes for the first time? It could see us humans as a problem to the planet and anything else living on it. We are warmongers, weak, and live in puny, fragile bodies that constantly need repairing. Oh and we grow old, something the A.I. won’t do.
Friend or Foe?
Is it going to want to ‘help’ mankind? Maybe it sees us as a threat, and wants to destroy us all. Seeing as computers double their intelligence every eighteen months or so, means that before long A.I. will be way smarter than us. We could program it to help us with all sorts of tasks, like creating nanobots if they haven’t been built. Now can you imagine if it did help us build these microscopic workers, then turned on us with them and itself. There’d be nowhere to run that’s for sure.
Kill Switch
So they said a ‘kill switch’ will be built in to the A.I. Oh yea? How long do you think it’ll take for it to find it? Then what do you think it will do? For one it’s going to disable it, and two, it could see that as a threat to itself, and kill us all. It won’t take any A.I. unit long to explore itself and its surroundings. It’s going to be curious just like us, and want to know about everything it sees, touches, and smells.
A Passing Star or Planet
According to mainstream science there are plenty of rogue stars and planets gallivanting around the universe after being kicked out of their own many millions of years ago. If one did enter our galaxy then I’m afraid it could leave its calling card on our galaxy, and probably our planet.
Has this happened before?
Yes it has. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars sized object collided with the Earth. The debris that was flung out in to space was clumped together and ended up forming the moon we see in the night sky today. Astronomer’s called the object Theia, which in ancient times was the Titan Goddess of Sight.
If the same thing happened today, nothing would be left after the collision, just dust, debris, fire and lava.
A Passing Star
Astronomers believe that around 70,000 years ago a red dwarf star did pass through our solar system. Named the Scholz Star (after the person who found the star) it’s thought that the star passed through the outer edges of the Oort cloud, a cloud of comets some 5 trillion miles away. The next time a star will pass ‘close’ to us will be a mere 240,000 to 470,000 years from now, by a ‘rogue star’ named HIP 85605. It’s thought it would skirt the outer reaches of The Oort Cloud, and not cause our planet any problems, not that we’d be here in 240,000 years anyway!
For a star to give us any cause for alarm it would either have to go supernova as it passed through our galaxy, or pass through the inner parts of the solar system. According to the professionals, no star they know of is passing that close. I hope they’re right.
Wandering Black Hole
Could a black hole passing through our galaxy, destroy us? Well to answer that we need to know what a black hole is, and the main types of black hole.
There are many types of black hole, but the three main types are:
Primordial: Thought to have formed soon after the big bang.
Stellar: Forms when a massive star collapses in on itself.
Supermassive: Scientists think these form around the same time as the galaxy they are living in.
The most popular black hole is the stellar black hole. These are created when the centre of a massive star collapses in on itself and creates a supernova which blasts part of the star out into space.
I Can See You
If one did enter our galaxy would we know it was there? Well most probably yes because of the accretion disk. This is basically heated radioactive material dragged in by the black hole. Outer planets would be swallowed up or at the very least, thrown out of our galaxy. This would have a knock on effect, and the inner planets and even the suns orbits would be seriously compromised. The Oort cloud would be no more, but before it merged with the black hole it would probably shoot out comets towards Earth and the other planets, and we would be destroyed before the black hole got any closer.
If we did survive that onslaught and the black hole continued through the galaxy, then we would again be pulverised by asteroids from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Devastating earthquakes and super volcanoes would lay waste to whatever was left of the Earth, and any remaining humans, animals, insects, fish and mammals would be on borrowed time. As the black hole drew closer it would finally tear our planet apart, with the remains dragged into the accretion disk where it would remain for millions of years.
It’s the End Jim, But Not as we know it
Mainstream science will tell you most, if not all of these scenarios are very unlikely to happen. Well my dad used to tell me nothings impossible, so for now all bets are on the table as far as these are concerned. I’m not going to lose any sleep over them though. Instead I’m going to write some more apocalyptic fiction, as researching for ‘6 Things That Could Destroy Earth or Wipe out the Human Race’ has given me some great ideas.
Jupiter’s colorful bands or the gas giant’s huge Red Spot typically get all the attention but in a series of novel photos, NASA has finally captured a glimpse of a rare feature: Jupiter’s South Pole. We aren’t disappointed, that’s for sure!
Gas marble
When people think of Jupiter, they picture a colorful marble mainly painted in browns, reds, and off-whites. However, as images beamed back by the Juno spacecraft show, the gas giant is a lot more diverse when viewed from other angles. What immediately caught my eye were the beautiful blue swirling patterns, which resembles a mesmerizing iris.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced time-lapse sequence of images during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7 between 7:21 a.m. and 8:01 a.m. PST.
Although at first glance each picture in the series looks the same, there are slight differences between each image. The differences between the far left image and the far right image, for instance, are more immediately noticeable.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at the Jupiter system on July 4, 2016. Its mission is to study the planet in detail to give scientists a better idea of the gas giant’s weather, magnetic environment and formation history.
Juno is only the second long-term mission at Jupiter after the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited the planet from 1995 to 2003. The spacecraft’s two-year mission is scheduled to end in six months. NASA will either crash Juno into Jupiter or extend its mission with a new lease.
‘This was not created by an airliner,’ it said. ‘This map here and at this distance only gives us images of the major cloud formations and weather around the Earth.
‘There are obviously hundreds of thousands of contrails by planes but we cannot see them.
‘Whatever created this cloud formation, if that’s what it is, would have to be massive.
‘Not only that, it would have the ability to go from Antarctica spanning 13,000 miles in a straight line all the way to the North Pole without stopping and without changing direction.
‘It would have to do this fast enough to leave this entire line of clouds in perfect condition like it moved over the Earth in a matter of minutes.’
If the line is real, it may have been produced by a new type of jet capable of travelling at extreme speeds.
However, there’s a chance it may have been produced by a glitch in Google Earth, which stitches together photos taken at different times together.
Mysterieus spoor dat zich uitstrekt over de halve aardbol gespot op Google Earth. Wat is dit?
Mysterieus spoor dat zich uitstrekt over de halve aardbol gespot op Google Earth. Wat is dit?
Complottheoretici hebben op Google Earth een enorm spoor ontdekt, dat van de Zuidpool richting de Noordpool loopt. Dat meldt Metro.
De UFO-jagers van SecureTeam10 hebben een video op YouTube gezet waarin het reusachtige spoor onder de loep wordt genomen.
De vraag is nu hoe het spoor, dat zich uitstrekt over de halve aardbol, is ontstaan.
Iets enorms
Geschat wordt dat het spoor een lengte heeft van 19.000 tot 21.000 kilometer. “Dit kan niet zijn achtergelaten door een vliegtuig,” klinkt het.
Tyler van SecureTeam10 merkt in de video op dat contrails in het niet vallen bij het spoor, toevoegende dat deze ‘wolkenformatie’ moet zijn gemaakt door iets enorms.
“Dat niet alleen, het was in staat om in een rechte lijn van Antarctica naar de Noordpool te vliegen, zonder te stoppen of van richting te veranderen.”
Niet bekend
Of het om een vreemd gevormde wolk of een condensspoor van een nog onbekend object gaat, is niet bekend.
Sommigen denken dat er bij Google iets is misgegaan bij de verwerking van de satellietbeelden.
De Nederlandse lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren zegt over het spoor: “Gezien de technologie die ‘wij’ hebben, is dit onmogelijk.”
Ongeïdentificeerd object
“Immers, de winden op diverse hoogten gaan alle kanten uit, dus een dergelijk spoor had, als het met een vliegtuig was gemaakt, al lang moeten zijn verspreid,” voegde hij toe.
Vermeeren vermoedt dat het gaat om een ongeïdentificeerd object.
AAN ELKAAR GEPLAKTE AARDE EN MYSTERIEUZE CONSTRUCTIES OP DE MAAN
AAN ELKAAR GEPLAKTE AARDE EN MYSTERIEUZE CONSTRUCTIES OP DE MAAN
Een bijzonder ontdekking via Google Earth doet je geloven dat de aarde bestaat uit twee verschillende helften die aan elkaar geplakt lijken te zijn.
En de Chinezen blijven maar van alles fotograferen op de maan en daarbij komen bijzondere dingen tevoorschijn.
Ook Tyler vsn Secureteam ontsnapte klaarblijkelijk niet aan de griep en dus het was enige tijd stil, maar nu is hij weer terug met bijzondere dingen die hij meestal krijgt opgestuurd van zijn lezers.
Eén van de vreemde dingen die hij dit keer heeft, betreft onze aarde. Wanneer je volgens hem naar Google Earth gaat en je selecteert een bepaalde optie waarbij wolken boven het aardoppervlak zichtbaar worden, dan verschijnt er een bijzondere lijn op onze aardbol, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
Je krijgt dan een beetje de indruk dat de aarde bestaat uit twee helften en dat iemand deze aan elkaar heeft geplakt. Hoe het kan, is een raadsel en ook dat deze lijn vanaf Antarctica over Zuid Amerika naar de Noordpool loopt.
Verder is er deze week een bijzonder opname boven water gekomen van een UFO boven Wit Rusland. Het is een soort gloeiend object, gefilmd vanuit een auto, dat laag en met hoge snelheid vliegt.
Ook hier is nog geen verklaring voor. Net zo min als er een verklaring is voor het volgende object. De opname is gemaakt door een man in Engeland die niets met UFO's heeft en zich afvraagt of hij misschien een vliegende vogel heeft gefotografeerd.
Deze foto laat de klassieke zogenaamde retro UFO zien, ook wel de klassieke vliegende schotel genoemd.
Wij hebben in een eerder artikel al beelden laten zien van een ruimteschip op de maan, gemaakt door één van de Chinese maanlanders, die ook nu een opmerkelijke foto heeft gemaakt van iets dat eigenlijk niets anders kan zijn dan een enorm ruimteschip op het maanoppervlak.
Nu zijn er meer opnames waarvan een deel hieronder te zien is. De foto's laten een heel ander beeld zien van de maan dan de normale Zwitserse gatenkaas die wij gewend zijn te zien. Het is daar allesbehalve een kale boel, want er wordt door de Chinezen van alles gefotografeerd. Wat het allemaal precies is, weten wij uiteraard niet, maar dat er iets is, zoveel lijkt intussen wel duidelijk.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEven leek het erop dat er heel misschien leven mogelijk was op een planeet die rond de dichtstbijzijnde ster draait. Maar daar kan een streep door, zeggen Amerikaanse wetenschappers nu. De kans op leven op de planeet Proxima b is nihil.
Proxima b draait rond de ster Proxima Centauri. Die staat op slechts vier lichtjaar van de aarde, maar is zo zwak en klein dat hij niet met het blote oog te zien is.
Op metingen zagen wetenschappers dat de ster op 24 maart vorig jaar een enorme zonnevlam produceerde, een magnetische uitbarsting. De explosie zorgde ervoor dat de ster in tien seconden tijd ongeveer duizend keer feller werd. De vlam zelf was tien keer zo groot als een grote vlam van onze zon. Daardoor werd de planeet blootgesteld aan 4000 keer meer straling dan de aarde te verduren krijgt van zonnevlammen. De planeet moet dus de volle laag hebben gekregen. “In de miljarden jaren dat de planeet bestaat, kunnen zulke vlammen de atmosfeer en oceanen hebben doen verdampen en het oppervlak hebben gesteriliseerd”, aldus de onderzoekers.
REUTERSDe planeet Proxima b cirkelend rond Proxima Centauri.
De planeet is een klein beetje groter dan de aarde en heeft ongeveer dezelfde samenstelling. Bovendien zat hij in de zogeheten leefbare zone rond de ster. Dat is een gebied rond waar misschien vloeibaar water op het oppervlak mogelijk mogelijk is. “Leefbaarheid draait om meer dan alleen op de juiste afstand van de ster staan”, concluderen de wetenschappers nu.
De studie staat in het wetenschapsblad The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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UFO ‘SHOCK proof’? Worrying images emerge of ‘US airforce alien DOGFIGHT’ above Area 51
UFO ‘SHOCK proof’? Worrying images emerge of ‘US airforce alien DOGFIGHT’ above Area 51
UFO HUNTERS have revealed shocking pictures of a “three plane dogfight” above Area 51 that shows a craft that is “too small to fit a person inside” tussling with other aircraft, it has been claimed.
Tim Doyle and Tracey Su revealed the images that show two jets flying above the desert in Lincoln County, Nevada, while a third object looms in the sky.
Mr Doyle said: “Tracy noticed a couple of jet fighters dog fighting, so she popped off a couple pictures.
“It wasn’t until we got back home when we started reviewing the pictures that we noticed a third object.
“What in the world is this? It looks like some kind of triangular unmanned drone. Because it’s definitely too small to have a person inside of it and after reviewing the pictures, it definitely looks as though the three crafts are interacting with each other.
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Tim Doyle and Tracey Su revealed the worrying images
The picture shows a small craft that appears to look completely different in shape to the other two in the image.
The video explained that Time and Tracy “set up camp 12 miles from Area 51" in a desperate effort to uncover any mysterious secrets the base might have been hiding from the US public.
Mr Doyle added: “We’ll spend the night and seek UFOs and see what else happens.
“Welcome to Area 51, tonight we are UFO hunting in front of the most mysterious and secretive military installation in the entire world and we’ve got all the equipment set up tonight.
"We are taking a look at Orion’s Belt live on the television and that is coming live through our video camera here.
“We have a still camera setup where we are taking still shots repetitively to see if we see any blinking lights, maybe any dark objects, any lights out operations that might be going on.”
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The video explained that Tim and Tracy 'set up camp 12 miles from Area 51'
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Area 51 is based around 80 miles from Las Vegas in Nevada
Area 51 is based around 80 miles from Las Vegas in Nevada.
The base is surrounded by mystery and many have claimed that it is heavily involved in top-secret projects.
Following a Freedom of Information request, the CIA acknowledged that Area 51 existed in 2013.
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Strange Trail in the sky extends entire length of the Earth
Strange Trail in the sky extends entire length of the Earth
Several days ago there was a really bizarre observation on Google Earth and Google Maps.
A baffling line of thousands of miles that extended from the South Pole, Antarctica to the North Pole has not only spotted on Google Earth and Google Maps but may have been spotted from the International Space Station too.
There is a lot of discussion going on what this huge line could be. The mysterious line seems to be a form of energy or a frequency that the Earth was detected from something big.
Despite some people suggest that it is a processing glitch it clearly has a physical construction.
While the online community still discusses about the strange phenomenon, a video has surfaced of a gigantic bizarre straight line soaring through the sky over the Netherlands.
The witness who submitted the footage to MrMB333 writes:
“Just to share a really strange cloud line in the sky above the Netherlands I’ve spotted on February 20, 2018.”
“Some strange straight lined cloud formation, quite wide and reaching beyond the vanishing point of my eyes.”
“The cloud line seems to be of a different kind of cloud material then the other clouds around and behind it.”
It looks like the 'giant line' on Google earth WAS real after all, the question is; what is the origin of this phenomenon, where does this come from, taking into account the observation of the giant line over the Netherlands that the cloud material seems to be artificially created.
If aliens exist, here’s what they most likely look like
Movies, TV shows, and video games have helped humanity paint a mental picture of what aliens might look like if we ever run into them, but most of the time those fictional depictions have little or no scientific backing whatsoever. Researchers searching for extraterrestrial life don’t necessarily know exactly what they’re looking for, but based on what we’ve learned about humanity’s rise there’s a handful of things nature tells us are required for advancement of a civilization. In the book “The Future of Humanity,” author Michio Kaku attempts to answer the incredibly difficult question of what aliens might look like, and this time it’s not just a guess.
Kaku consulted with exobiology experts and theorists who specialize in hypothetical alien life forms which have developed on far-off worlds much different from Earth. Using that accumulated knowledge, Kaku came up with a very basic list of criteria that any intelligence alien race would need to have in order to reach a level similar to humanity.
As the New York Postreports, the requirements that Kaku has dreamt up are essentially the same capabilities that scientists believe have allowed humans to progress in the way that we have:
Stereo vision – Two eyes capable of focusing on a single object are something we typically associate with predators here on Earth. Prey animals often have one eye on either side of their head which allows them to spot threats and escape quickly, but that type of ocular setup is poor when it comes to hunting. Kaku suggests that most if not all “intelligent” alien races would have originated as hunters, rather than the hunted.
Thumbs– Scientists have long believed that evolution which led to opposable thumbs was a huge factor in the rise of primates. A method of grasping objects allows for the making of tools which, it is thought, is one of the very earliest signs of intelligence as we know it. It makes sense that aliens would have followed a similar path.
Language – This one is a bit tricky because it’s incredibly non-specific. The key here isn’t just the ability to communicate with each other in the moment — many animals have species-wide methods of vocal communication that could be considered language — but also to relay information and pass it down between generations. This allows the accumulation of knowledge over long periods of time and gives new members of a species the chance to expand and “stand on the shoulders” of those who came before them.
These features obviously sound a lot like what we’re all born with, which makes perfect sense. However, within this very basic outline there’s plenty of room for variation. If aliens only need two eyes, a gripping appendage, and some kind of language in order to have caught up with humans, there’s really no telling what form their bodies have actually taken, especially on planets with chemical makeup far different from Earth.
Spin Master's Sonic Rocket launches up to 200 feet in the air.
Credit: Kasandra Brabaw
NEW YORK — The annual Toy Fair in New York delivers again, providing Space.com with a look at a dramatic motorized rocket recently released by Spin Master that can fly up to 200 feet (60 meters) in the air.
The Air Hogs Sonic Rocket's aerodynamic foam body looks much like other toy rockets, but this toy has a twist: It uses an electric motor to launch the toy hundreds of feet into the air. Unlike stomp rockets, which use air pressure to launch into the sky, or toy rockets that are flung upward with force from rubber bands, the Sonic Rocket has a single propeller at its base that's let loose with a button press.
Press it once and the rocket will launch 50 feet (15 m) into the air. Press it twice and it will fly up 100 feet (30 m) before falling back to the Earth. Three presses will launch the rocket an impressive 200 feet (60 m).
A full charge provides up to 50 launches and hours of fun.
Credit: Kasandra Brabaw
Like a real spacecraft launch, the Sonic Rocket builds anticipation with a countdown before takeoff. It also twists itself around five times before blasting off. The toy fully charges in about 20 to 25 minutes, and each full charge promises 50 launches. So once the Sonic Rocket comes back down, it's immediately ready for another go, and then another and another for hours of outdoor fun.
The Sonic Rocket is recommended for ages 8 and up.
Credit: Kasandra Brabaw
The full package comes with one rocket, made out of a sturdy, crash-resistant EPP foam a launchpad, an instruction guide and a USB cable for charging. The toy comes ready to fly: It doesn't require any assembly. Spin Master recommends the toy for ages 8 and up.
Neanderthal Art Dated to 65,000-years-ago in Spain
Neanderthal Art Dated to 65,000-years-ago in Spain
New findings from cave sites in Spain suggest that Neanderthals had nothing to envy in respect to their cognitive skills when contrasted against their close cousins, fully modern humans. It is no longer easy to argue that our direct ancestors had the edge on Neanderthals when it came to displays of mental prowess with the confirmation of extremely ancient Neanderthal cave art.
Archaeological research across Europe has convincingly established that the ancestors of modern Europeans reached the continent around 45,000 years ago, this date not only matched fossils and tools found but also coincided with the earliest examples of cave art. Despite definitive evidence of a lengthy presence for Neanderthals across Europe cave art seemed to appear only after modern humans arrived.
In newly released studies three cave sites, La Pasiega in north-eastern Spain, Maltravieso in western Spain and Ardales in southern Spain, have produced new evidence which pushes back the date for complex art to at least 65,000 years ago. These three sites offer a number of paintings in red or black, incorporating animals, dots and geometric patterns alongside hand stencils, hand prints and engraved iconography.
“Our dating results show that [some of] the cave art at these three sites in Spain is much older than previously thought,” says team member Alistair Pike from the University of Southampton. “With an age in excess of 64,000 years it predates the earliest traces of modern humans in Europe by more than 20,000 years.
The logical conclusion is that Neanderthals are the most likely candidates for having painted the images, and although it remains possible that another sub-species was responsible for the work, such as archaic Homo sapiens, there is no clear evidence for their presence in Europe at the time.
Dirk Hoffmann, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology was able to date the art only due to the fact that the radioactive element uranium dissolves in water, but the element thorium doesn’t. When water soaks through soils into a cave uranium is carried with it and then gets trapped in mineral deposits, it then radioactively decays at a predictable rate becoming thorium. Measuring the relative amounts of uranium and thorium in minerals can reveal their ages and provide a minimum date for any paintings beneath these deposits.
A drawing of the art shows animals and other symbols around the ladder shape. It’s stiil unclear if they date to the same time or were painted later.
The three Spanish caves with paintings were found to have mineral crusts overlying the images that were at least 64,800 years old, although this is the minimum date for the art we must consider that it could be considerably older. This is without a doubt the oldest directly dates art in Europe and close in age to the oldest examples on the planet.
Results of a second study were announced to the media at the same time, researchers had determined the age of an archaeological cache at Cueva de los Aviones, a coastal cave in southeastern Spain. Among the artefacts examined were perforated sea shells, red and yellow compounds for painting along with shell containers with mixed pigments. The same Uranium-Thorium dating method was applied and revealed an incredibly early date, 115,000 years before present day. Consider that the very oldest signs of such artefacts in Africa are no older than 92,000 years in age, perhaps considerably younger.
“One wrong move, and you might remove some pigments from the wall that were there for thousands and thousands of years,” says Hoffmann, the lead author of both studies. “There’s this overwhelming feeling you get when you first get in.”
With the revelation that both Neanderthals and modern humans had an equal ability to produce rock art, as well as other discoveries showing near equality in tool use, ingenuity, ritual behaviour and genes associated with speech, some researchers are calling into question whether Neanderthals were truly a distinct species. There has long been a divide over whether Neanderthals might not properly be considered a sub-species of Homo sapiens and this new evidence supports the argument that they were an isolated subgroup of our own species. We certainly seemed to have interbred successfully with them which traditionally confirms membership of a single species.
A worker takes measurements of the stone rings inside Bruniquel Cave.
The new studies build on evidence for complex ritual artistic creations among Neanderthals previously highlighted by the discovery of a 176,000-year-old circle created from broken stalagmites deep within the Bruniquel Cave, located in France. Most scientists had already accepted that the Bruniquel Cave stone circles had been composed by local Neanderthal populations.
“According to our new data Neanderthals and modern humans shared symbolic thinking and must have been cognitively indistinguishable”, said Joao Zilhao of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies in Barcelona, and who was involved in both studies. “On our search for the origins of language and advanced human cognition we must therefore look much farther back in time, more than half a million years ago, to the common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.”
When a camera captures a star’s movement across the sky, it’s called a star trail. An astrophotographer explains how he does it.
Star trails over the planned site of the Giant Magellan Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image via Yuri Beletsky Nightscapes.
Star trails are the continuous paths created by stars, produced during long-exposure photographs, as shown on this page. In other words, the camera doesn’t track along with the stars’ apparent motion as night passes. Instead, the camera stays fixed, while, as the hours pass, the stars move. The resulting photos show the nightly movement of stars on the sky’s dome.
Star trails reflect Earth’s rotation, or spin, on its axis. The Earth rotates full circle relative to the backdrop stars in a period of about 23 hours and 56 minutes. So, as seen from Earth, all the stars go full circle and return to the same place in sky after this period of time, which astronomers call a sidereal (stellar) day.
View larger. | Star trails (plus meteor) photo taken by Guy Livesay. Thank you, Guy! If you aim your camera northward in a long-exposure photo, the star trails will be seen to track around the north celestial pole. In fact, the stars move counter-clockwise around the sky’s north pole in the course of every night.
Montauk Point lighthouse. Photo via Neeti Kumthekar.
What this means is that, if you’re standing out under the stars, you see them move across the sky as night passes. Stars rise in the east, arc across the sky and set in the west, just as the sun does.
Stars near the celestial poles produce the smallest circles while those near the celestial equator produce the largest. The stars – like the sun during the daytime – move from east to west across the sky each and every night. Each and every star moves 15 degrees westward in one hour.
Star trails are really arcs, or partial circles, whose ever-circling motions forever tabulate the great passage of time.
Sometimes you can get cool non-star effects into your shot, as Michael A. Rosinski did in this photo.
Ken Christison captured these glorious star trails around Polaris, the North Star. He wrote, “For the most common and often the most spectacular star trails, you want to locate Polaris and compose the image so it is centered horizontally and hopefully you can have a bit of foreground for reference.”
EarthSky Facebook friend Ken Christison has some wonderful photos of star trails. He said the equipment needed for making startrails is pretty simple:
First, a camera that allows manual settings so you can set your f/stop and shutter speeds, as well as ISO.
Next, a wide angle lens, the wider the better.
A good steady tripod is a must.
Some cameras will have a built in intervalometer which can be set to shoot the desirable number of frames. In some cases the intervalometer has a bit of lag between shots, which is the reason I use a separate, remote attached to the camera that holds the shutter down and when the camera is set in continuous shooting mode will shoot 100 frames in succession with very little gap.
The remote I use is a simple one that can be found on eBay and uses a couple AAA batteries that last quite a while. I just use the remote controller attached to the 10 pin connector. There is no need to use the wireless receiver in this case.
I use a shutter speed of 30 seconds, ISO of 400 to 800, and with my 14-24mm lens at 14mm, shoot it wide open at f/2.8.
Next, he said, you’re ready to capture your star trail:
Make sure the camera is level, and after focusing on a star, make sure the autofocus is turned off. Then, using the settings mentioned above, click the shutter and stay around long enough to know that the shutter is actually actuating. I normally go back in the house, set the timer on our kitchen stove for 45 minutes, and do other things while the camera does its work.
When the timer sounds, go back out and reset the remote by turning it off, waiting for the shutter to close, then reset quickly.
Finally, you’ll want to process your photo. Ken said:
This is one of the most important elements in making star trail images. The program I use is free, works well and is simple to use: http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html.
A 2-hour-and-15-minute star trail image from March 21, 2014. Our friend Ken Christison in North Carolina captured this image. Want to see what a single frame of this image looked like? See the photo below.
A single frame of the star trail image above, with the elements labeled. Thank you, Ken Christison of Conway, North Carolina!
Composite image of star trails over Baja, California, from EarthSky Facebook friend Sergio Garcia Rill. This image is the product of 80 separate photographs. Thank you, Sergio!
You can also create a star trail of sorts with our local star, the sun. EarthSky Facebook friend Matthew Chin in Hong Kong created this sun trail on October 5, 2013. Thank you, Matthew!
Bottom line: Star trails are the continuous paths created by stars, produced during long time exposure photographs, as shown in the photos on this page.
The aliens will probably think we’re too dumb to kill
The aliens will probably think we’re too dumb to kill
This is existentially comforting when you think about it.
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The number of reported UFO sightings this year, according to the National UFO Reporting Center
Drew Millard
Yesterday, my favorite site on the internet, the National UFO Reporting Center, did my favorite thing: it updated its database of self-reported UFO sightings, and the 76 new entries it has added now make for a total of 436 sightings in 2018. The database itself is a fairly bare-bones affair, consisting mostly of anonymous accounts of weird stuff, many of which even the NUFORC thinks are people messing with them. But sometimes, the NUFORC posts something genuinely baffling, such as this video taken by a man in Pasadena featuring small white objects in the sky that don’t really look like planes or birds or anything. Could the man have just been taking a video of floating balloons or something like that? Yeah, probably, but it’s way more fun to just let the strangeness of it all — including the fact witness’s report notes that he took a break from UFO watching to play Pokémon Go — wash over you.
Relatedly, the theoretical physicist and author Michio Kaku — aka one of the pioneers of string theory — has been making the rounds plugging his new book The Future of Humanity, and recently took to Reddit to do an AmA in which he was asked to speculate what might happen if we ever made contact with aliens. In his answer, he wrote that he wouldn’t be surprised if we made “contact” of some sort with an extraterrestrial civilization “within this century.” Kaku’s answer, however, came with the caveats that A) even if we received a radio message from an alien civilization, it takes a really long time for radio waves to travel vast distances in space so if we responded it might take a while for our message and get back to them, and B) any alien civilization capable of “land[ing] on the White House lawn and announc[ing] their existence” probably wouldn’t bother doing so, because in order to travel to Earth they would need to be so much more technologically advanced than we were that they might not even recognize us as intelligent life.
I, personally, find Kaku’s comments fairly comforting — even if one of the NUFORC’s 436 UFO sightings were somehow legit, it’s nice to know that the aliens think we’re too dumb to destroy.
Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku believes that humans will make contact with alien civilization this century, but expects they will be largely peaceful – unlike robots, which pose a greater threat to humanity.
Kaku made the revelations during a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything), where intrigued users asked questions relating to artificial intelligence and extraterrestrial life. “Let me stick my neck out. I personally feel is that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilization, by listening in on their radio communications,” Kaku stated, adding that he expects they will see us like we see forest animals.
“And what are their intentions. Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful. Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence. But I think that is unlikely, since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with.”
Kaku doubled down on this theory in another response, musing that humans will probably be seen as insignificant to alien society. At the core of their peaceful approach is knowledge, according to Kaku, who believes the extraterrestrials have had thousands of years to resolve sectarian, fundamentalist, nationalist questions.
The physicist admitted, however, that this neutral stance could shift if “we get in the way.” “They still might be dangerous if they simply don’t care about us and we get in the way. In War of the Worlds, the aliens did not hate us. We were simply in the way.”
“But for the most part, I think they will be peaceful, but view us like we view forest animals,” he concluded.
In contrast, Kaku suggested that robots will need chips implanted in their brains to control any “murderous thoughts.”Envisaging their future development, the scientist predicts that their intelligence level will go from that of a bug to a level on par with that of a monkey. “By that point they might become dangerous and even replace humans, near the end of the century. So I think we should put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”
Ultimately, humans may have to accept their fate and merge with their robot overlords, according to Kaku. “But what happens centuries from now, when robots evade even our most sophisticated fail-safe system?? At that point, I think we should merge with them."
“This may sound strange to some people, but remember that it is the people of the far future (not us) who will decide how far they want to modify themselves to deal with super smart robots.”
The dangers of AI and the grim possibility of a future with ‘killer robots’ have been addressed by several industry experts, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. Musk was among more than a hundred tech leaders to call on the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots, last year. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO believes AI is a “fundamental threat to human civilization.”
World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking holds similar fears about the future of AI, warning that one day robots could entirely edge out human beings and become a new life form.
Astronomers assumed supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolve together and affect each other. They call it “co-evolution.” But it’s not happening in the distant galaxy WISE1029.
Artist’s concept of gas outflow (in green) driven by a central supermassive black hole not affecting the star formation of its host galaxy. Maybe it happens when the gas is flowing especially perpendicularly to the galaxy’s flat disk.
Image via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Look below for real images of the galaxy in this study.
In recent decades, astronomers have learned that almost all massive galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their hearts. More recent findings show that the masses of these black holes match that of their host galaxies; that is, the more massive the galaxy, the more massive the black hole. And so it’s been natural for astronomers to assume that supermassive black holes and their host galaxies have evolved together and affect each other. That’s why astronomers are so puzzled by new results from the ALMA telescope in Chile, suggesting no relationship between a distant galaxy and its supermassive black hole.
Yoshiki Toba of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan led this new research. The team used the ALMA radio telescope, because it’s sensitive to millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths and thus good at studying distant gas clouds – for example, those that form stars and possibly planets within our own local Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies evolve in large part by forming stars, and ALMA can also be aimed toward distant galaxies, to study star-forming gas in their disks. Plus, it can peer at the gas flowing outward from the vicinity of a distant galaxy’s central supermassive black hole.
Toba and his colleagues aimed the telescope toward an active galaxy known as WISE1029+0501. This galaxy is known to have a strong ionized gas outflow, presumably from the supermassive black hole at its center. The team also clearly detected carbon monoxide (CO) gas associated with that distant galaxy’s flat disk. Such gas is known to be related to star formation. Yet, these astronomers found, the CO gas in the flat part of the galaxy is not affected by the strong ionized gas outflow launched by the supermassive black hole from the galaxy’s center. Yoshiki commented in a February 20, 2018,statement from ALMA:
… it has made the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes more puzzling.
And he added:
… understanding such co-evolution is crucial for astronomy. By collecting statistical data of this kind of galaxies and continuing in more follow-up observations using ALMA, we hope to reveal the truth.
Yoshiki’s research was published in late 2017 in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal.
The team has focused on a particular type of objects called Dust-Obscured Galaxy (DOG) that has a prominent feature: despite being very faint in visible light, it is very bright in the infrared. This image shows the DOG that the team studied, WISE1029. The left and right panels show an optical image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and a mid-infrared image from WISE, respectively.
Image via Sloan Digital Sky Survey/ NASA JPL-Caltech/ ALMA.
Bottom line:Astronomers thought that supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolved together, but maybe – in at least some cases – they don’t.
You can’t survive a passage into a black hole … or can you? A UC Berkeley mathematician says you could enter certain types of black holes, but your past would be obliterated and you’d have an infinite number of possible futures.
A reasonably realistic simulation of falling into a black hole shows how space and time are distorted, and how light is blue shifted as you approach the inner or Cauchy horizon, where most physicists think you would be annihilated. However, a UC Berkeley mathematician argues that you could, in fact, survive passage through this horizon.
In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for all time and all space.
But a UC Berkeley mathematician has found some types of black holes in which this law breaks down. If someone were to venture into one of these relatively benign black holes, they could survive, but their past would be obliterated and they could have an infinite number of possible futures.
Such claims have been made in the past, and physicists have invoked strong cosmic censorship to explain it away. That is, something catastrophic – typically a horrible death – would prevent observers from actually entering a region of spacetime where their future was not uniquely determined. This principle, first proposed 40 years ago by physicist Roger Penrose, keeps sacrosanct an idea – determinism [cause and effect] – key to any physical theory.
That is, given the past and present, the physical laws of the universe do not allow more than one possible future.
But, says UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz, mathematical calculations show that for some specific types of black holes in a universe like ours, which is expanding at an accelerating rate, it is possible to survive the passage from a deterministic world into a non-deterministic black hole.
What life would be like in a space where the future was unpredictable is unclear. But the finding does not mean that Einstein’s equations of general relativity, which so far perfectly describe the evolution of the cosmos, are wrong, said Hintz. He said:
No physicist is going to travel into a black hole and measure it. This is a math question. But from that point of view, this makes Einstein’s equations mathematically more interesting. This is a question one can really only study mathematically, but it has physical, almost philosophical implications, which makes it very cool.
Hintz and his colleagues published a paper describing these unusual black holes in January 2018 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Beyond the Event Horizon
Black holes are bizarre objects that get their name from the fact that nothing can escape their gravity, not even light. If you venture too close and cross the so-called event horizon, you’ll never escape.
For small black holes, you’d never survive such a close approach anyway. The tidal forces close to the event horizon are enough to spaghettify anything: that is, stretch it until it’s a string of atoms.
Still image taken from an animation by Andrew Hamilton, based on supercomputer simulation by John Hawley.
But for large black holes, like the supermassive objects at the cores of galaxies like the Milky Way, which weigh tens of millions if not billions of times the mass of a star, crossing the event horizon would be, well, uneventful.
Because it should be possible to survive the transition from our world to the black hole world, physicists and mathematicians have long wondered what that world would look like, and have turned to Einstein’s equations of general relativity to predict the world inside a black hole. These equations work well until an observer reaches the center, or singularity, where in theoretical calculations the curvature of spacetime becomes infinite.
Even before reaching the center, however, a black hole explorer – who would never be able to communicate what she found to the outside world – could encounter some weird and deadly milestones. Hintz studies a specific type of black hole – a standard, non-rotating black hole with an electrical charge – and such an object has a so-called Cauchy horizon within the event horizon.
The Cauchy horizon is the spot where determinism breaks down, where the past no longer determines the future. Physicists, including Penrose, have argued that no observer could ever pass through the Cauchy horizon point because they would be annihilated.
As the argument goes, as an observer approaches the horizon, time slows down, since clocks tick slower in a strong gravitational field. As light, gravitational waves and anything else encountering the black hole fall inevitably toward the Cauchy horizon, an observer also falling inward would eventually see all this energy barreling in at the same time. In effect, all the energy the black hole sees over the lifetime of the universe hits the Cauchy horizon at the same time, blasting into oblivion any observer who gets that far.
You Can’t See Forever in an Expanding Universe
Hintz realized, however, that this may not apply in an expanding universe that is accelerating, such as our own. Because spacetime is being increasingly pulled apart, much of the distant universe will not affect the black hole at all, since that energy can’t travel faster than the speed of light.
A spacetime diagram of the gravitational collapse of a charged spherical star to form a charged black hole. An observer traveling across the event horizon will eventually encounter the Cauchy horizon, the boundary of the region of spacetime that can be predicted from the initial data. Hintz and his colleagues found that a region of spacetime, denoted by a question mark, cannot be predicted from the initial data in a universe with accelerating expansion, like our own. This violates the principle of strong cosmic censorship.
Image via APS/Alan Stonebraker.
In fact, the energy available to fall into the black hole is only that contained within the observable horizon: the volume of the universe that the black hole can expect to see over the course of its existence. For us, for example, the observable horizon is bigger than the 13.8 billion light-years we can see into the past, because it includes everything that we will see forever into the future. The accelerating expansion of the universe will prevent us from seeing beyond a horizon of about 46.5 billion light-years.
In that scenario, the expansion of the universe counteracts the amplification caused by time dilation inside the black hole, and for certain situations, cancels it entirely. In those cases – specifically, smooth non-rotating black holes with a large electrical charge, so-called Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black holes – an observer could survive passing through the Cauchy horizon and into a non-deterministic world. Hintz said:
There are some exact solutions of Einstein’s equations that are perfectly smooth, with no kinks, no tidal forces going to infinity, where everything is perfectly well behaved up to this Cauchy horizon and beyond.
Hintz noted that the passage through the horizon would be painful but brief.
After that, all bets are off; in some cases, such as a Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black hole, one can avoid the central singularity altogether and live forever in a universe unknown.
Admittedly, he said, charged black holes are unlikely to exist, since they’d attract oppositely charged matter until they became neutral. However, the mathematical solutions for charged black holes are used as proxies for what would happen inside rotating black holes, which are probably the norm. Hintz argues that smooth, rotating black holes, called Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black holes, would behave the same way. Hintz said:
That is upsetting, the idea that you could set out with an electrically charged star that undergoes collapse to a black hole, and then Alice travels inside this black hole and if the black hole parameters are sufficiently extremal, it could be that she can just cross the Cauchy horizon, survives that and reaches a region of the universe where knowing the complete initial state of the star, she will not be able to say what is going to happen. It is no longer uniquely determined by full knowledge of the initial conditions. That is why it’s very troublesome.
Hintz’s paper has already sparked other papers, one of which purports to show that most well-behaved black holes will not violate determinism. But Hintz insists that one instance of violation is one too many. He said:
People had been complacent for some 20 years, since the mid ‘90s, that strong cosmological censorship is always verified. We challenge that point of view.
Bottom line: A UC Berkeley mathematician suggests that there are some types of black holes in which the law of determinism breaks down.
Luis Elizondo Interview for the 2018 International UFO Congress
Luis Elizondo Interview for the 2018 International UFO Congress
This is an exclusive interview of Luis Elizondo, the former head of a secret Pentagon project to investigate UFOs. The project was called the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP). An article on Dec. 16, 2017 in the New York Times revealing the program made worldwide headlines. Thus far, short media interviews are all Elizondo has participated in. In this exclusive interview, Elizondo answers questions from UFO Congress social media followers and friends.
See the entire 2018 International UFO Congress presentation, including a review of how this revelation came about, and insight from Nick Pope, who ran a similar UFO program for the UK's Ministry of Defense, at the UFO Congress Video-on-Demand page.
Today's Top Space Headline: "Communicating With Aliens" --Clues from Earth's 7,000 Languages (WATCH Video)
Today's Top Space Headline: "Communicating With Aliens" --Clues from Earth's 7,000 Languages (WATCH Video)
“We can’t use ourselves as a starting point,” said Sheri Wells-Jensen, an associate professor of linguists at Bowling Green State University. “We are an endpoint at looking at things. We are the product of evolution. We’re like pond scum.”
Studying alien languages might seem like a silly, science fiction fantasy reports today's Inverse. But at the rate we’ve discovered more habitable Earth-like worlds, we are bound to encounter an alien species pretty soon. Wells-Jensen 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 like 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.
Before we can begin to hypothesize about any extraterrestrial language, we must examine our basis for understanding what language is. We should examine what we know—and, even more important, what we presume—about language.One approach linguistics has taken is to look deeply into the structure of a single language with the goal of capturing its essence in a series of descriptive principles; this approach assumes that each Earth language has within it a "universal" set of rules that characterize all potential human languages.
Another approach would be to study the 7,000 or so known Earth languages to identify what all of them have in common and distill the set of descriptive principles from there. Unfortunately, both approaches are quite human-centric, and even with a dataset of 7,000 languages to work with, we still have effectively only one data point. Still, defining this single data point is useful because we can't think outside the box until we have identified the box.
With this in mind, what we could do is examine those 7,000 languages to establish what is rare among them or what they all lack: That is, what presuppositions do they all make? What things are unsaid, or even unsayable, because these things are too obvious, too obscure, or somehow foreign to human cognition? We cannot know which of our assumptions about language might be natural outgrowths of intelligence and therefore truly universal, and which result from specifically human factors; the best we can do at this point is lay out the possibilities.
In the 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?
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 Arrival an 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.
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Alien Invasion: What Would Aliens REALLY Want With The Earth?
Alien Invasion: What Would Aliens REALLY Want With The Earth?
Let’s put aside the questions as to whether or not we’ve been visited by aliens. Let’s ask a better question: Why would aliens visit us at all? Is there anything about Earth that makes us prone to an alien invasion?
An Alien Invasion has Occurred, But For What Reason?
While there’s plenty of talk of human-alien hybridization programs & plans to take over our government and make us slaves, do these ideas make any sense? I mean, if a far advanced alien race came here with the intent of making us slaves, they wouldn’t need to infiltrate our government to do so. They’d just… do it. They would just do it because they’re so advanced relative to us. So let’s explore the possibilities…
The Most Unlikely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion
The first 2 scenarios really have good reasons why they’re unlikely. While they’re popular with hardcore alien enthusiasts, many of which believe these things are happening now or have in the past, a step back to reality doesn’t support these ideas. The likely scenarios are much more insidious and dire for humans in the event of a true alien invasion.
#1 Gold Mining
Gold is a very rare metal. For thousands of years, humans have mined it. We work for it. We kill for it. Aliens want gold too.
The idea is a cornerstone for Ancient Alien theorists. They believe that aliens came to the earth in ancient times to mine gold. In their desire for gold, they genetically modified ancient apes to make them more intelligent. The theory states that modern-day humans, us, are those genetically modified apes. Aliens designed us to have love and desire for gold so that we would mine it for them by our own ‘choice’.
Truth be told, there isn’t much evidence in support of this theory. Everyone who reads this blog knows my stance on the Ancient Alien religion. It’s undeniable that humans have a love and obsession with gold. We also have a love and obsession with lots of pretty stones and shiny metals that aren’t gold.
The Reality – Gold isn’t THAT Rare
While gold is a rare metal by certain standards, there’s no reason to think Earth has more gold than other rocky planets. Gold can only be created during a supernova and any planets forming in the resulting cloud of heavy elements will have some gold on them. So does it really make sense that aliens would travel here specifically for gold? Probably not. The fact of the matter is that from the perspective of an interstellar species, gold isn’t that rare or hard to find.
Alien technology would be so great, they wouldn’t need human ‘slaves’ to mine gold for them. They’d have machines that can do it much faster. Additionally, there’s no reason why they would choose an inhabited planet to mine when there are so many uninhabited ones out there. If they did choose to mine an inhabited planet such as the Earth, they’d probably wipe out all life first so that they wouldn’t have to deal with all the ankle biting from the pesky humans.
#2 Hybridization for Their Dying Species
Another popular theory by alien-believers is that aliens are running a hybridization program. The theory postulates aliens are a dying species, abducting humans, and taking DNA to merge with their own in order to strengthen their own biology. Many people believe it’s already happening.
The Arguments for an Alien Hybridization Program
The proponents of the theory point to cases of alien abduction & cattle mutilations as evidence. Sightings of cryptids, such as the Chupacabra, are cited as examples of alien hybridization having gone wrong.
Additionally, many female abductees describe being artificially inseminated and forced to carry fetuses only to be abducted later and having it removed. Male abductees frequently describe having semen extracted from them by their alien abductors. Some folks claim to have had sexual encounters with extraterrestrials.
The Reality – You Don’t Need Much DNA for Hybridization
By far, the weakest part of the entire theory is that a little DNA goes a long way. A single human carries enough DNA information to hybridize an entire generation of extraterrestrials. Aside from the fact that many abduction cases can be dismissed as instances of sleep paralysis, continued abductions for 50+ years would be unnecessary.
It’s also worth noting that a species capable of interstellar travel would have learned how to genetically modify themselves without the need for samples from a relatively primordial species such as ourselves.
The Most Likely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion
This set of scenarios for an alien invasion take into account what science knows about intelligent life and how it behaves. Of course, we only have ourselves to look at, but you work with what you’ve got right? These scenarios which come from real scientists are much more disturbing than some of the fantasy stories tossed around by the ancient alien and conspiracy crowds.
#1 Their Own Earth-like Planet was Destroyed
What if aliens weren’t very different from us? What if they came from a planet just like ours in a neighboring solar system? Maybe their planet died or became uninhabitable, and the entire species took the skies looking for a new place to call home.
As a skeptic, this scenario for an alien invasion is mind blowing because it could actually happen. No planet lives forever. Our own Earth has gone through several mass extinction events and there’s no reason to think other planets would be any different.
We’d likely be powerless to stop it, and if our own history of exploration is any indication, it wouldn’t turn out very well for us humans. Think about what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans discovered the New World…
#2 Natural Resources that Support Carbon-Based Life
If there’s one thing more rare in the universe than gold and diamonds, it’s life. At least, life as we know it – carbon-based life. Life with all its associated proteins & fats is likely the rarest thing in the cosmos. We know this because we’ve looked around and not found it anywhere else.
Earth’s Natural Resources Would be a Figurative Goldmine
While it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn, the compounds necessary to support carbon-based life are much rarer. Earth’s trees, plants, animals, & humans might be so rare in the universe that aliens could invade in order to use these sources of energy.
The rarity of life in the universe makes the Earth a prime candidate for aliens wishing to create a planetary zoo or to rule us. They could also potentially farm the life on Earth for food much as humans currently do.
#3 Dominance
It could simply be that a space-faring race may come to the earth simply to rule the population. Remember Superman 2? Political and social power can be addictive and satisfying to intelligent beings. The desire to rule may even be a common trait of all intelligent species.
The Desire to Rule Depends on the Aliens
The culture of the aliens who happen to find us really determines the likelihood of this scenario. By all counts, it’s a true alien invasion of the type only seen in movies and cinema. The takeover could be quick and violent, or it could be slow and shadowy. Proponents say it’s already happening. They point to reports of reptilian aliens infiltrating our government and big corporations as evidence.
#4 They Might Be Looking for a Planetary Zoo
Zoos are pretty cool. Maybe aliens think so too? Perhaps aliens wouldn’t actually invade the earth as much as keeping it ‘caged up’ for observation.
Like the previous example, the planetary zoo is very possible. What’s really crazy? It might already be happening and we aren’t even aware of it.
#5 Food – Humans? Yummy!
There isn’t a single animal on this planet that humans won’t eat. We’ll eat anything except other humans (and there are even exceptions to that as well). Aliens might be the same way, especially if carbon-based life turns out to be a compatible food for their biology.
Based our own behavior towards other animals, this scenario is highly likely. Perhaps, it’s the most likely of all. And it’s utterly terrifying. With advanced intelligence and technology, humans would be raised as cattle scarcely aware of our true purpose. We might live out our lives without so much as a hint of our grisly ends at the hands of our alien farmers.
Other Reasons?
We can only guess at the motives of our potential alien invaders. Perhaps the alien invasion will have nothing to do with us at all, or maybe it will have everything to do with us. Regardless, if aliens ever do come to meet us with technology millions of years ahead of us, we won’t have much say in the matter anyway. And that’s the scariest part of the entire thing.
What do you think? Why would aliens invade the earth? Let us know below in the comments.
General Bible Discourses Vol 16. — Ezekiel's Wheel and the Extraterrestrial Question
There is a story in Ezekiel chapter 1, known as “Ezekiel’s Wheel”. This story is believed by many people both Christian and non-Christian alike, to represent an alien encounter experienced by the prophet Ezekiel. The four beasts in this story are often interpreted to be aliens, and the wheels are often interpreted to be flying saucers. However, the vision seen by the prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel chapter 1, is likely a reference to the “Four Conquering Empires” of the Holy Bible namely Babylon, Persia, Macedon, and Rome. It should be noted that there are similar visions of four beasts had by the Prophet Daniel in the book of Daniel chapter 7, which turn out to be these same empires. In the book of Revelations Chapter 4, the Apostle John also documents his own visions that are similar to Ezekiel and Daniel’s visions in regards to beasts representing empires. Because of these similarities in representations concerning the dreams and visions had by prophets and apostles, I encourage the historical study of biblical narratives before reading and attempting to interpret dreams, visions, and revelations as they are presented in the Holy Bible.
... myself who had actually tried to figure out what the heck did Ezekiel see. Look at these artistic interpretations of what he saw … just look at them!
With the advent of the science fiction genre of entertainment, namely comic books, video games, television shows, and movies, the human imagination is more creative and vibrant than ever, making concepts such as aliens seem less impossible. The Bible does not address the existence of extra-terrestrial beings as we know them in the science fiction genre of entertainment. There are however, reports in the Bible of Angels appearing to man in modern times; Hebrews 13:2 tells us that these angels assume the appearance of everyday mortal men and that a person would not know that these men are of a divine nature. In my opinion, a person needs devout faith to believe in aliens, namely beings from distant galaxies that possess intelligence.
In my estimation, the sketchy photographs and imaginative artistic renderings of aliens and their spacecrafts and technology are not reliable as factual. Imagine if concrete evidence of Alien life was found. Whatever that evidence was, would be the centerpiece of every political address, film documentary, news story, magazine cover, religious sermon, and scientific inquiry all over the world. Museums would acquire the rights to these discoveries and charge healthy prices to the general public in order to view them. If living aliens were found, they would be placed in specialized zoos, open to any and all who could pay the money required to observe them. Scientists would dissect the bodies of deceased aliens and publish their findings in academic journals, and academic textbooks all over the world. The trajectory of human life would be forever changed based on these findings. Due to the absence of any of these historical, commercial, and scientific events, I conclude that the existence of extraterrestrials and their technology is a matter of personal belief, not much unlike the faith and personal belief that it takes to believe in angels or demons, albeit without the guidance of a holy book to contextualize the existence of such beings.
Did you know that NASA recently brought together scientists, philosophers and theologians from all over the planet to prepare the world for extraterrestrial contact? India’s greatest writings, the Vedas, talk about ‘flying ships’ or UFOs that visited the continent likely more than 6000 years ago.
NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan recently said:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.” It isn’t going to take that long. UFOs have already been visiting us for centuries.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
The truth is – people haven’t just wondered. They’ve known. Visitations by other-worldly beings have been happening through many cultures around the world, possibly for eons, and this is ‘disclosed’ in numerous ancient documents.
When the military industrial complex, or, NASA, as a small part of the cabal strong arm ‘discloses’ that ‘we’re going to have definitive evidence within decades’ it’s a ruse. Even JFK’s murder, and the silencing of thousands of whistleblowers is less astounding when you consider how long many human beings have been aware of the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial beings. While the efforts to hide this fact from modern humanity have been circumspect in the least, this news has very much been out in the open for those willing to look.
Only in very recent times have human beings questioned whether or not we were joined by other life forms in this universe. There is good reason for this.
The Vedas illustrated two main categories for UFOs. They are described in Sanskrit, using terms that are normally reserved to describe architecture, automata, military siege engines, and other mechanical contrivances, or in more recent works, such as the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the Ramayana, there are more descriptions. One book called the Vaimanika Shastra (The Science of Aeronautics) is said to have been downloaded while a yogic sage was deep in trance, and it supposedly contains much knowledge from the Akashic records. Some of these texts infer that these crafts were controlled with our minds – essentially utilizing advanced technology which has been withheld from the masses in modern times.
Levitation and anti-gravity could have been utilized for centuries. Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft carrier manufacturer, recently declared that they were ‘working on’ anti-gravity and that it would ‘alter the entire aerospace industry,’ but they aren’t working on anything new.
Many believe that the Vedas speak of not only off-planet “flying ships” but also human-created craft.
Dr. V. Raghavan, a respected Sanskrit scholar of the University of Madras points to the ancient documents of India to prove that off-planet humans, and aliens alike visited the earth.
Raghavan says:
“Fifty years of researching this ancient work convinces me that there are living beings on other planets, and that they were visiting the earth as far back as 4000 B.C..” He goes on to explain:
“There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text”. The scholar explains different types of technologies that appear in the Mahabrahata, and the Ramayanas. Everything from ‘divine light’ to ray weapons, and even some kind of ‘hypnotic weapon’ is described.
When Boeing admits that they are working on anti-gravitation propulsion, “that will change the future of aerospace aviation as we know it,” and Eugene Podkletnov’s gravity beam is said to be able to “punch through brick and warp metal like a sledgehammer,” it becomes clear that some very powerful technologies have been suppressed.
Likely, beings that visited our planet over millennia shared at least some of their advanced technologies with humans.
Though some of these technologies can be used to wage war, some can be used to support life, and in our case, clean up a distressed planet. As Collective Evolution previously reported, multiple scientists have already confirmed that free energy exists.
As the Orion Project explains, “the U.S. Patent Office has a nine-member committee that screens patents in order to protect “national security.” This means that possibly tens of thousands of advanced devices and technologies exist right now.
When disclosure occurs – again – we will learn of technologies hidden in over 4000 ‘unnumbered’ patents that the US government keeps hidden, and likely even more than this.
For thousands of years, we’ve been kept in the dark, but this is all about to change – possibly as soon as September.
Mysterious Radio Blasts from a Distant Galaxy Draw Attention of Alien Hunters
Mysterious Radio Blasts from a Distant Galaxy Draw Attention of Alien Hunters
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's impression of the Greenbank Telescope in West Virginia receiving signals from fast radio burst FRB 121102. The object was observed by the Breakthrough Listen project.
Credit: Danielle Futselaar/UC Berkeley
Repeating bursts of radio waves coming from a distant dwarf galaxy probably aren't signals from an extraterrestrial civilization, but that hasn't stopped a group of E.T. hunters from investigating this peculiar phenomenon.
In August, scientists with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen initiative began observing an object known as FRB 121102. The object is one of less than 40 known examples of a fast radio burst (FRB), an incredibly bright flash of radio waves. Scientists don't yet know what causes FRBs, which is why they took a particular interest in FRB 121102. While all other observed FRBs are single explosions of radio waves, this one was releasing bright flashes of light over and over again.
A new study, co-authored by scientists with Breakthrough Listen, reveals the conclusions of those August observations: nearly 100 percent of the light from FRB 121102 is polarized, meaning the orientation of the light waves are all in the same direction. Most radiating objects in the universe produce unpolarized light, so the uniformity of light from FRB 121102 could help scientists narrow down the type of object or environment that might be producing those flashes. (You can read our full story here.)
"As far as the FRB121102 goes, I don't think there is any slight possibility that [the pulses] are from an extraterrestrial intelligence," Vishal Gajjar, a scientist with Breakthrough Listen, said yesterday (Jan. 10) during a news conference at the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.
The primary reason for Gajjar's skepticism is that the object is in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years away from Earth. A civilization trying to contact another civilization probably wouldn't bother to create such a powerful signal, simply because the time it would take to receive a reply would be prohibitively long. For example, the radio waves from FRB 121102 took 3 billion years to reach Earth — the civilization that sent the message might very well be dead and gone by the time it received a reply!
But Gajjar said Breakthrough Listen is also interested in investigating unexplainable phenomenon in the universe, even if those phenomena are naturally occurring.
Polarized light
One explanation for the polarized light coming from FRB 121102 could be the presence of a very strong magnetic field, according to a statement from the University of California, Berkeley, where the Breakthrough Listen laboratory is based. The only known place in the universe with such strong magnetic fields is in the vicinity of a massive black hole — such as the supermassive blackholes thought to lie at the centers of most galaxies — that has gas and dust falling into it, according to the statement. The authors of the paper hypothesize that the source of the radio waves could be another highly magnetized object, known as a magnetar, that lies near a massive black hole. A magnetar is a type of neutron star, an incredibly dense nugget of material about the size of a city, that forms when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses.
If this is, in fact, the source of FRB 121102, Gajjar said that's another reason to suspect that the signal is natural, not artificial: An environment with such an extreme magnetic field wouldn't be very habitable because of the extreme conditions it would create, he told Space.com in an interview.
The polarization of light from FRB 121102 was also observed by a group of scientists using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Breakthrough Listen used the Greenbank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, coupled with a massive computing system that consists of 32 computing nodes, each taking in 1 gigabyte of data per second. In an hour, that adds up to the equivalent of 18,000 DVDs, Gajjar said at the news conference.
The huge computing backend allows the researchers to capture a wide range of radio frequencies simultaneously, providing a more complete picture of the irregular pulses coming from FRB 121102.
The Breakthrough researchers observed the FRB in some of the higher-frequency radio waves emitted by the FRB, where they found pulses of light that lasted for between 0.00003 and 0.009 seconds in duration. Those incredibly short pulses can be used to indicate the size of the object emitting them, and, according to the paper, the object could be as small as 10 kilometers across, or the typical size of a neutron star, according to the statement. The researchers say they plan to study the repeating FRB in even higher frequencies than what was reported in the paper, which could potentially help them narrow down the possible sources of the burst even further, according to the statement.
At the news conference, the paper's authors said there are many other hypotheses that could explain FRBs. It is unclear yet if the peculiar behavior of FRB 121102 is unusual among all FRBs or just among those that scientists have been able to observe, they said, but there are new radio telescopes coming online soon that will be able to scan for these events and help researchers learn more about them.
Recently, Breakthrough Listen scientists have also studied the space rock 'Oumuamua that scientists believe came from another solar system, and "Boyajian's Star," which has mystified astronomers with its strange flickering.
Editor's note: This article previously stated that the dwarf galaxy is 3 billion miles away from Earth; it is 3 billion light years away.
Water may be widespread on the moon after all – new research
Water may be widespread on the moon after all – new research
Water on the moon is widespread across its surface and appears to be present at all times of the lunar day, according to a new analysis of two lunar missions.
The new evidence contradicts previous research suggesting water was confined to certain areas and depended on lunar days. “We find that it doesn’t matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of a new study published in Nature Geoscience.
“The presence of water doesn’t appear to depend on the composition of the surface, and the water sticks around,” he added. It’s hoped the results will lead to a greater understanding of the origins of the moon’s water and offer insight into how it could be used as a resource.
It’s not yet clear how accessible the water supply is but if it is convenient to reach it could be used as a drinking water for future explorers or converted to use for rocket fuel, NASA said in a statement.
Water, water, everywhere, but is there a drop to drink? Data from 2 lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface. If the Moon has enough accessible , it could be an essential resource to future explorers: http://go.nasa.gov/2EPwxX3
Earlier studies suggested that more water was detected at the moon’s polar latitudes and that the strength of the water signal waxes and wanes according to the lunar day. However, these analyses depended on remote-sensing instruments which were challenged by the mixture of reflected and emitted light. For this latest examination, Bandfield and his team created a new model to incorporate temperature information for more accurate results.
Their results showed widespread and relatively immobile water indicating that it may be present primarily as hydroxyl (OH), a more reactive relative of H2O that is made of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom. It also suggests that any H2O present on the moon isn’t loosely attached to the surface.
“By putting some limits on how mobile the water or the OH on the surface is, we can help constrain how much water could reach the cold traps in the polar regions,” said Michael Poston, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
Discussions are still continuing among researchers about what exactly these new findings reveal about the source of the moon’s water. One theory is that the water is created by the solar wind hitting the lunar surface; however, the team hasn’t ruled out the possibility that the moon itself could be the source. It is conceivable that the water could be slowly released from deep inside minerals, where it has been locked since the moon was formed, NASA stated.
“Some of these scientific problems are very, very difficult, and it’s only by drawing on multiple resources from different missions that are we able to hone in on an answer,” said NASA scientist John Keller.
It was 1945, and science fiction writer Ray Palmer was working as the editor of a popular pulp fiction magazine called Amazing Stories. A diminutive fellow with a hunchback, Palmer had suffered a near-crippling accident early in life that broke his spine, and the resulting unsuccessful surgery stunted his growth. Thus, at the age of 35, Palmer had grown to a mere four feet in height.
It was on an afternoon during the year in question that Palmer happened upon an odd letter in the office slush pile. The letter was from a man who claimed he had managed to decipher a secret, coded ancient language, of which evidence could still be discerned from modern writing. Palmer wrote back to the author, a Mr. Richard Sharp Shaver of Pennsylvania, seeking clarification on the unusual matter. This prompted a long, rambling letter from Shaver, who claimed to learn of this, and other mysteries of our world, after psychically overhearing the communications of beings living in extensive caverns below ground.
Shaver was no great writer himself, if this grandiloquent offering was any indication, though Palmer saw potential nonetheless. From it, he began to construct an outline based on Shaver’s missive, and shaped it into a decent fantasy story, which eventually saw publication under the title, “I Remember Lemuria.”
Thus, the Shaver Mystery was born.
Initially intended to be read and enjoyed only as fiction, Shaver’s weird ramblings would inspire Palmer and the publishers of Amazing Stories to continue publication of “Shaver Mystery” stories for several years, during which the readership of the magazine reportedly increased by thousands. Throughout the period which saw the publication of stories based on his odd, rambling mythos, Shaver had always maintained that his “communications” with inner-earth dwellers were real and that the stories of cavern systems inhabited by strange beings beneath the Earth were based on fact.
Following the publication of the novella “I Remember Lemuria,” Palmer professed that letters his publication recieved–usually numbering less than fifty or so each month–were now close to 50,000. Equally impressive had been that many of these fan letters detailed strange experiences, expounding on the exploits of these deep-Earth denizens Shaver claimed to have met.
Among the letters Palmer received had been the story of a woman who, claiming to have served as a medical specialist in France during the Second World War, entered the sub-basement of an old building via an elevator. A cavernous opening existed in the lowest portion of the building, and upon her discovery of the entrance to an underground realm, the woman was captured by a group of monstrous creatures. She claimed to have been held prisoner by these beings for an indefinite period, after which she was finally discovered and released by a group of benign, human-like saviors. (An apparent nod toward this story was later featured in the works of science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who wrote in a short story titled, “The Elevator People” that, “There are five hundred buildings in the United States whose elevators go deeper than the basement.” Ellison, however, was a vocal critic of the Shaver Mystery stories and had at one time badgered Palmer about his insistence on publishing them.)
Much like the story above outlines, Shaver categorized these subterranean inhabitants into two different groups: a monstrous, evil group called Deros (meaning “detrimental robots”), and their good-natured counterparts the Teros, who were nearly identical to humans in appearance.
Palmer himself had begun to wonder about the circumstances surrounding all this insanity, and Shaver’s claims that the events related in his letters to Amazing Stories were true. His curiosity finally prompted a visit to Richard Shaver’s home in Pennsylvania. After a late-evening coffee session, Palmer was led upstairs and shown to the spare bedroom, where throughout the evening he claimed, to his astonishment, to hear five individual voices of men, women, children, and even an “old gruff man.” According to Palmer, he was terrified to hear a discussion that pertained to the dismemberment of a human woman someplace four miles away–and presumably four miles down. Discussing the experience with Shaver the following morning, the strange host claimed he had asked the “beings” to “go easy on him (Palmer),” and Palmer, finally growing in his conviction regarding the Shaver Mystery himself, was able to get a night’s sleep uninterrupted.
This would be only one of many strange stories Palmer would recount, and though Richard Shaver’s own sanity would later come into question on many occasions, the prolific interest in his visions of an inner-Earth struggle would continue, inspiring a generation of devotees and researchers that included Timothy Green Beckley, who had known Palmer personally. Of his own discovery of Richard Shaver’s visions of conflict in a subterranean world, he admits being “chilled to the bone,” by the stories as a young reader, saying it was “stuff that nightmares were made of, and I was intrigued just as Ray Palmer had been.”
Palmer’s convictions about Shaver’s ideas would come and go over the years. After leaving Amazing Stories, the former editor was still under contractual obligations that prevented him from launching a competing publication. He did, however, do so anyway under a pseudonym, which led to the appearance of FATE, a magazine which, at the time, was mostly devoted to the burgeoning interest in flying saucers that followed pilot Kenneth Arnold’s observation of a group of objects over Mount Rainier, Washington in 1947.
Initially, Palmer had been convinced that the appearance of flying saucers might prove to be a vindication for Shaver’s claims, supposing that the seemingly advanced aircraft might actually belong to the subterranean dwellers discussed in his stories. With the founding of FATE, Palmer hoped in part to be able to get to the bottom of the saucer mystery, but after a few years, he left the operation which continued under the publication of his partner, Curtis Fuller.
Ultimately, what was Palmer to make of Shaver and his stories? Like many, it seemed by the 1970s that he had become disillusioned with Shaver and his claims, even noting in 1971 that during periods Shaver claimed to have lived underground amidst the warring factions of Deros and Teros, that he had instead been hospitalized in a mental institution.
The stories, of course, were purely imaginary, supplemented perhaps by the ramblings of a once disturbed mind; but in their heyday, the stories of Richard Shaver saw a kind of success and popularity that was nearly unrivaled in the science fiction genre.
UFO Fleet Caught On Video Moving Underneath a Passenger Jet
UFO Fleet Caught On Video Moving Underneath a Passenger Jet
Online community on UFOs has been debating about the video showing an inexplicable fleet of UFOs recorded on video from a plane. The footage was initially sent to US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global database of UFO sightings, for investigations and it went viral after several UFO and conspiracy theory websites shared it.
The video was allegedly shot above Taiwan. It shows apparent eight bright circular orbs flying slowly just beneath the plane. According to the report from an unnamed witness, they were on the aeroplane of Eva Airlines from Vancouver, Canada to Taipei, Taiwan when they saw bright lights flying underneath. They saw around eight UFOs flying under the plane.
They managed to get a slow-motion video of the UFOs until they were asked to shut down their camera as part of a landing policy.
Many online viewers of the video thought it was a fleet of UFOs moving beneath the plane.
The video was recorded in October 2014, but only recently it has been shared online.
Sceptics believe those are just reflections of small lakes as the plane appears to travel over mountains. Some even say that they are only ships in the sea as they are not moving and not above the clouds. Others suggest they are oil rigs as the plane is leaving them behind, which means they are either slower or stationary.
However, many firmly believe that those are evidence of UFOs.
Le phénomène extraterrestre et OVNI selon le scientifique Jacques Vallée…
Le phénomène extraterrestre et OVNI selon le scientifique Jacques Vallée…
…Une supercherie organisée par les gouvernements et par un système de contrôle “interdimensionel”
Voici quelques citations des livres du Dr. Jacques Vallée, docteur et expert dans plusieurs disciplines dont l’astrophysique, l’informatique et les mathématiques. Un scientifique qui s’est intéressé à l’ufologie tout au long de sa carrière professionnelle et qui, comme d’autres hommes de science, arrive à la conclusion que le phénomène “extraterrestre” fait partie d’un système de contrôle “interdimensionel” organisé en une hiérarchie d’entités spirituelles (qui s’approche de celui décrit dans Éphésiens 6:12) qui, par la psyché humaine ou l’inconscient collectif, manipulent l’humanité.
Comme plusieurs chercheurs et auteurs, il ne croit pas que ces entités sont “nos frères de lumière” et qu’elles vont nous envoyer un Messie Sauveur, mais il affirme que ces êtres surnaturels s’apparentent plutôt à des esprits démoniaques qui n’ont que pour seul objectif de tromper l’humanité. Vallée conclut que l’intrusion “extraterrestre” (interdimensionelle) est sinistre et prédatrice, que les “messagers” ou “contactés” sont tous manipulés et trompés.
Selon Vallée et d’autres scientifiques dont John Keel, J. Allen Hynek et le psychiatre Carl Jung, le phénomène ovni n’est pas d’origine extraterrestre, mais « il apparaît plutôt commeun effet interdimentionnel qui manipule les réalités physiques hors de notre propre continuum espace-temps », et plus loin il écrit, « mon hypothèse est qu’il existe un niveau de contrôle de la société qui fonctionne comme un régulateur de l’évolution de l’homme, et que le phénomène ovni doit être considéré sur ce plan » (extraits de «Autres Dimensions, Chronique des contacts avec un autre monde »).
Jacques Vallée croit que les théories physiques et cosmologiques actuelles n’arrivent pas à expliquer l’action d’un tel système. Il croit que les ovnis sont une réalité physique possédant une masse, une inertie, un volume, et des paramètres physiques mesurables, mais qu’ils agissent dans des dimensions inconnues de notre propre environnement.
Selon Jacques Vallée, le phénomène “extraterrestre” est entretenu telle une supercherie par nos élites parce qu’il a une profonde et décisive influence sur nos croyances et nos orientations spirituelles. Il croit que l’humanité est volontairement trompée de la façon suivante :
1°) la négation officielle qui s’exerce par une pression sur les témoins pour les décourager de témoigner;
2°) dès qu’un témoin parvient à expliquer ce qu’il a vu, il y a fabrication par les autorités, de toute une panoplie d’explications fantaisistes n’ayant aucun rapport avec le phénomène;
3°) le phénomène ovni contient un mécanisme pour s’expliquer lui-même. Il induit dans l’esprit des témoins une fausse interprétation de lui-même, pour nier, en quelque sorte, son existence. Il ne chercherait donc pas le contact, mais tenterait plutôt d’exercer un contrôle sur l’humanité.
Le Dr Vallée en est venu à penser au cours de ses recherches échelonnées sur de nombreuses années, que les ovnis ne devaient pas être d’origine extraterrestre mais plutôt provenir d’une autre dimension, dimension identifiée par lui comme étant celle ou vivent les êtres que l’on trouve dans tous les folklores. Il écrit dans son livreConfrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact : “J’ai indiqué dans le Collège Invisible (groupe informel de scientifiques, précurseur de la Royal Society) que la structure des histoires d’enlèvements était identique à celle des rituels d’initiation occulte. Plusieurs années auparavant, j’avais déjà montré dans [le livre] “Visa pour la Magonie” que les contact avec les extraterrestres n’était qu’une extension moderne de la vieille tradition du contact avec une conscience non humaine prenant la forme d’anges, de démons, d’elfes et de Sylphes”.
Vallée reconnaît la réalité physique des ovnis, qu’il s’agit de phénomènes naturels inconnus, voire impliquant une autre dimension, mais il lui accole aussi une dimension sociologique obscure. Après avoir travaillé quelques années pour des institutions gouvernementales (NASA et pour le “Projet Blue Book”), il croit qu’il y a manipulation gouvernementale en ce qui concerne les ovnis, l’existence extraterrestre et tout ce qui entoure la divulgation d’une vie extraterrestre (“Disclosure project”). Selon Vallée, les gouvernements poursuivent des études psycho-sociologiques qui visent à expérimenter le contrôle de la psyché des foules (l’inconscient collectif). Il qualifie les chercheurs actuels, particulièrement ceux du CUFOS et du MUFON, comme des “amateurs diligents”!
Voici la transcription d’une entrevue avec Jacques Vallée:
Il me semble de plus en plus évident que la Bible pourrait nous révéler que la “grande apostasie” (perte de la foi) qui doit se produire à la “Fin des temps” sera causée par l’arrivée de ceux que l’on appelle les “extraterrestres”, et de l’Antéchrist, d’où la “puissance d’égarement”….
* Je me dissocie de la vue “prétribulationniste” du texte “La Grande tromperie de Satan”, cette théologie étant à mon avis biaisée. Toutefois, elle ne change en rien l’exhortation à la prudence et au discernement. Les croyants (la bonne semence) ne peuvent être “enlevés” (moissonnés) avant les habitants de la terre (l’ivraie) puisqu’il est écrit:
Les serviteurs lui disent : Alors, veux-tu que nous allions arracher l’ivraie ? Non, dit le maître : en arrachant l’ivraie, vous pourriez aussi déraciner le blé. Laissez-les pousser ensemble jusqu’à la moisson, et à ce moment-là je dirai aux moissonneurs : Ramassez d’abord l’ivraie, faites-en des bottes pour la brûler ; ensuite, ramassez le blé et mettez-le dans mon grenier. Matthieu 13: 24-30
Explique-nous la parabole de l’ivraie dans le champ. Il [Jésus] leur répond : “Celui qui sème le bon grain, c’est le Fils de l’homme; le champ, c’est le monde; le bon grain, ce sont ceux qui suivent ma Parole; l’ivraie, ce sont les méchants; l’ennemi qui l’a semée, c’est le diable; la moisson, c’est la fin du monde; les moissonneurs, ce sont les anges. A la fin du monde, ce sera la même chose: comme à la moisson on arrache d’abord l’ivraie pour la brûler, le Fils de l’homme enverra ses anges; ils ramasseront, pour les renvoyer dehors, tous ceux qui font le mal […] Alors les justes brilleront comme le soleil dans le Royaume de Dieu leur Père. Entendez bien, si vous avez des oreilles ! Matthieu 13: 36-43
WEERNIEUWSOok in Sint-Petersburg is het momenteel bijtend koud. Het kwik zakte er tot onder -20 graden Celcius en dat zorgde vrijdagnacht voor een speciaal weerfenomeen.
Inwoners van de Russische stad deelden op sociale media verschillende foto’s van lichtzuilen die er de nachtelijke hemel kleurden. Het spektakel duurde ongeveer een halfuur. Sommige internauten vermoedden dat het om noorderlicht ging, maar daar had de lichtshow niets mee te maken. De zuilen ontstaan wanneer licht gereflecteerd wordt op in de lucht zwevende ijskristallen. Als dat gebeurt door zonlicht spreken we van zonnezuilen. In Sint-Petersburg lagen kunstmatige lichtbronnen aan de basis. Ofwel: lichtvervuiling met een magisch kantje.
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Strange Blue Rays of Light in the Sky over Hawaii
Strange Blue Rays of Light in the Sky over Hawaii
A very rare light pillar was captured on the night of February 13/14, 2018 by the Gemini skycam facing south from the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Frankie Lucena who was checking the skycam came across this rarely seen event in this part of the world.
Blue Ray of Light Hawaii.
Light pillars usually occur in cold climates, so to see them this far south is indeed very rare. But not only the strange light pillar appeared over Hawaii, even stranger are the three blue rays of light that suddenly came out of nowhere.
The rare light pillar in Hawaii could be a natural phenomenon, like the amazing light pillar at sunrise photographed by our reader from Coventry in the UK on February 14, 2018. Thanks.
Light Pillar UK.
But what about the blue rays of light?
Blue Ray of Light and Light Pillar Hawaii.
Lightning, maybe but these blue rays of light are completely different from the specific lightning strikes as we know.
Blue rays of light at 0.35 sec and 036 sec in the video.
Mars wist bijna alle sporen van de Phoenix-lander uit
Mars wist bijna alle sporen van de Phoenix-lander uit
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Alleen de lander, zijn hitteschild en parachutes getuigen nog van de landing die bijna 10 jaar geleden plaatsvond.
De Phoenix-lander zette in mei 2008 voet op Mars. En dat zorgde voor behoorlijk wat beroering op de stoffige planeet. Dat blijkt onder meeruit onderstaande foto die de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter twee maanden na de landing van Phoenix maakte. De donkere vlekken zijn plaatsen waar de landende Phoenix stof heeft weggeslingerd. De lander zelf zie je linksboven, rechtsonder zijn de parachutes en het hitteschild van de lander neergekomen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona.
Inmiddels is het bijna tien jaar geleden dat Phoenix geland is en zijn de sporen die deze op Mars naliet, eigenlijk allemaal verdwenen, zo blijkt uit een nieuwe foto, opnieuw gemaakt door de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (zie hieronder). De plekken waar stof was weggeslingerd, zijn opnieuw met stof bedekt. En eigenlijk getuigen alleen de lander, zijn hitteschild en parachutes nog van de spannende missie die zich hier een decennium geleden voltrok.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona.
Phoenix landde op misschien wel één van de spannendste plekken op Mars: de noordpool. Hoewel de rode planeet vandaag de dag koud en droog is, bevinden zich op de noordpool net onder het oppervlak behoorlijke hoeveelheden waterijs. Phoenix kreeg de opdracht om dat ijs op te zoeken. En dat lukte. Eind juli 2008 maakte NASA bekend dat de lander water had ontdekt in de Marsgrond. Een primeur. Want hoewel orbiters de aanwezigheid van dit water al suggereerden, was Phoenix de eerste die het water daadwerkelijk aanraakte.
De missie van Phoenix zou oorspronkelijk drie maanden duren, maar werd na afloop verlengd. Uiteindelijk zou de lander in totaal vijf maanden actief zijn op Mars. Langer kon deze door zonne-energie aangedreven lander het niet uithouden: hij was niet ontworpen om de donkere arctische winter te overleven.
Wetenschap komt met nieuwe manier om aliens te vinden
Wetenschap komt met nieuwe manier om aliens te vinden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Gluren in de buitenaardse ionosfeer.
De afgelopen jaren zijn er duizenden exoplaneten ontdekt en aardig wat van die planeten lijken geschikt voor leven (zoals wij dat kennen). Maar herbergen ze het ook? Dat is natuurlijk de grote vraag. Op dit moment proberen onderzoekers deze te beantwoorden door te zoeken naar een cruciaal element voor leven (zoals wij dat kennen): water. Maar er is een betere aanpak, zo stellen Amerikaanse onderzoekers in het blad Nature Astronomy. Ze stellen voor om de focus te verleggen naar de ionosfeer van exoplaneten. Dat is het dunne, bovenste laagje van de atmosfeer en het kan prima verraden of er ver daaronder, op het oppervlak van de planeet, leven is.
O+ Het idee ontstond toen onderzoeker Michael Mendillo de ionosferen van planeten in het zonnestelsel vergeleken. Het is al jaren bekend dat er grote verschillen zijn tussen de ionosferen en dat met name die van de aarde zich sterk onderscheidt: in de meeste ionosferen zijn gecompliceerde, geladen moleculen te vinden die voortkomen uit koolstofdioxide of waterstof, maar die van de aarde is vrij simpel en voornamelijk gevuld met een specifiek type zuurstof: O+. “Ik begon te denken, waarom is onze ionosfeer zo anders dan die van de andere zes (Mercurius heeft geen atmosfeer, red.),” vertelt Mendillo. Zijn onderzoeksteam zocht het uit en ontdekte dat het alles te maken heeft met de aanwezigheid van groene planten en algen op aarde.
ZOEKEN NAAR LEVEN
Op de afbeelding hierboven zie je een artistieke impressie van LHS 1140b: misschien wel de beste plek om naar tekenen van leven buiten het zonnestelsel te zoeken. Nieuwsgierig welke planeten nog meer goede kanshebbers zijn voor die titel? Klik hier!
De rol van planten De meeste planeten in ons zonnestelsel hebben wel wat zuurstof in hun lagere atmosfeer zitten, maar de aarde heeft er heel veel van. Dat komt doordat veel organismen op het oppervlak al heel lang (zo’n 3,8 miljard jaar) aan fotosynthese doen en licht, water en CO2 omzetten in zuurstof. “Verwijder alle planten op aarde en de zuurstof in onze atmosfeer zal in een paar duizend jaar verdwijnen,” vertelt onderzoeker Paul Withers. De zuurstof die al deze planten produceren, blijft echter niet nabij het oppervlak hangen; overtallige zuurstofmoleculen stijgen in de vorm van O2 op. Wanneer het op zo’n 150 kilometer hoogte komt, wordt het door UV-licht uiteengerukt en blijven enkele zuurstofatomen over. Die stijgen verder op, de ionosfeer in, waar nog meer UV- en röntgenstraling van de zon leidt tot een overvloed aan O+.
Biomarker En die overvloed aan O+ is dus een direct gevolg van leven op onze planeet en is daarmee een prima biomarker. Een biomarker is eigenlijk niets anders dan een molecuul dat wijst op de aanwezigheid van leven. Veel van de biomarkers die nu gebruikt worden – zoals de aanwezigheid van water – suggereren alleen dat er leven mogelijk is. Maar de ionosfeer kan ons veel meer vertellen, benadrukt Mendillo. “Waarom komen we niet met een maatstaf waarbij de ionosfeer de biomarker is, niet alleen van mogelijk, maar van daadwerkelijk leven?”
Minder aannames De nieuwe aanpak kan de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven volgens Mendillo een impuls geven, doordat we minder aannames hoeven te doen over wat buitenaards leven nodig heeft. Op dit moment richt de zoektocht zich voornamelijk op planeten die rond M-klasse sterren cirkelen en zich in de leefbare zone bevinden (en dus in theorie water kunnen herbergen). Dat is logisch, want het leven zoals wij dat kennen, kan niet zonder water. Maar onduidelijk is nog hoeveel water een planeet nodig heeft om leven te kunne herbergen. “Als we alleen de Middellandse Zee hadden gehad, zou dat dan genoeg zijn geweest? Hebben we de Stille Oceaan nodig, maar de Atlantische Oceaan niet? Als je kijkt naar de ionosfeer hoef je dat niet te weten.”
Er moeten wel twee belangrijke kanttekeningen bij het voorstel van Mendillo en collega’s geplaatst worden. Zo gaan ze ervan uit dat het leven op andere planeten in grove lijnen werkt zoals het leven op aarde (en dus aan fotosynthese doet). Daarnaast hebben we op dit moment de instrumenten niet om een ionosfeer op een exoplaneet te detecteren. Maar dat laatste is een kwestie van tijd, zo denken de onderzoekers.
Scientist Warns; Mankind Must Prepare To Defend Itself Against An Attack From Space
Scientist Warns; Mankind Must Prepare To Defend Itself Against An Attack From Space
According to a Russian scientist, our civilization has to prepare to repel an attack from space.
No, we won’t be fighting aliens yet, but potential alien civilizations aren’t the only threat to humanity.
According to Konstantin Sivkov, a member of the Russian Missile and Artillery Academy and a senior captain of the Russian Army, we need to create weapons to defend Earth against doomsday asteroids.
According to a military officer from Russia, mankind must develop a weapon capable of repelling potentially dangerous asteroids and comets, in order to save mankind.
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In an article published by the newspaper VPK News, the Russian senior captain has suggested that the international community needs to work on a weapon that has the ability to repel potentially dangerous celestial bodies.
The scientist believes that the threat represented by asteroids for humanity deserves the creation of an international weapon to combat them.
“In the face of the danger of the extinction of the human being as a biological species, all our geopolitical conflicts are like a children’s fight in a sandbox over a toy,” he compared.
Konstantin Sivkov, a member of the Russian Missile and Artillery Academy suggests international conflicts are incomparable to a threat from outer space.
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The expert proposes to destroy asteroids with rockets that have self-guided thermonuclear warheads and to create “a system of regular or omnidirectional control of the space that surrounds the Earth” for the detection of dangerous asteroids.
Furthermore, Sivkov has stated that the proposed system has to be controlled by a “scientific council”, while businessmen, politicians, soldiers and “representatives of any military structure” that produce “cannibalistic theories about the reasonable reduction of the population” do not have to be involved in the decision-making process in this regard.
Humanity must work together and help create a defense system to protect our planet and ensure our existence.
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The expert believes that the project that he has recently proposed is, in fact, a possible goal, since despite the high costs of the project “only 25-30% of the current US military budget would be needed”.
Considering that US military expenditures for the fiscal year 2018 constitute, according to the approval of the Trump Administration, 700,000 million dollars, the initiative of Sivkov would come out to the international community much cheaper: just about 210,000 million dollars.
Taking into consideration that several countries would participate in the program, the project turns out to be relatively cheap. But then again, who can put a price on the survival of the human race?
Researchers Make Discovery Of Biblical Proportions After Unearthing 2,700-Year-Old Seal
Researchers Make Discovery Of Biblical Proportions After Unearthing 2,700-Year-Old Seal
Researchers believe they may have found the direct evidence of the Prophet Isaiah on a 2,700-year-old clay seal discovered in Jerusalem, which bears the signature of the ‘Biblical Figure.’
According to researchers, the Hebrew script located on the clay seal reads: ‘Belonging to Isaiah the prophet,’ according to a new article in Biblical Archeology Review.
If this is indeed true, it would be the first ever evidence of the existence of Isaiah outside of the Bible. Furthermore, this would be the oldest reference to the prophet outside the Bible.
If researchers are able to confirm that the seal impression was for the Prophet Isaiah, it ‘would be the first archaeological and the earliest extra-biblical reference to the prophet Isaiah ever discovered,’ Robert Cargill, an archaeologist, and professor of classic and religious studies at the University of Iowa told Live Science.
In the article, titled ‘Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?’ author, archaeologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Eilat Mazar suggests that the ancient Hebrew inscription appearing in the damaged clay seal of 1.2 centimeters could have read “Belonging to the prophet Isaiah.”
The seal is believed to read: Belonging to Isaiah the prophet.
Image Credit: Ouria Tadmor, Eilat Mazar)
‘We appear to have discovered a seal impression, which may have belonged to the prophet Isaiah, in a scientific, archaeological excavation,’ said Mazar.
A Great discovery, open to interpretation?
If the interpretation of the characters of the 2,700-year seal is correct, it would be the first reference to Isaiah outside of the Bible. The Hebrew prophet is described as a counselor to the Jewish king Hezekiah, who ruled between the late eighth century and the early seventh century BC.
This important piece of history was recovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Ophel, an archaeological site between the ‘City of David’ and the ‘Temple Mount’.
The location of the discovery, near Temple Mount.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The Hebrew Bible tells us that Isaiah’s call to prophecy roughly coincides with the beginning of the westward expansion of the Assyrian empire. According to the Torah, the Prophet Isaiah lived 700 years before Christ.
The name of Isaiah (‘Yesha’yahu’ in Hebrew) is visible on the seal. However, the damage to the seal means that archaeologists are not sure whether it refers to the biblical prophet Isaiah or another person with the same name that lived during that period.
As noted by Mazar, the clay seal, or bullae, was one of the 34 discovered during the excavations carried out by Mazar at the base of the south wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The seals, or bullae, were recovered in small Iron Age waste pits (1200-586 B.C.), outside the wall of what Mazar describes as a royal bakery, razed during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.
Mazar further noted that the word ‘nvy’ was also visible on the seal, but archaeologists are uncertain as to what meaning the word may bear, suggesting that it could be a personal named making reference to another Isaiah, and not the prophet.
My Precious—Ancient Ring That Inspired Tolkien’s The Hobbit Found In The U.K.
My Precious—Ancient Ring That Inspired Tolkien’s The Hobbit Found In The U.K.
The ring that inspired Tolkien in writing the trilogy of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’, exists and has behind its steps a mysterious story full of curses dating from Roman times.
During the Rule of the Roman Empire over Britain, elite citizens of the time flaunted their status by wearing peculiar rings.
Now, after looking at a set of Brancaster rings, which scientists have dated to the fourth and fifth centuries, researchers have found numerous clues about their owners, who lived during the last days of Roman rule over Britain.
As noted by the University of Newcastle, a Brancaster ring is a type of signet ring with a characteristic square or rectangular bezel, inscribed with characters or text. The rings are named after the Roman Fort and Norfolk village where the first example was discovered in the mid-19th century.
My Precious: This is the ancient gold ring, believed to have inspired JRR Tolkien
Image Credit: National Trust/PA
Experts discovered that the metal used in their construction, just as the images imprinted on them give off numerous details about their owners, who were members of high society in Britain.
One of the rings, in particular, the cursed Silvianus Ring is believed to have been the source and inspired J.R.R. Tolkien as he was writing the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The so-called Silvanius ring was discovered near Silchester, in Hampshire, England, in 1785. The Ring belonged to a member of a Roman high society called Silvianus but was stolen by a person named Senicianus, upon whom Silvianus called down a curse: ‘To the god Nodens: Silvianus has lost his ring and promises half its value to Nodens. Among those named Senecianus, let none enjoy health until he brings it back to the temple of Nodens.’
In a recent archaeological mission, experts from the universities of Oxford and Newcastle have gathered 54 rings that exist in the United Kingdom and cataloged them all for the first time. Most of the 54 rings were made from silver and only a small number of gold.
Image Credit: Portable Antiquities Scheme
In addition to being used as jewelry, the rings were used in ancient times with wax to seal letters and other important documents.
The various rings are unique, mostly made of precious metal and engraved with different designs. Some bare the symbol of soldiers, lovers, and even emperors.
However, some rings feature evidence of incredible Roman Art, as experts have discovered that some rings have intricate designs such as dolphins and mythical sea creatures, as well as sea griffins which have been found frequently in Roman Art.
Speaking about the Rings, Dr. James Gerrard, senior lecturer in Roman archaeology at Newcastle, said: ‘The fifth century was a period of major upheaval and marked the start of the transition from Roman Empire to Anglo Saxon Britain. These rings and their inscriptions provide a glimpse of what Britain was like during these years and give an insight into the dress, beliefs, ideologies and education level of the elite at the time.
INSIDE ROBERT BIGELOW'S DECADES-LONG OBSESSION WITH UFOS
INSIDE ROBERT BIGELOW'S DECADES-LONG OBSESSION WITH UFOS
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IN 1994, A Mormon family bought a 480-acre plot in in Utah’s Uintah Basin, thinking they’d get back to the land. But this particular land was weird. It came with too-large-thrice-over wolves that refused to die by bullet, cattle with their reproductive organs sucked clean out, and a multitude of UFOs, as they told the Deseret News in 1996. It was driving them bonkers.
Robert Bigelow saw their story. Today, the Nevada businessman is known for founding Bigelow Aerospace, which spun off a business to sell its expandable space habitats just last Tuesday. But in 1995, he had also founded something called the National Institute for Discovery Science, an organization built to research paranormal phenomena. Soon after reading the newspaper story, he took Skinwalker off the family’s hands, and his institute set up shop.
That, at least, is the story told in Hunt for the Skinwalker, a book that I downloaded in audio form one Friday night in January. Bigelow deactivated the National Institute for Discovery Science in 2004, after years of failing to capture the supposedly supernatural. But as the world recently discovered, he didn’t give up the cause. In December, a New York Times story revealed that Bigelow Aerospace had conducted a study on UFOs—for the Pentagon. I’d been interested in Bigelow’s anomalistic dealings since that article came out; thus, the audio book.
The Pentagon’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program officially ended in 2012. But similar work continues today—involving people from both the defunct Defense Department program and Bigelow’s dismantled paranormal enterprise. They have become part of a for-profit company: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which launched in October 2017 to research and reverse-engineer UFOs, among other goals.
Bigelow has gotten his fingers into lots of private UFO pies. Even before Skinwalker, he helped initiate the UFO Research Coalition, which puts his UFO-hunting career at about 24 years old. Bigelow is not officially involved with To The Stars. But its aims, and its team, seem to line up with his past and his people. So I set off to try to understand that past.
ALL EIGHT HOURS and 42 minutes of audiobook downloaded, I got in my car at 5 a.m. the next day with my sister. Pointed toward Skinwalker Ranch, hoping for context and maybe something strange, we sped through the Rockies, trying to beat the ski traffic and a snowstorm. All the while, the staid voice of the book’s narrator described the alleged happenings at Skinwalker.
As my sister and I journeyed down I-70, the book’s authors—George Knapp, a journalist, and Colm Kelleher, former deputy administrator of Bigelow’s institute—presented the paranormal tales almost as matters of fact. Kelleher has a PhD in biochemistry, but his mindset was often anti-scientific. He took coincidences as meaningful; he aw-shucksed every time an “anomalous phenomenon” mysteriously evaded the cameras. The supposed point of Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science was to get away from that kind of softness.
About four and a half hours and several hundred milligrams of caffeine in, I listened to a description of how instrument-bearing institute investigators witnessed a growing yellow light—or maybe a tunnel—from which a faceless black creature maybe emerged. I needed a break. Pausing the book, I pulled over at Rio Blanco Lake, a rare bit of water with an assemblage of red picnic tables. The lake, frozen, stretched to the scrub-covered buttes on the far shore. It was peaceful.
Then came the noises. Great metallic twangs, or thwangs, or something, that seemed to start here, no there, and rush across the landscape as if carried on an invisible wire.
They sounded like trebly light sabers. They sounded like alien spaceship chatter. Like maybe someone had pulled the power lines taut for miles and then plucked them with a giant finger.
“What is it?” I kept saying, deeply unnerved—not because I thought it was inexplicable but because I couldn’t explain it.
And then the lake’s ice cracked, the break spreading fast like a faultline in an action movie. The frozen water heaved itself into a new position.
With that, the noises explained themselves and stopped. We stood in the silence for a few seconds.
“That’s probably the weirdest thing that will happen all day,” my sister eventually said.
WE CONTINUED ON our way toward Skinwalker Ranch, where Bigelow’s people had, for years, tried to find that weirdest thing, every day. Researching UFOs seems a bit like gambling: You mostly lose, or break even, but the promise that you might hit jackpot is powerful. “The thing about UFOs that makes them so mysterious is that they disappear,” says historian Greg Eghigian, who is researching the global history of UFO sightings and alleged alien contact. “Not that they appear.” You just have to keep looking and hope they come back.
Toward the end of the book, the authors let us know that Bigelow abandoned studies at Skinwalker in the early 2000s. But he didn’t stop looking: In 2007, he got that Pentagon contract—some $22 million to study advanced aerial threats, including some that remain allegedly unidentified.
Around the same time, in 2008, Bigelow created a new company: Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies, a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace.
Archived versions of the Bigelow Aerospace Careers webpage say it “focuses on the identification, evaluation, and acquisition of novel and emerging future technologies worldwide as they specifically relate to spacecraft.” (Blair Bigelow, vice president of corporate strategy at Bigelow Aerospace, declined to comment.) Colm Kelleher—co-author of the Skinwalker book—was the company’s deputy administrator, according to his LinkedIn page.
Around the same time Bigelow created the new company, he also hitched a star to the Mutual UFO Network, a nonprofit that collects and investigates user-submitted reports of UFOs, according to MUFON’s executive director Jan Harzan. “If we were able to fund you so you could put investigators on the ground faster,” Harzan recalls Bigelow offering, “could you get better data on some of these reports?” Together, MUFON and Bigelow supported investigators’ fact-finding expeditions, and shared data—though for less than a year.
But that didn’t stop Bigelow from collecting UFO reports outside of the MUFON collaboration. The FAA, for instance, used to suggest pilots report UFO sightings directly to Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies. Christopher Rutkowski, who coordinates the Canadian UFO Survey, says Bigelow approached him at a MUFON conference in 2009. “He asked me to help him in his UFO-related efforts by alerting him and his team to any 'good' Canadian cases that needed onsite investigations,” he says. One of Bigelow’s people checked in with Rutkowski every few months following, for a year or two.
That person doesn’t call now. The FAA doesn’t instruct pilots to report to Bigelow. The Pentagon program is over. There’s no more MUFON collaboration. The National Institute for Discovery Science is kaput. So where’s a guy to get a bunch of UFO reports?
The newest answer might be To The Stars Academy—and its newly-launched “Community of Interest.” On this site, you can currently view two videos of alleged UFOs—the same footage embedded in the Times story about the Pentagon program—as well as a video interview with a Navy pilot who says he witnessed one of those events and a written report of the same encounter. In the future, the site aims to amass and analyze many more reports of anomalies.
Although a representative from To the Stars claims no affiliation with Bigelow, the overlap between its team and Bigelow’s is inarguable: Hal Puthoff, who was on the board of the National Institute for Discovery Science, is now the vice president of science and technology at To The Stars. Kelleher is now To The Stars’ biotech consultant. And Elizondo, who was reportedly in charge of the Pentagon program that contracted Bigelow’s company, is now To The Stars’ director of global security and special programs.
And if the gathered reports are public, Bigelow could check them out, same as anyone else. If Bigelow is as committed to ufology as his last two decades of work have suggested, he could do worse than striking a deal with this group.
WHEN MY SISTER and I arrived at Skinwalker Ranch (now owned not by the institute or Bigelow but by the mysterious Adamantium Real Estate (whoever that nerd is), we were numb to the claims of its strange happenings. To be clear, I don’t really believe in much. Not God, or miracles, or magical beasts. I don’t believe that anything “defies” the “laws of physics.”
I do believe that we probably misunderstand some laws of physics, that our knowledge is, in some cases, incomplete, or even drop-dead wrong. I believe there are things in the universe we don’t get yet, that our scientific explanations haven’t caught up to. But I also believe that they can. Anyway, I’d driven all the way to the Uintah Valley, and I was sure going to try to look for something strange in the sky. We found a legal gravel pull-off that looked down on the semi-martian land of Skinwalker, and stared at the sky, waiting.
I added an extra layer to my clothes, blew hot air into my gloves, and found a nearby rock suitable for sitting, surrounded by broken glass and scattering of half-smoked cigarettes. And so my sister and I sat, mock-gasping at the lights from low-flying planes.
And then the clouds, which had hung low all day, began to clear. The stars—some of them perhaps supporting life that almost certainly has not come here, but, you know, maybe—were crisp and clear. I turned Hunt for the Skinwalker back on, my phone’s speaker pulsing from my pocket.
We scanned the skies; we listened to the tall tales.
“It’s good out here,” I said to my sister. “But you were right about that ice.”
“What?” she said.
“That it was the weirdest thing that would happen all day.”
About 60 years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the US designed a network of top-secret mobile nuclear launch sites buried in the Greenland ice sheet to prepare for possible war with the Soviet Union. At Camp Century, which was part of Project Iceworm, soldiers lived in the ice, which enclosed the base so it wouldn’t be completely buried in snow.
Camp Century was shut down in 1967, and the site was abandoned as Project Iceworm wound down. Back then, military planners assumed the hazardous stuff buried at Camp Century—including diesel fuel, PCBs, and some radioactive coolant—would stay locked up in the Greenland ice sheet, essentially forever. But now Greenland is warming because of climate change. Dangerous contaminants threaten to re-emerge from the ice, potentially putting people in Greenland and maybe as far away as Arctic Canada (400 km offshore) at risk.
Nuclear reactors at Camp Century in Greenland.
Image: US Army/Wikimedia Commons
Camp Century isn’t the only US military installation abroad that’s increasingly threatened by climate change. A Pentagon report from earlier this year, for example, noted that half of all US bases worldwide could be at risk. But Project Iceworm is a useful case study, argues Jeff Colgan, associate professor of political science and international studies at Brown University, who’s studied this in detail. That’s partly because the question of who should take responsibility for Camp Century has become such a political hot potato. According to him, at this point it isn’t clear exactly who is responsible for cleaning it up.
Over the phone, Colgan described the secondary effects of climate change—like the release of dangerous substances, or infrastructure damage—as its “knock-on effects.” (He pointed to the release of hazardous materials in Texas after Hurricane Harvey as another example.) “It creates a whole new type of politics, and it’s becoming more important in a variety of ways.”
Colgan is author of a new paper in Global Environmental Politics that views the impact of climate change on military bases as not just an environmental problem, but as a political and diplomatic one.
Project Iceworm goes to show just how politically complicated these situations can be. Camp Century was the result of a legal treaty between Denmark and the US, since Greenland was a Danish colony at that time.
Thermal drill at Camp Century, used to drill through the Greenland ice cap.
Image: CRREL Researcher/Wikimedia Commons
Motherboard contacted the US State Department to inquire about Camp Century, and was referred to the US Department of Defense. A Defense Department spokesperson then referred our query to the government of Denmark.
The Danish foreign ministry, which handles relations with the US and Greenland, referred Motherboard to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), an independent research institution under the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate. In a follow-up phone call, a ministry spokesperson said decisions around the cleanup would be made once the science is settled.
“It’s not a high priority. In fact it’s a barely known [issue] in Washington,” Colgan told me. “The only people who are really agitated [are in] Greenland, and they don’t have a lot of leverage.”
Scientists aren’t ignoring the problem. In 2016, a high-profile paper in Geophysical Research Letters predicted that Camp Century’s site could see primarily melting conditions by the year 2090, and described in detail all the hazardous stuff buried there. “It caused quite a reaction from scientists and the political system,” Flemming Christiansen, deputy director general of GEUS, told Motherboard in a phone interview, and it spurred them to study the site further.
GEUS has been monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for years, and is now tracking the Camp Century site specifically. In the summer of 2017, Christiansen said, a weather station was installed there, and scientists used radar last year to map what is locked up under the ice. (The map should be available later this year.) Climate data from Camp Century is publicly available online, although it will take some time to begin to notice longer-term trends.
Politicians, meanwhile, have yet to sort out exactly what to do about the threat posed by climate change to military installations abroad, each one governed by what Colgan calls “ad hoc” arrangements. Colgan noted that the US Pentagon, at least, does seem to appreciate the dangers of climate change. Of the hundreds of US bases overseas, “it’s unclear how many of them are at the frontlines of climate change, like Greenland,” he said, adding that other sites, like low-lying Pacific islands, are also certain to be impacted.
Meanwhile, Camp Century is melting out. “If there is something coming to the surface, you would like to know when this will happen,” Christiansen told me. Scientists are working on that part. Now it’s up to governments to come up with a plan.
New paper argues that extraterrestrials might beam 'contaminated' messages our way.
by Seth Shostak
Scientist are worry about hackers from outer space.
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With all the news stories these days about computer hacking, it probably comes as no surprise that someone is worried about hackers from outer space. Yes, there are now scientists who fret that space aliens might send messages that worm their way into human society — not to steal our passwords but to bring down our culture.
How exactly would they do that? Astrophysicists Michael Hippke and John Learned argue in a recent paper that our telescopes might pick up hazardous messages sent our way — a virus that shuts down our computers, for example, or something a bit like cosmic blackmail: “Do this for us, or we’ll make your sun go supernova and destroy Earth.” Or perhaps the cosmic hackers could trick us into building self-replicating nanobots, and then arrange for them to be let loose to chew up our planet or its inhabitants.
Mind you, making a small star like the sun go supernova would be a mind-boggling trick — one that would impress astrophysicists (if any were left). As for the nanobots, I figure the aliens need only wait a century or two, and we’ll make the little devils ourselves, without any help.
LIKE THREATENING NEANDERTHALS
It’s indisputable that space aliens, if they do exist, might not be friendly. But it’s hard to think of things that we could do for agile, technically sophisticated aliens that they couldn’t accomplish more easily on their own. Imagine modern humans threatening Neanderthals with nuclear war unless they washed our cars. Would that make any sense?
The astrophysicists also suggest that the extraterrestrials could show their displeasure (what did we do?) by launching a cyberattack. Maybe you’ve seen the 1996 film “Independence Day,” in which odious aliens are vanquished by a computer virus uploaded into their machinery. That’s about as realistic as sabotaging your neighbor’s new laptop by feeding it programs written for the Commodore 64.
In other words, aliens that could muster the transmitter power (not to mention the budget) to try wiping us out with code are going to have a real compatibility problem. The Stuxnet virus that took out Iran’s enrichment centrifuges was designed to target a contemporary bit of software: the Windows operating system.
If these nasty aliens are more than 40 light-years away, they won’t know that we have personal computers, let alone which operating system they should target. If they’re more than 80 light-years away, they won’t know that we have computers of any kind.
Maybe they’ll try to disable our abacuses.
A DANGEROUS GIFT
It’s worth remarking that today’s SETI experiments — in which large antennas are used to search for signals from alien societies — are largely impervious to any of this chicanery. SETI receivers integrate incoming signals (which is to say, they average them) over seconds or minutes. That would turn any message into digital goo, and no pernicious content would remain. Yes, that’s a technical point, but I think it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever have computers susceptible to Klingon code.
Yet there is a way that messages from space might be disruptive. Extraterrestrials could simply give us some advanced knowledge — not as a trade, but as a gift. How could that possibly be a downer? Imagine: You’re a physicist who has dedicated your career to understanding the fundamental structure of matter. You have a stack of reprints, a decent position, and a modicum of admiration from the three other specialists who have read your papers. Suddenly, aliens weigh in with knowledge that’s a thousand years ahead of yours. So much for your job and your sense of purpose.
If humanity is deprived of the opportunity to learn things on its own, much of its impetus for novelty might evaporate. In a society where invention and discovery are written out of the script, progress and improvement would suffer.
Then again, aliens would likely have real trouble transmitting knowledge to us. In movies, extraterrestrials often communicate with us in colloquial English. But a real message from space is likely to be no more understandable than a digital TV signal would be to Guglielmo Marconi. An alien transmission is unlikely to be a Trojan horse — but it would at least tell us that there’s someone outside the gates.
As early as 64,000 years ago, Neanderthals in today’s Spain were creating impressive cave paintings, showing that they were just as artistic and creative as humans.
The ladder shape composed of red horizontal and vertical lines (center left) dates to older than 64,000 years and was made by Neanderthals.
But they might have also shared something else with our ancestors, something which we consider fundamentally human: our ability to understand symbolism.
“The emergence of symbolic material culture represents a fundamental threshold in the evolution of humankind. It is one of the main pillars of what makes us human”, says Dirk Hoffmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.“Artefacts whose functional value lies not so much in their practical but rather in their symbolic use are proxies for fundamental aspects of human cognition as we know it.”
A team of researchers from the UK, Germany, Spain, and France analyzed carbonate samples from three cave sites in Spain: La Pasiega (north-eastern Spain), Maltravieso (western Spain) and Ardales (south-western Spain).
All three caves contain spectacular red or black cave paintings depicting animals, dots and geometric signs, as well as hand stencils, handprints and engravings.
These aren’t necessarily new findings, but for the first time, researchers have been able to prove that they must have been made by Neanderthals, since they were the only ones around when the cave paintings were made.
Three hand stencils (center right, center topm and top left). One has been dated to at least 66,000 years ago and must have been made by a Neanderthal.
Image credits: H. Collado.
The team used a dating technique that isn’t commonly employed in anthropology: Uranium-Thorium dating. This dating technique relies on analyzing the isotopic content of the two elements and dating the sample by calculating the decay of Uranium 234 into Thorium 230. The technique is widely used to date calcium carbonate materials such as stalactites or corals, but was only recently implemented to anthropology thanks to technological advancements. Radiocarbon technique, which is currently much more common, isn’t able to date back far enough.
The team dated the paintings to 64,000 years ago — 20,000 years before humans modern humans arrived in Europe. This means that Neanderthals were the artists behind the paintings.
“Our dating results show that the cave art at these three sites in Spain is much older than previously thought”, says team member Alistair Pike from the University of Southampton. “With an age in excess of 64,000 years it predates the earliest traces of modern humans in Europe by more than 20,000 years. The cave art must thus have been created by Neanderthals.”
“Dating cave art accurately and precisely, but without destroying it, has so far been difficult to accomplish”, adds Hoffmann. “Thanks to recent technical developments we can now obtain a minimum age for cave art using Uranium-Thorium (U-Th) dating of carbonate crusts overlying the pigments.”
Artistic thinking
This is the first time any evidence of a Neanderthal cave painting has been found — until now, this artform had been considered human and human alone. There has been some evidence that Neanderthals used body ornamentation around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago, but some researchers believed that they learned the idea from humans, a theory which was almost impossible to disprove. The only way to clearly show that Neanderthals came up with the idea on their own was to date their work to before they met humans — and that’s exactly what this study does.
Perforated shells have also bee found in cave sediments, dating to between 115,000 and 120,000 years.
Image credits: J. Zilhão.
Joint lead author Dr. Chris Standish, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton, said:
“This is an incredibly exciting discovery which suggests Neanderthals were much more sophisticated than is popularly believed.
“Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the world, and were created at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa – therefore they must have been painted by Neanderthals.”
Neanderthals also dyed and decorated marine shells. Perforated shells were found in sediments in Cueva de los Aviones and date to between 115,000 and 120,000 years, indicating that their artistic practices can be traced even further back.
It’s also significant that this is not a one-off accident — paintings were found in three caves 700 km apart, indicating a long-standing tradition passed on from generation to generation. It’s quite possible that many other similar works of art still exist, but we just haven’t found them yet.
“This is certainly just the beginning of a new chapter in the study of ice age rock art”, says Gerd-Christian Weniger of the Foundation Neanderthal Museum Mettmann, one of the leaders of the Ardales excavations.
It’s intriguing to think about it, but this is convincing evidence that humans and Neanderthals shared the same artistic sense and the same ability for symbolic thinking. Neanderthals weren’t the brutes they’re often portrayed as — they were thinkers and artists just like our ancestors.
But this also raises an even more exciting possibility: since both humans and Neanderthals shared creative abilities, it’s possible that they both inherited them from a common ancestor. If this is the case, we might have to look even further — much further — down in history to find where these abilities first appeared.
“According to our new data Neanderthals and modern humans shared symbolic thinking and must have been cognitively indistinguishable”, concludes Joao Zilhao, team member from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies in Barcelona and involved in both studies. “On our search for the origins of language and advanced human cognition we must therefore look much farther back in time, more than half a million years ago, to the common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.”
The paper, U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art, is due for publication in Science on Friday, 23 February 2018. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap7778.
Humans first emerged 200,000 years ago but didn’t figure out how to use language until 100,000 years ago, scholars think. Now, an intriguing new study suggests that cave drawings had an important role to play in the evolution of language by familiarizing our ancestors with symbolism.
The Chauvet Cave paintings, dated at 30,000 to 28,000 BC, were once thought to be the oldest cave drawings. Here, we can find more than 1,000 paintings depicting lions or mammoths of unmatched sophistication.
Credit: DRAC Rhone-Alpes, French Ministry of Culture.
Our species has had a knack for art from its humble beginnings. To this day, you can still find ancient cave art on virtually every continent except Antarctica. In some places, like South Africa, there are over a million drawings made inside caves. Drawing such as those found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where there are 35,400-year-old depictions of a babirusa, or pig-deer, once common in these valleys. The spectacular lions and rhinos of Chauvet Cave, in southeastern France, are commonly thought to be around 30,000 to 32,000 years old, and mammoth-ivory figurines found in Germany correspond to roughly the same time.
Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, researchers from MIT argue that places Chauvet or Sulawesi acted like hotspots for language generation by offering the perfect environment to translate acoustics into drawings.
“Our research suggests that the cognitive mechanisms necessary for the development of cave and rock art are likely to be analogous to those employed in the expression of the symbolic thinking required for language,” says Cora Lesure, a linguist at MIT and one of the study’s authors.
Sound + pictures = language
Lesure and colleagues that the brain uses the same cognitive functions to transfer acoustic sounds to pictures as language. Linguists often frustratingly say that language doesn’t fossilize but it can leave artifacts — cave drawings, for instance. And in this context, our early ancestors used cave drawings less as means of artistic expression, as Picasso or van Gogh would, but rather more as a means of communication.
“Cave art was part of the package deal in terms of how homo sapiens came to have this very high-level cognitive processing,”says Miyagawa, a professor of linguistics at MIT. “You have this very concrete cognitive process that converts an acoustic signal into some mental representation and externalizes it as a visual.”
“I think it’s very clear that these artists were talking to one another,” Miyagawa says. “It’s a communal effort.”
In some caves, 90 percent of the drawings involve hoofed animals which could have been used to replicate the sound of hoofbeats. Many such drawings were found to be made in chambers where echoes and reverberation create sounds similar to hoof beats. On the other hand, drawings of felines, dots, and handprints were etched in quiet cave chambers. Such drawings could have been part of stories or rituals — scenarios that display properties of language like “action, objects, and modification.” Miyagawa suggests that“acoustically based cave art must have had a hand in forming our cognitive symbolic mind.”
At this point, this is still speculative work but what Miyagawa or Lesure are doing is starting a discussion with potentially huge ramification. The MIT linguists hope to inspire more work and further scrutiny of the syntax etched on the walls of ancient caves around the world. Hidden in these drawings are stories that reveal content that might one day lead us to the origins of language. In this respect, the holy grail would be finding cave art older than 100,000 years.
US air force jets ‘battle mystery UFO in dogfight' over skies above Area 51 military base
US air force jets ‘battle mystery UFO in dogfight' over skies above Area 51 military base
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MYSTERY: Two USAF jets were filmed near another unidentified craft over Area 51
UFO seekers spotted the fighter planes 'hurtling towards the triangular object' above a desert area in Nevada
By Jeff Farrell
This is the mysterious moment two US air force jets are seen "dogfighting" with an unknown craft in an area where there are believed to be UFOs.
The fighter planes are seen zipping through the sky in an apparent routine training mission over the top secret military base Area 51 in a desert area in Lincoln County, Nevada.
UFO seekers Tim Doyle and Tracey Su camped out some 12 miles away to snap pictures and videos of activity over its skies and didn't see anything unusual when the military aircraft soared above.
But when they later combed through their photos they spotted the third craft which they described as a "triangular" object which appeared to be battling the US fighter jets.
UFO seekers Tim and Tracey head out on their mission near Area 51 to hunt for alien craft
(Image: Youtube/thirdphaseofmoon)
A local sheriff pursues the two UFO hunters and questions why they are camped out near the top secret US military base(Image: Youtube/thirdphaseofmoon)
Area 51 is at the centre of the so-called Roswell incident, where scientists are said to have examined alien being who crash-landed in New Mexico
(Image: Youtube/thirdphaseofmoon)
Their sighting piles more weight on the countless conspiracy theories that the top secret base is a hub of interactions between earthly beings and aliens.
The site is at the centre of the so-called Roswell incident where US scientists are believed to have examined aliens who apparently crash landed their flying disc into a ranch in an area in New Mexico.
Tim and Tracey camped out just outside Area 51 and filmed and snapped the comings and goings and activity in the sky there.
Tim camps out at night after setting up his equipment including camera, videos and computers to monitor the surrounding area and skies
(Image: Youtube/thirdphaseofmoon)
Tim and Tracy's UFO hunting equipment includes drones they use to hover over the desert area
(Image: Youtube/thirdphaseofmoon)
The pair spot the unidentified third craft in the sky they say was dogfighting with two US fighter jets which are clearly seenImage: YouTube/thirdphaseofmoon)
"Welcome to area 51," said Tim in one of his videos. "We're in front of the most mysterious and secretive military installation in the entire world.
"We're just here to look for lights in the sky," said Tim, "and if they're here we're going to find them."
A narrator on the video, by YouTubeChannel thirdphaseofmoon , says: "These guys are taking a lot of risk bringing this information to you and we're sharing the evidence."
The pair filmed hours of footage over several days including the US fighter jets zipping through the sky, but didn't see it as unusual.
"When we got home and started reviewing the pictures we noticed a third object" in the sky, said Tim.
"What in the world is this? It's looks like some kind of triangular unmanned drone, because it's definitely too small to have a person inside of it.
"And after looking at the pictures it definitely looks like the crafts are interacting with each other. It's like a three-plane dogfight."
Tim and Tracey's remarkable footage on YouTube has already been seized upon by conspiracy theorists that it is proof there is UFO activity in Area 51.
Chuku Marrero posted: "I know they are real they are with us ... Nevada is the centre."
Lori Roberson1 wrote: "Ufo's been round for so many years."
The US government has never revealed the purpose of the site in a remote area in the desert in Nevada.
The CIA only admitted for the first time in 2005 that the military base, which is north-west of Las Vegas, even existed.
In de Zuid-Egyptische stad Minya is een oude necropolis ontdekt, zo heeft het Egyptische ministerie van Oudheden aangekondigd. De begraafplaats telt onder meer een gouden masker, 40 sarcofagen, een duizendtal beelden, sieraden en andere artefacten.
“Het is slechts het begin van een nieuwe ontdekking, en ik denk dat we zeker vijf jaar werk zullen hebben op de begraafplaats”, vertelde minister van Antiquiteiten Khaled al-Enany aan de verslaggevers op de plaats van de ontdekking.
De opgravingswerken begonnen in 2017, en onder meer teams uit München, Hildesheim en Egypte werkten in het gebied. “De ontdekking is belangrijk omdat ze verschillende aspecten van het leven van de oude Egyptenaren blootlegt”, zei al-Enany.
Egypte heeft de afgelopen maanden al een aantal ontdekkingen aangekondigd, waaronder verschillende graftombes in de zuidelijke stad Luxor. Het land probeert zijn toerisme weer aan te zwengelen, dat traditioneel een belangrijke bron van inkomsten is. De toeristische sector kreeg zware klappen door de onrust die volgde op de opstand tegen oud-dictator Hosni Moebarak in 2011.
A bright, white UFO has been spotted over a remote part of northern Norway.
The aircraft was seen by stunned onlookers in Bardufoss on Thursday afternoon. A short while later, it was seen again in 80 miles away in Tromsø.
It lingered until after sunset then exploded neatly into two parts before disappearing into dust, according to witnesses.
Perplexed locals shared photographs and videos of the structure as it hovered above them near the town of Tromsø on Thursday night.
Tarquin Millington-Drake of Frontier Travels told DailyMail.com how he witnessed the spectacle.
'We thought it was a chopper coming towards us - a very bright light which came over the mountain and headed toward us - then it turned and went past us.
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The bright shining light appeared suddenly above Bardufoss in Norway on Thursday afternoon as stunned onlookers watched. Above is the view of it from Wolf Lodge where a group of tourists mistook it for a chopper
The stunning object appeared suddenly then 'turned' and went back over the valley as the group watched on in disbelief
Tarquin Millington-Drake watched from the Wolf Lodge (above) and said the light slowed dramatically as it eased away from them
Witnesses described how the object faded into 'dust' as it disappeared from view
'Then it seemed to explode but the explosion was very uniform and symmetrical like two butterfly explosions either side of the light.
'It then seemed to turn and go away but no longer as one bright light - just bright dust that faded,' he said.
Mr. Millington-Drake watched it from the Wolf Lodge, a remote hideaway in Bardufoss where guests have up-close experiences with wolves.
He and other guests were gathered around a fire outside waiting for the northern lights when the UFO appeared.
Stunning photographs from the lodge show the group watching, stunned, as the UFO hovered above them, far outshining the stars.
'We assumed it was some special event laid on but the luxury Wolf Lodge but when our hosts starting taking photos it became clear that was not the case.
'It veered away from coming directly from us and just went across the valley.
'By now we were all watching intently and then suddenly it seemed to explode with those butterfly shaped wings.
A video taken at the same site after dark captured the object as it faded, as described, from a bright light into what looked like dust
The sightings were in northeast Norway on Thursday
'It slowed dramatically, now the bright light was more subdued and the light from the explosion joined to form an amoeba-like circle of light which then seemed to turn away from us and then slowly faded totally.
'It seems nobody in Bardufoss knows what it was.
'There is a big military base there but still no definitive theories from anyone.'
So far the only explanation for the sighting is that it could have been Paz, a radar imaging satellite which was launched on Thursday from Elon Musk's Falcon 9.
Musk's Tesla launched it on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Defence. The }will orbit earth 15 times a day for five-and-a-half years taking photographs.
It was launched in California on Thursday along with two Musk's StarLink, two prototype satellites whose later versions will beam broadband internet anywhere in the world.
SpaceX, Musk's company which launched them, did not respond to DailyMail.com's requests for comment about the Norway sighting on Friday.
Norvège : Ovni photographié et filmé à Bardufoss le 22 février 2018
Norvège : Ovni photographié et filmé à Bardufoss le 22 février 2018
« Des OVNIS brillants sont observés dans le nord de la Norvège et « explosent en deux » alors que des spectateurs abasourdis les regardent disparaître en poussière « .
L’objet a été vu au-dessus de Bardufoss dans le nord de la Norvège jeudi après-midi en fin de journée.
Une lumière blanche et brillante a explosé en deux parties en forme de papillon puis s’est éteinte en « poussière ».
Les spectateurs stupéfaits l’ont d’abord confondu avec un hélico parce qu’elle est apparu rapidement.
Un témoin qui était dans une zone reculée des montagnes, a dit qu’elle est apparue soudainement, puis a «tourné» et disparu.
Une explication possible de l’observation fait référence a un satellite d’imagerie radar « PAZ » lancé jeudi !
Il a été lancé par la fusée Falcon 9 Space X d’Elon Musk jeudi en Californie avec deux autres.
Le satellite Paz appartient au ministère de la Défense espagnol et sera en orbite terrestre pendant 5 ans en prenant des photos météo.
Musk l’a lancé avec ses deux prototypes StarLink qui vont transmettre l’internet haut débit dans le monde entier.
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Cet Ovni a été observé également un peu plus tard à 80 miles à Tromsø.
Il a persisté jusqu’au coucher du soleil puis a explosé soigneusement en deux parties avant de disparaître comme de la poussière, selon des témoins.
Les habitants perplexes ont partagé des photos et des vidéos de la structure pendant qu’elle planait au-dessus d’eux près de la ville de Tromsø jeudi soir.
Tarquin Millington-Drake de Frontier Travels a raconté à DailyMail.com comment il a été témoin du spectacle.
« Nous pensions que c’était un hélicoptère qui venait vers nous – une lumière très brillante qui passait par-dessus la montagne et se dirigeait vers nous – puis elle tourna et passa devant nous. »
Tarquin Millington-Drake a regardé de Wolf Lodge (ci-dessus) et a dit que la lumière a ralenti de façon spectaculaire, puis s’est éloignée d’eux !
Des témoins ont décrit comment l’objet s’est évanoui en «poussière» alors qu’il disparaissait de leur vue.
« Alors il a semblé exploser mais l’explosion était très uniforme et symétrique comme deux explosions en forme de papillons de chaque côté de la lumière. »
« Il a ensuite semblé se retourner et s’en aller, mais non pas comme une seule lumière brillante – juste de la poussière brillante qui a disparu », a-t-il dit.
Lui et d’autres invités étaient rassemblés autour d’un feu à l’extérieur attendant les aurores boréales quand l’ovni est apparu. »
Is this the US Air Force's secret 4,600mph spy plane? Mystery 'hypersonic aircraft' is captured in Google Earth images of a Florida airbase, claims conspiracy theorist
Is this the US Air Force's secret 4,600mph spy plane? Mystery 'hypersonic aircraft' is captured in Google Earth images of a Florida airbase, claims conspiracy theorist
US Air Force is believed to be developing a spy plane that travels at 4,600mph
Secretive hypersonic plane is being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin
Google Earth images show an object that looks similar to the artist's impression
Pictures were taken by UFO conspiracy theorists from SectureTeam10
Many have dismissed the latest footage, saying it just shows a high speed boat
The US Air Force is understood to be developing a spy plane that travels at more than 4,600mph (7,400km/h).
Now, a conspiracy theorist claims he has spotted an image of the mystery craft on Google Earth's view of Florida.
The satellite image appears to show an object similar to the artist's impression of the secretive hypersonic plane being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin.
It comes a day after Lockheed Martin's secretive Skunk Works unit said it had already finished making the radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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Images from Google Earth show an object that looks similar to the artist's impression of the secretive hypersonic plane being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin
SECURETEAM 10 CONTROVERSY
SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos.
But the channel has come under fire, as Lions Ground, a rival channel, claims that it has been intentionally fooling its viewers.
According to Lions Ground, SecureTeam10 has been raking in an estimated £600 ($745) a day by posting fake videos that 'outsmart UFO believers.'
Lots of people were sceptical of their latest claims, with many saying the footage showed a high speed boat.
The Google satellite images were compiled in a video by Tyler Glockner, known for uploading images of UFO sightings to his YouTube channel Secureteam10.
Whoever created the craft has a 'main foothold in designing aircraft engines that are widely used in civilian and military aviation', Mr Glockner claimed.
'What you're seeing is a very secretive object... I haven't been able to work out what it is', he said.
More than 400,000 people viewed the video which shows a series of screen shots from Google Earth.
'It is no public aircraft that has been disclosed', Mr Glockner claimed.
'You can see that this thing looks like a hypersonic aircraft or spacecraft'.
The shape is similar to the SR-72 hypersonic plane - which is set to be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6, writes Daily Star.
The strange footage was captured by Tyler Glockner, known for uploading images of UFO sightings to his YouTube channel secureteam10
US Air Force is understood to be developing a spy plane that travels at speeds of 4,600mph (7,400kmh) (artist's impression) and new footage could give a glimpse of the new craft
The shape is similar to the SR-72 hypersonic plane (pictured) - which is set to be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6
THE SR-72 HYPERSONIC PLANE
The US Air Force is understood to be developing a spy plane that travels at speeds of over 4,600mph (7,400kmh) and new footage could give a glimpse of the new craft.
The shape is similar to the SR-72 hypersonic plane - which is set to be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6.
The defence firm Lockheed Martin firm has been working on the project since the early 2000s.
Earlier this week reports suggested the radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane might have already been finished.
However, lots of people were sceptical of the claims, which many saying the footage showed a high speed boat.
The defence firm Lockheed Martin firm has been working on the project since the early 2000s.
However, many people were skeptical of the claims, with many saying the footage showed a high speed boat.
'It honestly looks like one of those racing jet boats', wrote YouTube user 'Kody Read'.
'It looks like a powerboat I live next to the ocean seen this shape before and it is next to swamp land and water', wrote another user 'Jamie Lynn'.
One user, called 'Leo Pokat' said it was a 'UPO - unimaginable parked object'.
Earlier this week reports suggested the radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane might have already been finished.
Jack O'Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs for Lockheed Martin, let slip at a conference the unmanned aircraft has already been made.
More than 400,000 people viewed the video which shows a series of screen shots from Google Earth of the strange object
SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos. Pictured is their latest Google Earth footage
The footage was taken from Palm Beach County Florida. Lots of people were sceptical of the claims, which many saying the footage showed a high speed boat
Speaking at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum, he showed a slide of a digital mockup of the craft, and said 'Without the digital transformation, the aircraft you see there could not have been made.'
Mr O'Banion also said the aircraft will have a 'digital twin' that knows every part on the aircraft.
'Talking about speed, you're talking about hypersonics, aircraft that operate above Mach 5,' he said.
Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25,000 and 50,000 people. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cahokia was composed of three boroughs (Cahokia, East St. Louis, and St. Louis) connected to each other via waterways and walking trails that extended across the Mississippi River floodplain for some 20 square km. Its population consisted of agriculturalists who grew large amounts of maize, and craft specialists who made beautiful pots, shell jewelry, arrow-points, and flint clay figurines.
The city of Cahokia is one of many large earthen mound complexes that dot the landscapes of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and across the Southeast. Despite the preponderance of archaeological evidence that these mound complexes were the work of sophisticated Native American civilizations, this rich history was obscured by the Myth of the Mound Builders, a narrative that arose ostensibly to explain the existence of the mounds. Examining both the history of Cahokia and the historic myths that were created to explain it reveals the troubling role that early archaeologists played in diminishing, or even eradicating, the achievements of pre-Columbian civilizations on the North American continent, just as the U.S. government was expanding westward by taking control of Native American lands.
Today it’s difficult to grasp the size and complexity of Cahokia, composed of about 190 mounds in platform, ridge-top, and circular shapes aligned to a planned city grid oriented five degrees east of north. This alignment, according to Tim Pauketat, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, is tied to the summer solstice sunrise and the southern maximum moonrise, orientating Cahokia to the movement of both the sun and the moon. Neighborhood houses, causeways, plazas, and mounds were intentionally aligned to this city grid. Imagine yourself walking out from Cahokia’s downtown; on your journey you would encounter neighborhoods of rectangular, semi-subterranean houses, central hearth fires, storage pits, and smaller community plazas interspersed with ritual and public buildings. We know Cahokia’s population was diverse, with people moving to this city from across the midcontinent, likely speaking different dialects and bringing with them some of their old ways of life.
View of Cahokia from Rattlesnake Mound ca 1175 A.D., drawn by Glen Baker (Image courtesy of Sarah E. Baires)
The largest mound at Cahokia was Monks Mound, a four-terraced platform mound about 100 feet high that served as the city’s central point. Atop its summit sat one of the largest rectangular buildings ever constructed at Cahokia; it likely served as a ritual space.
In front of Monks Mound was a large, open plaza that held a chunk yard to play the popular sport of chunkey. This game, watched by thousands of spectators, was played by two large groups who would run across the plaza lobbing spears at a rolling stone disk. The goal of the game was to land their spear at the point where the disk would stop rolling. In addition to the chunk yard, upright marker posts and additional platform mounds were situated along the plaza edges. Ridge-top burial mounds were placed along Cahokia’s central organizing grid, marked by the Rattlesnake Causeway, and along the city limits.
Cahokia was built rapidly, with thousands of people coming together to participate in its construction. As far as archaeologists know, there was no forced labor used to build these mounds; instead, people came together for big feasts and gatherings that celebrated the construction of the mounds.
The splendor of the mounds was visible to the first white people who described them. But they thought that the American Indian known to early white settlers could not have built any of the great earthworks that dotted the midcontinent. So the question then became: Who built the mounds?
Early archaeologists working to answer the question of who built the mounds attributed them to the Toltecs, Vikings, Welshmen, Hindus, and many others. It seemed that any group—other than the American Indian—could serve as the likely architects of the great earthworks. The impact of this narrative led to some of early America’s most rigorous archaeology, as the quest to determine where these mounds came from became salacious conversation pieces for America’s middle and upper classes. The Ohio earthworks, such as Newark Earthworks, a National Historic Landmark located just outside Newark, OH, for example, were thought by John Fitch (builder of America’s first steam-powered boat in 1785) to be military-style fortifications. This contributed to the notion that, prior to the Native American, highly skilled warriors of unknown origin had populated the North American continent.
This was particularly salient in the Midwest and Southeast, where earthen mounds from the Archaic, Hopewell, and Mississippian time periods crisscross the midcontinent. These landscapes and the mounds built upon them quickly became places of fantasy, where speculation as to their origins rose from the grassy prairies and vast floodplains, just like the mounds themselves. According to Gordon Sayre (The Mound Builders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand), the tales of the origins of the mounds were often based in a “fascination with antiquity and architecture,” as “ruins of a distant past,” or as “natural” manifestations of the landscape.
When William Bartram and others recorded local Native American narratives of the mounds, they seemingly corroborated these mythical origins of the mounds. According to Bartram’s early journals (Travels, published in 1928) the Creek and the Cherokee who lived around mounds attributed their construction to “the ancients, many ages prior to their arrival and possessing of this country.” Bartram’s account of Creek and Cherokee histories led to the view that these Native Americans were colonizers, just like Euro-Americans. This served as one more way to justify the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands: If Native Americans were early colonizers, too, the logic went, then white Americans had just as much right to the land as indigenous peoples.µ
Location of Cahokia, East St Louis, and St Louis sites in the American Bottom (Map courtesy of Sarah E. Baires)
The creation of the Myth of the Mounds parallels early American expansionist practices like the state-sanctioned removal of Native peoples from their ancestral lands to make way for the movement of “new” Americans into the Western “frontier.” Part of this forced removal included the erasure of Native American ties to their cultural landscapes.
In the 19th century, evolutionary theory began to take hold of the interpretations of the past, as archaeological research moved away from the armchair and into the realm of scientific inquiry. Within this frame of reference, antiquarians and early archaeologists, as described by Bruce Trigger, attempted to demonstrate that the New World, like the Old World, “could boast indigenous cultural achievements rivaling those of Europe.” Discoveries of ancient stone cities in Central America and Mexico served as the catalyst for this quest, recognizing New World societies as comparable culturally and technologically to those of Europe.
But this perspective collided with Lewis Henry Morgan’s 1881 text Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines. Morgan, an anthropologist and social theorist, argued that Mesoamerican societies (such as the Maya and Aztec) exemplified the evolutionary category of “Middle Barbarism”—the highest stage of cultural and technological evolution to be achieved by any indigenous group in the Americas. By contrast, Morgan said that Native Americans located in the growing territories of the new United States were quintessential examples of “Stone Age” cultures—unprogressive and static communities incapable of technological or cultural advancement. These ideologies framed the archaeological research of the time.
In juxtaposition to this evolutionary model there was unease about the “Vanishing Indian,” a myth-history of the 18th and 19th centuries that depicted Native Americans as a vanishing race incapable of adapting to the new American civilization. The sentimentalized ideal of the Vanishing Indian—who were seen as noble but ultimately doomed to be vanquished by a superior white civilization—held that these “vanishing” people, their customs, beliefs, and practices, must be documented for posterity. Thomas Jefferson was one of the first to excavate into a Native American burial mound, citing the disappearance of the “noble” Indians—caused by violence and the corruption of the encroaching white civilization—as the need for these excavations. Enlightenment-inspired scholars and some of America’s Founders viewed Indians as the first Americans, to be used as models by the new republic in the creation of its own legacy and national identity.
During the last 100 years, extensive archaeological research has changed our understanding of the mounds. They are no longer viewed as isolated monuments created by a mysterious race. Instead, the mounds of North America have been proven to be constructions by Native American peoples for a variety of purposes. Today, some tribes, like the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, view these mounds as central places tying their communities to their ancestral lands. Similar to other ancient cities throughout the world, Native North Americans venerate their ties to history through the places they built.
Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25,000 and 50,000 people. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cahokia was composed of three boroughs (Cahokia, East St. Louis, and St. Louis) connected to each other via waterways and walking trails that extended across the Mississippi River floodplain for some 20 square km. Its population consisted of agriculturalists who grew large amounts of maize, and craft specialists who made beautiful pots, shell jewelry, arrow-points, and flint clay figurines.
The city of Cahokia is one of many large earthen mound complexes that dot the landscapes of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and across the Southeast. Despite the preponderance of archaeological evidence that these mound complexes were the work of sophisticated Native American civilizations, this rich history was obscured by the Myth of the Mound Builders, a narrative that arose ostensibly to explain the existence of the mounds. Examining both the history of Cahokia and the historic myths that were created to explain it reveals the troubling role that early archaeologists played in diminishing, or even eradicating, the achievements of pre-Columbian civilizations on the North American continent, just as the U.S. government was expanding westward by taking control of Native American lands.
Today it’s difficult to grasp the size and complexity of Cahokia, composed of about 190 mounds in platform, ridge-top, and circular shapes aligned to a planned city grid oriented five degrees east of north. This alignment, according to Tim Pauketat, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, is tied to the summer solstice sunrise and the southern maximum moonrise, orientating Cahokia to the movement of both the sun and the moon. Neighborhood houses, causeways, plazas, and mounds were intentionally aligned to this city grid. Imagine yourself walking out from Cahokia’s downtown; on your journey you would encounter neighborhoods of rectangular, semi-subterranean houses, central hearth fires, storage pits, and smaller community plazas interspersed with ritual and public buildings. We know Cahokia’s population was diverse, with people moving to this city from across the midcontinent, likely speaking different dialects and bringing with them some of their old ways of life.
View of Cahokia from Rattlesnake Mound ca 1175 A.D., drawn by Glen Baker (Image courtesy of Sarah E. Baires)
The largest mound at Cahokia was Monks Mound, a four-terraced platform mound about 100 feet high that served as the city’s central point. Atop its summit sat one of the largest rectangular buildings ever constructed at Cahokia; it likely served as a ritual space.
In front of Monks Mound was a large, open plaza that held a chunk yard to play the popular sport of chunkey. This game, watched by thousands of spectators, was played by two large groups who would run across the plaza lobbing spears at a rolling stone disk. The goal of the game was to land their spear at the point where the disk would stop rolling. In addition to the chunk yard, upright marker posts and additional platform mounds were situated along the plaza edges. Ridge-top burial mounds were placed along Cahokia’s central organizing grid, marked by the Rattlesnake Causeway, and along the city limits.
Cahokia was built rapidly, with thousands of people coming together to participate in its construction. As far as archaeologists know, there was no forced labor used to build these mounds; instead, people came together for big feasts and gatherings that celebrated the construction of the mounds.
The splendor of the mounds was visible to the first white people who described them. But they thought that the American Indian known to early white settlers could not have built any of the great earthworks that dotted the midcontinent. So the question then became: Who built the mounds?
Early archaeologists working to answer the question of who built the mounds attributed them to the Toltecs, Vikings, Welshmen, Hindus, and many others. It seemed that any group—other than the American Indian—could serve as the likely architects of the great earthworks. The impact of this narrative led to some of early America’s most rigorous archaeology, as the quest to determine where these mounds came from became salacious conversation pieces for America’s middle and upper classes. The Ohio earthworks, such as Newark Earthworks, a National Historic Landmark located just outside Newark, OH, for example, were thought by John Fitch (builder of America’s first steam-powered boat in 1785) to be military-style fortifications. This contributed to the notion that, prior to the Native American, highly skilled warriors of unknown origin had populated the North American continent.
This was particularly salient in the Midwest and Southeast, where earthen mounds from the Archaic, Hopewell, and Mississippian time periods crisscross the midcontinent. These landscapes and the mounds built upon them quickly became places of fantasy, where speculation as to their origins rose from the grassy prairies and vast floodplains, just like the mounds themselves. According to Gordon Sayre (The Mound Builders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand), the tales of the origins of the mounds were often based in a “fascination with antiquity and architecture,” as “ruins of a distant past,” or as “natural” manifestations of the landscape.
When William Bartram and others recorded local Native American narratives of the mounds, they seemingly corroborated these mythical origins of the mounds. According to Bartram’s early journals (Travels, published in 1928) the Creek and the Cherokee who lived around mounds attributed their construction to “the ancients, many ages prior to their arrival and possessing of this country.” Bartram’s account of Creek and Cherokee histories led to the view that these Native Americans were colonizers, just like Euro-Americans. This served as one more way to justify the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands: If Native Americans were early colonizers, too, the logic went, then white Americans had just as much right to the land as indigenous peoples.µ
Location of Cahokia, East St Louis, and St Louis sites in the American Bottom (Map courtesy of Sarah E. Baires)
The creation of the Myth of the Mounds parallels early American expansionist practices like the state-sanctioned removal of Native peoples from their ancestral lands to make way for the movement of “new” Americans into the Western “frontier.” Part of this forced removal included the erasure of Native American ties to their cultural landscapes.
In the 19th century, evolutionary theory began to take hold of the interpretations of the past, as archaeological research moved away from the armchair and into the realm of scientific inquiry. Within this frame of reference, antiquarians and early archaeologists, as described by Bruce Trigger, attempted to demonstrate that the New World, like the Old World, “could boast indigenous cultural achievements rivaling those of Europe.” Discoveries of ancient stone cities in Central America and Mexico served as the catalyst for this quest, recognizing New World societies as comparable culturally and technologically to those of Europe.
But this perspective collided with Lewis Henry Morgan’s 1881 text Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines. Morgan, an anthropologist and social theorist, argued that Mesoamerican societies (such as the Maya and Aztec) exemplified the evolutionary category of “Middle Barbarism”—the highest stage of cultural and technological evolution to be achieved by any indigenous group in the Americas. By contrast, Morgan said that Native Americans located in the growing territories of the new United States were quintessential examples of “Stone Age” cultures—unprogressive and static communities incapable of technological or cultural advancement. These ideologies framed the archaeological research of the time.
In juxtaposition to this evolutionary model there was unease about the “Vanishing Indian,” a myth-history of the 18th and 19th centuries that depicted Native Americans as a vanishing race incapable of adapting to the new American civilization. The sentimentalized ideal of the Vanishing Indian—who were seen as noble but ultimately doomed to be vanquished by a superior white civilization—held that these “vanishing” people, their customs, beliefs, and practices, must be documented for posterity. Thomas Jefferson was one of the first to excavate into a Native American burial mound, citing the disappearance of the “noble” Indians—caused by violence and the corruption of the encroaching white civilization—as the need for these excavations. Enlightenment-inspired scholars and some of America’s Founders viewed Indians as the first Americans, to be used as models by the new republic in the creation of its own legacy and national identity.
During the last 100 years, extensive archaeological research has changed our understanding of the mounds. They are no longer viewed as isolated monuments created by a mysterious race. Instead, the mounds of North America have been proven to be constructions by Native American peoples for a variety of purposes. Today, some tribes, like the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, view these mounds as central places tying their communities to their ancestral lands. Similar to other ancient cities throughout the world, Native North Americans venerate their ties to history through the places they built.
WE JUST BEAMED A SIGNAL AT SPACE ALIENS. WAS THAT A BAD IDEA?
WE JUST BEAMED A SIGNAL AT SPACE ALIENS. WAS THAT A BAD IDEA?
In a valley eight miles southeast of the Norwegian city of Tromsø, a radar antenna has just transmitted a short bit of radio programming to potential alien listeners: some specially composed electronic music and a tutorial about geometry and the use of binary numbers.
This isn’t the usual approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Ordinarily, scientists engaged in SETI use such antennas with the hope of hearing a signal that would have been broadcast tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years ago. So far, no dice. But at least SETI offers the chance of short-term success. It’s like a slot machine that’s been stubbornly ungenerous despite having been fed a ton of quarters. There’s always a chance the next coin will trigger a jackpot. SETI could succeed before tomorrow.
That’s not true with the Tromsø transmission. It’s an example of active SETI, or what some scientists call METI (for messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence). The idea is simple: Send a signal that would alert aliens we’re here, and listen for a reply.
Obviously, patience is required. The Tromsø broadcast was beamed to one of the nearest star systems believed to have an Earth-like planet. The target, GJ 273, or more familiarly Luyten’s Star, is a runty red dwarf located 12 light-years from our solar system. Since radio waves travel at the speed of light, we’ll have to wait more than two decades before looking for a reply.
Despite the lack of immediate gratification, Doug Vakoch, founder of the San Francisco-based nonprofit METI International, has argued that if we really intend to prove that humans have cosmic company, we need to step up to the plate and take the initiative. He envisions the Tromsø transmission as a first step down a yellow brick road that eventually leads to signaling thousands or millions of star systems.
Trying to find aliens by pinging only one star system is a long shot. But although the broadcast from Norway is unlikely to provoke a response by any Luytenians, you can be sure it will provoke plenty of Earthlings.
That’s because METI is controversial. To begin with, what do you say to someone you’ve never met, and who’s a member of a different species? This has been batted about at more than a few conferences, and much of the conversation centers on whether we should show our bad side. Do we tell aliens that we engage in war, threaten our environment, and chow down on other critters? Personally, I don’t get too exercised about these discussions. Such concerns — while of great importance to us — are likely to be mere curiosities to the aliens.
But the aspect of METI that really inflames people (including some in the SETI community and even celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking) is the possibility that sending signals skyward may expose us to an existential danger. Suppose Luytenians do exist, and they’re unfriendly. If we tip our hand with a broadcast — no matter what its content — they might respond with a fleet of interstellar missiles to take us out. Bummer.
Frankly, it’s hard to think of any credible reason why aliens would do this. But why take the chance? My answer is twofold. To begin with, we’ve been broadcasting into space with high-powered transmitters (radar and TV) for more than a half-century now. Sure, those signals aren’t easy to detect out there in space — at least for someone with our level of technology. But for a society a century or two ahead of us, it would be trivial. And if the aliens are not at least that advanced, they simply won’t have those interstellar missiles.
So that’s point one, and it’s a doozy. Our hand has already been tipped.
But there’s something else, often lost in the discussion. Limiting strong transmissions skyward will straitjacket our descendants, not just in their efforts to do active SETI but for many other projects that might require beamed radio signals. If we want to map the outer regions of our solar system (to locate errant comets), we’ll need to use radars that are much more powerful than the ones we have today. If we envision having interstellar probes, signaling will be needed to keep in touch.
Let’s face it, it’s impossible to know what our great-great-grandchildren will find interesting or worthwhile to do. But telling them to never, ever aim a transmitter skyward is akin to telling them to never colonize Mars because, after all, there may be some indigenous microbes under the soil and it’s their planet.
Personally, I hope the Luytenians get in touch.
Dr. Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
Is het allereerste bewijs van een legendarische Bijbelse profeet gevonden? Deze archeologen denken van wel
Is het allereerste bewijs van een legendarische Bijbelse profeet gevonden? Deze archeologen denken van wel
Archeologen denken het eerste buitenbijbelse bewijs te hebben gevonden voor het bestaan van de Bijbelse profeet Jesaja. Het gaat om een stuk van een kleizegel die in 2009 in Jeruzalem is gevonden.
Het fragment is zo’n 2700 jaar oud en werd gebruikt voor sluitzegels voor documenten.
Volgens de Israëlische archeoloog Eilat Mazar is het waarschijnlijk, maar niet zeker dat tekens op het zegel verwijzen naar de profeet.
Engel van God
Jesaja staat centraal in het naar hem genoemde Bijbelboek. Hij zou koning Hezekiah van Judea hebben aangespoord om het Assyrische leger te blijven bestrijden tijdens het beleg van Jeruzalem.
Volgens de Bijbel moest het Assyrische leger zich terugtrekken nadat het leger grotendeels door een engel van God was vernietigd.
Assyrische geschriften vermelden op hun beurt dat het leger zich terugtrok nadat een flinke som losgeld was betaald.
Eerste
“Dit is wellicht de eerste archeologische en de vroegste buitenbijbelse verwijzing naar de profeet Jesaja ooit,” reageerde professor Robert Cargill van de Universiteit van Iowa.
“Het zegel is helaas deels beschadigd, waardoor het erg moeilijk zal worden om het met de profeet Jesaja te identificeren,” voegde hij toe.
Apollo 15 Video Shows Sound In Space, But Sound In A Vacuum Is Impossible!!! UFO Sighting News Video.
Apollo 15 Video Shows Sound In Space, But Sound In A Vacuum Is Impossible!!! UFO Sighting News Video.
Date of sighting: Feb 2018 Location of sighing: Earths Moon Mission: Apollo 15 When Streetcap1 finds something, you can bet your life that its got some juicy meat to it. He found an Apollo 15 mission video with audio that lets you hear the astronaut hammering! Thats impossible in the vacuum of space! Awesome find by Streetcap1. I've known him for over 5 years and can vouch for him. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Streetcap1 states:
This is from Apollo 15 NASA footage. If you did Physics at school or college you will know that sound cannot travel in a vacuum. Yet we can hear the Astronaut's Hammer Strokes in this clip. Space is a vacuum = No Air. Quote ' In Space no-one can hear you scream.' All Astronaut communication is through headset radio. Vibrations cannot travel through the vacuum even to the astronaut's radio, so the hammer strokes should be silent, yet we can hear them! Conclusion: Either there is Air on the Moon or NASA faked the Apollo 15 program. SC1.
Something quite out of the ordinary occurred in the skies over Oregon on October 25th, 2017. A mystery aircraft was flying in daylight hours among the steady stream of airliners that traverse from south to north, between locales in California and Nevada and cities like Portland and Seattle and beyond. The incident began, at least as best we can tell, around 4:30pm near the California-Oregon border and resulted in multiple pilot eyewitnesses, recorded air traffic control audio, and eventual confirmations from both the FAA and North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) that it did indeed occur.
The first inklings of the story came to me shortly after the incident occurred from friends of mine in the aviation world. Sparse on details at the time, it sounded like it was probably just another one of the often misconstrued incidents that happen in the skies around the US everyday—ones where aircraft with inoperable radios or transponders stray into areas they shouldn't. And sometimes these occurrences result in local fighter jets paying the wayward aircraft a visit at the direction of NORAD. But days after initially blowing off the incident, it later began to seem that there was indeed more to the story than just than another "NORDO" private aircraft or lackadaisical pilot.
I came upon one Reddit thread that was of particular interest that seemed to not only corroborate the strange account, it also added critical details. The post was supposedly penned by a pilot who says they were in the sky over the Northwest in the early evening when the incident occurred, with the post coming shortly after the incident. The entry by Reddit user "Duprass" reads:
"Just landed in Seattle coming from the bay area. Beginning over Southern Oregon we kept overhearing Seattle Center attempting to track an airplane with no transponder who wasn't talking. A handful of crews were able to track it visually, best they could tell it was between FL350-370 [35,000-37,000 feet], northbound. Nobody close enough to see the type.
Last we heard it was over the Willamette valley northbound and some fighters, perhaps out of PDX [Portland International Airport], were scrambled to go take a peek. Center had trouble tracking it on primary radar.
Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.
**Update 0500z. Called SEA ARTCC. The gentleman I spoke with said that they initially got alerted to the aircraft from Oakland Center who was painting it on primary [illuminating it with radar, but without transponder information]. For whatever reason they couldn't track it themselves on primary, and that's when I overheard them using airline aircraft to track it visually. The last airplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it. The fighters were scrambled out of PDX but flew around for a while and did not find it. And that's that."
Air traffic control audio recorded over at LiveATC.com of Seattle Center Sector 14 is available from the time of the incident and it corroborates much of this information. You can listen to the entire series of exchanges here starting at around the 20 minute mark and through to the first part of the next time interval recording that can be found here.
The audio is fantastic as it illustrates that there were many communications between various jet crews and Seattle Center whose controllers tried to track the aircraft as it made its way north towards the Willamette Valley. The aircraft was not able to be tracked on radar nor did it show up on crews' digital traffic collision avoidance systems (TCAS), but it was clearly there, although never quite close enough to positively identify what its exact type was.
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The activity seems to have begun in the far reaches of Northern California, around Mt. Shasta, and continued on into Southern Oregon, past Crater Lake and up through the Willamette Valley (Stock Photo).
The back and forth between air traffic control and various airline pilots lasted for roughly half an hour. Recordings from other Seattle Center Sectors, such as those closer to Portland (namely 42 and 46) are not readily not available and it's very possible—if not probable based on other reports—that the incident continued up the Willamette Valley. We did review PDX approach and tower exchanges from a half hour before to two hours after the event occurred and didn't find anything that stood out, although it was unlikely we would have as aircraft have descended when using those frequencies.
After reading this account and listening to the audio it was clear that the incident was worth looking into on a much deeper level, and that's what we did, inquiring with the 142nd Fighter Wing based at Portland International Airport, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the FAA about the odd ordeal.
NORAD's reply was quick and clear. An incident involving multiple airline crews, air traffic control, and F-15Cs from the 142nd Fighter Wing based out of Portland did occur. According to the limited information NORAD supplied, airliner pilots were asked by FAA air traffic controllers to help track and possibly identify a "white aircraft" traveling in the flightlevels nearby—roughly between 35,000 and 40,000 feet based on the radio recordings. NORAD also said that the incident did result in F-15s from Portland being scrambled to investigate, but by the time they got up and "looked around" the mystery aircraft couldn't be found.
SEATTLE ARTCC
Seattle Center sector map.
A quick note on the fighter jet aspect of this story—the 142nd Fighter Wing operates F-15Cs upgraded with the most capable air-to-air radar set in the world (AN/APG-63V3) and Sniper advanced targeting pods for long-rang visual identification. Their pilots are some of the best in the world and are highly trained in the homeland air defense mission. The fact that they "didn't find anything" is surprising to say the least. Maybe this was due to the nature of the aircraft being searched for, or the possibility that they launched long after it was first sighted, or that we simply aren't being told the whole story.
As for the F-15's launch time, it seems that this mystery aircraft was moving fairly fast—at least at the same speed of the airliners around it or greater. It's also worth noting that Oakland Center, which controls airspace to the south of Seattle Center's responsibilities, could have been trying to track the aircraft before the communications began on Seattle Center's frequencies if the object emanated from farther south. We have reviewed the PDX air traffic control audio up to two hours after the first radio traffic began regarding the mystery aircraft between Seattle Center and airliner pilots and we did not readily hear the tower clear the F-15s for launch. As such it's not clear when exactly the fighters took to the skies in search of this unidentified aircraft or why they were launched so late if that was the case.
It is also possible, albeit somewhat unlikely, that a fighter patrol could have been diverted if they were already airborne. Also, once in the air the F-15s are capable of traversing the entire state of Oregon in just a matter of minutes if need be, so if they were launched promptly it seems unlikely they wouldn't have been able to intercept the aircraft being pointed out by commercial pilots over Southern Oregon.
The FAA wasn't as forthcoming as NORAD, taking nearly a week and multiple emails to respond to our initial inquiry, only to say simply that they have nothing further to add to the description of events I provided to them. As such, they did acknowledge that the events occurred, but did not expand upon them. The 142nd Fighter Wing did not respond to our inquiries.
Clearly there had to be some level of after-action investigation into this event. Having an unidentified aircraft that doesn't show up on radar flying among civilian air traffic in the flight levels for extended periods of time isn't something you just brush off, especially considering the current global security situation and the circumstances that have existed since 9/11.
WASHINGTON MILITARY DEPARTMENT
Western Air Defense Sector (WADS), which goes by the callsign "Bigfoot," keeps a close watch on airspace over the Northwest and directs alert fighters and fighter patrols to targets of interest on short notice.
One of the Reddit posters with the handle "The Flying Beard" from the same thread, who supposedly is an air traffic controller, claims to have some inside knowledge of the event, stating:
"...Was just going to post about this actually. I was working an adjacent sector and was helping to coordinate some of the military stuff. They ended up launching F15s off of PDX to try and find it but no joy... [posts one of the audio clips linked above]... The crazy thing is, we didn't have a primary target or a mode C intruder, and it was out running 737s abeam it.
Also, (cue conspiracy theory) our QA department was working on this today, and got a call from the commander of the 142FW at PDX and was basically told to knock it off, and we know nothing.
A couple guys at work seem to think it may have have been this plane [unlikely, and that's an article I wrote] based of the description, and also the 'lack' of military interest. FWIW, I think the FAA is pursing this at higher levels. From a safety standpoint, if the military is running super secret test stuff in the NAS [National Airspace], that's bad. If I were one of the pilots that had a sighting, I'd definitely be filing a NASA form and any other official reports that you can...
...If the ‘aircraft’ continued on its presumed heading/course altitude, the F15s were sent the wrong way. The last known position was around the EUG area heading North around 750kts and the fighters went South when they launched ~25-30 min after the first report in the Shasta area...
...The time of day made it hard. All the guys on the east side couldn’t see it due to the setting sun and the North bound traffic on the west side was pretty sparse. I guess ZOA [Oakland Center] had a good primary/mode C on the guy for a bit in the RBL [Red Bluff Municipal Airport] area. It was initially heading SW and it made a pretty sharp turn to the North. Way harder/faster than what a commercial aircraft could handle at that speed/altitude without ripping the wings off."
We have no way of confirming this poster's information, although based on past Reddit posts their occupation description seems accurate, and their account certainly does add to the story if true.
We have filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FAA and NORAD, as well as other federal parties involved in the incident. Hopefully we will find out more eventually as to what really went on that day so we can provide a more complete picture for our readers.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
An F-15C belonging to the 142nd Fighter Wing blasts out of Portland International Airport on a typical rainy day in the Northwest. Portland Air National Guard Base (PANG), which is co-located across from PDX's passenger terminals, is seen in the background. The 142nd's Eagles cover the airspace from northern California to the northern tip of Washington State and sometimes beyond. Two primary fully armed jets are always on quick reaction alert (QRA) and can launch within a few minutes of the klaxon howling. An armed spare jet is also usually available as well as one armed with a full magazine of 940 20mm cannon shells.
In the meantime, I would suggest reading the Reddit threadrelated to the event after listening to the air traffic control audio yourself. In it, some say it could have been a smuggling aircraft or even a secret military airframe. It seems odd that a smuggler would fly in broad daylight in an area they know they will be spotted, not to mention the question of how they stayed off the FAA radar scopes.
When it comes to a secret military aircraft, flying such an asset among jetliner traffic in daylight, albeit it was around sunset time, certainly seems like an odd choice for a secretive program, but that doesn't make it impossible. There are vast and remote training ranges that could be taken advantage of in Alaska for clandestine aircraft programs, and it is a long flight to get there. Still, the idea that U.S. military would willingly fly an aircraft through a major air traffic route at common jet operating altitudes without radio, transponder, or even radar contact would be highly concerning if true.
Amongst all the questions that remain, one thing is certain, an unidentified white aircraft was indeed flying over Oregon on that day in October, and the USAF and the FAA are both willing to admit that the event occurred. In the Air Force's case, the fact that they are even willing to tell us that they couldn't catch or even find the unidentified aircraft with their sensor-packed and fast F-15s is interesting to say the least. On the other hand they may not be sharing the entire story with us.
Whatever the case, we'll keep you updated on this white flying mystery of sorts and the circumstances surrounding its presence over Oregon when, or should I say if, new information becomes available.
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FBI CONFIRM ALIENS EXIST – RELEASED DECLASSIFIED UFO DOCUMENTS & FILES – WHO IS THE REAL THREAT TO EARTH?
FBI CONFIRM ALIENS EXIST – RELEASED DECLASSIFIED UFO DOCUMENTS & FILES – WHO IS THE REAL THREAT TO EARTH?
EDIT (April 2013): The FBI have recently published a blog post confirming that they never investigated the claims made in the now-famous Hottel memo. The FBI also made it clear that the memo is not related to the Roswell incident of 1947 in any way, the document relates to a completely seperate incident which remains unexplained to this day.
Additionally, recent attention has been drawn to the FBI document which confirms that a UFO exploded above Utah (see video below). Dr. Bruce Maccabee has studied the FBI files extensively and concludes that there is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, … and just in time for Sirius and CHOD (Citizen’s Hearing On Disclosure).
There’s been a whole lot of buzz going on in the UFO and alien community over the past few years with UFO sightings and public interest increasing tenfold over the past ten years. First the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) decided to carry out a phased release of their official UFO documents leading up to 2012, NSA then made their files public and accessible online and now the FBI have started releasing their documents too.
FBI Documents – UFO’s & Aliens
Although there’s some interesting information there, controversy has arisen particularly in relation to a document written by FBI special agent Guy Hottel in 1950 who claimed to have received information from a US Air Force investigator about a UFO found in New Mexico. The document claims that three bodies about three feet tall, dressed in a very fine metallic cloth and bandaged up in a way similar to the method that test pilots use were recovered from the crash.
Whilst many people are claiming that this document proves the existence of extraterrestrial life and it IS an official FBI document it has been suggested (decades ago) by Bruce Maccabee that the document could also relate to a hoax originally perpetrated by Silas Newton. Officially there is no explanation for the document and the FBI have placed it under the perhaps appropriate subcategory Unexplained Phenomenon (See edit at beginning of article).
However, the document was actually presented as evidence to Dr Steven Greer for the purpose of the Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that has collected over 120 hours of witness testimony from government and military officials, astronauts, pilots, etc who have all confirmed their will to testify under oath before congress that what they are saying about the UFO phenomena is the truth.
* See the official explanation by Sergeant First Class Clifford Stone, for the Guy Hottel memo, in the column to the right.
One document contained within the FBI files provides a detailed illustration of a flying disc which is, rather coincidentally, identical to the several discs that can be seen on the Youtube video of NASA’s infamous tether overload incident. The disc even had the triangular notch in it – after NASA told us that the anomalies on the video footage were most likely ice or dust particles. When this excuse didn’t fly too well they claimed they were camera anomalies – NASA gave two different conflicting explanations.
Alien UFO SightingsALIENS DID IT!!
FBI Documents – Cattle Mutilation
The FBI also released documents in relation to cattle mutilations which have been strongly attributed to alleged UFO and alien activity whereby organs and blood had been removed with surgical precision. Several theories have been put forward to explain the cattle mutilation phenomenon such as other animals feeding on the carcass while it’s fresh, biological warfare experiments and even satanic occultism which was rife throughout the prison system. However, there remains absolutely no evidence to this day, even though cattle mutilations still take place. What we do know is that many of the animals seem to have been dropped from a great height and black helicopters are often seen. Some kind of belt, harness or strap was also found at one of the cattle mutilation sites which may have been used to either lift up or release the cow(s). It’s not only animals that are being mutilated though, there are actually also many human mutilations taking place too.
NSA Documents – Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
Contained within the NSA’s archive is a document which appears to relate to 29 encoded messages received by extraterrestrial intelligence. Whilst this document stormed the internet amongst believers who claimed it also proved the existence of intelligent alien life, several skeptics came to the conclusion that the document is, in fact, just a staff training exercise. However, government whistleblowers have come forward to say that signals, such as the ‘wow signal’ have been received and documented numerous times by Harvard University but have been ignored because there were no furthers anomalies when those regions were scanned again. Harvard University confirmed with researchers that the claims were genuine.
MoD Documents – Unexplained
Whilst the Ministry of Defense’s documents hold witness testimony but seemingly very little else information on the subject, former MoD employee Nick Pope believes that between 5-10% of sightings cannot be explained in conventional terms and that more investigations are required in the interest of national security.
Pope also claims to have had a close-up photograph of a UFO on the wall of his office when he worked for MoD. In a UFO documentary entitled The Day Before Disclosure Nick Pope attempted to debunk several incidents before going on to state that an extraterrestrial presence is undoubtedly and unequivocally engaging the human race.
* Nick Pope investigated UFO reports during his time working for MoD.
In addition, the MoD confirmed that they found evidence of the existence of MJ-12 under a secret stamp but could attain no further information on the subject. The MJ-12 documents were also confirmed by Stanton Friedman’s interview with Charlette Mann, who confirmed that her grandfather was involved in a UFO crash retrieval involving alien bodies as early as 1941. Mann claimed her grandfather had told her that he had seen unusual small bodies that either had as skin, or were covered in, some kind of material that looked like aluminium tin-foil. Is it just a coincidence that the Guy Hottel memo also describes the same details?
Despite this new information the Majestic-12 documents remain labelled a ‘hoax’ by the FBI yet the Guy Hottel memo has not been labelled a hoax. It has been confirmed by other government whistleblowers, such as Command Sergeant Major Robert O’ Dean, that Majestic-12 is now called PI40 and that there are now 36, or possibly more, members.
Note: information regarding this evidence seems to be rapidly disappearing from the internet.
The Disclosure Movement
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, stated that certain freedoms could be accessed if a protective layer of secrecy could be stripped away. He also stated that him and Buzz Aldrin were being watched by someone much more technologically advanced than us all the time that they were on the moon and that there was no question of a space station before later denying ever saying it.
In addition, Edgar Mitchell (the 6th man on the moon) says he knows we have been visited and that extraterrestrial life exists. There are over four-hundred government and military officials that took part in Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project plus several more who are not taking part but are taking part in the disclosure movement.
Edgar Mitchell has confirmed that he met with high-up government officials at the Pentagon who confirmed that the extraterrestrial presence is real, an alien spacecraft really did crash at Roswell in 1947 and the government has been covering up the evidence for decades. When questioned as to who was keeping the information secret the government officials stated that they did not know but it was obviously a transnational covert group who operate amongst the highest echelons of government.
Command Sergeant Major Robert O’ Dean confirmed that this meeting had taken place in a basement room of the Pentagon nicknamed ‘the tank’. According to Colonel Philip J Corso’s books, The Day After Roswell and Dawn Of A New Age, and according to Corso’s testimony, it was in the basement of the Pentagon that Corso gained access to the Roswell file.
Robert O’ Dean had Cosmic Top Secret Clearance (38 levels above top secret) and claims that, whilst working for NATO, he saw a classified document entitled The Assessment which explained the UFO/EBE presence in great detail and theorized that the extraterrestrials have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and that man’s evolution may have even been a result of intervention by the extraterrestrials who are apparently knowledgeable on the subjects of genetic engineering and cloning.
Remote Viewing
In addition to the above, the FBI have many more documents relating to the alleged UFO/EBE presence including one document containing insightful information that a remote viewer had channeled during the time of the remote viewing experiments. The information seems to corroborate that from other official government whistleblower testimony, including that of Lt. Colonel Philip J Corso.
Corso (and many others) claim that the extraterrestrials have developed technology that interfaces with coherent thought and that they wore head-bands which allowed them to become an integrated part of their spacecraft – in other words, they navigated their spacecraft simply by thought.
“A very serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the ‘flying saucers’. If one of those should be attacked, the plane will almost certainly be destroyed. In the public mind this might create near panic and international suspicion.”
The memo also states:
1. Parts of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane.
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.”
Eventually the document states:
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world.
5. They do not come from any ‘planets’ as we use the word but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
7. The disks possess a type of radiant energy, or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace.
8. The region from which they come is NOT the ‘astral plane’ but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that.”
Could the fact that the aliens allegedly communicate by telepathy and use thought to control their craft be the real reason for the remote viewing experiments in order to find out where the visitors were from?
Despite the fact that the public were told there was no conclusive evidence to suggest that remote viewing was useful, Nick Pope claimed that he had seen surprisingly successful remote viewing experiments being carried out first-hand himself.
Weaponization Of Space
Whilst the Disclosure project offers very little actual smoking-gun evidence (even over 10 years later), we need to remember that there are plans for the weaponization of space which Dr. Greer and all other participants of the Disclosure project seem to oppose. There is over 120 hours of highly compelling testimony from massively prestigious, highly reputable and credible government witnesses, people who we have trusted (and who have earned our trust) to have their fingers on the nuclear trigger; people such as Dan Salter, NRO (National Reconnaissance Office)who claims to have direct knowledge of a worldwide organization called ACIO (Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization) that was set up specifically to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.
As noted as part of Disclosure project testimony, when Mikhail Gorbachev was asked on CNN whether they should stop using weapons in space Mikhail’s wife stepped in and said “No, I don’t think we should ban nuclear weapons in space because of alien spacecraft!”.
Her statement is ambiguous and can be taken either way.
Did she mean that alien spacecraft are being used to propose an opposition to the weaponization of space? Or did she mean that we need to keep nuclear weapons as defense against alien spacecraft?
Many officials testified to the fact that UFO’s had been shutting down equipment at secret nuclear installations and that they are concerned that we may take nuclear weapons into space, in which case, the aliens may need to retaliate.
It was also claimed that the aliens are concerned that we may be on the brink of destroying ourselves – Earth is a precious resource for the extraterrestrials who are interested in Earth’s magnetic field which they can use to maneuver and stay aloft according to Wang Sichao of China’s Purple Mountain Observatory who confirmed that the observatory had observed ET craft on numerous occasions.
So, are the aliens a threat to us or are we a threat to the aliens?
Finding the Arks of Noah and the Covenant are still on many bucket lists but you may soon be able to cross off “evidence of the existence of Isaiah.”
“We appear to have discovered a seal impression, which may have belonged to the prophet Isaiah, in a scientific, archaeological excavation.”
In a statement in the Biblical Archaeology Review (with photos), archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar announced that she and her team of researchers found a portion of a 2,700-year-old stamped clay seal at what was once the location of a royal bakery near the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem. No, there’s no mention of the bakery in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament, but there’s plenty about Isaiah – an entire book bearing his name and believed by scholars to have been written by one person, most likely named Isaiah, who is regarded by both Jews and Christians as one of the leading religious prophets.
The Temple Mount
However, like today, there were probably a lot of Isaiahs around. The biblical Isaiah was noted for counseling and aiding King Hezekiah in his quest to protect the Kingdom of Judah from an Assyrian invasion during the 8th century BCE. That link plays an important part in determining if this seal belonged to the prophet Isaiah, according to Dr. Mazar.
“We found the eighth-century B.C.E. seal mark that may have been made by the prophet Isaiah himself only 10 feet away from where we earlier discovered the highly-publicized bulla of King Hezekiah of Judah.”
That bulla or clay seal was also discovered by Mazar in 2015. It’s close proximity to the seal of Hezekiah might have sealed the identity of the new seal … if it were whole and undamaged. Unfortunately, there’s some missing pieces to the seal and the story. While it definitely has an inscription that reads l’Yesha’yah[u] (Belonging to Isaiah), the next line has some characters missing.
“Because the bulla has been slightly damaged at the end of the word nvy, it is not known if it originally ended with the Hebrew letter aleph, which would have resulted in the Hebrew word for ‘prophet’ and would have definitively identified the seal as the signature of the prophet Isaiah.”
Dr. Eilat Mazar
While Dr. Mazar feels pretty strongly that close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and biblical seals, others aren’t so sure. The Times of Israel reports Israeli epigrapher (one who studies inscriptions) Dr. Haggai Misgav thinks that the seal would have been tied to a “sack of goods” that was not important enough to carry a notation that the owner was a prophet.
“But as always there is no shortage of those who jump on the finds with cries of, ‘Hurray, we have proven the Bible.’”
Perhaps he would believe the seal’s authenticity if it was on a sack of bagels and challah from the royal bakery.
UFOs Shoot Past NASA Satellite Observing Our Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Shoot Past NASA Satellite Observing Our Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 18, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths sun Found by Streetcap1 of Youtube, these UFOs shot past the SOHO NASA satellite that observes the sun. The UFOs are in a half disk shape and are traveling in the direction of the front of the disk. There are two of them, but because they travel so fast, it appears to be more. Cool catch.
Een Polar Vortex is een lagedrukgebied in de hoogte dat zich rond de Noordpool bevindt. Het is er ALTIJD. Soms is dit syteem sterk en soms is het zwakker. En dat heeft zo zijn gevolgen voor het weer op verschillende plaatsen op Aarde.
De voorbije dagen werd de Polar Vortex te pas en te onpas gebruikt om het koude weer van deze week te verklaren. Af en toe werden zaken verklaard die mijn tenen deden krullen. Vandaar deze tekst met objectieve informatie over de Polar Vortex en zijn rol.
De Polar Vortex was de voorbije dagen nagenoeg overal in de media aanwezig. Experts en weeramateurs sleurden dit fenomeen er te pas en te onpas bij om de winterprik waarin we beland zijn, te verklaren.
Maar wat is die Polar Vortex nu precies en wat is het verband met het koude weer? Hier komt de waarheid en het enige wat men moet weten over de Polar Vortex.
Wat is een Polar Vortex?
Een Polar Vortex is een lagedrukgebied in de hoogte dat zich rond de polen bevindt. Er zijn er dus twee, eentje aan de Noordpool en een tweede aan de Zuidpool en ze zijn er ALTIJD. De noordelijke Polar Vortex roteert in tegenwijzerzin rond de Noordpool. Hij bevindt zich in het midden en het bovenste deel van de troposfeer en strekt zich uit tot in de stratosfeer. Daaronder bevindt zich een immens pakket koude lucht.
De grens tussen deze koude lucht en vochtigere subtropische lucht wordt gevormd door het polair front. Daarboven bevindt zich de straalstroom, die rondom de planeet stroomt op een hoogte van 9 tot 12 km. Als de straalstroom in de richting van de evenaar meandert, noemen we dat een trog. Als hij poolwaarts meandert, vormt hij een rug. Op grondniveau vormen zich hogedrukgebieden onder een rug en lagedrukgebieden met storingen onder/in de buurt van een trog.
De Polar Vortex varieert in kracht. In een sterke fase is doorgaans één centrum te herkennen, waarrrond de arctische lucht roteert in een relatief nauw gebied. Meestal is de Polar Vortex echter zwakker dan dat. Er zijn dan verscheidene wervels te vinden, meestal aan de randen van de Polar Vortex. Soms is de Polar Vortex heel zwak. De organisatie van het systeem is dan ver te zoeken en de verschillende wervels kunnen zich dan makkelijker verspreiden, weg van de Noordpool.
De sterkte van de Polar Vortex heeft een belangrijke invloed op de straalstroom. Rond een sterke Polar Vortex stroomt de polaire straalstroom redelijk rechtdoor, met eerder flauwe bochten. Als de Polar Vortex echter zwak is, dan vertoont de straalstroom meer meanders en bovendien wordt de amplitude tussen een rug en een trog dan vaak uitzonderlijk groot. De rug strekt zich dan extra ver naar het noorden uit en in de troggen kunnen zelfs afgesneden kernen ontstaan.
Van een sterke Polar Vortex met een redelijk strakke straalstroom naar een zwakke Vortex met een zeer meanderende straalstroom
De circulatie kan soms zelfs de vorm gaan aannemen van een Griekse hoofdletter omega. Zo’n situatie kan dagen- tot zelfs wekenlang aanhouden. Afhankelijk waar men zich bevindt in de omega, krijgt men dan een lange periode mooi of slecht, warm of koud weer. De extreme koude die men eerder deze winter in grote delen van de Verenigde Staten heeft gekend, is exact op dezelfde manier ontstaan. De Amerikanen zaten toen lange tijd in zo’n diepe trog, of als men wil, in een zuidwaartse bult van de Polar Vortex. West-Europa bevindt zich deze week net ten oosten van zo’n rug. Aan de grond bevindt zich een hogedrukgebied tussen Groot-Brittannië en het noordwesten van Rusland. Langs de zuidelijke flank ervan wordt droge, maar zeer koude lucht, afkomstig vanuit het Russische binnenland, in onze richting getransporteerd.
De circulatie in de top van de troposfeer volgens de Deutscher Wetterdienst, met daarin de omega-configuratie
Wat is de Polar Vortex niet?
De Polar Vortex is niet iets nieuws. De term bestaat al sinds de 19de eeuw, maar is recent in de Verenigde Staten en nu dus ook bij ons in de aandacht gekomen. Het fenomeen Polar Vortex bestaat natuurlijk al veel langer.
Het is geen zichtbaar weerfenomeen zoals een onweer, sneeuwval of een storm. Het is een systeem in de bovenlucht, dat eventueel wel kan verantwoordelijk zijn voor die zichtbare weertoestanden.
Waardoor wordt de Polar Vortex beïnvloed?
Allerlei factoren bepalen de sterkte van de Polar Vortex. Zo vertoont dit fenomeen een jaarlijkse variatie, waarbij hij typisch op zijn zwakst is in de zomer en sterk in de winter. Daarnaast kan de Polar Vortex ook versterken of verzwakken door allerlei verstoringen in de atmosfeer, dichtbij of veraf. De populairste verstoring is de Sudden Stratospheric Warming, waarbij de circulatie van de Vortex kan vertragen of tijdelijk zelfs kan omkeren door een plotse opwarming van de stratosfeer. Maar ook zelfs El Niño/La Niña zou de Polar Vortex naar verluidt beïnvloeden.
The subject of UFOs has undergone a bit of a renaissance in recent weeks, following a landmark New York Times report that detailed the Pentagon’s ongoing interest in the phenomenon. However, these recent revelations are not the only government information that has been released on the subject in the last few years, nor are they by any means the most perplexing.
And to wit, neither is the United States the only country to have revealed documents that detail its interest in UFOs. Among the most unusual UFO disclosures that have occurred since the new millennium were the release of a series of Russian Navy files in 2009, detailing a number of bizarre underwater encounters with the strange objects.
“At last!” exclaimed Phil Ewing, writing at Navy Times‘ Scoop Deck blog. “Some post-Soviet documents the world can really sink its teeth into! Enough of this people-who-the-KGB-tried-to-assassinate nonsense: The Russian Navy has declassified its records of encounters with UFOs.” According to one naval intelligence officer quoted after the release, “[The objects] are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea,” prompting former Russian navy officer Vladimir Azhazha to claim the documents “are of great value.”
So looking back, just what did the documents have to say on the subject, and how does it contrast with more recent dialogue on the subject of UFOs, following the release of information about a (possibly ongoing) Pentagon UFO program?
“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” one sub commander was quoted by Wired. “Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development.”
Russian language users on the popular Above Top Secret forum also managed to post translations of some of the relevant portions of the document, which included reports of strange lights that appeared to emanate from deep below the lake, which some observers had likened to light produced by electric welding:
(There is) very impressive data on the observation of a UFO in Baikal lake. (Within) the depths of the lake sailors repeatedly observed luminescence resembling searchlights and flashes similar to electric welding, as well as in the lake radius in the form of unexplained bright luminous silver discs and cylinders.
However, the most tantalizing incident that the report detailed, and one that was widely reported coinciding with the release of the Russian documents, involved an alleged incident that occurred in 1982, during which several divers were killed during a training exercise under mysterious circumstances:
In summer 1982 military divers, during their training, dived in the water of Lake Baikal several times and almost came face-to-face with underwater swimmers in their body-fitting silver jumpsuits. They looked similar to normal people, only about three meters tall. In addition, at a depth of 50 meters, (the beings) had neither an aqualung, or any other devices, but their heads were concealed in spherical helmets. Attempting to catch (the) unidentified divers ended tragically. From seven people trying to do this using a net, four became disabled and three died.
Laik Baikal as seen from satellite imagery, featuring an unusual circular area of think ice believed to have been caused by convection.
These incidents, and in particular the 1982 account involving divers that were injured or killed, are very unusual, to say the least. In truth, they have perplexed many of us for years; are they an early instance of Russian “fake news” and propaganda, which media in different countries–America in particular–bought hook, line, and sinker? Or, to the contrary, had the odd nature of the Russian releases been due to the fact that the tone of the information differed from the way U.S. government agencies might have dealt with similar disclosures (which have traditionally maintained secrecy toward the UFO subject)?
On an interesting side note, Lake Baikal has long been associated with strange phenomena and, yes, even UFOs. In 1946, Russian science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev wrote a fiction short story titled “A Visitor From Outer Space” which offered an imaginative explanation for the 1908 Tunguska Blast: it was caused by the explosion of a Martian spacecraft’s nuclear engine, as it attempted to gather water from the lake.
The U.S. Navy has also disclosed information pertaining to incidents that seem to have involved UFOs. One widely reported case involved the USS Princeton, which according to a 2004 report had been tracking mysterious objects for several weeks. Popular Mechanics reported of the incident that “two F/A-18F (twin seater) Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz were flying 100 miles off the coast of San Diego when a nearby U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, the USS Princeton, contacted them and asked what weapons they were carrying.”
Still image from footage of one of the responding Super Hornets during the famous 2004 USS Princeton incident.
At the time, the Super Hornets were carrying unfirable AIM-9 Sidewinder “dummies,” to which the USS Princeton responded by saying, “Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” which led to an interception attempt with a pair of objects, one of which had been located directly below an area of churning water, the other hovering approximately 50 feet above the surface. Neither of the unusual objects, detailed in the Popular Mechanics article, were able to be intercepted or identified. The fighters from the Nimitz were able to document parts of this interception on film, parts of which were publicly disclosed last year coinciding with the December 2017 New York Times article.
For many who ignored UFO reports such as these, and dismissed them as being far-fetched, the December 2017 New York Times article on Luis Elizondo and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. program (along with accompanying video purporting to show the objects) was indeed revelatory. However, as such naval records obtained from both U.S. and Russian sources listed above have shown, the Times article was only the most recent installment in a long, confusing narrative involving unusual phenomenon in our skies–and our seas–for which no conclusive explanation has yet been offered.
Pentagon bestudeerde mysterieus stuk metaal afkomstig van vliegende schotel. Ontdek hier wat we ermee kunnen
Pentagon bestudeerde mysterieus stuk metaal afkomstig van vliegende schotel. Ontdek hier wat we ermee kunnen
De New York Times schreef recentelijk dat het Pentagon in het geheim onderzoek deed naar UFO’s. Overheidswetenschappers zouden onder andere een stuk metaal van een vliegende schotel hebben bestudeerd.
Dit mysterieuze stuk metaal had ongewone eigenschappen en lag opgeslagen in het zuiden van Nevada, aldus de krant.
UFO-onderzoeker Tom DeLonge, die nauw samenwerkt met de man die het geheime Pentagon-onderzoek jarenlang leidde, speculeerde afgelopen jaar dat de metaallegering antizwaartekracht mogelijk maakte.
Speciale materialen
En Nick Pope, die jarenlang voor het Britse ministerie van Defensie werkte, zei dat dergelijk materiaal echt bestaat.
“Theoretisch gezien kunnen we de ruimtetijd [hiermee] vervormen op een manier dat we sneller van A naar B kunnen gaan,” zei Luis Elizondo, die aan het hoofd stond van het UFO-programma van het Pentagon.
Volgens hem zijn daar speciale materialen voor nodig, waaronder titanium.
Onbekend element
Elizondo denkt dat onbekende vliegende objecten die op aarde worden waargenomen de ruimtetijd kunnen vervormen met behulp van een technologie die wij nog niet hebben.
Is die technologie afhankelijk van het mysterieuze metaal? “Daar kan ik helaas niets over zeggen,” zei Elizondo. “Dat moet je aan de Amerikaanse overheid vragen.”
Sommigen hebben gezegd dat het materiaal een onbekend element bevat. Dat is volgens de wetenschappers die meewerkten aan het project niet waar, maar meerdere bronnen hebben inmiddels wel bevestigd dat een vreemd stuk materiaal in Nevada is geanalyseerd.
Erg complex
Eén van hen is natuurkundige Hal Puthoff. Hij bevestigde dat hij het ‘vreemde materiaal’ heeft bekeken en dat het ‘erg complex’ was.
Dr. Puthoff zei dat het bestond uit meerdere lagen en vreemde eigenschappen had. Meer wilde hij er niet over zeggen.
Niemand wilde op camera zeggen hoe het materiaal was verkregen of waar het naartoe is gebracht toen het programma in 2012 werd stopgezet.
Professional Mountaineer Captures UFO Flying Way Above Mount Everest
Professional Mountaineer Captures UFO Flying Way Above Mount Everest
Professional mountaineer and photographer David Breashears has spotted in a photo of Mount Everest an unidentified flying object. In one photo out of 447 that Breashears were taken for a climate change project, a strange saucer can be seen hovering high above the world’s tallest mountain in one of the most remote areas on Earth.
The object in the video looks like a flying disc, and its silhouette can be clearly seen. Judging its location from the Mount Everest, it is safe to assume that the object in question is flying way above the height where drones or helicopters would fly. No additional information about the object, but it is interesting to see it’s apparently there, hovering over one of the highest mountains in the world.
The video has also made references to conspiracy theories that claim the existence of a secret underground base beneath Mount Everest and the Yeti.
Many believe that the object is not a human-made creation nor any kind of flying animal, judging on its altitude. No simple explanation for the strange dot in the picture.
Sceptics say that it is just dirt. The photograph is a high-resolution image, which makes sceptics think that the object is only a little dust or debris on the camera lens.
5 fireballs over Laguna Beach, California 20-Feb-2018
5 fireballs over Laguna Beach, California 20-Feb-2018
Check out this image of a bright orbs hovering in the sky above Laguna Beach in California. This was filmed on 20th February 2018.
Witness report:
5 fireballs appeared in sky, then one by one they slowly disappeared. I’m working at a house on top of a hill with a great view of the valley below. I looked out the window and saw this event happening, but didn’t get to my phone in time to film it. Two minutes later it happened again and I ran outside to film it. The fireballs appeared one by one, and then almost as soon as they would appear, they began to disappear.
Secchi Stereo satellite captured two strange objects flying towards the Sun.
If you look closely at the bottom of the video, you can see how two objects appear from nowhere flying straight towards the sun.
You might think these objects are comets but according to Myunhauzen74, two comets cannot follow the same trajectory at the same moment but these two objects do follow the same trajectory at the same moment and right behind each other.
After analyzing the strange event near the sun he concluded that both objects are some sort of projectiles fired by a disguised alien craft with the aim of hitting the sun.
Below the footage and decide for yourself whether the objects are comets or projectiles fired by an alien craft.
10 Most Bizarre Flying Machines in Aviation History
10 Most Bizarre Flying Machines in Aviation History
The invention of elaborately constructed flying machines to journey via the Earth’s environment ranks amongst mankind’s biggest improvements. The sphere of aviation is outlined by difficult the boundaries and arising with daring new concepts, however these plane merely defy all ideas of normalcy.
10. Convair V2 Sea Dart
9. Goodyear Inflatoplane
8. NASA A1 Pivot-Wing
7. Vought V-173
6.XF-85 Goblin
5. SR 71 Blackbird
4. Convair Pogo
3. McDonnell Douglas X-15
2.Blohm und Voss BV 141
1. Ekranoplan (literally from Russian means' Sea skimmer'
Overal ter wereld, van China tot Nederland, worden de laatste weken vreemde dingen waargenomen in de lucht.
Van een lichtbron aan de hemel voordat de zon opkomt, tot grote bizarre vreemde wolken die niets anders zijn dan grote ruimteschepen in vermomming.
Iedere week opnieuw worden er vreemde dingen waargenomen boven onze hoofden. Een aantal daarvan zal te maken hebben met de eindtijd, weer anderen met buitenaardse bezoekers en voor weer andere fenomenen zal een natuurlijke verklaring te vinden zijn.
Vandaag een aantal van die bijzondere dingen te beginnen in China, waar een vrouw, Zhi Ruo Lu, de volgende opname maakte.
Ze liep buiten op straat toen ze het fenomeen opmerkte. Eerst dacht ze dat ze hier te maken had met een bijzondere wolk, maar toen ineens begon het te gloeien en zich te verwijderen van de andere wolken.
Van China naar Tenerife waar de volgende opnames werden gemaakt. We ontvingen deze via een lezer (dank!) die het volgende zegt:
Hierbij een paar mooie foto's van een vreemde "wolk" die in Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz) werd gefotografeerd eind 2017 (september-oktober). Ik heb de foto van een vriendin die er woont ontvangen en vond het een zeer vreemd fenomeen.
Dan komen we in Nederland en daar worden vreemde luchten gefotografeerd (dank!):
Hoi, naar aanleiding van het bericht over het paarse licht heb ik misschien wel een heel bijzondere foto voor jullie die mijn dochter enkele weken geleden naar mij stuurde.
De foto is gemaakt in etten-Leur vlak bij Breda. Vandaag las ik over het paarse licht en moest gelijk aan deze foto denken dus dacht ik stuur hem even naar jullie op want het is idd vreemd en dat is voor mij vrij normaal want ik weet gewoon dat ons iets te wachten staat.
Ik hoop dat jullie wat aan de foto hebben maar daar ben ik wel van overtuigd en ben al meer dan 10 jaar dit soort berichten aan het volgen dus denk dat dit soort berichten wel belangrijk zijn.
De foto is genomen met een nieuwe Iphone en is zeker nooit bewerkt
En dan een ander vreemd verschijnsel in Nederland:
Een lezer filmt de lucht in Bodegraven (dank!) voordat de zon opkomt en er is duidelijk een soort tweede lichtbron te zien die er niet hoort te zijn.
Alsof er voordat de "normale" zon opkomt er zich al een tweede zon boven de horizon bevindt.
De lezer die de opname maakte, schrijft het volgende:
Ik denk dat mijn filmpje wel interessant is, hoop dat jullie eens tijd hebben ernaar te kijken, lijkt of er een planeet of iets dergelijks voorbij komt? Benieuwd naar jullie visie. Tijdstip filmje 7:47 VOOR de zon op kwam dus
En omdat veel van de tekenen die nu voorkomen volgens menigeen te maken hebben met de eindtijd en een mogelijke opname in verband met de vele ruimteschepen bij de zon, hier een mening van een christen (dank!), die de volgende theorie heeft:
Graag wil ik in gaan op het gezegde ( EINDTIJD)
Dat is een begrip dat veelzijdig is ;
Maar beginnend bij de (opname). Als die genoemd word, en gebeurd dan begint dan pas de eindtijd .( openbaring 12 de zoon weggerukt tot Gods Troon)
Na de opname verschijnt Jezus Christus na 7 jaar op de Olijfberg als een overblijfsel in Jeruzalem dat nog niet verwoest is, Hem zullen aanroepen en de berg zal splijten voor een doorgang.
En Hij zal die ,die door de doorgang kunnen ontsnappen leiden naar een plaats in de woestijn ( de vrouw die een plaats in de woestijn heeft openb. 12)
Daarna als de gelovigen in de Hemel aankomen zal er een gevecht zijn volgens openb 12 vanaf vers 7 ; zij gaan er namelijk uit !( hier kom ik later op terug)
Dan gaat Jezus Christus aan het werk met het Israël dat in de woestijn is ,en zij gaan het land opruimen. Daar vestigt Hij namelijk Zijn Koningschap , en van daar uit over de wereld in een tijds bestek van om en na bij 33 jaar, daarna komen de 1000 jaren nog ( de leeuw bij het schaap/de slang speelt met het kind / de ouden worden niet ouder , staat allemaal in de Bijbel.
Dus eind der dagen nog lang niet, maar je bekeren tot God kan al vanaf nu!(hoe dat moet staat ook in die zelfde bijbel )…..
Dan de objecten die jij aangeeft met zeer kolossale ruimte schepen ,die voor de zon langs gaan, de zon is in jou gedachte iets heel groots ;wat volgens het b
Bijbels principe niet zo is . de zon zit volgens dat geburen in de aarde met de maan en de andere sterren (de aarde omgekeerd ). Aardschaal naar buiten en alles er midden in .
(stichting vlichthus heeft hier wel een verdere beschrijving voor)
Als de waarheid dit uitbeeld dan is alles in een keer heel klein, en is de aarde de grootste diameter .
Terug komen op hen die uit de hemel gaan ,zijn zij die vermeld staan als de duivel en zijn engelen , die moeten dus een ander plek in nemen en dat is hier alleen nog op aarde ,waar zij ook geoordeeld zullen worden.
Geloof is niet moeilijk ,maar gewoon doen .
Onderzoek de schriften want zij zullen van Mij getuigen (Jezus de Christus)
WETENSCHAPAstronauten moeten zich tijdens hun missie niet langer uit hun ruimtepak wrikken als ze hun behoefte willen doen. Met de nieuwe Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS) zullen ze voortaan makkelijker hun behoefte kwijt kunnen. NASA werkt immers aan het ontwerp van een ruimtepak met een ingebouwd toilet.
Tot nu toe bedraagt de gemiddelde tijd die een astronaut zich in zijn ruimtepak bevindt ongeveer tien uur. Vooral luiers worden als noodoplossing gebruikt. Ideaal is het echter niet. “Het werkt niet altijd naar behoren. Soms is er een lek, maar het zorgt er wel voor dat je je ruimtepak niet hoeft uit te trekken om naar het ruimtetoilet te gaan. Dat is altijd een lastig karwei”, vertelt Kirstyn Johson, een ingenieur van het NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Bovendien kunnen astronauten tijdens een wandeling buiten het ruimtetuig niet naar het ruimtetoilet. Ze dragen dan een luier onder hun pak, maar kunnen die niet te lang aanhouden vanwege de hygiëne. Ontlasting gaat momenteel nog in zakjes en urine in speciale tanks die teruggaan naar aarde en daar worden verbrand. De garderobe van de astronauten was dan ook dringend aan een update toe vonden ze bij NASA.
Het resultaat is een nieuw ruimtepak dat door de astronauten zes dagen lang gedragen kan worden. Ze kunnen in dit pak zowel eten als hun behoefte doen op een ingebouwd toilet zonder dat ze hiervan hinder zullen ondervinden. Het ingebouwde toilet is overigens niet het enige voordeel van het nieuwe pak. Zo worden astronauten voortdurend voorzien van schone lucht, water en voldoende zuurstof. Genoeg om het zes dagen uit te houden.
Last November, an unusual incident over Oregon made headlines after a mystery aircraft–resembling a jet by some descriptions–was tracked by various aviation authorities. The incident produced no results in terms of who had been piloting the aircraft, and for what reason, although attempts to communicate with and track the aircraft ultimately proved unsuccessful, as it had reportedly been “invisible” on radar at the time.
However, new details about the case have now emerged, following a new Freedom of Information Act request which provides further details on the unusual incident.
Tyler Rogoway, a writer for The Drive‘s “The Warzone,” first heard about the story from associates of his in aviation, as well as via a Reddit thread that appeared seemingly in relation to the incident. This information was later confirmed through dialogue with the FAA, NORAD, and USAF officials.
Along with a summary Rogoway penned for The Warzone, a series of Freedom of Information Act appeals were made in relation to the incident. Now, several months after the incident took place, FOIA data released to The Drive helps to further corroborate the incident, and according to Rogoway, represents what “could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF.”
Included with the release were a number of audio recordings of telephone conversations between officials, discussing the incident and the actions that were taken by official agencies in response to it.
According to the newly released data, the object was described as being a large aircraft by the pilots who saw it, who most commonly referred to it as a jet. Its coloration appeared to be white, or at least light-colored, and the aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 37,000 feet. It was also reported that the object was “moving at a clip” (fast, in other words) and that it was neither responding to attempts at radio communication nor was it being detected on radar or by traffic collision avoidance systems on the nearby aircraft.
What can we determine from this, and do any observations come to mind immediately? One thing that seems clear is that the object was probably not an experimental drone, as some suggested previously since it is unlikely that any unmanned remote-controlled aircraft would have to be as large as the aircraft seen over Oregon. Also, while it may be tempting to treat the object as an “unknown,” most descriptions did indicate that the object most closely resembled a jet (although distance had been a prime factor in making further details about its appearance less easily determinable).
Altogether, Rogoway has done a fine job reporting on the incident and gathering additional information about it. Also, he acknowledged what the circumstances here seem to entail, in light of the New York Times report on the Pentagon’s “secret” UFO program, noting that, “after recent reports unmasking how the Pentagon remains highly interested in encounters just like this one, it holds even more weight than it did three months ago.”
As to the origins of the aircraft that was observed over the northwest last fall, there is still a lot that remains unclear. Despite reports that likened the object’s appearance to that of a large jet, we can’t be certain as to what kind of plane the incident involved. Equally perplexing is the question of what it was doing flying at this altitude, and in broad daylight, while remaining unresponsive to queries from the FAA and other agencies (and let us not forget that concern over the aircraft’s presence prompted the scrambling of a group of F-15s, with the mission of intercepting the object).
As with the more esoteric incidents involving unexplained aerial phenomenon, this one leaves a lot to the imagination and even more questions than answers with the release of the new FOIA data. Pending further data in the future, this UFO “cold case” will for now remain one of the many mysteries of the skies that occasionally still transpire in modern times.
An unexplored underwater labyrinth full of ancient mysteries might sound like the stuff of adventure fiction, but archeologists in Mexico have discovered just that. The recent discovery of the underwater cave network is being described as “the most important submerged archaeological site in the world.” That’s according to Guillermo de Anda, an underwater archaeologist from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History who is working on exploring and excavating the underwater tunnels system beneath Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The tunnels, known as the Sac Actún System, were discovered last year and immediately stunned geologists with their size. So far, researchers have discovered a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels stretching for 347 kilometres (216 miles), but it is believed that there are more tunnels which haven’t been discovered yet.
Some of the entrances are so small, divers must remove their breathing equipment to enter.
While the tunnel network itself is fascinating, it’s what’s been inside the tunnels that has archaeologists so excited. The labyrinth is believed to have flooded sometime between 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, creating the perfect conditions to preserve all of the archaeological wonders inside. So far, some of the most tantalizing finds are human remains believed to belong to ancient Maya people. The Maya weren’t known to be this far east in Mexico during those years, leading researchers to speculate that this underwater labyrinth could have once been a cave system used as a shelter on a long-forgotten ancient trade route before it flooded.
Footage from one of the dives shows the cave is full of human remains waiting to be analyzed. Or, you know, left in peace.
Also found in the caves are Maya burial sites, ceramic fragments, and remains of extinct plant life dating back to before the end of the last Ice Age. One of the archaeologists working at the site calls the Sac Actún System “a tunnel of time that transports you to a place 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.” Guillermo de Anda adds that these tunnels occupied an important place in Maya belief systems and cosmology, possibly meaning there could be even more mysterious discoveries waiting at the bottom of this underwater labyrinth:
It is a very powerful, magical region, where the supernatural reigns, where the gods and deities lived, where the good and the bad coexist, and it was also where men came from.
Who knows what could be down there in tunnels yet to be explored? The blind race of Morlocks descended from ancient Maya traders know. But they’ll never tell.
We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.
It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.
The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.
A large glowing object "like a big ball"chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.
"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite violently and forced the car back down on the road with such pressure that one of the tyres was blown," a police spokesman told media at the time.
In a state of shock, Sean Knowles put his foot on the accelerator as his mother screamed but, according to reports, their voices distorted like time was slowing down.
"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident.
"It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball.
"We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn't find us."
The family eventually made it to Ceduna and reported the bizarre events to police who took the report seriously, given the state of the car, which was dented and had dust over it.
The story made headlines around the world with sceptics and believers alike trying to make sense of what happened on that lonely stretch of road.
UFO reports in the state can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century but it wasn't until the early Cold War that they started appearing all over the place.
It seems that, in an atmosphere of heightened political tension, people became spooked by strange lights in the sky.
UFO researcher Keith Basterfield said Port Augusta was home to one of the state's first sightings.
"Even in the beginning of the flying saucer era in 1947 when the whole thing took off, we had one of the earliest sightings in Port Augusta," Mr Basterfield said.
"Five metallic objects were seen by three people working at the Commonwealth railways there.
"Even the government astronomer — we had such a person at the time — couldn't explain that sighting."
Four people in three separate cars all spotted it in a clearing they passed — an orange rectangle similar to an illuminated door in the scrub, with a strange figure standing inside.
Police were baffled, so Mr Basterfield and his team drove out to investigate.
"We had a look at the site, we took soil samples from the area, we had the samples analysed looking for something unusual there," he said.
"That's not your typical flying metallic saucer but it's a very, very strange set of observations by a group of independent people.
South Australia's Astronomical Society's Paul Curnow said it's pretty common.
"The average city person doesn't look at the sky very often and sometimes when they do look up and see something strange, they can't really explain it," Mr Curnow said.
When Curious Adelaide phoned SA Police to check whether it could shed some light on the matter there was a moment of silence, before some laughter.
Senior constable Mick Abbott did however make the following comment:
"If you stay on the line, I'll transfer you to agents Mulder and Scully from our X-Files division."
When the ABC contacted the CSIRO there was a similar reponse.
According to Paul Curnow, it's still common to get several dozen to hundreds of UFO reports each year in South Australia alone.
But what's being reported is changing, he told us, with fewer sightings of flying saucers hovering over the land.
"Probably for every 10 cases you get, nine can be explained in mundane terms," Mr Curnow said.
The majority of cases, unfortunately for those hoping for an encounter with the extra-terrestrial, have a logical explanation.
"Quite often people report a little silver dot in the sky [and it] turned out to be an aircraft," he said.
"A lot of these things like planes, satellites, planets, even searchlights sometimes, can all add to what people are reporting."
So is the truth really out there?
UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was based in Adelaide when the Knowles family incident occurred.
"My first thought was 'here is a very interesting story that we can carry out some hard science on'," he said.
"We've got a vehicle, we've got reported unusual dust on a vehicle, we've got a number of witnesses.
"If we could document all that we'd have a very strong case for saying something unusual occurred."
However, the conclusion he reached was far from the extra-terrestrial encounter portrayed by the media.
The car had been forensically tested with nothing unusual found, and Mr Basterfield had a more ordinary explanation for the bright light.
"We figured it was potentially a mirage caused by a temperature inversion that night," he said.
That kind of mirage can make lights a long way in the distance curve over the Earth's horizon and appear to be much closer than they actually are.
"Although they saw the light approaching them, they never saw the [source of the] light reach them, so it never actually got to them," Mr Basterfield said.
"It disappeared at that point in front of them so we figured a mirage of a track light several kilometres away could explain that."
He also had a simple explanation for the car jumping and vibrating.
"If a tyre explodes under your car going at really high speed you're going to get vibrations, you're going to get brake dust entering the vehicle," Mr Basterfield said.
"It was simply a case of misunderstanding, of seeing a light in the distance, a tyre bursting and those things had built up into a story."
While it seems science offers an explanation for many of the sightings in the state, you'll need to decide for yourself whether it's more tale than truth.
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UFO METAL MYSTERY: Material allegedly stored by Pentagon is 'not from this earth'
UFO METAL MYSTERY: Material allegedly stored by Pentagon is 'not from this earth'
SUBSTANCES allegedly recovered from a UFO were found to be made of materials "not from this earth”, it has staggeringly been claimed. A top UFO expert told Express.co.uk he has been assured that the material has been tested and has been found to have inexplicable properties.
Alejandro Rojas says he was told the material was not from the earth.
In December, a New York Time article revealed details of a top-secret £16 million US Pentagon study into the potential threat posed by UFOs.
The report claimed the Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) even recovered "unknown alloys" believed to have come from a UFO that had been tested and found to have properties unknown to science.
The project was run by military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring.
He has revealed two former classified videos of suspected UFOs that were looked at, but nothing to confirm the metal actually exists.
However, he has given an exclusive interview to the organisers of the UFO Congress, which is the world's biggest UFO conference, and took place in Phoenix, Arizona, this month.
Alejandro Rojas, host of the UFO Congress said Mr Elizondo had told him more about the metal during the exclusive interviews that were screened at the event.
Mr Rojas said: "I can tell you it is not an alloy like the New York Times claims.
"I shared at our conference that Elizondo has told me it is a 'meta material' with strange isotopic values indicating it is not from earth."
A metamaterial is a material engineered to have a property that is not found in nature. They are made from assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from composite materials such as metals or plastics.
No other details have so far surfaced, with some people claiming the materials were provided by UFO investigators, and others believing they were recovered by the government.
Mr Elizondo said in the interview: "The question is do they come from outer space or inner space or somewhere in between. I don't know.
"The data we have been seeing is so advanced it is hard enough for us to replicate our observations with our understanding of quantum mechanics. But for this type of technology to be available when we first started seeing it, I think is beyond improbable, I'm not going to say impossible, but I think it is really, really unlikely to come from another country like Russia or China.
I shared at our conference that Elizondo has told me it is a 'meta material' with strange isotopic values indicating it is not from earth.
Alejandro Rojas
"It leads to the next quest if it is not ours and not theirs, then whose is it?
"I don't know whose it is and that is why we are asking the questions and why we did what we did for the last 10 years and why we need to continue doing what we are doing because we need to ask those questions.
"We don't know who they belong to, we don't know who they are or what they are, but we know they are real."
The bulk of the money allocated by the DoD for the project reportedly went via a contract to Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, run by billionaire US businessman Robert Bigelow, who is also working with NASA to create a new expandable spacecraft.
Last May, Mr Bigelow stunned the world by declaring during an interview with prime time CBS current affairs show 60 Minutes intelligent aliens are secretly living on Earth, and the government knows.
The report claimed under the billionaire's direction buildings at the company headquarters were “modified” to allow the storage of the materials.
However, no images have surfaced of the alleged material, nor have any details of where the objects was found, or any reports of tests carried out.
No further details were released at the time about where they were found, how many there are, or what happened to them.
It also does not appear any official reports on the materials have been released,
Express.co.uk asked Mr Rojas why there had been no release of the material, or images or further details.
He did not directly respond, but said: "I find Mr Elizondo to be genuine, and although some UFO researchers feel we should be careful to trust a government insider with a background in intelligence, the revelations he has shared thus far are extraordinary.
"Many have been skeptical of Nick Pope, who held a similar position as Mr Elizondo in the UK Ministry of Defence, but Nick has turned out to be invaluable in legitimising the need to investigate UFO cases, and I believe Elizondo will prove to be the same."
The SETI Institute is a collective of scientists looking for evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
In a radio podcast of the Big Picture Science Skeptic Check, produced at the SETI Institute, a panel of experts discussed the New York Times article and looked at the staggering claims in the New York Times article about the metal being found.
Show host Seth Shostak said more details should be given on the material and what exactly was done to the buildings to store the product.
He said: "Why would the government give the material to business entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, why not to science experts in atmospheric physics or even aviation?
"Look people have been clamoring for physical evidence for decades. If that evidence is stacked up in some buildings in Las Vegas, let's open the doors.
"At the moment the promise of exotic artefacts in storage is nothing more than that.”
Fellow host Molly Bentley said: "Why aren't the artefacts from unidentified aerial phenomena in his building being made available to material scientists or other researchers for study.
"If the evidence isn't released, no one can evaluate it.”
Express.co.uk has approached Mr Bigelow through Bigelow Aerospace to try to find out what happened to the material.
We have also contacted Mr Elizondo through To The Stars Academy, asking if they know what became of the materials.
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Un OVNI a été observé au-dessus de La Garde dans le Var
Un OVNI a été observé au-dessus de La Garde dans le Var
Le vendredi 16 février 2018, dans la soirée, des habitants de La Garde, dans le sud de la France, ont observé « une lumière rouge stationnaire au-dessus du plan de la Garde ». Cet OVNI a filé « brutalement vers le littoral » avant de virer « au vert ».
Michel Durbano est agriculteur et conseiller municipal. Ce soir-là, il a, lui-aussi, été témoin de cet phénomène inexplicable. Il raconte qu’au moment des faits, il « n’avait rien bu ». Il a expliqué ce qu’il a vu :
« Nous avons aperçu mon épouse, un ami et moi-même vers 18h35, une lumière rouge intense dans le ciel nous avons d’abord pensé à un drone. La hauteur semblait raisonnable (une centaine de mètres). Elle ne bougeait pas et était silencieuse. »
« Puis d’un coup cette lumière s’est élevée rapidement et est devenue verte. Mon ami, qui a un drone, a dit que ça allait trop vite et trop haut pour un drone, sauf peut-être un drone militaire. La lumière est ensuite rentrée dans les nuages en restant juste à la limite. Le plafond était plus haut que le sommet de la Colle noire et du paradis qui nous entourent, nous avons continué à l’observer. »
Après 2 minutes d’observation, l’OVNI est parti à une vitesse inimaginable :
« Puis toujours en silence elle est partie plein sud à très grande vitesse. En 2 ou 3 secondes, elle est passée de l’aplomb à la limite La Garde – Le Pradet (vers le carrefour de la Diligence) à l’aplomb de la mer . Ensuite après quelques secondes sur place toujours en limite des nuages, elle s’est dirigée toujours à très grande vitesse vers l’est et est passée derrière la Colle noire et nous l’avons perdue de vue. »
Malgré son scepticisme et sa prudence, l’homme avoue que ce qu’il a vu ce soir-là est difficilement explicable :
« Compte tenu de la vitesse de déplacement, ça ne pouvait pas être un hélico. Ni un avion parce qu’il tournait à angle droit et sans un bruit. Il n’est pas possible non plus que ce soit une lanterne thaïlandaise parce que la lumière se déplaçait à contresens du vent. »
Tony C., un autre habitant de la commune de la Garde, a aussi assisté à ce phénomène. Il témoigne :
« Mot pour mot, je peux faire la même description s’étonne-t-il. C’était en début de semaine dernière et je promenais mes chiens à la sortie de La Crau, derrière le nouveau cimetière. Il était environ 18h30 quand on a aperçu, mon fils et moi, une lumière rouge qui planait au-dessus des champs. »
« Tout d’un coup, elle s’est mise à monter à la verticale et la lumière est devenue verte. Après quelques instants elle a complètement disparu, sans doute à cause de l’altitude. Mon fils a pensé à un drone mais la vitesse à laquelle l’engin est monté laisse septique. Depuis je continue de scruter le ciel tous les soirs quand je sors mes chiens mais je ne la vois plus. »
The Mutual UFO Network recently announced a new Director of Research, Dr. Christopher Cogswell. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and "hopes to bring a seriousness and strong research focus to this field," according to the MUFON website.
While we wish the doctor the highest degree of success, we would be remiss if we failed to observe the organization where he chooses to volunteer has an infamous history of substantially obstructing the very efforts he claims to undertake. His predecessor, Robert Powell, bailed for reasons reportedly including the MUFON choices of speakers at its annual symposium in 2017. In a nutshell, the organization's missionstatement of dedication to scientific study is miles apart from many of its actual activities. If Dr. Cogswell is going to help the situation a number of circumstances will need to be addressed, from employing hypnosis as a memory retrieval tool to endorsing psychic channeling, and those are just some of the problems.
A lack of transparency and public accountability has long plagued MUFON. We have explored it at length on The UFO Trail, including posts such as UFO Community Members Weigh in on Dubious MUFON Speakers. Long before Powell's concerns became more widely known, writers and researchers such as Nigel Watson, Frank Warren, Robert Sheaffer, and several more expressed relevant points about the quality of MUFON speakers and contributed to the 2015 post.
Back in 2014 we attempted to obtain explanations of what MUFON termed a collaboration with a French government agency, GEIPAN, that investigates unexplained aerial phenomena. Statements from MUFON leadership arguably were embarrassingly vague, while, in stark contrast, the head of GEIPAN proved quite willing to discuss the circumstances when contacted.
Other posts, such as parts one and two of the 2013 offering, MUFON, Science and Deception, further demonstrated the leadership's lack of willingness to field questions. MUFON's Jan Harzan has been contacted numerous times, including for comment on how an org dedicated to scientific study could promote such entirely speculative notions as Barbara Lamb's claims surrounding ET-human hybrids, but did not respond.
Likewise, Harzan failed to respond to inquiries about the criteria used to grant David Jacobs a lifetime achievement award. Jacobs is a historian who practices hypnosis as a memory enhancer, claimed to have been harassed by an ET-human hybrid that sent him instant messages, and suggested to Emma Woods to wear a chastity belt during a long distance telephone hypnosis session, among numerous other dubious actions.
In preparation for a 2013 article on a reported UFO crash in Casselberry, Florida, attempts were made to consult several MUFON personnel. Multiple emails inquiring about the case were sent to the Executive Director, Director of Investigations, Florida State Director, and a former Florida Chief Field Investigator. None responded. We could go on at length, but the issues run even deeper still than irresponsibly promoting unsubstantiated conjecture under the guise of science or failing to share information about investigations.
From where I sit, it is significant that the Pentagon indirectly admitted funneling funds to MUFON via Robert Bigelow. This was clearly done through Bigelow's now known receipt of funds and subsequent MUFON-BAASS initiative, yet it is virtually a non-story in UFO Land. Community members for years accused MUFON of acting as an arm of the federal government, and are now validated for all practical purposes, yet the wheels of sensationalism continue to turn with hardly a pause. You can't say we weren't warned.
After serving as MUFON International Director from 2006 to 2009, James Carrion wrote in a 2011 blog post that it was not Robert Bigelow who funded MUFON's work for Bigelow Aerospace, but "sponsors" Bigelow revealed to John Schuessler but not the rest of the MUFON Board of Directors. Carrion's statements have aged well (See my post, Pentagon-UFO Story Reflects Fundamental Problems, for further info and commentary).
The Pentagon acknowledges the Defense Intelligence Agency invested money in the UFO community. Up until that time, such interests and circumstances were officially denied. They were taboo, scandalous. It was out of bounds to so much as speculate the IC was in bed with UFO researchers and their organizations. Capital "S" Skeptics cried conspiracy and called for proof. Now it's confirmed and met with a shrug on both sides of the UFO community aisle.
I'd like to direct our attention for a while, please, to the fact the intelligence community has full on acknowledged involvement in the UFO community - this century, here and now. Others told us so and they are now validated, yet it's seemingly not a story, in lieu of analyzing film clips, exchanging opinions on inconclusive claims about alleged aliens, and minimizing its potential significance. In my opinion, if funding sources for one project are called into question, then funding sources for many projects are called into question, especially those involving the same individuals and organizations.
MUFON has a long way to go to gain any credibility, not to mention competently addressing who's been running its organization. Please join me in considering some of the circumstances that brought us to the point in which the Pentagon casually confirmed what amounts to funding the Mutual UFO Network.
During the 1990's, the org's lead alien abduction researcher "confidentially," as he put it to me in a series of emails, provided Robert Bigelow - the guy who would later play point man on the DIA's Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program - with data from case files of alleged abductees in exchange for a reported $14,000. John Carpenter, a Missouri social worker and hypnosis advocate, defended his actions, which included choosing not to obtain consent from the 140 people prior to releasing their files to Bigelow and his National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS).
MUFON officials, including John Schuessler, who sat on a NIDS board, primarily chose the stance of silence on the topic. Col. John Alexander, a former employee of the Bigelow-founded NIDS, declined comment in 2013. Alexander was asked about any interest he may have had in the files; why he suspected his employer, Bigelow, may have desired to obtain them; if other alien abduction researchers also shared files with Bigelow as Carpenter claimed may have been the case; and if Alexander was at liberty to discuss any relationships between Bigelow corporations and intelligence agencies. Alexander, a man who has repeatedly presented himself as willing and able to talk inside baseball on UFOs and the intelligence community, didn't want to discuss it.
The above image is a copy of the second page of a 1996 letter apparently composed from Carpenter to Bigelow, discussing copying and sending 140 case files, as well as expressing thanks for payment. The image was obtained from researcher Gary Hart, who included the letter and other items in complaints filed to MUFON and the State of Missouri Division of Professional Registration. Read more in the 2013 blog post on the Carpenter Affair linked above.
NSA Memo
In 2017 I published a post about NSA largely releasing a document via my FOIA request about an NSA assignee's attendance at a UFO symposium. The existence of the document, though previously withheld, was long known to researchers such as Philip Klass. Although we did not previously know its specific contents, Klass confidently suspected it was authored by Tom Deuley. Klass was in all likelihood correct for reasons provided and linked in my 2017 post. The document proved to be a memo, titled Information request solicitation, in which its author informed NSA of events and actions of researchers at the 1978 MUFON Symposium.
From the now mostly declassified memo:
Ambient Monitoring Project
In 2014 I did a blog post on the ill-fated Ambient Monitoring Project (AMP). The undertaking was initially titled the Abduction Monitoring Project, but was changed for reasons that reportedly included efforts to increase credibility and attract qualified researchers. The initiative involved placing instruments to measure environmental changes in the homes of individuals reporting alien abductions. It was headed up by long time ufology staple and career intelligence officer Tom Deuley, who likely composed the above NSA memo and served in leadership capacities of multiple UFO organizations, including MUFON. Funding sources for the AMP were not clearly disclosed and details of project results were never released. From the 2014 blog post:
Deuley wrote in the 2008 Journal article that the AMP was jointly proposed to MUFON, FUFOR [Fund for UFO Research] and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). The collaboration reportedly resulted in the UFO Research Coalition, or the URC, as Deuley dubbed it. Exactly where the funding originated, however, was not clear, and Deuley did not at all address the amount and specific terms of project funding.
The proposal was given to the Fund for UFO Research, Deuley stated in the article, “with the intention that they in turn offer the idea to some prospective donors who might be interested in this project.”
“Over time,” he continued, “the Fund’s efforts led to sufficient funding for the work.”
“With a good prospect for a sponsor,” Deuley not so clearly explained further, “the URC continued to fine-tune the proposal. After several rounds of changes and negotiation with the prospective funding organization, the proposal for the Ambient Monitoring Project was accepted.”
Who ever the “prospective funding organization” of which Deuley may have been referring, how ever the proposal may specifically have been “accepted,” and where ever reported “sufficient funding” may have actually originated, Richard Hall told UFO Updates List the project was out of money. Hall informed them of that nine months before Deuley's July, 2008, article which suggested funding was in hand and data was in the process of being analyzed.
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In 2008 I emailed inquiries about the project to various board members of the UFO organizations involved. An email was sent to Deuley, who I requested provide details that might be available for public release, particularly concerning such information as final analysis and project personnel. He replied August 2, 2008:
“The analysis is in progress and will include a full report when all of the cases have been analyzed. Until then we feel it is prudent to not publicize who is doing the analysis or where it is being conducted. The report is most likely to be printed in theMUFON Journal, and if extensive to be published for sale by the UFO Research Coalition.”
I sent a similar inquiry to David Boras of CUFOS, who briefly replied on August 3, 2008, “Statistical analyses are ongoing and not yet available.”
Astronomer Dr. John Carlson, also of FUFOR, and I exchanged some brief messages. Even after I made him aware Deuley had just days prior stated in an email to me that AMP data was in the process of being analyzed, Carlson wrote in an August 5, 2008 email there were no funds to analyze the data, so he believed the project was effectively dormant.
Such discrepancies and contradictions within MUFON and UFO orgs have now become common to the point of no longer attracting meaningful discussion. Inaccuracy and a lack of direct answers from leadership have come to be expected.
UFO Research Coalition
Robert Bigelow
It was repeatedly stated by those familiar with and involved in the AMP that it was a collaboration of CUFOS, MUFON and FUFOR. Tom Deuley reported in his 2008 MUFON Journal article that the collaboration resulted in the forming of the UFO Research Coalition. The FUFOR website indicated the Coalition was formed at the suggestion of Robert Bigelow.
"Disagreement over control of the UFO Research Coalition lead to a complete break with Robert Bigelow," the website further stated, indicating the "disagreement" culminated in 1994. The conflict was apparently resolved by the time of the MUFON-BAASS venture of 2009, when many of the same organizational leaders were on deck, as can be explored in detail at the bottom of the 2014 blog post, What Happened to the Ambient Monitoring Project?.
Conclusions
There may be some events of interest under the descriptions of high strangeness or things in the sky. I don't claim to know, and as regular readers are aware, my primary area of focus migrated into social aspects of the UFO community. While I don't profess to conclusively know much about what all is being reported and witnessed, I'm pretty confident you aren't going to get any substantial explanations from the latest crowd of self-proclaimed insiders, researchers, and disclosure activists. We simply have no reason to think so, barring extreme changes of operating procedures. It is more than reasonable at this point, if not arguably naive not to call into question the funding sources and agendas of those directing the UFO research community.
It is also reasonable to desire financial accountability from tax-funded projects, such as the AATIP, and nonprofit corporations, namely MUFON, that collect public financial support while enjoying tax benefits. You are entitled to expect accurate and reasonably transparent reporting of budgets and activities. We clearly have a long, long way to go to achieve such transparency in the UFO community. I am strongly of the opinion its obstruction and the related issues are much more worthy of attention than the unsubstantiated sensational claims promoted by the involved parties.
TRUTH IS OUT THERE - Baffled US intelligence officers leak UFO footage THEMSELVES to get help from unwitting public in IDing mystery objects, Pentagon ‘X files project’ chief claims
TRUTH IS OUT THERE - Baffled US intelligence officers leak UFO footage THEMSELVES to get help from unwitting public in IDing mystery objects, Pentagon ‘X files project’ chief claims
Luis Elizondo said military bosses declassified and released the unexplained videos in a bid to solve the mystery
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
THE former head of the Pentagon’s real life X-Files programme revealed that defence officials released top secret UFO videos to the public - in a bid to find answers.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the top secret programme, said that two mysterious videos of UFO encounters, published late last year were released so that people could look at them and help “put together more pieces of the puzzle”.
Now in a video clip shared exclusively with Sun Online, Elizondo claims that he did not “trick” or gain the videos by “false pretense” - but that defence officials willingly declassified and released the footage - so members of the public could try and identify the mysterious objects in them.
When asked how the once-classified videos were released, Elizondo said: “No, there was no trick and there was no false pretense.
Elizondo said the Department of Defense declassified the views and allowed them to be released
“The videos were released in accordance with the strict manner that DoD (Department of Defense) prescribes, following DoD manuals and regulations involving the release of information…. furthermore, an additional step was taken to have the videos reviewed by foreign disclosure representatives - in fact the most senior foreign disclosure representatives - in the department.
“Ultimately it required OCA or “original classification authority” approval and review to release the videos.
“So in essence, I didn't really release anything - the Department of Defense released those videos.
New footage shows 'UFO' recorded by US fighter jet pilots
"The documentation is held by the Department of Defense and the justification for releasing those videos were exactly as stated that was to create an unclassified database that people could then access and try to help us identify the signatures we were seeing.”
He adds: “I suspect we will always get more information as people with, with additional expertise, experience and background continue to look at the videos … we will begin to put together more pieces of the puzzle.
“There are experts I would submit now that are out there, perhaps within this audience that is watching this video now, that have the ability to look at some of these videos and help us have a better understanding of what exactly we're looking at.”
YOUTUBE
Luis Elizondo oversaw the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
A full recorded interview with Elizondo was shown at the International UFO Congress - in which the former AATIP manager revealed his opinion on the existence of UFOs and whether or not they should be presumed a threat.
Nick Pope, who used to do a similar job to Elizondo for Britain’s Ministry of Defence told Sun Online: “The whole situation is bizarre. The idea seems to have been that when the Pentagon's imagery analysts drew a blank, they decided to put two or three videos into the public domain, to see if anyone else could solve the mystery.
“Maybe this was limited to specialist aviation forums at first, but inevitably these things get cross-posted and end up on YouTube.
TWITTER @NICKPOPEMOD
Ex-MoD employee Nick Pope is an expert on UFOs
“While I never did anything like this with any of the 'unknowns' we received at the MoD, it's certainly an imaginative tactic.
“The Pentagon's processes are complicated, and declassifying something isn't quite the same as authorizing something for public release, so despite Luis Elizondo's detailed explanation, there's still controversy about whether due process was followed.”
He added: "These bombshell revelations give us the clearest insight yet into the Pentagon's secret UFO project.
“So far, all we've heard from Luis Elizondo are a few carefully crafted quotes in the original newspaper story, and some brief TV news interviews that lasted just a few brief minutes.
The Pentagon revealed in December that they have been secretly investigating UFO sightings for five years
“In this new video we learned a lot more about AATIP, and the man who ran it: his background, how he got involved in AATIP and became director, how they got cases from not just the military but also from the intelligence community, and how the UFO videos got into the public domain.
“There's also more speculative material where Elizondo reveals what he thinks about UFOs, and the related question of whether or not he thinks they're a threat.
“On this point, his view - which was the same as mine when I did a similar job in the MoD - is that until you can prove something isn't a threat, the sensible military presumption should be that it might be.”
JOHN CHAPPLE
UFO expert Alejandro Rojas said getting official information about the videos had been difficult
Ufologist Alejandro Rojas, who organized the International UFO Congress and shared the clip with Sun Online, said: "Elizondo's revelations regarding the UFO videos they have released thus far are a bit of a mixed bag.
"It is fascinating to hear the scrutiny the release went through when the DoD chose to release the videos. It also great to hear more about what Elizondo and his group ruled out as they attempted to identify the objects in the video.
"He addresses many of the questions some of the more skeptical researchers have posed.
"To me, it sound like the videos were released in order for members of the general public to look at and scrutinize them to help find answers in a citizen science or crowd-sourcing type project. However, getting more official information about the videos sounds difficult.
"So far, apart from what has been shared by Elizondo and the New York Times, the DoD has not been forthcoming with additional information.
"Fortunately, Elizondo has promised us a follow-up interview and it seems he intends to continue to share information as long as it has been approved for release. His insider's view is invaluable."
The congress organizers will be releasing more from Elizondo's video later this week on their YouTube channel.
When it comes to identifying existential threats posed by technological innovations, the popular imagination summons visions of Terminator, The Matrix, and I, Robot — dystopias ruled by robot overlords who exploit and exterminate people en masse. In these speculative futures, a combination of super-intelligence and evil intentions leads computers to annihilate or enslave the human race.
However, a new study suggests that it will be the banal applications of A.I. that will lead to severe social consequences within the next few years. The report — “Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence” — authored by 26 researchers and scientists from elite universities and tech-focused think tanks, outlines ways that current A.I. technologies threaten our physical, digital, and political security. To bring their study into focus, the research group only looked at technology that already exists or plausibly will within the next five years.
Image recognition software has already surpassed human competence.
What the study found: A.I. systems will be likely expand existing threats, introduce new ones and change the character of them. The thesis of the report is that technological advances will make certain misdeeds easier and more worthwhile. The researchers claim that improvements in A.I. will decrease the amount of resources and expertise needed to carry out some cyber attacks, effectively lowering the barriers to crime:
The costs of attacks may be lowered by the scalable use of AI systems to complete tasks that would ordinarily require human labor, intelligence and expertise. A natural effect would be to expand the set of actors who can carry out particular attacks, the rate at which they can carry out these attacks, and the set of potential targets.
The report makes four recommendations:
1 - Policymakers should collaborate closely with technical researchers to investigate, prevent, and mitigate potential malicious uses of AI.
2 - Researchers and engineers in artificial intelligence should take the dual-use nature of their work seriously, allowing misuserelated considerations to influence research priorities and norms, and proactively reaching out to relevant actors when harmful applications are foreseeable.
3 - Best practices should be identified in research areas with more mature methods for addressing dual-use concerns, such as computer security, and imported where applicable to the case of AI.
4 - Actively seek to expand the range of stakeholders and domain experts involved in discussions of these challenges
How A.I. can make current scams smarter:example, spear phishing attacks, in which con artists pose as a target’s friend, family member, or colleague in order to gain trust and extract information and money, are already a threat. But today, they require a significant expenditure of time, energy, and expertise. As A.I. systems increase in sophistication, some of the activity required for a spear phishing attack, like collecting information about a target, may be automated. A phisher could then invest significantly less energy in each grift and target more people.
And if scammers begin to integrate A.I. into their online grifts, it may become impossible to distinguish reality from simulation. “As AI develops further, convincing chatbots may elicit human trust by engaging people in longer dialogues, and perhaps eventually masquerade visually as another person in a video chat,” the report says.
We’ve already seen the consequences of machine-generated video in the form of Deepfakes. As these technologies become more accessible and user friendly, the researchers worry that bad actors will disseminate fabricated photos, videos, and audio files. This could result in highly successful defamation campaigns with political ramifications.
In just four years, generative neural networks learned to create photorealistic human faces.
Beyond the keyboard: And potential malfeasance isn’t restricted to the internet. As we move toward the adoption of autonomous vehicles, hackers might deploy adversarial examples to fool self-driving cars into misperceiving their surroundings. “An image of a stop sign with a few pixels changed in specific ways, which humans would easily recognize as still being an image of a stop sign, might nevertheless be misclassified as something else entirely by an AI system,” the report says.
Other threats include autonomous drones with integrated facial recognition software for targeting purposes, coordinated DOS attacks that mimic human behavior, and automated, hyper-personalized disinformation campaigns.
The report recommends that researchers consider potential malicious applications of A.I. while developing these technologies. If adequate defense measures aren’t put in place, then we may already have the technology to destroy humanity, no killer robots required.
If you’ve ever wished you were taller, you might want to consider becoming a space traveler. The absence of gravitational pressure in orbit has been shown to stretch out the spines of astronauts, an effect that’s fictionalized in The Expanse franchise with the belters, a super-tall human population raised in microgravity.
While this might seem like the kind of therapeutic treatment you’d get in a specialty salon, it comes with all kinds of drawbacks, including back pain while in space, and a greater chance of slipped discs after returning to Earth’s gravity. That’s the catch to this magic height-enhancing technique—like belters, astronauts experience pain when their bodies are rejiggered by differing gravity environments (though not quite to the torturous extent shown in the scifi series).
To address these negative impacts, scientists at King’s College London and ESA’s Space Medicine Office have been developing a “Skinsuit,” which is a tight spandex outfit designed to squeeze astronauts so that they retain their normal skeletal structures.
It’s understandably tough to develop a unitard that can trick the human body into thinking it’s still under Earth’s gravity, without making astronauts feel like they’ve been freeze-wrapped. Early versions of the Skinsuit, designed to simulate 80 percent of Earth’s gravitational pressure, were too constrictive to be worn for periods longer than a few hours.
However, the most recent “Mark VI” model of the Skinsuit dialed the pressure back to 20%, which provided a better tradeoff for astronaut wellbeing.
“The first concepts were really uncomfortable,” said Philip Carvil, a space physiologist at King’s College’s Centre of Human & Aerospace Physiological Sciences, in an ESA profile of the Skinsuit project posted Wednesday. “The Mark VI Skinsuit is extremely comfortable, to the point where it can be worn unobtrusively for long periods of normal activity or while sleeping.”
Carvil and his colleagues use half-filled waterbeds as a stand-in for microgravity when they test out these Skinsuits in the lab, but earlier versions have also been worn in space by ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet during stints on the International Space Station.
As humans push farther into space, and spend longer periods away from the gravity well we evolved to inhabit, these suits will become more important to our comfort and survival.
Animation Tool Helps Alien-Hunting Scientists Track a Planet's Habitable Zone
Animation Tool Helps Alien - Hunting Scientists Track a Planet's Habitable Zone
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
A planet orbiting in the "habitable zone" of its parent star has the potential to host liquid water on its surface — a critical ingredient for life as we know it. But what if a planet is in the habitable zone only some of the time? Can life still thrive there?
It's lucky for life on Earth that the sun's habitable zone is effectively stationary and unmoving, providing life with a steady source of radiation. But that isn't the case in every star system. Physicist Tobias Müller and astrophysicist Nader Haghighipour wrote a computer program that demonstrates how the position and shape of habitable zones can change rapidly in double- and triple-star systems, which are thought to be extremely common in the universe.
On a website the two scientists created to host the program (and make it available to other researchers) is an animation of the star system KIC 4150611.
The three-star system KIC 4150611 has a peculiar orbit that creates a rapidly changing "habitable zone" (in dark green). The black dots are stars.
The animation shows three stars engaged in a complicated orbit — two of them (K1 and K2) orbit close together, completing a single orbit in less than two Earth days. The third star (A) orbits farther away, looping around the close-knit pair on the order of months. But star A's orbit is not circular, so its distance to K1 and K2 changes. When the three stars come close together, they form a single habitable zone. But as they move apart that zone separates into two separate habitable zones. (In the video above, the dark green area is the habitable zone; the light green areas show places where scientists think habitability might be possible, but that would depend on other factors including the nature of the planet's atmosphere.)
The oddly-evolving habitable zone of the three-star system KID 5653126. The black dots are stars and the dark green region is the habitable zone.
In another extreme scenario, in the star system KID 5653126, a stellar pair orbit closely around each other and create a mostly stable habitable zone. But a third star orbits the pair and wanders erratically through the habitable zone — a potentially disastrous event for any planets that might reside there.
These sample animations can be found here: http://astro.twam.info/hz/. A complete description of the HZ calculator can be found here: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/782/1/26/meta. There are no known planets around the two star systems mentioned above, but there are star systems with unstable habitable zones that are known to host planets. If researchers are going to go hunting for life on those worlds, it would be good to know ahead of time how a changing habitable zone affects a planet's habitability.
At home on Tatooine
The fictional planet of Tatooine from the "Star Wars" universe orbits two suns. The planet is a harsh desert, but was supposedly temperate enough for life to evolve. Scientists have shown that planets around double-star systems exist in the universe, and that they could even support life. But how would the orbits of the two parent stars affect temperatures on the planet?
The HZ calculator provides some insight to this question. The real-world double-star system Kepler 453 is home to two stars, one of which is about five times larger than the other. That means the smaller star effectively orbits the larger one (as opposed to the two stars both orbiting a point in space between them). At least one planet is known to orbit both stars, but the movement of that smaller star means the amount of radiation reaching the planet changes regularly.
The orbit of two stars in the system Kepler 453 causes the surrounding habitable zone to shift. The white dot shows a potential planet in the system that might be affected by the changing levels of radiation.
In the animation produced by the HZ calculator, the planet's position in the habitable zone is an illustration of how much radiation the planet is receiving from its parent stars. Over the course of a year, the planet drifts from the middle of the habitable zone (the dark-green region) to the very inner edge of that zone (the light-green region), where temperatures might be too hot to support liquid water on the planet's surface.
This would result in large seasonal swings on the planet's surface, according to Elizabeth Tasker, an associate professor in solar system science at the Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA). She addressed this issue during a recent talk on planet habitability at a meeting of the committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe for the National Academy of Sciences. The meeting was held at the University of California, Irvine.
"If you have very extreme seasons brought on by an eccentric orbit, can you still discuss habitability? Can life survive this?" Tasker said. "Well, of course, we don't really know, but the outlook isn't completely bleak."
Tasker said exoplanet scientists have theorized that planets that drift across the inner edge of the habitable zone during an orbit might experience extreme seasons, but could potentially retain liquid water during those swings. Perhaps on the fictional planet of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle harvest moisture during the cooler seasons, and live off their harvest through the harsher periods brought on by the movement of the two suns.
It could also be that life-forms on the planet go underground or hibernate during the hot periods; but if that's the case, it could be difficult for Earth-bound scientists to detect those life-forms.
This kind of information is becoming relevant as scientists get closer to being able to look for signs of habitability on alien worlds. With thousands of planets to choose from, where will scientists go looking? The HZ calculator is one tool researchers can use to help narrow the list of planets to target for follow-up study, according to Tasker.
Müller, a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Groningen in Germany, told Space.com in an email that the HZ calculator has been helpful in illustrating that habitable zones are not static, something that can be difficult to understand without a visual aid, he said. He and Haghighipour, a researcher at the Institute for Astronomy and the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, have collaborated on scientific papers that made use of the HZ calculator.
No guarantees
This illustration shows the "habitable zone" of Earth's sun. Earth lies inside the habitable zone, while Venus and Mars lie just outside it, in a region where certain conditions could make liquid water possible.
Credit: NASA
A planet that lies in the "habitable zone" of a star has no guarantee of being "habitable." But a planet in the habitable zone receives enough radiation from its parent star (or stars) that the temperature on its surface could be right for hosting liquid water on its surface, an essential ingredient for life as we know it. Too much heat and liquid water evaporate; too little heat and the water would freeze.
For a planet to have liquid water on its surface, it has to have a surface, which means it has to be rocky, like Earth, not a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn. The planet also has to have an atmosphere, but that atmosphere has to be moderate — Venus' atmospheremakes the planet's surface far too hot for water to remain a liquid, but that may not have always been the case. And scientists think it's likely that many planets migrate through their solar system, so they could move out of the habitable zone, killing off any life that might have emerged there. Most stars experience a change in their radiation output near the beginning of their lifetimes, which could have the same effect.
"When we talk about 'the habitable zone,' we're really just talking about a crude sample selection technique," Tasker said. "It is not a quantitative measurement of a planet's habitability."
Tasker also mentioned that there are multiple scenarios in which life might survive outside the habitable zone. Take, for example, a moon orbiting a very large, hot planet around a star. The moon not only receives heat from the star, but may also receive heat from the planet. In addition, if the moon has an eccentric orbit (meaning not circular), it could experience extreme tidal heating (wherein the gravity of a planet pulls on the interior of a moon, creating a potential internal heat source for the moon). In that case, the moon might be too hot if it lies in the habitable zone of the parent star, but could be perfectly habitable if it lies just outside the habitable zone.
In total, researchers have identified thousands of alien planets, and there are new instruments coming online that will identify even more. Advanced instruments, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to launch in 2019, will allow scientists to study those known planets in more detail, and search for complex "biosignatures" in the exoplanet atmospheres, or chemical combinations that are typically produced by life-forms. The upcoming Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WFIRST), set to launch in the mid-2020s, and the proposed Large UV/ Optical/Infrared Survey (LUVOIR), could also search for signs of habitability on exoplanets.
"I personally think this is perhaps the most exciting time for our field," Tasker said during her presentation. "I think, perhaps, in the next 10 years we're going to be able to really start talking about habitability on another planet.
"Now whether we will discover — conclusively — life, I think that's more questionable, but the amount of information we're going to get from things like JWST or WFIRST or LUVOIR is going to be game changing," she said. "It's going to be amazing."
Amateur Astronomer Wins 'Cosmic Lottery' with 1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot
Amateur Astronomer Wins 'Cosmic Lottery' with 1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The newfound supernova 2016gkg, which is located about 80 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy NGC 613, as photographed by a group of University of California, Santa Cruz astronomers on Feb. 18, 2017, using the 1-meter Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science/Las Campanas Observatory/UC Santa Cruz
Victor Buso picked the right patch of sky for camera testing.
On Sept. 20, 2016, the Argentine amateur astronomer was trying out a new camera he'd affixed to his 16-inch (41 centimeters) telescope. He took some shots of the spiral galaxy NGC 613 — which lies about 80 million light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Sculptor — and spotted something interesting: a brightening pinprick of light near the end of a spiral arm.
Astronomers at the Astrophysics Institute of La Plata, just outside Buenos Aires, quickly got wind of the find. They fielded an international team that began studying the light source with bigger and more powerful scopes, both on the ground and in space, less than a day later. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
The researchers determined that Buso had imaged the "shock breakout" phase of a supernova — the first burst of visible light from an exploding star — according to a new study.
Nobody had ever captured this elusive event before. In getting his random lucky shots, Buso had bucked odds of 1 in 10 million, or perhaps even 1 in 100 million, study team members said.
"It's like winning the cosmic lottery," said study co-author Alex Filippenko, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley who helped observe the newborn supernova using the Lick and Keck observatories in California and Hawaii, respectively.
"Buso's data are exceptional," Filippenko added in a statement from UC Berkeley. "This is an outstanding example of a partnership between amateur and professional astronomers."
Discovery images of the supernova 2016gkg, obtained by amateur astronomer Victor Buso on Sept. 20, 2016. The supernova becomes visible as a faint but rapidly brightening object to the south of the host galaxy, the spiral NGC 613.
Credit: Víctor Buso and Gastón Folatelli
The professionals tracked the evolution of the supernova, which is known as SN 2016gkg, for two months. They determined that the object is a Type IIb supernova — a once-massive star that exploded after collapsing rapidly under the force of its own immense gravity.
Modeling work performed by the study team suggests that the dead star was originally about 20 times more massive than our sun. But, over the years, it had a lot of mass siphoned away, likely by a companion star, and probably harbored about five solar masses when it exploded, researchers said.
A powerful pressure wave from that explosion heated up the dead star's surface gas, causing it to brighten and emit light — the "shock breakout" that Buso captured.
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"Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event," Filippenko said. "Observations of stars in the first moments they begin exploding provide information that cannot be directly obtained in any other way."
The study, which was led by Melina Bersten of the Astrophysics Institute of La Plata, was published online today (Feb. 21) in the journal Nature.
1962 UFO Crash at Nellis Air Force Base Outside of Las Vegas, NV
1962 UFO Crash at Nellis Air Force Base Outside of Las Vegas, NV
April 18, 1962 UFO Incident Facts & Figures
Date: April 18, 1962
Time:Between 8:15 and 8:19 PM Local Time, though the incident in its entirety lasted 32 minutes as the object, tracked by NORAD, crossed a total of ten states.
Location:The incident actually began on the east coast, first spotted in Oneida, New York, just outside of Syracuse. It crossed ten states, including Kansas, Colorado and Utah, before disappearing from Nellis Airforce Base radar at 10,000 Feet.
Response:The Air Defense Command was alerted after the object was tracked by NORAD. The object apparently landed at one point, confirmed by an Air Force Spokesman. During the 42 minutes it was on the ground, all power was lost from a nearby power station. Power was restored once it left, at which time it was pursued by jet interceptors summoned from Phoenix and Stead Field in Reno, NV.
Outcome:Jets pursued the object until it exploded over the Mesquite Range in Nevada "in a brilliant glare that was visible over five states."
Witnesses:Having crossed from the east to west coast, the object was seen by literally thousands of people.
It has been described as a red or blue fireball; a red-flaming sword across the sky; an object resembling a tadpole; a very bright, white light was a smoke trail behind it with twenty-to-thirty explosions.
Witnesses in Utah claimed it was no more than 500 feet above their truck, causing it to nearly stall at the time.
According to Captain Herman Gordon Shields, who was interrogated at Hill Air Force Base by Douglas M. Crouch, the chief of the criminal investigation sections:
"It had a long slender appearance comparable to a cigarette in size, that is, the diameter with respect to the length of the object. The fore part, or the lower part of the object was very bright, intense white such as a magnesium fire. The second half, the aft section, was a clearly distinguishable yellowish color. I would say the object was just about divided in half, the fore part being intensely white, the aft section having a more yellow color to it."
Air Force Intelligence Report - April 24, 1962: [1b]At 0319& on 19 April 1962 a brilliant mid-air Illumination appeared over Nephi, Utah, visible in Idaho, California, Arizona and Kansas. One violent explosion and 20-30 sharp explosions followed illumination.
AF pilot in area reported clearly defined white object falling toward ground after illumination.
Resident of Lynndyl, Utah, stated a bright white object passed over him traveling north-west at 3OO-5OO feet altitude, having bright white trail, turning to smoke trail after object passed.
Observers at Jericho, Utah, (39 ^5M, 112 11W) stated object passed east of Jericho in north-west direction.
Observer 3 miles south-west of Eureka, Utah reported object passed over in northwest direction, alternately emitting gasping sound, retarding forward movement, and surging ahead three or four times, before flame at tail of object turned from bright yellow to blue. Observer stated object arced over and estimated that object landed in vicinity of M6.
[2]At 06202 on 19 April 1962 Captain Herman O. Shields, Troop Carrier Squadron, a reserve AF pilot and civilian Attorney at Law was interviewed at Bill AF3, with a tape recording being made of the interview. The following information and answers received to questions...
15a(l) Shape - A long cylinderical shape like a cigarette.
15a(2) Sisse - At the distance object appeared to be the size of a cigarette.
15a(3) Color - The forward or lower part of object was a bright intense white. the after half was a clearly distinguishable yellow color.
Conclusion:Apparently only one newspaper initially covered the incident, The Las Vegas Sun.
Dr. Robert Kadesch, an associate professor of physics at the University of Utah, dismissed it as probably being a "Bolide," an extremely bright meteor.
The radar sighting at Nellis Air Force Base initially reported the object as "unidentified," but later changed it to "Insufficient Data For Scientific Analysis."
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The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
THE PHENOMENON OF crop circles is one that we regard as being a relatively recent mystery, but strange patterns have actually been appearing in fields for over three hundred years. Sometimes occurring ins and, ice or even snow, five thousand of these beautiful geometric shapes have manifested themselves in over forty countries across the globe. However, Man is still no closer realising their significance. Some are undoubtedly hoaxes but what do the steersman? Are they messages from space, Mother Earth, or perhaps another dimension?
Over the years,
those who live in the country side, particularly those who live along Ley lines and channels of natural energy, have come to regard the circles as part of rural life and a few witnesses have actually seen them made. They say an invisible line snakes its way at high speed through a field, pushing the stalks of crops aside. When it reaches a certain point it begins to spin round, pushing the crop down radially, as would the hands on a clock.When it has turned the full 360 degrees the force just vanishes, leaving the crop perfectly matted on the field floor.
No stalks spring up,and no stalks are crushed, they are all carefully and permanently bowed.The question as to who or what actually determines that the patterns should be made is still up for debate. Tales of UFOs and delights above fields the night before new formations appear are common. Similarly,there are a substantial proportion of hoax circles, but these are often easily discernible as they have trampled, crushed crops rather than gently bent stalks. Many people are convinced freak weather conditions such as mini, localised whirlwinds cause the patterns.
There is also a continuing study into the scientific qualities of cropcircles ,where investigators hope a rational, serious approach will reveal the truth.Perhaps the most popular explanation for the appearance of cropcircles is connected with earth forces. The great majority of good,reputable patterns in England appear in Wiltshire, around historic areas of high natural energy. They also often occur close to ancient forts, burial mounds, standing stones and fertility symbols therefore suggesting an affiliation with Britain’s traditional heritage.Indeed, many people are convinced the ancient forces of Mother Earth have a hand in their creation.One aspect of cropcircles’ character that is not questionable is the effect they have on electronic equipment. Tape recorders are known to speed up once inside a circle and then slow down again outside.
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video equipment malfunctions without good cause, and even ordinary photographic cameras have produced severely distorted images. A rather ironic reaction circles have is on farm machinery. Not only are good crops flattened during a circle’s production,but many farmers have witnessedtheir harvesting equipment refusing to work anywhere near the circles.The circles have striking effects on humans. Some experts suggest that stepping inside certain patterns can cause extreme emotion change.
Some people feel an improved physical well-being and vitality in certain circles, whilst in others feelings of nausea, migraine, fatigue and light-headedness can be brought about. Just by sitting inside stone circles people with a longstanding medical conditions are said to have been significantly improved or even cured;the effect of a crop circle’s power on animals is equally impressive. Horses and cats in particular become agitated near patterns, and often refuse to enter them.
Flocks of birds have been seen flying straight towards a crop formation, only to drastically steer around them at the last minute, whilst some dogsfeel compelled to bound right into the centre of some circles, only to drop down asleep when they reach it.It seems a shame that some people do create hoax cropcircles. Of all unexplained phenomena, they are one of the most deserving of scientific study.
Unlike the fleeting images of monsters, aliens and ghosts, cropcircles are their own record of some unknown power. Whatever causes these formations undoubtedly leaves a trace of its inexplicable force. Country folk are well aware that, for centuries, something with which they have grown to live has been going on in their fields, but it is still something they do not quite understand.....
Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough
Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough
ByDean Balsamini
Houston Street, we have a problem.
Manhattan has gone from Studio 54 to Area 51, leading the five boroughs in sightings of unidentified flying objects over the last two years, data from the National UFO Reporting Center reveals.
Otherworldly tourists have included travelers in a “round orange orb,” a crew in a “cigar-shaped” craft and even “an unknown creature” that rudely “teleported” into one New Yorker’s back yard, according to reports made to the Washington-based group.
One Manhattan true believer claimed a close encounter — just by looking outside the gym window.
“It was rotating like a drill as it was also moving off axis and in a line towards the east,” the person explained. “As it rotated, you would be able to see four lights that would only be on one side and seen after it fully rotated. It has to be hundreds of feet long. Then after it appeared, four other smaller craft appeared that were to me saucer or spherical that blipped in and out.”
In all, there have been 27 spacey sightings in Manhattan since 2016, with Brooklynites close behind, reporting 24 strange objects — from a “very bright, round-shaped light in the sky” to a “fireball” of lights.
Queens denizens described 20 unexplained episodes, with a particularly impressive arrival last June.
“Group of about 7 UFOs, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north,” one witness reported.
Just eight mysterious incidents originated out of the Bronx, while Staten Island residents got interstellar a paltry six times.
“Surprised a UFO that was hovering silently above me, then it shot away,” one Staten Islander shrugged last January.
The reports include time and general place of occurrence, but can be painfully short of detail. Last May 3, someone in Brooklyn simply reported, “UFO.”
The center’s director is confident that the truth is out there.
“Do I believe in UFOs? I absolutely believe . . . I believe what the data says,” Peter Davenport insisted. “Read the cases and you come to the realization that these objects we’ve been calling UFOs for 70 years are being seen across the country and around the world on a daily basis.”
The most common claim the center receives is “lights in the sky that they can’t identify.” Davenport noted that, since May 2012, “we started seeing a type of report of clusters of red, orange, amber, yellow or gold lights.”
“Good photos, reliable photos” of UFOs are “scarce” because people have just seconds to capture “objects capable of moving at tremendous speeds,” he explained.
The group says it has catalogued more than 128,000 mysterious sightings worldwide since 1974, with most in the United States — 13,033 — originating in California. New York has collected just 4,500 in that time.
“There’s this sense that this is New York . . . there can’t be a UFO,” Davenport said. “Or they just don’t want to get involved.”
The space rock, named Asteroid 2017 DR109, is expected to hurtle past the planet at a hair-raisingly close distance on Saturday February 24, NASA has warned.
At around 5.18am on Saturday, DR109 will come within 0.007AU of Earth, the distance between the US and China 85 times over.
Flying at speeds of 16,553mph, the asteroid will shoot by the planet at a minimum distance of more than one million km away.
However, the asteroid only measures a tiny 11 metres in diameter, meaning its impact on Earth would be negligible.
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CLOSE SHAVE: Asteroid 2017 DR109 is set to brush past Earth on Saturday February 24
NASA does not consider 2017 DR109 to be a Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) – a space object that makes an exceptionally close approach to Earth.
PHAs are larger than 100 metres in diameter and come within 0.05 AU – approximately 19.5 lunar distances – to Earth, according to NASA’s classification.
NASA monitors all asteroids that come within close range of planet under its Near Earth Object programme.
Using Sentry – a highly automated collision monitoring system – NASA keeps a handle on celestial objects threatening to smash into Earth within the next 100 years.
Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim
Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim
ARCHAEOLOGICAL findings suggest previous civilisations used circular structures as energy-generating devices to create man-made portals in time, according to boffins online.
The research – which extended over a two-year period – suggested that human beings from thousands of years ago produced natural sound harmonic frequencies produced from the surface of the Earth.
In the clip, the narrator explains that the Sumerian civilisation may have inhabited parts of southern Africa thousands of years ago.
The Sumers are one of the earliest known civilisations known to walk the Earth.
They are said to date back to 3,000BC.
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The technology they apparently used is said to be similar to the way we use laser technology today.
Some of the frequencies recorded are believed to reach more than 380 gigahertz – much greater than any levels used today.
The discovery has left many confused as to what this previous society could possibly have done with the energy they created and whether they could have possibly known more about our planet than we do today.
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel UFOmania yesterday, and has already racked up more than 5000 hits.
And viewers suggested that previous societies have been in contact with extraterrestrial life.
One comment read: “Sound is one of the most abundant forms of free energy on the planet.
“It is the primordial source of all things and is the common denominator of all creation.
“With that being said, if an extraterrestrial race wanted to harvest energy from the planet, it could create such energy with sound.
“Sound was used as energy to levitate objects in order to create the monuments that opened vortices which allowed spacecraft to come and go."
And another added: “I always thought that many ancient rock carvings show a spiral, which could be some kind of sound wave.
“This is something they can only draw and couldn't put into words.
“Many petroglyphs around the world show a spiral of some kind I think it's some kind of sound energy that we cannot understand at this point in time.”
Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert
Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert
A dramatic scene has been found by experts exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile as they have come across hundreds of pieces of stunning 1,500 year-old-rock art, depicting the slaughter of whales, turtles and even sharks.
In the north of Chile, located right between the Pacific Ocean and the beginning of the vast Atacama Desert is the archaeological site of El Médano. North of it, researchers have discovered a new archaeological site with more than 300 ancient paintings.
The archaeological site of El Médano features a valuable set of rock paintings which were discovered in 1918 by an amateur archaeologist named Augusto Capdeville.
But, now, a team from the University of La Sorbonne, has located in the vicinity, new previously unknown rock art.
The new site called Izcuña, located a few miles north of Médano depicts drawings which are approximately 1,500 years old.
There, using strokes of red color, the ancient inhabitants of the region made rock art depicting the hung of whales, swordfish, marlin, squid, sea lion, turtles, and sharks.
All the paintings were made with a pigment of a red color and show the harpooned animals, but not their hunters.
Scientists explain how these hunting scenes are based on the everyday experiences of the ancient inhabitants living near Chile’s coastline.
The same scenery was present in the rock art researchers discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, although those paintings recreated hunting scenes of terrestrial animals.
The value of this finding is enormous because it helps document how the inhabitants of the area extracted a large part of their resources from the ocean, and also what techniques they used for it.
As noted by experts, the ancient inhabitants had advanced fishing and hunting technologies that included fish hook built from shell, bone, cactus spines, copper, and even rafts made of sea lion skin.
As noted by the Daily Mail, archaeologists have discovered around 328 paintings at Izcuña, on 24 blocks of rock.
“Archaeological evidence attests to a society specialized in marine resource exploitation. Its sophisticated fishing and hunting technology included fish-hooks made from shell, bone, cactus spines and copper, and cotton lines, nets, stone weights, harpoons and rafts made of sea lion skin,” explained researchers in the study.
“This specialization and the resource-rich Pacific coast allowed the inhabitants to be hugely productive, thereby facilitating permanent residential camps located near water springs and on natural jetties. From here, small groups could explore vast territories.”
Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public
Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public
One of the officers working on the Blue Book Project dared to rescue photographs, books, texts, documents, letters and trash memos, when the government-funded-initiative, project Blue Book; the study of UFOs was completed in 1969.
Now, thanks to researcher Rob Mercer and John Greenewald founder of The Black Vault, previously unknown documents have been digitized and posted online for the world to see.
The documents—which have all been declassified—were found behind a pile of firewood at a garage auction that took place in Fairborn, Ohio.
The Wright-Patterson Air Base, home of Project Blue Book and rumored to be the place where the remains of the ET ship that crashed in Roswell were taken to, is also located in Fairborn.
This last fact motivated investigator Rob Mercer, who immediately suspected that there was a possibility that the documents were genuine and decided to acquire them.
The investigation to determine the veracity of the find led Mercer to one officer responsible for having saved the archives instead of destroying them: Carmon Marano, a US Air Force lieutenant who worked at Project Blue Book, one of the US government’s attempts to explain the UFO phenomenon and, many times, debunk it before the public.
The Documents, already verified as genuine, have been posted online by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault.
Marked with a circle, Lieutenant Carmon Marano. Beneath him, in the center, Hector Quintanilla, the last director of Project Blue Book.
Project Blue Book was a series of studies on UFOs by the United States Air Force (USAF).
The objective of Project Blue Book was to determine if UFOs were a potential threat to national security.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed and archived.
This has been the last USAF project related to UFOs that have been made public so far.
According to investigations, towards the end of 1951, several influential high ranking generals of the USAF were so dissatisfied with the state of UFO investigations of the Air Force that they dismantled the so-called Project Grudge and replaced it with Project Blue Book in early 1952.
During the time that Blue Book lasted, which was completed in 1969, 12,618 UFO reports were collected. Experts at the time had concluded that most ‘sightings’ were misinterpretations of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.
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A few sightings were considered frauds.
701 cases—approximately 6%—were classified as unexplained.
The reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but the names of the witnesses and other personal information have been removed.
The decision to terminate Project Blue Book was based on several factors, such as the evaluation of a report written by the University of Colorado entitled “The scientific study of UFOs”, the review of this report by the National Academy of Sciences, the UFO cases previously studied and the experience of the Air Force, which investigated UFO reports between 1940 and 1969.
As a consequence of these investigations, studies, and experiences, the conclusions of the Project Blue Book were:
1) No UFO which the Air Force investigated ever posed a threat to National Security.
2) The Air Force has not found any evidence that the observations classified as “unidentified” represent objects or technological principles that go beyond the scientific knowledge of the time.
3) There has been no evidence to indicate that the observations classified as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.
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Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
According to a new study, ancient man began using words around One Million years ago, as experts believe without ‘speech,’ ancient humans would not have been able to build boats and sail the planet in order to populate the planet.
“What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo Erectus, about one million years ago or more.”
Experts may have just solved the riddle as to how and when ancient humans began speaking.
A controversial new study claims that speech was invented to help them organize, and build boats to populate the world.
Without ‘speech’ ancient man would not have been able to build boats and populate the world, say, researchers.
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If we take a look at human origins, we will find that our earliest known ancestor, Homo erectus took a huge leap forward by starting to walk upright, more than one million years ago.
However, while he could walk like we can today, researchers have not been able to find evidence that he could talk. As noted by experts, language was not something that Homo erectus was capable of.
All of this is based on anatomy, as scientists believe Homo erectus did not have a bone called the Hyoid, which is a bone that helps anchor the tongue. Homo Sapiens did have it.
Therefore, experts suggest that Hom erectus wasn’t really capable of speech, he was only capable of howling.
This means that language is believed to have arrived together with Homo Sapiens.
However, a new controversial study forces us to rethink human origins, saying that Homo erectus must have had the ability to speak.
Researchers now claim that without language, Homo erectus would have never been capable of building the boats needed to travel across Earth’s vast oceans.
Furthermore, experts note that if Homo erectus had not developed speech, he would not have been able to sail across the globe in large numbers populating the planet.
What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo erectus, about one million years ago or more. Those are controversial claims. Everybody talks about Homo erectus as a stupid ape-like creature, which of course describes us just as well, and yet what I want to emphasize is that erectus was the smartest creature that had ever walked the Earth,” says Daniel Everett, Professor of Global Studies, at Bentley University, Massachusetts.
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, professor Everett explained: “Oceans were never a barrier to the travels of erectus.”
Homo erectus was able to travel all over the world. He traveled to the Island of Flores, across one of the greatest ocean currents on Earth.
“They sailed to the island of Crete and various other islands. It was intentional they needed craft and they needed to take groups of twenty or so at least to get to those places. And this is the consensus of the archaeological evidence. Erectus needed language when they were sailing to the island of Flores. They couldn’t have simply caught a ride on a floating log because then they would have been washed out to see when they hit the current,” explained Professor Everett.
“They needed to be able to paddle. And if they paddled they needed to be able to say ‘paddle there’ or ‘don’t paddle. You need communication with symbols not just grunts. They accomplished too much for this to simply be the sort of communication that we see in other species without symbols,” he added.
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Researchers have found sacred Maya relics together with a 10,000-year-old Human skeleton in an underwater cave in Mexico.
In what is considered the world’s most important underwater archaeological site, experts have discovered sacred ancient Maya relics, together with human remains and Ice Age Animal Bones. So far, experts have discovered a total of 198 objects, including walls, altars and a Mayan burial site with human remains. Some of these objects date back more than 10,000 years and belonged to the first settlers of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
The team in charge of the Great Maya Aquifer Project found a human skeleton which is believed to be 10 thousand years old, in what is considered the largest cenote in the world, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The recently found bone structure is the fourth skeleton found so far, of what are believed to be the first settles in the area.
Image Credit: INAH
Lead Archaeologist Guillermo De Anda reported in a press conference the discovery of a cenote with stairs and altars dedicated to Ek Chuah, the God of war and commerce.
“I think it’s overwhelming. Without a doubt, it’s the most important submerged archaeological site in the world. It is very unlikely that there is another site in the world with these characteristics. There is an impressive amount of archaeological artifacts inside, and the level of preservation is also impressive.”
It is assumed that this space was used as a pilgrimage point by Mayan merchants.
Image Credit: INAH
Archaeologists found a large number of pottery remains and a mask representing the Ek Chuah.
The land routes used by the Maya for trade needed points of “ritual pilgrimage,” according to De Anda.
“On their way inland, they had to make stops at altars and in sacred places to make an exchange with the gods and, in some way, this is one of the traces they have left,” he said.
The so-called Cave of the God of Commerce has a temple and a stairway that allows access to the cave.
Image Credit: INAH
Throughout 347 kilometers of tunnels under the soil of Quintana Roo, archaeological and paleontological remains are concentrated in 198 places.
The team researching the world’s most important underwater archaeological site has the support of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and National Geographic to explore the flooded galleries, where unique elements have been found so far, such as a cave with remains of Pleistocene fauna embedded in the walls.
Experts have uncovered a total of 198 objects in the cave system.
As noted by De Anda, the remains found could account for “a catastrophic event” that allowed these bones to remain in that place.
“We still need to determine what these bones belong to, but the project is integrating a resident paleontologist to understand these contexts and take care of them as they should,” he concluded.
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME In September 2016, an amateur astronomer was looking at spiral galaxy NGC 613 (shown), located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and caught a supernova exploding.
SMARTT/QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, NASA, HUBBLE/ESA, ROBERT GENDLER
Víctor Buso spotted the supernova from his rooftop observatory in Rosario, Argentina, on September 20, 2016, when he aimed his telescope straight overhead at spiral galaxy NGC 613 to test a new camera. To avoid letting in too much light from the city sky — Rosario is a city of about 1.2 million people — he took a series of about 100 images that were each exposed for 20 seconds, spanning about an hour and a half.
Over the last half-hour of Buso’s observations, the supernova appeared and then doubled in brightness. In 2013, astronomers spotted a supernova within hours of its explosion (SN Online: 2/13/17), but this is one of the first to be spotted before it exploded.
Because there is no way to predict when and where a supernova will go off, this sort of observation is extremely rare, says astrophysicist Melina Bersten of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, who reports details of the supernova in the Feb. 22 Nature.
NOW YOU SEE IT The black spot toward the bottom right of this image is a supernova going off near galaxy NGC 613. An amateur astronomer in Argentina captured the explosion in nearly 100 images taken with a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera.
VÍCTOR BUSO AND GASTÓN FOLATELLI
“This is completely unusual, and was something that many people were searching for around the world without success,” Bersten says. “It was incredible.”
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star’s collapse ricochets back from the star’s core and pushes stellar material outward.
Photo NewsDe superstorm Winston in 2016 richtte voor vier miljard euro schade aan in Oceanië.
WEERNIEUWS Tropische superstormen zijn door opwarming van de aarde zo sterk geworden dat de huidige categorie-indeling van kracht 1 tot 5 niet meer voldoende is. Volgens klimaatwetenschappers op een congres in Nieuw-Zeeland is het daarom nodig een nieuwe categorie toe te voegen: schaal 6. Voor windsnelheden vanaf 320 kilometer per uur.
Tropische stormen of cyclonen worden al naar gelang hun kracht ingedeeld volgens de schaal van Saffir-Simpson. Bedoeling daarvan is bewoners in bedreigde gebieden voor te bereiden op de verwachte schade en risico’s. Een orkaan van categorie 2, 3 en 4 is bijvoorbeeld tien, vijftig, honderd keer zo verwoestend als een zwakke orkaan van categorie 1. Tot nu toe is categorie 5 het gevaarlijkst. Dan gaan de daken eraf van de meeste huizen en bedrijven. Bij een stormvloed langs de kust wordt de meeste laagbouw weggespoeld en kunnen de golven tot wel vier kilometer landinwaarts gaan.
Volgens klimatoloog Michael Mann van Pennsylvania State University dekt categorie 5 niet langer de lading. Een nieuwe categorie 6 zou een betere aanduiding zijn om de werkelijke kracht aan te geven van stormen van 320 kilometer per uur”, zegt hij in de Britse krant The Guardian. Uitbreiding van de schaal zou volgens hem benadrukken dat er wel degelijk een klimaatverandering gaande is die stormen krachtiger maakt dan ooit.
Aanpassing is ook nodig omdat het schadebeeld vertekend is, aldus Mann. Sinds de schaal van Saffir-Simpson werd opgesteld, in 1969, is er veel verbeterd in de stevigheid van bouw en infrastructuur. Dat er desondanks gebouwen omwaaien, zegt wat over de toegenomen kracht, aldus de wetenschapper. Recente stormen als de orkaan Patricia in 2015 met geschatte windstoten van tegen 400 kilometer per uur (8 doden, bijna 400 miljoen euro schade) en orkaan Winston in 2016 (44 doden, 4 miljard euro schade) passen volgens Mann in een nieuwe buitencategorie. Volgens de Nieuw-Zeelandse klimaatminister James Show zou orkaan Winston zeker een zes hebben gekregen ‘als die categorie had bestaan.’
WETENSCHAPEr is één kans op 10 tot 100 miljoen en het is de droom van elke astronoom. De Argentijnse amateur-sterrenkundige Victor Buso won de kosmische jackpot door (het begin van) een supernova te zien, zo staat in het jongste nummer van het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
“Beroepsastronomen zoeken al lang naar een dergelijk evenement”, (de start van) een ontploffende ster, schreef Alex Filippenko van de Universiteit van Berkeley. “Het is zoals de ‘kosmische jackpot’ winnen”, “uitzonderlijk”. “De metingen van Victor Buso vormen een geheel van data zonder voorgaande”, weet Federico Garcia van het Franse Commissariaat voor Kernenergie.
Op 20 september 2016 beslist de door sterren gepassioneerde Argentijn een nieuw fototoestel op zijn telescoop te testen. Hij had de telescoop zelf gebouwd op het dak van zijn huis in de stad Rosario, ten noorden van Buenos Aires. Hij kiest voor zijn eerste foto’s sterrenstelsel NGC 613, op ongeveer tachtig miljoen lichtjaar van ons, in het sterrenbeeld Beeldhouwer. Bingo: een enorme ster beleeft de laatste uren van haar leven in een cataclystische ontploffing die bekendstaat als een supernova.
Spectaculair fenomeen
De fenomenen die daarmee gepaard gaan, zijn hevig. Want volgens de theorie wordt de materie van de ster aan snelheden van duizenden kilometer per seconde uitgespuwd. Vanwege de ongelooflijke hoeveelheid uitgestoten energie is het evenement helder en is het van op onze planeet te zien. Maar het is een zeldzaam en vooral niet te voorzien evenement. Astronomen ontdekken het in het algemeen pas na enkele dagen en nooit sinds het begin. Dat geluk had Victor Buso wel.
Hij sloeg alarm via de Amerikaanse vereniging van waarnemers van variabele sterren AVVSO en bracht een kettingreactie op gang. Een batterij astronomen en natuurkundigen richtte zijn instrumenten op het fenomeen. Sommigen observeren het vervolg gedurende meer dan twee maanden. Volgens de studie in het Britse Nature laten de nieuwe data toe beter de fysieke structuur te begrijpen van een ster vlak voor ze ontploft, alsmede de natuur zelf van de explosie.
Eén kans op tien miljoen
De ploeg wetenschappers kon uitmaken dat de initiële massa van de ster ongeveer twintig keer die van onze Zon was. Ze zagen ook de helderheid van de supernova spectaculair toenemen. Op minder dan een half uur tijd verveelvoudigde die met factor 3, zegt de Franse universiteit Paris Diderot. Volgens Melina Bersten van het Instituut voor Astrofysica van La Plata in Argentinië had Victor Buso “maar één kans op tien miljoen of zelfs 100 miljoen” om het spektakel te kunnen aanschouwen.
TwitterDe Argentijnse astronoom bouwde deze telescoop zelf op zijn dak.
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Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright object falling from the sky with a huge flash before it exploded at low altitude on February 20, 2018.
Residents of Monte Gordo, in the district of Camaçari in the metropolitan region of Salvador heard the explosion too.
Credit image: Canal TV Noticias - Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
Land owner Edinei da Silva Almeida said that he was burning vegetation when he heard the explosion. Then Mr. Edinei da Silva Almeida accompanied by his neighbors started looking in the direction of the explosion and soon they found a strange object in an area of vegetation near a material store. The object looks like iron and weighs about 2.9 kg and is 15 cm in size.
Credit images: Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
While most of the experts believe that it was a small piece of a meteorite that fell to the ground, the Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (Bramon) suggests there is also the possibility that a part of a rocket, which was sent by Russia to the International Space Station, may have come loose and have fallen in Bahia reports Globo.1.com.
Whatever it may have been remains a mystery for the time being.
This unique case remained unknown to the public until May 2004, when a comic book about UFOs published the case. This introduced the meeting to the new generation of UFO enthusiasts, starting something similar to a cult in Japan.
LAS VEGAS - When it comes to UFO stories, all roads lead to Las Vegas, right?
Recent revelations about a secret Pentagon study of UFOs raised many questions, including this one --do government scientists have a piece of a flying saucer? According to a New York Times story, scientists in southern Nevada had a chance to study a piece of mystery metal which had some unusual properties.
When Nevada Senator Harry Reid and a few colleagues quietly found the funding back in 2007 for a serious Pentagon study of unknown aerial intruders, otherwise known as UFOs, one goal was to move the subject beyond the long shadow of the so-called Roswell crash, the controversial tale about a mysterious object that crashed in New Mexico in 1947.
"If you're here to find out where the little men from New Mexico at the end of World War II, are stored in some vault some place, you want to spend time talking about flying saucers that took people some place, I'm not into that," former Sen. Harry Reid said.
When the New York Times broke the story in December, and an organization called To The Starsreleased Pentagon videos of encounters with unknown craft, a separate line of inquiry was also unleashed. Was there, as the Times reported, a piece of metal or material that could not be identified by scientists?
For three years, a private organization named BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), headquartered at Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas, collected and analyzed UFO files and data on behalf of the defense intelligence agency, DIA.
Company founder Robert Bigelow built special secure facilities inside his plant to house the program, its files, and according to news reports, a piece of unknown material, reportedly a compound with special properties. Senator Reid, for one, said he is unaware of any such exotic materials.
"I don't know anything about exotic materials but (there's been) a lot of talk about it."
The subject isn't new in UFO circles. The properties of supposedly recovered mystery metals have been debated online for years. Rock star turned UFO investigator Tom DeLonge speculated last year about possible anti-gravity effects of one alloy. Nick Pope, a former official with the British Ministry of Defense study of UFOs said he believes such material does exist. But what about the point man for the Pentagon's UFO program?
"So, now we can theoretically warp space time in a way that we can go from A to B a little faster," said Luis Elizondo.
I-Team Reporter George Knapp: "Do we need special materials?"
Luis Elizondo: "Well, special materials are important no matter what you do. On a car, you might want titanium. Everything requires special materials."
Elizondo is the person most directly responsible for the public release of the now ubiquitous videos, the so called gimbal UFO and the Tic Tac encounter. He thinks these craft are able to bend space and time with a technology beyond anything known on earth. But, is the technology dependent on mystery metal, and did the U.S. have a piece of it at the Bigelow plant?
"Sadly, I can't discuss that. You would have to ask the U.S. government. But I've said before, when you are collecting special data, there are always tell-tale signs on how something works by its signature," Elizonda said.
Some who read the story speculated that the material contains an unknown element. Not true, say those who worked on the program, but multiple sources have confirmed to us that there was a weird piece of something at the Bigelow plant.
Physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff was one of the chief scientists for the BAASS study. He confirmed last month that he had a look at "unusual material" that was "very complex." Puthoff implied that it was engineered by unknown means, layered, he says, in ways that produced unusual characteristics. But that's as far as he would go.
Pentagon UFO Study Jan. 28, 2018, Coast to Coast hosted by George Knapp
Dr. Hal Puthoff said:
“Detailed proof that crashes had happened would be so highly classified piece of data. There has been one leaked document — how it got leaked, I’ll never know — which is out there, that talks about some crashes, that we were able to verify … it was a real document. My opinion is there are probably at least materials. Now, it wouldn’t necessarily have to be crash of an entire craft, but it could be a piece blown off, whatever, by a lightning strike or a missile or whatever. So I am not surprised to find out that there’s discussion of material being available. We’ve had an opportunity to look at some unusual material, and I think that is a big area that will become more significant as time goes on. And the interesting thing about it was that I couldn’t figure out a very complex material. When you talk to people that are doing this kind of research … [we know about] all the elements on the periodic table, so you are not finding some new element that you didn’t realize is on the periodic table. No, it’s more like putting together layers of various kinds of materials that you wouldn’t expect to be able to be layered, and the result at the end of the day is that it has certain unusual characteristics that you wouldn’t have predicted in advance, so that is the kind of thing that, to a physicist, is the most interesting.”
Elizondo gave one other tantalizing clue.
"You may call it material or meta-material but if something is left behind or recovered or retrieved, you'd want to study it just like at a crime scene," he said.
No one would say on the record how the piece of material was obtained, or where it was taken once the Las Vegas study ended back in 2012.
Illustration of three THEMIS satellites and Earth's magnetosphere. Credit: NASA
Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of green, purple and red. Unlike the long, shimmering veils of typical auroral displays, these pulsating auroras are much dimmer and less common. While scientists have long known auroras to be associated with solar activity, the precise mechanism of pulsating auroras was unknown. Now, new research, using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms—or THEMIS—mission and Japan's Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace—shortened to ERG, or also known as Arase—satellite, has finally captured the missing link thought responsible for these auroras. The answer lies in chirping waves that rhythmically pulse the particles that create the auroras.
Earth's magnetic bubble—the magnetosphere—protects the planet from high-energy radiation coming from the Sun and interstellar space, but during particularly strong solar events, particles can slip through. Once inside, the particles and the energy they carry are stored on the nightside of the magnetosphere, until an event, known as a substorm, releases the energy. The electrons are then sent speeding down into Earth's upper atmosphere where they collide with the other particles and produce the characteristic glow.
Pulsating auroras, however, have a slightly different cause. The magnetosphere is home to a type of plasma wave known as whistler mode chorus. These waves have characteristic rising tones—reminiscent of the sounds of chirping birds—and are able to efficiently disturb the electrons. When these waves make their appearance within the magnetosphere, some of the electrons scattered by the wave careen down into Earth's atmosphere, causing the pulsating auroras.
Illustration of the ERG satellite in orbit. Credit: ISAS/JAXA
While scientists have long believed this mechanism to be responsible for pulsating auroras, they had no definitive proof until now. The multipoint observations from the ERG satellite and ground-based all-sky cameras from the THEMIS mission allowed scientists to pinpoint the cause and effect, seeing the event from start to end. The results were published in the journal Nature.
Research done with NASA's ground-based camera and Japan's spacecraft in the near-Earth laboratory has applications further afield. Chorus waves have been observed around other planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Saturn. Likely, the processes observed around Earth can help explain auroral features on these gas giants as well as on planets around other stars. The results also help scientists better understand how plasma waves can influence electrons—something that occurs in processes across the universe.
After just yesterday we wrote that Jupiter’s emblematic Giant Red Storm was quieting down, Neptune’s own giant storm is about to suffer the same fate.
Dark spot on Neptune full color (left) and blue light (right).
Although not as famous and easily visible as the Great Red Spot, Neptune’s Great Dark Spot (creative names, I know) has its own remarkable history. Also an anticyclonic storm, the first Dark Spot was first observed in 1989 by NASA’s Voyager 2. It was big enough to cover the entire Atlantic, from the US to Europe’s West Coast, but unlike Jupiter’s storm, it had a much shorter lifespan. I say “the first” Dark Spot because, since its discovery in 1989, several others have appeared and disappeared, and the initial one is long gone. Hubble discovered two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished. The current storm was first observed in 2015, but it’s already shrinking.
We don’t really know that much about Neptune. The farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto) remains largely a mystery, with most of our information coming from remote observations or from the Voyager days. The way it was discovered says a lot about this: Neptune was the first and only planet in our Solar System found by mathematical predictionrather than by empirical observation. Astronomers believe that Neptune has a solid rock core, a mantle consisting of water, ammonia and methane ices, and an atmosphere. The top of the atmosphere is covered by top clouds, while the rest consists of hydrogen, helium, and methane The Dark Spot is interesting because it allows astronomers to indirectly deduce certain aspects about Neptune’s atmosphere.
The Great Dark Spot is thought to represent a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune, generating large white clouds made of frozen methane. The dark spot itself might also contain hydrogen sulfide, a substance commonly found in crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanic gases, and hot springs.
It seems a bit strange if you think about it — why would white clouds, including ice, create a dark spot? Well, it isn’t that they’re necessarily dark, just that they’re less bright than the rest of the atmosphere. Joshua Tollefson from the University of California at Berkeley explained.
“The particles themselves are still highly reflective; they are just slightly darker than the particles in the surrounding atmosphere.”
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley).
But other than this, we don’t really know much about the nature of these storms. We don’t know why or how they form, and no missions other than Voyager and Hubble are able to visualize them.
“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” said Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”
Unlike Jupiter’s storms, Neptune’s storms don’t last as long. Neptune doesn’t have atmospheric conveyor belts, which keep the storm trapped, and it doesn’t have the proper atmospheric conditions to fuel the storm. So quite soon, the Dark Spot will fade away — but another one will eventually rise up to take its place.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley, referring to work by Ray LeBeau (now at St. Louis University) and Tim Dowling’s team at the University of Louisville.
My recent 2-part article on the Roswell affair of July 1947 (part-1here and part-2 here) provided a couple of reasons why, in my opinion, nothing of an extraterrestrial nature came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. But, something definitely came down. And it wasn’t a weather-balloon or a Mogul balloon. And there wasn’t a crash-test-dummy in sight. Not a single one. My down-to-earth views on what reallyhappened at Roswell are well-known by those who follow the controversial saga of “The R-Word.” But, those same ufologists have little time for theories that blow the E.T. angle out of the water. Too bad that when it comes to Roswell the “I want to believe” factor is so dominating. But, if one day, the truth really does surface – to an undeniable degree – and it’s found that Roswell had nothing had to do with aliens, how will the UFO research community react? I’ll tell you.
What Really Happened at Roswell ? The Truth will shock you!
When Roswell topples (as it will, one day) there will be a fair degree of denial. Probably a huge degree of denial. No aliens at Roswell? Ridiculous! Nonsense! That will be followed by a sudden increase in the sales of comfort-blankets – and prescriptions for anything and everything that will lessen anxiety and lower blood-pressure. Should all of that happen, the small numbers of people like me won’t suffer. I will be knocking back the beer and the brandy – thus ensuring an entire week of head-spinning celebrations and an endlessly revolving-door of babe-tastic strippers. Those who will suffer are those who cannot accept that Ufology’s number-one case will become a rotting, stinking corpse. And, you know what we do with them: we bury them or burn them.
There is also the matter of how the extermination of Roswell will have a spiraling effect on various other aspects of Ufology. Let’s face it, whatever happened at Roswell, the majority of UFO researchers accept the alien angle. But, if Roswell – perceived as the best crash case on record – does collapse, what does that say about all of the other crash cases? Not at lot, that’s what! The December 1965 affair at Kecksburg, PA is seen as a good, solid UFO case by many. But, if Roswell goes belly-up, then it’s all but inevitable that people will soon develop doubts about the second-best case (or third, or fourth, depending on your personal perspective).
If aliens didn’t die on, or over, the Foster Ranch then the tale of Philip J. Corso – and his “back-engineering” schemes of alien technology – completely falls apart. That would then make people question the back-engineering-based claims of Bob Lazar, too. If there were no aliens at Roswell, then that means no extraterrestrial corpses were secretly taken to what is, today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. That will provoke questions about whether or not there were ever any such corpses at the base.
This gets us to the heart of the big problem with Roswell: it supports so many aspects of what pro-Roswell UFO researchers believe and want to hear. And when the case crumbles, all of those related aspects – the back-engineering, the Wright-Pat legends of “dead aliens on ice,” and the other crash-based cases – will plummet to the ground.
Few people ever give much thought at all to just how much of present-day Ufology is so deeply plugged-in to Roswell – directly or indirectly. If Roswell was seen as just another case – but, admittedly, a high-profile one, wherever it leads – then it could be explored and investigated without the issue of it holding up the whole damn subject. But, when you have one, single case which is loudly championed as the incident to beat all other incidents, you are on dangerous and rocky ground.
To a degree, though, and when it comes to Roswell, most people in Ufology will deny any and all kind of disclosure than the one they want to hear. No E.T.s at Roswell? It must be disinformation. No dead aliens at Wright-Pat? “They” secretly transferred the bodies to somewhere else. No back-engineering? It all got moved from Area 51 to the Dugway Proving Ground. Roswell completely and utterly dictates Ufology. Which is a terrible and unfortunate thing.
National Geographic: Area 51 The CIA's Secret Files
Dying sucks. It’s a sad fact of human existence. When you’re young, the inevitability and permanence of death are hard to conceptualize, but experiencing the deaths of loved ones sure makes it real in a heartbeat – or lack thereof. Despite our impotence in the face of what is surely an inescapable fate, humans have been trying to find ways to avoid death since time immemorial. Modern medicine and digital media have come a long way, but the fact remains that we’re all just going to rot in the ground someday – that is, unless one of these kooky scientists proclaiming the advent of human immortality turns out to be right. This week, yet another self-proclaimed “futurologist” has issued his prediction for the strange, immortal future humanity likely has in store. Will we really soon be able to cheat death with the help of technology?
The bigger question is why the future is always depicted in blue and orange.
These latest predictions were made by engineer and futurologist Ian Pearson who has been a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a fellow of both the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World innovation Foundation. He claims his predictions have been shown to have “about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.” In an interview with The Sun, predicts humans will be able to cheat death by the year 2050. Well some humans, anyway. The rich ones. The really, really rich ones:
One day your body dies – maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease – but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost. For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer. By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.
In his prediction about human immortality, Pearson cites three emerging technological trends which have the potential to indefinitely extend the human lifespan, or at least the lifespan of human consciousnesses: rejuvenating body parts with anti-aging gene therapies or swapping out body parts for lab-grown replacements; digitizing the human consciousness and downloading it into biohybrid android sleeves à la Altered Carbon; or developing technologies which will allow our consciousnesses to exist forever in virtual realities. I don’t know about you, but that last one sounds the best to me.
We might one day look at swapping out body parts the same way we look at getting a haircut.
While these kinds of transhumanist predictions are great material for sci-fi and surely have led to some generous research grants, I can’t help but wonder if these are merely some kind of new techno-religious belief system emerging. These kinds of technological immortality sound a lot like concepts of the afterlife, reincarnation, or the soul tossed around by many world religions. Will we really ever be able to digitize the human consciousness? Do we really want to? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
By Cathy Zhang
F-15 fighters were unable to locate the UFO over Oregon on Oct. 25, 2017.
(Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
On Oct. 25, 2017, a mysterious aircraft was spotted, in broad daylight, near a busy flight route over the state of Oregon. U.S. Air Force jet fighters were then launched to investigate. But found nothing.
Originally reported by The War Zone blog from auto news site The Drive, the unidentified aircraft was initially picked up on radar at around 4.30 p.m. The object was traveling at high speeds through Northern California at 37,000 feet, according to the site.
There was no flight path recorded for the aircraft, and it did not respond to radio calls. Neither did it appear on any nearby aircraft Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems.
The object then turned north and merged with nearby commercial air traffic, before disappearing from radar.
Shortly after, several pilots radioed into air traffic control to report sightings of a white aircraft flying at 37,000 feet, but at distance too far to make an identification. This occurred for a period of half an hour and over hundreds of miles.
US Air Force F-15 interceptor fighters were then scrambled from Portland. But despite their speed and radar capability, the fighters could not locate the mystery aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force both confirmed to War Zone that the event did occur.
Recently, War Zone obtained, via a freedom of information request, audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made by FAA staff during and after the event.
The recordings paint a fuller picture of what happened as authorities struggled to determine what they were dealing with.
In a recording after the initial spotting by air traffic control, a controller reported an object traveling “very fast at 37,000,” before remarking: “That’s crazy.”
When the F-15 fighters enter the scene, they can be heard calling air traffic control asking for an update. The controller responds that the aircraft “must be in stealth mode or something.”
Phone interviews with the pilots who saw the UFO conducted after the event provide further details about the craft.
The pilot of Southwest 4712 noted that he had not seen anything like this in his nearly 30-year flying career.
“If it was like a Lear [private jet] type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big,” he said. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft yeah.”
Online users on Reddit have speculated that the object may have been a drug smuggling aircraft or a secret military stealth plane. However, it was a test run for a new stealth craft, flying through a commercial carrier route during daylight hours would seem to be an odd move.
A news.com.au writer conjectures that Russia and China, which also have developed aircraft stealth technology, could also be capable of a flyover such as this.
Whatever theories we may have about the strange white aircraft, the recordings show that even the officials didn’t have a clue.
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In mijn hele carrière heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien. Verbazing en verwarring alom na UFO boven Oregon
In mijn hele carrière heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien. Verbazing en verwarring alom na UFO boven Oregon
Op 25 oktober vorig jaar verscheen op klaarlichte dag een UFO boven de Amerikaanse staat Oregon. Er werden straaljagers op afgestuurd, maar die konden niets vinden.
Het onbekende vliegtuig werd rond 16.30 uur lokale tijd opgepikt op de radar, meldt website The Drive.
Het object bevond zich op ruim 11 kilometer hoogte en bewoog zich met grote snelheid voort. Het reageerde niet op radio-oproepen.
Niet traceren
Het kwam aangevlogen vanuit het noorden van Californië, begaf zich vervolgens onder het commerciële luchtverkeer en verdween uiteindelijk van de radar.
Kort daarop maakten diverse piloten bij de luchtverkeersleiding melding van een wit vaartuig op ongeveer 11 kilometer hoogte.
Vanuit Portland stegen F-15’s op om het object te onderscheppen, maar die konden het mysterieuze toestel niet traceren.
Gestoord
De Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit en luchtmacht hebben bevestigd dat dit voorval zich daadwerkelijk heeft voorgedaan.
Uit geluidsopnames blijkt dat de autoriteiten grote moeite hadden om te begrijpen waar ze mee te maken hadden.
Een luchtverkeersleider maakte melding van een object ‘dat zeer snel bewoog op een hoogte van 11 kilometer’. “Dat is gestoord,” klonk het.
Nog nooit
Eén van de piloten merkte op dat hij gedurende zijn hele carrière nog nooit zoiets had gezien. “Het was een wit vliegtuig en het was groot,” zei hij.
Sommigen speculeren dat het object mogelijk een geheim militair stealthvliegtuig was. Maar het zou niet logisch zijn om zo’n vliegtuig te testen in een gebied waar ook lijnvliegtuigen vliegen.
A BUZZ ABOUT TOWN Canada city plagued by mysterious creepy humming noise that’s been driving residents mad for years… and nobody knows what it is
A BUZZ ABOUT TOWN Canada city plagued by mysterious creepy humming noise that’s been driving residents mad for years… and nobody knows what it is
The low-level noise dubbed the Windsor Hum, can be heard throughout Windsor, Ontario, home to almost 220,000 people
By Aletha Adu
A MYSTERIOUS low-level humming noise which has plagued a Canadian city for years has left residents unable to cope with the persistent sound with poor health.
The Windsor Hum, can be heard throughout Windsor, Ontario, home to almost 220,000 people, but it has been reported 90 miles away in the US city of Cleveland.
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The Windsor Hum is said to have plagued residents since 2011, sounding like the vibrations blasting from a sub woofe
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Troubled locals have taken matters into their own hands, recording the noise each day and comparing it to previous results, in a bid to determine its source
Complaints of the part noise, part vibration arose in 2011, when locals initially compared it to rattling windows.
But as the hum began to vary in its intensity, droning on for days at unbearable levels, distressed locals have taken to all forms of social media to question their hearing and vent their frustrations.
On Twitter, Kieran Owen wrote: "Heard the Windsor Hum for the first time. Like a distant yet gigantic lawn mower."
Jim Dunstan, who may be new to the local area questioned on Facebook: "Is there something going on? Can hear a loud humming and mechanical noises consistently in the past half hour or so."
Others have likened the sound to a fleet of diesel engines positioned right next to your home or the vibrations blasting from a concert sub woofer.
A Twitter group established to examine the Windsor Hum claimed the noise was at its worst in 2016.
The Windser Hum wrote: "The Hum is worse than its been in years!" A day later, another post said: "An entire community is being shaken by the Hum..24 hours and no rest!"
Locals have been affected to such an extent, they launched a private Facebook group to vent their frustrations, but also trying to find their own solutions.
Mike Provost who helps run the page has collected more than 4,000 pages of daily observations of the sound, during different weather conditions, in a bid to find a cause, the New York Times reported.
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Some believe the noise comes from Zug Island on the Detroit River, because it's heavily industrialised
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Even Detroit residents, pictured on the left side with bright lights, have complained of the persistent noise
Sabrina Wiese beckoned others to consider having to leave their home town - full of everything and everyone they know and love - just to escape the sound.
Researchers from the Canadian government, the University of Windsor and the University of Western Ontario launched a series of studies to investigate its cause, but are still yet to provide concrete explanations.
A report from The University of Windsor suggested the hum originates from Zug Island on the Detroit River, because it is full of manufacturing operations.
In deze stad wordt al jarenlang een mysterieus brommend geluid gehoord, en niemand weet waarom
In deze stad wordt al jarenlang een mysterieus brommend geluid gehoord, en niemand weet waarom
Al jaren wordt een Canadese stad geplaagd door een mysterieus brommend geluid. Niemand weet waar het vandaan komt.
De zogeheten Windsor Hum kan worden gehoord in Windsor in Ontario, waar bijna 220.000 mensen wonen.
Ook in de Amerikaanse stad Cleveland, enkele tientallen kilometers verderop, is het geluid inmiddels al gehoord.
Enorme grasmaaier
Veel mensen maken op sociale media melding van het geluid. “Heb de Windsor Hum voor het eerst gehoord,” schreef Kieran Owen op Twitter. “Het klinkt als een enorme grasmaaier.”
“Is hier iets aan de hand?” vroeg Jim Dunstan zich af op Facebook. “Hoor al een half uur een hard, zoemend en mechanisch geluid.”
Anderen vergeleken het geluid met een rij dieselmotoren die vlak naast hun huis waren geplaatst of subwoofers tijdens een concert. De Windsor Hum zou in 2016 op zijn ergst zijn geweest.
Geen verklaring
Mike Provost doet onderzoek naar het geluid en heeft al 4000 pagina’s aan materiaal verzameld, schrijft de New York Times. Nog altijd is er geen verklaring voor de Hum gevonden.
Onderzoekers van de Canadese overheid en verschillende universiteiten hebben meerdere studies verricht, maar daar is tot op heden niets uitgekomen.
De Universiteit van Windsor suggereerde dat het geluid mogelijk afkomstig is van Zug Island, waar allerlei zware machines staan.
Overal ter wereld
Mysterieuze geluiden zoals de Windsor Hum worden overal ter wereld gehoord, waaronder in Australië en Engeland.
In Groot-Brittannië haalde de zogeheten Bristol Hum eind jaren zeventig het nieuws.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben het mysterie ontrafeld rond een tempel voor Pluto in de oude stad Hiërapolis, vlak bij Pamukkale in het huidigeTurkije. Dieren die te dicht bij deze ‘poort naar de hel’ kwamen, overleefden het niet, priesters wél. Een nieuwe studie wijst uit dat de giftige dampen die uit de offergrot opstegen vooral uit dodelijk geogenische koolstofdioxide bestonden.
Ook het laatste decennium nog vielen vogels die te dicht bij Ploutonion (‘poort naar de hel’) vlogen dood neer. De overlevering wil dat de adem van Hades - de Griekse naam voor Pluto, god van de onderwereld - dodelijk was. In de Griekse en Romeinse oudheid werd ook beweerd dat mensen bedwelmd werden door de giftige dampen. Maar priesters konden blijkbaar wel overleven op de heilige plek.
Onderzoekers ontdekten dat de dampen voornamelijk bestaan uit dodelijke concentraties CO2-gassen, die opborrelen uit de aardkorst. De nieuwe studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences.
Meer dan 2.000 jaar geleden schreef de Griekse historicus en geograaf Strabo al: “Deze ruimte is gevuld met dampen, zo mistig en dicht dat je nauwelijks de grond kunt zien. Elk dier dat binnenkomt, valt onmiddellijk dood. Ik gooide er mussen in en ze bliezen meteen hun laatste adem uit en vielen neer.”
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Het heiligdom werd in 2011 door Italiaanse archeologen opnieuw blootgelegd. Tijdens de opgravingen stelden ze al vast dat de dampen verscheidene vogels hadden gedood. In de kleine tempel offerden priesters stieren aan Pluto, terwijl ze zelf lichtjes hallucineerden door de giftige dampen. Die blijken nu op te stijgen uit een onderaardse kamer waar een warmwaterbron boven een breuklijn ligt.
In de grot zelf kon de CO2-concentratie oplopen tot 91 procent, wat dodelijk is voor mens en dier. Rond de tempel konden priesters het hoofd hoog genoeg houden om zelf niet te bezwijken. Daar waren de concentraties veel lager. Vandaag ontsnappen volgens het onderzoek nog altijd kleinere gifwolken uit de grot, “die verbazingwekkend genoeg fataal kunnen zijn voor insecten, vogels en zoogdieren”.
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Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
THE International Space Station (ISS) appears to have recorded the mysterious and ancient Black Knight Satellite floating near to the Soyuz spacecraft, according to space watchers.
The Black Knight Satellite is the name given to an object captured on camera by NASA astronauts during a 1998 space shuttle mission.
Conspiracy theorists claim the satellite is of extraterrestrial origin and possibly up to 13,000 years old and orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit.
The legend has been circulating since the Sixties and now footage uploaded to YouTube channel Section 51 claims to be evidence of the alleged craft.
A caption beneath the video reads: “Leaked pictures from ISS show the 13,000 year old Black Knight Satellite UFO very close to Soyuz Spacecraft during approach to the Station.”
Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
In the video, a mysterious and long looking black object can be seen floating near the Soyuz spacecraft, which is set to dock with the ISS.
As astronauts are heard mumbling in the background, the black knight seems to stay in the distance as if it were keeping an eye on what is happening.
Some of the comments show viewers were convinced by the authenticity.
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The Black Knight Satellite is allegedly 13,000 years old
AkumaGaming wrote: “I have a funny feeling that isn't piloted by someone, sent here to observe us on a daily activity.”
The Black Knight Satellite theory developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
A decade later in 1973, Duncan Lunan, a researcher from Scotland, looked back at the Norwegian scientist data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the Black Knight was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
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It was first spotted in 1998
In 1998, the first alleged photographs of the satellite emerged and were taken by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour, as it made its first flight to the ISS.
NASA however has looked to debunk the claims by saying that the Black Knight Satellite was actually a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.
Is This The Gate To Hell? Researchers find Ancient ‘Portal To The Underworld’
Is This The Gate To Hell? Researchers find Ancient ‘Portal To The Underworld’
Despite the fact that the discovery sounds like an excellent beginning for a new Indiana Jones Movie—We love Indy—researchers say they have found what they are calling “The Gates of Hell.”
Obviously not in a literal way, this mythical portal to the underworld was mentioned by ancient Greeks and Romans alike.
“This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell,” wrote Greek historian Strabo (64 BCE – 24 CE).
An inscription at the site to underworld gods Pluto and Kore.
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The site discovered by experts is located in ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now Pamukkale in southwestern Turkey
The great majority of ancient legends refer to the different ways of reaching the underworld, going through different stages that increase the suffering of the soul that leaves the body.
For many Romans, this process began in “the gateway to the underworld” and scientists have recently revealed that the site still exists.
The place is actually a cave that has been rediscovered by researchers from the University of Salento (Italy). The place belonged to ancient Phrygia and was used to perform animal sacrifices by priests.
The site as it looks today.
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However, what the ancients considered a reality as a portal to the underworld is something entirely different, and we can thank science.
After finding the location of the ancient ‘portal to the underworld’ scientists have found out why animals that approached the site died nearly instantly.
The cause is an underground seismic activity, through which a large amount of volcanic carbon dioxide is expelled to the surface that killed the animals, but not to the priests performing the sacrifice.
The ancient priests must have surely thought they were favored by their gods, while in fact, it was just science, all along.
Specialists from the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, took samples of the levels of carbon dioxide in the area surrounding the cave and found that the gas forms a kind of “lake” that rises 40 centimeters above the ground.
Deadly Gases Still Emerge From This Ancient Portal to the Underworld.
One of the most surprising facts is that this area continues to be as deadly as it was back in the days of the Ancient Romans and Greeks.
The gas is dissipated by the sun during the day but is more deadly at dawn. The concentration reaches above 50 percent at the very bottom of the lake, rising to around 35 percent at 10 centimeters, which could even kill a human – but, above 40 centimeters, the concentration drops rapidly, reports Science Alert.
However, above 40 centimeters, the concentration decreases rapidly.
“While the bull was standing within the gas lake with its mouth and nostrils at a height between 60 and 90 cm, the large grown priests (galli) always stood upright within the lake caring that their nose and mouth were way above the toxic level of the Hadean breath of death,” the team wrote in their paper.
“It is reported that they sometimes used stones to be larger.”
Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was fully functional until the 4th century AD, but remained a place of sporadic visitation by visitors for the next two centuries. The temple was destroyed in the 6th century AD by Christians, while later earthquakes may have further damaged the site
Hell On Earth: A Massive Crater In The Middle Of The Desert Has Been Burning For Decades
Hell On Earth: A Massive Crater In The Middle Of The Desert Has Been Burning For Decades
Ladies and gents, meet the Gateway, or Doorway to hell.
There is a mysterious crater in the middle of the desert that simply put, can’t stop burning.
This massive crater located in Turkmenistan has not stopped burning since 1971, the year in which it was created by accident.
In the middle of the Karakum desert, in Turkmenistan, a singular flaming hole emerges from the earth: the well of Darvaza, popularly known as “Door to Hell.”
Burn baby burn…
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It is a huge crater that burns day and night without ceasing for nearly 50 years.
The strange circular depression, near the small village of Darvaza, is located on a huge desert that occupies practically 70% of the territory of the country and is very rich in oil and natural gas.
The origin of the crater goes back to a accident that took place in 1971, when a group of Soviet geologists, believing they had found a natural gas field, was conducting a survey in the area.
However, in the middle of their research, the earth split open and swallowed their machinery and the tents, before the astonished look of the researchers.
Turns out they had discovered an underground cave filled with natural gas.
Aware of this, and fearing that the dangerous gases escaped, the geologists decided to set it on fire thinking that it would eventually cease to burn in a few days. Little did they know how wrong they were.
The Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan. This image is made from three 17mm shots stitched together and the field of view (~170°) is larger than it may appear (the field has roughly the size of two basketball courts).
Ever since it was set on fire, the Door To Hell burns without stopping and offers a show so impressive that it attracts tourists and adventurers to the remote area. Since 2009, 50,000 touristshave visitedthesite. The gas crater has a total area of 5,350 m2. The surrounding area is also popular for wild desert camping.
And although there have been several attempts to put out the crater flames, 69 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep, the flames continue to urn just as they started burning 47 years ago.
Inside the Door To Hell, the temperatures reach 1000degreesCelsius.
Curiously, Canadian explorer GeorgeKourounis—a man with real cojones—became the first person to descend into the crater, in 2013.
The well is a tourist attraction.
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To achieve this extraordinary feat, Kourounis used a special system of pulleys, a heat-resistant suit, and breathing equipment.
Inside the well, he was able to take samples that allowed him to discover a methane-rich bacteria present in the burning environment.
Extraterrestrial life forms. We have watched them in movies, read them in books, saw them as the friends we always wanted and, also, the enemy that was too dangerous to be true. Some say they are us, but different while others say they are made up by the mind because it’s such a genius magician but a lousy researcher. We argue, debate and still find it difficult to come to a conclusion about their very existence. In the midst of it all, people make their own theory, their own story of how aliens are related to us or how they helped us progress at a great pace. One of the fiction is here which became more and more interesting as I thought about it over and over again. And after I wrote it, I said, “They are not very different than we are.”
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (not a Star Wars fan-fiction), there was a planet like ours. There resided the most intelligent beings that were known to their kind because life did not exist in planets and galaxies near them. They studied the atmospheric conditions of other planets which led them to conclude that most of them were barren and lifeless. This was a very disappointing conclusion because the planet, and its people, were breathing their last.
Much like our own planet Earth, their planet had also been victim of pollution, exploitation of resources and inevitable death. To sustain their kind, a group of astronauts were sent, on regular intervals, to different planets and galaxies, to know if there is any flicker of light that their kind might survive the apocalyptic end. After a certain period of time, it became mandatory for beings that fall under a certain age, to fly and seek life. The chances of survival were slim but it was the chance they had to take to ensure survival. For simplicity, let us assume, the beings to look something like the one in the cover photo.
They were long strides ahead of us in terms of technology but the basic problem of poverty, malnutrition, income inequality was also evident in their planet. It was too late to do anything. Land were infertile for agriculture, the air was so deadly that almost everyone had to take in regular medicines to find the oxygen among them and breathe, the water neither tasted tasteless nor looked colorless. The water treatment plants surrendered to the workload that was imposed on them. Euthanasia was made legal in most of the countries and number of suicides grew every week. Technologically, they possessed the ability to travel in time but only if they could go back in it.
An astronaut, like all the others, was depressed by the sight of its own planet. He wanted to go out there and find a planet where life would exist. If not now then later in the future. The thought of taking beings into the other planet, if life was found, was meaningless. The offspring’s chances of survival were uncertain in a foreign land because, even if a planet was found, it would’ve taken years before it was approved habitable. This led to debated between the scientific community and the other powerful ministers in the world. They finally decided to not send the beings but their DNA. If beings were present in the planet with life, then the infusion of DNA can either kill the being, have no effect or lead to something that was beyond imagination.
It set out with the same mission like any others’. Find home.
After travelling and skipping galaxies (due to technology, the spaceships could travel at light speed), the being finally came to our planet. But it was not like any other planet it had seen. The sky thundered, the clouds poured rain, asteroids and meteorites continued striking the planet and it was established that life was impossible here. But, just out of curiosity, the astronaut travelled in time unless he saw tall, thick trees, huge mountains, blue sky and large animals (dinos, of course).
Dodging their feet and camouflaging in the surrounding, the being experimented with the DNA of the animals and waited until their offspring was born. It was easy with the time travel, results could be seen instantly.
While some species had no effect, others died. The experimented was not limited to the huge animals as new, more evolved animals came into being. They could fly, swim, adapt between land and water, lived underground and eat each other. The range of animals impressed the astronaut and it motivated it to continue its experiments. But slowly as no progress was seen, the astronaut was starting to lose all the hope it had gained. After a particular time-travel, he didn’t see any huge animals at all. They had disappeared somewhere but the planet hadn’t changed.
As days went by, the astronaut grew more and more impatient and would often kill the animals because of frustration and annoyance. Sometimes it would lay down in the night and look at the stars, one might have been its planet, he could never know for sure. The beings there were dying and here it couldn’t find progress. It was the inevitable death, he thought, with no beginning.
During its stroll, he came across a peculiar primate that was small in comparison to huge gorillas. With lost hope, he experimented with them and travelled in time to see if anything, at all, happened. To its surprise, something had changed. The primates walked relatively straighter, the hair in their body reduced significantly, their round facial bone structure was now promising of a stronger cheekbone and they seemed to be less strong than they were.
This overwhelmed the astronaut with unknown emotions and he experimented with some more of the same species. It was working. Some years down the line and the body had much less hair, they walked straight and they were less strong but were much smarter now. They built home and wheel and fire which was never thought of by other animals, evident by their shock. Time grew and so did the intelligence. They built machines to carry people, to fly, to go swimming underwater but also those which killed each other when the time came.
The astronaut witnessed all these. It was not sure how old it was but it didn’t matter. Its kind survived. Someday the other astronauts might come and see the life dancing, as it should. As time passed further, the people grew less and less strong. Their shoulders hunched, many couldn’t walk with a straight back and the size of their head grew was larger than ever before. They looked abnormal to their kind but the astronaut knew what was going on.
After some centuries of wait, finally, almost everyone looked like the astronaut (although all of them had hunched back). The astronaut was filled with extreme joy by now but it felt week physically. Maybe it was time of its death but it was ready now. It would just be a matter of time before others discover this planet and group together to inhabit it with the other beings that live rather peacefully. The new beings were not smart or intelligent. Technologically they were years back than the specie of the astronauts but they knew how to live with each other (after many wars), and the astronaut died, thinking that its kind would be welcomed the same way.
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Leaked files reveal the US government had tested and stored ‘unknown material’ from alien spaceship wreck
Leaked files reveal the US government had tested and stored ‘unknown material’ from alien spaceship wreck
Scientists have been following signals, sightings, and appearances supposedly paid by Aliens, however, there is no concrete proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. But what if these aliens were real? What if the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) were real? A UFO research group has leaked highly-confidential files belonging to the Government of the United States or Army to the Internet which made some striking revelation about the materials founded. The papers as quoted by a major news website were written between 2007 and 2012 classifying the materials found due to extraterrestrial sightings and UFOs. The paper elaborates that these ‘unknown’ materials have been tested and currently stored in a private facility thereby keeping everything under wrap.
It is not the first time when the United States Government or Army has been alleged of hiding valuable information such as the Apollo Moon Landing, the shape of the Earth, etc. According to the papers, some unknown materials were found across the United States which were recovered. It could be potential alien crash sites leaving the unknown material as wreck which is then supplied to the Department of Defence (DoD) which in turn, stores it in private and confidential facility. These revelations also hint towards the total expenditure of £16 million invested by DoD towards UFO budget to the private company ‘Bigelow Aerospace’ based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The files that were leaked recently had quoted that Bigelow Aerospace has been modified as a storage area where these materials can be stored without any hassle.
According to a former NASA employee, James Oberg stated that the Government of the army may not be directly involved with the Bigelow, however, there are chances that the latter contracted UFO research groups who would search and provide details on such sightings to Bigelow and then, the latter would inform the DoD about it. On the flip side, a former UFOs investigator for British Ministry of Defence stated that the material found can be mistaken as something not from Earth. He further explained that when a former or someone notices a UFO-like strange sighting and then finds any material alongside, he/she could mistakenly assume it to be from the UFO as well.
In a different story, enthusiasts have found what is said to be a UFO in the Arizona desert. The group revealed that they found the photos of that strange structure black in color in the Arizona Desert near deciduous trees. Many Ufologists have claimed that it could be a potential alien spaceship. In the pictures shown by Google Maps, there is a black spot over the structure which is a well-known trick used by governments to hide something from the satellites and it has happened in many instances.
More than 100 years later, new patchy forest grows at the site of the massive 1908 Tunguska explosion. The blast leveled more than 80 million trees across 820 square miles (2,123 square meters).
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On June 30, 1908, there was a massive explosion in a remote forest in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. The explosion was so powerful, it flattened more than 80 million trees across 820 square miles (2,123 square meters). Later estimates compared the explosion to 1,000 atomic bombs.
People more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away reported seeing a fireball as bright as the sun, followed by a searing heat; many were blown off their feet. Effects of the blast were felt as far away as Great Britain. But thanks to the political upheavals in Russia at the time (it was staring down two revolutions and a world war) the Tunguska event wasn't investigated until almost two decades later, when a scientific team led an expedition to the area in 1927.
Now, more than a century later, questions still remain. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know hosts Ben Bowlin and Matt Frederick are joined by Stuff to Blow Your Mind's Joe McCormick to examine all the evidence and attempt to explain the real cause behind Fire in the Sky.
The 1908 Tunguska explosion was so unusual that theories about what caused it abound. Some believe it was a comet or meteorite that exploded before impact, while others think it was Agda, the god of Thunderwho triggered the blast because he was displeased with the Siberian Evenki people. One writer even suggested an alien spaceship was trying to get to the nearby Lake Baikal for fresh water when it exploded just before landing. However, no remnants of any kind of spacecraft has been found in the area, undermining that theory for even the most strident believers.
In 1973, two scientists hypothesized that a miniature black hole somehow crashed into Earth, causing an antimatter explosion, and shot out the other side. But no exit wound or similar damage has ever been found or reported, making that theory easy to dismiss as well.
It's also been argued that famed inventor Nikola Tesla caused the explosion when he tested his theorized "death ray," a kind of particle-beam tool that would be able to repel any kind of attack. Tesla talked about this invention frequently, envisioning it to be the end of all war. Could he have tried his invention in this remote area? Or perhaps he was working from his Wardenclyffe Tower in New York, trying to send a wireless signal to explorer Robert Peary in the North Pole, but hit the Tunguska region instead?
This theory, too, has met with disdain, simply because there was never any evidence that Tesla had managed to create that kind of advanced technology. Whatever device he used would have required the 1908 New York power grid to operate, and could never generate the kind of energy released at the Tunguska event.
The most popular theory is that this was an impact event, in which a meteorite, comet or asteroid hits Earth. The only problem? There's no crater in the Tunguska region; the only physical evidence of the explosion was the flattened trees. How could there be an impact from a meteor that leaves no impact?
In 2007, Italian scientists proposed that perhaps the nearby small Lake Cheko was the crater, and that the asteroid was sitting at the bottom of it waiting to be discovered, but others say that their evidence isn't compelling enough to hold up to scrutiny.
What do Matt, Ben and Joe think? Was it a comet, which is made up mostly of ice, exploding in the air from atmospheric stress, its fragments vaporizing? Or perhaps a rocky meteorite, which exploded into a fine dust and settled into the soft, peat ground, difficult to detect? You'll have to listen to the entire podcast to find out. Or to at least hear Joe deliver a demonic chant to the Evenki thunder god.
Yellowstone Magma Chamber Under Immense Pressure After Deformation, Experts Warn
Yellowstone Magma Chamber Under Immense Pressure After Deformation, Experts Warn
Seismologists who have been monitoring the Supervolcano at Yellowstone have said that new data has revealed that the magma chamber is under immense pressure and the caldera might erupt at any time.
Deformation Occurs When Pressure in Magma Chamber Changes
Experts have warned that the volcano is under strain after noticing deformation. This is said to be a process where the subsurface rock changes shape subtly and it is said to be happening under the surface of Yellowstone at the moment.
The researchers have said that the deformation happens when there has been a change in the pressure in the magma chamber and now the experts are keeping a careful watchful eye on any new development.
Seismologists from UNAVCO are now using GPS, along with borehole tiltmeters and borehole strainmeters so that they can measure the smallest of changes in any deformation at Yellowstone. Glen Mattioli and David Mencin, geodesists at UNAVCO said that the strain signal is bigger than what they expected if the crust that lies under Yellowstone was completely solid.
Semi-molten Rock May Be Just 3 Miles under the Surface
They believe that lava is flowing and this is allowing pressure to build up in the magma chamber and they have no idea whether this is a good or bad thing. The observations by the geodesists agree with other instruments used at Yellowstone, such as seismometers.
These give an indication that a zone of rock that is semi-molten lies around three miles under the surface. It is called semi-molten due to the fact that the whole zone has around 5% to 15% liquid rock occupying only a small pocket of space between the rocks that are solid.
Scientists want to give assurance to the public that the observations will not be a cause for alarm. However, they would say that and people should bear in mind that the last time that the volcano erupted was 700,000 years ago, so it is well overdue for another eruption. Now Yellowstone has been cast in the limelight due to the new data.
87,000 People Would Die If Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupted
If the volcano at Yellowstone were to erupt around 87,000 people would die immediately and around two-thirds of the United States would be left uninhabitable. It would lead to a huge amount of ash spewing into the atmosphere and it would block the sunlight out and affect life beneath it as there would be a nuclear winter. Perhaps the volcano at Yellowstone will not erupt for many more thousands of years or maybe it is giving a sign that eruption is close, we simply do not know.
The Best Crop Circles From The last 5 Years to Get You Excited About The 2018 Season
The Best Crop Circles From The last 5 Years to Get You Excited About The 2018 Season
With The Crop Circle Season quickly Approaching, Take a Look Back At The Best Ones From The Last 5 Years. We have seen some of the best Crop Circle formation ever in the last few years.
Incredible ‘UFO’ shaped hotel in Norway’s Arctic Circle gives amazing Northern Lights view
Incredible ‘UFO’ shaped hotel in Norway’s Arctic Circle gives amazing Northern Lights view
IF YOU’RE a fan of things that go ‘bump’ in the night, then this extra-terrestrial hotel, likened to a UFO space ship, in northern Norway was made for you.
Svart hotel: This stunning eco-hotel has been designed to create its own energy
Oslo-based architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled its designs for ‘Svart’ - a new energy-positive hotel opening in Northern Norway.
The incredible renderings show a distinctively UFO-like ‘ring shape’ hotel, set at the base of snow-peaked Almlifjellet mountain and perched on stilts above the clear waters of Holandsfjorden fjord.
Apart from the stunning location and extra-terrestrial architecture, what makes the hotel out of this world is that it’s the first energy positive hotel above the Arctic Circle which meets the ‘Powerhouse’ standard.
The Powerhouse standard states that buildings must produce more energy than they consumes; something which the architects behind Svart believe is a “must” in this area.
Svart hotel: Oslo architecture firm unveils designs for sustainable hotel in Norway
According to The Zero Energy Project, this energy positive means you will be left "with extra energy to use in other ways such as powering your mobile devices” and other hotel facilities such as hair dryers.
Essentially, energy positive buildings are like mini-power stations which use renewable sources such as solar, wind and geothermal.
The formidable architecture team made up of Arctic Adventure, Asplan Viak and Skanksa went about crafting the stunning circular stricture in order to use a whopping 85 per cent less energy than your normal hotel.
This is difficult to achieve because, according to The Zero Energy Project, a hotel's dimensions make it more difficult to be energy positive.
Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Svart hotel: Northern Lights enthusiasts will be able to enjoy incredible views
Therefore, “for a hotel to become net zero energy is a wonderful accomplishment”, making this extraterrestrial hotel seem even more extraordinary.
What’s more, the location around the space-ship like hotel will leave guests starry-eyed. Guests can enjoy panoramic views of the fjords and glaciers.
Inspired by local traditions, the vernacular architecture has been constructed in the form of the ‘fiskehjell’ - an A-shaped wooden structure for drying fish, used by fishermen in Norway.
On stilts above the water, the hotel echoes another local architectural tradition, the ‘rorbuer’. These are brightly coloured seaside huts built on land but with poles in the water. In summer months, guests can stroll along the boardwalks as well as kayak and take boats onto the fjord.
Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Svart hotel: Guests will enjoy spectacular views of Norway's stunning natural landscape
Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Svart hotel: The designers have said their hotel is shaped like a UFO
The founders behind Svart are also planning to build an energy natural boat shuttle from the city of Bodø to the hotel.
In a press statement, Snøhetta’s founding partner, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, said: “Building in such a precious environment comes with some clear obligations in terms of preserving the natural beauty and fauna and flora of the site”.
The Arctic Circle is a remote part of the world, with only four million inhabitants living in the region, due to its extreme climate.
However, some areas have been settled in for thousands of years by indigenous peoples, who make up ten per cent of the region’s population. Some of the most famous examples of indigenous people living within the Arctic Circle the Inuits in Alaska and the Saami throughout Scandinavia.
Have you ever stood in the backyard half-naked sort of laughing and crying at the same time? Okay, yeah, well… that was me last night..
Time-lapse shows amazing footage of Northern Lights
Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Svart hotel: The hotel features huts which are built on stilts over water
Thorsen, continued: “It was important for us to design a sustainable building that will leave a minimal environmental footprint on this beautiful Northern nature.
“Building an energy positive and low-impact hotel is an essential factor to create a sustainable tourist destination respecting the unique features of the plot; the rare plant species, the clean waters and the blue ice of the Svartisen glacier.”
Svartisen is Norway’s second largest glacier, covering a whopping 229-square miles. The hotel’s location is expected to draw nature lovers from across the globe: the Svartisen glacier is popular for hiking and nature-based activities.
The out of this world design is the perfect place for visitors to see the Northern Lights This ethereal and dream-like natural phenomenon boasting flashes of green and blue in the night sky is best seen in the Arctic Circle.
Life in the Cosmos --"In Its Advanced Forms May Be Incomprehensible to the Human Mind"
"If life really does form readily in Earth-like conditions, it should have started many times right here on Earth, so we should look for a 'shadow biosphere' of life, but not as we know it, under our very noses.'"
Although there is plenty of habitable real estate out there, "habitable" is not the same as "inhabited," says Arizona State University Regents Professor and noted cosmologist Paul Davies. Because nobody knows how non-life transitioned to life on Earth, it is impossible to estimate the odds of it springing forth elsewhere in the universe.
In its most advanced forms, Davies has aruged, life may exists in forms beyond matter as we know it. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things.
Are matter and information, Davies asks, all there is? Five hundred years ago, Davies writes, " the very concept of a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there be a still higher level, as yet outside all human experience, that organizes electrons?
If so, this "third level" would never be manifest through observations made at the informational level, still less at the matter level.
We should be open to the distinct possibility that advanced alien technology a billion years old may operate at the third, or perhaps even a fourth or fifth level -all of which are totally incomprehensible to the human mind at our current state of evolution in 2018.
Davies presented his findings during a press briefing Feb. 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Austin, Texas.
"During my career, opinion has shifted from life's origin being a bizarre fluke unique in the universe ('almost a miracle' in the words of Francis Crick), to the belief that the universe is teeming with life ('a cosmic imperative' in the words of Christian de Duve)," Davies said. "How can we settle the matter? For several decades astronomers have been sweeping the skies with radio telescopes hoping to stumble across a message from ET. So far they have been met by an 'eerie silence.'"
Davies is a cosmologist, theoretical physicist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. His latest book 'The Eerie Silence" is a celebration and critique of the search for cosmic company.
Davies is a member of the Breakthrough Listen Committee and formerly chaired the SETI Post-Detection Task group of the International Academy of Astronautics. He was the first person to champion the idea that life on Earth may have originated on Mars and transferred here in impact ejecta. Davies is director of the Beyond Center at ASU that researches how life began in terms of the organization of information in complex networks - the software of life. His forthcoming book "The Demon in the Machine," is a penetrating look at the power of information to explain the physics of living matter.
The Black Vault is proud to host files from the “Desks of Project Blue Book” — courtesy of Investigator Rob Mercer. Many of these files are not available anywhere else, and are here due to the research efforts of Mr. Mercer. None of this can be reproduced without the express permission, as Mr. Mercer personally scanned this material for archival purposes.
By John Greenewald The Black Vault
Background
Rob Mercer is a longtime follower of the UFO phenomenon and a history buff, as well as a UFO Investigator from Ohio. He resides in the Springfield, Ohio about 20 minutes from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Wright Patterson has a rich history of research and development. It also plays an important part in UFO lore, with its ties to Roswell in 1947 and other UFO events. The Air Force also conducted their different investigation programs of UFO’s there, including Project Blue Book. Rob had spent years doing service work in homes in the Dayton area, including those of personnel who worked at the base. During this time, it was not uncommon for him to come across people that are also interested in UFO’s. Some would have collections of books or binders put together from private investigators. Items that will eventually be passed on to relatives, who in most cases, don’t care to keep them. It is a good bet that a lot of these collections will meet the curb, but from time to time you can find items such as these on Ebay or similar sites. Cost, time, and effort with shipping are required with these, something that most won’t bother with. Craigslist however, provides a place that is free, and it allows for local pickup. For this reason, he long thought that if he kept an eye out, he might come across some deals on some personal collections.
This is a copy of the original advertisement for the collection.
One evening in late 2013, under a UFO search on Craigslist in the Dayton, Ohio area, he came across an ad that advertised Project Blue Book Pics and Documents. The ad was from Centerville, which is located just south of Dayton. It stated that the materials were apparently the property of an Air Force Captain who was assigned to Project Blue Book. They were found behind a pile of lumber bought at auction in a garage in Fairborn, Ohio. A good portion of Wright Patterson is located in Fairborn, so upon seeing this he was instantly intrigued. There was a good chance that it was the real deal. The next morning when Rob received a response, he was told that there had been no interest in the files up to that point. After work, he made the trip to view the items and was convinced of their authenticity. After purchasing the files (ALL UNCLASSIFIED), to be safe he made sure to get a screenshot of the ad in hopes of protecting himself if the files ended up having been stolen.
After returning home Rob began to trace their origin, as everything the seller knew about them was in the ad. He found a name that was on many of the later documents, and began his search there. He was able to determine the name was associated with a house that had been sold a few years before. A search showed this same house having an auction a couple of months prior. He drove by the house, and saw that there was a two-story garage behind it. This was perfect place for items to be stored, misplaced and possibly lost over time.
Lt. Carmon Marano, Circled
Convinced that the story was true, and that he was on the right track, Rob set about confirming that this was the actual Air Force Officer, and not just someone else that shared the same name. Everything matched up and he began trying to figure out how to approach him. In the case that he was unaware of the files being out, he did not want to expose him to trouble. The box contained slides showing “UFO” photos and other briefing documents, two binders with case summaries and photos, a 16mm from Moline, IL and various other files.
Email exchange with Lt. Carmon Marano
Contact was eventually made with the Officer and they ended up spending a couple of hours talking. He said that he didn’t realize that he had left them behind when he moved out. They spoke about his time in service, the UFO program and politics. After 45 years his memory was a little fuzzy, but he remembered some of the cases. The Officer said he grew up a fan of science fiction, and mentioned that when he was first assigned to the program he planned to prove that we were being visited. After two years he became burned out and convinced otherwise. When looking at some of the hoaxes and other photos submitted to Blue Book, along with the amount of paperwork that went into each case, it is easy to see why this would happen. By the late 60’s, little resources and staff were available.
His duties included briefings on UFO’s for the Air Force and investigating sightings. During his time, he was also charged with organizing the case files. Blue Book didn’t have the best relationship with the press, and from time to time they would get requests about specific cases. He took it upon himself to make the process friendlier, he copied case files and organized them into books to make it easier for them. When the program shut down and closed in 1970, he declassified all of the case files except for Navy sightings. They could not be declassified because they would reveal military whereabouts. From there they sent the files on to Maxwell Air Force Base.
A photograph of the garage where the items were found.
After seeing how much Rob enjoyed subject, the Officer informed him that he had a few more boxes from his Blue Book days back home where he stays during the spring and summer. Rob was sent four more boxes, including: Books, photos, case files, memos, rules & regulations, film, reel to reel sound tape, correspondences and more (ALL UNCLASSIFIED). He learned that the files he acquired were some originals, as well as copies that were used for the press, as well as UFO investigation tools, books, and other UFO related documents and interoffice memos (ALL UNCLASSIFIED) from their actual desks. They were earmarked for the trash, the officer kept them as souvenirs.
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Schijfvormige UFO gespot boven Mount Everest. Wat zou dit kunnen zijn?
Schijfvormige UFO gespot boven Mount Everest. Wat zou dit kunnen zijn?
Boven Mount Everest is een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object gespot. Het bizarre object, dat schijfvormig is, kan volgens ufologen geen drone of helikopter zijn, schrijft de Daily Mail.
De UFO is te zien op een samengestelde foto die is gemaakt door filmmaker David Breashears. De foto is geschoten in 2012, maar dook kort geleden weer op.
Er gaan al lange tijd geruchten dat zich in het gebied een basis bevindt die lijkt op Area 51, meldt de Daily Mirror.
UFO-basis
Volgens lokale bewoners komen de onbekende objecten uit de grond. Zij stellen dat zich in de regio een UFO-basis bevindt waar de overheid van op de hoogte is, aldus India Today.
Het grensgebied tussen India en China, Ladakh, is nagenoeg ontoegankelijk. Uit vrijgegeven stukken blijkt dat er in het gebied zeven UFO-waarnemingen zijn gedaan in 1968.
Eén document verhaalt over ‘felle objecten die zijn gezien boven het zuiden van Ladakh’. Op 4 maart 1968 werd er een wit licht gespot, gevolgd door twee harde knallen.
Vreemde objecten
Er verscheen ook een rood licht dat witte rook achterliet.
In 2012 meldde de Hindustan Times dat het Indiase leger en de grenspolitie UFO’s hadden waargenomen in het grensgebied. In 2003 werden er ook al vreemde objecten gemeld in Ladakh.
AFPEen bijzonder voorwerp aangetroffen in het onderwatergrottenstelsel
In het langste onderwatergrottensysteem ter wereld zijn archeologen op 9.000 jaar oude menselijke overschotten en keramiek uit de Mayacultuur gestoten. Daarnaast troffen ze ook beenderen van uitgestorven reuzenluiaards, gomphotheriën (olifantachtigen) en reuzenberen aan uit het Pleistoceen. Dat meldde het Nationaal Instituut voor Antropologie en Geschiedenis (INAH) in Mexico.
De vondsten werden gedaan in het Sac Actun-stelsel nabij de Mayastad Tulum, langs de Caraïbische kust van het schiereiland Yucatán in Mexico. Vorige maand werd pas ontdekt dat het stelsel van 263 kilometer lang verbonden was met het grottensysteem Dos Ojos (84 kilometer), wat van het gecombineerde stelsel het grootste onderwatergrottenstelsel ter wereld maakt.
Onderzoekers, gefinancierd door het INAH, zeggen in het 347 kilometer lange stelsel 248 cenotes te hebben gevonden. Ze vonden ook 200 archeologische sites, waarvan 140 uit de Mayacultuur. Bepaalde cenotes hadden volgens de archeologen een bepaald religieus belang voor de Maya’s. De duikers troffen namelijk “interessante architecturale aanpassingen” aan, zoals “muren, gangen, altaren, heiligdommen en trappen”.
Volgens het INAH steeg het waterpeil na de laatste ijstijd, circa 11.700 jaar geleden aan het einde van het Pleistoceen, met 100 meter, waardoor Sac Actun onder water kwam de staan. “Ideale omstandigheden voor de bewaring van de overblijfselen van de uitgestorven megafauna”, klinkt het. “Dit is zonder twijfel de belangrijkste archeologische site onder water ter wereld”, zegt onderzoeker Guillermo de Anda.
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Massive Ancient Underwater Caves Reveal Ancient Mayan Relics
Massive Ancient Underwater Caves Reveal Ancient Mayan Relics
Archaeologists who have been exploring the world's largest underwater cave, recently discovered in Mexico, presented their findings Monday, including fossils of giant sloths and an elaborate shrine to the Mayan god of commerce, reports phys.org.
Credit Image: The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
Researchers discovered last month that two large networks of underwater caves in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, the cave system known as Sac Actun, once measured at 263 km (163 miles), and in fact connected with the 83 km- (52 km-) Dos Ojos system forming the largest such structure on Earth.
Diving with SCUBA gear, they have been exploring the ancient relics left in the caves over the millennia, in a project sponsored by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
Researchers believe the water level in the caves has fluctuated over time, and that they were a source of water in times of severe drought, a sometimes perilous one.
Some of the animals and humans who ventured inside never made it out alive. Today, their remains are a treasure trove for scientists, enabling them to piece together bits of the cave's history dating all the way back to the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).
The animal remains include gomphotheres, an extinct elephant-like animal, as well as giant sloths and bears.
Credit Images: The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
Then there are the artifacts left inside by humans: burnt human bones, ceramics, wall etchings and more. Many others of the hundreds of sink-holes that connect to the cave have elaborate signs of ritual activity around them.
The ancient Mayans viewed caves, and especially ones that led to water, as extremely sacred places.
If the name “Brian Leathley-Andrew,” doesn’t ring a bell, that’s not surprising. He lives in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England, and has tried to stay out of the public eye for 50 years. Why? Because in 1968, Brian Leathley-Andrew believed he was not just in the public eye … he was in the eye of sinister forces that wanted him to stop investigating and publicizing UFO sightings through his organization, the Unidentified Flying Object Information Bureau. In fact, they succeeded by terrifying him into retirement.
“Suddenly, I noticed a man standing by the next door garage. Nobody had been there before. His face was glowing orange. As I watched, the face changed to that of an old man before my eyes. Then he turned and walked away. You could not describe the first face in normal terms. It had eyes, nose and mouth in the proper places – but not of the shape that we associate with the human figure.”
That quote is from The Coventry Telegraph on December 3, 1968, under the headline, “Worried UFO Man Gives Up.” In an interview this week in Birminghammail.co.uk, Leathley-Andrew recounts the flurry of UFO activity in the Birmingham area in 1968 which prompted him to open the Unidentified Flying Object Information Bureau. According to the interview, The Coventry Telegraph carried these headlines, often with comments from Leathley-Andrew.
“UFO Became A Mum”(September 28, 1968): “A flying saucer which gave birth over Willenhall has been reported to the Unidentified Flying Object Information Centre of Mr. Brian Leathley-Andrew.
“Flying Saucers Not A Load of Tripe” (September 24, 1968): “Flying saucers were the greatest mystery of our time and should not be dismissed as a load of tripe, Mr Wilf Grunau told Nuneaton Rotary Club.
“Saucer Over City Say Women” (March 31, 1969): “Two Coventry women believe there may have been a flying saucer over the city during the weekend after they were woken by an ‘unearthly’ high-pitched whining accompanied by a glowing light.
Those were exciting times for the UFO watcher and local expert … until he realized his phone was tapped.
“Quite clearly, I had problems with phone tapping, bloody crude phone tapping. You could hear the click.”
Who was watching him? Leathley-Andrew says the wire-tapping and other strange incidents like the man with the orange face began just two days after he opened the Unidentified Flying Object Information Bureau and happened to other members of the group as well.
“All the lights in the house suddenly dimmed as though a huge electrical load had been put in the circuit. “This will happen once in a while normally, but it kept on happening. This is most unusual.”
Indeed. Yet he continued on, until a sinister photograph of an alleged UFO was sent to him.
“One man sent me pictures of a UFO. It was the lid of exactly the same handcream my wife used. The jar was there on the table in front of me.”
In his “exit” interview with The Coventry Telegraph on December 3, 1968, Leathley-Andrew says he destroyed all of his personal records of the UFO sightings and closed the UFO group out of fear for his family’s safety. According to the article, the only records left are the archives of The Coventry Telegraph. Searches on the Internet turn up nothing on Leathley-Andrew nor his organization. While he doesn’t mention aliens, he does indicate that he believed many of the sightings were due to experimental research by the Government and possibly by the nearby Rolls Royce factory, maker of high-performance aircraft engines.
So, why has Brian Leathley-Andrew decided to come out of deep hiding after 50 years?
“I want to publicly warn all teenage hobbyists that this is nothing to dabble in lightly. Society is being watched by the Department of Them. Say hello to System X.”
Space is beginning to become more accessible to humankind. Naturally, the military wants to start fighting wars up there. Really, though, if you think about the timelines of the development of automobiles, aircraft, and atomic bombs relative to their use in war, it’s a wonder that there hasn’t been a war in space yet. I guess the near-unbelievable price tags of any space-borne technology still hold back the superpowers from going CRASH BANG BOOM with all their shiny new space toys – for now, at least. Thanks to James Bond villain-in-the-making Elon Musk and the Chinese rocket scientists who are no doubt furiously plagiarizing his technology (yeah, they really do that), those price tags are sure to come down in the near future. What does that mean for us? Get ready for war in space, folks. It’s gonna be weird – and deadly.
What blows up must come down.
For now, most of the space weaponry involves disarming, destroying, or hijacking enemy satellites. Giant death lasers are on the way, though, don’t worry. Satellites are what give battlefield advantage to modern militaries, providing GPS and communications networks, surveillance capabilities, and probably even some seriously crazy space-based firepower we don’t even know about yet. Those satellites are relied upon by military forces during conflicts, making them prime targets for adversaries. According to a new report published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Russia and China are only a few years away from having operational anti-satellite technology designed to reduce the advantages of the American military. The report also states that “the risk of interstate conflict, including among great powers, is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” Space Wars, here we come.
World superpowers have been testing anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons for decades but are only now approaching battlefield readiness.
This new report was published by the intelligence community and presented to congressional intelligence and armed forces committees. In the view of intelligence analysts, the United States’ closest rivals for world hegemony are fast at work preparing for space to be the pivotal battlefield in the next global conflict:
If a future conflict were to occur involving Russia or China, either country would justify attacks against US and allied satellites as necessary to offset any perceived US military advantage derived from military, civil, or commercial space systems. Military reforms in both countries in the past few years indicate an increased focus on establishing operational forces designed to integrate attacks against space systems and services with military operations in other domains.
Both countries are already training their soldiers how to launch and operate antisatellite (ASAT) weapons and are launching what the report describes as “experimental satellites” designed for use in warfare despite both China and Russia’s government both publicly claiming space should be a peaceful domain. The Russians have lately been launching covert satellites from remote launching stations over the past few years, while their known “killer” satellites have been waking up lately, worrying some defense analysts that a satellite war could be likely. China, meanwhile, has been testing ASAT weapons since 2007, and the United States, of course, have been doing some shadowy aerospace stuff and secret testing in orbit lately too.
Anything could be up there by now. Maybe this weird uh…thing? Sure, why not? Looks like it would hurt whatever it landed on when it fell from orbit.
It’s natural that war would move into space. Could it have already though? If there was shooting going on in space, would we know? I assume astronomers or anyone with a telescope would see the action, though, right? Although given all of the strange stuff falling from the skies and the mysterious boomslately, who knows what’s really going on overhead?
Is 2018 the year time travel comes out of the closet and achieves some sort of legitimacy, if not actual proof, like UFOs did in 2017? After videos of three alleged time travelerssurfaced earlier this year in one week, three more appeared recently and a presidential candidate, who claims he has time traveled and promised to expose the technology if elected, revealed he has also time traveled to Mars and seen evidence of life and graveyards. What about some lottery numbers or stock market predictions?
Let’s start with pixel-faced “Noah.” He appeared first in a video from Apex TV (the new go-to source for time travel videos) where he claims he’s from the year 2030, says he can’t show his face or use his real voice because he could be assassinated for revealing the future and looks like his comments are being evaluated by a lie detector which buzzes in the background while the video flashes the word “True” on the screen. That last part seems pretty questionable, not to mention hokey.
In the video, and in a later interview in Australia on Sydney’s KIIS 106.5, he says that (some media reports call these “predictions” but they should be called “revelations” since he allegedly already knows they will happen) that Donald Trump will be re-elected, the law limiting the age of a president will be changed and a 21-year-old female named Ilana Remikee will become President in 2030 – but the really big news is that Ilana is the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. Although that one registers “true” on the so-called lie detector, no searches have come up with a granddaughter of King by that name. He also said he takes pills to keep from aging, has proof he’s from the future (although he doesn’t reveal it – possibly waiting to get on a bigger radio show), says global warming will still be a problem as will pennies, even though bitcoin use will increase.
“Noah” also says humans will fly to Mars, which seems to contradict time traveler number 2 and presidential candidate Andrew Basiago. Basiago is running again in 2020 (he ran in 2016) and has an interesting list on his website of 100 proposals he will fulfill if elected, including disclosing “the existence of the secret US presence on the Red Planet.” A recent article in express.co.uk refers to a presentation which he supposedly gave at an unspecified MUFON symposium where he said:
“We landed on Mars in 1964 – the documentary source I can cite, but can’t proffer is a French external intelligence organisation dossier I was asked to read in the summer of 1980 which was also read by the future President Barack Obama which referred to a crash landing by an American team of astronauts on Mars who perished because they were not rescued by the Martian humanoids.”
He also allegedly repeats what he claims to have revealed in 2008 that:
“I show that in a ravine west of the Home Plate in the Gusev Crater on Mars, there was a mass grave of several hundred humanoid bodies, both male and female, clothed in uniform blue clothes suggestive of regimentation.”
Can someone ask pixelized Noah and his lie detector to give us a clarification on when humans go to Mars? Or maybe we can ask pixelized Edward, another first-names-only-please time traveler who claims in yet another Apex TV video that in 2004 he traveled to the year 5000 and just now decided to reveal what he brought back … a blurred picture of what he claims is Los Angeles under water. Speaking of blurred pictures of the future, Alexander Smith chose last week to reveal (in another Apex TV video) that he traveled to the year 2118 and his proof is a blurred photo of an unidentified city – blurred due to the stress of time travel, a common excuse.
What do we make of these time travel tales? The revelations are conflicting, the evidence is blurry (both physically and in explanation), the source for all of the videos except Andrew Basiago’s is Apex TV, and the time travelers themselves don’t appear to be the kind of believable people you’d select to send back to warn humanity of what’s coming.
Is this new interest in time travel and warnings from the future merely a way to cope with what’s happening in the world today?
Cylindrical UFO filmed in the sky above Vero Beach, Florida
Cylindrical UFO filmed in the sky above Vero Beach, Florida
This cigar-shaped UFO was caught on tape over Vero Beach in Florida. Filmed on 17th August 2017 but it was just recently submitted to MUFON.
Witness report:
Was at Vero Beach Florida standing on our hotel balcony looking at ocean on a beautiful clear evening. Someone point out object flying over ocean and I started recording as quickly as possible. Object had no wings and it was silent as far as we could tell.
Filer’s Files #7 – 2018 Alien Reproduction Vehicle - PART I
Alexandria, Virginia -- Observed large object on February 12, 2018
Filer’s Files #7 – 2018 Alien Reproduction Vehicle - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: McCandlish Alien Reproduction Vehicle, Cylindrical Object Over Germany May 1943, Are Some Aliens Spirits?, and the Great UFO Deception by Dr. Bruce Cornet.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Lebanon, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is a most 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.
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Special Projects
McCandlish Alien Reproduction Vehicle
Mark McCandlish is an accomplished aerospace illustrator and has worked for many of the top aerospace corporations in the United States.
Mark McCandlish reveals details of eyewitness sightings of UFOs as they make use of traversable wormholes within our atmosphere. One such encounter took place in the 1960’s as a B-52 crew encountered a massive saucer-shaped craft which dematerialized into a bright portal cut into the night sky. We also explore the establishment and growth of breakaway civilizations which have settled in Antarctica and off-world locations. This interview with David Wilcock was originally webcast June 13, 2017.
Mark McCandlish aerospace illustrator says information has been shared with him about an Alien Reproduction Vehicle built by the military using technology that has been back engineered from alien technology.
McCandlish says that in 1988 he and a friend were planning on attending an air show at Norton Air Force Base. McCandlish ended up having to cancel due to a last minute illustration needed by Popular Mechanics. However, his friend went and through a well connected acquaintance, was able to gain entrance to a secured area of the base with a special display for politicians and military personnel with high level security clearances.
His friend told him that in this display were three flying saucers floating above the ground. They made no sound. One of them had the side panels removed so that you could see inside. There was also a monitor showing a video of these craft being test-flown. They made “hopping” maneuvers, and then could shoot straight up at incredible speeds. All while making no sound.
So, getting back to Brad’s story at Norton Air Force Base: one of the other things he said was that after
they showed them all of these aircraft, they had a big black curtain that divided the hangar into two different areas. Behind these curtains was another big area, and inside this area they had all the lights turned off; so, they go in and they turn the lights on, and here are three flying saucers floating off the floor – no cables suspended from the ceiling holding them up, no landing gear underneath – just floating, hovering above the floor.
Sketch of the Alien Reproduction cutaway copyright by Mark McCandlish all rights reserved
They had little exhibits with a videotape running, showing the smallest of the three vehicles sitting out in the desert, presumably over a dry lakebed – someplace like Area 51. It showed this vehicle making three little quick, hopping motions; then [it] accelerated straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds – no sound, no sonic boom – nothing.
Military-aeronautical Illustrator Mark McCandlish was riding the wave of success making images of classified projects for the military-industrial complex. Then he made a drawing of a top secret project that he wasn’t supposed to know about. He showed these drawings at the National Press Club in 2001 where I also presented and big trouble ensued with his contracts.
For those who want a story of intrigue, secrets, and technology. Detailed information on the history, physics and technological mechanisms regarding faster-than-light travel, antigravity, and zero-point energy is also covered in detail. his documentary about the back engineering of alien technology.
The craft were referred to as Alien Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs), and also had the nickname, the “Flux Liner.” McCandlish says he believes these are part of a secret program that has been around for decades.
Using his friend’s description, McCandlish sketched the vehicle. He has since done research on how he believes the technology works. He says they use zero-point energy, a concept originally theorized by Albert Einstein. The feature length documentary on McCandlish’s research is titled Zero-Point: The Story of Mark McCandlish and the Flux Liner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67876ch95M
Cylindrical Object Over Germany – 26th/27th May, 1943
On the night of the 26th/27th May, 1943, RAF Sgt. Pilot G. N. Cockcroft from Bradford, West Yorkshire, then based at RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, (No. 6 (P) AFU Pilots Advanced Flying Unit), found himself seconded to No. 77 Squadron 4 Group Bomber Commando, stationed at Elvington, near York, taking part in an air marking raid over Essen, Germany, which involved dropping incendiaries on the target by the lead Bombers to illuminate the target.
“The first wave had already bombed the general target area – now well alight. Two or three minutes before our final run in, at approximately 18,700 feet, we saw in front but slightly to port, at about the same height, a long cylindrical object, silver/gold in color, very sharply defined, hanging in the sky at an angle of approximately 45 degrees, showing a number of evenly spaced portholes along its length.
The first person to sight the object was Sgt. Pilot Ray Smith, of the Royal Canadian Air Force:
“I think the first reaction of most of us was amazement because the object just had no right to be there. After a very short space of time, about 20-30 seconds, it suddenly began to move and, retaining its altitude, climbed rapidly until it vanished from sight. The speed it attained seemed to us completely incredible, moving at thousands of miles per hour. As it accelerated, the outline became more blurred and the shape foreshortened. The size is more difficult to judge but it was very large, certainly much bigger that our own aircraft, appearing at least as long as a ‘king sized cigarette,’ or small cigar at arm’s length, we then completed out bomb run and returned to base. The intelligence officer debriefing us was given a description of the object but we were unable to judge what importance was attached to it and quite frankly it was just another unusual phenomenon, which since apparently harmless was of far less importance that other wartime hazards.”
Despite investigations made by the authorities on both sides no satisfactory answer was ever found for the appearance of these curious light flight phenomena, described as looking like flying silver balls, discs, and Christmas trees, often seen pacing the aircraft in precise formations. (Source: Norman Oliver, BUFORA) Reproduced from: Haunted Skies, Volume One, pp33-34PROJECT 1947 Reports
Are Some Aliens Spirits?
Spiritual beings are those entities who are now in a higher dimensional realm following the death of their physical body, such as human souls and ascended masters, those entities who are non-human higher dimensional beings such as extraterrestrials as well as beings who do not require a physical body, or who do not normally incarnate such as angels, demons, archangels, Elohim, etc.
Lights and orbs are frequently reported by witnesses even inside their homes. Sometimes negative and even evil occurrences are reported such as abductions and the stealing of body fluids and DNA. A certain groups of aliens allegedly are not friendly and many religious leaders of numerous religions report we are wrestling with demonic powers. Demonic possession is believed to be the process by which individuals are possessed by malevolent preternatural beings, commonly referred to as demons or devils.
Possessions of evil spirits among humans often result in various types of criminal activities. Dr. Richard Gallagher is an Ivy League-educated, board-certified psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University and New York Medical College. He was part of the team Fighting Satan’s minions. He proudly calls himself a “man of science.” Yet today, Gallagher has become something else: the go-to guy for a sprawling network of exorcists in the United States. He says demonic possession is real. He’s seen the evidence: victims suddenly speaking perfect Latin; sacred objects flying off shelves; people displaying “hidden knowledge” or secrets about people that they could not have possibly have known.
Dr. Richard Gallagher says, “There was one woman who was like 90 pounds soaking wet. She threw a Lutheran deacon who was about 200 pounds across the room,” he says. “That’s not psychiatry. That’s beyond psychiatry.”
Some ET visitors can move through walls and become invisible or become small orbs. I do not know if some aliens are part of the demonic supernatural world. Paul of the Bible was not an adherent of the contemporary materialistic model of the universe where people deny the existence of a spiritual realm. For Paul there clearly was a realm where demons or ghosts walked the earth and harassed people. We know this because Paul had cast a demon out of a girl in Philippi in Acts 16. He had also seen many evil spirits come out of people in Ephesus in Acts 19:11-12. Science is not aware of why many people commit murder, rape, robberies etc. Many criminals claim the devil made them do it. Men often seem to have two brains, one in their head and another between their legs with cosmic powers that often takes control.
Paul describes an upper-level order of evil spirits in the heavenly places. Stating in Ephesus100 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having fitted your feet with the readiness of the gospel of peace. 16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.
. Science is discovering dozens of invisible, radio and TV signals, radar, wife, Yin and Yang Grid energy and solar and cosmic radiation, electromagnetic waves fluorescence, gamma radiation, photons, that are penetrating our homes now. Not to mention RF energy emitted while using a cell phone. We also know of telepathic energy and there is likely numerous types of invisible waves, rays, germs, we have not yet discovered. I have worked with dozens of abductees, and I’m convinced there are cosmic powers who some call ET and aliens, perhaps Paul was far more understanding than we realize. Some of these invisible forces could affect the brain and cause damage or desire to accomplish crimes.
The Great UFO Deception
By Dr. Bruce Cornet
Excerpts from David Wilcock’s Divine Cosmos newsletter and post of 9 February 2018.
Tom DeLonge Group Stunningly Debunked: Curtains for Partial Disclosure?
From Chris Mellon, National Security Affairs Advisor to The Stars Academy:
Tom DeLonge’s intel advisors used a picture of a Mylar party balloon from 2005 as if it was a genuine UFO, and raised over 2.2 million dollars in funding from the event featuring it. There was widespread suspicion of this “mainstream-media-sanctioned disclosure” in the UFO community, and it was just proven correct.
Someone within the group obviously knew this was a fake image. We do not feel Tom DeLonge was in on it, and his silence suggests he must be very upset at this point.
With the formerly-invincible Cabal on the ropes like never before, perhaps this ‘disclosure’ was just too easy. No one was fighting and dying to make this happen, and the media toed the line. The Cabal folks were only intending to use disclosure as a “Weapon of Mass Distraction” when their backs were really up against the wall. Deception would be at the very root of such a plan, if the real goal was to obfuscate the existence of the Secret Space Program and other hyper-classified projects. The members of this group completely “ghosted” the UFO community at large, hardly granting any access whatsoever to the people on the front lines of the disclosure movement. Weirdest of all was how little anyone in the public was affected by it. UFOs? Been there, done that. What will real disclosure look like now that the credibility of this operation has been shattered? It’s going to be grassroots all the way.”
STOP
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON HERE?
Dr. Bruce Cornet asks, “Did the Pentagon approve of the Elizondo disclosure as part of a plan to prepare the public for disclosure of an ET presence on Earth, or is that a lie?” Or instead could this be part of a plan to obfuscate the truth and release more swamp gas? Or were the members of the To The Stars Academy team duped by insiders in that organization, who are part of the Cabal of secret government projects as Dr. Hal Puthoff implied on Coast to Coast with George Knapp on January 28, 2018? Was this a truthful disclosure or was the balloon hoax planned to deliberately divert attention away from the growing number of sightings of possible advanced antigravity craft built by the U.S. military industrial complex?
The Stars Academy Tom DeLonge, President & CEO, Jim Semivan, Vice President Operations, Dr. Hal Puthoff, Vice President Science & Technology, Steve Justice, Aerospace Division Director, Luis Elizondo, Director of Global Security & Special Programs, Chris Mellon, National Security Affairs Advisor, Dr. Garry Nolan, Genetics Technologies Consultant, Dr. Paul Rapp, Brain Function & Consciousness Consultant, Dr. Norm Kahn, National Security & Program Management Consultant, Dr. Colm Kelleher, Biotech Consultant, Dr. Adele Gilpin, Biomedical Research & Attorney,
TTSA TEAM
Colm Kelleher, Hal Puthoff, and Eric Davis worked for or with the National Institute of Discovery Science between 1996 and 2004, when NIDS was closed down by Bigelow. So who was actually involved in the Pentagon project and 18 December 2017 disclosure, which was being allegedly funded by the Pentagon between 2007 and 2012? Robert Bigelow and BASS. Is To The Stars Academy just another NIDS with close government and intelligence community ties and no Skinwalker liability?
NIDS had done a study on Triangular UFO sightings and published a NIDS report, which suggested that these craft were DOD hardware. Dr. Kelleher, Administrator of NIDS, gave a talk at the Society for Scientific Exploration that was holding its annual meeting in Las Vegas in May 2004. I was a Deputy Administrator of NIDS at the time, and also gave a talk on an underground or buried alien probe near Pine Bush, NY.
In 2003 Kelleher had completed his study of the NIDS database of reports of Triangular Craft in the United States. He provided a graph in his SSE talk, which showed a sudden increase in Black Triangle sightings in 2000. With these data he convinced Bigelow to purchase the databases of MUFON, NUFORC, and HATCH.
Kelleher had plotted the sightings of Black Triangles on a map of the United States, and this map suggested many of these craft were flying between US military airfields or bases. I had photographed and videotaped numerous Triangular Craft in the Pine Bush area of New York between 1992 and 1997, and Dr. Ellen Crystall had photographed a Triangle in the same area in 1980 (Silent Invasion, 1991). I present her image and mine below. Only the electromagnetic and UV emissions were recorded on Crystal’s film on West Searsville Road, on 25 January 1997, Orange Co., NY.
The MUFON database was analyzed next, and the map generated also suggested a relationship between Black Triangles and US AFMC and AMC Air Force bases.
Kelleher said the preliminary analysis suggested: Hypothesis #1: July 2002 Based on the Preliminary Data, the Triangular UFO’s may be an Unacknowledged DoD aircraft.
Then Kelleher analyzed the databases from Hatch and NUFORC, and when he added those data, a very different picture emerged.
Instead of supporting Hypothesis #1, the additional data suggested an alternative hypothesis:
Hypothesis #2 May 2004
Based on High Visibility, Tendency to Float down Interstate Highways, Fly near Population Centers, the Triangular Craft May NOT be a DoD Aircraft.
A new graph was generated which includes data from all four databases (see below). The NUFORC data (in red) reveals a significant increase in Triangle frequencies up to 2003, then an artificial decrease due to a premature termination of reports when NIDS purchased that database in early 2004.
Kelleher then told the audience that this new map containing data from four databases suggested a first wave of an alien invasion. Was researcher Ellen Crystall correct?
Right after that talk I was fired and NIDS was closed down. So what was being covered up? An alien presence over the US, or evidence for hundreds of flights of US military Black Triangles, which the DOD and Pentagon did not want the public to know? Is that one of the reasons why NIDS was shut down? Disclosure of either conclusion (alien or DOD) was unacceptable to the DOD, and Bigelow wanted to keep his funding favor by the
Pentagon and aerospace industry. However you look at the To The Stars Academy debacle, the truth suffers. Thanks to Bruce Cornet PH.D
Editors Note: Bigelow Aerospace is a space technology company that is known for its work on expandable space station modules and has likely been brought inside the government concerning UFOs. Founder of Bigelow Aerospace, Robert Bigelow, announced that he is planning a real estate empire in outer space. Triangles are the most frequent UFO shape reported after lights, NUFORC has a total 10,687 over the years with an early report of a flying Triangle occurred in June 1, 1930, above Ithaca, New York. It was reported to be a very large triangle shaped object. MUFON has another 10,000 reports indicating to me there are both alien and DOD flying triangles in our skies. The United States experienced a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues.
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Filer’s Files #7 – 2018 Alien Reproduction Vehicle - PART II
Filer’s Files #7 – 2018 Alien Reproduction Vehicle - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Phoenix— We were driving on Route I17 heading into Phoenix on February 2, 2018, when I noticed a rectangular object hovering over the mountains on the left hand side of the road.
My friend Dan grabbed his cell phone and took a picture of the object. After about 10 minutes the object disappeared.
A helicopter appeared shortly thereafter appearing to search for the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Mother Ship
Long Beach — I saw a huge white orb over my house on October 21, 2017. At first I spotted two objects crossing paths with each other and I focused on the larger one. As I zoomed in on my camera the UFO started ejecting smaller spheres into the atmosphere. The first ejection formed a triangular formation! As I kept filming the object started emitting tons of orbs falling in a steady stream from the main object. There were at least 40 smaller spheres emitted from the main UFO. Interestingly the smaller orbs were only visible through my infrared camera. This was recorded with my full spectrum Canon SX60 with a monopod in my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
Note: The video was taken during the daytime, but is dark due to the fact that it was taken by an infrared camera. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Colorado Lights
Wetmore – On February 13, 2018, we were driving home from the grocery store, on a road through the mountains at 8:00 pm. We noticed a series of orbs moving horizontally across the sky in front of us. Each orb would light up, and then would start to fade. As one would start to darken, the light next to it would light up, before they would all disappear. During the first sighting, the lights appeared to be stacked in two horizontal rows. We pulled over and continued to watch. At one point, the orbs lit up and branched out to the left and right. We turned the vehicle around and watched again. After that, the sky went black. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Disc
My name is Dennis James G Jr, I’m 48, and in 1990 myself and two other friends were on our way to the Florida keys to go fishing on Long Key bridge at about 5am. We all live in Broward County and go fishing often. .We were on us1 heading south sitting 3 across in a ford pickup, when I noticed a round completely silent “UFO” about 30 feet to the passenger side and about the height of a telephone pole traveling our same speed almost like we were racing. It was about 20 feet across and saucer shaped with an angular flat topped dome on top. I told my friend sitting in the middle to look at it and he did. Then we both told the driver to look….he did and got scarred and immediately stomped the gas and took off. The object accelerated right along with us and stayed with us. Then because we were the only people on the road he smashed the brakes and with lots of tire smoke we came to a complete stop. It did the same and then we took off again.
We repeated this 3 more times….with the object mirroring our every move. The last time we did this, I decided (HAD) to get out of the truck. I got out and the driver took off and left me on the side of the highway.
I HAD to get out of the truck like it was an order or something! The object stayed with me. I was about 25 feet away from it and it was at the height of a street light. It hovered there in front of me completely silent and I could CLEARLY see it and was amazed. It was circular with no rivets like one piece of metal and at the top was a angled flat sided cockpit type structure that was multi colored internally light….like a disco dance floor with multi colored internal lights.
The edge of the main saucer shape structure had a thin white light all the way around the edge. I was alone with this thing for what seemed like an hour but was more like 5 to 10 minutes..Then I heard the truck screech up and I heard my friends yelling to me. If I didn’t get back in the truck they were going to leave me there. So I got back in the truck and we sped away, with this thing following us again. This time the driver was trying to get away from it at any way he could.
He accelerated to well over 100 mph but we couldn’t get away from it. We didn’t know what to do so we just keep moving. I couldn’t take my eyes off it…then I looked at my friends and asked what we should do! I turned back to look at it again and it was gone!
We arrived at our fishing spot and sat there for an hour worried that it would return. We discussed what we just experienced, and decided not to go fishing and went home. My friends would only talk about our experience when we were together and alone. A few years later I finally got one of them to confirm that it did happen.
I know for SURE we are not alone by any means. This has affected my whole life and would testify under oath and swear what I told you is 100% true. This will be with me for life. ….. Dennis James Jr.
Georgia Lights
Saint Marys — At approx 6:00 pm I went to my car, in my driveway on February 12, 2018, coming over the west horizon I saw what I thought may have been a burning object floating upwards. It was wobbling back and forth. I ran into the house to get my girlfriend. As I pointed out the one that had passed over the house, another one showed up, from the west and followed the same path. We watched a total of six, flying the same path, wobbling back and forth and traveling at a relatively fast speed, with no noise. They looked like a rocket as all six flew over the naval sub base. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Rectangle
St. Peters — Mom and I were looking and saw 5 weird lights we thought were airplanes on February 12, 2018. We pulled over to check it out as now there were 3 flashing lights in the distance. One started to get closer and soon we saw a black square box. It was huge like a car. Mom says it a drone and gets out and I said no. As she got out and she said that it stopped right over her head and the lights went out completely. She then said, No it can’t be a drone and gets back in the car and the lights of it go back on and it starts to move slowly again.
There were so many lights that were beaming so big. We thought they were planes or drones, but soon thought of a ufo. They were going in a circle and would change the direction. They would also hover and disappear. We felt amazed and scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Lights
Missoula— I was walking out of the gym, at 7:50 PM on February 12, 2018, and I saw two orangish lights on the horizon that were as bright as Venus. They clearly didn’t belong in that portion of the sky. I observed them slowly ascend from the skyline…1…2…3…and 4 of them. They weren’t doing anything too out of the ordinary just slowly ascending. They were varying in brightness at times and the highest one in the sky phased out followed by the lowest one, and then the second lowest one.
The brightest light stayed fairly consistent on the last one and turned west and slowly phased out. I did get the event on video. The whole event lasted 3 minutes and 30 seconds.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Waretown — My mother and I were on our way home when I saw an extremely bright star on February 1, 2018. I pointed it out to my Mom and the object looked black in color at night. I got a good look at it and it had a very big bright white light on the front with a red pulsating light on each of the outermost points. We then stopped the car to see the triangular shape hovering over a small marina. We then turned onto the street next to the marina and it looked way too low to be an airplane. The lights were also way too bright, not to mention it was clearly a full triangle shape. We got out of the car to look as the object started to fly fast making a rumbling noise. It accelerated faster than an airplane with the sound actually behind it. The triangle’s bottom was over our heads with more colored lights on it. I think it realized we were watching it when it started flying away and disappeared . Thanks to MUFON CMS
Flying Reptile Bird
Mercerville — I am a retired law enforcement officer and have had other UAP sightings which I have reported to MUFON. On January 18, 2018 at 1720 hours while I was on the back porch I observed a large “bird” flying west at 200 feet. I am a student of nature, science, space, and aviation and familiar with anything that moves around us in our natural habitat. This gull grey flying object had a set of large primary wings mid span of its body and a secondary set of smaller wings at the end of its thin like a snake body. They flapped in tandem at the same rate as the large thin primary wings. The body was slender and long. It had no discernible head or beak. No underpinnings like legs or feet were present. It looked like a skinny B-29.
The wings were very thin and long and flew like an eel or snake as it adjusted its flight path up and down or to the left at slight increments. I followed it above the neighborhood trees and lost sight of it about 30 seconds later. This UAP was very fluid like in its motion like a live natural creature. It moved through the air much like a sea born creature would move through the water. The very thin body was at the minimum 10 feet long as were the very thin main wings. The tail wings were about a quarter size of the main wings. This was not any natural Earthly flying creature. Note A large ten foot winged bird was reported in West Windsor in October. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Light
Watching live feed of star man being deployed from Falcon Heavy on February 2, 2018. I observed seemingly spherical object pass over at about star man’s 10 o’clock position. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Wetherford — At 2:30 AM on January 29, 2018. I got up to let my dogs out and saw two strange pulsating lights traveling towards me. I stared at them in awe and was trying to figure out their identity. These objects had pulsating lights that changed colors from white to orange, then to red, and then gold at a very slow rate. The object to the left started to change direction in a zig sagging pattern and traveled west descending and then hovered. The other object was traveling toward me started to take shape pulsating and zig zagging at slow rate and hovered. I noticed a faint beam and five white orbs come down from the bottom of the object.
I was in the Marine Corps and have seen numerous aircraft, but this freaked me out. I ran in the house and got my camera but when I returned I could only see the bigger objects for the next 15 minutes before they disappeared Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Object
Alexandria — Observed from my 15th floor condo 4 miles from Pentagon a large object in the West sky on February 12, 2018, at 6pm. It looked like a large aquatic like mammal with flippers or wings, dark in color slowly rotating in the sky. It rotated to the side facing in the direction of the Pentagon.
When I took pictures I captured 7 or 8 glowing white objects that took on different shapes and separated. The show lasted, probably two hours because I stopped watching. Thanks to MUFON CMS
In the recent Filer’s Files #6, I couldn’t help noticing that the photo under Indiana Cylinder looks just like the photo of an object I took a picture of a couple of years ago. Thanks to Dan
Washington Lights
Roger Marsh reports a witness at Ellensburg reported watching an object the size of an “aircraft carrier” moving slowly under 1,000 feet with an unusual lighting configuration, according to testimony in MUFON Case 89498. The reporting witness heard his dog barking “insistently” at 8:45 p.m. on January 9, 2018, just outside.
“My wife and I both heard a deep, low, muffled, pulsing sound that grew louder within several seconds,” the witness stated. “My wife went out the northeast bedroom door and we heard a loud sound like an pulsating electric turbine.”The witness looked directly up.“Saw a very large object moving slowly towards the southwest. The object appeared to be about 500 to 1,000 feet above the ground. There were two lights and one pulsating red light on both the fore and aft ends of the object.”
The object blocked out any view of the stars but you could clearly see a physical object extending between the sets of lights.”The witness first thought that the object was two aircraft moving in perfect tandem configuration. “However, the rear set of lights was directly behind the first and moving in perfect harmony at a slow but steady speed much too slow for aircraft. I could clearly see some physical object between the two.” The pulsating sound was very loud and muffled, but we could almost feel the energy as it receded as the object moved over the hills to the southwest two miles away. Our elevation is 1,300 feet and the nearby hills are at 1,800 feet and I got the sense that the object was only 500 to 1,000 feet above us. I held both hands out pointed at the front and back and my arms were at a 90-degree angle, which gave me a sense of the size. No lights were visible as the object passed over the highway.” and moved away. Thanks to MUFON CMS Cropped version of witness Image # 1.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Sydney — Captured in an image – it just doesn’t look like a plane. What is it??
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Scarborough — On October 19, 2017, as I stepped outside work I was in shock as a bright light flew in from the west at 12:10 pm. First seen about quarter mile away coming towards the east I pulled out my camera and started to film this long dark flashing white light object. It came across heading northwest over the roof. The object was skipping across the sky at a thousand feet or less. My camera was on 30 x zoom. In 2017, I had witnessed 53 UFO sightings. Most were daylight UFOs and many were long type UFO’s, not round as from the past. Thanks to Paul Shishis
France Light
Bruges Capbis Mifaget — Seen with the National Director. We were returning, with my companion, from the Lourdes sector and driving towards Oloron Sainte-Marie on CD 35, at 21:31, on August 27, 2017. It was a dark night where we saw the banks of clouds approaching. There was no traffic or lights on the country road. My companion was driving when my eyes were drawn to the 6 red lights in a disc shape. I immediately asked my companion to stop. Leaving the car, we find that the low altitude flying object makes no noise. I take my cell phone and take two photos while my companion’s phone missed it. In view of the lack of noise, the discoidal shape, slow speed, low altitude, the constant red lights, it was likely a UFO. It accelerated into a group of clouds in which it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Light
While walking to the shops at 20:38 on February 13, 2018. I noticed a strange object in the sky. It was too fast and agile to be a helicopter, or drone. I recorded a video with my phone. I went home to grab 50mm 30x binoculars. When I returned to the spot 5 minutes later it was heading away and ascending, a distance had doubled by this time. When my binoculars lost sight of the object, it was 10km away from me, and its lights were barely visible. There were two solid red lights on it, and a flashing blue light. The object was above a path used by commercial aeroplanes coming into land that travel at a constant speed. This object turned over its path multiple times and darted around before departing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Lebanon Object
Hazmieh – Beirut — I was taking a random photo for the Sun on February 8, 2018, and I was totally focused on the sun on the screen of my IPhone. I never saw anything weird until I was reviewing the photos and noticed a strange object in the photo. It was a little black dot! I zoomed and it was like a round object in the sky. It looks like a planet, but I guess it’s impossible to catch a planet with an iPhone camera during the day. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Object
Bay Of Plenty — My husband and I had visited remote Lake Okataina on January 10, 2018. We had a picnic tea on the main shore while we waited for it to get dark to see the glow worms nearby. I took 3 photos of the sunset at 7.53 pm. My husband and I did not notice any UFO activity in the sky. A month later while studying the photos, I noticed a dark Trapezium shaped object in the sky, with a very broad and intense light beaming down from underneath it onto the darker cloud below it.
The lower cloud shows the beam shining on it very clearly. The beam of light emanating from the craft is the entire length of the craft’s underside. It looks nothing like an aeroplane’s light. It is not a normal shaped craft that we are used to seeing in our skies. I have darkened the photo slightly and zoomed on the image, so that the shape of the craft and beam of light can be seen in better detail. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Lights
Caguas — While sitting in the balcony at my brother’s house with my wife and sister in law I notice of lights in the sky on May 25, 2014
But wasn’t sure what they were so I asked them if they seen the lights and they told me I was drunk. So I asked again if they do see the lights? They answer, “Yes,” I said are you drunk too? The following day the lights were spotted in the north of the house. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/ England Orb
Manchester— I was in my back garden with my granddaughter. I had bought a new digital camera and was trying to get a photo of a plane. I zoomed in and had a pretty good shot of the plane on May13, 2015. I pressed the shutter button but the I had left the auto focus on and the camera zoomed back a little and the plane looked blurred. I did not delete it but later that day I copied the photos of my granddaughter and others I had taken to my pc. Glancing at the photo of the plane I noticed a small grey dot? I first thought my camera had dust or something on the lens. But on checking other pics there were no other dots! I then zoomed in on the photo and noticed it looks very much like a Grey oval type item? Having watched many UFO programs on TV I can only presume that this is what it is? I did not see the UFO when I took the picture as it would have been too small. I only noticed a small dot on the picture but when you zoom in you notice the shape etc. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Convos Between Air Traffic Controllers Show Confusion Over Mysterious UFO
Convos Between Air Traffic Controllers Show Confusion Over Mysterious UFO
On Thursday, The Drive's War Zone blog published new recordings from a bizarre situation that unfolded October 25, 2017, after a mysterious white aircraft popped up on the radars of air traffic controllers in northern California.
Obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, the publication was able to collect both audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made by staff members of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during and after the event. The FAA, the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and the US Air Force confirmed to the outlet that this incident took place.
The story relayed by the blog goes as follows: on this eventful October day, an unidentified aircraft was detected on an air traffic controller's radar at around 4:30 p.m. local time traveling at high speeds through northern California at 37,000 feet. It disappeared from radar after it "merged with nearby air traffic" later.
With the flying object not responding to radio communication, officials in California tapped fellow traffic controllers and pilots to get a clearer picture of the aircraft. Unfortunately, pilots did not offer much as they were unable to make out an identification of the plane — they only managed to note that the aircraft was white. Sightings of the object trickled in for roughly 30 minutes.
But the air traffic controllers were not alone in their efforts to figure out who or what was maneuvering the unidentified aircraft — the US military and NORAD were also monitoring the situation.
Though it's unclear who gave the go-ahead for the US Air Force to issue a scramble, after controllers were unable to pinpoint the object, an undisclosed number of F-15s were deployed to investigate the situation. However, despite the fighter's abilities, they were not able to locate the mystery object, either.
The fourth video released by the publication details conversations that took place after the UFO disappeared from radars. In the recordings, air controllers from the Oakland Center are first heard trying to figure out who ordered the F-15 scramble before the conversation turns to talking about what actually happened.
"The fighter scrambled, they went out looking around a little bit, but… we lost anybody having sight of the aircraft," an FAA employee stationed in Seattle is heard telling a colleague in one of the recordings. "It's really weird."
In phone interviews conducted after the incident, pilots shared what they saw when speaking to officials with the FAA.
"If it was like a Lear [private jet] type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear," a Southwest Airlines pilot who saw the UFO told an FAA official. "This was a white airplane and it was big. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft, yeah."
Though some netizens have suggested that the UFO could've been a secret military plane or part of a drug smuggling scheme, it is still unclear what actually appeared on radars.
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UFO METAL MYSTERY: So who found 'alien craft parts' allegedly held in storage by Pentagon?
UFO METAL MYSTERY: So who found 'alien craft parts' allegedly held in storage by Pentagon?
MYSTERIOUS metal allegedly recovered from UFOs and placed into top-secret storage by the Pentagon was not found by the US Government, as widely believed, according to new claims. Experts connected to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, based in the US, said they understood if any metal has been recovered, as suggested by recently-released Department of Defense (DoD) documents, then the find was likely made by independent UFO investigators.
Was metal allegedly recovered from UFOs found by the military or MUFON?
A shock New York Times article revealed details of a top-secret £16 million Pentagon study on any threats posed by UFOs which ran from 2007 to 2012.
According to the New York Times, which said it had seen DoD documents relating to the study, "metals unknown to science" had been recovered, which had been tested and placed them into private storage.
It was widely believed in the UFO community that the metals must have been taken from a UFO crash scene such as the legendary Roswell incident of 1947.
However, it has now been claimed that UFO believers found the material and handed it over.
The bulk of the money allocated by the DoD for the project reportedly went via a contract to Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, run by billionaire US businessman Robert Bigelow, who is also working with NASA to create a new expandable spacecraft.
Last May, Mr Bigelow stunned the world by declaring during an interview with prime time CBS current affairs show 60 Minutes intelligent aliens are secretly living on Earth, and the government knows.
The report claimed under the billionaire's direction buildings at the company headquarters were “modified” to allow the storage of the materials.
The SETI Institute is a collective of scientists looking for evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
In a radio podcast of the Big Picture Science Skeptic Check, produced at the SETI Institute, a panel of experts discussed the New York Times article and looked at the staggering claims in the New York Times article about the metal being found.
James Oberg, a space journalist, historian and former NASA employee, said he understood the metal had not been recovered and stored by the military or government agents, but UFO hunters.
Imagine a scenario where a farmer sees a UFO over his cow pasture, and later found some bits of metal in the field. He assumes - maybe wrongly - that it's connected with the sighting, and gives it to a UFO investigator.
Nick Pope
Mr Oberg said: "The money went out of the DoD to Robert Bigelow and he contracted the work out to some UFO groups to look for UFOs and who spent a lot of money retrofitting his buildings to store this material.”
Show host Seth Shostak said more details should be given on the material and what exactly was done to the buildings to store the product.
He said: "Why would the government give the material to business entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, why not to science experts in atmospheric physics or even aviation?
"Look people have been clamoring for physical evidence for decades. If that evidence is stacked up in some buildings in Las Vegas, let's open the doors.
"At the moment the promise of exotic artefacts in storage is nothing more than that.”
Fellow host Molly Bentley said: "Why aren't the artefacts from unidentified aerial phenomena in his building being made available to material scientists or other researchers for study.
"If the evidence isn't released, no one can evaluate it.”
Details of the D o D Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) investigating the threat posed by UFOs, that supposedly looked at the material, were revealed in December.
The project was run by military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring.
Mr Elizondo, who resigned to form UFO research group To The Stars Academy with former Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge's, said that the effort secretly continues and that he has a successor, whom he declined to name.
According to the New York Times article, documents from the Pentagon said metal and other materials allegedly recovered from UFOs were stored in converted buildings in Las Vegas under a US Government-funded program.
The material, that was said to be “unknown to science” following tests, was stored in buildings at Bigelow Aerospace.
However, no images have surfaced of the alleged material, nor have any details of where the objects was found, or any reports of tests carried out.
No further details were released at the time about where they were found, how many there are, or what happened to them.
It also does not appear any official reports on the materials have been released, but it is claimed that research was also carried out on people who came into contact with the material to see if there were any effects on them.
Express.co.uk has approached Mr Bigelow through Bigelow Aerospace to try to find out what happened to the material.
We have also contacted Mr Elizondo through To The Stars Academy, asking if they know what became of the materials.
Nick Pope, a former investigator of UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), also understands the metal parts may have been obtained by UFO groups, specifically the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates UFOs and keeps a global database of sightings, but whose chief executive Jan Harzan is an alien conspiracy theorist, who believes aliens are here on Earth.
Mr Pope said: "We don't know how these alloys and other materials were obtained.
"We're told they relate to UFOs, and if they come from some sort of military encounter, this is potentially very significant.
"However, we also know that Bigelow Aerospace acquired all sorts of UFO-related materials from civilian UFO research groups such as the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).”
Mr Pope said: "Imagine a scenario where a farmer sees a UFO over his cow pasture, and later found some bits of metal in the field.
"He assumes - maybe wrongly - that it's connected with the sighting, and gives it to a UFO investigator."
Alejandro Rojas was the official spokesperson for the MUFON at the time the AATIP ran. He does not believe the metal was provided by MUFON investigators.
He told Express.co.uk: "I do not believe that to be accurate. I do not believe MUFON had anything to do with the material. But, I can tell you it is not an alloy like the New York Times claims."
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Project Blue Beam: NASA Is Beta Testing Alien Invasion
Project Blue Beam: NASA Is Beta Testing Alien Invasion
Just short of Fourth of July, which is only a few days away, man-made auroras have been spread across the skies, causing much amazement along the east coast and parts of Virginia.
This amazing display of auroras, a rare sight, was due to a long-delayed launch of the terrier-improved Malemute rocket which had encountered many obstacles just before its launch, having been delayed an astonishing ten times before it finally launched just before Independence Day.
The rocket was launched to just above 100 miles above Earth, where the rocket discharged small canisters containing colorful chemicals that burst in the atmosphere to create an artificial aurora. However, that was not the main point of the experiment.
Conspiracy theories: What is Project Blue Beam?
According to conspiracy theories, the Blue Beam Project is a secret Star Trek-like black project NASA is alledegly working on to fake an alien invasion in order unite humanity into a New Age world religion under the United Nation with the Antichrist at its head. This is considered to be the start of a New World Order as a result of this simulated Second Coming and the destruction of religious doctrines, the fourth step, with advanced laser projection technology beyond our imagination. These lasers would be used to project information and images of unimaginable supernatural forces in scale never witnessed over every major city on Earth.
Book: Project Blue beam NASA by Serge Monast
The theories about Project Blue Beam were first presented by Quebecois journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast in 1994. A few yeas later he wrote the book "Project Blue Beam (NASA)". Monast died as a result of a heart attack in 1996. Conspiracy theories made the rounds that he and the coauthor of his book were in fact assassinated in an effort to cover-up his investigations into Project Blue Beam.
Nasa’s ‘fake space clouds’ look suspiciously like an Alien Invasion from Star Trek
NASA was actually researching on a deeper purpose and meaning: getting a better understanding of our Earth's atmosphere, vital to life on Earth and the health of the people and animals living on Earth. The second main point is to test equipment which will be used to study the auroras over Norway, an anomaly in our atmosphere that is vital for us as a species to understand it, such that we will be able to know how mother nature truly works, and the wonders it can do.
NASA has always ventured further, and above much of what humanity can truly do, in the vastness of our skies and beyond. Now, we can only hope that experiments are continued such that it can help our environment - and preserve it better.
Sadly, some parts of the east coast were robbed of the wonderful display as overcast skies blocked the view of the aurora. Let us hope that more chances will arise that will allow this spectacular view.
Asking someone if they believe in aliens might seem like an innocent enough question, but it’s actually really loaded. Believing in the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing somewhere is definitely not the same as believing in abductions, flying saucers, and government cover-ups. As many UFO fans celebrate the anniversary of Roswell, consider this: How come there have been fewer reports of flying saucers and alien abductions in the age of the camera phone?
Many true believers of little grey aliens consider July 8, 1947, to be a seminal moment, as it was the official date of the so-called “Roswell Incident.” According to lore, alleged real aliens crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and were quickly hidden by the U.S. government. If you believe that alien visitors did in fact crash-land on U.S. soil on that date, that’s okay. But consider this: Most of the eye-witness accounts of the Roswell crash are not only contradictory. They also don’t provide any kind of scientific body of information for any one study. In his 1975 essay, “The Rocketing Dutchman,” Isaac Asimov elucidated the problem with considering only eye-witness accounts as “proof” of flying saucers. “Eyewitness evidence by a small number of people uncorroborated by any other sort of evidence is worthless,” Dr. Asimov wrote. “There is not a single mystical belief that is not supported by numerous cases of eyewitness evidence.”
As Asimov explained, real scientific inquiry requires impartial data. Of course, devotees and fans of The X-Files who have mistaken it for a series of non-fiction documentaries will tell you that the lack of evidence supports the existence of a cover-up. Asimov calls this kind of circular argumentation “one of the chief delights of the intellectually feeble.”
In recent years, the phenomena of a flying saucer sighting and alien abduction accounts have been viewed more soberly as sociological human quirks rather than fuzzy science fake news. Writer Jack Womack explained that his collection of UFO ephemera and cheekily titled 2016 book Flying Saucers are Real! were an attempt to catalog the beliefs of those obsessed with outlandish accounts.
“I can study TB without catching it, preferably,” Womack explained. “And I can be a student of the Bible without being a Christian.” Womack’s work on cataloging writing about flying saucer obsessions in the 20th century is exhausting. Recently, Inverse got back in touch with the author to discuss this important Roswell anniversary. This led to an important and relevant insight: “Going by both research and empirical observation, the number of UFO reports dropped off significantly in the early 21st century,” Womack said. He attributes this, at least partially, to the rise of camera phones.
Which makes sense. Arguably, the Eighties and Nineties were the peak of UFO interest in the United States. Proof? The vast majority of famous books published about UFOs and government cover-ups — most notably The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore — were published in these two decades. And yet, once every regular citizen had a camera on them at all times in their phones, reports of UFO sightings suddenly dropped off. Did the aliens get camera-shy?
In 2012, Joe Nickell and James McGaha outlined their theory of “Roswellian Syndrome” for the Skeptical Inquirer. Nickell and McGaha echo sci-fi author William Gibson’s observation that flying saucer theories are meme-like, insofar as they will experience a media bandwagon period, as well as a period of not being so interesting to the mainstream. They also predict that a reboot of everyone you know suddenly believing in Roswell is coming, too.
Basically, because it hasn’t been hip to believe in abductions for a while, this can cause these kinds of beliefs to come back with a vengeance. “During a period of submergence, the mythologizing tendency has been at work followed by a reemergence—rather like a new, more virulent strain of a virus.”
Nickell and McGaha point out that contemporary “UFOlogists are always looking for a Holy Grail case to verify their belief.” And the problem there is that a holy grail could easily exist. If only those abducted by aliens would remember to get a clear image of saucer men captured on their iPhones.
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AN OCEAN IS HIDDEN INSIDE EARTH, AND WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE TO SEE IT (VIDEO)
AN OCEAN IS HIDDEN INSIDE EARTH, AND WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE TO SEE IT (VIDEO)
Earth’s interior is way more complicated than you probably thought — turns out it has molten metal and hidden oceans, and parts of it are hotter than the surface of the sun.
Check out the video above and/or read the transcript below. And leave your thoughts in the comments. Talk nerdy to me!
JACQUELINE HOWARD:
Hey everyone. Jacqueline Howard here. Ever wonder what it’s like inside our planet? Come with me on a subterranean tour all the way from the rocky crust where we live through the layer known as the mantle to the wild half-solid/half-liquid core of the Earth. We’ll also be stopping by a newly discovered underground ocean. Let’s go!
The mantle is also where molten rock known as magma can form before it flows upward during volcanic eruptions–at which point the magma becomes lava. This was pretty much the picture scientists had of the mantle until earlier this year–when a vast hidden ocean of water was discovered some 400 miles beneath North America. It goes to show that the rocks down here have a pretty impressive capacity to store water. Now let’s travel a little deeper. You ready?
Here we are, 1,800 miles down, at the Earth’s outer core, which runs all the way down to around 3,000 miles. This is a layer of molten iron that surrounds Earth’s inner core. And it’s really, really hot down here. In fact, it’s between 7,200 and 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you think that’s scorching, wait until we reach the center of the Earth…
Phew, back on the surface! If my virtual tour of the Earth’s interior had been a real one, it would have been a first. We all know that no one has ventured beyond Earth’s crust. But how do we know what’s down there? Scientists use waves of energy, called seismic waves, emitted by earthquakes to measure what type of material is inside Earth and where that material lies. See, as seismic waves travel through our planet, the rate in which they’re traveling — whether they’re moving fast or slow — reveals what exactly they’re traveling through, whether that material’s solid, liquid, or something else. Now you know.
Leave your thoughts on what’s lurking inside Earth in the comments. C’mon, talk nerdy to me.
THE MOST SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT EARTH WAS VISITED BY ANCIENT ALIENS
THE MOST SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT EARTH WAS VISITED BY ANCIENT ALIENS
The very words give me the chills: ancient aliens. In the early 1970s, when Erich von Däniken first released Chariots of the Gods, he called them “ancient astronauts”—a name that’s equally creepy. The Apollo missions were still going on, and the image of astronauts was fresh in everyone’s minds. Could ancient alien beings have arrived on Earth in the distant past? Would they have worn spacesuits, like our own astronauts?
If they truly visited our planet in millennia past: why were they here? What did the aliens do while they were on Earth?
Researchers have spent a lot of time looking into the question of whether we were visited so many millennia ago. The popular television show Ancient Aliens, although well-intentioned, has muddied the water in their search of show material—did we really need an episode asking whether aliens interfered with the American Civil War? (C’mon, guys. You’re off the reservation.)
Although we may not be ever know for sure that we had extraterrestrial visitors thousands of years in the past, perhaps if they did come, they might have left us modern people some clues. Let’s take a look at some of the most clear—and startling—evidence for the existence of ancient aliens on Earth.
ANCIENT ALIENS VISIT THE DOGON TRIBE?
African Tribe Possessed Knowledge Science Had Yet to Discover
This African tribe (whose name is pronounced “DOE-gone”) has known all sorts of specifics about the star Sirius for thousands of years, passed down from holy man to holy man. We’re talking details here, like how Sirius has a companion star (“Sirius B”), and that it circles the main star (“Sirius A”) every 50 years. Here’s the thing: it is absolutely true—but modern scientists didn’t know these things about Sirius until the middle of the 19th century. The Dogon knew a thousand years ago. Heck, the Dogon also knew that Sirius has a second companion star, and scientists didn’t discover it (“Sirius C”) until the 1990s.
How did the Dogon get this scientific information about Sirius B? If you ask them, they’ll tell you that the tribe was visited by the Nommos, an amphibian-like race that came from the Sirius star system in a noisy “ark” that spun and whipped up wind while it landed. It was the Nommos, a race of ancient aliens, who told the Dogon about their homeworld and its star cluster.
Knee-jerk skeptics like to invent reasons why all this can’t be true. Westerners must have stopped by and told them about Sirius, one denier said. There’s no way, though: the Dogon have artifacts that are thousands of years old, depicting Sirius and its companions. No one should have known this stuff that long ago, but the Dogon did.
This short video does a good job explaining the ancient Dogon knowledge. (I have no idea why the narrator pronounces Sirius as “SIGH-ree-us”, but we can give him a pass on that.)
THE PROPHET EZEKIEL DESCRIBES HIS ENCOUNTER WITH ANCIENT UFOS—IN THE BIBLE
Holy Scriptures Contain Account of Alien Contact?
Ask Erich von Däniken, the guy who pioneered the search for ancient aliens, and he’ll tell you his favorite evidence is in the Old Testament. It’s the story of Ezekiel and his bizarre encounter with UFOs.
Ezekiel was a prophet living in exile with the rest of the Hebrews in the land they called Babylon. Being a prophet was a highfalutin job back then, but Ezekiel’s life got even stranger—stranger than just being a guy who received special messages from the creator of the universe.
The prophet Ezekiel encounters a UFO and aliens 2,500 years ago
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings.
Ezekiel 1:1-6
Some people read this and think: the dude was taking drugs. Others (knee-jerk skeptics) say: oh, it’s just more Biblical mumbo-jumbo. Devout people may say that Ezekiel saw angels.
Maybe.
What if this was Ezekiel actually saw something, and he didn’t know what it was, or how to explain it? If he actually encountered ancient aliens, how would he describe them? We think he’d probably describe them just like he did.
Next Ezekiel describes the machine that the being had arrived in, the machine that landed in a rush of wind.
Ezekiel confronts the great wheels within wheels. Did he meet ancient aliens?
I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz … each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.
Ezekiel 1:15-19
Doesn’t that sound like a spacecraft to you? Why would a man living 500 years B.C. write a description that sounds so much like the landing and maneuvering of an alien ship? Surely this was not just random. Remember: Ezekiel was devoutly religious, and he would interpret amazing events as signs from God. If beings appeared, he would assume they were angels. But perhaps they were ancient aliens.
What about their technology? Ezekiel’s description was of an alien craft with advanced maneuverability.
This story of the machine that had wheels-within-wheels impressed NASA engineer Joe Blumrich a lot. A wheel that could move in any direction without having to turn—that sounded like something a planetary exploration vehicle could use. He went on to invent a wheel based on Ezekiel’s description, and called it the “omni wheel.” Joe received a US patent for it in 1972. Today, omni wheels are routinely used in robot vehicles. Blumrich also wrote a popular book, The Spaceships of Ezekiel, in which he explained that after starting out intending to disprove the idea, he’d become convinced that Ezekiel truly had been writing about an encounter with ancient aliens.
“THOSE WHO CAME FROM THE SKIES TO THE EARTH”
World’s Oldest Civilization Leaves Record of Alien Contact
The ancient Sumerians lived 5,000 years ago in what’s now the country of Iraq. They left behind humankind’s first writings, books older than the Bible and the Hindu Vedas.
The Sumerians wrote a lot about the Anunnaki, whose name means “those who came from the skies to Earth”. Modern scholars have assumed that the stories of the Annunaki were just myths about Sumerian gods—but the stories themselves sound more like tales of ancient aliens.
In the writings, the Annunaki came to Earth from a lost planet in our solar system—one with such a wide orbit that it rarely approaches us. They called the planet Nibiru.
The leaders of the ancient aliens were named Enki and Enlil. They were here for gold, a mineral they needed but did not have enough of. Mines were set up there in Sumer, but also in Africa as well. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu elder and author of Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries, says that ancient tribal traditions speak of “visitors from the stars” who mined for gold.
After mining for some time, the Anunnaki realized that the local humanoids—Homo Erectus, our ancestors—might make useful slaves if they could make them smarter. After improving the proto-humans, presumably with DNA modification, they managed to create a hybrid race: part Anunnaki, part early human. These new beings, called the Adamu, were the first real humans. They were also the new slaves who would work in the gold mines.
Ancient Sumerian cylindrical seal shows an accurate map of our solar system
Our hybrid ancestors didn’t stand for this situation for long, though, probably because these newly created beings were far too smart. Who wants to be a slave? They eventually rose up and rebelled, and eventually, a new Adamu society formed, one which maintained an uneasy truce with the Anunnaki.
The Sumerians recorded this history after first inventing writing. They also made engravings and art of the Anunnaki along with knowledge they had received from them—for instance, an ancient Sumerian seal depicts the Sumerian “gods” along with an accurate representation of our solar system, with 11 planets. The planets have correct proportions (Jupiter is the largest, then Saturn, and so on), and the depiction also includes the asteroid belt. Remember that modern science only discovered Uranus and Neptune in the past 150 years, and that scientists are only now saying that there is gravitational evidence for a “lost” planet with a weird, oblong orbit. Are there truly 11 planets? It may be so.
Sumerian artwork always depicts members of the Anunnaki as having wings. Did they actually have wings? It seems unlikely—many researchers believe the wings are meant to show that the Anunnaki had the ability to fly, as in ships. Other strange and telling things appear in the artwork: the goddess Ishtar’s symbol, which stood for the concept of “life”, bears a striking resemblance to the entwined double helix of DNA. Could that be more than a coincidence?
We’ve been kind of critical of the show Ancient Aliens, but this segment from an early episode explains all this pretty well (below). We also very much like this documentary about the Anunnaki and the planet Nibiru.
ANCIENT ALIENS FIGHT WARS IN THE SKIES OF ANCIENT INDIA
Hindu Holy Books Called The Vedas Describe Alien Encounters
There is strong evidence that ancient aliens visited other places around the Earth. In India, for example, the ancient holy books known as The Vedas tell of a space war between ships and fought in the skies. The descriptions of the ships are remarkable—translated, it is difficult to imagine that they were describing anything except spacecraft.
The Vedas state that “strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
Spacecraft as described in the ancient Hindu holy books called The Vedas
No, that’s not a spacecraft they’re describing. No way.
“Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are living beings on other planets and that they visited Earth as far back as 4,000 BC. There is just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons that can be found in translations of The Vedas, Indian epics and other ancient Sanskrit text.” That’s Dr. Vijaya Raghavan, speaking; he was head of the Sanskrit department of the University of Madras in India (now retired). His job, if it’s not obvious, was to study The Vedas; his conclusion was that they described real events in which aliens came to Earth.
In other parts of The Vedas, we get a description of something that can only be a nuclear explosion.
“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
So what do we make of that? Just ancient imagination that happens to sound exactly like nuclear devastation? Sure, you deniers and skeptics, sure. You’re probably right. It’s ancient nonsense. Right?
Hungry for more?
Check out Google searches about the Nazca lines, and the Mayan king Pakal at the pyramid of Palenque. We could go on; there’s a lot of strange evidence on our Earth that is dismissed far too easily by mainstream science. Because the universe is mundane, and it has to be mundane—that is, if you’re a knee-jerk skeptic addicted to the idea that the universe is mundane.
Now, if you want to see the original film that inspired all this hysteria, it’s below: Chariots of the Gods, from the early 1970s. Yes, sure, it’s cheesy—it’s from the ’70s! But it’s still pretty cool, we think.
ITSY BITSY ALIENS Americans would probably welcome the discovery of microbial alien life.
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AUSTIN, Texas — If alien microbes crash-land on Earth, they may get a warm welcome.
When people were asked how they would react to the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life, they give generally positive responses, researchers reported at a news conference February 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This suggests that if microbial life is found on Mars, Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus (SN: 5/13/17, p. 6) or elsewhere in the solar system, “we’ll take the news rather well,” said Michael Varnum, a social psychologist at Arizona State University in Tempe. What’s more, the tone of news reports announcing potential evidence for intelligent aliens suggests people would welcome that news, too.
Varnum and colleagues asked about 500 online volunteers — all in the United States — to describe how they would react if they learned scientists had discovered alien microbes. Varnum’s team analyzed each response using software that determined the fraction of words indicating positive emotion, such as “nice,” and negative emotion, like “worried.” The program also scanned for reward- and risk-focused words, such as “benefit” and “danger.”
MARTIAN MICROBES In 1996, a Martian meteorite (top) made headlines when researchers reported it might have harbored microbial alien life (bottom) — a claim that has not found widespread support among the scientific community.
FROM TOP: JSC/NASA; NASA
People generally used more positive and reward-oriented words than negative and risk-oriented ones to describe their anticipated reactions. The same held true when participants were asked how they expected everyone else to take the news.
In another study, Varnum’s team asked about 500 U.S.-based volunteers to read one of two newspaper articles. One from 1996 reported the discovery of evidence for fossilized Martian microbes in a meteorite (SN: 8/10/96, p. 84). In the second, researchers announced in 2010 that they had created a synthetic bacterial cell in the lab (SN: 6/19/10, p. 5).
Both groups responded favorably to the articles, but the people who read about Martian microbes had a more positive reaction. This suggests that while people feel good about discoveries of any previously unknown life-forms, they are particularly keen on finding aliens, Varnum says.
But “any finding that comes from one population — like Americans — you have to take with a grain of salt,” Varnum says. He and his colleagues now hope to gather responses from participants of different cultures, to compare how people across the globe would take the news of alien microbes.
Psychologist and SETI researcher Douglas Vakoch, who heads the nonprofit organization Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence in San Francisco, suggests researchers also gauge reactions to different scenarios of alien microbial discovery. The Martian meteorite described in the 1996 article “has been on Earth for a long time and nothing bad has happened,” says Vakoch, who wasn’t involved in the work. “That’s a really safe scenario.” But, he wonders, are people as gung-ho about the prospect of finding live microbes on other planets or aboard meteorites?
And what if the aliens were intelligent? “If you find intelligent life elsewhere, [you] know that you’re not the only kid on the block,” says Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. Knowing that human intelligence isn’t so special after all could provoke a much different emotional response than finding mere microbes “like pond scum in space,” Shostak says.
To get a sense of how people would feel about finding intelligent aliens, Varnum analyzed reports that the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua could be an alien spaceship (SN Online: 12/18/17). The news articles took a largely positive angle. So the broader public might also take kindly to the discovery of little green men, Varnum says.
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UFO 'evidence': Recordings reveal air traffic control's confusion at strange craft over Oregon
UFO 'evidence': Recordings reveal air traffic control's confusion at strange craft over Oregon
On October 25, a strange craft was seen — in broad daylight — flying amid the heavy traffic of the United States’ air corridors above the state of Oregon.
Pilots radioed in reports of an aircraft flying outside registered flight plans. It was not responding to radio calls. It had no collision-avoidance transponders. But it was always just outside clear sight.
On the ground, air traffic control was also seeing strange things. Its radar was intermittently tracking an unregistered object moving at unusually high speeds.
It was cause for real concern.
After all, 9/11 showed the potential havoc aircraft flying “dark” could achieve.
So F-15 interceptor fighters from the U.S. Air Force were scrambled to take a look.
The story was first picked up by "The War Zone" blog of the automotive website The Drive. It tracked down comments from the pilots that had seen something strange that day. It also obtained confirmation — of sorts — from the U.S. air base that launched the fighters.
Amid the accounts of phone calls, radio exchanges and pilot interviews is an enticing picture of what a substantive UFO report looks like, and how authorities struggle to make sense of what is going on above them.
‘THAT LOOKS CRAZY’
The unidentified flying object was first detected tearing through the air above Northern California by radar stations in Oakland. It was 4:30 p.m. It was unexpected. It was traveling “very fast at 37,000”.
It wasn’t supposed to be there.
At this point the recordings reveal the U.S. military was also aware of the strange aircraft. Air traffic controllers are told the Air Force was examining the radar track.
Then the unknown flying object did something potentially dangerous.
It took a sudden turn into a crowded stream of commercial airliners.
There it disappeared from radar.
But not from sight.
Startled commercial pilots began calling in reports.
Concerned and confused, for the next 30 minutes pilots and controllers tried to make sense of what was going on.
The audio recordings tell the tale of an obviously bemused controller responding to pilots. He directs other pilots on where to look. He asks if any of their air safety proximity sensors were registering it.
The military was also in the loop: references to elements of the US air defense command NORAD can be heard — “WADS” and “Bigfoot”.
Fighters are ordered into the air from the McChord Air Force Base in Washington.
What was the aircraft? Where was it going? What was it doing?
All they had to go on was that it appeared to be big. It was colored white. It was flying at about 37,000 feet.
It was now moving about the same speed as commercial airliners. It was not on radar, and was emitting no signals.
It never strayed closer than the edge of visual range.
“STEALTH MODE OR SOMETHING”
The radar and audio recordings reveal the F-15 interceptor fighters took to the air out of Portland. Dubbed “Rock” flight, these fighter aircraft are just some of those kept at a high alert status around the United States for incidents such as these after 9/11.
Strangely, they head south even as reports from commercial airliners indicate the strange craft was to the north.
One pilot calls air traffic control for an update: what’s going on?
The controller responds the UFO must be in “stealth mode or something”.
But by now it has slipped out of sight.
Losing touch with such an unregistered aircraft is no small thing.
Would it suddenly appear diving into the heart of a nearby city?
The scars of September 11 run deep.
So the urgent phone calls started.
MAINTAINING MYSTERY
Here the War Zone notes some unusual aspects of the Federal Aviation Authority recordings released under freedom of information requests.
“There were a few strange areas where conversations went mute and it’s not clear if this was edited or just an anomaly,” the blog reports.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the redacted components appear to be responses to requests for information about the military’s activities.
“When the Manager In Charge is asked if he was asking for military assistance by another FAA controller, the tape goes blank,” War Zone reports. “The same inquiry is heard moments later, and it goes silent again before another call begins.”
And again later, another “blank” occurs as pilots are asked about what they saw.
During a call with United 612 there are some odd “dead” moments in the audio, but the pilot is heard describing the encounter, stating that he was too far away to make out the type.
The pilot of Southwest 4712 was a little more forthcoming.
“This was a white airplane and it was big. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were.”
FALLOUT
The recordings continue long after the strange craft slips out of sight.
Seattle’s air traffic control manager in charge of operations urgently interrogates controllers and three of the airline pilots that reported visual contact — as well as air traffic security and an safety officers.
Everyone had to submit written reports.
Had they responded correctly?
Should the commercial airliners have been ordered to keep the strange aircraft in sight?
Was the unknown flying object a threat, and should the airliners have been ordered to scatter?
Whatever the outcome, one air traffic controller hit the situation on the head with one off-the-cuff comment:
“I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb.”
POSSIBILITIES AND PROBABILITIES
It’s tempting to immediately make the mental leap to aliens, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Occam’s razor makes the fair point that when seeking an explanation for something unusual, choose the one that makes the least assumptions as being the most likely.
So what could such an explanation be?
Oregon is in the country’s northwest. It’s alongside the state of Nevada. Nevada is the site of the ultra-secret U.S. Air Force testing facility, Area 51 (or more officially Groom Lake).
And that’s probably one of the least secret projects being worked on at Area 51.
But a test pilot first allowing to be detected on radar and then entering a highway of commercial airliners in plain sight, is unprofessional in the least.
And the U.S. is no longer the only nation with stealth technology. Russia. China. Both have caught up and — in an increasingly belligerent world — are likely to “send messages” through overflights such as this.
So when it comes to the idea of ET taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque, it beggars belief that such a super intelligence capable of traveling vast interstellar distances would let itself be seen — if it didn’t want to be.
OK, I know, the internet is full of articles articles about freak creatures – “The most bizarre ocean creatures“, “Deep sea monsters“, etc – and I don’t like those articles. These creatures are not monsters, they are not freaks – they are remarkably adapted to an extremely unfriendly environment, with immense pressure, low temperatures and a lack of light. So maybe we could start treating them less as a freak show, and try to understand them and learn from their curiosities?
Artistic representation of an angler fish. Via CG Arena.
You’ve probably seen this iconic creature before – it’s like they’re a mascot for the abyssal area. However, only some of them live in the deep sea, while others inhabit the continental shelf. Pelagic forms are most laterally compressed whereas the benthic forms are often more vertically compressed, with long mouths.
They’re called “angler fish” due to their unusual hunting techniques – basically, they emit light (bioluminescence) to attract unsuspecting fish, which will be devoured if they come close enough. Naturally, there is no light in the deep oceans, so their bioluminescence is really appealing to victims. However, they don’t do it by themselves – the light is a result of symbiosis with a bacteria, the mechanism of which is not entirely understood. But what really makes them unique is their reproduction system.
That thing in the red circle – that’s the male. Image Credits.
When scientists first discovered angler fish, they were rather puzzled by the fact that they only found females; furthermore, these females appeared to have some sort of parasite attached to them. Well, here’s the kicker: those “parasites” were actually the males! The sole purpose of the male’s life is to find a female host, without which he can’t survive for long. After he does find a female, the male bites into her skin, and the two are “fused” together, until the point where the only discernible parts of the male are its gonads. The male is still alive and he shares the female’s circulatory system, but he is basically a parasite which occasionally pays his dues by providing her with sperm on the spot so that she might impregnate herself. This is called parasitic reproduction. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available – something which can be quite difficult in the deep sea; she also doesn’t have to spend additional resources to find a mate, resources which are scarce in this environment.
Not all angler fish exhibit this extremely unusual reproduction system, many families and genera exhibit “normal” reproduction. It’s not clear why this is happens, but there are several theories – here’s one of them: females have to remain larger to accommodate fecundity; therefore, in the deep areas, there is a low density of females, so males had very little choice when it came to choosing a mate. In such an environment, evolution would make them become smaller and smaller and evolve more advanced and sophisticated methods of finding a mate.If a male manages to find a female parasitic attachment then it is ultimately more likely to improve lifetime fitness relative to free-living, he would be more successful (have more offspring), and thus the technique would spread).
2. The blobfish
No wonder he’s sad…
Unofficially declared “the ugliest animal in the world”, the blobfish is actually really interesting. They inhabit the deep waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, living at depths of 600 to 1200 meters (2000 – 4000 ft).At that depth, pressure is tens of times bigger than at the surface – and therefore gas bladders would be inefficient. Gas bladders are internal gas-filled organs that contribute to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, floating up or down with relative ease. The blobfish found an alternative to that: its flesh is basically a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. He may be lazy, but he’s pretty efficient – and there’s a reason why he looks like that.
Artistic representation; this is what blobfish look like in their natural environment. Source: Wikipedia.
When it lives underwater, at huge pressures, the blobfish looks quite different – the pressure keeps its body looking like you see above, but when you take it out, it starts to puff up due to the decompression. I’d say, that in its natural habitat, he’s quite a nifty fellow.
In September 2013 the blobfish was voted the “World’s Ugliest Animal”, based on photographs of decompressed specimens, and adopted as the mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, in an initiative to help preserve animals which were not blessed with what we, humans, consider to be “cuteness”.
3. The goblin shark
The goblin shark is a very rare and poorly understood animal – arguably the least understood shark species. The only survivor of its family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old, they are quite the puzzling creatures.
While you could see some resemblance to other shark species, this animal looks like no other shark. It is usually between 3 and 4 meters long when mature, though it can grow much larger than that (it’s not exactly clear just how much); you shouldn’t worry however, because they live at over 100 meters deep, with mature specimens living way deeper than that.
Various anatomical features of the goblin shark, such as its flabby body and small fins, suggest that it is sluggish in nature, and they have a very reduced skeleton and weak muscles – therefore it is not a fast swimmer, but probably a stalker, relying on ambush tactics. The long snout appears to have a sensory function, detecting electric fields from other creatures. They don’t survive on the surface, despite Japanese attempts at keeping them in special aquariums. I really wish the Japanese would stop doing stupid things like that.
4. Gulper eel
The Gulper eel is another poorly understood species. They are superficially similar to other eel species, but have many internal differences. Their most notable attribute is the big mouth, bigger than the rest of the body. The mouth is loosely hinged, and can be opened wide enough to swallow an animal much larger than itself, but it usually only eats small crustaceans.
Not much is known about the reproductive habits of the gulper eel. We do know that as they mature, the males undergo a change that causes enlargement of the olfactory organs, responsible for the sense of smell, and degeneration of the teeth and jaws – they give up on some hunting abilities in order to be more successful in finding a mate.
They live deep undersea, at depths between 150-1.800 meters (500 to 6.000 feet).
The Barrel Eye is an incredible species named for their barrel-shaped, tubular eyes, which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey. The tubular eyes generally look upwards, but they can also turn forward.
To better serve their vision, barreleyes have large, dome-shaped, transparent heads, arguably allowing them to collect any bit of light that might stumble their way, which is crucial at the depths they inhabit – 400–2.500 m deep. They reproduce by massively ejecting eggs and sperm, which are buoyant. the larvae and juveniles drift with the currents—likely at much shallower depths than the adults, and as they grow, they drift deeper.
The Dumbo octopus looks like, well, you could say it looks like Dumbo, Disney’s elephant… except it doesn’t. It is the deepest living octopus, inhabiting the oceans between 3.000 and 7.000 meters (9.800 to 23.000 feet).
They can flush the transparent layer of their skin at will, and are pelagic animals, measuring under 2 meters (7 feet). The Dumbo octopus is strange in the way it consumes food in that it swallows its prey whole, which differs from any other kind of octopus.
Let’s change things up a little, and look at this species – well, group of species actually. A giant isopod is any of the almost 20 species of large isopod related to shrimps and crabs. They average between 20-36 centimeters (0.75 – 1.1 feet), but can occasionally grow beyond that. They have seven pairs of legs, the first of which are modified into maxillipeds to manipulate and bring food to the four sets of jaws. They’re pretty similar in appearance and overall beaviour.
Their are also “living fossils” (like the goblin shark) – similar creatures were found in the fossil record 160 million years ago. They can be found on the bottom of deep seas, scavenging any food that may fall from the shallow waters or hunting anything that’s smaller then them and moves slow. When they find abundant food, they can gorge themselves to the point of compromising their locomotive ability. Luckily for them, food is not very abundant in their natural environment – and they have to spend a lot of time finding it.
They usually bury themselves in the sand and leap upwards to attack their prey as it swims by. Thing is, even if they’re not directly successful, they are poisonous, and can track their injured prey down. Also, they are able to deliver electric shocks to stun their prey – pretty neat, huh? Not if you’re their prey, that’s for sure. They are some of the few marine bioelectrogenic bony fishes.
Deep sea Hatchetfish should not be confused with the freshwater hatchetfishes, which are not particularly closely related to them – it’s just a name similarity, basically; we’re interested in the deep sea creature.
Via Discover Magazine.
When you look at them, don’t forget that they’re really small in size, almost never measuring over 10 centimeters.
Given the depths at which they live (50-1.500 meters), their tiny bodies have adapted to the pressure. The marine hatchetfish is also endowed with bioluminescent properties, which allow it to evade predators lurking in the depths below – it’s more of a defensive mechanism. Their scales are silvery, delicate and easily abrade.
Chimaeras are cartilaginous fishes. Wait a minute, sharks are cartilaginous fishes, and the chimaeras do look like sharks, so aren’t they sharks? Well no – not really. Based on the fossil record, scientists believe that they were once really abundant in shallow waters as well, but now, they’re mostly reserved to deep waters. They separated from the sharks nearly 400 million years ago and have remained isolated ever since. You could say that they’re more related to sharks than fish, however.
They live in temperate ocean floors down to 2,600 m (8,500 ft) deep, with few occurring at depths shallower than 200 m (660 ft). They lack sharks’ many sharp and replaceable teeth, having instead just three pairs of large permanent grinding tooth plates, and they are the only vertebrates to retain traces of a third pair of limbs. Not all of them look as eccentric as the one above though.
11. The Colossal Squid
Not to be confused with the Giant Squid is the largest squid species, growing up to 12–14 m (39–46 ft) long. It is also the largest known invertebrate.
There are not many pictures of actual colossal squid. This is the largest cephalopod ever recorded. Here it is shown in its live state during capture, with the delicate red skin still intact and the mantle characteristically inflated. More info here.
Not much is known about them, but their range varies from a few hundred meters to at least 2.200 kilometers. They are so big that they probably caused the belief in a mythical monster, the kraken – a legendary sea monster of giant proportions that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. They are the preferred prey of a number of whales. They have a small metabolic rate, and probably rely on ambush to hunt their prey, using their big eyes to scout. The method of reproduction was not observed, but it is known that females are much larger than males, something not uncommon in invertebrates.
12. The Dragonfish
This is an artistic illustration, but yes – that’s how they look, as you can also see below. Credits.
Dragonfish are small deep sea creatures. While they may look extremely fierce and dangerous, they measure only 10-20 centimeters. However, they can be found at depths of 2 kilometers, but they start their life near the surface, as their eggs are buoyant.
Like many other deep sea creatures, it eventually becomes capable of producing its own light through bioluminescence, when it is ready to move on to the deep sea. One of its many light producing photophores can be found on a barbel attached to its lower jaw, which it most likely uses for hunting. I’m a broken record, I know – but not much is known about this species.
They are among the deepest-living fish, found as far as 5,000 m (16,400 ft) down. They sometimes hunt in small groups, but more often they do it alone. However, they’re not the most perceptive creature, relying on luck to bump into something edible. The smaller teeth and longer gill rakers of juveniles suggest they feed primarily by filtering zooplankton from the water.
They’re also small, rarely growing over 20 centimeters, and like many miniature beasts of the abyss, they feature disproportionately large teeth. The function of these teeth is offensive – basically, in the extremely harsh environment in which they live, anything must be considered a meal – or a predator. Big teeth equal big weapons. The fangtooth has proportionately the largest teeth of any fish in the ocean – but still, even if, in all absurdity, they would stumble upon a human, they would be pretty harmless.
Fangtooths are known to be robust when compared to many other deep-sea fish, surviving for months when captured and placed in aquariums. Again, I really with that people would stop trying to take these fish out of there environments and put them somewhere on display – they can’t survive this treatment, and it’s a slow, painful end.
The Frilled Shark is another “living fossil” – a seldom seen specimen inhabiting the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Scientists speculate that it captures its prey by bending its body and lunging forward like a snake, often swallowing its prey whole. A 1.6 m (5.2 ft) long individual, caught off the coast of Japan was found to have swallowed a 590 g (1.30 lb) Japanese catshark.
Notice the long, terminally positioned jaws, and the strange teeth. Via Wikipedia.
It reaches a length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and has a dark brown, eel-like body. With its elongated body and impressive aspect, it has long been likened to the mythical sea serpent. The many small, sharp, recurved teeth of the frilled shark are functionally similar to squid jigs and could easily snag the body or tentacles of a squid, though they probably like to take advantage of injured or tired individuals.
These are just a few of the fascinating creatures which inhabit the deep sea – hopefully, if this article has reached its purpose, you understand that they are not monsters or freaks – they are adapted to their extreme environment (hundreds of bars of pressure, small amounts of oxygen, very little food, no sunlight, and constant, extreme cold) – extreme environment requires extreme adaptations. Many of them rely on food falling from above, and for them, there are mostly two types of creatures: things you can eat, or things that can eat you. Sometimes it’s hard to draw a line between the two.
Humans have explored less than 2% of the ocean floor, and dozens of new species of deep sea creatures are discovered with every dive.
When most creatures are sent into this world, they don’t have the capacity to take care of themselves. Their body is insufficiently developed, their mind is still a work in progress, and they certainly don’t have the ability to hunt. But the Dumbo octopus is different, researchers have learned. Dumbo octopus hatchlings are basically miniature versions of adults, emerging with a fully formed body, a complex nervous system, and the ability to navigate their surroundings.
The Dumbo octopus.
Image via NOAA.
The Dumbo octopus is a strange animal. We don’t know that much about it, largely because it generally lives at depths of 3,000 to 4,000 meters (9,800 to 13,100 ft), with some living up to 7,000 meters (23,000 ft) below sea level — the deepest of any known octopus. The creature takes its name from Disney’s fictional elephant Dumbo, due to the prominent ear-like fins located above each eye, which look like Dumbo’s giant ears. But these prominent fins do more than just raise similarity with a fictional elephant: they propel the octopus through unique, flapping motions.
It’s not easy to study a creature that spends most of its time kilometers beneath the surface, so researchers were thrilled when they came across the first Dumbo eggs ever observed.
Tim Shank at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution first noticed one in 2005. As he was working with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to explore the Northwest Atlantic, he observed what appeared to be tan-colored golf balls attached to coral branches. They were too interesting to just pass by, so he collected a few.
“With each successive collection, it became apparent that this was some sort of an egg case,” Shank says. “The first few were open and empty, the next two contained a white gelatinous mass within, and the final collection yielded the specimen described in the paper.”
Most of them were cracked (the octopus had already hatched), but one was still intact. So he took it inside the lab, placed it in a bucket in a cold room that mimics its natural environment, and observed it.
The egg started to crack, and the tiny octopus peaked its head.
“Once the fins were observed while it was still in the bucket, it was clear that it was a ‘dumbo’ octopod,” says Elizabeth Shea at the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
At first, it didn’t move much, but after a while, it started to swim around, in the video you can see above. Researchers were quite surprised to see just how well the octopus navigated its surroundings. Seemingly fully formed right from the start, the hatchling can see and chemically sense its environment, and an internal yolk sac also gives it a little time to successfully capture a first meal. However, it seems perfectly competent to already hunt on its own.
“The virtual exploration and 3D reconstruction of the internal anatomy of this deep-sea creature was particularly revealing,” says study co-author Alexander Ziegler from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Germany. “I was impressed by the complexity of the central nervous system and the relative size of fins and the internal shell. However, for me as a zoologist, the most interesting aspect of our discovery remains the close interaction between the dumbo egg and the deep-sea coral host.”
Dumbos typically hover above the sea floor, where they look for worms, crustaceans, or other small creatures they can hunt. It’s intriguing that they hatch so well-formed, but what researchers are most interested in now is establishing the environmental relationship between the octopus and the corals which host its eggs.
“We knew that adults are predominantly benthopelagic [living and feeding near the seafloor, as well as in mid waters or nearer to the surface], that females lay eggs on the ocean bottom, and that octopod eggs come in a variety of sizes, colors, and textures,” Shea says. “Our work connects the dots between a particular egg, a particular coral, and a particular octopod.”.
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole’s spinning disk
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole’s spinning disk
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For decades, astronomers have been talking about of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they’ve clearly confirmed a black hole’s encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.
Artist’s concept of the dusty gaseous torus around the active supermassive black hole in the distant galaxy M77. Want the real images?
See below. Artist’s concept via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
Astronomers have used the ALMA telescope in northern Chile to image a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The galaxy is M77, a relatively nearby barred spiral, located some 47 million light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Cetus the Whale. The astronomers were able to view a compact gaseous structure with a radius of 20 light-years at this galaxy’s core. And, they found, the compact structure is spinning around the black hole, as theories have suggested it should. Astronomers have been talking for decades about supermassive black holes – with compact, gaseous disks around them – at the cores of galaxies, but, according to ALMA:
… this is the first time one has been confirmed so clearly.
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the central region of the spiral galaxy M77. ALMA revealed the distribution of gas in the very center of the galaxy (inset). ALMA imaged a horseshoe-like structure with a radius of 700 light-years. It also imaged a central compact component with a radius of 20 light-years: the gaseous torus around the black hole. Red indicates emission from formyl ions (HCO+) and green indicates hydrogen cyanide emission.
Image via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Imanishi et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and A. van der Hoeven.
Motion of gas around the supermassive black hole in the center of M77. The gas moving toward us is shown in blue and that moving away from us is in red. The rotation of the gas is centered around the black hole. Image via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Imanishi et al.
According to modern astronomers, almost all galaxies – including our Milky Way – have supermassive black holes in their cores. The more massive the galaxy, the more massive the central black hole. But, ALMA explained, astronomers remained puzzled:
This sounds reasonable at first, but host galaxies are 10 billion times bigger than the central black holes; it should be difficult for two objects of such vastly different scales to directly affect each other. So how could such a relation develop?
A team of astronomers used the ALMA telescope to peer toward M77, aiming to solve the puzzle. ALMA said:
The central region of M77 is an “active galactic nucleus,” or AGN, which means that matter is vigorously falling toward the central supermassive black hole and emitting intense light. AGNs can strongly affect the surrounding environment, therefore they are important objects for solving the mystery of the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes.
Imanishi said:
To interpret various observational features of AGNs, astronomers have assumed rotating donut-like structures of dusty gas around active supermassive black holes. This is called the unified model of AGNs.
However, the dusty gaseous donut is very tiny in appearance. With the high resolution of ALMA, now we can directly see the structure.
As typically happens, getting to the heart of one mystery spawned another mystery. These astronomers said the distribution of gas around the supermassive black hole in M77 is more complicated than the unified model suggests. They said:
The torus seems to have an asymmetry and the rotation is not just following the gravity of the black hole but also contains highly random motion. These facts could indicate the AGN had a violent history, possibly including a merger with a small galaxy.
Nevertheless, the identification of the rotating torus is an important step.
Bottom line: Astronomers have gotten what they said is their clearest view yet of the dusty disk or donut surrounding a supermassive black hole. It is at the core of the spiral galaxy M77, some 47 million light-years away.
Earth’s magnetic field extends from the interior of the planet out into space. It protects us from solar and cosmic rays and deflects most of the solar wind, which would otherwise make holes in the ozone layer that protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation. When harmful particles enter the atmosphere, Earth’s magnetic field deflects them.
Experts have warned that Earth’s magnetic field has weakened by around 15 percent over the last 200 years. According to scientists, it could be a sign that the Earth’s magnetic poles are about to flip. If this happens, there will be no light, no computers, and no cellphones. Even filling a car’s gas tank would be impossible.
This switching process could take centuries, but if it happens, we would be exposed to harmful radiation, and it may cause entire species to go extinct. Probably it will render some areas of the planet uninhabitable by knocking out power grids.
“We have a double layer defense shield,” said Jim Wild, a space scientist at Lancaster University.
“Space is full of stuff that’s not great for biological tissue. If we didn’t have an atmosphere, that stuff would be hitting us. It’s the magnetic field that protects the atmosphere from the solar wind.”
Wikileaks Documents Leaked Confirming The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life & UFOs
Wikileaks Documents Leaked Confirming The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life & UFOs
Julian Assange has grabbed the attention of the entire planet, as both mainstream and alternative media networks have covered Wikileaks in depth. For those who don’t know, Wikileaks is an international, online, non-profit organization that publishes secret (classified) documents, information, news leaks and other classified material from anonymous sources. They are no different from Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. As I’ve mentioned before, they’ve been a tremendous threat to the controlling elite for a number of years and have gained the attention of major mainstream media outlets worldwide, mny of whom have bashed Assange, pointing to the idea that the release of classified documents is a threat to national security. Wrong, it’s simply a threat to secrecy, information and truth. America alone classifies over five hundred million pages of documents per year. Think about a historian trying to study history, or technological development, science and more, how can they properly do this if most of this information is constantly kept secret from the general population?
That’s why organizations like Wikileaks are so important, as they shed light on truth that most of the human race knows nothing about, and one of them is the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Wikileaks is a major attention grabber, so it’s a great way to bring more attention to the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon that’s been gaining heavy interest over the last few years.
As far as UFO documents go, the Wikileaks ones are not really significant compared to what’s already available in the public domain. They do however show that these topics are still mentioned in highly classified documents.
Again, we already have a number of (more significant and telling) documents that have been released into the public domain, as well as statements from high ranking military and political figures. To see some of these documents and whistle-blowers, you can refer to the last article I wrote on this subject by clickingHERE. For more articles on this subject from Collective Evolution, you can click HERE.
Wikileaks UFO/Extraterrestrial Documents
Prominent Lithuanian politician says that there are a “group of UFOs, who are making influence from the Cosmos.” That “there exists a decreasing group of persons, who are trying to rationally analyze the situation and objectively evaluate what is happening.” (source)
This cable comes from the year 2006 from the American Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania. The statement was made by Albinas Januska, who at the time was appointed adviser to the Lithuanian Prime Minister.
Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Nobutaka Machimura Says UFOs definitely exist.
This is a cable from Japan that shows how the Chief Cabinet Secretary was unhappy with the governments official view rejecting the existence of UFOs. The document goes on to describe how he stated in a press conference that “I am sure that unidentified flying objects exist, otherwise it is impossible to explain the Nazca Lines (In Peru), isn’t it?”(source)
He also stated that ” the government has offered only a boilerplate response in its formal statement” regarding UFOs.
Tajik Mayor says there is life on other planets, and that peace and unity on Earth is necessary.
On January 13 Ambassador called on Dushanbe Mayor and Chairman of the upper house of Parliament Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev at his parliamentary office. The Mayor began the meeting with a lengthy discourse on Afghanistan, thanking the United States for its contributions and sacrifices there, and saying that U.S. activities there were very important “as we enter the third millennium and the 21st century.” Ubaidulloev thought the main task there was to build a sense of national identity among ethnically disparate groups, and said the United States was an example for this. He noted that “war is very dangerous”, and said “we know there is life on other planets, but we must make peace here first.
In a platitude-ridden meeting, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev said upcoming elections would be free and fair, that contributions to the Roghun Dam were voluntary, and that the losses suffered by the United States in Afghanistan were felt by Tajiks as their own. Ubaidulloev asked for help in getting Tajik students admitted to Harvard University, but effectively declined to help find a new location for an American Corner in Dushanbe. He asserted the existence of life on other planets, caveating this by noting that we should focus on solving our problems on Earth. End Summary. (source)
Julian Assange has also said that that a UFO cult called the Raelians were of concern to the U.S. ambassador in Canada. It’s not surprising that the U.S. ambassador in Canada was concerned with this group. Government agencies have been concerned, harassing, monitoring and questioning extraterrestrial abductees and contacts for a number of years. They have been studying this subject for a very long time.
Like I said, Wikileaks seems to garnish a lot of attention, that’s why I chose to cover the topic, even though the documents are not as significant as ones that have already been released from dozens of governments, three letter agencies and more. Not to mention shocking statements from high ranking military and political personnel. I linked an article in the first few paragraphs of this one that provides more examples of these, and below I am going to provide a brief excerpt from it to illustrate what I am talking about.
VERY BRIEF example of other information that’s already out there
Within the past few years, dozens of governments admitted to allocating resources and having programs to study the UFO phenomenon. For instance, in Canada the RCMP, Transport Canada and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking UFOs and investigating them. (source) They’ve been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents -many of which have since been officially released.
HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom.
Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HERE is one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.
“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. ”
You can read more about the radar tracking of UFOs HERE.
HERE is a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. You can read more about that HERE.
Again the list goes on and on and thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, a video done by UFO expert Richard Dolan does a great job at doing just that in 10 minutes.
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3 Incredible - Gravity Defying - UFO Sightings Caught On Video By The BBC And 3 Great UFO Videos By Express.Co.UK
3 Incredible - Gravity Defying - UFO Sightings Caught On Video By The BBC And 3 Great UFO Videos By Express.Co.UK
Here are 3 great captures of a UFO as it passed a global mainstream news organization in Great Britain called the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Note: The analysis the guy int he background of this video makes no sense to me as I've never seen any sort of drone with flight capabilities that encompasses all of those features. Maybe there is something secret the analyzer knows about that he isn't mentioning?
Abstract: Totally unexpected visit by UFOs on BBC news, 8th October 2014, over Walton On Naze UK a news presenter unexpectedly directs the camera crew to video the pier behind him, what appears is two super fast UFOs which after swiftly moving around! shoot up through the clouds within 1 second each, both headed in the exact same ascending direction.
Shock super moon alien claims go viral ALIEN hunters who were on high alert during the blood moon spotted a mystery object flying through the night sky during the lunar eclipse.
The witness states: I just happened to notice an object travelling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame. Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular interval. Mufon case file 89921
ALIEN investigators have been independently contacted by two "experienced skywatchers" who claim to have seen an unusually slow-moving UFO last night on both sides of The Pond.
The report said: "Our all-sky night camera caught this unusual bright object pass overhead, Highway 395 Inyo county, heading west over the Sierra Nevada. "It was too late at night to be a satellite (plus satellites don't travel E to W) and too slow for a meteor. "The entire passage lasted 80 seconds.
More UK UFO news stories:
BBC:'UFO and alien' sightings revealed by Cambridgeshire Police Sightings of aliens and UFOs have been reported to police in Cambridgeshire six times in two years, new figures show. The force was asked in a Freedom of Information request how many 999 and 101 calls it had received during 2015, 2016 and 2017. It reported three calls mentioning "alien" and three referencing "UFO". Two of the reported sightings took place in 2015 and four in 2016.
Unbelievable Video and Audio Recordings Of A UFO That Was Seen On Radar Flying At Tremendous Speed Before Disappearing
Unbelievable Video and Audio Recordings Of A UFO That Was Seen On Radar Flying At Tremendous Speed Before Disappearing
A mysterious UFO apparently outmanoeuvred F15 fighter pilots who attempted to intercept it. It was noticed on radar flying at incredible speeds before disappearing. The bizarre incident took place on the evening of October 25 above the Pacific Northwest in northern California.
Commercial pilots flying north above Oregon apparently noticed the white object that was first spotted on radar. The video and audio recordings of the radar operators were released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The group behind the declassification believe they present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such encounter that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the USAF had already both confirmed to have taken place.
The recently declassified materials include audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the mysterious incident unfolded. Pilot interviews, as well as conversations with FAA officials after the event, are also included.
The object was first noticed on radar flying at high speed across Northern California, around 4:30 pm local time. It then took a sharp north turn and merged with commercial aircraft when it vanished from radar.
The incident left people baffling what the mysterious object could have been.
In recordings of calls after the strange event, one operator is heard saying there was definitely something out there. Another one says the UFO had made a sudden manoeuvre and took off northbound. The third one can be heard saying “I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb.”
Southwest 4712 pilot said he never encountered such incident in nearly 30 years of flying jets. He explained that he probably would not have seen it clear if it was like a Lear type airframe (private jet). He further described the white aeroplane as big and moved at a clip, probably faster than they were flying.
An FAA Quality Assurance Group official can be heard saying that it is weird and should be classified as potentially significant.
Military officials have not identified the origin of the plane or even the destination after it disappeared.
One of Angamuco’s ‘neighbourhoods’, revealed using light detection and ranging scanning. Photograph: C Fisher
Archaeology might evoke thoughts of intrepid explorers and painstaking digging, but in fact researchers say it is a high-tech laser mapping technique that is rewriting the textbooks at an unprecedented rate.
The approach, known as light detection and ranging scanning (lidar) involves directing a rapid succession of laser pulses at the ground from an aircraft.
The time and wavelength of the pulses reflected by the surface are combined with GPS and other data to produce a precise, three-dimensional map of the landscape. Crucially, the technique probes beneath foliage – useful for areas where vegetation is dense.
Earlier this month researchers revealed it had been used to discover an ancient Mayan city within the dense jungles of Guatemala, while it has also helped archaeologists to map the city of Caracol – another Mayan metropolis.
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Now, researchers have used the technique to reveal the full extent of an ancient city in western Mexico, about a half an hour’s drive from Morelia, built by rivals to the Aztecs.
“To think that this massive city existed in the heartland of Mexico for all this time and nobody knew it was there is kind of amazing,” said Chris Fisher, an archaeologist at Colorado State University who is presenting the latest findings from the study at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Austin, Texas, this week.
While less well known than the Aztecs, the Purépecha were a major civilisation in central Mexico in the early 16th century, before Europeans arrived and wreaked havoc through war and disease. Purépecha cities included an imperial capital called Tzintzuntzan that lies on the edge of Lake Pátzcuaro in western Mexico, an area in which modern Purépecha communities still live.
Using lidar, researchers have found that the recently-discovered city, known as Angamuco, was more than double the size of Tzintzuntzan – although probably not as densely populated – extending over 26 km2 of ground that was covered by a lava flow thousands of years ago.
The city of Angamuco, which occupies a lava field on the eastern edge of the Lake Pátzcuaro basin. Photograph: C Fisher
“That is a huge area with a lot of people and a lot of architectural foundations that are represented,” said Fisher. “If you do the maths, all of a sudden you are talking about 40,000 building foundations up there, which is [about] the same number of building foundations that are on the island of Manhattan.”
The team also found that Angamuco has an unusual layout. Monuments such as pyramids and open plazas are largely concentrated in eight zones around the city’s edges, rather being located in one large city centre. According to Fisher, more than 100,000 people are thought to have lived in Angamuco in its heyday between about 1000AD to 1350AD. “[Its size] would make it the biggest city that we know of right now in western Mexico during this period,” said Fisher.
First found by researchers in 2007, archeologists initially attempted to explore Angamuco using a traditional “boots on the ground” approach, resulting in the discovery of about 1,500 architectural features over each square kilometre surveyed. But the team soon realised the rugged terrain meant it would take at least a decade to map the whole area.
Examples of sunken plazas, patios, and related features in Angamuco. Photograph: C Fisher
Instead, since 2011 the lidar technique has been used to map a 35km2 area, revealing an astonishing array of features at high resolution, from pyramids and temples to road systems, garden areas for growing food and even ball courts.
So far more than 7,000 architectural features over a 4km2 area seen using lidar have been verified by the team on the ground, with excavations undertaken at seven locations to shed further light on the site.
The earliest evidence from the city, including ceramic fragments and radiocarbon dating of remnants from offerings, dates to about 900AD, with the city believed to have undergone two waves of development and one of collapse before the arrival of the Spanish.
Fisher adds that lidar is likely to lead to further developments. “Everywhere you point the lidar instrument you find new stuff, and that is because we know so little about the archaeological universe in the Americas right now,” he said. “Right now every textbook has to be rewritten, and two years from now[they’re] going to have to be rewritten again.”
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Fisher has also used lidar to explore a remote area of the Mosquitia region of north-eastern Honduras, shedding light on what is now known as the City of the Jaguar. This settlement, the team found, had terraces, water control features such as canals, and boasted about 10 plaza complexes, with the whole city stretching over three square kilometres.
“Many of these areas of the Americas that we see today that we think that we would classify as pristine tropical forests are really abandoned gardens,” says Fisher.
However, previous coverage of the work has proved controversial, with some saying claims of a “lost city” smack of colonialist rhetoric.
Elizabeth Graham, professor of mesoamerican archaeology at University College London who was not involved in the projects, said the team’s work was impressive, and that lidar was backing up long-held suspicions about the size of archaeological settlements.
“Once it shows all traces of the land surface, we can interpret those, because you can tell what is natural and what is not,” she added. “It’ll show you terracing, where houses are – or at least structures of some sort – agricultural features, manipulated land – all of that.”
But, she said, while lidar can help to direct expeditions and digs, traditional techniques were still needed to unearth the details. “Ultimately we still have to get on the ground and then excavate,” she said.
This article was amended on 15 and 16 February 2018 to correct the spelling of Purépecha and to add some clarifying details about the size of the Angamuco site and estimates of the number of buildings it had.
Ieder schoolboek moet worden herschreven. Deze onderzoekers ontdekken gigantische verloren stad in Mexico in Archeologie 20 februari 2018 07:30 1 Reactie 1,808 Bekeken
Ieder schoolboek moet worden herschreven. Deze onderzoekers ontdekken gigantische verloren stad in Mexico
Onderzoekers hebben in het westen van Mexico een eeuwenoude verloren stad ontdekt, die is gebouwd door rivalen van de Azteken.
“Het is fantastisch om te denken dat deze gigantische stad al die tijd heeft bestaan in het hartje van Mexico zonder dat iemand er iets vanaf wist,” zei archeoloog Chris Fisher van de Colorado State University.
Met behulp van radartechnologie ontdekten de onderzoekers dat de stad, die bekendstaat als Angamuco, zich uitstrekt over een gebied van 26 vierkante kilometer en duizenden jaren geleden werd verzwolgen door lava.
Grootste stad
“Dit is een enorm gebied waar heel veel mensen woonden,” zei Fisher tegen The Guardian. “We hebben het hier over 40.000 gebouwen, ongeveer net zoveel als op Manhattan.”
Piramides en pleinen bevinden zich in acht zones langs de rand van de stad en zijn niet zoals je zou verwachten gesitueerd in het centrum.
Volgens Fisher woonden er op het hoogtepunt, tussen 1000 en 1350, meer dan 100.000 mensen in Angamuco. “Dat maakt het voor zover bekend de grootste stad in het westen van Mexico in deze periode,” zei hij.
Vele piramides
Archeologen probeerden de stad in eerste instantie vanaf de grond te verkennen, maar ze beseften al snel dat het tenminste 10 jaar zou duren om het hele gebied in kaart te brengen.
Sinds 2011 zijn met behulp van de radartechnologie vele piramides, tempels, wegen en tuinen ontdekt.
Herschreven
“Overal vinden we nieuwe dingen en dat komt omdat we zo weinig weten over het archeologische universum in de Amerika’s,” zei Fisher.
“Ieder schoolboek moet worden herschreven en over twee jaar zullen ze opnieuw herschreven moeten worden,” voegde hij toe.
Although UFO "sightings" often turn out to be explicable phenomena, such as the streak of light caused by a recent SpaceX rocket launch in California, the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed previous funding of UFO research.
While no human contact with aliens has ever been verified by the government, attendees at the Saturday conference say it's clear that we are not alone in the universe.
And if you get a rush from hunting for any sign of paranormal evidence, Arizona is the place to be, they say.
Travis Walton, an Arizona resident and one of the speakers, inspired the 1993 science-fiction film "Fire in the Sky." He said he believes he was abducted by a UFO near Snowflake on Nov. 5, 1975"
He was in a truck, returning with co-workers from a logging job in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, when, he said, they saw a bright light hovering over a break in the trees.
Once they got closer to the light, Walton said, there was "no doubt of what we were seeing," and one co-worker exclaimed, "It's a flying saucer."
Walton said he had an "impulse to see it" and threw open the truck door, getting closer to the craft for a better look.
"It was kind of a foolish move in retrospect," Walton said, drawing laughter from the audience.
Walton said he felt like it was his own impulse that drew him there, and not anything extraterrestrial.
It was both 'frightening' and 'beautiful'
The closer he got, Walton said, the more frightened he and his co-workers became.
"This was not only frightening, but it was beautiful," Walton said. "It just looked smooth as glass. It was glowing, it was shiny and metallic. The surface was so shiny that even though it was giving off light, it was also reflecting its surroundings."
After a few moments, Walton said, the UFO began to move, and the sound it was making got louder, filling the night air.
Walton said he decided to run, and that's when he heard a powerful blast.
His co-workers fled the scene, he said, leaving him behind.
"It was the most commonsense thing to do, was to get the (heck) out of there," Walton said.
Former law-enforcement officer Chuck Ellison and his wife were about to have supper at their Heber home when the phone rang.
On the other end of the line was a frantic voice. Ellison drove to meet Walton's six "hysterical" co-workers.
Ellison, who was also at Saturday's panel alongside Walton, said that several of Walton's co-workers were crying.
Finally, one of the co-workers told Ellison that a flying saucer had abducted Walton and that they had left the scene.
"I said that was kinda a sorry thing to do," Ellison said to laughter from the audience.
The story continues
Walton said he was missing for five days, and his co-workers were accused of inventing the UFO story.
Others said that Walton was playing a hoax on his family and the surrounding community.
Walton's brother, Don, was the third speaker on the Saturday panel and said his mother showed up at his house around 3 a.m. Nov. 6, saying that Walton was missing.
"She was hysterical, and my mother did not do hysterical," Don Walton said.
Over the next few days, media hounded the Waltons, demanding interviews, Don Walton said.
The Arizona Republic sifted through more than 100 reports from the Project Blue Book files, searching for the interesting, the bizarre and the unbelievable stories from Arizona's UFO sightings. Many of the names and specific locations within the reports were redacted by the U.S. Air Force. Thinkstock
4 p.m. July 7, 1947- The 30-year-old Mr. Rhodes of Phoenix heard the approach of an incoming jet . He stepped out his backdoor to look, but saw nothing. After several seconds however, a gray disc appeared over the horizon to the northeast. Mr. Rhodes ran to his workshop, grabbed his camera and snapped two pictures as the disc dipped under the clouds again. The disc then disappeared over the western horizon. The entire event lasted about 60 seconds. United States Air Force
5:45 p.m. April 28, 1949- A Tucson florist stood with two friends, when a silver object appeared over the rim of the Catalina Mountains. "It appeared sausage like in shape," the florist noted in his firsthand account. It had no wings, windows, fins or visible openings, facts corroborated by all three men. The sausage seemed to revolve in a slow roll, similar to an airplane at speeds estimated about 500 miles per hour, and at a height of about 5 to 10 miles above the Earth. The sighting lasted for about 12 minutes. United States Air Force
2:30 p.m. May 9, 1949- A U.S. Air Force sergeant spotted two flying objects while reclining on the front lawn of his home in northeast Tucson. The objects were flat, silver, reflective and "perfectly round." They appeared in the southwest of the sky, about the size of washtubs, approximately 10,000 feet in the air traveling between 750 and 1,000 miles per hours.. The pair headed northwest, banked to the left, then abruptly to the right, fading from view over the Catalina Mountains. United States Air Force
7:45 a.m. April 3, 1952- A civilian pilot instructor landed at Marana Air Base. While taxiing, the instructor noticed an object described as a "bright star" in the morning sky. The pilot instructor continued to keep his eye on the object. "It never moved the slightest fraction in relation to the canopy of my aircraft," he said in the report. After about 45 minutes of observation, the object suddenly vanished. "The object was bright and shone like polished aluminum. I've been flying for 25 years and never saw anything like it. It was weird," Logan said in a news article about the incident. United States Air Force
7:15 p.m. Jan. 27, 1953- A Cottonwood man stood outside his home watching an airplane fly overhead when he noticed the illuminated object.It appeared as a yellow-orange light, larger and brighter than any of the stars in the night sky. The man ran inside, grabbed a pair of binoculars and returned to see the light heading south. Through the binoculars, he could see the object was made of two lights, one brighter light near the head of the object, and a second fainter light near what he assumed was the tail. The man followed the object for about five minutes before it faded into the night. United States Air Force
Dec. 23, 1954- Kenneth Hite was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. Hite was flying a local combat air patrol mission when he encountered an unidentified object near Nogales. He was flying at an altitude of 15,000 feet, and noted the object was about 5,000 to 10,000 feet above him. Hite followed the object, which appeared about 10 miles ahead of him, he said. He continued pursuit at an altitude of 28,000 feet and a speed of 350 knots. After reaching Douglas, it turned south and Hite, again, gave chase. Not long after, Hike began to run low on fuel and had to return to base. United States Air Force
Oct. 17, 1955- Reports from a missing case file indicate that approximately 12 pale, yellow lights appeared over Yuma. The observer, described as a military source, said the formation of the pale lights was a wide "V" at a high altitude. The lights grew dimmer, smaller and faded away over the course of about three to four seconds. Air Force conclusion: The duration and height of the sightings led military officials to believe the observer saw a meteor shower. United States Air Force
7:45 p.m. April 8, 1958- Two men in their 20s saw an unidentified flying object speeding from north to south while driving west on Main Street in Mesa. At first, the men said it had the appearance of a falling star with an approximate size of a grapefruit held at arm's length. What was peculiar, according to the report, was the object's movement and speed. The light rapidly descended to about 1,500 feet over the city of Mesa then slowly pulled into a steep climb until it performed a near vertical ascent, all the while accelerating. The object disappeared from view after a total of 10 seconds. United States Air Force
6:27 p.m. Oct. 19, 1958- A group of astronomers set up about nine miles outside of Benson to watch the Russian space satellite, Sputnik 1, and the third-stage rocket that helped it get into orbit. The observers instead saw a bright object over the southeastern horizon. It traveled rapidly across the sky then vanished out of view over the north-northwestern horizon after about five minutes.It was traveling in the opposite direction of the satellite's projected path, and was much too bright to be airplane lights, the observer wrote in the account. Dr. Bruce Maccabee
6:20 p.m. Feb. 24, 1960-The sun had just set behind the mountains when a 31-year-old Tucson man and his wife encountered a white, globular light while driving outside of downtown. He pulled to the side of the road to more closely examine the object. The object appeared over the mountains to the west, heading east over the city. As it flew, the object made drastic maneuvers, changing direction and slanting. After about 5 minutes, the diagonal streaks broke off the initial band of light, circling the object, then absorbed back into the original band. It appeared to glide over the sky, gently rising and then fading away to the south. United States Air Force
4:30 a.m. Aug. 10, 1964- An object with a trail of whitish-yellow flames and sparks skittered across the early-morning sky over Phoenix, according to reports from civilian and military observers. Two of the reports indicated the object looked like a fireball and could have been a meteor. Most agree, the source was very bright and came from a single object. No sound was reported. Most on the ground observed the object heading from west to east, but two flight crews reported the object moving southwest to northwest. United States Air Force
Sept. 7, 1965- A Tempe liquor-store clerk watched as six whitish-yellow objects flew low over the city as if they were going to land, before disappearing to the southeast over the mountains. Each of the objects were oval-shaped, and had windows that emanated a pinkish light, according to the clerk. Two of the lights were side by side, and four together. They emitted a high-pitched hum that hurt the ears of the observer, and gave her a headache.The officer producing the report noted that the clerk was convinced UFOs exist and had seen numerous UFOs during the four years prior. The clerk also said she had hypersensitive hearing that allows her to hear UFOs before she sees them. United States Air Force
Oct. 25, 1965- Nine miles southeast of Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, a military official watched the night sky from home. The observer noticed a bright object to the southwest. At first, the observer thought it resembled a star or planet. It oscillated from white to orange and black to white. Then it began to move. It changed directions from south to north, then moved to the southeast and east. It changed elevation, disappeared, then reappeared an hour after its first appearance. The observer described the movements as "erratic" and emphasized it moved at high speed. United States Air Force
8:05 p.m. Nov. 26, 1965- A husband, wife and son standing outside watched an explosion in the sky similar to Fourth of July fireworks, except that the rocket burst into a perfect circle of blue starlike objects.The cluster of 30 to 50 objects then moved south over Phoenix. Ten to 15 seconds after the first sighting, the cluster began "swarming like bees, resolving into two undulating 'V' formations," then melding back into a single V before disappearing while heading due south, according to a summary of the event from the husband, who included his qualifications as an astronomer and a teacher of aircraft identification during World War II. Dr. Bruce Maccabee
5:40 p.m. Oct. 9, 1967- A 13-year-old boy said he watched a UFO take off from the desert. He described the object as looking like a large, silver water heater with 2 legs, each fitted with a curved pad. The boy said the UFO made a humming sound as it took off, and left an indescribable taste in his mouth. The report includes pictures of impressions in the sand the boy alleges were created by the UFO. The Aerial Phenomena Branch received the report, took pictures and soil samples, then sent them to the Ohio River Division Laboratory for testing. In turn, the lab found that the UFO could not possibly have been the size or dimensions described by the boy. United States Air Force
While his family was dealing with chaos on the ground, Walton said, he believes he was contending with aliens in the extraterrestrial aircraft that had abducted him.
Walton said he lost consciousness when the blast hit him on the ground before he was taken aboard. But he said he eventually regained consciousness and woke up to see two figures on board.
The first creature fit the description of stereotypical alien depictions — small, hairless creatures with a large head and very large eyes, Walton said.
The other creature appeared humanlike and came aboard as Walton regained consciousness.
The next thing Walton said he recalls is being dropped off in Heber, where he found a pay phone to contact his family. It was snowing and about 20 degrees, Ellison said.
Walton says he believes he saw the craft departing.
"I was wondering why they didn't take me home to my house!" Walton said, prompting another round of laughter from the audience.
Walton said the movie "Fire in the Sky" deviates from what he recalls when it implies that Walton was dropped back on Earth completely naked.
"I was fully clothed, but that's Hollywood for you," he said. "They gotta have that nude scene!"
'The townspeople put us through hell'
The fabled Project Blue Book, the Air Force's files on UFO sightings and investigations, have tantalized and frustrated extraterrestrial enthusiasts for decades. But this past week, nearly 130,000 pages of declassified UFO records were put online. VPC
Although Walton made light of some aspects of his alleged experience, he was serious about the scrutiny that he and his family endured following his return.
"Quite literally, the townspeople put us through hell," Don Walton said of his family's experiences as they stayed in the sleepy town of Snowflake. "We were shunned, we were taunted, teased, called liars."
'We're not alone in the universe'
In the years that have passed since 1975, Walton said, it appears that more people believe his story and give credence to the notion of extraterrestrial life.
His main message, though, is for the naysayers.
"So many people form an opinion and then gather all the so-called facts they can to support the theory," he said. "Instead, they should gather the facts and let facts dictate what their theory becomes."
Walton said his experience has been costly to him and his family. He said he'd rather it never happened, but it did.
"It's become my mission to promote understanding so that people will know that this is real, these things do happen and we're not alone in the universe," Walton said. "That shouldn't be alarming, either; that should just be something that we're aware of."
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We zijn niet alleen in het heelal. Abductee vertelt openhartig over zijn ontvoering door aliens
We zijn niet alleen in het heelal. Abductee vertelt openhartig over zijn ontvoering door aliens
De afgelopen dagen vond in Scottsdale in Arizona het International UFO Congress plaats. Eén van de sprekers was Travis Walton, die naar eigen zeggen op 5 november 1975 werd meegenomen aan boord van een UFO, schrijft The Arizona Republic.
Indertijd werkte Walton als houthakker in de Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests toen hij plotseling een fel licht zag hangen boven een open plek in het bos.
Samen met enkele collega’s reed hij richting het licht. Hij werd er als het ware naartoe getrokken. Een collega riep: “Het is een vliegende schotel.”
Mooi
Hoe dichter hij in de buurt van het object kwam, hoe banger hij en zijn collega’s werden. “Het was niet alleen beangstigend, het was ook mooi,” zei Walton.
“Het zag eruit als glas. Er kwam een gloed vanaf. Het glom en was metaalachtig,” voegde hij toe. “Het oppervlak glom zo erg dat het leek alsof er licht uit kwam.”
Na een tijdje begon de UFO te bewegen en besloot hij het op een lopen te zetten. Toen hoorde hij een harde knal.
Zijn collega’s lieten hem in de steek en belden de politie. De zes ‘hysterische’ collega’s vertelden aan politieagent Chuck Ellison, die ook op het congres was, in tranen dat Walton was ontvoerd door een vliegende schotel.
Twee figuren
Vijf dagen lang werd niets van Walton vernomen. Zijn collega’s werden ervan beschuldigd het UFO-verhaal te hebben verzonnen. Anderen zeiden dat het een hoax was.
Ondertussen bevond hij zich aan boord van een buitenaards schip dat hem had meegenomen.
Walton zei dat hij bewusteloos raakte na de knal. Toen hij weer bij kennis kwam zag hij twee figuren aan boord van het schip.
Het eerste wezen was klein en had een groot hoofd, grote ogen en geen haar, aldus de abductee.
Hel
Het tweede wezen zag er mensachtig uit en kwam aan boord toen Walton weer wakker werd.
Het enige wat hij zich verder herinnert is dat hij werd afgezet in het plaatsje Heber, waar hij contact opnam met zijn familie.
Hij zag nog hoe het schip wegvloog.
De familie Walton ging door een hel. Ze werden gemeden als de pest, bespot, gepest en uitgemaakt voor leugenaars.
Niet alleen
Travis richtte zich vooral tot de critici. “Veel mensen vormen een mening en verzamelen daarna alle zogenaamde feiten waarmee ze hun theorie kunnen ondersteunen,” zei hij.
“In plaats daarvan zouden ze eerst de feiten moeten verzamelen en die laten bepalen hoe hun theorie eruit komt te zien,” vervolgde hij.
Hij wil mensen naar eigen zeggen laten weten dat dit echt is, dat deze dingen echt gebeuren en dat we niet alleen zijn in het heelal.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETOns naburig sterrenstelsel, Andromeda, is minder dan drie miljard jaar geleden geboren door een botsing van twee verzamelingen van sterren. Dit staat in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Onze buurvrouw bevindt zich op 2,5 miljoen lichtjaar van ons.
François Hammer van het Observatorium van Parijs en zijn Frans-Chinees team hebben miljoenen bytes aan data onderzocht. Met behulp van de krachtigste computersimulaties konden de wetenschappers het traject van de twee oorspronkelijke sterrenstelsels opnieuw uittekenen. Zo bleek dat ze 1,8 tot drie miljard jaar geleden zijn gebotst.
Dat betekent dat Andromeda - een afgeplatte schijf - geboren is toen de Aarde al bestond. In de gigantische schijf van Andromeda ondergaan alle sterren van meer dan twee miljard jaar oud ongeordende veranderingen, luidt het. Ter vergelijking: de sterren van onze Melkweg volgen netjes bewegingen van rotatie. Enkel een recente botsing kan het gedrag van de sterren in Andromeda verklaren.
Andere studies wijzen uit dat er een botsing zal plaatsvinden tussen Andromeda en onze Melkweg, maar dat zal pas binnen vier miljard jaar gebeuren.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETMoskou wil de komende jaren zo’n 90 miljoen euro investeren in het Europees-Russische onderzoeksproject ExoMars. Met het project zoeken het ruimtevaartagentschap Roskosmos en zijn Europese partner ESA naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet.
Het grootste deel van de investering staat gepland voor 2019 en 2020, meldt het persagentschap Interfax. Met ExoMars zoeken Rusland en ESA naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet. België speelt een belangrijke rol bij ExoMars.
Al in oktober 2016 hebben beide organisaties een sonde in een baan rond Mars gebracht. Een lander crashte. De verwachting is dat de sonde medio maart gereed is met de laatste manoeuvres om een analyse van de atmosfeer te beginnen. België is toonaangevend in dat atmosfeeronderzoek. Exomars heeft nog een tweede luik met de lancering in 2020 van een robotjeep.
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Black Disk Seen In Sky Over Great Britain, Proof Alien Bases Exist In GB, UFO Sighting News.
Black Disk Seen In Sky Over Great Britain, Proof Alien Bases Exist In GB, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 8-3-1998, but reported today.
Source: MUFON #90312
Location of sighting: Gainsborough, Great Britain
I really like this photo. It shows a classic shaped UFO in the far distance above Great Britain. There is just too much evidence coming from GB to deny the existence of aliens any longer. The truth is, we are not alone, and never have been.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I had just bought a new camera and was trying it out by swizzling around and napping pictures to see if the was any blurring. I took about 10 pictures doing the same thing I only looked at the first couple and they seemed good quality. So I downloaded them into a file on my computer and never thought any more about it. Then I acquired a program called Picasa which found lots of photos on my computer looking through them I spotted this one I thought it might have been a bird in flight and passed it by. I have never bothered to much about it and it might be nothing at all, I will let you judge.
Astronaut caught trying to hide UFO near ISS on Live Stream
Astronaut caught trying to hide UFO near ISS on Live Stream
This footage was captured during the ISS live stream on February 18, 2018 at approximately 8.20 pm.
It shows a mysterious UFO fly into shot from the left hand side of the screen and change direction before emitting a white glow and shooting off at high speed before the astronaut tries to hide the UFO.
Gigantische draaiende 'donut' gespot rond supermassief zwart gat
Gigantische draaiende 'donut' gespot rond supermassief zwart gat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog niet eerder is de roterende gasschijf zo duidelijk in beeld gebracht.
Met behulp van het Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) hebben astronomen beelden gemaakt van het centrum van M77, een spiraalstelsel op tientallen miljoenen jaren afstand. Op de beelden is een roterende gas- en stofschijf te zien die rond het supermassieve zwarte gat in het hart van dit sterrenstelsel cirkelt. De beelden zijn uniek; hoewel het bestaan van zo’n roterende ‘donut’ rond een supermassief zwart gat decennia geleden al gesuggereerd werd, is er nog niet eerder zulk overtuigend bewijs voor gevonden.
20 lichtjaar De ‘donut’ in kwestie is enorm: ALMA onthult dat deze een straal van zo’n 20 lichtjaar heeft. Daarnaast bevestigen de beelden dat deze compacte structuur rond het zwarte gat cirkelt.
Hier zie je de beweging van gas rond het supermassieve zwarte gat. Het gas dat naar ons toe beweegt, heeft een blauwe kleur gekregen. Het gas dat van ons af beweegt, is rood.
Afbeelding: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO), Imanishi et al.
Evolutie De observaties van deze enorme gas- en stofschijf kunnen meer inzicht geven in de evolutie van sterrenstelsels en hun zwarte gaten. Bijna alle sterrenstelsels herbergen een enorm zwart gat in hun centrum en onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat er een verband is tussen de massa van een zwart gat en de massa van zijn gastheer: het sterrenstelsel: hoe zwaarder een sterrenstelsel is, hoe zwaarder ook het centrale zwarte gat. Dat klinkt logisch. Maar sterrenstelsels zijn zo’n 10 miljard keer groter dan de zwarte gaten, en dus rijst de vraag hoe twee objecten die zo in grootte verschillen elkaar direct kunnen beïnvloeden. Dat vraagstuk was voor astronomen de reden om een blik op M77 te werpen: een stelsel met een zogenoemde active galactic nucleus (kortweg AGN), wat betekent dat materie richting het centrale zware gat valt en intens licht afgeeft. AGNs kunnen hun omringende omgeving ster beïnvloeden en dus meer inzicht geven in de co-evolutie van sterrenstelsel en zwarte gaten.
Een artistieke impressie van de ‘donut’. Dankzij ALMA is de rotatie ervan nu helder in beeld gebracht.
Afbeelding: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO).
“Om verschillende observationele kenmerken van AGNs te kunnen interpreteren, hebben astronomen aangenomen dat er rond actieve supermassieve zwarte gaten roterende donut-achtige structuren te vinden zijn,” legt onderzoeker Masatoshi Imanishi uit. “Maar de donut lijkt heel klein. Met de hoge resolutie vanALMA kunnen we de structuur nu direct waarnemen.”
De observaties leveren ook een verrassing op. Zo is de distributie van het gas rond het supermassieve zwarte gat in M77 een stuk gecompliceerder dan eerdere modellen suggereerden. Het kan erop wijzen dat dit sterrenstelsel een gewelddadig verleden heeft (mogelijk is het met een kleiner sterrenstelsel gefuseerd).
While we have still not found life off-Earth, we have found many exo-planetary systems. The planets most likely to sustain life are eyeball exo-planets–and they’re drastically different than our home planet.
What is our planet made of? How does it work? Where does the Earth belong in the universe? Is life an unlikely happenstance?
Humans have pondered these delicate questions since the dawn of civilization.
According to the histories we’ve retained, Greek philosophers were among the first to try to answer these questions.
They perceived the Earth as a flat disk surrounded by an endless circular river. Above, there was a dome-like firmament of Heaven. Here, Zeus and Hera ruled the domain of the gods.
Aristotle and Ptolemy defended the theory of Geocentrism. According to this theory, Earth is a motionless body at the center of the universe. Around this version of Earth, all celestial bodies, including the Sun and stars, orbit.
As you may know, the Geocentric model lasted until the end of the 16th century when Copernicus challenged it with his Heliocentrism theory, claiming that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This theory extrapolated that the Sun was now the center of the universe, not Earth.
Since then, we’ve come to know that neither the Earth nor the Sun is the center of the universe.
In fact, the Milky Way is only one of the hundreds of billions of galaxies in an expanding universe. In all, the human-centric theory of us being the focal point of the universe was rendered meaningless.
This mysterious, infinitely enormous universe of ours gave rise to sentient life, at least here on Earth.
This raises the question: what are the chances of humans being the only sentient life in the universe?
Before we get to answer this question, we have to identify the “habitable” worlds that could support life.
The Goldilocks Zone, Habitability, and Earth Twins
An exoplanets’ theoretical ability to host life, or habitability, is largely based on one reference: Earth.
There are about 100 billion stars, give or take a few billion, in the Milky Way alone. As far as galaxies go, that’s on the low end. Estimates for this figure can go up to 400 billion stars.
Most stars have solar systems with at least one planet, so we can safely assume there are more planets than stars in the universe.
According to their conclusions, there are hundreds of billions of billions (≈2×1019 to ≈7×1020) of terrestrial planets orbiting around stars. Some of these stars are like our Sun, while many others are less-luminous types like red dwarfs.
In searching for alien life, scientists generally focus on worlds that resemble Earth. As such, in addition to being telluric, candidate exoplanets need to meet two major criteria: their size, and the distance from their home star.
To be eligible for consideration, a rocky planet must be neither too big nor too small.
They also have to be located in the habitable zone of its star for the temperature to allow for liquid water to exist on the surface.
As of writing this article, there are 3,605 exoplanets that have already been confirmed, with another 4,496 candidates needing further evaluation. Among these, 890 are rocky planets.
Taking into account the above criteria, the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog estimates the number of potentially habitable planets at 53, including 22 Earth-size ones.
The HEC even assigns an ESI score (Earth Similarity Index) to each of these planets, with Proxima Centaury b and Trappist-1e topping the list with 0.85s.
Red Dwarfs, Best Hope to Find ET Life
The hunt for alien planets likely to host life is in full swing.
In the last couple of years, more and more planets are being discovered outside our solar system, with many believed to be potentially habitable.
To most of these researchers, habitability boils down to liquid water flowing on the surface of a planet.
Recent studies revealed that these alien worlds are mostly rocky planets and are up to about 5% water. That’s 250 times more than Earth’s 0.02%!
These seven Earth-like planets orbit around the Trappist-1, which is a red dwarf star.
While the habitability zone or even the existence of liquid water can’t guarantee there will be life, this discovery should encourage astronomers to zero in on red dwarfs and planetary systems they may host.
The reason why we should make red dwarfs the main target is simple: red dwarfs are believed to be the most common star type (up to 70% of all stars) in the universe.
Then there’s also the fact that they tend to exist longer, sometimes for trillions of years, giving life a better chance of evolving.
Eyeball Exoplanets and the Twilight Ring
The habitability zone of a system depends on the nature of the star. The bigger the star, the farther out its habitable zone will be.
In the case of red dwarf stars, their habitable zone is much closer. Red dwarfs are about 20% of the mass of the sun and up to 50 times less radiant.
The relatively small size of red dwarfs means that any planet orbiting them would be much closer.
That also means that they orbit their host star more frequently, which makes their detection easier using the transit method or other observation techniques.
However, any planet lying near a red dwarf star is likely to be subjected to a strange phenomenon.
As it orbits the red dwarf very closely, these planets are usually forced by the star’s gravitational pull into synchronous rotation, which will make it permanently show the same side to the star.
This phenomenon, also known as tidal locking, isn’t actually so uncommon as a concept.
Earth exerts the same effect on the Moon, which takes four weeks to rotate around its axis and the same to turn around the Earth. That’s why we always see only one side of the Moon.
Tidally-locked exoplanets are called “Eyeball” planets because of the look they might give, with one side permanently facing heat and the other frozen in a night without end.
Your imagination can really go wild on these planets. For example, in some cases, there could be an ocean covering the bright side with ice all around it.
However, in between these two extremes, there is a twilight temperate zone that runs through the Eyeball planet’s middle and could gather the conditions for life to thrive.
“The day side is roasting and dry. The night side is frigid and icy. In between, it’s just right! The sweet spot—let’s call it the “ring of life”—is at the terminator, the boundary between night and day. The ring of life is bounded by deserts on one side and ice on the other. There is a constant flow of water from the night side to the day side—a series of rivers, all flowing in the same direction. The Sun is fixed in the sky right at the horizon, and the area is in permanent light.”
If the exoplanet is an “eyeball”, the hemisphere that is always facing the star would be the pupil. Per Raymond, there are many types of Eyeball planets, such the “hot Eyeball planets” and the “cold Eyeball planets”.
The concept of Eyeball exo-planets was first suggested with the discovery of Gliese 581g, the first exoplanet that was thought to have potentially habitable signs. It was then revealed that Gliese 581g might not exist at all.
Based on the hypothetical prevalence of tidally-locked Eyeball planets (based on the prevalence of red dwarfs), statistically-speaking, it’s most likely that we’d find alien life on one of these planets than other types of planets.
In all, the question of whether we are alone in the Universe or simply not looking with the right methods is a debate which is likely to continue until we either find life, or we run out of places to look. For now, these exo-eyeball planets give us hope for the possibility that we might not be the only intelligent life in existence.
Can you imagine what forms of life would exist in the twilight ring of Eyeball planets, between the scorching heat and the deathly cold?
Humans would rather come in contact with aliens than with artificial life made on Earth, a team of researchers has found. They also say that despite the prevalence of movies and TV shows depicting aliens as malevolent creatures, people might react well to a discovery of extraterrestrial life.
The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology and are based upon an analysis of responses to hypothetical reports of alien discoveries — specifically microscopic life as opposed to intelligent life — and real newspaper stories that discussed potential discoveries in the past.
According to the study, people predicted that they as individuals would take the news better than the rest of humanity.
They also had better “responses to reading an actual announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life … than responses to reading an actual announcement of the creation of man-made synthetic life” in a laboratory. That conclusion came from a comparison of how subjects reacted to an article about Martian microbes and how they reacted to one about artificial life. The people were more receptive to the former, revealing something about how people view organic life forms and how they view synthetic life.
“Taken together, this work suggests that our reactions to a future confirmed discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life are likely to be fairly positive,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
Are we alone in the universe? Scientists say humans would probably respond well to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Photo: CC0 Creative Commons
In addition to gauging people’s reactions to reading newspaper stories about aliens, the scientists analyzed language used in articles and reported that the coverage was associated mostly with positive emotions rather than negative ones.
Among the real articles on possible alien discoveries were stories about fossilized microbes on Mars, unexplained activity around a star and the existence of Earth-like planets in another solar system.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be prett upbeat about it,” researcher Michael Varnum said in a statement from Arizona State University. “So far, there’s been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research.”
According to the study, there could be many factors behind how people respond to alien life, including their religious views and whether they would take comfort in knowing that Earth’s life forms are not alone in the universe.
“Perhaps it speaks to their desire for novelty,” the paper says. “At present, we do not know the mechanisms by which this effect occurs, and we encourage future researchers to test these and other possibilities.”
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Isaac Newton’s Philosopher’s Stone Recipe Discovered
Isaac Newton’s Philosopher’s Stone Recipe Discovered
According to reports, researchers have re-discovered Isaac Newton’s recipe for alchemists’ mercury.
The document, which dates back to the seventeenth century is believed to have been handwritten by Isaac Newton himself and explains the fundamental part of the process to create the mythical Philosopher’s Stone, a substance that alchemists believed could transmute base metals into gold.
The papers written by Newton on theology and alchemy far exceed in volume those dedicated to Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, sciences in which he is a leading figure.
However, it is important to mention that Newton wrote more than a million words about alchemy, something that was known only after his death since ‘proto-science’ was illegal in his time.
His forbidden texts were written under the pseudonym of Jeova Sanctus Unus.
The document contains text copied from another alchemist’s writings as well as descriptions of Newton’s own experiments
The philosopher’s stone was, according to the tradition of alchemists and necromancers, a substance with extraordinary properties capable of transmuting any metal into gold, it was also capable of curing diseases and granting immortality, through the elixir of life.
One of the great cultivators of these secrets was Isaac Newton, one of the fathers of physics, who practically devoted himself to the Great Work—Latin: Magnumopus, in an exhaustive way.
The Great Work is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher’s stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition, attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as a device in art and literature.
The manuscript which contained the extraordinary recipe, was in the possession of a private collector, and auctioned in Pasadena, California, and purchased by the Chemical Heritage Foundation of Philadelphia.
It is an instructive guide that details the process for preparing ” alchemists mercury “, a recipe that Newton copied from the American alchemist George Starkey, whom he probably considered a better alchemist.
Starkey (1628 – 1665), considered the first man of American science, also wrote under a pseudonym; Eirenaeus Philalethes.
According to website Chemistry World, ‘Philosophic mercury was [thought to be] a substance that could be used to break down metals into their constituent parts,’ explains James Voelkel, the CHF’s curator of rare books. ‘The idea is if you break the metals down you can then reassemble them and make different metals.’ The process was part of the effort to make the philosopher’s stone, he adds, a mythical substance that alchemists believed could turn lead into gold.
Translated from Latin, the manuscript title is: ‘Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers’] Stone by the Antimonial Stellate Regulus of Mars and Luna from the Manuscripts of the American Philosopher’. The manuscript is believed to describe the necessary process to make ‘sophick’ – short for ‘philosophic’ – mercury.
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Researchers Unearth Sophisticated Engineering And Metal-Work Beneath Ancient Greek ‘Pyramid’
Researchers Unearth Sophisticated Engineering And Metal-Work Beneath Ancient Greek ‘Pyramid’
As noted by experts, this ancient ‘pyramid’ composed of a number of terraces of would have blazed in the Greek sun, visible from far off. Beneath the structure, researchers discovered traces of complex engineering and metal-working.
A group of archaeologists from three countries has found evidence of advanced engineering work under the terraces of the pyramidal sanctuary of the islet Daskalio.
New excavations on the remote Greek island of Keros have revealed evidence of spectacular engineering feats and monumental architectural works that, according to researchers, make it one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Aegean.
An Impressive ancient mold for metallurgy found in the archaeological site.
Image Credit: University of Cambridge
According to reports, more than 4,000 years ago, to be precise 4,500 years ago, the ancient builders carved the entire surface of a natural promontory in the form of a pyramid on the Greek island of Keros. They formed it in terraces covered with 1,000 tons of gleaming white stone specially imported to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid that rises from the Aegean, making it the most imposing artificial structure of the entire Cycladic archipelago.
However, what’s inside is even more impressive, say archaeologists.
Experts have found below the surface of the terraces still-undiscovered engineering and craftsmanship feats that rival the impressive exterior of the structure.
As noted by the Guardian, Archaeologists have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels – constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete – and traces of sophisticated metalworking.
Experts are still unsure whether the ancient tunnels were designed as a system for wastewater or fresh water.
This is an aerial image of the promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea. According to experts, it was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros.
Image Credit: Michael Boyd
Researchers uncovered the first traces of advanced metalworking ten years ago on the site. Since then, new discoveries have shown the ancient inhabitants of the Mini-Islands were far more sophisticated than researchers imagined, as experts have excavated two workshops full of metalworking debris, and a number of artifacts including a lead axe, a mold for copper daggers, as well as countless ceramic fragments from metalworking equipment, used by the ancient builders, thousands of years ago.
“What we are seeing here with the metalworking and in other ways is the beginnings of urbanization,” said Joint director of the excavation Michael Boyd, of the University of Cambridge in an interview with the Guardian. Far-flung communities were drawn into networks centered on the site, craft and agricultural production was intensified, and the architecture became grander, gradually overshadowing the original importance of the sanctuary.
Archaeologists have found complex drainage tunnels and metalwork
Image Credit Michael Boyd.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Dhaksalio promontory is now essentially a small islet due to the rise in sea level.
However, 4,500 years ago it was attached through a narrow channel to Keros, which, according to previous research, was a maritime sanctuary, center of power and destination of pilgrimage where mysterious rituals were carried out with broken marble objects.
The Mysterious UFO Incident with Many Witnesses above Gosford, Australia (1994) FindingUFO
The Mysterious UFO Incident with Many Witnesses above Gosford, Australia(1994)
On New Year’s Eve 1994, police switchboards suddenly lit up with reports of an unidentified illuminated object flying over the waters around Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
According to Sergeant Bob Wenning, callers reported seeing a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom”. To many of the witnesses, it appeared as though the illuminated craft was sucking up water from the bay with beams of light shining down from the object, penetrating the water.
Some thought that these beams were turning the water to steam, while others described the water frothing.
In 1957, three men were driving by the Silpho Moor near Scarborough, England, when they saw a glowing object light up the sky and crash to the ground. One of the men got out of the car to investigate, and found a metallic saucer lying in the bushes. Though experts were emphatic that the object was not a UFO, the incident caused a sensation in the UK, with headlines proclaiming that “a real flying saucer” had been found.
The saucer was studied and taken apart. Eventually, it disappeared, prompting some to speculate that it had been deliberately concealed. But six decades after the initial discovery, parts of the so-called “Silpho Saucer” have surfaced once again. As Sarah Knapton reports for the Telegraph, fragments of saucer were recently found inside a cigarette box in the archives of London’s Science Museum.
The objects were identified by David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant for the National Archives UFO project. He was giving a talk on the Ministry of Defense’s UFO files at the Science Museum when a staff member approached him and asked if he was aware that fragments of a “flying saucer” had been stored at the museum for decades. According to the BBC, the staffer in question, exhibition developer Khalil Thirlaway, had discovered the fragments in the cigarette tin while looking through folders connected to the aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith.
“I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage,” Clarke tells Knapton. “It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer.”
The saucer was covered in hieroglyphics when the men discovered it in 1957. After it was pried open, a book made of 17 thin copper sheets, each one inscribed with additional hieroglyphics, was found inside. According to Rafi Letzter of Live Science, a local café owner subsequently claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphics as a message from an alien named “Ullo,” who warned of impending atomic war and promised Earthlings that they “will improve or disappear.”
Researchers at London’s Natural History Museum studied the object and concluded that the metal had no extraterrestrial properties and showed no signs of having hurtled through the high temperatures of Earth’s atmosphere. But despite experts’ assurances that the Silpho Saucer was just an elaborate hoax, the public was captivated, and the object drew comparisons to the Roswell “UFO,” the wreckage of a weather balloon, which was discovered in New Mexico in 1947, that excited similiar extraterrestrial fervor.
On his website, Clarke cites UFO expert Jenny Randles, who says she believes the Silpho Saucer incident holds the distinction of being “the most costly and well organised hoax that has ever taken place in Britain.”
As Knapton of the Telegraph reports, pieces from the saucer came to the Science Museum in 1963 and were promptly forgotten. The fragments may not have much scientific value, but Thirlaway, the exhibition developer, says his conversation with Clarke has illuminated the Silpho Saucer’s rich history.
“We didn’t know there was this massive cultural history behind it, it really brought the items to life for us,” Thirlaway tells the BBC. “There’s a chance they may go on display as we’re now aware of their cultural significance.”
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Disc-shaped UFO spotted soaring above Mount Everest in spooky footage
Disc-shaped UFO spotted soaring above Mount Everest in spooky footage
UFO watchers say the spooky object causes a silhouette and its height means it can't be a drone or helicopter
By Ed McConnell
A bizarre UFO has been spotted above Mount Everest.
The disc-shaped object can be seen in the sky over the Himalayas.
UFO watchers say the spooky object causes a silhouette and its height means it can't be a drone or helicopter.
The image is one of 477 stitched together by mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears as part of an amazing two-billion-pixel photo.
The mosaic image is intended to show Mount Everest in all its glory and stretches from the camp of 500 prospective climbers at the base to the sky above.
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While it was created in 2012 it remains unclear exactly what the object is.
UFO Today adds in its coverage that there have long been rumoured to be secret underground 'Area 51'-type bases in the area, especially in the virtually inaccessible Ladakh border area between India and China.
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Last year declassified CIA files revealed seven sightings of UFOs were reported in the skies above Nepal and neighbouring India and Bhutan in 1968.
Two of those were in Nepal including one in which "a blazing object, flashing intermittently and accompanies by a big thunder sound" was seen disintegrating above the western part of the country.
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The report goes on to state that a "huge metallic disc-shaped object with a six-foot base and four feet in height was found in a crater, five miles north east of Pokhara."
A former UFO tracker claims Government phone-tappers forced the closure of his own organisation, the Unidentified Flying Object Information Bureau.
Brian Leathley-Andrew chronicled reports of a plethora of strange craft in the late 1960s.
Press cuttings at the time suggest that, in the Swinging Sixties, the truth was definitely out there – and lurking in the skies over the West Midlands.
But his work made shadowy figures in the halls of power twitchy, Brian – who now refers to himself as Lord Brian Leathley-Andrew – believes.
Brian Leathley-Andrew(Image: CET)
They were concerned, he reckons, that he’d tripped upon dark technology being developed in secret locations.
Now 71 and living in Bedworth, Warwickshire, the former electrical engineer says: “Society is being watched by the Department of Them. Say hello to System X.
“Quite clearly, I had problems with phone tapping, bloody crude phone tapping. You could hear the click.
“There were too many people looking, in hindsight.”
It has been more than 50 years since Brian turned his back on the UFO bureau and his interest in Close Encounters has diminished.
“These days I’m retired,” he admits. “I struggle to find time to tie my shoelaces.”
But he’s convinced of the validity of some of the sightings, even if work was sometimes bogged down by hoaxers.
UFO over a city(Image: Getty Images)
He is also adamant that Big Brother was, indeed, watching – and listening in.
His personal security, even safety, he says, were compromised.
“There were a lot of mickey-takers,” he admits. “One man sent me pictures of a UFO.
“It was the lid of exactly the same handcream my wife used. The jar was there on the table in front of me.”
Half a century on, the work of Brian’s bureau lives on through the yellowed archives of our sister newspaper, The Coventry Telegraph.
On December 3, 1968, Brian publicly admitted he was a scared man.
Under the banner headline “Worried UFO Man Gives Up”, he announced the organisation’s closure.
In the bombshell article, Brian alleged:
He had been watched by a man with a glowing orange face;
His phone cut off whenever he attempted to talk about UFOs;
He had a phone message from a caller “speaking unusual English”.
“I have given this thing up and destroyed all the papers,” he told the Telegraph. “There have been happenings which have worried me and frightened my wife.”
UFO(Image: Getty Images)
For Brian, the alarm bells rang while repairing his mother’s car.
“Suddenly, I noticed a man standing by the next door garage,” he told the paper. “Nobody had been there before.
“His face was glowing orange. As I watched, the face changed to that of an old man before my eyes.
“Then he turned and walked away.
“You could not describe the first face in normal terms. It had eyes, nose and mouth in the proper places – but not of the shape that we associate with the human figure.”
Soon afterwards, a visit to a fellow UFO watcher in Stoke was strangely scuppered.
“All the lights in the house suddenly dimmed as though a huge electrical load had been put in the circuit,” he said.
“This will happen once in a while normally, but it kept on happening. This is most unusual.
“All this started two days after I opened my bureau. I want to publicly warn all teenage hobbyists that this is nothing to dabble in lightly.”
Did ET get sent to Coventry?
Judging by the flood of reports, Brian was in the right place to experience extra-terrestrial activity.
At the time, the Coventry Telegraph carried page after page of sightings.
And he was not alone in being gripped by ET fever.
He believes the flood of sightings coincided with experimental research by the Government. The Rolls Royce factory was nearby, he pointed out.
Coventry folk – even city policemen – were experiencing close encounters on a daily basis.
The dramatic reports can best be described as “of their time”. Frankly, some of the Coventry Telegraph reporters seem to have approached the topic with tongue firmly in cheek.
For example....
“UFO Became A Mum” (September 28, 1968):
“A flying saucer which gave birth over Willenhall has been reported to the Unidentified Flying Object Information Centre of Mr Brian Leathley-Andrew.
“An eye-witness phoned Mr Leathley-Andrew to report that the mother UFO was a giant sphere-like object seen in 1953. Sparks came from the underside of the UFO which gave birth to a small sphere. The incident was seen by people in a bus queue near Willenhall traffic island.”
And there’s more...
“Flying Saucers Not A Load of Tripe” (September 24, 1968):
“Flying saucers were the greatest mystery of our time and should not be dismissed as a load of tripe, Mr Wilf Grunau told Nuneaton Rotary Club.
“Mr Grunau is managing director of the Awson Motor Carriage Company which has works at Solihull and Nuneaton. Mankind, he said, had been seeing strange things in the sky since the beginning of recorded history. Mr Grunau spoke of making two sightings himself over Coventry through binoculars. He said: ‘As a result, I believe in UFOs. All I can repeat is UFOs must be piloted by beings from other worlds or else they are a natural phenomena in our atmosphere’.”
And yet more...
“Saucer Over City Say Women” (March 31, 1969):
“Two Coventry women believe there may have been a flying saucer over the city during the weekend after they were woken by an ‘unearthly’ high-pitched whining accompanied by a glowing light.
“‘I have been over all the possibilities and that is the only explanation I can think of,’ said 28-year-old Patricia Hughes.”
UFO(Image: mirrorpix)
‘Do not be too sceptical about UFOs’
Back in the 1960s and early 1970s members of the constabulary were less shy about admitting they had seen UFOs.
After all, the whole nation were closet believers.
On February 24, 1971, four bobbies gave their story to the Coventry Telegraph.
It reported: “PC Brian Hewitt of B sub-division said: ‘We were attending a job in Lythall’s Lane at 6.15am when we all saw a strange object in the sky.
“‘It was not a meteorite or anything like that. There were three single white lights in the sky over the Nuneaton area and moving at a great spread in a westerly direction towards Birmingham. They then turned northwards.
“‘They were at the height of about two miles and the lights did not belong to the same object because they were so far apart. They appeared to be in formation.
“‘They were also travelling at a tremendous speed because an aircraft flying at, say, 600mph at that height would appear to be going very slowly.
“‘I don’t know what they could have been. I don’t believe in flying saucers or anything like that and I have tried to look at it in a reasoned way. I have checked with air traffic control at Birmingham Airport and the first aircraft to land there was later than the time we saw those lights. I cannot explain it.’”
Such was the space fever that the police actually appealed for UFO sightings.
On January 4, 1972, Warwickshire police sergeant Mike Davies told the Telegraph: “Don’t be too sceptical about UFOs.
“I ask people to whom sightings are reported to listen to what is said. Then they can deduce what the object was not, and speculate what it was. I believe there is something beyond our comprehension and our technology.
“The tendency is to take a few statements and then to make a sweeping statement about what an object was. People are too prepared to dismiss the subject.”
The officer added: “I have yet to be convinced that some information about UFOs is not withheld by the authorities.
“But supposing there was a statement that we were being invaded by people from another planet, what do you think the reaction of the public would be?”
Google Maps, created in 2007, is a brilliant platform to spot suspected UFO sightings around the world.
One such fascinating sighting is in footage taken from Arizona, which seems to showcase a UFO crash landing.
Situated in the deserted Arizona mountains, the footage shows a mysterious round black shape.
Pointed blobs are seen on the top of the suspected spacecraft, in a formation that resembles the bottom of an overturned UFO, suggests a crash landing.
Google Maps: This footage shows what seems to be a UFO crash
Leafy trees surround the craft, which would provide a handy hiding place for an escaped aliens who might have survived a crash.
Although there is no light coming from the object – usually characteristic of UFOs – it is possible the light function may have been broken in the crash.
The bizarre, unexplained UFO shape was first spotted by alien hunting team, @secureteam10 on Youtube.
According to the person who posted it, the site where the suspected UFO was found is not only remote – it is also a no-fly zone.
Google Maps
Google Maps: The UFO crash suspect site is located in a remote part of Arizona
In the video, which he created to showcase this UFO alien conspiracy, he said the no-fly restrictions “interested him”.
“As I said, it could be a crash site, or it could be a testing site.
“What really interests me is not only the military no-fly restriction put on this exact area, but the SECOND no-fly restriction literally placed dead-centre on the location of this object.
"That's a hell of a lot of military-grade restriction overkill for whatever this thing is.”
According to a New York Times story, a secretive Pentagon program analyzed reports of UFOs. But the associated videos raise some questions.
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ON DECEMBER 17, 2017, a newspaper printed a story titled“Real U.F.O.’s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.” No, the headline wasn’t surrounded by text about post-baby bods and B-listers’ secret sorrows. Because it was on the front page of The New York Times.
The article describes a federally funded program that investigated reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the take-me-seriously acronym that includes UFOs). And within the story, the Times embedded videos of two such UAPs.
Although the article was careful not to say that unidentified meant extraterrestrial, the Department of Defense acknowledged the program, and it was easy enough for readers to draw the conclusion that these videos could show alien aircraft. The Times supplemented one of the clips with a first-hand account of a Navy pilot who was sent to investigate “mysterious aircraft” that appeared—poof!—at 80,000 feet, dropped down to 20,000, and then seemed to hover before either leaving radar range or launching straight up. Weird, right?
The discovery, and federal acknowledgement, of a UFO of non-earthly origin would be revelatory—and the Times’ scoop seemed to suggest that such a worldview-shifting scenario is at least not not-true. That the videos came courtesy of the Defense Department made it easier for readers to put faith in their validity.
“The video footage, in this case, is what captures people’s imagination and is part of what made this case more compelling,” says historian Greg Eghigian, a recent NASA and American Historical Association Fellow in Aerospace History.
But there are a few missing links in this narrative chain, links that need to be forged before anyone has enough information to accurately interpret these videos, let alone conclude they even remotely suggest anything extraterrestrial.
But wait, this story broke the news that the DOD had a secret UFO program and had released secret video! That’s huge!
Here’s what happened. About a decade ago, the Department of Defense inaugurated a UFO program, budgeted at $22 million according to the Times. It went by AATIP, for Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, though the Times story refers to it as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Its purpose was to investigate flying foreign weapon threats—ones that exist now or could be developed in the next 40 years. The product of legislation cosponsored by senators Harry Reid of Nevada and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the program, according to Pentagon spokesperson Audricia Harris, was primarily executed through a contract with Bigelow Aerospace—a company owned by Reid’s constituent and donor Robert Bigelow. (The wealthy businessman, who is best known for his inflatable space habitats, still owns a company called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, which has also researched UFO reports.)
The Pentagon program was run by Luis Elizondo, who told WIRED he took the lead position in 2010. (WIRED was unable to verify that Elizondo worked on AATIP, but Harris does confirm that he worked for the Defense Department.) The AATIP team, Elizondo says, took strange-sighting reports from pilots, as well as associated data like camera footage and radar returns, and tried to match them with known international aircraft signatures. “What we found many times was the fact that the aircraft did not belong to anybody,” Elizondo says. Sometimes, he says, the craft displayed behavior the AATIP team couldn’t explain.
Elizondo has become a kind of celebrity—in the wider world, arguably, but definitely in the UFO community. This week, those UFO researchers and enthusiasts and skeptics gathered in Fort McDowell, Arizona, for their annual International UFO Congress. And Elizondo, who had brought them closer to the capital-D Disclosure they’ve long sought, was supposed to be there. Instead, this evening at 6 pm Eastern, the Congress will show a prerecorded interview in which Elizondo will answer submitted questions from the community— “many of the questions that have gone unanswered,” according to a press release.
People have been clamoring for those answers—and Elizondo characterizes himself as being all about the answers. He says he wanted, for instance, to speak more publicly about the crafts’ non-nationality. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” Elizondo told the Times, and the website linked to his new venture makes reference to the declassification processes the films had to undergo. The Times portrays the program as “shadowy” and possessing “excessive secrecy.”
But those are all funny things to say, because it doesn’t seem like the Pentagon ever held the program’s data or documents that close, and it doesn’t seem like the videos in that story ever were classified.
“If they were officially declassified, they would have to have been officially classified,” says Nate Jones, director of the Freedom of Information Act Project at the National Security Archive. And a classified video would likely have a markingat least at the beginning and end, even after it was okayed for public consumption. Someone—at the Times, at To The Stars—could have cut those introductory and closing seconds from the video, but why would they do that, when both groups were emphasizing the direct-from-DOD legitimacy of the videos? “It looks very strongly like these weren’t released through any proper DOD declassification channels that I’ve ever seen,” says Jones. “I’ve seen a lot of DOD declassification in response to FOIA, in response to mandatory declassification review, in response to proactive disclosure. And it doesn’t look like this.”
Here is, perhaps, why: While the details of the program weren’t widely known, Harris says that the program files the Pentagon has pored over so far—Pentagon staffers have been reviewing AATIP documentation since around the time the Times story broke—were unclassified.
Of course, there are endless quibbles to be had over classification. Elizondo, for his part, clarified to WIRED that he didn’t believe the videos themselves were ever classified: They were just stored on a classified system. Either way, though, it seems that they made their way into the world without the typical release process, which the Department of Defense requires of “all documents that are submitted for official public release.”
Information is classified, according to the National Archives, if its improper release would present a national security problem. So why would a secret program looking at aerial anomalies—“aerodynamic vehicles engaged in extreme maneuvers, with unique phenomenology,” says Harris—remain unclassified? Sounds like those UAPs weren’t so threatening after all.
Well, fine. But the videos were still part of the program, even if they weren’t classified. It even says right there: “Courtesy of US Department of Defense.”
It’s true, that’s what the December Times story says about the videos. But there are two important things to know about that credit.
First of all, Harris maintains the Pentagon isn’t the source of the videos. “The official who is authorized to release this video on behalf of DOD did not approve the release of this video,” she says. She’s adamant: “I stand firm that we did not release those videos.”
Which means that although the videos may have originated within the DOD, which Harris acknowledges they may have, there’s no public proof or Pentagon acknowledgement of their association with AATIP. Of course, perhaps the Pentagon wants it that way. In the 1950s, according to a bookby investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board concluded that the public’s potential reaction to UFOs (belief, followed by hysteria) constituted a national security threat. The '50s were a long time ago, but we still enjoy Jell-O salad every so often, so maybe we would still be susceptible to social chaos if we were to learn about flying objects of questionable origin.
And in any case, one of the Times’ video credits has since changed. WIRED contacted the Times reporters in late December, asking them to comment on how the paper obtained the videos, and on the Defense Department’s denial that it had released them. Reporter Ralph Blumenthal replied on behalf of the three coauthors in early January, “We don't discuss the processes by which we obtain information.” But he added, “We have official documents showing the origin of the videos and the process of review provided within the DOD before they were released.”
In mid-January, though, the Times changed the caption of the lead video in its story. Both videos still have captions stating they were “released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.” But the page now simply says the first video is “by,” not “courtesy of,” the Department of Defense.
Journalists gonna journalism, though. Of course they’re protecting their sources. But I just so happen to know that there’s another place that has original video straight from the DOD, and they’re up-front about everything.
Ah, you must be talking about To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
In case other readers are not already caught up, To the Stars is a company cofounded by former Blink-182 member and longtime paranormal enthusiast Tom DeLonge. The company wants to collect data on unexplained phenomena, maybe even building out tech based on what they observe. Oh, and sell books, movies, music, and merchandise related to To the Stars’ efforts
It also, coincidentally, now employs Luis Elizondo. Elizondo says he wanted to speak about what he says the AATIP team had seen, but he didn’t think that was possible from within the Pentagon. So he resigned in October 2017, he says, signing on with To The Stars soon thereafter (although WIRED’s FOIA request for Elizondo's resignation letter, which was quoted in the Times, turned up no records, according to the Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff).
Also coincidentally, To the Stars launched a video-centric site on the same day the Times story came out—carrying the same two fighter-jet clips that appeared with the article. The so-called Community of Interest currently hosts one pilot report and one video interview along with the gun-camera videos—“the first official UAP footage,” the page says, “ever released by the USG.” (That’s the US government, for all you sheeple.)
While the academy’s site may make bolder claims than the Times did, that doesn’t make those claims more true. The Community of Interest page says the videos come from the Defense Department, have gone through the official declassification review process, and have been approved for public release. Further, it boasts that the academy can prove it with chain-of-custody paperwork. Its two UAP videos, together, have garnered nearly 3 million views on To The Stars’ YouTube channel, where the footage begins with on-screen text characterizing the videos as official and released.
Those chain-of-custody files aren’t public, but To The Stars did show WIRED some paperwork suggesting that the videos had gone through the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR), which is one part of the DOD’s document release procedure. DOPSR, says this guide, conducts “security and policy reviews on all documents that are submitted for official public release.” “It means that one of the steps for the review of a product has been completed,” says the Pentagon’s Harris.
But that documentation doesn’t actually clear material for release. “An approval from DOPSR does not equate to public release approval,” says Harris. To release AATIP videos by the book, someone would have had to coordinate with the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. So the videos on the To the Stars don’t carry any more weight than the same videos published by the Times.
OK, fine. But those videos are still spooky. If we can’t trust the feds or the paperwork, we can trust our own eyes, right?
True, the videos show some weird stuff. But without a clear chain of custody, we can’t even know whether they were part of AATIP at all, or trust that they haven’t been tampered with.
And a copy of one of the much-touted videos has been online since at least 2007. UFO researcher Isaac Koi (a pseudonym under which he writes about the topic) established that the second video in the Times story, of an event in 2004, appeared online in 2007. Someone posted it on the conspiracy website Above Top Secret, and Koi delved into its origins. The first appearance he could find was on a website for a company called Vision Unlimited—a film production company. An archived 2007 version of vision-unlimited.de confirms that the footage was hosted there back then.
That archival film matches the Times video.1
After all the unclassifications and release-denials, this information shouldn’t surprise you. We’ve pretty clearly established that whatever these videos show, they don’t seem important enough for the Pentagon to get in a tizzy over. And while the fact that one of them has shown up online before doesn’t prove that they didn’t originate with the military, it does call that chain of custody into question. Without official confirmation or available documentation (and more documentation than WIRED saw), you can’t be sure what you’re viewing is unadulterated footage, and you can’t be sure who recorded it first.
To The Stars Academy acknowledges that the 2004 video has existed elsewhere; its explanation is that those incarnations were leaked versions and that theirs is original. But there’s no public proof for that statement.
It’s true, a Navy pilot named David Fravor did give an account to the Times of his 2004 experience with a UFO, and an unnamed source provided a report in September 2017 of the same events to To The Stars Academy. But squint just a little to see that there’s no definitive link between these accounts and that video. The witnesses give a description of an alleged strange event, and the video shows an encounter with a strange object. But without a time and location stamp of some sort, viewers can’t know whether the witnesses are actually describing what’s in the video. And, beyond that, there’s no definitive link between this video and AATIP.
In the end, also, there’s no way for the public to know whether, five seconds after the other film ends, the pilots don’t discover the “fleet” of crazy flyers wasn’t from Finland. Or the Air Force.
Fine, hater. What would it take to make you believe?
In lieu of federal nondenial, or more public paperwork, there should exist hard data—like air traffic control reports, or the radar returns Elizondo mentioned—that could help establish the videos’ actualness and officialness, as well as the UAPs’ strangeness. If someone—in an aircraft, on the ground, on a ship—sent radio waves up, and they bounced off a flying object, the timing of their return and the way those waves had changed could reveal the object’s speed, its distance, and sometimes its shape.
Will To The Stars Academy be releasing those?
Yes, Elizondo says. But how and when and where, he doesn’t know.
1 UPDATE 9:45 AM ET, 2/17/2018: This article previously included an interpretation of the text on the Nimitz video display.
Though many have speculated that humans would respond negatively to the discovery of alien life, we have very little scientific research on the subject. According to a new study, however, people in the U.S. would likely have a positive reaction to the news.
If science fiction’s to be believed, humans are going to absolutely freak out when we first encounter extraterrestrials — we’re talking pandemonium, nothing short of out-and-out hysteria. From Independence Day to Alien, your average human in a movie doesn’t take well to meeting our newly-discovered alien neighbors, who, to be fair, are usually threatening the widespread elimination of humans in some way.
But if you talk to the average person, you might get a different picture of what a reaction to first contact might look like. Most people aren’t so alarmed. In fact, they’re pretty optimistic about what meeting aliens might mean. Most of us are like the kids in E.T., rather than the terrified adults: A reaction that’s less reflexive hostility, more peaceful curiosity.
A new study suggests that, in the event of an extraterrestrial encounter, the rioting and looting would be kept to a minimum — humans would actually react pretty positively to the news.
Michael Varnum, assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University, took several different approaches in his study, which he presented during a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Austin, Texas.
For the first part, he and his team used a computer program to analyze the language used in news articles about discoveries that indicated the possibility of alien life. The program focused on the emotional timbre of the articles and found that the media coverage was generally positive. The researchers also made a (hypothetical) announcement that humans had detected extraterrestrial microbial life, and asked more than 500 people to offer their written responses. Again, the language the authors used was largely positive.
As for something that feels a bit more real? In the final part of the study, the researchers asked 500 people to respond to one of two articles in the New York Times about real scientific discoveries: evidence of microbial life on a Martian meteorite and the creation of synthetic life in a lab. Interestingly, participants reacted more positively to the possibility of alien life than the human capacity to create life.
“[T]aken together, this suggests if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well,” said Varnum in a press release.
Varnum’s studies, it should be noted, only took American perspectives into account. First contact would affect the entire human population (and probably some other types of organisms, too), and different cultures might respond to the news very differently.
Plus, it’s easy to be optimistic about something that you know hasn’t happened. Many of us are simply rosy about going to the gym, but hate it once we’re actually there (or, conversely, we hate the idea of going to the gym, but love it once we’re actually exercising). After all, we are humans, and we do tend to do a great job of tricking ourselves into looking forward to things.
If scientists have their way, the question of whether extraterrestrials exist won’t be hypothetical for long— increasingly sophisticated technology will help us detect aliens, if in fact they’re out there. Playing out possible scenarios and getting a sense for how humanity would react to such a discovery could help governments come up with better-informed policies for how to handle first contact, when and if it arises.
Ultimately, we can at least hope that humans would have an upbeat reaction to the discovery of alien life. We can test the waters, make policies, or play out different scenarios in the fictional space all we like.
But the best way to figure out how humans will react to extraterrestrials? Find the aliens. Then we’ll really get to see if humans are as upbeat as researchers predict.
Photos taken from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new mystery for scientists to crack. The dark storm on Neptune, which was once so vast it spanned the distance from Boston to Portugal, is now shrinking.
A mysterious storm in Neptune that is the size of China and believed to smell like rotten eggs is dying. The reason for this is unknown, along with any ...
In the 1980s, NASA first discovered dark storms on the planet with its Voyager 2 spacecraft. The large oval-shaped storm was called the Great Dark Spot. Since then, Hubble has given us a better look at the mysterious storms that appear and vanish.
The newest storm was spotted in 2015, and is similar to the gigantic storm swirling on Jupiter, dubbed the Great Red Spot (GRS). Jupiter's particular storm has tumultuous winds that reach up to 400 miles per hour and has been on the planet for more than 150 years. Like the GRS, this storm moves in an anticyclonic direction, which coughs up substances found inside the planet’s atmosphere. Analyzing this allows astronomers to study Neptune’s winds, as no other measurement tools exist. Scientists believe it could be made of hydrogen sulfide—meaning there’s a good chance it smells like rotten eggs.
However, Neptune’s storm does differ from the one on Jupiter in that its vortices are short-lived. This new image is the only photograph of a storm captured during its demise. But scientists are puzzled at how they began in the first place.
“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain, said in a statement. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”
3 billion miles away on Neptune, the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – was captured shrinking out of existence by @NASAHubble: http://go.nasa.gov/2Bw3c0Q
This elusive vortex has also gone rogue, behaving differently than expected.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael Wong of the University of California, Berkeley, in a statement. “Their dynamical simulations said that anticyclones under Neptune’s wind shear would probably drift toward the equator. We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.”
Instead, the dark spot faded away instead of vanishing in one big dramatic exit.
We can thank Hubble for the discovery of this baffling phenomenon, according to scientists.
“No facilities other than Hubble and Voyager have observed these vortices. For now, only Hubble can provide the data we need to understand how common or rare these fascinating neptunian weather systems may be,” Wong said in a statement.
A Foul-Smelling Storm on Neptune is Mysteriously Fading Away
If they indeed exist, extraterrestrial (literally, “outside earth”) beings have a material existence in the world of space and time on some planets other than the earth.
Such beings may be simple one-celled creatures similar to bacteria, but most people commonly use the term extraterrestrial to mean intelligent life on other planets.
A Scientific Understanding
From a scientific point of view, there are a few important points we should not lose sight of when discussing life forms.
Life requires complex and subtle chemical reactions for it to come into being as well as to exist. And such reactions require a liquid medium to facilitate them.
Now of all the known objects in our solar system, only the earth is definitely known to have the conditions needed for liquid to exist under the prevailing conditions.
Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before We cleaved them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?(Quran 21:30)
Today, scientists tell us that life began in the sea when simple molecules bonded together and became self-replicating.
And Allah said He created all life from water and raised a protective canopy over the Earth. Allah knows best, and all we can do is to study, to research, and to reflect.
There are verses in the Quran that apparently favor the belief in the existence of such creatures, though we cannot find any particular verse explicitly stating their existence.
For example, the very phrase “rabbul `aalameen”(meaning “the Lord of the worlds”) as a description of God points to the possibility of the existence of beings in many worlds.
We read in the Quran several verses where God’s creatures of various kinds are mentioned:
Among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the living creatures that He has scattered through them: and He has power to gather them together when He wills. (Quran 42:29)
Note the expression in the above verse “living creatures He has scattered through them.” There is a reference here to creatures on planets other than earth.
The word dabbah denotes any sentient, corporeal being capable of spontaneous movement; it is contrasted here with the non-corporeal, spiritual beings designated as angels.
So one day, if scientists come forward with solid proof for the existence of extraterrestrial beings, it should not be a surprise for Muslims.
Cultural Obsession
Aliens and UFOs have provided great scope for the kind of fiction that appeals to people’s imagination while drawing heavily on their increasing interest in the wonders of science and technology.
Particularly in the United States, there is fertile ground for all kinds of “fashionable” myths to be advanced and propagated.
Think of the number of psychics, clairvoyants, spiritualist mediums, and other self-proclaimed experts who flourish there on the “educated ignorance” of the gullible public.
People in the East, who have almost forgotten all these superstitions, are led to believe by the media that these are part of the postmodern lifestyle now renovated and closely followed by a glamorous West.
People in the East tend to swallow almost anything spewed out by the American visual media, falling easy prey to such beliefs.
From the Islamic point of view, it is all left to science, as the Quran clearly and categorically supports all kinds of honest scientific investigations.
But the universe is such an enormous entity that we cannot discount the possibility of life existing, as on earth, in some remote planet in one of the millions of galaxies.
This is the sound scientific stand towards everything that is yet to be known conclusively.
We do not know all the secrets of the universe, nor can we know them.
And finally, this issue of the existence of extraterrestrials is not related to our fundamental faith, and a belief or disbelief with regard to them need not trouble us overmuch.
I hope this answers your question. Please stay in touch.
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How Would Mankind React To The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Life?
How Would Mankind React To The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Life?
A study has reflected on how humanity will react when we finally come across the ultimate proof of alien life: how are we going to assimilate it? Will we feel threatened and react with horror? Shall we embrace alien life as a development, and are we going to understand it?
In 1938, Orson Wells created a radio adaptation of Hg Wells War Of The World. The result? Total panic: The first two-thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins. The first news update interrupted a program of dance music to report that a series of odd explosions had been spotted on Mars, which was followed soon thereafter by a seemingly unrelated report of an unusual object falling on a farm in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Martians emerged from the object and attacked using a heat ray during the next interruption, which was followed by a rapid series of news reports describing a devastating alien invasion taking place across the United States and the world.
Now, a new study by the University of Arizona asked people how would they feel about the discovery of alien life. The result took experts by surprise.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it,” said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum.
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“So far, there’s been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research,” says Dr. Varnum, who presented his findings at a press conference this at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is held in Austin, Texas, United States.
In a pilot study, Dr. Varnum and his colleagues analyzed the language in newspaper articles about potential discoveries of extraterrestrial life in the past. Dr. Varnum aimed to address the nature of reactions to the discovery of extraterrestrial life using a software program that quantifies emotions, feelings, impulses and other psychological states in written texts.
Dr. Varnum and his team looked at the 1996 discovery of possible microbes on the surface of Mars, the discovery of a periodic oscillation around Tabby’s star in 2015, which was thought to indicate the presence of an extraterrestrial megastructure; and the discovery in 2017 of a number of exoplanets similar to Earth in the habitable zone of a star.
This analysis revealed that the language in the coverage of these events showed significantly more positive than negative emotions.
In a separate study, the team asked more than 500 different participants to write about their own hypothetical reactions and humanity’s hypothetical reaction to the announcement that extraterrestrial microbial life had been discovered.
The responses of the participants also exhibited significantly more positive than negative emotions, both when contemplating their own reactions and those of humanity as a whole.
“I would have some excitement about the news,” one participant said. “It would be exciting even if it was a primitive form.”
Dr. Varnum explained that the studies demonstrate that “taken together, this suggests if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well.”
“In summary, the results of this study suggest that people believe, on the whole, both themselves and humanity will respond in positive ways if a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life is made,” he said.
“I would qualify that by saying that if the intelligent life discovered was sort of an armada of hostile warships entering the Solar System, the no I don’t imagine you would see this pattern,” concluded Dr. Varnum.
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Former Pentagon Official In Charge Of Secret UFO Investigation Explains How UFOs Fly
Former Pentagon Official In Charge Of Secret UFO Investigation Explains How UFOs Fly
Alien Technology finally revealed? A former Pentagon official has made an astonishing claim about the technology behind UFOs.
A former Pentagon Official who was in charge of the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was founded in order to investigate the UFO phenomenon has revealed astonishing details about the mysterious flying craft.
The AATIP was a secretive program with a total budget of more than $20 million dollars, annually allocated by the Department of Defense. This mystery program was run from the Pentagon’s C ring and was solely in charge of investigating UFOs.
If UFO’s aren’t real, why has the government spent so much money on studying the phenomenon?
Luiz Elizondo, the man who was in charge of the secret program has spoken out about the AATIP and what exporters found since Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid pushed for its creation in 2007.
One of the most groundbreaking findings—accompanied by video and audio—was when US navy pilots observed a “whole fleet” of UFOs that were “going against” a 120 knots wind – in one AATIP case from 2015.
According to reports, the unidentified flying object had an unknown propulsion system, displaying incredible, never-before-seen movements which man-made aircraft could never perform.
Now, Mr. Elizondo has spoken out about the otherworldly capabilities of UFOs.
“I think we’ve come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that’s very exciting.
“For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics,” said Mr. Elizondo.
Not long ago we wrote about the incredible footage filmed by US Navy pilots as they were chasing a UFO off the coast of the US. In the video, seen below, two navy pilots Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight watched in awe as an unidentified flying object appeared at an altitude of 80,000 feet, then flying at incredible speed towards the sea, and eventually coming to a halt at some 20,000 feet.
AS the two pilots approached the object, it “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”, said Cdr Fravor.
Mr. Elizondo explained: We do believe all these observables we’ve been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology. So it’s not five exotic technologies we’re trying to figure out, it’s one. and we think we know that one too.”
The technology is within our reach.
As explained by scientists working at Bigelow Aerospace, a physicist named Dr Hal Puthoff; these mystery crafts have the ability to effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds.
“We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little,” said Mr. Elizondo, revealing incredible details about UFO’s.
Have We Found A 20,000-Year-Old Pyramid Where Plato Said Atlantis Would Be?
Have We Found A 20,000-Year-Old Pyramid Where Plato Said Atlantis Would Be?
Is there a slight possibility that there is a massive Pyramid where Plato said Atlantis was once located? The alleged underwater pyramid is around 60 meters tall, and has a base of 8000 square meters.
Every time I read about Atlantis and that someone found ‘something—anything,’ that may indicate Atlantis was real I get really exciting.
Atlantis is probably the dream discovery of any archaeologists, despite the fact that many refer to it as a mythical place. Throughout the years, countless people have claimed to have found the ultimate evidence that Atlantis was once real. Despite this, no one has actually found solid evidence that would indicate Atlantis was anything more than a great ancient story.
According to Sonchis of Sais, Atlantis—a great ancient civilization—existed 9,000 years ago
According to Solon, after traveling to Egypt on numerous occasions he met a man called Sonchis of Sais—an ancient Egyptian Priest—who told him about a great civilization that existed 9,000 years before their time. This is well documented in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias.
Now, it is Plato who tells us, according to Salon, where Atlantis was located.
The mighty Atlantean island appeared as a military power that existed nine thousand years before the time of the Athenian Legislator Solon, who, according to Plato, is the source of the story.
It was allegedly located beyond the Pillars of Hercules and is described as larger than Libya and Asia Minor together.
The power of Atlantis was such that it came to dominate western Europe and northern Africa until it was stopped by the city of Athens.
At that very moment a catastrophe, which is not described, made both the island and the rival armies disappear;
“Through violent earthquakes and floods, in a single day and night of misfortune … [the whole race] … was swallowed up by the Earth and the island of Atlantis … disappeared into the depths of the sea.”
– Plato.
Was Atlantis real?
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The sea where Atlantis was located soon became unnavigable because, while Athens and the people of Greece forgot the event, because only a few survived.
In Egypt, on the other hand, the memory that, thousands of years later came to Solon’s knowledge and, from his stories and a manuscript to Critias the narrator, the history of Atlantis was eventually was preserved.
But… what have we found beyond the Pillars of Hercules that might suggest Atlantis was in fact located there? The Azores are a set of nine volcanic islands that are located over a thousand kilometers from Portugal’s capital, Lisbon.
Located just off the islands of São Miguel and Terceira in the Azores, researchers have allegedly identified a massive structure located beneath the ocean.
The Islands of Azores are located precisely where Plato said, the mythical city/state of Atlantis would be found.
As noted by media and countless articles from the internet, the Pyramid off the coast of the Azores islands is a square pyramid, which is perfectly oriented by its cardinal points. Researchers claim that the structure has been submerged for at least 20,000 years, or around the last ice age when our planet’s glaciers were melting.
According to newspaper reports from Portugal, Diocleciano Silva first discovered the underwater pyramid. Early estimates indicate that the structure is at least 60 meters high and has a base of 8000 square meters.
Silva is said to have discovered the Pyramid while he was on a fishing trip and stumbled across the submerged pyramid using bathymetric equipment on board his ship (Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors. In other words, Bathymetry is the underwater equivalent to hypsometry or topography.).
Speaking to Diário Insular, Silva said: “the pyramid is perfectly shaped and apparently oriented by the cardinal points.”
It’s not a stretch to say these astronomers fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. We can gain insights into how this profound shift unfolded by looking at their actual notes.
Galileo’s sketches of the moon, showing its phases. Image via Wikimedia.
It’s not a stretch to say the Copernican revolution fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. In antiquity people believed the Earth was the center of the solar system and the universe, whereas now we know we are on just one of many planets orbiting the sun.
But this shift in view didn’t happen overnight. Rather, it took almost a century of new theory and careful observations, often using simple mathematics and rudimentary instruments, to reveal our true position in the heavens.
We can gain insights into how this profound shift unfolded by looking at the actual notes left by the astronomers who contributed to it. These notes give us a clue to the labor, insights and genius that drove the Copernican revolution.
Wandering stars
Imagine you’re an astronomer from antiquity, exploring the night sky without the aid of a telescope. At first the planets don’t really distinguish themselves from the stars. They’re a bit brighter than most stars and twinkle less, but otherwise look like stars.
In antiquity, what really distinguished planets from stars was their motion through the sky. From night to night, the planets gradually moved with respect to the stars. Indeed “planet” is derived from the ancient Greek for “wandering star.”
The motion of Mars over many weeks.
And planetary motion isn’t simple. Planets appear to speed up and slow down as they cross the sky. Planets even temporarily reverse direction, exhibiting “retrograde motion.” How can this be explained?
Ptolemy epicycles
A page of an Arabic copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest, illustrating the Ptolemaic model for a planet moving around the Earth. Image via Qatar National Library.
Ancient Greek astronomers produced geocentric (Earth-centered) models of the solar system, which reached their pinnacle with the work of Ptolemy. This model, from an Arabic copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest, is illustrated above.
Ptolemy explained planetary motion using the superposition of two circular motions, a large “deferent” circle combined with a smaller “epicycle” circle.
Furthermore, each planet’s deferent could be offset from the position of the Earth and the steady (angular) motion around the deferent could be defined using a position know as an equant, rather than the position of the Earth or the center of the deferent. Got that?
It is rather complex. But, to his credit, Ptolemy’s model predicted the positions of planets in the night sky with an accuracy of a few degrees (sometimes better). And it thus became the primary means of explaining planetary motion for over a millennium.
Copernicus’ shift
The Copernican Revolution placed the sun at the center of our solar system. Image via Library of Congress.
In 1543, the year of his death, Nicolaus Copernicus started his eponymous revolution with the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus’ model for the solar system is heliocentric, with the planets circling the sun rather than Earth.
Perhaps the most elegant piece of the Copernican model is its natural explanation of the changing apparent motion of the planets. The retrograde motion of planets such as Mars is merely an illusion, caused by the Earth “overtaking” Mars as they both orbit the sun.
Ptolemaic baggage
The original Copernican model has similarities to Ptolemaic models, including circular motions and epicycles.
Image via Library of Congress.
Unfortunately, the original Copernican model was loaded with Ptolemaic baggage. The Copernican planets still traveled around the solar system using motions described by the superposition of circular motions. Copernicus disposed of the equant, which he despised, but replaced it with the mathematically equivalent epicyclet.
Astronomer-historian Owen Gingerich and his colleagues calculated planetary coordinates using Ptolemaic and Copernican models of the era, and found that both had comparable errors. In some cases the position of Mars is in error by 2 degrees or more (far larger than the diameter of the moon). Furthermore, the original Copernican model was no simpler than the earlier Ptolemaic model.
As 16th century astronomers did not have access to telescopes, Newtonian physics, and statistics, it wasn’t obvious to them that the Copernican model was superior to the Ptolemaic model, even though it correctly placed the sun in the centre of the solar system.
Along comes Galileo
Galileo’s telescopic observations of the planets, including the phases of Venus, demonstrated that planets travel around the sun.
Image via NASA.
From 1609, Galileo Galilei used the recently invented telescope to observe the sun, moon and planets. He saw the mountains and craters of the moon, and for the first time revealed the planets to be worlds in their own right. Galileo also provided strong observational evidence that planets orbited the sun.
Galileo’s observations of Venus were particularly compelling. In Ptolemaic models, Venus remains between the Earth and the sun at all times, so we should mostly view the night side of Venus. But Galileo was able to observe the day-lit side of Venus, indicating that Venus can be on the opposite side of the sun from the Earth.
Kepler’s war with Mars
Johannes Kepler triangulated the position of Mars by using observations of Mars when it returned to the same position in its orbit.
Image via University of Sydney.
The circular motions of Ptolemaic and Copernican models resulted in large errors, particularly for Mars, whose predicted position could be in error by several degrees. Johannes Kepler devoted years of his life to understanding the motion of Mars, and he cracked this problem with a most ingenious weapon.
Planets (approximately) repeat the same path as they orbit the sun, so they return to the same position in space once every orbital period. For example, Mars returns to the same position in its orbit every 687 days.
As Kepler knew the dates when a planet would be at the same position in space, he could use the different positions of the Earth along its own orbit to triangulate the planets’ positions, as illustrated above. Kepler, using astronomer Tycho Brahe’spre-telescopic observations, was able to trace out the elliptical paths of the planets as they orbited the sun.
This allowed Kepler to formulate his three laws of planetary motion and predict planetary positions with far greater precision than previously possible. He thus laid the groundwork for the Newtonian physics of the late 17th century, and the remarkable science that followed.
Kepler himself captured the new world view and its broader significance in 1609’s Astronomia nova (New Astronomy):
To me, however the truth is more pious still, and (with all due respect to the Doctors of the Church) I prove philosophically not only that the earth is round, not only that it is inhabited all the way around at the antipodes, not only that is it contemptibly small, but also that it is carried along among the stars.
Many conspiracy theorists all around the world believe that the mystic mountains of Himalayas are home to advanced alien civilizations, and several times, they have claimed that these beings are living in Himalayan underground bases. Now, an eerie video featuring a disc-shaped UFO above the Himalayas has gone viral on social media platforms.
The video uploaded on YouTube by the channel 'UFO Today' is basically made after stitching together 477 images taken by mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears.
The images were stitched together as a video to portray the mountain ranges in its full glory, but the beauty of Everest was literally overshadowed by a spooky object spotted at a very high altitude. The channel claims that no helicopters or drones can fly at such high altitude and that the shape clearly indicates that the object's shape is unfamiliar.
"When we zoom in on one of the mountains left to mount Everest we can see a UFO flying above the summit. The object resembles a flying disc of some sort and it's clearly there since we can see it's silhouette. Judging it's height from Mount Everest it's safe to say this object is flying way above the height where helicopters or drones would operate," wrote the channel in the video's description.
This is not the first time that spooky stories about the Himalayas are going viral online. A year back, there was an incident reported where Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash saw a streak of glowing triangular flying objects in the skies. When researchers investigated the incident, local residents conveyed that these sightings are quite common in and around the area.
Apart from stories related to aliens, many people also claim that Yeti or abominable snowman also lives in the mountain ranges of Himalayas. However, no solid pieces of evidence have been obtained so far to substantiate the existence of these beings.
Some things are hidden in plain sight, and no matter how many warnings there are, some people just refuse to look at that which contradicts their beliefs about the world.
Take, for example, geoengineering, which, among other things, involves the atmospheric spraying of aluminum, strontium, barium, plastics and other materials into the sky as a means of ostensibly protecting us from the dangers of global warming.
Mainstream media has been reporting on geoengineering quite a bit in recent years, pitching it as a necessary evil to come, never quite fully divulging the years of evidence we’ve collected which shows how governments the world over are already tampering with the earth’s climate.
In this video, an ex-military meteorologist explains that anomalous radar readings are the result of the military spraying chaff into the atmosphere.
“Then you see these bands of very distinct cloud cover moving into the region. That is not rain, that is not snow. Believe it or not military aircraft flying through the region dropping chaff: small bits of aluminum, sometimes it’s made of plastic or even metallicized paper products, but it’s used as an anti-radar issue and obviously they’re practicing. Now they won’t confirm that, but I was in the Marine Corps for many years and I’ll tell you right now, that’s what it is.” [Source]
In this video, a meteorolgist in Southern California talks about chaff again, noting that it has been sprayed over the region and is interfering with satellite data.
Again, another reporter from Southern California explains chaff being dispersed into the atmosphere over the region.
In this video from Florida, the local weatherman again talks about the military releasing chaff into the sky.
“I want to point out this big area of blue. That’s what we call military chaff, and the military releases some things in the atmosphere… I know.” [Source]
Here’s another one:
Final Thoughts
It’s interesting to see how spraying aluminum and other products into the skies above populated areas is treated as a non-issue by local news. Aluminum is known to cause a wide range of serous health problemsincluding brain damage and Alzheimer’s. It makes you wonder what else is happening in our skies that is not being reported on by the news.
Militaire vliegtuigen werpen aluminium boven ons hoofd uit. Deze meteorologen praten er openlijk over
Militaire vliegtuigen werpen aluminium boven ons hoofd uit. Deze meteorologen praten er openlijk over
Je hoort wetenschappers vaak zeggen dat chemtrails geen giftige stoffen zoals bijvoorbeeld aluminium bevatten. Maar is dat wel zo?
De website Waking Times heeft een aantal filmpjes verzameld waarin meteorologen het hebben over antiradarsneeuw, waarbij militaire vliegtuigen grote hoeveelheden aluminium of plastic deeltjes uitwerpen.
Nederland
Op Wikipedia is te zien dat deze antiradarsneeuw ook in Nederland wordt uitgeworpen, bijvoorbeeld bij militaire oefeningen.
In onderstaand filmpje legt een meteoroloog uit dat radarstoringen op de weerkaart het gevolg zijn van antiradarsneeuw, die door militaire vliegtuigen in de atmosfeer is gebracht.
“Je ziet duidelijk wolkenbanden in het gebied. Die zijn niet het gevolg van regen of sneeuw. Geloof het of niet: legervliegtuigen vliegen door de regio om antiradarsneeuw uit te werpen: kleine stukjes aluminium of plastic die worden gebruikt om de radar te verstoren,” zei de weerman.
In het tweede filmpje heeft een meteoroloog uit Californië het opnieuw over antiradarsneeuw. Ze merkt op dat het is uitgeworpen boven de regio en de radar verstoort.
In het derde filmpje vertelt een verslaggeefster dolenthousiast dat het leger dit spul al sinds het bestaan van de radar in de atmosfeer dumpt.
In onderstaand filmpje uit Florida heeft de lokale weerman het opnieuw over antiradarsneeuw die door het leger in de lucht wordt gedumpt.
“Ik wil jullie wijzen op dit grote blauwe gebied,” zei hij. “Dit is wat we antiradarsneeuw noemen, waarbij het leger dingen in de atmosfeer uitwerpt… Ik weet het.”
Hieronder nog één filmpje:
Het is interessant om te zien hoe het dumpen van aluminium en andere schadelijke producten in de lucht boven dichtbevolkte gebieden door lokale nieuwszenders wordt gezien als iets heel normaals.
Het is bekend dat aluminium kan leiden tot vele gezondheidsproblemen, waaronder hersenschade en alzheimer.
Je kunt je afvragen wat er nog meer gebeurt in onze lucht waar de media niet over berichten.
Among the various aquatic anomalies reported over the years, including sea monsters, lake monsters, and mermaids, certainly in a class all its own are the various reports of strange amphibious humanoids, typically described as reptilian, frog-like, or fish-like, as if something straight out of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. These outlandish accounts tend to fly off into the extreme fringe of cryptozoology and defy any real efforts to understand or classify them, only adding to the mysteries that the world’s waterways hold within their depths. Here is a selection of some of the weirder of such encounters.
Perhaps the most well known of the tales of such beasts is that of what has come to be known as the Loveland Frog, of Loveland, Ohio, in the United States. One of the earliest accounts of this frog-like mystery monster comes from May of 1955, when a businessman was traveling down a remote rural road along the Miami River in Clermont County, near the town of Loveland. As the witness approached a bridge at around 3:30 AM, he says that he saw three bipedal frog-like creatures measuring around 3 to 4 feet in height gathered under a bridge. The strange beasts were described as being somewhat reptilian in appearance, with webbed hands and feet, thick leathery skin, and “frog-like heads,” and as having many wrinkles over their bodies, as well as having wide, lipless mouths. One of the mystery beasts then allegedly raised its arm to produce a bar or wand of some sort that was said to emanate sparks and a pungent odor of “alfalfa and almonds,” an odd detail that just sinks the whole thing deeper into the strange.
Thus would begin the odyssey of the Loveland Frogmen. In March of 1972 the bizarre frogman would make an appearance again when it was purportedly spotted near Loveland by a Ohio police officer identified as a Ray Shockey as he drove in his cruiser along East Kemper Road, which winds along with the Little Miami River near town. The creature was described as bipedal and around 4 feet tall, with rough, leathery skin, and a head and face like a frog or lizard. The officer explained that he saw it leap over a railway to apparently jump into the Little Miami River. A later examination of the scene turned up strange scratch marks on the handrail the thing had reportedly jumped over, but no other physical evidence of any kind.
Just two weeks after this sighting it was seen yet again, this time by another police officer named Mark Mathews. In this case the creature was spotted lying on a rural road on the outskirts of Loveland. The witness supposedly at first took it to be a dead animal on the road, but as he got out of his cruiser to investigate it allegedly stood up and crouched down on the road before walking over to the guardrail while intently watching the witness. It was described as a frog-like bipedal creature around 4 feet in height, this time with a tail clearly visible, and the startled police officer then took a shot at it with his sidearm but missed as the beast scurried off into the night. In later years Matthews would begin to doubt what he had seen, and started to claim that it must have been some exotic reptile pet that had escaped from its owner, although how this could be confused with an upright walking frog is anyone’s guess. It is unclear why he retracted his original report, but an investigation by Weird Ohio in 2001 interviewed a local named Ron Schaffner about the possible reason, and he said thus:
Why, after all these years is Matthew’s debunking the story? I’m not sure. Could be a number of reasons. But both officers told us that it resembled the sketch in 1976. Why would they shows us a composite drawing of this creature back in 1976 and tell us that it looked like the drawing? I lived in Loveland for about five years and the story is still circulating with many variations. Just maybe Matthews is tired of hearing the story and all the variations.
There have been other sporadic sightings over the years of the Loveland Frogman, and as recently as 2016 there was a report that someone had actually filmed the creature. According to WLWT5, witness Sam Jacobs was playing the popular video game “Pokemon Go” along with his girlfriend behind the Beth Adam synagogue on Loveland Madeira Road, in Ohio, when they saw a strange, frog-like creature in the water on the nearby river. Jacobs would describe what happened thus:
We Saw a huge frog near the water. Not in the game, this was an actual giant frog… then the thing stood up and walked on its hind legs. I realize this sounds crazy, but I swear on my grandmother’s grave this is the truth… Not sure if it was a frogman or just a giant frog. Either way, I’ve never seen anything like it.
The couple managed to take a video clip of the alleged creature on their phones, which shows what seems to show something standing in the water with glowing eyes, but it is so indistinct and grainy it is hard to make out just what we are seeing here. It could be the Frogman or it could be a person in a suit. It is very possible that it is a hoax, but the couple are adamant that they actually saw this thing. If the Loveland Frogman was ever real, then what could it possibly be? Is this a cryptid, and alien, or what? It is hard to say.
A still from the Loveland Frog video
Another very well-known case of some sort of amphibious beast in the Ohio River seems to describe some sort of fish-man in its waters. In August of 1955, a Mrs. Darwin Johnson claimed that as she had been swimming in the Ohio River near Evansville, Indiana when she was pulled underwater by a reptilian creature of some sort, which grabbed her knees and yanked her under the waves. She was able to kick herself free and get to shore with the help of another woman in the vicinity named Chris Lamble. According to the report there was a green palm print on the victim’s leg which would not fade away for nearly a week. Oddly, a mysterious figure claiming to be with the Army reportedly later approached the two woman and discouraged them from telling anyone of the encounter.
Also from the Ohio River are sightings of something strange in October of 1975 at the portion of the river that runs across the northern boundary of Milton, Kentucky. Described in cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s book Mysterious America, one witness, a Clarence Gable, claimed that there was a massive frog-like creature lurking in the area of his junkyard. The creature was described as having bulging eyes, a forked tongue, and as being a dull white color with black and white stripes. Other witnesses at around the same time would see the same or similar creature around the Ohio River at Trimble County, Kentucky, and say it was some sort of bipedal and amphibious lizard-like beast.
Other “gill-man” sightings covered by Coleman have come in from other areas as well. In March of 1959, witnesses Michael Lane, Wayne Armstrong, and Dennis Patterson sighted a “green-eyed, seven-foot-tall, seemingly armless humanoid” at Charles Mill Lake in Mansfield, Ohio, that left behind tracks like the flippers of scuba divers. This particular entity was seen again in 1963, and a major detail was that it was “luminous and green-eyed.” In November of 1978 a bizarre creature was spotted by a Charles Wetzel in the wilderness along the Santa Ana River near Riverside, California, that was described as being 7 feet tall, covered with scales and having a “protuberant mouth” and eyes that had a fluorescent sheen to them. This creature would apparently open its beak-like mouth to emit a high-pitched scream or wail and lunge for the witness’s car, which sent the him driving off with great haste. In the summer of 1973, a beast described as a “giant, man-like alligator” was sighted by residents of New Jersey’s Newton-Lafayette area, and in 1977 a scaled humanoid creature was frequently spotted in the fern and moss- covered uplands of southern New York state.
A well-known account of some sort of amphibious reptilian humanoid or fish-man comes from Thetis Lake, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. On August 19, 1972, two teenagers named Robin Flewellyn and Gordon Pike were at the lake when they claimed to have noticed a strange surging of the water just offshore. Shortly after this, there emerged what they would describe as a 5-foot tall humanoid covered with silver scales and with gills, webbed, clawed hands, bulging eyes, a sort spines jutting from its back, and a wide, fish-like mouth. The boys claimed that the creature chased them up the beach all the way to their car, and that it had actually managed to lunge forward to cut one of them on the hand with its sharp spines before they were able to escape.
The two frightened boys later told authorities, and while the whole story seemed pretty outlandish the two witnesses seemed to be genuinely disturbed about what they had seen, which forced the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to actually investigate the claims. Nothing would be found, but oddly another similar report would come in not long after, when on August 23 teenaged witnesses Russell Van Nice and Mike Gold said that they had been out on the opposite side of the lake of the original sighting when they saw a silvery, scaled creature around 5-feet tall and with a spike on its head emerge from the water, look around, and then slip back under to disappear. Interestingly the Natives of the area have long spoken of legendary fish-like humanoids inhabiting the lake, so are these reports perhaps of something very real or is it just hoaxes? No one knows, and there have been no other sightings, leaving it all to pure speculation.
These cases are certainly hard to classify, and almost impossible to verify in any meaningful way, leaving us to ponder just what could lie at the heart of them. Is this just attention-seekers making up tall tales? Is it misidentifications of known animals or exotic escaped pets? Are there really undiscovered bipedal amphibious creatures of the likes described roaming the wilderness? If so then what could they possibly be? It is all very head-scratching indeed, and Loren Coleman has said of this conundrum thus:
Are these beasts future time travelers lost in some time/space warp? Or infrequent visitors? Or do you feel more comfortable with the idea there is a breeding population of scaly, manlike, upright creatures lingering along the edges of some of America’s swamps? Something is out there. That’s for sure.
Is there really something out there other than or rampant imaginations? The only thing that can truly be said for sure is that such reports rank as among some of the strangest sightings of mystery beasts, and show that the world of the weird goes deep. With all of the truly off-the-wall accounts out there, humanoid frog-men and gill-people? Why not?
Humanoids from the Deep - Barbara Peters - Jimmy T. Murakami - Langosto
GENDER] Terror. Science fiction | Monsters [AUDIO] Spanish [SUBS] No. Several strange events occur in a small and quiet fishing village. First, a fishing boat explodes causing the death of its crew. The dogs of the port appear dismembered, except that of the Indian Hank. The fishermen believe that he has been the author of the killing, and they do the same with the native dog. But when several bathers are killed, and some girls raped, some begin to understand that behind everything that happens there is something else ...
Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW-TV) - Barry DiGregorio of Middleport believes that he has discovered evidence of life on Mars. Barry is an astrobiologist and an honorary research fellow with the University of Buckingham. He studies gases, rocks and other materials that are indicators of life and in his words "we apply that to what we might find on other planets."
Barry's latest discovery, after studying images sent back from NASA's Curiosity Rover, has been getting world-wide coverage. He believes that he has found trace fossils on Mars-similar to trace fossils found on earth and dating back about 450 million. Trace fossils are tracks or footprints left behind by once living creatures. Barry says that "what it says is that life rose to the multi-cellular level."
He admits that NASA is not so quick to agree that the squiggles seen in the images are trace fossils adding "NASA is saying they are crystals."
Barry DiGregorio will continue to study trace fossils and will be presenting his hypothesis of trace fossils on Mars in a scientific paper to a conference that will be held in Australia this June.
Wetenschapper heeft bewijs van leven op Mars. Lees hier alles over zijn ontdekking
Wetenschapper heeft bewijs van leven op Mars. Lees hier alles over zijn ontdekking
Astrobioloog Barry DiGregorio van de Universiteit van Buckingham zegt bewijs van leven te hebben ontdekt op Mars.
Hij bestudeert stukken rots, gassen en ander materiaal dat kan wijzen op de aanwezigheid van leven op andere planeten.
Zijn nieuwste ontdekking, die hij deed na het analyseren van foto’s die zijn gemaakt door Marsrover Curiosity, kreeg wereldwijde aandacht.
Meercellig leven
DiGregorio meent namelijk dat hij sporenfossielen heeft gevonden op Mars. Ze lijken volgens hem erg op sporenfossielen die op aarde zijn gevonden en die 450 miljoen jaar oud zijn.
Een sporenfossiel is niet een overblijfsel van een dood dier of een dode plant, maar laat biologische activiteit in een gesteente zien.
DiGregorio zei dat hieruit blijkt dat er ooit meercellig leven heeft bestaan op de rode planeet.
Kristallen
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA is nog niet zo overtuigd van de ontdekking. “NASA zegt dat het kristallen zijn,” aldus de astrobioloog.
Hij is van plan de sporenfossielen te blijven bestuderen en zijn bevindingen te presenteren tijdens een conferentie die in juni wordt gehouden in Australië.
Vreemd
De ontdekte sporenfossielen zijn zeer klein, waarschijnlijk één tot twee millimeter breed en vijf millimeter lang.
Ze zien er zo vreemd uit dat wetenschappers Curiosity terugstuurden om ze nader te onderzoeken.
De zogenaamde Polar Vortex (poolwervel) is, zoals verwacht, in tweeën gesplitst en één deel daarvan koerst af op Europa.
Of dit daadwerkelijk zal resulteren in de lang verwachte Elfstedentocht is uiteraard niet zeker, maar de kans daarop is wel toegenomen.
Ongeveer een week geleden schreven wij dat dankzij een plotselinge stratosferische opwarming er de grote mogelijkheid bestond dat de Polar Vortex zich in tweeën zou splitsen en als gevolg daarvan er een koude luchtstroom richting Europa op gang zou komen.
Die splitsing heeft inmiddels plaatsgevonden.
Het vreemde is dat er bij de Nederlandse weerdiensten weinig aandacht aan wordt geschonken, maar des te meer bij hun collega's in Amerika en Engeland.
Daar gaat men ervan uit dat Europa tegen heind februari, begin maart te maken zal krijgen met letterlijk ijskoude lucht en strenge vorst. Dit heeft bijvoorbeeld ook gevolgen voor de gascontracten in Engeland die al met 3,6 procent zijn gestegen in verband met de te verwachten koude.
Op het volgende plaatje is te zien dat tegen het einde van de week, naar verwachting, de koude lucht al aardig onze kant op komt.
Als deze beweging doorzet, dan krijgen we volgens de Engelse meteorologen te maken met zeer strenge vorst en kunnen de ijzers uit het vet.
Ook voor Amerika heeft dit gevolgen, waar de westelijke helft te maken zal krijgen met ongewoon lage temperaturen en de oostelijke met ongewoon hoge.
Als er één ding zeker is, dan is het dat er niets veranderlijker is dan het weer, dus niets is zeker, maar de kans op een late Elfstedentocht lijken toch behoorlijk toe te nemen.
Op naar het volgende waanzinnige project: SpaceX test eerste van 4.425 satellieten die hele wereld van goedkoop internet moeten voorzien - HLN.be
Op naar het volgende waanzinnige project: SpaceX test eerste van 4.425 satellieten die hele wereld van goedkoop internet moeten voorzien - HLN.be
APBeeld van een lancering van SpaceX met een Falcon 9 op Cape Canaveral.
IHLNNa de lancering van de Falcon Heavy vorige week – en een Starman die in een Tesla door de ruimte zweeft – maakt SpaceX zich op voor de volgende buitengewone missie: ‘Project Starlink’. De eerste twee testsatellieten worden dit weekend gelanceerd.
Drie jaar geleden onthulde SpaceX-CEO Elon Musk Project Starlink in Seattle. Met het breedbandproject wil hij met zijn ruimtevaartmaatschappij duizenden met elkaar verbonden satellieten in de ruimte sturen. Doel? De hele wereld goedkoop van razendsnelle internettoegang voorzien. SpaceX wil in totaal een slordige 4.425 kleine satellieten (zo groot als een gemiddelde auto) in een lage baan om de aarde brengen, zo’n 1.100 tot 1.325 kilometer boven ons. Dit weekend gaan de eerste twee testsatellieten de lucht in, zo blijkt uit een brief van SpaceX naar de Amerikaanse Federal Communications Commission. SpaceX geeft voorlopig geen officiële bevestiging, maar had eerder wel al aangekondigd dat eind 2017 of begin 2018 de eerste proefsatellieten zouden vertrekken.
Waarom Musk het ook nu weer in de ruimte gaat zoeken? Omdat een netwerk van satellieten met goedkope grondstations op ongeziene wijze de huidige moeilijkheden en kosten van internettechnologie op de grond kan omzeilen. “De typische uitdagingen op de grond worden verholpen door een breedbandnetwerk in de ruimte”, verklaarde Patricia Cooper van SpaceX eerder. Ondanks dat Musk zelf duidelijk wel wat geld op overschot heeft, is hij vaak op zoek naar manieren om kosten te drukken. Getuige zijn baanbrekende recyclage van raketten.
Photo NewsDe boosters van de Falcon Heavy landden weer mooi op de grond, klaar voor hergebruik.
Race om het internet
Daarnaast is Musk een competitief man, die ook in de steeds competitiever wordende race van betaalbare internettoegang wil meespelen. Neen, winnen. SpaceX is immers niet de enige die globaal razendsnel internet uit de ruimte wil domineren. Zo heeft een ander privébedrijf met de naam OneWeb gelijkaardige ambitieuze plannen. OneWeb zou volgens Geekwire onder meer samenwerken met Blue Origin, het ruimtebedrijf van die andere miljardair - Amazon-baas Jeff Bezos - en met Virgin Orbit, een ruimtevaartbedrijf dat onderdeel is van de Virgin Group van miljardair nummer drie, Richard Branson. Niet alleen de race om de ruimte, maar ook de race om het internet is ingezet.
Waar Elon Musk met de lancering van de Falcon Heavy los de voorsprong nam in de nieuwe ruimterace tussen miljardairs en hun private bedrijven, lijkt hij ook nu in poleposition. In 2015 rapporteerde The Washington Post dat grote bedrijven Google en Fidelity 1 miljard in het ruimtebedrijf van Musk pompten, deels om Project Starlink te steunen. Het is dan ook waarschijnlijk dat als het Starlink-netwerk functioneel wordt, deze bedrijven er deels de controle over zullen nemen. Het moederbedrijf van Google, Alphabet, werkt overigens zelf ook aan internetconnectiviteit op grotere hoogtes - met satellieten, ballonnen en drones. Facebook wilde in 2016 samen met het Franse Eutelsat met een satelliet gratis internet aanbieden in Sub-Saharisch Afrika, maar die droom ging in rook op toen de SpaceX-raket die de satelliet moest lanceren, ontplofte. Andere initiatieven van Facebook omvatten het gebruik van drones op zonne-energie.
REUTERSSpaceX-oprichter Elon Musk op de persconferentie na de eerste lancering van de Falcon Heavy op Cape Canaveral.
Wereldverbeteraar
Ook de wereldverbeteraar in Musk kan zich niet bedwingen: een globaal internetnetwerk dat goedkoop is en in sommige regio’s zelfs gratis voorzien kan worden, kan de bestaande issues rond ongelijke internettoegang oplossen. En dat louter met een ontvanger ter grootte als een laptop. Let wel, ook hier America First, want eerst zouden enkel de Verenigde Staten van het internet van Starlink kunnen proeven, pas later wordt het uitgerold naar de rest van de wereld. Een satellietnetwerk van 800 exemplaren zou snelle internettoegang naar de VS, Puerto Rico en de Maagdeneilanden kunnen brengen, met 4.425 satellieten mikt SpaceX op wereldwijde dekking. De hele planeet online dus, omwikkeld met een dekentje van 1-gigabit-per-seconde-internet.
REUTERSBeeld van een lancering van een SpaceX Falcon 9-raket.
2024
De twee testsatellieten (Microsat 2a en 2b) zullen dit weekend vanop de Vandenberg Air Force Base in Californië met een Falcon 9 in de ruimte worden geschoten, samen met de primaire lading: een grote Spaanse observatiesatelliet met de naam ‘Paz’. De experimentele Microsats zullen communicatie met grondstations testen, blijkt uit documenten. Zo zijn bijvoorbeeld verschillende kantoren van SpaceX een grondstation, maar ook het hoofdkwartier van Musks autobedrijf Tesla (niet toevallig hebben Tesla’s een 4G-internetverbinding). Ook drie mobiele ‘testbusjes’ staan in verbinding met de prototypes. Vanaf volgend jaar moeten dan de eerste ‘echte’ operationele internetsatellieten de ruimte in. Tegen 2024 wil SpaceX alle satellieten van Project Starlink hebben gelanceerd.
Kostenplaatje? Zeker tien miljard dollar, maar volgens Musk moet die investering zich al snel terugbetalen. De markt is tientallen of zelfs honderden miljarden dollars per jaar waard, schat SpaceX. En die markt zal alleen maar groeien als steeds meer mensen online zijn. En zo hoopt Musk dat de hele wereld uiteindelijk mee zijn ultieme droom zal financieren: een kolonie op Mars. Aha, zo zit dat.
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Bright Flaming Object Flies Over Belarus
Bright Flaming Object Flies Over Belarus
This video was captured on February 17, 2018 in Belarus between Minsk and Soligorsk, with a iPhone X.
The people in the car had no explanation of the event, if it was a fighter-plane, it would have been to low and the flame-size is too big for a fighter.
Humans would rather come in contact with aliens than with artificial life made on Earth, a team of researchers has found. They also say that despite the prevalence of movies and TV shows depicting aliens as malevolent creatures, people might react well to a discovery of extraterrestrial life.
The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology and are based upon an analysis of responses to hypothetical reports of alien discoveries — specifically microscopic life as opposed to intelligent life — and real newspaper stories that discussed potential discoveries in the past.
According to the study, people predicted that they as individuals would take the news better than the rest of humanity.
They also had better “responses to reading an actual announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life … than responses to reading an actual announcement of the creation of man-made synthetic life” in a laboratory. That conclusion came from a comparison of how subjects reacted to an article about Martian microbes and how they reacted to one about artificial life. The people were more receptive to the former, revealing something about how people view organic life forms and how they view synthetic life.
“Taken together, this work suggests that our reactions to a future confirmed discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life are likely to be fairly positive,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
Are we alone in the universe? Scientists say humans would probably respond well to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Photo: CC0 Creative Commons
In addition to gauging people’s reactions to reading newspaper stories about aliens, the scientists analyzed language used in articles and reported that the coverage was associated mostly with positive emotions rather than negative ones.
Among the real articles on possible alien discoveries were stories about fossilized microbes on Mars, unexplained activity around a star and the existence of Earth-like planets in another solar system.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it,” researcher Michael Varnum said in a statement from Arizona State University. “So far, there’s been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research.”
According to the study, there could be many factors behind how people respond to alien life, including their religious views and whether they would take comfort in knowing that Earth’s life forms are not alone in the universe.
“Perhaps it speaks to their desire for novelty,” the paper says. “At present, we do not know the mechanisms by which this effect occurs, and we encourage future researchers to test these and other possibilities.”
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Ancient Aliens – Beyond Roswell
Ancient Aliens – Beyond Roswell
The U.S. military has long denied that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was anything other than a weather balloon, but FBI files released in 2011 include a memo to J. Edgar Hoover regarding the recovery of not one, but three “flying saucers.” Could the U.S. government really have extraterrestrial crafts in their possession?
Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes, and claim that Roswell is just the tip of the iceberg. Over a dozen other UFO crashes were reported all across the world around the same time as Roswell, and it is rumored that the wreckage from these incidents was retrieved and hidden away at secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, Kapustin Yar in Russia, Pine Gap in Australia, Rudloe Manor in England, and even in the remote hills of China. But if true, what happened to these alien spaceships?
Roswell UFO incident
In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed “flying disc”, the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed, and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, who then engaged in a cover-up.
In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as “the world’s most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim”.
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Researchers Find Thousand-Year-Old Pyramid City In The Heart Of Mexico
Researchers Find Thousand-Year-Old Pyramid City In The Heart Of Mexico
Researchers have made a sensational discovery in Mexico, as they have uncovered the remains of an ancient Pyramid city as densely built as Manhattan. During its peak, this ancient city is believed to have been inhabited by more than 100,000 people.
Using state-of-the-art laser technology; users discovered the lost city of Angamuco, built by the ancient Purepecha people, a rival culture of the ancient Azteca.
The recently uncovered archaeological site had 26 square kilometers and remained hidden for several centuries as dense vegetation devoured it.
Seen here are examples of sunken plazas, patios, and related features in Angamuco.
Photograph: C Fisher
LiDAR—Making Archaeology great again
Since 2011, a group of researchers has used laser scanning technology called LiDAR to examine the remains of an ancient metropolis called Angamuco, established during 900 AD on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro, in the Mexican state of Michoacán.
‘To think that this massive city existed in the heartland of Mexico for all this time and nobody knew it was there is kind of amazing,’ said Chris Fisher, professor of anthropology at CSU who made the admission of missing the finding on foot.
LiDAR technology is helping archaeologists around the globe make unprecedented discoveries. Using traditional methods of on-the-ground archaeological surveys would take 20 years to assemble as much data as two days using the laser-based technique, note experts.
One of Angamuco’s ‘neighbourhoods’, revealed using LiDAR technology.
Photograph: C Fisher
LiDAR can help researchers see what the naked eye can’t, thanks to the technologies ability to penetrate through thick layers of vegetation.
The technology offers researchers a new set of eyes, allowing them to see what they’d never see without it. In fact, after seeing the results of the scan, one of the team members realized that he had walked within 10 meters of one of the most massive pyramids of the ancient city of Angamuco, without even realizing it, since the pyramids—and entire city—are covered in thick layers of vegetation.
‘If you do the math, all of a sudden you are talking about 40,000 building foundations up there, which is [about] the same number of building foundations that are on the island of Manhattan.’
In an interview, Fisher said that thanks to LiDAR they have discovered that “more than 100,000 people inhabited the city of Angamuco during its peak, which occurred between the year 1,000 and 1,350 AD. We are talking about the fact that this metropolis is the largest metropolis that, until now, is known in western Mexico during this period.”
The discoveries have helped researchers understand that pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was ‘significantly more densely populated at the time of European contact’ than previously thought.
The researcher from Colorado State University said that “Angamuco was a large settlement that had many people and a lot of architectural remains.”
He added: “Some estimates of our studies show that there may have been more than 40,000 buildings, that is, the same number of buildings that are currently on the island of Manhattan, in New York.”
Seen here is the city of Angamuco, which was inhabited by more than 100,000 people during its peak.
Photograph: C Fisher
Between the 15th and 16th centuries, the Purépecha empire, with capital in Tzintzuntzan, was a Mesoamerican power that resisted the push of the Mexica Empire.
This ancient culture encompassed the southern part of the state of Guanajuato, much of the state of Michoacán and the northern region of the state of Guerrero to the south of the State of Mexico.
Its military and economic success were due, in part, to the fact that the Purépechas were skilled metal workers in both gold and copper, which undoubtedly helped maintain their independence from the Aztecs.
The ancient Purépechas were exclusive speakers of the Purepecha language, an isolated language that has no proven historical relationship with any other in the region.
The most famous source of information about the Purépechas is the Michoacán relation written by Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá for Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza around 1540.
GOING LONG Starting around 1300, high-ranking members of a pre-Inca population increasingly had their heads bound into a narrow, elongated shape during infancy, a researcher says.
M. VELASCO/CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2018
Bigwigs in a more than 600-year-old South American population were easy to spot. Their artificially elongated, teardrop-shaped heads screamed prestige, a new study finds.
During the 300 years before the Incas’ arrival in 1450, intentional head shaping among prominent members of the Collagua ethnic community in Peru increasingly centered on a stretched-out look, says bioarchaeologist Matthew Velasco of Cornell University. Having long, narrow noggins cemented bonds among members of a power elite — a unity that may have helped pave a relatively peaceful incorporation into the Incan Empire, Velasco proposes in the February Current Anthropology.
“Increasingly uniform head shapes may have encouraged a collective identity and political unity among Collagua elites,” Velasco says. These Collagua leaders may have negotiated ways to coexist with the encroaching Inca rather than fight them, he speculates. But the fate of the Collaguas and a neighboring population, the Cavanas, remains hazy. Those populations lived during a conflict-ridden time — after the collapse of two major Andean societies around 1100 (SN: 8/1/09, p. 16) and before the expansion of the Inca Empire starting in the 15th century.
For at least the past several thousand years, human groups in various parts of the world have intentionally modified skull shapes by wrapping infants’ heads with cloth or binding the head between two pieces of wood (SN: 4/29/17, p. 18). Researchers generally assume that this practice signified membership in ethnic or kin groups, or perhaps social rank.
HEADY BURIALS In southeastern Peru, structures at the base of a cliff contained the bodies of presumably high-ranking members of a pre-Inca-era population known as the Collagua. These individuals gradually adopted a style of intentional head shaping that resulted in many of them having long, narrow noggins, a new study finds.
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ SOTOMAYOR
The Callagua people lived in Colca Valley in southeastern Peru and raised alpaca for wool. By tracking Collagua skull shapes over 300 years, Velasco found that elongated skulls became increasingly linked to high social status. By the 1300s, for instance, Collagua women with deliberately distended heads suffered much less skull damage from physical attacks than other females did, he reports. Chemical analyses of bones indicates that long-headed women ate a particularly wide variety of foods.
Until now, knowledge of head-shaping practices in ancient Peru primarily came from Spanish accounts written in the 1500s. Those documents referred to tall, thin heads among Collaguas and wide, long heads among Cavanas, implying that a single shape had always characterized each group.
“Velasco has discovered that the practice of cranial modification was much more dynamic over time and across social [groups],” says bioarchaeologist Deborah Blom of the University of Vermont in Burlington.
Velasco examined 211 skulls of mummified humans interred in either of two Collagua cemeteries. Burial structures built against a cliff face were probably reserved for high-ranking individuals, whereas common burial grounds in several caves and under nearby rocky overhangs belonged to regular folk.
SHAPING UP About 300 years before the Inca arrived, low-ranking members of the Collagua people sometimes had their heads flattened at the back during infancy (left). More often, their heads were not modified (right).
M. VELASCO/CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2018
Radiocarbon analyses of 13 bone and sediment samples allowed Velasco to sort Collagua skulls into early and late pre-Inca groups. A total of 97 skulls, including all 76 found in common burial grounds, belonged to the early group, which dated to between 1150 and 1300. Among these skulls, 38 — or about 39 percent — had been intentionally modified. Head shapes included sharply and slightly elongated forms as well as skulls compressed into wide, squat configurations.
Of the 14 skulls with extreme elongation, 13 came from low-ranking individuals, a pattern that might suggest regular folk first adopted elongated head shapes. But with only 21 skulls from elites, the finding may underestimate the early frequency of elongated heads among the high-status crowd. Various local groups may have adopted their own styles of head modification at that time, Velasco suggests.
In contrast, among 114 skulls from elite burial sites in the late pre-Inca period, dating to between 1300 and 1450, 84 — or about 74 percent — displayed altered shapes. A large majority of those modified skulls — about 64 percent — were sharply elongated. Shortly before the Incas’ arrival, prominent Collaguas embraced an elongated style as their preferred head shape, Velasco says. No skeletal evidence has been found to determine whether low-ranking individuals also adopted elongated skulls as a signature look in the late pre-Inca period.
Nicolas Hud, director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Hud will be a panelist at a press briefing "Asteroids for Research, Discovery, and Commerce" at 1 p.m. Central Time on Feb. 17 at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Credit: Fitrah Hamid, Georgia Tech
In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs - and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining.
But for researcher Nicholas Hud, asteroids play an entirely different role: that of time capsules showing what molecules originally existed in our solar system. Having that information gives scientists the starting point they need to reconstruct the complex pathway that got life started on Earth.
Director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Hud says finding molecules in asteroids provides the strongest evidence that such compounds were present on the Earth before life formed. Knowing what molecules were present helps establish the initial conditions that led to the formation of amino acids and related compounds that, in turn, came together to form peptides, small protein-like molecules that may have kicked off life on this planet.
"We can look to the asteroids to help us understand what chemistry is possible in the universe," said Hud. "It's important for us to study materials from asteroids and meteorites, the smaller versions of asteroids that fall to Earth, to test the validity of our models for how molecules in them could have helped give rise to life. We also need to catalog the molecules from asteroids and meteorites because there might be compounds there that we had not even considered important for starting life."
Hud will be a panelist at a press briefing "Asteroids for Research, Discovery, and Commerce" on February 17 at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Austin, Texas. He will also be part of a session on February 18 on the topic, "Seeking the Identity and Origins of the First Polymers of Life."
NASA scientists have been analyzing compounds found in asteroids and meteorites for decades, and their work provides a solid understanding for what might have been present when the Earth itself was formed, Hud says.
"If you model a prebiotic chemical reaction in the laboratory, scientists can argue about whether or not you had the right starting materials," said Hud. "Detection of a molecule in an asteroid or meteorite is about the only evidence everyone will accept for that molecule being prebiotic. It's something we can really lean on."
The Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952 to simulate conditions believed to have existed on the early Earth, produced more than 20 different amino acids, organic compounds that are the building blocks for peptides. The experiment was kicked off by sparks inside a flask containing water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen, all materials believed to have existed in the atmosphere when the Earth was very young.
Since the Miller-Urey experiment, scientists have demonstrated the feasibility of other chemical pathways to amino acids and compounds necessary for life. In Hud's laboratory, for instance, researchers used cycles of alternating wet and dry conditions to create complex organic molecules over time. Under such conditions, amino acids and hydroxy acids, compounds that differ chemically by just a single atom, could have formed short peptides that led to the formation of larger and more complex molecules - ultimately exhibiting properties that we now associate with biological molecules.
"We now have a really good way to synthesize peptides with amino acids and hydroxy acids working together that could have been common on the early Earth," he said. "Even today, hydroxy acids are found with amino acids in living organisms - and in some meteorite samples that have been examined."
Hud believes there are many possible ways that the molecules of life could have formed. Life could have gotten started with molecules that are less sophisticated and less efficient than what we see today. Like life itself, these molecules could have evolved over time.
"What we find is that these compounds can form molecules that look a lot like modern peptides, except in the backbone that is holding the units together," said Hud. "The overall structure can be very similar and would be easier to make, though it doesn't have the ability to fold into as complex structures as modern proteins. There is a tradeoff between the simplicity of forming these molecules and how close these molecules are to those found in contemporary life."
Geologists believe the Earth was very different billions of years ago. Instead of continents, there were islands protruding from the oceans. Even the sun was different, producing less light but more cosmic rays - which could have helped power the protein-forming chemical reactions.
"The islands could have been potential incubators for life, with molecules raining down from the atmosphere," Hud said. "We think the key process that would have allowed these molecules to go to the next stage is a wet-dry cycling like what we are doing in the lab. That would have been perfect for an island out in the ocean."
Rather than a single spark of life, the molecules could have evolved slowly over time in gradual progression that may have taken place at different rates in different locations, perhaps simultaneously. Different components of cells, for example, may have developed separately where conditions favored them before they ultimately came together.
"There is something very special about peptides, nucleic acids, polysaccharides and lipids and their ability to work together to do something they couldn't have done separately," he said. "And there could have been any number of chemical processes on the early Earth that never led to life."
Knowing what conditions were like on the early Earth therefore gives scientists a stronger foundation for hypothesizing what could have taken place, and could offer hints to other pathways that may not have been considered yet.
"There are probably a lot more clues in the asteroids about what molecules were really there," said Hud. "We may not even know what we should be looking for in these asteroids, but by looking at what molecules we find, we can ask different and more questions about how they could have helped get life started."
Mars has long been the best candidate to find extraterrestrial life?
(Credit: NASA)
For well over 1,500 years, humanity accepted that Earth was the center of the solar system. After all, the Bible—which was the scientific authority at the time—said this was so.
Then along came Nicolaus Copernicus, who in the 16th century dared to challenge the church and mathematically described a solar system with the sun at its center. After his death, Galileo Galilei’s observations of heavenly bodies further supported the Copernican model. The Catholic Church, fearing such a finding undermined the supreme authority of the Bible, charged him with heresy. Galileo would be sentenced to life imprisonment, but was allowed to serve his sentence at home due to his declining health.
So often, institutions that wield incredible power loathe major paradigm shifts that could undermine their authority and ability to monopolize the truth. Informing the masses that everything they’ve been told is wrong, after all, could result in a social upheaval that tears society apart, at least the thinking goes.
Today, the world is still grappling with a haunting question: Are we alone in this infinite universe, or is life infinitely diverse throughout the universe? To date, we are still alone, but discovering extraterrestrial life would tie a definitive bow on that existential question. In other words, it would be a major paradigm shift. So if we finally determine that we are indeed not alone, will the very fabric of society tear apart?
Probably not.
In fact, humanity might embrace the news with open arms. That’s the conclusion from Michael Varnum, a psychology professor at Arizona State University who is also part of the university’s Interplanetary Initiative, a research group aimed at building a social framework for a future extraterrestrial society. Varnum took on one of the group’s pilot projects, which was to empirically answer one question: How will humankind react to the discovery of life off Earth?
It’s a question that few researchers have sought to study, but Varnum was up for the task.
“I’m a person who has been into science and sci-fi for some time,” he said.
A Few Case Studies
The Robertson Panel in 1953 warned of mass hysteria if alien life were confirmed. Twenty-five percent of Americans in a recent survey expected people to panic when we discover alien life. Orson Welles certainly didn’t supply any evidence that humanity would keep its cool (news of the subsequent panic may have been grossly exaggerated, however). But Varnum’s study indicates this all hyperbole. Reality would probably be far more mundane.
First off, it’s far more likely that we’ll discover microbes or “non-intelligent” alien life before we meet sentient otherworldly beings. So Varnum limited the scope of the study to human reactions to news that scientists confirmed microbial alien life exists.
They started with a preliminary contextual analysis, measuring the reactions to news that extraterrestrial life might exist. They included five primary “discovery” events: the 1967 discovery of pulsars, the 1977 “Wow!” signal, the 1996 discovery of fossilized microbes on Mars, the 2015 discovery of Tabby’s star, and the 2017 discovery of exoplanets in the habitable zone of a star.
They analyzed news coverage, government memos and press releases of the event to determine the percentage of words in each article that were positive, negative, reward or risk. Words describing positive affect were more prevalent that those describing negative affect. Their preliminary findings suggested that society’s overall reaction to news about alien life was positive, and more reward oriented.
They then turned to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and asked 504 people to respond to a hypothetical situation: Imagine scientists just discovered microbial life outside of Earth. They were told to describe their reactions, as well as the reactions of other people. Again, people tended to be more positive. They repeated the experiment with a more concrete example: New York Times coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1996 announcement about Martian life, or Craig Venter’s 2010 announcement about synthetic life. Once again, alien life was viewed in a positive light.
“Positivity bias was stronger about extraterrestrial microbial life than synthetic life. There seems to be something especially positive about alien life,” says Varnum. He published results from the study this week in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
We’re Cool With Alien Life
Of course, contextual analysis of hypothetical situations and past events can’t necessarily predict what will actually happen if we confirm life off the planet. But Varnum said Clinton’s announcement 22 years ago is about as good of a test case as any, and its ultimate effect on the world was a real shoulder-shrug.
“It didn’t cause a radical shift in the way people lived their lives. It didn’t cause people to abandon anything,” Varnum says. “Human beings have been through pretty powerful paradigm shifts, from not being in the center of the universe to Darwin’s evolution. In the past, people would be afraid of them. But the notion that a discovery like this will destabilize anything, as it turns out, is kind of silly.”
Varnum thinks that confirming life exists throughout the universe might be viewed positively because it provides some comfort for lonely Earthlings.
“At least for me, it makes me feel that if we were to confirm alien life, I would feel like the universe is a warmer place; that we aren’t out here all alone,” says Varnum.
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Underwater Extraterrestrial Civilizations Could Be Living On Other Worlds – Former NASA Scientist Says
Underwater Extraterrestrial Civilizations Could Be Living On Other Worlds – Former NASA Scientist Says
MessageToEagle.com – Most scientists have no doubt there are other intelligent beings in the universe, but why haven’t we found them yet?
One possibility, according to a former NASA scientist is because extraterrestrial civilizations are living at the bottom a frozen ocean on a distant water world.
The theory comes from Alan Stern, who now works at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas.
Some may say the theory is far-fetched, but considering we hardly know what is at the bottom of our oceans on Earth, it is impossible to reject the probability alien life can exist underwater elsewhere.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations Living Underwater Are Safer
According to Stern there are several benefits of creating underwater habitats.
Aliens living underwater would be protected them from exploding stars, spikes of space radiation or other natural disasters. So, it’s a safe environment.
During a speech at the 2017 Division for Planetary Sciences some days ago, Stern discussed the Fermi paradox and elaborated on why we haven’t found aliens when it’s so likely that they exist somewhere in our gigantic universe.
“Many possible explanations [to this paradox] have been proffered,” Stern wrote.
“We suggest another — namely that the great majority of worlds with biology and civilizations are water ocean worlds.”
Sterns thinks it’s likely alien water worlds can be extremely cold. This would mean an underwater extraterrestrial civilization must probably be living beneath a thick crust of ice that makes it impossible for us to contact them.
“Water worlds are naturally cut off from communication by their interior nature below a thick roof of ice or rock and ice, therefore do not easily reveal themselves,” he said.
Will Alien Underwater Beings Resemble Fish?
Many think that alien underwater creatures would resemble fish, but this doesn’t have to be the case.
Dr Fergus Simpson from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona used a complex form of maths called Bayesian probability to predict the surface of most planets is likely to more than 90 per cent covered in water.
Bizarre jellyfish-like beings dreamt up by British scientist Dr Maggie Alderin-Pocock Photo: Eden’s Science Month/PA
According to Dr. Simpson fish-like aliens are unlikely to be very advanced.
“The main reason I’m skeptical about there being lots of intelligent underwater alien species is that I think it’s harder for aquatic creatures like dolphins to use tools or build a fire.”
Speculating in what advanced alien species look like can be funny and who knows what creatures are out there. Some scientists suggested aliens can resemble giant jell-fish and there are those who say our alien neighbors will look like humans. We really don’t know.
Miguel Carvajal projects a laser on the red moon during a lunar eclipse seen over Mamayuta Observatory in Chile.CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
Scientists propose there are three “magic wavelengths” of visible light that extraterrestrial civilizations could use to contact Earth: deep purple, deep red and yellow.
When the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life (SETI) began in 1960, it focused on eking out radio frequencies that alien civilizations could be sending as beacons of their existence. More recently, scientists have taken a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial life: scanning the sky for laser light.
This process, known as OSETI (the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Life) looks for light within the visible spectrum, whereas Radio SETI looks on the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that contains radio waves and microwaves, which are invisible to the human eye.
In a paper in New Astronomy, Shinya Narusawa and his colleagues at the University of Hyogo lay out three likely visible wavelengths through which alien civilizations might contact Earth. While they acknowledge that “higher evolved civilizations” might have greater technological capabilities, for "the strength of argument," Narusawa and his team focused on the hypothetical situation of a planet as advanced as Earth trying to make contact.
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SETI INSTITUTE
Looking at the kind of laser technology we have access to, the team makes the case that alien civilizations would try to signal their existence through a deep-purple, yellow or deep-red light. The researchers arrived at the wavelengths that correspond to these colors partly through a process of elimination, zeroing in on "solid-state lasers" as the most likely candidates. Of the wavelengths of light these lasers would use, the researchers propose that our outer space counterparts would try to signal us at wavelengths frequently observed in the sky.
It is in some ways easier to send frequencies by radio, for which “magical frequencies”—the one aliens would mostly likely use—have already been proposed. But there are some clear advantages to laser light over signals from the microwave and radio end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light can convey vast amounts of information and experiences less interference than radio waves as it travels through space. More importantly, sudden spikes of visible spectrum light are pretty rare (not the case with microwave). That means all it would take is one short pulse from a far-off planet to give reason to believe we might have something.
So, somewhere out there, if a planet like our own is trying to reach us with a beam of light, we have a better idea of what colors to look for.
As many readers of Mysterious Universe will know, I firmly conclude that there is a real UFO phenomenon of unknown origins, but probably not extraterrestrial. I am far from convinced that alien creatures crashed and died outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the early part of July 1947. I’ve written two books on my findings on Roswell – as they relate to a dark and disturbing answer to the riddle. They are Body Snatchers in the Desert (2005) and The Roswell UFO Conspiracy(2017). All of the data I have uncovered points in the direction of top secret, controversial experiments involving high-altitude balloons and human guinea-pigs. In this 2-part article, I’m going to share with you my views as to why I think the Roswell affair has nothing to do with alien visitations to our planet.
Despite what has been said about the “UFO crash” on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in the first week of July 1947, there is actually very little data available to suggest that an alien “craft” came down. Practically every eye-witness described seeing a huge field of debris: lightweight foil-like material strewn across one specific part of the ranch. And, for the most part, that’s all. As for what that strange foil may have been, the U.S. Air Force states:
“As early as May 1948, polythene balloons coated or laminated with aluminum [italics mine] were flown from Holloman AFB and the surrounding area. Beginning in August 1955, large numbers of these balloons were flown as targets in the development of radar guided air-to-air missiles. Various accounts of the ‘Roswell Incident’ often described thin, metal-like materials that when wadded into a ball, returned to their original shape. These accounts are consistent with the properties of polythene balloons laminated with aluminum. These balloons were typically launched from points west of the White Sands Proving Ground, floated over the range as targets, and descended in the areas northeast of White Sands Proving Ground where the ‘strange’ materials were allegedly found.”
There are indications that such balloons were used as far back as 1947, but in operations far more controversial and disturbing than those which took place from 1948 onward. Australian UFO researcher Keith Basterfield has looked into all of this. He says of data provided to him before my Body Snatchers in the Desert book was published that the military was “…experimenting with craft they dropped from ‘aircraft’ flying in the stratosphere. Also, gigantic balloons [italics mine] were being flown in the stratosphere to drop craft fitted with retrorockets and a drogue chute. The retrorocket was fitted with an altimeter to fire them close to the ground. Lots of UFO sightings were of these craft. The U.S. released bogus flying saucer sightings and later discredited them.”
Regardless of what the UFO research community thinks of all this, the fact is that many of the witness reports do describe what sounds like balloon-based materials. Take, for example, the words of Major Jesse Marcel, one of the first people in the military to see the field of debris: “I saw a lot of wreckage but no complete machine. It had disintegrated before it hit the ground. The wreckage was scattered over an area about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. I was pretty well acquainted with most everything that was in the air at that time, both ours and foreign. I was also acquainted with virtually every type of weather-balloon or radar-tracking device being used by either the civilians or the military. What it was we didn’t know. We just picked up the fragments…it certainly wasn’t anything built by us.”
That all sounds impressive, but the fact is that just because Marcel was “acquainted with virtually every type of weather-balloon or radar-tracking device,” it doesn’t mean he had an awareness of all the many and varied secret balloon-based programs that were in place in New Mexico in the late-1940s. And if the balloons used in the experiment that led to the flying saucer legend were radically different – laminated or coated with aluminum – then we can see why Marcel was genuinely mystified.
Moving on, while many UFO researchers are very impressed by the tales of the mysterious foil-like materials, there is another issue that needs to be addressed. Some UFO researchers have suggested that the debris found on the ranch – the strange foil – amounted to the outer shell of the craft. If that’s the case, where were the interior remains? The seats in which the aliens sat as they struggled to steer their craft on its final, fatal flight? What about the remnants of the tripod-landing gear that are described in so many UFO cases? How about the power-plant? We hear very, very little about such matters. For the most part, it’s all about the weird foil. This is a problem, because there are numerous cases of people seeing UFOs landing, thanks to that aforementioned tripod-style gear. Alien abductees describe the interiors of UFOs as containing tables, lights, and strange equipment used in the examination of the abductees. So, why should the Roswell UFO seemingly be almost completely free of anything but an outer-shell? If it was a massive balloon – but one which was used in top secret, highly controversial experiments – then at least some of these problems go away.
I don’t pretend that this answers all of the questions concerning Roswell. It doesn’t. But the “secret balloon” angle does, at least, offer a reasonable theory as to why the vast majority of the wreckage found on the ranch was not made up of advanced technology and the remains of those aforementioned seats and power-plants (etc., etc.).
In part-2, I’ll address another reason why I think aliens didn’t crash in New Mexico 71 years ago.
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Part-1 of this article began as follows: “As many readers of Mysterious Universe will know, I firmly conclude that there is a real UFO phenomenon of unknown origins, but probably not extraterrestrial. I am far from convinced that alien creatures crashed and died outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the early part of July 1947. I’ve written two books on my findings on Roswell – as they relate to a dark and disturbing answer to the riddle. They are Body Snatchers in the Desert (2005) and The Roswell UFO Conspiracy (2017). All of the data I have uncovered points in the direction of top secret, controversial experiments involving high-altitude balloons and human guinea-pigs. In this 2-part article, I’m going to share with you my views as to why I think the Roswell affair has nothing to do with alien visitations to our planet.”
Part-2 focuses on an angle that, possibly, very few people have ever given much thought to. The only reason we know that something came down on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 is because rancher Mac Brazel found it, collected some of it, and contacted the police – who then put in a call to the military at Roswell. Doesn’t that strike you as being a bit odd? It sure as hell should. If there is one thing we can say about the real UFO phenomenon it’s that it very much acts in a state of distinct stealth. There has never been a landing on the White House lawns (nor will there ever be one). The entities do their very best to wipe out the memories of those they abduct – which is precisely why so many victims of abduction turn to hypnosis for help. Close encounters of the personal kind often take place in the likes of the deserts of California, Arizona and New Mexico – and far away from towns and cities.
So, taking into consideration the above, why on earth would aliens simply allow the remains of one of their high-tech craft to fall right into the hands of the U.S. military in early July 1947? Such an action totally goes against everything that we know about the phenomenon’s preference for that aforementioned stealth. To dismiss this by saying that aliens didn’t have the sufficient technology to gather up the material – or to completely eradicate is from existence – is a total wanker cop-out. There are countless cases on record where the phenomenon has performed incredible acts.
The so-called “Kinross Case” focuses upon the strange – and still-unresolved – disappearance of a U.S. Air Force F-89C jet fighter that was scrambled late on the night of November 23, 1953. At the time, it was on an “active air defense mission” to intercept an “unknown aircraft” over Lake Superior. Kinross Air Force Base, which was closest to the scene where the “unknown” was initially tracked, quickly alerted the 433rd Fighter Interception Squadron at Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, and the F-89C gave immediate chase.
Northrop F-89C
Available USAF records demonstrate that the F-89 was vectored west-northwest, then west, climbing to 30,000 feet. While on its westerly course, the crew received permission to descend to 7,000 feet, turning east-northeast and coming steeply down on the target from above. Alarmingly, as the aircraft closed-in on the “unknown” it subsequently vanished into oblivion, along with its two crew-members. The last radar contact placed the interceptor at 8,000 feet, 70 miles from Keeweenaw Point, and about 150 miles northwest of Kinross AFB, which, today, is called Kincheloe AFB. UFO researchers have suggested that crew and airplane were “kidnapped” by the UFO. A high-flying, fast-moving military plane could be snatched from the sky with ease, but a field of debris was too difficult to clear up?
What of the tales of aliens being able to pass through solid walls? Or, in this case, through a window? Such accounts suggest incredible powers on their part. Either the aliens are downright impoverished and couldn’t recover the remains of their dead comrades and a bunch of debris, or they possess amazing skills. There is no room for something in between. A study of Ufology suggests the latter scenario is the correct one. So, why not use those fantastic abilities to grab the Roswell materials and bodies before Mac Brazel came across them?
Allowing the Roswell materials (and bodies/body-parts) to sit there, on the ranch, and in distinct danger of falling into the hands of a pesky human or several, goes against everything we know about how the genuine UFO enigma operates. In my view, this can be explained by suggesting that the curious debris was not extraterrestrial. It was linked to a highly-classified, military, balloon-based program. And, in just about the worst case scenario possible, rancher Brazel came across the remains of the huge balloon/balloons before the military found the exact site.
As I see it, it’s all easily explainable without having to bring aliens into the controversy. But, of course, Ufology doesn’t want to hear any of that. Ufology wants exciting, extraterrestrial-themed tales. And that’s the problem. It has been a problem ever since Roswell became a hot-potato. And it’s why Roswell has endured as a UFO case for so long.
Over the last year, images and videos of rather dubious three-fingered “mummies” in Peru sparked a flurry of social speculation about ancient aliens, alien-human hybrids, or some unidentified human subspecies or unknown ancient abomination from right here on Earth. However authentic or inauthentic they might be, the strange appearance of the “mummies” with long, bulbous heads might have its roots in a kernel truth.
An elongated, stretched-out kernel.
It turns out that hundreds of skulls with elongated skulls have indeed been found in the mountains of Peru and catalogued by anthropologists throughout the years. DNA tests of the skulls have been surprising, but only in that they showed that these elongated skull people might have migrated from Europe where other elongated skulls have been found. Some anthropologists have even suggested that these skulls might represent an unknown human subspecies. While that much is still just speculation, new research published by Cornell University bioarchaeologist Matthew Velasco indicates that these elongated skulls might have been a type of status symbol to indicate the high social standing of their owners. Were these some type of elite human group? What was it about the shapes of these skulls that made them superior?
Similarly deformed skulls have been found throughout the world, and some cultures even still practice skull deformation today.
According to his article published in Current Anthropology, Velasco believes the practice of deliberately elongating skulls was widely practice among the elites of the Collagua people, the dominant ethnic group in Peru before the arrival of the Incas:
Greater standardization of head-shaping practices echoes broader patterns of identity formation across the south-central highlands and may have provided a symbolic basis for the cooperation of elite groups during an era of intensive conflict […] The symbolic boundaries enacted by head shaping intersected other forms of collective identity and likely contributed to growing social inequality prior to the period of Inca imperial expansion.
In other words, these ancient Peruvian cultures used intentional head shaping as a means of signalling higher social status, creating two distinct classes of people: lowly street urchin round heads, and golden toilet-owning stretchy heads. The evidence that they may have been higher status mainly comes from the observations that females with elongated heads suffered much less head trauma than females with round heads, and skeletons with elongated skulls showed evidence of a more varied diet. Furthermore, most of the elongated skulls have been found in Collagua burial structures close to cliff faces, while most of the round unmodified Collagua skulls have been found in caves or under outcroppings.
Nothing says “I’m rich and have nothing better to spend my money on” than a skull deformer. That Inca inventor must have laughed himself to sleep each night.
It’s pretty interesting to think about how the beauty standards and physical social signalling of today will be viewed by future civilizations. Orthodontic braces are pretty brutal if you think about it, as are tummy tucks or injecting one’s face with botulinum toxin to deaden facial muscles. These somewhat destructive appearance-altering procedures are typically only available to the wealthy. While we might look upon these elongated skulls as an antiquated and brutal practice, are we really any different?
Is your anti-virus software up-to-date on all of your electronic devices? Did you download the special patch to protect you against viruses sent by extraterrestrial hackers? Did you forget and click on the cute little green alien head? Too late … you’re infected and you’re probably going to bring down the world’s electronic grid as we know it. Thanks a lot.
“A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case.”
That’s the opening warning in a new paper entitled “INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION. IX. MESSAGE DECONTAMINATION IS IMPOSSIBLE” (it’s in all caps because they’re serious) by Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory in Germany and John G. Learned of the High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Their main message is that a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence (ET) cannot be decontaminated with any degree of certainty and the the technical risks are impossible to assess beforehand.
Let’s say you’ve got the latest anti-virus software, your patches are up-to-date and you never click on links in strange messages. However, what you receive is a simple text message … a text message warning that aliens are on their way and planning to destroy the planet. One message to one person might not be so bad, but a Cc: to an entire country would cause some serious panic … even if it’s a country that doesn’t believe a foreign government could send emails that could influence an election.
While a propaganda message is possible, the authors suggest that an alien civilization bent on bringing down a planet without sending a fleet of warships would probably use a virus or some form of electronic contamination. Most of us follow the warning not to open attachments from strange email addresses, but a message from extraterrestrials would probably drive curiosity over caution and the ETI virus would possibly act like those we’re used to – either bringing down systems and networks or infiltrating them with hidden software awaiting further instructions.
Assuming we’re smarter than the aliens think or than these researchers give us credit for, some super-tech could built an airtight electronic container or “prison” that would allow them to open the attachment or message without releasing the contamination … unless the message was one that convinced the person with the key that it was OK to open the box – a promise of riches, eternal life, cures for diseases, the answer to who killed JFK, etc. That ‘gift’ might look harmless and even work for a while, but then turn on us and destroy humanity. Doesn’t anyone read about the Trojan horse anymore?
So you would assume that the researchers would suggest avoiding any messages from ETI like the plague … and you would be wrong.
“The risk for humanity may be small, but not zero. The probability of encountering malicious ETI first might be very low. Perhaps it is much more likely to receive a message from positive ETI. Also, the potential benefits from joining a galactic network might be considerable It is always wise to understand the risks and chances beforehand, and make a conscious choice for, or against it, rather than blindly following a random path. Overall, we believe that the risk is very small (but not zero), and the potential benefit very large, so that we strongly encourage to read an incoming message.”
Should you receive a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, it sounds like the best plan is to forward it to Hippke and Learned.
Unexplained large chunks of ice keep falling from the skies around the world, narrowly missing people and property alike. Recent examples include Scotland, Canada, Florida, and California, but now a strange case of an anomalous ice fall in London which fell close to passersby has some wondering if some new type of atmospheric phenomenon is occurring all over the globe, potentially putting us in danger. Of course, the official explanation says these balls of ice likely fall from planes overhead and aviation officials will be looking into it. Are these merely related to air travel, and if so, why the recent uptick in occurrences?
The ice ball exploding at the moment of impact.
The video shows Serhiy Mysehkov, a London street cleaner as he was working near the Kew Gardens in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames. Speaking to the Richmond & Twickenham Times Mysehkov, recounted how he was minding his business sweeping the road when a certain icy death missed him by mere feet:
I was sweeping on the other side of the road, then heard a loud boom. A piece of ice, maybe 10 kilograms big, fell from either a plane or from the sky. It all happened very quickly. I wasn’t scared, but it could kill you. I feel lucky.
He should feel lucky. CCTV footage filmed at the scene by a taxi firm shows an oblivious Mysehkov going about his business as a child-sized (as in the size of a child) ball of ice plummets straight down, exploding on the road in a cloud of shards.
Yeah, that would have hurt.
A spokesperson for the UK Civil Aviation Authority toldThe Evening Standard that while these megacryometeors are occasionally caused by leaks from planes or ice forming on fuselages, it’s impossible to determine which might be aviation related and which might represent something more anomalous:
Although ice does very occasionally fall from aircraft, it can also be the result of meteorological phenomena. We receive around 30 reported ice falls every year, although we are not certain how many of these incidents are the result of ice falling from an aircraft.
Of course, reports of anomalous ice balls falling from the skies predate the invention of air travel. Scanning the news for certain keywords and types of stories each week really lets you see the big picture and start drawing connections between stories. Are these icy meteors related to the recent spate of unexplained booms heard in the skies around the world? What’s going on up there? Do we really want to know?
Wij leven in een tijd waar steeds meer dingen mogelijk zijn die tot voor kort nog pure science fiction leken.
Dat je geen Airbus hoeft te zijn om je door de lucht te verplaatsen, wordt bewezen door een paar slimme jongens uit Duitsland.
Vooral bij jonge mensen zijn de Youtube-kanalen die allerlei vreemde dingen doen of uitdagingen aangaan heel populair.
Niet alleen bij ons heb je die, maar ook in Duitsland waar Philipp en Johannes Mickenbecker bekendstaan onder de naam van hun Youtube-kanaal, The Real Life Guys. Hun specialiteit is het bouwen van bijzondere dingen die ze dan meestal zelf uitvinden.
Ze hebben nu alle voorgaande records gebroken door een vliegende badkuip te maken. Het is een echte doorsnee badkuip die door de lucht wordt voortbewogen door rotorbladen van een drone.
Na een tijdlang experimenteren was het onlangs zover en kon Philipp plaatsnemen in de badkuip voor een echte vlucht naar de bakker in Herzberg voor wat verse broodjes.
De inwoners van het dorp waar ze wonen, keken natuurlijk vreemd op toen er op de parkeerplaats bij de plaatselijke bakker in een vliegende badkuip landde op de parkeerplaats.
Johannes zegt: "Voordat de badkuip daadwerkelijk vloog, geloofde niemand dat hij ooit de lucht in zou gaan. Mensen geloofden hun ogen niet. Toen we er buiten mee vlogen, gaf dat ook echt het gevoel van vliegen en natuurlijk kunnen we nog veel hoger".
Veel van hun Youtube abonnees geloofden ook niet dat het ze ging lukken en de meesten dachten dat de twee broers zouden eindigen met gebroken botten.
Dat dat ook niet zo'n gekke gedachte is, bewijst de volgende video waar je de eerste pogingen kunt zien waarop ook iemand van de broers ondersteboven in een weiland eindigt. Dit bewijst nog maar eens dat gewone mensen heel veel dingen ook zelf kunnen maken en dat is hoopgevend.
Purported Miniature UFO Wreckage Found In Museum After Went Missing For Decades
Purported Miniature UFO Wreckage Found In Museum After Went Missing For Decades
After went missing for decades, the wreckage of an alleged miniature UFO has been found at a museum in the UK. Alleged fragments of a UFO, which was discovered in 1957 in Northern England’s remote area, have turned up in the archives of the London Science Museum.
The apparent flying saucer was noticed on Silpho Moor, an open land area in North Yorkshire. The incident has been eventually called Britain’s Roswell.
David Clarke, a principal research fellow at the Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, said that he discovered the artefacts after making a presentation at the Science Museum late in 2017.
Clarke, a contemporary legends expert, said that he discovered the fragments in a plastic box along with a compilation of files. He said a large tin cigarette box with a label marked ‘Victoria and Albert Museum – alleged UFO bits’ was inside the files.
At first, Clarke thought it must be a joke, or he found worthless pieces of metal. They were stored off-site, so Clarke arranged for the files to be sent to London for examination.
Inside the box was a collection of five paper envelopes, labelled A-E, that contains pieces of metal, tiny bits of copper foil, and fused metal/plastic amalgam. When Clarke examined the associated correspondence, he noted references to pieces of ‘The Silpho Moor Object’ with a note saying these were forwarded to the museum for scientific examination in 1963.
Three men discovered the object on Silpho Moor. They later paid £10 ($13.89) to another party who had removed it from the Moor. A section of the upper part of the said UFO was later on removed, and the object was split in two. Then extracted from the object was the central section, resulting to the revelation of copper wire that held a copper book, which contained 17 small copper foil pages.
Clarke said that the little copper foil pages were marked with hieroglyphic-type lettering, which interestingly corresponds with letters engraved onto the copper base of the primary object.
Until now, the mystery about the UFO remains. Stories and conspiracy theories have grown up around it.
Man On Fishing Trip Snaps Strange Crystal-Clear UFO
Man On Fishing Trip Snaps Strange Crystal-Clear UFO
A fisherman claimed to have snapped a UFO while on a relaxing trip. The picture was reportedly taken at Nelson ledges state park in Garrettsville, Nelson, Ohio, USA. It shows a strange torpedo-shaped object above a lake and trees in the top-left corner.
A son of the man, who was not named, sent the image to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for analysis.
In the report, the man was fishing and taking a couple of pictures for memories. Later, while looking at the pictures, he noticed this strange looking object.
He did not notice anything unusual while snapping the photos.
He thought the object in question must be moving very fast and was caught on the photo at the right moment.
According to the report, the picture was taken on 23 October 2011, but just only recently it was sent to MUFON for investigation.
However, MUFON has been aware that many people have submitted bogus reports. Investigator Peter Davenport said that deception would continue in ufology as it takes place regularly elsewhere until such time will come when the mystery of UFOs finally laid to rest.
Debunkers believe the picture is genuine, but the object is not evidence of aliens and only something launched in the water, such as a stone.
Professional Golfer Says ‘Call Me Crazy!’ As He Posts UFO Sighting On Twitter
Professional Golfer Says ‘Call Me Crazy!’ As He Posts UFO Sighting On Twitter
Pro golfer Graham DeLaet took to Twitter sharing his UFO sighting, which had social media buzzing. The 36-year-old Canadian said that he saw the UFO over Ixtapa, Mexico and believed it was what it was as no other explanation he could think.
The PGA Tour veteran even shared a video recording of his sighting. The tweet went viral and many suggesting that DeLaet, whose career earnings reached US$11 million, had over-indulged in his brand of craft beer.
Others pointing out he had possibly saw the Musk’s SpaceX rocket, Falcon Heavy, in its final burn stage. Several others reported about the rocket in the southwest of the US.
DeLaet, who has more than 122,000 Twitter followers, answered back to his doubters saying that he has been looking at the sky every night and never seen anything like what he saw.
He said people can think he is crazy or whatever, but he believed that was weird.
However, minutes later DaLaet seemed to admit defeat saying that if this is what I saw (Elon Musk) then it was pretty cool he got to see it, adding that Elon Musk is smart.
USO – WHAT ARE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECTS? UNDER-WATERS UFOS?
USO – WHAT ARE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECTS? UNDER-WATERS UFOS?
USO | If the vast majority of people think that are probably the flying machines with which our planet is visited by the beings of the Cosmos, few are the ones who have heard of the mysterious objects that cross the under-waters of the lakes and oceans, just like the similar devices that fly in the sky.
Does it prefer some UFOs to travel under the water? Or are we dealing with a new category of mysterious objects? Two questions that modern science does not get to find answers …
Those who pass through the depths
Incorporated in the oblivion of more well-known phenomena in the field, such as Area 51, the Voronezh episode, or 1-4 grade encounters, the case of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO, in specific language) raises a series of new questions, sensitively different from those accompany the classic (already …) theme of UFOs.
According to the reputed UFO scientist, Dr. Timothy Good, strange objects that travel through the Earth’s waters bring into question one of the most disturbing theories about visitors from other worlds.
People, being self-proclaimed the most intelligent and powerful species on Earth, find it difficult to accept the possibility of being visited at a certain moment by far superior beings from other planets.
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Jules Verne’s famous scientific romance “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” opens with an unidentified submerged object moving at great speed terrorizing the sea lanes and many speculating that the strange object was a sea monster attacking passenger and cargo ships.
What can we do in front of creatures from other worlds moving through water as easily as their fellow creatures roam the heavens in flying ships? What are they looking for on Terra? What do they want from us? Why is it moving through lakes and oceans? Some immense stretches of water have mysterious properties that allow them to be true interdimensional crossing gates? We do not know yet.
People’s knowledge of this captivating subchapter is (yet) summed up to simple assumptions along with a review of the most important cases recorded in the ever-increasing volume of UFO phenomenology.
We find it surprising that the accounts of USO are hundreds of years old, just like many more famous UFOs. It seems that people have mentioned in their writings and chronicles metallic objects, most often bright or provided with headlamp-like devices that cut off ocean waters at high speed.
They often sank into the depths, disappearing without a trace from the amazed eyes of the seafarers, sometimes they suddenly poured out of the waters to fly to the heavens.
Reciprocation was sometimes valid, some eyewitnesses from previous centuries retelling in documents preserved today about UFO-like devices that sink subtly, preferring as submarine transport, which hid them from the eyes of people’s astonishment.
According to some reports, the USOs that stood on the glaciers of the poles were melting ice as they moved to the surface, leaving behind them true free channels in the ice caps. Did they perform so well because of the heat emanating from the engines or the fogging layer of friction, as the crews of Soviet ships overlying the Arctic and Antarctica were saying?
Instead, the crews of fishing vessels that were witnesses to USOs in industrial fishing fleets declared that strange objects are responsible for the disappearance of fish in the area, and experts have depleted the variants of such a situation where visitors from other worlds ” they stole the fish, the creatures of the sea were frightened by running away from swimming underwater or fish and other animals were leaving the polluted waters after the object passed.
Some of the extraterrestrial enthusiasts go so far as to say that visitors from other planets have ecological inclinations, warning the fish banks not to come close to the Homo sapiens sapiens species …
“Several underwater files” …
Probably the most credible USO incident occurred on September 4, 1971, when four members of the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica flew from a bimetal Cote Lake near the Arenal volcano.
The team of researchers wanted to map and photograph the entire area that at that time was still unexplored. For this purpose, the expedition has a special camera attached to the bottom of the plane.
The camera was large format and triggered automatically every 20 seconds to take a new photo of the lake and its surroundings. At the end of the research mission, when specialists developed the photo, they noticed a bizarre presence, which at first seemed to be a 36-meter diameter metal discarded when it was just entering the deep waters of the lake.
Artist Interpretation of a USO
The object whose details were accurately captured by the camera did not appear on any other instant of the movie. Subsequent studies at Kodak headquarters in the United States have shown, without stamping, that there is no flaw of refraction, chromatic aberration or another defect in photography, the specialists declaring the photo to be purely authentic …
Lake Cote is a very deep one, and there are many accounts of locals who frequently saw flying objects entering or coming out of their water at high speed. The day after the incident involving the 4 National Geographic members at 9 am, two fishermen on a lake boat heard a metallic noise nearby.
When they turned their heads in the direction of the sound, they saw a metallic submarine object equipped with 3 turrets. Shortly without noise, the giant machine came out of the water and headed for the mountains to the north of the lake.
On the night of November 6, 1973, there was another meeting with a USO, this time near the eastern coast of the United States. The fishermen of Pascagoula, Mississippi, were direct witnesses, as did the Coast Guard.
In total, 9 witnesses saw a circular-elliptical metal object, about 6 meters long and have a golden light at the top. The object moves without noise over the water at a height of 1-2 meters.
As soon as people spotted him and began shouting and shaking, the object sank into the water, as if hiding from people. The Coast Guard made a detailed report and contacted the closest US base Navy in the area.
To the surprise of everyone, the American Navy radars have identified a metallic object of 6 meters in the same area.
There is, however, a place on Earth that can easily be called the capital of USO phenomena, and in no other area of the world, there is a place where the frequency of strange objects in the depths is so great. It’s Puerto Rico, a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea.
Puerto Rico is located in the corner of the famous Bermuda Triangle, famous for the number of unexplained displacements of boats, ships, planes, and helicopters. A large number of USO incidents have been reported around the El Yunque Jungle Mountains and Jungles.
Bermuda Triangle
Here, the USO UFO phenomenon has become so commonplace that locals have become accustomed to them as daily incidents. So did the American Marines who were assigned to missions in the area.
“VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN UFOS RIDING WITH WATER, ONCE I SAW A BEAUTIFUL ONE. AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS A BOAT, IT LOOKED BLACK UNDERNEATH, AND IN THE UPPER PART, IT HAD MANY RED AND BLUE LIGHTS. “AS SOON AS HE NOTICED ME, HE SANK, DISAPPEARING INTO THE SEA,” SAYS JOSE ORLANDO GOLIS, AN OFFICIAL OF THE PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT STATIONED IN EL YUNQUE.
Felix Rivera is a professional diver who owns his own recreational or industrial diving company near the American Naval Air Station, one of the American bases on the island. Felix confirmed that many USO witnesses are soldiers and US military personnel at the base.
“NAVY SEALS, THE ELITE TROOPS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY ARE OFTEN TRAINED HERE, MANY OF THEM HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT ENCOUNTERS WITH SUCH STRANGE OBJECTS. SOME SAY MYSTERIOUS APPLIANCES ARE OFTEN APPROACHING THEIR TRAINING BOATS. BUT WHEN AMERICANS GET TOO CLOSE TO THEM OR PULL IN THEIR DIRECTION, OBJECTS SINK AND DISAPPEAR AT AN IMPOSSIBLE SPEED FOR ANY MAN-MADE MACHINE, “HE ADDS.
North of Puerto Rico is an area called the San Juan Strait, a place feared today by American authorities who are alarmed by a large number of military and private aircraft that have disappeared and continue to disappear regularly in this place.
A place that would rightly deserve the fame created around the Bermuda Triangle. Even more interesting is what happens in the depths of the San Juan Strait, where the researchers discovered a deep submarine fault over 9,000 meters.
Here is, in fact, the deepest point in the Atlantic, the underwater pressure is so great that life is normally impossible, and any man-made submarine would be crushed by the immense pressure of water.
The reports of the navy and US aviation report about a circular-shaped metallic ship that often appears above the water, stationing for an indefinite period of time before sinking without a trace into the blue of the Atlantic.
What does the Russian Navy hide?
Russia (including the former Soviet space) hides a range of USO phenomena, highly documented and studied by a number of prestigious specialists.
Recently, the leaders of the Russian Center for Studies of the UFO Phenomenon have accepted to publish only a small part of the information considered by the Kremlin to be “capable of provoking panic among the population.”
The “safe” dossier was handed to researchers Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, the two researchers announcing that they will write a book on the basis of the data that will treat all USO case history in Russia’s history.
One of the most spectacular cases is that a Soviet warship spotted an unidentified object moving through the Pacific Ocean through its submarine detection equipment.
What Are Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO)?
The ship’s commanders thought they had discovered an American submarine on an espionage mission. The strange object stood deep, the Russian officers launching radio calls in which they were tending to surrender. The shock of everyone came when the object decided to leave the Soviet ship.
It disappeared astonishingly fast, radars calculating that the submarine ship was moving at a speed of about 450 km / h at a depth of 5,000 meters … while the maximum speed of the most efficient submarine built with the current technologies, does not exceed 65 km / h at a maximum depth of 50 meters …
The first case of USOs studied by the Soviets refers to the Odessa incident, when several officers and soldiers from the Sevastopol Naval Base have observed and identified a USO that left the Black Sea in August 1950 in the immediate the approach of a Soviet military cruiser.
Since then, according to data recently sent by Russian authorities, over 300 USO cases have been counted, which makes it right to ask ourselves what information is hidden in the Russian Navy databases?
A 'fleet of UFOs' flying below a jet has been captured in a video by a passenger in Taiwan. The footage, claimed to have captured a few years back, is creating a buzz on the internet now.
The video, reportedly shot by the passenger over Taiwan and it shows, eight strange luminous orbs moving below a plane at a slow pace. Later, the footage was sent to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and maintains a global database of UFO sightings, for further clarification.
"I have witnessed eight to ten UFOs flying. I was on the airplane of Eva Airlines from Vancouver, Canada, to Taipei, Taiwan BR0009," the passenger, whose name has been kept secret, was quoted as saying by Express.
"Thirty minutes before, I saw a bright light flying underneath. The third video I have is 38 seconds. About eight UFOs are flying under the plane. I used slow motion to film the video until they asked me to shut down my camera due to landing policy," the witness added.
Many other people also claimed to have seen the fleet of the strange objects. The footage of the UFOs was shot in October 2014, but it went viral only recently on the newsbreakapp and various UFO and conspiracy theory-related websites shared it.
However, UFO enthusiasts and debunkers couldn't come up with a logical explanation regarding the sighting. The debunkers have claimed that the objects spotted were neither UFOs nor aliens.
"Nature and human activities provide a numerous variety of explanations, most of which these investigators (who posted the video) never even thought of," former space shuttle engineer and a UFO sighting debunker James Oberg was quoted as saying by Express.
Some viewers also agreed with Oberg's view on the MUFON YouTube channel.
"Those are reflections. MUFON please filter your sightings so we can keep the real sightings from the ones we can explain," one of the viewers commented.
"Looks like they fly over mountains and these bright spots are reflections of small lakes. I remember this by flying over the Alps in France and Switzerland," another netizen stated.
Artificial skull elongation has been practiced by a strangely high number of cultures in practically every corner of the world, from Western Europe and the Americas to the Far East and Africa.
But why would people bind their baby’s heads to give themselves a pear-shaped skull? Well, for one 600-year-old civilization in South America, it was probably to show you were a VIP.
A new study, published in the journal Current Anthropology, has taken a look at elongated skulls of the Collagua people who lived in the Colca Valley in south-eastern Peru around 1100 to 1450 CE.
Through measuring carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of the bones, the researchers showed that the Collagua women with elongated distended heads ate a more varied diet, indicating that they were perhaps more privileged. These remains of these women also appeared to have fewer signs of physical violence against them, once against suggesting that they were from a higher echelon of society.
The Collagua were persistently under the threat from the Inca Empire around this time. For the women to be proudly displaying your privilege with strange skulls might have also have been particularly prominent during times of social strives and war, as it acted like a symbol of their collective identity, just like a nation proudly waving a flag.
The study also made clear that more and more skulls were being elongated, even among the lower classes, as the pressure from the Inca Empire grew. Perhaps they were looking for a sense of belonging during a time of strife?
“In times of crisis and social upheaval, the creation of new kinds of collective identity can strengthen or undermine political reintegration,” the study author, Matthew Velasco of Cornell University, notes.
“It may have promoted cohesion among local elites and facilitated cooperation at higher levels of inclusiveness to coordinate agropastoral exchange, manage irrigation, or mobilize against outside forces, including (but not limited to) the encroaching Inka state.”
Artificial cranial deformations usually involve tightly binding a baby’s squishy head with bandages or clamping it into between wooden planks in order to distort its growth. This is just one insight into one culture’s use of elongated skulls, so it doesn’t necessarily represent all instances of it. After all, it occurred in countless different groups throughout history.
Nevertheless, the majority of archaeologists believe that this practice often had something to do with social status and the sense of belonging to a group. Sorry, there's still no word on the alien connection yet!
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Secret police audio files prove men who claim they were abducted by ‘alien creatures’ with lobster-like claws were telling the TRUTH, researcher claims
CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Secret police audio files prove men who claim they were abducted by ‘alien creatures’ with lobster-like claws were telling the TRUTH, researcher claims
Brit ufologist Philip Mantle has republished a book on what he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record" - the Pascagoula sighting
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By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
SECRET police audio files reveal that the two men behind one of the craziest "alien encounters" ever recorded were telling the truth, a UFO researcher has claimed.
The bizarre Pascagoula incident involved two fishermen who claimed to have been captured by three alien creatures with lobster-like claws and taken into a UFO - before being released.
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Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, pictured, were left traumatised by the 1973 encounter
Audio recorded by the sheriff's department when the men reported the incident, obtained by Sun Online, show the men were highly distressed by the alleged incident - and never strayed from their story - even when cops left them alone and secretly taped them.
The audio files prove the two men were telling the truth, according to Brit ufologist Philip Mantle, who has republished a book about the incident, which he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record."
The incident took place in October 1973, when keen fishermen Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, were on the banks of the Pascagoula River, in the US state of Mississippi, and heard a whizzing sound overhead.
They claim that an oval shaped "craft", some 8ft across, suddenly appeared near them and seemed to levitate about 2ft above the ground.
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A sketch of the creatures which allegedly "abducted" by Calvin and Charles
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The creatures had carrot-like noses and ears, according to the pair
A door opened and three creatures - who were "humanoid" in shape and about 5ft tall - emerged and seized the men, "floating" them into the UFO, they later told police.
Both men reported being paralysed and numb - while Calvin claimed that he had fainted due to fright.
The men said the creatures had lobster-like claws at the e4
ds of their arms, "carrot-like" growths for their nose and ears, and only one leg and their heads also appeared connected directly to their shoulders, with no discernible neck.
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We reported on the bizarre Pascagoula 'alien abduction' in 1973
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A sketch of the UFO which the men claim they were taken onboard by the "alien creatures"
The creatures' skin was described as pale in colour, wrinkled, with no eyes and slits for mouths.
On the ship, Charles claimed that he was examined by what looked like a large football-shaped mechanical eye, about 6 to 8 inches in diameter, that seemed to scan his body.
Calvin claimed that he could not recall what had happened to him inside the craft, although later, during hypnotic regression he offered some hazy details.
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A model of one of the 'humanoid creatures' seen by the fishermen
The men said they were released after about 15-20 minutes and the creatures levitated them, with Hickson's feet dragging along the ground, back to their original positions on the river bank. The terrified men claimed to have sat in a car for about 45 minutes, trying to calm themselves before they tried to report the sighting to officials at Keesler Air Force Base, but were told to go to police.
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Ufologist Philip Mantle says the incident is the most unique close encounter ever recorded
At about 10:30pm, the pair arrived at the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi, where they gave a report of what happened and were questioned by officers.
After around 30 minutes of questioning, Sheriff Fred Diamond decided to leave the men alone in a room that was rigged with a hidden microphone - to try and find out if they were lying or not.
He assumed that if they were lying it would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately but instead, they continued to act incredibly distressed - and never straying from their fantastic tale.
This so-called "secret tape" had been held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff's department since 1973.
Partial transcript of conversation between Calvin and Charlie recorded by Jackson County Sheriff's Department
CALVIN: " I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy." CHARLES: " I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep." CALVIN: " I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy." CHARLES: " Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out. "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake. "They didn't do me that way." CALVIN: " I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life." CHARLES: " I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe." CALVIN: " I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor." CHARLES: " They better wake up and start believing ... they better start believing." CALVIN: "You see how that damn door come right up?" CHARLES: " I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know." CALVIN: " It just laid up and just like that those sons of b*tches -just like that they come out." CHARLES: " I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it." CALVIN: " I paralysed right then. I couldn't move." CHARLES: " They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me." CALVIN: " You know yourself I don't drink. CHARLES: " I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for. I gotta go tell Blanche... what we waiting for?" CALVIN (panicky): " I gotta go to the house. I'm getting sick. I gotta get out of here." [Charlie leaves the room] CALVIN: " It's hard to believe . . . Oh God, it's awful... I know there's a God up there..."
Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Charles and Calvin even insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty.
Within days, Pascagoula was the centre of an international news story, with reporters swarming the town.
Tiring of the publicity, Charles and Calvin moved to Jones County, Mississippi, about 150 miles north of Pascagoula, where Calvin was eventually admitted to hospital for what was described as "an emotional breakdown."
JONNY DILLON
The men were interrogated by police and military personnel after the incident
While Calvin avoided public attention, Charles appeared on Dick Cavett's TV talk show in January 1974, and spoke at occasional UFO conferences.
He also co-wrote a book about the event with William Mendez titled " UFO Contact at Pascagoula", which is now being republished by Philip Mantle.
Charles died in September 9, 2011, at age 80, but never backed away from his alien abduction story despite ridicule.
JONNY DILLON
Philip Mantle has republished a fascinating book on the incident
Philip, a former director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, said: "Unfortunately this unique close encounter has fallen by the wayside and has been largely forgotten to many UFO researchers.
"It was with that in mind that in late 2017 I reached out to Calvin Parker and I re-published the book on this fascinating event.
"I have also been asked by a colleague who works in the film and TV industry to consider a movie based on the experience of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker.
"Irrespective of that there is no doubt that this is one of the most unique close encounters on record."
JONNY DILLON
UFO Contact at Pascagoula was originally written by Charles Hickson and has now been republished by Philip Mantle
Philip also points to how the hard-to-believe story has been corroborated by others in recent years.
In 2001, retired navy chief petty officer Mike Cataldo revealed that he observed an unusual UFO - an object like a large tambourine with small flashing lights - at dusk on the same date in 1973.
Philip, of Pontefract, West Yorks, also received an email from a man called Evan last year claiming to have seen a UFO on his parent's nearby farm about an hour before the Pascagoula "abduction".
Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Since that time, scientists have conducted multiple surveys in the hopes of find indications of “technosignatures” – i.e. evidence of technologically-advanced life (such as radio communications).
To put it plainly, if humanity were to receive a message from an extra-terrestrial civilization right now, it would be the single-greatest event in the history of civilization. But according to a new study, such a message could also pose a serious risk to humanity. Drawing on multiple possibilities that have been explored in detail, they consider how humanity could shield itself from malicious spam and viruses.
Frank Drake writing his famous equation on a white board.
Credit: SETI.org
To be fair, the notion that an extra-terrestrial civilization could pose a threat to humanity is not just a well-worn science fiction trope. For decades, scientists have treated it as a distinct possibility and considered whether or not the risks outweigh the possible benefits. As a result, some theorists have suggested that humans should not engage in SETI at all, or that we should take measures to hide our planet.
As Professor Learned told Universe Today via email, there has never been a consensus among SETI researchers about whether or not ETI would be benevolent:
“There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI are wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”
In addition, assuming that an alien message could pose a threat to humanity makes practical sense. Given the sheer size of the Universe and the limitations imposed by Special Relativity (i.e. no known means of FTL), it would always be cheaper and easier to send a malicious message to eradicate a civilization compared to an invasion fleet. As a result, Hippke and Learned advise that SETI signals be vetted and/or “decontaminated” beforehand.
The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico was the site of NASA’s High Resolution Microwave Survey, a search for extraterrestrial radio messages.
Credit: US NSF
In terms of how a SETI signal could constitute a threat, the researchers outline a number of possibilities. Beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).
Article 6 of this declaration states the following:
“The discovery should be confirmed and monitored and any data bearing on the evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence should be recorded and stored permanently to the greatest extent feasible and practicable, in a form that will make it available for further analysis and interpretation. These recordings should be made available to the international institutions listed above and to members of the scientific community for further objective analysis and interpretation.”
Voyager included a golden record with images and sounds of Earthly life recorded on it… just in case.
Credit: NASA
As such, a message that is confirmed to have originated from an ETI would most likely be made available to the entire scientific community before it could be deemed to be threatening in nature. Even if there was only one recipient, and they attempted to keep the message under strict lock and key, it’s a safe bet that other parties would find a way to access it before long.
The question naturally arises then, what can be done? One possibility that Hippke and Learned suggest is to take a analog approach to interpreting these messages, which they illustrate using the 2017 SETI Decrypt Challengeas an example. This challenge, which was issued by René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, consisted of a sequence of about two million binary digits and related information being posted to social media.
In addition to being a fascinating exercise that gave the public a taste of what SETI research means, the challenge also sough to address some central questions when it came to communicating with an ETI. Foremost among these was whether or not humanity would be bale to understand a message from an alien civilization, and how we might be able to make a message comprehensible (if we sent one first). As they state:
“As an example, the message from the “SETI Decrypt Challenge” (Heller 2017) was a stream of 1,902,341 bits, which is the product of prime numbers. Like the Arecibo message (Staff At The National Astronomy Ionosphere Center 1975) and Evpatoria’s “Cosmic Calls” (Shuch 2011), the bits represent the X/Y black/white pixel map of an image. When this is understood, further analysis could be done off-line by printing on paper. Any harm would then come from the meaning of the message, and not from embedded viruses or other technical issues.”
The Wow! signal represented as “6EQUJ5”.
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO
However, where messages are made up of complex codes or even a self-contained AI, the need for sophisticated computers may be unavoidable. In this case, the authors explore another popular recommendation, which is the use on quarantined machines to conduct the analysis – i.e. a message prison. Unfortunately, they also acknowledge that no prison would be 100% effective and containment could eventually fail.
“This scenario resembles the Oracle-AI, or AI box, of an isolated computer system where a possibly dangerous AI is ‘imprisoned’ with only minimalist communication channels,” they write. “Current research indicates that even well-designed boxes are useless, and a sufficiently intelligent AI will be able to persuade or trick its human keepers into releasing it.”
In the end, it appears that the only real solution is to maintain a vigilant attitude and ensure that any messages we send are as benign as possible. As Hippke summarized: “I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that a message will be positive, but you can not be sure. Would you take a 1% chance of death for a 99% chance of a cure for all diseases? One learning from our paper is how to design own message, in case we decide to send any: Keep it simple, don’t send computer code.”
Basically, when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the rules of internet safety may apply. If we begin to receive messages, we shouldn’t trust those that come with big attachments and send any suspicious looking ones to our spam folder. Oh, and if a sender is promising the cure for all known diseases, or claims to be the deposed monarch of Andromeda in need of some cash, we should just hit delete!
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17-02-2018
Eeuwenoude “verloren” stad in Mexico telt 40.000 gebouwen: “Ongelooflijk dat niemand hiervan wist”
Eeuwenoude “verloren” stad in Mexico telt 40.000 gebouwen: “Ongelooflijk dat niemand hiervan wist”
FOTO: CHRIS FISHER
Een eeuwenoude “verloren” Mexicaanse stad, gebouwd door rivalen van de Azteken, heeft even veel gebouwen als Manhattan. Er konden maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. Dat heeft nieuw onderzoek aangetoond.
Het bestaan van de stad Angamuco werd voor het eerst ontdekt in 2007. Toen waren archeologen van plan om het gebied op de traditionele manier te onderzoeken. Ze beseften echter al snel dat ze minstens tien jaar nodig zouden hebben om het gebied volledig in kaart te brengen.
Daarom beslisten ze gebruik te maken van het zogenaamde Lidar-systeem, een technologie die de afstand tot het oppervlak bepaalt aan de hand van laserpulsen. Vanuit een vliegtuig kon het hele gebied op die manier onderzocht worden.
Onderzoekers zijn er nu in geslaagd een 3D-kaart te maken van de “verloren” stad, die zich nabij de Mexicaanse stad Morelia bevindt.
“100.000 inwoners”
Voor het eerst is de enorme grootte van het uitgestrekte stedelijke centrum van Angamuco, dat zijn hoogtepunt bereikte in de zestiende eeuw, duidelijk geworden. Gebouwen, wegen en monumenten zoals piramides en tempels bedekten een gebied van ruim 25 km².
“Het is fantastisch om te denken dat deze gigantische stad in die tijd bestond in het hartje van Mexico zonder dat iemand er nu iets vanaf wist”, zegt archeoloog Chris Fisher.
Volgens Fisher, die deel uitmaakte van het onderzoek, konden er maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. “In het gigantische centrum leefden heel veel mensen”, klinkt het. “Er stonden meer dan 40.000 gebouwen. Dat is ongeveer zoveel als in Manhattan.”
PENTAGON UFO: Shock footage of USAF jets outfoxed by UFO that vanished from radar emerges
PENTAGON UFO: Shock footage of USAF jets outfoxed by UFO that vanished from radar emerges
F 15 FIGHTER pilots were unable to intercept a mystery UFO which was seen on radar flying at incredible speeds before vanishing. The unexplained incident happened on the evening of October 25 over the Pacific northwest in northern California.
The white object was first spotted on radar before there were a series of eyewitness accounts from commercial pilots flying north over Oregon.
Express.co.uk reported on the incident at the time, after it apparently became invisible to radar and US Air Force (USAF) F-15 fighter jets were unsuccessfully scrambled to intercept it.
Now, video and audio recordings of the radar operators, who remain baffled by what they saw, after been released under the Freedom of Information Act.
They were obtained by Thedrive.com which said: "We present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the USAF.
"These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident."
The object was first detected on radar blasting across Northern California at high speed, at around 4.30pm local time, before taking a sharp north turn and merging with commercial air craft when it disappeared from radar.
Witnesses were left questioning where the jet may have come from and what it was doing.
Sightings continued over hundreds of miles for about half an hour.
The same description of a white aircraft at around 37,000 feet, that was too far away to tell its type or any markings, kept coming back.
When the F-15s are scrambled about 27 minutes into the video, radar contact has been lost.
FAA
FAA radar operatives had no idea what the craft was or where it went.
Wow that's weird - it should be classified as potentially significant.
FAA official
As they appear on radar climbing out of Portland an air traffic controller says they still "have nothing on him," and it must be "in a kind of stealth mode or something”.
North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed it had been asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to help track the unidentified aircraft flying at heights regularly used by commercial aircraft – 35,000ft and 40,000ft – on October 25.
No flight plan had been submitted for the unidentified craft and no identification transponder was active.
The craft was not transmitting collision avoidance signals. The F-15C Eagle interceptors have some of the most advanced combat search and tracking radars in the world.
The incident left people wondering what the object could have been.
In recordings of calls made after the incident, one operator is heard to say there was "definitely something out there".
Another says it "executed an abrupt maneuver and took off northbound."
While a third is heard to say: "I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb."
The pilot of a Southwest 4712 says he has never seen "an incident like it in nearly 30 years of flying jets”.
He said: “If it was like a Lear (private jet) type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear.
This was a white airplane and it was big. "And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were... It was a larger aircraft yeah."
One FAA Quality Assurance Group official is heard to say “wow that's weird" and it should be classified as "potentially significant".
She said: "It is a weird enough thing that there is not a set procedure... It's not often we hear about an unknown guy up at that altitude."
Military officials have been unable to identify the plane’s origin or even destination, after it vanished and they were not able top trace it.
Oregon borders Nevada, which is home to the mysterious and top-secret Area 51 US Air Force base where tests are conducted on new experimental craft.
Conspiracy theorists believe Area 51 holds the remains of crashed UFOs and even dead aliens.
In a debate on Reddit, some users speculated the object could be an alien UFO.
One posted: "A literal UFO." Another said: "I live in Eugene and I see UFOs all the time. "Whether it be day or night. I could tell some interesting stories to say the least.
"Eugene seems to be a hot bed of activity... Keep your eyes on the sky."
A third added: "Central Oregon here. I could say the same thing about the things we see over here.
Definitely weird." A fourth Reddit user, who claimed to have been a pilot in the air at the time, said: “Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.”
He described how airliners had been asked to help track an unknown white-coloured aircraft visually for up to 30 minutes as air traffic control radar was having difficulty getting a fix.
While it was in sight of various airliner crews, it was apparently never close enough for its type to be identified.
The alleged pilot added: “The last aeroplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it.
"The fighters were scrambled out of Portland but flew around for a while and did not find it. “And that’s that.”
The event has similarities to US Navy pilot footage which emerged late last year of the 2004 Nimitz UFO incident.
An object that UFO investigators have said "defied physics" was caught on radar camera and seen by many witnesses.
The case was investigated by the Pentagon's top secret Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which ran from 2007 to 2012. Details of the £16 million project only emerged in December when its former head Luis Elizondo resigned to work on a new UFO research project.
Sceptics argue that because something cannot be identified, it does not mean it is being flown by aliens.
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NASA gaat mysterieuze Indiase rotsschilderingen onderzoeken. Laten ze UFO’s en aliens zien?
NASA gaat mysterieuze Indiase rotsschilderingen onderzoeken. Laten ze UFO’s en aliens zien?
Na de ontdekking van een aantal rotsschilderingen in India hebben lokale autoriteiten de hulp ingeroepen van de NASA. De tekeningen lijken namelijk buitenaards leven te tonen, meldt de Britse Daily Star.
In onderstaand filmpje vertelt de commentaarstem hoe de kunstwerken zijn ontdekt. De rotsschilderingen zijn gevonden in Charama en laten mogelijk UFO’s en aliens zien.
Volgens de lokale archeoloog JR Bhagat is het onduidelijk wat er precies te zien is.
Wapens
“De ontdekking suggereert dat mensen in de prehistorie mogelijk wezens van andere planeten hebben gezien of zich andere wezens hebben ingebeeld,” zei hij.
Hij voegde toe dat verder onderzoek nodig is. “Charama beschikt momenteel niet over een expert die meer duidelijkheid kan geven,” zei hij.
Bhagat zei verder dat sommige figuren op de rotstekeningen wapens bij zich lijken te dragen.
Ruimtepakken
“De schilderingen zijn gemaakt met behulp van natuurlijke verfstoffen die in de loop der tijd nauwelijks zijn vervaagd,” zei hij.
De vreemde figuren houden wapenachtige voorwerpen vast en lijken geen neus en mond te hebben, aldus Bhagat.
“Op sommige afbeeldingen dragen ze zelfs ruimtepakken,” zei hij.
Overal
De video is gepubliceerd door YouTube-kanaal The Lost History Channel en is in enkele dagen tijd al zo’n 100.000 keer bekeken.
“Het bewijs is overal, we moeten onze ogen openen,” reageerde iemand.
Iemand anders zei: “We hoeven geen aliens te vinden, ze bevinden zich al onder ons.”
Noah de ‘tijdreiziger’ onthult in deze Australische radioshow geheimen over het jaar 2030
Noah de ‘tijdreiziger’ onthult in deze Australische radioshow geheimen over het jaar 2030
‘Tijdreiziger’ Noah, die uit het jaar 2030 claimt te komen, heeft gezegd dat de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr. in de toekomst president van de VS zal worden.
De man haalde het nieuws nadat hij een leugendetectortest had doorstaan. Hij beweerde onder meer dat Donald Trump zal worden herkozen en dat kunstmatige intelligentie een belangrijke rol in de samenleving zal spelen.
Noah claimde tijdens de uitzending onder meer dat een vrouw genaamd Ilana Remikee familie is van Martin Luther King Jr. en op 21-jarige leeftijd president van de VS zal worden.
De man zei op zender KIIS 1065: “Ze is de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr.”
Hij beweerde ook verjongingsmiddelen te gebruiken zodat hij tijdens zijn tijdreizen niet veroudert. “Ik moest pillen nemen om ervoor te zorgen dat ik niet ouder zou worden terwijl ik door de tijd reisde,” zei hij.
Aliens
De man zei verder dat het in de toekomst mogelijk is om designerbaby’s te maken, maar dat dat heel erg duur is.
Volgens Noah leven mensen in de toekomst op Mars om er wetenschappelijk onderzoek te doen en kunnen we contact maken met aliens.
Hij zei dat hij in een enorme koepel werd geplaatst voordat hij naar 2018 reisde. Vervolgens ging er een elektrische schok door hem heen en ‘voordat hij het wist had hij het jaar 2030 verlaten’.
Het is al jaren onrustig rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika. Regelmatig duiken er berichten op dat een uitbarsting van deze gigant misschien niet zo ver weg is.
Ook nu is er weer een groep seismologen die waarschuwen dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan “onder druk” staat, waarmee uiteraard dan weer de vrees toeneemt dat er een uitbarsting zal volgen.
De experts werden gealarmeerd doordat er een subtiele vervorming waarneembaar was in de rotsachtige bodem onder het aardoppervlak. Volgens onderzoekers treedt dat op wanneer er een verandering plaatsvindt in de hoeveelheid druk in de magmakamer van de supervulkaan. De seismologen zullen verdere ontwikkelingen nauwkeurig in het oog houden.
De wetenschappers van UNAVCO, een consortium van diverse universiteiten, zeggen dat het druksignaal sterker is dan men zou verwachten als de aardkorst onder de vulkaan solide zou zijn.
Dit alles betekent dan weer dat er lava stroomt, waardoor deze druk wordt opgebouwd. Ongeveer op 5 kilometer onder de grond bevinden zich bepaalde zones waar een soort half gesmolten rots voor komt. Ze gebruiken de term half gesmolten rots omdat deze zich vormen in wat men noemt "pockets" tussen de gewone rots. Kleine ruimtes tussen de gewone rots die vloeibaar aan het worden zijn.
En dan komt natuurlijk weer het normale verhaal dat niemand zich zorgen hoeft te maken en zo meer. Dat schijnt de standaard uitdrukking te zijn voor alle vreemde en ongewone dingen die op aarde plaatsvinden. Geen zorgen, business as usual.
In de volgende video bespreekt Joe Joseph van de Daily Sheeple bovenstaand verhaal en ook hij zegt dat we in een periode leven waar opeens heel veel dingen samen schijnen te komen die erop wijzen dat we ons in een vreemde periode bevinden. En dus, hoe betrouwbaar zijn die inschattingen van die wetenschappers dat we ons geen zorgen hoeven maken?
Niet alleen zouden bij een uitbarsting van deze supervulkaan onmiddellijk bijna 100.000 mensen omkomen, maar zou ook twee derde van Noord Amerika onbewoonbaar worden door een soort nucleaire winter die zal optreden omdat de zon bijna volkomen verduisterd zal zijn.
Iets dat dan natuurlijk niet alleen beperkt zal blijven tot Noord Amerika, maar ook bij ons de nodige gevolgen zal hebben.
Wanneer je zou kijken naar het weer de afgelopen tijd op diverse plaatsen, dan ben je geneigd te denken dat die nucleaire winter al is begonnen. Record hoeveelheden sneeuw en dito lage temperaturen worden op diverse plaatsen gemeten en verstoren het dagelijks leven.
Datzelfde Noord Amerika heeft te maken met één van de strengste winters in haar geschiedenis en nu de temperaturen iets hoger worden, veroorzaakt het smeltende sneeuw en ijs rampzalige overstromingen in het midden en noordwesten van het land.
Een beetje hetzelfde verhaal voor China, Taiwan en Japan, waar men ook te maken het met record hoeveelheden sneeuw. We schreven al eerder over de typische kenmerken van een naderende mini ijstijd vanwege de sneeuw in gebieden als Marokko, Israël en Saoedi Arabië.
Daar bovenop hebben we ook bij ons te maken gehad met orkaan-achtige stormen, die niet alleen hier huis hielden, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld.
En in het kader van het Yellowstone verhaal is het natuurlijk ook zorgwekkend dat de zogenaamde Ring of Fire steeds meer tot leven schijnt te komen en vulkaanuitbarstingen eigenlijk dagelijkse kost worden.
En niemand in mainstream-land legt enig verband tussen al de heftige aardveranderingen die overal optreden en dat dat voortekenen (kunnen) zijn. Men blijft gewoon kijken naar iedere gebeurtenis afzonderlijk en men blijft het volk in slaap sussen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers op zoek naar buitenaards leven hebben flinke last van de bitcoin en andere virtuele munten. Om signalen uit het heelal op te vangen en te onderzoeken, hebben ze sterke computerchips nodig. Maar die zijn niet meer te krijgen: ze worden opgekocht door mensen die virtueel geld willen ‘minen’. Dat zeggen de onderzoekers tegen de BBC.
“We willen de allernieuwste GPU-processoren gebruiken. En we kunnen ze niet meer krijgen. Dat belemmert onze zoektocht naar buitenaards leven, om antwoord te krijgen op de vraag of we alleen zijn. Dit is een nieuw probleem, het speelt pas bij bestellingen van de afgelopen maanden”, zegt wetenschapper Dan Werthimer, grondlegger van het project SETI@home. SETI is een afkorting voor Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (zoektocht naar buitenaardse intelligentie).
Werthimer legt uit waar de processoren voor nodig zijn: “We willen zo veel mogelijk frequenties bekijken, omdat we niet weten hoe ‘aliens’ hun boodschap sturen. Daar is veel rekenkracht voor nodig.” Op sommige plekken draaien honderd aan elkaar gekoppelde GPU’s tegelijk. GPU’s zijn in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor gamers, maar als ze aan elkaar gekoppeld worden, kunnen ze veel gegevens achter elkaar verwerken. Dat gebeurt bij wetenschappelijk onderzoek, maar ook bij het verwerken van virtuele munten zoals de bitcoin. Daarvoor moeten complexe wiskundige formules worden opgelost. Dat oplossen wordt minen of delven genoemd. Wie de oplossing vindt, krijgt als beloning 12,5 bitcoins. Bij de huidige koers is de waarde meer dan 90.000 euro. Elke tien minuten wordt zo’n bedrag uitgekeerd.
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New Shocking Evidence Points to a Pole Shift - Signs of Sharp Increase in Natural Disasters
New Shocking Evidence Points to a Pole Shift - Signs of Sharp Increase in Natural Disasters
Is a reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles taking place? Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, sink holes, strange noises from the sea and skies, booms and rattles, etc. New shocking evidence points to a pole shift which, if it happens fast, will cause chaos around the world.
A sudden shift would throw the earth’s balance out so significantly it could trigger lethal earthquakes, tsunami on a scale we can hardly imagine capable of washing right across the United States and every other major landmass, volcanic eruptions so large and widespread that the resulting ash clouds and gases could blanket the sun’s rays and trigger a new sudden ice-age.
Pole shifts cause a major increase in the movement of the tectonic plates, the giant lines of opposing cracks in the earth’s crust which push and grind against each other until they periodically release like a balled fist in a closed palm flicking upwards.
There are now signs amongst the sharp increase in natural disasters and other strange, apparently unrelated incidents which point towards a possible reversal.
It is widely-recognized that magnetic north, that point at the top of the globe which compasses and devices which depend on magnetic navigation rely, is shifting increasingly quickly towards Russia from its current position above Greenland and nearer to Canada. It has moved 400 km in the last decade and is accelerating.
For centuries, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — a colossal, swirling storm in the planet’s atmosphere — has hogged the attention of astronomers. But it’s time for the latte-styled planet to step aside and let Neptune show off its massive and putrid gas storms.
A team of astronomers have been tracking a storm potentially made of hydrogen sulfide gas in Neptune’s atmosphere. This smelly tempest was, at one point, as big as the Atlantic Ocean and made up of a gas that we humans release after a meal at Chipotle. This would essentially make it an ocean-spanning fart.
The once-massive cyclone slowly fizzled out instead of creating a spectacular outburst of cloud activity as hypothesized in pervious observations.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong, the lead author of the study published on February 15, in a statement. “Their dynamical simulations said that anticyclones under Neptune’s wind shear would probably drift toward the equator. We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.”
The team followed the death of this storm by using images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which first spotted it in 2015. The last time the spacecraft was able to capture storms on Neptune was in the mid-1990s, but they vanished without a trace. So the team intently watched this windstorm in order to finally try to understand the weather patterns found on the planet.
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over two years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period.
The team of researchers was able to gather all of this information from Hubble alone. The probe is the only source of data astronomers have to study Neptune’s weather patterns, making it an incredibly valuable asset.
The NASA spacecraft can take pictures of galaxies millions of light years away and spot gigantic flatulence storms in our solar system. Not bad for a telescope that was launched into space in 1990.
Voor het eerst een stervende storm gefotografeerd op Neptunus
Voor het eerst een stervende storm gefotografeerd op Neptunus
Vivian Lammerse
De storm woedt al bijna 2,5 jaar, maar zijn einde is nabij.
Ongeveer 4,5 miljard kilometer verderop, op de verste bekende grote planeet in ons zonnestelsel, woedt een onheilspellende, donkere storm. Deze donkere vlek op de planeet Neptunus was ooit groot genoeg om zich over een gebied van Boston tot Portugal uit te strekken. Maar uit een nieuwe foto van ruimtetelescoop Hubble blijkt dat de storm nu langzaam gaat liggen.
Op deze afbeelding is de ondergang van de gigantische donkere storm op de planeet Neptunus te zien. Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley)
Tegengestelde richting De storm wervelt precies de andere kant op dan de draairichting van de planeet. In zijn rotatie wroet hij materiaal uit de diepste krochten van de planeet los. Hoe de wervelstorm er precies uit ziet weten de onderzoekers niet. Het zou kunnen dat het materiaal in de donkere vlek waterstofsulfide is, met de doordringende geur van rotte eieren. “De deeltjes zelf zijn sterk reflecterend; ze zijn net iets donkerder dan de deeltjes uit de omringende atmosfeer,” legt onderzoeker Joshua Tellefson uit. Daarnaast is het ook onzeker hoe de wervelingen worden gevormd en hoe snel ze roteren. “Wat we wel weten is dat ze waarschijnlijk voortkomen uit een botsing tussen een oostwaartse en westelijke wind,” zegt onderzoeker Agustín Sánchez-Lavega.
Stormen op Neptunus spelen graag verstoppetje en verdwijnen net zo plotseling als dat ze komen. De eerste storm op de ijsreus werd waargenomen door ruimtevaartuig Voyager 2, aan het einde van de jaren tachtig. Sindsdien heeft alleen Hubble het vermogen gehad om de wervelstormen waar te nemen. In het midden van de jaren negentig ontdekte Hubble twee donkere stormen op Neptunus maar raakte ze al vrij snel weer uit het oog. De meest recente storm nam Hubble waar in 2015.
Jaren Hoewel stormen op de planeet Jupiter voor zeker honderden jaren zichtbaar zijn, duren de wervelingen op Neptunus slechts enkele jaren. Maar dit is de eerste keer dat onderzoekers een stervende storm op de ijsreus op beeld vastleggen. Opvallend is dat de donkere vortex zich anders gedraagt dan wetenschappers voorheen dachten. Zo werd er voorspeld dat de storm waarschijnlijk naar de evenaar van Neptunus zou afdrijven. “Wanneer de storm te dicht bij de evenaar zou komen, zou deze opbreken en misschien wel een spectaculaire uitbarsting van wolken vormen,” zegt onderzoeker Michael H. Wong. Maar in plaats van naar de evenaar toe te draaien, buigt de storm af naar de zuidpool. Een grote explosie blijft daarmee uit.
Stormen op Neptunus zijn niet gemakkelijk waar te nemen. Zo zijn veel telescopen niet krachtig genoeg om de donkere vlek te kunnen spotten. Alleen telescoop Hubble heeft vrij zicht op de planeet. Voorlopig kan dus alleen Hubble ons meer vertellen over de fascinerende neptunische stormen die over de ijsreus razen.:
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Is ‘alien UFO’ seen near Area 51 a firing range used to test top-secret weapons?
Is ‘alien UFO’ seen near Area 51 a firing range used to test top-secret weapons?
Jasper Hamill
Alien hunters may be disappointed by the latest theory about mystery structure
(Photo: Google Maps)
The merest mention of a strange sighting at a secret military test base is enough to set internet conspiracy theorists aquiver.
Now UFO hunters are struggling to explain why a strange structure shaped like an ‘alien UFO’ has been built outside a naval research facility about 500 miles away from the mysterious Area 51.
Since we first revealed the location of a weird object spotted on Google Maps, readers have been getting in touch to give their own theories about the structure.
It’s been suggested that the spaceship-shaped construction is merely a cess-pit or fish farm.
Some alien hunters believe it’s a message to the stars, whilst others claim it’s a prop destined to be used in a fake extraterrestrial invasion – which is certainly an imaginative explanation.
The weird structure was spotted some 500 miles from Area 51
(Photo: Google Maps)
Now we’ve received the most compelling theory about the structure: it’s an artificial lake used to test weapons.
This theory is backed up by the fact there appear to be loads of tanks dotted around the desert nearby, as well as rusty-looking aeroplanes.
Several boats can be seen near the mystery object itself. Seeing as you don’t generally find boats in the desert, it’s a fair bet they are being used for more than just fishing trips.
However, we have been unable to find a similar structure at other American military bases using Google Maps satellite images.
Test ranges tend to look fairly strange, as you can see in the pictures below, with some looking as if they are crop circle-style messages to aliens.
But if you see a weird structure near a military base, it’s reasonable to expect it’s being used to help devise new and improved ways of blowing things up.
Pinecastle Impact Range, in Florida
(Photo: Google Maps)
White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico, site of the first atomic bomb tests
(Photo: Google Maps)
Delamere Air Weapons Range in Australia
(Photo: Google Maps)
‘It’s a Navy target range lake,’ a reader wrote.
‘They float targets in it and then make them go away. Take off the tin foil hats, stop gargling vinegar and step away from the conspiracy theories.
‘The long structure jutting into the water is a ramp, there is a boat alongside and it’s on a bombing and testing range owned by the US Navy.
‘Process of elimination.’ Do you agree with this theory?
You can see historical pictures of the site here, which hint at the timeline of its construction.
Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk if you have any more information.
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Pictures show construction of object shaped like ‘alien UFO’ near Area 51
Pictures show construction of object shaped like ‘alien UFO’ near Area 51
Jasper Hamill
This strange object sparked wild debate about its origins
(Photo: Google Maps)
The sighting of a bizarre ‘object’ near Area 51 sent UFO hunters into a frenzy this week.
Now we can shed new light on the history of the site where a strange shape resembling an ‘alien ship’ was spotted on Google Maps.
Historical images of the site show that the mysterious structure has been under construction for several years.
Using Google Maps, we found that the site was little more than a patch of empty desert in 2005, although what looks like the outline of a building or small channels of water are visible.
Satellite imagery shows that two shapes were then built in the ground, one of which appears to be either filled with water or covered with tarpaulin.
This is the earliest satellite image of the site we have been able to find
(Photo: Google Maps)
Some building activity appears to be taking place in 2007
(Photo: Google Maps)
The structure has taken shape by 2010, along with its twin
(Photo: Google Maps)
Sand can be seen in the centre of one of the structures, suggesting it is an indentation in the ground
(Photo: Google Maps)
In 2013, the satellite images appear to show two large holes in the ground with central islands
(Photo: Google Maps)
Here’s how the site looked in 2017, which was the most recent satellite image available
(Photo: Google Maps)
Only the most hardcore UFO hunters actually believed the ‘object’ was an alien craft, but there’s every chance it’s been used to test out secret new weapons.
It was first spotted by the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, which said it was found in Area 51 – a world famous base linked to countless numbers of alien conspiracies.
The strange structure is actually located near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which is used to test weapons and is located about 500 miles from Area 51.
Recent images show that the area is dotted with tanks, boats and even aeroplanes. Boats were also seen right next to the object, further suggesting it’s a body of water rather than a building.
Could the strange structure have been built to test out scary new weapons? Sadly, we’ll probably never know because if the military is involved, then there’s bound to be something top secret going on.
It could also have a rather unglamorous explanation. It’s been suggested the ‘object is a fish farm or even a boring old cesspit.
The object was spotted about 500 miles from Area 51
(Photo: Google Maps)
This photo was taken nearby and appears to show tanks
(Photo: Google Maps)
A close-up of one of the ‘tanks’
(Photo: Google Maps)
One reader got in touch to offer this suggestion: ‘It looks to me to be a lagoon, possibly for water storage. It seems to have started as a larger rectangular shape then changed to two round ones with a pointed side extension.
‘The excavations can clearly be seen and the black area looks like a lining material. The boat shows up in later shots, they needed access for some reason. Could it be a fish farm?’
We also revealed the existence of a creepy ‘death circle’ near the naval base.
Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October 25th, 2017. What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series of eyewitness accounts made by nearby airline pilots traveling northward over Oregon. Even F-15 fighters were launched to intercept the mysterious intruder that quickly became invisible to radar.
Now, through the Freedom of Information Act, we present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF. These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident.
For proper context, make sure to first read our original post linked heredetailing the event, how our report came to be in the first place, as well as the rare confirmations as to its authenticity from both the FAA and the USAF. Below is also a short explainer video that will give you a basic overview of the incident.
Fast forward three months later, and now we have so much more evidence that adds incredible depth and color to our original report and the limited radio recordings we originally had to go off of. Via our Freedom of Information Act Request we received hours of audio, all with unique elements that add to this story. What we have done is packaged that audio, as well as the radar data provided, into four separate videos. We will highlight some of the big takeaways from each video in our piece, but we cannot stress enough how interesting and eye opening this audio is to listen to in full, so we highly recommend you do so by watching each video in its entirety.
The first video includes audio from the initial spotting of the object as it ripped its way across Northern California at high speed, before it took a turn north and merged with nearby air traffic and disappeared from radar. Once again, beyond becoming invisible to radar, this aircraft had no transponder broadcasting nor did it ever communicate verbally with air traffic controllers. The audio in the video goes on to be sync'd in real-time with radar data obtained via our FOIA request.
Oakland Center Sector 31 first detected the target around 4:30pm PST. Below is a chart showing where Oakland Center's high altitude sectors are situated around Northern California. Sector 31 spans roughly from Sacramento up towards Redding, before its northern edge, which is near the border with Oregon, terminates and Seattle Center's airspace begins. To the east, the airspace sits along the California-Nevada border. This makes sense as the craft was eventually tracked by airline pilots as it made its way up over Crater Lake and towards the Willamette Valley.
In the audio the Oakland Center controller notes that it is near his boundary, so it seems the aircraft's first appearance officially occurred near the border of Oakland Center Sector 31 and Seattle Center Sector 13 or 14. The target was moving "very fast at 37,000" feet when it was first detected.
FAA
SEATTLE ARTCC
Seattle Center high altitude sector chart.
The "intruder" quickly dropped off radar and that's when the visual sightings made by airline crews began. They continued for roughly half an hour and over hundreds of miles. The exchanges between nearby pilots and air traffic control regarding the unidentified aircraft were constant in the audio, with the same description coming back time and again—that of a white aircraft cruising at around 37,000 feet that is too far away to tell the type or if it has markings of any kind on it.
At roughly 27:30 into the video we get our first indication that the F-15s out of PDX are about to scramble, with the air traffic controller noting this while talking to another FAA controller, during which the controller also reiterates that there has still been no radar contact with the aircraft. The controller also repeatedly asks aircrews nearby to check their Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) for the aircraft, which all come back negative.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
F-15s of the 142nd Fighter Wing taxi out for departure from their nest at PDX.
The F-15s first appear on radar as they climb out of Portland to the south at time index 33:33 as "Rock" flight—a common callsign used for the alert F-15s stationed at PDX. Alaska 439 asks for an update on the unidentified aircraft and the controller notes they still have nothing on him, saying colloquially thatit must be in a kind of "stealth mode or something." It's also interesting that the F-15s first went south when it seems as if the object would have been north of PDX by the time they finally launched.
This second video is just the radar data in its raw form. It starts before the sync'd recording begins above so we thought we would post it in full so our readers can take a closer look if they want.
Next we move into some very interesting recordings of FAA phone calls that occurred as all of this was taking place. We edited out dead space in the audio between phone calls and bleeped the names of those who named themselves. Aside from that, the audio is unedited by us, although we cannot be certain if parts were redacted by the FAA or not. There were a few strange areas where conversations went mute and it's not clear if this was edited or just an anomaly. The primary person talking in most of these calls is the Operations Manager In Charge for Seattle Center at the time that the incident took place.
The first call is to Oakland Center, and it occurs early on after the initial radar detection and as pilots began spotting the craft visually. He also mentions that "air defense" is looking for the target now too (on radar), so it shows how early the military was involved in the encounter.
You will notice that the term "DEN" is referred to repeatedly in these recordings. That is the Domestic Events Network, a sort of hotline system that is used to bridge the FAA with federal authorities, namely the military, during a number of circumstances which you can read about here. You will also hear the term "WADS" and the nickname/callsign "Bigfoot." This refers to the Western Air Defense sector of NORAD that monitors the airspace over a huge swath of territory in the United States and Canada. Based out of McChord AFB in Washington, WADS scrambles the fighters when needed and works to direct them to their targets of interest during domestic air sovereignty missions, among other responsibilities.
When the Manager In Charge is asked if he was asking for military assistance by another FAA controller, the tape goes blank. The same inquiry is heard moments later, and it goes silent again before another call begins. Although it really doesn't have much impact on the greater mystery, who asked for the F-15s to scramble and when, comes up in the next video in an exchange between the same manager and an FAA official.
In the final set of calls in the video we hear controllers talking about how the Air Force wants to set up an air patrol over Battle Ground, Washington, which is a dozen miles directly north of PDX. We know the F-15s headed south initially, so it isn't clear if this call came after they initially headed in that direction or before they were even airborne and the plan changed later on for some reason. Once again "Rock" refers to the callsign of the alert fighters.
Finally, we get to our last and most interesting of our evidence videos. It contains the calls made after the incident occurred. Seattle Center's Manager In Charge of Operations tries to figure out what happened exactly. In doing so he talks once again with Seattle Center and the trio of airline pilots that spotted the craft visually and has some very interesting conversations with the FAA's Air Traffic Organization Security office and the agency's Safety and Quality Assurance Group.
First we hear about the big question as to who "requested" the scramble, as according to the call, it has to come from FAA headquarters. The manager floats the idea, in retrospect, of having the airliners keep a visual on the craft instead of allowing them to descending into PDX, at least until the F-15s show up, but the FAA official swats that down as they didn't know what the aircraft was, "if they are equipped with anything" or its intentions. She reiterates that getting the military involved was a good idea but that it should have come from FAA headquarters over the DEN. The manager reminds her again that he doesn't know who requested military assistance and that Oakland Center told him to call WADS initially.
Next we hear from Oakland Center again, at first discussing who ordered the scramble, but then the conversation goes into talking about what actually happened. Both agree that there was "definitely something out there" with the Oakland Center controller saying the aircraft first appeared going southbound at high speed before executing an abrupt maneuver and then "took off northbound." Even figuring out how to report the encounter seems totally foreign to both higher ranking controllers, with one stating "I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb."
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
An F-15C from the 142nd Fighter Wing blasts out of PDX just after sunset. http://www.thedrive.com/
Then we get into the pilot interviews over the phone, with the manager's intention being for each crew to write up a report detailing
their individual perspective of the incident. During the call with United 612 there are some odd dropped moments, but the pilot describes the encounter, stating that he was too far away to make out the type. The next call, with Alaska Airlines 525, also doesn't reveal much as the crew says they never were able to see it, but the crew of Skywest 3478 did, although he didn't have much to add.
The call with the pilot of Southwest 4712 was by far the most interesting. He immediately notes how strange the encounter was and how he has never seen an incident like it in nearly 30 years of flying jets. The pilot noted, "if it was like a Lear (private jet) type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were... It was a larger aircraft yeah." He also said they watched the object from Northern California all the way to their descent into Portland.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
A 737 about to land on runway 28L at Portland International.
The manager's final call, was with the FAA's Quality Assurance Group, who is taken by surprise by the details surrounding the event, and especially with the fact that nobody still knew what the aircraft was or where it ended up. "Wow that's weird" is the operative quote by the FAA official, which is insightful to say the least as these people deal with unique incidents that occur in American airspace on a daily basis. The manager agreed with the sentiment and noted that it wasn't some small aircraft and it was moving fast, outpacing a 737 cruising nearby. The official also says that the incident should be classified as "potentially significant" on reporting documents. She even said that this was "a weird enough thing that there is not a set procedure... It's not often we hear about an unknown guy up at that altitude."
Collectively these materials give us incredible insight not only into this incident, but also into how such an event is actually handled in real-time by those who are responsible for the safety of those in the air and those on ground below. What they don't offer is any sort of an explanation for what happened on that fall evening. But really, the fact that all those involved, from air traffic controllers, to Air Force radar operators, to airline pilots, and even special FAA officials tasked with responding to all types of out of the ordinary incidents that occur in the sky on a daily basis seem just as puzzled with this event as we are makes the story all that much more intriguing.
Above all else, this new evidence underscores just how rare these events actually are, especially ones that include multiple sightings, the use of multiple sensors, the involvement of various agencies including the military, and some of the most capable air-to-air fighters in the world. And after recent reports unmasking how the Pentagon remains highly interested in encounters just like this one, it holds even more weight than it did three months ago.
We will continue to investigate this bizarre incident and we will keep you updated as to what else we discover.
A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth on Feb. 15, 2018.
(Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)
A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth early Thursday after the Sun unleashed a powerful solar flare — a burst of high-energy radiation — Sunday night.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite captured a solar flare on the Sun releasing a coronal mass ejection (CME) around 8:25 p.m. ET Sunday.
“[CMEs] are huge explosions of magnetic field and plasma from the Sun’s corona,” the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) explained in a post online. “When CMEs impact the Earth’s magnetosphere, they are responsible for geomagnetic storms and enhanced aurora.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA) issued a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm watch for Thursday.
Here’s what you need to know about solar storms — and how they can impact the Earth — before one hits the planet on Thursday.
What is a solar flare?
Magnetic storms on the surface of the Sun can cause what is known as “solar flares.”
“A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots,” according to NASA. “Flares are our solar system’s largest explosive events.”
Why are we under a G1 Watch the next two days? Because of this solar storm seen here in this GIF. The Sun unleashed a long duration C class flare that also produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) towards Earth. Send all of your Aurora reports to @TweetAurora#CitizenScience
If the storm is strong enough it will cause a CME, which is what happened in this case.
“The strongest flares are almost always correlated with coronal mass ejections,” NASA points out.
How do solar storms impact Earth?
There are a variety of things that could potentially happen.
The storm could increase the brightness and visibility of auroras, also known as the Southern or Northern Lights. ”Aurora may be visible at high latitudes, i.e., northern tier of the U.S. such as northern Michigan and Maine,” the NOAA said in an alert Wednesday.
Regions may notice weak power grid fluctuations, though that’s unlikely to happen in this “minor” storm.
Minor damage Earth-orbiting satellites,”especially those in high, geosynchronous orbits” could occur, NASA says.
High frequency radio waves could be “degraded,” NASA adds.
A NASA study warns solar storms could confuse the internal compasses of marine mammals, causing an increase in strandings on beaches.
“Geomagnetic storms are more disruptive now than in the past because of our greater dependence on technical systems that can be affected by electric currents and energetic particles high in the Earth’s magnetosphere,” NASA explains.
Should we be worried?
Not really. This particular storm is catergorized as minor, but that doesn't mean it can't impact the Earth.
Solar storms are actually pretty common. On average, solar activity increases every 11 years, NASA scientists say, and there's an uptick in solar flares during these cycles.
Fortunately, Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field keep us well-protected.
“Some people worry that a gigantic ‘killer solar flare’ could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible,” NASA explained in a 2013 article online. "Even at their worst, the sun's flares are not physically capable of destroying Earth."
For years, people have lived through solar storms without harm.
"In general, the physical danger is low and controllable," CNET reported, citing the NOAA, after a solar storm struck Earth in March 2012. "The biological hazard inherent in solar and geomagnetic storms comes from the exposure to radiation, which is mainly a concern for astronauts and people flying at high altitudes."
The "explosive heat" from solar flares can’t directly hit our planet, but the flares can, however, cause plenty of disruptions (like the ones listed above).
Flying Triangles in 1965 ( PART I = ENGLISH >> PART II = SPANISH )
Flying Triangles in 1965 ( ENGLISH )
By Nick Redfern
As many students of Ufology will be aware, the last couple of decades or so have seen a rise in reports of one particular type of UFO. It has become known as the Flying Triangle. The FTs are triangular in shape and very often black in color, hence the name, of course! They often emit a low humming noise, and have a trio of lights on their underside. They usually have rounded corners too, rather than sharply angled edges. And, in some ways, they are not unlike the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (otherwise known as the Stealth Bomber) in design. This has, quite naturally, given rise to the possibility that the FTs are next-generation Stealth planes, rather than true UFOs. It’s not an unreasonable assumption. But there’s a problem with that scenario: the FTs are actually not new, or even recent, at all.
While digging through a whole host of formerly classified files on UFOs at the National Archives at Kew, England in 1996, I came across a one-page report dated 28 March 1965 that, I confess, I almost overlooked. On closer inspection, however, I realized that it was potentially one of the most important UFO-related documents that I had ever come across. According to the MoD paperwork, on the night in question a witness saw at approximately 9.30 p.m. over moor-land near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England: “Nine or ten objects – in close triangular formation each about 100ft long – orange illumination below – each triangular in shape with rounded corners, making low humming noise.”
Interestingly, as noted in the first paragraph of this article, the “rounded corners” and “low humming noise” are precisely what many witnesses to Flying Triangle-style UFO encounters are reporting today – in a world-wide capacity, no less.
Recognizing the significance of this, I made a photocopy of the document and set about locating the witness, who is named in the files, I should stress. This did not prove to be a difficult task. I introduced myself and explained that I had located at the National Archives a copy of the original report that dealt with his sighting all those years ago. It is fair to say that the man was shocked, to say the least, to find that details of his long-gone encounter had been kept on file by the MoD for more than thirty years.
“Yes, I did send in a report all those years ago, but I didn’t think they would have kept it all this time,” he told me, with astonishment in his voice. As he explained, on 28 March 1965 at approximately 9.30 p.m., he had been driving through the North Yorkshire moors. On approaching the village of Skeeby, near Richmond, however, the engine of his car began to splutter and die.
“It was a 1951 Ford,” he states, adding with some humor, “and it was a good car but a bit unpredictable at times. I didn’t want to break down on the moor because it was icy cold and the nights were still dark. I got out of the car to have a look at the engine and that’s when I saw this light.”
He continued: “At first, because it was so dark, I wondered if it might be a weather balloon. But then I had a good look at it over the hedge and realized how big it was and how low down it was. It was about one hundred feet from end-to-end, about one hundred feet above the moors and shaped like a huge triangle and white, milky-white in colour.
“It kept coming towards me and then stopped about two hundred yards from me over the moors. It hovered for a while – nothing came out of it, but there was a light below it that just pulsated like a light bulb. There could have been quite a few lights on it but from a distance the light just looked like a glow. Then without a warning, it just took off at a speed that isn’t recognised. Good gracious, I thought, it must be a UFO!
“As it shot up, not vertically but at an angle, it joined a group of others that were identical and that were in a triangular or V-formation. The others were very, very high; a whole fleet of them. They all then headed south, I think, at a tremendous speed and disappeared over the horizon. I saw the main one for no more than a couple of minutes,” he recalls, “but after they had gone I was still stood by the moor watching this fleet disappear. I waited in case something else exciting happened, but of course it didn’t.”
Curiously, shortly after the encounter, and after having reported the incident to the Ministry of Defence at Whitehall, the witness began to notice “awful red marks on my skin which were like a stretch mark, but they were like a deep salmon red and they kept coming and going. But I didn’t have them before.”
The most bizarre angle of the entire episode was still to come, however, as the man now graphically illustrates: “For about eighteen months after the sighting, I would get strange telephone calls from people. These would be every two or three months. They just phoned out of the blue but didn’t introduce themselves. They just said they were from some bureau or other. They didn’t mention the name of the bureau but kept mentioning ‘sightings’ and asked whether I had seen anything else strange. Had any men come to interview me?”
The witness was never visited by anyone with regard to his Flying Triangle encounter, nor did the MoD ever offer an explanation as to what it was that he saw on that fateful night in March 1965. He was, however, unnerved by those mysterious telephone calls – primarily because aside from informing the MoD of what had occurred, he made no other report (either official or unofficial) with anyone and kept the details to himself: “The only report I ever made was the one I sent to the MoD. It was so exciting that I had to tell someone.”
This important testimony raises a number of vital questions. Why was someone so determined to find out if the witness had received any strange visits with regard to his encounter? Why the interest in knowing if he had had any other unusual encounters of a UFO nature? And most important of all: who was his mysterious caller?
Finally, if as some researchers contend, the Flying Triangles are a relatively modern day creation of the military, how is that an entire squadron of them – right down to the triangular shape, the underside-illumination, and the low humming sound – could have been seen flying over England almost 50 years ago?.
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Triángulos Voladores en 1965 ( SPANISH )
Nick Redfern
Como muchos estudiantes de la ufología saben, en el último par de décadas , se ha visto un aumento en los informes de un tipo particular de Ovni que llegó a ser conocido como el Triángulo negro volador . El FTS es de forma triangular y muy a menudo de color negro, de ahí el nombre, ¡ por supuesto! . Emiten un grave / bajo ruido / zumbido y tienen un trío de luces en su parte inferior. Por lo general, tienen esquinas redondeadas también, en lugar de bordes muy angulados. Y, de alguna manera, no son diferentes de la Grumman B-2 Spirit Northrop en el diseño. Esto, como es natural, ha dado lugar a la posibilidad de que los FTS sean aviones de sigilo de última generación, más que verdaderos ovnis. Es una suposición razonable.Pero hay un problema con ese escenario: los FTS en realidad no son nuevos o de aparición reciente, en absoluto.
Revisando toda una serie de archivos anteriormente clasificados sobre OVNIs en los Archivos Nacionales de Kew , Inglaterra, en 1996, me encontré con un informe de una página del 28 de marzo 1965 que, lo confieso, casi he pasado por alto. En una inspección más cercana, sin embargo, me di cuenta de que era potencialmente uno de los documentos más importantes relacionados de ovnis que jamás había encontrado. De acuerdo con los documentos del Ministerio de Defensa, en la noche en cuestión , un testigo vio aproximadamente a las 21:30 hs , cerca de Richmond, North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, lo siguiente: "Nueve o diez objetos - en estrecha formación triangular, cada uno de aproximadamente 100 pies de largo - con iluminación naranja abajo - siendo todos ellos de forma triangular con esquinas redondeadas y que hacía un leve zumbido ".
Curiosamente, como se ha señalado en el primer párrafo de este artículo: las "esquinas redondeadas" y " el zumbido" ... es precisamente lo que muchos testigos de encuentros OVNI con éste tipo Triángulo están informando hoy en día , nada menos.
Reconociendo la importancia de esto, hice una fotocopia del documento y me dispuse a localizar al testigo, que lleva el nombre de los archivos... he de destacar que no resultó sencillo . Me presenté y le expliqué que había localizado en el Archivo Nacional una copia del informe original que se ocupa de su avistamiento de hace tantos años. Es justo decir que el hombre se sorprendió, por decir lo menos, al saber que los detalles de su encuentro, se habían mantenido en los archivos del Ministerio de Defensa por más de treinta años.
"Sí, yo envié en un informe hace tantos años... Pero no imaginé que lo hubieran mantenido todo este tiempo ", me dijo, con asombro en su voz. Según explicó, el 28 de marzo de 1965, aproximadamente a las 21:30hs, había estado conduciendo a través de North Yorkshire Moors. Al acercarme a Skeeby , cerca de Richmond, el motor de su coche comenzó a fallar. "Era un Ford 1951 ", afirmó y añadió con humor "... Era un buen coche, pero un poco impredecible a veces. Salí del coche para echar un vistazo a el motor y ahí fue cuando vi esta luz".
Y continuó: "Al principio,como estaba muy oscuro, me preguntaba si podría ser un globo meteorológico. Pero luego de un buen vistazo por encima del seto me di cuenta de lo grande que era y de que volaba muy bajo. Era de unos cien metros de extremo a extremo, a unos cien metros por encima de los páramos y con forma de un gran triángulo de color blanco lechoso .
"Siguió avanzando hacia mí y se detuvo a unos doscientos metros de mí a través de los páramos. Voló por un tiempo,no salió nada de él, pero había una luz debajo que sólo palpitaba como una bombilla. Podría haber habido un buen número de luces encendidas, pero desde la distancia la luz sólo se veía como un resplandor. Entonces, sin una advertencia despegó a una velocidad que no se reconoce. ¡Dios mío, pensé, debe ser un OVNI!...
"A medida que se disparó, pero no verticalmente en un ángulo, se unió a un grupo que eran idénticos y que estaban en una formación de V o triangular. Los otros estaban muy, muy alto, toda una flota de ellos. Todos ellos se dirigieron hacia el sur, creo, a una velocidad tremenda y desaparecieron por el horizonte. Vi a la principal por no más de un par de minutos ", recuerda," luego , después todavía estaba de pie junto al páramo y vi desaparecer esta flota. Esperé en caso de que algo más emocionante pasara, pero por supuesto que nada más sucedió ".
Curiosamente, poco después del encuentro, y después de haber informado de los hechos al Ministerio de Defensa en Whitehall, la testigo comenzó a notar "marcas rojas horribles en mi piel, que eran como una estría, pero eran como un salmón rojo profundo que yo no tenía antes ".
El ángulo más extraño de todo el episodio estaba por llegar, sin embargo, como el hombre ahora ilustra gráficamente: "Desde hace unos dieciocho meses después de la observación, recibí llamadas telefónicas extrañas cada dos o tres meses. Ellos sólo dijeron que eran de alguna oficina u otro. No mencionaron el nombre de la oficina y preguntaron si no había visto nada extraño. "
El testigo nunca recibió la visita de cualquier persona con respecto a su encuentro con el Triángulo volador , ni el Ministerio de Defensa ofreció una explicación de qué fue lo que vio en esa fatídica noche de marzo de 1965. Estaba, sin embargo, nervioso por las llamadas telefónicas misteriosas , principalmente porque aparte de informar al Ministerio de Defensa de lo que había ocurrido, no hizo ningún otro informe (ya sea oficial o no oficial) con nadie y guardó los detalles para sí mismo: "El único informe que he hecho fue el que se envió al Ministerio de Defensa. Fue tan emocionante que se lo tuve que decir a alguien ".
Este importante testimonio suscita una serie de cuestiones vitales. ¿Por qué alguien estaba tan decidido a averiguar si el testigo había recibido visitas de extraños con respecto a su encuentro? ¿Por qué el interés en saber si había tenido otros encuentros inusuales de carácter OVNI?... Y lo más importante de todo: ¿quién era la misteriosa persona que llamaba?.
Por último, si como algunos investigadores sostienen, los Triángulos Voladores son una creación relativamente moderna de las fuerzas armadas, ¿Cómo es que un escuadrón entero de ellos, de forma triangular, con la parte inferior iluminada y el sonido de grave zumbido,pudo haberse visto volar sobre Inglaterra hace casi 50 años?...
Archaeologists From India Ask NASA For Help To Investigate Paintings Of UFOs And Aliens
Archaeologists From India Ask NASA For Help To Investigate Paintings Of UFOs And Aliens
Is NASA set out to help India archaeologists to investigate 10,000-year-old paintings of what appears to be UFOs and beings wearing space suits? According to the Daily Star, the answer is yes.
All around the world, prehistoric cultures tried conveying a message through ancient rock art.
No matter where we look, whether its Northern, central, and South America, to Europe, Asia, and Africa, people who lived on Earth thousands of years ago created art, depicting what they had witnessed during their lifetime.
Some of these ancient rock carvings depict ordinary scenes of daily life like hunting while other illustrations challenge our very understanding of human history.
Do these ancient cave paintings really depict UFOs?
If we travel to India, for example, we will find a number of curious cave paintings, where some of the images appear to depict ‘figures’ that carry some sort of weapons and are dressed in what many consider are ‘space suits’.
A group of Indian archaeologists has approached NASA and the Indian Space Research Agency to help them decipher some prehistoric paintings found in 2014 in the Charama caves in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Many of these 10,000-year-old petroglyphs represent figures similar to extraterrestrials and UFOs as seen in modern-day science fiction movies.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat was perplexed by the images, reports Daily Star.
“The findings suggest that prehistoric humans could have seen or imagined beings from other planets, something that continues to arouse the curiosity of people and researchers today,” said the archaeologists according to the Daily Star.
JR Bhagat explains that in the city of Charma, there aren’t experts in the field who could help solve the mystery behind the curious depictions, and what ancient mankind wanted to say.
The researcher explained that some parts of the drawings are difficult to interpret and that some of the characters are represented by objects that look like weapons.
“The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Especially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits. We can’t refute the possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things,” said Bhagat.
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel The Lost History Channel in February of 2018 has already received more than 7,000 views.
One comment read: “Evidence is everywhere, we need opened eyes, that’s all.”
And another claimed: “We don’t need to find aliens, they are already here all around us.”
India isn’t the only place where such rock art is found.
If we take a look at other ancient sites around the globe, we will notice how thousands of years ago, ancient people around the globe created a number of petroglyphs and cave paintings. Why ancient man depicted strange beings with 5 or 6 fingers, helmets, sandals, and what appear to be space suits is a mystery no one has been able to answer.
In Australia for example, ancient mankind created hundreds of mysterious cave paintings which are known today as the Wandjina Cave Paintings. This set of curious rock art depicts could be well over 100,000 years old, and shows mysterious beings which massive eyes, large heads, and strange construction.
Some authors suggest that the Wandjina Cave Paintings are some of the earliest examples of alien contact.
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‘British Roswell’ UFO Wreckage Records Covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics Found In Museum Archives
‘British Roswell’ UFO Wreckage Records Covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics Found In Museum Archives
After more than half a decade, ‘British Roswell’ UFO Records covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics have been rediscovered at a Science Museum in England.
Groundbreaking pieces of evidence of Britain’s Infamous Silpho Moor UFO Crash have been rediscovered inside London’s Science Museum
Last year, the British government decided to declassify the secret files on UFO sightings following a new law on freedom of information.
Among the documents that were published was the “Rendlesham Forest UFO incident”, which dealt with one of the best-known sightings in the country.
In addition to this, official documents also revealed that the British Ministry of Defense established a secret UFO research group in the 1950s, in which the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence and the Joint Technical Intelligence Committee participated.
Image of the “Silpho Saucer” taken by Dr. John Dale in 1958.
Image Credit: John Dale
This ‘hot’ declassified information showed how the British Government had great in the UFO phenomenon.
However, the most important testimony today is that of Nick Pope, who worked for more than 20 years for the Ministry of Defense as the head of official research on unidentified flying objects.
His job was to evaluate UFO reports in the country.
What he learned was that at least some UFOs were undoubtedly technological objects of unknown origin, potentially of great importance for the defense of Britain.
Today, when the UFO phenomenon is one of the most-discussed subjects in the world, great progress is being made towards disclosure, or at least that’s what leading Ufologists say.
Apparently, Aliens crash-landed in Britain as well.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke/Sheffield Hallam
Thanks to countless classified documents being released by various governments around the world, dealing with UFO’s and alleged alien visitations, progress towards uncovering the truth is being made nearly on a daily basis.
Now, the missing ‘wreckage’ of “Britain’s Roswell” has been found stored in a cigarette tin and kept away hidden in a storage room in a London museum. The recently ‘rediscovered’ remains are believed to be part of a UFO that crashed in England nearly 60 years ago.
The objects in question were originally discovered in Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, England, in 1957.
The disk-shaped object that had allegedly crash-landed in England was approximately 45cm in diameter and weighed 15kg, and inscribed with mysterious hieroglyphics similar to those found in the remains of the Roswell incident in 1947, the best-known UFO incident in history. It is considered the British answer to the American Roswell crash.
Apparently, the unidentified object that had crashed in England contained a book made of 17 thin sheets of copper, each covered with various undecipherable hieroglyphics.
A Local café owner by the name of Phillip Longbottom claimed the hieroglyphs translated into a 2000-word message sent by an alien civilization, and contained a warning that read: “You will improve or disappear.”
The alleged fragments said to belong to the wreckage of the Silpho UFO found in 1957.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke
Interestingly, tests carried out at Manchester University revealed the object’s shell contained lead and the copper parts were of unusually high purity. Despite this fact, experts from the Museum of Natural History in London quickly decided that the “UFO Silpho” was a well-crafted hoax, since there was no evidence that the metal was from another part of the solar system, and that the UFO remains did not show signs of having passed through the Earth’s atmosphere at high temperatures.
However, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, who led the RAF Fighter Command in the Battle of England during World War II, personally examined the mysterious object in 1959 and concluded that it was a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin.
For decades, conspiracy theorists claimed that the UFO was intentionally destroyed to cover up the incident.
But now it is known that the items were sent to the Science Museum in 1963, where the evidence was “lost” in the archives of the museum.
Dr. David Clarke, a professor at the University of Sheffield Hallam, discovered the remains of the strange unidentified object after giving a lecture at the museum about the publication of the UFO files of the Ministry of Defense.
An alleged fragment of the UFO.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke
Speaking about the recent discovery, Dr. David Clarke who has a Ph.D. in British folklore and cultural tradition said:
“One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that ‘bits of a flying saucer’ had been kept in a cigarette tin in the museum group store for decades.
“I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage. It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer that some have claimed as Britain’s answer to the famous Roswell incident.
“It’s incredible to hear that pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive for more than half a century.”
As noted by the Yorkshire Post, the artifacts sent to the museum included a section of the metal-plastic outer casing, a short length of copper tubing, and several shards of foil from the “booklet” found inside.
Featured image credit: Shutterstock / Dr. David Clarke
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Have We Discovered Another Earth? 95 New Planets Outside Our Solar System Found By NASA
Have We Discovered Another Earth? 95 New Planets Outside Our Solar System Found By NASA
It’s a huge discovery which places the current number of alien planets confirmed close to 3,600. The discovery is important for astronomers to map the solar systems of the Milky Way.
Astronomers exploring the cosmos have confirmed the existence of 95 new alien planets after combing through 275 possible candidates provided by NASA’s Kepler Telescope.
The space probe, which is currently on its K2 mission has found thousands of candidates since it was launched nearly ten years ago, when it launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th, 2009. As noted by mission specialists. In total, Kepler has found around 5,000 unconfirmed ‘candidate’ exoplanets.
One of the most significant discoveries made by Kepler took place in 2004 when it spotted exoplanet Kepler-452b, dubbed ‘Earth 2.0’, an alien world eerily similar to our planet, located 1,400 light years away.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble/ESO/M. Kornmesser
The new discovery is of great importance as it is a huge step towards finding a new Earth, capable of hosting life as we know it.
The study was done by an international group of scientists led by Dr. Andrew Mayo from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Mayo said in a statement that the investigation began with the analysis of 275 exoplanet candidates. These candidates are luminous signals whose origin can be related to other stars or errors of the telescope and that, therefore, must be analyzed in depth before being confirmed as exoplanets.
“We found that some of the signals were caused by systems of several stars and/or by the noise of the telescope. But we also detect planets of all sizes: from worlds smaller than Earth to larger than Jupiter,” Mayo said in a statement.
“By increasing the number of planets discovered with K2 by almost 50 percent, this work will help astronomers dive much deeper into analyzing and learning about individual planets, particularly smaller exoplanets,” Dr. Mayo said in an interview with Gizmodo.
One of the recently spotted worlds orbits a very bright alien star.
‘We validated a planet on a 10-day orbit around a star called HD 212657, }which is now the brightest star found by either the Kepler or K2 missions to host a validated planet. Planets around bright stars are important because astronomers can learn a lot about them from ground-based observatories,’ said Dr. Mayo.
‘Exoplanets are a very exciting field of space science. As more planets are discovered, astronomers will develop a much better picture of the nature of exoplanets which in turn will allow us to place our own solar system into a galactic context’.
The 1st known interstellar asteroid – ‘Oumuamua – is tumbling chaotically. A new study suggests its tumble resulted from a violent collision.
The strange interstellar visitor to our solar system – dubbed ‘Oumuamua by astronomers – is tumbling as it moves through space. A new study suggests its chaotic tumble is likely to continue at least another billion years, and it suggests ‘Oumuamua’s tumble is the result of a violent collision with another asteroid in the past. This collision might have knocked ‘Oumuamua out of its original solar system and sent it toward our solar system.
Astronomer Wes Fraser of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, led this new research. Fraser and his team analyzed all the available data from optical photometry; that is, they looked at the data on how ‘Oumuamua’s brightness varied over time. Then they used computer modeling to understand why ‘Oumuamua varied in brightness, and to spin out reasonable possibilities for its past and future. Their study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy on February 9, 2018. Fraser said:
Our modeling of this body suggests the tumbling will last for many billions of years to hundreds of billions of years before internal stresses cause it to rotate normally again.
While we don’t know the cause of the tumbling, we predict that it was most likely sent tumbling by an impact with another planetesimal in its system, before it was ejected into interstellar space.
‘Oumuamua’s tumbling isn’t new. The object was reported last fall to have a 7 or 8-hour spin period; different measurements showed slightly different results. The most likely explanation was that ‘Oumuamua’s spin isn’t regular, as is the spin of most (but not all) asteroids in our solar system. Instead, ‘Oumuamua tumbles.
Its complex tumbling motion means we see different views of the asteroid’s body at different times, and so the tumbling of ‘Oumuamua can explain the curious color change observed by astronomers. The cigar-shaped asteroid’s surface might be variously colored. Fraser said:
Most of the surface reflects neutrally, but one of its long faces has a large red region. This argues for broad compositional variations, which is unusual for such a small body.
It also settles the question of whether ‘Oumuamua is solid. Answer: it is. As Matija Cuk explained in an article for the SETI Institute, asteroids are often just piles of rocks and sand loosely held together by gravity. When this is the case, she wrote:
… internal motions of material inside asteroids … damp this tumbling relatively quickly (astronomically speaking), leaving only asteroids that suffered recent collisions as tumblers. ‘Oumuamua spent many millions of years in the interstellar void, so it should have damped its tumbling, but it apparently did not. This made planetary scientists conclude that ‘Oumuamua is likely a solid chunk of rock or metal, without any internal structure or loose material.
View larger. | This animation shows the path of ‘Oumuamua as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
And so – despite its quick trip through our solar system – we continue to learn more about ‘Oumuamua. In case you weren’t following it last fall, some astronomers thought the object was a comet when the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai’i first picked it up on October 19 as a faint point of light moving across the sky. Others thought it looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid. As astronomers tracked its motion through space, they began to be able to calculate its orbit, showing beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside our solar system, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed.
Instead, this object was doubtless from interstellar space. It was the first such object known.
The question of whether it was a comet or asteroid was put to rest after astronomers looked at ‘Oumuamua’s location in the sky prior to its discovery and found no signs of cometary activity after the object passed closest to the sun in September 2017.
That’s when it was reclassified as an interstellar asteroid – the first ever observed – and named 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua). A statement from the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii described the intricacies of naming this object:
Originally denoted A/2017 U1 (with the A for asteroid), the body is now the first to receive an I (for interstellar) designation from the International Astronomical Union, which created the new category after the discovery. In addition, it has been officially given the name ‘Oumuamua. The name, which was chosen in consultation with Hawaiian language experts Ka’iu Kimura and Larry Kimura, reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (‘ou means “reach out for,” and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means “first, in advance of”).
Astronomers had been expecting to find interstellar asteroids. Before ‘Oumuamua’s discovery, they had estimated that an interstellar asteroid similar to this one passes through the inner solar system about once per year. Such objects are faint and hard to spot, and so they haven’t been seen before this.
But recent survey telescopes, such as Pan-STARRS, are powerful enough to discover them. Thus – although it’s the first – ‘Oumuamua is likely not the last known interstellar asteroid.
Bottom line: A study of ‘Oumuamua’s chaotic tumbling motion suggests it’ll tumble at least another billion years. It also suggests a violent past for this object – a collision with another object – which likely sent it careening toward our solar system.
DNA Ancient Skull Concludes Its Alien, Peru, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
DNA Ancient Skull Concludes Its Alien, Peru, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
DNA test results on the elongated skulls discovered in Peru have been released by a researcher investigating if the bones could belong to an alien race. The 3,000-year old Paracas skulls, with elongated craniums, have long been held up by UFO hunters as evidence of ancient alien visitations due to their extraordinarily huge foreheads.
The Zimbabwe Incident occurred a generation ago. The many kids who met a matched pair of extraterrestrials, have since grown into adults. What are they saying today, about their close encounters as the Zimbabwe UFO school children?
A very remarkable UFO visitation took place in 1994, in front of more than sixty witnesses… between the ages of five and twelve. On a playground outside their school, the children all stopped playing at the same time, to watch a large flying saucer, hovering over distant scrubland. That sight, however, was only the beginning of their nightmares.
Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Check out this amazing footage of a bright lights hovering in the sky above Colorado. This happened on 13th January 2018.
Witness report:
Glowing red/orange objects stayed in the same place for 30 min. Colors went from dark orange to light orange from side to side and changed sequence. It started out with two. Then three. Then around6-7, Then would go back to smaller, Then start over again
8:00 pm, Tuesday, February 13th. We were driving home from the grocery store, on a road through the mountains. We noticed a series of orbs moving horizontally across the sky in front of us. Each orb would light up, and then would start to fade. As one would start to darken, the light next to it would light up, before they would all disappear. The first sighting of the same phenomenon, the lights appeared to be stacked in two horizontal rows, but went to only one row afterward. We pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road, as this happened again, and continued to watch. At one point, the orbs lit up and branched out to the left and right, before turning back and going toward the middle again. We turned the vehicle around and drove back toward the store, turned back and watched again. The video was taken, during the last series of light orbs. After that, the sky went black and nothing else was witnessed.
Antarctica Reveals Ancient Secrets As Researchers Explore 120,000-year-old Hidden Underwater World
Antarctica Reveals Ancient Secrets As Researchers Explore 120,000-year-old Hidden Underwater World
A mysterious ancient seabed that has remained in total isolation for more than 120,000 years is set to be explored by researchers.
A team of scientists is heading towards Antarctica in order to explore a region that has remained covered in ice for more than 120,000 years. This rare opportunity came after an iceberg known as A68—four times the size of London—broke from the Larsen Ice Shelf in 2017, exposing an alien world that has never before been explored by scientists.
This is a never-before-seen rare opportunity that will allow experts to study an alien ecosystem that is about 6,000 square kilometers in size.
When the massive block of ice moved, it revealed a region that had not seen the light of day for a long time, and now experts will delve into its mysteries and begin searching for any life that may have remained trapped there.
It’s a rare opportunity to explore a hidden, alien ecosystem.
Image Credit: BAS
Speaking about this rare opportunity, BAS marine biologist Katrin Linse said to the Independent: “We don’t know anything about it, it has been covered by an ice shelf that is several hundred meters thick.”
“It’s important we get there quickly before the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water and new species begin to colonize.”
During the exploration which is planned to last for three weeks, seabed animals, microbes, plankton, sediments and water samples will be collected, in addition to documenting the evidence of new marine mammals or birds that may have migrated to the exposed waters.
While their plane is spot on, researchers acknowledge that they really do not know what to expect when they get there.
“We need to be bold on this one,” says BAS science director David Vaughan.
Antarctica as seen from Space.
Image Credit: NASA.
“Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be.”
This trip represents a unique and unprecedented opportunity for scientists to look into an isolated region on Earth that has never before been explored.
“We’re going into an area where we don’t know what we’re going to find, and this is an exciting thing,” Linse told BBC News Radio.
“I expect to find animals similar to animals we find in the extreme deep sea, so animals that are not used to feeding on green food, because there was no phytoplankton in the water above… We don’t know until we’ve seen it.”
All of the researchers taking part in the new survey are aware of the importance of their mission since observational windows like this one sometimes take more than 100,000 years to open.
“I cannot imagine a more dramatic shift in environmental conditions in any ecosystem on Earth,” said in an interview with Nature, marine ecologist Julian Gutt from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany – one of the participating institutions on this voyage.
As noted by the Independent, besides studying any life that may be inhabiting the region, climate scientists will try and establish whether or not the breaking apart of the Larsen Ice Shelf was induced by climate change.
Scientists Say Aliens Could Try And Hack Us By Sending Malicious Messages To Earth
Scientists Say Aliens Could Try And Hack Us By Sending Malicious Messages To Earth
A recently published study looks into the potential threats of receiving an alien message from the stars. Scientists say how the contents of a potential alien message could be malicious in nature, resulting in many problems for our civilization.
The research suggests how humanity could protect itself against spam or malicious viruses from a hypothetical extraterrestrial message.
As explained by Michael Hippke from the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany, and John G. Learned from the High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii; “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”
The recently published study has warned that if humans ever receive a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, apart from the fact that this would be the largest event in the history of mankind, we would be at great risk.
Hippke and Learned note in their study how there are “several possible threats from an ETI message. On the most basic level, a message might represent a statement like “We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow”. True or not, it could cause widespread panic.”
“More realistically, a longer text could have a demoralizing cultural influence. For example, it is debated whether the Roman Empire was destroyed by the bible. We now follow along with the (perhaps more likely) case that the hypothetical message is not very short, and non-trivial in content.”
In their paper, multiple possibilities of a hypothetical contact with an extraterrestrial civilization are analyzed in detail.
The research considers how humanity could protect against spam or malicious viruses that could contain a message from the stars, for example.
Speaking in an interview with Universe Today, Professor Learned said:
“There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI is wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course, it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”
Scientists suggest that any potential alien messages spotted by SETI are examined and “decontaminated” previously, to avoid potential damage, since, as researchers point out, to eradicate an entire civilization it would be much easier for aliens to send us a malicious message (virus) than an alien armada.
The study takes a look at the different dangers that an extraterrestrial message could contain. As noted by Universe Today, beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).
Hippke and Learned assure that neutralizing a possible computer threat that could arrive in the form of a message coming from an extraterrestrial civilization with more advanced technology would be very difficult, so they recommend being cautious and applying security measures to try to avoid greater risks.
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AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become ‘Billions Of Times’ Smarter Than Humans
AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become ‘Billions Of Times’ Smarter Than Humans
According to an expert in Artificial Intelligence, machines will become billions of times smarter than humans, and mankind needs to fuse with machines in order to survive.
Artificial intelligence could evolve to become “billions of times smarter” than humans according to Ian Pearson, a futurist at Futurizon who says people will need to merge with machines to survive.
The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” said Pearson during a panel hosted by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
“So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.”
Will AI destroy the human race?
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Pearson continued, “The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer. I don’t actually think it’s safe, just like Elon Musk… to develop these superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the human brain… and then don’t get way ahead.”
Pearson’s comments echo the ex-engineer of Uber and Google, Anthony Levandowski, who formed the first church that worships an artificially intelligent being.
The futuristic religion, known as the “Way of the Future,” states that our species can improve itself by following the instructions of a robot that is “a billion times smarter than humans.”
WOTF will eventually have a gospel called ‘The Manual’, as well as rituals and even a physical place of worship.
Levandowski named himself “WOTF” dean, giving him total control until his death or resignation.
Interestingly, Pearson’s comments echo those made by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who spoke about Artificial Intelligence saying: “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.”
Musk continued, “It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.” Musk has since founded a startup company called Neuralink which aims to explore linking human brains to computers.
Numerous experts have spoken out about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, as well as its benefits.
Should we be worried about AI?
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Professor Stephen Hawking, for example, says how we should be very careful when dealing and developing AI. The world-renowned scientist has said that Artificial Intelligence could become the worst event in the history of our civilization, urging experts to “employ best practice and effective management.”
In 2017, during a talk at the Web Summit technology conference, Hawking said that AI can in theory not only emulate human intelligence but greatly exceed it. Hawking also said that there is a danger that Artificial Intelligence could become so advanced that it may develop a will of its own.
Despite the fact that many people welcome AI into society, experts in the subject remain worried.
Elon Musk seems to agree with Hawking when it comes to AI. Mr. Musk warns we must tread carefully when it comes to AI, and called for companies developing AI systems to slow down in order to ensure they don’t unintentionally create something extremely dangerous for humans.
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Out of this world: 17 UFO sightings on Staten Island since 2015
Out of this world:17 UFO sightings on Staten Island since 2015
Staten Islanders said they saw unidentified flying objects in various shapes, such as cigars, triangles, ovals, diamonds and eggs. Others reported seeing flashes of white or blue lights.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - It's a bird! It's a plane! Or is it a UFO?
Staten Islanders reported seeing 17 unidentified flying objects since 2015, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, which has been logging the sightings annually since 1930.
The center is a privately-run organization with no ties to the U.S. government. It categorizes the sightings by year and month, asks for the date, time, city and state of the sighting; shape, duration of the sighting and asks for a summary of your experience.
Two Islanders reported a mysterious object in the sky to be shaped like a cigar, three people saw triangles and four said they were large flashes of blue or white bright light.
Others said they saw circle, egg, diamond and oval figures in the night sky.
One Staten Islander said the sighting was unlike anything he'd ever seen before.
Giant Metallic Craft with Cone Shaped Lights / UFOs Over Staten Island NY
"Two spherical objects in the distance, probably silver in color flying in very strange patterns. There is no commercial flying object that can fly those sort of patterns, of this I am certain," the March, 23, 2015 post said.
The poster reported seeing the sphere for 5 to 10 seconds.
A month later, a triangular object was seen in the sky over West Brighton.
"The tall triangular brilliant white object with the red top beacon, outshined the visible stars in the sky, as well as looking much larger than them (same size as listed before)," the UFO spotter stated. "It remained in the same spot, as far as I could tell, for the duration of five minutes that I watched it. I went back inside and checked it from the window; no movement."
Most of the sightings reported lasted mere seconds, but a light sighting on Feb. 5, 2016 lasted for 10 minutes, according to the website.
The posted said the two to three lights were following each other in the sky, moving from east to west.
Initially, two lights were spotted just after dusk when the poster said they were leaving the gym with a friend. When they got home, the lights were still visible -- except now there were three.
"They flew in a wide circle in the sky. It appeared as if they were following each other and didn't stop. When I went in my house and come out about 10 minutes later there were three, two side-by-side and one that was following," the post said.
November 7, 2016 was the only UFO sighting during daylight. The poster said it was a "bright and clear sunny day with full visibility."
The most unusual of the 17 sightings occurred on Jan. 3, 2017.
"I came outside and noticed a black, silent UFO was hovering right above me at about 20 to 30 feet off the ground. I then heard a machine sound, and it turned on a bright, white light and shot upward. I initially looked away because of the of the intensity of the light and when I looked up again, it appeared that it was hovering totally still at about 15,000 feet," the report said.
"The shape appeared to be hexagonal or octagonal and the outline of it was all lit up with yellow light. Next to it was a blurry streak of white light, as if it had skidded to a stop or had blurred light somehow," it said.
UFO Sighting in Staten Island, New York (US). Date: May 8, 2015. Location:Staten Island, New York (US .
But the most unusual part was yet to come.
They went on to say: "I looked away for a couple of seconds and thought to myself 'I bet when I look back, it will be gone.' It was. My next thought was whatever it was, I bet it will be back. I was right, because at approximately 4:30 I began what seemed like lucid dreaming... I had a thought like 'had I been taken or given some kind of drug that's causing this?'"
The website reported sightings on the following dates:
Jan. 5 and Jan. 28, 2015
March 22, 2015
April 1 and April 18, 2015
July 2015
Aug. 18 and Aug. 29 2015
Sept. 7 and Sept. 12, 2015
Nov. 26, 2015
Feb. 5 and Feb. 13, 2016
Nov. 7, 2016
Jan. 3, 2017
Aug. 18, 2017
Oct. 17, 2017
You can contact the organization to report a sighting by calling 206-722-3000.
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UFO hunters struggle to explain mystery ‘alien object’ spotted on Google Maps near Area 51
UFO hunters struggle to explain mystery ‘alien object’ spotted on Google Maps near Area 51
Jasper Hamill
This is the strange ‘UFO’ seen near a military base
Yesterday, we revealed the location of a strange object resembling an alien craft that was spotted on Google Maps.
But we’re still no closer to knowing explaining the mysterious sighting of a structure which looks like it could be an alien ship – or just a boring old cesspit.
The object was first noticed by the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, which claimed it was in Area 51 – a top-secret military research base which has long been at the centre of wild alien conspiracy theories.
We discovered the coordinates of the ‘anomaly’ – which is actually 500 miles away from Area 51 – and have now been contacted by several readers keen to offer their own explanation about the object
‘While I do not have a definitive explanation, I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it,’ one man wrote.
The object was spotted about 500 miles from Area 51 (Photo: Google Maps)
‘That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’
Another shared a picture of an object he claimed was a Mayan relic, showing an object in the sky which looks remarkably like the Google Maps sighting.
However, we have been unable to verify the authenticity of this image so have not published it.
Another reader pointed out what appears to be tanks nearby, which you can see in the images below.
He wrote: ‘There are a lot of what appear to be tanks covering every road to the south leading up to it. Some even look like they have embankments built around them. Weird!’
Are the objects in this Google Maps screenshot taken nearby actually tanks?
A close-up of one of the ‘tanks’
The ‘UFO’ was actually spotted near Naval Weapons Center China Lake, which is about 500 miles away from Area 51.
Some observers have suggested it’s a water reservoir or even a cesspit.
There is a boat nearby, which indicates that it could be used for sailing or perhaps testing boats.
However, this rather prosaic explanation was not enough for some Twitterers.
There are boats and other vehicles located near the ‘anomaly’
‘That, my friends, is one of the ships that’ll be used in a fake alien invasion,’ one nervous chap tremored.
‘Will be used to scare the masses. Remember this pic.’
Others questioned why you would test boats in a desert – and also whether the site was a military testing zone.
One person said: ‘It’s for boats. There is a boat nearby. That is a large pool of water with a launch ramp. Why is the question? WHY?’
It was later suggested that the object could be the result of some sort of glitch in Google Maps.
After the publication of this article, a reader wrote in and said: ‘While I do not have a definitive explanation I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it. That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’
Can you explain the weird sighting? Do you know what the object is? Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk.
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Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System
Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System
Australian contactee George Kavassilas is interviewed about his lifelong experiences with different extraterrestrial civilizations and shadow government operatives. In this first installment of a two part Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George explains how his contacts began, how these evolved over the years involving several different groups, and the torture he received at the hands of shadow government authorities attempting to suppress his experiences and silence him. Finally, he describes a global control system comprising the planet Saturn, the Moon and extraterrestrials that has resulted in a Matrix-like illusory reality that manipulates humanity. He asserts that discovery of the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the first step to human freedom.
Part 1 — Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E01)
In part two of this Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George Kavassilas explains the key components of a Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control matrix used to limit human potential and growth. In particular, he identifies the roles of the chakra system and the pineal gland in creating false synthetic light experiences that entrap many individuals. He asserts the creation of synthetic light experiences is the favored manipulation technique used by unscrupulous extraterrestrials and higher dimensionals. He outlines his Heart -Centric/Core-Self method of how to overcome the global control system that creates a Matrix-like illusory reality that continues to manipulate most of humanity. He insists that overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the necessary step we all have to take in attaining human freedom and achieving our highest potential as universal beings having a physical experience.
Part 2 — Overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E02)
BEWARE! Aliens could destroy life from Earth without even visiting it!
BEWARE! Aliens could destroy life from Earth without even visiting it!
According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.
Can aliens destroy Earth with AI messages? Studies warn!
(Source: NASA)
New Delhi:
A joint study by two researchers at the University of Hawaii and Sonneberg Observatory in Germany has revealed that aliens are able to wipe out the life from Earth with just AI messages, and do not even need to visit us.
According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.
If humans get message or mail which cannot be decoded, from the aliens, they should delete the communication without reading it as the mail may result in the destruction of the planet. Responding or replying to the messages could prove costly as it might alert the extra-terrestrial beings, said the researchers.
The Academic paper, which is titled “Interstellar Communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible’, discusses a possible alien invasion. The research was carried out by Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory, and John G. Learned from the University of Hawaii.
According to the scientists, the messages will be impossible to decode, and thus, there is no reason to open any such mail or message. They also warn that these emails or messages might contain malware or virus which could be so strong that it can destroy the technologies which exist on the planet.
The researchers wrote in their academic paper, “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”
With the paper going viral, several theorists claim that Artificial Intelligence can be a possible way in which the aliens can cause the end of our planet.
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WOLKEN DIE GEEN WOLKEN ZIJN EN VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO
WOLKEN DIE GEEN WOLKEN ZIJN EN VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO )
Wanneer je in een ruimteschip van bijvoorbeeld een verre beschaving naar de aarde komt en je wilt dat min of meer anoniem doen, hoe verberg je je dan het best voor nieuwsgierige blikken?
Je vermomt je als wolk en ook al ziet die wolk er dan soms een beetje vreemd uit, de meeste mensen merken dat toch niet op want ze kijken naar de grond of zien wat ze willen of verwachten te zien.
Al jaren schrijven wij over (grote) ruimteschepen die zich vermommen als wolken zodat ze niet opvallen voor het doorsnee publiek. Het Engelse woord voor dit soort vermomming is cloaking/cloaken en dat is wat deze grote schepen heel regelmatig doen.
Soms gaat er even iets mis en worden ze tijdelijk zichtbaar, zoals we onlangs aantoonden in een artikel. Dit heeft alles met lichtval te maken en dus het tijdstip. Het schijnt dat rond zonsopkomst en -ondergang dat cloaken het moeilijkst is en dat zijn ook de momenten dat deze schepen nogal eens zichtbaar zijn.
Nu is er wederom een vreemde opname opgedoken die is gemaakt door een dame genaamd Wendy Wagner, boven New Mexico in Amerika.
De foto ziet er als volgt uit en hoewel men ook dit formeel een wolk noemt, lijkt welhaast overduidelijk dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een natuurlijk gevormde wolk, maar met een moederschip dat even tijdelijk de cloak niet goed hanteert.
Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, zie je heel duidelijk dat het hier om een constructie gaat in plaats van een door de natuur gevormd iets.
Het is een hele goede manier om dit soort schepen te verbergen, want in 99 procent van de gevallen worden ze niet opgemerkt, omdat men de vage omtrek van een wolk ziet en deze nooit in verband zal brengen met een ruimteschip.
Op onderstaande foto zie je een voorbeeld hoe soms wolken totaal niet thuis horen in het landschap. De volgende is genomen in Turkije en laat een kleinere UFO zien naast een wolk die overduidelijk niet thuis hoort in het landschap.
In de volgende video de bewegende beelden van diezelfde wolk met UFO:
Een ander vreemd verschijnsel doet zich de laatste tijd voor op de Filipijnen waar mensen soms een paarse lucht zien. Waar het vandaan komt weet niemand, maar duidelijk is wel dat de lichtbron niet van de grond afkomstig is.
De lucht ziet er dan uit zoals te zien op de volgende afbeeldingen.
De volgende opname is gemaakt op 11 februari en wanneer je naar de bewegende beelden kijkt, zie je dat de lichten plotsklaps verdwijnen, alsof iemand een schakelaar heeft omgedraaid.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat deze vreemde lichten te zien waren, want ook op 26 januari dit jaar was er iets vergelijkbaars te zien.
Origins of Earth's Weird 'Pulsating Auroras' Nailed Down
Origins of Earth's Weird 'Pulsating Auroras' Nailed Down
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Japan's Arase spacecraft (formerly called ERG) observed chorus waves and scattered electrons in Earth's magnetosphere, the origin of pulsation auroras. The scattered electrons precipitated into the atmosphere, resulting in auroral illumination.
Credit: ERG Science Team
The origins of intense flickering displays of light high up in Earth's atmosphereare now revealed after a decades-long hunt, a new study finds.
Similar auroras may take place high above Jupiter and Saturn, according to the scientists behind the new research.
The dramatic light shows known as the northern and southern lights, also called auroras, are as varied in nature as the colors they display in the sky. The most familiar kind, known as discrete auroras, are renowned for shimmering ribbons and streamers of color. In contrast, pulsating auroras are giant blinking patches of light. [Aurora Guide: How the Northern Lights Work (Infographic)]
Auroras result when streams of high-speed particles from the sun — collectively known asthe solar wind— slam into Earth's magnetosphere, the shell of electrically charged particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field. Whereas discrete auroras originate a few thousand miles above Earth's surface, pulsating auroras arise about 10 times farther away.
Previous research suggested that pulsating auroras were triggered by electromagnetic fluctuations known as chorus waves that arise in the magnetosphere at the equator. The idea was that chorus waves send electrons in the magnetosphere hurtling along the planet's magnetic-field lines toward the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere, generating light when they collide with molecules of air.
However, for decades, scientists could not gather sensitive-enough ground-based and space-based observations to line up at the right time and place to prove this model. Now, researchers have finally collected direct evidence of the chain of events behind pulsating auroras.
The scientists analyzed data from the Arase spacecraft, which was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in late 2016. This satellite could both detect chorus waves and investigate their effects on magnetospheric electrons within a narrow window around a magnetic-field line.
The researchers also pinpointed where the magnetic-field line the Arase spacecraft examined made contact with Earth. They searched for any pulsating auroras matching electron activity triggered by chorus waves.
The scientists identified an aurora in 2017 in central Canada that was apparently generated by magnetospheric electrons scattered by chorus waves.
"Observational results are usually very complex, and tests of theoretical predictions often result in ambiguous results, which was not the case here," said study lead author Satoshi Kasahara, a space and planetary physicist at the University of Tokyo.
The researchers noted that similar activity may occur in the auroras of Jupiter and Saturn, where prior work detected chorus waves. "Application for other planets would be exciting," Kasahara told Space.com.
The researchers detailed their findings online today (Feb. 14) in the journal Nature.
Was there a highly advanced civilization prior to all other known civilizations?
Was there a highly advanced civilization prior to all other known civilizations?
I believe this is the biggest conspiracy of all, and one in which, you must dive deep down the rabbit hole to truly understand all other conspiracies, especially modern era ones.
I think in order for you to be able to see the full picture and fully grasp the complexity of TPTB, you need to go all the way back and research history (real history - not the propaganda they teach in schools), mythology, lost civilizations, symbolism, occult, mystery schools, etc etc, and then move forward. Once you have done this, the bigger picture will come into focus, imo.
i hate that word "mythology" ...mainstream loves it...they use it to reference shit they dont understand and shit that isnt in the governments version of history...
ancient peoples did not waste their time carving fairy tales in stone...they carved their versions of history...more people need to wrap their head around that fact and dig a little deeper then the bible..
'Time Traveler Who Visited The Year 8973' Shares Vision Of Future
Being able to travel in time is something that has often been discussed, and it has been the focus of many movies. So far it has been seen as nothing more than a theory but would anyone believe a person if they said that they had traveled to a different time and come back?
Time Travel proof: 'British intelligence worker' reveals truth behind Mandela effect
Time travel is something that has fascinated many people for decades, and now a man from England by the name of William Taylor has come forward to say that he has been to the future on many different occasions and come back to tell the tale.
"Time travel was first successfully accomplished in 1981," Taylor claims. "There is an infinite number of alternate universes, it's possible every one of these universes exist and it's possible to move between these universes. We developed a machine to not only time travel, but move between these parallel universes."
Here is what Taylor - the time traveler - has to say to the world:
Taylor has realized that not everyone believes his story about being able to travel into the future and this does not seem to bother him. What bothers him more is fear of reprisal for telling his story. This is because he claims to have worked for the government in Britain along with the British Intelligence agency.
Taylor said that there are many advanced technologies being kept secret. He went on to say that in time they will be released to the public but for the time being, they are highly classified. He claimed that “they” would be coming after him for releasing the video and telling the truth and that he was putting himself at risk for speaking up. According to Taylor time travel was first accomplished in 1981, and there is an infinite number of alternate universes out there. He went on to say that it is possible that the universes exist and they can be moved between. Taylor claims that a machine was developed for time traveling and to allow people to move between the parallel universes.
In The Year 3000 Humans Live Underwater
Taylor spoke out above visiting the year 3000 and said that not a great deal had changed, other than humans lived under the water and he talked in detail about the things that he had seen during his time in the future. Taylor described looking up and seeing flying transportation in the sky above but only being able to see lights through what he claimed was thick smog. He went on to talk about going to 8973 and said that this was when the British government thought that machines and men would fuse together as one.
The video goes on and the longer that Taylor speaks about his time in the future and time travel the stranger it seems to get. He starts by talking about going into the future and time traveling and then goes on to talk about parallel universes and to travel to them. He then goes on to talk about invisibility and more. Whether you believe what Taylor has to say or you are skeptical about it, the video is rather entertaining to watch, and it may have some people wondering.
Researchers found surprisingly large quantities of mercury in the permafrost of the northern hemisphere. As temperatures rise and ice continues to melt, the mercury can be released, with significant consequences for both wildlife and mankind.
Maps of mercury concentrations (micrograms of mercury per square meter) in Northern hemisphere permafrost zones for four soil layers: 0-30 centimeters, 0-100 centimeters, 0-300 centimeters, and permafrost. The permafrost map represents the mercury bound to frozen organic matter below the Active Layer Depth (ALD) and above 300 cm depth.
Credit: Schuster et al./GRL/AGU.
The tentacles of climate change are long and far-reaching. As temperatures rise, it brings along a number of unforeseen changes. Rising temperatures are threatening the oceans, causing more hurricanes, and even causing a coffee crisis. Now, we can add mercury to that long list of problems.
A new study reports that permafrost soils contain more mercury than the rest of the planet’s soils, atmosphere, and oceans combined.
In the new study, geologists assessed the concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska. They found that permafrost soils contain two times more mercury than soils elsewhere in the world — an unexpected discovery with important consequences.
“This discovery is a game-changer,” said Paul Schuster, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colorado and lead author of the new study. “We’ve quantified a pool of mercury that had not been done previously, and the results have profound implications for better understanding the global mercury cycle.”
This wouldn’t normally be a very high concern, but the problem is that temperatures are now rising.
Permafrost in Alaska is thawing, and a new study finds northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined. Credit: John A. Kelley, USDA Natural Resources Conservation, CC BY 2.0.
Mercury tends to bind with organic material in the soil and gets stuck with that soil. As it gets buried by sediment, it becomes frozen into permafrost, where it can remain for thousands of years. But if temperatures rise, all that can change. When temperatures rise and the permafrost melts, mercury isn’t fixed in place anymore. Instead of being frozen in the permafrost, it can also be transported by waters or microorganisms, or it can slowly seep on its own.
“There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer,” Schuster said. “Although measurement of the rate of permafrost thaw was not part of this study, the thawing permafrost provides a potential for mercury to be released—that’s just physics.”
Locally, the effects could be dramatic. From microorganisms, things can slowly move up the food chain, and like most toxins, they tend to gather higher up the food chain — and potentially end up on our plates.
The release of mercury could also have far-reaching global consequences. If released into the atmosphere, it could travel quickly at the mercy of air currents, possibly ending up as far as thousands of kilometers away.
But we don’t really know how much and how far the mercury can travel. Scientists are also unsure how much of the stored mercury would affect ecosystems if the permafrost were to thaw.
Schuster hopes to analyze that those issues in further studies, understanding how the mercury can affect humans and natural environments.
“24 percent of all the soil above the equator is permafrost, and it has this huge pool of locked-up mercury,” he said. “What happens if the permafrost thaws? How far will the mercury travel up the food chain? These are big-picture questions that we need to answer.”
Journal Reference: Paul F. Schuster et al. Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075571.
Last year, one of the largest icebergs in history broke off broke off from the Larsen C ice. The massive 2,200-square-mile iceberg called A-68 has exposed an ecosystem that has been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of years. Now, a diverse team made up of scientists from nine research institutes around the world is urgently traveling to the area where the iceberg calved to probe the seabed before it’s too late.
A daring expedition and lifeforms removed from time
The researchers are supposed to leave from the Falkland Islands to the calving site on 21 February, where they will spend three weeks until March 2018 on board the research ship RRS James Clark Ross.
The A-68 iceberg is one of the largest ever observed on Earth. It’s about as big as the state of Delaware and holds four times more ice than what gets melted from Greenland’s ice sheet in a year. Scientists had been preparing for A-68’s split from Larsen C for months before the calving, ever since they witnessed a crack in the ice shelf extending over 100 miles in length.
Ice shelves encircle the Antarctic continent, extending thick floating ice from the land glaciers. Due to warming temperatures, Antarctica’s ice shelves are starting to thin or collapse. An iceberg such as A-68 won’t raise sea levels because the detached ice was already afloat in the ocean. That’s very good news since A-68 holds enough mass to raise global sea levels by 3 millimeters had the ice been added anew to the ocean. However, events such as these can destabilize the ice shelf.
If an Antarctic ice shelf such as Larsen C collapses, it can free the ice it’s currently holding back on the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s this terrestrial ice flowing out that can raise sea levels, and by no negligible amount. On the upside, icebergs such as A-68 can make room for human explorers who can now witness what ecosystems which have been isolated for thousands of years look like. Perhaps, they will find totally new, strange life forms that have adapted to total darkness, completely isolated from other ecosystems.
The team of daring researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will collect seafloor animals, microbes, plankton, and water samples from the now-exposed seafloor. They will record video footage and document whatever marine mammals and birds might have moved in the area.
The expedition is somewhat fortunate — it’s the first to benefit from an international agreement signed in 2016 by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Under this agreement, exposed marine areas following the collapse or retreat of ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the one targeted by BAS, are designated Special Areas for Scientific Study.
“The calving of A-68 offers a new and unprecedented opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary scientific research programme in this climate-sensitive region. Now is the time to address fundamental questions about the sustainability of polar continental shelves under climate change,” said Professor David Vaughan, Science Director at BAS.
Vaughan and colleagues are in a hurry to get to the calving site and get to work as quickly as possible. They’re concerned that sunlight will alter the ecosystem too much, at least at the surface layer.
Large icebergs have broken off Antarctic ice shelves before, such as those that separated from the Larsen A and B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002, respectively. However, it took five to 12 years for expeditions to make it to those areas. When they got there, they reported sparse signs of life.
This time around, researchers hope to be there quick enough to possibly surprise some of the supposed alien-like life lurking in the depths.
“We need to be bold on this one. Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be,” Vaughan said.
Cryptocurrency Miners Are 'Limiting' the Search for Alien Life Now
Cryptocurrency Miners Are 'Limiting' the Search for Alien Life Now
Berkely's SETI project can't get its hands on the latest graphics cards, which are popular with cryptocurrency miners.
Matthew Gault
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Everyday thousands of volunteers turn the power of their computers over to the SETI@home project in hopes of finding aliens among the stars. SETI@home—short for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home”—is an experiment that uses people’s computers to increase the project’s processing power and analyze more radio signals from outer space.
The UC Berkeley-based SETI project only relies on volunteers for a portion of its computing power, however, and has its own computing installations at several telescopes. But the project team ran into problems recently when it tried to expand its operations by adding the latest and most powerful computers to two observatories. The team discovered, Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer told the BBC, that it couldn’t find the key computer component it needed: graphics processing units (GPUs).
That’s probably thanks to cryptocurrency miners. The same cards that make PC games look amazing and can crunch alien radio signal data can also “mine” (or generate) digital coins like Ethereum and Zcash, so cryptocurrency miners are buying them in bulk and leaving few behind for anyone else.
Searching the stars is intense work that “uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space.” Analyzing all of the data from these telescopes uses a lot of computing power. "We'd like to use the latest GPUs and we can't get 'em," Dan Werthimer, chief scientist of SETI, told the BBC. “That's limiting our search for extraterrestrials.”
“This is a new problem, it's only happened on orders we've been trying to make in the last couple of months,” Werthimer told the BBC. “We've got the money, we've contacted the vendors, and they say, 'we just don't have them'”
“I've bet everyone a cup of Starbucks that we might find ET within two dozen years,” Seth Shostak, fellow at the SETI Institute, told me in an email. But then, he isn’t using GPUs to conduct the search. “Using GPUs for SETI is certainly something we’ve been investigating for a long time," he said. "When it comes to finding the aliens, the more computer power you have, the quicker you can do the search. It’s like looking for buried treasure on a South Pacific island … if you can replace a teaspoon with a shovel, you might find it a lot quicker!”
At the moment, it seems that cryptocurrency miners are buying up all the shovels.
On February 15, 2013, a small incoming asteroid created a meteor – brighter than the sun – over Russia. It exploded in the air over the city of Chelyabinsk.
Five years ago today, a small asteroid with an estimated size of 65 feet (20 meters) entered Earth’s atmosphere. The February 15, 2013, asteroid was moving at 12 miles per second (~19 km/sec) when it struck the protective blanket of air around our planet, which did its job and caused the asteroid to explode. The bright, hot explosion took place only about 20 miles (30 km) above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia and carried 20 to 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Its shock wave broke windows and knocked down parts of buildings in six Russian cities and caused some 1,500 people to seek medical attention for injuries, mostly from flying glass.
Large and small bodies from space strike Earth’s atmosphere continuously. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations, said in 2014 that it had recorded 26 atom-bomb-scale asteroid impacts to Earth’s atmosphere since 2000.
Still, the February 15, 2013 Russian superbolide was extremely powerful. It was later said to be the most powerful explosion caused by an asteroid since the Tunguska event, which flattened a wide area of forest and killed reindeer in Siberia in 1908.
The Tunguska event happened in a sparsely populated part of Siberia. It remained mysterious to scientists throughout the early part of the 20th century. By contrast, across a wide swath of Russia on February 15, 2013, dashboard cameras and amateur photographers captured images of the incoming meteor.
Bright fireball over Russia on the morning of February 15, 2013. Scientists later said the light from the meteor was brighter than the sun. It was visible up to 60 miles (100 km) away.
Vapor cloud trail left by the Chelyabinsk, Russia asteroid as captured by M. Ahmetvaleev on February 15, 2013.
After the 2013 meteor exploded, it’s said that local residents and schoolchildren found meteorite fragments left in its aftermath, many located in snowdrifts. An informal market emerged for meteorite fragments.
A large number of small meteorites fell on areas west of Chelyabinsk, and, within hours of the visual sighting of the meteor, a 20-foot (6-meter) hole was discovered on the frozen surface of Lake Chebarkul in the Russian Ural Mountains. Scientists from the Ural Federal University collected 53 samples from around the hole that same day.
In June 2013, Russian scientists reported further investigation by magnetic imaging below the location of the ice hole in Lake Chebarkul. They had identified a larger meteorite buried in sediments on the lake floor.
Following an operation lasting a number of weeks, on October 15, 2013, a large fragment of the meteorite was lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul. It had a total mass of 1,442 pounds (654 kg) and to date remains the largest found fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
Largest-discovered fragment of Russian meteorite, lifted from the bed of Lake Chebarkul in the Urals,
NASA satellites were also able to track the meteor plume in Earth’s atmosphere. As the video below describes, they tracked and studied the meteor plume for months.
Bottom line: On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid created a bright meteor over Russia, which exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk.
Seriously though: what is causing all of these unexplained booms all across North America? From coast to coast, the sounds of thunderous explosions in the sky have rattled windows and shaken homes without any definitive official explanation. Is something strange going on overhead? Then again, when is something strange ever not going on overhead?
Case in point.
The first of this week’s unexplained booms happened on February 6th in Midwest City just outside of Oklahoma City. Residents described what sounded like dynamite going off as their homes shook violently. One Midwest City woman, Donna Hood, described the ensuing vibration to local news as earthquake-like:
We thought we’d had an earthquake and we waited and looked on the news and everywhere else and nobody posted anything. So, we had no idea what it was.
Local meteorologists, meanwhile, say there’s nothing to worry about, just a case of the ol’ cryoseism, or frost quake. These rare seismic events occur when groundwater tables freeze rapidly and expand against one another underground, cracking under immense pressure.
Cryoseisms can sometimes be powerful enough to crack the earth.
Two days later, police in Wheat Ridge, Colorado received numerous calls after homeowners heard a loud boom in the night. Residents of the Denver suburb told police they in fact regularly feel and hear what sounds like an unexplained explosion at 3:00 a.m., mostly on weekends. According to CBS4 Denver, Wheat Ridge residents are left frightened and mystified by the lack of answers. Some believe the noise could be caused by something industrial like a malfunctioning electrical transformer, while others worry the noise is “something not so easily explained.”
Local news eats this stuff up. As do I, of course.
Wheat Ridge Police department spokesperson Sara Spaulding says police are likewise baffled:
We’ve had descriptions that are everything from a transformer blew, to a sonic boom that you might hear with an airplane passing overhead or a jet passing overhead, fireworks sometimes, those loud booms without the crackly noises associated. The challenge for us is that there isn’t any evidence of what this could be.
Are the Wheat Ridge or Oklahoma City booms related to the other booms heard and felt around the country? What is behind this phenomenon? I’m going with secret military activity. The world sure seems to be getting weird and dangerous again.
Nothing attracts conspiracy theories like a SpaceX launch. From UFO sightings at failed launches to rumors of corporate espionage, all kinds of speculation have been cast at the enigmatic Elon Musk and his sometimes secretive private space program. After Musk and co. recently launched the first Falcon Heavy rocket into space carrying Musk’s red Tesla roadster and its supposed empty spacesuit driver, the internet realized that, well, you know there could be a body in that suit and we’d never know. But come on, would Elon do something like that? I mean, if anyone had the cojones to put a dead body in orbit on live TV, it’s that dude. The Falcon Heavy launch didn’t just contain the empty spacesuit, though. Riding along beside the convertible was a disc of quartz crystal containing a hologram upon which was etched a massive library of data encoded using some of the most advanced storage methods possible, all designed to last billions of years. Strangest of all, no one really knows what exactly is written on them.
I bet whoever is in this spacesuit knows.
The disc is part of what is being called the Arch, created by the The Arch Mission Foundation, a non-profit group which statestheir goal is to “permanently archive human knowledge for thousands to billions of years. We exist to preserve and disseminate humanity’s knowledge across time and space, for the benefit of future generations.” To do this, the foundation helped develop a “5D optical storage” method using discs of quartz crystals inscribed with laser nanostructuring to create afreaking hologram inside the structure of the crystal disc. Yeah, we’re living in the future. These discs will be readable 14 billion years and can hold 360 terabytes of data, or around 7,000 Blu-Ray discs.
Plus they look like they’re straight out of Blade Runner.
According to the Arch foundation, the first arch disc contains Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, an epic series of deeply philosophical science-fiction novels. Throughout those novels, the protagonist seeks to preserve humanity’s knowledge in the face of an impending galactic disaster. The Arch Mission foundation says that we live in an uncertain age where planetary chaos and disaster seems ever more likely. Thus, the need to preserve the collected knowledge of humankind is dire. And, of course, shoot it into space on a really big rocket that goes boom. Oh, and in the most American fashion possible, by putting it orbit alongside a red convertible piloted by a single spacesuit, making it the most conspicuous thing in space possible:
This Arch library will orbit the Sun for at least millions of years alongside Elon’s Tesla Roadster. The Roadster will likely be the oddest object in the solar system, and thus is the perfect place to put an Arch library so that it can be noticed and retrieved in the distant future.
Of course, it might just look like a rock to any passing aliens. It is made of metals. While the goals of the Arch Mission Foundation sounds well-intentioned (at least on the surface), calling any set of data the “collected knowledge of humankind” makes you really wonder who chose what to include in that library and what not to. The group’s founder has stated he wants to “put Wikipedia in space.” Sounds great. I’m sure the Pirahã people of the Amazon will love having their entire existence being summed up in 1600 words. The photos on the “crew” page of the foundation’s website don’t exactly represent the collective demographics of the entire human race, if you know what I mean.
Is this really representative of the entirety human experience?
It also makes you wonder what could be on those discs that we don’t know about. The entire Foundation series wouldn’t take up more than a few hundred megabytes, tops. What about the other hundreds of terabytes? Is some group trying to seed space with a very specific vision of what human knowledge should be preserved in space and create a new human civilization where you can, I don’t know, marry your attractive cousins? Is Elon Musk trying to send a message to his home planet after landing here and benevolently giving us the technology of the future like Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth? Is he going to fly away with all our water?
David Bowie could have easily played him in a movie, too.
I mean, if anyone is an alien, it’s that dude. It’s like he’s not even trying to hide it anymore. Or at least a Bond villain who hasn’t had his horrific accident that turns him evil yet. We’re still just living in his origin story.
This UFO cloaked in a cloud was seen over Crete last week. You can see that its breaking through the clouds. Don't be fooled by these cloaked craft. Aliens are highly intelligent and often believe that human intelligence is incredibly inferior to them. Thus, humans will often assume the cloud is just a cloud. However, we at UFO Sightings Daily know different. Here it almost looks like an invasion. Very dark, almost sinister looking.
Scott C. Waring
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Photographer Yiannis Gkikas snapped a rare scene on January 11 in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, when a huge cloud of disk-shaped aircraft appeared in the sky. The group's photos were subsequently posted on the Greek weather website Meteokrites.
President Nixon hid ET Time Capsule in the White House that contains ET/UFO Disclosure
President Nixon hid ET Time Capsule in the White House that contains ET/UFO Disclosure
Huston Plan covert insider reveals President Nixon hid a time capsule in the White House that contains explosive ET / UFO disclosure.
Three Meetings That Change History.
In this historic Dark Journalist Episode Former Undercover Huston PlanInsider Robert Merritt steps forward for the first time ever in public reveals his Three Meetings with President Richard Nixon in a deep underground location beneath The White House!
Nixon hid time capsule with top secret information in the White House after Watergate break in
President Nixon revealed to Merritt a Special Message that Nixon Read to him aloud before sealing it in the White House for later generations to learn the Truth.
The letter contained information that the United States had obtained and had under its protection an ET Being.
Scientists at Los Alamos eventually learned to communicate with the Being and developed vast knowledge from this interaction which helped them to achieve Advanced Technology and Science.
Nixon told Merrit to deliver a copy to Henry Kissinger
In a late night meeting deep beneath the White House President Nixon taped a package containing the letter to Merritt's stomach and asked him to act as a covert messenger to deliver to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Nixon told Merritt that only he and Kissinger knew of the letter's existence and it should not fall into the hands of the FBI or the CIA.
Nixon developed a great trust with Merritt who he had assigned as an undercover operative to the Ultra Secret Huston Plan Program, a Covert Intelligence Unit run right out of the White House to perform Black Ops and Surveillance against Nixon's Political enemies.
During his long history of Clandestine work for Intelligence Agencies Merritt was developed as a Covert Agent and a Sex Operative to get compromising material for Control Files to Blackmail Senators and Congressmen.
Merritt had been used by the CIA, FBI and the ATF as an Deep Undercover Informant and found himself under the spotlight during the Watergate Hearings and was later featured in the New York Times. Eventually Merritt was forced to go underground and to keep silent in order to stay alive.
The Special National Archives Letter
In a special twist on behalf of Merritt, Former Watergate Lawyer Douglas Caddy has sent a letter to the National Archives with the promise of directions to President Nixon's ET Time Capsule that Merritt is convinced is still where Nixon placed it in 1972.
The conditions laid out in the letter instruct the National Archives they can take possession of the letter when it's found as long as they read it aloud when it's discovered and distribute openly it to the public.
Teotihuacan; An Ancient City That Resembles A Circuit Board When Viewed From Above
Teotihuacan: An Ancient City That Resembles A Circuit Board When Viewed From Above
“From the air, Teotihuacan’s city layout mysteriously resembles a computer circuit board with two massive processor chips, which in this case are represented by the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon.
The ancient city of Teotihuacan is one of the oldest Pre-Columbian cities in the American continent.
Built by an unknown civilization, the mysterious city was found devoured by vegetations when the ancient Aztecs arrived.
Excavations have shown that the structures of Teotihuacan have abnormal amount of Mica embedded into them, a fact that raises numerous questions.
An aerial view of Teotihuacan.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Teotihuacan, the city of the gods
Teotihuacan from Nahuatl: Teōtihuācan, is the ”place where men become gods,” the “place where the gods were made, or city of the gods”. The name of Nahuatl origin was used by the Mexica, Aztecs, to identify this city built by a civilization before them and which was already in ruins when the Mexica saw it for the first time.
To date the name given by its original inhabitants is unknown.
The remains of the city are located northeast of the Valley of Mexico.
The city is shrouded in mystery for a number of reasons. Despite the fact that it was one of the most influential cities in the American continent, we know very little about it. In fact, the origins of Teotihuacán are still the subject of research among experts.
Around the beginning of the Christian era, Teotihuacan was a village that gained importance as a center of worship in the Anáhuac basin.
The first significant constructions are believed to have been erected at that time, as shown by excavations performed at the Pyramid of the Moon.
The city grew in importance during the Classic Period (3rd to 7th centuries AD).
An illustration of a computer circuit board.
Image Credit: History.
At that stage, the city was an important commercial and political node that reached an area of almost 21 km2, with a population ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 inhabitants.
The influence of Teotihuacan was felt in all the directions of Mesoamerica, as shown by the discoveries in cities such as Tikal, Monte Albán, and other sites that had an important relationship with Teotihuacan.
Scholars are unsure of the ethnic identity of the first inhabitants of Teotihuacan.
Among the candidates are the Totonacs, and the Nahuas.
An illustration of Teotihuacan. Comparing it to the image above, does it resemble a modern-day circuit board?
Image Credit: History.
The most recent hypotheses suggest that Teotihuacan was a cosmopolitan city in whose flourishing groups of diverse ethnic origin were involved.
However, these are mere assumptions.
As noted previously, the identity of the people who founded Teotihuacan is a mystery.
Teotihuacan had long been abandoned before the arrival of the Spaniards to Mesoamerica. This means that the few references to the city that were preserved in the historical sources produced in the years after the Conquest of Mexico do not speak properly about the inhabitants of Teotihuacan but of the representation of those who lived after the Teotihuacan collapse.
The Nahua informants of Bernardino de Sahagún thought that Teotihuacan was the place where the gods met to give rise to Nahui Ollin, the Fifth Sun according to native mythology, a period which illuminates the contemporary era.
According to colonial sources, the Nahuas thought that Teotihuacan was built by the quinametzin, a race of giants that populated the world during the previous era and whose survivors hid away.
The temples, the pyramids of the city were imagined as massive tombs of the Gods who founded the city, a sacred place where after death, men would become gods.
For reasons that have not yet been fully elucidated, Teotihuacan collapsed towards the middle of the 8th century, giving rise to the Mesoamerican Epiclassic Period.
Teotihuacan was also apparently built mimicking the three stars of Orion.
According to archaeologists, the advanced design of Teotihuacansuggests that the ancient builders had the knowledge not only of architecture but of complex mathematical and astronomical sciences. One of the most amazing details about Teotihuacan, and what makes it different from other ancient sites is that when observed from the air, Teotihuacan’s city layout strangely resembles a computer circuit board with two large processor chips— the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid.
Researchers have also found numerous and remarkable similarities to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
However, if the idea of Teotihuacan resembling a modern computer board doesn’t arouse your imagination, perhaps large amount of mica embedded into the monuments of Teotihuacan will.
Archaeologists have found that Teotihuacan’s structures are embedded with mica.
This mineral is found 3,000 miles away in Brazil and is found in nearly all buildings, housing complexes, temples and along the roads of Teotihuacan.
Excavations have revealed that the pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan contained considerable amounts of mica in layers up to 30 cm.
Certainly, Mica was not included in these constructions for decoration because you couldn’t actually see it, so it is clear that this mineral was incorporated into the monuments for another purpose.
Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat; it can be split very thin (0.025 to 0.125 millimeters or thinner) while maintaining its electrical properties, has a high dielectric breakdown, is thermally stable to 500 °C, and is resistant to corona discharge.
At Teotihuacan, we basically have a massive ancient city, whose builders are unknown to history, with pyramids and surrounding structures that resemble a computer board when seen from the air.
In addition to that, we know that the builders of the ancient city incorporated Mica into the structures of the city. Mica wasn’t placed there for aesthetic purposes, which raises numerous questions. Is there perhaps an otherworldly influence behind Teotihuacan? And, is it possible that the entire city was not only built to serve as city, but to harness some sort of energy?
Scientists Find Sea Level Could Increase More Than Double By 2100
Scientists Find Sea Level Could Increase More Than Double By 2100
A study published on Monday noted that the rise in sea level is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by the end of the century, enough to cause significant problems in coastal cities and put millions of lives at risk.
The annual rate of increase in sea level, which is three millimeters, could reach 10 millimeters per year by 2100, according to a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
According to the study, based on 25 years of satellite data, the findings are “more or less consistent with the projections of the fifth evaluation report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”.
The author of the analysis, Steve Nerem, said the acceleration, driven mainly by the accelerated melting of Greenland and Antarctica, “has the potential to double the rise in sea level by 2100, compared to projections that calculate a constant rate: more than 60 centimeters instead of 30.“
The professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado said that “it is almost certainly a conservative estimate.”
Climate change causes sea level rise in two ways. First, the higher concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase the temperature of the water, so the warm water expands.
“This thermal expansion in the oceans has already contributed to half of the seven centimeters average increase in sea level in the last quarter of the century,” explained the researcher.
In addition, the oceans rise with the increasing flow of water because of ice that melts rapidly at the poles.
“This article highlights the important role that satellite records can play in the validation of climate model projections,” added co-author John Fasullo, a climate researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States.
The scientists who were part of the study also come from the University of South Florida, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Old Dominion University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Melting, Melting and more melting
If sea levels rising isn’t a danger, researchers have recently also highlighted another worrisome fact.
Scientists warn that climate change could accelerate the release of toxic Mercury.
As melting permafrost releases mercury, eventually some of it will make it into the food chain—and into animals such as the Alaskan caribou. As noted by National Geographic, “in some forms, mercury is a powerful neurotoxin, and in children it can harm brain development, affecting cognition, memory, language and even motor and visual skills. Even in adults, excessive amounts can hamper vision, speech and muscle movements, compromise the reproductive and immune systems, and cause cardiovascular problems.”
If global warming ends up melting the permafrost—the permanently frozen surface layer of the northern hemisphere—it could trigger a global ecological catastrophe, since this area contains more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried according to a group of researchers.
Puma Punku; Evidence Of Laser-Like Tools Used By Ancient Civilizations?
Puma Punku: Evidence Of Laser-Like Tools Used By Ancient Civilizations?
Located 45 miles west of La Paz high in the Andes mountains, lie the mystifying ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
The megalithic stones found there are considered among the largest on the planet. Some boulders measure up to 26 feet long and weighing more than 100 tons each.
Puma Punku is a massive temple complex part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia.
Tiwanaku is vital in Incan legends since it is believed to be the site where the world was created by the Gods.
Puma Punku, in turn, means “The Door of the Puma.”
As noted by the Andean specialist, Binghamton University Anthropology professor W. H. Isbell, a radiocarbon date was obtained from organic material from lowermost and oldest layer of mound-fill forming the Puma Punku. This segment was deposited during the first of three construction epochs and dates the initial construction of the Puma Punku at 1510 ±25 B.P.
Puma Punku is so unusual in the way that it was constructed, shaped and positioned, that many scholars consider it is the most intriguing ancient site on the planet.
Mainstream experts believe the blocks found at Puma Punku were formed by hand with primitive stone tools.
However, some researchers point to the intricate stonework as evidence of the use of advanced precision technology.
How could primitive people, living thousands of years ago, have produced such flawless stonework, without access to any form of technology? Did they use sticks and stones?
Or, is it possible that the ancient constructors of Puma Punku manufactured the megalithic stones with advanced technology?
Perhaps with the use of precision tools that could have facilitated them to achieve these marvels of engineering and construction, displaying clean cuts, and precise angles.
If we look at the stones at Puma Punku carefully, you can see amazing intricate stonework, almost as if they used machine tools or even lasers.
It’s incredible.
At Puma Punku you will find mystifying stones with perfect right angles, and some rocks at Puma Punku have small drill holes that were evenly spaced along the groove. This has driven many authors to suggest that power tools may have been used on this unusual block of stone.
After years of research, archaeologists have concluded how the massive stones were cut at quarries nearly one hundred kilometers away and then rolled to Puma Punku on logs, supposedly.
However, what scholars seem to forget and what researchers rarely talk about is that Puma Punku is positioned at an altitude of 12,800 feet. This means the ancient complex was built above the natural tree line, meaning that NO trees grew in that area, which in turn signifies that no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers. This leads us to the following question: What did they use?
How did ancient mankind transport these supermassive blocks of stone to their destination?
Mainstream scholars have too many questions about the technology used by its builders, the transportation, and logistics, etc..
It is difficult to believe that all of this was accomplished without the use of power tools and sophisticated means of transportation.
This is precisely why ancient astronaut theorists and many authors say that transporting these massive blocks of granite from their quarries and moving them to Puma Punku would have required some type of advanced technology, huge lifting vehicles. In other words, technologies and means which ancient civilizations simply did not possess at that time, or at least that is what we think.
Puma Punku is without a doubt one of those places where, when you observe incredible ancient constructions, shaped with that much perfection, your imagination lights up. There are so many possibilities at one point, and conventional archaeological explanations just do not fit in one’s logic at that point.
In 1549, while seeking the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors led by Pedro Cieza de León crossed into Bolivia and discovered the ruins of an ancient settlement called Tiahuanaco.
Located less than a quarter-mile northeast of Puma Punku, scientists believe that Tiahuanaco was once the center of a prosperous ancient civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants.
Tiahuanaco is reasonably the greatest Native American civilization that many people haven’t heard of.
It was one of the most important predecessors of the ancient Inca and their history. They accomplished the unimaginable in architecture, in political development, in agriculture, and in many other craft industries which were on a very high level. Most scholars agree that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously abandoned around 1100 AD, just like other ancient civilizations like the Maya.
In the 1960s, the Bolivian government excavated the Subterranean Temple at Tiahuanaco. Inside the walls of the squared sunken courtyard are hundreds of stone heads with a diverse range of features. It’s a mixture of different races.
It’s believed that depicted inside the walls of the squared sunken courtyard are all the races of mankind, even elongated skulls. Furthermore, we have people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, we have depictions of people with thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues are particularly unusual since they do not seem to represent the native population.
In other words, and as put by many researchers who have visited the ancient site, they seem to symbolize every type and shape of human heads existing on the planet.
Two of them, which are very intriguing, is white in color, look very much like grey alien heads.
Researchers say that a large statue at the center of the sunken temple depicts the creator god, known as Viracocha.
Was Viracocha an ancient alien God?
However, Viracocha is depicted with extremely rare facial features.
The ancient inhabitants and builders of Tiahuanaco depicted their most prominent god with features unlike their own.
Viracocha is depicted having a beard and a mustache, and that is a very unusual thing because American Indians do not have beards and mustaches.
One of the most significant archaeological artifacts ever found in Tiahuanaco is the Fuente Magna Bowl.
It’s a ceramic bowl, and it has Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic script written on it.
But wait a minute, these two civilizations weren’t anywhere near one another!
In fact, they were separated by more than 8.000 miles, and yet this draws a direct connection between the ancient Sumerians and Tiahuanaco, and Puma Punku.
The idea of Sumerian writing exists at Puma Punku, and Tiahuanaco would seem to relate to the late Zecharia Sitchin and his ideas that the Sumerians were interacting with these “space beings” called the Annunaki.
Interestingly, in that case, the Annunaki were in Sumeria but also at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco in South America.
In the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives is a formerly SECRET memo, dated February 17th, 1967, from the Chief of the CIA’s Technical Intelligence Division entitled “Photo Analysis of UFO Photography.”
That memo served as a response to a request by the Deputy Director of The National Photographic Interpretation Center to analyze photographic evidence of what was purported to be an unidentified flying object, provided by the Aerial Phenomenon Office of the Foreign Technology Department at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Of the nine photographs referenced in the memo, only three remain in the declassified document: two low-resolution, photocopied scans …
and an artist’s interpretation of the UFO. A fourth photo of a helicopter is referenced but not included.
The first two photos were taken by Major Raymond Nyls of the U.S. Air Force as part of an initial investigation of the UFO “exposure station.” Nyls visited the site on the shore of Lake St. Clair, Michigan in an attempt to duplicate the exact position of the camera in the original photographs. The investigation provided measurements of the area and the surrounding objects in the hopes of providing an accurate scale to estimate the size of the UFO.
Due to an overall lack of data, the analysis was heavily based on the measurements Nyls made during his visit to the exposure site. The accuracy of the report was dependent on the accuracy of his measurements. Investigators operated under a number of assumptions, the first being that the UFO was 0.25 miles away from the camera. Among the other assumptions were that Nyl’s measurements were accurate, the photographs were in full format, the UFO was circular, and that adjustments to the camera’s focal length were unimportant to the analysis.
The memo contains multiple references to the shaky foundation of the data, admitting that their entire investigation of the photographs was built on estimates and faith in Nyls’ accuracy. Due to the lack of solid quantitative data, the results were inconclusive.
Nyls was no stranger to photographic UFO investigations. In fact, according to The Detroit News, a month after the investigation at Lake St. Clair, Nyls recreated a photograph of a UFO taken by brothers Grant and Dan Jaroslaw of Harrison Township, MI using a block of wood hanging from a swingset. A lie detector failed to support the brothers’ story.
Read the report below, and check out more of the CIA’s photographic “evidence” of UFOs here.
Crypto-currency craze ‘hinders search for alien life’
Scientists listening out for broadcasts by extra-terrestrials are struggling to get the computer hardware they need, thanks to the crypto-currency mining craze, a radio-astronomer has said.
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) wants to expand operations at two observatories.
However, it has found that key computer chips are in short supply.
“We’d like to use the latest GPUs [graphics processing units]… and we can’t get ’em,” said Dan Werthimer.
Demand for GPUs has soared recently thanks to crypto-currency mining.
“That’s limiting our search for extra-terrestrials, to try to answer the question, ‘Are we alone? Is there anybody out there?’,” Dr Werthimer told the BBC.
“This is a new problem, it’s only happened on orders we’ve been trying to make in the last couple of months.”
Mining a currency such as Bitcoin or Ethereum involves connecting computers to a global network and using them to solve complex mathematical puzzles.
This forms part of the process of validating transactions made by people who use the currency.
As a reward for this work, the miners receive a small crypto-currency payment, making it potentially profitable.
GPUs are high-performance chips and aren’t just used for powering video games – they may be stacked together by Bitcoin miners, radio-astronomers or others interested in processing large amounts of data for certain applications.
“At Seti we want to look at as many frequency channels as we possibly can because we don’t know what frequency ET will be broadcasting on and we want to look for lots of different signal types – is it AM or FM, what communication are they using?” explained Dr Werthimer, who is chief scientist at the Berkeley Seti Research Center.
“That takes a lot of computing power.”
He added that at some telescopes, Seti has around 100 GPUs crunching data from large listening arrays.
These arrays can pick up the faintest of radio frequencies that have been flung across our solar system from elsewhere in the universe – often from natural phenomena such as collapsing stars.
Seti is currently trying to improve its capacity for analysing such data at two observatories – Green Bank in West Virginia and Parkes in Australia.
But the institute has been hit by the GPU shortage.
“We’ve got the money, we’ve contacted the vendors, and they say, ‘we just don’t have them’,” said Dr Werthimer.
Earlier this year, there were reports that video gamers had been hit by a sudden rise in the cost of GPUs, thanks in particular to a rise in Ethereum mining, which can be done with chips aimed at consumers.
At the time, major chip-maker Nvidia said that retailers should make arrangements to make sure gamers’ demands were met.
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Star search
Other radio-astronomers have been affected.
A group looking for evidence of the earliest stars in the universe was recently shocked to see that the cost of the GPUs it wanted had doubled.
“We’re in the process of expanding our telescope – we got a grant from the National Science Foundation here in the United States to do so,” said Aaron Parsons at the University of California at Berkeley.
Prof Parsons’ radio telescope array, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionisation Array (Hera) project, is an American, British and South African venture located in South Africa’s western plains.
It has been designed to listen to low frequency radio waves emitted by the reionising hydrogen gas that permeated the universe before the first stars and galaxies formed.
GPUs are needed in order to bring together data from Hera’s many small radio telescopes – this synthesises a much larger array, offering an especially wide field of view peering out into the universe.
Three months ago, the Hera team had budgeted for a set of GPUs that cost around $500 ($360) – the price has since doubled to $1,000.
“We’ll be able to weather it but it is coming out of our contingency budget.” added Prof Parsons.
“We’re buying a lot of these things, it’s going to end up costing about $32,000 extra.”
He also said he was concerned that future work could even be stopped in its tracks, should the GPU shortage worsen.
Mining’s meteoric rise
Thanks in part to a recent boom in the price of crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, mining crypto-currencies has never been more popular.
While Bitcoin miners have largely moved on to specialised “Asic” chips that have been designed from scratch to support mining, it’s still possible to use GPUs on the Ethereum mining network to lucrative ends, according to cyber-security expert Matthew Hickey at Hacker House.
“[You can] use GPUs effectively to turn a small profit, you’re not going to make millions but if you put 12 or 24 GPUs together, you’ll make back the cost in six months,” he told the BBC.
GPUs are versatile, he added, pointing out that cyber-security experts sometimes use them for password-cracking experiments, in which computers make many millions of attempts at breaking into a system.
But Mr Hickey has also noticed that GPUs are now being sold on sites such as Ebay at inflated prices.
“It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find suppliers and cards,” he said.
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Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Check out this amazing footage of a bright lights hovering in the sky above Colorado. This happened on 13th January 2018.
Witness report:
Glowing red/orange objects stayed in the same place for 30 min. Colors went from dark orange to light orange from side to side and changed sequence. It started out with two. Then three. Then around6-7, Then would go back to smaller, Then start over again
8:00 pm, Tuesday, February 13th. We were driving home from the grocery store, on a road through the mountains. We noticed a series of orbs moving horizontally across the sky in front of us. Each orb would light up, and then would start to fade. As one would start to darken, the light next to it would light up, before they would all disappear. The first sighting of the same phenomenon, the lights appeared to be stacked in two horizontal rows, but went to only one row afterward. We pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road, as this happened again, and continued to watch. At one point, the orbs lit up and branched out to the left and right, before turning back and going toward the middle again. We turned the vehicle around and drove back toward the store, turned back and watched again. The video was taken, during the last series of light orbs. After that, the sky went black and nothing else was witnessed.
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Harley Tamplin
Is the north of England a UFO hotspot?
(Picture: Getty)
Three eyewitness accounts of mysterious UFO sightings that have never been explained have emerged for the first time.
Never-before-heard reports describe the close encounters, all of which happened in the north of England in the 1980s.
UFO researchers including investigator Philip Mantle looked into all three cases at the time – but they were left to lie on file as no explanation for them could be found.
While most sightings are quickly and easily identified by experts, the three cases left Mr Mantle ‘scratching his head’.
He said: ‘No aircraft, balloons or meteorological phenomenon could account for them and this is a time long before Chinese lanterns.
‘There are of course some similarities in these sightings the most notable one being the lack of any noise made by the objects. Whether this is relevant or significant is debateable but it’s a curiosity nonetheless.
‘The one thing that is for certain is that UFOs were the last thing on the mind of any of these witnesses prior to their observations.’
Darwen, Lancashire, in November 1985
The woman who saw the object later provided this drawing of it
Over the span of eight minutes – an unusually long time for a UFO sighting – a woman claimed she saw a diamond-shaped object in the sky about 200-300 feet above her.
She told the researchers that she saw two round red lights as she walked to her car at 7.30pm, adding that there was no noise as the object moved through the air.
Describing the scene, she said: ‘I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object.
‘This object was very large and seemed to be very heavy looking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.
‘I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs.
‘The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.’
Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, in December 1986
A couple described seeing a ‘star-shaped’ object
John Stoddard and his family were about to leave the cottage where they had spent a holiday on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
He was gazing at the stars at 7.22am when he noticed one of the ‘stars’ moving – in the direction of the family from over hills in the distance.
Mr Stoddard was joined by his wife – who also reported seeing the same object – it was just above some trees in a nearby field.
The couple described the object flying up to them at a low speed of about 5-10mph, and opening up into a giant triangle with white lights surrounding it.
Mr Stoddard, who said it was the size of a double-decker-bus, said both he and his wife were excited but also scared by what they saw.
The object moved slowly out of view of the family over the moors.
Rochdale, Lancashire, in August 1987
A dog walker saw these flying objects, before they disappeared after 10 seconds
A dog walker gave an extremely detailed description of unidentified objects of ‘tremendous’ size that flew through the night sky at more than 100mph.
John Doherty was on one of his late night dog walks at about 10pm he first noticed shimmering lights in the distance, through broken clouds.
He claimed to have seen them passing in and out of the clouds, and said they may have been rotating, causing them to ‘shimmer’.
Mr Doherty added that each object had three bright lights on its underside, that were so powerful they shone through the clouds.
He watched them until they disappeared after about 10 seconds.
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Kreeg de Amerikaanse marine technologieën van een buitenaards ras? Deze schrijver zegt van wel
Kreeg de Amerikaanse marine technologieën van een buitenaards ras? Deze schrijver zegt van wel
De Amerikaanse marine kreeg technologieën van een buitenaards ras om in te zetten tegen de nazi’s en andere aliens. Dat stelt de Amerikaanse schrijver William Tompkins, die in de jaren vijftig en zestig voor de marine heeft gewerkt.
Toen hij was gestationeerd op het San Diego Naval Air Station had hij naar eigen zeggen toegang tot geheime informatie, meldt zender CNN-News18.
Tompkins, die vaartuigen ontwierp voor de marine, schrijft dat de technologie bedoeld was om de planeet te beschermen tegen invasies van zogeheten Reptilians.
Blauwdrukken
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog had hij naar eigen zeggen contact met Amerikaanse spionnen die in topgeheime ruimtevaartinstallaties werkten.
Volgens de spionnen hadden de nazi’s de hand weten te leggen op blauwdrukken voor antizwaartekrachtmachines, straalwapens en andere wapens van de Reptilians, claimt de schrijver.
De VS werd geholpen door de Nordics, een ander buitenaards ras, die ook allerlei geavanceerde technologieën tot hun beschikking hadden.
Solar Warden
In het boek Selected by Extraterrestrials van Tompkins zijn schetsen te zien van ruimteschepen die hij heeft ontworpen, waarvan sommige enkele kilometers lang zijn.
Hij beweert dat de Amerikaanse marine in de jaren zeventig is begonnen met de bouw van deze schepen.
Het project heette naar verluidt Solar Warden en oorlogen met de Reptilians woeden nog altijd voort, aldus de zender.
UFO Near Clouds Over Hungary On Feb 11, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Near Clouds Over Hungary On Feb 11, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 11, 2018 Location of sighting: Hungary This UFO was caught using an infrared camera during the day. ColourUFO of Youtube caught it. He is an expert that catches UFO orbs on almost a daily basis with his infrared camera. The advantage of using a camera like this is that it can see light that they human eye cannot, thus any cloaked craft will become visible. Scott C. Waring
The first discovered interstellar visitor to our solar system has had a violent past, which is causing it to tumble around chaotically, a Queen's University Belfast scientist has discovered.
'Oumuamua flew through our solar system in October and was originally thought to be a comet, then it was later revealed as a cucumber-shaped asteroid.
Since October, Dr. Wes Fraser, alongside Dr. Pedro Lacerda, Dr. Michele Bannister, and Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, all from Queen's University Belfast's School of Mathematics and Physics, have been analysing the brightness measurements of the object. They have been working with an international team, including Dr. Petr Pravec from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dr. Colin Snodgrass from The Open University and Igor Smolic ́from the University of Belgrade.
Straight away, they discovered that 'Oumuamua wasn't spinning periodically like most of the small asteroids and bodies that we see in our solar system. Instead, it is tumbling, or spinning chaotically, and could have been for many billions of years.
While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for this, it is thought that 'Oumuamua impacted with another asteroid before it was fiercely thrown out of its system and into interstellar space.
Dr. Fraser explains: "Our modeling of this body suggests the tumbling will last for many billions of years to hundreds of billions of years before internal stresses cause it to rotate normally again.
"While we don't know the cause of the tumbling, we predict that it was most likely sent tumbling by an impact with another planetesimal in its system, before it was ejected into interstellar space."
Until now, scientists had been puzzled that 'Oumuamua's colour varied between measurements. However, Dr. Fraser's research has now revealed that its surface is spotty and that when the long face of the cucumber-shaped object was facing telescopes on Earth it was largely red but the rest of the body was neutral coloured, like dirty snow.
Dr. Fraser explains: "Most of the surface reflects neutrally but one of its long faces has a large red region. This argues for broad compositional variations, which is unusual for such a small body."
The research findings, which have been published in Nature Astronomy, have helped to build a more accurate profile of 'Oumuamua.
"We now know that beyond its unusual elongated shape, this space cucumber had origins around another star, has had a violent past, and tumbles chaotically because of it. Our results are really helping to paint a more complete picture of this strange interstellar interloper. It is quite unusual compared to most asteroids and comets we see in our own solar system," comments Dr. Fraser.
Since 'Oumuamua was spotted in October, a team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast have been analysing the object in detail. This is the third paper to be published by their team, which includes Ph.D. students Meabh Hyland and Thomas Seccull. Dr. Wes Fraser, Dr. Michele Bannister, Dr. Pedro Lacerda and Professor Alan Fitzsimmons have been supported by funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council for their research.
What’s driving China’s race to build a space station?
What’s driving China’s race to build a space station?
What’s driving China’s race to build a space station?
The advantages of developing space capabilities are manifold. Satellites facilitate military and civilian communications. Human spaceflight garners international prestige, while also providing opportunities for cutting-edge research. Experiments conducted in space have resulted in numerous breakthroughs that have been used to address medical, environmental, and technological challenges back on Earth.
China seeks to enhance its capacity for scientific and technological innovation by building a large modular space station. Chinese leaders also hope that research conducted on the Chinese Space Station (CSS) will support their long-term goals for space exploration, including missions to the Moon and Mars. This page offers insight into the development of the CSS, compares China’s space station with those of other countries, and explores how China may use manned space missions to bolster domestic innovation.
China Achieves Human Spaceflight
More than 60 countries have space programs that engage in activities ranging from the development of dual-use satellites to lunar exploration. Only three of these states have independently sent humans into space. The former Soviet Union and the United States achieved human spaceflight in 1961 against the backdrop of the Cold War space race. Four decades later, China joined this elite group with the 2003 launch of Lt. Col. Yang Liwei into Earth’s orbit on the Shenzhou-5 (“Divine Ship-5”). Yang orbited the Earth 14 times over a period of 21.5 hours.
China formally launched its manned space program, known as Project 921, in September 1992. Chief objectives of the multi-phase Project 921 include achieving human spaceflight and developing and operating what Wu Ping, deputy director of China’s Manned Space Agency (CMS), has called a “permanent” manned Chinese space station.
China formally launched its manned space program, known as Project 921, in September 1992.
A critical aspect of Project 921 is the development of Tiangong (“Heavenly Vessel”) space laboratories that serve as critical testbeds for gaining the technical know-how for operating the CSS. The 8.5 metric ton (MT) Tiangong-1 launched in September 2011 and enabled Chinese astronauts – or “taikonauts” – to practice rendezvous and dockingmaneuvers and carry out short-term missions in space. Despite losing communicationwith the space module in March 2016, Chinese engineers applied lessons learned to improve the design of its successor, the Tiangong-2, which launched in September 2016.
The Tiangong-2 features a greater capacity for scientific experimentation and is therefore considered by Wu Ping a laboratory “in the true sense of the word.” According to China’s 2016 white paper on space activities, the Tiangong-2offers a platform for China to master key technologies, such as cargo transport and replenishment, necessary for operating a permanent space station. Due to improvements in living quarters and life-support infrastructure, the module was able to host the two-man Shenzhou-11 crew for 30 days in late 2016. This marked China’s longest crewed mission to date. A third Tiangong space lab is slated for launch in the coming years and will be capable of supporting three taikonautsfor 40-day intervals.
Following from the success of the Tiangong missions, it has been reported that China is now in the process of building the core CSS module. Wang Zhongyang, a spokesman affiliated with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, revealed in April 2016 that China will launch this module around 2018 and conclude construction of the CSS by 2022.
Designing the Chinese Space Station
If successfully completed, the CSS will be roughly one-sixth the mass of the International Space Station (ISS) and half the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir Space Station. The Chinese station is expected to have a mass between 60 and 70 MT – this number may increase with vessels or additional modules docked – while the ISS has a mass over 420 MT, and Mir had a mass of approximately 130 MT.
The smaller size of the CSS may lend itself to operational efficiency and cost savings, but it comes with significant trade-offs. Reduced capacity for astronauts, equipment, and research may limit the utility of the station as a laboratory for scientific discovery. While Chinese engineers have noted that the station could be expanded via international cooperation, the CSS is designed to host three taikonauts for 3 to 6-month intervals (or six-person crews for shorter periods).
Although more recently constructed than either Mir or the ISS, the CSS is expected have a shorter lifespan. Zhu Zongpeng, chief architect of China’s space lab system, indicated in 2016 that the Chinese space station may stay in orbit for around ten years. Mir remained operational for 15 years before Russian controllers guided its descent into the South Pacific in 2001, and the ISS, which launched in 1998, will have functioned for 26 years if deorbited as planned in 2024.
In terms of design, the CSS is likely to resemble Mir. Both the Chinese and Russian space stations were designed to feature a core module and multiple attaching components. By contrast, the ISS bears an “integrated truss structure” that supports dozens of payloads delivered by fifteen partner nations.
The CSS’s core module, dubbed the Tianhe-1 (“Harmony of the Heavens”), will be 18.1 meters long and have a mass of 22 MT when launched in 2018. The station’s basic configuration is also expected to consist of two experiment modules, the Wentian and Mengtian, (“Quest for the Heavens” and “Dreaming of the Heavens,” respectively) permanently docked opposite each other in a T-shape structure. Each experiment module will have roughly the same length (14.4 meters) and mass (22 MT). This design is akin to that of Mir, which had a slightly smaller Base Block that launched in February 1986. Once fully assembled, Mir featured five additional modules—each with a mass between 11 and 19.7 MT—for conducting scientific and biological research and observing activity on Earth.
Chinese engineers plan to outfit the Tianhe core with five docking ports, as well as a robotic arm and internal racks for experimentation. The Wentian will also feature modular storage racks and a robotic arm, while the Mengtian will have a docking port to interface with visiting spacecraft, support modules, and repair vehicles. A space telescope, the Xuntian (“Which Takes to the Heavens”), may also launch into orbit near the Chinese Space Station around 2022. It is expected to have a field of view 300 times the size of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Funding the Manned Space Program
Some Chinese officials have expressed concern about whether Beijing can afford to continue investing heavily in the manned space program. Official data indicate that China spent over 20 billion yuan ($2.90 billion) on the project between 1992 and 2005, and an additional 15 billion yuan ($2.17 billion) between 2005 and 2011. Today, China allocates a greater share of its space budget to manned spaceflight (roughly 33 percent) than any other country. The U.S. follows at around 27 percent.
The OECD estimates that China now has the second-highest combined civil and military space budget in the world. Total government expenditures on space in 2013 were significantly higher in the U.S. ($39.33 billion) than in China ($6.11 billion), but the U.S. budget has contracted in recent years, while China’s has expanded. The Chinese government also plans to boost investment in space science, an area where it has historically lagged behind the United States. In 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent over $5 billion on space science while China spent just $110 million. China is expected to narrow this gap in the coming decades, and has already begun working to increase its cooperation with private investors.
The OECD estimates that China now has the second-highest combined civil and military space budget in the world.
At present, it is difficult to estimate the full cost of building and operating a permanent space station. By comparison, the ISS has high annual operating costs (expected to range between $3 and $4 billion through 2024) but is financed by multiple partner countries. For example, NASA is party to an ISS agreement with the Japanese, European, and Canadian space agencies that divides “common systems” operating costs. Within this framework, the U.S. shoulders 76.6 percent of the burden, while the Japanese, European, and Canadian space agencies pay 12.8, 8.3, and 2.3 percent shares, respectively. China has not indicated whether it will seek cost-sharing arrangements with other countries. It has signed space station cooperation agreements with the Russian and European space agencies—and the United Nations—but how much financial support such countries may be willing to provide is unknown.
Rationale for Project 921
High-level political and financial support for China’s space program has increased over the past several decades. The Chinese government noted in its latest white paper on space activities that China should be built “into a space power in all respects” and use its space program to enhance “its overall strength.” In addition, as noted in a report by the U.S.-based Project 2049 Institute, the Chinese government views manned spaceflight as a means of garnering international prestige and boosting national pride. This sentiment was voiced by now-retired Chinese leader Wu Bangguo in 2005 when he noted that the successful Shenzhou-6 mission was of “great significance for elevating China’s prestige in the world and promoting China’s economic, scientific and national defense capabilities, and its national cohesiveness.”
President Xi Jinping touted China’s aspiration to become a world leader in space exploration on China’s first National Day of Space Flight on April 24, 2016. On the same occasion, Xu Dazhe, who serves as the administrator of the China National Space Administration, explained that space industry projects (such as the “third part of manned space flight” and “third part of moon exploration”) outlined in the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) aim to make China a “major power” in the space industry. He added that China has only just begun leveraging its space capabilities.
Progress notwithstanding, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) scholars have argued in the past that the limited scope of China’s current contributions to space science neither measures up to the country’s “status as a great power,” nor supports the goal of “building an innovative nation.” They further emphasize that building a Chinese space station presents unparalleled opportunities for scientific discovery and technological innovation.
Research conducted aboard the ISS promotes scientific inquiry and can result in beneficial “spinoff” technologies. These include advancements in medicine and agriculture, improvements in automobile safety testing, and even the development of a new line of golf clubs. Chinese taikonauts have been systematically denied the opportunity to directly participate in such groundbreaking research, as the U.S. and other space-faring countries have restricted space cooperation with China and limited the transfer of sensitive technologies.
Successfully launching the CSS around the time of the ISS’ deorbiting would lend China its own platform for conducting research and strengthening China’s “independent innovative capabilities.” Operating the station could also enable China to leverage diplomatic opportunities. Countries interested in continued research in space could be compelled to look to the Chinese space program in the absence of other alternatives. The European Space Agency has already begun considering how they might coordinate joint-ventureswith China.
Additionally, China hopes to use its manned space station as a stepping stone to further achievements in space. Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program, noted in 2016 that China’s long-term goals include launching an unmanned mission to Mars by 2020 and establishing a manned research base on the Moon. Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, deputy commander of the China Manned Space Program, indicated that China will use the next 15 to 20 years to develop the requisite technical capabilities for conducting manned lunar missions. China leaders have also expressed a desire to send probes the Jupiter to support their efforts to make China into one of the top three space programs in the world by 2030.
On February 11, the anonymous whistleblower “QAnon” posted information that corroborates claims that a false flag ballistic missile attack was launched against Hawaii on January 13, and that a submarine linked to the CIA is currently being hunted by the U.S. and other regional military forces.
QAnon has quickly grown in popularity since first appearing in late October, 2017 discussing the “coming storm” of revelations, document dumps, trials, events, etc., linked to Trump White House pledges to “Drain the Swamp”.
Today QAnon has an estimated audience of millions who closely follow his/her posts. Major media sources such as Newsweek have published highly critical stories attempt to dismiss QAnon as just the latest incarnation of unsubstantiated right wing conspiracy theories.
QAnon’s cryptic style of communication involves questions, links, photos, acronyms and codes, which are used as breadcrumbs for the reader to learn about highly classified efforts underway by White Hats in the government/military opposed to Deep State corruption and human rights abuses in the U.S. and around the world.
The most telling official document that substantiates QAnon’s claims to date is an extraordinary Executive Order passed by President Trump on December 21, 2017 declaring a national emergency and freezing the financial assets of anyone involved in human rights abuses and corruption anywhere around the world.
The mainstream media has strangely ignored Trump’s “Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Abuse or Corruption”, and its deep significance, especially given what QAnon has previously stated. If Trump’s Executive Order was indeed targeting the Deep State, it’s not surprising that it would provoke a strong reaction by powerful groups suddenly cut off from their financial assets.
That’s where the ballistic missile alert on the morning of January 13 in Hawaii becomes relevant. As discussed in three previous articles (see here, here and here), there have been a number of whistleblowers, witnesses and analysts who have all said the missile alert was genuine, and not a false alarm at all, as public officials contend.
QAnon followed the Hawaii missile alert the next day warning about an upcoming week of false flag attacks by the Deep State. This implied that the Hawaii incident was part of a series of false flag attacks, and not a false alarm.
Since January 14, however, QAnon has not said much to cast light on the Hawaii ballistic missile alert. That is until February 11 when QAnon provided a long post referring to a recent false flag missile attack intended to start a war. The relevant post appears below and the section of comments relevant to the Hawaii missile alert is highlighted in red.
It is worth examining QAnon’s questions in light of what has been previously learned about the Hawaii missile alert and Trump’s December 21 Executive Order. QAnon wrote:
Ask yourself, who is trying to start a war?
The most obvious answer is those targeted by Trump’s Executive Order. Individuals and groups responsible for human rights abuses and corruption in the U.S. and globally, have the most to lose if their financial assets are frozen.
QAnon then wrote:
Ask yourself, if a missile was launched by rogue actors, what would be the purpose?
The purpose would be to create a false flag attack where blame would be pinned on a credible state actor capable of launching a ballistic missile that could hit Hawaii: North Korea. The “rogue actors” really responsible for the attack, would thereby have created a scenario where the U.S. military would have been forced to respond.
QAnon next pointedly asks:
Ask yourself, what would/should immediately start a WAR?
We know from World War II history that the December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was the catalyst for America entering the war. The next day, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly voted to declare war on the Empire of Japan.
QAnon is here telling us that a successful nuclear missile attack on Pearl Harbor would have triggered a similar War Declaration by the U.S. Congress against the alleged perpetrator. North Korea.
Were the “rogue actors” behind the attack, also hoping that an unsuccessful nuclear missile attack, in the event the missile was shot down, would also trigger war?
This possibility arises from what an anonymous Hickham Air Force Base fusion analyst says he overheard after the missile was shot down. In a post to a website protecting the anonymity of posters, s/he said:
Most significant here is what the analyst says he overheard a Federal Investigator and a Hawaii state official say about Trump’s refusal to order a retaliation “that this “Demonstrated weakness in the Trump admin and a refusal to protect the people”.
QAnon’s next question is very important for identifying who was behind the missile Hawaii attack:
Ask yourself “would the PUBLIC understand the following statement: Rogue actors (Clowns/US former heads of State) initiated a missile launch in order to ‘force’ the US into a WAR/conflict against X?”
QAnon has previously referred to the CIA as “Clowns in Action”, and has described former Presidents Bush (Snr), Clinton and Obama as Deep State/CIA assets. In short, “Clowns” is QAnon’s codeword for the CIA.
In a previous article, I provided documentary evidence supporting insider claims that the CIA’s clandestine services division created a shadowy Navy with its own aircraft, ballistic missile carrying submarines, and even an aircraft carrier battle group that all together comprises a “Dark Fleet”.
This is where QAnon’s cryptic references in other February 11 posts to “Red October” become pertinent.
QAnon is quite clear that s/he is referring to the famed 1990 movie, “The Hunt for Red October”. The plot of the movie described how the major powers were all hunting for a rogue Soviet submarine equipped with ballistic nuclear weapons whose captain and officers wished to defect with their new stealth technology.
QAnon’s repeated references to Red October is telling us that a similar scenario is currently occurring with the U.S. and other major world powers all seeking a rogue CIA submarine equipped with ballistic nuclear missiles and advanced stealth technology. Rather than the captain and crew wishing to defect however, the CIA submarine may be seeking a new opportunity to launch a false flag attack designed to precipitate a major regional war.
While QAnon remains controversial in the major media, multiple sources have claimed s/he is the real deal and deserves serious consideration. Many alternative media sites closely follow QAnon’s information including Dr. Jerome Corsi who has become the resident Infowars.com expert on QAnon.
QAnon’s references to a recent missile attack by rogue actors wishing to start a major war needs to be considered with what we know about the January 13 Hawaii missile alert.
QAnon is telling us that it was not a false alarm, and that it was a genuine attempt to start a major war by pinning the blame for a contrived nuclear attack, successful or not, on North Korea. The CIA linked submarine involved is apparently still at large, and capable of attempting further false flag attacks using ballistic nuclear missiles.
The UFO hotel that'll leave you starry-eyed! Stunning renderings emerge of spaceship-style lodge that's set to open beneath a glacier in the Arctic Circle
The UFO hotel that'll leave you starry-eyed! Stunning renderings emerge of spaceship-style lodge that's set to open beneath a glacier in the Arctic Circle
Hotel Svart will sit in a breathtaking location at the foot of Svartisen - Norway's second largest glacier
Architects went about crafting the unusual structure so it will use 85 per cent less energy than a regular hotel
The eco-friendly building will be rigged up to a geothermal well so naturally-heated water will run throughout
You'll be left starry-eyed at this UFO-style hotel, set to touch down in the Arctic Circle.
Incredible renderings have emerged of the spaceship-style lodge, which is scheduled to open in 2021 in northern Norway just above the Arctic Circle.
The images show how hotel Svart will sit in a breathtaking location at the foot of Svartisen - Norway's second largest glacier - and it will be set above the water on stilts. Architects went about crafting the unusual structure so it will use 85 per cent less energy than a regular hotel would.
Scheduled for a 2021 opening, hotel Svart will sit in a breathtaking location at the foot of Svartisen - Norway's second largest glacier. Pictured above, a computer rendering showing an aerial view of the finished design
They plan on using wood for the most part - instead of steel and concrete - to build the ring-shaped inn and it will be adorned with solar panels to harvest sunlight for power.
The walls of the eco-friendly building have been strategically designed to insulate in the winter and allow for ventilation in the summer.
And the hotel will be rigged up to a geothermal well, so naturally-heated water will run throughout.
Topping it off, all of the furnishings will be made from recycled or natural materials.
According to Hotel News Now, energy is the second largest spending category for hotels after employment.
The walls of the building have been strategically designed to insulate in the winter and allow for ventilation in the summer. And the hotel will be rigged up to a geothermal well, so naturally heated water will run throughout
According to a study conducted by Hotel Energy Solutions in 2011, energy is the second largest spending category for hotels after employment.
The firm’s analysis revealed that energy in hotels is mainly consumed by temperature regulation, which includes heating, hot water and air conditioning.
Hotel Svart was designed by a team from the Oslo-based architecture firm Snøhetta.
Commenting on the novel design idea, Snøhetta's co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, said: 'Building in such a precious environment comes with some clear obligations in terms of preserving the natural beauty and the fauna and flora of the site.
'It was important for us to design a sustainable building that will leave a minimal environmental footprint on this beautiful Northern nature.
Along with being eco-friendly, another draw for visitors will be the hotel's location. Situated just above the Arctic Circle in a remote patch of untouched countryside, stays at Svart will provide the perfect opportunity to see the ethereal Northern Lights
The hotel is set to offer various outdoors activities including hiking, kayaking and mountain biking
'Building an energy positive and low-impact hotel is an essential factor to create a sustainable tourist destination respecting the unique features of the plot; the rare plant species, the clean waters and the blue ice of the Svartisen glacier.'
Along with being eco-friendly, another draw for visitors will be the hotel's location.
Situated just above the Arctic Circle in a remote patch of untouched countryside, stays at Svart will provide the perfect opportunity to see the ethereal Northern Lights.
Other outdoor activities set to be on offer include hiking, kayaking and mountain biking.
UFOs spotted over Hawaii as earthquake STRIKES and 'flashing white lights' seen in sky
UFOs spotted over Hawaii as earthquake STRIKES and 'flashing white lights' seen in sky
A UFO was spotted in Hawaii just minutes before an earthquake struck the US state, prompting speculation that extraterrestrial activity caused the tremor.
UFOs spotted over Hawaii as earthquake STRIKES and 'flashing white lights' seen in sky
Eyewitnesses in Hawaii reported seeing an unidentified flying object on the same day the earthquake struck on January 25, according to UFO Hunters.
The person reported to seeing bright flashes of lights, before the craft manipulated the clouds to exit Earth’s atmosphere.
According to the site which tracks UFO sightings across the world, the witness said: “There were long horizontal lights down each tube, the tubes seemed to have some thick ribs spaced quite a distance apart, joined together with something thinner and darker.
“Then as I was trying to see it clearly, it flashed. After the flash it got a brighter white and all the other lights on the tubes grew brighter to drown out any definition. The clouds then moved until it was covered completely.”
The user adds UFOs over Hawaii are a common sight, saying: “I've seen so many lights manoeuvring the beach in the past.”
According to website Earthquake Track, there were two tremors which struck Hawaii at the same time.
One was a 1.7 magnitude quake, and the other was a 2.0 tremor.
UFO bloggers such as expert Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, says that there is a link between earthquakes and aliens.
He said: "The linking of Earth energies with UFO activity in the 1960s was part of the New Age movement of the period.
"But, by the late 1970s, the time was ripe to put them under the scrutiny of more rigorous investigation.
"In Canada, Michael Persinger and Gyslaine Lafrenière made a statistical study of the correlation between UFO sightings and seismic-related locations.
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UFOs and earthquakes are commonly linked
"Their book Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events put forward the evidence suggesting that tectonic strains in the Earth’s crust produce enough energy to produce columns of electrical energy and glowing balls of light in the atmosphere.
"This Tectonic Strain Theory (TST) explains why UFOs appear at window areas or certain hot spots.
"Michael Persinger, has gone on to consider and experiment with the possibility that the EM fields of these type of UFOs can trigger hallucinations or trance states in people who get to near to them.
"This would explain the many stories of ‘alien’ abductions and other strange encounters that are experienced after a witness has seen a light in the sky."
When people think they have seen UFOs, Chuck Zukowski takes their calls.
“I’m Ghostbuster for aliens. If a local rancher hears about a possible [cattle] mutilation, they contact me,” Zukowski told ABC News.
Over the past 30 years, Zukowski has become the go-to paranormal investigator along the southern borders of Colorado, Utah and Kansas, where he examines bizarre animal mutilations and UFO sightings in an effort to record evidence of alien activity.
“A lot of cattle mutilations have occurred where UFO sightings have been seen,” said Zukowski. “Either the rancher or somebody nearby would see lights in the sky.”
Zukowski said he believes that these mutilations are caused when UFOs, or unidentified flying objects, lift the cows, take their blood and return them to land.
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Chuck Zukowski considers himself an UFO investigator who searches for evidence of alien life along the 37th degree parallel of the United States, in Colorado Springs, Colo.more +
He acknowledged that many of his suburban neighbors think he is crazy, but he said he now embraces the nickname “UFO Nut” on the custom license plate of his investigation truck and his website UFONut.com.
“With me, it becomes part of your life,” said Zukowski.
Chuck Zukowski points out what he believes are alien sightings along the 37th degree parallel of the United States in Colorado Springs, Colo.more +
Zukowski pays for all his equipment and travel from his own pocket, but would not specify how much he’s spent in total. “I don’t get funded for this at all," he said."I’m afraid to say because if my wife sees this she’s going to kill me. But thousands obviously.”
When he is not searching for UFOs, Zukowski works as a microchip designer on a freelance basis, which allows him to leave whenever he receives word of a potential paranormal activity.
Zukowski admitted that in his 30 years of searching, he has not found any extraterrestrials.
“I have not seen alien life, but I have seen balls of light. I have actually seen a craft in the sky. Something was out there that’s communicating. Something was coming down.”
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Chuck Zukowski wears a tactical vest and carries a gun whenever he investigates what he believes is alien activity along the 37th degree parallel of the United States in Colorado Springs, Colo.more +
Zukowski said he usually carries a firearm with him when pursuing UFOs, either a 40-caliber or 9-millimeter handgun, which he tucks into his tactical vest.
His investigations have caused problems for him in the past. In 2011, Zukowski was fired from his position as a reserve sheriff’s deputy with the El Paso Sheriff’s Office as “a result of conducting paranormal and unidentified flying object investigations into animal mutilations” and refusing to “refrain from conducting paranormal and unidentified flying object investigations, which could be viewed as a conflict of interest,” according to his termination letter.
“If it’s not a human, it’s something else,” said Zukowski when asked about his disagreement with the sheriff's office.
Despite losing his badge, Zukowski continues to investigate unusual incidents on his own.
In 2016, best-selling author Ben Mezrich wrote a book about Zukowski’s adventures and his theory that UFO activity is concentrated around the 37th parallel of the equator.
“We have a paranormal highway going across the United States. From my research and investigations, the 37th parallel appears to be the main corridor of UFOs traveling across the U.S.,” said Zukowski, who noted that Roswell, Area 51 and other reported UFO sightings are near this latitude.
When the Department of Defense confirmed in December that the U.S. government had a $22 million program for investigating reports of UFOs, Zukowski said he was not surprised.
“I knew that already,” said Zukowski. He recalled sending a piece of so-called UFO evidence years ago to be tested at Bigelow Aerospace, a major recipient of that government funding in Nevada.
Although the Pentagon said the UFO program was ended in 2012, Zukowski said he believes is still going on in secret, under a different name.
“There’s a lot going on, flying across the United States,” said Zukowski. “Let’s see what’s it is.”
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Mysterious UFO ‘object’ spotted near Area 51 on Google Maps
Mysterious UFO ‘object’ spotted near Area 51 on Google Maps
Jasper Hamill
Is this an alien craft – or just a boring old cesspit?
A strange and unidentified object has been spotted outside a military base near Area 51.
Pictures of the weird object were first posted to Twitter by SecureTeam10, a YouTube channel which describes itself as ‘the number one source for breaking news and exposure of the alien phenomenon’.
SecureTeam10 asked. We have been given the Google Maps coordinates of the object by a Twitter user named Joshua B, who lives in California.
He also posted a screenshot from a different mapping service which shows a similar shape dug from the sand nearby as well as sand in the middle of the object.
I screenshotted this photo from the Strava Global Heatmap, in which this screenshot might be newer than the one Tyler had screenshotted from Google Maps. pic.twitter.com/HRGRI5X5lq
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The Genesis of Homo Sapiens and Our Extraterrestrial DNA
The Genesis of Homo Sapiens and Our Extraterrestrial DNA
The mysteries of ancient history, such as how the Great Pyramid was built and by whom and why, have been well established over the past four decades. Similar archaeological enigmas litter the landscape around the planet and they raise many difficult questions about the origin of human civilisation.
Erik Von Daniken’s series of books, which began with Chariots of the Gods, presented archeological evidence while recounting many mythological traditions that have “gods” arriving on Earth from a distant world and bringing technology and the arts of civilised life to primitive human tribes.
Many writers followed Von Daniken’s lead and an entire school of alternative historical thought called the “ancient astronaut” theory emerged over the years. This school must be distinguished from another branch largely defined by such writers as Graham Hancock, which we can sum up as the “lost civilisation” school.
The latter does not figure into this discussion nor is it covered in my book The Genesis Race because it never really addresses the issue of the ultimate origins of Man or civilisation. Even if you accept the idea ancient Egypt and Sumer had their origins in Atlantis, who created that civilisation and from what precursors?
The essential questions the author has been studying over the past three decades are:
1) how did life originate and evolve on Earth?, and
2) how did civilisation suddenly emerge from mankind’s primitive roots?
To my mind it seemed the ancient astronaut theory could be defeated if Darwin’s theory proved to be correct, which “official science” claims it has been. That premise can be justified using several valid arguments.
The “ancient astronaut” theory generally includes the idea summed up in the first chapter of Genesis, which indicates the “gods” genetically engineered a proto-human race. The actual verse reads, “Let us make man in our image.” If Darwinism is accurate then this assertion would be untrue and the notion of cosmic intervention by an advanced race would fall apart.
The second reason is Darwin’s theory has not only been applied to biology, it is also used to explain the emergence and development of human civilisation by a process referred to as cultural evolution.
At its core Darwinism is based on a simple concept: life evolves slowly via a process of incremental adaptations to a wide variety of external stimulus. He applied it to biology and anthropologists, archaeologists and historians applied the same principles to culture and human history. If this is correct then we should not find any abrupt transformations in human “evolution” either biological or historical.
I reason that if Darwinism is accurate then there may not be any valid scientific basis for the “ancient astronaut” theory, which posited intervention and rapid-fire metamorphosis in both the biological and historical spheres. The results of this research proved surprising.
Chapters two and three clearly show the flaws in the theory of evolution. It has failed exactly where Darwin feared it might – in the fossil record. Here we find – instead of widespread confirmation – a large number of missing links.
The general public is given to believe the only “missing link” in the fossil record exists between apes and man. This is not true. The fossil record contains hundreds of gaps between ancient and modern plant and animal species.
Darwin referred to the gap separating the primitive non-flowering plants (gymnosperms) and flowering plants (angiosperms) as the “abominable problem.” Why? Because the gymnosperms, like ferns, existed for billions of years and they still exist today.
The angiosperms, like roses, appeared on the scene about 150 million years ago and they exist today. Where is the evidence showing the fern evolved through a series of slow, incremental changes into a rose?
According to Darwinism the angiosperms evolved from the gymnosperms. If this is true then where are the intermediate forms linking the two very different types of plants? They have not been found in the fossil record and none exist today. This seems impossible and it is if you accept the principles of Darwinism.
There is no scientific explanation for the lack of intermediate plants linking the ancient and modern types. In fact, there should be millions of such fossils since they would have been evolving for hundreds of millions of years, far longer than flowering plants.
Scientists also have no explanation why gymnosperms and angiosperms exist side by side. Somehow all the intermediate plants they say connect the two kingdoms mysteriously vanished from the fossil record and became extinct. Logic would dictate that the older, ancient plants (non-flowering) should have been the ones to go the way of extinction.
This is actually enough evidence to kill Darwinism. Official science would have us believe the only dissenters against Darwinism are Creationists that come from the ranks of the Religious Right.
However, I present numerous references to bona fide scientists that slam the door on Darwin’s theory of natural evolution.
What is, or should be, of great interest to anyone interested in the pursuit of science – as it applies to getting to the truth of human origins and the emergence of civilisation – are the works of Francis Crickand Fred Hoyle.
While Von Daniken’s books were becoming popular in mainstream culture, these two eminent scientists wrote books about the origins of life on Earth. Both were highly critical of Darwinism and posited that life did not originate on Earth. They said the seeds of the biosphere originated in the cosmos.
In his book Life Itself, Crick – a Nobel prize-winner and the co-founder of the shape of the DNA molecule – claimed an advanced civilisation transported the seeds of life to Earth in a spacecraft.
Hoyle, an astronomer who gave the world the steady state theory of the Universe, proposed that life came from the stars borne on comets or riding on the currents of light waves.
The unfortunate thing is these rigorous scientific arguments were largely dismissed or completely ignored by “official science”, and also overlooked by the same folks embracing Von Daniken’s relatively unscientific, yet popular approach. (Erik did make people question and think.)
I want to clarify what I mean by that statement. Von Daniken claimed he was presenting a theory yet the title of his first book ended with a question mark.
A new theory is normally offered by presenting arguments against the currently accepted theory, as Crick and Hoyle did, and it is presented assertively with equal measures of humility and confidence that do not end in a question mark.
His somewhat insecure and uncritical approach has characterised much of the “ancient astronaut” literature, which official science finds easy to debunk.
That is why The Genesis Race begins with a serious critique of Darwinism. That is followed by several chapters re-examining the account of human genesis and the early history found in the Bible. A revolutionary analysis of the first three chapters clearly shows there were two creation events of life (and mankind) on Earth.
It also shows the history given in the Bible agrees with the findings of paleontology and anthropology. In the first chapter we find that an early proto-human race was created and lived in the wilderness, like other animals, as hunter-gatherers. They were given “every green thing to eat” by the gods andGenesis 1 ends with that covenant.
However, in the second chapter we are told Adam is created to be a gardener and Eve is taken from Adam’s rib and the “gods” give them clothing and self-awareness. The chronological account of Creation in the second chapter is entirely different than that of the first chapter of Genesis.
This is a critical point. Not only do the two accounts differ completely, we find Adam is not to live in the wilderness as an animal but is intended to be a caretaker and farmer. If the two accounts are compared side by side the difference is obvious:
Adam and Eve are not equivalent to the race created in Genesis 1; and Genesis 2 and 3 are not a detailed elucidation of the events described in the first chapter, which is normally implied or taught in church Bible classes.
What the first three chapters of Genesis actually describe are:
1) the creation of a proto-human race, the pre-Neanderthals and Neanderthals who live as hunter-gatherers in an innocent state as described in chapter 1, followed by,
2) the genesis of modern Homosapiens (Adam) fit for the agricultural revolution.
That is exactly the history given in Genesis and it agrees with everything modern science establishes about the chronology of human pre-history.
This is a radical revision giving much stronger support to the Biblical version of human genesis and how and why the agricultural revolution took place.
It also clarifies who the “us” refers to when God is abruptly referred to as ‘a plurality’ that intervenes and genetically alters life on Earth, the Genesis Race; and it sets the stage for a presentation of the enigmatic archaeological and additional evidence that further supports the theory of intervention by a technologically advanced extraterrestrial race.
Archaeology has never even addressed all the questions raised by the sudden emergence of agriculture and highly advanced civilisations in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE, let alone answered the most critical ones.
From the perspective of conventional archeological and anthropological thinking, the origins of humankind and the emergence of civilisation from the Stone Age remain enigmatic. We have incontrovertible proof our ancestors could not have built the Great Pyramid with the tools and methods they possessed.
Yet official science simply ignores or tries to explain away many serious questions and issues such as how the Great Pyramid – the world’s largest precision-engineered stone structure – was constructed using only hammer-stones, ropes, manpower and sledges.
However, there are other issues that need to be addressed and today’s genetic research is shedding new light on this field. The implications of several important recent findings seem to have escaped the attention of many independent investigators.
Established archaeologists and anthropologists have either ignored or railed against the findings of these controversial DNA studies. I am referring to genetic studies into the origin of the domesticated dog and into the diet of our Paleolithic and early Neolithic ancestors.
You may ask what do the dog and Stone Age dietary habits have to do with solving the enigmas of mankind’s ancient past? The answer is everything.
Until recently it was believed dogs (Canis familiaris) came from a variety of wild canines such as wolves, coyotes, dingos, jackals, etc. But the latest DNA research shows that the wolf alone is the ancestral race of all dogs.
This poses a set of very difficult problems. The first dog would have been a mutant wolf. However, wolves are extremely sensitive to the genetic fitness and strength of each member of the pack. They are constantly testing and establishing a stringent social pecking order and only the alphas reproduce.
So how would a mutant ever have survived and reproduced given the rigours of pack behaviour? No wolves in captivity have produced viable mutants and geneticists tell us mutants are normally unfit and do not survive.
We are faced with a real conundrum. If we pose that early human tribes intervened and bred wolves into dogs we are faced with an equally impossible scenario. How could primitive humans have known it was possible to selectively breed a wild animal into one possessing only those traits beneficial to them?
We take the characteristics of dogs for granted, however, they present us with a profound mystery. A dog is the embodiment of only those wolf traits that people find useful, attractive and safe. How did genetically illiterate Stone Age humans achieve this feat of genetic engineering?
This problem is compounded when we are confronted by evidence from our earliest civilisations showing that salukis, sighthounds and the pharaoh’s hound, had already been bred in ancient Sumeria and Egypt.
How is it possible our ancestors, recently emerged from the Stone Age, could have successfully engineered purebred lines at the onset of civilisation? In addition, dogs are not only temperamentally different than their wild progenitors, they differ physiologically as well.
A wild alpha male and female only breed once a year, whereas dogs can breed any time. Wolves shed their winter coats, dogs do not. These diverging physiological characteristics take time to develop, in fact, many generations. Again, how did our ancestors at the onset of civilisation accomplish this?
This mystery is underscored by the fact most of the modern dog breeds originated thousands of years ago. Science has not even addressed most of these issues let alone have the experts satisfactorily explained how wolves became dogs – 100,000 years ago – nor have they shown the step-by-step transitions.
Purebred dogs just suddenly appear in the archeological record as if by magic. This is also true of agriculture and our key cereal and legume crops. Wheat, corn, beans and rice pose a second set of genetic enigmas.
Research into the dietary habits of Stone Age tribes around the globe show our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors subsisted on leafy plants and lean muscle meats. This makes perfect sense because these foods were readily available, took little or no processing, and wild game could be cooked over an open fire.
The problem with our grain crops, and they are the basis of civilisation, is wild grass seeds are so miniscule the cost/benefit of harvesting them was not in favour of it. They also require harvesting, threshing and cooking technology since they have to be boiled extensively. This was technology Stone Age Man lacked.
The reason grains have to be cooked is that the human gut is not adapted to digest wild grains. This makes it very clear the use of wild grass seeds as a primary food source is of recent origin. Our Paleolithic ancestors did not subsist on them.
Once again, this poses a set of formidable problems that need to be studied rigorously. If our ancestors did not harvest and eat wild grains, how could they have domesticated and bred the wild species so quickly?
Without many generations of trial and error experimentation – culminating in a vast body of agronomic knowledge and agricultural practices that would have included genetics and breeding – it is all but impossible to understand how the agricultural revolution was brought about.
Official science tries to explain the evolution of nomadic hunter-gatherers into sedentary, crop-growing farmers by claiming they discovered crops quite by accident. We are told it happened when a primitive villager tossed a seed bearing plant into the trash pile and noticed that it sprouted.
But that trite tale can hardly explain how they selected the best wild species to use as the basis for the agricultural revolution. There are thousands and thousands of potential wild plants that could be turned into agricultural crops.
How is it people with very little experience with wild grasses were able to pick the best varieties to breed? This represents a quantum leap. What we are asked to believe is that our ancestors, without much experience at the seminal stage of civilisation, were able to select and breed the very best varieties of wild grass species.
How do we know this is true? Because we
still grow the very crops they supposedly selected even after 5,000 years of continuous technological and agricultural development.
We are asked to suspend disbelief and accept they also constructed the largest precision-engineered stone building the world has ever seen – the Great Pyramid of Giza – using only primitive hand tools and backbreaking labor. Something is obviously wrong with this picture. Is it logical to assume our Earthly ancestors could (or would) have thrown together the agricultural revolution and then the entire civilisations of Sumer and Egypt out of whole cloth? No it is not; and neither do these suppositions represent sound science.
For those of us in the alternative history camp, one of the most fundamental questions we must impress upon the public and upon ‘official science’ is to ask where are the antecedents and precedents?
Show us the slow Darwinian stages of development that official history presupposes. How can you explain the sudden appearance of genetically altered food crops and advanced engineering techniques at the onset of human civilisation?
We need step-by-step documentation and incontrovertible evidence and it ought to be copious and devoid of missing links since we are supposedly talking about events that occurred thousands and not tens or hundreds of millions of years ago, as is the case with biological evolution.
Where did our Paleolithic ancestors acquire the knowledge and skills to breed wild plants into food crops while also constructing planned cities? How did they achieve an exacting command of the principles of civil engineering as exhibited in Sumeria and the Harrappan civilisation of the Indus Valley?
How did humans go from mud huts and collecting leafy plants to building ziggurats, flush toilets, public bathhouses (Mohenjo Daro), making bread in ovens, and inventing process metallurgy seemingly overnight? In plain language, where is the proof – the missing links – demonstrating your (official science) theories are confirmed in the archaeological record and meet simple standards of logic and commonsense?
Turning to what our ancestors in Sumer, Mexico, Egypt and Peru have to say about the origins of agriculture and civilisation we find a very different story. According to the ancient records, written and oral traditions, none of the earliest civilisations claimed they invented it. What is of profound interest is they are in unanimous accord in claiming they were given the arts of civilisation by the ‘gods’.
It is very unlike human nature to give credit to anyone else for anything we have invented or achieved. The ancient Egyptians left copious records of every aspect of their culture in a huge collection of artwork, hieroglyphics and texts.
Yet, we find no reference in their 3,000 year history as to how or why ‘they’ built the pyramids. What a curious lapse of documentation for such a communicative race assuming they did indeed built the pyramids. Would they have omitted any reference to their most important monuments?
That seems a preposterous supposition and yet Egyptologists gloss over it as they do the lack of mummies in the alleged ‘pyramids-as-tombs’ scenario they embrace without blushing.
These are all clues, pieces of a vast planetary puzzle, telling the story of the Genesis Race. The references to these ‘gods’ that arrived on Earth to uplift man are described in the Bible and other ancient texts and traditions. Their megalithic calling cards are found in Egypt, Mexico, Peru and China.
The Darwinian-based theories of ‘official science’, concerning the origin of Man and human civilisation, lead to a series of intellectual dead ends.
If we closely examine the record we find civilisation was founded upon five primary inventions:
1) Agriculture, 2) Urbanisation, 3) Writing, 4) The Wheel, and 5) Process metallurgy.
Now, what happens when we try to uncover the origins of these key inventions in the archaeological and historical record? We find anthropologists and historians positing that agriculture was probably discovered by accident when our primitive ancestors tossed plants into the garbage heap and noticed the seeds produced new plants.
Of course that does not explain what motivated them to plant and harvest wild grass seeds (they almost never ate) and how they learned to selectively breed and domesticate (alter) these plants genetically.
Well, they brush aside these queries with the same logic. This, too, was probably a serendipitous process that moved forward by a series of benign and happy coincidences. We are given to imagine the first domesticated animal, an example of perfect selective breeding, also took place when Paleolithic tribesman – via unknown techniques – domesticated a line of mutant wolves.
Then we learn that process metallurgy, too, was the result of an accident, when someone dropped a piece of malachite into a campfire and observantly noticed that as it melted it produced copper.
In short, the fundamental paradigm ‘official science’ has formulated on how human life originated and how we created civilisation rests on a series of ‘miraculous’ accidents and impossible knowledge and skills!
Egyptologists would have us believe the primitive tribes living along the Nile in oval huts who used mud-bricks to build mastabas for millennia were suddenly capable of advanced quarry operations, stonemasonry, architecture and corporate engineering.
Of course, they cannot explain how these primitive peoples built a massive, precision-engineered pyramid using only round hammerstones, wooden sledges and human labor.
It is simply not possible to quarry, lift, drag and transport 70-ton blocks of granite 500 miles from the Aswan quarry to Giza and up 150 vertical feet and precisely position them in the King’s Chamber as Egyptologists claim was done.
I have repeatedly challenged Egyptologists, and their irrational, unscientific fellow travelers to demonstrate how the blocks of granite in the King’s Chamber can be quarried and lifted out of the quarry-bed and transported using the primitive tools and methods they claim were used. It cannot be done!
Furthermore, this author claims he can show that any academics – mathematicians, anthropologists and/or engineering professors – who believe and teach these absurdities to students are lunatics running the asylums – our scientific institutions and universities.
This is certainly a serious, bold indictment and yet it must be made because it is true and it is high time to expose the intellectual chicanery and fraud perpetrated upon generations.
I am not making these claims to create a controversy but to resolve a long-standing debate that has profound ramifications since it involves eliminating falsehoods and getting to the historical facts.
How can I make such strong accusations with complete confidence?
First, the author has studied the engineering problems intensively and extensively comparing the building of modern-day monuments using state-of-the-art technology to the construction of the Great Pyramid using primitive tools and methods.
Second, I have examined the recent record of tests conducted by Egyptologists and others trying to prove they could quarry, move and lift blocks of stone using nothing but ancient tools and techniques. Both studies yielded the same results: the Great Pyramid could not have been built with hammerstones, sledges and ramps.
One test filmed by Nova was organised by Egyptologist Mark Lehner and involved leading experts in a variety of fields. The team set out to quarry, move and lift a 35-ton obelisk into place. They failed miserably at every step.
The master stonemason could not quarry the block using the primitive tools he was given. A Cat was called in to quarry the block and lift it onto a flatbed truck; sensing defeat they never even tried to transport it using a wooden sledge. The block was half the weight of one those used in the King’s Chamber.
A Nissan funded Japanese team conducted another serious test in 1978. They set out to build a small-scale duplicate of the Great Pyramid also using the primitive tools and techniques Egyptologists claim the ancients employed.
This group was confident they could demonstrate how it was done. However, when they tried to quarry the blocks they found the hammerstones were not equal to the task. They called in pneumatic jackhammers. When they tried to ferry the blocks across the river on a primitive barge, they sank. They called in a modern tugboat for help.
Then they loaded a block onto a sledge only to find that it stubbornly sank into the sand when they tried to drag it to the site. They called for trucks and loaders. The final coup d’grace was delivered when they were forced to call in helicopters to lift and position the blocks into place.
Even using modern technology the Japanese team found, to their utter embarrassment, they could not bring the apex of their tiny 60 feet tall replica together. They suffered a bitter and quite humbling defeat in the unforgiving Egyptian desert. Their replica of the Great Pyramid turned out to be a joke.
We are supposed to believe men using tools marginally better than Stone Age equipment, quarried, lifted and hauled millions of blocks of stone to form a precision-engineered 4-million ton tomb. Stuff of nonsense!
The conventional scenario is not just an absurd proposition that can only be maintained using intellectual smoke and mirrors, it is downright silly. The real question is, how could anyone with any commonsense have ever believed it?
There are, of course, many other problems with the primitive tools and methods scenario and the Great Pyramid. To begin with Mark Lehner commissioned an engineering firm to study the site.
They found that the 13-acre base had been leveled with an accuracy equal to that achieved by modern day lasers. Are we to believe a 13-acre limestone bench was planed with that degree of precision using rounded hammerstones to grind down the rock until it was almost perfectly flat?
Furthermore, the Descending Passage was actually the next phase of this massive construction project. It too had to be dug out of solid bedrock. The problems with this phase of the project are manifold.
The passageway was only about 3 by 4 feet, just large enough to accommodate one worker at a time. It was dug 150 feet underground maintaining a precise angle of 26 degrees and a negligible deviation from side to side and bottom to top throughout its length. Then it was opened up into several rooms and another passageway. How?
Why would the ancients dig a straight tunnel under a 4-million ton tomb and how was the passageway kept straight and true? Egyptian ‘engineers’ had no more than ropes in their toolkits.
The author can also prove these two phases alone – leveling the base and digging the Descending Passageway – would have required half the time Egyptologists have allotted to the entire construction project. They, in fact, never even include these two phases in their calculations.
But we have other important fish to fry. During decades of research the author noted some curious similarities between Sumer, Egypt and the Indus Valley – the sites of our earliest civilisations – that do not add up. As we all know now, the ruins of Sumer are located in modern day Iraq.
Our history and anthropology books routinely tell us that agriculture and civilisation were given birth in benign and highly fertile river valleys. But when we stop and closely examine these locations we find they are some of the hottest, driest and most inhospitable places on the planet.
The temperatures in these locations for 6 months out of the year are typically between 35-48 degrees Celsius (95-118ºF). It is true the alluvial flood plains of the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates and ancient Indus rivers were fertile.
But it takes considerable agronomic and hydrological knowledge to know this and to convert the marshes and control the floods to turn these wetlands into productive farmland. The question is how did our ancient ancestors, so recently emerged from the hunter-gatherer way of life, so quickly acquire this knowledge and develop these skills?
When we peer out from the ziggurats of ancient Sumer, the sandblasted pyramids of Egypt or the ruined cities of the Indus Valley, we do not see fruited-plains but vast, blistering, desert expanses.
Is it not difficult to envision our primitive ancestors rolling out their blueprints for civilisation while squinting into the sun and deciding this is where the first cities and great monuments would be built and the first real cropland cultivated?
The scenario jars the mind and makes hash out of the comfortable fantasies painted by ‘official science’. Is something starting to smelly funny or is the author’s nose just too sensitive?
I do seem to detect the subtle aroma of too many skeletons and enigmas – having been shoved hurriedly into too many closets and musty catacombs – wafting up from ancient stones and bones…
We have to examine several other items that do not pass the smell test. Sumer, Egypt and the Indus Valley share some other critical features in common which make them unlikely places for primitive peoples to have developed our first civilisations.
We should expect to find civilisations evolving where people had immediate access to a wide variety of resources. The most logical scenario would be in river valleys near forested, mineral rich mountains.
This is a logical expectation since people needed water, fuel (wood) for fires, tool handles and building materials as well as copper, gold and silver to make jewellery and tools and so on.
We would expect to find this association not just to establish they had immediate access to these necessary resources, but also that they had been engaged in a prolonged period of extracting, processing and working with these resources.
Unfortunately, Sumer, the birthplace of civilisation, was completely lacking in forests, minerals and even stones. This is a curious, illogical fact. How did this strange tribe, speaking an odd tongue and calling themselves ‘the black-headed people’, invent civilisation in the middle of a barren desert wasteland?
Egypt was also bereft of forests, as was the Indus Valley. The point is not that civilisation was or is impossible in these areas, but that it is supposed to have originated in these harsh, desert environs lacking many basic resources.
Yet we find the Sumerians ingeniously mining copper and tin and creating the first alloy, bronze, in kilns around 3000 BCE. In rapid-fire succession they invented the wheel, the chariot, the sailboat, writing, cities, labor specialisation, civil engineering and on and on. Ostensibly, the tribes of the Indus Valley and the Nile would soon follow.
They did all this while most of the world’s tribes were still living as hunter-gatherers, another fact that demolishes the theories of cultural Darwinists. You cannot explain the radical departure from the human norm by several tribes without invoking some form of racism or inexplicable genetic deviations.
The other curious features we find in common among Earth’s ‘first’ civilisations are that none of them claimed they invented agriculture, laws, morality or the other prime tools of civilisation.
The Sumerians claimed they owed everything to the ‘gods’ (Anunnaki) that had descended from the heavens to Earth to create and teach mankind the arts of civilised life. The ancient Egyptians referred to the Nefertu who ruled over them during the Zep Tepi (First Time) for thousands of years until they handed over the reigns to the human pharaohs.
Our real human history as handed down by our ancestors is far more exciting and incredible than the pabulum ‘official’ science has been force feeding us for many generations.
Mankind is indeed on the threshold of a re-awakening to a new dawn; the time of profound revelations about the truth of our astonishing origins and history is at hand.
A NASA rendering shows an early vision of what the quiet supersonic X-plane might look like.
Credit: NASA
A very quiet plane could be coming very fast.
The recent 2019 NASA budget request was, as Live Science sister site Space.com reported, light on science and funding for the International Space Station but heavy on commercialization and space exploration. In this proposed budget, President Donald Trump's administration also announced its intention to fully fund a new experimental supersonic airplane.
The aircraft, the latest addition to the X-series dating back to Chuck Yeager's sound-barrier-breaking craft, the X-1, will be designed to be much quieter than previous faster-than-sound jets.
The plane, called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, would make its first flight in 2021 if the budget line is approved and the craft's development goes according to plan. It's meant as a test bed for technologies that could one day show up on commercial planes, the budget states. It would allow for faster-than-sound travel without the glass-shattering booms that characterize supersonic fighter jets and that enraged Queens, New York, residents during the era of the supersonic New York-to-Europe Concorde jet.
Here's the problem the quiet supersonic craft could solve: When a plane moves slower than sound, the jet's sound waves arrive on the ground in pretty similar shape to how they left the engine (with perhaps a little distortion and pitch-shifting thanks to things like the Doppler effect.) But — as Pennsylvania State University's NoiseQuest lab explained on its website — when planes move faster than sound, they outrun their own engine noise, with the vibrations spreading out behind them through the air in a kind of invisible wake. [Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes]
That wake crashes into the ground as a powerful shock wave, with all the vibrations of a supersonic engine's approach compressed together. They all arrive at each spot that they reach within moments of each other, so instead of the drawn-out whine of an aircraft approaching, observers below hear a single, teeth-rattling boom.
People don't generally like normal airport noise, as the NoiseQuest lab notes, and people definitely don't like when that sound arrives in a series of shocking crashes. That's led to the 1973 Federal Aviation Administration regulation §91.817, which prohibits civilians from engaging in supersonic flight over land in the United States. No supersonic civilian jets have operated since the Concorde was retired in 2003, NASA wrote in a statement accompanying the budget. (The Concorde only flew at subsonic speeds overland in US territory.)
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a preliminary budget to build the new quiet X-plane. The company aims, according to earlier reporting by Bloomberg on the project, to reach a NASA target of 60 to 65 decibels per boom (at least as heard from the ground) by designing a low-sound airframe shape and using engine placement that reduces noise. This would be much quieter than existing supersonic jets.
In this statement, NASA said that the goal is a sonic boom "so quiet it hardly will be noticed by the public, if at all … like distant thunder [or] the sound of your neighbor forcefully shutting his car door outside while you are inside."
NASA is also requesting funds for research into "hypersonic" aircraft, machines that go many times the speed of sound. As Space.com reported, such planes have possible applications as weapons or for space travel.
In a quote printed alongside the requests, Vice President Mike Pence put these goals in the context of a rose-tinted, Manifest Destiny-inflected vision of American history:
"Like the railroads that brought American explorers, entrepreneurs and settlers to tame the Wild West, these groundbreaking new technologies will open untold opportunities to extend the range of American action and values into the new worlds of outer space," the vice president said. "And by fostering much stronger partnerships between the federal government and the realm of industry, and bringing the full force of our national interest to bear, American leadership in space will be assured."
Monday saw the seventh orbital launch of the year by China, with a Long March-3B/YZ-1 orbiting a new pair of navigation satellites. The launch took place at 05:03 UTC from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province. It took over four hours to complete the mission.
It is expected that the Beidou-3MEO3 (Beidou-28) and Beidou-3MEO4 (Beidou-29) satellites were onboard. The MEO satellites are the Medium Earth Orbit component of the third phase of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system. The satellites are part of a fleet that will expand the system to a global navigation coverage.
The satellites are using a new bus that features a phased array antenna for navigation signals and a laser retroreflector, with a launch mass 1,014 kg. Spacecraft dimensions are noted to be 2.25 by 1.0 by 1.22 meters. Usually, the satellites reside in a 21,500 – 21,400 km nominal orbit at 55.5 degrees.
The previous launch on the series took place on January 12th, when the Long March-3B/Y1 (Y45/Y5) launch vehicle orbited the Beidou-3MEO7 (Beidou-26) and Beidou-3MEO8 (Beidou-27) satellites. On November 5, 2017, the Long March-3B/Y1 (Y46/Y4) orbited the Beidou-3MEO1 (Beidou-24) and the Beidou-3MEO2 (Beidou-25) satellites.
BeiDou-3 satellite, as rendered by J Huart.
In March another Long March-3B/Y1 launch vehicle should orbit the Beidou-3MEO5 (Beidou-30) and the Beidou-3MEO6 (Beidou-31) satellites.
The Beidou Phase III system includes the migration of its civil Beidou 1 or B1 signal from 1561.098 MHz to a frequency centered at 1575.42 MHz – the same as the GPS L1 and Galileo E1 civil signals – and its transformation from a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation to a multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) modulation similar to the future GPS L1C and Galileo’s E1.
The Phase II B1 open service signal uses QPSK modulation with 4.092 megahertz bandwidth centered at 1561.098 MHz.
The current Beidou constellation spacecraft are transmitting open and authorized signals at B2 (1207.14 MHz) and an authorized service at B3 (1268.52 MHz).
Real-time, stand-alone Beidou horizontal positioning accuracy was classed as better than 6 meters (95 percent) and with a vertical accuracy better than 10 meters (95 percent).
The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) is China’s satellite navigation system, approved by the Chinese government in 2004, capable of providing continuous, real-time passive 3D geo-spatial positioning and speed measurement.
The Chinese navigation system is being developed and deployed in three phases. Phase 1 (starting in 2003), consisted of an experimental regional navigation system, BeiDou-1, which provided active navigation service.
Phase 2 (started in 2012), consisted of a reduced satellite constellation and provides open service over China. This phase aimed at deploying a system with passive positioning and timing capability over a regional area.
Phase 3 aims for full operational capability by 2020 with a constellation of 27 MEOs plus 5 GEOs and the existing 3 IGSOs satellites of the regional system. CNSS would provide global navigation services, similarly to the GPS, GLONASS or Galileo systems.
CNSS is expected to support two different kinds of general services: RDSS and RNSS. In the Radio Determination Satellite Service (RDSS), the user position is computed by a ground station using the round trip time of signals exchanged via GEO satellite. The RDSS long-term feature further includes short message communication (guaranteeing backward compatibility with Beidou-1), large volume message communication, information connection, and extended coverage.
The Radio Navigation Satellite Service (RNSS) is very similar to that provided by GPS and Galileo and is designed to achieve similar performances.
The long-term goal is to develop a global navigation satellite network similar to the GPS and GLONASS by 2020 eventually consisting a constellation of 35 vehicles, including 27 MEO (21,500 km orbits) satellites, three IGSO satellites (inclined at 55 degrees) and five GSO satellites.
The system will be dual-use, based on a civilian service that will provide an accuracy of 10 meters in the user position, 0.2 m/s on the user velocity and 50 nanoseconds in time accuracy; and the military and authorized user’s service, providing higher accuracies. The first phase of the project will involve coverage of the Chinese territory. However, the future Compass constellation will cover the entire globe.
This mission is also the second flight of the Long March-3B/YZ-1 (Chang Zheng-3B/YZ-1) version of the Long March-3B.
Long March 3B – via ChinaNews.com
The launcher was developed from the Chang Zheng-3A. The CZ-3B features enlarged launch propellant tanks, improved computer systems, a larger 4.2 meter diameter payload fairing and the addition of four strap-on boosters in the core stage that provide additional help during the first phase of the launch.
The rocket is capable of launching an 11,200 kg satellite to a low Earth orbit or a 5,100 kg cargo to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
The CZ-3B/G2 (Enhanced Version) launch vehicle was developed from the CZ-3B, increasing the GTO capacity up to 5,500kg. The CZ-3B/E has nearly the same configurations with CZ-3B bar its enlarged core stage and boosters.
On May 14, 2007, the first flight of CZ-3B/G2 was performed successfully, accurately sending the NigcomSat-1 into pre-determined orbit. With the GTO launch capability of 5,500kg, CZ-3B/G2 is dedicated for launching heavy GEO communications satellite.
The rocket structure also combines all sub-systems together and is composed of four strap-on boosters, a first stage, a second stage, a third stage and payload fairing.
The first two stages, as well as the four strap-on boosters, use hypergolic (N2O4/UDMH) fuel while the third stage uses cryogenic (LOX/LH2) fuel. The total length of the CZ-3B is 54.838 meters, with a diameter of 3.35 meters on the core stage and 3.00 meters on the third stage.
Long March 3B
On the first stage, the CZ-3B uses a YF-21C engine with a 2,961.6 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2,556.5 Ns/kg. The first stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 23.272 m.
Each strap-on booster is equipped with a YF-25 engine with a 740.4 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2,556.2 Ns/kg. The strap-on booster diameter is 2.25 m and the strap-on booster length is 15.326 m.
The second stage is equipped with a YF-24E (main engine – 742 kN / 2,922.57 Ns/kg; four vernier engines – 47.1 kN / 2,910.5 Ns/kg each). The second stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 12.920 m.
The third stage is equipped with a YF-75 engine developing 167.17 kN and with a specific impulse of 4,295 Ns/kg. The fairing diameter of the CZ-3B is 4.00 meters and has a length of 9.56 meters.
The Yuanzheng-1 (“Expedition-1″) uses a small thrust 6.5 kN engine burning UDMH/N2O4 with a specific impulse at 3,092 m/s. The upper stage should be able to conduct two burns, having a 6.5 hour lifetime and is capable of achieving a variety of orbits.
It will be adapted for use on the CZ-3A/B/C series mainly for direct MEO/GEO insertion missions (mostly for the navigation satellites of the Beidou GNSS).
A previous Long March 3B launch via the control center.
The typical flight sequence for the LM-3B launch vehicle in a standard GTO mission starts with the ignition of the first stage engines together with the ignition of the four liquid strap-on boosters. General launch profile sees the launch vehicle doing the pitch over maneuver at 10 seconds after leaving the launch platform. At two minutes 27 seconds into the flight, boosters shutdown occurs and separation follows one second later.
First stage shutdown takes place at 2 minutes 25 seconds, and stage separation two seconds later with the second stage ignition. The separation of the fairing occurs 3 minutes 35 seconds into the flight.
Second stage main engine shutdown takes place 5 minutes and 25 seconds into the flight and second stage Vernier engines shutdown takes place five seconds later, followed by the separation between the second and the third stage, and third stage first ignition.
This will end at 10 minutes 16 seconds into the flight. At this time begins a coast phase that ends 20 minutes 58 seconds after launch with the second ignition of the third stage. This ends three minutes later, starting then a 20 seconds velocity adjustment phase. Separation of the cargo usually takes place 25 minutes 38 seconds after launch.
The Xichang Satellite Launch Centre is situated in the Sichuan Province, south-western China and is the country’s launch site for geosynchronous orbital launches.
Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
Equipped with two launch pads (LC2 and LC3), the center has a dedicated railway and highway lead directly to the launch site.
The Command and Control Centre is located seven kilometers south-west of the launch pad, providing flight and safety control during launch rehearsal and launch.
Other facilities on the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre are the Launch Control Centre, propellant fuelling systems, communications systems for launch command, telephone and data communications for users, and support equipment for meteorological monitoring and forecasting.
The first launch from Xichang took place at 12:25UTC on January 29, 1984, when the Chang Zheng-3 (CZ3-1) was launched the Shiyan Weixing (14670 1984-008A) communications satellite into orbit.
Once again, due to the location of the launch site, locals had to dodge the expended stages. Dramatic photos of the booster impacting a local village are now online, although there are no reports of casualties.
A new satellite in the Ludikancha Weixing series should be riding into orbit at the end of February from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Ludikancha Weixing satellites are very high-resolution earth observation satellites. Operating in 500 km polar orbits, the satellites are possibly military in nature.
The next launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center should take place on March 15 with a Long March-3B/G2 orbiting the APStar-6C communications satellite.
Gigantische lavakoepel op Japanse zeebodem blijft maar groeien en dat baart onderzoekers grote zorgen
Gigantische lavakoepel op Japanse zeebodem blijft maar groeien en dat baart onderzoekers grote zorgen
De Kikai Caldera
FOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS: SATSUMA IWOJIMA IWO DAKE
Wetenschappers hebben na nieuwe onderzoek het gevaar van de gigantische lavakoepel ontdekt in Kikai, een onder water gelegen krater bij de Japanse Osumi-eilanden. De vervormingen op het oppervlak suggereren namelijk dat de koepel groeit en dat kan dodelijk zijn: als de aardkorst barst, ontsnapt een enorme massa lava met een ‘vulkanische winter’ en tsunami’s tot gevolg.
Wereldwijd zijn er meer dan 1.500 vulkanen actief. De Etna in Italië, de Eyjafjallajökul en andere onuitspreekbare vulkanen in IJsland, de Pinatubo in de Filipijnen en Mount Agung in Bali: het zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden. Die laatste is momenteel erg actief en veroorzaakte al massale evacuatie, maar het kan erger: als de supervulkaan bij de Osumi-eilanden in het zuidelijkste punt van Japan uitbarst, kunnen er miljoenen mensen sterven.
Uitbarsten zonder waarschuwing
De studie, uitgevoerd door onderzoekers van het Kobe Ocean-Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC), bevestigde dat er zo’n 7.300 jaar geleden een gigantische lavakoepel ontstond na de uitbarsting van de Kikai-vulkaan. Maar ze ontdekten ook iets nieuws: de veranderingen in het oppervlak. Dat zou kunnen betekenen dat de vulkaan zich voorbereidt op een comeback.
FOTO: NATURE
De lavakoepel is momenteel ongeveer 10 kilometer breed en 600 meter lang, en zou zo’n 32 kubieke kilometer magma bevatten, en dat onder water. De wetenschappers geloven nu dat er een uitbarsting van de koepel zit aan te komen, zonder waarschuwing, en dat het een dodelijke ‘vulkanische winter’ zou kunnen veroorzaken.
‘Vulkanische winter’ en tsunami
Supervulkanen zijn anders dan bovengenoemde actieve stratovulkanen. Ze zijn zeldzamer, maar des te gevaarlijker. Als ze uitbarsten zijn de gevolgen vaak catastrofaal en vooral mondiaal. Als de enorme massa lava, die borrelt onder het oppervlak van de lavakoepel in Zuid-Japan, uit de oppervlakte barst, kan het de planeet voorgoed veranderen.
Een zogenaamde vulkanische winter is een fenomeen dat alleen supervulkanen kunnen veroorzaken. Hun as komt dan in de stratosfeer terecht, waardoor de zon wordt geblokkeerd. Dat zorgt dan weer voor een grote temperatuurdaling. In 1816 was een dergelijke uitbarsting van de vulkaan Tambora in Indonesië de aanleiding voor ‘het jaar zonder zomer’: in Amerika vroor het nog in juni, in Europa stierven toen naar schatting zo’n 200.000 mensen.
De superuitbarsting kan ook verwoestende tsunami’s veroorzaken die zuidelijk Japan en de kusten van Taiwan en China treffen, om dan zelfs de kust van Noord- en Zuid-Amerika te bereiken.
1% kans binnen 100 jaar
“Veel van deze supervulkanen herhalen hun superuitbarstingen, ook al is dat na miljoenen jaren”, klinkt het in het rapport. Het is niet de eerste studie van Kikai: sinds KOBEC in 2015 werd opgericht, heeft het al drie studiereizen uitgevoerd. De lavakoepel steeg al tot 600 meter boven de zeebodem en is nu nog maar ongeveer 30 meter van het oppervlak verwijderd. De ontdekte veranderingen op het oppervlak van de koepel, doen de onderzoekers geloven dat lava zich onder de koepel ophoopt en de massa stilaan stuwt.
Het team deed de observaties met onderwaterrobots, stalen en analyses van de gesteenten met behulp van onderwaterseismografieën en elektromagnetometers. De onderzoekers zijn van plan om terug te gaan. Dan gebruiken ze seismische reflectie en onderwaterrobots om het vormingsproces van de krater verder te onderzoeken.
10% bevolking leeft bij vulkaan
Japan zit bovenop vier verschillende tektonische platen, waardoor het een van de meest seismisch actieve regio’s van de aarde is. Waarom blijven daar dan zoveel mensen wonen? “Zo’n 10% van de bevolking leeft in vulkanisch gebied”, zegt vulkanoloog Sam Poppe aan onze krant. “De voordelen wegen vaak op tegen de nadelen. Zo is de vruchtbaarheid van de grond er erg goed, waardoor ze uitstekende landbouw kunnen verrichten. De gevaren die het met zich kan meebrengen, worden genegeerd of kennen ze gewoonweg niet.”
De kans dat die mensen een uitbarsting meemaken in hun leven, is dan ook klein. “Maar als er echt 1% kans is op een superuitbarsting binnen dit en 100 jaar, is dat geen kleine kans”, zegt hij verwijzend naar de huidige ontdekking in Japan. Mogelijk weten we in maart meer, wanneer het team verder op onderzoek gaat.
Chinese Rocket Booster drops from Sky and smashes on top of a Building
Chinese Rocket Booster drops from Sky and smashes on top of a Building
On February 12, 2018 we saw the seventh orbital launch of the year by China, with a Long March-3B/YZ-1 orbiting a new pair of navigation satellites. The launch took place just after 05:00 UTC from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province. It took over four hours to complete the mission.
While American rockets fall into the ocean, China keeps dropping expended rocket boosters on land.
Although, they try to calculate these drop zones very carefully to avoid inhabited areas or in some places they evacuate an area or even a complete town, sometimes these expended rocket boosters come very close to populated areas.
And not surprisingly the Chinese sat launch has again dropped rocket boosters and this time over a populated area in Tianlin county, Guangxi where rocket parts smashed near and on top of a building.
They have evacuated the people before hand, but of course it is crazy that they still drop the rocket boosters over inhabited areas.
Bright UFO flying towards Cessna during Flight over Nebraska
Bright UFO flying towards Cessna during Flight over Nebraska
The video was taken during a cross-country flight in eastern Nebraska on February 11, 2018. The videographer did not notice anything during the flight but looking at the video he noticed the strange visual at 00:34 seconds.
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1: Full video clip (44 seconds; UFO at 34 seconds) 2: Regular speed replay of the UFO 3: Four ultra slow-motion clips of the UFO 4: Two regular speed repeats of the UFO
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Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART I
One of Seven Earth like Exoplanets Surrounding Trappist =1
Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Bigelow Aerospace Claims ET Is Here, Black Triangle Sightings The Nephilim Roamed the Earth, English Megalithic Circles, , Children of the Aliens, Railgun Weapon, MUFON Records 690 UFO Sightings in January.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Russia, Thailand, 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.
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Bigelow Aerospace Claims ET Is Here
On 60 Minutes Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow said “there has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence” on or around Earth. “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it,”Bigelow told Lara Logan.
Bigelow, whose company has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test their immense, expandable spaceship habitats, inflated in orbit, has been a believer in UFOs as extraterrestrial phenomena since his grandparents reported encountering a craft that “sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.”
Through his now-defunct National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), Bigelow collected hotline reports of UFO sightings and worked with MUFON and developed the Black Triangle report below. When Logan asked if he’s risking anything by taking a public stance that UFOs are visiting Earth, Bigelow said, “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”“It’s not going to make a difference. It’s not going to change reality of what I know,” he said. “You don’t have to go anywhere… it’s just like right under people’s noses.”
Black Triangle Sightings
Leonard David of Space.com writes, “They have become legendary in UFO circles; these huge, silent-running “Flying Triangles have been seen by ground observers creeping through the sky low and slow near cities and quietly cruising over highways.”
The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), now defunct has catalogued the Triangle sightings, sifting through and combining databases to take a hard look at the mystery craft. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, NIDS was privately funded by Robert Bigelow science institute with a strong research focusing on aerial phenomena. The results of the study have been released and lead to some unnerving, still puzzling conclusions.
The study points out: “The United States experienced a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues. The Flying Triangles are being openly deployed over and near population centers, including in the vicinity of major Interstate Highways.”
Covert operations?
A key NIDS conclusion is that the actions of these triangular craft do not conform to previous patterns of covert deployment of unacknowledged military aircraft. Furthermore, “neither the agenda nor the origin of the Flying Triangles are currently known.”
The years 1990-2004 have seen an intense wave of Flying Triangle aircraft, the study observes. Sifting through reports by hundreds of eyewitnesses, the NIDS assessment states that the behavior of the vehicles “does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD [U.S. Department of the Defense] aircraft.”
Rather, it is consistent with (a) the routine and open deployment of an unacknowledged advanced DoD aircraft or (b) the routine and open deployment of an aircraft owned and operated by non-DoD personnel, suggests the NIDS study.
“The implications of the latter possibility are disturbing, especially during the post 9/11 era when the United States airspace is extremely heavily guarded and monitored,” the NIDS study explains. “In support of option (a), there is much greater need for surveillance in the United States in the post 9/11 era and it is certainly conceivable that deployment of low altitude surveillance platforms is routine and open.”
Open, even brazen
According to Colm Kelleher, NIDS Administrator, the newly completed quasi “meta-analysis” of Flying Triangles melds three major U.S. databases: NIDS, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and data collected by independent researcher, Larry Hatch, the creator and owner of one of the largest and most comprehensive UFO databases in the world.
Kelleher said, the analysis indicates that deployment of Flying Triangles is open, not covert, and involves low-flying, brightly lit aircraft routinely deployed over populated areas including cities and Interstate highways.
“However, I cannot say whether these are U.S. Air Force aircraft. We simply don’t know,” Kelleher told SPACE.com . “But it does not appear to be consistent with the covert patterns of deployment we saw with the F-117 and B-2 prior to their acknowledgement. This is open, even brazen,” he stated.
Stealth aircraft
For example, a perfunctory look at the how past DoD stealth aircraft programs were kept from public eye — although eventually came to light — is different from the patterns for the Flying Triangles. Prior to acknowledgement of the F-117 and B-2 aircraft, only rare night time sightings occurred in the sparsely populated sections of Nevada, California and a few other states. Flying at low altitude over populated areas was rarely reported for the F-117 or B-2.
“In contrast, the Flying Triangle deployment, especially during the 1990s, appears more consistent with the open and public operation of these aircraft,” the study explains. The trend of open deployment of the Flying Triangles is not consistent with secret operation of an advanced DoD aircraft.
No attempt to hide
The database-driven study of the Flying Triangle shows the following patterns:
— Sightings take place near cities and on Interstate highways — They are seen at low altitude in plain sight of eyewitnesses — They fly at extremely low speed or hover in plain sight of eyewitnesses — The vehicles sometime fly with easily noticeable bright lights — either blinding white lights, or have “bright disco lights” that usually flash combinations of red, green or blue.
The NIDS study emphasizes that the flying of these vehicles may be more in harmony with an attempt to display or to be noticed. There appears to be little or no attempt to hide. That finding has led to a modification of an earlier NIDS hypothesis that the Triangles are covertly deployed DoD aircraft such as the TR-3..
While it is too early to dismiss the previously published NIDS correlation between Triangle sightings and a subset of U.S. Air Force Bases, the apparent association with centers of population may point away from a covert program. “Rather, it is consistent with routine and open deployment of an advanced aircraft,” the NIDS study concludes.
Clustered on both coasts
During the ensuing years (2000-2004), NIDS received hundreds of reports from people in the United States and Canada reporting large triangular aircraft, often silent and often flying at very low altitude and at low air speed. In many cases, the objects were brightly lit. NIDS files also include reports of Flying Triangles from remote areas.
In mid 2004, NIDS reviewed its database that contains the locations of the Triangle sightings in the United States. The sightings of Triangles appear primarily adjacent to population centers and along Interstate Highways, with sightings clustered on both coasts.
NIDS has amassed almost 400 separate sightings of triangular/boomerang/wedge-shaped objects. Many of these craft are brightly lit, low flying, and traveling at unexpectedly low air speeds.
In earlier reports, NIDS outlined a tentative correlation between reported sightings of Triangles and the locations of Air Mobility Command and Air Force Materiel Command bases in the United States.
Like a Star Trek “uncloaking”
According to ground observers, the features of a Black Triangle are indeed impressive.
For example, the NIDS study includes the observation of a Port Washington Wisconsin person who encountered a large object that flew over her home at 500 feet altitude in October 1998. Her eyeing of the clear starry night was interrupted as the craft came into her field of view.
“Suddenly this monstrosity came out of the ‘blue’, just like a Star Trek ‘uncloaking’, no kidding…so quiet I couldn’t believe it and so huge…no more than 500 feet or so up, and big enough to take up my field of sky vision,” she reported.
Crude mathematics, the witness recounted, would make the vessel about 200 feet wide and 250 feet long.
Two camps
In wrapping up its look at the burgeoning number of Flying Triangle sightings in the United States, NIDS also took into account the work of writers and researchers delving into the topic both in the United States and abroad.
Those analyses fall into two camps: The Triangles are human-made, while the other says they are not.
“In 2004 it is extremely difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities since the former option overlaps heavily with legitimate national security concerns, while in the absence of much more physical evidence, the latter option is not testable,” the NIDS assessment concludes. Thanks to Space.com’s September 2004.
Editor’s Note: We may have been given an alien craft and used the technology in our copies. Here on the East Coast the military was building large radar facilities in the 90s. These programs were suddenly closed. Large blimp like triangles could be fitted with radar similar to that carried by Aegis naval ships. The flying radars could be moved into position to track drug dealers and conduct long range surveillance of enemy missiles and aircraft. The craft could provide a moving target difficult for an enemy to destroy, Triangles have also been observed in Europe and England flying low over the coasts suggesting they might track aircraft or ballistic missiles. Further study next week.
The Nephilim Roamed the Earth
. Genesis 6:4, “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.” The giant offspring of this union between the sons of God and the daughters of men were called the Nephilim.
Books like Enoch, Jubilees, and many others. the verse in Genesis 6 about the sons of God taking human females as mates is the key, these were the Watchers who polluted the gene pool, It is our opinion that the “sons of God” were fallen angels (demons) from the planer heaven who mated with human females or possessed human males who then mated with human females. These unions resulted in offspring, the Nephilim, That’s why there was a flood and now their way of doing this is part of the UFO phenomena. These fallen angels were part of the rebellion in heaven where one third chose to follow Satan, and who left there first estate or habitation who now are on the earth or bound in Hades till the Apocalypse. This book “The Nephilim Chronicles” to my huge collection on this subject and after 40 years of study feel like I can share this with anybody. This book takes the leap from mythology to science to discover that the Nephilim were the last vestiges of primitive species; who were known for their gigantic height.
A race of giants once roamed the Biblical lands, Europe and North America? Over 300 historical accounts of giant human skeletons are presented in the book. Massive human skeletal remains, burial mound types, symbolism, etymology, numerology and ceremonial centers are compared in the Biblical Levant, the British Isles and the Ohio Valley with stunning similarities. They spread from the Biblical Lands to the British Isles and to the Ohio Valley and South America. Their open-air earthen and stone temples and burial mounds, containing the remains of giants have stood the testament of time; leaving an indelible mark upon our soil.
Herein are the historical accounts of the giant skeletons that have been discovered within burial mounds and subsurface tombs in the Biblical Lands, the British Isles and Europe and North America. Discover for the first time.
Who Built Stonehenge and many archeological sites, the Earthworks in the Ohio Valley. Discover a giant race called the Dinaric whose remains have been found in Jerusalem, in burial mounds at Stonehenge and the Ohio Valley. Discover the ancient Amorite Babylonian symbols that are evident at Stonehenge and the many henges in the Ohio Valley. Discover the evidence of advanced mathematics discovered by the Amorites and how it is evident at Stonehenge and within the earthworks in the Ohio Valley.
Across the Ohio Valley landscape are the ruins of ancient burial mounds and geometric earthworks aligned to solar, lunar and astrological events. Within many of the burial mounds were the skeletal remains of an ancient race of giants with primitive-looking skulls. Within numerous mounds are hundreds of flint discs similar to flying saucers. The geometric earthworks reveal that complex mathematics were used in their construction. The solar temples, best described as henges, are identical to those found in the British Isles and Germany that were constructed by the Beaker People. Their conical burial mounds, like those in Ohio, were surrounded by an earthwork or moats. Archaeologists cannot deny that the mound builders are real. What they deny are the things sometimes discovered inside the mounds. Over the past century and a half it’s been revealed again and again that some of the mounds – and the small pyramids – are the burial grounds of huge men often eight feet or taller that had a very sophisticated culture. Some of the giants have been found wearing intricate leather armor and have been buried with swords.
Premium, author and researcher Fritz Zimmerman compares burial mound types, earthworks and giant skulls from the British Isles and the Ohio Valley. Also, Early and Middle Age Bronze weapons technology from Mesopotamia and the Great Lakes Copper Culture are examined and compared showing similar and simultaneous advancements. A numerical codex called Gematria is also evident within the lengths of many of the Ohio works that is not believed to be a serendipitous coincidence. Wiltshire Mound (Barrows), England
Fritz will also highlights some of largest burial mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley that have been listed as “Address Restricted” by archaeologists. This veil of secrecy has been removed in his “Travel Guide,” making the location of these ancient sites public for the first time.
Fritz Zimmerman is the author of “The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley“ Ten years of fieldwork exploring over 700 mound and earthwork sites in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Michigan, resulting in the discovery of 222 locations where these ancient ruins can be visited.”
If you are interested in the real history of North America you must read this book! The author Fritz Zimmerman has done his homework! He has collected hundreds of newspaper stories and archeological and ethnological reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Amorite giants roamed the Americas from coast to coast. This history has been deliberately hidden and obscured by archeologists and institutions for years–they don’t want you to know the truth–that thousands
of years ago an ancient race of giants migrated to the Americas, established complex societies, and mined copper from the Great Lakes Region.
Author Gary Vaynerchuk explains how early explorers to America witnessed these giants firsthand, including Sir Francis Drake, John Smith and even some of the early presidents; Legends and myths talk of red-haired giants; strange inscriptions, metal armor, mummified remains, and sophisticated technologies buried with the skeletons; How secret societies such as the Rosicrucian’s, Freemasons and Theosophists all claim the existence of theses giant humans in the past as historical fact in their literature; hundreds of excavations of giant mummies and skeletons across the United States, corresponding directly with Native American accounts of red-haired giants. He also examines reports from famous explorers such as Magellan, and Desoto of their encounters with giants on the North American continent.
Patrick Chouinard explains how the giants passed their sophisticated culture and civilization on to humanity before being nearly wiped out in the great age of cataclysms. Ten and twelve foot humans do not fit dogmatic theories. Usually when giant skeletons are found they’re laughed off as hoaxes. Unfortunately orthodox science has too much to lose by investigating the mounds thoroughly.
English Megalithic Circles
Maria Wheatley writes from England, “Set amid the rolling valleys and mountains of Cumbria, Swinside Stone Circle is more than just a beautiful circle, as it is the best preserved stone circle in
England. The stones of Swinside have a great Spirit of Place making this stone circle one of the most energetically active and alive in the British Isles. It is also one of the most COMPLETE stone circles in England. Out of the 60 standing stones, 55 remain and 32 still stand. Each stone is only 5 feet apart making the energies between the stones especially strong and condensed.
In comparison, Stonehenge’s bluestone circle also had 60 stones, although only 6 stand upright and nine survive just a stumps reported Professor Atkinson in the 1960s, testifies to its wanton destruction. It is speculated the giants made many of the stone circles to study the heavens.
Guardian Stone In the north stands the tallest stone, stalwart and proud at 7 feet 6 inches high. Facing the mid winter sunrise the entrance encourages the flow of solar energy into the womb of the site. This stone feels like a Guardian of the Stones and is associated with the north south Hartmann Grid lines. Imagine earth radiations rising vertically from the ground like invisible energetic walls and you can visualize the energy grid, which is said to be associated with the Earth’s magnetic field. The lines measure between 8 and 12 inches in width. Spaced about 6 feet apart in the north-south direction and around 10 feet apart in the east-west direction gives you a rough estimation regarding the square-like grid. But these values can vary depending on your geographical location. They are said to be harmless but ‘double crossing points’ can be problematic as the north – south lines are Yin that are linked to cramps, arthritis’s and rheumatism. Whereas, the east – west lines are Yang and linked to inflammations and heat. However, some dowsers are saying that with the advent of Wife, transmitters etc, the grid in built up areas can be toxic, so bear that in mind.
Megaliths can act as Energy Converters and negate any toxic effect caused by the Hartmann Grid system bringing transmuted yin and yang grid energy to the site. Yin Yang energy is the focus of this circle that like a giant looking glass can magnify the energy and sends this energy outwards as if irrigating the landscape with balancing energy is one primary action of this divine circle.
Megalithic Vortex Energy
At Swinside we will explore Vortex energy at one of the stones. David Webb’s ionic experiments with me at Avebury show how a particular type of Vortex energy is intimately associated with the emissions of negative ions compared to a control location. These energies transform the air we breathe. I showed him the exact place and said test this! The ancients thousands of years ago cut these stone circles that appear to help mark the movement of the stars and planets. The ancients seem to have known about the vortex energy of the stones that may have been used for healing and possibly communication.. [mariawheatley=aol.com@mail1.suw15.mcsv.net
Kidnapped by Aliens
Several abductees and contactees including those in South America give us a sober reminder that we are headed for an awakening like in Mario Rangel’s book “Sequestros Allenignas.”
Speaking to the tall Grey after seeing images of world destruction on UFO Television screens, Bret wrote:
I turned to the tall one and asked, “Why are you showing me this?”
“This is what is going to happen to your planet in the future”, he said. “Your species will destroy your planet”, he continued. I realized he was telling me this to observe my reaction to these prophetic statements. “No!” “You’re wrong“, I exclaimed! “I know you would never let this happen to Earth. You will stop us from doing this before it is too late.” There was silence that seemed to go on for minutes. I wasn’t sure what was happening or what the consequences of what I had said to him were going to be. He seemed to be rationalizing whether or not to continue with this “mind game”. Then he finally spoke. “You are correct.” “It is not in our best interest to let your kind destroy itself and your planet.” I felt a slight sense of retribution. I had beaten them at their own game.
From what I had learned through all of my readings I knew and understood the law of cause and effect. I understood the balance of the universe and how important that balance is to all that there is. My instincts told me that they too believed and understood these basic principles. The destruction of the Earth would have fire consequences for the entire universe. Not only would the Earth be destroyed but so would the natural balance of the universe because of it. (Oldham, 2013: p.45-46). Stay alive to see how all of this unfolds.
A Trillion Exoplanets
The study, published February 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, gives the first evidence that more than a trillion exoplanets could exist beyond the Milky Way.
Using information from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and a planet detection technique called microlensing to study a distant quasar galaxy , scientists at the University of Oklahoma found evidence that there are approximately 2,000 extragalactic planets for every one star beyond the Milky Way. Some of these exoplanets are as (relatively) small as the moon, while others are as massive as Jupiter. Unlike Earth, most of the exoplanets are not tightly bound to stars, so they’re actually wandering through space or loosely orbiting between stars.
Last year astronomers spotted seven Earth-size alien planets orbiting one dim red star, and a lot of other strange exoplanets — ranging from an Earth-size ice ball to the hottest planet ever found and many more, plus a star that seems to have gobbled up something like 15 rocky worlds.
The TRAPPIST-1 family
A view from one of the seven planets found orbiting TRAPPIST-1, with several other planets visible closer to the star.
Credit: N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org/ESO
Seven newly discovered, Earth-size planets surround the cool red star TRAPPIST-1, which is slightly larger than the planet Jupiter. Researchers first spotted a few members of its planetary entourage in May 2016 with the Transiting Planets and Planeteslmals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. Additional data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that rather than three planets, there were seven, all roughly the size of Earth, but orbiting together in a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the sun. The fastest and innermost planet, TRAPPIST-1b, whips around the star in just 1.5 days, and the outermost, TRAPPIST-1h, likely takes about 20 days.
Three of the planets orbit close enough to the star — in what is called the habitable zone — for liquid water to perhaps linger on its surface (but not so close it would have boiled off), but any atmospheres may have been stripped away by the star’s intense radiation.
A real scorcher
The hottest planet found to date, KELT-9b.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomers also discovered in 2017 — the Jupiter-like KELT-9b. The planet orbits so close to its star, KELT-9, that it completely circles the star in 1.5 days, and it is tidally locked to the star — meaning the same side is always facing inward. Researchers spotted the planet passing in front of its star with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) at Winer Observatory in Arizona.
On that “day side” of the planet, temperatures can reach 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,300 Celsius) — hotter than the surface of a dwarf star, and just 2,200 degrees F (1,200 degrees C) cooler than the surface of the sun. (However, the sun’s outer atmosphere is even hotter.)
KELT-9 is larger and hotter than the sun, and its constant radiation makes KELT-9b’s atmosphere balloon up until it’s half the density of Jupiter. Someday, it may evaporate the planet entirely, researchers said — or, if the planet has a rocky center, boil it down to just the core. Observation with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, as well as the future James Webb Space Telescope, could reveal the planet’s ultimate fate.
Home close to home
The planet Ross 128b is just 11 light-years from Earth, is the closest planet yet found orbiting in the habitable zone of a quiet star.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
The alien world Ross 128b, first spotted this year with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, is just 11 light-years from Earth. And although it orbits much closer to its star than Earth does to the sun, the star is cool enough that it could still lie in the habitable zone, if it has a thick enough cover of clouds to reflect away some of the light. Ross 128b is the closest Earth-mass planet potentially in the habitable zone of a quiet star, scientists say — our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, blasts out powerful flares to roast its potentially Earth-size planet,
New solar-system rival
Kepler-90i is the eighth planet newly found circling Kepler-90, which rivals the solar system for number of planets.
Credit: NASA
Using Google’s machine-learning techniques, found an eighth planet orbiting the star Kepler-90, marking the second eight-planet star system ever found (after Earth’s system, which has eight official planets. Kepler-90i is located 2,545 light-years from Earth, it’s likely rocky, and it’s the third world from its star — but unlike Earth’s 365.26-day orbit, it circles its star in 14.5 Earth days, and is much too close and hot for liquid water to remain on its surface. The planet’s average surface temperatures could reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius). Thanks toSarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
United States Air Force’s Scientific Research wing is now developing the electromagnetic airborne Railguns which will be fitted to the C-5B aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin. They are also taking Airbus A380 Freighter into consideration for using the Railgun.
The C-5B aircraft can reach an altitude of 50,000 ft and can fire payload into space using the Railgun attached to it. The projectiles would be designed to have a mass ranging from 1 kg to 10 kg at most. The C-5B is ideal due to its ability to reach the upper parts of the atmosphere. For the payloads to reach the planet’s orbit, the Railgun must have a muzzle velocity over 7 Km/S thus the projectiles will experience immense thermal load if launched from the lower parts of the atmosphere. A 64 MJ Railgun will destroy any target in its way with an incredible speed of Mach 5 thereby bringing destruction upon any potential enemy. Thanks to USAF
MUFON Records 690 UFO Sightings in January
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In January 2018 there were 690 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
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Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART II
Filer’s Files #6 – 2018 Trillions of Exo-planets - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle
Kingman — Was driving a transit bus to be delivered to Los Angeles and took a snapshot of the sunset about 70 miles east of Kingman, AZ on Interstate I-40 at about 7:15 PM local time [when I had posted it to my Facebook account]
I did not notice anything at the time- only I noticed it on February 4, 2018, when someone commented on the photo asking specifically where it was taken. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Phoenix — Coming home from a restaurant n February 6, 2018, I saw a hazy point of light in the night sky to the west. It did not appear to move at first but then it became clear that it was moving slowly. It got a bit brighter when it hit the southernmost point it got really bright. It looked like a missile test, but it traveled across the sky really slowly. The conical trail it made vanished but the point of light that it the cone originated from kept going for a bit and faded out. I’m not really sure how long it was up there before I first spotted it.
California Object
Olancha— Similar to last night’s over flight, but this very bright object passed N to S this time on February 5, 2018. It was pulsating/ about once a second, but very bright for the several minutes it passed. After it “disappeared”, I caught one more frame 3 minutes later, where it was very bright at the extreme southern horizon. It must have been exceptionally bright at that later moment, to register on the motion sensor when just a few degrees elevation, and heading far away. There was no satellite passing this bright on this path, according to heavens-above.com, The object was uniformly bright as viewed from both its front and its back. I called local police, Navy as well as China Lake Naval station and Edwards AFB, and they did not acknowledge any activities in my area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Orb
Macon — I was outside and felt kind of strange and looked up to notice the round sphere bright reflecting metallic type surface hovering over a cloud. It’s shadow can be seen on the cloud beneath it. I kind of felt informative, but it would come clearly to mind. I sensed some kind markings are on it but I just dismissed it for some reason and recorded this footage.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Cylinder
Malegaon— 1. We were on an open ground observing an asteroid or a meteor that we had been tracking for many days. We sighted that object on 6th Jan, 15th Jan, 18th Jan, 21st Jan, 23rd Jan, 26th Jan and 28th Jan. On all dates we took photos and videos and found three UFOs around the bright light. 2. The UFO has a reflective surface and a shadow at its bottom. It moves with a great speed which cannot be seen with naked eye. It path is not in a straight line. 3 We were stunned to see the pictures on 6th Jan. Then we decided to take videos and photos of that meteor or plane around which we saw these objects. We informed every person in our contact to the same and almost in every picture taken from different parts of the city we found the object. 4 We never saw it with naked eye but for sure it’s not a camera glitch. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Orb
Las Vegas — I was videotaping two birds on the fence in my backyard around 7am on February 7, 2018. Later on I viewed the tape and found the unknown flying object on the video. I further checked the other photos I took. I found the white unknown object in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Lights
Glassboro — I was going to pick up someone from Mullica Hill NJ. I was driving on Route 55 heading south, all the sudden I saw 3 lights in triangle like pizza slice on February 5, 2018.
I pulled over and start videotaping the lights. I was talking to my friend and I told him, “What the hell is this?” One light disappeared before I start the camera. By the time I start videotaping them only two lights left. After 16 second the lights disappeared one by one. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Disc
Garrettsville — This photo was taken by my dad at Nelson ledges State Park in Ohio on October 23, 2011. He was fishing and decided to take a couple pictures for memories. He realized later on while looking at the pictures noticed this odd looking object. He says that when he was shooting the pictures he didn’t notice anything strange. My guess is whatever it was had to be moving really fast and was caught on film at the right moment. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orbs
San Antonio — I see many things in the sky I would like to share, odd shapes, things that are explainable, and things that just freak me out. These pictures were taken by me with my camera or my phone. They are real unedited photos. The objects were dot sized. I annotated the photo showing the location of the objects.
Note: The meta data with the photo file says that the above photo was taken on July 28, 2017. The witness stated that the photos were taken on Jan 31, 2018. The date needs to be confirmed. The witness has been contacted, but no response has been received. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orb
Brisbane — I heard a commercial airliner behind me and observed the plane travel south while sitting beside the pool on January 20, 2018. I also observed several Ibis birds circling very high that were gliding on the warm air currents. Behind the Ibis I noticed an orb/ball hovering in the sky that started to move north. It occasionally slowed to a stop before starting to move in a straight line.
Canada Object
Toronto — I was flying west from Toronto to Edmonton on October 19, 2017. We took off from Toronto around 3pm and had been flying for an hour when I looked out the window and saw this object shining in the distance. i took a bunch of pictures with my s8, the object then disappeared to the east and that was it. No trails behind it, just gone. I checked our flight path and it took us down to the us Canada border so this object would have been over Minnesota airspace at 40,000 feet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Object
Weilerbach— I stood on my terrace to smoke when I saw in the sky this brightly pulsating disc hovering over Weilerbach Rhineland-Palatinate, I ran back into the house to get my camera. I zoomed in on the object and squeezed off. The object suddenly flew off very fast and made extraordinary maneuvers. It flew so fast that I could hardly follow it with the eye and it was not visible anymore. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Object
During the recorded launch of a Japanese rocket, a UFO was seen flying past the rocket at high altitude on January 18, 2018.
This being a no fly zone to keep aircraft safe is further proof that this was an alien craft. If you compare the size of the UFO with that of the rocket, you will see the UFO is over 20X the size of the rocket. That’s big! Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Russia UFOs
Kirensk— I was in Irkutsk Oblast, my friend and I were hiking when we heard a buzzing noise and felt the ground vibrating. We looked up and saw about 5 or 6 of the UFOs. They were moving slowly at first, and some were stationary. They stayed like this for a minute or so, and then they moved west together in a formation. They stopped an started moving multiple times. Some of the lights were blinking. The UFOs also flew in a circular motion around our position for a few seconds, as if they could see us. They then sped off quickly, and immediately we felt sick and vomited. and mentally shaken. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Lights
Trang— Whilst photographing the Blood Moon at 8:15pm, on January 31 2018, There was UFO activity for approx 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours SE of the moon about 25 degree elevation. I estimate the location of the objects to be off the coast, in the direction of Satun. There were 3 other witnesses to this event. To the naked eye, only the larger craft Blue pulses were visible. The object moved around an area perhaps 10×10 the size of the moon, changing direction abruptly and at speed, traceable by the blue pulses. The object was still visible after nearly two hours, coinciding with the Blood moon event.
The original video footage taken on a Sony HX400V camera clearly shows two craft in sync maneuvers with the smaller orb craft returning a white flash to the blue pulse emitted from the larger craft. The Youtube videos “Blood Moon 2018 UFO footage, Mothership and White Orb craft Comms in sync.”
UK/ England Lights
Southampton – I saw a line of 4 lights close together much brighter than stars on February 4, 2018. The lights were mainly white but also had a green or blue tinge. They did not move for over an hour that I observed until I needed to go to bed. After observing for 40 minutes another set of lights were observed which were closer to the horizon and somewhat dimmer. I took photo with my phone but it does not show the lights as points but as a smear. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Co Durham — I caught this on cctv on February 1, 2018, at 12.07 am on Saturday.
I have pictures and footage on this but I don’t know much about it.
It stayed from birth to death for 17 minutes. I wish I could help more,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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In the footage, a narrator explains how a number of art pieces have been revealed.
Discovered in Charama, India, the images appear to show aliens and UFOs, similar to scenes of a sci-fi movie.
According to local archaeologist JR Bhagat it is unclear as to what the images reveal.
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ALIENS? The government have asked NASA for help
He said: "The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers.
“Extensive research is needed for further findings.
“Charama presently doesn't have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.“
He also revealed that some of the features of the paintings were unclear and the characters appeared to be wielding weapons.
He added: "The paintings are done in natural colours that have hardly faded despite the years.
“The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features.
“Specially, the nose and mouth are missing.
“In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits. We can't refute possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things.”
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel The Lost History Channel on Sunday and has already received more than 7,000 views.
One comment read: "Evidence is everywhere, we need opened eyes, that's all."
And another claimed: "We dont need to find aliens, they are already here all around us."
The archaeologists have contacted NASA and ISRO to help solve the mystery.
We all know that supernovas, the titanic explosions caused by the death of a massive star or the catastrophic nuclear ignition of a white dwarf, are some of the most fantastic fireworks nature has to offer. Releasing an enormous amount of energy in a single blast, one supernova can outshine an entire galaxy — that's a few hundred billion stars, for those keeping track — for a few weeks or even months. When they occur close enough to our own sun, they're even visible as a bright pinprick of light during the day, a feat no other star can hope to accomplish.
But they're peanuts. Barely a festive sparkler. A faint glimmer compared to the awesome power of the armed and fully operational battle sta — sorry, got carried away there. My point is that supernovas are chumps compared with something far mightier: the quasar. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
A supermassive feast
There are giant black holes sitting in the centers of almost every galaxy in the universe. It seems weird to say it, but over the past couple decades it's become a firm observational reality. Our Milky Way galaxy has its very own black heart; we even gave it the name Sagittarius A*, for the region of the sky it sits in. It's no threat to us, sitting tens of thousands of light-years away, but it's truly a whopper, weighing in at more than 4 million times the mass of the sun.
This giant (or more technically, supermassive) black hole is currently comparatively placid, only sipping on a thin soup of gas and dust surrounding it. Still, that minimal activity is enough to make it an incredibly loud source of radio emission, first noticed by Karl Jansky in the 1930s.
Decades later, radio astronomers noticed many other sources of loud radio emission dotting the sky. Their origin was a mystery until an optical telescope could lock on to one of those targets, revealing what at first appeared to be a star. It was only a single point of light, but its spectrum was off. All the familiar elements were present, but shifted deep into the red, implying an incredibly fast-moving — and distant — object. So, not a star in our Milky Way, but something almost impossibly far-flung, and almost impossibly bright.
A radio source that kind of looked like a star. A quasi-stellar radio source. A quasar.
Whatever quasars were, they had to be small. Variations in brightness over the course of, say, a week, meant that the source could be no larger than a light-week across (otherwise all the gas couldn't coordinate itself to emit at the same temperature in that amount of time). And it had to be massive, proving enough raw gravitational energy to power the blasts of radiation.
Then theorists made the leap: We have a giant black hole in the Milky Way, with the infalling gas emitting radio waves. These quasars were emitting radio waves. Perhaps they're powered by giant black holes?
The power of the swirl
Indeed, they are. Quasars turned out to be black holes even bigger than Sagittarius A*, reaching into the billions and even tens of billions of solar masses.
It's not the black holes themselves emitting all the radiation — they are "black," after all. Instead, as countless tons of material fall into the black hole, it compresses as it all tries to squeeze through the relatively narrow door of the event horizon together. That compression, plus friction, plus the release of all the gravitational potential energy, brings the temperature of the gas up to incredible highs. And it's that hot, compressed has that emits the copious amounts of radiation.
A single supernova outshines an entire galaxy for a few weeks. A single quasar can outshine 10,000 galaxies for millions of years. Take that, supernovas, you chumps.
Quasars are by far the most powerful engines found in the universe. The energy released is only topped by galaxies themselves merging. But there's more to the quasar story than just gas falling helplessly into a black hole. As the gas falls in, if it has any rotation whatsoever (and it will, by sheer random chance), that spin will amplify due to conservation of angular momentum. As the gas continues to rotate and collapse, it will form an accretion disk.
Accretion disks are crazy places, full of twisting and whirling magnetic field lines. Most of the time those lines just sit in the background, following the lead of the swirling gas. But accretion disks also lend themselves to dynamo actions, amplifying magnetic fields well beyond their normal magnitudes
Then it gets crazy. In some cases, the magnetic fields twist and wrap around the black hole, funneling gas away from the event horizon at the last moment and sending it rocketing in two long, thin streams, blasting away from the black hole. These jets can stretch for tens of thousands of light-years, flinging material beyond the confines of the host galaxy itself.
Blazing away
These jets will point in any old direction, and by pure random chance some have our solar system in their line of sight. When this happens, we get an especially expressive blast as the gas, traveling at close to the speed of light, hurls radiation ahead of it. An effect called relativistic beaming shapes its emission into a forward-facing cone, giving any hapless observer (e.g., us) an especially breathtaking blast of radiation.
These are the blazars, the most powerful member of the quasar family (and the even larger active galactic nucleus clan, but that's another article). Immense beasts of raw power, converting the collapse of material onto a giant black hole into lighthouses that can be seem from the other side of the universe — easily.
Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical "Skyscapes" that connect both Earth and night sky. Join Miguel here as he takes us through his photograph "Lunar Corona above Town Hall in Grand Place."
This cityscape shows a colorful lunar corona at the left side of the Town Hall building in the city of Brussels, home to many central institutions of the European Union (EU).
A lunar corona is formed while bright moonlight is diffracted by water droplets in thin clouds that drift in front of the lunar disk. The beautiful building in the foreground is the Town Hall building, a Gothic building from the Middle Ages — built between 1401 and 1455.
The building's main tower is topped by a statue of Saint Michael slaying a demon. It is located on the famous Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
"The Grand Place testifies in particular to the success of Brussels, mercantile city of northern Europe that, at the height of its prosperity, rose from the terrible bombardment inflicted by the troops of Louis XIV in 1695," according to the UNESCO website.
To see more of Claro's amazing astrophotography, visit his website: miguelclaro.com.
These Are the Most Out-of-This-World Photos Ever Taken — Literally
These Are the Most Out-of-This-World Photos Ever Taken — Literally
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
The New Horizons spacecraft's imager (called the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) captured these false-color images in December 2017 of Kuiper Belt Objects 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85. These are, for now, the farthest images from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The photos don't look like much: blurry green splotches against pixelated blue. But they're arguably among the most amazing photographic images ever.
That's because they were taken from the farthest point from planet Earth of any images ever captured, snapped by a spacecraft just over 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers) from its home planet. That spacecraft is New Horizons, a NASA starship that zipped past Pluto in 2015 and is scheduled to fly by an object in the icy Kuiper Belt at the outer reaches of the solar system in January 2019.
New Horizons snapped these two farthest-out shots, of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85, on Dec. 5, 2017. Just 2 hours before, the spacecraft had officially claimed the title of spaciest photographer by capturing a camera-calibration shot of a far-off star cluster known as the Wishing Well. It was a fleeting record, because 2 hours later, the two KBOs were imaged. [Earth from Above: 101 Stunning Images from Orbit]
Prior to New Horizons' star shot, the image taken farthest from Earth was one of the Blue Marble snapped by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990. That image, known as the "Pale Blue Dot," was taken from 3.75 billion miles (6 billion km) away.
For a couple of hours, this New Horizons image of the so-called Wishing Well star cluster, snapped on Dec. 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever captured by a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
New Horizons is headed toward a KBO dubbed 2014 MU69, one of more than 20 far-off chunks of rock and ice NASA hopes to observe during the spacecraft's mission. The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped expanse past the orbit of Neptune, about 2.7 billion to 9.3 billion miles (4.4 billion to 14.9 billion km) from the sun, that contains thousands of icy objects, comets and dwarf planets. (Pluto is one of these dwarf planets.) 2014 MU69 is nearly a billion miles beyond Pluto, which itself is 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion km) beyond Earth. To get there, New Horizons is trucking: It travels more than 700,000 miles (1.1 million km) a day.
So how does New Horizons send back images, even blurry ones, through all that space? According to Johns Hopkins University, where the scientists in charge of the spacecraft's data communications are based, it's not easy. Data is stored in a solid-state recorder (the only moving parts in these flash memory devices are the electrons) on New Horizons and is then transmitted via radio waves. Needless to say, the signal strength is low — the antenna transmits at a power of 12 watts and receives signals at 1 million billionth of a watt — so the data transmission rate is painfully slow. The transmission rate for New Horizons is only about 2 kilobits per second. Even old dial-up internet moved data at a rate of 56 kilobits per second.
For the two record-breaking Kuiper Belt object images, it took about 4 hours to transmit each image and 6 hours for the data to travel to Earth, Alan Stern, the principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, told Live Science.
On Earth, NASA's Deep Space Network antenna dishes catch the faint signals coming from New Horizons and reassemble the raw data into a usable form. For now, New Horizons won't be sending home any snapshots. According to NASA, the spacecraft is in hibernation mode until June 4, when mission controllers will bring it back online to start preparing it for its visit with MU69.
La sonde New Horizons a envoyé quelques photos d'objets de la ceinture de Kuiper. Ce sont les clichés les plus éloignés pris par un engin terrestre.
La sonde New Horizons a photographié deux petits objets de la ceinture de Kuiper.
NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
En 1990, la sonde Voyager 1 prenait une photo de la Terre qui apparaissait comme un point bleu pâle (Pale Blue Dot)sur le cliché, selon l'expression rendue célèbre par l'astronome Carl Sagan et qui a inspiré son livre éponyme. Ce cliché a été réalisé alors que la sonde voguait à 6,06 milliards de kilomètres (40,5 unités astronomiques) de la Terre, ce qui en a fait la photographie la plus lointaine jamais prise (1). Un record qui a tenu 27 ans jusqu'à ce que New Horizons, en décembre 2017, mette en boite une image d'un groupe d'étoiles surnommé "Wishing Well", situé à à 40,9 unités astronomiques de la Terre. Et comme la sonde continue à s'éloigner de nous, chaque nouvelle image qu'elle enverra constituera un nouveau record ! Ainsi ces deux petites photos ci-dessus qui ont été saisies deux heures après les "Wishing Well" et qui représentent deux petits objets de la ceinture de Kuiper, 2012 HZ84 (à gauche) et 2012 HE85 (à droite) détiennent désormais le record, à un peu plus de 40,9 unités astronomiques (New Horizons se déplace à environ 50.000 km/h).
3.79 billion miles from Earth, #NewHorizons snapped these images of a pair of Kuiper Belt objects, making them the farthest images ever taken by a spacecraft!
La ceinture de Kuiper est une vaste zone en forme d'anneau composée d'une myriade de petits corps et de plusieurs planètes naines dont Pluton. Elle est située au-delà de l'orbite de Neptune entre 30 et 55 unités astronomiques. Gigantesque et quasi inexplorée, cette partie du Système solaire recèle pourtant bien des secrets : c'est un réservoir de comètes périodiques qui abrite des astres probablement contemporains des débuts du Système solaire, tandis que d'autres ont pu s'y former puis migrer secondairement et se rapprocher du Soleil. C'est sans doute le cas de Cérès et de Triton (une lune de Neptune). C'est pour mieux connaître cette ceinture qu'a été conçue la sonde New Horizons qui a déjà exploré Pluton et sa Lune Charon et qui se dirige maintenant vers l'astéroïde 2014 MU69 qu'elle survolera le 1er janvier 2019.
Cliché du groupe d'étoiles "Whishing Well" pris par New Horizons.
Crédit : NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
En attendant ce prochain rendez-vous, New Horizons a été placée en "hibernation" fin décembre 2017. La sonde conservera ce statut, qui permet de sauvegarder ses batteries, jusqu'au 4 juin 2018. Elle devrait livrer les premières photographies de sa cible à partir du mois d'août et aura la possibilité d'effectuer d'ultimes corrections de trajectoire à partir du mois d'octobre.
(1) La sonde Voyager 1 est aujourd'hui bien plus éloignée, plus que tout autre engin humain envoyé dans l'espace, mais hélas ses caméras ont été éteintes peu après la photo du Pale Blue Dot.
The Argument from Ignorance – Trapping UFO Enthusiasts for Decades
The Argument from Ignorance – Trapping UFO Enthusiasts for Decades
I recently saw a hashtag from a UFO enthusiast on Twitter that said #ProveTheyDontExist. It really got my gears going. You know why? This same logical fallacy has been used to justify all sorts of crazy nonsense for decades. Normally a staple of religious zealotry, the Argument from Ignorance has infected the fields of science, medicine, mental health, and just about every other academic thought pool. It’s also made its way into UFOlogy.
The center of the earth is made of cheeseburgers. I know this is true. I know because mankind has yet to prove that the center of the earth is not made of cheeseburgers.
The above statement should seem preposterous to you. Not only is it highly unlikely that cheeseburgers exist at the center of the earth, humans have yet to explore the center of the earth to find out exactly what it contains. Sure we can make educated guesses based on our understanding of science, but until we actually drill down, we’ll never know for sure.
Now look at this next example:
Aliens built the great pyramids. We don’t know definitively how humans might have done it, so it must have been aliens.
See anything familiar? While it might be a bit more subtle than claiming the center of the earth is comprised of cheeseburgers, it’s just as logically errant. One could replace the word aliens in that statement with just about anything else and it would be just as untrue. In fact, the Ancient Alien theory resembles a religion more than science or archaeology.
Now, read this:
I saw an object in the sky that wasn’t a bird or a plane, or anything else I know of. Therefore, it must be an alien-controlled spaceship.
This one really hits close to home because so many people I know have taken this position. And this statement is at the crux of many UFO claims. But here’s the thing – if you saw an unidentified flying object, it makes zero sense to follow that statement with an identification because it’s unidentified. This statement is, in fact, no less ludicrous than the center of the earth being made of cheeseburgers.
Absence of an Explanation is Never Equivalent to Proof
Does this make you uncomfortable? It should. And there is a good reason. The charge that alien life is visiting our planet is extraordinary and, as a result, must require extraordinary proof.
Credibility, Credibility, Credibility
One of the primary complaints of UFO researchers and enthusiasts is that they aren’t taken seriously by mainstream science. But when you look at some of the most popular thought-processes exhibited by them, it’s pretty easy to understand why.
In order to gain respect from the scientific community, UFOlogists must illustrate that they are credible. A researcher must be able to exercise solid and valid logic when making conclusions. Those conclusions must be drawn from the actual evidence, not a lack thereof. Similarly, they must also exercise the same logic when sharing dubious news stories and articles with questionable sources.
Researchers need to spend the energy searching for the truth of each sighting, not the validation of that which they wish to be true. Recognizing the Argument from Ignorance is the first step in this process. UFOlogists can make great changes by learning to filter out claims that use the proof of nonexistence as a requirement.
Cette carte des ovnis en Bretagne est un travail personnel de collecte de données d'observations d'ovnis commencé en 2013.
Elle comprend 346 cas signalés depuis 1901, mais tous les cas ne s'y trouvent pas, de plus, il manque ceux antérieurs au XXème siècle.
J'ai mis des icônes différentes par décennie et des icônes spéciales pour les cas qui m'ont étonnée ou qui me semble significatifs (avion, bateau,chiens qui sont dérangés par l'objet, évocation de tornade) -l'icone marque de préférence l'endroit où le témoin situe le phénomène qu'il a remarqué. -Une icône formé de petits carrés disposés en triangle marque quatre mégalithes remarquables par leur taille imposante, ça m'a amusée de constater qu'ils semblaient marquer les frontières de la péninsule.
-Les périmètres de la forêt de Paimpont et des Mont d'Arrée sont voilés légèrement de blanc pour marquer d'éventuelles coïncidences avec les lieux mythiques.
-J'ai mis l'indication du passage des failles géologiques importantes du sol breton pour rappeler que certaines observations seraient peut-être d'origine tectonique.
C'est en découvrant la carte de Base de données PAN/OVNI en Moselle (57) d'Eric B. également connu sous le pseudo Polyèdre,que j'ai eu l'idée de comparer les manifestations du phénomène Ovni avec ceux qui avaient été observés en Bretagne.
Ces deux régions m'avaient frappée par leurs différences : Toutes les deux se trouvaient chacune à un bout opposé de l'Hexagone - l'une à l'Ouest, péninsule excentrée plus reliée que séparée par la mer à l'Irlande, la Grande Bretagne et l'Espagne, l'autre situé à l'Est, important axe de communication au coeur de l'Europe avec une frontière commune avec le Grand Duché de Luxembourg et l'Allemagne, la Lorraine voisinant aussi avec la Belgique - L'une dont l'environnement a été influencé par l'industrialisation lourde liée aux gisements de fer de Lorraine, l'autre longtemps à vocation rurale et maritime. Enfin, la carte de Polyèdre était déjà bien fournie. Et d'une manière plus sentimentale, l'une de mes arrières grand-mères vient de Moselle.
Je me demandais si le phénomène s'exprimait de la même manière, voir si on ne pouvait pas constater des déplacements à des dates proches d'ovnis d'une région à l'autre.
Mais pour établir une carte des ovnis en Bretagne, il me fallait des témoignages spécifiques à la péninsule. J'avais déjà connaissance depuis longtemps de plusieurs cas dont deux très étranges. L'un m'avait beaucoup impressionnée et on en parlait encore dans les années 60. Ces deux cas se trouvent l'un à Gâvres près de Lorient l'autre à Loctudy dans le Pays bigouden.
J'ai retrouvé dans le livre de Jean François Boëdec et dans la Revue Lumière Dans la Nuit ces cas bien plus détaillés que ce qui m'en avait été raconté.
Les voici :
*Le 5 octobre 1954 vers 4 h, l'ouvrier boulanger est occupé à puiser de l'eau dans la cour de la boulangerie. Il aperçoit soudain, à quelques mètres de lui, un engin circulaire posé au sol. Eberlué, il en voit sortir un humanoïde de 1 m 20 de haut qui s'approche et lui touche l'épaule en prononçant des paroles incompréhensibles. Le témoin réussit à garder son sang-froid et regagne le fournil où l'inconnu le suit. A la lumière, le témoin peut dévisager l'étrange visiteur. C'est un être de 1 m 20 de haut, couvert de poils sombres, avec des yeux énormes "de la grosseur d'un oeuf de pigeon ", le visage ovale. Le jeune homme appelle son patron. A ce moment l'être étrange bat en retraite, monte à bord de son appareil qui décolle aussitôt. Lorsque le patron, attiré par ses appels, arrive, l'objet a disparu. Ce même jour, à 30 kms vers 4 h du matin un camionneur devait observer pendant 10 minutes l'évolution de soucoupes volantes lumineuse au-dessus de Fouesnant. une semaine plus tôt, le mécanicien et le chauffeur d'une locomotive aperçurent un engin circulaire qui s'élevait des marais à St Nicolas de Redon.
15 jours plus tard, à Gâvres(56) a 63 km à vol d'oiseau de Loctudy(29s) en suivant le littoral sud, le 20 octobre 1954
* Il est 18h, Une jeune femme est en train de fermer ses volets lorsqu'elle voit une lumière rouge orange venir stationner au-dessus de la route toute proche. De cette lumière émane alors un faisceau lumineux très puissant dirigé verticalement vers le bas juste sur la chaussée de la route. Cinq petits êtres de forme humanoïde apparaissent alors en bas de ce faisceau et se dirigent vers le domicile du témoin. La porte de sa maison s'ouvre et les humanoïdes entrent dans la maison. La femme dira qu'ils ont des tailles variant entre 1m et 1m20 et que leur corps est entièrement recouvert de poils roux à l'exception de leur tête qui est doté d'une sorte de nez "comme celui des cochons." Les humanoïdes se déplacent l'un derrière l'autre et tous les cinq font ensemble trois tours autour du témoin qui reste abasourdie et se met à crier. Ils filent ensuite vers le faisceau de lumière où ils étaient apparus à l'origine et y disparaissent, le faisceau lui même disparaît et le témoin entend un sifflement aigu qui en provient. Au moment où ce sifflement se fait entendre, une bouteille que la jeune femme tenait à la main se brise en deux au niveau de son goulot, il sera plus tard constaté que la coupure est aussi nette que si elle avait été réalisée avec une scie. Le mari se trouvait pendant ce temps en train de faire des courses à l'épicerie voisine à tout juste une trentaine de mètres de distance. Quand il entend son épouse hurler, il court vers son domicile et découvre son épouse presque évanouie et très choquée. Il appela tout de suite un médecin, et celui-ci décida d'expédier la jeune femme à l'hôpital de d'Hennebont, où elle fit une fausse couche, alors quelle était enceinte d'un bébé de deux mois. Depuis l'incident, elle est devenue extrêmement angoissée par la hantise de rencontrer à nouveau les cinq humanoïdes.
Etait-ce une conséquence de la rencontre de Marius Dewilde avec des entités à Quarouble qui se produisit le 10 Septembre dans le nord de la France donc l'écho serait parvenu par la radio ou les journaux toujours présents dans les foyers même modestes et aurait influencé nos témoins ? Il est bien hasardeux de le penser.
Ces cas font donc partie de la première importante vague d'observation d'Ovnis ayant déferlé sur le territoire national en 1954. La presse française se fait l'écho de ce phénomène totalement nouveau : l'observation de machines volantes d'origine inconnue. Partout sont décrits des engins aux formes les plus variées. Des dizaines d'observation, d'atterrissage, de rencontre avec des petits êtres sont rapportées tous les jours durant les mois d'août, septembre, octobre et novembre.
Mais c'est surtout vers la fin septembre que la Bretagne fut touchée par cette vague avec un pic en octobre comme partout dans l'Hexagone mais cependant, un cas à la fin du mois d'Août avait déjà attiré l'attention :
Un soir, un campeur sur la lande dans les environs de Quimperlé (29s), entend un fort grondement puis voit une boule orange allant du nord au sud puis 10 à 15 minutes plus tard, un nouveau grondement et, cette fois, il voit une boule violette et, après un laps de temps identique à la précédente, un troisième grondement et cette fois c'est une boule verte qui passe..elles vont toutes les deux dans la même direction que la première.
Ce déferlement d'ovnis sur l'Hexagone incita l'Etat français à tenir une réunion
regroupant Emmanuel Temple, Ministre de la Défense Nationale et aux Forces Armées ainsi que 3 secrétaires d'Etat (à la Guerre, Henri Caillavet à la Marine et l'Air) au sein du cabinet de Pierre Mendès-France, Président du Conseil (équivalent du 1er ministre) et donna lieu à la création d'une commission secrète afin d'enquêter: le SEMOC (Section d'Etude des Mystérieux Objets Célestes) qui sera officialisé au Journal Officiel du 12 janvier 1955. Sous la tutelle de l'Etat Major de l'Armée de l'Air (EMAA).
Le SEMOC sera le premier service démontrant l'intérêt que porte le gouvernement français aux manifestations OVNI. Dirigé par le Lt.-Col. Richard Martin, ses moyens lui permettront de centraliser les observations en collaboration avec la Gendarmerie et la Défense Aérienne du Territoire (DAT).
Ce phénomène s'apaisa en trois mois mais ne s'éteignit pas car en effet,
Dans les années 60, Les spécialistes de l'armée de l'air ne furent pas en reste pour rapporter leur observation et on garde encore le souvenir à Lorient de ces fameuses "apparitions"
Dans les années 70, une nouvelle vague d'ovnis se répandit dans la péninsule où un nouveau cas d'apparition d'entité se fit connaitre à Riec-sur-Belon dans le Finistère sud
*le 29 septembre 1974 à 0h45. Un sergent dans l'armée de l'air à Montmorency arrive chez lui quand se produit une forte averse. Il rentre dans sa cuisine quand retentit un fort coup de tonnerre. Il observe alors une lueur fugitive jaune orangée et pense à l'éclairage d'une maison voisine. Il va alors dans sa chambre et voit aussitôt par la fenêtre un halo de couleur rouge. Pensant à un incendie il prend ses jumelles et observe alors une sorte de socle horizontal surmonté d'un habitacle en forme de cône tronqué dans lequel se découpent trois rectangles de couleur rouge vif surmontés de volets rabattables. De plus, trois masses lumineuses blanc phosphorescent sont visibles. L'objet fait environ 4 m de haut de couleur grise. Les formes blanches apparaissent brusquement et disparaissent amorçant un arc de cercle comme si elles contournaient quelque chose. Soudain trois silhouettes de la taille d'1m 70 environ sont visibles. Elles sont de forte constitution, les jambes et la têtes bien visibles... Le témoin réveille ses parents
Non loin, dans le voisinage proche, un couple est couché quand ils entendent un bruit sec d'explosion qui fait trembler les vitres de la maison. Le mari veut débrancher la télévision, mais il n'y a plus d'électricité. Il ressent alors une sensation de chaleur intense. Il observe alors une lueur comparable à un tube néon qui filtre par les volets. Quelques jours plus tard le témoin découvre trois traces rectangulaires de 90cm sur 60 où l'herbe est complètement brûlée, ces traces forment un triangle de 8m par 5 par 4,50. ET à 190 km de là , 20 minutes plus tard, quatre témoins observeront un objet elliptique d'environ 10 m de long sur 6 mètres de haut qui se posent dans le parc de la Gaudinière à Nantes à environ 150 m d'eux. On relèvera des trace triangulaires le lendemain.
L'affaire de Riec-sur- Belon est l'un des cas les plus extraordinaires, les mieux documentés et les moins contestés que nous ayons en France. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi, à ma connaissance, il semble n'avoir été fait aucune étude confrontant tous ces cas de RR3 en Europe.
Dans les années 80, c'est l'aéroport de Brest Guipavas qui eut des inquiétudes :
Aéroport de Brest-Quipavas en 2007
*Le 22 novembre 1981 entre 7h 40 et 8h, plusieurs personnes se trouvent sur la route périphérique au terrain d'aviation. Le jour n'est pas totalement levé mais la visibilité est bonne. Soudain ils aperçoivent une boule couleur rouge-orange qui reste immobile au-dessus du champ situé juste avant le terrain d'aviation. Cette boule de la grosseur d'un ballon de football disparaît brusquement et semble être tombée dans le champ ; à aucun moment les témoins ne perçoivent un bruit particulier. De service ce matin là, deux gendarmes vont également apercevoir vers 8h, une boule lumineuse orangée qui s'avance sur la piste comme pour un atterissage alors qu'un avion sur cette même piste s'apprête à décoller. Au fur et à mesure que la boule descend, elle prend une forme plus imposante. Immédiatement le pompier avertit la tour de contrôle mais l'objet disparaît instantanément. Aucun bruit ne sera entendu par les témoins et aucune trace dans le champs ou sur la piste ne sera trouvée. Néanmoins le CRNA signalera un spot visible sur le radar entre 7h50 et 8h 04. Ce phénomène reste inexpliqué
Pour en revenir à ma carte ,
j'ai commencé par les données du Geipan et avec les deux ouvrage de Jean François Boëdec :
- Ovnis en Bretagne - Anatomie d'un Phénomène** éd. Fernand Lanore 1978 - Les Apparitions de Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés dans le Finistère - Fantastiques rencontres au bout du monde. Ed.Le Signor (1ère et 2ème édition)
Mais qu'en est-il exactement pour la base de données relayées par Jean François Boëdec dans ces deux ouvrages ?
Le 17 mars 1973, La Commissioon Nationale des Recherches sur les O.V.N.IS(C.N.R) et le groupement d'Etude des Phénomènes Aériens (G.E.P.A) que préside Monsieur René Fouéré ont organisé à Quimper un symposium qui a rassemblé plus de cinq cent personnes. Cette manifestation s'est tenue dans une région où certains disent avoir recensé une cinquantaine d'O.V.N.I depuis ces dernières années dont un "triangle volant" en février dernier au-dessus de Quimperlé(29), trois soucoupes au-dessus du chantier de l'Ile Longue(29) en Août 1970, six sphères lumineuses au-dessus de Riec-sur-Belon en septembre 1970.
Monsieur Christian Sévère, secrétaire de la C.N.R. sur les O.V.N.I a souligné dans une allocution d'ouverture le conformisme de notre société qui rejette ce genre de phénomène. Ensuite, Monsieur René Fouéré cita plusieurs déclarations d'astronomes croyant aux O.C.N.et lança un appel : "n'est-ce pas limiter la Science que d'affirmer que ce que nous ne comprenons pas n'existe pas ? souvenons de l'histoire de Galilée " (Le Figaro" Lundi 19 mars 1973) Du côté de Lorient, une section vient d'être créée à la même époque, une section du "Centre for UFO strudies" dirigée par Monsieur Jean-Louis Brochard situé à Port Navalo.
Ainsi, c'est grâce a ces petit groupes d'enquêteurs : Christian sévère, Rémy Gueguen, Georges Le Gac, Michel Lejan, Christian Choaler, Jean Yves Nicolas et Robert Gelci, grâce à leurs d'enquêtes relayées par Jean François Boëdec dans ses ouvrages, que j'ai pu commencer ma carte avec aussi la base de données du Geipan.
De ces associations privées, le GEPAN pris le relais comme organisme officiel de la République française sur le sujet des Ovnis. Il fut placé très logiquement au sein du Site du Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales et il est amusant de constater que son fondateur et premier directeur, Claude Poher est d'origine bretonne et que son patronyme évoque une région où fourmille les ovnis.
Voici le dernier cas breton classé D1 qui fut publié sur le Site du GEIPAN ayant pris le "I" d'information.►ICI
Un cas curieux à Etrelles(35) que l'on pourrait expliquer comme ayant été le passage d'un météore et pourtant non...souvent, il y a ce petit quelque chose qui empêche l'explication d'une observation d'ovni.
Nom de Dieu ! Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça ? » Deux secondes pour une éternité. Dimanche 1er juin 2014, des gendarmes effectuent une patrouille de surveillance zone du Piquet, à Étrelles, près de Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine).
« Il fait nuit. Les conditions météorologiques sont bonnes, le ciel est étoilé, le croissant de lune ne se trouve pas dans notre champ visuel. Le vent est faible, il n’y a pas d’orage ni de pluie », raconte un témoin à l’époque. Des bonnes conditions qui permettent encore moins aux gendarmes d’expliquer ce qu’ils pensent avoir vu : un ovni. Car cette patrouille de routine ne se passe pas comme prévu. Il est 23 h 07. « Soudain, depuis l’habitacle, à travers le pare-brise, nous observons dans le ciel au-dessus de notre véhicule une masse sombre stationnaire à environ 1 000 mètres d’altitude », livre-t-il à ses collègues le lendemain à l’aube.
Aujourd’hui encore, il se souvient de chaque détail. "J’étais conducteur du véhicule. Mon collègue l’a vu arriver de la droite. Moi, je l’ai vu uniquement lorsqu’il était au-dessus de nous."
« J’ai d’abord pensé qu’il s’agissait d’un aéronef mais cet objet se déplaçait à une vitesse incroyable en provenance de l’ ouest et en direction de l’est, témoignait-il encore en 2014. "L’objet volant a encore accéléré et a changé de trajectoire.» Avant de disparaître brusquement. « A une vitesse ahurissante et dans un silence de mort », « comme s’il s’était évanoui dans la nature en un millième de seconde ». Selon lui, cette masse, « approximativement de la taille de deux véhicules Renault Espace », masquait les étoiles. Aussitôt, un dilemme se dresse devant les deux militaires. « Devait-on en parler ? Car on allait s’exposer aux moqueries. » Ils contactent finalement le Geipan, le Groupe d’Etudes et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés, basé au Centre national d’études spatiales de Toulouse.
"Ils nous ont interrogés séparément.Autour de moi, j’en ai très peu parlé. Même mon épouse n’est pas au courant !" Avec le recul, le gendarme n’explique toujours pas ce qu’il a vu.
"Nous avions demandé à un responsable de l’entreprise Thales si leurs caméras extérieures avaient pu filmer la scène. Mais cela n’avait rien donné. Aujourd’hui, je reste sceptique parce que je suis quelqu’un de très terre à terre. Oui, j’ai vu un ovni. Mais je n’ai jamais parlé d’extraterrestres. Pour moi, il s’agit d’un phénomène scientifique encore non défini, qu’on pourra peut-être expliquer dans plusieurs centaines d’années." Le passage d’un météore a bien été enregistré le jour dit, précisément à 23 h 12 mn 30 s heure locale. Mais cela correspond mal avec le phénomène aérospatial non identifié d’Étrelles. A la fois dans l’espace et dans le temps.
En conclusion, le Geipan persiste et signe : « Il s’agit d’un PAN (phénomène aérospatial non identifié) observé par deux témoins de grande fiabilité, dans des conditions d’observation idéales. » Un cas classé D1 car inexpliqué. Le rendu de l'enquête ici :►ICI
Dans l'ensemble, le phénomène OVNI se retrouve sur tout le territoire français, presque tout le territoire car il y a des zones vides d'observation. mais chaque cas présente une spécificité bien à lui...il n'y a pas un témoignage semblable à l'autre mais une homogénéité indiscutable dans les caractéristiques de base du phénomène. En ce qui concerne les témoins, toutes les classes sociales et toutes les générations sont représentées.
J'ai également très largement puisé dans :
BASE OVNIS FRANCE de Luc CHASTAING: Bases de données d'observations en France
Et évidemment, dans le forum Les Mystères des Ovnis, Les journaux comme le Télégramme, Ouest France et la Liberté, le GREPI, ANAKINOVNI, LDLN et diverses sources au cours de mes recherches en plus de celles qui me sont personnelles où qui m'ont été données par mon entourage.
Les témoignages dont j'ai parlé se sont produits de 1954 à 2008 et évoquent des boules lumineuses (une bonne moitié des observations) des entités ( 12 sur ma carte ) et des d'observations d'engins de toutes les formes qui semblent pour le témoin bien matériel. Sur la carte vous découvrirez le cas de Landévennec et de Port Kerdruc en Nevez dont les traces sur les végétaux et sur le sol furent dûment analysées et envoyées au Ministère de la Défense qui les transmettra au Ministère de l'Industrie.
Les méprises sont certainement fort nombreuses. Certaines observations sont incontestablement des bolides comme celui de ce mardi 19 juillet 2011 qui se serait désintégré de façon spectaculaire au-dessus de la forêt de Paimpont
Photo extraite d'une vidéo surveillance
des planètes comme Vénus, des étoiles particulièrement brillantes, la lune sous une forme inhabituelle, des rentrées atmosphériques de satellite, des lanternes thaïlandaises, des ballons sondes ou festifs, des oiseaux, des avions vus sous un angle inhabituel , des fusées éclairantes..la liste est longue.
La proximité des bases militaires de Lann Bihoué et de Landivisiau, les autres aéroports pourrait permettre des méprises la nuit dues aux feux de signalisation des avions, (quoiqu'en général, il est difficile de faire des confusions avec les Mirages et les Rafales car ils font trop de bruit ),Nous avons également des drônes de plus en plus perfectionnés et de plus en plus nombreux. Les vidéos et les photos ajoutent à la confusion.
ou bien....... on ne sait pas ce que c'est !
Mais en consultant ma carte, vous verrez qu'un grand nombre présente les caractéristiques originales bien spécifiques attribuées aux Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifié ou OVNIS
Ce sont des cas troublants que même le Geipan, dans sa propre base de données, n'a pas réussis à identifier et il ne faut pas oublier ce grand nombre d'observations écartées de tout espoir d'explication en raison de l'insuffisance d'éléments ou en raison du manque de sérieux des témoins...et on peut s'interroger sur le fait que le pourcentage de cas inexpliqués (classement D) est établi en intégrant le nombre de ces témoignages ne pouvant être étudiés (classement C).
De plus, les ovni sont vus par un seul témoin ou en groupe ce qui complique la tâche concernant la crédibilité car peu nombreux sont les témoins indépendants, mais il y en a et il a été possible de suivre un ovni sur une longue distance grâce des témoins qui se trouvaient sur son passage comme celui-ci :
*26 février 1970, un gigantesque engin survola le côté sud de la Bretagne, de Fontenay-le-Comte en passant par Nantes et le Morbihan. Plusieurs dizaines de personnes dont 12 agents de police l'aperçurent. A Nantes, 2 gendarmes l'observèrent à 400 mètres de distance seulement. "C'était énorme et presque incroyable" s'exclamèrent-ils D'autres témoins la signalèrent. Cette soucoupe mesurait environ 50 mètres de diamètre et 120 mètres avec l'anneau lumineux qui l'entourait. Elle devait être observée jusqu'à Scaër 29 au terme d'une course folle de près de 200 km au-dessus de la Vendée et de la Bretagne trajectoire Sud-Est/Nord-Est. Voir aussi l'observation de Pluzunet: Engin oval entouré....-.8/0/68. -Coupures de Presse Ouest-France et Presse Océan -lettre manuscrite de M. Jean Tyrode qui enquêta sur place à l'époque -Confirmation manuscrite du Gendarme Maurice Thierry de la Brigade de Nantes
En tout cas, Cette carte donne un bon aperçu du phénomène Ovni en Bretagne et elle fourmille de récits tous aussi surprenants.
Et nous revenons à mon projet initial : la comparaison du phénomène Ovni en Moselle avec la carte de la Base de données PAN/OVNI en Moselle (57) et aussi la carte des observations d'Ovnis en Lorraine, Alsace et pays limitrophes d'Eric B. ou Polyèdre qui se trouve sur ce site, avec la carte des Ovnis en Bretagne
Je ne peux m'empêcher de penser que notre travail est peut être un modeste écho à ce passage, page 205 de la seconde édition du livre Ovni sur le Finistère (50 ans d'enquêtes 80 cas inexpliqués inexpliquées) de Jean François Boëdec 2ème édition les Montagnes noires
Le docteur Harley Dean Rutledg, président de l'Académie des sciences du Missouri(USA) a suivi attentivement les recherches faites sur les ovnis dans le Finistère de 1980 à1894
"Encore une fois vous ,français, avez donné à nous autre un modèle, une leçon pour montrer comment ces choses sont faites, pour parler sans circonlocution, cette étude est excellente. Nettes dans ses intentions et qui marche tout droit pour les réaliser. Si nous possédions de telles données pour chaque région, quelle vision panoramique aurions-nous sur ce phénomène ! et quelle base de données comparatives"
Il est l'un des rares scientifiques (avec jacques Vallée) à avoir compris très tôt l'importance de l'étude territoriale du phénomène dans une recherche fondamentale encore naissante. Il créa au sein de la Southeast Missouri University une structure nommée "PROJECT IDENTIFICATION" chargé de suivre l'évolution du phénomène dans l'Etat du Missouri. En 1983, Harley Dean Rutledge envoya même un courrier au directeur de 'Université de Bretagne Occidental à Brest pour lui suggérer d'ouvrir d'un département identique. Nous sommes en 2018, La réponse se fait-elle toujours attendre comme se fait désirer le scientifique ayant pignon sur rue qui s'engagera sérieusement à exploiter les données que nous leur présentons sur une carte de France ?
Prochainement, nous nous pencheront sur l'étrange faculté des ovnis à se transformer sous les yeux des témoins.
A couple of scientists from the well-respected Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics recently wrote an astrophysics paper that is so awesome, it will make you want to read an astrophysics paper. The scientists have been puzzling over some weirdly strong radio wave bursts in space, and they've come up with an explanation: aliens.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking,” said Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American professor who worked on the study.
It all started when an astrophysicist was combing through the archives in Australia's Parkes Observatory, and he noticed a mysterious spurt of radio activity. It was short but intense. Really intense. Like, 500 million times the power of the sun intense.
Space is full of weird light, so that's no big deal, right? Wrong, apparently. Scientists have been trying to figure out what the burst could be for 10 years, and they still don't know. Some think it's a massive, particularly weird star that collapsed into its core. Or maybe it's a solar flare that somehow managed to travel across the known universe. Or ...
Yep. Aliens. At least, that's what the Harvard-Smithsonian scientists are proposing. You can start freaking out now.
Here's the theory: There's a faraway alien civilization that uses artificial beams to power spaceships with light sails. They harness energy from a star and cool their beam machine with planet-sized buckets of water.
Cool, right? We're not talking about boring, single-celled aliens here. We're talking about an advanced civilization, way more advanced than, you know, us. Our sail-related ships are limited to the kind that stay in water.
“Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities,” said Loeb, an alumnus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
It's still a theory, but we at From the Grapevine are definitely rooting for it. Discovering alien life would mean a total change in how we view reality. Plus, we could do so much cool stuff with aliens. Like discover new things about the universe and have alien romances.
The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown
The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown
The cataclysmic asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs might have also triggered massive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ocean, new research says. It’s yet another way the extraterrestrial impact could have killed off more than 70 percent of life on Earth — that is, if the timing isn’t just a coincidence.
Roughly 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula — causing a massive, worldwide earthquake. That Earth-shaking impact might have made underwater volcanoes spit up magma even more ferociously than usual, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. These events might have added to the asteroid’s apocalyptic aftershocks — which include wildfires, global cooling, and acid rain — that caused the mass extinction of roughly three quarters of Earth’s species, including dinos.
The findings back up earlier reports of more intense volcanic eruptions in India also roughly 66 million years ago. But other scientists are skeptical about the link between the asteroid and the underwater volcanic eruptions, because the paper doesn’t propose exactly how they happened. “Why would that much earthquake energy cause eruptions like that?” says Sean Gulick, a geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin who did not participate in the study. “It’s an interesting idea, but where’s the model that backs up the physics that would allow that to happen?”
For decades, scientists have been arguing about whether volcanoes or an asteroid caused the massive climate shifts that spelled doom for the dinosaurs. The evidence supporting the asteroid hypothesis kept mounting. But then, a few years ago, scientists at UC Berkeley asked, why pick one flavor of apocalypse? Both might have been on the menu 66 million years ago: the asteroid, for instance, might have intensified eruptions from a particularly volcanic region in India called the Deccan Traps. So Earth scientists Joseph Byrnes at the University of Minnesota and Leif Karlstrom at the University of Oregon went looking for more signs of ancient eruptions, in easy-to-spot stretches of the seafloor.
Gaps in the Earth’s crust called mid-ocean ridges weep magma to create the ocean floor, churning out material at a pretty even pace of up to several inches each year. That allowed Karlstrom and Byrnes to pinpoint the sections produced roughly 66 million years ago. But searching for signs of volcanic eruptions isn’t as easy as looking for bumpy tracts of hardened lava on the bottom of the ocean. “It’s hard to get to the sea floor because the ocean is sitting on it,” Byrnes says. Instead, the team turned to satellite maps of the peaks and valleys in the ocean’s surface. These bumpy spots produced by, say, an underwater volcano belching out magma have more mass, and therefore a bigger gravitational pull, than valleys or flat regions. So underwater peaks pull more ocean around them, creating wrinkles in the surface that can be seen from space.
Karlstrom and Byrnes found two bumps in stretches of the Earth’s crust in the Pacific and Indian Oceans that were produced within a million years of that 66 million-year-old impact. These bumps were made up of between 23,000 and 240,000 cubic miles (100,000 to 1 million cubic kilometers) of magma, Byrnes says — which means that the mid-ocean ridges had suddenly started erupting more intensely than at any other point in 100 million years. “No normal process makes those bumps, otherwise we’d see it more than once,” he says. ”If it’s just a random burp of magma, it happened at a very coincidental time.”
Byrnes and Karlstrom suspect that when the infamous asteroid crashed into the Yucatán, it hit the Earth like the clapper on a bell. The impact sent powerful vibrations ringing through the Earth at roughly the intensity of a magnitude 10 or 11 quake. This massive jolt might have made these mid-ocean ridges squirt out more magma, the authors say — although the exact mechanisms remain a mystery.
“It validates our prediction that other magma systems were affected, too — which is kind of cool!” says Paul Renne, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley who co-authored a paper about those intense eruptions in India 66 million years ago. His team proposed that the seismic shakeup from the asteroid’s impact could have made magma fizz out of volcanoes “kind of like when you shake a can of coke,” he says.
But Gulick isn’t as convinced. For one thing, the dates are a little fuzzy — the increased volcanic activity the study reports happened within a million years of when the asteroid touched down in the Yucatán: that could have been before the impact, or long after. “So how do we really know that something within those million years is directly related to an event that happened on a specific day?” Gulick says. “The resolution isn’t good enough to say that.” He also wishes the study had been clearer about exactly how the asteroid’s impact increased volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges. “It’s an interesting observation, but I’m a little skeptical.”
Byrnes says that’s a fair critique. But, he adds, they only see the evidence of increased eruptions at one point in time. “And it just so happens it lines up with the impact’s age,” he says. In the future, he and Karlstrom intend to investigate how these eruptions may have caused changes in ocean chemistry. But for now, they’re excited by the responses to the research they’ve been getting from the rest of the scientific community. “You get really good at failing and bouncing back from that,” Karlstrom says. “But every now and then when something does work, it’s nice to see that people are also excited about it.”
A video shared widely since mid-Jan 2018 purports to show a Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico. Interestingly, the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was shown as first ‘Alien sighting’ of 2018. The flying object seen in the video was in fact not identified, but the claim that it belongs to Aliens is certainly not true.
Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico
Origin of Video – Vertical UFO Alien Spotted Over Mexico
The video shows a driver capturing on camera an upright object flying in the air over sky in Mexico. YouTube channel Virality TV shared the video as first UFO sighting in Mexico, suggesting Alien watch. However, Facebook user Ufologo Pedro Ramírez, who calls himself UFOlogist, shared it in early Jan 2018. As a matter of fact, he suggested the tubular UFO hovering over Mexican sky is a proof of Aliens watching our activity in space.
Not Alien
Firstly, the vertical UFO object was captured on camera from a moving vehicle. So, it gives a false impression that the object is flying fast in sky. Once the video became popular online, YouTube user Louis aguilar posted a video showing similar object flying in San Antonio, Texas.
Intrigued viewers suggested the UFO in Mexico could be a drone in the US border region, a weather balloon or a man testing some kind of Jet Pack. As you can see in the images, the shape of the UFO remains same through the flight in the first place. Likewise, it resembles the shape of a Stormtrooper Helium Balloon, which are widely available as novelty gifts. In the video below, you can see couple of such balloons flying in sky. Furthermore, it was new year time, so it is probably the case.
Fake Science Paper About 'Star Trek' and Warp 10 Was Accepted by 'Predatory Journals'
Fake Science Paper About 'Star Trek' and Warp 10 Was Accepted by 'Predatory Journals'
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil) and Capt. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) suffered the consequences of travel at Warp 10 in the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Threshold."
Credit: Paramount
In the "Star Trek" universe, the fantastic speed of warp 10 has remained annoyingly out of reach. However, a recent paper in an open-access journal describes an experiment that attempted to break that boundary.
The fact that the "experiment" described in the paper wasn't conducted in a real-world laboratory, but in an episode of the sci-fi TV series "Star Trek: Voyager," reveals just how easy it is to publish fake science in some so-called "predatory journals."
The paper's author, a biologist for 30 years and a fan of "Star Trek," wrote up a research paper based on the "Voyager" episode. He submitted it to 10 open-access journals known or suspected of charging authors publication fees without providing the editorial services associated with legitimate journals, such as careful peer review and vetting of the paper's claims. Four accepted it, though only one, the American Research Journal of Biosciences, published the paper.
These so-called predatory journals have low or non-existent scientific standards and a willingness to print any papers submitted.
"Predatory journals aim only to make money from researchers," Jeffrey Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, told Space.com by email. Beall has long worked to expose predatory journals. At one point, he maintained an online list of them, though ongoing harassment against Beall, his employer and his colleagues resulted in him taking it down last year. The list has been reposted at various sites on the web.
Of the four predatory journals that accepted the paper, none recognized the blatant falsification, even those providing peer review. The paper's author, "BioTrekkie," identified himself to Space.com but asked to remain anonymous, as the journals could potentially seek legal retribution because he sent fabricated results. (The journal declined to respond to questions from Space.com.)
BioTrekkie said he was motivated by a similar "Star Wars" experiment, in which a paper on the fictional midichlorians behind the Force was published by an open-access journal. That paper was a sting operation by the so-called Neuroskeptic, who blogs pseudonymously for Discover Magazine. According to Neuroskeptic, the purpose was to expose predatory journals that claim to offer peer-reviewed open-access publications but will publish anything for a fee.
"Midichlorians are sometimes criticized as one of the most ridiculous elements of the 'Star Wars' universe, so I thought I needed to even things out by picking what is arguably one of the scientifically worst episodes of 'Star Trek,'" BioTrekkie told Space.com by email.
"I was also curious what sort of responses I might get by the subset that reviewed the paper," he said.
A fictional experiment
BioTrekkie's research follows "Voyager" Episode 32, "Threshold," where Lt. Thomas Paris rigs an experimental shuttle to cross the warp 10 boundary. (This concept involves ships going faster that the speed of light and has absolutely no remotely similar real-world analogy.) After a successful trip, the now-deranged Paris kidnaps Capt. Kathryn Janeway for a second trip. After crossing the transwarp boundary, both find themselves rapidly evolved into what is apparently humanity's future amphibious state. By the time the crew finds the pair, they have had several children. Eventually, both Paris and Janeway are returned to their human form. [Star Trek Captains, Ranked From Worst to Best]
The paper describes the plot of the episode as research. The paper uses the word "celerity," which means extreme speed, in its title, but further down BioTrekkie parenthetically describes the theoretical maximum celerity as "warp 10." Despite this and other fictions, including those involving the author and affiliation, the paper was published as legitimate research.
"Many of the predatory publishers are based in Asia or Africa and their owners may be unfamiliar with the 'Star Trek' characters," Beall said, when asked how editors could have overlooked such obvious jargon.
Because the characters were returned to their human forms by the end of the episode, BioTrekkie suggested that the sudden mutations wouldn't necessarily stop the crew from breaking warp 10 in the future.
"Seemingly everything in our future can be fixed with a damper or compensator," BioTrekkie told Space.com. These fixes are common in the "Star Trek" universe.
The paper calls for future studies on the impact of warp 10 on human genetics and physical changes.
Speaking as though the experiment were fact instead of fiction, BioTrekkie said, "Given we now know what to expect, we can impose the intense antiproton burst regiment treatment early— we can build it into the shuttle as a metamorphosis compensator."
Warp 10 has surprising and devastating morphological consequences in "Star Trek: Voyager."
Credit: Paramount
"Very little direct science substance"
Academic journal subscriptions can be costly, which keeps their research out of reach for some scientists and the public. In recent years, publishers have founded open-access journals that allow anyone to read their publications, no cost required. These journals make their money by charging author fees to those whose papers have been submitted for publication.
But some journals can take this too far. So-called predatory journals focus more on the fees and less on the scientific accuracy.
Predatory journals "are not selective in what they publish," Beall said. "They are essentially counterfeit journals, mimicking the look and feel of legitimate online journals, but with the singular goal of making easy money."
BioTrekkie's "research" isn't the first to target predatory journals. The enormous amount of spam that researchers receive by email may have prompted the submission of one paper that repeats its title phrase, "Get Me Off Your F---ing Mailing List," for 10 pages straight, as reported by Vox.
Inspired by recent stings, and motivated to get "Star Trek" published alongside the earlier "Star Wars" "research," BioTrekkie published his new paper, which listed six "Star Trek: Voyager" crewmembers as authors. All six were affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Starfleet Academy. The contact was given as a Gmail address.
Of the 10 open-access journals he selected, only one noted that Starfleet Academy appeared to be a fictional affiliation. No one noticed the "Star Trek" references, despite the fact that the research used the recognizable phrase "'warp 10."
Five journals did not respond to the paper.
"That's a high rate, so I'm thinking at least some of them figured it was a fake," BioTrekkie said.
Four others accepted the paper pending some minor revisions. The fifth remaining journal, which had identified the fictional affiliation, rejected the paper because it had already been published online in the American Research Journal of Biosciences.
"Among the four that accepted it, two provided no reviewer feedback at all, and the other two did each provide a supposed peer review," BioTrekkie said. [Medical Journal Retracts Jesus Miracle Paper]
Peer review is a staple of academic research, with scientists not involved in the research reviewing the methods and asking for clarifications. The process helps to ensure experiments are repeatable when possible, along with evaluating whether the results support the author's interpretation. The peer review provided by the two journals was not up to par.
"There was very little direct scientific substance," BioTrekkie said. "The reviews were of the kind I might expect from someone with some basic undergraduate background in biology or statistics."
According to BioTrekkie, reputable open-access journals nearly always charge a hefty publication fee, which they will occasionally waive for authors without funding. Non-open-access journals sometimes have very low or no fees, especially if the author is a member of the society publishing the journal. While reputable journals exist to exchange scientific information, predatory journals focus on profits.
"For that reason, most predatory journals are open-access, so they can make money," he said.
All four journals that accepted that paper had hefty publication fees initially, he said. Only one agreed to waive the fee completely when he said he had no dedicated grant funds, but that one went silent after the paper was submitted. Others were willing to drop the fee, though not completely.
"The one in which I ultimately published the paper — which was also one of the ones that did provide a peer review—did so for $50, when the original invoice was $749," he said. He paid that money out-of-pocket.
Because he was paying the fees himself, he opted not to publish the paper in the other three journals.
So why would a journal whose only goal was to make money lower its fee?
"For marketing purposes, predatory journals often waive fees or offer discounts to attract article submissions, especially when they are first starting out," Beall said. The goal is to fill up their journal with published articles, giving it an appearance of legitimacy.
"Empty journals are suspicious, but journals full of papers look like successful journals to some," Beall said.
The ten journals BioTrekkie submitted the new research to seem to be following that strategy successfully. The author said a quick look at just a couple of the papers revealed the journals' willingness to publish whatever they were sent. In most cases, other published papers were "insubstantive, poorly described, poorly supported," he said.
On the other hand, some of the papers seemed legitimate, leading him to wonder if the authors knew they were submitting to sketchy journals. It's possible that some researchers considered that submitting to such a journal was better than remaining unpublished.
"Despite working in my science field for decades, no one else I know personally has intentionally sent their works to one of their journals — it would reflect quite poorly on their résumé, I think — even as a last resort, so I think that's quite rare," BioTrekkie said.
UFO? The strange object was seen in pictures taken on a fishing trip.
The picture, taken in Nelson ledges state park in Garrettsville, Nelson, Ohio, USA, has a strange torpedo-shaped object in the top-left corner above a lake and trees.
Investigators at the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) were sent the image for analysis.
MUFON is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research and it keeps a global database of sightings, many of which are investigated.
A son of the man, who has not been named by MUFON, sent in the image with a report.
But the organisation has previously admitted that it does get inundated with hoax footage by pranksters and other individuals, which in some cases have to undergo initial assessment, tying up investigators.
The organisation accepts that this is one of the pitfalls of being an organisation dedicated to such research.
MUFON investigator Peter Davenport said on the website: "One of the greatest burdens that UFO investigators have to bear, in the course of their collecting and investigating sighting reports submitted by members of the public, is the deluge of apparently false reports and cases of mistaken identity that have to be waded through, and eliminated from, the stream of incoming data.
"What prompts people to create and submit bogus reports is unclear, save for the apparently widespread lack of self-discipline, and lack of concern for others, that seems all too common in mankind.
"However, the fact remains that such deception takes place constantly, and that it probably will continue in ufology, and elsewhere, until long after we have finally laid to rest the mystery of UFOs."
Scott Brando runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org.
He believes it was a genuine picture and not a hoax, but not evidence of aliens.
He said: " I don't think it's a hoax. The sender says his dad was fishing and decided to take a couple pictures for memories.
"He realised later on while looking at the pictures noticed this odd object.
"That object could be something launched in the water during the fish, like a stone.
"It's hard to identify it but I'd like to see the original picture, not a cropped image."
Sorry for that tabloid-y headline but it’s exactly what happened. A mummy called the “Screaming Mummy” because its face was preserved in a picture of agony has been removed from storage and put on display this week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for the first time since it was moved there for safekeeping. The exhibition coincides with a definitive revelation as to the reason behind the mummy’s scream.
‘The gruesome mummy of Unknown Man E, also known as the “Screaming Mummy,” has long puzzled scholars. Such unusual mummification has perplexed Egyptologists and no one has succeeded in knowing the story behind such a mummy until the launch of the Egyptian Mummy Project several years ago under my direction to create a complete database of forensic information related to the mummy collection at the Egyptian Museum.”
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of Antiquities who led the Egyptian Mummies Project, told Al-Ahram Weekly(more pictures here) what the researchers have found after more detailed studies of its skin and a new analysis of its DNA.
Deir el-Bahari
But first, a little background.
In 1881, a tomb-robber named Abd el-Rassul claimed to have discovered a cache of mummified remains and funeral artifacts in a tomb next to Deir el-Bahri, in the Theban Necropolis (later research shows it may have been found 10 years earlier). After realizing it was a royal tomb, he and a brother plundered it until being caught selling the artifacts on the black market. Egyptologist were brought in and performed a different kind of plundering – they quickly (within 48 hours) removed the mummies and artifacts from the tomb (now called TT 320) without recording their placements, damaging much in the process.
By far the strangest discovery in TT 320 was the screaming mummy or “Unknown Man E.” Initial analysis showed that the body had been embalmed quickly without the standard removal of its brain and internal organs. The cedar coffin appeared to have been roughly widened to fit the body, suggesting the family had some reason to bury it quickly. What was it?
According to Hawass, the body was wrapped in sheepskin, symbolizing that the person was considered to be impure. Its hands and feet were tied with leather straps. In fact, it was not even mummified – the body was merely dried, then had resin poured into its open mouth, preserving the scream look. The biggest discovery was marks around the neck — evidence that the person died by hanging.
Those marks, coupled with the DNA analysis showing that the Screaming Mummy was closely related to Ramses III, a conspiracy story detailed in the famous Harem Conspiracy Papyrus (on display at the Museo Egizio in Turin) and the disgraceful way the body was preserved and buried convinced Hawass that Unknown Man E was indeed Prince Pentawere, the son who plotted the murder of his father Ramses III and was sentenced to death for his role in the conspiracy which was led by his mother, Tiye, who hoped to make him pharaoh instead of Ramses IV. While it’s now known that Pentawere died by hanging, it’s not evident if it was by execution or by suicide.
Unlike his tomb, the case appears to be airtight that the Screaming Mummy is Prince Pentawere. And yes, Prince Penteware and the Screaming Mummies would be a great name for a band.
WETENSCHAP De Amerikaanse overheid heeft een nieuw vliegtuig van NASA goedgekeurd. De ‘Zoon van de Concorde’ is een ultrasnel vliegtuig dat tegen 2021 in amper drie uur van Londen naar New York moet vliegen.
De officiële naam van het vliegtuig luidt ’Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST). Zoals de naam al doet vermoeden vliegt het toestel sneller dan het geluid, 1.700 kilometer per uur om precies te zijn. Bovendien is NASA erin geslaagd de supersonische knal te dempen. Wanneer een vliegtuig door de geluidsmuur vliegt, gaat dat gepaard met een knal en bij de Concorde leidde die vaak tot geluidsoverlast.
Een woordvoerder van NASA liet eerder al weten dat de organisatie ernaar streeft om de supersonische knal zo te dempen dat hij nog amper merkbaar is voor de mensen op de grond. “De knal moet even stil worden als een verre donderslag of als het geluid van een buurman die de deur van zijn auto toeslaat.”
Vliegtuigbouwer Lockheed Martin maakte al een eerste ontwerp voor de QueSST, maar NASA spoort andere bedrijven aan om ook een ontwerp in te dienen.
NASADe QueSST
Als alles volgens plan verloopt moet de QueSST in 2021 zijn eerste vlucht maken. Het toestel geldt vooral als voorbeeld voor vliegtuigbouwers, die in de toekomst snellere lijnvliegtuigen zullen bouwen. “De QueSST zal Amerikaanse bedrijven aanzetten om snellere commerciële vliegtuigen te bouwen, wat zal leiden tot meer jobs en kortere reistijden”, luidt het bij het Amerikaanse ministerie van Begroting, dat dit jaar liefst 19,9 miljard dollar (16,1 miljard euro) uittrok voor NASA. Dat is 500 miljoen dollar meer dan vorig jaar.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe schreeuwende mummie is een mysterie dat experts al meer dan 100 jaar bezighoudt. Nu menen archeologen dat ze een belangrijk puzzelstuk hebben gevonden om het geheim achter deze archeologische vondst te ontrafelen.
Wanneer archeologen in juni 1886 het gemummificeerde lichaam ontdekten, waren ze verrast door de gelaatsuitdrukking van deze jonge man. Het lijkt wel alsof hij aan het roepen was toen hij zijn laatste adem uitblies. Iets wat archeologen nog nooit eerder gezien hadden. Sinds zijn vondst werd volop gespeculeerd over de achtergrond van deze bijzondere mummie.
Verschillende theorieën werden geopperd over de schijnbaar pijnlijke dood van de man. De meest populaire is dat het om prins Pentewere, de zoon van farao Ramses III en een van zijn vrouwen Tiye, gaat. Die had het plan om zijn vader te vermoorden om zo de troon te kunnen bestijgen, maar die poging mislukte. Daarom moest de man voor de rechter verschenen. Zijn straf? Hij moest zichzelf van het leven beroven.
Maar de laatste theorieën trekken dat in twijfel. Professor Bob Brier, een archeoloog aan de universiteit van Long Island in New York, heeft het lichaam onlangs onderzocht en heeft ontdekt waarom deze man een erg ongewone gelaatsuitdrukking had. “Deze mummie is onderhevig aan twee krachten: eentje die zijn lichaam wil afbreken en eentje die hem wil bewaren. Om de een of andere reden was er iemand die er zeker van wilde zijn dat hij niet in het hiernamaals nog een leven zou hebben. Maar dan was er een andere persoon die wel om deze persoon gaf en heeft geprobeerd te voorkomen dat zijn lichaam zou vergaan.”
Schapenhuid
Professor Zahi Hawass, voormalig hoofd van de Egyptische Hoge Raad van Antiquiteiten, zegt dat de kans groot is dat de mummie een prins was die zijn familie ten schande heeft gebracht. Hij werd namelijk begraven met andere leden van de koninklijke familie. Maar hij was bedekt met schapenhuid, dit was in de tijd van de oude Egyptenaren een teken dat je niet ‘schoon’ was, dat deze persoon iets slechts in zijn leven had gedaan. We hebben nog nooit een mummie als deze gezien, die zichtbaar aan het lijden is. Deze abnormale gelaatsuitdrukking vertelt ons dat er iets gebeurd is, maar we weten niet wat.”
De schreeuwende mummie wordt nu voor het eerst in het Egyptisch museum in Caïro tentoongesteld.
Saw the so-called screaming mummy, newly displayed at the @CairoMuseum this week. Probably 3200 years old, this mummified young man was discovered in 1886. ##Archaeology#Egypt @ الهرم جيزة
For an object that wasn’t discovered until it was already on its way back to wherever it came from, Oumuamua has certainly garnered a lot of publicity. First, of course, it was determined that the cigar-shaped thing was the first known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. Arguments about what kind of object it is were seemingly settled when astronomers determined it was an asteroid, not a comet, but a strange asteroid with an icy center. That hasn’t pacified the small but vocal group that still believes it’s an abandoned space ship/robotic craft from another civilization. It also didn’t explain why Oumuamua was tumbling nor why it had such an odd surface.
Since it blew by, a team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have been studying Oumuamua and think they’ve solved at least some of its mysteries. Led by Dr. Wes Fraser, they analyzed light reflected from the cuts and angles on its surface and, like investigators at the scene of a hit-and-run auto accident, were able to determine that Oumuamua also collided with something and that impact severely damaged its surface and disrupted its rotation as it shoved the planetesimal out of its own solar system and on a path to ours.
“While we don’t know the cause of the tumbling, we predict that it was most likely sent tumbling by an impact with another planetesimal in its system, before it was ejected into interstellar space.”
Their research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that Oumuamua is spinning “chaotically,” a condition generally caused by a violent impact. Their model indicates this could have occurred billions of years ago and it may take billions more before the shaking and tumbling stops and Oumuamua returns to looking like a tight Nick Foles spiral pass (sorry Tom Brady).
Like the mix of scratched paint, paint from the other car, bare metal and rust that you see after a car accident, the collision may also explain the mysterious variety of colors – from dark red to “dirty snow” — on Oumuamua.
“Most of the surface reflects neutrally but one of its long faces has a large red region. This argues for broad compositional variations, which is unusual for such a small body.”
Knowing all of this will help astronomers in their quest to find more small, dark, chaotic objects with violent pasts like Oumuamua. This is starting to sound like a soap opera, a murder mystery and a sci-fi thriller rolled into one.
Former Head Of Secret X-Files Says the US Has More Radar Footage Of UFOs
Former Head Of Secret X-Files Says the US Has More Radar Footage Of UFOs
The public can expect more compelling video footage to come as what the former head of a top-secret Pentagon real-life X-Files probe has promised.
Luis Elizondo led the £16 million Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP) of the US Department of Defense.
After resigning from the department in October to join a UFO research group, Luis released two videos caught on US Navy pilot radar cameras.
He pointed out that the craft in the video moved in ways that defied physics.
US Navy pilots filmed one of the military radar videos in November 2004 off the coast of San Diego. The pilots described observing various UFOs.
The bizarre case became known as the Nimitz UFO Incident.
However, sceptics have been saying that the video only involved a wrongly identified plane. It prompted Mr Elizondo to reveal there is more to come, including encounters with unknown technology that is more advanced than anything in the military around the world, which documented in video recordings. He said that around 24 other UFO videos are being declassified for release in the coming months to the public.
Answering back at those who claimed they only showed planes, he said that the object came into a near hover state and took off suddenly over the horizon in just two seconds, so it could not be just a plane. He added that it was not also an IR glare or IR fuzz because you cannot lock radar on it.
The Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Dropa Stones, Evidence Of Ancient Alien Contact?
The Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Dropa Stones, Evidence Of Ancient Alien Contact?
More than 80 years ago, Chinese archaeologists discovered a cave system with chilling skeletons with elongated heads, a cosmic map, and more than 700 strange discs…
The mysterious discovery was allegedly made in 1930 when Chi Pu Tei, an archeology professor at Peking University and his students were on an expedition to explore a series of caves in the inaccessible mountains of Bayan Kara Ula, near Tibet, which were supposedly carved artificially in a system of underground tunnels and pantries.
According to these events, it is said that professor Chi Pu Tei and his students found tombs with skeletons of 1.38 m (4 ft 6 in) in height buried inside them. The skeletons would have had abnormally large heads and small, thin and fragile bodies. In addition to the skeletal remains, professor Chi Pu Tei and his students discovered countless other items.
It was suggested that these skeletal remains could have belonged to an unknown species of a mountain gorilla, but Professor Chi Pu Tei did not agree and responded: “Whoever heard about monkeys burying each other?”
There were no epitaphs in the tombs, but instead, they found more than 700 stone discs (“Dropa Stones”) with 8 cm holes in diameter at their centers.
On the walls, carvings of the rising sun, the moon, stars, the earth, mountains, and dotted lines linking the earth with the sky were found.
The discs and the cave paintings are said to date approximately 12,000 years. Their whereabouts today remains a mystery.
All of this raised a great mystery: Who were these mysterious beings? What were the enigmatic discs, and where did the star maps carved on the cave walls lead to?
Dropa Discs
The mysterious Dropa Discs.
Each stone disc, reportedly, would have been inscribed with two thin grooves that spiral from the edge to the central hole.
It is believed that the enigmatic Dropa Discs and other items discovered during the expedition were kept at the Peking University for 20 years.
All attempts to decipher the writing on the Dropa Discs were useless.
However, the discs were examined by Dr. Tsum Um Nui, in Beijing around 1958, who concluded that each groove consisted of a set of tiny hieroglyphs of unknown origin.
The rows were so small that a magnifying glass was necessary to see them clearly. Many of the hieroglyphics were worn out by erosion.
When Dr. Tsum allegedly deciphered the symbols, he revealed how the ancient writings tell a story of an otherworldly encounter where an ancient alien ship crash landed on Earth some 12,000 years ago.
According to Tsum Um Nui, one of the hieroglyphic lines read: “The Dropas came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women, and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last they understood the sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions.”
Another section reads “regret” of the inhabitants of the mountain (tribe of the Ham) because the aliens had crashed their ship and could not build another to return to their planet.
Dr. Tsum reportedly published his discovery in 1962.
However, he would have been mocked to such an extent that he left China in exile moving to Japan, where he would later die.
It is said that the Beijing Pre-History Academy would never have allowed him to publish or discuss his find again.
Furthermore, due to the fact that “Tsum Um Nui” is not a real Chinese name, some critics suggest that the man never existed.
Others claim that Tsum Um Nui is a Japanese name adapted to the Chinese language. In addition to his theories about the Dropa, there is no further evidence that he ever existed.
In 1974, Ernst Wegerer, an Austrian engineer, photographed two discs that matched the descriptions of the Dropa Stones. He was on a guided tour of the Bampo Museum in Xian, when he saw the stone discs.
One of ‘Wegener’s polaroids of two of the Dropa stones.
He said he observed a hole in the center of each disk and hieroglyphs in grooves, partly crumbled, like a spiral. It is said that when he enquired about the discs the manager could tell him nothing, but permitted him to take one in his hand and photograph them. He claims that in his photos the hieroglyphs cannot be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated. By 1994, the discs and the manager had disappeared from the museum.
Critics largely rejected the story of the Dropa discs, arguing that it was a mixture of deception and urban legend.
For example, writer David Richie mentions that these stories intrigued Gordon Chreighton, a member of the Royal Society of Anthropology and the Royal Society of Geography.
In the investigation, Chreighton considered the allegations about the Dropa “unfounded,” and detailed his findings in an article for the Flying Saucer Review.
It is not easy to find credible evidence to show that the Dropa Stones exist or have existed in the past.
Defenders of the story claim that it is the result of a social disruption caused by the Chinese Cultural Revolution and a cover-up conspired by the authorities of that country.
However, this goes beyond China; since those who oppose the history of the Dropa, claim that it is a deception of Erich von Däniken.
Power Sources Of The Past: Are these 2,000-Year-Old Artifacts Ancient Batteries?
Power Sources Of The Past: Are these 2,000-Year-Old Artifacts Ancient Batteries?
In 1936, during excavations on a hill in Kujut Rabua, a village southeast of Baghdad (Iraq), workers of the Iraqi State Railway Department discovered an old grave covered with a stone slab.
For two months, the Iraqi Department of Antiquities extracted a total of 613 beads, clay figurines, chiseled bricks and other pieces.
They were dated between 248 BC and 226 AD.
They also found unique terracotta pots, shaped like a vase and of a light yellowish color, containing a cylinder made of a rolled copper sheet, which houses a single iron rod. The container measured 14 cm high by 4 cm in diameter, while the copper cylinder measured 9 cm high by 2.6 cm in diameter. At the top, the iron rod is isolated from the copper by bitumen, with plugs or stoppers, and both rod and cylinder fit snugly inside the opening of the jar.
In 1939 German archaeologist Wilhelm König, then in charge of the State Museum Laboratory in Baghdad, identified the mysterious artifacts as a probable ancient electric battery.
He described his finding in 9 Jahre Iraq, published in Austria in 1940.
Respecters analyzed the alleged batters trying to prove they were really used as such. During one occasion, an electrolyte was placed inside it, connected to a lamp, which eventually turned on. The official report that was written later said that this object behaved exactly like a modern electric battery.
Once he returned to the Berlin Museum, König tried finding more similar items and found cylinders, rods and similar artifacts from Mesopotamia; all of them with thin iron and bronze rods. It seemed to him that these “batteries” could have been joined in series (one after the other) to increase the voltage for a greater power output.
If these mystery artifacts were really batteries, it would change a lot about ancient civilizations, and their capabilities and level of technology.
After World War II, Willard Gray, an electronics engineer at the High Voltage Laboratory of the General Electric Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, manufactured a duplicate of these batteries and filled them with copper sulfate ( although he stated that another liquid electrolyte could have been used within the reach of the inhabitants of Iraq at the time, like ordinary grape juice).
Baghdad Battery Drawing from different pictures of the museum artifact.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
To the surprise of many, the battery operated and generated between one and two volts.
As noted by Dennielle Downs, and Ava Meyerhoff from the Smith College, “There is no written record as to the exact function of the jar, but the best guess is that it was a type of battery. Scientists believe the batteries (if that is their correct function) were used to electroplate items such as putting a layer of one metal (gold) onto the surface of another (silver), a method still practiced in Iraq today.”
Despite the fact there is evidence that the enigmatic objects could have produced electricity, the real purpose of the ‘Baghdad Batteries’ remains a mystery for many scholars.
The Discovery Channel’s series ‘Myth Busters’ built replicas of the jars to see if it was indeed possible for them to have been used for electroplating or electrostimulation in ancient times.
On MythBusters’ 29th episode (March 23, 2005), the crew behind the series produced ten hand-made terracotta jars fitted to act as batteries.
Lemon juice was chosen as the electrolyte to activate the electrochemical reaction between the copper and iron.
Connected in series, the batteries produced 4 volts of electricity.
When linked in series, the cells had sufficient power to electroplate a small token.
Welcome to another edition of “Celebrity UFO Spotting,” where contestants try to figure out if a famous person’s unidentified flying object or ET sighting report is real or a desperate attempt to garner publicity for a new movie, book or album. Today’s celebrity is Kim Wilde. If you said “Who?” or “I didn’t know she was still around,” that’s a point in favor of “Must have a new album coming out.” See how this works?
In an interview in the current edition of Attitude magazine, Kim Wilde reveals that she had her UFO encounter in 2009.
“There were a couple of massive lights just above the clouds, going backwards and forwards in an extraordinary way. Quite a lot of people witnessed them, it made the local papers.”
Well, according to a UK UFO report, on June 26, 2009, a UFO was reported in Hertfordshire where Kim lived at the time. One point for Kim.
“When you see something as extraordinary and maybe extra-terrestrial like that you’re never quite the same. I believe they’re here already or visiting, watching us. I haven’t gone loopy, I just can’t stop thinking about it.”
That’s a common reaction among people who have witnessed UFOs.
Another point for Kim.
“I said to my husband that maybe the captain was a big Kim Wilde fan and wanted to know where I live. I’m worried he’s going to beam me up and I’ll have to sing “Kids in America” to him for the rest of my life. I’m worried they’re going to come back and take me away.”
Oh, Kim, you were doing so well! Getting a plug in for your biggest hit sounds like you’re promoting something. And … she is! Her new album, with her first new songs in 22 years, is called “Here Come The Aliens” and is scheduled to be released on March 16. After that, she hits the concert stage with a European tour called … you guessed it … the Here Come the Aliens Tour. Sorry, Kim, that’s three points to the other side for plugging an album, plugging a tour and referring to aliens in the names of both.
There’s something else strange about Wilde’s UFO story. In an interview in OK! Magazine in 2015, Kim talks about the same UFO sighting, only this time connects it to something significant that happened the day before … Michael Jackson’s death.
“It was 26 June, the day after Michael Jackson died, and me and my mate were in the garden and we saw bright lights in the sky … They were about 20 times the size of an aeroplane … It was so huge, two of them, going zig-zag for 10 minutes.”
Did you think the captain of the ship was coming to abduct you, Kim?
“It was the day after Michael Jackson died and I thought, ‘He is coming back to haunt me!’
That may have been what Kim actually felt if and when she saw the UFO, since she didn’t have anything to plug in 2015. Sorry, Kim … two more points to the other side for changing your story just to plug a CD and dumping a really good about Michael Jackson.
The point totals for this edition of “Celebrity UFO Spotting” say Kim Wilde is pumping up her album and tour. How did YOU score it?
In the Pisces constellation, 100 light-years away, NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission has discovered a Super-Earth eight times larger than Planet Earth.
Super-Earths are extra-solar planets with greater masses than earth. The name refers only to its size, and not to its composition, which could be rocky or gassy. This is far from the only Super-Earth that the Kepler mission has discovered.
Composition helps determine the history of a planet, so this discovery could provide further insights on how planets form, especially since there are no planets of this size in our solar system.
The recently discovered Super-Earth, known as Planet B, is one of three in the constellation, all of which are larger than our earth. At eight times the size of Earth, Planet B represents one of the most massive and densest super-earths found to date. The masses for the other two Super-Earths, Planet C and Planet D, are very roughly estimated to be about two and a half and four times the Earth’s mass, respectively.
The three Super-Earths in the Pisces constellation
By looking at planetary mass and radius, scientists can calculate the planets’ bulk density, which provides clues as to whether they are rocky — like Earth — or gassy, like Neptune. Scientists have found that when planets have a radii about 1.7 times greater than Earth, they are more likely to be surrounded by a gassy atmosphere, like Neptune, while those that are smaller are more likely to be rocky, like our Earth.
And with radii between 1.29 and 2.08, there are both rocky and gassy planets among these three.
Of course, the radii alone is not definitive, as Sharon Wang, one of the Carnegie scientists that made the discovery, cautioned. “More observations are needed to pin down the compositions of these three planets, but they do seem like some of the best candidates to test our ideas about how super-Earths form and evolve…”
The Carnegie scientists, including Steve Shectman, Sharon Wang, Paul Butler, Jeff Crane, and Ian Thompson, made the discovery of the planets with the [Planet Finding Spectrograph] (PFS)(https://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/crane/pfs/).
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It is said that the universe is made up of over 80 percent dark matter. What dark matter exactly is, however, has continued to elude experts. Theories abound, and a recent one suggests an entirely different approach involving gravitational waves.
BREAKING SYMMETRY
For decades now, the exact composition of matter in the universe has baffled astronomers and physicists alike. It would seem that, given the basic assumptions about the origins of the universe, there is still no way to account for the “missing” dark matter that makes up for as much as a quarter of all matter in the universe. That’s why a trio of researchers has proposed a new dark matter theory, which could explain how dark matter came about.
We know dark matter exists because we can observe how its gravity interacts with visible matter and electromagnetic radiation. There is something there, although we can’t yet see it, or put a finger on what it is.
In the new study, Evan McDonough and Stephon Alexander from Brown University, with David Spergel from Princeton University, suggest that a mechanism involving gravitational waves — basically, ripples in the fabric of space and time, first theorized by Einstein and confirmed to exist only in 2016 — could explain how dark matter came to be.
McDonough’s team used a model of the primordial universe that assumed the presence of particles called dark matter quarks, which aren’t the same as today’s dark matter. These dark quarks could have a property called chirality, referring to the way the particles twist, similar to neutrinos. The chirality or “handedness” of these dark quarks could have then interacted with the chiral gravitational waves in the early universe, producing the kind of dark matter we have today.
LIGHTER AND WIMPIER
Supposedly, as the universe settled into a cooler state, the interactions between chiral dark quarks and chiral gravitational waves resulted in a small excess of the former. These condensed into a quirky state of matter called a superfluid, which could still exist as a background field today. What we know to be dark matter are proposed as excitations of this background field, in the same way photons are excitations of an electromagnetic field.
Interestingly, the dark matter particles resulting from such a model would be lighter than what’s known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which many researchers believe could make up dark matter. There hasn’t been enough evidence to suggest, however, that this is the case. At any rate, being lighter than WIMPs would mean that dark matter wouldn’t interact with normal matter. “It’s much wimpier than WIMPs,” Spergel told New Scientist.
As such, this dark matter theory could change how we should “look” for dark matter, as it wouldn’t be possible to see such particles directly at all. Unlike WIMPs, these particles would also be distributed more evenly across the galaxy. At the same time, the ratio of dark matter and normal matter wouldn’t necessarily be constant throughout the universe.
Spergel explained, however, that this unique behavior could also provide us with a way to find dark matter. A more uniform, non-clustered distribution of dark matter could spill over into cosmic microwave background — the Big Bang’s residual radiation — and produce a unique signature. It could even affect the formation of larger-scale structures, like galaxy clusters. It could also, perhaps, have an effect on gravitational waves.
“It’s a cool idea,” Stanford University’s Michael Peskin, who wasn’t part of the study, told New Scientist. “Right now, dark matter is completely open. Anything you can do that brings in a new idea into this area, it opens a door. And then you have to walk down that corridor and see whether there are interesting things there that suggest new experiments. This opens another door.”
Entrepreneur and visionary Juan Enriquez outlines a future where we will be able to survive in extreme environments and even hack our memory thanks to DNA manipulation.
Imagine a world where we can design the bodies we want. In this reality we can also create, and recreate, the plants and animals that live alongside us. We can alter organisms and mold them into whatever we want them to be.
This is not the world of tomorrow, though. This doesn’t take imagination. This is the world today.
Right now.
It sounds like science fiction, or even “fake news.” But it’s not. It’s a fact that comes from Juan Enriquez, the Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School, and the Managing Director of Excel Venture Management. Enriquez spoke at the World Government Summit. I listened to him, entranced by the eloquent way he discussed how gene editing has allowed humans to become masters of their DNA – the source code of life itself.
This mastery, Enriquez explained, has allowed us to take our evolution – to take our fate – into our own hands. And it’s all thanks to a genome editing technique known as CRISPR. “These instruments, like CRISPR, are allowing us to, in real-time, edit life on a grand scale,” he explained. “We are rewriting the sentences of life to our purposes.” Enriquez continued by discussing what this means from a practical standpoint, saying that we are entering a world of “unrandom selection.”
“Science used to be about discovery, now it is about creation.”
Enriquez described how scientists are already working on altering the genes of plants and animals so that they can thrive in locations where, previously, they would languish. He detailed how scientists are also engineering plants and animals to die. According to Enriquez, we have already entered a time when we can accurately say, “Instead of letting nature select what lives here, I’m going to select what lives here.” He concluded, saying with great gravity, “Science used to be about discovery, now it is about creation.”
But with gene editing, we will reshape far more than just our bodies. We will remake our minds.
We will insert memories. We will delete memories. We will alter memories. We will store them and use them in any way we desire. In so doing, Enriquez says we will change more than how our bodies operate – we will become a new kind of human, one that is malleable and, one that can be shaped and reshaped on a whim.
What will we be when we have the ability to literally write and rewrite our memories?
When we think of ourselves, we typically think of our memories. Or memories, we’re told, are what make us who we are. What will we be when we have the ability to literally write and rewrite our memories? What will we be when we can delete all the memories of a dead loved one? What will we become when we can remove those memories about that horrible thing we did? When we can insert memories about that heroic thing that we really didn’t do?
Will we still be us? Will we still be human? At the present juncture, it’s not clear. But this question isn’t something that we can leave to future generations, it is something that we must begin to answer today. The technology is already here, and this day is on the horizon.
Enriquez continued by noting that we are not just rewriting our own biology – by editing DNA and manufacturing it in labs, we are able to save lives on an unprecedented, massive scale. “You can make the world’s flu vaccine in a week instead of a year. And by the way, this is no longer theoretical.”
“Why would anyone want to do this [altering human DNA]?” He asked. “Because, at heart, we are explorers. We have to take control of our own evolution if we want to even think about getting somewhere else.” Humans, he argued, are designed to live on Earth. Billions of years of evolution on this planet are engrained in our DNA. We cannot so easily leave this planet in the dust. Not without altering our bodies to suit other worlds – to suit the deserts of Mars and the icy lakes of Europa.
‘They’re watching the military’ Spate of UFO sightings reported near air field base
‘They’re watching the military’ Spate of UFO sightings reported near air field base
A GLUT of supposed UFO sightings near a military base in the US has alien enthusiasts concerned extraterrestrials are monitoring our planet’s war preparations.
UFOs have been spotted near Malmstrom Air Force Base
Alien hunters believe that extraterrestrials are watching the goings on at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana after a spate of sightings there.
The most recent sighting of an unidentified space craft came on January 24, when a black object, which was reportedly over “half an acre” in size was spotted near the base.
According to website UFO Hunters – which monitors and collects records of sightings – there was a power outage in the region for around 10 minutes at the same time as the sighting.
The website also shows there have been close to 20 sightings within the past decade, making it a true hotspot for UFO activity.
However, sightings there stretch back much longer than the last 10 years.
One former employee at the Malmstrom Air Force Base claims a UFO shut down 10 missiles in 1967.
Capt Robert Salas said: "I was on duty when an object came over and hovered directly over the site.
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Many UFO sightings have occurred near military bases
"The missiles shut down - 10 Minuteman missiles. And the same thing happened at another site a week later. There's a strong interest in our missiles by these objects, wherever they come from. I personally think they're not from planet Earth.”
UFO hunters believe aliens are monitoring military bases in the US.
A recent map from the US-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) was released which shows UFO sightings across the States.
However, it has been suggested the most dense areas for sightings coincide with US military installations.
Alex Hollings, a retired US duty marine, now writes for Sofrep.com, a news and intelligence service provided by former special operations veterans.
He wrote: "When laying that same map of reported UFO sightings over a US map showing the locations of all military installations, an interesting trend starts to emerge.
"Many of the regions that seem to show a high frequency of UFO reports coincide with the locations of military installations.
"For the conspiracy minded, this might mean our alien visitors have taken a particular interest in what our military is up to.
"Others might be inclined to conclude many of these supposed UFO sightings may be nothing more than misidentified military aircraft."
Long-lost wreckage from a mini 'flying saucer' which is believed to have crash-landed in the UK in the 1950s has been found in a tin box in London's Science Museum. How exciting.
The small pieces from the 'Silpho UFO' were found stashed inside a cigarette tin inside a storeroom at the museum.
The small 'copper-bottomed flying saucer' was foundon Silpho Moor, north Yorkshire, back in 1957 and made headlines across the country - with some newspapers calling it the 'British Roswell'.
Credit: Mercury Press/Sheffield Hallam University
Tests were carried out on the saucer, which was 17-inches in diameter and weighted 14kg. It was found to be covered in weird hieroglyphics and inside there as 17-page book, made of copper, which had a 2,000-word message which was 'translated' by 'experts' who claim it said 'you will improve or disappear'. So, that's us told.
Dr David Clarke from Sheffield Hallam University saw the pieces of potentially-extra-terrestrial-scrap at the museum after giving a talk on - what else? - UFOs.
He said: "One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that 'bits of a flying saucer' had been kept in a cigarette tin in the museum group store for decades.
Credit: Mercury Press/Sheffield Hallam University
"I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage. It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer that some have claimed as Britain's answer to the famous Roswell incident.
"It's incredible to hear that pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive for more than half a century."
But before we get too excited; years back, the remnants were sent off for testing by the National History Museum and Manchester University and it was discovered that the whole thing was an elaborate hoax.
EXTRAORDINARY UFO FOOTAGE FROM MALAYSIA
Dr Clarke said: "It was tinkered with and sliced into tiny pieces to be examined by various people."
It's believed the fake spaceship was made from a hot water cylinder and had been planted on the moor to trick people.
Then again, these so-called tests could all be part of a massive government cover-up, couldn't they? I mean, why were the remains hidden in a ciggie box all these years, eh? The truth is out there, guys.
Featured Image Credit: Mercury Press/Sheffield Hallam University
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‘UFO’ spotted over Yellowstone Volcano in SHOCKING video
‘UFO’ spotted over Yellowstone Volcano in SHOCKING video
UFO hunters are convinced that they have spotted an alien spaceship taking off at Yellowstone National Park after witnessing a bright, pulsating light which was caught on a webcam live stream.
A video uploaded to conspiracy YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly shows what appears to be a bright light lifting from the ground in the hills in the background.
The light then moves towards the camera slowly, before veering off to the left of the screen.
Viewers of the video were convinced that the bright light is definitely a UFO, and believe that the authorities have some answering to do.
Somme Bomb posted: “Would love to see them explain that one. You can see clearly the light interferes with the clouds and you can see the reflection in the river.”
Twilights daughter added: “They must have been checking out the geysers and scenery just like the humans were.”
Yellowstone has also piqued the interest of many around the globe over fears that it could soon erupt.
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago but a spike in seismic activity around the national park has unsettled nerves.
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The UFO was spotted near one of Yellowstone's geysers
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt it would kill an estimated 87,000 people immediately and make two-thirds of the USA immediately uninhabitable.
The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a “nuclear winter”.
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Yellowstone could erupt
The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington’s Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.
If the volcano explodes, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.
Wreckage missing from a mini UFO - which was labelled the ‘British Roswell’ - has been found in a tin box at a London museum.
A mysterious metal disc found on Silpho Moor in a remote part of Yorkshire in 1957 was nicknamed the ‘Silpho UFO’, reports the UK Telegraph.
Newspapers in northern England at the time reported a small “copper-bottomed flying saucer” being found.
The remaining parts of the Silpho UFO, found in 1957, were rumoured by the UFO community to have ended up on a scrap heap or even on display in a local fish and chip shop.
CREDIT: DR DAVID CLARKE/SHEFFIELD HALLAM
The 40cms-wide lump of metal inscribed with hieroglyphics was similar to the wreckage of the famous UFO found at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
The remains of the flying saucer that were locked in a British museum's archives for six decades. (Dr David Clarke, Sheffield-Hallam University).
After the mystery object was cut open, a book made of 17 thin copper sheets covered in more hieroglyphics was discovered inside.
But when the wreckage was examined by experts from the Natural History Museum in London, it was dismissed as a hoax.
They found no evidence it had any heat damage from entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
The remains then apparently disappeared, prompting conspiracy theories it had been deliberately destroyed by the British government.
The 'flying saucer' as pictured in 1957. (Image: Dr David Clarke, Sheffield-Hallam University.)
But now it has emerged the object was sent to London’s Science Museum in 1963 and was stored in a cigarette tin.
It came to light when journalism lecturer Dr David Clarke was giving a recent talk at the Science Museum.
"One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that ‘bits of a flying saucer’ had been kept in a cigarette tin in the museum group store for decades," he said.
The North Yorkshire Moors National Park, close to Silpho.
"I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage.
“It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer that some have claimed as Britain's answer to the famous Roswell incident.”
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Was Quetzalcoatl An Extraterrestrial? Here’s How Mesoamerican “Mythology” Described Him
Was Quetzalcoatl An Extraterrestrial? Here’s How Mesoamerican “Mythology” Described Him
By QuoterLand
With the recent release of the Pentagon’s UFO footage, which comprised of two videos filmed by U.S. Navy pilots of objects performing maneuvers that defy our current understanding of aerodynamics, the topic of UFOs has once again grabbed headlines around the world.
The video was a step forward towards disclosing the fact that there are unknown objects in our atmosphere that are commonly spotted and tracked on radar by defence authorities. They are highly technologically advanced, more so than any air-craft which is available in any global inventory at the moment.
Further to this, many people have had strange sightings that don’t really ‘make sense,’ in the realm of known aircrafts. The frequency of these sightings are not uncommon these days, especially for avid star gazers.
Haven’t seen one yourself? Well, how often are you looking up into the night sky? For many people, the answer is little to never.
Who Man’s These Craft’s?
The next question to be asked is, are these objects, or at least some of them, extraterrestrial?
According to one of the pilots who filmed the UFO released by the Pentagon, yes, they are, at least that’s their belief. The Pentagon’s “aerial defence” program director, Luis Elizondo also shared his belief that they are, along with hundreds of other high ranking personnel from several branches of military, intelligence, academia, aerospace and academia. He said that there is plenty of evidence to make that connection… The most recent example might be Robert Bigelow, founder of the Bigelow Aerospace corporation who, not long ago, stated that he knows we are being visited, and have been visited by ET’s.
“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.”
Ancient history is fascinating to say the least, and we’ve discovered so much about it. But, at the same time, we still know very little about Earth’s history and even the history of humanity. One of the most fascinating points to make about ancient history is that much of which was once considered mythological, is actually turning out to be true.
Perhaps information that didn’t fit within our framework of accepted knowledge was deemed mythological? How can we take seriously the writings of ancient Greek philosophers when describing social life and other aspects of humanity, yet when it comes to other areas of the world, like the Oracle at Delphi, they are placed in a the mythological realm?
Perhaps some was mythological, but perhaps some of what we call mythological was actually real.
Another great example is the Lost Land of Atlantis, a highly technologically advanced civilization that would shake what we thought we knew of human history, it’s not so much a tale anymore, and it’s one of many examples that show what we’ve been taught may not be completely correct.
For anybody who has done their research in this area, it’s quite clear given the evidence we now have, that Atlantis was far from a mythological place. Given our research on Atlantis, and many scholars out there, Atlantis is no joke, and perhaps before that, Lemuria as well.
This is why when it comes to stories of figures like Quetzalcoatl, it’s always interesting to contemplate that they were real.
The video footage mentioned above, which was released by the Pentagon, was done so in conjunction with To The Stars Academy headed by Tom Delonge, along with Luis Elizondo (mentioned earlier), and several other figures who’ve held high level positions within the Department of Defence. The Pentagon is working with the academy in the disclosure of UFO’s.
That in itself is a completely different discussion with many implications. It’s hard to trust the government these days, so can we really trust them with UFO disclosure and what that means? Will leave this for another time.
Delonge recently made some interesting comments about his experiences so far, and the contacts he’s been able to make, and the discussions that have been had.
“I went and met a former director of the CIA and NSA…Right when I sat down and told him about the book you know what he says to me? He goes, “I didn’t read much science fiction when I was a kid but I read a lot about Greek mythology”…The sixth biggest defense contractor in the world is a company called Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)…and in the front of the building (SAIC’s headquarters) you have an obelisk coming out of a fake leg and two Atlantians on thrones, and they’re both holding pyramids and one says the past and one says the future, and they’re 8 foot tall statues.”
So, who was Quetzalcoatl? Considered to be a mythical tale, Spanish chronicler Juan de Torquemada states that Quetzalcoatl was ‘a fair and ruddy complexioned man with a long beard. Another describes him as follows:
“A mysterious person…a white man with strong formation of body, broad forehead, large eyes, and a flowing beard. He was dressed in a long, white robe reaching to his feet. He condemned sacrifices, except of fruits and flowers, and was known as the god of peace…When addressed on the subject of war he is reported to have stopped up his ears with his fingers.” (source)
Graham Hancock, one of the world’s foremost researchers into such things, describes another description from Central American Mayan tradition in his book, Fingerprints of the Gods:
“He came from across the sea in a boat that moved by itself without paddles. He was a tall, bearded white man who taught people to use fire for cooking. He also built houses and showed couples that they could live together as husband and wife; and since people often quarrelled in those days, he taught them to live in peace.”
This figure is spoken of the Mesoamerican culture.
It’s interesting because there are multiple accounts of various figures, not just Quetzalcoatl, all of which seemed to have provided humanity with a little ‘push’, here and there, and assistance with regards to discovery. Nothing was really done for humanity, it seemed that the common theme through all of these contacts was for us to better ourselves, and be responsible for our own progression, with a little bit of assistance.
Not all of the ‘gods’ were kind, loving and peaceful. There were others who required sacrifices, and seemed to almost be a little opposite of ones like Quetzalcoatl.
What’s also interesting is that the descriptions of Quetzalcoatl resemble modern day descriptions of some, supposed extraterrestrial beings. Those who have examined the lore, like myself, would know this. Could these have been who we consider today, benevolent extraterrestrial beings? Perhaps.
Ancient history, along with many ancient cultures who pre-date modern-day religion, all have very interesting stories which can easily be interpreted has highly advanced beings from another place.
The idea that these are just mere interpretations seem to be dwindling every year. Being an avid researcher in the field for more than a decade, I can tell you that extraterrestrial intelligence is just the tip of the iceberg. It truly does open up Pandora’s box, and there is much more to this universal story, so much so that we probably couldn’t even comprehend it.
The evidence today points to the idea that we’ve been visited for a long time, so to contemplate the idea that these were extraterrestrial visits is not out of the question.
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations….Who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
–Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
If they have been here as well as visiting us for a long time, that’s good news. It takes out the idea of an ‘extraterrestrial invasion’, because, if that were the case, it would have already happened by now.
To find all of our archived articles on the UFO/Extraterrestrial phenomenon, you can visit the exopolitics section of our website.
The meaning of Quetzalcoatl is “feathered serpent,” this is the translation that comes from ancient South America, from the Maya and the Aztecs. In Hancock’s book, he goes on to describe how there were other entities who resembled Quetzalcoatl quite closely:
“There were other deities, among the Maya in particular, whose identities seemed to merge closely with those of Quetzalcoatl. One was Votan, a great civilizer, who was also described as pale-skinned, bearded and wearing a long robe. Sholars could offer no translation for his name but his principal symbol, like that of Quetzalcoatl, was a serpent. Another closely related figure was Itzamana, the Mayan god of healing, who was robed and bearded individual, his symbol, too, was the rattlesnake.”
Graham, in his book, goes on to state:
“All of the legends stated unambiguously that Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan/Gucumatz/Votan/Itzamana had arrived in Central America from some-where very far away (across the “Eastern Sea”) and that amid great sadness he had eventually sailed off again in the direction whence he had come.”
This is an interested quote, and relates closely to a sentiment shared by a First Nations Canadian storyteller, Richard Wagamese:
“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.” (source)
Interesting to think about. These are versions of history that old more plausibility to them than the ones we currently consider concrete. As we continue to move forward exponentially, perhaps our destiny is in the stars and we ourselves one day will be the extraterrestrials, or perhaps we already are.
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder devised an electronic skin, or e-skin, which mimics the mechanical and functional properties of natural human skin. The artificial skin is stretchable and bendable, but also capable of measuring pressure, temperature, and vibration. In the future, this upgrade will enable robots to sense their environment, making human-robot interactions less creepy. E-skin will also be helpful for disabled humans who are forced to wear a prosthesis.
Robo-touch
Electronic skin isn’t a novel concept. For the last decade, scientists all over the world have demonstrated functional artificial skin that possesses the ability to feel and touch objects. However, this is the first time that we’re shown an e-skin that can both heal itself and is fully recyclable.
“This particular device … won’t produce any waste,” said study co-author Jianliang Xiao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. “We want to make electronics to be environmentally friendly.”
Xiao and colleagues made their e-skin out of polymer and silver nanoparticles, the latter being responsible for the device’s self-healing properties. If for some reason the e-skin is torn in half, the two sides can come back together in the presence of a rehealing agent and heat pressing, which restores the broken chemical bonds. If the damage is irreparable, the device can be put into a solution that separates and recovers the silver nanoparticles, thereby allowing the material to be recycled for a new e-skin.
“What is unique here is that the chemical bonding of polyimine we use allows the e-skin to be both self-healing and fully recyclable at room temperature,” Xiao said.
Schematic of e-skin and its uses.
Credit: University of Colorado Boulder .
Xiao envisions the e-skin being fundamental to improving interactions between human beings and robots. For instance, the scientist imagines babysitting robots equipped with fingers covered in e-skin that can tell what the temperature of the baby is or can measure pressure so the robot doesn’t press too hard.
Similarly, prostheses wrapped in e-skin can enable people who have lost a limb to regain control not only of their dexterity — at least in part — but also sensing ability, as reported in the journal Science Advances.
But this e-skin isn’t perfect. Unlike our own natural skin, the e-skin isn’t very flexible or stretchable. Worse of all, the device isn’t easily reproducible, which is why Xiao and colleagues are working on a solution that might enable them to scale down the e-skin’s manufacturing.
“We are facing pollution issues every day,” Xiao noted. “It’s important to preserve our environment and make sure that nature can be very safe for ourselves and for our kids.”
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The Dendera Lightbulb—Evidence of Advanced Ancient Technology?
The Dendera Lightbulb—Evidence of Advanced Ancient Technology?
The Temple of Dendera, dedicated to the goddess Hathor, is one of the most mysterious ancient temples built by the Egyptians thousands of years ago. Located some 2.5 km southeast of Dendera, this ancient temple is one of the best preserved Egyptian complexes, especially its central temple, thanks to which it remained buried by sand and mud until it was unearthed by Auguste Mariette in the middle of the 19th century.
Temple of Hathor, Dendera.
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The area belonged to the sixth nome of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.
The complex consists of:
Hathor temple (the main temple)
Temple of the birth of Isis
Sacred Lake
Sanatorium
Mammisi of Nectanebo II
Christian Basilica
Roman Mammisi
a Barque shrine
Gateways of Domitian and Trajan
the Roman Kiosk
The main temple features a set of reliefs that is unlike any other ancient Egyptian art.
Knowns as the Dendera Light, a mysterious relief has raised numerous questions among experts. Is it possible that thousands of years ago, just before humanity decided to start writing down history, technologies far greater than what we’ve ever imagined, existed on earth?
The Dendera Lighbulb raises numerous questions. Located on the wall inside the temple of Hathor, we see something that may not be so strange in the 21st century. A large object resembling a lightbulb being manipulated by people. However, this technology wasn’t supposed to exist in ancient Egypt. So, what is it?
According to mainstream experts and Egyptologists, the Dendera Light is not some sort of ancient technology, but a mythological depiction of a djed pillar and a lotus flower, spawning a snake within, representing aspects of Egyptian mythology.
Egyptologists claim that the reliefs are a representation of the Egyptian god Hor, “Horus unifier of the Two Lands,” or Harsomtus in Greek, which takes various forms, and one of them is the snake emerging from a lotus.
This relief is interpreted by many authors as evidence of advanced ancient technology, electricity to be precise, in ancient Egypt.
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Furthermore, it is believed that the Djed pillar is a symbol of stability which is also interpreted as the backbone of the god Osiris.
In the carvings at the temple of Hathor, the four horizontal lines forming the capital of the djed are supplemented by human arms stretching out, as if the djed were a backbone.
The arms hold up the snake within the lotus flower. The snake coming from the lotus symbolize fertility, linked to the annual Nile flood.
However, many ancient astronaut theorists, as well as other authors have proposed that the enigmatic relief inside the Hathor temple does not only comprise elements of ancient Egyptian mythology but depicts a massive lightbulb.
If it was, in fact, a massive lightbulb, then what powered it?
A reconstruction of the Dendera lamp at the Mystery Park in Switzerland.
One answer may be the so-called Baghdad Batteries. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia created countless terracotta pots, shaped like a vase and of a light yellowish color, containing a cylinder made of a rolled copper sheet, which houses a single iron rod.
The container measured 14 cm high by 4 cm in diameter, while the copper cylinder measured 9 cm high by 2.6 cm in diameter.
At the top, the iron rod is isolated from the copper by bitumen, with plugs or stoppers, and both rod and cylinder fit snugly inside the opening of the jar.
According to some experts, these enigmatic terracotta pots were, in fact, the earliest batteries on planet Earth, and may have been used to mysterious power devices such as the Dendera Libhgbulb, if of course, it ever existed.
Declassified documents released to the public by the U.S. Air Force confirm that it partnered with a Canadian company, Avro Aircraft, to build high speed advanced round aircraft. This partnership started in 1956 and was named “Project 1794″. They openly admitted that reported UFO sightings by pilots and air traffic control towers were in fact, advanced military aircraft. They allowed people to think they were seeing alien aircraft to keep the project secured and lied directly, in response, to all inquiries by public offices.
According to the US National Archives, the initiative was to build a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle with a top speed between Mach 3 to Mach 4 and an altitude ceiling above 100,000 ft. The USAFcontracted “Avro Canada” to build the aircraft, all projects that were known publicly were falsely declared unsuccessful to the public. The release of documents due to “The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)”, by the DOD in 2016, validated years of witness testimony where people were falsely identified as crazy or unreliable.
With its round design standing at nearly five feet tall and 18 feet wide, the Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar looks like a small UFO:
Recent FBI Release
The FBI recently rereleased a 2004 video from the U.S. Defense Department where two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets tailgated a flying object hurtling off the San Diego coast. Most people don’t know about the Avro corporation so the release of the video seemed to validate extraterrestrial beliefs.
“These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” Elizondo said, referring to the flying saucers.
The aircraft didn’t have any obvious form of propulsion and was maneuvering in ways that could be deadly for normal human beings, but not unmanned AI aircraft.
But that was then what do they have now?
We know the DOD subcontracted a company in Canada to make round aircraft.
We know when people reported them as UFO’s the military denied them.
We know encounters with them are dramatic due to their advanced capabilities.
Below are a few of the newer sitings that far surpass what we have encountered in the past.
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
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NASA accidentally films the best UFO sighting yet
NASA accidentally films the best UFO sighting yet
Another unidentified flying object was captured on video by NASA’s space cameras. In the video footage, a mysterious object –with a peculiar disk-shaped design—appears to be traveling out of Earth’s atmosphere causing a massive debate on social networks. What was it? Alien vehicle? Space Debris? Optical Illusion, or just Swamp Gas? Some are convinced it is the ultimate evidence Earth is visited by Alien beings while others remain skeptical and still, unconvinced.
Ever since the footage was uploaded to YouTube, it generated great controversy both among those who support the idea that it might be an extraterrestrial object, as among those who are completely skeptical of the subject, and as a joke suggest that “UFO’s that are planning on entering our air space should be registered and pay taxes.”
The truth is that on many occasions only fragments of videos in which these mystery objects are visible are released.
However, the fact that NASA interrupts its live feed transmissions is what arouses more suspicion among those who are eager to find new evidence of the existence of alien life, UFO’s and how we are all part of a massive conspiracy.
One user wrote on YouTube:
“The question isn’t “is this an alien spacecraft?”, but actually “Why NASA didn’t cut or blur this video as they always do with other strange sights?”
According to many people, in today’s era, it isn’t a question anymore whether or not UFO’s are real.
In fact, if we look back into the past we will see numerous fascinating statements made by former astronauts, military officials, and scientists about Alien life and the existence of UFOs.
Here are only a few:
“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, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.
We cannot address the UFO phenomena without mentioning Dr. Edgar Mitchel, one of the best-known Apollo astronauts and the sixth man to walk on the moon; a retired Captain in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) who had much to say about Alien life:
“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…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.”
Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:
“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligence, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”
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Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age?
Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age?
A study by the University of California San Diego has said the Sun will experience a cold period where all solar activities will be reduced drastically.
Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age?
Remember the 1989 science fiction novel The Dying Sun by Gary Blackwood, where people were forced to migrate from the US to Mexico because of the freezing weather triggered by cooling down of the Sun? Scientists are now afraid that such a situation can become a reality in the near future. The question that now arises is, are we at all prepared for another ice age?
A study by the University of California San Diego has claimed that by 2050, the Sun is expected to become cool. You might think "what's the big deal," but remember that this means the solar activities that create the heat of the Sun to sustain life on Earth may diminish. And the last time it happened was in the 17th century when the Thames River froze. Scientists call this the "Maunder Minimum".
Physicist Dan Lubin at the university and his team studied the past event and concluded that we are in for a worse case. The Sun is expected to get much dimmer than last time and, in scientific terms, it is a "grand minimum" -- a time period in the 11-year solar cycle when the solar activities are at the lowest point.
According to the study, titled Ultraviolet Flux Decrease Under a Grand Minimum from IUE Short-wavelength Observation of Solar Analogs and published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, this grand minimum will be 7 percent cooler than such periods from the past.
Scientists also said that the Sun might have another cooling period in a decade.
However, predicting a solar minimum or maximum is a challenge to scientists because of the non-linear characteristic of solar activities that happens every day. During a minimum cycle, though solar cycles still occur, the intensity is very low, while during a maximum cycle, solar flares go up and sun spews out billion-ton clouds of electrified gas into space. These two extremes can bring about some major global and regional climate changes.
Are you now wondering what effect grand minimum will have on Earth? Lubin said such cold spells thin out the stratospheric ozone layer first, which will affect wind and weather patterns. He also warned that not all regions will experience a dip in temperature. Rather, in some places, the mercury will rise.
Now the question that arises is, will this event trigger the upcoming ice age everyone is talking about?
Wetenschappers waarschuwen voor ongewoon koele zon. Staat ons een nieuwe ijstijd te wachten?
Wetenschappers waarschuwen voor ongewoon koele zon. Staat ons een nieuwe ijstijd te wachten?
Uit een studie van de Universiteit van Californië – San Diego blijkt dat de zonneactiviteit de komende tijd drastisch zal afnemen waardoor de zon afkoelt.
In het boek The Dying Sun uit 1989 worden mensen gedwongen van de VS naar Mexico te migreren vanwege het koude weer als gevolg van een afkoelende zon.
Wetenschappers vrezen dat zoiets in de nabije toekomst realiteit kan worden. De vraag is of we überhaupt zijn voorbereid op een nieuwe ijstijd.
Nog kouder
De wetenschappers claimen dat de zon vanaf 2050 afkoelt en dat de zonneactiviteit afneemt. Dit gebeurde ook in de 17e eeuw, toen de rivier de Theems bevroor, en deze periode wordt ook wel het Maunderminimum genoemd.
Natuurkundige Dan Lubin en zijn collega’s bestudeerden deze periode en concludeerden dat het deze keer nog kouder gaat worden.
De zon wordt naar verwachting nog zwakker dan vorige keer. Dit keer zal het minimum zeven procent kouder zijn in vergelijking met eerdere periodes.
Ozonlaag
De wetenschappers hebben daarnaast gezegd dat de zon over een decennium mogelijk ook al enige tijd gaat afkoelen.
Als gevolg van zo’n minimum wordt de ozonlaag uitgedund, waardoor wind- en weerpatronen veranderen.
Volgende ijstijd
Lubin zei dat het niet overal kouder zal worden. Op sommige plekken zal het kwik zelfs stijgen, aldus de natuurkundige.
De vraag is of deze gebeurtenis zal leiden tot de volgende ijstijd waar iedereen het over heeft. Onderzoekers van de Northumbria University hebben geclaimd dat in 2021 een mini-ijstijd begint.
Géén ruimteschip met marsmannetjes aan boord: vliegende sigaar doolt rond na botsing in ruimte - HLN.be
Géén ruimteschip met marsmannetjes aan boord: vliegende sigaar doolt rond na botsing in ruimte -HLN.be
Marc Uyttenhove
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEETHet is nu zeker: het vreemde langwerpige object dat eind oktober vorig jaar werd opgemerkt, is géén ruimtestation met marsmannetjes aan boord, maar een stuk rots in de vorm van een sigaar die wellicht na een botsing met een ander hemellichaam in ons zonnestelsel ronddoolt.
‘Oumuamua’, alias de vliegende ruimtesigaar, is een apart geval, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van de Queen’s University uit Belfast. Zijn naam is Hawaïaans en betekent ‘verkenner/boodschapper uit de ruimte’, omdat het de astromen van de University of Hawai waren die het ding voor het eerst opmerkten.
Vermits Oumuamua zich sneller dan andere sterachtigen bewoog, moest het wel een object zijn van buiten ons zonnestelsel. Het is de allereerste maal in de geschiedenis dat zo’n interstellaire gast ontdekt wordt, maar wetenschappers houden er rekening mee dat er boven onze hoofden nog zo’n 10.000 broertjes en zusjes van Oumuamua rondhangen. De meerderheid is echter zo klein en donker dat ze moeilijk waar te nemen zijn. Meestal blijven ze ook niet lang, hoogstens een paar weken om daarna de plaat te poetsen.
Geduld
Behalve het feit dat het roodkleurige hemellichaam eruitziet als een sigaar of een komkommer, zo’n 400 meter lang is, een diameter van 40 meter heeft, uit dicht metaal of rots bestaat en dat er geen wolken stof of ijs rond hangen, stelden de astronomen ook nog vast dat Oumuamua niet voorspelbaar rond zijn as draait, zoals de meeste planetoïden, maar ‘tuimelt’. En dat zou komen ten gevolge van een botsing met een ander hemellichaam. Het kan ook zijn dat de asteroïde te dicht bij een ander groot hemellichaam is gekomen en dit de zwaartekracht van het object heeft beïnvloed.
De crash zou gebeurd zijn in het systeem waar Oumuamua is ontstaan. Toch denken de onderzoekers dat de ruimtetuimelaar ooit opnieuw rond zijn oude, vertrouwde as zal draaien. Maar daar is heel veel geduld voor nodig. Want dat zal zeker 1 miljard jaar duren, nog lang nadat de vliegende sigaar ons zonnestelsel weer verlaten heeft.
Maar één ding is nu wel héél zeker: Oumuamua is geen door aliens gebouwd ruimteschip, ook al heeft het er de ultieme vorm voor. Zelfs de Britse natuurkundige, kosmoloog en wiskundige Stephen Hawking opperde die mogelijkheid. Voor de zekerheid hebben astronomen toch maar gekeken of het object misschien signalen uitstuurde. Maar die werden vooralsnog niet gevonden. Tot nader order blijft E.T. dus nog altijd pure fictie.
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SHOCK as UFO FOUND with a 'chilling message' in CIGARETTE TIN at London Science Museum
SHOCK as UFO FOUND with a 'chilling message' in CIGARETTE TIN at London Science Museum
A FLYING saucer called “Silpho UFO” which has been hailed as the “British Roswell” has been discovered in the archives of London’s Science Museum in a tin cigarette box, it has been revealed.
The “miniature UFO” was discovered in Silpho Moor near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1957.
The metal disc was 16 inches in diameter, weighed 22lbs and was inscribed with hieroglyphics which are similar to the wreckage of the “spacecraft” alleged to have crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in June 1947.
Inside the object was a book of 17 thin copper sheets with each sheet covered in more hieroglyphics.
Local café owner Phillip Longbottom claimed the hieroglyphics translated into a 2000-word message.
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The UFO was discovered in Silpho Moor near Scarborough
The hieroglyphics are claimed to have been sent by an alien called Ullo to warn Earth about the danger posed by its nuclear weapons with the chilling message: “You will improve or disappear.”
The remains were sent to the archives of the Science Museum in London and were only recently discovered by Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University after he gave a talk on the release of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO files at the museum.
He said: "One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that ‘bits of a flying saucer’ had been kept in a cigarette tin in the museum group store for decades.
"I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage.
Ex-UFO program chief: We may not be alone
Pilot SILENCED After Releasing UFO Footage Online 2/25/17
“It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer that some have claimed as Britain's answer to the famous Roswell incident.
“It's incredible to hear that pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive for more than half a century.”
The remains were initially sent to the Natural History Museum in London where experts said it was probably an elaborate hoax because there was no evidence the metal had come from elsewhere in the solar system or suffered high temperatures after entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
But Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding continued to believe the object was from outer-space.
He said he had personally examined the object in 1959 and said it was a “miniature UFO”.
Former editor of UFO Brigantia magazine Andy Roberts said the Silpho Saucer is the UK’s answer to the Roswell incident.
He said: "This is an amazing breakthrough. It's incredible to hear that all this time pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive."
Scarborough have received several reports of UFO sightings in the past.
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The metal disc was 16 inches in diameter, weighed 22lbs and was inscribed with hieroglyphics
Witnesses reported seeing strange lights, and odd-shaped craft in an area from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
In some cases UFOs were seen entering the sea, and cars ground to a halt as one appeared, it is claimed.
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet of Wilsthorpe, East Yorkshire, on Tuesday, September 15 2009, at the height of the sightings, paranormal researcher Paul Sinclair has revealed.
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The remains were sent to the archives of the Science Museum in London
It was the day after a bizarre late-night sighting of between 30 and 40 UFOs in the same area by an elderly couple whose home overlooked the beach, he said.
The multiple UFO sightings followed a spate of other strange UFO encounters along the area of coastline, Mr Sinclair told the Outer Limits Magazine 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era conference in Hull.
The military action and UFOs were witnessed by the couple, two bait diggers, and a boat worker, a seven-year investigation by Mr Sinclair has discovered.
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Large UFO Shows Up On Live Cam During SpaceX Tesla Car Orbit, Feb 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Large UFO Shows Up On Live Cam During SpaceX Tesla Car Orbit, Feb 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 6, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths orbit
Watch those videos below carefully, and you will soon notice that there are many small white glowing objects around the car. Also most noticeably a large quadcopter shaped UFO appears out of the darkness and then suddenly the camera switches angles...as if the camera person was trying to avoid catching the UFO, but was too late. This UFO may have been following to report this to other alien worlds, gathing info on a historical event. Excellent find by Streetcap1 of Youtube.
The small snowflake UFOs are not from the engine. The engine of the craft is situated below the car, making it impossible for the engines to create this effect. The white flakes come from the side, from the far distance, as if they were alive...yes, I believe them to be.
Elon Musk came from South Africa, created the world famous Pay Pal, sold it for 1.5 billion and went on the create Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Co. and Neuralink, Solar City, and of course Open AI. Do you think he did all this alone? No, he had a lot of help from aliens. Possible using him as a tool to help humanity, or he himself may be an alien or alien species born in an underground base here on Earth itself. Ether way, He's doing immense good for humanity.
Missing wreckage of UFO which 'Crash Landed' in Yorkshire is found, 60 years on
Missing wreckage of UFO which 'Crash Landed' in Yorkshire is found, 60 years on
The missing wreckage of a miniature UFO that ‘crash landed’ on the North York Moors 60 years ago has been found hidden in the archives of a London museum.
The story has been claimed by some experts as Britain’s answer to the Roswell incident.
Credit images: Yorkshire Post in 1957 - Sheffield Hallam University.
The remaining parts of the Silpho UFO have now been found In a plot worthy of The X-Files the metal object, shaped like a flying saucer with hieroglyphics inscribed on its base, was found by three men on Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, one night in November 1957.
One later paid £10 – more than £200 in today’s money – for the mysterious object that appeared just weeks after the Russians launched Sputnik into orbit around Earth.
But what became known as the Silpho Saucer vanished without trace soon after the finders cut it open in the town.
Photographs show the copper base of the object was inscribed with hieroglyphs that one of the men compared with Russian lettering.
The truth is out there! Hundreds of 'UFO and alien sightings' in UK reported to police
The truth is out there! Hundreds of 'UFO and alien sightings' in UK reported to police
ALMOST 400 sightings of aliens and UFOs have been reported to UK police forces in the past three years, according to shock figures seen by Express.co.uk.
Aliens have a folklore which provides a vehicle for the unusual
Dr Neil Dagnall
But the true figure is likely to be much higher, as 16 of the UK's 46 police forces did not respond to Express.co.uk's Freedom of Information requests.
Dr Neil Dagnall, a parapsychological researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, said people's belief in aliens is linked to the "desire to explicate the unexplained".
He said: "Aliens are a cultural archetype – they are part of our social consciousness and have a folklore which provides a vehicle for the unusual.
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UK police forces have received 382 reports of UFO or alien sightings since 2015
"They also provide a narrative in which to understand and resolve technological developments and uncertainties.
"These include notions linked to the idea that aliens protect the Earth and have prevented wars.
"Within this story-line, these and similar matters have coherence and meaning."
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Avon and Somerset Police received 124 calls about extra terrestrial activity
Avon and Somerset Police received more calls about alien and UFO activity than any other force, with officers receiving 124 such reports between 2015 and 2017.
West Yorkshire Police recorded the second-highest volume of alien-related calls, with 34 reports over the past three years.
And North Wales Police said it was called out to 30 incidents over the same time period.
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ALIEN BEINGS OF SOME KIND REALLY DID GENETICALLY ENGINEER MANKIND
ALIEN BEINGS OF SOME KIND REALLY DID GENETICALLY ENGINEER MANKIND
Dr. Joseph P. Ferrell, author of “The Cosmic War” states, “There was once a very high paleo-ancient civilization long ago with science and technology far beyond our own. That civilization was inter-planetary by extent; it existed in our own celestial neighborhoods it fought a war and blew itself apart; and as it was doing so, realizing that it would lose all of its high science in initiated efforts to preserve it. The rise of the “mystery schools,” ancient religions, occult societies, and all such groups since then have been a long-term recovery process, and the people involved have been doing so covertly.”
Be careful not to let the specific words chosen by Dr. Farrell cause you to instantly dismiss what he suggests. Even the most devout Christian can find reference in the Holy Bible of the fallen angels in Genesis Chapter 6. They too came from the heavens and brought with them highly sophisticated technology. Terminology may vary a bit, but the stories throughout all ancient cultures are always the same. Modern “science” would have you believe humans evolved, however nothing in the ancient remains has been able to explain how modern man just popped up out of nowhere from cave dwellers to a highly advanced civilization with schools and their own writing in the first documented civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. Modern “science” cannot explain it, but the writings of that civilization surely do. In the following video, researcher Jim Nichols presents new evidence about how our modern world is in fact the dark resurrection of a super high-tech civilization that destroyed itself many thousands of years ago through unrestrained weapons science and occult corruption.
That theory is well in keeping with the idea that something other than man built many of the ancient megalithic structures found situated around the globe, and the secrets behind those structures are being held close to the chest by the global elite and secret societies of the planet. For what purpose? Do they know something? The ancient writings of that first civilization speak about the Ancient Anunnaki who were responsible for mankind’s ‘little push’ that accelerated the development of intelligent beings on Earth. Take a look at the evidence below and the links at the bottom and make your own decision. Before making any final conclusion, be sure to check out findings that are very recent in nature, and suggest mankind is approaching full disclosure of what our government’s really know. First, Russia Orders Obama: Tell World About Aliens, Or We Will, and then, President Obama Builds up to ‘Extraterrestrial Disclosure’
According to the Ancient Astronaut theory, in the distant past, before the dawn of civilizations, intelligent extraterrestrial beings tampered human DNA on Earth to create mankind as we know it.
According to numerous theories which seem ever more possible in recent years, ancient mankind was genetically manipulated in the past.
Without this genetic manipulation, which explains the abrupt rise in human intelligence and fast development, civilization as we know it would probably still not exist today. This is the missing link in the history of mankind.
According to many authors, the Ancient Anunnaki were responsible for mankind’s ‘little push’ that accelerated the development of intelligent beings on Earth.
One of the best pieces of evidence that supports the theory that mankind was genetically manipulated in the past by a species of intelligent Aliens is the blood type group Rh Negative.
Humans have four possible general blood types: A, B, AB and O; this classification is derived, according to scientists, from proteins which are found on the surface of cells which are designed to fight off bacteria and viruses in the human body.
The vast majority of humans beings on this planet have these proteins which means they are Rh positive.
But a minor group, the Rh Negative lacks these proteins. So how is this crucial difference explained scientifically? And why does it even exist?
Throughout the years, several scientific studies have searched for this answer.
Interestingly, the negative RH strain is characteristic, for example, of the British royal family, which has generated controversial theories about a possible extraterrestrial lineage.
Although this hypothesis has not been confirmed, the disturbing questions it generates floats in the air: how would we react to the fact that a small portion of the Earth’s population has a genetic code that has been altered in the distant past by highly advanced extraterrestrial beings?
Genesis 6:4 “God came into the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, and the same became mighty of old.”
From the King James Bible: “women children – men of Israel, male children of God, not children of man – Ex. 34:23.”
Ex. 34:7 states “The iniquity of the father will be unto the children unto the fourth generation.”
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Experts claim there are 3 hostile Alien species visiting Earth
Experts claim there are 3 hostile Alien species visiting Earth
Misinterpreted throughout the centuries as ‘Gods’, here are three of the most hostile Aliens that according to ‘experts’ have been visiting Earth since time immemorial.
The idea that we are not the only life forms in the universe has captured the imagination and interest of not only scientists but philosophers, historians and other experts throughout the centuries.
One of the first to speak out about alien life was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno.
He is remembered for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model.
Bruno proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism).
Bruno also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its “center”.
Bruno said: “There are countless suns and countless earth’s all rotating around their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system. We see only the suns because they are the largest bodies and are luminous, but their planets remain invisible to us because they are smaller and non-luminous. The countless worlds in the universe are no worse and no less inhabited than our earth. For it is utterly unreasonable to suppose that those teeming worlds which are as magnificent as our own, perhaps more so, and which enjoy the fructifying rays of a sun just as we do, should be uninhabited and should not bear similar or even more perfect inhabitants than our earth.”
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.
However, he wasn’t the only one to have spoken out about alien life. Throughout the centuries, countless scholars have wondered whether or not there are others out there.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” (source)
– Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor.
Today, at a time when technology has allowed us to explore the universe like never before, many people are convinced that we are not alone. Not only that, but millions of people around the globe are convinced that until this day, we are being visited by beings that are not from our planet.
Advanced civilizations which are thousands of years ahead of us—technologically—who have played an extremely important role in the development of humanity throughout the centuries.
So who are these beings? Are they benign? Are they Hostile? If so, where are they?
Considering the fact that there are at LEAST hundred billion galaxies just as old as the Milky Way, and all of them have an average of 100 BILLION Suns per galaxy, most of them with planets similar to Earth orbiting them, one can say that intelligent life surely must exist somewhere.
Many authors would agree that it’s safe to say that there is at least 1 intelligent civilization per galaxy. There are at LEAST one hundred billion galaxies as the milky way. Do the math.
UFOlogists and paranormal researchers agree that throughout the years Earth has been visited, and there is ample historical evidence which supports this claim.
Confused as ‘Gods’, numerous ancient cultures around the globe indicate how ‘extremely advanced beings’ visited Earth, coming from the Stars.
3. The Anunnaki
Are the Ancient Anunnaki the missing link in our amnesic history?
If we take a look at ancient Mesopotamian history we will find evidence of the so-called Anunnaki.
The Anunnaki are believed to be the creators of Man. These mighty Gods left Earth in the distant past, saying that one day, they shall return to Earth. Curiously, if we look at ancient cultures around the globe, most of their Gods—Creator Gods—left Earth and promised to return one day.
According to later Assyrian and Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods. The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish. The Anunnaki are mentioned in The Epic of Gilgameshwhen Utnapishtim tells the story of the flood. There are four primary gods: Anu, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag.
Many researchers firmly believe that based on numerous discoveries, the Anunnaki (Sumerian: “those who came down from the heavens), a highly advanced civilization from an elusive planet in our solar system, came to Earth, landing in the Persian Gulf some 432,000 years ago. They created man as a slave race to help them mine gold. Eventually, the Anunnaki left Earth, leaving their creation behind promising to return one day.
2. The Greys
The Grey Aliens are one of the most famous alien species in the 21st century. There are two types of Grey Aliens. The Small Greys are said to possess extremely large heads, almond-shaped eyes, and small bodies. The small greys are said to be clones of the other species known as the Tall Greys. According to ufologists and researchers, their population is in fact very small which is why they have numerous clones among them.
They have almond-shaped eyes and are most commonly associated with abductions. Many ‘experts’ in ufology firmly believe mankind even has a secret pact with these beings.
They are said to come from the Constellation of Orion and the Star System Zeta Reticuli.
According to many, their population is small, and they have a great number of clones walking among them. These beings are said to behave like robots and lack souls.
According to reports, sometime during the 1950’s the government of the US made a secret pact with the Grey Aliens. We received extremely advanced alien technology for study, while they got the green light to abduct people and perform human experiments.
There are some statues in ancient Sumeria, and we can also find cave drawings in Europe and in Australia, where the heads feature a triangular shape with the big roundish eyes.
Cave paintings in the Kimberley region of Australia—believed to be thousands of years old—could be the earliest depictions of the Greys ever discovered.
According to local legends, the carvings are of ancient spirits called the Wondjina who appeared during dream time to create the landscape and influence its inhabitants, a possible connection to the Greys?
3. Reptilians
Throughout history, we have heard tales about these strange looking creatures that apparently live among us on Earth. There are so many stories about reptilian entities both in the past and in the present as if these beings were since the beginning of time present on our planet. History talks about them and modern day sightings are becoming more and more frequent. There have been stories of beings half-human, half-reptile for centuries, but is this just the result of human imagination or is there something more about these strange beings that have conquered our History texts.
Looking back in history, we find several tales about strange creatures, which were worshiped by our ancestors. In South America, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan are some of the gods which are well, reptilian beings worshiped as gods. Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means “feathered serpent” The worship of a feathered serpent is first known documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE.
According to ufologists, they measure about 4 meters in height and are characterized as excellent warriors and have an extremely hierarchical and competitive political – military system. They also have a great psychic power and feed on negative energies like fear and hatred, thus, they are considered ” regressive ” and were considered before as “demons.”
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Einstein's Theory Helps ID First Exoplanets Outside Milky Way
Einstein's Theory Helps ID First Exoplanets Outside Milky Way
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
This image illustrates the effect of gravitational lensing. The object in the middle right of the image has a ring of light around it that is created by that object's gravity bending light from a background object. In some cases gravitational lensing will create nearly identical projections of the background object.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
With the help of a supermassive black hole and Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, a group of researchers say they have made the first ever detection of planets outside the Milky Way galaxy.
Finding planets in our galaxy is hardenough; finding them in more distant galaxies is even more challenging, the researchers said.
"Even in the Milky Way, exoplanets are difficult to detect," Xinyu Dai, an astronomer at the University of Oklahoma and a co-author on the new study, told Space.com by email. "Galaxies are much farther away from us, so it will be orders of magnitude more difficult to detect planets in other galaxies." [Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System]
A central "lens" galaxy and four projections of the background quasar RX J1131-1231.
Credit: Xinyu Dai/Eduardo Guerras/University of Oklahoma
Dai and his co-author, Eduardo Guerras, used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the environment around a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy located 3.8 billion light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is home to a quasar, an extremely bright source of light thought to be created when a very large black hole accelerates material around it. But the researchers said the results of their study have revealed the presence of planets in a galaxy that lies between Earth and the quasar.
Furthermore, the scientists said results suggest that in most galaxies, there are about 2,000 free-floating planets for every star. That means there could be trillions of planets traveling, starless, in the galaxy that lies between the quasar and the Milky Way.
Worlds beyond the Milky Way
When Dai and Guerras turned Chandra toward the quasar RX J1131-1231, they were hoping to use a natural magnifying glass predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity — a procedure known as gravitational lensing or microlensing — to learn more about the black hole that produced the quasar. As light from a more distant galaxy — in this case, the one containing the quasar — traveled around a smaller galaxy in the foreground, gravity magnified the light from the quasar galaxy, making it easier for astronomers to see features that might otherwise be too distant to observe.
"The original purpose of the observations was to study the environment of the supermassive black hole," Dai said.
As Dai and Guerras examined the four images created by quasar lensing, they noticed that each one was a little bit different from the others. Light from the background quasar splits into four paths, creating four images of the quasar. If the galaxy were a single block of equally distributed mass, each path of light would have shifted equally. But galaxies are much messier, with stars clustered tightly in some regions and spread more thinly in others. After factoring in the extent to which stars could distort the results, the researchers concluded that the unexplained variations could come from gravitational lensing caused by planets in the (closer) lensing galaxy. (Microlensing is already used as a technique to find exoplanets in our galaxy.)
Over the past decade, Chandra has observed the quasar 38 times, and the researchers found planet-like signatures throughout those observations. While the differences could come from "hotspots" in the accretion disk around the black hole, previous research (which Dai participated in) concluded that this was unlikely.
By examining how the individual images produced by the lensing galaxy shifted, the researchers were able to estimate how many free-floating worlds might be responsible for the effect. While the number of estimated planets varied depending on how large the individual worlds might be, the researchers estimated that there could be as many as 2,000 free-floating worlds for every star in the foreground galaxy. These worlds most likely formed with the planetary system but were hurled out of it by another gas giant, much like Jupiter cleaned out the young solar system.
Each planet would be somewhere between the size of Earth's moon and the size of Jupiter. But most of the booted worlds probably aren't that small. At larger sizes, there could be about one free-floating Jupiter-sized world for every 10 stars, a number consistent with estimates of free-floating planets in the Milky Way, Dai said.
The researchers were able to estimate only the number of worlds floating without stars, not those orbiting suns. That's because the gravitational force of orbiting worlds is dramatically overshadowed by their much-larger stars, the researchers said.
"The exact number of planets in their analysis depends on specific assumptions, and the uncertainties are large," Przemek Mróz, a researcher at the University of Warsaw in Poland, told Space.com by email. Mróz, who was not part of the new study, said he thinks the study is solid, but that the question of precisely how many planets could be floating in the galaxy is hard to answer. Examining similar variations in other galaxies should help to refine that number, Mróz said.
"Observations of other lensed quasars will help to study planet populations in other galaxies," Mróz said.
In addition to studying gravitational lensing, Mróz is also a member of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), based at the University of Warsaw, which uses microlensing to hunt down dark matter. Because the experiment uses stars inside the Milky Way as lenses, OGLE has identified several exoplanets in our galaxy.
Most Milky Way planets beyond Earth's solar system have been identified using a couple of different methods. The bulk of the very first exoplanets to be discovered were "hot Jupiters," whose masses and close orbits tugged at their stars, causing the stars to wobble slightly. This allowed researchers to identify the planets via what's known as the radial velocity method.
Then, instruments like NASA's Kepler space telescope found a wealth of worlds using the transit method, which takes advantage of how planets block the light from their star as they cross between it and Earth.
But other worlds have been spotted in the solar system via microlensing, though on a far smaller scale than what was done in the new study. Instead of using a quasar, astronomers applying this method usually examine two stars that temporarily line up with one another as seen from Earth. Gravity from the foreground star splits the light from the background into two beams that go around the foreground, or lens star, creating two lensed images. If the lens star boasts a planet that travels through one of those beams of light, the planet's gravity bends the stream and temporarily produces a third image of the source star. Because the stars are closer to Earth and within the Milky Way, their planets can be separated out in a way that isn't possible on the larger, galactic scales used by Dai and Guerras. The characteristics of this light can reveal the planet's mass, orbit and the length of its year. [VIDEO: Gravitational Microlensing – How Planets Are Found Using This Technique]
While researchers can re-examine planets found via transit and radial velocity, the rare and random nature of the lineup of two stars means that worlds found by microlensing are one-time deals. Still, scientists have used the method to discover planets located much farther away than those found via the other two methods. In 2006, astronomers using microlensing spotted a planet located 22,000 light-years away from Earth, orbiting a star near the center of the Milky Way.
By adding a quasar to the mix, Dai and Guerras have become the first to spot exoplanets outside of the galaxy. But they probably won't be the last, they said. The pair already noted two other lensed quasars that show similar behavior.
"Microlensing is somehow unique, because it doesn't require detection of any light from a planet host star or the planet itself. It only uses light from a background object," astronomer Radoslaw Poleski, a microlensing researcher at the Ohio State University, told Space.com.
"This makes microlensing the only technique that can detect planets in other galaxies in the foreseeable future," Poleski said.
Poleski and Mróz recently suggested that microlensing could be used to spot planets in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located near the Milky Way, using future instruments, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope(LSST), currently under construction in Chile. Instead of relying on a quasar, however, Poleski and Mróz's research suggested that researchers could use light from a background star to identify individual planets around stars in the dwarf galaxy.
"We estimate that the LSST will be able to find at least several microlensing events in the [Small Magellanic Cloud] annually, and planetary signals should be observed in some of them," Mroz said.
This New AI Program Could Speed Up the Search for Gravitational Waves
This New AI Program Could Speed Up the Search for Gravitational Waves
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
An artist's illustration of two black holes spiraling together, creating gravitational waves in spacetime.
Credit: NASA
A new software program that uses artificial intelligence can help rapidly detect and analyze gravitational waves — ripples in the cosmic fabric of space-time — from catastrophic events such as collisions between black holes, a new study finds.
The new technique, called deep filtering, can help researchers see cataclysmic events that current software might not detect, such as titanic mergers in the hearts of galaxies, according to the authors of a new paper describing the work.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time. They are generated when any object with mass moves, and they travel at the speed of light, stretching and squeezing space-time along the way.
The Blue Waters supercomputer numerical relativity simulation of two colliding black holes with the open source, numerical relativity software, the Einstein Toolkit. Researchers developed a method based on artificial intelligence neural networks to better analyze gravitational wave data.
Credit: Authors: R. Haas and E. Huerta (NCSA/University of Illinois); Visualization: R. Haas
Gravitational waves are extraordinarily difficult to detect, and the ones that scientists can detect are from exceptionally massive objects. Although the existence of gravitational waves was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, it took over a century for scientists to successfully detect the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to spot the gravitational aftermath of two black holes smashing together.
However, the software that currently analyzes the signals that gravitational-wave observatories detect can take several days to narrow down what kind of event might have generated those gravitational waves, study co-author Eliu Huerta told Space.com in an interview.
Moreover, this software is specialized to detect mergers between objects that are in roughly circular orbits with one another and relatively isolated from their surroundings, according to Huerta, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The software will likely fail to detect gravitational waves from objects in areas where stars are densely packed together, such as the nuclei of galaxies, where the gravitational pulls of nearby stars can distort orbits from circular to more "eccentric" or oval in shape, Huerta said.
Now, the study authors suggest that artificial-intelligence software could help greatly speed up the analysis of gravitational waves, as well as "[enable] the detection of new classes of gravitational-wave sources that may go unnoticed with existing detection algorithms," Huerta told Space.com.
One of two facilities that belong to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves.
Credit: LIGO Collaboration
The new AI software involves artificial neural networks, in which artificial components dubbed "neurons" are fed data and cooperate to solve a problem, such as recognizing an image. A neural network then repeatedly adjusts the connections between its neurons and sees if these new connection patterns are better at solving the problem. Over time, this process of trial and error reveals which patterns are best at computing solutions, mimicking the process of learning in the human brain.
Whereas conventional techniques might take several days to narrow down the features of gravitational events from detector data, cutting-edge neural networks known as "deep convolutional neural networks" could do so within a second, the scientists found. Moreover, whereas conventional methods would need thousands of CPUs (the central processing units of computers) to perform this task, the new technique worked "even with a single CPU — that is, with your smartphone or a standard laptop," Huerta said.
In addition, the researchers found that this new technique could also quickly analyze mergers that are more complex than current software can analyze, such as mergers involving black holes in eccentric orbits. The new software also had lower error rates and was better at spotting glitches in the data.
Huerta and Daniel George, a computational astrophysicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications, detailed their findings online Dec. 27 in the journal Physics Letters B.
Scientists at the University of Oklahoma (OU) for the first time ever have confirmed in a study the existence of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Previously, planets have been detected only in the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
Researchers estimate more than a trillion planets could exist in the elliptical galaxy at the center of this image.
(University of Oklahoma)
The study, published Feb. 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, gives the first ever recorded evidence that a massive number of extragalactic exoplanets – planets orbiting a star located outside the Milky Way – could exist beyond our home galaxy in the universe.
The incredible breakthrough was made possible using information from NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatory which specializes in taking space-based images of the universe in X-ray light, and a planet detection technique called “microlensing” – a magnification like method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances (on the order of billions of light years).
After studying a distant *quasar galaxy (*as in one of the brightest objects in the Universe), the OU astrophysicists found evidence that there are approximately 2,000 unbound planets for every one star beyond the Milky Way.
Xinyu Dai, the OU astronomy and astrophysics professor who led the study estimates that the number of planets in the newly found galaxy, which ranged from being as massive as the Moon to Jupiter, is more than a trillion.
“We are very excited about this discovery. This is the first time anyone has discovered planets outside our galaxy,” said Dai, noting that these “small planets are the best candidate for the signature we observed in this study using the microlensing technique”. Dai also said that his team analyzed “the high frequency of the signature by modeling the data to determine the mass.”
Until now, no evidence of planets in other galaxies had ever been detected. In fact, scientists were not even sure planets existed in other galaxies prior to this study. Furthermore, the microlensing technique has only been used to detect a total of 53 planets within the Milky Way.
“This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be. This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario,” said OU postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras. “However, we are able to study them, unveil their presence and even have an idea of their masses. This is very cool science.”
The discovery of planets beyond our galaxy is an exciting and promising breakthrough that could lead to a deeper understanding of planetary systems around other stars and the universe which we all live. Needless to say, this discovery brings the study of planets beyond our Solar System to a whole new level.
NAZCA TOMB MYSTERY: What happened to them? Wall of silence over 'alien mummies'
NAZCA TOMB MYSTERY: What happened to them? Wall of silence over 'alien mummies'
RESEARCHERS investigating the case of alleged alien mummies found in a tomb in Peru have seemingly gone silent about the case for months. The Gaia.com team was posting video updates about its ‘Unearthing Nazca’ investigation repeatedly from the summer.
SILENCE: There has been no news on the Nazca Tomb aliens since September.
Its sixth and last video featured scientists claiming six three-fingered and toed apparent corpses reportedly found in an ancient crypt in Nazca, Peru, had once been alive and walked the Earth.
The video, released in September, promised more news with the narrator saying: "Coming up, will DNA sequencing finally reveal the nature of these mummies? Plus further study of the elemental composition from the samples taken."
Steve Mera is a British based UFO investigator, who is not part of the Gaia.com team, but jetted to Peru to make his own documentary about the mummies shown on YouTube.
He also promised further instalments after releasing one video in August.
Express.co.uk contacted him to see if he knew why Gaia.com went quiet.
He said: "I do... and it's a hell of a story. We got there in the end, but not exactly what we thought.
I do... and it's a hell of a story. We got there in the end, but not exactly what we thought.
Steve Mera
"Sorry for the cryptic stuff, but we will reveal all to you on completion.
"Parts two and three videos of our documentary are in production."
Other UFO buffs who had followed the case were also left in the dark.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, who believes the videos were all an elaborate hoax, said: "I'm not very impressed by the Nazca mummies. For a start they have the implausible feature of having six fingers, and even worse they have not been investigated by respected scientists.
"No I have not heard anything."
Jaime Maussan, a Mexican investigative journalist on the Gaia.com team, has described the mummies as "one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century" and suggested on camera they are actual alien corpses.
He said in an earlier video: "People have to understand that these kind of bodies have always been in the hands of the government and the military.
"It is the first time we have this chance and we have to take it."
However, there has been no word from Mr Maussan on the latest developments either.
Express.co.uk contacted Gaia.com through its website to ask what has happened and posed the same question to Mr Maussan but await response.
Many have suggested the mummies were created by grave robbers who stole real ancient human remains in the area and constructed the bodies before passing them onto paranormal investigators.
The organisers of the ninth annual World Congress on Mummy Studies, which took place in Lima, Peru, in August 2016, issued an angry call on Facebook for an official inquiry into whether archaeological crimes have been committed.
The congress brings together world experts in mummies and skeletons in a new location each year.
Under the heading ‘The Fraud of Extraterrestrial Mummies’, translated from Spanish, the congress said it believed real human mummified remains had been mutated and re-arranged to create bogus alien-looking creatures.
Commenting on the DNA results, British UFO investigator Nigel Watson said: "It shows it has a male human skull and hands. Another fake bites the dust."
It is understood an official inquiry was launched by the Peruvian Government.
However, in the last Gaia.com video, one of the team Dr Konstantin Korotkov, Deputy Director of Saint-Petersburg Federal Research Institute of Physical Culture, in Russia, said DNA, carbon dating, and CAT scan tests had shown they were one body that was once alive.
He said: "There is no doubt the three fingers and three toes belong to this body.
Color view from Cassini shows Titan's north polar seas.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho
NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, studying the ringed planet and its moons in detail, before ending its mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The space agency, which managed to garner significant details about the sixth and the second-largest planet in the Solar System during Cassini's tenure, is now working on another ambitious project that will require more sophisticated equipment for the purpose.
Titan, frequently described as a planet-like moon, is 50 percent larger than Earth's Moon. It is also said to be the only natural satellite to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space other than Earth where evidence of surface liquid has been found.
The Titan submarine, which is still being designed by NASA, will be operating autonomously. It is expected to study Titan's atmospheric and ocean conditions while moving around sea beds and hovering at or below the surface. But one particular issue is making the engineering of the submarine extremely challenging: Titan's freezing hydrocarbon seas.
Existence of liquid on its surface makes Titan very similar to Earth. Unlike anywhere else in the Solar System discovered so far, Titan's surface not only includes oceans, rivers and clouds, it also rains there like it does on our planet.
But, instead of water, Titan's hydrological cycle is based on methane. That's enough to make all the difference.
Natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
NASA
According to researchers, building a submarine that can dive into Titan's bizarre oceans is tricky because the temperature there can drop to as low as minus 300 degree Fahrenheit (minus 184 degree Celsius), and the concentration of ethane and methane can vary dramatically, changing the liquid's density properties.
The researchers, therefore, re-created a Titan ocean in a laboratory to understand how the heat produced by the submarine would affect its hydrodynamic characteristics. They have published a paper on their work in the journal Fluid Phase Equilibria.
As part of the study, the researchers built a test chamber that housed the liquid mixture at very cold temperatures to simulate the seas of Titan. They also added a two-inch, cylinder-shaped cartridge heater that would approximate the heat that a real submarine would create.
The researchers also said that if a heat-producing submarine gets into the very cold Titan liquid, it will form nitrogen bubbles, too many of whom can make it difficult for the submarine to maneuver and collect data.
Researchers also engineered a special video camera and an optical device called a borescope that could withstand the low temperatures and high pressures to visualize what was going on within the test chamber.
Grays, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio.
Grays, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio.
The Grays are the hypothetical type of intelligent extraterrestrial that appears most frequently in modern stereotypes about aliens in the media, ufology and conspiracy theories, including stories of alleged alien abductions.
Extraterrestrial
The Grays are described in various ways, but generally as humanoids of short stature (1 meter / 1 and 20 cm), slender, completely hairless and gray skin (hence the name), with large heads, huge almond eyes covered with a black membrane and small mouths, often without lips, long arms and four fingers. Sometimes they are described wearing a space suit. In the classification of alien races developed in the 1980s by the ufologist Brad Steiger, the Grays would belong to the so-called Alpha type, while the Nordic would belong to the Beta type. The association between the Grays and the star system of Zeta Reticuli instead derives indirectly from the story of an alleged alien abduction suffered by the spouses Hill of New Hampshire (United States) in 1961.
Alien rape
In UFO conspiracy theories the type of the Gray aliens was often associated with the Roswell incident in June 1947, where an alien spacecraft would have crashed, causing the death of all but one occupant.
Conspiracy theory
John Mack, a professor at the Medical School of Harvard, claimed that many of his patients who claim to have been victims of alien kidnapping have described close encounters with Gray-like extraterrestrials.
Close encounters
In his books Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos describes their experiences, arguing that such contacts have spiritually transformed his patients elevating them momentarily to a higher level of consciousness. As there is a multiplicity of creatures on Earth, so there could be other beings, even intelligent, created by God.
Earth origins
This does not conflict with our faith, because we can not limit the creative freedom of God. To be honest, if we consider earthly creatures. like ‘brother’ and ‘sister’, why could not we also talk about an extraterrestrial brother? It would still be part of the creation.
Grays, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio.
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Les O.V.N.I., un phénomène socio-psychologique selon les sceptiques
Les O.V.N.I., un phénomène socio-psychologique selon les sceptiques
Les O.V.N.I., un phénomène socio-psychologique ?
par Jean-Michel Abrassart, SPS n° 254, octobre 2002
Dix raisons de le penser Cet article présente dix raisons de penser que le phénomène O.V.N.I. (le fait que certaines personnes témoignent voir des « objets » qui volent et qu’elles ne savent pas identifier) est de nature socio-psychologique. En effet, la science classique et plus particulièrement le mouvement sceptique n’accepte pas l’hypothèse défendue par la communauté ufologique [1], selon laquelle les O.V.N.I.. seraient en fait des vaisseaux spatiaux extra-terrestres. Nous allons voir dans cet article pourquoi la science classique refuse cette approche. Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait penser, ce n’est pas tant l’idée d’une visite extraterrestre de notre planète qui est rejetée, mais les « preuves » apportées en sa faveur.
1. La violation de notre expérience quotidienne
La Guerre des, Mondes film tiré du célèbre roman de H.G. Wells, montre une invasion d’extra-terrestres. Sortez de chez vous et faites une balade, observez attentivement votre environnement. Comptez : combien d’extraterrestres (E.T.) croisez-vous dans la rue ? Combien de vaisseaux spatiaux voyez-vous dans le ciel ? La réponse est simple et universelle : zéro. Où se cachent-ils ? Vous devriez en voir facilement, au vu du nombre d’objets se baladant dans notre atmosphère selon les ufologues. Nous n’expérimentons pas dans notre vie de tous les jours la présence des E.T. sur notre planète, comme nous le ferions après un premier contact. Si vraiment des E.T. visitent notre planète, pourquoi ne sont-ils pas plus visibles ? Pourquoi ne se posent-ils pas par exemple dans le jardin de la Maison Blanche ou de l’Elysée, voire même régulièrement chez l’un d’entre nous ? Pourquoi l’armée n’a-t-elle pas encore réussi à en abattre un ?
2. L’absence d’événements majeurs donnant raison aux ufologistes
L’ufologie existe depuis plus de cinquante ans. Durant toutes ces années, l’événement majeur qui prouverait que les ufologues orthodoxes ont raison ne s’est pas produit. En fait, chaque année qui passe augmente la probabilité que le phénomène O.V.N.I. soit de nature socio-psychologique. On pourrait, selon nous, en se laissant aller, imaginer trois types d’événements majeurs susceptibles d’apporter la confirmation des thèses ufologistes. Le premier serait qu’un vaisseau spatial, de préférence piloté par des E.T., se pose devant le palais de Buckingham ou le Kremlin par exemple. Les E.T. nous confirmeraient qu’ils survolent la terre depuis très longtemps, qu’un de leurs vaisseaux s’est écrasé à Roswell, qu’ils enlèvent des humains dans le cadre d’un programme d’hybridation, qu’ils ont influencé le développement des civilisations humaines depuis la plus haute Antiquité, ou que sais-je encore… Le second serait que les militaires abattent un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre ou que l’un d’entre eux s’écrase devant témoins, et que celui-ci puisse être étudié par tous les scientifiques de la planète (et pas comme l’élusive soucoupe de Roswell et ses mystérieux occupants). Le troisième serait que le président des Etats-Unis fasse une déclaration publique, avec preuves à l’appui, affirmant que son gouvernement cache la réalité du phénomène O.V.N.I. au grand public depuis des décennies. Si un de ces trois événements se produisait, les ufologues se verraient donner raison, mais nous attendons toujours…
3. L’absence de résultats du programme « Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence » (SETI)
Si un jour le programme SETI. captait une émission radio E. T., cela ne serait pas véritablement un événement majeur confirmant des croyances soucoupiques, comme nous l’envisagions au paragraphe précédent. Néanmoins, cela apporterait aux ufologues le soutien théorique de la preuve qu’une civilisation E.T. avancée existe dans l’univers. Si l’univers foisonne de civilisations interstellaires comme les ufologues le pensent, il doit logiquement aussi foisonner de signaux de toutes sortes, alors pourquoi les chercheurs du SETI. ne détectent-ils rien ? On peut aisément avancer le fait qu’il faut laisser du temps à SETI avant de conclure quant au foisonnement des civilisations avancées dans notre univers proche. Néanmoins, le temps qui passe sans détection augmente la probabilité que les signaux soient tout simplement rares dans l’espace. Et si les signaux sont rares, c’est sans doute que la probabilité que des civilisations avancées existent est faible et qu’elles puissent nous visiter est encore plus faible.
4. La violation de nos connaissances scientifiques
Il s’agit d’un des arguments les plus souvent invoqués : la physique nous apprend qu’il n’est pas possible de dépasser la vitesse de la lumière. Cette impossibilité rend les distances spatiales gigantesques et difficilement franchissables. Or, les O.V.N.I. semblent pouvoir dépasser la vitesse de la lumière afin de pouvoir venir nous visiter quotidiennement ou presque. De même, les O.V.N.I. peuvent réaliser dans le ciel des manœuvres qui semblent impossibles, que ce soit disparaître en un clin d’œil, accélérer à une vitesse extraordinaire en une fraction de seconde, etc. Lors des « enlèvements », les E.T. font parfois passer un être humain à travers un mur, rendent invisible leur vaisseau au voisinage durant l’enlèvement afin que personne d’autre ne les voie, communiquent par télépathie (alors que l’existence de la télépathie pour les humains n’est pas démontrée aux yeux de la communauté scientifique), etc. Lors des enlèvements, les E. T. forcent parfois les humains à s’accoupler avec eux pour créer des hybrides, ce qui va à l’encontre des lois connues sur l’impossibilité de la reproduction entre espèces différentes. Les lois scientifiques que nous connaissons sont universelles, et s’appliquent jusqu’aux confins du cosmos. Pouvoir les enfreindre relève plutôt des récits mythologiques.
5. L’absence de preuves tangibles
Les ufologues nous parlent toujours des preuves qu’ils possèdent : des témoignages (alors que les recherches en psychologie ont montré le peu de fiabilité du témoignage humain), des photos (mais que vaut une photo quand elle peut être truquée ?), des détections radars (rares, ce qui soulève la question du pourquoi de l’absence de détection de la grande majorité des O.V.N.I.) et des « preuves » physiques (mais le terrain n’étant pas examiné avant la vision d’O.V.N.I., il n’y a pas de comparaison possible et la preuve physique trouvée peut-être là depuis bien longtemps, générée par toute autre chose que le prétendu vaisseau spatial). Les ufologues ne nous parlent pas de ce qu’ils n’ont pas : des preuves tangibles, irréfutables et incontestables ! De véritables preuves seraient par exemple du matériel biologique extraterrestre, de la technologie indubitablement non terrestre ou encore dans le cadre de la Théorie des Anciens Astronautes, la démonstration de connaissances impossibles pour l’époque proposée.
6. L’ensemble des déboulonnages
Depuis le début du phénomène O.V.N.I., les sceptiques ont réalisé un ensemble de contre-enquêtes montrant les faiblesses et les insuffisances des recherches réalisées par les ufologues. De nombreux témoignages ont été démontrés n’être en fait que de mauvaises interprétations de perceptions. Il est facile pour un témoin de confondre des causes naturelles (astres, météores, phénomènes atmosphériques), des engins volants bien connus mais mal identifiés (aéronefs, fusées ou satellites), ou encore des appareils militaires secrets (U-2 après 1955 ou plus récemment les F-17 ou les B-2), avec un vaisseau spatial. Les recherches en psychologie montrent en effet que des mécanismes d’illusions d’optique sont à l’œuvre dans ces interprétations erronées. Le pourcentage important de témoignages prouvés comme étant de nature socio-psychologique soulève le doute quant au caractère réel des cas prétendument solides.
7. L’incohérence des observations
Les témoins d’O.V.N.I. ont décrit des dizaines de vaisseaux et des dizaines d’E.T. différents. Cela suppose que notre planète soit une sorte d’arrêt sur l’équivalent d’une autoroute galactique. A l’inverse, si tous les témoins décrivaient un seul type de vaisseau et plus important encore un seul type d’E.T., nous pourrions plus facilement concevoir qu’une espèce est présente sur notre planète. Ce n’est pas le cas : ce que les ufologues appellent un O.V.N.I. recouvre des descriptions extrêmement différentes, qui vont de la boule de lumière à la soucoupe traditionnelle, en passant par le triangle… Dans le même ordre d’idée, des témoignages d’O.V.N.I. sont liés à d’autres phénomènes paranormaux comme des Big Foot [2] ou le Mothman [3], ce qui est loin d’accroître la cohérence interne des observations.
8. L’existence des autres phénomènes réputés paranormaux
Le phénomène O.V.N.I. pousse finalement la communauté scientifique à formuler les mêmes réserves que pour l’ensemble des autres phénomènes réputés paranormaux. Si seulement il y avait du matériel biologique ou technologique extraterrestre à étudier… Si seulement nous avions un Big Foot (vivant ou mort) à étudier… La difficulté épistémologique est similaire. Le fait que des personnes prétendent apercevoir des anges, des Mothmen, des fées, des fantômes ou encore le monstre du Loch Ness prouve une fois encore que la perception humaine (et le témoignage qui en découle) ne présente aucun critère de fiabilité. L’être humain a tendance à projeter sa mythologie dans la réalité, au moyen de toutes sortes de mécanismes sociaux et psychologiques.
9. Les E.T. ressemblent à des créatures folkloriques
Prisonnières des Martiens, film japonais, 1957. Lorsque l’on examine les témoignages des Rencontres Rapprochées du Troisième Type (RR3) (au lieu de simplement voir un O.V.N.I., le témoin prétend avoir directement rencontré un E.T.), on remarque rapidement le comportement étrange des E.T.. Ils n’agissent pas comme on s’attendrait à ce qu’un être provenant d’une civilisation avancée agisse. Ils ne font pas de révélation scientifique. Au contraire, ils offrent par exemple des biscuits au témoin. On ne peut pas dire que traverser l’espace pour venir offrir des biscuits à un être humain soit particulièrement logique. Ou bien ils demandent sans arrêt au témoin la date du jour. Leurs actions évoquent plus la mythologie féerique que véritablement une espèce extraterrestre technologiquement avancée. A travers les âges, des individus ont témoigné être entrés en contact avec des créatures étrangères à ce monde sans pour autant être extraterrestres : des anges, des démons, des dieux, des fées, des lutins, etc. Tous ces êtres magiques étaient de forme humanoïde, comme toutes les races extraterrestres présentes dans le phénomène O.V.N.I. le sont aussi. Inutile de dire que ce n’est pas vraiment ce que la communauté scientifique s’attend à trouver dans l’espace, en fonction de nos connaissances en exobiologie [4] et dans le domaine de l’évolution des espèces sur Terre. Les témoignages de rencontres folkloriques ressemblent fortement aux témoignages modernes recueillis par les ufologues, simplement transposés dans un autre cadre culturel où la science est dominante.
10. L’antériorité de la Science-Fiction
Un des arguments sceptiques les plus souvent cités dans la littérature est l’antériorité de la Science-Fiction. En effet, les historiens ont montré que le phénomène O.V.N.I. a été décrit par les auteurs de S.F. dans les pulps (les revues imprimées sur du mauvais papier du début du XXe siècle aux États-Unis), bien avant la première observation de Kenneth Arnold en 1947. Se pourrait-il que les auteurs de S. F. aient pu voir l’avenir ou n’est-il pas plus simple de penser que leurs histoires ont influencé l’ensemble des témoignages ultérieurs ?
Utilisons le rasoir d’Ockham ! Nous avons fait le tour des raisons qui poussent la communauté scientifique à refuser le phénomène O.V.N.I. comme étant réel. Encore une fois, chacune de ces raisons est suffisante en elle-même pour soulever des doutes quant à son origine extraterrestre. Toutes ces raisons additionnées les unes aux autres justifient l’hypothèse socio-psychologique. A ce propos, les épistémologues parlent du « rasoir d’Ockham [5] » : entre deux théories scientifiques, il faut choisir la plus simple. Entre une explication extra-ordinaire, sans preuves dures et violant nos connaissances scientifiques et des explications ordinaires bien documentées par la recherche scientifique (par exemple, des perceptions mal interprétées), il faut choisir la seconde. La communauté scientifique acceptera peut-être un jour le phénomène O.V.N.I. comme étant réel, après un premier contact ou lorsque des preuves véritablement incontestables auront été apportées en sa faveur. La science prend du temps, beaucoup de temps et se doit d’être extrêmement prudente dans toutes ses affirmations. Ce n’est que de cette façon que la vérité est découverte, lentement mais sûrement…
Ep05 OVNI : l'origine des soucoupes volantes (Le modéle socio-psychologique)
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[1] U.F.O : Unidentified Flying Object, acronyme anglais désignant les O.V.N.I. De cet acronyme dérive les termes ufologie, ufologique…
[2] Il s’agirait d’une créature humanoïde et velue de très grande taille qui aurait été aperçue par divers « témoins » au Canada ou, sous d’autres noms, en Amérique du Nord. (N.D.L.R.)
[3] Autre créature humanoïde ailée qui volerait parfois au-dessus des U.S.A. (N.D.L.R.)
[4] Exobiologie (ou bioastronomie) : discipline scientifique qui se fixe l’objectif d’étudier les possibilités d’existence de la vie dans l’Univers, en dehors de la Terre.
[5] Guillaume d’Ockham, franciscain philosophe de la première moitié du XIVe siècle.
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OVNI EN AFRIQUE DU SUD INFO OU INTOX
OVNI EN AFRIQUE DU SUD INFO OU INTOX
Cynthia Hind , auteur d'un ouvrage sur les OVNI en Afrique du Sud, a écrit par la suite un article publié dans UFO Times, intitulé «Anatomie d'un canular».
Elle met en avant certaines incohérences et divergences dans les documents considérés comme des preuves, parmi elles 14 erreurs typographiques, dans ce qui est décrit comme un document "officiel". Elle dépeint Van Groenen comme à l'origine d'un canular extrêmement élaboré.
Cette affaire défraya la chronique lors de sa parution dans le magazine britannique «Quest» en Mai/Juin 1993
Lorsque Van Groenen est confronté, il admet avoir falsifié certains détails mais insiste toujours sur le fait, qu'il s'agit d'une histoire vraie concernant un objet tombé sur la frontière, que lui rapporté en secret un de ses amis, Hendrik Greef, pilote de la SAAF au mess des officiers.
D'autres sources indiquent queVan Groenen aurait été impliqué dans cette affaire, telles W. B., qui communiqua ses informations à William Moore. Ildéclare également avoir les preuves, selon lequelles van Groenen serait un escroc notoire, avec à son actif :"faux papiers et affaires louches".
Ce cas a donc été l'objet de controverses et divers autres rapports bizarres, ont continué à ajouter à la confusion.
Il a par exemple été déclaré, qu'un officier de Renseignement français avait été assassiné au cours de son enquête sur l'affaire.
De plus, lorsque l'on tente de rechercher les sources d'un article de l'Argus journal de Cape Town, l'archiviste répond qu'ils ne possèdent plus le fichier, que celui-ci a été enlevé.
On lit qu'en 1993 il y a eu dissimulation et désinformation visant à empêcher la découverte de la vérité. Le Ministre de l'Environment du Botswana, Dithoko Seiso est cité dans cette affaire.
Voici les faits qui, s'ils sont avérés, pourrait bien-être le cas le plus documenté à ce jour de récupération d'un crash d'un disque volant non-identifié.
«Quest International» enquête...
Le 7 Mai 1989, les installations du NORAD auraient détecté un object non-identifié lors de son entrée dans l'espace aérien Africain.
La South African Air Force aurait également détecté l'appareil sur son radar, voyageant à une vitesse estimée de 10642 km/h.
L'incident fut relaté par un employé des Renseignements de l'Afrique du Sud qui - de par la documentation à laquelle il avait accès de par sa position militaire - envoya également documents et transcriptions à deux enquêteurs de «Ouest International», Tony Dodd et Henry Azadehdel, parlant de l'événement.
Furent également obtenues diverses conversations téléphoniques enregistrées, mettant en scène des militaires de premier rang et des représentants du gouvernement, suggérant fortement que "quelque chose" arriva en fait au-dessus du territoire Sud-Africain.
Certaines de ces conversations enregistrées impliquaient des représentants militaires d'Afrique du Sud reprimandant vigoureusement l'employé des renseignements devenu informateur au téléphone. Ceci était du au fait, que l'informateur ait quitté l'Afrique du Sud pour l'Angleterre, où il resta au domicile des chercheurs, pour disparaître plus tard.
Graham W. Birdsall, directeur de «Ouest International », pense que les documents et les individus impliqué dans l'incident sont de nature telle, que l'événement doit réellement avoir eu lieu.
Ci-après est une transcription mot-à-mot communiquée aux chercheurs par l'informateur, décrivant ce qu'il prétend être le véritable rapport top secret de la détection initiale de l'objet :
...L'objet est entré dans l'espace aérien de l'Afrique du Sud à 13.52 GMT. Un contact radio fut tenté avec l'objet, mais toute tentative de communication s'avéra vaine. Deux chasseurs armés "Mirage" furent alors envoyés à sa rencontre. Peu de temps après l'objet augmenta soudainement sa vitesse à un niveau vertigineux, impossible à reproduire pour un appareil conventionnel.
A 13.59 GMT, Squadron Leader - le pilote du chasseur indiqua qu'ils avaient confirmation radar et visuelle de l'objet. Ordre fut donné d'armer et de faire feu à l'aide du canon laser expérimental Thor 2, monté sur l'avion. Ceci fut fait.
Squadron Leader - indiqua que des flashes aveuglants étaient émis par l'objet, qui avait commencé à vaciller tout en se dirigeant vers le nord.
A 14.02 il fut indiqué que l'objet perdait de l'altitude à une vitesse d'environ 900 m par minute. Il plongea alors à cette vitesse selon un angle de 25 degrés et s'écrasa en un lieu du désert à 130 km au nord de la frontière Sud-Africaine avec le Botswana, identifié comme étant le désert central du Kalahari.
Squadron leader - reçut l'ordre d'effectuer des rotations au-dessus de la zone jusqu'à ce qu'une équipe de récupération arrive. Une équipe d'Officiersde Renseignements de l'Air Force, accompagnée de personnel médical et technique, fut rapidement dépéchée sur la zone d'impact pour Enquête et récupération.
Les éléments découverts furent les suivants :
Un cratère de 150 m de diamètre et de 12 m de profondeur.
Un objet couleur argent en forme de disque enfoncé à 45° dans le cratère.
Le sable et les roches autour de l'objet avaient été fondus ensembles par la chaleur intense.
Un environnement magnétique et radio-actif intense autour de l'objet provoqua le disfonctionnement électronique de l'équipement de l'air force (causant le crash de l'un des hélicoptères de l'Air Force).
L'objet fut finalement transporté à une Base de l'Air Force pour une enquête plus poussée. La zone d'impact fut remplie avec du sable et des débris afin de dissimuler tout preuve que l'événement ait eu lieu.
Le rapport indique : « Une grue hydraulique fut utilisée », suggérant qu'une défaillance électronique avait amené l'objet à s'écraser, probablement en raison du tir du canon laser "Thor2" sur l'appareil.
Alors que l'équipe observait l'objet au sein de la Base de l'Air Force un son vif fut entendu.
On nota alors qu'une écoutille sur la partie inférieure de l'appareil s'était ouverte et semblait coincée. Cette ouverture fut plus tard forcée à l'aide d'un instrument à pression hydraulique, assez pour que 2 entités humanoïdes vétues de combinaisons grises à même le corps en sortent, avant d'être rapidement maitrisées.
Le rapport indique que les entités étaient conformes à la description suivante :
Taille: 1,40 m-1,70 m; Teint: Bleu grisâtre -
texture de peau lisse, extrêment elastique;
Pilosité: Dénué de tout pilosité corporelle;
Tête : Hypertrophiée par rapport aux proportions humaines.
Crâne proéminent avec marques bleu sombre tout autour de la tête;
Visage: Pommettes proéminentes;
Eyes: Grands et obliques sur chaque côté du visage. Aucune pupille observée;
Nez: Petit, consistant en deux narines;
Bouche: Petite fente dénuée de lèvres;
Machoire: Petite par rapport aux proportions humaines;
Corps/Bras: Longs et fins, descendant juste au-dessus des genoux;
Mains: Consistant en 3 doigts, palmés, aux ongles semblables à des griffes;
Torse: Poitrine et abdomen couverts d'une peau aux nervures stratifiées;
Hanches: Petites et étroites;
Jambes: Courtes et fines;
Organes génitaux: Pas d'rganes sexuels extérieurs;
Pieds: Consistant en trois orteils, sans ongles et palmés.
Notes: En raison de la nature aggressive des humanoïdes, aucun échantillon de sang ni de tissu n'a pu être prélevé (Un humanoïde attaqua un docteur, lui causant de profondes griffures au visage et à la poitrine).
Ils refusèrent de manger lorsque l'on leur offrit diverses nourritures. Un aller simple fut demandé pour les 2 humanoïdes à la Base de l'Air Force de Wright Patterson pour des enquête et recherches plus avancées...
Nombre de détails concernant ces "humanoïdes" sont en fait très similaires à ceux d'autres branches de la race reptilienne comme cela a été décrit par d'autres témoins.
Il semble que cela soit comme si la race « Serpent » était composée de diverses branches ou typesde reptile.
Tout comme les chiens ou d'autres animaux conservent certaines caractéristiques, eux aussi ont certaines particularités :
Ils sont dénués de tous poils,
possèdent des "pommettes" proéminentes,
de grands yeux obliques,
de petites ouvertures en guise d'oreilles,
des mains et pieds à 3 doigts
En ce qui concerne le cas des serpents, ils perdirent leurs membres, au fil d'atrophies s'étalant sur des milliers d'années .
des griffes, couvertes d'une peau de nervures "stratifiée",
ils n'ont pas d'organes reproducteurs extérieurs, ils pondeurs leurs oeufs,
Ils sont de nature agressive et prédatrice.
Le document «top-secret» indiqua que le passage de l'objet et des créatures à la base de Wright-Patterson s'effectua le 23 Juin 1989.
Des sources indiquent que Wright-Patterson passa en fait en «alerte rouge» ce jour-là. Des documents postérieurs indiquent, que les créatures semblaient avoir un lien fort avec la race saurienne ayant existé en des temps reculés.
Les termes exacts stipulés dans un document aujourd'hui possédé par «Quest International» sont les suivants :
Toutes les informations recoltées à bord de l'appareil spatial E-T à propos de l'évolution d'une forme de vie E-T, tendent vers une évolution similaire à celle que l'on peut trouver sur Terre avant l'extinction des dinosaures... Les éléments trouvés indiquent un haut dégré d'adaptabilité.
Des études physiologiques et psychologiques plus poussées effectuées en Afrique du Sud et aux Etats-Unis, tendent à une structure simple et complexe de comportement. Il semblerait que ces formes de vie ne puissent fonctionner indépendamment sans l'intelligence et identité d'un groupe lié à un centre de commandement.
D'après certaines informations récoltées à bord de l'appareil récupéré, une race distincte leur est désignée comme supérieure.
Conclusion :
Une étude et analyse profonde de facade psychologique et de prédiction comportementale est conseillée.
Des études menées sur 2 formes de vieE-T capturées ont prouvé que celles-ci ne peuvent agir indépendamment de leur propre chef, sans avoir accès à une communication, aux ordres et instructions d'une hiérarchie ou d'un centre de commandement..
Trois aspects différents de l'affaire de l'Afrique du Sud coïncident en fait très exactement avec ce que d'autres sources ont révélé à propos de ces créatures reptiliennes-sauriennes.
Les"gris sauriens" représenteraint l'échelon le plus bas d'une hiérarchie reptilienne occulte considérée comme supérieure,
la race saurienne-reptilienne-humanoïde serait quant à elle unebranche différente et plus large de la race serpent.
De nombreuses autres sources indiquent que la race serpent-reptilienne-saurienne agit à un niveau de "conscience collective".Ces individus E-T semblaient être (pour prendre une image) — autant de "cellules" de l'esprit ou du corps immense d'une seule et même immense créature.
Il semble en fait exister une combinaison d'individualité et de "conscience collective" opérant au sein de ces entités.
La description de ces "E-T", tout comme la nature electromagnétique de leur appareil, correspond exactement aux descriptions données par des centaines de rapports de nature semblable.
L'Officier de Renseignements qui contacta«Quest International»pense que, malgré les pressions qu'il subit pour signer un formulaire de Déclaration de Secret National... Il aurait été coupable de trahison envers la race humaine, s'il n'avait pas révélé ce qu'il savait et ce que les gouvenement tentaient de dissimuler.
Il déclara ne l'avoir fait, que dans l'intérêt de la race humaine dans son ensemble.
The ancient world is infused with all manner of mysteries that have perplexed us or faded into history, and among these were the myriad remarkable inventions and displays of knowledge often shown by various peoples of the past, ranging from great feats of engineering, to strange devices, to remarkably accurate maps of the stars, and more. Often inexplicable and baffling, these curiosities demonstrate that, far from being primitives, these ancients often had access to technology and skills far ahead of their times. But some incredible artifacts, structures, and sites discovered around the world seem to suggest that this knowledge may have passed even beyond that, to reach out into the world of science fiction and fantasy and hint at a possible ability to step through doorways in order to traverse time and space or to somehow move through dimensions or worlds. Here is a look at some of these anomalous portals and stargates of the ancients.
Standing at Hayu Marca in Peru is a structure that consists of two apparent stone “archways,” with one measuring exactly 22 feet by 22 feet, and another smaller one measuring about 7 feet high, both carved into sheer rock. While the structure is mysterious and fascinating enough as it is, the legends and rumors that surround it are even more so. The ancient Incas believed that the larger of the two “doorways” was used by the gods to travel between worlds, whereas the smaller one was for mortals, and together they earned the name Puerta de Hayu Marca, or “The Gate of the Gods,” which could supposedly only be opened through a special ritual and a key shaped like a golden disc, called “The Key of the Gods of the Seven Rays,” which was said to have fallen from the sky long ago.
Puerta de Hayu Marca, Peru
This gateway was allegedly used to great effect in the 16th century, when Spanish explorers came through hunting for gold and other valuable treasure. According to the tale, one Incan priest named Amaru Maru decided that he was not going to let the gateway key fall into Spanish hands, so he retreated to the doorway, performed the required rites, and inserted the key to open it. There then supposedly appeared a brilliant tunnel of light, into which the priest disappeared off to the land of the gods, never to be seen again.
The Hayu Marca Gate of the Gods would later be forgotten for centuries, lost to the winds of time, and its eventual rediscovery would turn out to be almost as weird as the legends associated with it. In 1996, a tour guide named Jose Luis Delgado Mamani stumbled upon the remote, long-lost ruins completely by accident, although he would later claim that he had for years had strange dreams of a doorway full of blinding blue light and a shimmering tunnel somewhere out in the jungle. Jose would say of his discovery and these dreams:
When I saw the structure for the first time, I almost passed out. I have dreamed of such a construction repeatedly over the years, but in the dream the path to the door was paved with pink marble, and with pink marble statues lining either side of the path. In the dream, I also saw that the smaller door was open and there was a brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel. I have commented to my family many times about these dreams, and so when I finally gazed upon the doorway, it was like a revelation from God… How do you make order of such a strange occurrence?
Interestingly, examination of the structure itself would show that there is indeed an alcove in the rock about just the right size and shape to hold a disc-like object. Additionally, there have been those who have claimed to have experienced strange sensations when near the gateway, such as anomalous noises, including music and whispers, as well as hallucinations of stars and “columns of fire,” and there are claims that a certain energy can be felt reverberating through the rock when touched. Was this ancient site really some sort of magical portal? If so who made it and why? It is unknown.
Also in South America is the “Gate of the Sun,” located within the ancient ruins of the city of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, which was once the capital of a great empire stretching from Bolivia all the way into Peru and Chile. The city is steeped in ancient lore, with the original inhabitants believing that the Sun god, Viracocha, had chosen this location to create the human race, and it was said that he used this gate to travel from one dimension or world to the other. The gate itself is an arch hewn from a single massive block of stone, which has etched onto its surface various images of strange winged figures with curled up tails and wearing what appear to be helmets, as well as a carving of the sun god himself, complete with beams of light emanating from behind him as he dramatically wields two staves.
The gateway has been said to have perhaps opened between worlds, but that it was damaged in some unspecified catastrophe, and sure enough when it was discovered by outsiders in the 1800s it was found to be toppled over onto its side with a large crack in the top right portion. It is unknown how this happened, but it certainly seems in keeping with the legend that it was destroyed and rendered inoperable in some event. Since the true purpose of the mysterious stone archway and the source of this damage is unknown, is it possible that it was once some sort of stargate? Interestingly, The Gate of the Sun is thought to lie along the same “grid line” as the gate in Hayu Marca, and the two undeniably resemble each other somewhat. Were the two connected somehow or even fashioned by the same mysterious, inscrutable builders? We will probably never know.
The Gate of the Sun, Bolivia
In Sri Lanka there is a place nestled within the remote rocky wilderness and caves of Ranmasu Uyana, or “Gold Fish Park,” between the Thissa Wewa reservoir and the Isurumuniya Rock Temple, where there were found numerous strange symbols carved into stone on a grid measuring around 6 feet in diameter, and even more bizarrely four stone seats located directly in front of it. It has been speculated that the symbols represent some sort of code-key to open a gateway between worlds, or even an ancient star map of some sort, which is called the Sakwala Chakraya, or roughly “The rotating circle of the Universe,” more commonly referred to as “The Stargate of Sri Lanka.” There is very little known about the creators of this particular site or even exactly how old it is, leaving its ultimate role mysterious.
There is said to be an ancient stargate lost and hidden at the Euphrates River as well. According to researcher Elizabeth Vegh, who has written several books on ancient stargates, this portal is buried under the ruins and remains of the Mesopotamian city of Eridu, and which has remained utterly lost to us. This stargate is claimed to be connected to Sumerian gods and kings, which Vegh believes regularly used such portals to travel around the universe. She even claims that the lost stargate is mentioned in the Bible in Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelations, which says:
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss. The star opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth.
Vegh is convinced that this mention of the “Abyss” is referring to the stargate, which in this particular case seems to have led to someplace perhaps not very pleasant. Whether this passage is actually talking about portals or not, the idea of Sumerian stargates is somewhat supported by the occasional strange discoveries of depictions of Sumerian gods or kings using such devices, such as a seal with a god appearing on a stairway surrounded by what appears to be columns of water, and another that depicts the god Ninurta standing at a gateway ready to push a button while wearing what appears to be a modern wristwatch, of all things. Ancient Sumeria is often claimed to have had some of the most ancient of the supposed stargates, and were said to be portals used by entities from another world to travel between this planet and a mythical world called Niburu. It all sounds pretty far-fetched to be sure, but these ancient peoples certainly seemed to believe it. Is there anything to it at all?
Considering its role as an important ancient civilization, it is perhaps no surprise that Egypt should have its own alleged stargates. Perhaps the most well-known of these is the site called Abu Ghurab, located at the Abu Sir Pyramids and just about a 20-minute drive from the Great Pyramid of Giza. Commonly called “The Crow’s Nest,” Abu Ghurab is thought to have been built by the 5th Dynasty pharaoh Niussere in around 2400 B.C. as a temple to worship the god Ra. The site itself has deteriorated considerably over the centuries, to the point that it is now practically mostly rubble, but it is believed that it once stood around 15 feet high and likely imitated the sun temple at On, or Heliopolis.
Abu Ghurab
One curiosity of the highly sacred site is a massive platform fashioned from alabaster, which is formed into in the shape of the Khemetian symbol Hotep, which stands for “peace.” Although the exact purpose of this platform has been lost to history, according to one theory by a researcher of ancient Egypt named Abd’El Hakim Awyan, it was used to harness and channel certain vibrations and earth energies, to convey a kind of harmonic resonance, in order to create an enhanced sense of enlightenment and awareness of the universe. This supposedly allowed one to attune themselves to the universe and to directly communicate with sacred spirits of the universe called the Neters, which were beings said to have on occasion actually visited Earth, possibly through Abu Ghurab itself, essentially making it a stargate. Unfortunately, we will probably never know if this was true or based on any sort of reality, or if it is all pure legend.
A very bizarre alleged stargate of some sort is said to exist in the mountains of Southeastern Arizona. In 1956, treasure hunters Rob and Chuck Quinn came to the area on a mission to find gold and lost Spanish treasures, but would find something beyond their imagination instead. The two treasure hunters had already experienced quite a bit of bizarreness in the area in the form of mysterious floating lights at night, when they reportedly stumbled across a strange stone archway standing in the middle of nowhere, which measured 7 feet high and 5 feet wide and possessed columns of andesite 15 inches diameter. The archway was oddly standing amongst scattered and broken geodes, their contents glittering in the sunlight. As curious as this all was, they had treasure to find, so they simply made a note of the location and continued on their way.
When they later mentioned the archway to others, a local Indian guide known only as “John” knew what it was, and had quite a few tales to tell about it. He claimed that on occasion people who had ventured through the archway had vanished into thin air, and that stones thrown through it would often not emerge from the other side, as if it were some kind of portal to, well, no one knows. John had also heard tales of the doorway glowing or shimmering, and he even had had his own very weird experience there. He told them that he had once been trekking through the area and noticed that even though that day had been dark and cloudy the sky through the stone archway had appeared clear and blue, a phenomenon which he could not explain.
The Quinns decided to go back to the enigmatic site, and things would only get weirder from there. At first there was not much to see. They experimented with the archway by throwing rocks through it and even shoving their arms in, but nothing strange occurred at all and their skepticism of John’s fantastic tales grew. However, the following day as they rummaged about the site Roy and another team member witnessed the portal shimmering for several minutes like a heat mirage, and not long after this could feel a building pressure in their ears. This apparently lasted several minutes before dissipating. The effect could not be repeated, but a passing group of treasure hunters would tell them that the stone archway was indeed imbued with some sort of inexplicable force, claiming that as they had been camping there a rain of stones had pelted their camp from nowhere, and that the stones had been warm to the touch. It was an intriguing story, but nothing else strange happened at the site during their expedition, and they went away with more questions than answers.
The Quinns would not forget the anomalous stone doorway, and in 1973 Chuck ventured out to the site once again. As he hiked up the canyon, he claims that when he stopped for a rest he noticed that there was another canyon that had not been there before. Thinking this to be rather odd, he climbed back down and entered the canyon from a different direction, where he realized that in fact he was in the same canyon he had been in before, only he had somehow been transported 250 yards down the canyon he had hiked along, and to another slope that was facing south rather than west. It was a very jolting experience that convinced him that he had travelled through some sort of portal and teleported from one place to another. It is all a very bizarre tale, and one wonders how much truth any of it has, or what became of this mysterious ancient gateway.
Some tales are even more outlandish yet, such as is the case with an ancient Sumerian stargate that supposedly can be found in a massive ziggurat near Nasiriyah, a city about 370 km south-east of Baghdad, and which has sparked all manner of rumors and conspiracy theories. The stargate was allegedly discovered in the 1920s, and when word got out that it was there and actually worked many governments sent out expeditions to try and find it for their own purposes. Here is where conspiracy theories start to get fueled, with some claiming that the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941 was started specifically as an excuse to gain control of the stargate. Of course Nazis come into play here, and they were said to have spent great resources and effort on finding the supposed stargate during World War II.
In later years, a persistent and bonkers conspiracy is that the United States actually launched the Iraq War of 2003 for the purpose of getting their hands on the stargate, which was at the time supposedly thought to have been moved to a cavern beneath one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces, where the dictator had learned to harness its power. America apparently got wind that Hussein had control of this powerful relic and moved in, thus starting the war. When Baghdad fell to American forces the area happened to fall smack in the middle of the highly guarded and fortified Green Zone, which the conspiracy states is no coincidence. There have been a few whistleblowers who allegedly have come out of the woodwork to confirm that The U.S. wanted access to this technology, including one Dan Burisch, who claims that he was part of a covert team that went into Iraq on a mission to find the portal. One researcher and advocate of this theory is a Dr. Michael Salla, who has said of America’s desire to possess the stargate and others like it thus:
Essentially more and more people are coming forward saying that they have been involved in these classified programs where these technologies are used quite regularly and that they are found all over the planet, Iraq is just one place they’re found. They are also located in places like Iran and Syria, which is why there is a push for America to go into Iran and intervene in the Syrian civil war. All this is very significant in what drives international conflict.
U.S. soldiers at an Iraqi ziggurat
It is all a fairly off-the-wall theory that has nevertheless gained momentum and popularity amongst some conspiracy theorists and has been much debated and discussed. Alas, it is totally unknown if such an object was ever really found at Nasiriyah, or if it is real what it really did. There is no evidence at all of any sort of stargate in some basement in Saddam Hussein’s palace, and it all remains pure conspiracy and speculation. However, it would make a pretty cool movie.
Although it is impossible to know whether these ancient stargates worked or who built them, there have been theories. Perhaps the most popular is that these “gods” the ancients spoke of were in fact advanced extraterrestrials who used their technology to fashion these portals and travel through them. Another is that many of these sites seem to lie on convergences of ley lines, or natural veins of energy said to crisscross our planet, and that they somehow harnessed and exploit this energy to create some kind of wormhole or dimensional doorway. There is also the idea that at least some of these sites may have held a miniature black hole or some other vortex that could allow travel over space or even through time. There is no way to know, and it is of course likely that this is all just legend, myth, and speculation.
It certainly is an alluring idea to think that among the many mysteries of the ancients they found a way to do what is typically firmly in the realm of science fiction; to travel across great distances in the blink of an eye through portals and stargates. If they were ever real where did these gateways take them? What wonders did they see when they stepped through? Perhaps just as curious is who or what stepped through from the other side? The answers remain buried in the mists of time, but it certainly does stoke the fires of the imagination.
Here Is A List Of The Largest Monoliths Ever Created
Here Is A List Of The Largest Monoliths Ever Created
Massive monoliths quarried by man can be found all over the planet.
The most straightforward definition of a monolith? A monolith can be a large piece of rock that is intended or was used to build a structure or a monument, alone or together with other stones.
Ancient mankind has had the ability to quarry transport and place into position massive blocks of stone (monoliths) that weigh more than 100 tons.
A monolith can be a monument in itself (statue, monolithic stone).
Monolithic sacred stones are found from prehistoric times (menhirs) and in many civilizations, such as the Mayan civilization (steles representing the sovereigns or even the original “zoomorphs” of Quiriguá) and the Aztec civilization (the Coatlicue monolith, representing the goddess of death, or the decorated monolith of Tizoc that represents fifteen victories of this sovereign).
The stone spheres of Costa Rica are more than 500 monoliths that weight up to 16 tons. These spheres are associated with constellations and astronomical events. Researchers place them around 6,000 BC, and others say that they could date back as far as 12,000 BC.
The first buildings composed of monoliths are dolmens, which date back from the 5th millennium BC.
The largest anthropogenic monoliths
The Bronze Horseman (Медный всадник) statue of Peter the Great.
Officially speaking, the biggest stone ever moved by man is the granite pedestal of the Bronze Horseman, which was transported to St. Petersburg in 1770,. It is considered as the largest stone ever moved by man, having an estimated weight of about 1500 tons.
The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990.
The largest monolith ever carved by man (if we are to ignore the megaliths of Gornaya Shoria in Russia) is the unfinished obelisk of Aswan, which has a weight of around 1200 tons. This massive obelisk never left the quarry, as the massive rock cracked before being separated from the bedrock.
Stone of the Pregnant Woman on an early 20th-century lantern slide.
The largest stone ever carved and moved by man is the massive stone of Baalbek, called Hadjar-el-Qoublé (the stone of the South), with dimensions of 21.50 × 4.80 × 4.20 m, the massive rock is believed to weigh between 900 and 1100 tons, according to fairly constant estimates. It left the quarry but remained planted at an angle, not far from the site of its extraction.
In this image you can see the side panel from one of the Colossi of Memnon, the last remaining structures from the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, known as Kom el-Hetan.
The image was taken around 1900.
Worthy of mention are also the colossi of Memnon. The two giant stone statues represent the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the Egyptian city of Luxor, near Medinet Habu and south of the great Tebanas necropolis. The Colossi of Memnon have a weight of 1300 tons each. (The statues itself have 750 tons while the pedestal each weighing 550 tons).
The monoliths of Gornaya Shoria are also considered some of the largest ever carved. However, there is a great debate among experts whether these monoliths are naturally occurring, or were carved by an unknown ancient civilization from Siberia. It is reported that the largest sections or blocks of stone have estimated weights between three and four thousand tons, which would make them larger than the megaliths at Baalbek, in Lebanon.
Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s.
The Stone statues on Easter Island—the Moai—are also massive monoliths created by ancient man.
So far, experts have identified more than 900 Moai Statues sculpted by the ancient Rapa Nui scattered throughout the island.
Most of them were carved in tufa from the Rano Raraku volcanic cone, where more than 400 Moai remain in mixed phases of construction.
According to historical data, the entire development of the various construction techniques was developed on the island between 700 AD and 1600 AD. Everything indicates that the quarry was suddenly abandoned and half-carved statues were left in the rock.
The largest Moai statue is the Te Tokanga—the giant. This Moai is located at the main quarry of Rano Raraku and remains unfinished. With a weight of more than 270 tons, it remains a mystery as to how the ancient builders planned on moving it.
Such a feat is even unthinkable for modern technology. Island tradition holds that this Moai was destined for the Ahu Vinapu ceremonial center.
The Menhir de Champ-Dolent, largest menhir in Brittany (Size 10 m).
The ‘Menhir de Champ-Dolent’ is the tallest of Brittany’s standing stones. Its height above ground is between 9.3 and 9.5 meters, and is made of pinkish granite. This massive standing stone has an estimated weight of around 100 tons.
Lost ‘UFO’ crash mystery solved after 60 years as 'Silpho saucer' found
Lost ‘UFO’ crash mystery solved after 60 years as 'Silpho saucer' found
THE REMAINS of a “miniature UFO” thought to have crash landed in England 60 years ago have been rediscovered – in a cigarette tin. The fragments of the “Silpho saucer” had been left in a storeroom at London’s Science Museum and forgotten about.
Remains of a 'miniature UFO' though to have crash landed 60 years ago have been rediscovered
Britain’s Men in Black were apparently so concerned by its appearance in Yorkshire in the 1950s they sent it to London to be studied secretly by experts.
It was found by three men in November 1957 on Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
The 17-inch wide metal saucer, weighing 33lb, had hieroglyphics on its base similar to those supposedly observed at the Roswell UFO crash site in America’s New Mexico.
They cut it open and found a tiny book made of 17 copper sheets which carried a 2,000-word message.
I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage
Dr David Clarke, of Sheffield Hallam University
One “translation” claimed it was sent by an alien called Ullo to warn Earth about the danger posed by its nuclear weapons with the chilling message: “You will improve or disappear.”
Dr David Clarke, of Sheffield Hallam University, saw the remains at the Science Museum after giving a UFO talk.
He said: “One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that ‘bits of a flying saucer’ had been kept in a cigarette tin for decades.
“I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage.”
MARK BRANAGAN
The UFO was found by three men in November 1957 on Silpho Moor, Yorkshire
Papers revealed the Silpho saucer pieces were sent to London for secret examination by meteorite expert Gordon Claringbull, at the Natural History Museum in 1963.
Sceptics claimed the “saucer” was made from a domestic hot water cylinder and planted on the moor as an elaborate hoax.
But tests carried out at Manchester University revealed that the object’s shell was radiation-proofed with lead and the copper parts were of unusually high purity.
It was meant to go into an orbit that would take it past Mars, but where’s it going really? Plus, see outer space from the vantage point of Starman, the mannequin in Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster, and much more.
Last Tuesday (February 6, 2018), SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon Heavy is now the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two, providing a heavy-lift capability not seen since the Apollo era in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when mighty Saturn V rockets lifted astronauts to the moon. Falcon Heavy’s launch last Tuesday was a test flight, its maiden voyage, meant to prove the concept of the rocket itself (which is in essence three of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets joined together). It definitely did! But SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, as always, went further. He and his team placed Musk’s 2008 Tesla Roadster at the top of the rocket, with the goal of blasting it into an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars. The orbit would, at times, bring the car – with its passenger, a mannequin nicknamed Starman, dressed for space – near Mars.
The Falcon Heavy rocket test was a major success and a thrill for space fans. After livestreaming views from StarMan’s vantage point in Earth orbit (see video above), SpaceX reignited the upper stage’s engine one last time, giving the Tesla a push beyond Earth’s orbit.
So … was the car bound for Mars?
A camera mounted ahead caught this image of Starman, in Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster, as car and mannequin left Earth behind. Calculations by astronomers in the days after the launch suggest the payload reached a speed of 20.8 miles per second (33.5 km/sec) after the last burn, a faster speed than expected.
Image via SpaceX.
Throughout the day on Tuesday, Musk had been tweeting updates on the Falcon Heavy launch. At the end of the day, unexpectedly, he tweeted this:
As Musk said in the tweet above, the burn did indeed push the car and its passenger farther than expected. But was it really now headed for the asteroid belt? In a great article in The Atlantic on February 8, Marina Koren brings together information from astronomers, who were also talking on Twitter on launch day, following Musk and checking his facts.
CfA astronomer Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589 on Twitter), also an inveterate tweeter (like Musk), was one of those trying to calculate the Roadster’s correct orbit. He tweeted on Wednesday:
Elon is still talking about the Starman going to the asteroid belt. But I’m not convinced yet …
Late Wednesday night, their suspicions were confirmed. Revised orbital data provided by SpaceX and shared with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s system for tracking solar-system bodies showed the original graphic was incorrect.
So, based on the corrected numbers, the car actually won’t make it as far as the asteroid belt, as Musk claimed in his tweet.
According to the revised data … it will take the Tesla about 18.8 months to complete one trip around the sun. This means that the car will reach its farthest distance from Earth in about half that time. The Tesla will cross the orbit of Mars twice per orbit, so Musk is still fulfilling his wish to send his Tesla ‘to’ Mars — it’ll just take a little longer between visits.
Granted, crossing Mars’ orbit is not the same thing as going “to” Mars, but it’s still pretty cool. What’s more, the Tesla won’t take that long to cross Mars’ orbit. Click into Jonathan McDowell’s tweet, below, and read some of the comments, for a good discussion.
In the meantime, astronomers on Earth, of course, were seeking out the Tesla Roadster with their telescopes, in the days after it left Earth behind. Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Rome emailed the image below to EarthSky, saying:
Here it is the Tesla Roadster, just imaged from Arizona, as part of the joint program involving the Virtual Telescope Project and Tenagra Observatories.
In fact, Virtual Telescope might still be engaged in its livestream of the Roadster as you read this article. The event was – titled Tesla Roadster Crossing the Sky – is scheduled for February 10, 2018, starting at 12 UTC (6 a.m. CST); translate UTC to your time).
View larger. | Gianluca Masi and Michael Schwartz say the dot between the tickmarks is an image of the Tesla Roadster in space, acquired from Arizona on February 8, 2018.
Now, before you go, check out the video below. It’s an animation of where Musk’s car was supposed to go – how it was all supposed to work, and, for the most part, did work – on launch day. My four-year-old grandson and I watched it multiple times last week, and he was mightily impressed.
Bottom line: At last week’s awesome Falcon Heavy launch, Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster was meant to go into an orbit that would take it past Mars. At the last minute, Musk said the car overshot and was going to the asteroid belt. Where’s it really going?
UFO gespot tijdens lancering krachtigste raket op aarde. Wat is dit vreemde object?
UFO gespot tijdens lancering krachtigste raket op aarde. Wat is dit vreemde object?
Tijdens de lancering van de Falcon Heavy-raket van SpaceX is volgens complottheoretici een UFO verschenen. Een zwarte stip achter de Tesla Roadster van Elon Musk is één van een aantal vreemde objecten waarover op internet wordt gediscussieerd.
Het object lijkt met hoge snelheid richting de aarde te bewegen.
Miljoenen mensen waren getuige van de lancering van de raket, die werd gelanceerd vanaf hetzelfde lanceerplatform dat de NASA gebruikte voor de Apollomissies.
Mysterieuze objecten
Tijdens de lancering zagen sommige kijkers een aantal mysterieuze objecten in beeld verschijnen. “Ik zag net een aantal gave UFO’s op de Starman-livestream,” schreef Shawn W op Twitter.
JP-Gaming voegde toe: “Is dit een UFO!?”
Anderen dachten dat het een stuk ruimtepuin was of een door mensen gemaakt object.
Bekijk het filmpje hieronder:
Krachtigste raket ooit
De Falcon Heavy is met de Saturnus-V, die ook de Apollo’s van de NASA de ruimte in bracht, de krachtigste raket ooit. Hij is 70 meter hoog en 1,4 miljoen kilo zwaar.
De raket bestaat uit drie Falcon 9’s die samen beschikken over liefst 27 motoren. De lancering kostte 90 miljoen dollar. Met de Falcon Heavy wil Musk mensen op Mars zetten.
Dit jaar al zou de raket twee ruimtetoeristen naar de maan moeten brengen. Na een baan om de maan keert de Falcon Heavy dan terug naar de aarde.
ALIENS WILLEN UITEINDELIJK UITEINDELIJK DE AARDE OVERNEMEN
ALIENS WILLEN UITEINDELIJK UITEINDELIJK DE AARDE OVERNEMEN
Veel wijst erop dat integratie in de menselijke samenleving het uiteindelijke doel van de aliens is. Al hun inspanningen en activiteiten lijken er opgericht de volledige controle te krijgen over de mensheid op Aarde.
Ze beweren dat ze een betere wereld willen scheppen, maar ze spreken nooit over een partnerschap met de mensheid, over een vreedzame samenleving of gelijkheid.
Via een lezer kregen wij onderstaand artikel opgestuurd (dank!). Het handelt over de aanwezigheid van buitenaardsen en de door hen gehanteerde programma's. Bovendien maakt het duidelijk wat het uiteindelijke doel is, dat we daar niet gek ver meer vanaf zitten en dat als dit doel wordt verwezenlijkt het er voor de meeste mensen niet echt rooskleurig uitziet.
Het onderzoek van prof. Dr. David Michael Jacobs
Zijn boek; “The Treath” 1988 ISBN 90-246-0485-0
David Jacobs begon zijn studie aan de historische faculteit van Wisconsin. Doceerde in de eerste plaats geschiedenis en met als specialisatie het Amerika van de 20e eeuw. Hij begon aan de studie van ufo's en haalde zijn doctoraal onder supervisie van Paul Conkin. Zijn dissertatie behandelde de controverse over ufo's in Amerika vanuit het perspectief van de intellectuele, sociale en militaire geschiedenis. Hij bracht voor zijn onderzoek vele weken door op de luchtmachtbasis Maxwell en in de Lybrary of Congress om officiële stukken over ufo's door te nemen. Hij reisde het land door om de belangrijkste civiele en militaire ufo-onderzoekers te ondervragen. In 1975 publiceerde de Indiana university press een uitgebreide versie van zijn dissertatie als “The UFO Controversy”.
In 1992 publiceerde hij het eerste deel van zijn onderzoeksresultaten in Secret life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions. Daarin schetste hij de structuur van de karakteristieke ontvoering en de verscheidenheid van psychische processen waaraan de slachtoffers werden blootgesteld. Ook gaf hij een overzicht van talloze tot dan toe onbekende fysieke behandelingen en voortplantings-procedures, en was in staat een typisch ontvoeringsgeval van begin tot eind van minuut tot minuut te reconstrueren. Vanuit zijn onderzoek kon hij een aanvulling geven op de onderzoeken van Hopkins en zijn uitkomsten over de voortplantingsprocedures van de aliens, zoals het oogsten van eicellen en het wegnemen van foetussen. Ze hadden allebei ontdekt dat de buiten-Aardse wezens en slachtoffers betrokken werden bij lichamelijke interactie met vreemde baby's en peuters, die volgens de meeste ontvoerden deden denken aan een combinatie van Mensen en aliens: hybriden of kruisingen.
Het ufo onderzoek wierp ook nog talloze andere vragen op. Zo meldde de ontvoeringsonderzoeker Karla Turner in 1993 dat sommige ontvoerings-slachtoffers beweerden dat het Amerikaanse leger de aliens assisteerde bij de ontvoeringen.
In 1994 sprak professor John Mack van de universiteit van Harvard over de klaarblijkelijke interesse van de aliens in het milieu van de Aarde. Steeds meer slachtoffers vertelden dat volwassen hybriden bij hun ontvoeringen betrokken waren. Budd Hopkins ontdekte dat de buiten-Aardse wezens jonge ontvoerings-slachtoffers aan elkaar koppelden voor een langdurige relatie.
Om de zaak nog ingewikkelder te maken bleek dat veel slachtoffers, hoe traumatisch het verschijnsel voor de meesten ook was, toch een spirituele verlichting en een verruiming van hun bewustzijn ondergingen.
Het zijn de ontvoerden zelf die het antwoord hebben op onze vragen over de bedoelingen van de buiten-Aardse wezens. Ze hebben echter geleerd hun mond te houden.
De kern van hun activiteiten is een voortplantingsprogramma, waarbij de wezens Menselijk sperma en eicellen verzamelen en foetussen bij vrouwen implanteren om hybriden, kruisingen tussen aliens en Mensen, voort te brengen. Bovendien laten ze de hybriden fysiek en psychisch met ontvoerde Mensen in contact komen om hun ontwikkeling te bevorderen.
Een belangrijk onderdeel van het voortplantingsprogramma is het veroorzaken en instandhouden van buiten baarmoederlijke zwangerschappen. Pas na jaren van onderzoek en honderden rapporten over ontvoeringen kreeg hij enig inzicht in deze procedure en de redenen daarvoor.
Bescherming van de zwangerschappen De aliens voorkomen abortus of het ontdekken van de zwangerschappen door de bewijzen op tijd weg te halen voordat het slachtoffer tot actie kan overgaan. Zij doen dat door het lezen van de gedachte van de vrouw. De aliens blijken bijvoorbeeld geïnteresseerd te zijn in alles wat nieuw is aan het lichaam van een ontvoerde vrouw: een litteken, een kneuzing, een verandering in haarkleur, een tatoeage enzovoort. Ze onderzoeken het veranderde gebied zorgvuldig en vragen de persoon wat het betekent en hoe het is gebeurd.
Als ze voortdurend iemands gedachten uitlezen, zouden ze die antwoorden waarschijnlijk al weten. Kennelijk gebeurt dat niet en luisteren dus selectief. Dit luisteren gebeurt waarschijnlijk ook via implantaten. De meeste ontvoerings-slachtoffers vertellen al jaren dat ze implantaten hebben die diep in de neusholte zijn aangebracht, mogelijk ter hoogte van de oogzenuw of de hypofyse, in het oor of in een voorhoofdholte. De ontvoerde personen met implantaten hebben er vaak hun leven lang last van en klagen over bloedneuzen, verstopte voorhoofdholten, een verminderd gehoor, oorsuizingen en oorbloedingen. Artsen hebben ook vreemd littekenweefsel en gaatjes ontdekt in de neusholte van proefpersonen. Implantaten kunnen ook worden ingebracht in de benen, de armen of de hals.
Het ontvoeringsvoorval van Reshma Kamal is een goed voorbeeld. Tijdens een ontvoering vroeg een vrouwelijke alien haar een baby vast te houden, maar zij weigerde en vroeg waarom dat nodig was. De alien pakt de baby en laat Reshma zien hoe dat moet. Ze vraagt Reshma opnieuw maar die weigert. Ze legt de baby weer terug. Reshma vraagt wat ze met de baby's doen en waar ze vandaan komen. De alien zegt dat ze zich geen zorgen daarover hoeft te maken maar dat de baby's moeten worden vastgehouden omdat ze anders niet goed groeien. Wat dat ook mag betekenen. Reshma zegt tegen de alien dat ze niet bang hoeft te zijn dat ze niet goed groeien, want ze zijn nu al niet goed. De alien vindt haar houding niet prettig. De alien zegt dat als ze het begrijpt ze zich beter zal gedragen. Reshma weet dat ze haar proberen te dwingen om mee te werken, maar ze denkt dat als ze maar lastig blijft doen de aliens meer informatie zullen geven. De alien vertelt haar dat ze die baby's nodig hebben.
De baby's moeten haar emoties en gevoelens leren. Dat kunnen de alien's de baby's niet bijbrengen. Zij kunnen de baby's alleen voeren en kleden zodat ze lichamelijk gezond opgroeien, maar ze kunnen ze niet helpen bij hun emotionele ontwikkeling. De alien zegt dat er grote behoefte is aan die baby's. Ze zegt dat die baby's niet helemaal hetzelfde zijn als zij, of als Mensen. Maar ze moeten wel emoties hebben. Ze lijkt een beetje haar best te doen omdat Reshma niet meewerkt. Die staat maar met haar armen over elkaar en zegt dat ze niks wil.
De alien neemt Reshma mee naar een incubatorium, een ruimte waar honderden reageerbuizen met foetussen staan. Ze wacht om de reactie van Reshma te zien. Die vraagt waarom ze dat doen en of de baby's zo kunnen overleven en dat ze ook zoiets graag zou hebben, dan hoeft ze geen pijn meer te leiden bij een bevalling. “Als jullie dat ook deden”, zegt de alien, “dan zouden die baby's geen emoties hebben, net als hun baby's en daarom hebben ze hulp nodig. Deze baby's kunnen lichamelijk wel groeien maar emotioneel zijn ze dood.” Dat moeten wij dus doen, wij Mensen, de baby’s vertroetelen.
De alien zegt even helemaal niks. Alsof ze niet kan geloven dat Reshma nog meer wil weten. Dan zegt ze dat deze baby's niet precies zo kunnen functioneren als zij, in hun samenleving, maar ook niet precies als wij, in onze samenleving. Dus moeten we samenwerken zegt ze, om die baby's niet verloren te laten gaan. Ze kunnen de baby's niet zonder hulp verzorgen vanwege de manier waarop ze functioneren. Maar ze kunnen ze niet aan Mensen geven omdat ze niet zijn zoals Mensen. Maar ze hebben iets nodig van hen en van ons, zegt de alien.
Redenen voor geheimhouding
Redenen van geheimhouding is het eigenbelang van de aliens, het weghalen van eicellen en gebruiken voor genetische doelstellingen. Halen alleen weg wat ze nodig hebben beweren ze. Kinderen van slachtoffers worden ook weer ontvoerd. (Generaties worden gevolgd).
Project hybriden
De hybriden die van jongs af aan verbonden worden met het ontvoerings-slachtoffer.
Onafhankelijke hybriden activiteit
Dit is een logisch uitvloeisel van het ontvoeringsverschijnsel en het voortplantingsprogramma, en heeft grote gevolgen voor de toekomstige contacten tussen Mensen en aliens. Het gaat om hybriden die gedurende kortere of langere tijd onopgemerkt tussen de Mensen kunnen leven en zich zelfstandig kunnen redden, verlost van de aanwezigheid en de controle van de grijze aliens.
Eindfase hybriden proberen voor Mensen door te gaan, maar binnen bepaalde grenzen. Aan boord van een ufo zijn mannelijke hybriden gemakkelijk te herkennen aan een neutrale beige of witte kleding. Maar in het openbaar kleden ze zich als Mensen zodat ze in de massa niet opvallen. Ze kunnen zich ook in militaire stijl kleden, bijvoorbeeld in een soort vliegeniersoverall uit één stuk. Omdat ze zo sterk op Mensen lijken kunnen ze gemakkelijk doorgaan voor Amerikaanse militairen en in de verhalen van veel ontvoerden komt dan ook militair personeel voor. In de loop van de jaren hebben ontvoeringsslachtoffers regelmatig verteld dat mannen in uniform, soms ook in militaire omgeving, aanwezig waren bij ontvoeringen.
Hybriden kunnen zich ook als militairen kleden. Kleding in militaire stijl. De hybriden in uniform brengen ontvoerde Mensen soms naar verlaten militaire terreinen die niet in gebruik zijn. Volgens sommige beschrijvingen kunnen hybriden ongeveer 12 uur lang zich in de samenleving mengen.
Independent Hybrid authority (IHA). Het gaat hier over zwarte helikopters zonder identificatie. Sommige van die helikopters maken deel uit van de IHA. De helikopters hebben geen staartconstructie, geen grote bladen, zijn eerder rond dan buisvormig en maken geen enkel geluid. Het betreft dan een scherm- herinnering aan een ufo. De ontvoerden zet zijn traumatische ervaringen om in een aanvaardbaar verhaal.
De aliens verwijzen voortdurend naar de toekomst. Die zal beter worden, zeggen ze, voor Mensen en voor aliens. Als ze vrouwelijke ontvoerden zwanger maken, zeggen ze dat die vrouwen de toekomst in zich dragen. Ze spreken over de kinderen van de toekomst. Ze hebben het over de verandering die gaat komen. Een moeilijke maar onvermijdelijke verandering. Het is duidelijk dat het ontvoeringsverschijnsel een proces is. Dat proces duurt al de hele 20e eeuw. In tegenstelling tot de positieven met hun optimistische verwachtingen is David M Jacobs niet vrolijk gestemd. Hoe meer gegevens er over het ontvoerings-verschijnsel bekend worden hoe onheilspellender het beeld wordt. Als het einde komt, en het zal komen, wat zou er dan met de Mensheid gebeuren? De aliens zijn naar de Aarde gekomen met een bijzonder efficiënt programma voor de fysiologische exploitatie van de Mens. Hun voortplantings- en hybriden programma's hebben greep op de wereld gekregen en op het leven van de ontvoeringsslachtoffers. De aliens beweren tegen de ontvoerden dat deze procedures nodig zijn om de toekomst te redden.
Een raadselachtig aspect van het ontvoeringsverschijnsel is het milieu-bewustzijn van de aliens en de hybriden. Ze zeggen dat vervuiling en andere problemen het milieu vernietigen en dat de Mensheid de Aarde een slechte dienst heeft bewezen. Het is opvallend dat de aliens bijna nooit iets zeggen over hoe we het milieu moeten verbeteren. Ze beperken zich tot klagen over de vervuiling.
Tijdens een ontvoering laten ze iets zien over de toekomst aan Lucy Sanders.
“Ze laten me een scherm zien en zeggen iets over de toekomst. Ik zie een boom exploderen. Ik zie een barst in de wereld. Er komt lava uit. Ik kijk ernaar van boven de Aarde - het is een grote scheur in de wereld. De Aarde is gedraaid en er is een barst ontstaan. Overal zwarte wolken en een hevige wind. Doden op de grond. Ik zie overal lijken liggen. Dit kan niet gebeuren. Dit mag niet gebeuren.” Dit zal ook niet gebeuren.... Alleen jullie kunnen hier iets tegen doen. Jullie moeten het tegenhouden. Het komt er aan. Wij komen er aan. Jullie moeten het tegenhouden. Jullie moeten de vernietiging voorkomen. Jullie heil is ons heil.
Pam Martin kreeg te horen dat het programma van de aliens uit drie fasen bestond. Geleidelijk, versneld en abrupt. De aliens gaven aan dat ze nu in de versnelde fase waren en Pam had het gevoel dat dit alles heel wat sneller zal gebeuren dan de Mensen denken.
Een alien vertelde Jason Howard dat het zich omstreeks 1999 zal voltrekken. De aliens zijn meestal vrij vaag over data, maar de meesten laten doorschemeren dat de verandering spoedig, heel spoedig zal komen, zoals ze Claudia Negrón in 1997 vertelden toen ze het hun rechtstreeks vroeg. Alles wijst erop dat ze het doen op een tijdsbestek tussen vijf jaar vanaf 1997 in de komende twee generaties. Het is verontrustend dat de aliens en de hybriden vooral geïnteresseerd lijken in de Aarde, niet in de Mens. Ze zeggen nooit iets over het behoud van het leven of het belang van de Mensheid of de Menselijke instellingen. Ze beweren dat ze een betere wereld willen scheppen, maar ze spreken nooit over een partnerschap met de Mensheid, over vreedzame samenleving of gelijkheid.
De plannen van de aliens Alles wijst erop dat integratie in de Menselijke samenleving het uiteindelijke doel van de aliens is. Al hun inspanningen en activiteiten lijken er opgericht de volledige controle te krijgen over de Mensheid op Aarde. De ontvoerings-slachtoffers leven al met de last van het bezoek van en de manipulatie door aliens.
Inmiddels kunnen we minstens vier specifieke programma's onderscheiden die de aliens in werking hebben gesteld om hun doel te bereiken.
Ten eerste: het ontvoeringsprogramma. De aliens hebben in eerste instantie overal ter wereld Menselijke slachtoffers geselecteerd en zijn procedures begonnen om hen en hun kinderen onopgemerkt uit hun omgeving weg te halen.
Ten tweede: het voortplantingsprogramma. De aliens verzamelen Menselijk sperma en Menselijke eicellen, passen genetische ingrepen op de bevruchte embryo’s toe, implanteren de foetussen in Menselijke draagmoeders en laten ontvoeringsslachtoffers met de nakomelingen omgaan, zodat de hybriden zich op de juiste wijze kunnen ontwikkelen.
Ten derde: het hybriden programma. De aliens verfijnen de hybriden door voortdurende aanpassingen en kruisingen met Mensen, in de loop van de generaties, zodat de hybriden steeds Menselijker worden zonder hun belangrijke buiten-Aardse kenmerken te verliezen. Mogelijk worden ook Mensen in de loop van de tijd aangepast en van buiten-Aardse eigenschappen voorzien.
Ten vierde: het integratieprogramma. De aliens bereiden de ontvoerings-slachtoffers voor op toekomstige gebeurtenissen. Uiteindelijk zullen de hybriden of de aliens zelf in de Menselijke samenleving integreren en de macht overnemen.
De aliens hebben laten doorschemeren dat het moment waarop hun programma's zijn voltooid en ze hun doel hebben bereikt niet ver meer is. Veel ontvoerden hebben het gevoel dat er nu snel iets gaat gebeuren en dat de aliens hun doel onder handbereik hebben.
Pam Martin krijgt te horen dat het programma van de aliens uit drie fasen bestond: geleidelijk, versneld en abrupt. De aliens waren tot nu in de versnelde fase en Pam had het gevoel dat dit alles heel wat sneller zal gebeuren dan de Mensen denken.
De aliens vertelde Jason Howard dat het zich omstreeks 1999 zou voltrekken.De aliens zijn meestal vrij vaag over data, maar de meesten laten doorschemeren dat de verandering spoedig, heel spoedig zal komen, zoalsze Claudia Negrón in 1997 vertelden toen ze het hun rechtstreeks vroeg. Alles wijst erop dat ze het doen op een tijdsbestek tussen 15 jaar vanaf dat moment en de komende twee generaties.
Reshma Kamal werd verteld dat na de verandering maar één regeringsvorm zal bestaan. De insectachtige aliens krijgen alle macht. Het zal niet meer nodig zijn om de nationale regeringen in stand te houden. Er komt slechts één systeem en één doel. Om hun plannen te bevestigen zeggen de aliens niet wat de meeste ontvoerden en onderzoekers graag van hen zouden horen: dat ze spoedig zullen verdwijnen. Dat hun programma voltooid zal zijn. Bedankt voor jullie hulp als we vertrokken zijn zal niemand zeker weten dat ze hier ooit waren. Dat wordt nooit gezegd. De toekomst voor de aliens en de hybriden is altijd een toekomst op Aarde, waar ze met de meeste Mensen zullen integreren. Een andere keuze geven ze niet.
Het toekomstbeeld van de aliens heeft trouwens nóg een verontrustend aspect.
Als je over Mensen spreken, praten ze uitsluitend over ontvoerden. De toekomst van en met de niet ontvoerden is zelden onderwerp van gesprek. Ze vertelden Reshma Kamal dat niet ontvoerden als een kleine voortplantingspool als relatie in stand zal worden gehouden voor het geval het hybriden programma op onvoorziene problemen zal stuiten.
Allisons Reed krijgt de indruk dat de niet ontvoerden overbodig zijn. Alles wijst erop dat er in de toekomst voornamelijk plaats zal zijn voor aliens, hybriden en ontvoerden. De niet ontvoerden spelen een ondergeschikte of geen enkele rol volgens de Nieuwe Orde. De insectachtige aliens aan de top, gevolgd door de andere aliens, de hybriden, de ontvoerden en tenslotte de niet ontvoerden.
De geheimzinnigheid rond de ontvoering lijkt aan te tonen dat de aliens grote moeite doen om ontdekking te voorkomen. Ontdekt worden zou dus hun kwetsbare punt kunnen zijn. Als dat zo is, hebben we misschien nog een kans om in te grijpen. Tot nu toe zijn alle pogingen om tussenbeide te komen op niets uitgelopen. Experimenten om ontvoeringen te verhinderen met behulp van video en andere elektronische apparatuur zijn grotendeels zinloos gebleken, hoewel de herhaling van het verschijnsel soms wat minder werd. Bovendien meldden ontvoeringsslachtoffers de laatste jaren een duidelijke toename in frequentie van de ontvoeringen. Misschien is dat een gevolg van het groeiende maatschappelijke bewustzijn van het verschijnsel.
Mystery Booms are being heard in Wheat Ridge, Putnam and Other Locations
Mystery Booms are being heard in Wheat Ridge, Putnam and Other Locations
Once again mystery booms have been reported and it seems as the booms are increasing in numbers and intensity, still the phenomenon remains unexplained.
Colorado: January 18- Residents in North Routt County, Colorado are still trying to figure out what caused some homes and a fire station to rattle from the Clark area all the way to the shores of Steamboat Lake on Thursday morning.
Arkansas: January 20, 2018- Hundreds of reports of a loud “boom” were sent to the Commercial via social media. A few minutes later, residents in the Magnolia area, some 108 miles southwest of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, reported similar sounds, which some residents south of Pine Bluff reported shook their homes.
Pennsylvania: January 21, 2018- Wyomissing police investigates an “extremely loud boom” that shook homes, rattling roofs and walls in Pennsylvania.
Na Danu district, Thailand: February 8, 2018 - Two mysterious booms rattled 61 residents in Na Danu district on February 8. The mystery deflagrations were so powerful they produced cracks in the walls, windows and doors of buildings, terrifying people working inside.
Putnamand northern Westchester counties: February 8, 2018 - Many residents of Putnam and northern Westchester counties woke up with a loud bang possible produced by a minor 2.2M quake that hit three miles northwest of Mohegan Lake in Yorktown, Putnam Valley. The tremor sounded like very loud thunder, houses, doors and windows rumbled.
Wheat Ridge: February 8, 2018 - Once again mysterious booms and this time it happened in Wheat Ridge on February 8, 2018.
Many people posted on social media about loud booms or “explosions” being heard in the City, bordering Wadsworth east to Sheridan, and from W. 26th to W. 38th Ave.
There are reports are of a single loud boom that shook homes and apartment complexes and set off car and business alarms. Some callers said they saw a flash of light
While Wheat Ridge police have received some reports of loud noises, they do not have any reports of property damage or injury, and the locations of these incidents vary across a large area of our city.
The police are baffled as to what could be causing the booms. They say they have not gathered enough evidence to locate a source.
The New England Patriots were set to go against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl LII, and all eyes of the sporting world were on the U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. However, sky watchers extended their interest beyond planet Earth as they observed a UFO buzzing in the sky.
On the Super Bowl, dozens of witnesses saw a huge UFO.
An unnamed witness was driving on I-94 around 3:30 pm. They noticed a bunch of cars pulled over to the side of the road. People got out of their vehicles and stood outside. They were shaking up and trembling as they were typing their report.
They could not tell if it was a real aircraft or if it was just a movie, but they were sure it was not an aeroplane. According to their report, it was a diamond-shaped with dark, dull grey colour. The object in question reportedly did make a noise that was difficult to describe.
Today’s Super Bowl saw the Philadelphia Eagles upset the National Football League’s (NFL) defending champion New England Patriots at the score of 41-33 in a grudge match on Sunday to capture their maiden Super Bowl title.
Caught On Video – Deafening Sonic Boom Sound Takes Place In Area 51
Caught On Video – Deafening Sonic Boom Sound Takes Place In Area 51
An extraordinary sound was captured on camera near the secretive Area 51 base. An amateur radio operator set up a transmitter near the facility to capture any suspicious activity. Then something big passes above him and makes a loud sonic boom sound.
He then looks around, appears confused of the origin of the sound. However, no aircraft is in sight.
The man then ran to his radio transmitter to check if he can hear anything and know where the sound is coming from.
However, the signal appears to scramble and a series of unusual noises spurt through the speaker, before the video cuts.
The bizarre clip was recorded in May 2017 but only recently has been shared online.
The footage sparks concerns if the American government is hiding something.
One of the thousands of viewers says that it is probably a good idea the guy is doing something like it and adds that it is the job of the people to keep an eye on the government they pay.
Others are wondering where the loud noise is coming as there’s no way to see its origin.
One viewer shows concern on the man’s safety as he is messing with people who can make him disappear.
In this handout photo provided by SpaceX, a Tesla roadster launched from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named 'Starman' heads towards Mars.
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Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster launch has caught the attention of conspiracy theorists, who believe that there could be alien craft in the background of the footage of SpaceX rocket launch.
Conspiracy theorists have spotted a black object in the rocket launch video, which was viewed by millions, and now they are of the opinion that it may be an actual UFO. The black dot, which is hardly visible, can be seen hurtling across the Earth and that too at a high speed.
They have also said that the presence of the mysterious object, which was noticed at various points in the video, was covered up when the footage from the spacecraft cut out, the Daily Star reports.
"My thought was a trans atmospheric skip vehicle, but I could just be hopeful," a UFO enthusiasts said.
"Is that aliens!!! What is this?" another UFO enthusiast wrote.
"Just saw a bunch of awesome UFOs on the Starman live stream," another user said.
"Hey SpaceX What the heck is that green and blue light that just phased in to the background of Starman???!!!"
However, several commentators refuting the alien life claims said that the mysterious object is probably human-made space junk, or maybe a satellite or something falling away from the rocket.
"Perhaps the aliens just want to get hold of a Tesla car to take joyriding on Planet Zog? More seriously, this is more like a case of something falling away from the rocket, certainly, nothing to do with a UFO of the extraterrestrial type following it," Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said.
"It might even have just been another satellite in orbit. With all the c**p that's up there, it's far more likely that it's debris or something that's been in orbit for awhile than it was something secret," another commented.
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CHURCHILL'S X-FILES: Bulldog PM ordered UFO inquiry but 'covered up results'
CHURCHILL'S X-FILES: Bulldog PM ordered UFO inquiry but 'covered up results'
WINSTON Churchill ordered a special team to investigate a strange rise in flying saucer sightings....but the results of the inquiry were covered up, claim conspiracy theorists.
Declassified documents have revealed the wartime leader built a special Whitehall team, known as the Flying Saucer Working Party, to look into a strange increase in UFO sightings.
An official report said the numerous sightings had earthly explanations, including the cause of strange objects over US capital Washington DC which were picked up by several military radar.
But, conspiracy theorists claim the report involved the cover up of a sighting in the UK by RAF staff.
The theory is fueled by an alleged deathbed confession by Churchill’s personal bodyguard who spoke of these bizarre events which involved two RAF pilots reporting encounters with mysterious aircraft, known as “foo fighters”, as WWII drew to an end.
Foo fighters was the term used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe UFOs and mysterious aerial phenomena such as balls of fire that followed fighter aircraft during battles in the skies over Europe and the Pacific.
Military chiefs assumed the foo fighters were really secret German weapons sightings, but they are said to have continued after the end of the war and even into modern times, causing many to dispute this.
So what triggered Churchill's involvement?
In July 1952, US Air Force fighter jets had to be scrambled on two consecutive weekends after radar detected several unidentified objects flying in a restricted zone over the White House – causing public panic.
Although in the US, Churchill wanted to know more and about any implications for the UK.
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Churchill ordered a UFO inquiry, but covered up some of the results, it is claimed.
On July 28, 1952, Churchill sent his Secretary of State for Air, Lord Cherwell, a memo, requesting investigations into what happened in the US and the wider issue.
The note, now called the “Churchill Memorandum,” the then PM wrote: "What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to?
“What can it mean? What is the truth?
“Let me have a report at your convenience."
Lord Cherwell launched the Flying Saucer Working Party to find answers.
The top secret group had actually been set up two years earlier to look into home grown UFO sightings.
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The memo when Churchill asked for the UFO inquiry.
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Churchill allegedly had one of his famous outbursts over the need for secrecy
This should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the church.
Winston Churchill
It was unable to completely rule out “an aircraft of extraterrestrial origin, developed by beings unknown to us on lines more advanced than anything we have thought of”.
However, it explained it was more likely the sightings were down to normal aircraft, balloons, birds or other natural phenomena, optical illusions, deliberate hoaxes – or “psychological delusions”.
But years later, in 1999, Churchill's involvement in the great UFO debate resurfaced.
The grandson of a retired RAF officer wrote to the MoD, inquiring about an incident in which Churchill allegedly banned the reporting of a UFO encounter off the east coast of England.
The RAF officer – who was said to be Churchill’s personal bodyguard – had allegedly confessed on his deathbed that an RAF reconnaissance plane was returning from a mission over occupied Europe when it was shadowed by a “metallic UFO” off Cumbria.
It was claimed the crew took pictures of the object – which was said to “hover noiselessly” by the plane.
At the time, when the mysterious encounter was brought to Churchill's attention, he ordered that details remain classified for at least 50 years – and could only be released EVER following a review by a future PM.
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A British Government report into flying saucer sightings.
Churchill was allegedly terrified that news of the possibility of aliens could destroy faith in God and cause unrest and mass panic.
The British bulldog is alleged to have shouted: "This should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the church.”
Conspiracy theorists claim the establishment must have since hidden or destroyed all records of the incident.
There is no record of the event, or Churchill's orders, and the MoD says all UFO files from before 1967 have been destroyed.
Jason Chapman, who has written several books on the Churchill Memorandum, said: “The MoD has demonstrated in the past that it is capable of covering up a great many incidents.
“I believe it is possible that a former high ranking military official would have knowledge of UFOs.”
The 46-year-old, who works for British defence contractor BAE Systems, said: “Someone, somewhere knows something.
“It’s definitely not our world leaders – such information is way above the pay grade of the Prime Minister.
“Perhaps sat at the back of the House of Lords there’s a retired general, a relic left over from the Cold War, who has information which could prove there’s a cover-up.”
Alien and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have been mind-boggling stuff since 1947 – the first time a well-known UFO sighting occurred. A businessman, who was flying his small plane, had claimed to have seen nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington. He had said that the crescent-shaped objects had tremendous speed and moved "like saucers skipping on water."
Cut to 2004, Navy pilots encountered a UFO off the San Diego coast. According to an eyewitness, pilot David Fravor, the 40-foot Tic-Tac shaped white vehicle moved, unlike any other thing he had ever seen in the air with lightning speed.
Not only in these two incidents but UFOs are often reported to display bizarre aerodynamics, defying the laws of Physics, which human minds are still incapable of apprehending.
Former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - Pentagon's program to identify and investigate UFOs, Luis Elizondo has put forward an explanation about "the physics of how it works".
"We do believe all these observables we've been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology," Elizondo said, according to Daily Star.
It is the ability to warp space-time, Elizondo explained, and not by a lot, but by a little.
Space and Time Warps theory says that the fourth dimension called the space-time continuum, which fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time, can be bent like a cloth when exposed to high gravity of objects.
Space and Time Warps theory
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Imagine a ball falling on fabric or a child playing on a trampoline. When the object hits the surface of material it creates dentures. Similarly, heavenly bodies with huge mass bend the space-time. Now, if the bend is large enough, it might help an object to time travel by creating a wormhole – a theoretical passage through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe.
Thus from here, another question arises: Are aliens time-travellers?
Outer Space, January 18, 2018, published an article about a former high-ranking US Marine who is on run from the US government for flying a "time-travelling" alien spaceship at Area 51.
The United States Air Force facility, commonly known as Area 51, is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in Nevada and people believe that US government is hiding evidence of extra-terrestrial life there.
Luis Elizondo used to run the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which investigated flying saucers.
This groundbreaking programme, which had a budget of £16.5million allocated to it annually by the Department of Defence, was run from the fifth floor of Pentagon’s C RING in Washington DC.
Former Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid pushed for its creation in 2007, with analysis conducted by Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada.
Stunned US navy pilots observed a “whole fleet” of UFOs that were “going against” a 120 knots wind – in one AATIP case from 2015.
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REVEALED: Former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo has investigated UFO reports
Advanced sensors revealed the unknown object had no propulsion system and slowed to a near stop before rotating, it is claimed.
Now Elizondo has lifted the lid on what he claims has been learned through the Pentagon program about the seemingly out-of-this-world capabilities of UFOs.
He said: “I think we've come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that's very exciting.
"For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics.”
Incredible footage emerged last year of a sighting involving the battleship USS Nimitz in 2004 in the Pacific off the San Diego coast.
Two US navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight, watched in amazement as an object appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet before hurtling towards the sea and stopping at 20,000 ft.
When they approached for a closer look, the 40ft long object “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”, said Cdr Fravor.
And now Elizondo believes that they may have an explanation for how UFOs achieve such extreme speeds.
"We do believe all these observables we've been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology," Elizondo said.
"So it's not five exotic technologies we're trying to figure out, it's one. and we think we know that one too.”
Scientists employed by Bigelow Aerospace including a physicist named Dr Hal Puthoff came to the conclusion that the craft can effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds.
"We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little," said Elizondo.
While the US government said AATIP was closed in 2012, Elizondo claimed he worked on the highly-sensitive project until October last year until he resigned over “excessive secrecy and internal opposition”.
He believes the existence of extraterrestrials would be “beyond reasonable doubt” if it was ever discussed in court.
Dr Michio Kaku – America’s answer to Stephen Hawking – said the bizarre object US military personnel reported seeing pursuing some of their warplanes could be a new type of super-fast aircraft.
The space boffin said: “Are UFOs chasing our jet fighters, as recent secret documents suggest?
“Maybe they are experimental hypersonic drones. Or maybe aliens from outer space? I keep an open mind.”
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10-02-2018
If 'Starman' Isn't Headed for the Asteroid Belt, Where's That Dummy Going?
If 'Starman' Isn't Headed for the Asteroid Belt, Where's That Dummy Going?
By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman cruise away from Earth in this final photo from the car after its launch on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
The Tesla Roadster and "Starman" dummy that SpaceX launched on its new Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6) does not appear to be heading to the asteroid belt, despite what SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter Tuesday evening.
After orbiting the Earth for about 6 hours, the cherry-red Roadster (which was mounted on the Falcon Heavy's upper stage) set sail into the solar system. One hour later, Musk tweeted that the car had "exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the asteroid belt." The plan was to send the Roadster on an elliptical orbit around the sun, swinging by Mars along the way.
Now, it looks like Starman isn't actually heading toward the asteroid belt at all. After SpaceX released data on Starman's orbit on Wednesday (Feb. 7), experts on social media started crunching the numbers and noted that the data didn't match the trajectory that Musk had tweeted the day before. Rather, the data shows that the Roadster's path will take it closer to Mars' orbit than the asteroid belt. [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]
"The asteroid orbit plot was just a mistake," Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Space.com.
McDowell explained that the error apparently arose when someone at SpaceX used an orbital parameter called C3 — a measure of the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravity — to determine the shape of the Roadster's orbit "and goofed while doing it."
"For selling the rocket to customers, C3 is what you care about, [and] the actual orbit around the sun is not relevant," McDowell said, "so they weren't careful about calculating it."
Using the JPL ephemeris, the closest predicted approach to Mars between now and 2030 is 7 million km on 2020 Oct 8. This is still well outside Mars' gravitational sphere of influence
McDowell calculated that the Roadster will venture by Mars at a safe distance of about 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) as it crosses the planet's orbit in July.
The closest it will ever get to Mars will be in October of 2020 at a distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million km), which is still "well outside Mars' gravitational sphere of influence," McDowell wrote on Twitter. This means that the Roadster definitely won't be orbiting Mars as Musk first announced it would in a tweet last December.
Even with the new, corrected trajectory, these numbers and time frames are not set in stone. NASA's ephemeris calculator for the Roadster states, "Over time, prediction errors could increase more rapidly than the formal statistics indicate due to unmodeled solar pressure, thermal re-radiation, or outgassing accelerations that are not currently characterized."
McDowell said that these factors could affect the Roadster's predicted encounters "by at least 10 percent in distance and several weeks in date."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has made the Roadster data publicly accessible, and you can find it at ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi (select "target body" -143205).
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
From the Farside --Theories of the Black Knight Satellite --"A 13,000 Year-Old Alien Artifact in Orbit Around the Earth"
From the Farside --Theories of the Black Knight Satellite --"A 13,000 Year-Old Alien Artifact in Orbit Around the Earth"
Sometime in the 20th century a theory arose, claiming that the famous inventor Nikola Tesla was actually contacted by a 13,000 year old alien artifact in orbit around Earth, an object which has since become known as the Black Knight Satellite.
The history of the Black Knight is actually a conglomerate of several independent stories, all of which involve an unidentified object in orbit around Earth, but outside of a common moniker, share little else in common, reports Vice.com. No one is quite sure when the myth began or who started it, but its history spans from Tesla's turn of the century experiments to the launch of the International Space Station, and the evidence in support of the Black Knight's existence ranges from Internet hearsay to photographic "proof."
According to those who believe in the existence of some mysterious alien artifact lurking in the solar system, the Black Knight's next attempt to contact Earth occurred in 1927. This time the alleged Black Knight transmission was picked up by a Norwegian engineer named Jørgen Hals.
While he was experimenting with radio signals, Hals noticed that some of the signals would echo back to him several seconds after the initial transmission had ended. He was at a loss to explain what accounted for these Long Delayed Echoes. In the 80-odd years since Hals' discovery, no one has been able to conclusively explain what accounts for these eerie echoes, making them a perfect target for those with a penchant for conspiracies.
The next alleged "sighting" of the Black Knight was in the early 1960s, when TIME reported an unknown object was discovered to be in polar orbit around the Earth, something of an anomaly considering that both the US and Soviet satellites of the time were all in equatorial orbit. A few weeks after these initial reports, the US Department of Defense announced that the object had been identified as a piece of the Discoverer satellite.
Many were skeptical of this explanation, so for years this mysterious "dark" satellite continued to be cited as evidence of the existence of the Black Knight. As it turns out, the skepticism was warranted, but not because the object was an alien spacecraft. Rather, declassified documents revealed that it was, in fact, a part of the United States' CORONA project, a mission that produced the world's first successful space photo-reconnaissance flights in an effort to monitor Soviet missile facilities.
So the Black Knight lived on through the 70s and 80s as little more than a highly speculative urban myth with next to no hard evidence to support its existence. This all changed in 1998, when those on the Space Shuttle Endeavor flight STS-88 photographed an amorphous black object hovering ominously above the Earth.
California earthquakes are a geologic inevitability. The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems. The magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island on Jan. 23, 2018, was just the latest reminder of major seismic activity along the Pacific Rim.
Tragic quakes that occurred in 2017 near the Iran-Iraq border and in central Mexico, with magnitudes of 7.3 and 7.1, respectively, are well within the range of earthquake sizes that have a high likelihood of occurring in highly populated parts of California during the next few decades.
The earthquake situation in California is actually more dire than people who aren’t seismologists like myself may realize. Although many Californians can recount experiencing an earthquake, most have never personally experienced a strong one. For major events, with magnitudes of 7 or greater, California is actually in an earthquake drought. Multiple segments of the expansive San Andreas Fault system are now sufficiently stressed to produce large and damaging events.
The good news is that earthquake readiness is part of the state’s culture, and earthquake science is advancing – including much improved simulations of large quake effects and development of an early warning system for the Pacific coast.
The last big one
California occupies a central place in the history of seismology. The April 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake (magnitude 7.8) was pivotal to both earthquake hazard awareness and the development of earthquake science – including the fundamental insight that earthquakes arise from faults that abruptly rupture and slip. The San Andreas Fault slipped by as much as 20 feet (six meters) in this earthquake.
Although ground-shaking damage was severe in many places along the nearly 310-mile (500-kilometer) fault rupture, much of San Francisco was actually destroyed by the subsequent fire, due to the large number of ignition points and a breakdown in emergency services. That scenario continues to haunt earthquake response planners. Consider what might happen if a major earthquake were to strike Los Angeles during fire season.
Collapsed Santa Monica Freeway bridge across La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, after the Northridge earthquake January 17, 1994.
When a major earthquake occurs anywhere on the planet, modern global seismographic networks and rapid response protocols now enable scientists, emergency responders and the public to assess it quickly – typically, within tens of minutes or less – including location, magnitude, ground motion and estimated casualties and property losses. And by studying the buildup of stresses along mapped faults, past earthquake history, and other data and modeling, we can forecast likelihoods and magnitudes of earthquakes over long time periods in California and elsewhere.
However, the interplay of stresses and faults in the Earth is dauntingly chaotic. And even with continuing advances in basic research and ever-improving data, laboratory and theoretical studies, there are no known reliable and universal precursory phenomena to suggest that the time, location and size of individual large earthquakes can be predicted.
Major earthquakes thus typically occur with no immediate warning whatsoever, and mitigating risks requires sustained readiness and resource commitments. This can pose serious challenges, since cities and nations may thrive for many decades or longer without experiencing major earthquakes.
California’s earthquake drought
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the last quake greater than magnitude 7 to occur on the San Andreas Fault system. The inexorable motions of plate tectonics mean that every year, strands of the fault system accumulate stresses that correspond to a seismic slip of millimeters to centimeters. Eventually, these stresses will be released suddenly in earthquakes.
But the central-southern stretch of the San Andreas Fault has not slipped since 1857, and the southernmost segment may not have ruptured since 1680. The highly urbanized Hayward Fault in the East Bay region has not generated a major earthquake since 1868.
Reflecting this deficit, the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast estimates that there is a 93 percent probability of a 7.0 or larger earthquake occurring in the Golden State region by 2045, with the highest probabilities occurring along the San Andreas Fault system.
Perspective view of California’s major faults, showing forecast probabilities estimated by the third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast. The color bar shows the estimated percent likelihood of a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake during the next 30 years, as of 2014. Note that nearly the entire San Andreas Fault system is red on the likelihood scale due to the deficit of large earthquakes during and prior to the past century.
California’s population has grown more than 20-fold since the 1906 earthquake and currently is close to 40 million. Many residents and all state emergency managers are widely engaged in earthquake readiness and planning. These preparations are among the most advanced in the world.
No California earthquake since the 1933 Long Beach event (6.4) has killed more than 100 people. Quakes in 1971 (San Fernando, 6.7); 1989 (Loma Prieta; 6.9); 1994 (Northridge; 6.7); and 2014 (South Napa; 6.0) each caused more than US$1 billion in property damage, but fatalities in each event were, remarkably, dozens or less. Strong and proactive implementation of seismically informed building codes and other preparations and emergency planning in California saved scores of lives in these medium-sized earthquakes. Any of them could have been disastrous in less-prepared nations.
Above: Remington Elementary School in Santa Ana takes part in the 2015 Great California Shakeout.
Nonetheless, California’s infrastructure, response planning and general preparedness will doubtlessly be tested when the inevitable and long-delayed “big ones” occur along the San Andreas Fault system. Ultimate damage and casualty levels are hard to project, and hinge on the severity of associated hazards such as landslides and fires.
Several nations and regions now have or are developing earthquake early warning systems, which use early detected ground motion near a quake’s origin to alert more distant populations before strong seismic shaking arrives. This permits rapid responses that can reduce infrastructure damage. Such systems provide warning times of up to tens of seconds in the most favorable circumstances, but the notice will likely be shorter than this for many California earthquakes.
Early warning systems are operational now in Japan, Taiwan, Mexico and Romania. Systems in California and the Pacific Northwest are presently under development with early versions in operation. Earthquake early warning is by no means a panacea for saving lives and property, but it represents a significant step toward improving earthquake safety and awareness along the West Coast.
Managing earthquake risk requires a resilient system of social awareness, education and communications, coupled with effective short- and long-term responses and implemented within an optimally safe built environment. As California prepares for large earthquakes after a hiatus of more than a century, the clock is ticking.
A newly discovered asteroid that is set to buzz past Earth today could be as large as the asteroid that exploded over Russia five years ago.
Asteroid 2018 CB that was only spotted five days ago is between 50 and 130 feet in size, according to NASA.
It will pass by Earth within one-fifth of the distance between the Earth and the moon.
“Asteroids of this size do not often approach this close to our planet—maybe only once or twice a year,” said Paul Chodas, the manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
According to NASA, it will make its closest approach to Earth at 10:30 p.m. GMT (5:30 p.m. EST) today.
The asteroid was found by NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, that records potentially hazardous asteroids.
“Although 2018 CB is quite small, it might well be larger than the asteroid that entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, almost exactly five years ago, in 2013,” said Chodas.
In astronomical terms, the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk was quite small, at 59 feet. The rock exploded in the atmosphere 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometers) above Russia’s Chelyabinsk region in February 2013. It caused over 1,000 injuries and extensive damage to property.
Fortunately, the space station said that 2018 CB will “safely pass” Earth.
It is the second asteroid to pass by the planet this week. Spotted by CSS, 2018 CC zoomed past Earth at about 8:10 p.m. GMT (3:10 p.m. EST) on Tuesday Feb. 6. at a distance of about 114,000 miles (184,000 kilometers). The asteroid was between 50 and 100 feet in size.
NASA is particularly concerned about asteroids that are over 500 feet in diameter and closer than 4.6 million miles from Earth. These types of asteroids are classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.
New Protocol For Evidence Gathering After An Alien Abduction
New Protocol For Evidence Gathering After An Alien Abduction
In all of UFOlogy, there is no situation more terrifying and misunderstood than the phenomena of alien abductions. Thousands of people around the world have reported terrifying and paradoxical accounts of kidnapping from beyond. These kidnappers bring their abductee’s home after the incident. Which is nice it makes evidence gathering easier. A large portion of accounts portray the victims to be completely and utterly subdued during the incident. Awareness but zero motor control is the norm. The silent kidnappers seem to have some kind of non-anthropomorphic plan us. In UFOlogy it is believed to be many different types of aliens responsible for all these abduction accounts. Nothing really is off the table. ETH, dimensional, pandimensional, time travellers, etc could be the culprits. Accounts and events vary wildly but the complete paralyzation of the victim is a common thread.
People report being taken away from their home to someplace that can only be described as alien. Some people remember the actual traversal from home to wonderland, some don’t. Some report invasive painful medical like procedures while others report more of a 1960’s style “Love-In” with all love and light aliens. Through all that others have the traumatic experience but no memory of it at all until regression therapy makes the revelation.
Through all the obfuscation and parallax reality, how can anything more than an anecdotal account ever come from alien abductions? Abductees cannot move their hands or feet how can they be expected to bring evidence back? Good thing that you don’t have to move anything to gather all the evidence humanity needs.
BACKGROUND
Dr. Edmond Locard
The concept of evidence should be no different in this case than in any other. If these abductions are real events and not totally internally generated hypnogogic imagery these abductees are bringing home evidence every single time they are violated. In the science of Forensics, there is truism called Locard’s exchange principle. This principle is the bedrock of modern forensics. It holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it and that both can be used as forensic evidence. Locard speculated that every time you make contact with another person, place, or thing, it results in an exchange of physical materials. He is the grandfather of trace evidence.
Traces of physical materials no matter how minute can tell a story. Trace evidence is factual. Unlike humans, it cannot be confused by the excitement of the moment, does not forget, and never develops crippling debilitating dementia. It’s a silent witness that speaks when humans cannot. Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot lie, it cannot be wholly absent. Only human failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value. So far humanity has completely diminished the alien abduction phenomena by not developing the correct eyes to move from speculation to accepted hypothesis.
The Situation
Everytime that you encounter their environment you bring a little piece of it home, you can’t help it. If you were lying on an examination table you are bringing a tiny piece of it with you. Any instruments or biological entities touch you, you bring a little piece of them home. You may not think you do because you can’t see it, but it’s there.
Every time you are abducted and taken to another realm you bring home all the evidence humanity would ever need to prove the high strangeness is just plain old strange. Each of us carries around millions of microorganisms – including bacteria, fungi, and viruses — on the inner and outer surfaces of our bodies. Most of them aren’t dangerous. In fact, growing evidence indicates that they help us in lots of ways. Scientists call this collection of organisms our microbiome. Recent discoveries have shown that we constantly enveloped in a cloud of our microbiome. Think of pig-pen from the Peanuts comic strips. Each and every one of us have a constant cloud of microbes circling us. It enters a room before you do and lingers after you leave. It blends with all the people you encounter in your life and you blend with theirs.
Science has developed techniques to analyze this atmospheric microbiome. They have developed the ability to identify individual people only by their lingering microbiome. This cloud is suspected to be as individualized as fingerprints. Technology is in development that will be used in law enforcement to pull criminal offenders microbiome from a crime scene to aid in conviction. Just being there will now be as good as leaving a fully formed finger mark.
This collection of alien microbiomes is our BEST and ONLY method that has any chance of success of proving that the Genesis of life happened more than once in the universe. Us (Earth) and Them (?).
If we could collect alien skin flakes, vapour from breath or transpiration, dust from alien metallurgy, food particles, or really anything floating in the turbulent air currents of your abduction chamber. They brought something into the chamber, by proximity it mixed around and in you, and you brought some of it out.
Keep in mind these creatures that are doing this to you are NOT GODS. They are NOT absolute. Their advancements may seem like magic but it is not magic. Sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic. Don’t be fooled. These kidnappers DO NOT know everything about you. They are not omnipotent. If they knew everything about you, you would not have been restrained to an examination table and examined. The only true power you may have in this situation is your mind. But that is all you will need. Use your intellect against them. Be as aware as possible of your environment. They think you are inferior, show them just how inventive we really can be. Their own cells and molecules will give them away.
When an abductee enters the environment where they are examined or whatever you can assume several things. They would have to recreate the environment that is conducive to your survival requirements. They either had or had to create an environment that matched our temperature range, atmospheric pressure, gas composition, humidity, gravity, etc. If you can breathe during your ordeal you know you are gathering good evidence. This exposure will change your microbiome. You are coming in contact with a foreign environment. The most foreign possible.
You are in contact with their atmosphere all over your body and lungs. The aliens, table, or platform will leave evidence on your skin. The moving of you will leave evidence. Everything in this mutant wonderland will. Every movement of your abductors in your environment stirs the pot of microbes and atmosphere. Even if you can’t feel air movement, it is moving and mixing everything in the environment. You have all you need without blinking an eye or moving a muscle. If you have any communication with them stall them. The longer you are in their artificially created environment the better.
Once you get back if you get back now the fun begins.
The evidence that will change the world in regards to extraterrestrials will never come from photography or videography. No image or video can possibly do it. The only thing that will satisfy the world of non-true believers is alien biological material or alien metallurgy.
Procedure
The ideal process to attain credible evidence should satiate both Edmond Locard and the microbial hunters.
The potential abductee will be required to get a baseline microbiome assay performed. This would be a totally noninvasive test. Just sampling the air closely around you. The researchers will need an unadulterated baseline for comparison later. The subject needs not do anything besides keep up good hygiene and act as bait for highly invasive, highly terrifying, highly strange abduction happy aliens.
Now we wait for all hell to break loose.
After an abduction, the abductee performs the microbial assay and submits both the control and test sample for comparison. The hope would be to over many trials and tests to discover statistical significant aberrations. Have enough samples to create a viable set, and lots of time to crunch the numbers and maybe, just maybe the “Holy Grail” an alien microorganism. Just a few alien skin cells or biological detritus would be a jackpot. One test can not prove anything, just be a curiosity. A thousand tests analyzed and correlated proper can prove the truth. Until this technology becomes viable we will have to stick with making Edmond Locard happy. Not to worry the law enforcement industry is driving this technology, it is only a matter of time until it is a reality.
Every abductee should have an abduction kit which they can use and send in for analysis. Looking for trace evidence is done in other fields of UFOlogy, why not in abductions. There is a lot of discussion about trace evidence but as far as I can see no concerted organized effort to gather microbial or trace evidence has ever been put forth.
What I propose is a collection service of a sort. A central clearinghouse for abduction test kits. A place to collect, analyze, digitize, and correlate the samples and data.
1 – Surgical lint remover high-tack adhesive roller. This high-tack adhesive roller is sterile. It quickly and efficiently picks up and removes lint and other foreign particles from surgical packs, wrappers, and gowns to help control contamination in ultra clean surgical environments. Think of it as the surgeon’s lint brush. It is designed to be an attractant to synthetic and biological debris. This fits our requirements perfectly.
When you are in the midst of the abduction if you are not petrified and functioning only on your Id, try to remember where your body comes in contact with the environment. Physical contact with the floor, any equipment, or the aliens themselves. Just remember where the contact is made. This will help later. Not necessary but would be very useful.
Wherever you are when you come back from the abduction and regain control and consciousness the kit should be immediately administered.
Immediately perform a microbial cloud assay test of yourself. Return test sample to abduction collection kit.
With great care and consideration take the surgical lint brush and run it over in proper fashion over every inch of your skin and or clothes. Carefully run it over where ever you were found or regained control from the event. If you were in bed run the surgical lint brush over your spot. If it was in a car process the seat. After samples are taken seal it up with the microbial assay test and send to collection house for analysis.
The goal is to get a very large sample of abduction kits into the system. Only with a large sampling can any meaningful statistical correlations can be drawn. A hundred test collection kits would be good but a thousand would be much better.
The surgical lint brushes would be analyzed, high-resolution scans made, detailed descriptions of particulates found and entered into a central database. Original samples preserved for further analysis if needed.
Here is a possible best case scenario.
A statistically significant amount of samples has been found to have a common foreign particulate present. It was never noticed by victims or investigators up to this point because it only becomes easily visible under a specific polarized light frequency. Further and deeper examination show that all the foreign particles have the same geometric shape. Something like a Tetris piece. This does not happen in nature. Sure would be a great discovery. Just what we were looking for.
Any discovery of new particles or correlations that we can make is a win-win.
This proposed collection system would have most of its expense in the back end. The abduction collection kits would easily be under $30 including returned postage. The cost of processing and warehousing would be the big expense.
All things considered, this system would be very cheap to operate when you consider the potential intellectual advancement potential.
We really need to have new ideas, a new organization, and new determination to do whatever is needed to make the study of alien abduction an action-oriented discipline instead of what is has always been an unfocused reactionary one.
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You Find A Crashed Alien Space Craft Filled With Advanced Technologies. What Should You Do With It?
You Find A Crashed Alien Space Craft Filled With Advanced Technologies. What Should You Do With It?
Here lies humankind. Cause of death – Curiosity
One day you are out exploring the vast untouched wilderness of the Canadian north-west. Trees for as far as the eyes can see. Miles upon countless miles of virgin forest. You are inspired by the clean air and unspoiled nature. You are hiking on land untouched by human hands or feet. Your mind wanders as the breeze blows. You are utterly alone with your thoughts. As you walk in primal bliss…slowly the sounds of nature recede. Unnoticeable at first. The sounds of the birds, crickets, and woodpeckers evaporate into utter silence. Even the cool breeze you took for granted is a no-show. You wonder when did it get silent. Was it you?
Off through a slight opening in the trees, you see something shiny. A glint of sunlight in an otherwise pastel living backdrop. You approach and the shiny increases. You know no one else has ever set foot this deep in the uncharted forest. Is that a soda can? A piece of snack wrapper from some adventurous litterer. What is it?
You approach closer. You feel a trickle of sweat down the small of you back. Your mind is playing tricks on you. You get closer and closer…it’s not a soda can. Pupils dilate, pulse quickens, adrenaline gushes into your system. Your brain recoils in disbelief. Half buried in the soft undergrowth is what looks like a classic UFO. A la George Pal in “Earth vs. The Flying Saucers”. You half expect to see Klatu milling around. Nothing moves. All you can hear is your pounding heartbeat. You kick into discovery mode. It looks old. It has been here a very long time judging by the forest overgrowth. Silver-ish in colour. The only explanation is that this is a genuine alien aircraft. You feverishly take your GPS coordinates.
Should you spirit the craft away in your barn in the woods, garage in the meat-packing district, or abandoned subway station. One of the three. Take care to prevent being followed! Prepare to live paranoid. No men in black yet…that is a good sign.
Being science-minded you consider the idea of something like this crashing in the first place. Paradox!
You understand the only option any alien race would have for travel through the unfathomably enormous distances and durations of space-time. To get here with any hope of doing whatever it is you might posit they intend to do they would have to bend space-time.
Ok. So they are folding space and unfolding at their will to travel without any relativistic side effects and without, as such, taking any time to do it. They are essentially popping into existence at will. I know what they are not doing – they’re not flying around in our atmosphere like aircraft. They are not accidentally losing control “in the air” and crashing down in a forest like infant-superman. Their ships don’t have “wings”, they don’t hover over farm houses, probe your ass, kill your cows, fly in formation, or dart through the sky in any way. I would go so far as to say they can be invisible to any spectrum at will. If anything happened they could just pop back instantly home.
Above all else, they don’t crash. They have complete control over what they do. Why? Because all the capabilities I describe above are side effects of being able to fold space at will. The notion of crashing and the notion of bending space-time are incompatible. So something else is afoot.
Now what?
Call a lawyer. Preferably one that is skilled in the law of salvage? Under maritime and aviation law, you may be able to get legal title to whatever is on the alien spacecraft, including intellectual property. This could be extremely valuable. With the help of the lawyer, find reliable witnesses. With them watching, document it in every possible, non-intrusive way — still pictures, audio, and video recordings. Have them provide sworn affidavits as to its existence — this in case someone takes it away from you. Store an encrypted copy of the documentation someplace safe that is nowhere near you.
Could It Be Dangerous?
The technologies contained inside the ship easily has the potential to push humanity into a post-scarcity existence.
Scientists have confirmed that microbes from Earth survived the decontamination process on Earth, survived orbit, and then survived reentry because they were recovered after all that. So your crashed alien ship definitely has alien life on it, of the single-celled variety. Should you touch the thing? But it’s already been sitting on the ground, so anything it’s got has already contaminated the area. Therefore, the human race’s top experts on the dangers of infectious disease should be told about the unprecedented ground zero that just appeared. If anything exotic is found…you should probably take a minute to set your affairs in order because you’re gonna be quarantined indefinitely.
Your mind rushes to a sea of dollar signs. This thing could hold a copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica. Untold technological advances could be yours.
Imagine you are one of the brightest minds in Victorian England. A nuclear submarine is transported back in time – so obviously you start messing around to find what makes it tick. You extract the control rods/drums from the nuclear reactor. You just exposed an active highly radioactive core. No more London – because no one knew about radioactivity back then. It gets worse if we are talking about invasion grade nano grey goo, or terra-forming goo, or Cthulu forbid something like a Kerr black hole energy storage. And that’s just stuff we already know it’s possible. The only place you should experiment with alien technology is past the orbit of Pluto, on an airless rock wired to the biggest, worst bomb you can imagine and rigged to go off if something as much as twitches. Oh, and the rock should be on an escape trajectory from the solar system. But, that would be the smart thing to do, us humans rarely do the smart thing.
But it can be clearly and unmistakably identified as an alien craft, it does at least prove that we are not alone in the universe, which is an enormously important insight in itself. Your task should be, not to use or reverse-engineer the ship, but to make its very existence known.
Document it in every way possible before going public with your discovery. Photographs, films, reliable witnesses etc. etc. It is inevitable that the authorities will snatch the wreck as soon as they learn about it, but make sure they will never be able to put a lid on the story and pretend the whole thing never happened. They may not even try, despite the whole Roswell mythology about how the government will “always” suppress evidence of ET, but with a discovery of this magnitude, you shouldn’t take any chances. The authorities will try to study and reverse-engineer the ship, but as noted, this is almost certainly a futile pursuit. In any case, it is a job best left to the greatest scientists that can be found, not something you should attempt on your own.
What You Should Really Do.
Start by anonymously sharing very basic information about it with possible media outlets, scientists, and businesses. Be careful to maintain your anonymity, and do not mention aliens. Grab a digital camera and start taking as many detailed pictures as you can, ensure all of your pictures are in RAW and JPEG. Ensure that your pictures contain landmarks as well as evidence of the crash site itself there can be no question surrounding either the authenticity or providence of these pictures. Now you have 2 choices. Upload them all, RAW and JPEG, to somewhere they will be disseminated quickly and won’t be able to easily be taken down or removed by fraudulent DMCA notices (perhaps Reddit), or encrypt them and find a way to get them along with a written statement to some reputable journalist before the US Government shows up on your doorstep and you disappear (a la Edward Snowden).
Get feedback from all of those sources to figure out what your options are and who seems to be willing to interact with you in a safe way.
Then, it depends on whether you can separate any part of the craft to show the technology to people to get additional feedback and a sense for where a bigger reveal might land you. If you can’t, then share information carefully. Also, have an online lockbox with evidence and some kind of tracker on the craft that will provide information to your friends. So that in case someone kidnaps you or something else happens, you have some leverage or chance of being saved.
Or… If that’s too complicated, you could do some research on what researchers at a big university would be interested in and able to analyze unknown technology. And then very publicly take it to that university and tell everyone along the way to get a lot of attention, and so that there are a ton of cell phone videos and postings on the net. That way, too many people know about it for an easy cover-up.
If you don’t do these simple things…Beg for your life. Seriously. Start begging. You aren’t begging to the aliens. You are begging to the very nice men and women who are about to show up in the SUVs with tinted windows. They WILL take it from you. They will take any photos or other evidence that you try and keep. And lastly, they will take you.
If you are lucky you will undergo days of interrogation while being in quarantine and to liven up your days it will be interspersed with vigorous invasive medical testing.
After all that your choices are slim. 6-foot hole. 8 by 10 cell. Comfy padded room. Best case scenario, nondisclosure agreement, and release. Worst case scenario your body turns up in a ditch the victim of an apparent suicide.
You have to be smart about all this. Your life will never be the same. It is completely up to you if it will be a long and fruitful life or not.
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In a crushing blow to his ego, Michael “Mad Mike” Hughes has once again failed to launch his rocket for flat Earth “research.”
The 61-year-old limo driver previously gained notoriety when he attempted to blast off in the rocket back in November 2017 — a mission he called off at the last minute. This time, Hughes says a problem with the rocket’s actuator caused its ignition to malfunction. Since he wholeheartedly seems to believe the Earth is not round — a fact proven time and again in infinite permutations — it’s hard to say if Hughes actually knows what’s going on with his rocket.
“I’m sorry to disappoint everyone; I did the best I can do,” Hughes says in a video statement released after the failed launch. “I manned up. I got in it.”
In 2014, Hughes blasted himself 1,374 feet in a $20,000 homemade rocket — a feat he claims to have achieved without the help of science.
“I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles and thrust,” he told the Associated Press in November 2017. “But that’s not science; that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”
It seems after this latest failed attempt, Hughes might be out of the game for good, which would undoubtedly disappoint his sponsors, a group called Research Flat Earth. In addition to technical difficulties with the rocket, Hughes told reporters on Monday that he is suing the governor of California and several public officials, which would complicate his plans for another attempt.
Maybe Hughes’s current outlook is best summarized in this quote he recently gave to the press:
Silpho Moor 'UFO bits' found in Science Museum archive
Silpho Moor 'UFO bits' found in Science Museum archive
Image copyrightDAVID CLARKE
Image captionThe items found in the Science Museum archives were accompanied by a note reading "alleged UFO bits"
Fragments of a mysterious object dubbed "Britain's answer to Roswell" have been unearthed after being hidden away for decades in a Science Museum archive.
In 1957, newspapers reported a small "copper-bottomed flying saucer" being found on Silpho Moor near Scarborough.
Despite tests finding the object was likely to be terrestrial in origin, the unusual item sparked wide intrigue.
Shards held in the archives have been re-examined after archivists were told of their "cultural significance".
Image copyrightYORKSHIRE POST/MICK GARRATTImage captionThe find on Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, made newspaper headlines in late 1957
Dr David Clarke, a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, was invited to study the fragments after giving a talk about the Ministry of Defence's UFO files at the London museum.
Speaking to the BBC, he said the metal object was originally found by three men on moorland weeks after Russia's first Sputnik satellite was launched.
Reports at the time suggested the 18in metallic saucer contained thin copper sheets engraved with unintelligible hieroglyphics.
"It was tinkered with and sliced into tiny pieces to be examined by various people," he said.
Image copyrightJOHN DALEImage captionImages of the "Silpho Saucer" were taken by Dr John Dale in 1958
Doubts about its authenticity were quick to emerge, with tests at the Natural History Museum and the University of Manchester finding it was likely to be an "elaborate hoax".
Despite this, Dr Clarke said, the object created an urban legend, provoking many conspiracy theories.
While at a recent conference about the National Archives, Dr Clarke was told about "alleged UFO bits" lying in a cigarette tin in the museum's collection.
'Massive cultural history'
Khalil Thirlaway, an exhibition developer who showed Dr Clarke the fragments, said: "I had been looking at three or four large folders connected to aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, who was also a UFO enthusiast, and found these items.
"There's a good chance they are from Silpho Moor, as they correlate to the contemporary descriptions of the find."
Image copyrightDAVID CLARKEImage captionThe Science Museum said it was likely the items in their collections were from Silpho Moor
Dr Clarke said: "He opened the tin box and took out the pieces, it was an amazing revelation - it had just been sitting there for half a century.
"There must be a lot of it still out there, sitting in someone's attic, or maybe these are the last remaining pieces."
He added: "I thought it was a prank, but the question remains - who went to all that trouble at great expense and what did they gain from it?
"It has been described several times as Britain's answer to Roswell, and I don't think that's too great an exaggeration."
Mr Thirlaway said: "We didn't know there was this massive cultural history behind it, it really brought the items to life for us.
"There's a chance they may go on display as we're now aware of their cultural significance."
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Ball of Light caught on Alaska Cam
Ball of Light caught on Alaska Cam
A webcam at a weather station in Alaska captured a strange light in the night sky.
The way the ball of light moves is absolutely impressive, it comes into view from the left, after floating in the same place for a while it then shoots into the air like a flash of lightning.
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) in record time early Sunday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch the event live online.
Topped with the Russian Progress 69 cargo resupply ship, the Soyuz will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:58 a.m. EST (0858 GMT). The Progress spacecraft will then dock at the International Space Station at 7:24 a.m. EST (1224 GMT), completing the rendezvous in a record time of 3 hours and 26 minutes.
A live webcast of the launch will begin at 3:30 a.m. EST (0830 GMT), and you can watch it here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. A live webcast of the spacecraft's docking will follow at 6:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT).
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, planned to debut this new fast-track route to the ISS with its last cargo launch of the Progress 68 spacecraft, in October. But a last-minute delay forced the agency to resort to the old two-day rendezvous due to the orbital mechanics involved with reaching the ISS. Postponing that launch meant that Roscosmos missed the launch window to try out the new, shorter rendezvous, NASA officials said.
"If any technical issues are identified by Russian flight controllers in the early stage of the flight, the spacecraft will be capable of defaulting to a standard, two-day rendezvous profile," NASA officials said in a statement.
The Progress 68 cargo craft (top left) is currently docked at the International Space Station. It arrived on Oct. 16, 2017, and is scheduled to depart in March.
Credit: NASA
Progress cargo ships look a lot like Russia's crewed Soyuz capsules, and Roscosmos has been using the uncrewed spacecraft to send cargo to the ISS since 2000. In 2013, the agency cut the two-day travel time to just 6 hours for both Progress and Soyuz capsules, making the cramped crewed flights to the ISS a little more bearable for the astronauts and cosmonauts on board.
This uncrewed cargo mission will deliver 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies to the Expedition 54 crew, NASA officials said. The record-breaking flight comes just one week after the two Russian crewmembers at the ISS, Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov, set a record for the longest Russian spacewalk.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com, or follow her @hannekescience.
Over the last decade or so I have continually come across new ancient aliens evidence online – it seems to be gathering pace at an astonishing rate! But to most of us geeks it’s not really news – the evidence has always been around us but most choose not to recognize it…..
1. Hailed as Gods
In most of the online (geek) circles that I hang there is one consensus – aliens landed on earth thousands of years ago and were hailed as gods. They put up a pretty good argument and are always able to point to ancient aliens evidence.
They apparently helped shape civilization to the point where we were not throwing spears at each other (or eating each other) any longer!
Is it so hard to believe when less than two hundred miles away from where I sit writing this there is Stonehenge – the origin of which is still pretty much a mystery (no matter what historians TRY and tell you!).
The video below claims to have the answer to Stonehenge but personally I don’t think having a theory is actually solving anything – it’s more of a guess! Anyway the video has some pretty cool moments so check it out (it’s just over two minutes long!).
2. The Nazca Lines
Pick up any book on the Unexplained and you are bound to be confronted with the Nazca Lines in one of the chapters. Are they to be considered ancient aliens evidence?
They are located in Peru, South America and they are pretty damn impressive! They are etched onto the top of a plateau in the Nazca dessert and historians have been baffled by them for decades.
They are truly awe inspiring and beautiful – how were they made so precise? Along with simple lines and geometric shapes, they include drawings of animals, birds and humans. It’s not just the detail it’s the size to – some of them measure well over 500 ft wide!
Check out this short documentary on the Nazca lines released by the BBC:
Their size means each of the designs can only be witnessed from the air. How did the Nazca people, who inhabited the area between 300 B.C. and 800 A.D. manage this? As far as I know they were not that keen on helicopters made out of stone
Many historians believe that the Nazca Lines prove to be ancient aliens evidence because they are old runways. The long stretching lines and pathways that make up the designs are thought to be used for landing ancient spacecraft (a sort of guide and runway combined!).
3. The Moai of Easter Island
The Polynesian island of Easter Island is a very famous one due to the strange ‘head statues’ or ‘Moai’. They line up along it’s coastline as some sort of show of force – as if they are guarding the island from something.
It is thought these massive stone heads are over 500 years old so who on earth made them? Could tools from the same time period create these impressive busts?
The monolithic head statues stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons – did they seriously have the engineering and the know-how to place these heads so precisely along the coastline back then?
Again a lot of theorists turn to them being ancient alien evidence – they were left here for some reason by visitors from the stars!
The video below is entitled Easter Island – The Mystery of the Moai – it covers the subject in a little more detail:
4. Puma Punku
Deep in the Bolivian highlands you will find Puma Punka – a mysterious field of stone made up of very precisely carved rocks.
They are thought to be over 1000 years old and this again begs the question of HOW? How did men of this time manage to carve rocks so precisely with the VERY basic tools they had at the time? Check this out:
Many alien theorists think that aliens actually worked as supervisors when these marvelous stones were being carved.
The strange stones are made out of granite and diorite. Now, granite and diorite are extremely difficult stones to cut – only diamond is harder! How did these stones get shaped in this way? What tools were used?
If you know of any other mysteries that can be classed in the ‘ancient aliens evidence’ category we would love to hear from you. Please leave your contributions in the comment section below…
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Awesome UFOs Disguised As Clouds Pass Undetected By Human Eyes, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Awesome UFOs Disguised As Clouds Pass Undetected By Human Eyes, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Here is a great video of some recent sightings found on a weather phenomenon site this week by MrMBB333 of Youtube. He discusses how some of the things on the site do not resemble things found in nature, but instead have qualities that seem more like alien craft. This is the easiest way to hide from human eyes...mimic something that normally is harmless and in nature.
Many UFOs Bigger Than Our Moon Skimming Surface Of Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Many UFOs Bigger Than Our Moon Skimming Surface Of Sun, Feb 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
At any given time there are hundreds of UFOs in orbit around our sun, but the orbit is so low that they often skim the surface of the sun. It is widely believed that these UFO are searching out rare and valuable particles of energy that humanity still has yet to discover. The UFOs don't just move to the new locations to collect the energy, they leap at light speed. Check out some of the UFOs in this video that TheWatcher252 of Youtube caught this week. Scott C. Waring
Amazing UFO Sightings Compilation February 8-9, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Amazing UFO Sightings Compilation February 8-9, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Here is a great summary of some of the most interesting UFO sightings last week. UFOs often are seen over mountains and hills, because they come out of hidden passages in locations where its difficult for people to access. Their bases are often 4-6km below the surface, and its been said by the W56 aliens in Rocca Pia, Italy that there are over 10,000 alien bases around the world. Scott C. Waring
'Is that aliens?': Black UFO spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch prompting claims of 'cover up'
'Is that aliens?': Black UFO spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch prompting claims of 'cover up'
A dark UFO was filmed hurtling through space from video footage captured on the SpaceX rocket
By Liz Dunphy
A black UFO was spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch which has prompted claims of extraterrestrial life and a supposed 'cover up'.
The billionaire, who owns Tesla motors and founded SpaceX, sparked an international media frenzy when he sent his Roadster car into space strapped to his company's Falcon Heavy rocket.
But some people have spotted a black object in the video recorded from the rocket and have speculated on social media that it may be an actual UFO.
And so-called truthers have also hinted that the presence of an alien craft was covered up when video footage from the spacecraft cut out, the Daily Star reports.
One person wrote online: “My thought was a trans atmospheric skip vehicle, but I could just be hopeful.”
And another breathless enthusiast wrote: “Is that aliens!!! What is this?”
A black UFO was spotted during Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch(Image: Space X)
The solid rocket boosters of SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket come back for landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida(Image: REUTERS)
SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket(Image: REUTERS)
But other commenters brought the conspiracy theorists back down to earth, saying the unidentified flying object is probably just some human-made space junk or a satellite.
One commented: “It might even have just been another satellite in orbit. With all the c**p that's up there, it's far more likely that it's debris or something that's been in orbit for awhile than it was something secret.
“Tbh with every launch or space station video there's always a ufo sighting on the video.”
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida(Image: REUTERS)
Spectators at Cocoa Beach watch SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center, FloridaImage: REUTERS)
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has sent his rocket to orbit Mars and he has also declared that humans would walk on the Red Planet in just a few decades.
The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this week "puts us in a completely different realm of what we can put into deep space, what we can send to Mars", said analogue astronaut Kartik Kumar.
But the next step to Mars, he said, is to tackle non-engineering problems such as medical emergency responses and isolation.
"These are things I think can't be underestimated," Mr Kumar said.
So Musk's goal of transporting life to Mars remains a dream for now, but truthers continue to watch the skies for signs that life may already be up there.
The triangular aircraft – also known as the Black Manta – has long-been claimed by conspiracy theorists to have been built by the USAF under a black project.
There has never been an official acknowledgement of the plane, only sightings and experiences.
But now, alien enthusiast Steve Barone has posted a video that he says is the best proof yet of the elusive craft, reports Express.co.uk.
The short clip appears to show two UFOs flying in front of a canyon near the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, US.
“I set my night vision camera up to do a little sky fishing looking at the entrance of Red Rock Canyon,” he said.
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BIZARRE: A UFO hunter claims to have filmed two TR-3B spy planes flying near a USAF base
“When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
“If you look really close they look like little triangles and appear to have little half domes on top of them.
“If you look at the snapshots you see the bottom one is clearly a triangle and the top one has a rounded dome on top.
“It is a really good example of what was flying out of that canyon.”
Viewers were quick to offer their own thoughts on what the sighting was.
“This is amazing,” one wrote. “I saw something similar a few weeks ago.”
“It passed over in front of me at a super fast speed from right to left and disappeared. This was after viewing UFO orbs high in the night sky the night before."
Another posted: “You really captured these craft in such a way, that no one could deny their existence.”
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New Images of Ancient Maya Megopolis Reveal Thousands of Lost Pyramids And Monuments
New Images of Ancient Maya Megopolis Reveal Thousands of Lost Pyramids And Monuments
Researchers have made a mind-gobbling discovery neat Peten, deep in the Guatemalan jungle. Using LiDAR technology, researchers have found more than 60,000 previously unknown structures that were once home to a massive pre-Columbian Civilization.
With the help of revolutionary LiDAR technology (short for “Light Detection And Ranging”), modern archeologists are making history. Recently, experts have discovered tens of thousands of ancient structures belonging to the ancient Maya civilization.
The LIDAR TITAN instrument used by the PACUNAM LIDAR initiative penetrates the forest cover and the GPS instrumentation allows researchers to locate each point with millimeter accuracy. This allows the development of more accurate surface maps than with any other technology available today.
Image credit: NCALM
“The LiDAR images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” said Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer who specializes in using digital technology for archaeological research.
The massive pyramids, temples, palaces, and causeways were discovered hidden deep beneath the dense Guatemalan Jungle.
The discovery suggests that the ancient Maya built massive self-sustaining cities. Furthermore, the discovery has helped confirm that the Maya civilization was much larger and far more advanced than what was previously believed.
Thousands of Pyramids discovered near Peten suggest Guatemala was the center of the Maya civilization. This image shows Tikal and its massive wall.
Image Credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
As noted by researchers, LiDAR technology has also uncovered ancient engineering works and specialized agricultural areas capable of sustaining a massive population at an almost industrial level, and Jorge Mario Chajon, the general director of the Guatemalan Tourism Institute has said; “These findings reaffirm that Guatemala is the heart of the Mayan world.”
3D view of Tikal from the southeast.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
Led by the so-called Guatemalan PACUNAM LIDAR initiative, this consortium of more than 30 scientists and archaeologists belonging to leading academic institutions worldwide, organized and funded by the PACUNAM Foundation used state-of-the-art technology to explore more than 2,000 km² of the Guatemalan Jungle north of Peten by air.
Researchers have discovered a new pyramid south of the Plaza Perdido de Tikal.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Canuto & Auld-Thomas
Their discoveries were represented in a number of digital maps and in augmented reality applications that transform the aerial data into a land view, designed exclusively for the National Geographic documentary. Thankfully, all of these stunning discoveries were made without having to cut a single tree.
Discovered thanks to new LiDAR scans, Kunal is an early ceremonial center discovered by the Naachtun Archaeological Project.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Estrada-Belli.
Previously a Mayan population of between 1 and 2 million inhabitants had been proposed by experts, but the new data has shown a population of about 20 million inhabitants that occupied the plains of the Mayan civilization, an amount that represents around half of the European population at that time, occupying an area the size of Italy.
Many archeological monuments remain hidden beneath the jungle and are only visible thanks to new technology. Seen here is the archaeological site of El Zotz.
Image credit: PACUNAM / Garrison / El Zotz Archaeological Project
“This revelation is one of the most important developments in Mayan archeology in the last 100 years,” said Tom Garrison, of Ithaca College, one of the archaeologists leading the project.
“The Mayan wars have been the subject of research for decades and, now, the technology is revealing the physical manifestation of those past conflicts, demonstrating that they were a determining factor of the ancient Mayan culture, probably configuring the emergence and development of some of their bigger cities,” he added.
New research suggests that some 12,800 years ago, an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface was consumed by fires, thanks to a cosmic impact.
Image via Jayson Coil
A new study suggests that, on a day about 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, igniting fires across the globe. The large study, of geochemical and isotopic markers from 170 different sites around the world, was published in two papers in the Journal of Geology on February 1, 2018 (here and here).
At the time, the Earth had emerged from an ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. In a statement, the researchers imagined what it might have been like for humans at the time:
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and the glaciers advanced again. Ocean currents shifted, setting the climate into a colder, almost “ice age” state that lasted an additional thousand years.
Finally, the researchers said, the climate began to warm again. This world had fewer large animals, evidenced by, for example, completely different kinds of spear points left behind by North American people of that time.
The researchers believe the data suggests the disaster was touched off when Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet that was roughly 62 miles (100 km) in diameter — the remnants of which persist within our solar system to this day.
Adrian Melott, professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of Kansas is a study author. Melott said in a statement:
The hypothesis is that a large comet fragmented and the chunks impacted the Earth, causing this disaster. A number of different chemical signatures — carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia and others — all seem to indicate that an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers [3.9 million square miles], was consumed by fires.
According to Melott, analysis of pollen suggests pine forests were probably burned off to be replaced by poplar, which is a species that colonizes cleared areas.
The authors suggest that the cosmic impact could even have touched off the Younger Dryas cool episode, a temporary return to glacial conditions, as well as biomass burning, late Pleistocene extinctions of larger species and human cultural shifts and population declines. Melott said:
Computations suggest that the impact would have depleted the ozone layer, causing increases in skin cancer and other negative health effects.The impact hypothesis is still a hypothesis, but this study provides a massive amount of evidence, which we argue can only be all explained by a major cosmic impact.
Bottom line: According to a new study of geochemical and isotopic markers, around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, igniting fires across the planet.
On Friday, a small asteroid called 2018 CB will safely whiz by Earth, posing absolutely no threat to humanity. It will get pretty close to our pale blue dot, however, giving Earth a much-needed hug.
According to NASA, the asteroid will pass our planet at around 5:30 p.m. Eastern (2:30 p.m. Pacific) at a distance of about 39,000 miles (64,000 kilometers). That’s only one-fifth of the distance between Earth and our moon, making this a pretty close encounter. Still, the asteroid is just a smol boy — it’s likely between 50 and 130 feet (15 and 40 meters) in size. It’s like a flying kitten, minus all the biting and scratching.
“Although 2018 CB is quite small, it might well be larger than the asteroid that entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, almost exactly five years ago, in 2013,” Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says in a press release. “Asteroids of this size do not often approach this close to our planet — maybe only once or twice a year.”
Asteroid 2018 CB
Surprisingly, 2018 CB and another asteroid that passed us this week — 2018 CC — were discovered on Sunday, February 4. Both were spotted by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona.
For those hoping to get whacked in the face by an asteroid: I’m sorry. This tiny asteroid means no harm — it just wants to take a close peek at Earth and then pass onward into the void.
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NASA has been developing a new power source called the kilopower reactor, that could potentially provide energy for use in space.
According to NASA, if the trials are successful they could provide an affordable nuclear power system to enable long-duration stays on other planets.
So, with previous evidence of water existing on mars and now a potential new power source, are we another step closer to living in space? And can we actually buy land there?
NASA have found evidence of water on Mars.
Picture: Getty.
Travelling the distance
While travelling to the moon and Mars were once distant dreams reserved for aspiring astronauts, in the near future, entrepreneurs may be making it a possibility for ordinary cashed-up citizens to hitch a ride to outer space.
Currently, space tourism is a real industry, with four tourists having flown in Russian vessels for a one-week trip to space costing them $US20 million each.
But now, business minds are investing in space airlines, making it possible to fly more people into the cosmos for less money.
Virgin’s Richard Branson and Amazon’s Jef Bezos want to send people to space.
Billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, has been building the world’s first commercial airline Virgin Galactic.
With fares costing US$250,000 each, 580 people have already put down deposits for a ride aboard.
Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is also investing in spacecrafts and has priced each trip with his new company Blue Origin at US$300,000.
Bezos says that while short trips and space tourism is a first step, he envisages people one day living in space.
“The long-term vision is millions of people living and working in space. We need a space-faring civilisation,” Bezos said at The Satellite 2017 conference in Washington.
The launch of these vessels may be sooner than you think, with Branson aiming to have his first commercial space flight launched by the end of 2018, and Bezos hoping to launch a Blue Origin ship in the beginning of 2019.
Can you buy a house in space?
Imagine living on another planet.
Picture: Getty.
Although space travel may become more accessible in the near future and we’re continually finding more ways to sustain life outside planet Earth, the question of being able to purchase land in space and live on it is still a grey area.
In 1967 the US and the Soviet Union negotiated the Outer Space Treaty, which states that no nation can own a piece of the moon.
But this hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs from selling acreage on other planets and moons, with some arguing the treaty didn’t technically prohibit individuals or companies from owning it.
Lunar Land is one of the most prominent companies selling extraterrestrial real estate and has reportedly sold blocks to celebrities, NASA employees, past presidents and multinational corporations.
The company was founded in 1980 by an American entrepreneur, Dennis Hope, who registered and copyrighted his business venture with his local US governmental office.
The company is registered to sell land from any planet or moon within the galaxy except Earth and the sun, but has neither been acknowledged or contested by the UN.
According to the website, Lunar Land has sold over one million hectares of land to date, at roughly $US50 per hectare.
Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and two former US presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have all reportedly purchased land through the company.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise are among the list of stars who Luna Land claims have bought land in space.
Picture: Getty.
Despite their popularity, these online deeds remain controversial; the lack of recognition by the UN or any other international body leaves their legitimacy up in the air.
And while we remain in waiting for an international authority to confirm the legitimacy of extraterrestrial real estate, with billions being invested into the space industry, living on another planet may not be as far away as we think.
WHY ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE OUR DOOM - THE GREAT FILTER
WHY ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE OUR DOOM - THE GREAT FILTER
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.
Extraterrestrial life, also called alien life (or, if it is a sentient or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien"), is life that occurs outside of Earth and that probably did not originate from Earth. These hypothetical life forms may range from simple prokaryotes to beings with civilizations far more advanced than humanity. The Drake equation speculates about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as exobiology.
Since the mid-20th century, there has been an ongoing search for signs of extraterrestrial life. This encompasses a search for current and historic extraterrestrial life, and a narrower search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Depending on the category of search, methods range from the analysis of telescope and specimen data to radios used to detect and send communication signals.
The concept of extraterrestrial life, and particularly extraterrestrial intelligence, has had a major cultural impact, chiefly in works of science fiction. Over the years, science fiction communicated scientific ideas, imagined a wide range of possibilities, and influenced public interest in and perspectives of extraterrestrial life. One shared space is the debate over the wisdom of attempting communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Some encourage aggressive methods to try for contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Others—citing the tendency of technologically advanced human societies to enslave or wipe out less advanced societies—argue that it may be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth.
General
Alien life, such as microorganisms, has been hypothesized to exist in the Solar System and throughout the universe. This hypothesis relies on the vast size and consistent physical laws of the observable universe. According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, as well as well-regarded thinkers such as Winston Churchill, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth. This argument is embodied in the Copernican principle, which states that Earth does not occupy a unique position in the Universe, and the mediocrity principle, which states that there is nothing special about life on Earth. The chemistry of life may have begun shortly after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, during a habitable epoch when the universe was only 10–17 million years old. Life may have emerged independently at many places throughout the universe. Alternatively, life may have formed less frequently, then spread—by meteoroids, for example—between habitable planets in a process called panspermia. In any case, complex organic molecules may have formed in the protoplanetary disk of dust grains surrounding the Sun before the formation of Earth. According to these studies, this process may occur outside Earth on several planets and moons of the Solar System and on planets of other stars.
Since the 1950s, scientists have proposed that "habitable zones" around stars are the most likely places to find life. Numerous discoveries in such zones since 2007 have generated numerical estimates of Earth-like planets —in terms of composition—of many billions. As of 2013, only a few planets have been discovered in these zones. Nonetheless, on 4 November 2013, astronomers reported, based on Kepler space mission data, that there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs in the Milky Way, 11 billion of which may be orbiting Sun-like stars. The nearest such planet may be 12 light-years away, according to the scientists. Astrobiologists have also considered a "follow the energy" view of potential habitats.
Evolution
A study published in 2017 suggests that due to how complexity evolved in species on Earth, the level of predictability for alien evolution elsewhere would make them look similar to life on our planet. One of the study authors, Sam Levin, notes "Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be." There is also research in assessing the capacity of life for developing intelligence. It has been suggested that this capacity arises with the number of potential niches a planet contains, and that the complexity of life itself is reflected in the information density of planetary environments, which in turn can be computed from its niches.
Biochemical basis
Life on Earth requires water as a solvent in which biochemical reactions take place. Sufficient quantities of carbon and other elements, along with water, might enable the formation of living organisms on terrestrial planets with a chemical make-up and temperature range similar to that of Earth. More generally, life based on ammonia (rather than water) has been suggested, though this solvent appears less suitable than water. It is also conceivable that there are forms of life whose solvent is a liquid hydrocarbon, such as methane, ethane or propane.
About 29 chemical elements play an active positive role in living organisms on Earth. About 95% of living matter is built upon only six elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
These six elements form the basic building blocks of virtually all life on Earth, whereas most of the remaining elements are found only in trace amounts. The unique characteristics of carbon make it unlikely that it could be replaced, even on another planet, to generate the biochemistry necessary for life. The carbon atom has the unique ability to make four strong chemical bonds with other atoms, including other carbon atoms. These covalent bonds have a direction in space, so that carbon atoms can form the skeletons of complex 3-dimensional structures with definite architectures such as nucleic acids and proteins. Carbon forms more compounds than all other elements combined. The great versatility of the carbon atom makes it the element most likely to provide the bases—even exotic ones—for the chemical composition of life on other planets.
Planetary habitability in the Solar System
Some bodies in the Solar System have the potential for an environment in which extraterrestrial life can exist, particularly those with possible subsurface oceans. Should life be discovered elsewhere in the Solar System, astrobiologists suggest that it will more likely be in the form of extremophile microorganisms. According to NASA's 2015 Astrobiology Strategy, "Life on other worlds is most likely to include microbes, and any complex living system elsewhere is likely to have arisen from and be founded upon microbial life. Important insights on the limits of microbial life can be gleaned from studies of microbes on modern Earth, as well as their ubiquity and ancestral characteristics."
Mars may have niche subsurface environments where microbial life might exist. A subsurface marine environment on Jupiter's moon Europa might be the most likely habitat in the Solar System, outside Earth, for extremophilemicroorganisms.
The panspermia hypothesis proposes that life elsewhere in the Solar System may have a common origin. If extraterrestrial life was found on another body in the Solar System, it could have originated from Earth just as life on Earth could have been seeded from elsewhere (exogenesis). The first known mention of the term 'panspermia' was in the writings of the 5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. In the 19th century it was again revived in modern form by several scientists, including Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1834), Kelvin (1871), Hermann von Helmholtz (1879) and, somewhat later, by Svante Arrhenius (1903). Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) and Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 1939) are important proponents of the hypothesis who further contended that life forms continue to enter Earth's atmosphere, and may be responsible for epidemic outbreaks, new diseases, and the genetic novelty necessary for macroevolution.
Directed panspermia concerns the deliberate transport of microorganisms in space, sent to Earth to start life here, or sent from Earth to seed new stellar systems with life. The Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, along with Leslie Orgel proposed that seeds of life may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, but considering an early "RNA world" Crick noted later that life may have originated on Earth.
New evidence suggests that both a meteorite and massive volcano eruptions worked together to wipe out the dinosaurs.
An apocalyptic impact
Dinosaurs ruled the planet for over a hundred million years, but their reign came to an abrupt end some 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous. The most popular theory, and the one with the most evidence to back it is that this abrupt end was brought about by a massive asteroid or a comet — the crater of which we call Chicxulub.
The Chicxulub impact crater, as it can be “seen” through geophysical techniques.
Chicxulub lies underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, hidden to the naked eye, visible only through geophysical techniques. The crater, which measures 150 kilometers (93 miles) in diameter and 20 km (12 mi) in depth, indicates an apocalyptic impact. Geologists estimate that the impact had the energy of 10 billion Hiroshima A-bombs, millions of times more powerful than any object mankind has ever detonated. Words can’t do this event justice.
A cloud of super-heated dust, ash and steam spread from the crater at dramatic speeds, as the impact body burrowed underground in less than a second. Virtually all life 5,000 km away was wiped instantly. But the worst was still yet to come.
The impact triggered a massive emission of dust and particles which covered the entire surface of the Earth for several years, possibly a decade, creating a harsh environment for living things. Initially, the shock destruction of carbonate rocks led to a sudden and powerful greenhouse effect, heating the planet. But as time went on, the dust particles blocked the sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth, cooling the surface dramatically.
To top it all off, the impact generated ungodly shockwaves, which in turn caused earthquakes and caused volcanic activity. This is where the new study comes in.
A one-two punch
New oceanic crust is constantly produced at mid-oceanic ridges. Here, red represents the newer crust. This helps geologists get a ballpark figure for dating the rocks. The date is then finessed through direct measurement techniques.
As if all that wasn’t enough, the impact also triggered volcanic activity which helped seal the dinosaurs’ fate.
“We found evidence for a previously unknown period of globally heighted volcanic activity during the mass-extinction event,” said former UO doctoral student Joseph Byrnes.
Byrnes and Leif Karlstrom, a professor in the UO’s Department of Earth Sciences, analyzed a record of volcanism preserved along the mid-ocean ridges — underwater mountain system formed at the edge of tectonic plates.
In order to assess the volcanic activity, they used a geophysical technique called gravity surveying. This approach involves measuring the Earth’s gravitational field using highly sensitive instruments, capable of picking up even minute differences. In this instance, researchers used freely available satellite data.
By mapping the gravity field, they are able to deduct the density of the underlying rocks and thus, they have some information as to what kind of rock they’re looking at (for instance, a volcanic basalt will have a much higher density than a sedimentary limestone). This allows them to identify volcanic regions, and improved dating methods allowed them to place the increased volcanic activity right at the same time as Chicxulub, establishing a strong correlation.
“Our work suggests a connection between these exceedingly rare and catastrophic events, distributed over the entire planet,” Karlstrom said. “The meteorite’s impact may have influenced volcanic eruptions that were already going on, making for a one-two punch.”
So, researchers conclude, it wasn’t the impact itself that wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather a cascade of effects, including massive eruptions of underwater volcanoes. It’s another important reminder that the Earth is a tightly-knit ecosystem, and severe events tend to propagate all around the planet.
However, perhaps it’s important to note that through this catastrophe, and a few similarly devastating events, life still managed to find a way. Dinosaurs themselves, despite popular knowledge, are not exactly extinct. In a way, they’re thriving — as birds. A group of dinosaurs evolved and adapted, becoming the birds we see all around us.
Artistic depiction of the Chicxulub ipact. This painting by Donald E. Davis depicts an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatan Peninsula in what is today southeast Mexico.
Journal Reference: Joseph S. Byrnes, Leif Karlstrom. Anomalous K-Pg–aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced mid-ocean ridge magmatism. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2994
New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles, as well as Centaurs at extremely high phase angles to search for forward-scattering rings or dust. These December 2017 false-color images of KBOs 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 are, for now, the farthest from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. They're also the closest-ever images of Kuiper Belt objects. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
“New Horizons has long been a mission of firsts — first to explore Pluto, first to explore the Kuiper Belt, fastest spacecraft ever launched,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “And now, we’ve been able to make images farther from Earth than any spacecraft in history.”
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the “Wishing Well” galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth – making it, for a time, the farthest image ever made from Earth
New Horizons was even farther from home than NASA’s Voyager 1 when it captured the famous “Pale Blue Dot” image of Earth. That picture was part of a composite of 60 images looking back at the solar system, on Feb. 14, 1990, when Voyager was 3.75 billion miles (6.06 billion kilometers, or about 40.5 astronomical units [AU]) from Earth. Voyager 1’s cameras were turned off shortly after that portrait, leaving its distance record unchallenged for more than 27 years.
LORRI broke its own record just two hours later with images of Kuiper Belt objects 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 – further demonstrating how nothing stands still when you’re covering more than 700,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) of space each day.
For a short time, this New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) frame of the "Wishing Well" star cluster, taken Dec. 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever made by a spacecraft, breaking a 27-year record set by Voyager 1. About two hours later, New Horizons later broke the record again. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
Distance and Speed
New Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to speed beyond the outer planets, so many of its activities set distance records. On Dec. 9 it carried out the most-distant course-correction maneuver ever, as the mission team guided the spacecraft toward a close encounter with a KBO named 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. That New Year’s flight past MU69 will be the farthest planetary encounter in history, happening one billion miles beyond the Pluto system – which New Horizons famously explored in July 2015.
During its extended mission in the Kuiper Belt, which began in 2017, New Horizons is aiming to observe at least two-dozen other KBOs, dwarf planets and “Centaurs,” former KBOs in unstable orbits that cross the orbits of the giant planets. Mission scientists study the images to determine the objects’ shapes and surface properties, and to check for moons and rings. The spacecraft also is making nearly continuous measurements of the plasma, dust and neutral-gas environment along its path.
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is currently in hibernation. Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will bring the spacecraft out of its electronic slumber on June 4 and begin a series of system checkouts and other activities to prepare New Horizons for the MU69 encounter.
ECONOMIE / RUIMTEVAART: Na de vlucht op grote hoogte volgde een pijnlijke crash voor Elon Musk. Tesla heeft een recordverlies in de boeken geschreven. Spectaculaire beelden van een elektrische wagen in de ruimte kunnen daar niets aan veranderen. Tenslotte loopt de productie van het langverwachte Model 3 nog altijd voor geen meter.
Een dag lang leek het alsof Elon Musk over bovennatuurlijke krachten beschikte. De lancering van een rode Tesla Roadster met de krachtigste raket ter wereld - de ‘Falcon Heavy’ van zijn andere bedrijf SpaceX - was een ongezien succes. Maar de resultaten die de CEO woensdag presenteerde, veroorzaakten een knalharde landing. De baas van Tesla zag het verlies afgelopen kwartaal nog verder oplopen tot ruim 675 miljoen dollar, nadat in het derde kwartaal al het grootste verlies ooit was neergezet. En daar zit de sputterende productie van het Model 3 voor veel tussen.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.De rode Tesla van werd met de krachtigste draagraket de ruimte ingeschoten.
Het zit Tesla al langer tegen bij de productie van Model 3. Dat is de nieuwe auto die in juli geïntroduceerd werd als de ‘elektrische auto voor de massa’. De autobouwer heeft fors geïnvesteerd in allerlei robots, assemblagelijnen en andere zaken die nodig zijn voor de bouw. Voorlopig steekt de levering ervan echter nog af bij de andere, duurdere modellen.
In oktober, november en december werden in totaal nog maar 1.550 exemplaren van de Model 3 gebouwd. Tesla zag zich in januari daarom al genoodzaakt de productiedoelstellingen nog verder voor zich uit te schuiven. Het bedrijf denkt nu niet voor halverwege dit jaar 5.000 wagens per week te kunnen afleveren van het type. In totaal leverde Tesla in het vierde kwartaal 29.870 voertuigen af.
EPATesla Model 3
Worst
De CEO repte met geen woord over de datum waartegen de oorspronkelijk beoogde capaciteit van 10.000 stuks per week zou moeten worden bereikt. “We zijn nog een eind verwijderd van de productiedoelstellingen”, zei hij. “Maar als we een Roadster naar de planetoïdengordel kunnen sturen, kunnen we hopelijk ook de productieproblemen met Model 3 oplossen.”
Musk liet verder niet in zijn kaarten kijken. Hij vergeleek de productie van Model 3 met worst. “Wanneer men dol is op worst, vraagt men zich ook beter niet af hoe die lekkernij wordt gemaakt.”
EPATesla CEO Elon Musk
Lichtpuntje: de opbrengsten van Tesla gingen op jaarbasis wel vooruit, van 2,3 miljard naar 3,3 miljard dollar. En Musk heeft aan beleggers laten uitschijnen dat de verliezen weldra tot het verleden gaan behoren. Men verwacht dat het bedrijfsresultaat “ergens in 2018” definitief positief zal worden. Van de S- en X-modellen zullen er dit jaar ongeveer 100.000 worden verkocht, voorspelde de Tesla-baas.
Speculaties
In het verleden deden speculaties de ronde als zou Musk op het punt staan om Tesla de rug toe te keren om zich te kunnen focussen op het organiseren van ruimtereizen. Gezien het enthousiaste gejuich over zijn raketlancering, zou het behoorlijk verleidelijk zijn om de verliesrapporten van Tesla aan een ander over te laten. Zeker om dat zijn contract die mogelijkheid voorziet.
Musk heeft echter verzekerd dat er “geen actieve zoektocht naar een nieuwe CEO plaatsvindt”. “Maar op een gegeven moment kan een geweldige persoon van binnen of buiten het bedrijf die functie op zich nemen - en dat is oké voor mij.”
NASA2018 CB scheert omstreeks 11.30 uur langs de aarde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEen asteroïde van 15 tot 40 meter breed scheert vandaag langs de aarde op een afstand die dichter is dan die van de aarde tot de maan. Dat meldt NASA.
Het hemellichaam, dat 2018 CB werd gedoopt, is de tweede asteroïde die deze week voorbij onze aarde zoeft, schrijft CNN. De planetoïde werd op 4 februari ontdekt en zal rond 11.30 uur Belgische tijd zijn dichtste punt met de aarde bereiken, aldus NASA.
Asteroïden van deze omvang naderen niet vaak onze blauwe planeet, zegt Paul Chodas van het Amerikaans ruimteagentschap.
Volgens NASA zal 2018 CB de aarde veilig passeren op een afstand van ruim 60.000 kilometer, wat volgens ruimtevaartnormen vrij dichtbij is. Ter vergelijking: de afstand van de aarde tot de maan telt ongeveer 384.000 kilometer.
Eerder deze week kregen we al bezoek van 2018 CC. Die asteroïde werd eveneens op 4 februari ontdekt en zoefde dinsdagavond op een afstand van 184.000 kilometer langs de aarde.
Two asteroids, one week. The 1st of this week’s close-approaching asteroid s happened Feb. 6 at 3:10pm ET at a distance of ~114,000 miles. The 2nd asteroid will safely pass by Earth on Fri. at 2:30pm at a distance of ~39,000 miles. Get the details: http://go.nasa.gov/2En3dpN
In November 1957, three men witnessed a red light falling from the skies above Silpho Moor in northern England near Royal Air Force Fylingdales. The men got out of their car to investigate after their car mysteriously stopped and discovered a strange object lying on the ground. The object was roughly eighteen inches across, saucer-shaped, and quite heavy for its size. The object changed hands a few times, and was allegedly opened at some point, at which a rolled ‘booklet’ of copper sheets embossed with unidentifiable hieroglyphs or symbols was found.
The object, top, and the ‘booklet’ of hieroglyphs.
What followed became one of the strangest UFO mysteries in England, described in detail here by Mysterious Universe’s Nick Redfern. Like many supposed UFO artifacts, the Silpho Moor object was eventually lost to history, it’s whereabouts unknown for the last six decades. However, a London museum is now reporting the discovery of archival documents which detail how the objects were studied in the years following their discovery. According to the Yorkshire Post, documents found in the archives of London Science Museum seem to suggest that pieces of the Silpho Moor object were sent to the museum in 1963 for expert analysis.
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Yorkshire Post headline from 1957
The documents state that the artifacts sent to the museum included a section of the metal plastic outer casing, a short length of copper tubing, and several shards of foil from the “booklet” found inside. The artifacts were studied by the Natural History Museum Gordon Claringbull, described as a meteorites and explosives expert. The documents state that analyses of the objects revealed they were likely of Earthly origin, and many of the museum staff who examined them believed them to be an elaborate hoax. Still, others like Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding who led the RAF forces at the Battle of Britain in WWII claimed to have personally examined the object and believed it to be of extraterrestrial origin.
Bomb squad technicians examining the object.
Despite the divided opinions in the documents, some ufologists believe these archival rechods vindicate claims that the Silpho Moor object could be the UK’s most significant UFO incident. Author and paranormal researcher Andy Roberts called the discovery of these documents “an amazing breakthrough,” claiming “it’s incredible to hear that all this time pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive.” Sure, I guess. While these documents add some credibility to the story in general, they still don’t definitively explain what the Silpho Moor object could have been, where the object was for those six missing years, or what has happened to it ever since. What exactly fell on the moors in late 1957? Debris from a Russian satellite? New technology being tested at the nearby RAF base? Or a genuine alien artifact?
Accounts of UFO encounters are inherently bizarre, and seem to cover a wide array of disparate unexplained phenomena associated with them. One very odd occurrence that seems to hang over some cases is instances of alleged teleportation of witnesses, sometimes individually and sometimes more than person, as well as objects and even whole vehicles and their occupants. With regards to UFOs this is sometimes referred to as “teletransportation,” and it can happen instantaneously or over the course of minutes or even hours, all ending with the common factor of UFO witnesses being in one place one moment, and in another the next, often very far away from where they started and without any idea of how they have covered the distance, nor any memory of what has happened. It all sounds rather outlandish, and it is, but there are numerous reports of this happening, and it seems to be a recurring unusual characteristic in an already unusual field.
In September of 1979, the Richmond Virginia Times-Dispatchreported on the strange case of truck driver Harry Turner, who was driving from Fredericksburg from Winchester, Virginia, in the United States, when his car was without warning enveloped by a blindingly bright light, which he at first had taken to be the headlights of an incoming truck. His truck was then surrounded by a “palpably thick white light,” and he noticed that the steering wheel had taken on a life of its own, no longer under his control. Turner then found that his truck was actually floating over the landscape, and before he could adjust to this precarious new predicament he claims that the door was suddenly ripped open by an unknown invisible entity, as another seemed to scramble about on the roof of the vehicle. It was then that the creature at his door reached in to grab him in an iron grip.
Fortunately for Turner, he had been carrying with him a revolver, which he instinctively drew and fired wildly at where he perceived the mysterious unseen being to be, but this seemed to have little effect. That was when he says he blacked out completely, and the next thing he remembers is being in a warehouse parking lot in Fredericksburg, far from where he had last been. In his hand he still gripped the pistol, and there were spent shells littering the vehicle all about him. Bizarrely, it was 3 AM in the morning according to the warehouse clock, whereas his own watch read 11:17 PM, and as far as his truck’s odometer was concerned he had only traveled 17 miles, when the trip to Fredericksburg should have been more like 80.
Although his memory was hazy at first, Turner would later recount how he had been taken aboard a craft and encountered strange beings “dressed in white, like doctors, with white caps on their head,” which he believed to be “ultra-terrestrials,” more or less inter-dimensional beings. In later days he would report more oddities, such as being confronted by a band of six of the creatures, five of which he reportedly knocked to the ground in his fight against them. On another occasion, he says that he suddenly became soaking wet for no discernible reason at all. In the meantime, animals seemed to be uncomfortable around him, and he often had ringing in his ears and suicidal thoughts. On one occasion he says that one of the creatures appeared there in his car with him as he drove along, which freaked him out and sent him into a mad dash that would culminate in him being pulled over and charged with two counts of reckless driving and two counts of failing to heed a siren and flashing lights. The alien was gone at this point. Turner has said of his thoughts on the matter thus:
Ever since it all began, I’ve just been sitting here going over and over it in my mind, trying to piece things back together. I’d feel pretty good if I could just figure out where I’ve been. Twenty years from now I’ll still probably never know what happened that night.
Also from 1978 is a perplexing case from the South American country of Chile, which involved two race car drivers named Miguel Angel Moya and Carlos Acevedo during the first Rally de la Vuelta de America del Sur in September of that year, and which was printed by researcher Guillermo Roncorconi in UFO Press No. 9, October 1978. The drivers departed from the city of Buenos Aires on August 17, 1978, embarking on the first leg of their exhausting month-long rally, which would take them thousands of kilometers to Caracas Venezuela and back down to where they had started.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
During their last 1,000 kilometers of the rally, on September 23 at around 3 AM, the drivers left the main road of Route 3 and began driving along a secluded rural road just past the town of Carmen de Patagones, which would lead them to a town called Cardenal Cagliero. At this time Carlos was at the wheel, and in his rearview mirror he suddenly noticed a bright light with a strange quality he described as “dense and yellowish,” which he at first thought to be perhaps headlights of another vehicle and which seemed to be growing closer and brighter at a rapid pace. Carlos pulled the car over to the side of the road, still thinking that this was another car or truck and thinking he would let it pass. Allegedly at that moment the entire vehicle was suddenly completely bathed in a breathtaking brilliant white light. Carlos would say of the bizarre events that followed thus:
Light flooded the passenger compartment and I couldn’t see beyond the hood of the car. It was a dense, brilliant light, yellow in color with some violet hues. I thought I’d lost control of the car at the moment. I looked through the window and saw were nearly two meters over the asphalt surface. I suddenly thought we had jumped over a speed bump and braced myself on the steering wheel, waiting for the moment we’d hit the surface again.
After a few seconds, I don’t know, maybe some 5 or 10, I reacted and realized that something completely abnormal was going on. I wanted to look out the window again, but all I could see was that dense light. I remember I started screaming ‘what’s going on?’ but Moya wasn’t answering. When I looked to my right, my companion wasn’t there, or at least I couldn’t see him. I couldn’t even see the dashboard. I could only see that dense light that looked liquid, I don’t know, sort of viscous.
Meanwhile, the other passenger, Miguel Angel Moya, was there, and was described as being completely terrified by the situation, which to be fair was probably the correct response to such a completely otherworldly series of events. Miguel would later recall of the surreal situation:
Initially I also thought it was a speed bump, and was scared at the thought of the vehicle overturning, but when I noticed that the car appeared to float in the air and wasn’t coming down, I became even more frightened. It was a situation I couldn’t really understand. I looked at Carlos and I saw him completely stiff, clutching the steering wheel with his arms outstretched and staring forward. It seemed like he was screaming but I couldn’t hear anything. I could see everything as if through a yellow fog, as if I was distant, somewhere else. I think my first reaction was to try and flee from there, but when I tried to open the door it wouldn’t budge, as if welded shut. I noticed the temperature was rising, although it could have been the result of my state of fear. Suddenly the light covered everything and I couldn’t see a thing, not even my hands, nothing.
The car then shuddered violently as it descended to hit the road, and the almost unbearably bright light began to dim and dissipate as the object was witnessed to travel off into the distance, and it was said to look like “a cone of yellow light, but one that didn’t end in a tip.” When their eyes had adjusted to the sudden dark, they realized that they had been deposited on the shoulder of the road facing the opposite direction of where they had been headed when the whole strange incident had started. They then watched the curious light travel off to the West, and Miguel would say of it:
It might have measured some five meters at the base and two or three at the cusp, measuring some six or seven meters in height. The base lit the ground, although you really couldn’t see what it was lighting, that is to say, you couldn’t see through the light. A few seconds later, the light…how can I explain it? …retracted itself or drew up like a curtain, from bottom to top, and all that remained in view was an oval, whitish-yellow light that kept heading west until it vanished in the distance.
The two shocked drivers reportedly sat there in awe and fear for a few minutes, trying to gather their wits about themselves, after which they went tearing off down Route 3 to get out of there as fast as they could. They would soon after reach a town called Pedro Luro, which was about 123 kilometers from where they had started and where the bizarreness would continue. Looking at the dashboard, they noticed that it said they had traveled just 52 kilometers from the city of Viedma to Puerto Luro, when in fact the actual distance it should have been was 127 kilometers. Somehow they had jumped a portion of that distance which had not registered on their vehicle. Even stranger still was that a look at a clock showed them that nearly 2 and a half hours had passed, when that journey should have only taken a little over an hour at the speeds they had been going, and adding to all of this it seemed that their backup gas tank was completely empty, despite the fact that they had just filled it up shortly before leaving Route 3. Although they at first thought about keeping the whole baffling event to themselves, they ended up going to the police with their story, after which it went on to become big news at the time.
Also from South America is a more recent case from May of 2017 in the location of the town of Hernandarias, in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina. According to the report, which was carried on Planeta UFO and CN Digital, a family gathered for dinner at their home on the night of May 22, 2017, and their 13-year old son was sent off on an errand to get something. The boy found that one of the doors was stuck, so another family member helped with trying to open it, but as he did this he allegedly turned around to find the boy was nowhere to be seen.
This wasn’t really so weird at this point, as the adult figured he had just returned to the dinner table, but it would soon become apparent that he had not, and that no one had seen the boy since he had left. The concerned family began searching the whole property and the street outside, but there was no sign where he had gone. At this point, one of their cell phones rang and on the other line was the missing boy, who sounded quite confused and purportedly told them that he was at a taxi stand but was not sure where it was or how he had gotten there.
When police were notified and finally located the boy, he was around a kilometer and a half away from the house. Questioning him did not do much good, as he seemed to have very little memory of what had happened to him after he had left the dinner table. All he could say was that he had seen a blinding light and heard a “snapping noise,” after which he found himself suddenly and inexplicably at the taxi stand. The boy was found to be completely healthy and with no sign of any physical injuries, and no one else in the area seems to have witnessed the light he speaks of. The odd case has been investigated ever since, with some UFO researchers holding it up as a case of abduction, some saying it is a case of spontaneous teleportation. UFO researcher Gustavo Fernández, who wrote of the event in an article entitled “Argentina: The Hernandarias Event – UFO Teleportation or Abduction,” which was translated to English by Scott Corrales of the Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU) believed that it is the latter, saying of the case:
This then is the description of the facts – accepting its likelihood, ratified by Diego Wasinger, the local police chief – allows us to suppose the existence of another phenomenon, a parapsychological one with considerable background: teleportation. This is the name given to a spectacular but documented phenomenon consisting in the dematerialization of a person from a given location and their reappearance at another. Why speculate about an intervention by alien craft? This would be so if the protagonist had described having been taken into a spacecraft, or if other witnesses had seen this. But here, the youth only sees “a light” and this does not suffice to tag it as a UFO.
In fact, as I often say: we say a shining light behaving abnormally in the sky and we say: “Oh! a UFO!”. We see a bright light behaving strangely at a graveyard and we say: “Oh! It’s a ghost!”. The only certainty in both cases is that we have seen a light behaving oddly. The “explanation” is simply our own speculation.
Argentina seems to be a veritable hotspot of such cases, and there is even a whole road that is known for having a high concentration of these strange incidents. Supposedly, the stretch of National Route 5 connecting Trenque Lauquen and Santa Rosa is absolutely plagued by reports of phenomena such as UFOs, instances of lost time, and teleportation. One commonly reported anomaly is startled drivers suddenly transported from the kilometer 460 marker to the kilometer 580 marker in the blink of an eye, a phenomenon often said to be accompanied by an inexplicable fog that comes from nowhere or mysterious unidentified lights in the sky.
According to UFO researcher Diego Sánchez, one very strange case along Route 5 involved a car mechanic named Carlos Colón, who was driving along the road on August 25, 1999, when his ears were assaulted by a deafening “buzzing sound.” The puzzled driver allegedly pulled over to the side of the road to try and figure out what was going on. He reported that as he had sat there in the car he noticed a group of mysterious humanoid figures creeping through the dark to approach the vehicle. Terrified, Carlos began to exit his car, and at that point the figures apparently vanished and he instantaneously found himself standing out of the vehicle several meters away. At the time the witness says he was overcome by an odd pain emanating from all over his body, as well as profound exhaustion, and dizziness.
In another case, a man was driving along near Buenos Aires when he saw a strange purple light off in the distance, after which an unseasonable fog purportedly enveloped his vehicle. The next thing he knew he was lying on the ground in an unfamiliar location with his car nowhere to be seen. When he flagged down a passing vehicle he learned that he was in Salta, a full 1800 kilometers away from where he had been. His car would be found back where he had first seen the light, its engine still idling. UFO researcher Luis Burgos has said of Route 5 and its strange phenomena thus:
Route 5 and the communities located in the province of La Pampa are, without a doubt, prone to a variety of UFO experiences, of which teleportations are one of the most interesting episodes. One is atemporal teleportation, in which the protagonist takes minutes, even hours, in regaining awareness in a location far removed from the one he or she was in before. The other is instantaneous teleportation, which is the kind that usually occurs on Route 5 when drivers are not even aware that they have experienced the phenomenon, suddenly becoming aware when they see a mile marker or road sign that tells them they have traversed an unexpected distance in a matter of seconds.
Speaking of Argentina, one of the most bizarre, spectacular, and controversial cases of UFOs and teleportation ever comes from here. In May of 1968, a Dr. Geraldo Vidal and his wife Raffo de Vidal allegedly headed out from Buenos Aires on a trip to join a family gathering at the city of Chascomus, which lies around 120 kilometers away. After the get-together, they took a detour on the way back home, deciding they would visit some friends in the town of Maipu, lying around 150 kilometers from Chascomus. They would never arrive at their destination, no trace of their whereabouts could be found, and friends and family became increasingly worried. 48 hours after this mysterious disappearances, some friends were startled to receive a call from Dr. Vidal, but the really strange thing was that he was calling from the Argentinean consulate in Mexico City, some 6,400 km away.
When the Vidals were back in Argentina, a deeply strange story began to emerge as to why they had ended up so far away. Dr. Vidal would say that on the evening of their vanishing they had been driving along a stretch of road when their vehicle had been inexplicably surrounded by a thick, white fog, and this would be the last thing they remembered before they woke up in the daytime on an unfamiliar rural road. Astonishingly, all though they remembered nothing of how they had gotten there a look at a calendar showed them that a full 48 hours had passed. Physically they felt fine, but they reported that their necks ached and they had perceived a certain heaviness throughout their bodies, as if they had slept too long.
Getting out of the car they discovered that the vehicle had strange scorch marks all down its sides, as it someone had taken a blowtorch to it, but the car otherwise worked fine. When they were able to ask some locals where they were, they were surprised and not a little unsettled to learn that they were actually now in Mexico, far from where they had just been, for them, moments before. Allegedly the Vidals drove over to Mexico City, where they explained the whole bizarre tale to a Rafael Lopez Pellegrini at the Argentine consulate. In an ominous turn of events, they were warned not to tell of what had happened to them to anyone, and their car was whisked away to the United States for analysis.
Despite this, the Vidal story was soon all over the news and it has gone on to become a classic, widely-known UFO case, reported on and written of countless times. Unfortunately, in later years the case has come under scrutiny as perhaps being a hoax. It turns out that not long before the strange incident an Argentinean science fiction film titled Che OVNI was in production. Directed by Anibal Uset, the film’s story of a couple who are teleported in their car displayed many of the same beats and details of the Vidal case, and even the car used in the film, a white Peugeot 403, is the same as the Vidals’.
Uset would even end up eventually admitting that he had created the whole Vidal story to promote and drum up interest in the movie, and because no first-hand witnesses to the incident had ever been directly interviewed, as well as the fact that there was scant evidence to prove that the Vidals had ever even been real people at all, this all pointed to the whole thing being a sham. Weirdly, despite this revelation there have been many who believe that Uset’s admission is a cover-up, and there are plenty of people who have claimed that they have met the Vidals and that their tale is actually true. So strong was the backlash against Uset’s admission that at one point the director himself started to think that maybe it was real after all and that his version of events was wrong. He would say of this to journalist Alejandro C. Agostinelli:
So many people approached me to say that they had known the Vidals that I began to have doubts. What is more, the confusion was such that I began to think that our story coincided with something that had really happened.
The supposed hoaxer having doubts? What is going on here and where does this leave us? Was the Vidal case a hoax or not? Was Uset’s admission that he had created the story real or was it a cover-up to discredit a true account? If it was real did his lie somehow mysteriously mirror a real event? Agostinelli has himself said of his opinion on Uset and the Vidals:
At the time, the fact that he (Uset) questioned his own creation startled me. But I think that this helps to understand how UFO stories are built along with many other modern myths. If even a hoaxer can be led to doubt, this means that mysteries are able to overcome any denial. That’s why I think myths are indestructible. Countless teleportation cases have occurred in Argentina and around the world, but the Vidal Case was a lie.
Nevertheless, the Vidal case continues to generate a fair amount of debate and discussion, it remains a classic case, and there are many who still think that it is a genuine event. Whether the case is real or not, one intriguing detail is the type of damage they supposedly found on their car, as if it had been subjected to some scorching heat, and this is a curious detailed in another bizarre case, in which one supposed UFO teleportation event seems to have apparently been stopped in the middle of the process. The witness claims that she had been driving through Chicago, Illinois, one evening in November of 2008 when she suddenly heard a series of loud thuds and bangs on her vehicle, as if someone were hammering at it from outside. These impacts became steadily stronger, to the point where some caused the whole car to shudder, with one particularly powerful tremor sending her into another lane.
When the incessant bangs stopped the understandably frightened woman pulled over to investigate any damage that had been caused to her car. Strangely, although there was no sign of dents or scratches that would have been caused by a collision or strike, the ides of the car looked as if they had been partially melted as if by an intense heat. It has been speculated that the woman had possibly been in the process of being sucked into some sort of portal, and the sounds that she had heard were perhaps it opening and closing around her, although why this all abruptly stopped is anyone’s guess.
Are any of these stories true, or are these hoaxes and tall tales? If they are genuine, then what is it that is happening to these people and who or what is behind it and for what purpose? Nobody knows. What we do know is that the UFO phenomenon is rife with the strange, the otherworldly, the surreal, and the downright insane, with seemingly no end to the wellspring of bizarreness that comes forth from it. With cases such as we have seen here we can add teleportation and teletransportation in some form or other to the long list of baffling details and clues already orbiting UFOs and their purported abilities, one more piece of weird to add to the considerable pile.
Of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, we gaan een nieuw tijdperk binnen waarbij technische snufjes die eerst sciencefiction leken, werkelijkheid worden.
Waar overal veel geld in wordt geïnvesteerd in zelf rijdende auto's, heeft Airbus besloten om een nieuw soort taxi drone te ontwikkelen die je snel en veilig van A naar B brengt.
Onze wegen raken overvol en dus is het logisch dat we wat meer naar het luchtruim kijken om te zorgen dat we niet straks met z'n allen permanent in een file staan.
Tegelijkertijd zal dit uiteraard worden aangegrepen om bij de mens nog wat meer vrijheden weg te halen omdat men straks niet zelf meer mag rijden, maar dit alleen nog zal gebeuren door zelf rijdende auto's die vanuit een centraal punt worden bestuurd. Dit is ook handig voor de autoriteiten, want als die je willen spreken, rijdt je auto plotseling niet meer naar een bestemming die jij hebt uitgekozen, maar bijvoorbeeld linea recta naar een belastingkantoor waar je een hele hoop lastige vragen moet beantwoorden omdat "een goede Nederlander" heeft gemeld dat jij nog steeds contant geld gebruikt.
En waarschijnlijk moet de ontwikkeling van een zogenaamde taxi drone door Airbus in hetzelfde licht gezien worden. Het is in feite een variant van de zelf rijdende auto, maar dan in de lucht.
Twee jaar geleden is Airbus begonnen met de ontwikkeling van deze drone die als projectnaam Vahana heeft meegekregen; Sanskrit voor voertuig. Deze grote drone kan verticaal landen en opstijgen, waardoor het op alle plaatsen mensen kan oppikken en afzetten. Was het twee jaar geleden nog een vaag ontwerp, nu is bekend geworden dat de eerste testvlucht inmiddels is uitgevoerd.
Het doel van deze drone is dat er in plaats van zelf rijdende auto's ook zelf vliegende voertuigen komen voor forensen en andere mensen die regelmatig reizen. De kosten wil men zo laag mogelijk houden en zullen te vergelijken zijn met bestaande vervoermiddelen zoals trein en auto.
De Vahana moet minstens vier keer sneller de passagiers van A naar B kunnen brengen dan de conventionele concurrenten en de actieradius zal rond de 80 kilometer liggen.
Toekomstige toepassingen van deze drone zullen liggen op het gebied van vrachtvervoer, ambulancediensten of taxivervoer. Airbus gaat door met testen en het is nog niet duidelijk hoelang het zal duren voordat je via een app een dergelijke drone kunt bestellen om bij je schoonmoeder op theevisite te gaan.
Maar dat ze over niet al te lange tijd een vertrouwd beeld in de lucht zullen zijn, zoveel lijkt welhaast zeker.
At a very steady rate, unstable carbon-14 gradually decays to carbon-12. The ratio of these carbon isotopes reveals the ages of some of Earth’s oldest inhabitants.
Cosmic rays bombard Earth’s atmosphere, creating the unstable isotope carbon-14. This isotope lets scientists learn the ages of once-living things.
Radiocarbon dating is a technique used by scientists to learn the ages of biological specimens – for example, wooden archaeological artifacts or ancient human remains – from the distant past. It can be used on objects as old as about 62,000 years. Here’s how it works.
What is an isotope?
To understand radiocarbon dating, you first have to understand the word isotope.
An isotope is what scientists call two or more forms of the same element. If you could peer at the atoms of two different isotopes, you’d find equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in the atoms’ nucleus or core.
So there’s a difference in the relative atomic masses of two isotopes. But they still have the same chemical properties. A carbon atom is a carbon atom is a carbon atom …
Although an element’s number of protons cannot change, the number of neutrons can vary slightly in each atom. Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes. Here’s an example using the simplest atom, hydrogen. Radiocarbon dating uses isotopes of the element carbon.
Radiocarbon dating relies on the carbon isotopes carbon-14 and carbon-12. Scientists are looking for the ratio of those two isotopes in a sample.
Most carbon on Earth exists as the very stable isotope carbon-12, with a very small amount as carbon-13.
Carbon-14 is an unstable isotope of carbon that will eventually decay at a known rate to become carbon-12.
Cosmic rays – high-energy particles from beyond the solar system – bombard Earth’s upper atmosphere continually, in the process creating the unstable carbon-14. Carbon-14 is considered a radioactive isotope of carbon. Because it’s unstable, carbon-14 will eventually decay back to carbon-12 isotopes. Because the cosmic ray bombardment is fairly constant, there’s a near-constant level of carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio in Earth’s atmosphere.
Organisms at the base of the food chain that photosynthesize – for example, plants and algae – use the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. They have the same ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 as the atmosphere, and this same ratio is then carried up the food chain all the way to apex predators, like sharks.
But when gas exchange is stopped, be it in a particular part of the body like in deposits in bones and teeth, or when the entire organism dies, the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 begins to decrease. The unstable carbon-14 gradually decays to carbon-12 at a steady rate.
And that’s the key to radiocarbon dating. Scientists measure the ratio of carbon isotopes to be able to estimate how far back in time a biological sample was active or alive.
This plot shows the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere as measured in New Zealand (red) and Austria (green), representing the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, respectively. Aboveground nuclear testing almost doubled the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere. That’s why aboveground nuclear testing was banned. The black arrow shows when the Partial Test Ban Treaty was enacted that banned aboveground nuclear tests.
Image via Hokanomono via Wikimedia Commons.
A special kind of radiocarbon dating: Bomb radiocarbon dating.
As we mentioned above, the carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio in the atmosphere remains nearly constant. It’s not absolutely constant due to several variables that affect the levels of cosmic rays reaching the atmosphere, such as the fluctuating strength of the Earth’s magnetic field, solar cycles that influence the amount of cosmic rays entering the solar system, climatic changes and human activities. Among the significant events that caused a temporary but significant spike in the atmospheric carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio were above-ground nuclear test detonations in the two decades following World War II.
Bomb radiocarbon dating is a term for radiocarbon dating based on timestamps left by above-ground nuclear explosions, and it is especially useful for putting an absolute age on organisms that lived through those events. In The Cosmic Story of Carbon-14 Ethan Siegel writes:
The only major fluctuation [in carbon-14] we know of occurred when we began detonating nuclear weapons in the open air, back in the mid-20th century. If you ever wondered why nuclear tests are now performed underground, this is why.
Most radiocarbon dating today is done using an accelerator mass spectrometer, an instrument that directly counts the numbers of carbon-14 and carbon-12 in a sample.
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings revealed for first time
Harley Tamplin
Is the north of England a UFO hotspot?
(Picture: Getty)
Three eyewitness accounts of mysterious UFO sightings that have never been explained have emerged for the first time.
Never-before-heard reports describe the close encounters, all of which happened in the north of England in the 1980s.
UFO researchers including investigator Philip Mantle looked into all three cases at the time – but they were left to lie on file as no explanation for them could be found.
While most sightings are quickly and easily identified by experts, the three cases left Mr Mantle ‘scratching his head’.
He said: ‘No aircraft, balloons or meteorological phenomenon could account for them and this is a time long before Chinese lanterns.
‘There are of course some similarities in these sightings the most notable one being the lack of any noise made by the objects. Whether this is relevant or significant is debateable but it’s a curiosity nonetheless.
‘The one thing that is for certain is that UFOs were the last thing on the mind of any of these witnesses prior to their observations.’
Darwen, Lancashire, in November 1985
The woman who saw the object later provided this drawing of it
Over the span of eight minutes – an unusually long time for a UFO sighting – a woman claimed she saw a diamond-shaped object in the sky about 200-300 feet above her.
She told the researchers that she saw two round red lights as she walked to her car at 7.30pm, adding that there was no noise as the object moved through the air.
Describing the scene, she said: ‘I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object.
‘This object was very large and seemed to be very heavy looking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.
‘I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs.
‘The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.’
Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, in December 1986
A couple described seeing a ‘star-shaped’ object
John Stoddard and his family were about to leave the cottage where they had spent a holiday on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
He was gazing at the stars at 7.22am when he noticed one of the ‘stars’ moving – in the direction of the family from over hills in the distance.
By the time Mr Stoddard was joined by his wife – who also reported seeing the same object – it was just above some trees in a nearby field.
The couple described the object flying up to them at a low speed of about 5-10mph, and opening up into a giant triangle with white lights surrounding it.
Mr Stoddard, who said it was the size of a double-decker-bus, said both he and his wife were excited but also scared by what they saw.
The object moved slowly out of view of the family over the moors.
Rochdale, Lancashire, in August 1987
A dog walker saw these flying objects, before they disappeared after 10 seconds
A dog walker gave an extremely detailed description of unidentified objects of ‘tremendous’ size that flew through the night sky at more than 100mph.
John Doherty was on one of his late night dog walks at about 10pm when he first noticed shimmering lights in the distance, through broken clouds.
µHe claimed to have seen them passing in and out of the clouds, and said they may have been rotating, causing them to ‘shimmer’.
Mr Doherty added that each object had three bright lights on its underside, that were so powerful they shone through the clouds.
He watched them until they disappeared after about 10 seconds.
By Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor
This Chandra X-ray photograph shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/UMass Amherst/M.D.Stage et al.
A blindingly bright star bursts into view in a corner of the night sky — it wasn't there just a few hours ago, but now it burns like a beacon.
That bright star isn't actually a star, at least not anymore. The brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, otherwise known as a supernova.
Supernovae can briefly outshine entire galaxies and radiate more energy than our sun will in its entire lifetime. They're also the primary source of heavy elements in the universe. According to NASA, supernovae are "the largest explosion that takes place in space."
History of supernova observations
Various civilizations recorded supernovae long before the telescope was invented. The oldest recorded supernova is RCW 86, which Chinese astronomers saw in A.D. 185. Their records show that this "guest star" stayed in the sky for eight months, according to NASA.
Before the early 17th century (when telescopes became available), there are only seven recorded supernovae, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
What we know today as the Crab Nebula is the most famous of these supernovae. Chinese and Korean astronomers recorded this star explosion in their records in 1054, and southwestern Native Americans may have seen it as well (according to rock paintings seen in Arizona and New Mexico). The supernova that formed the Crab Nebula was so bright that astronomers could see it during the day.
Other supernovae that were observed before the telescope was invented occurred in 393, 1006, 1181, 1572 (studied by famed astronomer Tycho Brahe) and 1604. Brahe wrote about his observations of the "new star" in his book, "De nova stella," which gave rise to the name "nova." A nova differs from a supernova, however. Both are sudden outbursts of brightness as hot gases are blown outward, but for a supernova, the explosion is cataclysmic and signifies the end of the star's life, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
The term "supernova" was not used until the 1930s. Its first use was by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky at Mount Wilson Observatory, who used it in relation to an explosive event they observed, called S Andromedae (also known as SN 1885A). It was located in the Andromeda Galaxy. They also suggested that supernovas happen when ordinary stars collapse into neutron stars.
In the modern era, one of the more famous supernovas was SN 1987A from 1987, which is still being studied by astronomers because they can see how a supernova evolves in the first few decades after the explosion.
Star death
On average, a supernova will occur about once every 50 years in a galaxy the size of the Milky Way. Put another way, a star explodes every second or so somewhere in the universe, and some of those aren't too far from Earth. About 10 million years ago, a cluster of supernovae created the “Local Bubble,” a 300-light-year long, peanut-shaped bubble of gas in the interstellar medium that surrounds the solar system.
Exactly how a star dies depends in part on its mass. Our sun, for example, doesn't have enough mass to explode as a supernova (though the news for Earth still isn't good, because once the sun runs out of its nuclear fuel, perhaps in a couple billion years, it will swell into a red giant that will likely vaporize our world, before gradually cooling into a white dwarf). But with the right amount of mass, a star can burn out in a fiery explosion.
A star can go supernova in one of two ways:
Type I supernova: star accumulates matter from a nearby neighbor until a runaway nuclear reaction ignites.
Type II supernova: star runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses under its own gravity.
Type II supernovae
Let's look at the more exciting Type II first. For a star to explode as a Type II supernova, it must be at several times more massive than the sun (estimates run from eight to 15 solar masses). Like the sun, it will eventually run out of hydrogen and then helium fuel at its core. However, it will have enough mass and pressure to fuse carbon. Here's what happens next:
Gradually heavier elements build up at the center, and it becomes layered like an onion, with elements becoming lighter toward the outside of the star.
Once the star's core surpasses a certain mass (the Chandrasekhar limit), the star begins to implode (for this reason, these supernovae are also known as core-collapse supernovas).
The core heats up and becomes denser.
Eventually the implosion bounces back off the core, expelling the stellar material into space, forming the supernova.
What's left is an ultra-dense object called a neutron star, a city-sized object that can pack the mass of the sun in a small space.
There are sub-categories of Type II supernovas, classified based on their light curves. The light of Type II-L supernovas declines steadily after the explosion, while Type II-P's light stays steady for a time before diminishing. Both types have the signature of hydrogen in their spectra.
Stars much more massive than the sun (around 20 to 30 solar masses) might not explode as a supernova, astronomers think. Instead they collapse to form black holes.
Type I supernovae
Type I supernovae lack a hydrogen signature in their light spectra.
Type Ia supernovae are generally thought to originate from white dwarf stars in a close binary system. As the gas of the companion star accumulates onto the white dwarf, the white dwarf is progressively compressed, and eventually sets off a runaway nuclear reaction inside that eventually leads to a cataclysmic supernova outburst.
Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as "standard candles" to measure cosmic distances because all are thought to blaze with equal brightness at their peaks.
Type Ib and Ic supernovas also undergo core-collapse just as Type II supernovas do, but they have lost most of their outer hydrogen envelopes. In 2014, scientists detected the faint, hard-to-locate companion star to a Type Ib supernova. The search consumed two decades, as the companion star shone much fainter than the bright supernova.
Caught in the act
Recent studies have found that supernovas vibrate like giant speakers and emit an audible hum before exploding.
In 2008, scientists caught a supernova in the act of exploding for the first time. While peering at her computer screen, astronomer Alicia Soderberg expected to see the small glowing smudge of a month-old supernova. But what she and her colleague saw instead was a strange, extremely bright, five-minute burst of X-rays.
"Our observations and modeling show this to be a rather unusual event, to be better understood in terms of an object lying at the boundary between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts," Paolo Mazzali, an Italian astrophysicist at the Padova Observatory and Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, told Space.com in a 2008 interview.
Additional reporting by Elizabeth Howell and Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com contributors
Sahara voor de tweede keer dit jaar bedekt onder laag sneeuw. Ook zeldzame sneeuwval in deze andere woestijn
Sahara voor de tweede keer dit jaar bedekt onder laag sneeuw. Ook zeldzame sneeuwval in deze andere woestijn
Begin deze week werd de Sahara tot verbazing van lokale bewoners opnieuw bedekt onder een laag sneeuw. In een Algerijns plaatsje in de woestijn sneeuwde het voor de tweede keer dit jaar.
In december 2016 sneeuwde het voor het eerst in 37 jaar tijd in Ain Sefra. Sindsdien heeft het er in twee jaar tijd al vier keer gesneeuwd.
Net buiten het plaatsje speelden kinderen in de sneeuw, terwijl anderen poseerden in het witte goedje om het zeldzame tafereel vast te leggen.
Chaos
Afgelopen maand viel er voor de derde keer in bijna 40 jaar sneeuw in Ain Sefra. Kinderen maakten sneeuwpoppen en gleden met hun slee van de duinen.
In 2016 zorgde hevige sneeuwval er voor chaos. Wegen werden glad waardoor voertuigen van de weg gleden en passagiers strandden.
Daarvoor werd op 18 februari 1979 voor het laatst sneeuw gezien in Ain Sefra. Toen sneeuwde het er slechts een half uur.
Erg zeldzaam
Sneeuwval in het gebied is erg zeldzaam aangezien het er in deze tijd van het jaar normaal gezien zes tot 12 graden boven nul is.
Hoewel de Sahara vandaag de dag erg droog is, verwachten experts dat de woestijn over zo’n 15.000 jaar weer groen wordt.
Saudi-Arabië
Eind vorige maand viel er ook al sneeuw in de woestijnachtige regio Tabuk in Saudi-Arabië. Dit komt maar sporadisch voor, waarna het vaak snel weer smelt.
Het zeldzame tafereel trok veel bekijks en velen plaatsten filmpjes en foto’s op sociale media.
Mysterious Lights Spotted in Japan Spark Alien Sighting Rumors
Mysterious Lights Spotted in Japan Spark Alien Sighting Rumors
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Japan isn't known as a hotspot of UFO activity, making widely reported sightings quite rare. That's why a recent flurry of social media posts by residents of the Japanese island Kyushu have attracted the attention of hunters and truth-seekers across the globe.
Last Thursday morning, residents posted pictures of thin, swirling clouds that radiated light, the sort of phenomenon that the conspiracy community calls chemtrails, which they believe are of remnants biological agents left in the sky by planes that are deliberately sprayed on the general public for classified purposes.
The sighting does line up with Japan's Epsilon-3 Rocket launch, which took place in the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 6.06 am on Thursday. Taking this into account, it's wholly possible that the mysterious lights could be moisture in the air reacting to fumes from the rocket's launch.
"JAXA launched Epsilon-3, the third Epsilon launch vehicle which encapsulates NEC Small radar satellite "ASNARO-2", from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center," JAXA said in a statement. "The launch occurred on time."
Epsilon-3 successfully put into orbit the ASNARO-2 commercial satellite at a height of about 500 kilometers. The rocket is at the vanguard of aerospace tech because it cuts back considerable time, equipment, and human resources required to launch.
Japanese residents ought to get used to seeing more strange events in the sky, as Japan continues to step up its space exploration game. Last year, a private Tokyo-based firm raised $90 million from major Japanese corporations and investors to send a spacecraft into orbit in 2019 that will land on the moon the following year. Funded with the promise of moon colonization, the firm says that by 2021, 1,000 people will be living on the Moon, and with their help, 10 times as many will visit each year.
Last fall, JAXA also uncovered a moon cave that it says will be an ideal location for a base. Its Selene spacecraft discovered an "echo pattern" at the tube opening in the moon's Marius Hills, found using radar technology, which provides solid evidence that a hollow area exists underneath. This is just one of the many lava tubes that may be housing large repositories of ice beneath the lunar surface.
Despite the seemingly endless reports of UFO sightings, ghost encounters, Bigfoot videos, strange hums, falling fish and other paranormal occurrences, there are days when it seems that nothing out of the ordinary is happening (we exclude politics from consideration, unless a UFO is involved). When all other countries or geographical areas fail, Peru always seems to come through. Within the past week, that fine country has provided stories about a truck driver destroying some Nazca lines and a DNA analysis of the mysterious Paracas elongated skulls. The paranormal riches of Peru paid off once again today, with the report that an ongoing investigation of the three-fingered mummies found in a Nazca cave has determined that they were once definitely alive. Muchas gracias, Peru!
Here’s a quick update. The chalky-covered three-fingered-and-toed, big-headed, small-bodied mummies were allegedly found in a Nazca cave and revealed to the public in 2017 by Gaia.com. Since then, there have reports of one being pregnant, another carrying eggs, the total reaching 20, a guy named Mario taking credit for the discovery, a possible sighting of live ones, DNA tests showing they’re human or human-like and more. Now, a video has surfaced with new insights from a member of the team.
“Each of three small specimens has been analysed and bone density belong to that of a living being. The preservation is amazing, it is really surprising, especially the bone parts of these small creatures. “You see that, the base of the skull has its own characteristics. We can scientifically prove the skull of these creatures have a cranial cavity similar to humans, but they have some strong differences.”
It was reported this week by express.co.uk that radiologist Dr. Raymundo Salas Alfaro, a new name in these three-fingered mummy reports, made those observations after claiming to see CAT scans of the mummies. A video dated October 2017 shows Alfaro discussing the mummies but an English translation was not provided. That’s too bad because, in the express.co.uk account, Alfaro seems to disagree with the DNA report by saying that the skull does not look human. (Did he look at the fingers?)
“Here another image you see the soft tissue – a big surprise about these small creatures. Of course they have existed this is not a fake.”
Alfaro then addressed the most famous of the three-fingered mummies – the one the team has named Maria – and said this:
“We are scientifically proving that this is a real body that was once alive.”
So Dr. Alfaro seems to be refuting those who claim this is an elaborate and morbid hoax perpetrated by someone who pieced together the mummies from human body parts. However, the evidence he presents is still just the CAT scan and the DNA test. That isn’t enough to convince skeptics, which includes the World Congress on Mummy Studies and the Peruvian government, which doesn’t like foreigners messing with any of its mummies, real or otherwise.
Sorry Maria, Dr. Alfaro and the rest of the three-fingered mummies and researchers. The needle on this case is still stuck between ‘Skeptical’ and ‘Hoax’. However, we’re leaving it open in the likely event there’s another slow paranormal news day.
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In the paranormal business, the cure for a slow news day is to see what’s cooking in Peru. Last week, we had the truck driver plowing his vehicle over the ancient Nazca lines, destroying portions of these famous and unexplained geoglyphs in the name of avoiding to pay a toll. It’s been a while since we heard anything about the three-fingered mummies but there’s nothing new to reports. Fortunately, the elongated skulls came to the rescue!
“This could re-write history as we know it.”
Yes, it was another “This changes everything” moment over the weekend when the Elongated Skulls Symposium was held in Los Angeles. Hosted by author, lecturer and film maker L.A. Marzulli, it brought together a variety of speakers on the subject of the Paracas skulls, including videographer Richard Shaw, forensic expert Chase Kloetske, archaeologist Mondo Gonzales, 3D forensic artist Marcia K. Moore, anthropologist Rick Woodward, medical doctor Dr. Michael Alday, and chiropractor Dr. Malcolm Warren. However, the big news on DNA testing of the skulls came from Marzulli and Brien Forester of Hidden Inca Tours.
If those last two names sound familiar, it’s probably because they had a similar “this changes everything!” moment in 2016 when DNA tests were reportedly conducted on the Paracas elongated skulls of Peru. At that time, they revealed that the test results showed the skulls were not from Peru but were not alien either. The humans were believed to have come from Europe and Mesopotamia, especially Syria. That was interesting and certainly added a twist to which humans first arrived in the Americas, but not a game-changer. Was the Elongated Skulls Symposium?
“The DNA results actually were incredibly complicated… It’s gonna take me some time to actually figure out what the results mean. What it does show for sure is that the Paracas elongated skull people were not 100% Native American. They were a mix or even you could say, in some ways, a hybrid of different people.”
Wait a minute … this sounds familiar. That’s when Forester adds a new twist.
“It appears that the largest elongated skulls on the planet have been found, “A” in Paracas, Peru and “B” in the Caucasus area in between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea… so my theory is that there was a sub-species of human which we are going to be eventually calling Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens-Paracas, and they were living in the area in between the Caspian and Black Sea.”
And …
“They were invaded by somebody… and so they were forced to flee.”
Forester lays out a path for this sub-species to sail from the Persian Gulf to Peru. That’s where he believes, and says some of the other speakers agree, that these naturally long-skulled people settled and flourished for a time.
“ … because of the abnormalities found with some of the Elongated Skulls from the Chongos cemetery in Peru they have no other choice but to state that some of these ancient Paracas were a sub-species of humanity… it had to be genetic, they had to be born with these abnormalities. They had dark red hair… the royal Paracas were the ones with elongated heads, not the common people… the royal family of the Paracas, they lived in subterranean underground houses and I think the reason for that is that they had light-colored skin, probably sensitive eyes because of the extreme sunshine…”
So, Forester believes the long skulls are a genetic abnormality, not the result of binding, and those with them were regarded as leaders and superiors. The key word is “believes,” not proves. This certainly reinforces the idea that the genetic makeup of Native South Americans is truly a varied mix. It also continues to disappoint those who want to believe the elongated skull beings are aliens. However, it doesn’t prove how the Paracas could be a separate sub-species while all other elongated skull cultures are not.
Let’s hope the next ‘this changes everything’ DNA tests come during another slow news week.
The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness is the new book from Michael Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley. It’s a book which is filled with literally dozens and dozens of cases of the ufological kind. Those cases cover such issues as crop circles, alien abductions, pilot encounters, Men in Black, UFO landings, and much more. But, it’s very important to note that this is not just a collection of events and incidents. Rather, the emphasis is on how the experiences impacted on the witnesses themselves. This is a good, solid and refreshing way of demonstrating to the reader the way in which the UFO phenomenon can affect people – and not always in a positive way. The same goes for their families and friends. Ridicule, fear, denial, amazement, and paranoia are just some of the results of the close encounter cases in The Road to Strange. Let’s take a look at the content.
As far as the accounts are concerned, they are split into four categories: “I Know What I saw,” “Mystery Lights and Craft,” “Alien Encounters,” and “High Strangeness.” One of the intriguing issues that surfaces in certain events described in the book is the “Why me?” factor. As Guiley and Brein note, in profound UFO cases witnesses sometimes develop a sense that the phenomenon deliberately targeted them, that there was a specific reason for the encounter, that there was more to the sighting than just something unusual of a random nature. It’s this “Why me?” aspect which provokes anxiety in some, fear in others, and a sense of wonder in those who see the matter in a positive light. One of the weirder aspect of the UFO enigma revolves around how one person can see a UFO, but someone standing right next to them sees nothing at all. Again, there is the matter of “Why me?”
Seeing how people deal with such matters – or don’t – makes for revealing reading. As for the reaction of family members, well, at one end of the spectrum there is the sense that their relative is mistaken, lying – or, of course, telling the truth. At the other end of the spectrum, though, there’s the tragic story of T.L. Murdock who, as a child in 1931, was “backhanded” with “full force” by his mother for claiming an encounter with something strange in the sky. This, of course, was long before the dawning of the flying saucer era in 1947.
As for that aforementioned matter of ridicule – or the concern of it becoming an issue – it surfaces on several occasions. Again, the impact that this has on the witness is as significant as it is eye-opening. As an example, we have the words of the late Graham Sheppard, who was a captain and pilot with British Airways. Sheppard, who died in 2005, had a couple of profound UFO encounters. One such case, from the 1960s, is described by Sheppard in his own words: “When we were over the Midlands of England we got a radar alert about an object traveling at high speed directly in the airway. We saw this disc coming towards us! It was about 30 feet across, and it looked as if it was going to come extremely close to us.”
Sheppard noted the reluctance on the part of colleagues to talk about UFO encounters, “even though I knew other pilots and flight engineers had seen UFOs.” Sheppard tells a fascinating story of how, decades ago, he was aware of a kind of unwritten code of silence among air-crews when it comes to UFOs. Again, we get to see- first-hand – how the phenomenon of the UFO alters lives and directs their beliefs and approach to the mystery.
One of the most interesting stories revolves around a bizarre encounter with dwarfish humanoids floating in self-illuminated “pods of light” in the direct vicinity of Wiltshire, England’s famous Silbury Hill. It’s one of those cases which is hard to fit into any particular category. Fear, denial and and an attempt to rationalize the incident by suggesting it was connected to a “military exercise” or “a projector” are all part and parcel of a story that undeniably changed lives.
Silsbury Hill
High-strangeness in the heart of crop circles is an important aspect of the book and our authors note that those visiting the formations experience drowsiness, a feeling of “cosmic connection,” and “mystical rapture.” Men in Black of a clearly supernatural nature pop up, too – in a North Carolina library, and who appear to have the ability to affect electrical equipment. The menacing MIB reports and the crop circle cases demonstrate just how weird certain UFO-themed events can become – and they too are shown to profoundly affect those in close proximity. Add to that stories of missing time, alien-human hybrids, strange “holes” in the sky, an incident at Area 51, and much more and you have a book that makes for absorbing reading.
I have often said that the most important people in the field of the unknown are not the writers, the authors, the radio-show hosts, or those who appear on TV shows. The most important people are the witnesses. A great deal can be learned from studying them, their reactions, their words, and how their lives have been changed, altered and even scarred. The Road to Strange does a great job of getting right to the heart of what it means to be a UFO witness.
Pas un jour ne se passe sans que les enthousiastes repèrent de mystérieux objets d’origine extraterrestre, mais le mystère de la base américaine Andrews, liée au mystère de Roswell, imprègne toujours l’esprit des ufologues. Cher lecteurs, êtes-vous prêts à plonger dans cet endroit sinistre?
Le groupe d’ufologues, baptisé UFO Seekers («Chercheurs d’extraterrestres»), a filmé le territoire de la base militaire américaine Andrews dans le désert du Nevada, connu sous le nom de Zone 51. L’objectif: vérifier les nombreuses théories du complot qui affirment que cette base est utilisée pour garder les ovnis qui se seraient écrasés dans la région à la fin des années 40.
Les aventuriers ont réussi à filmer une partie de la Zone 51, notamment la piste d’atterrissage et des véhicules de l’armée qui se déplaçaient sur le territoire de base. À la grande déception du groupe, aucune soucoupe volante, aucun extraterrestre, ni
L’incident de Roswell reste toujours férocement débattu par les historiens, ufologues et amateurs de théories du complot depuis la fin des années 1970. Bien que les spécialistes aient opté en faveur de la théorie du phénomène extraterrestre, l’affaire de Roswell est aussi le cas le plus réfuté par les sceptiques, ces derniers s’appuyant notamment sur les nombreuses incohérences relevées dans cette affaire.
En tout cas, 70 ans après l’incident, personne n’a jamais trouvé de débris des ovnis ou de corps des extraterrestres dans cette base.
France : Un OVNI sphérique et très lumineux observé dans le Lubéron
Sommet du village de Lacoste sur lequel se trouve les ruines du château du marquis de Sade, pillé à la Révolution
Le 13 octobre 2017, un gros OVNI sphérique et très lumineux a été observé au-dessus du village de Lacoste, dans le Vaucluse, au sud de la France. Ce n’est que récemment que le témoin a décidé de raconter son aventure.
Sommet du village de Lacoste sur lequel se trouve les ruines du château du marquis de Sade, pillé à la Révolution
Témoignage :
« J’étais dans mon jardin sur ma terrasse au Sud pour fumer une cigarette vers 20H, le vendredi 13 Octobre 2017. Il faisait nuit et le ciel était très bien dégagé. J’ai vu arrivé de derrière les arbres, à une bonne centaine de mètres de ma maison, très silencieusement, une boule très lumineuse (blanc doré jaune orangé) un peu plus petite qu’une pièce de 1 centime, vu du sol. Mais certainement très grosse, vu l’altitude.
Elle était plus haute qu’un avion de ligne et d’ailleurs absolument pas dans le couloir aérien habituel Nord/Sud (mais dans la direction perpendiculaire Ouest/Est) mais bien plus basse qu’un satellite pourrait l’être.
Aucun bruit de réacteur ou autre bruit de moteur.
Elle venait de la direction de Ménerbes (84) à l’Ouest, au dessus du petit Lubéron et s’est dirigée en direction de Bonnieux ou Lourmarin (Sud Est) en passant au dessus de Lacoste.
Sa vitesse n’était pas très rapide vu du sol, mais plus rapide qu’un avion (car beaucoup plus haut) et beaucoup moins qu’une météorite.
Difficile d’estimer sa vitesse à cause de la hauteur, mais sur une route plate, on pourrait la comparer à une voiture roulant à 5 kms/h.
Cette sphère a mis environ 1mn pour effectuer sa trajectoire.
J’ai appelé ma compagne après une dizaine de secondes d’observation qui est sortie presque aussitôt. Elle a observé en même temps que moi cette boule lumineuse, semblant planer régulièrement, sans accoue et sans changement de direction. Aucune trainée derrière elle comme pourrait le faire une étoile filante ou une météorite rentrant dans l’atmosphère.
Elle a disparu de notre champ de vision derrière le Lubéron, au niveau de la combe, entre le petit et le grand Lubéron.
J’ai cherché sur internet dans les jours suivants si d’autres avaient vu cette sphère,si il y avait des témoignages ou si il y avait eu une météorite ce soir là. Mais rien sur ce soir du 13 Octobre 2017… »
A secret study of Unidentified Flying Objects was made public last year. Much of the analysis was done in southern Nevada, and a main purpose of the study was to figure out how UFOs work.
The I-Team interviewed the man who ran the program at the Pentagon to ask about the physics of flying saucers.
"Look at that thing," one Navy pilot said.
You can tell from the voices of the navy pilots that the encounter with the so-called Gimbal UFO was hardly ordinary. It happened back in 2015, and it wasn't in the sky alone.
"There's a whole fleet of them," the pilot said. "Look at the ASA. My gosh, they are going against the wind. The wind is 120 knots."
The pilots wondered if it might be a drone, but an advanced sensor system showed the unknown object had no detectable propulsion system, seemed oblivious to the powerful winds at that altitude, and slowed to a near stop before rotating.
"Like I said before if this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt," said Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon Intelligence Officer.
Until last October, Elizondo was the point man in the Pentagon's secret study of unknown aerial objects. AATIP was the acronym for the study authorized by senators including former United States Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, with the analysis conducted by a civilian contractor, Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada. The primary goal of the study, Elizondo said, wasn't to guess where these things originated but rather, how they worked.
"I think we've come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that's very exciting," Elizondo said. "For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics.
Elizondo left the Pentagon, in large part, because he felt the issue wasn't getting the attention it deserved. The military is still collecting and studying UFO data, according to Elizondo. The analysis by Bigelow's team ended in 2012. The now, famous Tic Tac UFO case from 2004 is an example of how things worked. The case sat in a file at the Pentagon until it was resurrected during the study. An abbreviated video clip was released last year.
After seeing weird radar returns for days, advanced warplanes attached to the U.S.S. Nimitz Battle Group off the coast of San Diego went to take a close look. F-18 pilot Dave Fravor, the commander of the Elite Black Aces, wrote in an initial report that the pilots detected a huge object, the size of a 747 just under the surface of the ocean. A 40-foot "Tic Tac" shaped object hovered above it. Fravor flew around then closed in on the object, which turned to face his plane, then displayed its full capabilities.
"It takes off like nothing I've ever seen. Poof, it's gone," Fravor said.
Fravor said he believes the Tic Tac is not of this world, but he also said he sure would like to fly one. Elizondo says there have been multiple other Tic Tac encounters with the U.S. military both before and since. Scientists now think a single technology explains the amazing things these aircrafts can do.
"We do believe all these observables we've been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity -- is really the manifestation of a single technology, Elizondo said. "So it's not five exotic technologies we're trying to figure out, it's one. and we think we know that one too."
One of the scientists who helped figure it out is a physicist named Dr. Hal Puthoff. He wrote the proposal that helped Bigelow land the contract to study UFOs, and in a recent radio interview, he said he commissioned 38 scientific papers during the study to explore exotic propulsion ideas, including what he calls space-time metric engineering. In essence, the idea that the Gimbal and Tic Tac craft can create their own space-time bubbles.
"We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little," said Elizondo.
Elizondo first went public back in October, when he was on a stage with rock star Tom Delonge, who formed something called "To the Stars Academy. Dr. Hal put off is part of the team, along with Steve Justice, the former top engineer at Lockheed's skunkworks, who says he wants to build something that can do what the Gimbal can do.
For Elizondo, the question is no longer an 'if' question, it's a 'when' question.
Luis Elizondo confirmed that special materials would likely be needed to manipulate space-time. The I-Team will have more on that in a future report.
To hear an extra excerpt from the interview about how space-time distortion works go here.
NASA is hard at work trying to get a robot on Titan. To find out exactly what it would be up against, the agency has built a tiny, freezing methane ocean at the Washington State University.
Composite image of Titan seen in near-infrared. Image credits NASA / JPL.
Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system, only more modest in size than Jupiter’s Ganymede. However, it’s a spot that NASA has been itching to visit for quite some time now, as it is the largest body after Earth to harbor stable, liquid oceans. But put the snorkel away, because this is by no means an ocean you’d want to take a dip in. Titan isn’t covered in water, it’s covered in methane — frigid, liquid methane.
To coldly go where nobody has gone before
NASA plans to send an autonomous submarine to poke around Titan’s seas and oceans some time in the next 20 years. So far, they’ve been designing the mission and the craft based on data beamed back by the Cassini mission. However, environmental conditions on the moon are so dramatically different and extreme compared to those we’re used to, that the agency believes we need more experimental data to check the bot against.
As such, they’ve teamed up with scientists at Washington State University to recreate the moon’s methane ocean in a laboratory.
The WSU researchers built a test chamber filled with a “liquid mixture at very cold temperatures to simulate the seas of Titan,” a press release from the University details. “They added a two-inch, cylinder-shaped cartridge heater that would approximate the heat that a submarine would create”. The project was led by Ian Richardson, a former WSU graduate who interned at NASA on an unrelated research project.
“My research just took a right turn, and I went with it. It’s a crazy experiment, and I never thought I would have had this opportunity. It’s been a very fun and challenging experimental design problem,” he said.
The make-believe ocean has revealed two hurdles that researchers will have to overcome when designing the sub-to-be: the formation of gas bubbles and recording video at the freezing temperatures.
NASA released this design for the Titan sub back in 2016. Image credits NASA.
If the submarine is powered by a heat-generating mechanism, it would cause nitrogen bubbles to form in the very cold liquid on Titan (which is mostly made up of a methane-ethane mix at roughly -185° Celsius (-300° Fahrenheit). These bubbles have shown that they can severely hinder the submarine’s mobility and make it difficult for onboard sensors to collect data.
Even if such bubbles fail to materialize, snapping images and videos of the sub’s surroundings will be a challenging task — mostly because it’s a really cold, pressurized environment (comparable to being under 30 meters/100 feet of water).
One piece of good news is that the nitrogen fraction in the mix lowers the freezing point of Titan’s oceans from about -185° to roughly -200° Celsius (-297° to -324° Fahrenheit).
“That’s a big deal. That means you don’t have to worry about icebergs,’’ Richardson explains.
The team says they worked around the temperature and pressure problems and developed a device that allowed them to shoot video footage in the liquid and snow methane-ethane mix inside the chamber. In the future, all measurements and data recorded in this experiment will be used to ” to aid in thermodynamic modeling of the Titan seas as well as the design of the Titan Submarine,” he added.
The paper “Experimental PρT-x measurements of liquid methane-ethane-nitrogen mixtures.” has been published in the journal Fluid Phase Equilibria.
In 2017, there were 169 UFO sightings reported directly to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body.
FOX 17 dug into the data, examining hundreds of local reports while getting a good look at viewer submitted videos of possible UFOs flying over the skies. This, after a former Pentagon official revealed a government program allegedly researching UFO's for years.
In December of 2017, the world learned that the Pentagon spent $22 million on a program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, according to Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon effort. Elizondo told The New York Times he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012. The footage below was released by Elizondo following his resignation.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”
(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
However, you don't have to go far to find first-hand accounts of extraterrestrial encounters. Of 151 reports of UFOs documented worldwide by MUFON in 2018, six were reported in Michigan.
MUFON was founded in 1969 to investigate the growing UFO phenomenon through a team of investigators and researchers. The Michigan MUFON chapter meets five times a year outside of Flint, where like-minded people come together and share their personal stories about what they've seen in the sky.
"People are seeing things they can't understand on a regular basis," said MUFON state director Bill Konkolesky. "When people can come together and talk face-to-face about what they've seen and what their theories are on everything, that's real."
Konkolesky says the organization is big into investigating the UFO phenomenon based on evidence. Michigan has three "licensed investigators" who collect data and keep it organized and open to the public. You can even track UFO sightings worldwide in real time here. However, Konkolesky admits that 97% of the time, a sighting is not a UFO.
"We had 410 sightings a few years ago, and that was the year when Chinese lanterns were all the rage," Konkolesky said. Other identified sightings are drone or some sort of meteorological event like the recent Bolide/meteor sighted across the state in January. The other 3% remains unknown.
The UFO Center, operated out of Washington state by Peter Davenport, also takes reports of UFOs on a daily basis. Davenport says people should do their own research before making up their minds about whether or not they "believe" that UFOs exist.
"I think it’s important that people see things with their own eyes before they believe them or accept them," Davenport said. "Biblical scholars, for example, should be included in the UFO debate and research process, because they might have some input that would be significant."
The UFO Reporting Center has received more than 150 cases in 2018. That number is rising every day. Davenport believes it's because people are starting to "believe what they're seeing."
Here are a number of historically-head scratching cases that have happened in Michigan:
1) 1975, Konkolesky says there was a large UFO sighting over Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Iosco County, Michigan.
2.) March 8th, 1994: hundreds of witnesses reported seeing flickering lights resembling a string of Christmas lights or a group of airplanes flying close together near Holland. Below are 911 calls and testimony from the National Weather Service, (MUFON).
3) March, 1966: hundreds of Michigan residents saw colorful, strange lights across the sky. Konkolesky said the US Air Force came out to investigate but claimed that residents were seeing no more than swamp or marsh gas.
"So I like to joke that Michigan is not only the Great Lakes State, but we’re also the swamp gas state," Konkolesky said. "Michigan has a rich history when it comes to UFO sightings."
It's important to note there has not been an actual sighting of a UFO confirmed by any governing agency. UFO enthusiasts encourage the general public to do their own research before coming to any conclusion.
De planeten die rond dwergster TRAPPIST-1 draaien hebben een veelbelovend geheim prijsgegeven: sommige kunnen voor maximaal vijf procent uit water bestaan. Dat is ongeveer 250 keer zoveel als de oceanen van de aarde.
In theorie is er leven mogelijk, zo hebben wetenschappers die de verre werelden bestuderen bekendgemaakt.
“Alle op dit ogenblik bestudeerde signalen staan op groen,” zei astronoom Amaury Triaud van de Universiteit van Birmingham. “Op dit moment wijst niets erop dat zij niet ‘levensvatbaar’ zijn”.
Vloeibaar water
In februari vorig jaar maakten astronomen bekend bij de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, op veertig lichtjaar van ons, zeven planeten te hebben gevonden. Qua grootte lijken ze op de onze.
Drie ervan, Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Sindsdien beschikken de astronomen over meer informatie met betrekking tot de ster, haar planeten en hun atmosfeer.
Gesteente
De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan en dat bij sommige tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,02 procent van de massa van de aarde bestaat uit water.
Aangaande de kans dat de planeten leven zouden herbergen, zei Triaud ‘in dit stadium niets te kunnen zeggen omdat ze erg verschillen van de onze’.
Beste plaats
“Maar ze vormen tot op vandaag de beste plaats buiten ons zonnestelsel om te zoeken naar signalen van leven,” klonk het.
Afgelopen week werd één van de grootste en zwaarste raketten ooit de ruimte in gestuurd, met de complimenten van Elon Musk, de baas van SpaceX.
Deze raket had een bijzondere lading en dat was de privé Tesla cabriolet van Musk, iets waar ook buitenaardsen belangstelling voor schijnen te hebben.
Het was een bijzondere week voor de ruimtevaart, want:
Elon Musk heeft het geflikt. Ruim twee uur later dan gepland is vanavond de Falcon Heavy-raket van zijn bedrijf SpaceX met succes gelanceerd. De geslaagde operatie is een enorme opsteker voor Musks missie naar Mars.
Elon Musk zou Elon Musk niet zijn als hij de raket zonder kenmerkende handtekening de lucht in zou sturen. In dit geval wordt die handtekening gevormd door een kersrode Tesla Roadster, als lading in het topje van de Falcon Heavy-raket. Het is zijn eigen Roadster. Inclusief een pop achter het stuur, gekleed in een door SpaceX ontwikkeld ruimtepak.
Echter, de spectaculaire beelden in de ruimte, gefilmd vanuit de Tesla, tonen ook nog iets anders. En dat zijn UFO's die op een gegeven moment een kijkje komen nemen naar wat daar nu eigenlijk rondvliegt.
Het zijn onmiskenbaar UFO's die daar rondvliegen, want ze stoppen, vertragen of versnellen en veranderen van richting. Iets dat sterren of planeten uiteraard niet doen.
In de volgende video is te zien wat er daar rondvliegt als je doorspoelt naar ongeveer 2 minuten 20 seconden in de video.
En niet alleen bij de raket van Elon Musk doken UFO's op. In Japan werd enkele dagen geleden een raket gelanceerd en ook daar verschenen vreemde objecten in beeld.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de raket en rood omcirkeld drie vreemde lichten.
Wanneer je het beeld uitvergroot, ziet het er zo uit.
De raket werd gelanceerd om een satelliet in een baan om de aarde te brengen en diverse UFO-websites zijn van mening dat die drie lichten een onverklaarbaar object zijn. Volgens Scott Waring is deze UFO zeker 20 keer groter dan de raket en dat zou dan inderdaad een fiks ruimteschip zijn.
UFO of misschien toch een vliegtuig omdat wanneer je goed kijkt er ook een strobe light waar te nemen is. Of zijn de beelden gewoon helemaal nep? Bij het ter perse gaan van dit artikel lazen we in het AD dat de raket uit koers is geraakt en Mars niet zal bereiken. Script? Of toeval?
En tenslotte een bericht en een video die wij ontvingen van Paul Harmans (dank!), onder andere bekend van de website Ufowijzer.
Het gaat om een door hem in het Nederlands ondertitelde video van Tyler van Secureteam. Daarin maakt Tyler bekend dat er zeer binnenkort voor een korte periode gratis een interessante documentaire te zien zal zijn.
Deze heet "Australian Skies 2" en is dan te zien voordat deze in première gaat.
AFPElon Musk doopte de pop achter het stuur van de Tesla Roadster om tot Starman.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De sportauto van Tesla die met de Falcon Heavy de ruimte werd ingestuurd, wijkt af van het geplande traject. Dat heeft Elon Musk gisteren op Twitter bekendgemaakt. De CEO van SpaceX gaf toe dat Starman, de pop die achter het stuur zit, een beetje te hard op de gaspedaal had getrapt.
In een tweet bevestigde Musk dat de finale bestemming van de missie is veranderd. “Koers gewijzigd waardoor traject voorbij Mars loopt en reis verderzet naar de planetoïdengordel.”
Musk liet een Tesla Roadster als ludiek experiment meevliegen met de eerste vlucht van de Falcon Heavy. Het doel was de heliocentrische baan die op ongeveer dezelfde afstand van de zon als van Mars ligt. Op zijn nieuwe traject zal de Falcon Heavy maandenlang onderweg zijn naar de asteroïdengordel tussen Mars en Jupiter. Hier is het risico op een catastrofale botsing groter dan op de oorspronkelijk gewenste koers. De missiemanagers hebben nog niet bevestigd of de koersverandering een ongeluk of intentioneel was.
Sommige experts vrezen voor de effecten van ruimtelijke straling op de Tesla Roadster. Professor chemie aan de Indiana University William Carroll legt uit wat er kan foutlopen: “Alle organische stoffen lijden onder de verschillende types van straling. Als de bindingen breken, kan de auto letterlijk uit elkaar vallen.”
Photo NewsCEO van Tesla Elon Musk investeerde meer dan een half miljard in de lancering van de Falcon Heavy.
Beelden van crash
SpaceX hoopt met deze demonstratievlucht contracten van NASA te winnen. Musk heeft ook het verlies bevestigd van een centrale ‘core booster’ na de lancering, een van de drie kleinere Falcon 9-raketten die samengebonden werden om de Falcon Heavy te vormen. De twee andere raketten keerden veilig terug naar het landingsplatform aan het Kennedy Space Center. De derde had op een boot in de Atlantische Oceaan moeten landen, maar crashte in de oceaan. “Het dek van het schip lag vol scherven”, zei Musk. “We gaan dit onderzoeken. De raket is duidelijk niet op het onbemande schip geland. We hebben er beelden van.”
Musk heeft meer dan een half miljard geïnvesteerd in de lancering van de Falcon Heavy. Hij hoopte op succes om zijn concurrenten af te troeven. Er zijn namelijk verschillende bedrijven die strijden om ruimtevluchten voor de man in de straat mogelijk te maken. “We willen een nieuwe ruimterace. Dit zal andere bedrijven aanmoedigen om hetzelfde te doen”, legt Musk zijn beweegredenen uit.
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Retangle UFO Over Phoenix, Arizona Mountains Could Be Secret USAF Craft, Feb 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News
Retangle UFO Over Phoenix, Arizona Mountains Could Be Secret USAF Craft, Feb 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2, 2018
Location of sighting: Phenix, Arizona, USA
News source: MUFON #90112
This is in the Phoenix, Arizona area, a location famous for the largest UFO ever seen that blacked out the stars back in 1997. This UFO is clearly a craft, but also may be a USAF experimental craft that uses alien tech at a local base. The fact that a helicopter showed up shortly after only confirms that it was very important to the US military.
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Eyewitness states:
We were driving on the I17 heading into Phoenix when I noticed a rectangular object hovering over the mountains on the left hand side. My friend Dan grabbed his cellphone and took a picture of the object. After about 10 minutes the object disappeared. A helicopter appeared shortly there after.
Giant UFO Disk Seen Near SpaceX Rocket Carrying Elon Musks Tesla Roadster To Mars, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Disk Seen Near SpaceX Rocket Carrying Elon Musks Tesla Roadster To Mars, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2018 Location of sighting: Leaving Earths orbit Found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This classic UFO was seen flashing as it passed by the Tesla SpaceX rocket. Why would aliens be interested in this? Because this is a public business in charge of it, and it is carrying Elon Musks personal red cherry Tesla Roadster, which at auction could fetch over one million US dollars, but normally costs around $250,000 US. This car has a dummy astronaut wearing a SpaceX made new spacesuit in the drivers seat. The car will be playing "Ground control to Major Tom," on the radio for eternity. I take it that its powered by solar panels. When it reaches Mars in 335 days, this Tesla will be placed into a Mars orbit, and will stay there for around 10,000 years with cameras on it recording it and send video back of the car floating in orbit. 10,000 years of free advertising in every science and astronomy book in the world. Smart thinking. Now do you see why aliens would be interested? Scott C. Waring
Strange Aerial Phenomenon over Ocala, Florida - Richmond, VA – Alberta CA
Strange Aerial Phenomenon over Ocala, Florida - Richmond, VA – Alberta CA
A rare phenomenon appeared in the sky over Spondin in Alberta, Canada where the daughter of the owner of the TK Ranch snapped an image of an amazing sun rise on February 7, 2018.
Other strange sky phenomena were spotted over Ocala, Florida and Richmond, Virginia but don’t worry, meteorologists assure us, with great confidence, that all these aerial phenomena are completely normal.
UFO Hunters Pick Up Alien Vessel Disguises As Iceberg On Google Maps
UFO Hunters Pick Up Alien Vessel Disguises As Iceberg On Google Maps
People usually go to Google Maps for educational mapping service as it offers satellite images of locations around the world. However, now and then keen observers picked up strange sightings. One photograph in Antarctica shows a lone iceberg that UFO hunters believe an underwater alien base.
Google Maps is designed for people who want to visit all areas of the world from the comfort of their turf. However, along with its informative qualities, the site also offers several entertaining images.
Seeing residential streets and national parks is just an ordinary thing in Google Maps, but many also are downright bizarre.
One particular image shows a lonely iceberg off the coast of Antarctica.
A block of ice approximately 500 metres long was discovered at the coordinate 72°43’13.53″S 78°40’21.56″W.
The iceberg seems nothing out of the ordinary apart from its placing.
However, some UFO hunters believe it is an underwater alien lair. They think it does not fit the ordinary iceberg description.
They explained that icebergs could be classified based on their shapes and forms, which are tabular and non-tabular. They observed that the shapes and forms of the iceberg in question look very different from all the various shapes and forms of tabular and non-tabular icebergs. They suspected that it could be a vessel disguised as an iceberg.
Many will say this is an airplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch. On the 18th of January the Japanese Space agency Jaxa launched it’s Epsilon 3 rocket to put a commercial planetary observational satellite into earth’s atmosphere. The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket. It was moving along with the rocket as it started it’s orbit around the Earth. What was this object?
Nearly 60,000 UFO sightings MAPPED: Does this finally prove mystery link to US military?
Nearly 60,000 UFO sightings MAPPED: Does this finally prove mystery link to US military?
UFO investigators have mapped nearly 60,000 flying saucer sightings in the USA with staggering results that could show why there is an alleged link between UFOs and the military.
UFO MAP: Nearly 60,000 sightings have been plotted across the US.
Sightings recorded by the US-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), an independent organisation that logs and investigates such cases, have been charted on a map of North America.
Data analyst Adam Crahen plotted all 58,828 reports received by NUFORC for the US from 1995 to 2014 on a map of the US.
The impressive end result shows swathes of green UFO reports spread out across the vast country.
However, it has been suggested the most dense areas for sightings coincide with US military installations.
Alex Hollings, a retired US duty marine, now writes for Sofrep.com, a news and intelligence service provided by former special operations veterans.
He wrote: "When laying that same map of reported UFO sightings over a US map showing the locations of all military installations, an interesting trend starts to emerge.
It’s not as unlikely as you may think. Military aircraft are often mistaken for Unidentified Flying Objects in US skies because their shape and behaviour don’t adhere to the norms we’re accustomed to.
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"Many of the regions that seem to show a high frequency of UFO reports coincide with the locations of military installations.
"For the conspiracy minded, this might mean our alien visitors have taken a particular interest in what our military is up to.
"Others might be inclined to conclude many of these supposed UFO sightings may be nothing more than misidentified military aircraft."
Conspiracy theorists have developed many claims about UFO and US military links.
The most far-fetched of which suggests intelligent aliens have arrived on Earth and been hidden away in top-secret US military installations away from public view.
There, they help military scientists reverse engineer their flying saucer technology, in return for being allowed to abduct a small number of human beings for their own experimentation.
Another slightly less outlandish claim suggests that aliens are not working with the military as above, but so-called black projects are underway at secret bases, such as Area 51 in Nevada.
There, it is claimed, experts try to reverse engineer UFOs that have been recovered after "crashes" in order to produce the most hi-tech spy craft ever built on Earth.
Many claim these "spy craft" being tested are then mistaken for alien UFOs.
Mr Hollings believes the real reason so many UFOs are see near military installations is more straight forward.
He added: "It’s not as unlikely as you may think. Military aircraft are often mistaken for Unidentified Flying Objects in US skies because their shape and behaviour don’t adhere to the norms we’re accustomed to.
"Sometimes, these sightings are the result of the testing of never before seen platforms, but others, it’s simply a matter of military aircraft not exhibiting the same behaviour seen from commercial aircraft above our heads.
"A bright light flying low over a rural region and moving in a seemingly unusual manner could be Martians… but it could also be a Blackhawk in the distance. Most people don’t have a lot of experience identifying either, through no fault of their own.
"Is this a reasonable explanation for nearly 60,000 sightings spread out over a 19-year span?
"Maybe not, but the next time you look to the sky and think you may see an inbound flying saucer, it might be worth doing a quick search to see how far you are from the nearest air national guard base. The answer may surprise you."
Groups like NUFORC and the larger, but similar US organisation the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), readily accept the about 95 per cent of the thousands of reports they receive can be explained by natural phenomena and misidentified aircraft built by humans.
The other around five per cent are said to remain a mystery.
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Conspiracy theorists warn people after seeing vertical UFO lingering around Mexico (Video+)
Conspiracy theorists warn people after seeing vertical UFO lingering around Mexico (Video+)
The word “Alien” has been ever present in the human society for something that is beyond our understanding. Recently, this topic of extraterrestrial life sparked the interest of common man with the strange object that was spotted in the skies of Baja state located in Mexico. This mysterious object was captured via a cell phone that shows a vertical aligned UFO flying over a city located in this state.
The object in the video isn’t clear enough to prove the presence of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). However, one can derive from the video that there is a certain cylindrical object hovering over the city which is aligned in a vertical manner.
Rumors of UFO sighting have been highly prevalent since ages with no solid proof of the presence of intelligent life visiting the perimeter of earthly realms. This is the very first video of UFO sighting after the arrival of this New Year. The clip, shot in the Baja state of Mexico has already started trending on numerous social media platform with conspiracy theorists stating that aliens might be keeping an eye on our activities.
According to a conspiracy theorist, Pedro Ramirez, UFO sightings have increased in number in the recent months due to the fact that space agencies such as SpaceX and NASA have been busy launching space missions on a continuous basis. This continuous space exploration might have attracted the attention of intelligent life beyond our blue planet. You can easily see this tubular shaped UFO flying in a vertical manner over the city. If claims are to be believed, UFO sightings and other alien activities have increased over a few months and especially during the year 2017’s final two months.
Ramirez further added that aliens knew that we have been launching a number of space missions which might be perceived as “War Material” being sent up in the sky. The extraterrestrial beings might be concerned with our increased activities, thereby monitoring the planet to confirm the cause.
The video of this particular UFO sighting was captured by a woman who can be easily heard in the video exclaiming “What is this?” while she continued shooting the object with her phone’s camera. The video garnered around 50,000 shares by netizens all over the web which was a result of concern or indifference in observation.
When you explore the definition of a spaceship or UFO, this latest sighting has all the signs of an extra-terrestrial machine but defied the perception of our knowledge about UFOs. Normally we believe that UFOs are circular discs or saucer-like objects. This is the very first time a vertical one has been seen hovering in the sky.
NASA has always been keen on trying to explore the possibilities of alien life visiting Earth but when it comes to UFO sightings, the organization doesn’t seem as much interested. As per NASA astronomers, most of these sightings don’t even come under the explanation of UFO. For instance, in the year 1972 during the Apollo 16, three astronauts captured an object with a dome on top. Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly, and John Young speculated this object to be a UFO. However, it turned out to be a spacewalk floodlight which is why most of the UFO sighting does not attract interest from NASA scientists.
As per the judgment over the Mexico sightings is concerned, it is still under consideration. The conspiracy theory behind such sightings might be true for some instances as space missions in the recent months have increased significantly which might be a red flag for the intelligent life living far away from us.
Image was taken by NavCam 1 on September 22, 2017, as OSIRIS-REx completed an Earth gravity-assist maneuver—flying close enough to our planet to steal some momentum and speed up the craft on its way to Bennu. This is the view from 110,000 kilometers (69,000 miles) away.OSIRIS-REx - NavCam1
NASA researchers claim that extraterrestrial life will be entirely different from life on Earth. Scientists believe that extraterrestrial life could exist in forms entirely different from the common earthly model of carbon-based life.
Scientists believe that extraterrestrial life might have entirely different combinations of genetic materials and proteins which would make it hard to understand with our Earthly knowledge.
The earthly form of life has been formed by carbon molecules in two forms. DNA or RNA, the genetic materials which control the functions of cells and the proteins which cater mechanisms of living organisms.
All earthly organisms, excluding virus, are characterized by the presence of DNA made of 4 sugars, adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The difference in length and compositions of double helix DNA in organisms is responsible for the difference between them. Viruses differ from other organisms as their T letter has been replaced by U in genomic sequence. Even though the virus has RNA as their genetic material, they are found to be inactive outside a host body.
Aaron Burton, a planetary scientist of NASA says that DNA is like a language. It has got an alphabet of four letters, A, G, C and T. All the life forms on Earth use the same alphabet from the tiniest microbe to humans like books in a library. Differences are created with the difference in arrangement of the letters. But the entire book would have the combination of same letters giving commonality among existing life.
Scientists have identified 20 amino acids to form proteins in all Earthly organisms. More than 80 amino acids had been discovered in meteors like Murchison meteorite. Researchers are yet to find the significance of these amino acids in forming alien life.
The basic rule of life on Earth has been characterized by Darwinian principles of evolution. According to the theory, living organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits.
Earthly life vs Alien life
A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist's illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute to Reuters on May 15, 2012. A group of 25 scientists June 2, 2016, proposed an ambitious project to create a synthetic human genome, or genetic blueprint, in an endeavor that is bound to raise concerns over the extent to which human life can or should be engineered.Reuters
Researchers say that presence of inorganic amino acids or salts in meteorites cannot qualify it as a form of life. Carbon forms quadrilateral pyramid structure bonds with molecules to form the sugars and amino acids. This structure would be either left handed or right handed bonds.
Life on earth is characterised by DNA formed by right-handed (D) sugar bonds and amino acids or its constituent proteins formed by left-handed (L)bonds. Scientists believe that all other extraterrestrial lives are be formed by L genetic material bonds and right-handed proteins.
Organisms functioning with L amino acid bond cannot synthesize or utilize Right-handed amino acids. Similarly, R sugars also cannot recognize their left-handed counterparts.
Scientists say that laboratory made L sugars cannot be used by earthly organisms. However, researchers have also found that laboratory made left-handed sugar could function along with right-handed proteins.
Scientists believe that meteorites with 50/50 right handed and left handed sugars are positive signs for extraterrestrial life. It was found that at least one meteorite would fall to Earth every day. These meteorites get contaminated by microorganisms living in the atmosphere.
The earthly microorganisms attached to the meteorite decays any organic or inorganic alien carbon compounds in them. Most part of the meteors burns in the atmosphere, vaporizing any organic compounds in its surface. They may form plasma layers in the upper earth atmosphere or may form anywhere on Earth. Recovery of these foreign objects is difficult as it might have fallen to oceans or any remote locations on Earth.
It was found that meteorite materials are enriched in carbon-13 isotopes while Earthly objects are mainly built of carbon 12 isotopes. Presence of carbon-13 in a polished looking stone is generally considered as a positive sign for it's out of planet origin. All earthly objects would also be contaminated by microorganisms and biological signs of the planet.
OSIRIS-REx
This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism or TAGSAM. The mission aims to return a sample of Bennu's surface coating to Earth for study as well as return detailed information about the asteroid and it's trajectory.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu would collect samples from the unadulterated carbonaceous surface of the distant solar object in Kuiper belt. OSIRIS-REx would collect rock samples and soil from the half kilometer wide Asteroid Bennu.
The mission launched in September 2016 will reach its destination in January 2019. The probe will orbit the asteroid for a span of one and half years to map the structures in it, before landing in a significant location to study the region and to collect samples from it.
Astronomers believe that the mission could help in the study of alien life and in finding mysteries behind objects which form the solar system.
Absence of life on Mars, Moon
The planet Mars is shown May 12, 2016 in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken May 12, 2016 when it was 50 million miles from Earth. Earth's neighbor planet makes its closest approach in a decade this month, providing sky-watchers with a celestial show from dusk to dawn.Reuters
NASA researchers, however, believe that life was never present on Mars or Moon. Research missions have collected rock samples from these neighbors to our planet and these are sometimes shell rock particles to its surroundings which might sometimes fall on the Earth's surface. But none of the samples have ever shown proof of life on these worlds even though traces of water and other minerals were observed.
Meanwhile, researchers also believe that microscopic life might be present in regions of planets which undergo sedimentation and tectonic activities.
Secret police audio files prove men who claim they were abducted by ‘alien creatures’ with lobster-like claws were telling the TRUTH, researcher claims
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Secret police audio files prove men who claim they were abducted by ‘alien creatures’ with lobster-like claws were telling the TRUTH, researcher claims
Brit ufologist Philip Mantle has republished a book on what he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record" - the Pascagoula sighting
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
SECRET police audio files reveal that the two men behind one of the craziest "alien encounters" ever recorded were telling the truth, a UFO researcher has claimed.
The bizarre Pascagoula incident involved two fishermen who claimed to have been captured by three alien creatures with lobster-like claws and taken into a UFO - before being released.
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Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, pictured, were left traumatised by the 1973 encounter
Audio recorded by the sheriff's department when the men reported the incident, obtained by Sun Online, show the men were highly distressed by the alleged incident - and never strayed from their story - even when cops left them alone and secretly taped them.
The audio files prove the two men were telling the truth, according to Brit ufologist Philip Mantle, who has republished a book about the incident, which he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record."
The incident took place in October 1973, when keen fishermen Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, were on the banks of the Pascagoula River, in the US state of Mississippi, and heard a whizzing sound overhead.
They claim that an oval shaped "craft", some 8ft across, suddenly appeared near them and seemed to levitate about 2ft above the ground.
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A sketch of the creatures which allegedly "abducted" by Calvin and Charles
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The creatures had carrot-like noses and ears, according to the pair
A door opened and three creatures - who were "humanoid" in shape and about 5ft tall - emerged and seized the men, "floating" them into the UFO, they later told police.
Both men reported being paralysed and numb - while Calvin claimed that he had fainted due to fright.
The men said the creatures had lobster-like claws at the ends of their arms, "carrot-like" growths for their nose and ears, and only one leg and their heads also appeared connected directly to their shoulders, with no discernible neck.
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We reported on the bizarre Pascagoula 'alien abduction' in 1973
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A sketch of the UFO which the men claim they were taken onboard by the "alien creatures"
The creatures' skin was described as pale in colour, wrinkled, with no eyes and slits for mouths.
On the ship, Charles claimed that he was examined by what looked like a large football-shaped mechanical eye, about 6 to 8 inches in diameter, that seemed to scan his body.
Calvin claimed that he could not recall what had happened to him inside the craft, although later, during hypnotic regression he offered some hazy details.
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A model of one of the 'humanoid creatures' seen by the fishermen
The men said they were released after about 15-20 minutes and the creatures levitated them, with Hickson's feet dragging along the ground, back to their original positions on the river bank. The terrified men claimed to have sat in a car for about 45 minutes, trying to calm themselves before they tried to report the sighting to officials at Keesler Air Force Base, but were told to go to police.
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Ufologist Philip Mantle says the incident is the most unique close encounter ever recorded
At about 10:30pm, the pair arrived at the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi, where they gave a report of what happened and were questioned by officers.
After around 30 minutes of questioning, Sheriff Fred Diamond decided to leave the men alone in a room that was rigged with a hidden microphone - to try and find out if they were lying or not.
He assumed that if they were lying it would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately but instead, they continued to act incredibly distressed - and never straying from their fantastic tale.
This so-called "secret tape" had been held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff's department since 1973.
Partial transcript of conversation between Calvin and Charlie recorded by Jackson County Sheriff's Department
CALVIN: " I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy." CHARLES: " I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep." CALVIN: " I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy." CHARLES: " Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out. "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake. "They didn't do me that way." CALVIN: " I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life." CHARLES: " I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe." CALVIN: " I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor." CHARLES: " They better wake up and start believing ... they better start believing." CALVIN: "You see how that damn door come right up?" CHARLES: " I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know." CALVIN: " It just laid up and just like that those sons of b*tches -just like that they come out." CHARLES: " I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it." CALVIN: " I paralysed right then. I couldn't move." CHARLES: " They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me." CALVIN: " You know yourself I don't drink. CHARLES: " I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for. I gotta go tell Blanche... what we waiting for?" CALVIN (panicky): " I gotta go to the house. I'm getting sick. I gotta get out of here." [Charlie leaves the room] CALVIN: " It's hard to believe . . . Oh God, it's awful... I know there's a God up there..."
Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Charles and Calvin even insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty.
Within days, Pascagoula was the centre of an international news story, with reporters swarming the town.
Tiring of the publicity, Charles and Calvin moved to Jones County, Mississippi, about 150 miles north of Pascagoula, where Calvin was eventually admitted to hospital for what was described as "an emotional breakdown."
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The men were interrogated by police and military personnel after the incident
While Calvin avoided public attention, Charles appeared on Dick Cavett's TV talk show in January 1974, and spoke at occasional UFO conferences.
He also co-wrote a book about the event with William Mendez titled " UFO Contact at Pascagoula", which is now being republished by Philip Mantle.
Charles died in September 9, 2011, at age 80, but never backed away from his alien abduction story despite ridicule.
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Philip Mantle has republished a fascinating book on the incident
Philip, a former director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, said: "Unfortunately this unique close encounter has fallen by the wayside and has been largely forgotten to many UFO researchers.
"It was with that in mind that in late 2017 I reached out to Calvin Parker and I re-published the book on this fascinating event.
"I have also been asked by a colleague who works in the film and TV industry to consider a movie based on the experience of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker.
"Irrespective of that there is no doubt that this is one of the most unique close encounters on record."
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UFO Contact at Pascagoula was originally written by Charles Hickson and has now been republished by Philip Mantle
Philip also points to how the hard-to-believe story has been corroborated by others in recent years.
In 2001, retired navy chief petty officer Mike Cataldo revealed that he observed an unusual UFO - an object like a large tambourine with small flashing lights - at dusk on the same date in 1973.
Philip, of Pontefract, West Yorks, also received an email from a man called Evan last year claiming to have seen a UFO on his parent's nearby farm about an hour before the Pascagoula "abduction".
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WHY FINDING ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE BAD. THE GREAT FILTER
WHY FINDING ALIEN LIFE WOULD BE BAD. THE GREAT FILTER
Since the Universe is big and old, and life on Earth didn’t take relatively long to evolve, then life should be everywhere in the Universe. And yet, no matter how hard we look, we don’t see any evidence of it out there, not on Mars, not sending us radio messages, and not taking over entire galaxies and using up all their energy.
This, of course, is the Fermi Paradox, and it’s an absolutely fascinating concept to think about. There are many possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox, but most of them are unsatisfying. Sure, we could be living in a cosmic zoo, or we fundamentally misunderstand how difficult it’ll be to travel to another star.
And maybe we’re just the first lifeforms in the observable Universe that have reached the level of technology that can conceive of exploring the Universe. But then, what are the chances of that? That really seems unlikely.
But then there’s the idea of the Great Filter. That there’s some kind of event that affects every single intelligent civilization, stopping it from reaching out into the galaxy, sending out signals, and exploring other worlds. Something wipes them out every time.
A scene from the episode
And considering the fact that we’re on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species ourselves, this concept of the Great Filter becomes even more unsettling.
It could be right around the corner from us.
Our friends at Kurzgesagt just released a video all about the Great Filter, and honestly, I think it’s the best video they’ve ever done. The animation, as always, is excellent, but the way they approach the Great Filter is really innovative, showing how evidence of life in the Universe is actually a bad sign, since it means we’re probably not the first life forms out there.
The recent revelation that the United States military had funneled some $22 million out of the Pentagon’s black budget to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects was met with a variety of responses in the media, and from the public at large. Some saw the investigation as a waste of money, others called it confirmation that we’ve been visited by extra-terrestrials, and as is so often the case when it comes to ideologically polarizing issues like the existence of alien life, the truth, most likely, lies somewhere in between.
In truth, the existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, started in 2007 and funded through 2012 while continuing to operate without specified funding, really only means one thing: The Pentagon decided to investigate what they deemed to be credible reports about what could be advanced aircraft in American airspace.
1. The term “UFO” doesn’t have to mean aliens.
While some have been eager to claim the Pentagon’s allocation of funds toward investigating these reports must mean Uncle Sam is aware of E.T.’s presence on earth, we need to remember that the nature of the investigation doesn’t dictate the origin of the aircraft being investigated. In short, advanced aircraft in the skies over the United States pose a direct and legitimate threat to the nation’s national security, regardless of where they hail from.
“The feds have long had an interest in UFOs, going back to the celebrity cases of the late 1940s—Roswell, anyone?” explained Seth Shostak, a senior researcher at the once government-funded SETI Institute – an organization that searches for alien life via radio astronomy. “Much of the motivation for this interest was the worry that the strange things being reported in the sky might be novel Soviet—or today, Russian or Chinese—aircraft.”
Shostak is right. Interested as Jim Mattis might be to learn that little green men from Mars are zipping through controlled airspace, the basis for allocating funds to investigate these reports is clear: threat identification and mitigation. Whether these craft come from Alpha Centuari or Beijing, if they exist, the U.S. military needs to assess what threat they may pose to the American people.
2. The government has a long history of investigating these things.
An image from the CIA’s “How to Investigate a Flying Saucer” depicting a witness account of a UFO sighting
Many have accurately reported that, even while the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was investigating reports of unidentified objects in the sky, the federal government has long denied taking any interest in reports of UFOs. It is true that if you ask most politicians and government officials directly, they’ll tell you that they have more important things to worry about, and allocate funding to.
The thing is, that’s not exactly true. The United States government has always had an interest in the possibility of Unidentified Flying Objects, regardless of their origin. In the 1940s and 50s, the Air Force funded Projects Sign and Grudge, both tasked with finding explanations for military reports of strange aerial phenomena. In the 50s and 60s, Project Blue Book was born out of the two previous efforts. Over the span of 17 years, Project Blue Book investigators looked into 12,618 reports of “flying saucers” and similar mysterious aircraft, before being shut down. That was the last time the government openly acknowledged their efforts in this field, but was far from the end of their interest.
The CIA continued to study UFOs (as well as even stranger paranormal mysteries) well into the 1990s. Starting in the 1970s and continuing through the 90s, NASA provided around $12 million per year to SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) and today, NASA’s Astrobiology Institute exists solely to look for and postulate on the possibility of alien life.
3. Not much money was spent on the project.
As the New York Times revealed in its investigation, the Pentagon’s secret UFO investigative arm received around $22 million in funding, a lofty figure that has drawn some criticism. There’s no question that $22 million is a LOT, but for the sake of perspective, let’s try to view that number through the scope of defense enterprises, rather than your average American’s budget.
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program received funding through the Pentagon from its inception in 2007 through its fiscal cutoff in 2012, meaning that $22 million was disbursed over six years of effort. That means the annual budget for the effort was around $3.6 million per year. It’s true that even the smaller figure is still a lot of money, but let’s compare it to some other things the defense department spends money on each year to gain a bit of perspective:
$283,500 per year to monitor the day-to-day life of baby gnatchatchers, an endangered species of bird.
$84 million per year on erectile dysfunction medications for military service members.
$100 million in flight tickets purchased but then not used between 1997 and 2003.
$3.1 billion over two years on sending employees on paid administrative leave when “barred from their desks” for a variety of reasons.
4. It could be riddled with corruption.
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities by the company’s President Robert Bigelow
Now that we’ve clarified that, all in all, the Pentagon’s most recent effort to identify mysterious craft in the skies wasn’t a particularly expensive endeavor, it’s equally important that we acknowledge the likelihood that much of that money may have simply been squandered on a celestial snake oil salesman.
While Luis Elizondo was in charge of the Pentagon’s staff of investigators, he and his team were not the direct recipient of much of the funding allocated to the effort. Instead, most of that $22 million went to billionaire industrialist, Space contractor and UFO believer Robert Bigelow. By his own admission, it was a trip to Bigelow’s legendary “Skinwalker Ranch” that first convinced Senator Harry Reid that the investigation needed to be opened, and it was Bigelow’s company that then received the lion’s share of the Pentagon’s funding for the effort. In the eyes of believers, this sounds like Bigelow could have been onto something… but it’s just as likely that he used one hell of a sales pitch to funnel more money out of Uncle Sam’s pockets.
In the past few months, the idea of Unidentified Flying Objects as spacecraft from another world has enjoyed a resurgence in the minds of the public, thanks in no small part to the revelation that the Pentagon has been secretly devoting millions of dollars to the investigation of just such anomalous sightings for years now. Of course, public interest in the idea that we’re being visited by advanced air platforms hailing from across the sea or across the galaxy, tends to be cyclical, and one could be forgiven for assuming that reports of strange objects in the sky had died down in the years since the last time the X-Files was on the air. Surprisingly, or perhaps, unsurprisingly (depending on your beliefs) that doesn’t seem to be the case.
The internet has allowed independent organizations devoted to the serious (and sometimes not-so-serious) study of UFOs the reach they need to compile massive amounts of data regarding sightings and even supposed interactions with everything from flying saucers to time machines. These largely self-reported sighting databases maintained by groups like The National UFO Reporting Center offer thousands of sightings to click through and read about – providing either a glimpse into the honest reporting of thousands of Americans… or the ravings of mad men and internet trolls. It’s honestly almost impossible to differentiate between the two.
None the less, there are some interesting things to glean from these data aggregators, whether you believe each data point represents a legitimate sighting of something unusual, the delusion of a wishful thinker, or the geographic location of an internet troll. Acknowledging that, deep within the Pentagon, there are senior defense officials tasked with investigating sightings of this sort suggests that there’s some value to be had in taking a look at some of these cases, or from a macro-perspective, to looking for trends in sightings that may offer reasonable explanations for regions with abnormal high rates of sightings.
Last year, data analyst Adam Crahen took of one of the largest databases of alleged UFO encounters online, maintained by the the aforementioned National UFO Reporting Center, and plotted all 58,828 reports submitted between 1995 and 2014 on a map of the United States. The final product is an impressive, or perhaps frightening, green swath across nearly the entirety of the United States, seemingly suggesting that UFOs are not only here, but American airspace is just lousy with them.
Adam Crahen UFO sightings map. You can visit it here.
Or maybe not. It comes as no surprise that more sightings are reported in areas of the country that are heavily populated (more people means more sightings) but the greener patches of the map also seem to coincide with something else.
When laying that same map of reported UFO sightings over a U.S. map showing the locations of all military installations, an interesting trend starts to emerge: many of the regions that seem to show a high frequency of UFO reports coincide with the locations of military installations. For the conspiracy minded, this might mean our alien visitors have taken a particular interest in what our military is up to… but others might be inclined to conclude that many of these supposed UFO sightings may be nothing more than misidentified military aircraft.
Adam Crahen’s compiled UFO sightings map overlaid with a map of U.S. military installations (Google Earth)
It’s not as unlikely as you may think. Military aircraft are often mistaken for Unidentified Flying Objects in U.S. skies because their shape and behavior don’t adhere to the norms we’re accustomed to. Sometimes, these sightings are the result of the testing of never before seen platforms, but others, it’s simply a matter of military aircraft not exhibiting the same behavior seen from commercial aircraft above our heads. A bright light flying low over a rural region and moving in a seemingly unusual manner could be Martians… but it could also be a Blackhawk in the distance. Most people don’t have a lot of experience identifying either, through no fault of their own.
Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, sling load 105 mm howitzers during a night air assault exercise. (U.S. Army)
Is this a reasonable explanation for nearly 60,000 sightings spread out over a 19-year span? Maybe not, but the next time you look to the sky and think you may see an inbound flying saucer, it might be worth doing a quick search to see how far you are from the nearest air national guard base. The answer may surprise you.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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This massive 780-foot (238 meters) crop circle appeared in a remote area (Milk Hill) of Wiltshire, England back in 2001. It was an extremely complex and elaborate design, composed of exactly 409 circles that form what is known as a triskelion – a motif consisting of three interlocking spirals.
The symbol has been seen throughout history and across multiple cultures dating back thousands of years.
You may be skeptical, but this did in fact happen, making major headlines and eliciting the scrutiny of many researchers and scientists.
Footage To Verify Existence
There is some great footage of it in the documentary “Crop Circles: quest for truth,” by academy award winning director William Gazecki. You can view that here.
“It was so large that it took us half an hour to find the center.”
(quote taken from video link above)
There are some more great images of it in this YouTube video. You can also see a helicopter flying over it from the documentary “Thrive” in this video (at the 26.16 minute mark) or check out various articles on it, like this one.
It is one of thousands of complex, highly detailed, and precise formations that have had researchers and scientists baffled for decades.
Theories And Explanations
Although a relationship between crop circles and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has been postulated, there have as of yet been no proven sightings (or credible witnesses) of actual UFOs in connection to the formation of these patterns.
Sometimes, military helicopters have been captured examining the circles as well, there are a couple videos floating around on the the internet that allude to this, you can check some of them out here.
That being said, most of these formations are a little sloppy and, for the most part, the result of clever hoaxes, like this recent one in California. But some are so intricate, meaningful, and precisely designed that their execution would require an enormous amount of time, effort and technology – not the the work of a single night. Again, these complex patterns have appeared thousands of times throughout the world, though they are more predominant in the UK.
The crop circle at Milk Hill (see cover photo) is a perfect example of this. Again, keep in mind however, that there have been many impressive and very believable circles created by hoaxers, and as many have suggested, such circle makers could indeed create beautiful works of art overnight.
The problem is, nobody has ever come forward and nobody has been caught in the act.
“Some of these formations are so immense and complex as to defy reason. And after all these decades, none of the perpetrators have been caught in the act of making any of the truly extraordinary formations.”
– Richard Dolan, historian, academic, author, and one of the world’s leading UFO researchers (1)
The truth is, many of the complex formations are completely unexplained, and riddled with oddities that lend even more mystery to the already confusing equation.
One of these oddities is the fact that some formations, for example, have crops that were completely pushed down without ever having been broken. In some cases they’ve been bent just inches above the ground.
Traditional hoaxers have used wooden planks in the past, but in some cases, it’s clear that this method could not be behind the resulting circles.
Some of these designs are so mysterious and complex that they’ve been studied in a laboratory setting, and some have indicated that the nodes of some of the stalks were blasted out on one side. It’s not conclusively known how this was done, but the effect has been replicated by highly localized microwave heating. This type of technique causes water inside to vaporize and dislodge. As a result, the stock flops completely over to one side. (1)
“If something like this caused the formations, then we are clearly talking about a highly sophisticated agency behind the phenomenon.”
– Richard Dolan (1)
This is a well known, perplexing phenomenon. Are crop circle hoaxers really blasting these stalks with highly localized microwave heating, or something that would produce the same results?
According to University of Oregon physicist Richard Taylor, yes, they are. He believes this is the only possible explanation, and has suggested that crop circle artists are using GPS devices, lasers, and microwaves to create these astonishing patterns of geometric forms.
This is what he wrote in an August 2011 issue of Physics World:
“Crop circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily. This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history.”
He also expressed this same belief in some work of his that was published in the Journal Nature in 2010. (source)
Just as the Richard Dolan quote points out (above the picture), if something like this caused these formations, the people responsible must have a tremendous amount of resources, people, and money at their disposal, not to mention the skills necessary to make such a large and mathematically perfect design. It would indeed, as Taylor suggests, be the most science-oriented art movement in history, if done by humans.
Another interesting oddity regarding crop circles is that the electromagnetic field over the area where the crop has been laid down to create the image is often elecrostatically charged.
“There is a mounting body of evidence that suggests that a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an ionised plasma vortex (generally known as ball lighting) is involved.”
This explanation was originally offered by physicist Dr. Terence Meadon, who believed that these patterns were the result of atmospheric phenomena. He suggested that wind currents and ionized plasmas are the culprit. This type of theory does have validity, as several investigators believe that some kind of light energy is key in creating these circles. (2)(3)
The crop circle phenomenon is very interesting. Understandably, one might be quick to instantly dismiss the idea that some of these designs could be the work of some unknown entity. Many reasons to further ponder these wonders of the world exist.
Foster Gamble, heir to Proctor Gamble Corporation, and great-great-grandson to James Gamble, illustrates in his film Thrive that the extremely complex circles are also littered with strange magnetic particles.
“The patterns of the formations themselves have been studied endlessly. Aside from being supremely beautiful, many seem to be messages in one form or another, often with cosmological implications. None seem ominous or evil. If one receives any sense or feeling from them, it is benevolence. If it were to be the case that these formations are created by an extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence, we may conclude that at least one of the groups here might in fact care about us and wish to help us.”
– Richard Dolan (1)
Ask yourself, could hoaxers have created all of these (thousands) of patterns? Why is this a phenomenon that dates back (according to some) thousands of years? Even the science JournalNature published an article about them in 1880.
Could a few people have created something as complex as this one? In the dead of night, leaving no traces, marks, or footprints?
UFO : What Really Happened in the 1979 Dulce Firefight? / Actuality of Invisible Alien Beings
UFO : What Really Happened in the 1979 Dulce Firefight? / Actuality of Invisible Alien Beings
What Really Happened in the 1979 Dulce Firefight?
Phil Schneider, supposedly one of three people who survived the 1979 Dulce firefight between the large Greys, US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base, was found dead on January 1996, due to what was said to be an execution style murder. He was found dead in his apartment with a piano wire wrapped around his neck. According to some sources, it appeared that he repeatedly suffered torture before he was finally killed. You can read his story here - The Mysterious Life and Death of Philip Schneider. There have been numerous questions surrounding Schneider, in particular his motives and state of mind. Seven months prior to his death, he stated the following during a lecture:
"To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my schooling was in that field and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications. I have helped build two main bases in the United States that have some significance as far as what is called the New World Order. The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico."
"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. It was called the 1954 Greada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. An insider's account of the treaty meeting is posted here - President Eisenhower's Close Encounter at Holloman AFB. Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn't abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the fire-fight at Dulce occurred quite by accident. I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. It goes down seven levels and over 2.5 miles deep. At that particular time, we had drilled four distinct holes in the desert, and we were going to link them together and blow out large sections at a time. My job was to go down the holes and check the rock samples, and recommend the explosive to deal with the particular rock. As I was headed down there, we found ourselves amidst a large cavern that was full of outer-space aliens, otherwise known as large Greys. I shot two of them. At that time, there were 30 people down there. About 40 more came down after this started, and all of them got killed. We had surprised a whole underground base of existing aliens. Later, we found out that they had been living on our planet for a long time, perhaps a million years. This could explain a lot of what is behind the theory of ancient astronauts."
What was the Dulce firefight...really? From information I have gathered, in 1979, a Grey was giving a lecture to an unknown determined number of scientists. During the lecture, a security officer came into the area with a sidearm on his belt. It was strictly forbidden to carry any weapons of any kind anywhere in the vicinity of the Greys. The security officer was instantly killed by the Grey. Other security personnel, witnessing what was happening in that room on the security cameras, came to retaliate. The Grey, according to the information, allegedly killed everybody. The manner in which the Grey killed these people has not been disclosed but was noted that the cause of deaths were 'head wounds'. The approximate number killed was just over 60 scientists and security.
Because of the nature of the sources, I believe the story to be essentially true though most of the information is third hand. It was, for the most part, an unfortunate accident and was classified as such.
Phil Schneider's interpretation of the event involved him which, from what I have gathered, is not true. Schneider stated in the lecture "...I got shot in the chest with one of their weapons, which was a box on their body, that blew a hole in me and gave me a nasty dose of cobalt radiation. I have had cancer because of that." He tells a very good 'story', but embellishes the facts as is the case in many of his recollections. I'm not saying that he is completely without fact, but it's hard to discern the truth when so much hyperbole is added.
What is the status of Dulce Base today? Your guess is as good as mine but strange activity has been seen and documented over the years. I covered some of the theories here - Dulce Conference Ends / The Dulce Report which includes the full 'UFO Hunters' Dulce investigation episode.
Many of you have seen the 'Predator' movies and are familiar with the cloaking technology used by the extraterrestrial in the film. Basically, the alien being is hidden or invisible even though a matrix outline of the alienbeing can still be detected. The description in this account is akin to the fictional entity in the films.
Several years ago, a colleague who is psychically gifted described an incident she experienced in her backyard the evening before. She had let her dogs out and was standing at the back door while waiting for them to finish their business.
As she continued to wait for her dogs, she noticed 'something' approach her on the walkway from the lower yard. Her description was that of a tall and wide shouldered being but without mass... a pixilated transparent form that continued to move towards her. As this form came near her it abruptly stopped as if it was surprised that she was staring at it. Then this form dissipated completely. This was not the first time something of this nature had materialized near her. A similar incident transpired the previous year while she was standing adjacent to her garden. On that occasion the being was somewhat smaller in form but similarly pixilated and transparent.
Her sense of these beings was that it was not a haunting or manifestation by a human spirit. In fact she had never recognized similar phenomena previously. Her assessment was that these were entities from beyond our dimension and most likely of alien origin. After I listened to the evidence, already having knowledge of her surroundings, I concurred that her experience was more than a manifesting human energy.
In June 1947, aviator Kenneth Arnold inadvertently launched the modern UFO era with his report of witnessing nine crescent-shaped objects speeding over Mt. Rainier. In 1948, the USAF set up Project Sign to evaluate the many flying disc reports that followed in the wake of Arnold's highly publicized sighting.
A few years later, UFO researcher Coral Lorenzen wrote, "Clearly the discs had been involved in a general military reconnaissance of the United States." She added that the UFO entities were obviously engaged in"gathering botanical and geological specimens." Early proponents of similar theories, assuming that UFOs came from within our solar system, suspected that they wished to colonize our planet, or to strip it of itsminerals, metals or uranium. These theories are no longer valid. There is a wealth of minerals and metals in asteroids and uninhabited planets which is readily available to any astral civilization. As well, there are a high number of non-inhabited planets that could be adapted to support life should the aliens wish colonize.
Some alien abduction theory proponents have suggested that these non-terrestrials want to gather human DNA in order to develop hybrids. It seems unlikely to expect that highly advanced aliens would need to repeatedly abduct thousands of humans in order to keep their DNA supplies available. Surely they would have the know-how that we possess to synthesize or replicate DNA in their own laboratories?
Is it possible that extraterrestrials are only interested in our culture andrelationship to other living things on our planet? Could we become a part of an united interplanetary trading consortium... or simply become a diplomatic and scientific partner in a league of alien civilizations? Cue up theStar Trek music.
An interesting comment was made by Lord Martin Rees, a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist who is the President of Britain's Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen of England. Rees, who hosted the National Science Academy's first conference on the possibility of alien life inFebruary 2010, said he believes the existence of extraterrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.
"They could be staring us in the face and we just don't recognize them. The problem is that we're looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology. I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains."
Is it possible that these extraterrestrial entities are all around us and, for the most part, undetectable? Computational biologists and bioengineers are attempting in finding the cure for chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and others. What has perplexed some bioengineers and medical experts is the presence of strange molecular entities within the intracellular structures within an organism. The biological entities are not bacteria, viruses, or any visible entities. They are invisible. They are impossible to detect without the help of computational modeling and computer assisted search and locate algorithms.
The premise is that invisible extraterrestrial biological entities all around us are penetrating our bodies and reside within intracellular spaces. They can then attack as they wish to colonize human or animal bodies. That is the reason why targeted drug delivery mechanisms are failing no matter what the biophysicists are doing. It was found that through computational modeling the source of cancer is not the cancer cell only but also invisibleentities within intracellular spaces.
Do these invisible extraterrestrial entities exist in higher dimensions and manifest under certain conditions? Are these beings entering our world by flying craft or through portals... or have they been here with us all along?
Also, the lack of tangible evidence to prove the existence of several cryptid's may also be due to a theory that has been gaining popularity over recent years, namely, that these beings are ultraterrestrial and multidimensional. This is a paradox that may become clearer in the near future.
Is it possible that extraterrestrial entities are all around us and, for the most part, undetectable? What has perplexed some bioengineers and medical experts is the presence of strange molecular entities within the intracellular structures within an organism. The biological entities are not bacteria, viruses, or any visible entities. They are invisible. They are impossible to detect without the help of computational modeling and computer assisted search and locate algorithms.these invisible extraterrestrial entities exist in higher dimensions and manifest under certain conditions? Are these beings entering our world by flying craft or through portals... or have they been here with us all along?
It's believed that between 40 and 80 percent of the human genome was developed thanks to ancient viruses. Unlike bacteria, which simply live in the body, viruses make active changes to your cells, injecting their own genetic code.
(REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann)
An ancient virus could be responsible for human consciousness, giving you the ability to think for yourself.
New research has linked a human gene responsible for conscious thought to a virus that was spread in the early days of humanity.
Two papers published in the Cell journal discuss the origins of the Arc gene, which packages up genetic information and sends it around nerve cells in little virus-style capsules.
These packages of information are believed to be critical to how our nerves communicate and could be responsible for our thoughts.
Elissa D. Pastuzyn, who authored one of the studies, said: "Evolutionary analysis indicates that Arc is derived from a vertebrate lineage of Ty3/gypsy retrotransposons, which are also ancestors to retroviruses."
It's believed that between 40 percent and 80 percent of the human genome was developed thanks to ancient viruses.
Unlike bacteria, which simply live in the body, viruses make active changes to your cells, injecting their own genetic code.
This can often be entirely useless – and sometimes causes harm, including through the reproduction of more viruses – but occasionally we end up with useful modifications.
And it seems an ancient virus may have given rise to all human thought — thanks to the Arc gene.
Pastuzyn says that the virus was "repurposed during evolution, to mediate intercellular communication in the nervous system."
James Ashley, who authored one of the studies, said: "The neuronal gene Arc is essential for long-lasting information storage in the mammalian brain, mediates various forms of synaptic plasticity, and has been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders."
He adds that mutations in the gene have been "linked to autism and schizophrenia," which suggests that Arc has a pivotal role to play in how we perceive and react to the world around us.
MIND-BOGGLING DISCOVERY: PERFECTLY PRESERVED BRAIN OF IRON AGE MAN UNEARTHED IN YORK
MIND-BOGGLING DISCOVERY: PERFECTLY PRESERVED BRAIN OF IRON AGE MAN UNEARTHED IN YORK
Archaeologists believe they have discovered one of the world’s oldest brains that once belonged to a man in Iron Age Britain who was sacrificed in a ritual killing.
Scientists found the cranium in a muddy pit when they were excavating a site before a new campus was to be built at the University of York. When a researcher reached inside the skull, she was stunned to discover the soft tissue of the 2,500-year-old brain still preserved.
Fractures and marks on the bones suggest the man, who was aged between 26 and 45, died most probably from hanging, after which he was carefully decapitated and his head was then buried on its own.
Grey matter: The 2,500-year-old preserved brain has baffled scientists after it was found during an excavation at the University of York
Scientists have been baffled by how the brain tissue – which usually rots after a couple at years – managed to remain intact for so long.
‘The survival of brain remains where no other soft tissues are preserved is extremely rare,’ said Sonia O’Connor, research fellow in archaeological sciences at the University of Bradford.
‘This brain is particularly exciting because it is very well preserved, even though it is the oldest recorded find of this type in the UK, and one of the earliest worldwide.’
Philip Duffey, a neurologist at York Hospital who scanned the skull, said: ‘I’m amazed and excited that scanning has shown structures which appear to be unequivocally of brain origin.’
Baffled: Dr Sonia O Connor, from the University of Bradford, examines the remains of the brain
‘I think that it will be very important to establish how these structures have survived, whether there are traces of biological material within them and, if not, what is their composition.’
Experts from York Archaeological Trust were commissioned by the university to carry out the exploratory dig last year before building work on the £750million campus expansion started.
They discovered the solitary skull face-down in the pit in dark brown organic rich, soft sandy clay.
The university put together a team of scientists, archaeologists, chemists, bio-archaeologists and neurologists, to establish how the man’s brain, could have survived when all the other soft tissue had decayed leaving only the bone.
Remains: Archaeologists sift through the muddy pit at the site near the University of York where the brain was found
The team is also investigating details of the man’s death and burial that may have contributed to the survival of what is normally highly vulnerable soft tissue.
The research, which was funded by the University of York and English Heritage, is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Since the discovery, the brain and skull have been kept in strictly controlled conditions, but scientists have examined samples using a range of sophisticated equipment, including a CT scanner at York Hospital and mass spectrometers at the University of York.
Samples of brain material had a DNA sequence that matched sequences found only in a few individuals from Tuscany and the Near East. Carbon dating suggests the remains date from between 673-482BC.
Fractures on the second neck vertebrae point to some kind of trauma before the man died and and a cluster of about nine horizontal fine cut-marks made by a thin-bladed instrument, such as a knife, can be seen on the front of the brain.
Preserved: Brain material shows as dark folded matter at the top of the head in this computer-generated view of the skull
Clean: Scientists said there was no trace on the brain of the usual preservation methods such as embalming or smoking
Scientists are now investigating how lipids and proteins found in the brain preserved the brain and what happened between the man dying and his burial.
Dr O’Connor said: ‘It is rare to be able to suggest the cause of death for skeletonised human remains of archaeological origin. The preservation of the brain in otherwise skeletonised remains is even more astonishing but not unique.
‘This is the most thorough investigation ever undertaken of a brain found in a buried skeleton and has allowed us to begin to really understand why a brain can survive thousands of years after all the other soft tissues have decayed.’
Despite the place that ‘trophy heads’ appear to have played in Iron Age societies and evidence for the preservation of human remains in the Bronze Age, the researchers say there is no evidence for that in this case. They found no marks indicating deliberate preservation by embalming or smoking.
Dr O’Connor added: ‘The hydrated state of the brain and the lack of evidence for putrefaction suggests that burial, in the fine-grained, anoxic sediments of the pit, occurred very rapidly after death. This is a distinctive and unusual sequence of events, and could be taken as an explanation for the exceptional brain preservation.’
The Melting Of Arctic Permafrost Could Release A ‘Mercury Apocalypse’
The Melting Of Arctic Permafrost Could Release A ‘Mercury Apocalypse’
There’s a ticking time bomb composed of Mercury hidden beneath our planets Permafrost. Scientists warn that climate change could accelerate the release of toxic Mercury, and it’s worrying.
Climate change could unleash 15 million gallons of mercury trapped in permafrost. And that's just in the Northern Hemisphere.
Credit: TheVagabond V.Schaal/Shutterstock
Despite the fact that Mercury has a lot of good uses, its toxic to humans and animals and can pose a great threat to our planet’s ecosystems.
As melting permafrost releases mercury, eventually some of it will make it into the food chain—and into animals such as the Alaskan caribou. As noted by National Geographic, “in some forms, mercury is a powerful neurotoxin, and in children it can harm brain development, affecting cognition, memory, language and even motor and visual skills. Even in adults, excessive amounts can hamper vision, speech and muscle movements, compromise the reproductive and immune systems, and cause cardiovascular problems.”
If global warming ends up melting the permafrost—the permanently frozen surface layer of the northern hemisphere—it could trigger a global ecological catastrophe, since this area contains more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried according to a group of researchers.
This is a worrisome fact because this is roughly twice as much mercury as can be found in the rest of Earth’s soils, ocean and atmosphere combined, reports Live Science.
Concentrations of mercury in the Northern Hemisphere, in four soil layers.
(Credit: Schuster et al./GRL/AGU.)
“Our results indicate the active layer alone represents the largest [mercury] reservoir on the planet,” says the study, published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal.
“The active layer and permafrost together contain nearly twice as much [mercury] as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined.”
Natural mercury comes from the atmosphere and is chemically linked with organic substances in the northern soils, recalls the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
A team of researchers from the US Geological Survey analyzed 13 ice samples taken in Alaska between 2004 and 2012 and compared them with 11,000 samples of tundra soil in various parts of the world.
The analysis revealed that permafrost contains 10 times more mercury than that expelled into the atmosphere by human activity in the past 30 years.
“There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer,” study author Paul Schuster, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement
“This discovery is a game-changer.”
“Twenty-four percent of all the soil above the equator is permafrost, and it has this huge pool of locked-up mercury. What happens if the permafrost thaws? How far will the mercury travel up the food chain? These are big-picture questions that we need to answer,” added Schuster.
“There’s a significant social and human health aspect to this study,” said Steve Sebestyen, a research hydrologist at the USDA Forest Service in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
“The consequences of this mercury being released into the environment are potentially huge because mercury has health effects on organisms and can travel up the food chain, adversely affecting native and other communities.”
Most of us accept eventual memory impairment as an unfortunate fact of life, but recent advances in brain stimulation, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, could be changing all that. On Tuesday, scientists conducting research within the program reported in the journal Nature Communications that they’d found a way to electrically stimulate the brain to improve memory recall in a significant way.
The goal of the program is to ultimately treat people with neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, which affect many combat veterans living with the long-term effects of head trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. The new paper, published Tuesday, is a major step in achieving those goals. The team of researchers, led by Youssef Ezzyat, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, found that directly stimulating a part of the brain called the lateral temporal cortex could help improve patients’ memory recall by as much as 15 percent.
By stimulating the lateral temporal cortex, scientists found they could improve patients' memory recall by 15 percent.
In the study, the researchers recorded the brain activity of 25 volunteers who were participating in a clinical trial intended to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, a seizure disorder that can affect a person’s memory. The patients read a list of 12 words and were instructed to remember them. All the while, scientists monitored the patients’ brain activity via electrodes on the cortical surface of the brain as well as embedded in the brain.
Feeding this data to a machine-learning algorithm showed them when a patient’s brain was most likely not encoding the memories properly. Later, when patients were performing a memory task, the electrodes hooked up to their lateral temporal cortex, a part of the brain associated with memory and language processing, gave the patients a little zap of electricity to stimulate the region whenever it detected activity associated with encoding deficits.
The study’s authors report that this monitoring and responding process, known as closed-loop stimulation, improved patients’ memory recall by 15 percent. This new study rests on previous findings by Ezzyat’s team, which demonstrated the potential of closed-loop brain stimulation for improving memory encoding. This differs from open-loop stimulation in that it only fires up when a patient is showing the biomarkers that indicate encoding problems. The latest research builds on this intervention by identifying an anatomical target for brain stimulation.
Since, as Inverse previously reported, the National Institutes of Mental Health isn’t very interested in funding this kind of research, it looks like this project and others funded by the D.O.D. could be doctors’ best bet at perfecting treatments that involve direct brain stimulation.
Abstract:
Memory failures are frustrating and often the result of ineffective encoding. One approach to improving memory outcomes is through direct modulation of brain activity with electrical stimulation. Previous efforts, however, have reported inconsistent effects when using open-loop stimulation and often target the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes. Here we use a closed-loop system to monitor and decode neural activity from direct brain recordings in humans. We apply targeted stimulation to lateral temporal cortex and report that this stimulation rescues periods of poor memory encoding. This system also improves later recall, revealing that the lateral temporal cortex is a reliable target for memory enhancement. Taken together, our results suggest that such systems may provide a therapeutic approach for treating memory dysfunction.
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Rest easily, Earthlings … the planet is once again being protected. NASA, which has been looking since last August for a new Planetary Protection Officer to protect the planet against threats from other planets and to protect other planets from threats and contaminates being delivered by Earth-launched space probes, announced that the position has been filled. It’s a big job that just got bigger with the discovery of new planets outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Could that be why the previous Planetary Protection Officer retired?
NASA announced the search for a new PPO in August 2017 when the previous Planetary Protection Officer, Catherine Conley, retired after three years on the job. NASA advertised the up-to- $187,000-a year position for a month, then spent four months interviewing candidates before choosing Lisa Pratt, who will step down from her current position as associate executive dean of Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Part of the Planetary Protection Officer’s job description?
“The title is not a title anybody should have.”
That doesn’t sound like someone who just got a new job, especially one that all of humanity is dependent on, but Lisa Pratt convinced her new bosses that she’s the right person to handle it. The daughter of a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, she received a bachelor’s degree in botany from the University of North Carolina and a master’s in botany from the University of Illinois. Then she did what anyone with that kind of education behind them would do … she became a bartender.
Fortunately, a college mentor convinced her to go back to school and get a master’s and Ph.D. in geology, giving her what would eventually be the perfect combination of sciences to become a Planetary Protection Officer. But first, she caught NASA’s attention (and received a $2.4 million grant) with her work on the Greenland Ice Sheet (which is similar to conditions on other planets and moons) to study methane emissions and microbial life there.
The Planetary Protection Officer is responsible for sending clean equipment to other planets
Despite those qualifications, her work experience and encouragement from NASA colleagues, Pratt wasn’t sure she was right for the job, especially since it was located in Washington DC – not exactly a welcome home for scientists these days. However, she received the offer and, after getting the OK from her husband and daughters, accepted the big job. And Pratt knows it’s big.
“I am excited about the opportunity to contribute to the mission of planetary protection at a defining moment in human evolution and the advancement of science. We are on the verge of becoming a spacefaring species, and I feel privileged to be invited into an extraordinary conversation, pushing the frontiers of science, exploration and discovery at NASA. This position plays a direct role in seeking evidence to address a profound question: Are we alone?”
If we aren’t, it sounds like Lisa Pratt is the perfect Planetary Protection Officer to welcome ETs to Earth and assure them we’re not contagious and didn’t mean to send those germs to Mars.
Space agencies around the world have made great strides in the search for alien worlds lately. NASA, in particular, discovered ten potentially habitable exoplanets just last year with a little help from the Kepler space telescope. While most new exoplanets are not believed to support life or are found to be the complete opposite of habitable, the search for exoplanets continues in the hope that at least one might contain alien life. Or at least some natural resources we can pillage. Up until now, all of the planets we have discovered have been in our own neck of the cosmos: the Milky Way galaxy. However, in a groundbreaking discovery, astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma have announced they’ve found evidence of the first known planets outside of our galaxy. What could this discovery hold for the future of astronomy?
Albert Einstein predicted these types of discoveries over 70 years ago.
For now, likely not much. The planets are found some 3.8 billion light years away, meaning they’re much too far away for us to know much more about them – at least in our lifetime. The planets were found using a phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing which occurs when light traveling through space is ‘bent’ by immense masses such as clusters of galaxies. When the researchers were studying a distant quasar known as RX J1131-1231, they discovered light signatures which could only be explained by the presence of four exoplanets ranging in size from nearly that of our Moon to that of Jupiter.
The image created by microlensing. The galaxy thought to host the planets is in the center, while the light from several quasars is ‘bent’ around it in a ring.
One of the astronomers behind the discovery, OU postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras, says that while the planets are too far away to really add much to our knowledge of space, at least we now know how to harness gravitational microlensing in the search for alien worlds:
This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be. This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario. However, we are able to study them, unveil their presence and even have an idea of their masses. This is very cool science.
Very cool science indeed. You know what would be even cooler science? Figuring out a way to reach one of these exoplanets someday and ensure the human race will after the Earth has been reduced to a radioactive lump of coal by a few spiteful old men. When are we going to make that happen?
The official Nevada state motto is “All for Our Country” and the state also has a variety of official and unofficial state slogans and nicknames, including “Battle Born,” “The Silver State,” “Home Means Nevada” (license plate slogan), “Wide Open” and “Nevada: Come Happy, Leave Broke.” While all of those appeal in some way to humans, which one would be best for convincing extraterrestrials to visit (or revisit?) Nevada? Or should it try a new one designed specifically for space aliens? Battle Born But We’ll Cease Fire While You’re Here? The Silver Parts for Your Spaceship State? ET Phoned Home and Nevada Answered? Come Happy, Leave Us Alone?
As part of a program to help the government find them, Travelnevada.com, a website managed by the Nevada Commission on Tourism, has published a travel itinerary it believes will appeal to ETs. As one might expect, it hits the hot spots of UFO and alien activity that appeal to humans as well, so the visitors should be ready to interact with them, especially if they decide to stay at a Bed (or whatever it is they sleep on) & Breakfast (or whatever it is they eat).
The guide begins the recommended trip in Las Vegas, which may be a mistake if the ETs lose all of their money on the first day and have nothing left for souvenirs. Then again, if they’re smart enough to get here, they’ve probably figured out how to beat the Vegas machines and will simply make enough to pay for the trip before moving on to …
Valley of Fire State Park, a red sandstone used to shoot scenes from “Star Trek: Generations.” Then it’s on to the Extraterrestrial Highway (no speeding on Nevada State Route 375 – being an actual ET won’t sway the trooper) and a stop at the Alien Research Center (no giggling) before heading to the place everyone visiting the area stops at …
The nearest rest stop with a bathroom, unless of course ETs have solved that problem. Then it’s time for Area 51 which, like the Extraterrestrial Highway, does not offer special privileges to ETs in human transportation vehicles. There’s probably not much there an ET hasn’t seen already, so the guide recommends eating at the famous Little A’Le’Inn restaurant (ignore the pun – it’s a human thing) and bedding down (powering down?) for the night at the Victorian-era (as if that means anything to ETs) Mizpah Hotel. With the money they saved using their intergalactic ID card for a 20 percent discount, they have extra cash to spend at …
The Tonopah Historic Mining Park (no free silver samples), the Central Nevada Museum and the Tonopah Brewing Co. for beer and barbecue that is out of this world – then again, that could be said of everything they’ve ingested on Earth. At that point, it’s time for the highlight of the tour … a trip to the hometown of …
No, not William Shatner … Art Bell! Art put Pahrump, Nevada, on the terrestrial map and it’s probably on the celestial ones as well. A few more souvenir stops and then it’s back to Las Vegas, where they can get rid of the rest of their useless-at-home Earth money at a casino or a strip club … the robot strippers from the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show may still be in town. Remember to ask for a discreet receipt, perhaps from the Nevada Robo-Research Facility, for the expense report.
Does that sound like a great trip for extraterrestrials? Probably not, but it’s definitely a good one for humans. Just make Vegas the LAST stop and dress nice in case any ETs want you in their selfies.
Born in 1921, Air Marshal Sir Beresford Peter Torrington Horsleybegan his career with the British military in 1939, when he boarded the TSS Cyclops, a steamer bound for Malaya. For the return journey, and as the Second World War was declared, he changed ships – to the TSS Menelaus – and eventually gravitated to a career in the Royal Air Force. First as an air-gunner, then as a pilot, and subsequently as a flight-instructor. Horsley was later attached to the Communications-Squadron of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in France. And, during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, he accepted the job of personal pilot to Major-General Sir Miles Graham. He returned to England in 1947, joined the staff of the Central Flying School, 23 Training Group, and was appointed Adjutant to the Oxford University Air Squadron in 1948.
In July 1949, Horsley entered the Royal Household as a Squadron Leader, and as Equerry to Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (better known today as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II), and to His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1952, Horsley became a Wing-Commander and in 1953 became a full-time Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh; it was a role he held until 1956. His final post in the Royal Air Force was as the Deputy-Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command, which he held from 1973 to 1975. And there’s one more thing: Horsley’s other claim to fame is that, in late 1954, he had a face-to-face encounter with a human-looking alien who went by the memorable and mysterious name of Mr. Janus.
The very strange affair began when Horsley learned of the Duke of Edinburgh’s fascination with the complexities of the UFO puzzle. According to Horsley (in his 1998 book, Sounds From Another Room): “[The Duke] was quite interested. As always his mind was open. He agreed I should do a study on the subject in my spare time; as long as I kept it in perspective and didn’t bring the Palace into disrepute. He didn’t want to see headlines about him believing in little green men.”
With typical British understatement, Horsley said: “At the end of my tour at the Palace, I had a very strange experience.” To say the least!
Sir Arthur Barratt, who worked at Buckingham Palace, as Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State, introduced Horsley to a certain General Martin, who, in turn, put him in touch with a mysterious Mrs. Markham. Interestingly, the English researchers Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts learned from Horsley that General Martin “believed UFOs were visitors from an alien civilization which wanted to warn us of the dangers posed by atomic war.” Mrs. Markham who told Horsley to turn up at a particular apartment in London’s Chelsea district on a specific evening, where he would meet a stranger: the aforementioned Mr. Janus.
Horsley said of his chat with the man that: “Janus was there, sitting by the fire in a deep chair. He asked: ‘What is your interest in flying saucers?’ We talked for hours about traveling in space and time. I don’t know what or who he was. He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet but I had that impression. I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr. Janus.”
Rather disturbingly, and echoing the claims of so many of the Contactees that the Space-Brothers were concerned by our ever-growing nuclear arsenals, UFO investigator Timothy Good says: “In my second and last meeting with Sir Peter Horsley at his home in 2000, he revealed that, in addition to being disturbed by the realization that Janus was reading his mind, he was even more disturbed by the fact that this extraordinary man ‘knew all Britain’s top-secret nuclear secrets.’”
MI5 building
In light of what Mr. Janus knew, is it possible that this bizarre episode was actually part of some state-sponsored operation designed to ascertain the nature of Sir Peter’s character and his loyalty to the country? This particularly novel and thought-provoking theory was most assuredly on the minds of researchers Clarke and Roberts, who asked Horsley if he considered it feasible that he had been “set up” by MI5 to “test his vulnerability.” MI5 being the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ FBI.
Horsley provided the pair with an adamant, “no.” Right up until his death in 2001, Horsley’s position on the overwhelmingly weird experience was rock-solid: “I don’t care what people think – it was what happened. I would say they come from another planet somewhere in the universe but not in our galaxy. They are benign, not aggressive and, like us, are explorers.”
The analogue, natural version of C.elegans. Credit: TU Wien
Is it a computer program or a living being? At TU Wien (Vienna), the boundaries have become blurred. The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm was taught amazing tricks.
C. elegans worms. Image credits PROZEISS Microscopy / Flickr.
It is not much to look at: the nematode C. elegans is about one millimetre in length and is a very simple organism. But for science, it is extremely interesting. C. elegans is the only living being whose neural system has been analysed completely. It can be drawn as a circuit diagram or reproduced by computer software, so that the neural activity of the worm is simulated by a computer program.
Such an artificial C. elegans has now been trained at TU Wien (Vienna) to perform a remarkable trick: The computer worm has learned to balance a pole at the tip of its tail.
C. elegans has to get by with only 300 neurons. But they are enough to make sure that the worm can find its way, eat bacteria and react to certain external stimuli. It can, for example, react to a touch on its body. A reflexive response is triggered and the worm squirms away.
This behaviour is determined by the worm's nerve cells and the strength of the connections between them. When this simple reflex network is recreated on a computer, the simulated worm reacts in exactly the same way to a virtual stimulation – not because anybody programmed it to do so, but because this kind of behaviour is hard-wired in its neural network.
Credit: TU Wien
"This reflexive response of such a neural circuit, is very similar to the reaction of a control agent balancing a pole," says Ramin Hasani (Institute of Computer Engineering, TU Wien). This is a typical control problem that can be solved quite well by standard controllers. A pole is fixed on its lower end on a moving object, and it is supposed to stay in a vertical position. Whenever it starts tilting, the lower end has to move slightly to keep the pole from tipping over. Much like the worm has to change its direction whenever it is stimulated by a touch, the pole must be moved whenever it tilts.
Mathias Lechner, Radu Grosu and Ramin Hasani wanted to find out whether the neural system of C. elegans, uploaded to a computer, could solve this problem – without adding any nerve cells, just by tuning the strength of the synaptic connections. This basic idea (tuning the connections between nerve cells) is also the characteristic feature of any natural learning process
The worm’s natural behavior is very similar to that required in this test. Image credits TU Wien.
A Program without a Programmer
"With the help of reinforcement learning, a method also known as 'learning based on experiment and reward,' the artificial reflex network was trained and optimized on the computer," Mathias Lechner explains. The team succeeded in teaching the virtual nerve system to balance a pole. "The result is a controller, which can solve a standard technology problem – stabilizing a pole, balanced on its tip. But no human being has written even one line of code for this controller, it just emerged by training a biological nerve system," says Radu Grosu.
The team is going to explore the capabilities of such control circuits further. The project raises the question whether there is a fundamental difference between living nerve systems and computer code. Is machine learning and the activity of our brain the same on a fundamental level? At least we can be pretty sure that the simple nematode C. elegans does not care whether it lives as a worm in the ground or as a virtual worm on a computer hard drive.
In real life, the worm reacts to touch—and the same neural curcuits can perform tasks in the computer. Credit: TU Wien
Researchers from Bern University have performed the most accurate calculation of the density of the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1, making them the best-studied planets outside our own solar system. They found that all the planets are rocky and contain 5% water — much more than what Earth has.
An artistic depiction of what the seven planets might look like, based on available information about their size, density, and distance to the star.
Credits: NASA/JPL/Caltech.
TRAPPIST-1, also technically designated as 2MASS J23062928-0502285, is a seemingly inconspicuous ultra-cool red dwarf star. However, astronomers have taken a special interest in it, as it seemingly harbors seven Earth-like planets, several of which have the potential to host life. Now, a new study offers an unprecedented view into the physical and chemical characteristics of these planets.
In order to assess their density, astronomers took advantage of something called “transit timing variations,” a method which has also been used to detect planets. Essentially, when a planet passes in front of a star, it causes a dip in luminosity. By studying that dip, you can identify a planet and its size. But astronomers went even deeper.
The TRAPPIST planets are located very close to each other — if you had an observer on one of them, they’d have a pretty awesome view of at least a couple other planets. But this also means that they attract each other gravitationally. If a single planet were to rotate around the star, or if the planets were too far apart for gravity to make a significant difference, a planet would always cross in front of its host star at consistent intervals of time. But because they’re so closely packed, they change the timing of each other’s “years” ever so slightly. This allowed astronomers to deduce the mass of the planets with an uncertainty less than 10%, and with the size and the mass, they calculated the density.
“We now know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any other planetary system apart from our own,” said Sean Carey, manager of the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, and co-author of the new study. “The improved densities in our study dramatically refine our understanding of the nature of these mysterious worlds.”
But while the planets might be similar to Earth, TRAPPIST-1 is extremely small by stellar standards, being only 9 percent as massive as our Sun. In turn, this means that it’s much cooler than our star, and in order for the planets to have Earth-like temperatures, they’d first need to be much closer to the star. This has indeed been confirmed by observation, as several of the planets lie closer to TRAPPIST-1 than Mercury to the Sun. In fact, a couple of them are actually much more illuminated than the Earth, while another planet, Trappist-d, matches Earth near-perfectly in terms of illumination.
This graph presents known properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (labeled b through h), showing how they compare to the inner rocky worlds in our own solar system.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
The fact that the planets have up to 5% water is also an intriguing sign, especially considering that on Earth, water accounts for only 0.02% of the planet’s mass.
However, just because these planets have the right density, structure, and distance from their star, doesn’t make them habitable. It makes them potentially habitable, which is a big distinction.
“Densities, while important clues to the planets’ compositions, do not say anything about habitability. However, our study is an important step forward as we continue to explore whether these planets could support life,” said Brice-Olivier Demory, co-author at the University of Bern.
This illustration shows the seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1. The image does not show the planets’ orbits to scale, but highlights possibilities for how the surfaces of these intriguing worlds might look. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
For instance, we have no idea how their surfaces might look like. Mars and the Moon have quite similar densities, but they look completely different. It’s tantalizing to think what the surface of these planets might be like, but for now, we just don’t have enough information to make any assumption. The next step will be using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to figure out whether these planets have atmospheres and if yes, what these atmospheres are like.
“Our conceptions of what these planets look like today may change dramatically over time,” said Robert Hurt, senior visualization scientist at the Spitzer Science Center. “As we learn more about these planets, the pictures we make will evolve in response to our improved understanding."
Journal Reference: S. Grimm et al.: The nature of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 05.02.2018, in press.
Researchers found surprisingly large quantities of mercury in the permafrost of the northern hemisphere. As temperatures rise and ice continues to melt, the mercury can be released, with significant consequences for both wildlife and mankind.
Maps of mercury concentrations (micrograms of mercury per square meter) in Northern hemisphere permafrost zones for four soil layers: 0-30 centimeters, 0-100 centimeters, 0-300 centimeters, and permafrost. The permafrost map represents the mercury bound to frozen organic matter below the Active Layer Depth (ALD) and above 300 cm depth.
Credit: Schuster et al./GRL/AGU.
The tentacles of climate change are long and far-reaching. As temperatures rise, it brings along a number of unforeseen changes. Rising temperatures are threatening the oceans, causing more hurricanes, and even causing a coffee crisis. Now, we can add mercury to that long list of problems.
A new study reports that permafrost soils contain more mercury than the rest of the planet’s soils, atmosphere, and oceans combined.
In the new study, geologists assessed the concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska. They found that permafrost soils contain two times more mercury than soils elsewhere in the world — an unexpected discovery with important consequences.
“This discovery is a game-changer,” said Paul Schuster, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colorado and lead author of the new study. “We’ve quantified a pool of mercury that had not been done previously, and the results have profound implications for better understanding the global mercury cycle.”
This wouldn’t normally be a very high concern, but the problem is that temperatures are now rising.
Permafrost in Alaska is thawing, and a new study finds northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined.
Credit: John A. Kelley, USDA Natural Resources Conservation, CC BY 2.0.
Mercury tends to bind with organic material in the soil and gets stuck with that soil. As it gets buried by sediment, it becomes frozen into permafrost, where it can remain for thousands of years. But if temperatures rise, all that can change. When temperatures rise and the permafrost melts, mercury isn’t fixed in place anymore. Instead of being frozen in the permafrost, it can also be transported by waters or microorganisms, or it can slowly seep on its own.
“There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer,” Schuster said. “Although measurement of the rate of permafrost thaw was not part of this study, the thawing permafrost provides a potential for mercury to be released—that’s just physics.”
Locally, the effects could be dramatic. From microorganisms, things can slowly move up the food chain, and like most toxins, they tend to gather higher up the food chain — and potentially end up on our plates.
The release of mercury could also have far-reaching global consequences. If released into the atmosphere, it could travel quickly at the mercy of air currents, possibly ending up as far as thousands of kilometers away.
But we don’t really know how much and how far the mercury can travel. Scientists are also unsure how much of the stored mercury would affect ecosystems if the permafrost were to thaw.
Schuster hopes to analyze that those issues in further studies.
“24 percent of all the soil above the equator is permafrost, and it has this huge pool of locked-up mercury,” he said.“What happens if the permafrost thaws? How far will the mercury travel up the food chain? These are big-picture questions that we need to answer.”
W5: What happens when the permafrost thaws?
Journal Reference: Paul F. Schuster et al. Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075571.
Les théoriciens du complot prétendent avoir repéré un OVNI « noir de forme triangulaire » survolant la Russie la semaine dernière
Ils affirment que c’est la « meilleure preuve » de l’existence des extraterrestres jamais enregistrée. Une vidéo montre l’objet mystérieux volant dans le ciel nocturne à une vitesse que les théoriciens du complot prétendent être trop lente pour être un avion.
Mais tout le monde n’est pas convaincu que l’objet soit un OVNI, et certains suggèrent qu’il pourrait simplement s’agir d’un drone.
Un étrange objet volant dans le ciel nocturne russe
La vidéo, intitulée « Un OVNI de type TR-3B a été filmé en Russie – Meilleure preuve à ce jour » a été postée sur YouTube par UFO Today, une chaîne basée en Belgique et qui publie régulièrement des vidéos sur de prétendues observations extraterrestres. La vidéo montre un objet qui vole dans le ciel nocturne, avec trois lumières scintillantes disposées sous forme de triangle, ce que UFO Today considère comme étant potentiellement un OVNI TR-3B.
Dans la description de la vidéo, UFO Today écrit : « L’objet bouge à un rythme très lent, trop lent pour être un avion classique. La vitesse à laquelle cet objet se déplaçait est physiquement impossible pour tout avion construit par l’homme ».
Les théoriciens du complot prétendent donc que l’objet pourrait être un OVNI noir triangulaire – une classe d’OVNI ayant une forme triangulaire caractéristique.
Mais tout le monde n’est pas convaincu qu’il s’agit d’un OVNI
En effet, tout le monde ne partage pas l’avis de UFO Today à propos de l’objet volant observé dans le ciel nocturne en Russie. C’est le cas notamment de Nigel Watson, auteur du « UFO Investigations Manual », qui déclare que :
« La nuit, il est difficile d’évaluer la distance et la taille d’un objet ou des lumières, ce qui rend difficile le jugement de leur vitesse. Comme l’objet semble voler plus lentement qu’un avion, je dirais que c’est un drone avec des lumières. Les drones peuvent planer et se déplacer lentement, avec peu de bruit. Donc, je ne considère pas cette vidéo comme une preuve que des extraterrestres visitent notre planète. »
Alors, OVNI ou pas ? La question reste posée une fois de plus, peut être jusqu’au jour où on verra l’un de ses engins se poser au sol et en sortir des aliens !
(Natural News) The term extraterrestrial used to stand for something truly great. Now, as far as the general public is concerned, it has all but lost its meaning. The same applies to the related phrase, extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps both terms just don’t roll off the tongue. No matter the reason, it’s quite clear that both words are, for lack of a better term, obsolete. Now, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject has given her thoughts on it, and surprisingly, she wants to get rid of it entirely.
According to Jill Tarter, a world-renowned astrophysicist who served as a former director of the Center for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research, it’s pretty much high time for the term “SETI” to be changed or rebranded. In her view, it’s a misnomer and could ultimately end up leading people down the wrong path on the search for alien life outside of the planet Earth.
During a recently concluded meeting of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe, Tarter said that the term “search for extraterrestrial intelligence” implies something that was simply not remotely possible, based on current understanding of space and, indeed, extraterrestrials. Instead, she proposes that experts use the term “the search for technosignatures” which means to look for signs of old but standing and working alien technology.
Tarter said that it’s important to make the changes to the term “SETI” because of the implications that it sets forth on anyone who happens to come across it, especially those who decided to dedicate parts of their lives to it. “We need to be very careful about our language,” she said during a presentation at the committee meeting last January. “SETI is not the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We can’t define intelligence, and we sure as hell don’t know how to detect it remotely. [SETI]… is searching for evidence of someone else’s technology. We use technology as a proxy for intelligence.
She concludes: “‘SETI’ [as a term] has been problematic in history, and we should just drop [it] and just continue to talk about a search for technosignatures.”
Based on her comments on the subject, it’s clear that Tarter simply wants to make the distinction that intelligent life outside of Earth would have the capability to develop different kinds of technologies to make their lives easier and maximize the use of their resources. Therefore, it would be useful to search for a certain level of “technosignature” that would be left behind by any sufficiently advanced life form or civilization.
“We have a pragmatic definition for technology, which is the ability to deliberately modify an environment in ways that can be sensed over interstellar or interplanetary distances,” Tarter explained further. “Life does this, but it doesn’t do it deliberately.
One example of a technosignature that signifies intelligent life is the presence of communication signals. In short, if it ever comes to the point where the SETI Institute happens upon an alien communication signal, then that would mean their search is successful. Other technosignatures are waiting to be detected, of course. But unless the focus of experts and all others here on Earth changes from simply searching — somewhat vaguely — for “intelligent extraterrestrials” to actual extraterrestrial with functioning intelligence that can be translated into technosignatures, then perhaps the world would be that much closer to meeting its first non-human life forms.
NEW MASS SIGHTING: LARGE GROUP OF UFOS SEEN IN THREE USA LOCATIONS ON SAME DAY
NEW MASS SIGHTING: LARGE GROUP OF UFOS SEEN IN THREE USA LOCATIONS ON SAME DAY
EXCLUSIVE: UFO investigators are looking at three separate sightings of multiple UFOs which occurred in the US within less than eight hours.
Details of the sightings have been reported to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), based in the US, which investigates and records such sightings.
One incident happened at 12.45pm in Pasadena, California, when at least five “circular UFOs” were seen.
The unnamed witness said in a report to NUFORC: “My cousin went outside to throw away the trash after we finished eating breakfast.
“He then returns and tells everyone that their are UFO’s outside.
“I thought he was joking but his wife went outside to look first my wife followed and then my kids and I followed.
“I looked up and in the sky I saw shiny dots in the sky. I observed the objects and then returned inside to get my iPhone to document what I saw.
“We continued watching the objects for 15 minutes or so. Everyone else went back inside and I continued watching the UFOs.”
The witness later saw a father and son, and showed them the objects in the sky.
He said: “I asked if they looked like drones. He replied, ‘No Way’.
Groups of UFOs were seen over three US locations the same day.
“I observed planes in the air and compared them to what I saw and the objects were much higher. “The objects seemed to hover and remain still. One was slowly moving as the others remained still.
“I was able to observe the UFO’s for close to an hour.”
NUFORC said: “Seven observers witness a cluster of at least five tiny white objects that hovered almost motionless in a clear, cloudless sky, for approximately an hour.
“High-quality video footage of the event accompanied the written report.
“Our initial thought was that the objects might have been seagulls soaring in upwelling wind, but the objects do not appear to look, or behave, like birds.”
Express.co.uk showed the video to Scott Brando, who runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org.
He said he believes they were just a group of helium balloons that had been caught on the wind and were slowly rising away.
The second sighting was at 2.30pm, also on January 13, about 90 miles to the south in Carlsbad, California, when five oval or circular orbs were seen.
The witness was testing out new binoculars.
He wrote to NUFORC: “While I was scanning some edges of a few clouds and some contrails looking towards the west over the ocean around 2.30pm, I noticed one very outstanding whitish looking object, between egg and football shaped but sometimes looking more round and other times having more of a top shape.
The cases are being investigated by NUFORC, but Scott Brando says they were balloons and lanterns.
“I had to assume that possibly the changing viewing angle had something to do with shape change although at times the object seemed to either be vibrating or rotating.
“That object suddenly appeared and was very slowly moving towards the ocean and back nearly directly overhead just above where I live.
“As I continued watching I noticed another object moving very slowly, coming directly out of the setting sun direction and moving very slowly in direct horizontal line towards the first object in what looked like a collision course.
“These objects went from a white colour to sometimes a shimmering metallic or reflective mylar look but it wasn’t solid looking when it began shimmering it seemed to flash as if it had multiple surfaces.
“As I continued to view the two objects I watched a third that seemed to drop down from above my focus to an altitude similar to the other two objects and north of them again the three manoeuvred back into a horizontal line with quite a bit of distance between each other.
“After that manoeuvre, they then broke the line and moved closer to form a triangular formation and slowly moved out towards the ocean and then back towards my viewing position.
“After watching these slow manoeuvres for some time I noticed a fourth and fifth object materialising or moving from very high in the sky down towards the other objects and as these other two became about the same size as the others they all formed another horizontal line from north to south, evenly spaced, and kept that formation for a short while.”
Then, at around 8pm the same day more than 2,000 miles away in Hollywood, Florida, there was another sighting of “numerous orange lights above the coastline,” by a law enforcement officer.
The witness said simply: “Numerous orange lights observed moving slowly above the ocean from north to south.
“All lights disappeared simultaneously.”
NUFORC was also sent video.
It said: “NUFORC is attempting to determine what the wind direction and velocity were at the time of the sighting, in attempt to rule out the possibility that the lights may have been sky lanterns, or so-called ‘Chinese’ lanterns.”
Chinese lanterns are often mistaken for UFOs as they drift in groups before disappearing as the internal flame goes out.
Mr Brando said the second sighting in Carlsbad was likely to be the same helium balloons travelling south.
He believes the objects seen in Florida were Chinese lanterns and unrelated.
CONTACTEE CLAIMS OUR MOON IS ARTIFICIAL AND WAS BROUGHT HERE FROM ANOTHER GALAXY
CONTACTEE CLAIMS OUR MOON IS ARTIFICIAL AND WAS BROUGHT HERE FROM ANOTHER GALAXY
Contactee Alex Collier claims our Moon is actually the interstellar transport ship that was brought here from a distant solar system. It contained an experiment run by the grey aliens and their reptilian masters: our genetically-engineered ancestors.
Fluke or not, most Sci-Fi writers proved to be quite visionary, if not somewhat prophetic. The book “Letters from Andromeda”, the brainchild of Job Robinson and Alex Collier describes a telepathic conversation with alien beings originating from the Andromeda Galaxy. An ancient being called Moraney from the constellation Zenetae, transmitted important information to Collier, questioning the lies spread in our history books.
The Andromedan exposed the deceitful way humans are being ruled, the lies that govern our everyday lives without our consent or even awareness. We are being told nothing about the real concerns of real life, much less about what is actually happening in our Solar System.
Moraney’s biggest revelation pertained to mankind’s true history and a secret base on the Moon. Earth’s satellite carried a vital role in our genesis, but far from any way we have been taught so. The Moon was brought from the constellation Ursa Minor – 432 light years from Earth – to serve as a transport ship for reptilians, human-reptilian hybrids and the first generation of human ancestors to descend on Earth. Our moon made its way in our galaxy dragged by an asteroid that is believed to cross our galaxy every 25,000 Earth years.
This is how Collier described Andromedans
Moraney also revealed that our Moon once orbited the 17th planet of the Chowta star system, home of the Andromedans. What we see today of the Moon, are in fact the remains of a 6.2 billion years-old cosmic vestige called Maldek, a reminder of the ancient war between the tyrannical Grey aliens of the Orion Empire.
According to the information passed on to Collier by the Andromedan, we are here because we were brought here by an ancient extraterrestrial civilization surpassing our Sun in age.
To sustain this daring theory, we need to address speculation. Rumors have it that on the surface of the Moon, lunar missions detected the presence of some unknown chemical compounds, and that discovery was entirely covered up. Collier had his restraints on this matter, but Moraney’s telepathic communication confirmed all doubts:
“The Moon is hollow. It contains huge underground facilities built by E.T.’s and later humans from Earth. There are seven openings into the Moon’s crust, and the underground bases. Conservative scientists have wondered why so many craters seem so shallow, despite their size. The Andromedans say, it’s because much of the surface was built on top of a metallic shell of a circular space crest; or “A War Carrier”, as the Andromedans describe it.”
The craters on the Moon are a solid hint to a trained eye, for their depth does not match a straying cosmic body, but a uniform shape pressing against the layers of lunar dust and rock, but since we are alone in this galaxy, who is responsible for the so called craters? The answer comes from the Andromedan, who tells of cities and spacecraft hangars located on the far side of the Moon, that were destroyed in a war over 113,000 years ago, leaving behind the marks visible from our planet.
The Greys guided the first exploration mission of these ruins back in 1950, when a team of NSA (not NASA!) astronauts allegedly delved into a lunar underground facility the size of New York, right underneath the Jules Verne crater. Inside the facility they found the remnants of a violent battle, seeing pieces of reptilian bodies scattered all over the place.
“When the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon, the World Order had been there for some time,” Collier wrote."This knowledge and technology was withheld from the lower levels of NASA and our military. NASA has been used as a blind to keep people from truly knowing what was going on there. The astronauts were silenced under threats and remain so today.”
Since then, the World Government maintained a lunar population program starting with 36,000 handpicked people. The colony is estimated to reach 600,000 occupants in the near future.
The leaders of the entire operation are the Greys, but they rarely interfere directly, but rather carry their messages through a group called the Black Monks. Originally human, the Black Monks have been radically modified to serve the Greys’ needs and can “no longer be considered Earth humans.”
The step below in the hierarchy are a group called the Blue Moon, who serve the Black Monks, comprised of American, British, Russian and French representatives. These groups operate and control the moon bases and under their command are two organizations: Alpha One and Alpha Two. Collier had reasons to believe that Alpha One was assigned with gathering resources on Earth and keeping the population unsuspecting.
The Andromedan Moraney told Collier that Alpha Two is actually MJ-12, the infamous organization tasked with recovering and investigating alien craft. If this is true, the organization we believe to be in charge of such covert projects is actually at the bottom of the ladder, and said ladder runs much higher than we previously thought. To this day, Collier’s allegations have yet to be proven but completely rejecting their implications would be unwise.
The far side of the Moon is forever hidden from view and even if a number of alien bases were located there, we wouldn’t be able to spot them from Earth. But Alex Collier is pretty adamant about his enlightenment and the forbidden knowledge he was blessed with by the Andromedans.
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Here Are 5 Mysterious Artifacts Which Date Back Millions Of Years
Here Are 5 Mysterious Artifacts Which Date Back Millions Of Years
Technically speaking, these artifacts should not exist, and according to mainstream science, they don’t. Yet all around the globe, a set of enigmatic objects have been found that point towards the possibility that advanced life may have flourished on Earth, before the arrival of modern humans, millions of years ago.
Despite this fact, a number of strange, and extremely ancient artifacts have been found all around the globe that ultimately question the human origins and human history.
How long ago did modern humans appear on Earth? Where did we come from? And, is it possible that before the arrival of Homo Sapiens, another different species inhabited Earth, perhaps millions of years ago?
1. Ancient Hammer predating humans.
Let’s take a look at an artifact discovered in London, Texas, USA, in 1934. What appears to be an ordinary hammer is, in fact, a hammer embedded in stone.
What makes this extremely interesting is the age of the object; it is believed to date back 400 million years. Impossible right?
It is believed that this mysterious hammer originated from rock that belongs to the Ordovician era, more than 400 million years ago. Researchers consider that since the head of the hammer was found embedded into the rock, it points to the possibility that the embedding process was performed under different atmospheric conditions to the current, and different atmospheric pressure more similar to those in the remote past.
According to studies of the Metallurgical Institute of Columbia, the inside handle underwent the process of carbonization, the head of the hammer was built with an iron purity only achievable with modern-day technology. According to analysis, the head of the hammer consists of 97 pure iron, 2 percent chlorine, and 1 percent sulfur.
2. There’s a 290-million-year-old footprint, and it should not exist. Ever.
A rock belonging to the Permian period—some 290 million years ago—has a curious detail on its surface.
Discovered in New Mexico, the Permian Period rock features a human footprint. But, humans did not exist on Earth 290 million years ago, so how’s that possible? Curiously, the Permian (along with the Paleozoic) ended with the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, in which nearly 90% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species died out. Recovery from the Permian-Triassic extinction event was protracted; on land, ecosystems took 30 million years to recover.
As noted by Dr. Don Patton, the footprint is genuine. If it is, it would mean that hundreds of millions of years ago, a different type of human called Earth their home. Of course, according to scientific evidence, that’s not really possible. The Permian Period was a time way beforebirds, dinosaurs, and MAN, were supposed to exist.
3. A Giant footprint which makes absolutely no sense.
It’s huge. It’s old. It’s striking.
Located in South Africa, in the vicinity of the town of Mpaluzi, close to the border with Swaziland is a mysterious rock that has an incredible feature.
A massive granite block has a massive footprint embedded on its surface. Geologists believe that the granite block dates back some 200 million years.
This fascinating footprint was discovered over a hundred years ago when a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee stumbled across it in 1912 while hunting in the area. The footprint left behind on ‘rough granite’ measures staggering 4 feet in length.
4. Ok, this one isn’t an artifact, but rather evidence of many artifacts combined on Earth.
Many researchers believe that there are several pieces of evidence pointing towards the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations that existed on Earth millions of years ago.
According to Dr. Alexander Koltypin, a geologist and the director of the Natural Science Research Center at Moscow’s International Independent University of Ecology and Politology, there’s evidence of million-year-old structures scattered across the globe.
During his long career, Dr. Koltypin has studied numerous ancient underground structures mainly in the Mediterranean and has identified numerous similarities which have led him to believe that many sites were interconnected. But most incredibly, the weathering of the structures together with their material composition and extreme geological features has led him to believe these megastructures were built by advanced civilizations that inhabited Earth millions of years ago.
5. 300 million-year-old screw?
Apparently, we’ve got history all wrong.
What is the chance that there are numerous objects recovered across the globe that date back millions of years? If humans weren’t around at that time, who built them?
According to reports from Chinese News agencies, a mysterious object discovered in 2002 could be evidence of prehistorical civilizations. Tests have failed to show the exact composition of the mysterious rock, researchers that include geologists and physicists from the National Land Resources Bureau of Gansu Province, Colored Metal Survey Bureau of Gansu Province, the Institute of Geology and Minerals Research of China Academy, Lanzhou Branch, and the School of Resources and Environment of Lanzhou College are unsure of the origin of the artifact and point out that at this time, all theories are possible.
According to Lanzhou Morning News; After a discussion about the possibility of being man-made and the possible reasons for its formation, scientists unanimously labeled the stone as one of the most valuable in China and in the world of collections, researchers, and Archaeological studies.”
After many studies, Chinese scientists concluded that the artifact had not been made by contemporary hands or by current technology levels, the most accepted hypothesis is that it is a product of a prehistoric civilization.
Dit is hoe de Europese Marsrover buitenaards leven zou kunnen ontdekken
Dit is hoe de Europese Marsrover buitenaards leven zou kunnen ontdekken
De ExoMars rover zal Europa’s eerste poging zijn om een mobiel platform op Mars af te zetten. Het is ook de eerste rover die tot wel twee meter diep in de bodem van Mars zal boren.
Al sinds de jaren 70 zijn we op zoek naar bewijzen voor microbieel leven op Mars. Een dergelijke vondst zou immers een van de belangrijkste wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen aller tijden zijn. En over twee jaar vergroten onze kansen aanzienlijk, want dan zullen de Mars2020 van NASA en de ExoMarsvan de Europese Ruimteorganisatie en Roscosmos naar Mars gestuurd worden. De ExoMars rover zal Europa’s eerste poging zijn om een mobiel platform op de rode planeet af te zetten. Het is ook de eerste rover die tot wel twee meter diep in de bodem van Mars zal boren.
Hij zal echter niet de eerste rover zijn die op Mars naar sporen van leven zoekt, want in de jaren 70 heeft NASA met het Vikingprogramma een gelijkaardige poging ondernomen. En hoewel de missie uiteindelijk onsuccesvol was, heeft ze toch een hoop informatie over de geologie en de atmosfeer van de planeet opgeleverd. En die informatie komt vandaag goed van pas. Sterker nog, de ontdekkingsmissies van de laatste halve eeuw hebben aangetoond dat Mars in zijn jonge jaren ooit een dynamische en potentieel bewoonbare planeet is geweest.
Prototype van de ExoMars rover.
Vandaag is de aanwezigheid van leven op Mars niet helemaal onmogelijk, maar toch zal de ExoMars vooral op zoek gaan naar leven dat al uitgestorven is. Het risico bestaat echter dat de rover de planeet met aardse microben besmet. Daarom mag hij niet in de buurt komen van sites waarvan we denken dat er vandaag misschien microben zouden kunnen leven.
Chemofossielen bieden de meeste kansen
Er zijn echter een paar factoren waar we rekening mee moeten houden als we naar leven op Mars zoeken. Ten eerste zijn we op zoek naar eencellige micro-organismen die onzichtbaar zijn voor het blote oog. Het is namelijk onwaarschijnlijk dat het leven daar een verder evolutionair stadium bereikt heeft. Dat is niet zo vreemd – de aarde werd ook voor meer dan twee miljard jaar enkel door eencelligen bewoond.
Ten tweede zal de ExoMars leven opsporen dat drie of vier miljard jaar geleden zou hebben bestaan. En er kan veel gebeurd zijn in de tussentijd: rotsen die sporen van leven bevatten kunnen door erosie verdwenen en elders afgezet zijn, of kunnen diep onder de grond, buiten ons bereik begraven liggen. Gelukkig kent Mars geen platentektoniek – het constante verschuiven en recycleren van de aardkorst zoals hier op aarde – wat van de planeet een geologische tijdscapsule maakt.
Gedesintegreerde dode micro-organismen laten biosignaturen achter in de vorm van chemofossielen. Door die chemische verbindingen te detecteren en te identificeren, kunnen we tekenen van vroeger leven opsporen. Chemofossielen verschillen immers van organische verbindingen die bijvoorbeeld door meteorieten op planeten afgezet worden, of die voortkomen uit een combinatie van geologische en biologische processen, zoals methaangas.
Eén verbinding kan op zijn eentje niet bewijzen dat er ooit sprake was van leven. Maar patronen aanwezig in elke bekende organische verbinding kunnen wel wijzen op een biologische oorsprong. Lipiden en aminozuren zijn bijvoorbeeld fundamentele componenten van levende wezens, maar kwamen ook al voor in sommige meteorieten. Het verschil zit ‘m echter in de details. Lipiden die overblijven als de rest van een ontbonden celmembraan zullen bijvoorbeeld een beperkte grootte hebben, en een even aantal koolstoffen bevatten. En in de natuur komen aminozuren voor in een ‘rechtshandige’ en ‘linkshandige’ versie (zoals handschoenen), maar om een of andere reden bevatten organismen enkel de ‘linkshandige’ versie.
Micro-organismen kunnen ook zichtbare fossielen achterlaten. Als de omstandigheden het toelaten, kunnen microbiële matten (gelaagde gemeenschappen van micro-organismen) zich mengen met fijn sediment. In het gesteente dat dan ontstaat, vormen ze structuren met een karakteristiek uiterlijk. Maar net door die specifieke voorwaarden is het onwaarschijnlijk dat een rover zulke afzettingen zal ontdekken, omdat hij slechts een klein oppervlak van een volledige planeet zal onderzoeken.
Microbiële mat op aarde.
Onze kansen zijn dus het grootst als we zoeken naar organische verbindingen. Dat is een taak voor de Mars Organic Molecule Analyser (MOMA) – het grootste meetinstrument van de ExoMars rover.
Het Vikingprogramma heeft aangetoond dat er geen detecteerbare organische verbindingen op het Marsoppervlak aanwezig zijn. Dat hadden wetenschappers niet verwacht, want veel organische verbindingen in het zonnestelsel ontstaan immers uit niet-biologische activiteit. Latere missies hebben echter uitgewezen dat krachtige chemie en intense straling veel van het organische materiaal van het Marsoppervlak hebben verwijderd.
Niet zo lang geleden heeft NASA’s Curiosity rover echter enkele eenvoudige organische verbindingen gevonden. Dat zou een aanwijzing kunnen zijn voor wat er zich onder de oppervlakte bevindt. Omdat MOMA bodemstalen van de ondergrond kan analyseren, zal het instrument meer kans hebben om organische biosignaturen te vinden die de tand des tijds doorstaan hebben.
Verwarring door besmetting
Voordat de zoektocht naar biosignaturen kan beginnen, zal ExoMars eerst de juiste bodemstalen moeten vinden. De landingsplekken van de missie zijn daarom onder andere gekozen op basis van hun geologische eigenschappen zoals hun leeftijd (meer dan 3,6 miljard jaar oud).
Panorama van Mars gemaakt door de Opportunity rover.
Als MOMA organische moleculen identificeert in de stalen die hij tijdens het boren naar boven haalt, zal er eerst bepaald moeten worden of het niet gaat om een besmetting door aardse organische stoffen. Want hoewel ExoMars buitenaards leven probeert op te sporen, is hij ontworpen om te zoeken naar leven dat bestaat uit dezelfde chemische fundamenten als het leven op aarde. Uiterst gevoelige apparatuur zoals MOMA speurt dus naar biosignaturen waar we al veel over weten. Zo vergroten de kansen op succes voor ExoMars.
Het nadeel is dan wel dat die instrumenten ook gevoelig zijn voor leven en organische moleculen op aarde. Om organische of microbiologische verstekelingen te vermijden, worden de rover en zijn uitrusting in uiterst schone ruimtes gebouwd. Eens aangekomen op Mars, zal de rover eerst een aantal ‘lege’ stalen analyseren. Die zullen onthullen of er al dan niet sprake is van besmetting.
Duidelijke aanwijzingen vinden voor uitgestorven leven op Mars is nog maar de eerste stap. Zoals de meeste wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen zal het een gradueel proces zijn, waarbij bewijsmateriaal zich laag per laag opstapelt tot er geen andere verklaring meer voorhanden is. Als NASA’s Mars2020 rover even boeiende ontdekkingen doet, zijn we nog dichter bij een groter begrip van het leven in het algemeen. En natuurlijk bestaat er een kleine mogelijkheid dat ExoMars op enkele levende Martiaanse micro-organismen stuit, al is het wel heel onwaarschijnlijk. Hoe dan ook luidt het een nieuw begin in voor de zoektocht naar leven op Mars.
HOE LIDAR DE ARCHEOLOGIE HONDERD JAAR VOORUIT HELPT
Onder het regenwoud verdwenen steden zien
De spectaculaire ontdekking van een Maya-megalopolis in Guatemala illustreert hoezeer nieuwe technologie de archeologie vandaag vooruithelpt. Ook in Vlaanderen kunnen we steeds beter door de bomen kijken.
Een verdwenen Mayastad in het regenwoud.
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VAN ONZE REDACTEUR PETER VANTYGHEM
BRUSSEL ‘Een sprong vooruit van 150 jaar’, noemt Stephen Houston, archeoloog aan Houston University, de ontdekking van een enorme Maya-stad in de jungle van Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador en Honduras (DS 5 februari). Het nieuws werd afgelopen weekend bekendgemaakt omdat National Geographic er deze week een documentaire aan wijdt. Daarin is de hoofdrol weggelegd voor het instrument dat alles mogelijk maakte: LiDAR-technologie.
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‘Laser imaging, detection and ranging’, kortweg LiDAR, is niet nieuw en de toepassing ervan voor archeologie begon al in 2004. In 2010 slaagden Arlen en Diane Chase erin om over de oude Maya-stad Caracol in tien uur tijd meer data te verzamelen dan archeologen tussen 1983 en 2000 deden die zich moeizaam met machetes een weg door de jungle hadden gehakt. De Chases keken daarbij vanuit een vliegtuig dwars door de bomen naar de bodem.
‘In de Ieperboog toont LiDAR een onthutsend reliëf van kraters en structuren uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog’
BIRGER STICHELBAUT Archeoloog
Het was een kwestie van tijd voor LiDAR ingeburgerd zou raken in de archeologie. In 2013 werd in de jungle van Cambodja de 1.200 jaar oude stad Mahendraparvata gevonden. ‘Met LiDAR zagen we ineens een haarfijn beeld van een complete stad waarvan niemand het bestaan vermoedde’, zei de Australische archeoloog Damian Evans toen. Sindsdien heeft hij in die regio meerdere steden gevonden en wordt gesproken van ‘het grootste rijk ter wereld’, maar dat dient nog bewezen.
Evans scande immers ‘maar’ 230 vierkante kilometer. In Noord-Guatemala werd in 2016 een gebied van tien keer zo groot onderzocht: er bleken 60.000 bouwsels op te staan.
Meten met licht
LiDAR was aanvankelijk niet bedoeld om archeologen blij te maken. De technologie is vergelijkbaar met radar, maar in plaats van radiogolven gebruikt ze licht. Vanaf een bepaald punt, bijvoorbeeld een vliegtuig, worden laserstralen naar een oppervlakte gestuurd. Dan wordt gemeten hoelang het duurt voor de straal terugkomt. Zo kan men de hoogteverschillen op het onderzochte oppervlakte vaststellen. Die data worden met behulp van gps vertaald in een topografische kaart van het terrein, waaruit de begroeiing desgewenst weggefilterd kan worden (‘digitale ontbossing’).
‘In de bossen rond Antwerpen heb ik in 2010 met een gps het hele loopgravensysteem afgestapt. Datzelfde werk kan ik nu in drie uur doen’
WOUTER GHEYLE
Onderzoeker UGent
Al in de jaren zestig diende LiDAR aardrijkskundig, oceanografisch en atmosferisch onderzoek, maar de enorme datasets die vrijkwamen, wekten in de jaren nadien een bredere interesse op. De Amerikaanse Ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa peilt ermee hoe dik de ijslagen aan de polen zijn en hoe snel de gletsjers smelten. New York gebruikte een 3D-kaart op basis van LiDAR-scans om zijn noodplan tegen overstroming op te maken.
Maya-specialiste Kathryn Reese-Taylor vertelt aan National Geographic hoe zij en anderen al decennialang de jungle van Guatemala doorzochten zonder ooit iets gevonden te hebben, laat staan een goed beeld te krijgen van een geheel. Nu is het alsof de mist opgetrokken is: het is duidelijk dat de vlakte tussen 250 en 900 na Christus erg druk bewoond was, naar schatting door 10 miljoen mensen. Er zijn enorme landbouwzones te zien, net als ook grote verdedigingsmuren en vier grote centra, compleet met pleinen en tempels. En dit is maar de eerste fase in een groot project dat 15.000 km² Maya-gebied in kaart wil brengen.
De ruïnes van Tikal in Guatemala steken boven het regenwoud uit, maar de nieuw ontdekte steden zijn nog groter.
Wild Blue Media/National Geographic
Mist trekt op
LiDAR wordt ook in Vlaanderen gebruikt. Sterker nog: van 2013 tot 2016 is de volledige oppervlakte van de regio gescand in opdracht van de overheid. In 2015 en 2016 werden veel van die gegevens ‘opgeleverd’. Dat betekent dat vandaag een enorme dataset beschikbaar is voor onderzoek. De overheid gebruikt die voor ruimtelijke planning, om nieuwe overstromingskaarten te maken, om de erosie van het landschap te bestuderen. Maar ook de archeologische sector zoekt er informatie.
Wouter Gheyle, wetenschappelijk onderzoeker aan de UGent, is zelf in Maya-gebied geweest. ‘De grote problemen in de jungle zijn toegankelijkheid en zichtbaarheid. Je herkent nog geen muur die op twee meter van je staat. Daarom is LiDAR zo belangrijk. Ik verwacht in de komende jaren nog veel andere ontdekkingen, al moeten die enorme datasets wel verwerkt worden. En dan moeten we de ontdekte structuren ter plekke ook gaan bekijken natuurlijk.’
Wat kunnen Vlaamse archeologen met LiDAR doen? Hier zitten geen steden in de bossen verstopt. ‘Nee,’ zegt Gheyle, ‘maar ook in Vlaanderen zijn boeiende ontdekkingen te doen en is veel erfgoed bewaard uit allerlei periodes. Ik bestudeer de archeologie van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In de bossen rond Antwerpen heb ik in 2010 met een gps het hele loopgravensysteem afgestapt. Datzelfde werk kan ik nu in drie uur doen. We kunnen bosbeheerders adviseren op sommige plekken voorzichtig te zijn. Op de hoogtemodellen zien we veel zaken die we nog niet kenden, zoals grafheuvels uit de protohistorie en de Romeinse tijd, houtskoolmijlers uit de middeleeuwen, en vooral veel erfgoed van de twee wereldoorlogen.’
De Eerste Wereldoorlog (1914-1918) en de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1940-1945) hebben veel sporen nagelaten in het Belgische landschap. Tot dusver werden die vooral onderzocht via historische bronnen en lokale graafwerken, recent ook via grondscans. LiDAR doet, zoals in de jungle van Guatemala, ook hier de mist optrekken. De bossen in de Westhoek zijn de oudste getuigen van de oorlog, omdat ze in de decennia daarna minder opgeruimd en niet doorploegd werden, zoals de rest van het land. Archeoloog Birger Stichelbaut (UGent): ‘In de Cabourduinen in Adinkerke, bijvoorbeeld, een zeer mooi en goed bewaard duingebied, liggen sporen uit WO II boven op sporen van WO I, zoals batterijen en loopgraven. Op de Heuvelrug van Bellewaerde bevindt een onafgewerkte V1-lanceerbasis zich boven op kraters uit WO I. In allerlei kleine bossen in de Ieperboog, de zwaar bevochten oostkant van Ieper, toont LiDAR een onthutsend reliëf van kraters en structuren van WO I.’
Roofputten
En er zit evolutie in. De nieuwe generatie LiDAR, die de Vlaamse overheid aankocht in 2015, scant de bodem al zestigmaal gedetailleerder dan in 2003. Dat betekent dat er nu zestien metingen per vierkante meter zijn, wat het bodembeeld heel precies maakt. ‘Een micro-reliëf is wat we nu zien’, zegt Stichelbaut, die LiDAR-beelden gebruikt in de expositie Sporen van Oorlog, die vanaf 17 februari te zien is in het In Flanders Fieldsmuseum. Daar wordt de Eerste Wereldoorlog bekeken vanuit archeologisch standpunt.
Eén bizarre gelijkenis heeft de Westhoek ook nog met de Maya-ontdekking: in beide gevallen werden de vindplaatsen, lang voor archeologen en LiDAR-scans erbij raakten, al druk bezocht door illegale grafdelvers. Op de beelden in Guatemala zijn duizenden roofputten te zien.
Documentaire op zondag 11/2 om 20 uur op Channel 4. Op www.standaard.be/lidar kunt u zien hoe LiDAR doorheen de bossen kijkt.
In ‘DSWeekblad’ leest u zaterdag een uitgebreide reportage over oorlogserfgoed in de Westhoek.
Follow Musk’s description of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy lift vehicle, which will give the U.S. a capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
Elon Musk (@ElonMusk on Twitter) re-tweeted this image from Brady Kenniston (@TheFavoritist on Twitter), who wrote: “Oh my god … Remote number one from Falcon Heavy!”
Elon Musk is founder of the private aerospace company SpaceX, which – on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 – successfully launched the world’s most powerful new space rocket, the Falcon Heavy. He’s also an inveterate tweeter, and a pleasure to follow on Twitter. The tweets below, shared with his nearly 19 million Twitter followers, gave us space fans the kinds of insights we used to only dream about.
Yesterday’s exciting and admittedly risky launch, SpaceX says, could mean game over for its private space company rivals. The Falcon Heavy will provide the United States a heavy-lift capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
Prior to the launch, Musk had told reporters that the challenges of developing the new rocket meant the chances of a successful first launch might be only 50-50. He said after the event:
I had this image of just a giant explosion on the pad, a wheel bouncing down the road. But fortunately that’s not what happened.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. It is now the world’s most powerful rocket.
Screams and cheers erupted at Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the massive rocket fired its engines and lifted into the sky. The Falcon Heavy is essentially three of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 vehicles strapped together. In a typically Musk-ian touch of whimsy, the Falcon’s upper stage and test payload is Musk’s own old $100,000 cherry red Tesla Roadster sports car, and a dummy in its driver’s seat called Starman rocking to David Bowie’s Life on Mars.
Artist’s concept of the car and mannequin now its wway towards Mars’ orbit.
SpaceX has been working hard to bring the boost stages – the lower segments of the rocket – back to Earth in controlled landings. Here are two of them setting down.
Then the focus shifted back to the upper stage and its attempted burn to carry it toward Mars.
Can’t get enough? Check out the 30-minute video, below, from SpaceX. It’s an updated version of Tuesday’s live webcast and includes both side booster cameras and additional Starman views.
Bottom line: Tweets and video from SpaceX and Elon Musk on Tuesday’s successful launch of the Falcon Heavy. Go SpaceX!
Divorced father, 74, who claims to have lost his virginity to an ALIEN 'with a very nice body' is mocked by This Morning viewers (as Holly and Phil battle to keep a straight face)
Divorced father, 74, who claims to have lost his virginity to an ALIEN 'with a very nice body' is mocked by This Morning viewers (as Holly and Phil battle to keep a straight face)
David Huggins recalled the multiple alien encounters he's had since he was eight
Divorced father-of-one, from Hoboken, New Jersey, has painted the meetings
Part-time deli counter worker appeared via live video link on ITV's This Morning
Presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield interviewed him
Viewers watching at home were amazed they managed to keep a straight face
A seventy-four-year-old part-time deli-worker who claims he lost his virginity to an alien has appeared on This Morning via live video link to recall his saucy encounter.
David Huggins, a divorced father-of-one, from Hoboken, New Jersey, told the ITV show presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that he was intimate with an extra-terrestrial called Crescent who had a 'very nice body'.
However, the duo could barely contain their laughter as David calmly claimed he had fathered hundreds of alien offspring over the years.
Viewers watching the segment at home praised Holly and Phil for not breaking down in hysterics while a serious David shared his story - including how different types of beings continued to visit him for decades and one female, whom he named Crescent, took his virginity at the age of 17 in the Georgia woods.
David Huggins, 74, from New Jersey, appeared on today's This Morning to recount how he believes he lost his virginity to an alien called Crescent when he was 17
This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby battled to keep a straight face
During the interview Phillip made amusing faces as he attempted to understand how exactly the interviewee had had the encounters for six decades
Viewers watching the bizarre interview took to Twitter to praise the presenters for keeping a straight face
The alien enthusiast, who had his first encounter aged eight when he was at the bottom of a tree in a field, has also replicated many of the meetings in paintings - which have been aired on Love and Saucers, a US documentary detailing his extraordinary claims.
Phillip looked bemused as he questioned David about why aliens had chosen him to father their offspring but he didn't have a clear answer.
He told This Morning: 'That was something I would like to know, I guess they want to do it on a gradual level.
'I haven’t asked them… I was always there for a reason and I would do whatever they asked me to do.'
But Holly wanted more evidence and said she wondered why, despite there being hundreds of meetings with the aliens, David hadn't taken any pictures as proof.
David appeared via live link from New York to tell Holly and Phil about how he first met an alien when he was just eight years old
David has spoken recently about his extra-terrestrial encounters for a documentary by director Brad Abrahams
David, who claimed he had last seen Crescent about five months ago, said he would try to take a photo the next time he visited with the beings.
Explaining about his encounters, David also claimed that a 'portal' had opened up in his bedroom after he moved to New York City when he was 19.
'That was very interesting I was having these experiences for months,' he said.
The extraordinary tale was too much for viewers watching at home, as one said: 'This alien sex man is the best thing I’ve ever seen on TV.'
The alien enthusiast has painted several images of Crescent who he claims took his virginity during an intimate moment in the woods
It's testament to Holly and Phil's interviewing skills that they didn't break down in hysterics as they listened to David speak about his alien encounters
Another added: 'I love people that are bonkers. They fascinate me. This bloke on This Morning lost his virginity to an alien called Crescent.'
'Seriously .. HOW ARE THEY DOING THIS .. I would be in absolute hysterics,' said one impressed viewer.
'HOW are @Schofe and @Hollywills keeping their cool with this guy? If Phil stared at me while I was trying to be serious like that I would’ve cracked,' said another.
'Best topic to see on a Monday Morning! ‘I lost my virginity to a busty alien called Crescent’ And also claims to have fathered babies,' joked another.
'I was walking in the woods, and I see a woman sitting under a tree – and she gets up and she starts coming towards me,’ he explains in the documentary.
‘I become very aroused sexually; I couldn’t get my pants down fast enough. I fall back on the ground and I’m lying there and she’s looking at me, and I reach my climax, which was quite painful, actually; it was very intense. And then I’m looking in her eyes and I pass out … Virginity lost.’
He continued his relationship with the beings and Crescent, even after his move at 19 to New York City. At times he even visited ‘there,’ the space or realm occupied by the extraterrestrials, he claims.
He says of Crescent: 'There was something very beautiful, something lovely about her. She had a very nice body. The only thing that was different about her was that she had very long fingernails and she had these very large eyes, and her face was very pale.'
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'I lost my virginity to an alien called Crescent'
'I lost my virginity to an alien called Crescent'
David Huggins from New Jersey is much like any other 74-year-old man. He has a partner and he has children. But there's one thing that makes David very different from the rest of us because he claims his partner and his children are actually ALIENS.
UFO lover David describes losing his virginity to an alien, called Crescent, after walking through a forest when he was just 17.
David joins us from New Jersey to share his extraterrestrial experiences with us.
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Man die werd ontmaagd door alien doet verhaal op Britse tv. Bekijk hier de beelden
Man die werd ontmaagd door alien doet verhaal op Britse tv. Bekijk hier de beelden
Een 74-jarige man die claimt te zijn ontmaagd door een buitenaards wezen mocht deze week in het Britse tv-programma This Morning zijn verhaal doen.
David Huggins uit New Jersey vertelde tegen presentatoren Holly Willoughby en Phillip Schofield dat hij intiem contact heeft gehad met een buitenaards wezen met een ‘prachtig lijf’.
Toen David claimde dat hij door de jaren heen ook buitenaardse kinderen heeft gemaakt, konden de presentatoren hun lach nauwelijks inhouden.
Ontmaagd
David vertelde hoe verschillende soorten wezens hem decennialang bezochten en één vrouwelijk wezen hem op 17-jarige leeftijd heeft ontmaagd in het bos.
De man, die naar eigen zeggen acht was toen hij voor het eerst contact kreeg met aliens, heeft veel schilderijen gemaakt over zijn ontmoetingen.
Onlangs is er een documentaire verschenen over zijn werk, getiteld Love & Saucers.
Poort
Op de vraag waarom de aliens hem hebben uitgekozen, antwoordde David: “Dat heb ik me ook altijd afgevraagd. Ik heb het ze nooit gevraagd. Ik deed wat ze maar wilden.”
Het duo vroeg zich af waarom David geen foto’s heeft gemaakt van de aliens. David antwoordde dat hij de volgende keer een foto zal proberen te maken.
Hij claimde ook dat er op een dag een ‘poort’ was geopend in zijn slaapkamer nadat hij naar New York City was verhuisd.
Bleek gezicht
Van daaruit kon hij naar eigen zeggen ‘de ruimte of het rijk bezoeken waar de aliens zijn’.
Over de vrouwelijke alien zei hij: “Ze was heel mooi en lief. Ze had een prachtig lijf. Het enige wat anders aan haar was, was dat ze hele lange nagels, hele grote ogen en een bleek gezicht had.”
We worden geboren als creatief genie, maar school maakt ons dom. NASA-wetenschappers doen schokkende ontdekking
We worden geboren als creatief genie, maar school maakt ons dom. NASA-wetenschappers doen schokkende ontdekking
De NASA ontwikkelde een creativiteitstest voor medewerkers van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie, maar de test werd uiteindelijk gebruikt voor schoolkinderen. De resultaten waren ronduit schokkend.
De NASA vroeg dr. George Land en Beth Jarman om een test te ontwikkelen waaruit moest blijken hoe creatief de raketwetenschappers van het ruimteagentschap waren.
De wetenschappers wilden vervolgens weten waar die creativiteit vandaan kwam en lieten de test maken door 1600 kinderen van vier en vijf jaar.
Buitengewoon goed
Tijdens de test werd onder meer gekeken hoe goed mensen in staat zijn om nieuwe, andere en innovatieve oplossingen te bedenken voor problemen.
Zo’n 98 procent van de kinderen bleek daar buitengewoon goed in te zijn.
De wetenschappers waren zo onder de indruk dat ze de kinderen vijf jaar later, toen ze 10 jaar oud waren, nog eens lieten testen. Het percentage bleek te zijn gedaald naar 30 procent.
Toen de kinderen op 15-jarige leeftijd nog eens werden getest, was nog maar 12 procent in staat om nieuwe en innovatieve ideeën te bedenken.
Dom
En hoeveel volwassenen staan na hun schoolperiode nog in contact met hun creatieve genie? Slechts twee procent.
De reden hiervoor is niet moeilijk te begrijpen. School is een instituut dat historisch gezien wordt gebruikt om aan de wensen van de heersende klasse te voldoen, niet die van het volk.
Om ervoor te zorgen dat de zogenoemde elite in luxe kan blijven leven moeten kinderen dom worden gemaakt en gehersenspoeld zodat ze het roofzuchtige systeem van kunstmatige schaarsheid, oneindige uitbuiting en onophoudelijke oorlogen accepteren en zelfs dienen.
Versneller
De tests hebben laten zien dat het brein op twee verschillende manieren kan worden gebruikt om te denken.
Je hebt enerzijds divergent denken, dat gericht is op het voorstellingsvermogen en gebruikt wordt om nieuwe mogelijkheden te bedenken.
De andere vorm is convergent denken, waarbij je oordeelt, een beslissing neemt, iets test, bekritiseert of evalueert.
Divergent denken werkt als een versneller, terwijl bij convergent denken de rem wordt ingetrapt.
Bestrijden
Als je op school nieuwe ideeën bedenkt krijg je vaak gelijk te horen: ‘Dat hebben we al eerder geprobeerd’, ‘Dat is een dom idee’ of ‘Dat gaat niet werken’.
“Als we in het brein kijken zien we dat neuronen elkaar continu bestrijden en de kracht van het brein doen afnemen omdat we constant oordelen, bekritiseren en censureren,” zei Land.
“Als we vanuit angst werken, gebruiken we een kleiner deel van ons brein, maar als we ons creatieve denken gebruiken, licht het helemaal op,” vervolgde hij.
Hij daagt ons uit weer op zoek te gaan naar de persoon die we waren toen we vijf jaar oud waren.
Japanese Rocket Followed By UFO On Jan 18, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Japanese Rocket Followed By UFO On Jan 18, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 18, 2018 Location of sighting: Japan During the recorded launch of a Japanese rocket, a UFO was seen flying past the rocket at high altitude. This being a no fly zone to keep aircraft safe is further proof that this was an alien craft. If you compare the size of the UFO with that of the rocket, you will see the UFO is over 20X the size of the rocket. Thats big! Scott C. Waring UFO Today states:
rocket to put a commercial planetary observational satellite into earth's atmosphere. The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket. It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit arround earth. What was this object?
SpaceX just launched a Tesla Roadster to Mars on top of the SpaceX' Falcon Heavy rocket.
This was the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight. It's the launch that everyone's been waiting for. The Falcon Heavy is a monster.
It has 27 engines, can generate more power than 18 747 jumbo jets, and is the most powerful rocket to fly since NASA's moon rocket, the Saturn V.
Even though this was a test launch, Musk took the opportunity to send some payload to space. A Tesla Roadster, which will eventually reach Mars' orbit.
And what a coincidence! Elon Musk shoots his car into space and we are witnessing UFO's floating around his car and it is not some sort of space dust, these objects hover, stop and start to float again.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEindelijk, klinkt het bij diegenen die er al maanden naar uitkeken: de krachtigste raket sinds maanraket Saturn V is deze avond de ruimte ingestuurd onder het oog van een luid juichend publiek. Aan boord: de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Hij hield dus woord.
Je weet maar nooit wie binnen miljoenen jaren ons zonnestelsel met een bezoekje vereert. Al staat één ding vast: ze zullen in de baan om de zon plots een rood voertuig zien cirkelen. Een Tesla Roadster, met uitneembaar glazen dak. “De snelste wagen ter wereld in 2017, toch volgens de oprichter van Tesla, Elon Musk”, zullen ze op het internet (?) zien verschijnen wanneer ze op zoek gaan naar wat meer informatie. “In de ruimte gestuurd op 6 februari 2018.”
Vandaag dus. En wat al maanden als grap werd bestempeld, bleek nu toch waar. Elon Musk - ook oprichter van ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - postte gisteren nog een foto op sociale media: z’n auto zat vastgegespt boven in de Falcon Heavy-raket.
Bij een testvlucht is de kans op mislukken altijd groot. Dan mag er geen cruciale satelliet verloren gaan, en al helemaal geen mensenleven. Daarom worden zulke raketten geladen met ballast. Meestal is dat beton, maar voor deze vlucht koos Musk dus voor zijn eigen 1,25 ton zware auto. Die zal rond de zon draaien, tussen de Aarde en Mars. Op het verste punt zal hij 400 miljoen kilometer van ons verwijderd zijn. In de ruimte wordt de Tesla de snelste auto ooit, met een snelheid van ongeveer 42.000 kilometer per uur.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform. Aan boord ook de rode Tesla van Elon Musk.
De lancering vanaf lanceerplatform Apollo 39A op Cape Canaveral in Florida was aanvankelijk gepland voor 19.30 uur Belgische tijd, maar werd uiteindelijk uitgesteld naar 21.45 uur omwille van hevige wind. Stipt op tijd ging de raket onder luid gejuich van een live publiek de lucht in. Meer dan twee miljoen kijkers volgden de lancering online op het SpaceX-YouTubekanaal. Onderweg klonk het ‘Space Oddity’ van David Bowie uit de speakers, hoewel daar in het luchtledige van de ruimte niet veel van te horen zal zijn. Achter het stuur zat een pop, Starman.
Om los te komen van de grond had de raket 27 motoren, die evenveel kracht hebben als achttien Boeings 747. Toen de taak van de zogeheten boosters erop zat, keerden ze voorzichtig terug naar de aarde, waar ze veilig landden op Cape Canaveral, klaar voor hergebruik. Het lanceerplatform ademt trouwens geschiedenis uit, want ook Neil Armstrong werd vanaf deze basis naar de maan gestuurd.
YouTube Space XEen camera op de raket nam dit beeld van de Tesla van Elon Musk met pop Starman.
In april 2011 al maakte SpaceX bekend dat “the world’s most powerful rocket” een lanceerdatum had. Al kwam het bedrijf niet verder dan ‘eind 2013 of 2014’. Die datum bleek veel te optimistisch. De raket is pas in het tweede deel van december vorig jaar geassembleerd, waarna het gevaarte goed een maand geleden rechtop werd gezet. Tot de kortstondige shutdown van de Amerikaanse overheid roet in het eten gooide. Op 24 januari volgde eindelijk de eerste test waarbij alle 27 motoren tegelijkertijd ontbrand werden - een huzarenwerk.
En dus was vandaag ook een absoluut nagelbijtmoment. Na jaren uitstel en het feit dat het productieproces “veel moeilijker” bleek dan gedacht, volgde eindelijk de maiden trip. Die voor Musk al geslaagd zou zijn “indien de Falcon Heavy ver genoeg van haar lanceerplatform afkomt, zodat het niet beschadigd raakt”. “Dat zou ik eerlijk gezegd zelf al als winst beschouwen,” liet hij eerder optekenen. En dat lukte meer dan behoorlijk.
Infografieken Nederland
Wat de Heavy nu eigenlijk zo speciaal maakt? In feite is hij het sterkere broertje van de Falcon 9 met nog eens twee extra stuwmotoren, die aan weerszijden zijn gemonteerd. De Falcon Heavy heeft in totaal 27 raketmotoren, drie keer zoveel als waar de Falcon 9 over beschikt. De Heavy wordt zo de krachtigste raket sinds de maanraket Saturn V, die sinds 1973 niet meer heeft gevlogen. En heeft meer dan tweemaal de vrachtcapaciteit van de krachtigste raket op de huidige markt (voor de specialisten: de Delta IV Heavy, goed voor 28,8 ton). Ook andere huidige operationele raketten komen lang niet in de buurt van de stuwkracht van de Falcon Heavy. De in 2011 door de NASA uit dienst genomen Space Shuttle bijvoorbeeld kon een vracht van 24.000 kilo in een lage baan om de Aarde brengen. Volgens SpaceX kan hun tuig 63.800 kilo aan. Op een reis naar Mars zou dat 16.800 kilo zijn.
SpaceX zet trouwens de commerciële lanceermarkt op zijn kop, want doel van de Heavy: de komende twee jaar ruimtetoeristen naar de maan en Mars laten vliegen. De raket die de lucht in moet gaan, zal echter vooral gebruikt worden voor vrachtmissies waarbij satellieten in een baan om de Aarde worden gebracht, bijvoorbeeld de zwaardere exemplaren van de Amerikaanse overheid.
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De Falcon Heavy staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.
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Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART I
Craft captured at Pratt and Whitney at Jupiter, Florida
Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Former CIA Director Keep studying UFOs, Ancient Egypt in Illinois, Sphinx Part of Ancient Civilization, Artificial Moon, Alleged ET Abduction Last Year in DC, Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study on Coast to Coast Radio, Photos of Secret Advanced Aircraft in Florida, and Mars Dead Civilization
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Greece, Oman, Peru, Puerto Rico, Thailand, 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.
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In a recent Q&A session with Herald Tribune journalist Billy Cox (who writes about UFOs on his blog De Void), ex-CIA Director John Brennan made relevant comments with regard to UFOs and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which basically boiled down to this: (1) UFOs are a concern, (2) they remain unexplained, and (3) he was aware of in-house endeavors to solve these unexplained events. John Owen Brennan was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017. He has served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. His responsibilities included overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he met with the President daily.
Ancient Egypt in Illinois
Historian Glenn Kimball provided updates of his research into ancient manuscripts as well as artifacts found in burial mounds in Southern Illinois (known as “Little Egypt”) that show North America was visited by overseas travelers thousands of years before Columbus set sail. The Mississippi Valley is home to over 10,000 burial mounds, which contrary to widely held academic opinion were not all left behind by Native Americans.
Black market relics found in the region depict Egyptian pharaohs, Moorish sailors, Christ on the cross, Jewish warriors, and Roman military imagery. Further, runes from artifacts found in Illinois, Michigan, California and Utah talk about migrations of people from the Middle East, Kimball said..
Kimball is currently working on gaining permission to dig in an area of Illinois where ground-penetrating radar has shown several chambers exist along a 1500 foot underground corridor. Glenn Kimball has successfully completed all course work for a Ph.D. in Communications and passed his doctoral exams. He was the former president of International Exchange School. Glenn taught at Southern Illinois University and has been collecting ancient texts since the age of fifteen and is famous for being able to integrate very diverse texts into a contiguous story line.
After 25 years of research, during which Kimball visited museums, Indian tribes, medicine men, and universities, he assembled some of the missing links and unsolved mysteries of Christianity. .
Harry Hubbard has written, several books, and articles concerning the archaeological discovery.
Harry reports on the Illinois caves, first discovered in spring of 1925 by Orville Lowery, of Hickory Hill, in the southeast corner of Marion County Illinois. Harry and fellow researchers were able to amass large quantities of information from the artifacts as to who the people were that constructed the “Illinois Mystery Cave” and the identities of the corpses who lay interred within it. Green area shows Mound Building areas that include European, Indians, and some giant remains.
Harry feels the mainstream archaeological community has suppressed America’s true history. Some of the artifacts depict strange but highly detailed images of humanoids, aliens, UFOs and more. The language depicted on the artifacts was decoded, using L.A. Wadell’s groundbreaking technique. Harry tells of the wars, famine and political upheaval in the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt and Cyprus as Rome conquered the area and why they may have fled, ultimately arriving in America.
Cleopatra VII was the last person to rule Egypt as an Egyptian pharaoh. After her death on August 12, 30 BC Egypt became a Roman province. Cleopatra VII was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and therefore was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals who had seized control over Egypt after Alexander’s death. Some researchers speculate this tomb is Alexander’s, Ptolemaic Pharaohs, and Cleopatra’s final burial place. It is thought Cleopatra took her family, numerous ships, supporters and sailed to Illinois and set up a base. Allegedly Alexander was buried in a solid gold coffin.
Strangely some the details from tablets clearly show Reptilian and other E.T. contact. Many of the carvings depict aliens, alien craft, that appear. Nothing here is made up or even slightly contrived. Harry outlines the parallels between Old World and New World contacts with E.T.’s 2000 years ago. There is evidence of contact with races from the sky. It is obvious these people were in contact with aliens most of whom appear to be reptilian.
The tomb had carvings of UFOs with tablets stating “A basket-like object magnificently comes and goes in a swift-like motion, and on its base can be observed many red lights twisting together.”
The presumption is that Alexander the Great’s Tomb or his heir who ruled the Midwest has been relocated to North America. The lineage of the Ptolemaic Dynasty and the History surrounding the fundamental facts of these persons are quite lengthy
Ancient King Alexander ruled the entire Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri River Basins, including the Great Lakes region through Canada east to encompass the island of Newfoundland and the immediate regions north and south along the Atlantic Coast. His domain was called “Aderion” in most texts and “Happyland” or “Land of Many Smiles” in others. His fleet of many ships was well supplied with goods, colonists and artisans. This Ancient King’s name is Alexander Helios (Helios, in Greek means Sun). The abbreviated symbol for his name is always his motif, and commonly appears with a Sun symbol. Alexander Helios has been missing from History since age 10, when he was last recorded by the ancient writer Cassius Dio, in his History, Book 51. Helios was born in 40 B.C. and had a twin sister named Selene. They were the oldest children birthed by Cleopatra to Mark Antony. Helios was of Royal lineage as was his father and mother. Recorded History provides no clues as to what happened to Alexander Helios after he became a palace hostage and somewhat adopted by Octavia, Octavian’s sister / Mark Antony’s former wife. History does record that Cleopatra Selene (twin sister) married Juba II, (also a hostage in the court of Octavian) who later was granted back his homeland of ancient Mauretania and acclaimed King Juba II by Octavian.
Working together, Alexander Helios and his brother-in-law King Juba II, have left their fingerprints all over this Monumental Ancient Tomb as can be easily seen by the 100’s of tablets representing their likenesses. There was commerce between America and Europe in ancient times. Hundreds of carvings of beautiful women, historic carvings from the Library in Alexandria.
Copper Mining
A great deal of copper mining occurred in Michigan that was shipped to Egypt and Europe. New research suggests that Isle Royale’s, Michigan mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic pollution. The high levels of copper, lead, and potassium in sediments from a cove on the island point to a long and intense period of indigenous mining. New research suggests that Isle Royale’s mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic pollution. The high levels of copper, lead, and potassium in sediments from a cove on the island point to a long and intense period of indigenous mining. Considering that BC period mining was determined to have stopped about the same time as the bronze age in Europe ended, there would be a good bet as to the reason why it stopped here. That and the older mines are dated to coincide directly with that same bronze age period. Unless that is we are still of the silly assumption that roughly 500,000 tons of copper was mined by the ancient Indians to make simple tools, jewelry and hooks with and there is no evidence that they ever used anywhere near even a fraction of that much copper in their culture. So where did all that copper go? To Europe and Egypt where pure copper is found.
Ten tons of copper oxhide ingots recovered from the late Bronze Age (1300 BC) Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of Turkey was “extraordinarily pure” (more than 99.5% pure), and that it was not the product of smelting from ore. The oxhides are all brittle “blister copper”, with voids, slag bits, and oxides, created when the oxhides were made in multiple pourings outdoors over wood fires. Only Michigan Copper is of this purity.
Sphinx Part of Ancient Civilization
Robert Schoch is best known for his argument that the Great Sphinx of Giza is much older than conventionally thought and that possibly some kind of catastrophe was responsible for wiping out evidence of a significantly older civilization. Schoch redated the famous monument to 7000–5000 BC, based on his argument that its erosion was due mainly to the effects of water. Rain that occurred in ancient times. The age of Virgo transisioned to the age of Leo in 10,5000 BC and many feel the Sphinx had a Lion’s face going back to that remote period. The present head appears much smaller than the large body and the calculations for the rain erosion could be extended back much further.
He received his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Y ale in 1983.
Schoch’s other theories include the belief that possibly all pyramids in Egypt, Mesoamerica and elsewhere represent a much older global culture such as the Visoko region (Bosnia). Robert’s book is called “Forgotten Civilization, the Role of Solar Outbursts in our Past and Future” Schoch’s proposes that in 9,700 BCE the Sun experienced a super storm with its electoral plasma discharges blasting Earth and causing total destruction and devastation triggering floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and plunging nascent civilization into a dark age. The pyramids design helped them exit through the super storm that may have been triggered by a super wave from the galactic center. Thanks to Robert Schoch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk
Artificial Moon
Dr. Bruce Cornet — I attach below some more Lunar images that will show you some extraordinary evidence for artificial structures. I believe almost the entire near-side of the Moon is artificial down to at least 5 kilometers. You are correct:
This alien base is very old, and has been involved in at least one interplanetary war. Parts of it appear to have been rebuilt, but other parts are in essence vast graveyards for ancient ETs..
Mountain range in lower left of above image, when enlarged, shows that it is composed of many parallel layers of spheres, unlike any geologic formation. A close-up of mountain with a sharp vertical face, unlike anything that would occur naturally without crustal faulting. These mountains according to conventional interpretation were formed by meteor impact. If that is the case, their internal structure would be chaotic, not ordered and layered.
Those layers of spheres are highlighted with white lines in the image below. A building-like structures is outlined in white at the top of this mountain.
When that mountain exterior is enlarged, instead of smooth dust-covered igneous rocks, it appears like Swiss cheese, full of holes due to a composition of layers upon layers of geodesic spheres which are hollow.
With further magnification, the hollow sphere structure becomes evident. The underground Lunar base was probably printed by an enormous alien machine, and contains hollow cavities and chambers where alien life and resources existed.
The Shard is real. Goddard Space Flight Center has a display of the Shard image. Would Goddard knowingly promote a fake image? The Shard is real. I have reviewed it. It looked to me like a giant construction crane but it is so old the metal has all fused together. However the Moon seemed to be a hive of busy activity. The Moon is very old. If you look very closely at its surface you will see that it is covered with ruins of different ages, some extremely old, and made by different species. It did not originate in this solar system. It was brought here to protect ET operations on Earth. I assume it somehow forwards what the ETs extract from the Earth to its owners. They are, at a rough guess, 30-40,000 light years from here. They can have a war machine in my back yard in 7 hours, probably less if they really step on it. I know that because they did it when I first encountered them.
The local ETs are not doing us any harm. They are mining, but doing so at depths we cannot reach. Some of their experiments on the surface are annoying. I refer to abductions, which I assume are still going on although one never hears about them anymore. These data are new compared with what I have seen and heard on Ancient Aliens, History Channel. They haven’t figured out the magnitude and size of that lunar base, which they have thought was above ground and included obelisks. It may go down 5 km below the surface and be as large as the North American Continent. The aliens have been watching Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
I have many more images that blow the lid off of any natural Lunar landscape, and prove it is an enormous construct. This underground base is at least the size of the North American Continent! Thanks to Dr. Bruce Cornet
Alleged ET Abduction Last Year in DC
WASHINGTON, DC– Will Allen, a former White House, Air Force One and Marine 2 Engineer and director of UFODC, demonstrates replicable forensic evidence in this Webinar that the unexplained total disappearances of 37 African American youths [including their cell-phone & signals] from Northeast Washington, DC on January 5, 2017 is correlated with the over flight of interdimensional extraterrestrial spacecraft “the size of an aircraft carrier” over Washington, DC. When asked to speculate what the purpose of the ET mass abductions of humans might be, Will Allen speculates that one purpose might be, “A food source for the reptilian occupants of the cigar-shaped craft.”
As District of Columbia police, the U.S. Congress, and the White House do not appear capable of dealing with this public crisis based on Will Allen’s approach to each of these institutions, this crisis is now being made public by UFODC and by NewsInsideOut.com.
The disappearance and probable mass ET abduction of 37 African American youths from Northeast Washington DC in the dying days of the Obama Administration has not been addressed during the first year of the Trump Administration. Watch https://youtu.be/6R2E7N73Mw0 An attempted oppressive extraterrestrial intervention on Earth?
Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study on Coast to Coast Radio
Frank Chille writes, “On January 28, 2018, Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff were interviewed by George Knapp on Coast to Coast Radio.” You have to go to the web page to hear it. Both of them said there is much more to come, and they answered some of the doubts about the Navy UFO videos. The Nimitz and Gimbal UFO videos are both authentic. There is extensive written documentation and most important, radar plots.
Dr. Eric Davis described his role in the Pentagon program which has been front-and-center in the news since a New York Times
Dr. Hal Puthoff described his background beginning as Naval Intelligence officer working for the NSA, to his studies in laser technology, and eventually as a pioneer in the study of remote viewing at the behest of the CIA in the mid-1970s. He defended the recent revelations of apparent government UFO disclosure and his role in Tom DeLonge’s UFO research organization as an effort to “put some sunshine on this area and get it out, so that it’s no longer a subject of ridicule.” Puthoff said he had examined one of the pieces of metal that was announced in the Times article and described it as “layers of various kinds of materials that you wouldn’t expect to be put together” as well as the unusual properties that are gained from this unknown method of materials engineering. It’s not new elements, it’s layered alloys that are nearly impossible for us to reproduce. Don’t count Tom Delonge out just yet.
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes, “Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff were involved in BASS under Robert Bigelow Aerospace, which worked for the Pentagon between 2007 and 2012.” However the project didn’t stop, and continues in secret. Hal said he had very high security clearance and cannot reveal too much. He did reveal Bigelow has pieces of crashed craft, and he knows their exotic construction, is unlike anything manmade.
Knapp asked him what was so different with the metals, and Puthoff let slip that they are micro layered with different elements in layers, unlike anything we have made, he claimed. The layering is at the atomic level, and he speculated that this combination produced unique physical properties that we are trying to duplicate. Was he telling the truth, or was he giving us misleading information so that the Russians and Chinese won’t think we beat them to reverse engineering alien technology? Puthoff admitted to being part of the Cabal. Perhaps my legal case was designed to destroy my credibility. They realized I would eventually figure out the truth.
Reflections:
Puthoff and Davis had the opportunity to keep our professional conversations continuing since working for Bigelow at The National Institute for Discovery Science, known also as NIDS , but they did not reach out to me after I was fired. I got the feeling that they do not hold my UFO work in high regard or are not interested in it. Why? During a presentation to Bigelow and Kelleher in April 2004 at NIDS, Bigelow seemed disinterested in my data of Pine Bush UFO performances, as if he thought I couldn’t have been getting so much data. In other words, my data were not alien. Then in the middle of my talk, he walked out. Why?
Perhaps he knew that the hundreds of sightings and photos were of secret military vehicles and technology, and that I was being used by the CIA to classify what I saw and photographed as UFOs on the internet. The Black Triangles may be ours, and the Secret Space Program wanted the world to think they are alien.
As crazy as this explanation may seem, the Black Triangle performance in May 1997 was a Skunk Work’s creation, according to my partner, Marc Whitford, a Navy veteran, who witnessed it and was later told that. For more details see:
So, just how far along are we in developing alien technology? The maps NIDS created from the four databases show a fantastic increase in sightings of Triangles since the Belgian flap in 1989-1991. What most people will have a hard time accepting is that most of that increase is due to our own technology. That is why Bigelow walked out of my talk. He already knew my data were compromised with U.S. hardware. Does that make sense? Thanks to Bruce Cornet
Note: In 2002, Bigelow’s NIDS issued a report which said the black triangles were U.S. military prototype blimps, a finding agreed to by other experts but not confirmed by the military.
This Google Earth photo reveals a sleek aircraft parked at the end of a small runway due west of Jupiter, Florida. To make this discovery more intriguing, the vehicle is parked outside a building owned by Pratt & Whitney. According to the company’s website, it is a world leader in the design and manufacture of top-of-the-line military engines for 31 armed forces around the world. In late 1964, the Pratt & Whitney J58 jet engine powered the first flight of the SR-71 aircraft could reach mach 3.2 without breaking a sweat. The J58 was a single-spool turbojet with an afterburner. It had a unique bleed from the compressor to the afterburner which gave increased thrust at high speeds. Fifty years later it is logical to assume new aircraft can reach mach 5 or greater. Similar craft were seen over Pennsylvania and D.C.
Then back on September 7, 2017 secret advanced aircraft were seen fleeing from MacDill Air Force Base in Central Florida just three days before Hurricane Irma began ripping across the state. Below are photos of some of those fleeing craft that were provided to Dr. Michael Salla at exopolitics.org by a man identified only as JP. MacDill AFB is home of the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command
As the world marches closer to war, hypersonic aircraft and missiles are being developed and or tested mainly by the United States, Russia, and China. Other countries besides these three are developing hypersonic technologies to a lesser degree.
The race for hypersonic technologies is in full swing among global superpowers. The first nation to acquire these technologies will revolutionize their civilian aerospace and military programs.
As of January 2018, hypersonic technologies are still in development and or the testing phase with many superpowers, though, it’s anyone’s game at this point. Which leads us to an unidentified airport and testing grounds hidden in the swamplands of South Florida, some 24-miles inland on Bee-Line Highway, outside Jupiter, Florida. In the Google Earth photo a truck is towing the mysterious aircraft from a large rectangular white building to the white concrete pad. One of two things are possible: 1. Prepping for an engine test on the concrete pad. 2. Prepping for a flight using the runway.
Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation are located just a stone’s throw away from the secret airbase housing the mysterious aircraft. Interesting to note, Pratt & Whitney manufactures the scramjet engine for the X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle. Thanks to https://stockboardasset.com
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned aircraft capable of Mach 6, or just over 4,500 mph. At hypersonic speeds, the SR-72 will be able to traverse any continent in around an hour — meaning, if they’re strategically positioned around the world on aircraft carriers, the US military can strike or survey any location on Earth in about an hour. It is also suspected that the SR-72’s hypersonic engine tech — some kind of hybrid scramjet — will find its way into the US military’s High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW), a missile that can theoretically strike anywhere on Earth in just a few minutes. Thanks to Lockheed.
Mars Dead Civilization
Dr. John Brandenburg writes about the MIRROR news, The UFO Hunter disclosure:
This CIA declassified memo confirms government covert interest in Cydonia during the time period of the IMIT (Independent Mars Investigation Team) which was Jan- July 1984 and that they apparently also came to believe it was the remains of a dead civilization.
“The session allegedly took place on May 22 in 1984.” Our final report was not presented in public until the Case for Mars II conference in July 1984. Therefore, again, this confirms that the US government was also investigating the Cydonia area at that time. It would appear, based on remote viewing, that the government confirmed our verdict that it was a site of an ancient civilization. The day of Mars (but not UFO) disclosure , may thus be close. Note that the government has essentially endorsed the idea of a past Mars ocean, abundant water still on Mars, and evidence of Mars life (the meteorites). A dead Mars biosphere and past humanoid civilization may be next. Thanks to John Brandenburg
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Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART II
Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Object
Tombstone –Looking out towards Open Valley from Silver Mine I spotted strange object an focused in using camera zoom. Object is odd shaped and pure white and hovered for at least 5 minutes on March 17, 2017, with no detectable movement. Thought maybe it was a weird balloon but couldn’t see any tether and if it was free it would have drifted. My husband saw it too. Someone stopped to talk and when we looked back it was nowhere in sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
While watching the UsaToday live feed from LiveStream, they where showing Griffith Observatory live broadcast of the Lunar Eclipse Blue Blood Moon event on 1/31/2018.
I just happened to notice an object travelling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame. Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular intervals.
The actual raw video file can be observed at the LiveStream website. Thanks to MUFON CMS
District of Columbia
I was leaving my daughter’s home in Washington D.C. to go to Reagan International Airport to catch my plane on November22, 2018 about 7:30 a.m. I had just visited my daughter and could clearly hear a jet and looked up to spot it. Then above us I saw a metal object just hovering silently. It was pretty high up morphing but solid. I take as many pictures as I can before I get in the car. My Son-In-Law prides himself on his knowledge of anything the flies so when I showed him the pictures. I live very close to Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Key Largo — I love sunsets and was heading north out of the keys and took two pictures of the red sunset above the water on January 17, 2018. Today as I was posting pics I was surprised to see this round object with five lights above the water. I didn’t notice the object until 10 days later. In the past, as I was heading down to the keys in the same area, I noticed a light emitting a glow from the ground. It peaked my curiosity, and I kept thinking, what is lit up over there. Maybe it’s a ship. In the past, I saw a triangle above an estuary in New Jersey, where there are no houses. The next day on the radio mentioned the sighting. When I saw this pic, I was shocked, and was hoping your brilliant team would be able to help me decipher this image. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Triangle
Mililani — I parked on Akamainui Street facing southwest on January 25, 2018. I just sensed something had glanced up and I saw a different thing than I’ve ever seen. Especially after I realized there were long horizontal lights down each tube, the tubes seemed to have some thick ribs spaced quite a distance apart. They were joined together with something thinner and darker. The pinnacle of the Isosceles triangle had a space where a star sized magenta light twinkled. After the flash it got a brighter white and all the other lights on the tubes grew brighter to drown out any definition. The clouds covered completely it. Shocked how large this very shiny triangle structure was (metallic/lead). Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Ball
Roberts— I was taking pics of some strange lines in the sky but got these metallic balls in quite a few photos.
Another night, my son and I witnessed a huge star like object. I saw a strange red beam in the sky and it appeared to be chasing a black ufo. These were all around in December. 2017 and January 1, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orbs
Momence — My handicapped sister takes pictures all the time of nature and the sky. We had been seeing blinking lights in the sky on January 6, 2018, of what looked like moving stars, but these “stars” flash red, blue, and green lights. Both of us tried to take a picture of what we thought was a drone, but the pictures came out like orbs. The silent object was in my neighbor’s yard and did not move. She states “I felt fearful”. “I knew it didn’t belong there”. She said it was a “vehicle” that wasn’t “ordinary. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Orbs
Evansville – On January 27, 2018, shortly after 6pm I was driving over to a friend’s home when my passenger and I observed a pair of bright orange objects approaching from the northeast. The objects were moving very fast and never varied in there spacing.
They passed in 4 pairs to the south. The encounter lasted about 6 minutes when a supersonic jet fighter flew past at low altitude. It was a beautiful site I feel homered to have witnessed the event.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Orb Missing Time
Waltham — I took my dog out in our backyard on January 21, 2018, and noticed the yard was lit up. I looked up seeing 4 lights in straight line above the trees. I walked closer and it glowed all together into one bright white light changing to orange and moving up and down and flashing off and on. My dog barked and was afraid. I got my phone and started filming. My dog tried to hide under the porch. I thought I was seeing something I couldn’t explain and this started around at 6:30pm. I remember being outside for maybe 20 minutes when I got inside It was two hours later. My phone started getting static and died while filming. I went inside scared. I’ve been sick with headaches and nausea and severe nightmares. I could see a craft about 300 feet away from me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Lights
Kimball — I was outside shoveling snow at my home at 7:15 am, on January 10, 2018. I am a sky watcher so when I noticed some odd looking clouds forming I decided to take photos. I didn’t see the lights that are visible on my photo until just a couple days ago when I was looking through my pictures. Looking closer I noticed several other lights and a blue orb on left side of picture. I also noticed a square formation of 4 lights. I never saw any lights whatsoever. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Orbs
Maryland Heights — At around 7:30 p.m. on January 25,’2018, my girlfriend and I were driving back home to St. Charles. As I was driving up the entrance ramp to the highway, we both noticed four very noticeable, but strangely ‘dull’ circular lights moving in the sky, in a perfectly straight formation. They stayed horizontal before then moving in every direction. My girlfriend began recording the lights, as ‘top’ light suddenly ‘faded’ out and then re-appeared at the ‘bottom’ of the formation. The same light faded out again and appeared at the top of the formation.
Once I got off the highway, the lights moved into a triangular formation for 15 seconds before going back to the four-light formation. That was the last we saw of them for the night. I have no explanation for what I saw in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
I was reviewing a picture from a trip I took to the Oregon coast when I noticed a human-like figure with big black eyes looking into the window.
This came as a big shock to me as I did not experience anything paranormal during my stay. But, when I was around 7-8 yrs old I did see a UFO and an orb like reconnaissance vehicle are showed up in the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Rocket
Lopez— We were hiking in State game lands along Mehoopany creek at Mythical falls when we observed this rocket like object higher in the sky than most planes. Moving very quickly across the sky first looking like a launched rocket going upward. It flew similar to how a satellite moves in orbital fashion. It was very clear out and you could see the body of the object but no wings, just a long dual vapor trail. Just curious what you think this might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington D.C. Object
My family and I were in DC for a White House tour on August 4, 2017. We climbed up into the Lincoln memorial where there the view is awesome, so I decided to take some pictures. It was around 11 a.m. and I took 3 pictures in a row of the Washington monument. Later, I noticed something on the right of the Washington memorial. I saw a little black disc shaped object just hovering next to it. It disappeared quickly within seconds of each other. The skies above the mall and the monument are a strict no fly zone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia object
Faulconbridge— The UFO came from the bushes hovered for a few seconds before taking off into the sky in a southerly direction. The photo was taken by the observer and her family on November18, 2018.
They took photos from their back porch that looks onto the Sassafras Gully in NSW. All witnesses to the event wish to remain anonymous.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greece UFO Cloud
Rethymno, Crete— This UFO cloaked in a cloud was seen over Crete on January 11, 2018. You can see that it’s breaking through the clouds. Don’t be fooled by these cloaked craft. Aliens are highly intelligent and often believe that human intelligence is incredibly inferior to them. Thus, humans will often assume the cloud is just a cloud. However, we at UFO Sightings Daily know different. Here it almost looks like an invasion. Very dark, almost sinister looking. Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Al Hamra – On January 25, 2018, at 10 am I was in the backyard and I saw object flying in a very strange way. I decided to take my phone and record a video. At first place I thought it was an airplane but later recognized how very slow it was floating in the air. So maybe it was a cylinder shaped object taken from the angle I was seeing this object.
It must be made of metallic materials. I kept recording the video until it disappeared and appeared again with another one following. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Lights
Padre Abad– On January 26, 2018, at 11 pm, i saw a rectangular shape with 4 lights in a line. It turned on two exterior lights first, then it turned off and turned on two center lights. It then zoomed in and out all in a line towards me. It let me know I was watching it perform a whole show for me. It also made me feel as if it was my friend, I didn’t have a camera so later on I looked up sightings in the jungles of Peru and I found a similar picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Cylinder
Humacao— Cigar shaped objects and other unknown type objects were found in pictures taken on January 28, 2018
Numerous objects have been seen for decades. over Puerto Rico.
I did not observe the objects but when reviewing them on my computer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Cloud
Mount Taishan— Captured over Thailand was a UFO cloaked as a cloud on January 14, 2018. Why would an alien race disguise their craft as a cloud? First they have rules, rules about interrupting without the governments consent. Second they have no intention to frighten people, they instead want to get as close as possible to the ground so that they can scan the inhabitants and their daily routines. I think the cloud cloak is actually pure genius on their part.
Thanks to Scott C. Waring News states: On the morning of the 14th, when many people are still asleep, the photographer Liu Guoqing of Thailand captured the wonderful scene in the sky. A cloud of a similar UFO, appeared in Mount Taishan, against the colorful sky. Dai top, many people also photographed this group “UFO cloud.” It is understood that this god-like cloud of flying saucer, the scientific name pod cloud, is a natural phenomenon of weather. If the temperature drops over the mountains, the moisture in the air condenses into a pod cloud. http://sd.dzwww.com/sdnews/201801/t20180114_16913600.htm
UK Orbs
Garthdee Crescent — I was walking my little sister to her nursery with my mum and I wanted to take picture of the contrails coming out of the planes on January 26, 2018
I believe they are actually chemtrails.
Anyways I didn’t look at the photo until later on that day and I noticed it and was confused.. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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After many long years of waiting, on Tuesday, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket into space. Though it seemed the launch was going to be scrubbed, the Elon Musk’s aerospace company pulled it off just in time — just 45 minutes before the launch window closed.
And damn, did they do it in style.
Those at Cape Canaveral — and others watching from home — witnessed the rocket system, comprised of three boosters with nine engines each, collectively generate 5 million pounds of thrust at lift-off from launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
The Falcon Heavy launches on Tuesday.
As the rocket shot into the sky, worries that ice build-up on the central booster’s might fall onto the shorter side-cores was present, as the were concerns that the side boosters may snap off the central booster from the pressure. Luckily for SpaceX, those disaster scenarios didn’t occur as the rocket shot through the blue Floridian sky. There was no fireworks display of explosions on Tuesday, just controlled rocket science.
The real show was only beginning, though. The three boosters separated from each other on the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere, flipped according to plan, and headed back to Earth. The two side boosters landed side-by-side in perfect unison on landing pads near the launch site a few minutes after launch:
The central booster landed landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, a feat dampened only by a video camera that shorted out because of the heat and force of the incoming rocket.
Falcon Heavy droneship landing
The best was yet to come though: The payload for this demonstration mission — SpaceX hopes to show how its reusable rockets can be combined to carry heavier payloads and astronauts to space — was made for an internet audience.
His midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster, with a dummy in the driver’s seat, complete with a SpaceX branded spacesuit, was sent on a billion-year Martian orbit around the sun. The car safely separated from the payload fairing and there’s even a live feed of its orbit.
Musk has been talking about the Falcon Heavy rocket since 2011. It seemed it would launch in September, but that was pushed back due toJanuary, and then on January 27, Musk announced the launch date.
Then on Monday, SpaceX shared this incredible animation of what it expected the test launch to look like.
At 3:45 p.m. ET, Falcon Heavy took off from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. It had successful stage and booster separation, and the two side cores executed a beautifully in sync landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.
Unfortunately, it seems the center core did not settle on the company’s “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean as planned. While SpaceX has yet to confirm the loss of the core, in the audio of a SpaceX clip from the launch, a voice can be heard saying, “We lost the center core.”
Falcon Heavy, which is now the world’s most powerful rocket, carried a limited-edition Tesla Roadster as its payload, which will travel in an elliptical orbit around the Sun on its way toward Mars. Yes, seriously.
Don’t let the sports car (complete with spacesuit-clad dummy) playing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” distract you from the real, concrete achievement here, though. In addition to adding to the issue of space junk in a unique way, the car’s trip toward Mars proves that Falcon Heavy is able to carry impressive payloads far beyond Earth.
Humanity’s Next Stop
Though originally designed to carry people, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told reporters during a teleconference on February 5 that Falcon Heavy will likely not be used for crewed missions. “It looks like BFR development is moving quickly, and it will not be necessary to qualify Falcon Heavy for crewed spaceflight,” said Musk, according to SpaceNews. “We kind of tabled the Crew Dragon on Falcon Heavy in favor of focusing our energy on BFR.”
However, Musk did note that unexpected delays in BFR development could change that. “We’ll see how the BFR development goes,” he said. “If that ends up taking longer than expected, then we will return to the idea of sending a Crew Dragon on a Falcon Heavy around the Moon and potentially do other things with crew on Falcon Heavy.”
It may or may not be Falcon Heavy, but someday, you or I could travel to Marsaboard a SpaceX craft. Seem like sci-fi? So does the idea of a billionaire entrepreneur sending his personal car into space to test a massive rocket.
Image Credit: SpaceX
Beyond SpaceX, humanity’s options for vehicles to the Moon or Mars are limited. NASA is currently developing the Space Launch System (SLS), which is set to be more powerful than Falcon Heavy and just as capable of ferrying passengers. Current estimates suggest that it will be ready in 2022, but delays are common where massive rockets are concerned.
Overall, Falcon Heavy seems like the clear winner between the two vehicles because it’s less expensive. Heavy launches will only cost $90 million as opposed to the $500 million to $1 billiona SLS launch would run. Given the limitations of NASA’s budget and the current administration’s urgent desire to return to the Moon, SpaceX’s rocket seems to be a compelling alternative for a Mars mission.
Today’s successful Falcon Heavy launch will help SpaceX generate interest in space exploration. That interest could translate to new partnerships and increased funding, which the company will need to support their ambitious work to get humanity to our next stop: Mars.
Success! SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage
Success! SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first Falcon Heavy rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared on its maiden voyage today (Feb. 6) — a historic test flight that also sent a car toward Mars and included two confirmed booster landings.
Billed as the world's most powerful booster since NASA's Saturn V, the Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39A here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) — the same site used by NASA's Apollo moon missions and space shuttles — at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045GMT).
Standing 23 stories tall, the Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX's largest rocket yet and the most powerful booster since NASA's mighty Saturn V moon rocket. Its first stage is powered by three core boosters based on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets, with 27 engines (nine per booster) firing in unison to produce about 5 million lbs. of thrust (22,819 kilonewtons) at liftoff. [SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Flight in Pictures]
SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy rocket soars into the sky after a successful liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Feb. 6, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
The rocket will eventually launch payloads of up to 141,000 lbs. (64,000 kilograms) into orbit. That's about twice the payload capacity of its nearest competitor, the Delta IV Heavy, built by United Launch Alliance.
"This is a test flight," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said yesterday (Feb. 5). "If the test flight works, I think we'd be ready to put satellites on the next mission." That mission, Musk added, could occur within the next three to six months.
A car in space, and reused rockets
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test flight was arguably one of the most anticipated rocket launches in years, with an estimated 100,000 spectators expected to visit Florida's Space Coast to witness the event. Among those in attendance was famed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who watched as the Falcon Heavy launched from the same pad he used to fly to the moon in 1969.
The two side boosters of the first stage have flown before. One launched the Thaicom 8 communications satellite in May 2016, and the other lofted a Dragon cargo ship for NASA in July 2016, according to SpaceX. [SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Explained (Infographic)
The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters returned to Cape Canaveral to stick a historic double landing after SpaceX's new megarocket successfully launched on its first test flight on Feb. 6, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
In a sort of cosmic dance, the three first-stage core boosters returned to Earth much like SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets have in the past. Two boosters touched down at SpaceX landing sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near KSC. The third was scheduled to land on SpaceX's drone-ship landing pad "Of Course I Still Love You," stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the video feed on the drone cut out before the booster set down. The landings occurred in the span of 21 seconds about 8 minutes after launch as the second stage carrying the test payload continued on to space.
SpaceX has now successfully landed Falcon-family rockets 24 times — three on this mission alone. (The rocket family is named after another famously reusable spaceship, the fictional Millennium Falcon from "Star Wars," Musk has said.)
But perhaps the biggest draw of today's launch was the Falcon Heavy's unique payload: a Tesla Roadster riding atop the rocket's second stage.
A dummy passenger in a Tesla Roadster rode aboard the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Feb. 6.
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redit: SpaceX
Musk announced in December that the "midnight cherry red" convertible, which he owns, would be the first Falcon Heavy payload. Then, on Monday, he revealed another surprise: a spacesuit-clad mannequin called "Starman"(a reference to David Bowie's song "Starman") in the driver's seat, with its right hand on the wheel and left arm resting on the door.
About 28 minutes into today's test flight, the second stage carrying the Roadster shut down its engine, ending the main phase of the Falcon Heavy test flight. If all goes well, the second stage will coast for 6 hours through Earth's Van Allen belts, regions of extremely high radiation, and then restart its engine to send the Roadster and Starman toward Mars.
That maneuver will send the Roadster into orbit around the sun and, in turn, eventually carry the car and Starman about 248 million miles (400 million kilometers) from Earth.
"It will essentially be an Earth-Mars cycler," Musk said, adding that the orbit should bring the Roadster near Mars. There is an "extremely tiny" chance the car could hit the Red Planet, he added.
There are three cameras on the Roadster, Musk said, adding that they should capture "epic views" during the mission.
"I'm not worried about the car," Musk said. "It'll be fine."
A future for Falcon Heavy
The Falcon Heavy outside SpaceX's facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Credit: Robert Pearlman/collectspace.comWhen Musk first announced the Falcon Heavy in April 2011, he predicted that its first flight could occur by 2013. But that year came and went, followed by more, as SpaceX tackled the nuances of building a reusable heavy-lift rocket.
Now, with the first test flight in the books, SpaceX is ready to forge ahead with commercial satellite launches. Two missions are scheduled for 2018: the launch of the Arabsat 6A communications satellite, and the Space Test Program 2 mission for the U.S. Air Force, which also includes a solar-sail mission for The Planetary Society.
The Falcon Heavy's raw power, combined with its reusable design, represents a giant leap forward for SpaceX.
"This would be a major milestone in heavy lift," Scott Hubbard, editor of the peer-reviewed journal New Space and an adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, told Space.com before the launch. "A successful test would really advance, in my view, the potential for planning commercially acquired launch services for deep space."
SpaceX aims to sell Falcon Heavy launches for about $90 million per flight. (The single-core Falcon 9 launches sell for $62 million per flight.) By reusing the Falcon Heavy boosters, the company hopes to drastically reduce the cost of heavy-lift space missions to near that of its Falcon 9 missions.
"If we are successful in this, it is game over for all other heavy-lift rockets," Musk said.
The Falcon Heavy is part of a growing list of SpaceX launch services and ongoing projects. The company already provides satellite launch services and Dragon cargo delivery missions for NASA using its Falcon 9 rockets.
SpaceX is also building a crewed version of the Dragon space capsule to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, with the first flights scheduled for later this year.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is developing a launch system even larger than the Falcon Heavy, called the BFR (or Big Falcon Rocket). That booster, Musk has said, is designed to launch hundreds of people into space at one time and could be used to transport passengers around the world quickly for point-to-point travel.
Musk said he was thinking of the BFR on Monday while visiting the Falcon Heavy at the launchpad ahead of today's launch.
"I'm looking at Falcon Heavy, and I'm thinking, 'It's a bit small,'" he said.
Space.com senior writer Michael Wall contributed to this report from San Francisco.
Scientists find TRAPPIST-1 planets are temperate and have more water than Earth
Scientists find TRAPPIST-1 planets are temperate and have more water than Earth
A set of new studies sheds light on the properties of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system that is considered the most optimal candidate for finding biological life outside of our solar system.
The recently published studies in the journals Nature Astronomy and Astronomy and Astrophysics shed light on the TRAPPIST-1 star system, and offer new insight into the planets’ composition.
The new studies suggest the tightly-packed planets located some 40 light years from Earth are the best chance of discovering alien life. Ever since the planets were discovered, scientists have been studying the star system to understand what the planets are like on their surface.
Now, the recently published studies suggest that the planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1have great potential to host lie, although researchers caution they are ‘far from establishing’ this for certain.
The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system is made up of seven planets (b, c, d, e, f, g, h) that orbit around the star and, although scientists argue their composition rocky, they are not sterile rocky worlds.
“We now know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any other planetary system apart from our own,” said Sean Carey, manager of the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, and co-author of the new study. “The improved densities in our study dramatically refine our understanding of the nature of these mysterious worlds.”
Based on the analysis of how starlight interacts with the planets’ atmospheres, scientists concluded that all seven alien worlds are made of rock just like the Earth, with water accounting for as much as five percent of their mass. Our planet, for example, only has 0.02%.
As for the size, density and amount of radiation the planets receive from their star, the fourth planet (TRAPPIST-1e) is the most similar to Earth; It seems to be the Earth-like in terms of its size and could house liquid water, as reported by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Furthermore, researchers also found that the seven planets are considered temperate, which means that under a certain set of geological and atmospheric conditions, all of the planets could meet the necessary requirements to allow water to remain in a liquid form on their surface.
Speaking about TRAPPIST-1, Dr. Amaury Triaud, from the University of Birmingham, a leading member of the international team, said:
“Of the seven planets, and of all the exoplanets that have been identified so far, Trappist-1e is the most resembling Earth, when we consider the amount of energy a planet receives from its star, and its density, which reflects its internal composition. As our next step, we would like to find out whether the planet has an atmosphere since our only method to detect the presence of biology beyond the solar system relies on studying the chemistry of an exoplanet’s atmosphere.”
More information about the TRAPPIST-1 system, and whether or not it’s an ideal place for alien life to thrive will become clearer once NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is launched into orbit next year.
A landmark radio astronomy project is about to unveil its first prototype dish antenna.
Tomorrow, researchers and engineers with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)—to be the largest radio telescope in the world—will inaugurate the dish at a test site in Shijiazhuang, China. And they expect to erect a sister prototype in South Africa by April. But funding, technical, and bureaucratic challenges have forced planners to downsize the first phase of the SKA—envisioned to include hundreds of dishes in South Africa and thousands in Australia—and delay completion by at least 2 years, to 2026.
Still, SKA officials are thrilled to see the first prototypes appear. “It’s great to actually see metal being deployed,” says Phil Diamond, director-general of the SKA Organisation, based in Manchester, U.K. “This is the culmination of a 5-year design program.”
When complete, the SKA will be much more sensitive than current radio telescopes that collect electromagnetic signals from space. In the first phase, Australia is expected to host some 130,000 dishes designed to collect low-frequency signals, while South Africa will host nearly 200 midfrequency dishes. Planners hope to substantially increase those numbers in a second phase. Researchers will use data collected by the linked arrays to investigate a wide range of questions, including what happened just after the big bang and whether there is other life in the universe.
The €674 million project, now backed by 10 partner countries, originally hoped to begin construction in 2018. But that date was pushed back to 2020 as a result of organizational hurdles, including the creation of an organization to oversee the SKA Observatory, and funding troubles forced a downsizing. Diamond says those issues have been resolved, but that countries still need to sign the legal documents.
In the meantime, the first prototype midfrequency dish, built by Chinese company CETC54 in collaboration European partner companies, will be unveiled tomorrow in China, to be joined within a few months by a second prototype in South Africa. The Chinese-led consortium’s design won out against Canadian and South African competitors, in part because of the dish’s superior structural integrity. The midfrequency dishes will need to survive the telescope’s 50-year operational life, so they will be rigorously tested.
Researchers expect to spend at least 6 months, and likely more, testing the two prototypes before attempting to move to full-scale production. “They’re at the start of a long road,” says Tony Beasley, head of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. (The United States is not a SKA partner.) “You need to make sure design is correct.”
Bryce Zabel has a long list of achievements in the feature film and television industry. Much of this includes UFO and alien related projects. This includes writing and producing the NBC series Dark Skies and the Syfy movie Official Denial. He also was on the writing staff of Steven Spielberg’s Taken and ABC’s Lois and Clark (don’t forget, Superman is an alien). More recently, he co-wrote the book A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact with Richard Dolan. He is currently working on two UFO related movies. One is about the Betty and Barney Hill abductions and the other is a movie about the work of Roswell researchers Stanton Friedman and Don Schmitt.
In this interview, we discuss Bryce’s current project, some interest from a famous Hollywood actor/comedian and what it is like making UFO/Alien related entertainment projects. We also discuss Bryce’s upcoming talk at the 2018 International UFO Congress.
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
Projects that began more than five decades ago and still continue to this day include efforts to evaluate bizarre sightings and exotic objects, scan the skies for signs of intelligent transmissions, and develop instruments capable of sniffing out signs of life on faraway worlds. The fact that the government chose to spend some cash on a supposedly scientific look at UFOs—particularly as they could be crucially related to national security threats—really should be no surprise, says Seth Shostak, one of the SETI Institute’s senior alien hunters.
1970s and ‘80s: CIA Investigations of Paranormal and Psychic Phenomena The 1970s and 1980s saw the CIA investigating a bunch of phenomena associated with UFO sightings, such as parapsychology and psychic happenings. According to CIA report “Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (A Die-Hard Issue)”, “CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”
1976-1993: SETI/HRMS The only time the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been written into a NASA budget line, this decade provided as much as $12 million a year for searches using the Arecibo and Goldstone antennas. Around 1990, the government’s SETI program—headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center—was renamed the High Resolution Microwave Survey in an attempt to avoid cancellation. Nevada senator Richard Bryan ended up cancelling the program anyway in 1993, right after actual observations had started.
1990s to now: NASA’s Astrobiology Institute Founded in 1998, the NASA Astrobiology Institute is one of many projects within the space agency aimed at investigating the possibility that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. Scientists under its umbrella are currently thinking about whether life once existed on Mars, if there might be organisms tucked beneath the icy shells of the moons Europa and Enceladus, and how we would even recognize what life beyond Earth looks like if and when we see it. Now, and beyond.
Other ongoing work that continues to rely on federal funds includes developing instruments capable of detecting not only exoplanets but also alien biospheres, as well as work using organisms and environments on Earth as extraterrestrial analogs.
Why The Universe Does Not Need To Have A Beginning Or End
Why The Universe Does Not Need To Have A Beginning Or End
According to the Big Bang theory, the universe was born about 13.8 billion years ago. All the matter that exists today was once squished into an infinitely dense, infinitely tiny, ultra-hot point called a singularity. This tiny fireball then exploded and gave rise to the early universe. The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin allegedly.
Does the Universe have a beginning and thus an end state? I think that question itself is very short-sighted. I have a general problem with the word started. We must understand our place in the wonderous and almost entirely unknown mux of energy we call the Universe. Our brains developed with some severe biases. Like linear time, only seeing and experiencing a super slim sliver of reality with our poor biological senses. Our senses are all lockstep into an infinitesimal experience. We can only see a small infinitesimal small slice of the EM spectrum, hear an infinitesimal slice of auditory sensations, our skin and brains as in the other examples can only process an infinitesimal slice of motion, movement, and causation. Our intellects are just as hindered with infinitesimal perceptions and understanding. We are just the dominant animal on planet Earth. We must understand that we are woefully unsuited for any of this question to fall into colloquial understanding limits.
The Universe has no obligation to make colloquial sense to us. We can not (I suspect) even ask or comprehend the correct line of deductive reasoning yet alone understand the answers that must pour forth. We and our intellects are just fleas in a world of infinite. Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
We and the Universe are more than just our 3 spatial axes of freedom plus time. The math works out for over 10 axes of freedom (dimensions). It is all this that we must at least try to consider when you think about the big bang, or how the observable Universe began.
First off there is no reason to think in our limited capacity of start and ends. That is a bias we have evolved to trust on our little dirty ball of dirt. That is our level of animal experience and intellect we must understand is by understanding what I wrote so far is incomplete. It is an asymptote that approaches zero. There does not have to be a beginning or an end.
We are 4D creatures in a Universe of many more dimensions. To a single dimensional creature, a single point is infinite. Consider a two-dimensional creature if it ever came upon a circle structure. To that creature the circle is infinite..it would if it could represent it by the symbol for infinity. Where does the circle start? Where does it end? Who created the symmetry of the circle?
We are predominately 3D creatures and the Universe looks infinite to us. It looks like it has a beginning and an end. But it is no truer for us as it is for the 2D creatures mentioned before.
As we go up the dimensional ladder the same questions can be asked ( I assume). What spatial geometry does a 5D creature see in the Universe? I wish I knew. I have some ideas which I have previously written about.
What I do know is that answering “GOD” to any of the questions we have considered so far is just a weak player, a pawn for intellectual stagnation which never answers anything.
There does not have to be a start/end to the grandeur of the Universe. It makes no sense unless you are looking with solely evolved monkey eyes. Eyes that are driven by imperfect cognition, billions of years of evolution in just one place, and a deep fear of death and non-existence. The human construct of “God” is just that a human construct to replace the ponderings which are imponderable by some people. Not their fault.
“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
~ Carl Sagan.
We could exist in just one slice of a continuum of Hubble volumes which all essentially look the same. What we see as spatial distances may and probably are illusions in the grand scheme of things. Spatial distance and time are different than we can comprehend at this point in our intellectual evolution. Serves us well on planet Earth at relativistic velocities but that is about it.
I suspect that the expansion and the question of the “Big Bang” are moot. Observable by our 3D instrumentation but is no more a complete picture than our vision is when considering the EM spectrum.
There certainly does not have to be a creator. That falls into that limited vision thing I spoke of earlier. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe and it is still unable to comprehend the truth… so far. In time we will see the truth as prosaic. I know we will have to look forward to the answers not backward thousands of years to lies and deception which is so popular today.
Is the Tesla Roadster Flying on the Falcon Heavy's Maiden Flight Just Space Junk?
Is the Tesla Roadster Flying on the Falcon Heavy's Maiden Flight Just Space Junk?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
A cherry red Tesla Roadster will serve as the payload on the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
Credit: SpaceX
The maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster, slated to launch tomorrow (Feb. 6), comes factory-equipped with a Tesla Roadster as a part of the payload/ballast, and is meant to be hurled toward a solar orbit that could take it as far out as the orbit of Mars.
But what's the point of sending a car into space? Is it bound to become just more space junk? We asked spaceflight experts to weigh in.
"Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit," tweeted SpaceX founder, CEO and lead designer Elon Musk, referencing the David Bowie song. "Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn't blow up on ascent." [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket at the Pad]
In a more recent tweet, Musk said, "Falcon Heavy launch simulation almost ready. Will be set to Bowie's Life on Mars." Musk also commented that the Tesla's glove box will contain a copy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Pan Books, 1979) by Douglas Adams, as well as a towel and a sign saying "Don't Panic" (an iconic phrase from the book).
The Tesla Roadster's glove box contains a copy of the famed Douglas Adams novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Credit: Crown/Archetype
"I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future," Musk tweeted on Dec. 2.
Shipping out
Hurling into space using an automobile as a mass simulator is certainly a first. Back in the early development days of NASA's Saturn V booster, several Saturn C-1 test boosters carried thousands of gallons of water to mimic the weight of fully fueled "live" rocket stages.
But does shooting a Roadster into space constitute a frivolous addition to orbital debris?
"He is shipping it out of Earth orbit, so I do not think that there is any risk here," said orbital-debris expert Darren McKnight, technical director for Integrity Applications in Chantilly, Virginia. "The enthusiasm and interest that he generates more than offsets the infinitesimally small 'littering' of the cosmos."
However, McKnight said "it is [a] huge waste of a beautiful car, so I would be happy to take the brand-new red Tesla off his hands, and he can send my five-year old silver Prius into space."
Launch license
On Feb. 2, the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued its launch authorization for the Falcon Heavy via Transportation License Number: LLS 18-107.
A Tesla Roadster tops SpaceX's Heavy launcher.
Credit: SpaceX
That license gives the go-ahead for flight of the huge rocket, noting that flight begins with ignition of the first stage from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and transportation of the modified Tesla Roadster as a "mass simulator" to a hyperbolic orbit with the sun, meaning on a trajectory that will allow it to escape Earth's gravity.
"Flight includes landing of the Falcon Heavy first stage core and side boosters as indicated in the license application," the license states. "A flight is concluded upon SpaceX's last exercise of control over the Falcon Heavy vehicle, including the safing of Falcon Heavy vehicle stages or components that reach a hyperbolic orbit."
Boosterism or "big bang" theory?
No matter how you look at it, the Falcon Heavy is a big deal.
"This is in many ways the most significant launch since the first shuttle launch in April of 1981," Dylan Taylor, an active angel investor in commercial space ventures, told Space.com. "Falcon Heavy has the potential to open up commercial space to deep space for the first time ever."
The rocket's first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores, adding up to 27 Merlin engines. Those three cores are arranged in an "octaweb" structure.
All that firepower makes for a chancy rocket launch, Musk said last July at the 2017 International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, D.C.
"There's a lot that could go wrong there," Musk said. "It's guaranteed to be exciting."
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster is ready for its maiden voyage.
Credit: SpaceX
Indeed, "there's a lot of risk associated with the Falcon Heavy," and there is "a real good chance that [the] vehicle does not make it to orbit," Musk said in July, noting that he wanted to make sure he "set expectations accordingly."
"I hope it makes it far enough away from the pad that it doesn't cause pad damage," Musk said. "I would consider even that a win to be honest. Yeah … a major pucker factor really is the only way to describe it."
Musk mentioned several specific reasons why the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight may not go perfectly. One is the need for all 27 orbit-class first-stage engines to light at the right time. Another is the stress that the first stage's central "core" will experience during liftoff; the loads on the rocket, from aerodynamic forces to vibration and acoustic issues, will be quite high, he said.
The Falcon Heavy will be a great vehicle, Musk said, but he added that there may be some kinks to work out, especially given how challenging the rocket's development has been.
"It just ended up being really way, way more difficult than we originally thought," Musk said. "We were pretty naive about that."
Test firing
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy successfully gunned up its 27 main engines during a test fire on Jan. 24, though it was held down tightly on the launchpad. Does that 12-second test firing signal a potential successful flight?
"Not really," said Jim Cantrell, CEO of Vector, a rocket developer in Tucson, Arizona, told Space.com. "It means that they can ignite all 27 engines at the same time. Liftoff will test the structural and flight dynamics of this new configuration and the guidance, navigation and control system that guides it. A lot can still go wrong as this is a massive undertaking."
Despite all that could go wrong, however, Burt Rutan, legendary aerospace engineer and designer of the private suborbital craft SpaceShipOne (which won the Ansari X Prize in 2004), saluted Musk and his Falcon Heavy program.
Rutan told Space.com that he thinks Musk's decision to put his car on an outward-bound trajectory was a great idea.
Elon’s maiden trek of Falcon Heavy is "somewhere along the guts and chutzpah that we did for Apollo 8 — the first time you put people on a Saturn V and shoot for the moon," Rutan said. "Has anybody made that courageous of a flight plan since?
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us@Spacedotcom,Facebook andGoogle+. Original article onSpace.com.
There were no alien invasions or tales of abduction, yet a UFO sighting by a group of Pembrokeshire school children remains one of the most famous cases in Wales.
It was 40 years ago when a class of pupils at Broad Haven Primary School said they spotted a UFO in a field near their playground.
It was one of a wave of sightings in the area in 1977 - dubbed the Dyfed Triangle.
David Davies was 10 at the time and heard reports of pupils seeing flying saucers throughout the day.
"I was a natural born sceptic so after the bell rang I decided to go to the area that the children said they had seen it," he told BBC Wales.
He described seeing a silver "cigar-shaped" craft with a "dome covering the middle third".
"My sighting only lasted a couple of seconds. It popped up and then went back behind a tree."
Mr Davies said he did not feel afraid, "more in awe and wonderment", although he admitted he had "a strange desire to run away".
Image captionDavid Davies said UFOs has been a subject which has gone on to "dominate" his life
None of the teachers believed the children and so the headmaster separated them and got them to draw what they saw. There were slight variations, but what they drew was basically the same.
Mr Davies described the days that followed as a "wild rollercoaster."
"It went crazy with the media and it was difficult to settle down and actually think about what we had seen."
Two months later, Rosa Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel in nearby Little Haven, described seeing an object which looked like an "upside-down saucer" and two "faceless humanoid" creatures with pointed heads.
She said so much heat came off it, her "face felt burned".
"There was light coming from it and flames of all colours. Then [the creatures] came out of these flames, that's what I don't understand," she said.
When she visited the field she said there was "two inches of burned grounds".
Ms Granville said the incident left her "agitated and disturbed".
Image captionDavid Davies' 1977 drawing
Image captionPupil drawings taken from Broad Haven School's 1977 UFO scrapbook
A number of theories have been put forward to explain the sightings.
Then-MP for Pembroke, Nicholas Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence after being "inundated" with UFO sightings.
Flt Lt Cowan, an officer from RAF Brawdy, visited Ms Granville's hotel and examined the site, but could find no evidence of a landing.
He joked: "Should a UFO arrive at RAF Brawdy we will charge normal landing fees."
In his report, he mentioned the possibility that a "local prankster was at work" and the description of aliens "fitted exactly the type of protection suit that would have been issued in the event of a fire at one of the local oil refineries".
This fits in with the account of businessman Glyn Edwards, who in 1996 revealed he wandered around the area in a silver suit in 1977 as a prank.
Image captionThe Broad Haven pupil's sightings sparked a media frenzy
The National Archives also released files which examined UFO sightings across Wales, and the officials who investigated the Broad Haven sightings suspected pranksters.
"There is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time.
It was also thought school children could have confused a sewage tank as a UFO, although many were from farming backgrounds and would have been familiar with the machinery.
More recently, a former US Navy sailor said the figure in a silver suit was in fact a member of US military personnel wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new Harrier jets flying over.
Media captionBBC archive footage of the children explaining what they saw
To mark 40 years since the sightings, a conference is being held in Broad Haven on Saturday, organised by Swansea UFO Network.
Organiser Emyln Williams said the case started "worldwide interest".
Asked if he thought it was genuine, he said: "One child can lie, but can a whole class?
"Over 40 years at least one of them might have come forward to say they made it up - but they haven't."
Mr Williams said there were several sightings the day the children claimed to have seen a UFO, including at Hubberston School in Milford Haven.
"That year there was so much happening. It is what we know as a UFO flap," he said.
Image copyrightNEIL SPRINGImage captionMr Spring moved into a cottage in Broad Haven to get to the bottom of what happened
Eyewitness Mr Davies, who lives in Shropshire, will be a guest speaker.
He said he had always been open-minded to the theories which attempted to explain the sightings and at no time had he "ever sensationalised his story".
"So many people are ridiculed for saying they have seen a UFO," he said, describing his secondary school life as a "misery".
"I was beaten senseless purely because of what happened to me. It would have been so much easier to take back my story."
He admits UFOs has been a subject that has gone on to "dominate his life".
"At one point I must have had the largest library of books in Wales on the subject."
Image captionBroad Haven School today
Attending alongside Mr Davies is Neil Spring, who wrote a book based on the Broad Haven sightings.
"The moment I heard of this small village plagued by UFO sightings, I was inspired to understand what really happened," he said.
His research uncovered a secret investigation by the military police.
"Whilst the government was telling the public they had no records of any unusual activity in the area, privately, officials were so concerned about the UFO sightings in Broad Haven that they asked the military police to conduct a 'discreet' investigation," he said.
Mr Spring believes local pranksters were behind some of the sightings, but said "people emulate what's happening around them" and the pranks were inspired by events which had been "sincerely reported".
"My research showed that there were strange occurrences in Broad Haven long before the incident at the school and for a long times afterwards.
"So you can take the children out of the story and you'll still have the story."
Those were the shock claims made after video of the apparently unknown object passing the Epsilon 3 rocket launch was uploaded to YouTube by conspiracy theory channel UFO Today.
The rocket was sending a £255 million satellite - which will monitor the Earth's atmosphere - from Kyushu Island in Japan into orbit.
UFO Today speculated that a "mysterious craft" passed by the rocket as it flew at 25,000mph and it could mean that aliens are monitoring our activity in space.
Thousands watched the Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch the rocket at 6.06am local time on January 18.
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The alleged UFO (ringed) could be nothing more than a plane, claim debunkers.
The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
UFO Today
In a promotional blurb for the video the channel said: "Many will say this is an aeroplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch.
"The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
"It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit around earth. What was this object?"
Sceptics have laughed this off and said it was nothing more than a plane.
The black triangle UFO is a global phenomenon, with hundreds of sightings each years across the globe, but most in the US.
Steve Barone, aUFO hunter based near the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, uploads sightings to his YouTube channel UFOs in The USA and claims this footage is one of his best yet.
In the video, two apparently triangle-shaped objects appear to fly across the screen from right to left.
Mr Barone said in the video: "I set my night vision camera up to do a little sky fishing looking at the entrance of Red Rock Canyon.
"When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
"If you look really close they look like little triangles and appear to have little half domes on top of them."
He said some people had suggested there was just one with a shadow beneath, but he claimed the top went made a separate manoeuvre going into a spin while the one below did not.
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REAL PHENOMENON? Mysterious triangle UFOs, like these CGI mock ups are seen across the globe.
When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
Steve Barone
The UFO hunter added: "If you look at the snap shots you see the bottom one is clearly a triangle and the top one has a rounded dome on top.
"It is a really good example of what was flying out of that canyon.
"Vegas is unreal, I am still waiting for the mother of all UFOs as it is going to be really special. It has happened before but I just didn't catch it and I know it can happen again."
Many people claim the triangle UFOs are the legendary TR-3B craft - said to be a secret spy plane developed by the US military.
The TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens visiting Earth.
Apart from witness accounts there is no proof the TR-3B exists.
Angela Patchell, who viewed Mr Baron's video, said: "This is amazing. I saw something similar a few weeks ago.
"It passed over in front of me at a super fast speed from right to left and disappeared. This was after viewing UFO orbs high in the night sky the night before."
Another posted: "Red Rock Canyon is notorious for UFOs
Nieuw DNA-onderzoek naar langwerpige schedels uit Paracas. Zie hier de resultaten
Nieuw DNA-onderzoek naar langwerpige schedels uit Paracas. Zie hier de resultaten
In de jaren twintig ontdekte de Peruaanse archeoloog Julio Tello een aantal graftombes in Paracas, die gevuld waren met skeletten met langwerpige schedels die naar schatting 3000 jaar oud zijn.
In 2013 begonnen L.A. Marzulli, bioloog Brien Foerster en een aantal andere onderzoekers de schedels te bestuderen.
Uit het eerste onderzoek bleek dat de vreemde vorm niet alleen was veroorzaakt door schedelvervorming.
Ongelooflijk ingewikkeld
Begin deze maand maakte het team op het Elongated Skulls Symposium in Los Angeles de resultaten bekend van nieuw DNA-onderzoek.
“De resultaten waren ongelooflijk ingewikkeld,” zei Foerster. “Het zal enige tijd duren voordat we weten wat de resultaten precies betekenen.”
“We weten in ieder zeker dat de mensen waar de langwerpige schedels aan toebehoren niet 100 procent inheemse Amerikanen zijn,” voegde hij toe.
Mengeling
Het gaat volgens hem om een mengeling van verschillende volkeren. Als ze 100 procent inheemse Amerikanen zijn, moeten ze bloedgroep O hebben gehad en dat is niet het geval, aldus Foerster.
“We hebben hier waarschijnlijk te maken met een subsoort,” zei hij, toevoegende dat het DNA wijst in de richting van Oost-Europa en West-Azië, ergens tussen de Zwarte Zee en de Kaspische Zee.
Genetisch van aard
Hij wees erop dat ze een aantal verschillende haplogroepen aantroffen die op geen enkele manier zijn te rijmen met de geschiedenis van Peru.
De grootste langwerpige schedels zijn gevonden in Peru en de Kaukasus, dus hij denkt dat deze subsoort naar Zuid-Amerika is gemigreerd.
Hij benadrukte dat de vervormingen genetisch van aard zijn en dat deze mensen met de afwijkingen werden geboren.
Toen het Amerikaanse leger maatregelen nam om het overgewicht van personeel te bestrijden, had niemand gedacht dat hiermee ook gevoelige geheimen aan het licht zouden komen.
Door dit alles is er nu precies vast te stellen waar zich op Antarctica een geheime ondergrondse basis bevindt, alhoewel deze niet persé Amerikaans hoeft te zijn.
Men heeft er bij het Pentagon nooit bij stilgestaan dat door middel van dingen zoals zogenaamde Fitbit horloges exacte locaties van de gebruikers kunnen worden vastgesteld. Dit systeem houdt al je lichamelijke activiteiten bij en meet verschillende dingen zoals hoeveel je gelopen hebt. Het doet dit op basis van het GPS systeem zodat van iedere gebruiker de exacte locatie kan worden vastgesteld.
Het Amerikaanse leger vond dit een goed hulpmiddel bij het bestrijden van overgewicht onder hun personeel en waren zo enthousiast dat ze deze Fitbits volop hebben verspreid binnen het leger.
Via een organisatie die Strava heet is er nu een zogenaamde heatmap gemaakt van de aarde, waarop je precies kunt zien waar de Fitbit gebruikers zich bevinden. Het zijn natuurlijk niet alleen Amerikaanse militairen die met deze dingen rondlopen, maar overal ter wereld worden deze Fitbits gebruikt. Op de volgende kaart zie je het gebruik in Nederland en België. Hoe lichter de kaart, des te meer Fitbits zijn er actief.
Bij ons valt er weinig af te leiden uit het gebruik, behalve dat het in bepaalde gebieden meer voor komt dan in andere, maar wanneer je naar een totaal verlaten gebied kijkt in Syrië, net ten noorden van de stad Raqqa, dan begint het wel op te vallen.
Kortom, we weten nu van bovenstaande locatie dat het geen totaal verlaten gebied is, maar dat er één of meerdere personen aanwezig zijn die daar rondjes lopen.
Veel militaire complexen zijn op verzoek van overheden niet opgenomen in Google Maps en Apple Map. Een woordvoerder van de US Central Command heeft aan de Washington Post laten weten dat het leger aan het kijken is naar de implicaties die de kaart met zich meebrengt. De looproutes van de militairen kunnen nu de locaties van geheime basissen vrijgeven.
En dan komt er op de zogenaamde heatmap van Strava iets bijzonders tevoorschijn, ergens in een totaal verlaten gebied op Antarctica.
Ergens lopen daar één of meerdere mensen rond met een Fitibit.
Echter, op ongeveer 12 kilometer afstand ligt een landingsbaan die de Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway heet. De rode markering geeft de landingsbaan aan en de groene de plek waar de bewegingen zijn waargenomen.
Dan blijft er eigenlijk maar één conclusie over en dat is dat er zich onder de bergen een basis bevindt. Het signaal is opgevangen, één of meerdere mensen hebben daar een bepaalde weg afgelegd en aangezien het zo goed als onmogelijk is dat dit aan de oppervlakte is geweest, kan het alleen ondergronds zijn geweest.
De vraag die dan overblijft is: Van wie is die basis? Van de Amerikanen waar veel militairen met een Fitbit rondlopen of toch van iemand anders?
FORWARD THINKING Toby Walsh cuts through the hype to give a critical assessment of how much we should welcome or worry about a future full of “thinking” machines.
Movies and other media are full of mixed messages about the risks and rewards of building machines with minds of their own. For every manipulative automaton like Ex Machina’s Ava (SN: 5/16/15, p. 26), there’s a helpful Star Wars droid. And while some tech titans such as Elon Musk warn of the threats artificial intelligence presents, others, including Mark Zuckerberg, dismiss the doomsayers.
AI researcher Toby Walsh’s Machines That Think is for anyone who has heard the hype and is seeking a critical assessment of what the technology can do — and what it might do in the future. Walsh’s conversational style is welcoming to nonexperts while his endnotes point readers to opportunities for deeper dives into specific aspects of AI.
Walsh begins with a history of AI, from Aristotle’s foundation of formal logic to modern facial-recognition systems. Excerpts from computer-composed poetry and tales of computers trouncing humans at strategy games (SN: 11/11/17, p. 13) are a testament to how far AI has come. But Walsh also highlights weaknesses, such as machine-learning algorithms’ reliance on so much data to master a single task.
This 30,000-foot view of AI research packs a lot of history, as well as philosophical and technical explanation. Walsh personalizes the account with stories of his own programming experiences, anecdotes about AI in daily life — like his daughter’s use of Siri — and his absolute, unapologetic love of puns.
Later in the book, Walsh speculates about technical hurdles that may curb further AI development and legal limits that society may want to impose. He also explores the societal impact that increasingly intelligent computers may have.
For instance, Walsh evaluates how likely various jobs are to be outsourced to AI. Some occupations, like journalist, will almost certainly be automated, he argues. Others, like oral surgeon, are probably safe. For future job security, Walsh recommends pursuing careers that require programming acumen, emotional intelligence or creativity.
AI also has the potential to revolutionize warfare. “Like Moore’s law, we are likely to see exponential growth in the capabilities of autonomous weapons,” Walsh writes. “I have named this ‘Schwarzenegger’s law’ to remind us of where it will end.” Walsh isn’t resigned to a Terminator-like future, though. If governments ban killer robots and arms developers use automation to enhance defensive equipment, he believes military AI could actually save many lives.
In fact, Walsh argues, all aspects of AI’s future impacts are in our hands. “Artificial intelligence can lead us down many different paths, some good and some bad,” he writes. “Society must choose which path to take.”
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Mankind Survived A ‘Civilization Changing’ Extraterrestrial Impact 12,800 Years Ago
Mankind Survived A ‘Civilization Changing’ Extraterrestrial Impact 12,800 Years Ago
In a massive study that included 24 researchers and published in two scientific papers, experts found that our planet suffered the impact of a space object as early as 12,800 years ago when humans were already sedentary and were beginning to form the very first complex societies around the planet.
The study titled Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ~12,800 Years Ago” analyzed geochemical and isotopic markers and found that massive fires would have been responsible, in part, for the disappearance of large mammals.
“The study includes measurements made at more than 170 different sites around the world,” said Adrian Melott, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas and one of the authors of the research.
According to Melott and his colleagues, the new data indicates that the disaster was unleashed when the Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet that was approximately 100 kilometers in diameter, whose remains persist in our solar system to this day.
A chaotic time for early society
This impact would have caused fires so large that the resulting dust clogged the sky and prevented sunlight from entering.
The climate cooled rapidly, the plants died, the food sources were exhausted, and the glaciers moved forward again.
The oceanic currents moved, forming an almost glacial era that lasted a thousand years more.
Gobekli Tepe is considered one of the most mysterious places on the surface of the planet. Curiously, some authors believe that a similar catastrophic event was recorded at Gobekli Tepe by its builders.
“The hypothesis is that a massive comet fragmented and the pieces hit Earth, generating this disaster,” said Melott.
“A number of different chemical signatures – carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia, and others – seem to indicate that an astounding 10% of the earth’s surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, was consumed by fires.”
Furthermore, according to Melott, pollen analysis suggests that pine forests were probably burned to be replaced by poplars, which is a species that colonizes cleared areas.
In fact, the authors postulate that the cosmic impact could have triggered the episode of the Recent Dryas, the burning of biomass, the extinction of the late Pleistocene of larger species (of which we were blamed) and the cultural changes in humans and the decrease in population.
“The estimates imply that the impact would have depleted the ozone layer, causing increases in skin cancer and other negative health effects,” said Melott.
“The impact hypothesis remains a hypothesis, but this study provides a large amount of evidence, which we argue can only be explained by a very large cosmic impact.”
If confirmed the hypothesis of this study which seems to have been recorded by ancient cultures, would indicate that humans not only survived a cataclysmic event, but we took advantage of it and we could start to repopulate the planet.
What Graham Hancock said
Curiously, that’s exactly what world-renowned author Graham Hancock said a few times already.
According to Mr. Hancock,
an extremely advanced ancient civilization—that flourished during the Ice Age—was wiped out from the surface of the planet some 13,000 years ago due to a massive comet strike, and the ancients left us a warning of future events.
As explained in the book Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization, Mr. Hancock argues; “Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.”
SHOCK CLAIM: Nuclear WW3 between US and Russia 'prevented by aliens'
SHOCK CLAIM: Nuclear WW3 between US and Russia 'prevented by aliens'
ALIENS have repeatedly switched off nuclear warheads in Russia and the United States, in a bid to stop world war three breaking out, an expert has claimed.
Steve Bassett, founder of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), is one of the most senior UFO campaigners based in the US, and is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the "aliendisclosure" subject.
Mr Bassett claims global governments are engaging with extraterrestrials on Earth and keeping it top secret from the public.
He believes there is more chance of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking out than Donald Trump.
Mr Bassett spoke to Natalia Pryguina for Russian TV programme Most Shocking Hypotheses on Ren TV, one of the most watched networks in Russia with a viewer base of 120 million.
He has now released segments of the interview on the PRG website.
Mr Bassett said there was a wealth of testimony from witnesses about UFOs seen hovering over nuclear facilities in both the US and Russia.
And he revealed his thoughts on the main reasons "aliens are here."
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Aliens are trying to stop nuclear war on Earth, claims Steve Bassettt
The ETs come down and hover a craft over a nuclear site and turn all the missiles off.
Steve Bassett
He said: "Number one, nuclear weapons tampering. There is evidence all the way back to the sixties, but the media would not deal with it.
"The ETs come down and hover a craft over a nuclear site and turn all the missiles off.
"That was impossible. These are all individually siloed, they have individual support, you would literally have to affect each one separately.
"When a SAT-based officer or personnel try to turn them back on, they run through three sequences and as soon as they turn them back on, they are turned off again and they cant turn them back on until the craft leaves.
"This has been happening in the US, we have got scores of witnesses capable of testifying, SAT-based officers with top-security clearance."
He then detailed a more disturbing event said to have happened in Russia.
Mr Bassett said: "There was one event where there is some evidence, I am not saying it has been proved and that is an event of a different kind. We believe it happened in Russia.
"It was not a case of turning the missiles off, what happened, is, I understand the Russian nuclear facility, usually a series of missiles within a site, all of a sudden the launch sequence began within that facility and it shouldn't have happened.
"The people that worked there didn't initiate that."
He said a call to Moscow was met with a denial.
Mr Bassett said: "I have heard from separate different directions, but if it is true, at the very last minute, when as far as the people in the silo were concerned 'this is over' and apparently there were sightings over the site."
He speculated why aliens would get involved. Mr Bassett said: "What was the message there?
"'Why do you have these weapons - you want to engage in the galaxy if there is something out there do you think other civilisations, who already have interstellar travel, would let you bring these weapons into space - that is not going to happen - if you use them on each other you are done'."
Mr Bassett is not alone in his belief about aliens tampering with nuclear missiles on Earth.
Robert Hastings published the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites in 2008.
A theory emerged in 2017 that claimed nuclear weapons were stored at RAF Bentwaters during the December 1980 Rendlesham incident in Suffolk, in the UK, and that is why the site was allegedly visited by aliens.
Many alien conspiracy theorists claim that extra terrestrials are highly advanced races compared to humans.
However, sceptics say there is no scientific evidence to back up any of these ideological theories, or that any aliens have ever visited Earth.
Grand Cameron and Steve Bassett on 2018 UFO disclosure events
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Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernwapens uit op aarde. Dat heeft Stephen Bassett, oprichter van de Paradigm Research Group, gezegd op de Russische tv.
“Er is bewijs voor, maar de media willen hun vingers er niet aan branden,” zei hij.
Hij noemde gevallen waarbij ‘aliens in een vaartuig boven een kerninstallatie hangen en vervolgens alle raketten uitschakelen’.
Ook in Rusland
“Het personeel kon ze pas weer inschakelen nadat het schip was vertrokken,” zei hij. “Dit gebeurt al lange tijd in de VS en er zijn veel getuigen die zich hierover hebben uitgesproken.”
Volgens Bassett gebeurt het ook in Rusland.
Op de vraag waarom aliens zich met onze kernwapens bemoeien antwoordde hij: “Denk je dat andere beschavingen in het sterrenstelsel zullen toelaten dat wij deze wapens meenemen de ruimte in? Dat gaat niet gebeuren.”
Eerste staatshoofd
In het interview, dat werd uitgezonden op REN TV, zei Bassett te denken dat de Russische president Poetin het eerste staatshoofd zal zijn dat officieel gaat erkennen dat er aliens op aarde zijn.
Bekijk het fragment hieronder:
Zender KLAS-TV meldde eerder dat meer dan 150 Amerikaanse legerveteranen, officieren en beveiligers claimen dat ze UFO’s boven kerninstallaties hebben gezien.
“Het waren vliegende schotels,” zei een fotograaf die werkzaam was in een testgebied voor atoombommen.
Ingegrepen
“UFO’s houden onze kernwapens al decennia in de gaten en hebben zelfs ingegrepen,” zei schrijver en onderzoeker Robert Hastings, die er een documentaire over maakte.
Uit vrijgegeven documenten van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Energie blijkt bovendien dat UFO’s zijn waargenomen boven alle grote kernwapeninstallaties.
In één geval zagen legerfotografen hoe een UFO een raket uitschakelde die vanaf vliegbasis Vandenberg was gelanceerd.
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
We schrijven vaker dat wanneer je je ogen openhoudt en regelmatig naar de lucht kijkt, je soms bijzondere dingen ziet.
In het volgende geval is het niet alleen het zien van bijzondere dingen in Egmond aan Zee, maar ook het horen van vreemde geluiden.
Wij mogen ons gelukkig prijzen met zeer oplettende lezers en regelmatig verrassen zij ons met interessante zaken.
Zoals het volgende bericht dat wij ontvingen van een lezer (dank!).
Bijgaand een foto die mijn dochter van 9 op zondag 21 januari heeft genomen. De foto is genomen op het strand van Egmond aan Zee ter hoogte van de vuurtoren. Ze kwam hier pas een paar dagen geleden mee aan bij. "Papa!?, kijk deze foto". "Ik zag de hele tijd 2 lichtjes boven de zee en die hingen stil maar het was geen vliegtuig en het maakte ook geen geluid". "En opeens vloog het heeeeeeel hard weg naar rechts"(noordelijk).
Grappig is als je de foto vergroot het wel hartjes lijken. De foto is onbewerkt. Geen filters o.i.d.
Daarnaast heb ik eindelijk ook het mysterieuze geluid gehoord. De "sonic booms" van een paar geleden heb ik al meermaals gehoord en en vind al 4 jaar lang in september plaats. Nu hoor ik al vanaf vrijdag avond 10 uur het geluid van die hoorn. Om twee uur viel ik slaap dus weet niet hoe lang het door is gegaan.
Je hoort het gewoon in de huiskamer. Eerst dacht ik nog wat heeft de buurman de muziek hard aan maar die waren op vakantie. bedacht ik me al snel. Om de circa 10 minuten een raar geluid wat ik niet thuis kan brengen en ook niet iets waar je het echt goed mee kunt vergelijken. Een hoorn, een industrieel geluid van staal op staal wat over elkaar heen schuift o.i.d. en ik heb ook al een gelezen over walvissen. Die zitten hier wel af en toe in Egmond maar dat is het zeker niet. Het geluid komt uit "de ruimte". Ben er voor naar buiten gegaan. Vrijdag was het een heldere avond dus waren het ook geen misthoorns van schepen voor de kust. Daarnaast, de laatste tijd veel mist, woon al 18 jaar in Egmond, maar nooit misthoorns gehoord al die tijd.
Afgelopen nacht was het geluid er ook maar was het zachter en leek het verder weg. Het is absoluut in de atmosfeer.
Omdat ik de eerste 30 jaar van mijn leven bij schiphol heb gewoond (letterlijk onder de zwanenburgbaan in Zwanenburg) ken ik ook het geluid bij bepaalde weersomstandigheden als er een vliegtuig overvliegt dat je een minuut er na de lucht dicht hoort trekken. Heel hard gesuis vergelijkbaar op de eerste oude platen van de synthesizervirtuoos Jean Michel Jarre. Hier lijkt het geluid in de atmosfeer in de verste verte niet op.
Vorig jaar had ik een rare ervaring op het strand, ook in Egmond. Het was een mooie onbewolkte dag met een vaag laagje waardoor het net niet een mooie knalblauwe lucht was. Wij weten inmiddels wat dat betekent maar ik noem het woord niet. Opeens een heel luid gebulder van straalmotoren. Het leek op het geluid dan van een opstijgend vrachtvliegtuig, maar veel harder. Je zag ook iedereen naar de lucht kijken om een vliegtuig te zien maar het was niet te zien. Wel kwam er een schaduw van een vliegtuig over het strand. Je zag mensen ook duidelijk even verward rondkijken, zo van heh? hoe kan dit? Wat was dit? maar daarna ging men gewoon weer verder met waar ze mee bezig waren.
Ik stuur apart nog een filmpje en foto wat ik in maart/april heb gemaakt. Ook in Egmond. Ik weet niet of het wat is maar lijkt een planeet of lichtbron naast de zon. Het feit dat ik het film is op zich al veelzeggend want ik zie hier elke dag de lucht. Het was ook in een periode dat er heel erg veel Chemtrails waren.
Op het filmpje kun je duidelijk zien dat het geen lensflare is want die zie je op een andere plek door het beeld gaan.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform. Aan boord ook de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Als de lancering lukt, zal de auto járen in de ruimte zweven.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Eindelijk, klinkt het bij diegenen die er al maanden naar uitkijken: rond 19.30 uur vanavond wordt de krachtigste raket sinds maanraket Saturn V de ruimte ingestuurd. Aan boord: de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Hij houdt dus woord.
Je weet maar nooit wie binnen miljoenen jaren ons zonnestelsel met een bezoekje vereert. Al staat één ding vast: ze zullen in de baan om de zon plots een rood voertuig zien cirkelen. Een Tesla Roadster, met uitneembaar glazen dak. “De snelste wagen ter wereld in 2017, toch volgens de oprichter van Tesla, Elon Musk”, zullen ze op het internet (?) zien verschijnen wanneer ze op zoek gaan naar wat meer informatie. “In de ruimte gestuurd op 6 februari 2018.”
Vandaag dus. En wat al maanden als grap wordt bestempeld, blijkt nu toch waar. Elon Musk - ook oprichter van ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - postte gisteren nog een foto op sociale media: z’n auto zit vastgegespt boven in de Falcon Heavy-raket. Die staat intussen kaarsrecht in haar lanceerplatform Apollo 39A op Cape Canaveral in Florida. Klaar om rond 13.30 uur plaatselijke tijd de ruimte in te gaan, bij ons vanaf 19.30 uur. De plek ademt trouwens geschiedenis uit, want ook Neil Armstrong werd vanaf deze basis naar de maan gestuurd.
In april 2011 al maakte SpaceX bekend dat “the world’s most powerful rocket” een lanceerdatum had. Al kwam het bedrijf niet verder dan ‘eind 2013 of 2014’. Die datum bleek veel te optimistisch. De raket is pas in het tweede deel van december vorig jaar geassembleerd, waarna het gevaarte goed een maand geleden rechtop werd gezet. Tot de kortstondige shutdown van de Amerikaanse overheid roet in het eten gooide. Op 24 januari volgde eindelijk de eerste test waarbij alle 27 motoren tegelijkertijd ontbrand werden - een huzarenwerk.
En dus wordt vandaag ook een absoluut nagelbijtmoment. Na jaren uitstel en het feit dat het productieproces “veel moeilijker” bleek dan gedacht, volgt de maiden trip. Die voor Musk al geslaagd zou zijn “indien de Falcon Heavy ver genoeg van haar lanceerplatform afkomt, zodat het niet beschadigd raakt”. “Dat zou ik eerlijk gezegd zelf al als winst beschouwen”, liet hij eerder optekenen.
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Wat de Heavy nu zo speciaal maakt? In feite is hij het sterkere broertje van de Falcon 9 met nog eens twee extra stuwmotoren, die aan weerszijden zijn gemonteerd. De Falcon Heavy heeft dus in totaal 27 raketmotoren, drie keer zoveel als waar de Falcon 9 over beschikt. De Heavy wordt zo de krachtigste raket sinds de maanraket Saturn V, die sinds 1973 niet meer heeft gevlogen. En heeft meer dan tweemaal de vrachtcapaciteit van de krachtigste raket op de huidige markt (voor de specialisten: de Delta IV Heavy, goed voor 28,8 ton). Ook andere huidige operationele raketten komen lang niet in de buurt van de stuwkracht van de Falcon Heavy. De in 2011 door de NASA uit dienst genomen Space Shuttle bijvoorbeeld kon een vracht van 24.000 kilo in een lage baan om de Aarde brengen. Volgens SpaceX kan hun tuig 63.800 kilo aan. Op een reis naar Mars zou dat 16.800 kilo zijn.
AFPDe Falcon Heavy staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.
SpaceX zet trouwens de commerciële lanceermarkt op zijn kop, want doel van de Heavy: de komende twee jaar ruimtetoeristen naar de maan en Mars laten vliegen. De raket die de lucht in moet gaan, zal echter vooral gebruikt worden voor vrachtmissies waarbij satellieten in een baan om de Aarde worden gebracht, bijvoorbeeld de zwaardere exemplaren van de Amerikaanse overheid.
En oh ja, ook David Bowie pikt een graantje mee vanavond: bij de lancering zal zijn nummer ‘Space Oddity’ weerklinken. “Een fantastische publiciteitsstunt”, zeggen experts erover. Afwachten dus dat de raket niet ontploft.
photo_newsEen illustratie die toont hoe het oppervlak van een van de planeten er zou kunnen uitzien.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET“Op de zeven planeten rondom de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, die niet zo lang geleden ontdekt werden, is in theorie leven mogelijk.” Dat hebben wetenschappers - ook Belgische - die de verre wereld bestuderen, vandaag bekendgemaakt. De planeten, op veertig lichtjaar van ons, zijn gesteente-achtig en sommigen zouden ook water hebben.
“Alle op dit ogenblik bestudeerde signalen staan op groen”, zei astronome Amaury Triaud van de Universiteit van Birmingham die mee de maandag verschenen studies schreef. “Op dit moment wijst niets erop dat zij niet ‘levensvatbaar’ zijn”. Op 22 februari 2017 maakten astronomen bekend dat bij de weinig heldere en koude dwergster TRAPPIST-1 zeven planeten ontdekt werden. Qua grootte gelijken ze op de onze. Drie ervan, Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Sindsdien beschikken de astronomen over meer informatie met betrekking tot de ster, haar planeten en hun atmosfeer. De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
AFPDe planeten Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Vijf procent water
Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,1 procent van de massa van de Aarde bestaat uit water. Aangaande de kans dat de planeten leven zouden herbergen, zei Triaud tegenover het Franse persbureau AFP “in dit stadium niets te kunnen zeggen omdat ze erg van elkaar verschillen van de enige planeet waar leven is (de onze). “Maar ze hebben ook de geëigende kenmerken en vormen tot op vandaag de beste plaats buiten ons systeem om te zoeken naar signalen van levensvatbaarheid en van leven”.
“In termen van grootte, dichtheid en hoeveelheid straling van haar ster lijkt de vierde planeet het meest op de Aarde. Het lijkt erop dat het de meest gesteente-achtige planeet is, zelfs als de aanwezigheid van water niet is uitgesloten”, aldus een communiqué van het Franse CNRS dat deelnam aan het onderzoek. Het is gepubliceerd in de wetenschappelijke vakbladen Nature Astronomy en Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Er namen ook Belgische vorsers aan het pas gepubliceerde onderzoek deel zoals Julien De Wit van het prestigieuze Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alsmede een reeks wetenschappers van de Luikse universiteit Valérie Van Grootel, Michaël Gillon, Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez en Emmanuël Jehin van de Luikse universiteit.
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De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan, en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
Those who were excited about the Super Blue Blood Moon last week probably don’t live in Venice, where the pull of the Moon at its closest approach to Earth further dried up the canals already mysteriously on the edge of being bone dry. And, while the lunar eclipse that turned the Moon blood-red didn’t cause it, frustrated Siberians angry after a local river mysteriously turned the same color may swear at it anyways … at least until they get an explanation. What’s going on?
Better days in Venice
Let’s start with the canals. No matter what color they are, they’re the lifeblood of Venice, so any problems with them – and disappearance is definitely a big one – affect virtually everyone living in or visiting the beautiful city. Photographs taken last week (shown here and here) show gondolas resting in dry canal beds. Unfortunately, ‘dry’ doesn’t mean ‘empty’ as the pictures also reveal the garbage and debris that the waters normally hide.
A water-covered city knows its tidal calendar, so Venice was prepared for the low waters due to the Super Blue Blood Moon. This is also the third year in a row that droughts have contributed to extremely low – although not bone dry – water levels. However, experts are still mystified because the city continues to sink, which should make it prone to flooding – in Venice, that’s a good thing … or at least a better-than-no-water thing. Is the City of Canals destined to become the City of Great Places to Skateboard?
Will we ever see this again?
Meanwhile, a different problem is causing the residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen to avoid the Molchanka River because of what the media is calling … well, you can read it yourself:
“Experts say they so far cannot pinpoint the cause of what state news agency Itar-Tass called a ‘Biblical bombshell’.”
The “biblical bombshell” is a river that mysteriously and quickly turned red (more pictures here) and has not changed its hue in over a week. Tyumen is the home of many oil and gas companies, so the first inclination is to point fingers at them, not the bible. However, local officials doubted that explanation.
“Team of experts examining the area found no trace of sewage discharges. Extra water samples were taken. Laboratory results will be ready by the end of this week.”
That was on January 31st and no results have been released as of this writing, days after the “end of the week.” Meanwhile, the water isn’t moving, some residents say it’s getting redder and the Russian environmental watchdog group Rosprirodnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Use of Natural Resources) isn’t making anyone feel better with comments like this:
“We have never dealt with this before so we are waiting for the results of tests.”
Hey, at least they have an environmental watchdog group.
While many people today (including news agencies) are quick to use the terms “biblical,” apocalyptic” and “end times” (like the story today about birds falling from the sky), the real problem is that our waterways and oceans are being affected constantly by humans (yes, the moon influenced the tide in Venice but humans built the city in spite of it) and watchdog groups are becoming an endangered species.
Are songs like “Watching the River Flow” and “Blue Bayou” destined for extinction too?
It’s never good news when birds – or any other animals for that matter – fall from the sky … dead or alive. Get ready for some bad news from Draper, Utah, and Rome, Italy, where hundreds of dead starlings covered the ground recently. Pollution? End times? Something worse?
The Times reports that the dead starlings began appearing the weekend of January 27th at the Porta Pia gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Residents reported the ground being covered with corpses, blanketing walkways and roads with dead, and eventually flattened, birds (photos here). This is migration season, so Romans are used to seeing the sky and tree branches covered with starlings summering in the city and eating the local olives. Unfortunately, something has made life the pits for these birds this year. But what?
“We found they were in good health but suffering from the trauma and broken bones you would associate with collisions, either with each other or with cables.”
Francesca Manzia, head of a hospital run by the Italian League for the Protection of Birds (there’s an idea other cities should adopt), had no answer. Fatal bird collisions when there’s millions of them aloft can be caused by a predator, a loud noise or some other disturbance, leading to lemming-like processions of crashes into buildings, trees or each other. Is Rome no longer big enough for the starling migration? Could the birds have been stunned by an electromagnetic or other unseen forces?
If they’re looking for a different warm migration stopover, they need to scratch Draper, Utah off of the list. Located 20 miles south of Salt Lake City in the north central portion of the state, Draper is home to many Native Americans, a state prison and, on January 30th, thousands of dead starlings.
“As I was driving, these birds were just falling out of the sky. They were all on the ground right around here and on the roadway. They were just falling out of the sky like leaves.”
Resident Lacey Brown told a local news station that there were so many starlings on the ground, she stopped to help a man shovel them out of the road to avoid making a feather, bloody mess. Unfortunately, Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper police, saw more carnage.
“It was just one of those freak things where the birds were just flying along, crashed into the side of a large vehicle and boom.”
Draper Animal Services helped with the cleanup and found some starlings still alive, lending credence to the theory that these birds were also startled into a mass collision.
Again, what could have startled the starlings to their deaths? The beautiful twisting formations they fly in are called murmurations and bird experts are unable to explain how millions of birds can make tight turns so close together without colliding … which makes the rare times they do collide even more mystifying. Sadly, they may have more opportunities to study the phenomena since it seems to be happening more frequently.
Starlings are highly social birds and their survival depends on the ability to fly together. If their mysterious deaths are not a sign of the end times, can we at least see them as a sign that not living and working together is a bad thing?
Recent news revealing the Pentagon’s secret UFO program has reignited the general public’s curiosity about the possibility of extraterrestrials in our skies. There has always been a blurry line between the topic of UFOs and the realms of fantasy and science fiction. Skeptical UFO historian Martin Kottmeyer has documented how virtually every detail witnesses report about alien encounters can be found in earlier science fiction stories, or in legends and mythology.
It’s also a fact that our books, TV shows, and movies have used UFO reports for inspiration, which in turn has helped spread fantastic concepts of extraterrestrial visitors. A cultural feedback loop exists between the real and unreal. Let’s take a look at a few of the most powerful examples.
The Early Days
In the 1870s, Earth’s telescopes detected dark, linear features on Mars, which were interpreted by some as canals produced by a civilization older and more advanced than our own. This inspired one of the most influential of all science fiction novels, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
When Orson Welles (no relation) adapted The War of the Worlds in 1938 for CBS radio using a faux documentary style, the tale of an attack by Martian invaders was heard by thousands. Some of those listeners (but not as many as you might think) were persuaded the story was true and panicked. The reaction to the broadcast made headlines, and to capitalize on the sensation, Universal studios quickly recut their movie serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars into the feature-length Mars Attacks the World. It’s kinda-sorta the first UFO movie, produced to exploit the public’s interest in extraterrestrial visitors. Like the radio play, it also preyed on the flip side of hope — fear. If our rockets were beginning to reach into space, what if someone out there had a big head start?
In June of 1947, newspapers broke the story of how aviator Kenneth Arnold had spotted a formation of unknown disc-like aircraft moving at speeds beyond those of our fastest jets. The U.S. Air Force began an investigation into the sighting, and the explosion of flying saucer reports that followed it. By late 1949, the Air Force’s investigation, later known as Project Blue Book, determined that saucers were not a secret project by the U.S. itself, the Soviets, or anyone else. They tried to shut down the saucer fever, but science fiction had greased the skids. If these UFOs were real craft, they came from somewhere else, and that somewhere must be Mars or another planet.
Saucer reports dwindled, but radio and newspapers found that covering them made for hot filler material. In 1950, two best-selling books emerged that would shape the belief in UFOs and influence the films made about them.
Retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real debuted, and his key ideas would become canon: UFOs are ships from outer space, the U.S. government knows it, and there’s a big cover-up. Keyhoe reached some far-out conclusions, but he relied on the word of credible sources working in the government saucer investigation. However, there was another guy with a saucer story, a far more fantastic tale, and it became the biggest one of all time when rebranded as the Roswell UFO crash.
Frank Scully was a columnist for the show biz magazine Variety, where he first introduced his story which was later expanded into a book, Behind the Flying Saucers. Scully told how scientists revealed that a saucer had crashed in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. military recovered the disc, the alien technology, and the small deceased humanoid bodies found inside, then hid and denied everything. (Scully’s tale was exposed as a hoax in 1952, when his source, the “scientists” Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, were convicted as swindlers, but that’s another story.)
With the phenomenal success of the 1950 Keyhoe and Scully books, many people went from asking if flying saucers were real to accepting that they were. Hollywood was ready to capitalize on the saucer craze, but they needed more stories. They turned to science fiction for material.
John W. Campbell, Jr’s story “Who Goes There” from Astounding Science Fiction, August 1938, was adapted into the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. The first change was to make the spaceship in the story into a flying saucer,although it’s only as an indistinct shape through ice except for its tail fin. The Thing bears a resemblance to the premise of Frank Scully’s saucer book, the military mission to recover a crashed flying saucer, and it also gets in a few jabs at government denials. The extraterrestrial in the movie is truly alien, a throwback to Wells’ monstrous Martians, out to survive at the cost of human life.
The Day the Earth Stood Still,also released in 1951, was loosely based on Harry Bates’ story from the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, “Farewell to the Master.” Again the spaceship was swapped for a flying saucer, and it’s a major set piece, almost a co-star. As for the aliens, the giant Gort is as enigmatic as the ship. Klaatu seems human, benevolent, almost angelic, bringing a message of peace, love, and understanding – but carrying a stern warning that mankind will not be allowed to spread its warlike ways to the people of other planets. The Day the Earth Stood Still was not influenced by genuine saucer stories, but it became a tremendous influence on those that followed. George Adamski and his cult concocted the hoax of an angelic Klaatu-like visitor from Venus here to warn of the dangers of nuclear war, as chronicled in the 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed. Following Adamski’s fame, a legion of imitators dubbed “Contactees” surfaced with tales of meetings and flights with the Space Brothers. This kind of friendly visitor from the stars wasn’t good movie material until Stephen Spielberg revived the idea in the 1970s.
Invaders from Mars (April 1953) delivered the goods, an original story with a flying saucer full of aliens here for the business of abducting, controlling minds, and conquering. Due to its hasty production, it has the distinction of being the first UFO film in color, so we get to see the saucer, the green-skinned Martians, and their strange little tentacled, big-headed leader in all their glory. Invaders also depicted a number of elements that would come to be staples of later UFO tales — alien abductions and medical implants.
When The War of the Worlds finally made it to the movies, it was influenced by flying saucers as well, with the Martian war machines’ tripods eliminated, updated into sinister saucer-like aircraft.
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956) was the first try at a docudrama. It’s historically important for being the first film to be factually based on UFO cases, including real witnesses and saucer footage. Unfortunately, in striving so hard to be realistic, it did the unbelievable – it almost made saucers seem dull. Still, the ads and posters for UFO promised something far more sensational.
In 1961, after New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill observed a star-like object in the sky, they started having nightmares. Under hypnosis, an abduction story surfaced, one reminiscent of Invaders from Mars. The Hills story was portrayed in the 1975 TV movie The UFO Incident, which may have in turn inspired other abduction dreams and stories that followed.
Travis Walton’s alleged abduction near Snowflake Arizona came shortly after the broadcast of the Betty and Barney Hill TV movie. What makes Walton’s case noteworthy is that he appears to have been the first guy kicked off a flying saucer for fighting.
All the truly influential things happened in the first 20 years or so of flying saucers – both the sightings and in the movies. With rare exceptions, after 1980, films were either toying with the established memes or were just remakes, remixes, and rip-offs of what had come before.
The year 1977 for saucer buffs, at least in the cinema. George Lucas’ film Star Wars was more about reviving Flash Gordon-style fun than anything else, but it’s worth a passing mention, since it featured a Bigfoot co-piloting a flying saucer.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was inspired by real UFO cases, but copied and pasted bits of them together, adding a mothership-sized dose of Disneyesque melodrama, with a side order of Adamski’s message of the aliens’ love from above. Real-life UFO expert Dr. J. Alien Hynek served as a consultant on the film and made a cameo appearance during the finale.
Stephen Spielberg scuttled the idea of a direct sequel to CE3K and went for another story of cuddly aliens in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in 1982. Spielberg inspired many other friendly aliens, like those featured in Mork & Mindy, Starman, Cocoon, ALF, The Abyss, and others.
Hangar 18 (1980) can be seen as a marker in the UFO topic’s turn toward the dark side. It was (very loosely) based on Scully’s crashed aliens story and it also featured a sinister government conspiracy to cover it up. The huge advertising push for Hangar 18 helped prepare the public to swallow the retconned Roswell story that surfaced around the same time, bit it didn’t catch fire in the mainstream until September of 1989, when it featured on the NBC TV show, Unsolved Mysteries, as “Legend: Roswell Crash.”
For the Roswell conspiracy story to be true, there must be a massive cover-up, and a mythology sprang up to serve as the story’s super-villain, a secret government cabal known as MJ-12. The idea of benevolent ETs was again pushed aside, replaced with spooky tales of government treaties with aliens to allow abductions, cattle mutilations, and human-hybrid breeding programs at Area 51 and secret underground bases.
When Travis Walton’s abduction story was turned into a movie, 1993’s Fire in the Sky, Hollywood considered his 1950s-style aliens outdated. The producers insisted on a jazzed-up more horrific version of the aliens and abductions like those that became fashionable in the 1980s.
The X-Files (1993) television show came to define UFOs in the ’90s, but most viewers were unaware of the source of the stories. The alien content on the show was “ripped from the headlines,” but from tabloids and crackpot UFO magazines about those dark, dubious ’80s encounters. An early and enduring UFO conspiracy belief was that the truth about aliens would shock and panic the populace, but the public could adjust gradually to the idea as introduced through entertainment.
Independence Day (1996) incorporated a stew of lore, the Roswell incident, the government UFO cover-up, abductions, and more, with the fight against the aliens based at Area 51. Some imagined that Hollywood’s UFO movies and The X-Files were part of the acclimation program. To them, seeing an old story resurface on screen was “confirmation” that it was genuine.
Men In Black (1997) was also based on an old UFO legend via a little-known comic book. The MIB were first made famous in Gray Barker’s 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, and further embellished by John Keel. Thing is, the MIB were made up by Barker and his friends to exploit the paranoia of many UFO buffs who thought that the government was operating a “Silence Group” to cover up UFO reports.
In 2008, The History Channel brought us UFO Hunters, but had far better success with Ancient Aliens. It was based on the second- and third-hand notions popularized by Erich von Däniken, that extraterrestrials were the gods of myth, and that there is abundant alien evidence in archeological remains. The success of the show served to demonstrate that the public’s interest in UFOs and aliens remains strong. However, recent incidents that make for good evidence – or good entertainment – are quite rare. They literally had to dig up the past for story material.
The UFO concepts have become so familiar, they blend in, nestled almost unnoticed into the premises of hit movies such as The Transformers or Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers series. Recently, UFOs themselves as a central topic have made a comeback, both in the news and on the entertainment screen, with several movies, documentaries and TV shows in production. You can expect AMC’s 10-episode docudrama, Blue Book, starring Aidan Gillen as J. Allen Hynek, to continue the circle on TV screens soon.
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
ALIEN investigators have been independently contacted by two "experienced skywatchers" who claim to have seen an unusually slow-moving UFO last night on both sides of The Pond.
The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and records UFO and alien sightings across the globe, was today contacted by amateur astronomers in Ireland and the USA with reports about two separate sightings.
One witness, in Olancha California, whose name has not been released by MUFON, sent in a video of a bright object crossing the night sky which was captured by an "all-sky night camera."
In a report to MUFON, they ruled out it being a satellite or meteor.
The report said: "Our all-sky night camera caught this unusual bright object pass overhead, Highway 395 Inyo county, heading west over the Sierra Nevada.
"It was too late at night to be a satellite (plus satellites don't travel E to W) and too slow for a meteor.
It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
UFO witness
"An aircraft might be possible, but normally aircraft at night flying high are almost totally dark and invisible, this thing got near magnitude -6 at the high point, with multiple colors white, green, pink.
"Unlikely to be aircraft headlights, since it got brightest when it was nearly overhead, not when approaching, so would be looking right at the object's side when brightest.
"This is a rural area with no nearby airports. Was indoors at the time, so can't say if it made any sound or not. No loud sound."
The Republic of Ireland is eight hours ahead of California, but neither witness gave a time of their sighting, so it is impossible to tell which was first.
The second witness, who has also not been named, was in Westport, in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.
Their report said: "I'm an experienced sky watcher in the West of Ireland and know very well what aircraft look like.
"I live on a busy air corridor from the US to Europe.
"I also know what a satellite and space debris looks like.
"Tonight I saw a strobe-like flash in the sky to the north west from the corner of my eye and again several seconds later."
They said they locked onto it and counted 13 seconds between single white strobe like flashes.
They added: "It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
"It took over an hour to cross the sky and seemed to be at great altitude or in orbit."
The witness said they checked flight radar websites and several satellite tracking apps, which "revealed nothing."
They added: "I tried to capture a video but my phone wasn't up to the job. I watch the sky on a nightly basis and have seen loads of strange stuff which I could explain but this was very different from any thing I've seen."
MUFON is investigating both cases.
It cautions, however, that most suspected UFO sightings can be explained as natural phenomena or man-made aircraft.
"They were just falling out of the sky like leaves.”
Sgt Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department insists the incident was a freak accident.
He said: “It’s one of the rarest things I’ve ever heard of.”
Popular conspiracy YouTube Channel SecureTeam10 says the mass death of the birds was likely done by an alien attack.
In a video, the narrator of the channel says: “Last year, and especially the year before, we were having these just mass events of these birds just falling from the sky all over the world.
“Regardless of what you think, if there’s a supernatural cause – many people have said that there was some sort of cloaked object in the sky that they maybe flew into – but in many of these instances in the past, it was found that none of these birds suffered any blunt trauma.
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Some suspect it was due to a UFO attack
“They hadn’t hit anything in the sky.
“The trauma we’re talking about is different from them hitting the ground because many of the birds that landed in bushes and things like that had no trauma whatsoever.”
Sgt Carpenter moved to calm any fears that an alien invasion was imminent.
He said: “No aliens, no cloaking device.
“No poison, it was just one of those freak things where the birds were just flying along, crashed into the side of a large vehicle and boom."
Luis Elizondo led the US Department of Defense Advance Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which ran from 2007 to 2012 at a cost of £16 million.
In October, after resigning from the department to join a UFO research group he was behind the release of two videos caught on US Navy pilot radar cameras.
He pointed out that the “inexplicable craft” moved in ways which defied physics.
One of the military radar videos was filmed off the coast of San Diego in November 2004 by US Navy pilots who described seeing several while UFOs shaped like the sweet Tic-Tacs.
The case became known as the Nimitz UFO incident.
However, the video has since been branded a wrongly identified plane by several skeptics – prompting Mr Elizondo to reveal there is more to come, including video recordings of encounters with "unknown technology that is far more advanced than anything in the US military."
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Luis Elizondo says more shock UFO footage will be released from the US Government.
When he tells you, he's seen something go from a near hover or something over the water going 450 knots and all of the sudden it takes off over the horizon in two seconds, you'd better believe he is telling you something he has seen.
Luis Elizondo
Speaking about his former role, he said: "It was in this position that I learned the phenomena is indeed real."
Speaking to Las Vegas Now, Mr Elizondo said the first releases were official.
He said: "The Department of Defense made the decision to release them.
"Released at the unclassified level through the DOD, approved the release for exactly the reason why the request was made. So, it was completely on the up and up."
He hit back at those who claimed they showed planes.
He added: "When he tells you, he's seen something go from a near hover or something over the water going 450 knots and all of the sudden it takes off over the horizon in two seconds, you'd better believe he is telling you something he has seen.
"And by the way that's backed up by three other individuals that were also on that same flight and were backed up by three other individuals that were on the same flight in two other aircraft and then layered by radar operators.
"It frustrates me when someone says, oh, that's an IR glare or IR fuzz, you know, that's atmospheric conditions.
"You cannot lock radar onto, I'm sorry, it's not atmospheric or IR fuzz."
Investigators are said to have interviewed 18 witnesses to the Tic-Tac case, all declaring it "an unknown."
Mr Elizondo added: "I think even more compelling, if this was a Tic-Tac we saw in 2004, that would have been extremely advanced technology and capabilities for 2004.
"I think everyone agrees it is considered extremely exotic technology today, let alone 2004 but these observations match with previous observations going well before that.
"The Nimitz is an example of one case, one of many that we looked at.
"When it continues to happen as a pattern, that's when we get to the point where we're increasingly concerned, because it is not an anomaly, now it's a trend."
He said about 24 other UFO videos are being declassified for release to the public in the coming months.
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DNA Results Show The Elongated Paracas Skulls Are Not Native American
DNA Results Show The Elongated Paracas Skulls Are Not Native American
“The Paracas were an incredibly complex ethnic mix of people… There are a number of different haplogroups that were found in the DNA tests of the Paracas elongated skulls and these haplogroups, which is your genetic ancestry, they don’t fit in with the history of Peru in any shape or form…”
According to a group of experts dealing with the Paracas skull phenomenon, recent DNA results have revealed that the elongated skulls of Paracas, Peru, are not native to the region.
During the 1920’s, a Peruvian archaeologist by the name Julio Tello discovered a series of tombs in Paracas Peru. The contents of the tomb left experts stumped as countless elongated skulls were recovered from the tombs. Since then, more elongated skulls have been found in the region, raising numerous questions about these mysterious people.
For more than five years have experts like Brien Foerster tried solving the mystery behind the elongated skulls. While much progress has been made in understanding them, the journey has been very difficult.
The analysis of this elongated skull, which has reddish hair, shows that it has a mitochondrial haplogroup U2e, which may signify it originated somewhere in the Caucasus… far from Paracas.
After countless studies and research, we have begun finding out more about these mystery skulls. Some DNA analysis has shown that the elongation present on the Paracas skulls was not the result of artificial cranial deformation but by genetics. Some of the Paracas Skulls have a cranial volume which is up to 25% larger and 60% percent heavier than conventional human skulls. While ‘head binding’ can alter the shape of the skull, it cannot alter its volume.
At the end of last week, a Symposium was held in Los Angeles where experts announced new results of testing performed on the elongated Skulls.
The main speakers of the event were L.A. Marzulli and Brien Foerster.
As reported by Megalith Marvels, Foerster, author of several books on the subject and a recognized expert of the Paracas Skulls, published the following information on the aforementioned DNA results.
“The DNA results actually were incredibly complicated… It’s going to take me some time to actually figure out what the results mean. What it does show for sure is that the Paracas elongated skull people were not 100% Native American. They were a mix or even you could say, in some ways, a hybrid of different people.”
More question than answers…
Foerster explains that “Their blood types are very complicated as well, they should be blood type “O” if they’re 100% Native American and that’s not the case. We are likely looking at a sub-species of humanity as regards to the Paracas… Seems to be a lot of DNA evidence from extreme eastern Europe and extreme western Asia. More specifically I’m talking about the area in between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea where ancient elongated skull people lived I think about 3000 years ago.”
What Makes Jupiter's Great Spot Red? It's Still a Mystery
What Makes Jupiter's Great Spot Red? It's Still a Mystery
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
A close-up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno probe, and color-enhanced by citizen scientist Jason Major.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has swirled for hundreds of years, but the source of its distinctive color remains a mystery. New laboratory experiments are working to produce that color — and others found in Jupiter's stormy cloud tops — here on Earth, and researchers have found that radiation and temperature play key roles in changing the color of some of the transparent material found in the clouds.
A primary suspect in coloring Jupiter's clouds is ammonium hydrosulfide, a type of salt. Formed by ionized ammonium and bisulfide, it quickly decomposes at typical atmospheric conditions and temperatures on Earth, making it challenging to investigate its properties.
"Models predict that ammonium hydrosulfide is the third most abundant cloud component [on Jupiter], behind ammonia and water," Mark Loeffler, an astrochemist at Northern Arizona University, told Space.com by email. Loeffler worked with fellow chemist Reggie Hudson, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, to attempt to re-create the color of Jupiter's clouds in the laboratory. [Jupiter's Great Red Spot: An Iconic Monster Storm in Pictures]
The scientists have run about 200 experiments on ammonium hydrosulfide in an attempt to match the color of the Great Red Spot. After hitting the salt with simulated cosmic rays, they compared them to observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
"This work took a bit because there is not much published on this compound, and there appeared to be a lot going on in the sample," Loeffler said.
The Great Red Spot's great mystery
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, imaged by the Voyager 1 probe in 1979.
Credit: NASA
With winds as high as 400 mph (644 km/h), Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been brewing for at least 150 years. Astronomers in the 1600s identified a blurry feature on Jupiter that may have been the spot, but scientists aren't certain that it was the same storm. In recent years, the storm has shrunk to the width of a single Earth. Previously, it was estimated to be three Earths wide. At the same time, observations showed that the color of the spot has been changing, suggesting that its composition may also be shifting.
Though ammonium hydrosulfide is present in Jupiter's atmosphere, Loeffler said, it doesn't exist as a gas. Instead, it must be condensed as grains of salt that are mixed with or coat another material.
By itself, ammonium hydrosulfide is transparent and colorless. But in Jupiter's clouds, the salt doesn't sit in isolation. Cosmic rays, the high-energy radiation traveling through space, bombard the planet and its clouds. These rays, which come from outside the solar system and even outside the Milky Way galaxy, can change the color of many salts, as previous experiments have revealed.
To determine how ammonium hydrosulfide reacted to radiation, Loeffler and Hudson first had to cool the sample holder to temperatures where the salt would remain stable as a solid. Then, they sprayed ionized ammonia and hydrogen sulfide into the sample holder, where the two components reacted to produce the salt. Next, the researchers used a particle accelerator to bombard the sample holder with protons to represent cosmic rays impacting the cloud. Throughout the process, the researchers monitored the ice and collected images in both visible and ultraviolet light. Most of the nearly 200 iterations of that experiment took what Loeffler called "a long day," though some ran overnight.
Loeffler summed up the process in a single word: "fun."
The researchers found that varying the temperature of the "cosmic rays" affected the color of the salt. At low temperatures of minus 263 degrees Celsius (minus 505 degrees Fahrenheit) and minus 223 degrees C (minus 370 degrees F), the salts became orange or reddish orange. At higher temperatures of minus 153 degrees C (minus 244 degrees F) and minus 113 degrees C (minus 172 degrees F), the salts turned green. The researchers attributed that greenish tint to sulfur. Only a small fraction of sulfur has been identified in the clouds, however, at smaller ratios than those found in the salts produced in the lab.
Samples of ammonium hydrosulfide hit by simulated cosmic rays vary in color from red to green. From leftTop left,: S sample at 10 Kelvin; top right, sample at 50 Kelvin; bottom left, sample at 120 Kelvin; bottom right, sample at 160 Kelvin.
Credit: Mark Loeffler/Cosmic Ice Laboratory, NASA GSFC
That provides an interesting challenge, Loeffler said, because the Great Red Spot is thought to have a temperature closer to those that produce the greener salts, though the clouds clearly are red.
"It would be nice if the red colors we see at low temperatures could be [responsible for] the Great Red Spot, but those are probably too cold," Loeffler said.
So what role does ammonium hydrosulfide play in coloring Jupiter's legendary storm? The researchers still aren't certain. The visible color of the ammonium hydrosulfide (whether red or green or something in between) is determined by the wavelength of light that the compound emits, but the full profile of light coming from the compound includes wavelengths beyond just that visible range.
So the researchers are comparing that full wavelength profile of ammonium hydrosulfide at different temperatures and doses with the full profile of light coming from Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Although the ammonium-hydrosulfide ice at low doses and low temperatures makes a "reasonable match" to what has been observed on the planet at some wavelengths, it doesn't match all the wavelengths scientists have seen in Jupiter's storms. Ices irradiated at higher temperatures make a better overall match, but the wavelengths that create the greenish color are obviously a mismatch with what Hubble has seen.
"After comparison with this new low-temperature data, it seems evident that the best fit of a single [ammonium sulfide] ice is one that has been irradiated and warmed up to higher temperatures so as to remove the [sulfur] radical," the researchers said.
Pointing to a 2016 study he worked on, Loeffler said warming the green samples to temperatures matching those found in the cloud layer of clear, unirradiated ammonium sulfide gets rid of the unattached sulfur ions and the greenish color. That study, along with another paper from 1976, focused on only a single temperature when the sample was irradiated. Along with the new research, which will appear in the March 1 issue of the journal Icarus, these are the only papers that report the results of laboratory work on ammonium hydrosulfide, according to the authors of the new study.
That's because the instability of the salt makes it a challenge to work with, Loeffler said.
"Also, the material smells bad — think rotten eggs and cleaning solution," he said. "For safety, all the excess material has to be vented out of the room, so no one breathes it."
Even worse, he said, the samples destroy lab components. "It really is not the best material to work with," Loeffler said.
But that doesn't deter the scientists. Now that they've studied how ammonium hydrosulfide changes over a range of doses and temperatures, the pair plans to include other compounds in their experiments that could contribute to the coloring of the Great Red Spot.
Is this proof aliens are watching us? UFO crosses paths with Epsilon 3 rocket launch travelling at 25,000mph
Is this proof aliens are watching us? UFO crosses paths with Epsilon 3 rocket launch travelling at 25,000mph
Conspiracy theorists believe a UFO overshadowed the launch of the Japanese rocket
A £255million satellite that will monitor the Earth's atmosphere has successfully launched into space.
But conspiracy theorists believe something overshadowed the 'perfect' launch on Kyushu Island in Japan.
They claim an unknown 'mysterious craft' passed closely by the rocket as it travelled at 25,000mph - and some think it could be aliens monitoring our technological advances.
Thousands of people gathered to watch Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch its Epsilon 3 rocket at 6.06am on January 18.
Video shows that shortly after the craft engaged its secondary boosters a UFO , allegedly flying at the same altitude as the rocket, appeared.
The object was made up of three white lights and a red blinking beacon that appear to swoop close to the rocket.
Thousands of people gathered to watch Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch its Epsilon 3 rocket(Image: UFO Today)
Many viewers have pointed out that the lights look like they belong to a plane.
But conspiracy theorists insist a no-fly zone was in place during the launch.
UFO Today posted footage of the launch on its YouTube page.7
Conspiracy theorists believe something overshadowed the 'perfect' launch on Kyushu Island(Image: UFO Today)
The caption read: "Many will say this is an airplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch.
"The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
"It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit around earth. What was this object?"
A 'mysterious craft' passed close to the rocket as it travelled at 25,000mph(Image: UFO Today)
But not everyone was convinced the lights were extra-terrestrial in origin.
One viewer wrote: "It's got an FAA light blinking...so....it's human made."
ASTRONAUT LEROY CHIAO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 2005 UFO SIGHTING
ASTRONAUT LEROY CHIAO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 2005 UFO SIGHTING
In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was commander of the International Space Station for six and a half months. During a spacewalk with cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, the two were installing navigation antennas. They were 230 miles above Earth, traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour, when something unusual caught Chiao’s eye.
“I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line and it was almost like an upside-down check mark, and I saw them fly by and thought it was awfully strange,” Chiao told The Huffington Post.
Chiao’s fellow spacewalker, Sharipov, hadn’t seen the lights because he was facing the opposite direction.
This experience, recreated in the above video (and still image below), launches “NASA’s Unexplained Files,” one of several programs presented as part of Science Channel’s week-long “Are We Alone?” series, beginning March 2.
A down-to-Earth explanation is offered for Chiao’s sighting: the bright lights of a fishing boat hundreds of miles below him. But is that the only possible interpretation of what the astronaut saw?
It’s easy for many to have no doubt that he witnessed an intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. But Chiao doesn’t believe there’s ever been any tangible evidence that someone else is visiting Earth or has done so in the past.
“I’m skeptical of claims that we’ve been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don’t rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind and I do believe there’s other life in the universe.
“If there is life out there that’s so much more advanced than we are and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they’re able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don’t they just come and show themselves?”
“NASA’s Unexplained Files” episodes highlight possible out-of-this world UFOs either seen or photographed by astronauts over many years.
An alleged photographic piece of UFO evidence occurred on the 1972 Apollo 16 moon mission when astronauts returned to Earth with several film cannisters, one of which showed something intriguing above the lunar surface — something that looks very much like a “classic” flying saucer.
Throughout the week, “Are We Alone?” targets both believers and skeptics with tantalizing presentations of:
“NASA’s Unexplained Files” — exploring unusual discoveries and possible UFO sightings.“Close Encounters” — focusing on unsolved UFO stories and reports from around the world.
“Alien Planet Earths” — zeroing in on the ongoing, exciting search for Earth’s twin planets that may harbor life.
“Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman” — seeking answers to the question “Is God An Alien Concept?”
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Astronaut Leroy Chiao contacted this writer to clarify the fishing boat theory about what he saw in 2005: “One minor point is that it wasn’t just one fishing boat, but a line of them strung out along the South American coast. That’s why it looked like five lights from the ISS.”
“Are We Alone?” week premieres on the Science Channel, Sunday, March 2 at 10:00 p.m. Check your local listings.
Map are among the oldest firms of human communication, far from purely scientific instruments, they are almost always bound with history, mythology, and religion. The earliest maps were created long before first alphabets were invented. People have always been fascinated by maps and their power to represent –and misrepresent – our world. From prehistoric rock carvings to the latest computer-generated imagery, mapmakers have used cartography to chart every aspect of the world – and to alter our perception of it.
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity (6th to 5th centuries BCE) but is there anything that could pulverise that age limit? What if the world’s oldest map is at least ten times older than that putative onset of abstract thought. How about a map that is anywhere from half a million to one million years old?
Amateur archeologist David King has been researching one site at the head of the Colne Valley in England, within two decades, he has collected over 10,000 paleolithic artefacts in the area.
The map in question seems to be engraved on a 4.5-inch tall pebble. It takes only a small leap of the imagination to recognise the coastlines of Europe in the shapes incised into the stone. But matching the mapwork with the object’s supposed age – up to a million years, Mr. King contends – is several bridges too far for current science. And for most scientists.
Mr. King has had the map stone for over a decade, but in all those years was unable to have ‘official’ palaeontologists concede that it might be a man-made artefact.In fact, Mr. King contends, the stone surface presents “an accurate,detailed and concise map of the coastlines,lakes and river systems from north Europe all the way down to South Africa.”
1 – World’s oldest urban landscape
An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show a hunter-gatherer campsite.
The world’s first piece of landscape art may have been discovered in Spain, depicting what appears to be a Stone Age hunter-gatherer campsite 13,800 years ago. Landscapes and images of everyday life were “scarcely represented” in Paleolithic art, with those featuring huts and campsites particularly rare.The slab has seven engraved semi-circular motifs on with internal lines arranged in two rows. Analysis of motifs and composition together with archaeological records led authors to come to the conclusion it depicts a campsite. Scientists suggest it may be be the earliest image of human habitation ever discovered.
The Moli del Salt slab is now housed in the Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain.
2 – Forma Urbis Romae
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Forma Urbis Romae, or Severan Marble Plan of Rome is enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 x 13 meters (ca. 60 x 43 feet). It was carved between 203-211 CE and covered an entire wall inside the Templum Pacis in Rome. It depicted the groundplan of every architectural feature in the ancient city, from large public monuments to small shops, rooms, and even staircases. For more information about the map itself. It is composed of 150 marble tiles built to a scale of 1 to 240. The Forma Urbis Romae was ripped down—most likely to be used to make lime cement. Today, only 10 percent of the original map remains. The first pieces were rediscovered in 1562. A section recently discovered in Palazzo Maffei Marescotti allowed researchers to connect three chunks of the ancient puzzle. The newfound piece has shed new light on the present-day ghetto, an area which once dominated by the Circus Flaminius.
3 – Danish map stones
Image Credit: Bornholms Museum/Skalk Magazine
A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists.
The researchers think the inscribed stones are symbolic maps of local landscapes, and were perhaps used in rituals by Stone Age farmers who hoped to magically influence the sun and the fertility of their farmlands.
4 – Turin Papyrus
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The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map that is generally considered to be the oldest surviving topographical and geological map of the ancient world – there are some older maps from outside Egypt, thought these have been described as rather crude, and more abstract in comparison with the Turin Papyrus Map. The Turin Papyrus Map is believed to have been made during the reign of Ramesses IV, around the middle of the 12th century BC. Investigations have shown that the map was made by Amennakhte, son of Ipuy, who bore the title ‘Scribe of the Tomb’.The map is believed to have been prepared for one of the quarrying expeditions sent by the pharaoh to Wadi Hammamat for the quarrying of bekhen-stone, a greyish-green type of stone highly prized by the ancient Egyptians. The purpose of its creation, however, is less clear.
5 – Piri Reis map
The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.
6 – A star map carved into Japan’s Kitora Tomb
A star map carved into Japan’s Kitora Tomb may be the world’s oldest astronomic chart. 68 constellations with gold leaf stars cloaks the ceiling. Three circles track the movement of celestial bodies—including the Sun. The pole star dominates the center. The detailed map depicts the horizon, equator, and star courses. This is not the first depiction of the night sky. Lascaux Cave contains a 17,300-year-old image of the subject. However, it lacks astronomical observations.
Researchers determined that the sky as depicted in the Kitora Tomb chart was seen from China, from locations such as modern-day Xi’an and Luoyang.
7 – Oldest Map of New York
Image Source: Daniel Crouch Rare Books
The map, which was created by a Genoese cartographer named Vesconte Maggiolo in 1531, is one of the first depictions of America’s eastern seaboard and is now worth $10 million. It’s also the first (extant) map, ever, to show New York harbor.
Image Source: Daniel Crouch Rare Books
The ancient chart even follows Magellan’s circumnavigation, making it a true world map. 6.7 feet wide and 3 feet tall, the map is made of nearly indestructible goatskin.
8 – Buache Map
The Buache Map is an 18th century map commonly claimed to accurately depict the continent of Antarctica before it was buried by ice. By extension, it has been claimed that this map is evidence that an ancient civilization had mapped Antarctica when it was free from ice, and that it was based on this source that the Buache Map was drawn. However, t ere are arguments against this interpretation of the Buache Map, and the claim that the continent of Antarctica was known to a highly advanced ancient civilization long before it was ‘re-discovered’ by modern man in the early part of the 19th century.
Photo credit: Philippe Buache
Christopher Columbus may have consulted a mysterious map from 1491 before setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean one year later. Made by Florence-based cartographer Henricus Martellus, the map synthesizes Claudius Ptolemy’s observations about the circumference of the world with Marco Polo’s observations and Portuguese Africa explorations. The map does not show the Americas. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas he believed he had reached Japan, which is where Martellus’s map had him located.
Analysis revealed hidden messages on the map. The secret notes contain place names and 60 written passages. The 6-by-4-foot map was photographed under 12 light frequencies—including several beyond human visibility. Latin descriptions reveal facts about far-flung peoples like the “Balor” of Northern Asia who live without wine or wheat and subsist on deer meat. The detail of southern Africa is extremely accurate, suggesting it was derived from native sources rather than Europeans.
9 – Ancient Babylonian Conservative Map
The Babylonian Map of the World is a dramatic labeled depiction of the known world from the perspective of Babylonia. The map is incised on a clay tablet, showing Babylon somewhat to the north of its center; the clay tablet is damaged, and also contains a section of cuneiform text.
It is usually dated to the 5th century BC. It was discovered at Sippar, southern Iraq, 60 miles (97 km) north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates River, and published in 1899. The clay tablet resides at the British Museum. It is conjectured that the island locations, though possibly referring to real areas, may also represent a mythological interpretation of the world.
The map depicts the world as a disc surrounded by water. Seven mythical islands lie beyond and connect the earth to the heavens. Cuneiform text explains the mysterious beasts and heroes that inhabit these islands. Seven dots represent seven cities of the ancient world. A “Great Wall” symbolizes winter. The back of the tablet describes mythic beasts that inhabit the heavenly ocean. Experts believe these are constellations.
10 – Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is unique in Britain’s heritage; an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, it records how 13th-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms.
The map bears the name of its author, ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Superimposed on to the continents are drawings of the history of humankind and the marvels of the natural world. These 500 or so drawings include of around 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
HE WAS HUNTING A TIGER WHEN HE FOUND THIS STRANGE CAVE, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT’S INSIDE…
HE WAS HUNTING A TIGER WHEN HE FOUND THIS STRANGE CAVE, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT’S INSIDE…
In April of 1819, British officer John Smith was pursuing a tiger through the jungle outside of Mumbai when he stumbled upon a strange cave entrance hidden in the brush.
Something seemed oddly deliberate about the cave entrance and so he decided to abandon his hunt to investigate further. He soon discovered what appeared to be ornate carvings in the rock. Little did he know that was just the beginning.
In 1819, British officer John Smith was hunting a tiger in the forest outside of Mumbai when he stumbled across a strange cave.
Inside were what appeared to be man-made carvings. But that was just the beginning.
Further investigation revealed an entire system of shrines and monuments carved directly into the rock.
And 30 different caves.
Experts believe that they were constructed around 200 BCE as a retreat for Buddhist monks during the terrible monsoon season.
Each of the caves is unique, with its own intricately designed entrances and interiors.
The caves were largely abandoned by the 7th century, but remained a sacred place for locals.
Many of the carvings depict the life of Buddha and his many incarnations.
There are also a large number of paintings, many of which are remarkably well-preserved.
It’s amazing how much color and detail still remains after all those years.
One of the more popular theories surrounding the caves is that they were built to align with the solstices and other cosmological events.
Caves 19 and 26 do actually align perfectly with the winter and summer solstices, respectively.
On their designated days, the sun shines straight through holes in their roofs, illuminating the religious displays within.
Even after centuries, the interiors are still absolutely stunning.
The effort and precision required to build these elaborate structures is truly mind-boggling.
Especially considering they had to do it with comparatively limited tools.
We may never know exactly how they managed to build these incredible caves.
Simply amazing. It really makes you wonder what other secrets may still be hiding out there, waiting to be discovered by adventurous souls!
For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Find Planets In Another Galaxy
For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Find Planets In Another Galaxy
Astrophysicists have discovered a group of planets in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away Getty
For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a set of planets in a galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way. Until now, scientists had never found evidence of planets existing outside the Milky Way Galaxy. The newly-found set of planets are located in a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years away.
Eureka! Astrophysicists at the University of Oklahoma have discovered the first population of planets outside of our galaxy.
The groundbreaking discovery was made possible thanks to a revolutionary technique called microlensing, which allowed astrophysicists to spot celestial objects in galaxies that are located too far away to be observed directly.
Prior to this discovery, astronomers had no evidence of alien planets outside the Milky Way Galaxy.
Astrophysicists note that this discovery indicates that there are around 2,000 planets ranging in size from the moon to Jupiter mass per main-sequence star. As of January 2018, there are more than 3,500 confirmed planets outside of our solar system.
Prior to this finding, researchers had never found evidence of planets existing in other galaxies. This is because detecting alien planets is hard due to vast distances involved. In fact, it’s not easy to find planets even within the milky way. The farthest planets discovered inside the Milky Way are SWEEPS-04 and SWEEPS-11, two alien worlds located about 27,000 light-years from Earth, which is curiously only about a quarter of the width of the Milky Way.
By using microlensing techniques, which take advantage of distortions of light from a background source much like a magnifying glass to see distant objects, astronomers spotted a family of planets. Massive objects like black holes for example literally curve the fabric of space-time so much that it bends any light passing by it.
“We are very excited about this discovery. This is the first time anyone has discovered planets outside our galaxy,” Xinyu Dai, professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, OU College of Arts and Sciences.
“These small planets are the best candidate for the signature we observed in this study using the microlensing technique. We analyzed the high frequency of the signature by modeling the data to determine the mass.”
Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image. Credit: University of Oklahoma
Cool science
Until now, microlensing techniques were only used to detect alien worlds inside the Milky Way Galaxy.
“This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be. This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light-years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario,” said OU postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras.
“However, we are able to study them, unveil their presence and even have an idea of their masses. This is very cool science.”
Researchers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to make the discovery.
Life On Titan? Scientists Find Signs That Life “Breathes” Cyanide On Saturn’s Moon
Life On Titan? Scientists Find Signs That Life “Breathes” Cyanide On Saturn’s Moon
Caves and Sinkholes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan
Don’t get too excited but… we may just have found the necessary conditions for alien life to exist on Saturn’s moon Titan.
Scientists at NASA have recently confirmed the existence of vinyl cyanide in Titan’s atmosphere. Vinyl cyanide is an organic compound which may potentially provide the cellular membranes for microbial life to form in Titan’s vast methane oceans reports Phys.org.
Titan: Gigantic Moon or Dwarf Planet?
If true, it could prove that life can flourish without the ubiquitous H2O.
Here on Earth, cell membranes are composed of phospholipids: molecular chains with phosphorus-oxygen heads and carbon-chain tails that join together to form a flexible membrane in water.
Alternative form of life?
If Methane-based life should exist in the solar system, it would need an alternative to Earth’s phospholipid-based existence and would open up a much wider range of planets and moons to the possibility of extraterrestrial life—and one such possible alternative is vinyl cyanide.
So, how do we know there’s vinyl cyanide on Titan?
Diagram of the internal structure of Titan according to the fully differentiated dense-ocean model.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The Cassini spacecraft was one of the first to suggest there might by vinyl cyanide on Titan after its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) picked it up as the spacecraft was orbiting Saturn. However, to confirm vinyl cyanide was really there, scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the desert of Chile.
Maureen Palmer, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of an article describing the research in Science Advances, collected data from the ALMA and verified the presence of vinyl cyanide in the atmosphere of Titan, at altitudes above 200 kilometers, with its highest concentrations in areas above the south pole of Titan.
Speaking about the discovery Palmer, said: “If membranes can be made in a lab with a simulation of Titan’s ocean conditions, it would make us more optimistic about them really forming on Titan.”
Artist’s impression of Saturn View from Titan / iasos.com
She adds Titan is “an interesting chemical laboratory to study the boundaries of possible biochemistry for creating life”.
Titan is home to freezing temperatures which reach a staggering minus 179 degrees Celsius. In these low temperatures organic molecules in the atmosphere form droplets that rain down to fill methane lakes in a weather cycle similar to that of Earth’s water cycle. There, they could potentially create simple, microscopic life forms.
Palmer and her colleagues demonstrated that there is enough vinyl cyanide in Ligeia Mare, Titan’s northern lake, to form about 10 million cells per cubic centimeter, which is roughly 10 times more than the bacteria in Earth’s coastal oceans.
However, we still have to prove Vinyl cyanide can produce life, but an exciting study by Cornell University researchers that was also published in Science Advances made it an intriguing prospect.
Since 2006, levels of heat-trapping methane in Earth’s atmosphere have risen sharply. A new study settles a disagreement about the source.
The video above – released in January 2018 – is based on data from NASA satellites and shows global patterns and cycles of biomass burning. According to NASA, emissions from both wildfires and prescribed burning turned out to be a key in solving the puzzle of the sharp increase in methane in Earth’s atmosphere in recent years. John Worden of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the new analysis of satellite and ground-based data, with the goal of more accurately pinpointing the sources of methane.
The study is published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.
Methane is a greenhouse gas. It absorbs the sun’s heat and helps warm Earth’s atmosphere. The amount of methane in Earth’s air has sharply increased since 2006, and scientists want to understand why. NASA explained that various teams of scientists have had different explanations for the puzzling increase in methane:
Some teams have published evidence showing that emissions from biogenic [living] sources is driving the increase. Wetlands, ruminants, and rice paddies — all home to methane-producing microbes — are some of the major sources of biogenic methane.
Other teams have argued that a simultaneous increase in atmospheric ethane, a key component of natural gas, implies that fossil fuels are the culprit. Extracting and transporting fossil fuels add both ethane and methane to the atmosphere via leaks in wells, pipes, and other infrastructure.
Worden’s new analysis suggests that both fossil fuels and biogenic sources (wetlands and agriculture) are the primary drivers of the increase.
The key to this new understanding by Worden and team was a new calculation of the role played by emissions from global biomass burning.NASA explained:
Worden’s team calculated that fossil fuels have contributed about 12 to 19 teragrams of methane to the atmosphere each year since 2006. They found biogenic sources contributed 12 to 16 teragrams per year. At the same time, emissions from biomass burning — wildfires and prescribed burning — decreased by 4 to 5 teragrams per year.
The key to pinpointing these numbers was the calculation of a new estimate of emissions from biomass burning.
In the past, researchers relied on ‘bottom up” estimates of methane emissions based on output from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED), a model that estimates emissions based on satellite observations of burnt area, vegetation type, and other factors.
Worden’s group supplemented the GFED estimates by incorporating satellite measurements of methan
m the Measurements of Pollutants in the Troposphere (MOPITT) sensor on the Terra satellite and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
e and carbon monoxide actually in the atmosphere. The “top-down” observations came fro(TES) sensor on Aura.
Because methane is a powerful, heat-trapping greenhouse gas, scientists want to understand exactly why it’s been increasing in Earth’s atmosphere since 2006.
The video at the top of this article – based on data from GFED – shows land fires burning around the world between 2000 and 2015. The data show that the area burned each year decreased by about 12 percent between the early 2000s and the more recent period of 2007 to 2014.
The logical assumption would have been that methane emissions from fires would decrease by roughly the same percentage as the change in burned area. But, NASA said, that’s not what happened. Instead:
… the observations from TES and MOPITT made clear that the decrease in methane emissions was almost twice as much as that assumption would suggest.
Armed with this new understanding, Worden’s team was able to point with confidence both to fossil fuels and to biogenic sources (wetlands and agriculture) as primary drivers of the methane increase since 2006. Worden commented:
A fun thing about this study was combining all this different evidence to piece this puzzle together.
John Worden of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Bottom line: Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. A new study lets scientists understand with better precision the sources of the increase in methane in Earth’s air since 2006.
NASACommandant Alexander Misurkin en vluchtingenieur Anton Shkaplerov.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETTwee kosmonauten die in het internationaal ruimtestation ISS verblijven, hebben de langste Russische ruimtewandeling ooit gemaakt. Dat gebeurde eigenlijk per ongeluk, omdat er problemen waren bij het vervangen van de elektronicadoos van een communicatieantenne. Toen ze de antenne opnieuw wilden uitschuiven, wilde die niet meer mee.
Commandant Alexander Misurkin en vluchtingenieur Anton Shkaplerov zouden normaal gezien een wandeling maken van 6,5 uur om de elektronicadoos te vervangen. Maar niet alles verliep volgens plan. Toen ze zeven uur bezig waren en de antenne weer uit wilden schuiven, ging het fout.
De kosmonauten duwden eerst minuten lang tegen de antenne, terwijl de vluchtcontrole ze in de juiste positie probeerden te draaien. Uiteindelijk kregen ze er beweging in, maar de controlekamer bevestigde dat de antenne ongeveer 180 graden verkeerd stond. Volgens commentator Rob Navias van NASA TV zou ze echter “werken en in goede staat” zijn. De kosmonauten zullen wel bekijken of ze nog iets kunnen doen aan de situatie. (lees hieronder verder)
De ruimtewandeling van de twee duurde in totaal 8 uur en 13 minuten en daarmee was ze langer dan het vorige record uit december 2013, dat op 8 uur en 7 minuten stond.
De oude elektronicadoos werd overigens niet mee terug naar het ruimtestation genomen. Een van de kosmonauten gooide ze de ruimte in, weg van het ISS. De doos – die de grootte is van een reiskoffer en 27 kilogram weegt – zal uiteindelijk opbranden in de atmosfeer van de aarde. (lees hieronder verder)
Spacewalker Alexander Misurkin jettisoned, or tossed, an old electronics box removed from the station into space. It will eventually re-enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up. https://www.nasa.gov/live
Het vervangen van de doos was overigens niet eenvoudig, omdat het nooit de bedoeling was dat het in de ruimte zou moeten gebeuren. Voor kosmonauten met grote ruimtehandschoenen is het geen evidentie om de gedetailleerde operatie uit te voeren.
De volgende ruimtewandeling staat gepland voor 15 februari.
Two cosmonauts completed the longest spacewalk in Russian history today after 8 hours and 13 minutes to upgrade a high gain antenna system. https://go.nasa.gov/2FHH829
RVTot hiertoe konden enkel planeten binnen onze Melkweg gedetecteerd worden.
WETENSCHAPAstronomen hebben planeten kunnen waarnemen ver buiten ons sterrenstelsel. Dat is een primeur, want voordien konden enkel planeten binnen onze Melkweg gedetecteerd worden. Door gebruik te maken van de techniek “microlensing” hebben wetenschappers een groep planeten gevonden in een sterrenstelsel dat zo’n 3,8 miljard lichtjaren verwijderd is van het onze.
Bij “gravitationele microlensing” wordt gebruik gemaakt van de sterkte van het licht van een verre ster en quasars (een actief centrum van een sterrenstelsel met een hoge helderheid, red.). Dat licht wordt gebogen en versterkt door het zwaartekrachtsveld van een ster die meer op de voorgrond staat. Als de verre ster recht achter de dichtere ster ligt, dan zal die laatste als een lens werken en creëert het een soort schijf van licht waarbij de lichtstralen van de verre ster alle kanten opgaan.
De lichtsterkte van de stralen wordt beïnvloed door de aanwezigheid van planeten in de buurt van de dichte ster. Door het licht kan mijn dus nagaan of er planten zijn in de omgeving. De techniek, die tot nu enkel is gebruikt om nieuwe planeten te vinden in de Melkweg, is de enige gekende manier waarmee planeten op zo’n afstand kunnen waargenomen worden.
University of OklahomaDe gravitationele lens RX J1131-1231 is te zien in het midden, met vier
3,8 miljard lichtjaren ver
Met die techniek hebben wetenschappers nu dus een groep van zo’n 2.000 planeten kunnen identificeren. Qua grootte variëren de planeten tussen de grootte van de maan - die een straal heeft van 1.737 km - tot de grootte van Jupiter - die een straal heeft van 69.911 km. De planeten zijn zo’n 3,8 miljard lichtjaren verwijderd van ons sterrenstelsel.
“We zijn heel erg blij met deze ontdekking. Het is de eerste keer dat iemand planeten buiten ons eigen sterrenstelsel heeft ontdekt”, zegt professor Xinyu Dai, astrofysicus aan de Universiteit van Oklahoma. Professor Dai en zijn collega dokter Eduardo Guerras hebben hun ontdekkingen gepubliceerd in The Astrophysical Journal.
“Coole wetenschap”
“Dit is hét voorbeeld van hoe krachtig de technieken van microlensing kan zijn”, zegt dokter Guerras. “Dit sterrenstelsel ligt 3,8 miljard lichtjaren ver en er is geen kans om deze planeten op directe wijze te observeren, zelfs niet met de beste telescopen die je kan bedenken in een science fiction-scenario”, zegt Guerras. “Maar we kunnen ze wel bestuderen, hun aanwezigheid bevestigen en zelfs hun massa schatten. Dit is heel coole wetenschap.”
Het team van astronomen heeft data gebruikt van het Chandra X-ray Observatory, een satelliet die astronomische waarnemingen doet aan de hand van de röntgenstraling. Met een telescoop hebben de wetenschappers de stralen van quasars op de achtergrond kunnen bestuderen om zo metingen te doen die bewijs leveren voor de planeten.
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Black UFO Comes Out Of Thin Air Near Volcano In Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Comes Out Of Thin Air Near Volcano In Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 4, 2018 Location of sighting: Popocateptl, Mexico Seen by Orlando Bosca of Youtube, this dark black UFO was seen appearing out of thin air near the mouth of the volcano. The UFO moves away quickly, compared to clouds around the volcano. This UFO is similar to a UFO that was tracked by a US Navy radar plane a few years ago. This is clearly an alien craft. Its been long believed by many UFO researchers that this particular volcano has an alien base 5km below its surface. Scott C. Waring
Cloud being ripped apart by mysterious object over Nevada
Cloud being ripped apart by mysterious object over Nevada
On February 3, 2018 Reddove Twenty heard a strange sound over his house in Pahrump, Nevada, about a 30 minutes drive from Mercury and the old Nevada test site.
He went outside maybe 60 second later, looked up in the sky and saw a large hole in the clouds, as if the clouds have been ripped apart by something that left a huge trail.
Reddove said that he always see strange things happening in the sky but this is a little different and wonders whether something has arrived through a portal or could it be a UFO, meteor or secret craft?
The largest simulation of the cosmos ever run has boldly taken us where we have never gone before: the formation of the universe. Illustris: The Next Generation (IllustrisTNG) utilized new computational methods to achieve a first of its kind universe-scale simulation. The data-packed simulation has already fueled three papers, which were published Thursday, Feb 1, in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The insights gleaned from the simulation have given researchers a new understanding of how black holes affect the distribution of the ever-elusive dark matter throughout galaxies. Not only could these powerful gravity wells be preventing older galaxies from producing new stars, they could also be influencing the emergence of cosmic structures.
A single simulation run required 24,000 processors and a timespan of more than two months. Germany’s fastest mainframe computer, the Hazel Hen machine at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, ran the simulation twice. “The new simulations produced more than 500 terabytes of simulation data,” Volker Springel, principal investigator from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, said in a press release. “Analyzing this huge mountain of data will keep us busy for years to come, and it promises many exciting new insights into different astrophysical processes.”
IllustrisTNG made these predictions by modeling the evolution of millions of galaxies in a representative region of a universe. The cube-shaped area has sides that are nearly 1 billion light-years long. In the previous version (called Illustris), the model area’s sides were only 350 million light-years long. The updated program also introduced some crucial physical processes that had not been included in previous simulations.
Verifiable Predictions
These updated features allowed IllustrisTNG to model a universe remarkably similar to our own. For the first time, the clustering patterns of the simulated galaxiesdemonstrated a high degree of realism in comparison to the patterns we see from powerful telescopes, such as those at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
If the program’s verifiable predictions about dark matter, galaxy formation, and magnetic fields continue to prove accurate, we’ll be able to put greater stock in the insights it provides about processes we haven’t been able to observe with even the most advanced telescopes.
“When we observe galaxies using a telescope, we can only measure certain quantities,” Shy Genel, a scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics who worked on the development of IllustrisTNG, said in the press release. “With the simulation, we can track all the properties for all these galaxies. And not just how the galaxy looks now, but its entire formation history.”
By mapping out the histories of model galaxies, we may get a glimpse of what the Milky Way looked like as Earth came into being. We could even get an idea of how our galaxy might evolve billions of years from now.
In the years to come, this simulation might prompt some astronomers to simply adjust their telescopes to look for newly predicted stellar processes. For example, the simulation of the cosmos predicted that galaxy collisions that form larger galaxies should produce faint stellar light. Specific details about where to look for this background glow could allow astronomers to confirm their theories about these intergalactic events.
Bien souvent ce sont des préjugés et des croyances diffusées par la société qui forcent les gens à penser que le phénomène ovni ne peut être réel. Nous allons donc passer en revue les questions les plus courantes si vous le voulez bien.
Les réponses à vos questions sur les Ovnis
S'il est une discipline victime de préjugés et de stéréotypes, c'est bien l'Ufologie ! Ceux qui s'intéressent aux OVNIs évitent généralement de le clamer haut et fort, par crainte de passer pour des illuminés ! Et la majorité des témoins d'apparitions d'OVNIs se réfugient dans un mutisme, craignant de partager leurs expériences avec l'entourage immédiat, pour les mêmes raisons. Tout ceci est bien connu et dure depuis 50 ans, même si, depuis quelques années, les digues se rompent. Le problème est que ces stéréotypes influencent tant la manière dont la personnes va assimiler des informations nouvelles sur les OVNIs que la façon dont il va s'en souvenir. L'individu va accorder son attention de façon sélective à ce qui conforte ses croyances stéréotypées. Donc, il ne faudra pas s'étonner qu'il assimilera, quelque soit la valeur de la preuve apportée, les OVNIs à du "pipot" et qu'il oubliera l'événement aussi vite qu'il l'en a pris connaissance. Quels sont les principaux stéréotypes, c'est-à-dire l'ensemble des croyances partagées à propos des OVNIs ? Voici des réponses.
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Les choses à savoir
La plupart des certitudes que nous avons sur le sujet des OVNIS ne sont en fait que des croyances, des traditions figées et des habitudes de pensées. Cette partie du site se propose d'en faire le tour et de remettre certaines idées en place. Voici donc, les raisons les plus courantes du scepticisme au sujet des ovnis et de la vie extraterrestres.
Observations et témoignages
Si les OVNIS existaient vraiment, les astronomes les verraient dans leurs télescopes.
Les astronomes ne voient même pas les avions dans leurs télescopes. Les télescopes ne sont pas du tout adéquats pour voir des avions ou des OVNIS, ils sont fait pour voir des objets très lointains, massifs et fixes. Par ailleurs, les astronomes voient proportionnellement autant d'OVNIS que le commun des mortels, mais comme tout le monde, avec leurs propres yeux.
Si les OVNIS existaient, ils seraient détectés par les radars.
Tout d'abord, il se trouve que des OVNIS sont effectivement détectés par les radars.
Quelques précisions s'imposent:
les radars civils sont souvent réglés pour ne détecter par défaut que les seuls avions intéressants. Ceux-ci utilisent un appareil appelé "transpondeur" qui émet un signal d'identification, seuls les avions émettant ce signal sont montrés par les radars civils. Les radars militaires bien entendu détectent tous les avions et objets volants. Ce qui se passe en général, c'est que lorsqu'un pilote civil croise un ovni, il le signal à sa tour de contrôle, laquelle vérifie si l'OVNI est identifié par un transpondeur, et si ce n'est pas le cas, demande confirmation auprès de la station radar militaire la plus proche.
Il y a de très nombreux cas ou dans ce genre de circonstances les radaristes militaires ont confirmé leur détection d'OVNI par leurs radars, et ont même envoyé des pilotes militaires à la poursuite des OVNIS, détectés alors à la fois par les radars des avions militaires et les radars militaires au sol. Les données radars sont enregistrées, et quelquefois rendues publiques comme preuve que les OVNIS sont des machines volantes d'origine inconnue. La vague Belge de 1990 est un cas typique de ce genre d'événements.
Sociologie, psychologie et science fiction
Les OVNIS sont des hallucinations qui frappent les esprits faibles seulement.
Toutes les couches sociales, toutes les cultures, tous les pays, toutes les professions sont représentées à part égales dans les cas ou des OVNIS ont été observés. Par ailleurs, les hallucinations ne s'enregistrent pas sur les magnétoscopes des radars.
Les OVNIS sont apparus en même temps que les histoires de science fiction.
Au contraire, il y de tout temps eu des témoignages relatifs aux OVNIS. Les textes indiens antiques des Véda, par exemple, les mentionnent avec force détails. Des peintures, des dessins, des textes de toutes sortes montrent que les OVNIS sont un phénomène présent tout au long de l'histoire humaine.
On voit plus d'OVNIS après que des films de science fiction soient diffusés.
Les sceptiques se sont empressés de vouloir le démontrer, mais ne purent aboutir. Les études statistiques effectuées montrent qu'il n'y a aucun lien entre des événements médiatiques ayant trait à des thèmes extraterrestres et le nombre d'observations d'OVNIS.
Déclarations et études
Les scientifiques ont étudié les OVNIS et nous prouvent qu'ils n'existent pas.
Il n'y a en fait eu qu'une seule étude scientifique, modeste d'ailleurs, du phénomène ovni. Elle a été effectuée en France par le GEPAN / SEPRA, une division du CNES, à la demande du gouvernement, et ses conclusions récentes sont que dans certains rares cas, les preuves physiques sont suffisantes pour conclure que l'OVNI est une machine volante gouvernée par une forme d'intelligence et capable de performances totalement inaccessibles par la technologie humaine actuelle.
Si les militaires nous disent qu'il n'y a pas d'OVNIS, c'est qu'il n'y en a pas.
Les Etats-Unis sont maintenant quasiment le seul pays qui maintient un secret sur les OVNIS et nient leur réalité. Il y a pourtant des exceptions, la CIA par exemple admet depuis peu qu'elle s'est intéressé de très près au OVNIS et n'excluait pas qu'ils puissent être des engins extraterrestres.
De nombreux autres pays, comme la Belgique, le Pérou, l'Espagne, ont ouvert leurs dossiers militaires sur les OVNIS au public, voire contribuent activement aux recherches sur les OVNIS. En France il faut encore une certaine insistance pour obtenir des dossiers militaires sur ce sujet, mais peu à peu la transparence se fait. Les forces armées de ces pays ne nient pas la réalité des OVNIS mais en général s'abstiennent de publier des conclusions positives sur leur nature.
Complots et secrets
Si les militaires nous cachaient des choses, on trouverait tout de même des papiers...
Comme expliqué ci-dessus, les papiers se trouvent sans problème dans de nombreux pays. Aux Etats-Unis, c'est quelquefois l'absence de papier qui est intéressante: ainsi dans le cas de l'affaire de Roswell, lorsque le Sénateur Schiff demanda une enquête de la cour des comptes, celle-ci découvrit que l'intégralité des archives militaires de la base de Roswell avait été détruite de façon anonyme et sans autorisation, pour toute la période couvrant les événements.
Voyages spatiaux et vie extraterrestre
Les voyages interstellaires étant impensables, des extraterrestres ne peuvent pas nous rendre visite. A peu près au moment ou les frères Wright faisaient voler le premier avion, la communauté scientifique dans son ensemble affirmait que le vol d'un avion est mathématiquement impossible. Qu'aurait-on dit alors si on avait parler d'envoyer des sondes aux confins du système solaire ou de marcher sur la Lune?
Techniques basées sur le détournement de l'esprit scientifique
Voyage au pays du scepticisme ordinaire: Il existe un scepticisme ordinaire qui refuse d'accorder la moindre réalité au phénomène .
A phénomène extraordinaire, il faut des preuves exceptionnelles:
Manœuvre psychologique habile mais non scientifique. Il s'agit d'un non sens puisqu'un tel principe rend la recherche scientifique improductive. En effet, chaque remplacement d'une théorie par une nouvelle théorie plus adéquate résulte le plus souvent justement de la découverte d'un fait qui "défie" les lois déduite de la théorie qui va être dépassée!
En réalité, les phénomènes extraordinaires ne demande ni plus ni moins de preuves de leur existence, ils appellent simplement à leur étude. Les sceptiques au contraire utilisent ce principe pour refuser toute étude, en laissant entendre plus que ce principe n'en dit: ils sous-entendent en effet que chaque observation d'ovni doit être rejetée car il faudrait plus que des preuves pour qu'on lui accorde du temps, il lui faudrait des preuves "extraordinaires".
Les OVNIS violent les lois de la physique, donc ils ne peuvent pas exister!
Les OVNIS pourraient tout au plus violer les lois de la physique telles que nous la connaissons! Il n'y a aucune raison de penser qu'il violent une quelconque loi de la physique que nous n'aurions pas encore découverte. En réalité, il faut au contraire comprendre que les OVNIS sont capable de prouesses qui ne nous sont pas encore possible, et en déduire qu'ils ne sont pas d'origine terrestre quand à leur technologie.
Si un grand nombre de scientifiques utilisent encore cet argument non scientifique, il en est d'autres qui au contraire réfléchissent aux possibilités que nous pourrions trouver pour nous assurer le même types de performances, en travaillant par exemple sur la MHD, ou, comme la NASA le fait, sur l'annulation de la force de la gravitation.
De même, juste avant les débuts de l'aviation, il y avait la catégorie des scientifiques qui pensaient que le vol d'un objet artificiel plus lourd que l'air est mathématiquement impossible selon leur démonstration, il y avait par ailleurs deux anciens fabricants de bicyclettes qui, malgré des compétences en principe bien inférieures, faisaient décoller le premier avion. Il est désolant de voir que cette réalité incite à si peu de modestie un si grand nombre de nos scientifiques actuels.
Si les OVNIS sont des vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres, il devrait exister des photographies indiscutables de ces engins.
Il existe bel et bien de telles photographies indiscutables.
Par indiscutable, on ne peut bien sur pas entendre: qui ne seront pas discutées. L'un des problèmes avec les photographies, c'est justement qu'elles seront toujours discutées par les sceptiques.
Pourtant, on peut effectivement étudier scientifiquement une photographie, et dans certain cas, dépendant de nombreux paramètres, tels que des objets du décor permettant de situer l'OVNI, le fait de disposer non d'une seule mais d'une succession de photographies, le fait de pouvoir y trouver par un examen approfondi des caractéristiques qui ne peuvent pas être truquées, comme des différences de luminosité non décelable sans appareillages dont le truqueur éventuel ne peut disposer, et tout en ensemble vaste de détails et de paramètres que seuls des spécialistes des mathématiques, de la photographie, de la photonique et de la trigonométrie sauront étudier, échappant totalement au possibilités et au compétences des truqueurs.
Les photographies que l'on peut considérer comme authentiques sont donc effectivement en général des photographies anciennes, sur papier argentique, prises par des gens qui n'auraient pas été capables à leur époque de concevoir des faux qui résisteraient des décennies plus tard aux analyses sophistiquées que l'on peut réaliser aujourd'hui. Paradoxalement, des images récentes sont beaucoup plus suspectes.
Et bien entendu, il existe des faux. Il est d'ailleurs très facile de distinguer les vrais des faux datant de deux à quelques décennies: ces faux sont grossiers, on y voit des engins d'aspect folkloriques, on voit littéralement les fils qui les maintiennent, les ombres, les flous ou les manques de flou par rapport au décor, les erreurs de conception au niveau de la direction de la lumière et bien d'autres choses permettent de repérer ces faux avec facilité, et par contrecoup, les photographies un peu datées qui résistent à l'investigation poussée sont à considérer comme authentiques.
Il me faut bien sur ajouter que vous devez apprendre à entendre "preuve" comme preuve de type "judiciaire". Il n'existe pas de "preuve scientifique" de quoi que ce soit, la science ne prouve pas, elle émet des théories et les confronte à l'expérience. La théorie n'est jamais "prouvée", elle est en état de réexamen constant, et conservée uniquement tant qu'une théorie plus efficace n'est pas mieux validée par des expériences.
Des programmes d'écoute de l'espace ont été mis en place et n'ont, jusqu'à présent, donné aucun résultat. C'est une preuve supplémentaire qu'il n'existe aucune vie intelligente dans les alentours.
Pourtant ces programmes continuent! C'est tout simplement, comme les concepteurs de ces programmes eux-même l'expliquent, qu'il s'agit de cherche un aiguille dans une botte de foin, aucun de ses projet n'espérant trouver ladite aiguille avec certitude, au contraire, il s'agit pour eux bien plus de "tenter la chance", en imaginant que peut-être on cherche des signaux dans la bonne plage de fréquence, et de la bonne manière.
Les responsables et scientifiques de ces projets savent qu'il est tout à fait possible qu'aucune civilisation extra-terrestre ne communique par des moyens que nous connaissons, il est en fait probable qu'une civilisation suffisamment avancée pour communiquer d'étoile en étoile ne le fasse pas par des ondes radios.
Il ne s'agit ici ni de prouver l'absence ou la présence de vie intelligente dans notre univers en dehors de la Terre, ni de communiquer avec une intelligence extra-terrestre mais de réussir, par hasard, à capter un quelconque message résiduel qui pourrait permettre à l'humanité de faire un bond technologique dans le cas ou il serait utilisable.
Beaucoup de scientifiques pensent que même si les extraterrestres existaient, la probabilité de recevoir un message est très faible. Entre autre difficulté, il faut, par exemple, séparer un éventuel signal du bruit de fond cosmique tout en balayant l'ensemble des fréquences. Selon la loi de la relativité, les voyages dans l'espace prendraient beaucoup trop de temps pour les rendre possibles.
La relativité n'est pas une loi, elle est juste le meilleur outil théorique dans son domaine. Elle a remplacé les lois de la gravitation de Newton, lorsqu'il apparut que celles-ci n'étaient plus le meilleur outil théorique quand son domaine d'application dépassa la simple étude de la chute des corps sur Terre et la trajectoire des corps céleste proches. La relativité prévoit d'ores et déjà ses propres limites, tels les trou noirs, frontières au delà desquelles la physique proposée par la relativité ne s'applique plus. Il existe des théories alternatives qui pourraient laisser la question ouverte comme les "Worm-Holes" ou encore la Théorie des Espaces Jumeaux.
UTILISATION DE CROYANCES PRESENTEES COMME DES FAITS:
Il n'y a pas de preuves de l'existence d'êtres intelligents où que ce soit dans l'univers, mis à part ceux qui constituent l'humanité: Il faudra tout de suite rectifier: au lieu de dire "il n'y a pas de preuves", on peut de toute façon réduire cette affirmation à "il n'y a pas encore de preuves", car une éventuelle absence de preuve actuelles ne permet pas d'affirmer qu'il n'y aura jamais de telles preuves.
On peut s'attaquer à cette affirmation très facilement: on trouve bel et bien des preuves d'intelligence dans le comportement des dauphins et de certains autres mammifères, dans le fait qu'ils communiquent, ou construisent des outils, ou ont une vie sociale élaborée. Si sur notre propre planète on constate que des espèces autres que la notre sont intelligentes ou bien tendent vers l'intelligence, on peut en déduire que la vie tend vers l'intelligence au fur et à mesure de son évolution.
L'intelligence mesurée à l'aune de celle de l'être humain est de toute façon une manière biaisée d'aborder la question: nous ne pouvons comprendre que notre intelligence, nous aurons des difficultés à comprendre une intelligence soit très supérieure, soit très différents et nous seront poussé à considéré celles-ci comme absence d'intelligence.
N'ayant à priori pour le moment qu'une planète explorée, la notre, au lieu de conclure faussement qu'elle est la seule à abriter l'intelligence, on pourrait conclure plus justement qu'il en va de même sur d'autres planète. Toute l'histoire de la science nous montre pour le moment que notre sphère d'action n'est pas une exception, quand cette sphère s'agrandit, on constate que ce qui y est valable peut en général être retrouvé dans les parties nouvellement découvertes de notre sphère d'investigation.
Aucun objet ne peut se déplacer à une vitesse supérieure à la vitesse du son sans bruit, sans même qu'il y ait un bang sonique. De plus, au delà du mur du son se trouve le mur de la chaleur, une autre barrière aux frontières de laquelle les matériaux commencent à fondre.
Cet argument est essentiellement un cas particulier de celui que je discute ci-dessus.
Je ne trouve en fait rien de spécialement troublant à ce que dans la plupart des cas d'observation d'OVNIS se déplaçant à vitesse supersonique on ne puisse entendre le bruit causé par le passage du mur du son. Voici une façon pour moi de l'expliquer: Considérons simplement que les OVNIS seraient autant en avance par rapport à nos avions que l'est une automobile moderne par rapport à une carriole à cheval.
Si on affirmait qu'il existe des carrioles à cheval capable de dépasser les 200 km à l'heure, on entendrait tout de suite l'objection que les roues de la carrioles se briseraient à une telle vitesse. Pourtant les roues de nos automobiles y résistent très bien! C'est tout simplement que ce problème a été résolu par l'invention des pneus et des routes, inventions qui sont par ailleurs très secondaires, bien qu'essentielles, par rapport à l'invention du moteur à essence comme remplacement de la force de traction des chevaux.
Il en va de toute évidence de même au niveau de nos OVNIS en tant que vaisseaux interstellaires: pour de tels engins étant capable de telles prouesses, le problème de la résistance d'une atmosphère traversée a une allure supersonique est sans doute le moindre motif d'émerveillement que l'on puisse leur trouver.
La probabilité mathématique pour que des extraterrestres découvrent notre planète est trop faible pour que cela arrive un jour.
Cette démonstration est l'exemple même de l'arrogance scientifique qui pense pouvoir mettre l'univers en équation, de manière définitive. Étant donné les connaissances que nous avons de ce qui existe en dehors de notre système solaire, il serait bien prétentieux et hasardeux d'inférer par ce moyen des probabilités de quelque amplitudes que ce soit sur la vie extraterrestre.
Généralisation abusives
Les témoignages visuels d'apparition d'OVNIS sont peu fiables. De tels témoignages sont des preuves insuffisantes pour conclure à une éventuelle visite extraterrestre.
Il s'agit là encore d'une généralisation abusive. Il y a toutes sortes de catégories de témoignages visuels et de témoins, et leur valeur n'est pas insuffisante, elle est variable entre l'insuffisance et l'indiscutabilité la plus totale. Il y a des témoignages visuels ou une ville entière témoigne avoir vu un ovni ou plusieurs, il y a des cas où des témoins nombreux depuis des points de vues différents voire en toute indépendance rapportent les mêmes observations visuelles. Il est totalement hors de question d'imaginer que l'ensemble du phénomène soit observé par des témoins isolés, seul face à un événement.
Il y a des cas ou la qualité du ou des témoins est un gage de vraisemblance. Quand le témoin ne croit pas lui-même avoir vu un OVNI, quand le témoin est un scientifique capable d'observer avec toutes ses compétences, lui permettant de faire un rapport extrêmement précis, quand le témoin est par exemple un pilote d'avion de chasse familier avec toutes les illusions visuelles et dont la vie même tient à ses compétences d'observateur, on ne peut pas dire que le témoignage est peu fiable.
Par ailleurs, il y a une très grande profusion de cas ou le témoignage visuel n'est qu'un aspect d'un phénomène qui peut être aussi détecté par radar, photographié, filmé ou la cause de traces physiques sur le témoin ou sur l'environnement.
Bien des sceptiques sont obligés de rejeter des cas de façon assez ridicule: "le témoin n'est pas fiable, le radar a été trompé par quelque phénomène météo, la photo est truquée, l'ufologue est un escroc et le scientifique un incompétent, car enfin les OVNIS n'existent pas". La mise en cause du témoin visuel est effectivement souvent la façon la plus rapide de rejeter un cas. Pourtant, le témoignage visuel est parfaitement valide en justice, et dans certains cas la vie d'un accusé en dépend!
Les histoires d'OVNIS ne sont que des canulars!
Le contenu tout entier de ce site vous exposera que vous faites erreur par manque d'information sur ce sujet. Il y a tout simplement assez de cas ou le canular n'est pas réalisable techniquement. On peut par exemple photographier un couvercle de poubelle et prétendre qu'il s'agit d'un OVNIS et éveiller un bref moment la curiosité d'un chercheur même compétent, mais on ne peut pas faire voler et manoeuvrer ce couvercle de poubelle à vitesse hypersonique devant les jets de l'armée de l'air et les radars et témoins visuel au sol en faisant croire à leur pilote qu'il s'agit d'un ovni.
Il y eut et il y aura encore des canulars, mais il se trouve qu'il en y peu. Il se trouve aussi que certains canulars ont été sciemment montés pour discréditer ceux qui étudient avec sérieux les OVNIS, tant il est évident que pour beaucoup de gens quelques canulars suffisent à discréditer l'ensemble du phénomène.
Ce sont des armes secrètes expérimentales.
Oui, dans certain cas, on observer en fait des avions classiques ou secrets. Mais des différences permettent de faire le tri: les vitesses, les accélérations, les immobilisations sur place, les zones de vol de nombreux OVNIS sont totalement incompatibles avec ceux d'avions secrets.
Il ne s'agit pas de différences mineures liées à des augmentations de performances qui seraient dans le domaine du technologiquement possible, mais de différences suffisamment marquées pour que ceux qui sont responsable des développements qu'ils impliquent ne puisse qu'être incroyablement plus avancés que nous.
Il est connu que les militaires américains continuent de développer des appareils étonnants par certains aspects. Mais il est par exemple ridicule d'associer le vol d'engins supersoniques au bombardier invisible B-" qui est subsonique.
Par ailleurs, les lieux d'observations sont éloquents: il n'est pas question d'imaginer que les Etats-Unis feraient voler des engins réellement en avance au dessus de territoires étrangers ou ils risquent d'être capturé en cas d'incident technique. Les avions secrets US sont généralement cantonnés dans les vastes espaces aériens protégés des curieux des déserts du Sud des Etats-Unis. Le B-2 vu en Irak par exemple a été transporté sur les lieux de combat... en bateau.
Si il y a tant d'OVNI que ça, pourquoi n'en ai-je jamais vu?
Vous n'avez peut-être jamais vu de pygmées, de navette spatiale, vous n'avez jamais vu Uranus, ou une bactérie, pourtant vous en admettez l'existence. Si vous voulez voir des OVNIS, vous pouvez par exemple vous rendre dans la vallée d'Hessdalen en Suède ou ils occupent l'attention constante d'un groupe de chercheurs universitaire du fait de leurs apparitions fréquentes.
Par ailleurs, il n'y en a probablement pas tant que ça, sans doute moins qu'il n'y a d'avions, et vous ne voyez pas d'avions tous les jours si vous ne regardez jamais le ciel. On suggère aussi qu'il ne soit pas exclu que les OVNIS que nous voyons sont ceux qui veulent bien se laisser voir, ou ceux qui se font "surprendre" en quelque sorte.
Le fait demeure que si vous n'avez personnellement jamais vu d'OVNIS, cela n'empêche pas que de nombreuses autres personnes en ont vu.
Des témoignages de personnes sous hypnose nous apprennent que ces personnes ont été enlevées par des extraterrestres. Ces témoignages sont sujets à caution car ils peuvent être le fruit de leur imagination lors de la séance d'hypnose.
Oui, un sujet peut être victime de son imagination lors des séances d'hypnose. Lorsque ces séances s'additionnent, les soi-disant souvenirs peuvent se mélanger, autant dans les faits que dans le temps. L'hypnose est de toute façon tout simplement une méthode de suggestion! Par définition, on pourra suggérer à peu près n'importe quoi à un sujet sous hypnose, sans même que l'hypnotiseur soit pleinement conscient de la nature des suggestions qu'il émet.
C'est pour ces raisons que l'on manque de certitudes en ce qui concerne le nombre incroyablement élevé de personnes qui revivent des rencontres du troisième type sous hypnose. On s'en tiendra avec prudence à des récits et témoignages faits dans un état conscient.
Dans le passé, des signes tendant à prouver l'existence du phénomène OVNI se sont avérés être des phénomènes naturels ou des canulars. De telles erreurs sèment le doute dans la recherche Ufologique. On a souvent tendance à penser qu'un témoignage d'OVNI est rationnel dès que celui-ci peut être assimilé à un phénomène naturel. A contrario, on considérera que l'on ne peut pas étudier de façon rationnelle un témoignage qui va à l'encontre du bon sens! De plus, tout ce qui peut discréditer les phénomènes OVNI sera employé par ses détracteurs. Mais ce n'est pas parce que quelques éléments se révèlent être erronés que le phénomène n'existe pas. L'étude des OVNI est une science récente qui souffre de maladie de jeunesse, où des preuves établies peuvent mener à de faux raisonnements.
Il me semble par ailleurs extrêmement positif que le doute fasse toujours partie de toute recherche.
Affirmations simplement erronées
Il n'y a pas de manifestations d'ovni qui n'aient pu être expliquées par un phénomène d'origine naturel ou humain. Donc toutes les manifestations d'OVNIS proviennent de tels phénomènes.
Il s'agit là d'une tautologie doublée d'un mensonge et triplé par une erreur de raisonnement, auquel se superpose souvent une fraude. Le mensonge, c'est de dire que toutes les manifestations du phénomène OVNIS ont trouvée une explication. Il est en réalité clair que même des sceptiques enragés reconnaissent en général qu'il reste un reliquat de 5 à 30% (selon les uns et les autres) de cas inexpliqués.
La tautologie, c'est d'affirmer dans le même argument que toutes les manifestations d'OVNIS ont été expliquées, et qu'il y en a qui ne sont pas encore expliquées. C'est l'un ou l'autre, cela ne peut être les deux à la fois.
En réalité, il existe des phénomènes OVNIS expliquées par des causes naturelles, des cas d'observations de phénomène de cause artificielles mais terrestres, mal interprétés en toute bonne foi, tels satellites, avions, nuages, ballons, des cas d'OVNIS causées par des fraudes, des escroqueries, des faux témoignages, et des cas d'OVNIS dont l'explication n'est pas de cet ordre et dont l'explication la plus sensée si ce n'est la seule, est qu'il s'agit de manifestations de machines volantes technologiquement très supérieures à celles que l'humanité peut actuellement réaliser et donc provenant d'ailleurs que sur la Terre, soit extra-terrestre.
L'erreur de raisonnement, c'est que même si tous les OVNIS observés à ce jour étaient dus à des causes banales telles celles mentionnées ci-dessus, cela n'implique en aucun cas que la prochaine observation d'un ovni ne puisse pas correspondre au premier cas d'ovni véritablement extra-terrestre.
La fraude, c'est que lorsqu'on se penche sur la question, on remarque un très grand nombre cas considérés comme "expliqués" alors que l'explication ne tient pas, ignorant des faits, ou étant construite sur mesure comme la fameuse "inversion de température", un "phénomène" inventé par l'US Air Force dans la hâte d'une conférence improvisée pour rassurer les gens de la presse qui s'étaient émus du survol de Washington par de nombreux OVNIS en 1952. En effectuant des recherches avec des à priori, on arrive évidemment très facilement à des conclusions erronées qui permettent d'éviter de se résoudre au conclusions que l'on rejette d'avance.
Il n'y a pas de preuves matérielles de manifestation d'OVNI ou de visites d'anciens astronautes.
Il se trouve qu'il y en a bel et bien. Ceux qui émettent cet argument ne le savent tout simplement pas, car cette croyance dont il se sont convaincu fait justement qu'ils ne s'informent pas.
Il se trouve aussi que ces preuves matérielles relatives aux OVNIS et à des traces d'ancien astronautes ne font l'objet de quasiment aucune étude. En effet, il existe une telle littérature souvent confuse à ce sujet qu'un scientifique ayant un certain renom, une certaine crédibilité, et qui donc pourrait peser du poids de sa renommée sur ses confrères encore à juste titre sceptiques car non informés, perd d'emblée toute crédibilité, et généralement peut renoncer à tout succès futur ou carrière sérieuse s'il s'intéresse à ce genre de choses.
Il y a pourtant de plus en plus de scientifiques courageux qui se penchent sur la question, et qui expliquent justement les difficultés que je mentionne ci dessus.
Les preuves matérielles existent sous les formes suivantes: traces radar, traces au sol, effet au sol sur les roches, les végétaux, les animaux, vidéo, photographies, films, mesures, témoignages corroborés, témoignages en très grand nombre relatifs à une observation, nombre élevé de l'ensemble des cas connus, diffusion du phénomène sur l'ensemble de notre globe et au delà, rapports et études scientifiques, rapports d'observation et d'intervention militaires, objets trouvés par l'archéologie, découvertes ethnologiques, documents historiques en toutes sortes de lieux et toutes sortes de cultures, et bien d'autres types de preuves encore.
Le trafic commercial aérien se compte en million de vols chaque jour. Combien d'entre nous ont vu ou récupéré des débris d'avions qui périrent dans des catastrophes? Un très faible pourcentage car les accidents sont peu nombreux. En nous appuyant sur les statistiques des catastrophes aérienne et en les ramenant au trafic probable des OVNI, d'après les témoignages récoltés, on en arrive à la conclusion que les crash d'OVNI seraient de un à quatre tous les cinq siècles. On en déduit donc que les témoignages visuels sont les seuls que l'on peut espérer obtenir.
Si des OVNIS nous rendent visite, pourquoi ne sont-ils pas plus souvent repérés par les radars?
Il s'agit ici simplement d'un cas d'ignorance des faits. Des OVNIS sont bien captés par radar, non pas exceptionnellement mais très régulièrement, tant par des radars civils que militaires. C'est même là une des meilleures preuves physiques de la réalité du phénomène, et le moyen qui a permis de constater objectivement et précisément que des OVNIS étaient capable de performances et de manoeuvres suffisamment hors d'atteinte par les technologies humaines pour que la seule explication sensée qui nous reste est qu'il s'agit bel et bien de vaisseaux pilotés par une intelligence extra-terrestre.
Bien entendu, la plupart des radars civils se chargent de filtrer automatiquement les signaux qui ne sauraient être ceux d'avions classiques, sans quoi l'attention des contrôleurs serait inutilement perturbée par les parasites ou des avions dont ils n'ont pas la charge. ainsi les déplacement trop rapides, ou d'engins trop petits, trop gros, ne sont, par défaut, pas affichés. Typiquement, il y a d'abord une observation visuelle, et seulement ensuite on s'intéressera à en repérer la trace radar en désactivant tout filtrage.
Les OVNIS ne sont qu'une résultante de la guerre froide.
La guerre froide est totalement terminée, les Russes et les américains partagent même leur espace aérien. Pourtant les observations se poursuivent... Certains se prennent à penser que c'est bien plutôt la fin de la guerre froide qui est une résultante du phénomène ovni, ainsi que Ronald Reagan en faisait "l'hypothèse".
Seuls les faibles d'esprits croient aux OVNI.
L'argument n'a jamais été valable, et l'est même de moins en moins, étant donné que les chercheurs dans ce domaine sont dans leur majorité sains d'esprit et font preuve de rationalité devant le phénomène. Le débat, bien que pauvre en France particulièrement s'étend au milieux scientifiques, militaires, intellectuels et historiques. La réticence vient du fait que les scientifiques ont à juste titre peur de se discréditer face à l'establishment si ils entreprennent des études qui sortent du cadre défini par leurs pairs.
Mais l'argument peut être retourné à ceux qui le brandissent: ils nient une évidence qui les effraie. Ce ne sont pas des chercheurs mais des esprits rigides fermés à toute recherche nouvelle. C'est là qu'est la faiblesse de l'esprit.
Le mieux est d'ignorer de telles calomnies qui ne font qu'obscurcir le débat et de renvoyer ces détracteurs à l'étude de documents authentifiés comme la K7 vidéo des événements survenus au Mexique dans le début des années 90 ou les documents d'origines certaines tels que ceux publiés par la CIA ou la NSA dans le cadre des lois de liberté d'accès à l'information aux Etats-Unis.
Les théories sur les OVNI sont le fond de commerce des racketteurs qui s'attaquent à des gens crédules.
Le meilleur moyen pour discréditer une idée est de suggérer que celui qui l'a lancée l'a fait pour gagner de l'argent. Mais le fait que quelqu'un ait gagné de l'argent en rendant public un phénomène OVNI ne discrédite pas pour autant ledit phénomène. Et si nous devions rejeter toutes les inventions ou les découvertes qui ont enrichi ceux qui sont à leur origine, nous progresserions de moins en moins vite étant donné que l'argent prend une place prépondérante au fur et à mesure que l'humanité se modernise. En tout état de cause, ce site par exemple a été réalisé par moi-même sans que je n'aie eu a enrichir d'un seul centime une seule personne qui ferait profession d'ufologue. Il y a effectivement des gens qui profite de l'intérêt porté au phénomène ovni pour se faire passer pour porteur de quelque message venu d'en haut et par un glissement habile voudrons vous convaincre de vous délester de vos ressources à leur profit, mais enfin soyons sérieux, si vous marchez dans ce genre d'entreprise, vous avez sans doute des problèmes plus urgent pour vous que le débat sur la réalité des OVNIS. Pour régler définitivement cette question, ma propre politique est que dès lors qu'une information sur le sujet des OVNIS est payante, je m'en passe.
Refus politique:
Les théories extraterrestres sont dangereuses pour la société.
C'est vrai. Mais cette idée ne devrait pas avoir lieu dans une société ou le débat et la discussion est instituée. A moins que cette liberté de débat et de discussion ne soit qu'apparence et qu'une étude plus poussée du phénomène OVNI nous amène, de fil en aiguille, à découvrir des vérités qui mettraient à mal le socle des connaissances qui fondent notre histoire, notre religion et notre économie... mais il n'y a pas de religion supérieure à la vérité.
Cette idée est cependant bel et bien celle que partagent certaines instances dirigeantes et la raison pour laquelle des services secrets sont chargé de la mission de discréditer toute recherche sur les OVNIS. Cette mission est par exemple l'une de celle que la CIA se reconnaît officiellement, dans le rapport sur sa propre histoire qui est généreusement à votre disposition sur son site web officiel.
Rappelons également qu'aux Etats-Unis, toute communication d'observation d'OVNI par du personnel militaire auprès du public est toujours passible de condamnation pour espionnage.
Le non conformisme des extraterrestres
Le comportement des OVNI n'est pas conforme à ce que devrait être celui d'une intelligence extraterrestre.
Le comportement des OVNI doit être étudié tel qu'il se manifeste et non tel qu'on pense qu'il devrait se manifester. On se demande souvent pourquoi un représentant extraterrestre ne s'est jamais officiellement fait connaître pour se présenter à l'humanité. Peut-être tout simplement parce qu'ils adoptent la même attitude que nous quand nous observons le comportement d'animaux sauvages dans leur milieu naturel. Nous les étudions de loin sans les déranger, nous n'essayons de communiquer avec eux. Avez-vous déjà tenté de discuter avec un singe? Et si vous le faisiez, pensez vous que le singe aurait une compréhension claire et immédiate des propos que vous lui tenez?
Le comportement de nos éventuels visiteurs est incompréhensible! Pourquoi ne prennent-ils pas contact directement avec nous?
La question est légitime, mais ne constitue pas un argument pour nier la réalité du phénomène ou sa nature extra-terrestre.
Si l'on veut se référer à ce que nous connaissons de l'histoire de l'humanité, il est évident que lorsque deux civilisations un tant soit peu différentes entrent en contact, avec une autre plus évoluée, la plus primitive disparaît. On peut donc supposer que nos visiteurs, très en avance sur nous, aient une forme de respect, ou une éthique de non-intervention à notre égard. On ne peut que spéculer sur leurs intentions, étude ethnologique, escale de ravitaillement, etc.
Mais n'oublions jamais que nous sommes dans ce cas probablement à peu près dans la position de chimpanzés tentant de comprendre les raisons des faits et gestes humains et d'y donner un sens.
Les exobiologistes trouvent que, selon la description qu'en font les témoins de rencontres rapprochées, ils nous ressemblent trop.
Effectivement, rien ne prouve que des formes de vie ayant évolué ailleurs soient semblables à la nôtre, mais rien ne dit le contraire non plus.
Vous utilisez les idées d'une partie des chercheurs en exobiologie en ignorant qu'une autre partie de ces chercheurs pensent au contraire que la forme humanoïde est certainement la moins surprenant pour des extra-terrestres intelligents: il n'est par exemple pas possible de manipuler le feu si on est trop petit, car on se brûle en l'approchant, ou, autre exemple, un dauphin de développera pas de technologie car il faut des mains pour cela.
Pourquoi n'a t-on jamais réussi à prendre des photos de bonne qualité à moins de 100M ? Les personnes qui photographient des OVNIS sont souvent déconcertés en constatant que les clichés obtenus ne correspondent pas souvent à ce qu'ils avaient observé. A tel point qu'on ne dispose d'aucune photographie d'un OVNI prise de très près, à moins de 100 mètres ! Tout simplement parce que l'objet n'apparaît pas sur la pellicule.
Pendant la vague d'OVNIS sur la Belgique de 1989 à 1991, des dizaines de photos furent prises mais n'ont rien donné. Un physicien belge, Auguste Meessen, professeur à l'Université de Louvain, proposa des explications à ces échecs : dans certaines conditions, un rayonnement infrarouge émis par un objet, a la propriété d'empêcher la réaction chimique permettant de fixer son image sur la pellicule. Cette émission d'infrarouge est peut-être due au fonctionnement normal de l'OVNI photographié. La solution pour pouvoir les photographier serait d'utiliser une pellicule sensible à l'infrarouge ! Ce qui n'est pas donné à tout le monde.
Pourquoi les OVNIS n'émettent-ils aucun bruit ? Quand un avion se déplace dans l'atmosphère, il heurte les molécules d'air qui se trouvent sur son passage, et grâce aux turbines, les envoie vers l'arrière. Il se crée sur le nez de l'appareil une accumulation de molécules, appelée "front d'énergie", qui le freine. L'élasticité de l'air permet de dissiper l'énergie concentrée à l'avant de l'avion.
Mais lorsque l'avion atteint la vitesse du son, qui est de 331m/s, l'accumulation d'énergie à l'avant n'a pas le temps de se dissiper. Pour dépasser cette vitesse, l'avion doit traverser ce "mur du son", ce qui produit un bang ! D'après tous les témoignages, les OVNIS aperçus n'émettent aucun bruit, si ce n'est un léger sifflement, et ne produisent jamais d'ondes de choc au franchissement du mur du son ! Pourquoi ?
Une branche de la physique, la magnétohydrodynamique (ou MHD), pourrait expliquer cela. Le principe de la MHD est connu depuis le XVIIIe siècle avec sa mise en évidence par Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) :
Un conducteur traversé par un courant électrique et placé dans un champ magnétique perpendiculaire, est soumis à une force dite "force de Laplace". Ce principe est valable pour tout solide, mais aussi pour les liquides ou les gaz.
Pour appliquer ce principe à la propulsion d'une soucoupe, il faut plusieurs conditions :
1. Il faut d'abord rendre l'air conducteur en l'ionisant, c'est à dire en transformant les atomes de gaz électriquement neutres en ions positifs. La méthode d'ionisation la plus appropriée est l'utilisation de micro-ondes (ondes électromagnétiques à haute fréquence). Ces micro-ondes (plus puissantes que celles des fours) vont chauffer l'air jusqu'à plus de 3000°C autour de l'appareil.
2. Ensuite, il faut créer un champ magnétique.
3. Enfin, il faut faire circuler à travers l'air, un courant électrique reliant les deux extrémités de la soucoupe.
Résultat : Des forces de Laplace s'exercent sur l'air perpendiculairement au trajet du courant. Sous la soucoupe, ces forces s'exercent de la même façon, mais en sens inverse. C'est ce qui empêche la soucoupe de tourner comme une toupie !
RESUME : Dans le système MHD, les couches d'air qui entourent l'appareil sont rejetées vers l'arrière par une force magnétique, formant une sorte de vent. Conrairement au cas classique d'un avion, des molécules d'air s'accumulent à l'arrière, poussant le vaisseau, tandis qu'à l'avant, la raréfaction de l'air crée un vide qui l'aspire. Il n'y a plus de mur énergétique s'opposant à la progression de l'engin : la soucoupe volante peut facilement dépasser la vitesse du son sans "bang".De plus, ce phénomène n'est pas mécanique mais magnétique; il n'engendre qu'un son, celui des molécules qui s'écoulent vers l'arrière. Les travaux sur la MHD sont testés en laboratoire par le physicien, Jean-Pierre Petit, spécialiste de physique des plasmas et de cosmologie, directeur de recherche au C.N.R.S. Il a notamment créé un objet appelé "Aérodyne MHD" qui ressemblait à une soucoupe volante et qui avait les propriétés de la MHD.
Pas de contact "officiel" : pourquoi ?
Imaginons que notre civilisation (Terrienne) se mette à voyager vers d'autres planètes à bords de vaisseaux spatiaux. Les Terriens découvrent une planète habitée par une civilisation ne pouvant pas encore faire ce type de voyage spatial.
Que ferions nous ?
- Nous nous présentons et nous établissons un contact officiel à cette civilisation ? - Nous restons discret et nous étudions cette civilisation ? - Nous entrons en contact avec les plus grands dirigeants de cette civilisation tout en le cachant à la population ?
Logiquement, nous resterions discret afin de pouvoir étudier cette civilisation. Ainsi, nous pourrions voir leur niveau de connaissance, leurs opinions, leur éventuel hostilité, ..., sans bouleverser leur mode de vie par notre présence officielle.
C'est ce que l'on fait avec les animaux : pour les étudier, on reste discret et on n'interfère pas avec leur mode de vie. Maintenant, transposons cette petite réflexion avec notre civilisation actuelle et la réalité d'une civilisation Extraterrestre venant vous voir. Là, vous comprenez pourquoi il n'y a pas encore eu de contact "officiel" avec toute notre civilisation.
Mais, depuis le temps qu'une ou plusieurs civilisations nous étudient (en effet, avec toutes les observations d'OVNIs effectuées depuis des dizaines et des dizaines d'années, on en conclu, qu'ils connaissent maintenant notre vie Terrienne), on peut en déduire qu'une ou plusieurs civilisations ont déjà pris contacte avec les plus grands dirigeant de notre planète (notamment, les USA).
Source: L'excellent et trés sérieux site de Patrick Gross "Les ovnis vus de prés" ou ufologie.net
Patrick Gross naît le 7 Mars 1963. Il est instituteur, puis informaticien. Il est président par intérim de la FFU.
Introduction du site ufologie.net:
J'ai longtemps pensé que le phénomène OVNI et ce qui s'y rapporte est le fruit de l'imagination humaine et qu'aucune réalité physique intéressante ne s'y rattache. Puis j'ai constaté certains faits troublants, et trouvé des contradictions dans les discours habituellement tenus sur ce sujet. Mon étonnement a bientôt grandi avec mon intérêt: des archives disparues, mais aussi des documents officiels? Des photos truquées mais aussi des images radars incontestables fournies par les armées de l'air? Plusieurs "explications" officielles discordantes pour une même affaire? Ce site, je l'espère, vous permettra de partager mes interrogations et de faire sans doute bien des découvertes pour le moins troublantes.
"J'ai débuté ce site en mars 2000. Il y a maintenant plus de 9000 fichiers html, mais ce n'est encore qu'une très faible proportion de ce que je compte y publier. Merci d'avance de votre visite et soutien! "
Ce site est incontestablement le meilleurs de tous au sujet des ovnis. Je vous conseille vivement de consulter les nombreux articles de ce site extraordinaire.
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'UFO and alien' sightings revealed by Cambridgeshire Police
'UFO and alien' sightings revealed by Cambridgeshire Police
Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage captionPolice received six calls reporting sightings of UFOs or aliens, a Freedom of Information request revealed
Sightings of aliens and UFOs have been reported to police in Cambridgeshire six times in two years, new figures show.
The biggest talking point for the last couple of days has been the blue moon and the lunar eclipse that dominated the sky around the world. Everybody was busy watching the eclipse dominate the sky and all eyes were on the disappearing moon that had caught everyone’s attention. Social media is flooded with pictures of the super moon that happened on January 31, 2018. However, some keen observers noticed a strange thing during the rare phenomenon. A video that has been uploaded on YouTube by the channel UFOmania claims to show a spaceship zooming past the moon on a live NASA broadcast of the lunar eclipse. The clip shows a flying object appears next to the blood moon as the lunar eclipse is about to occur and zooms past the moon at high speed. The flying object is being claimed as an alien spaceship that can be seen during super moon.
The video shows a bright white spot zoom across the moon with a white offshoot trailing behind it. Reportedly the witness who spotted the bizarre occurrence said, “I just happened to notice an object traveling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame. Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular interval.” The video has garnered a huge response from users and most tend to agree with the man who spotted the UFO in the first place.
People left comments under the video convinced that they are looking at a UFO. However, there were quite a few who disagreed and said that the object looked like an aircraft with identification light flashing and strobe lights being seen. The blue moon is not actually blue, but is a total lunar eclipse that involves the second full moon in a month. Blue moon is really a rare occurrence and the last blue moon occurred in 1866, 150 years ago. The moon also looked red because it coincided with a total lunar eclipse. The moon is also called Blood Moon because of refraction that bends the light. The full moon of January 31, 2018, was a super blue blood moon.
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Vidéo: De mystérieuses lumières repérées dans le ciel de la Zone 51
Vidéo: De mystérieuses lumières repérées dans le ciel de la Zone 51
Le passager d’un avion de ligne a repéré et filmé d’étranges lumières dans le ciel alors qu’il survolait la célèbre base militaire connue sous le nom de Zone 51, située dans l’État du Nevada, aux États-Unis.
Sur ces images, on peut voir un OVNI lumineux dont l’éclat perce littéralement les nuages alors que l’avion vole au-dessus d’eux. En regardant plus attentivement, on peut distinguer deux objets différentes. Leurs lumières clignotent avant de disparaître subitement.
Selon des témoins, l’avion a dû changer de cap afin d’éviter d’entrer en collision avec ce phénomène inconnu.
Les images ont été prises sur un vol reliant l’État du Wisconsin à la ville de Los Angeles, en Californie. Ce vol populaire a la particularité de passer à proximité de de la fameuse et mystérieuse de la Zone 51.
Un témoin explique : « J’ai vu cela 30 minutes avant notre atterrissage. Je pense que nous étions près de la Zone 51. »
« Les lumières ont attiré l’attention de tout le monde à bord. Il faisait assez nuageux et ces lumières perceraient les nuages alors même que nous nous trouvions profondément à l’intérieur de la couverture nuageuse. »
« J’ai d’abord pensé à un reflet de panneaux solaires. Mais leurs clignotements étaient synchronisés et perçants. »
« Peu de temps après, nous étions parallèles à ces lumières et elles semblaient être en dessous de nous ou près du sol. Le pilote s’est détourné pour mettre de la distance entre elles et nous. »
« Il a ensuite changé de cap au bout d’un certain temps. Pour moi, cela semblait être une modification du plan de vol. Mais, comme nous étions à 30 minutes de l’atterrissage, je n’en suis pas sûr. »
« La vidéo que vous voyez est vers la fin de l’observation alors que l’avion s’éloignait après avoir changé de cap. »
La Zone 51 est une base des forces aériennes située en plein milieu de nulle part et hautement protégée. Certains sont persuadées, qu’à l’intérieur, le gouvernement développe des astronefs futuristes et effectuent des essais d’appareils extraterrestres.
De nombreux incidents ont été signalés autour de cette installation. L’année dernière, deux bangs supersoniques ont été entendus.
5D Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever, Scientists Say -- Crystal Skulls Connections
5D Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever, Scientists Say -- Crystal Skulls Connections
Researchers at the University of Southampton have recently announced that they are able to store and retrieve huge amounts of five dimensional data on quartz crystals.
The technology has immediately received a cool nickname: the "Superman memory crystal" — after the "memory crystals" used as storing devices in the Superman films.
I. How does it work?
“…the data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz, which is able to store vast quantities of data for over a million years,” explains a press release. “The information encoding is realized in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures.” [1]
That sounds complicated, but what it basically means is that, using ultra-fast lasers, we can now encode a piece of quartz with 5D information in the form of nanostructured dots separated by only one millionth of a meter.
“The self-assembled nanostructures change the way light travels through glass, modifying polarization of light that can then be read by combination of optical microscope and a polarizer, similar to that found in Polaroid sunglasses,” states the release. [2]
The storage allows unprecedented parameters including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C and practically unlimited lifetime.
"We are developing a very stable and safe form of portable memory using glass, which could be highly useful for organisations with big archives. At the moment companies have to back up their archives every five to ten years because hard-drive memory has a relatively short lifespan. (...) Museums who want to preserve information or places like the national archives where they have huge numbers of documents, would really benefit," stated the ORC leading researcher, Jingyu Zhang. [2]
II. In case of mankind's extinction, the 5D memory crystals will "survive" to tell our story
5D Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever, Scientists Say
The team's supervisor, Professor Peter Kazansky, explained:
"It is thrilling to think that we have created the first document which will likely survive the human race. This technology can secure the last evidence of civilisation: all we've learnt will not be forgotten." [3]
It's interesting that preserving mankind's history is considered by scientists to be the most important thing we can achieve with this technology.
If others before us discovered this technology, then it is very probable that they have reached to the same conclusions.
Back in 2010 I wrote about David, a child who allegedly incarnated on Earth from a planet called Inua. He explained that all of the evolved extraterrestrial species store data on crystals for aeons - including their history.
In conclusion, if we are to look for solid evidence about the existence of lost ancient civilizations (e.g. Lemurians, Atlanteans, ET visitors), then we should also consider looking for "memory crystals".
If we are to leave our history recorded for posterity - just in case our species doesn't make by the end of the century — then a disc-shaped (or icicle-shaped, as depicted in Superman) crystal may not be the best shape for such an important library.
No! The crystal needs to be solid enough not to shatter with ease, beautiful enough for others to preserve it, and awe-inspiring so that it is treated with respect... maybe even feared.
Why? Because the ones who find it, may not be able to read its message, so it needs to survive in one piece until someone figures out what it is and/or has the technology to decode the encrypted message.
And just one crystal may not be enough... so the more we make, the better.
It should be crystal-clear (pun intended) by now that I am making a reference to something. Do you know what I am talking about?
I am, of course, talking about the famous ancient crystal skulls. And there are - at least - about a dozen of original crystal skulls in private and public collections.
III. The Mysterious Ancient Crystal Skulls of Mesoamerica
These mysterious crystal skulls reunite all the needed features (solid, beautiful, numerous and awe inspiring) for them to survive long enough so that their possible message could be decoded by an advanced species.
Photograph by AFP/Getty Images
According to National Geographic,
"Some are crystal clear, others of smoky or colored quartz. Some are actual human size and of very fine detail, while others are smaller and less refined. All are believed to originate from Mexico and Central America.
Many believe these skulls were carved thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago by an ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Others think they may be relics from the legendary island of Atlantis or proof that extraterrestrials visited the Aztec sometime before the Spanish conquest." [4]
Unfortunately, according to the same source cited above, the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution declared their original skulls to be fake:
"Recent electron microscope analyses of skulls by the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution revealed markings that could only have been made with modern carving implements."
Firstly, the original skulls could have been easily replaced with fakes by now. Those who control the world have access anywhere they desire.
Secondly, just because the skulls have modern-looking carving marks on them is not evidence that the skulls are fake. There are plenty of monuments drilled, carved and stacked together so perfectly that it would be challenging to replicate even today (e.g Puma Punku, or the Great Pyramids of Egypt- just to name a couple of sites).
Revolutionary "Superman" Memory Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
Interesting times await us just around the corner, so - who knows?! - maybe one day, soon, I will be able to report to you that an ancient crystal skull has been discovered to contain the real history of our planet and its inhabitants.
It’s a mission years in the making. Early in the afternoon of February 6, the window opens for the first ever launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket as it blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But that’s just the start of the mission — for the story to end as SpaceX hopes, the company will rely on something called a Hohmann transfer.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been upfront about the possibility the rocket could explode shortly after launch, taking with it its payload, Musk’s own TeslaRoadster. If all goes as planned, though, the sports car will go to Mars… sort of.
The car won’t actually land on Mars — although if SpaceX were going to try to do that, “crash onto Mars” is probably the better way to put it — nor will it be put into orbit around the red planets. The technical intricacy needed to launch a rocket, accelerate it to interplanetary speeds, and then slow it down so that a payload, sports car or otherwise, can move into stable orbit around another planet is way beyond what SpaceX has yet accomplished.
That’s not the sort of thing someone, even Elon Musk, would just indirectly announce in a tweet about the Falcon Heavy’s cargo. But yes, you’d be forgiven for thinking he implied that.
Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent.
What Musk called a “Mars orbit” would more accurately be called something like an Earth-Mars orbit — basically, it’s an extremely elliptical orbit around the sun in which the Earth is the nearest point and Mars is the furthest point.
Since SpaceX has specifically chosen the orbital path that requires the smallest amount of energy, this would more technically be what’s known as a Hohmann transfer orbit, named for the early 20th century German engineer and rocket scientist who devised it.
Think of Musk’s Tesla Roadster as a kind of artificial comet, albeit one tracing a much shorter tour through the solar system than its real counterparts, which can take anywhere between decades and millennia to carve their path through the solar system’s outer reaches. This plan also clears up how a sports car can be expected to get to Mars in any sense without any additional rockets to accompany it — Falcon Heavy is just being used to get the payload into space, and from there the orbital dynamics of the Hohmann transfer take over.
Going forward, these Hohmann transfers will likely prove critical to SpaceX’s long-term Mars plans with its recently announced BFR interplanetary spacecraft, as they shorten trip times and reduce energy requirements. Before the BFR unveiling, the company’s future plans revolved around using Falcon Heavy rockets and the Hohmann transfers starting as early as 2018 to start supply drops on Mars in preparation for future crewed missions.
Whatever happens next, the upcoming launch is as good an opportunity as any to get up to speed on a bit of astrophysics that will likely underwrite much of SpaceX and others’ Mars plans for years to come.
You've read that, now watch this:
"SpaceX Falcon 9 Blooper Landing"
FULL: SpaceX Launch And Landing of Falcon 9 Rocket in Florida (FNN)
Superfast Asteroid Zooms Safely By Earth This Super Bowl Sunday
Superfast Asteroid Zooms Safely By Earth This Super Bowl Sunday
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
A fast-moving asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth this Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 4), but it poses no risk of hitting our planet, according to NASA.
The asteroid, called 2002 AJ129, will make its closest approach to Earth at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT), and will be about 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) from our planet at its closest point, NASA officials said. It's traveling at a breathtaking speed of about 76,000 mph (122,310 km/h), faster than most near-Earth asteroids, they added.
But while asteroid 2002 AJ129 is classified as "potentially hazardous" by NASA, at no point now or during the next century does it pose an impact threat to Earth, NASA officials said. Asteroids are classified potentially hazardous if they are larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter and are in orbits that approach within 4.65 million miles (7.48 million km) of Earth. [In Images: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Tracked by NASA]
"We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, said in the statement. "Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance — zero — of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years."
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT). At closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The space rock will be no closer than about 10 times the distance between the Earth and moon. (The average distance between the Earth and moon is about 238,855 miles, or about 384,400 km.)
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 is a mid-size asteroid that is somewhere between 0.3 miles and 0.75 miles (0.5 to 1.2 kilometers) across. It was discovered on Jan. 15, 2002 by astronomers with a then-NASA-sponsored Near Earth Asteroid Tracking project at the Maui Space Surveillance Site on Haleakala, Hawaii.
The asteroid's unusually fast speed was likely caused by a its orbit, which brings 2002 AJ129 extremely close to the sun, whipping around the star at a range of 11 million miles (18 million km), NASA officials said.
Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest minds of our generation - scratch that, one of the greatest human beings, full stop. But his vastly superior intellect doesn't mean he doesn't have a sense of humour.
The theoretical physicist has previously been shown cracking jokes in interviews, savaging John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, and even having a Duff with Homer in one of his four appearances on The Simpsons.
WATCH STEPHEN HAWKING ENTER THE THUG LIFE HALL OF FAME BELOW:
Keeping his fun-loving reputation in mind, it probably won't come as a surprise to you that Hawking claims to have once held a party for time travellers.
Speaking with several journalists at Seattle Science Festival, Hawking explained that although he waited patiently for guests to arrive, no one ended up coming to the bash. D'aww.
There was a reason for that though, as Hawking eventually admitted that waiting until it was over to send the invites probably didn't help.
"I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible," Hawking said in 2012, in a Q&A written up by Ars Technica.
"I gave a party for time-travellers, but I didn't send out the invitations until after the party. I sat there a long time, but no one came."
However, in the Ars Technica write-up, Hawking said that Einstein's theory of relativity suggested time travel is possible - but it's equally likely trying it would destroy space-time itself.
"Einstein's general theory of relativity seems to offer the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that we could travel back in time," Hawking said.
"However, it is likely that warping would trigger a bolt of radiation that would destroy the spaceship and maybe the space-time itself."
The wide-ranging Q&A Hawking had with journalists also covered the possibility of alien life, and what the chances are aliens will pay us a visit.
Hawking shot that suggestion down too, saying we'll probably have no need to lay the welcome mats out - or build the HMS Thunder Child - any time soon.
"I'm discounting claims that UFOs contain aliens. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?" Hawking asked.
"Do I believe that there is some government conspiracy to conceal the evidence and keep for themselves the advanced technology the aliens have? If that were the case, they aren't making much use of it."
Credit: PA
Hawking concluded that as we haven't picked up their TV quiz shows yet, all the evidence suggests that other intelligent life is probably quite far away.
While we make our best efforts to find it - such as through Hawking's Breakthough Initiatives programme - he said that we might need to accept that we're all totally alone in the universe - at least for the foreseeable future.
"It is true that we advertise our presence by our broadcast," Hawking said. "But given that we haven't been visited for four billion years, it isn't likely that aliens will come any time soon."
The truth is, though, who needs aliens when we have humans as impressive as Hawking?
Terwijl de bevolking te maken krijgt met hogere energierekeningen om de opwarming van de aarde te bestrijden, tekent zich voor onze ogen het begin van een nieuwe ijstijd af.
Net zoals in het bekende Maunder Minimum dalen de temperaturen in gebieden als de Sahara en de woestijnen van Saoedi Arabië, kijkt men vol verbazing naar de vallende sneeuw, net als in Tokio waar de bewoners rillend over straat gaan.
Bijna de complete wereld wordt geregeerd door de klimaatagenda, waarbij de bevolking wordt wijsgemaakt dat ze extra belasting moeten betalen om ervoor te zorgen dat er allerlei maatregelen genomen kunnen worden waardoor de temperatuur op aarde niet verder zal stijgen.
Uiteraard is dit de grootste oplichting aller tijden en zullen we de komende tientallen jaren te maken gaan krijgen met een koude periode, simpelweg omdat de mens niet de temperatuur op aarde bepaalt, maar primair de zon en secundair interplanetaire veranderingen. Zo eenvoudig is het en zo eenvoudig zal het altijd blijven ongeacht hoeveel belasting ze jou weten af te troggelen om een "duurzame" wereld te creëren.
We bevinden ons nu in zonnecyclus 24 waarvan de piek enkele jaren geleden was en we zijn nu weer op weg naar een volgend minimum. Zoals op de volgende afbeelding te zien, worden sinds 1980 de pieken in zonneactiviteit steeds lager.
Het wordt nog erger, want volgens verschillende modellen is de neerwaartse trend geen incident, maar vormt het onderdeel van een grotere cyclus waarbij we op een gegeven moment spreken van een zogenaamd "grand minimum". Dit doet zich voor als de zonnecycli tientallen jaren achter elkaar minder activiteit dan gemiddeld tonen.
Wanneer die neerwaartse trend zich voortzet zoals nu naar de volgende zonnecyclus, dan zal in cyclus 25 eenzelfde situatie zijn bereikt als tijdens het Dalton Minimum, de periode 1790 en 1820. Wanneer de trend zich dan ook weer voortzet naar de cyclus daarna, dan zullen we eenzelfde situatie hebben bereikt als tijdens het Maunder Minimun, de periode 1645 en 1715, ook wel het dieptepunt van de Kleine IJstijd genoemd.
Wanneer we kijken naar het verloop van de temperaturen gedurende het Maunder Minimum, dan valt op dat gebieden die toen hele lage temperaturen hadden zoals noordwest Afrika, nu tegen alle verwachtingen in wéér te maken krijgen met hele lage temperaturen en sneeuw.
Het volgende kaartje laat zien waar tijdens het Maunder Minimum de laagste temperaturen voor kwamen en het gebied waar nu Marokko ligt, iss bijvoorbeeld heel donkerblauw gekleurd, wat wijst op lage temperaturen.
Afgelopen maand, en nu nog steeds, in Marokko, zijn de eerste tekenen van een nieuwe mini ijstijd op het noordelijk halfrond zichtbaar.
Bewoners in bergachtige streken hadden dringend hulp nodig om te kunnen overleven in de barre omstandigheden.
Zelfs in het zuiden van Marokko is sneeuw gevallen en de berichten daarover zijn tegenstrijdig: er wordt gezegd de eerste keer in 50 jaar en anderen zeggen dat het de eerste keer ooit in de herinnering van de huidige bewoners is.
In dezelfde regio liggen ook de Canarische eilanden en het laatste dat je daar zou verwachten is sneeuw. Toch moesten daar enkele dagen geleden precies om die reden 40 mensen worden geëvacueerd op het hoger deel van het eiland.
Ook Israël is nu niet bepaald een land de je associeert met sneeuw, maar ook daar kijkt men verbaasd naar de hemel:
Een ander deel van de wereld dat tijdens het Maunder Minimum te maken had met aanzienlijke afkoeling, was Japan. Op dit moment hebben ze het in Tokio nog niet zo koud gehad als sinds 1970 en ook daar keken de Japanners rillend naar de sneeuw die uit de lucht kwam.
Bij elkaar schiet de energierekening flink omhoog. Eerder werd duidelijk dat de duurzaamheidsmaatregelen van het kabinet Rutte III volgend jaar ieder gezin gemiddeld 133 euro extra kosten. Onder meer de Opslag Duurzame Energie stijgt 45 euro, terwijl de energiebelasting op gas met gemiddeld 54 euro per huishouden toeneemt. Het kabinetsbesluit om de heffingskorting op energie met 62 euro te verlagen, drijft de energierekening verder omhoog.
Alien Contactee Discloses Info That is Beyond Our Comprehension
Alien Contactee Discloses Info That is Beyond Our Comprehension
This man has had astounding experiences with UFOs including the most head spinning and amazing visions from Nordic Blonde Alien.
Here is an at-length presentation on the state of contact: the maneuvers of the Nordics; the components of contact experiences that connect to mind control operations and targeting of contactees/abductees; the Yiazmat Paradox, German Triangle craft and A.I. communications; the orb beings/craft; remote viewing UFOs; filming the triangle craft over Yorkshire; Tony’s communications with a German intelligence agency over his sightings; and deep personal insights into the phenomena of UFO contactee experiences.
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Alien Contactee Discloses Info That is Beyond Our Comprehension
Alien Contactee Discloses Info That is Beyond Our Comprehension
This man has had astounding experiences with UFOs including the most head spinning and amazing visions from Nordic Blonde Alien.
Here is an at-length presentation on the state of contact: the maneuvers of the Nordics; the components of contact experiences that connect to mind control operations and targeting of contactees/abductees; the Yiazmat Paradox, German Triangle craft and A.I. communications; the orb beings/craft; remote viewing UFOs; filming the triangle craft over Yorkshire; Tony’s communications with a German intelligence agency over his sightings; and deep personal insights into the phenomena of UFO contactee experiences.
During a trip to the desert in Nevada, a tourist snapped multiple photographs of a landscape using a cell phone. The tourist had a great day admiring the beautiful scenery. Nothing strange occurred that day and the tourist returned home.
After reviewing photographs taken from that trip to the desert, the tourist realized there was a strange purple object seen in the background of one image. Only 3 photographs were taken that day in the location where the images were taken.
We have included two of three images to protect the case. The third image is a copy of the picture containing the purple object, taken from the same exact location, but no object can be seen.
Analysis From A Third Party
UFO Seekers asked Scott Brando from ufoofinterest.org to analyze the photograph. The website ufoofinterest.org is dedicated to debunking UFO hoaxes and exposing hoax content.
Scott gave this response to the image even though no raw file was available from the individual who submitted the images. He said the following:
I can say it could be an insect taken with blurfo effect… it is most likely a bug/insect flying near camera lens (it is out of focus).
Scott also provided a link to show what he is describing, in more detail. (https://t.co/Uzq9sXlZOs)
UFO Seekers Analysis
The original image is only 640x427 pixels. It was taken with a cell phone. No raw version of the image is available.
The image does show some lens flare anomalies separate from the purple object. The issue with the purple object is the lack of transparency common in lens flare anomalies. The color of the object does not seem to be normal of a lens flare, although not impossible for a lens flare to create.
If it was an object, it was something thrown in the air then photographed, making the color purple more plausible.
Due to the lack of better image quality, we can not provide an explanation. During our questioning the witness testified that no objects were in the air, nothing was seen, nothing was heard.
In 1958 a former United States military Major told the world, “Alien UFOs are real.” Luckily a rare interview has been posted on YouTube of Mike Wallace interviewing Major Donald Keyhoe in 1958. In the interview Major Keyhoe claims the U.S. Air Force is misleading the public about the existence of alien UFOs. Watch the full interview below.
Major Keyhoe references the famous Alien UFO Program named Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book was a U.S. government funded program that investigated UFO Sightings in attempt to discover if alien UFOs existed.
Project Blue Book vs.
Aerial Threat Identification Program
Project Blue Book was different than the recently disclosed Aerial Threat Identification Program (ATIP). ATIP was operated under the mission of identifying foreign aerial military threats without regard to the operator as opposed to Project Blue Book which was looking to answer questions surrounding alien craft visiting Earth. That is why the U.S. Air Force issued statements about alien UFOs when Project Blue Book was deemed completed.
A termination order for Project Blue Book was given in December 1969. All Project Blue Book activities ceased in January 1970.
The conclusions of Project Blue Book were:
No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.
There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge.
There has been no evidence indicating the sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles.
If you listen to the testimony of Luis ELizondo, he himself directly says the ATIP gave no regard to answering who was driving or operating the crafts seen in videos analyzed by the ATIP. Meaning the ATIP did not hunt for aliens, they hunted for aerial military threats. It’s only his opinion, “UFOs are real.”
Major Donald Keyhoe’s Background
Born June 20, 1897, Donald Edward Keyhoe became famous in the UFO community during the 1950’s as a UFO Researcher. He searved in the U.S. military as a Marine Corps Naval Aviator. Keyhoe later began writing aviation articles and stories.
During the 50’s and 60’s Major Keyhoe’s peers in the UFO community regarded him as the “leader in the UFO field.”
Major Keyhoe lobbied the government to disclose the truth about the existence of Alien UFOs with support from reputable businessmen, military personnel (active and non-active), commercial pilots, among others.
Het schijnt op zich een natuurlijk fenomeen te zijn en men noemt het cloud iridescence. Het is een vorm van diffractie en wordt veroorzaakt door kleine waterdruppels en ijskristallen. Ook worden dit soort lichtverschijnselen wel aardbevingslichten genoemd, omdat ze soms ook worden waargenomen net voor aardbevingen.
Het is hoe dan ook een indrukwekkend gezicht en wellicht is er ook nog een andere verklaring voor dit mysterieuze lichtverschijnsel aan de hemel. We zien natuurlijk de laatste tijd steeds meer vreemde luchten, waaronder paarse.
Dan een ander mysterieus verschijnsel dat zich voordeed aan de hemel afgelopen woensdag toen er tijdens de zogenaamde supermoon ook sprake was van een maansverduistering. Via een lezer ontvingen wij de volgende opname (dank!) die toen is gemaakt in Alaska, waarbij naast de maan duidelijk nog een ander hemellichaam waar te nemen is.
Het schijnt geen lensflare te zijn, maar wat is het dan wel? Wij hebben geen andere opnames kunnen vinden van hetzelfde verschijnsel.
We blijven nog even bij de maan, want eveneens op woensdag werd door een observatorium een UFO vastgelegd die de maan passeerde.
Hieronder zie je de bewegende beelden en daarin is heel duidelijk te zien hoe een UFO met hoge snelheid langs de man reist, misschien wel onderweg naar de aarde.
Vanaf de maan door naar de Filipijnen, waar ook iets opmerkelijks gebeurde.
Uit statistieken blijkt hoe het aantal aardbevingen de laatste decennia spectaculair zijn toegenomen en ook op het gebied van vulkanen geld hetzelfde.
Gedurende iedere week van het jaar 2017 zijn er ergens tussen de 14 en 27 uitbarstingen geweest en het lijkt er niet op dat dit in het nieuwe jaar zal afnemen. Eén van de vulkanen die veel activiteit vertoont is Mt. Mayon op de Filipijnen. Er zijn daar op dit moment al 82.000 mensen geëvacueerd vanwege het grote gevaar dat deze vulkaan vormt. Alarmfase 4 is afgekondigd, de op één na hoogste en de situatie daar is nu vergelijkbaar met die van ooit in Pompeï net voor de uitbarsting, waarbij duizenden mensen om het leven kwamen. Dit staat ook beschreven in de bijbel.
Volgens een Filipijnse legende is deze vulkaan niet zomaar ontstaan, maar is deze het resultaat van een tragisch liefdesverhaal.
Er was ooit een mooie vrouw genaamd Daragang Magayon die zo mooi was dat mensen van heinde en ver kwamen om haar te mogen aanschouwen. Tussen al die bewonderaars zat ook Pagtuga die haar overlaadde met mooie geschenken. Echter, Magayon moest niets van hem hebben, want zij had haar zinnen gezet op de held Pangaronon die haar bij toeval van de verdrinkingsdood had gered toen ze in een rivier aan het baden was.
Magayon was de dochter van het hoofd van de stam, Makusog, en dus toog Pangaronon naar de vader en vroeg hem om de hand van zijn dochter, die dit accepteerde. Maar, Pagtuga accepteerde dit niet en toen hij hoorde van de huwelijksplannen, ontvoerde hij vader Makusog en dreigde hem te doden als Magayon niet met hem zou trouwen.
Magayon stemde toe om het leven van haar vader te redden en er ontstond een oorlog tussen de legers van de twee liefdesrivalen. Pagtuga moest dit met de dood bekopen en vol geluk holde Magayon naar Pangaronon.... toen een verdwaalde pijl hem in de rug trof en ook hij stierf.
Ze was helemaal buiten zinnen van verdriet en schreeuwde de naam Pangaronon uit toen ze zichzelf doodde omdat ze geen leven zonder hem kon verdragen. Makusog begroef zijn dochter samen met haar geliefde en vele jaren gingen voorbij totdat de bevolking merkte dat er langzaam een heuvel ontstond, wat nog veel later de vulkaan Manyon werd.
Op 18 januari 2018 kwamen beide geliefden weer tevoorschijn, dit keer aan de hemel, toen de vulkaan weer eens van zich liet horen. De lokale bevolking is er heilig van overtuigd dat Magayon en Pangaronon samen te zien zijn op de volgende foto's.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETMensen die 12.800 jaar geleden de ijstijd overleefden en uit hun schuilplaatsen kwamen toen de Aarde langzaam weer aan het opwarmen was, zullen snel weer beschutting hebben moeten zoeken toen er opeens gigantische vuurballen uit de hemel kwamen neergeregend. Dat blijkt uit een studie die gepubliceerd is in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Journal of Geology. Het zou om fragmenten hebben gegaan van een enorme komeet en de impact zou groter geweest zijn dan die van de asteroïde die de dinosaurussen uitroeide 65 miljoen jaar geleden.
Na de impact volgden schokgolven en vuur verspreidde zich over het land. Volgens de studie zou op die manier 10 procent van de totale aardoppervlakte opgegaan zijn in vlammen, wat overeenkomt met 10 miljoen vierkante kilometer. Er kwam stof in de atmosfeer terecht en die sneed het zonlicht af.
Planten
Daardoor koelde het klimaat weer af. Planten stierven, voedselbronnen raakten uitgeput en de gletsjers wonnen opnieuw terrein. De stromingen in de oceanen veranderden en er ontstond een toestand die weer aan de voorbije ijstijd deed denken. En nog 1.000 jaar zou duren.
Uiteindelijk werd het opnieuw warmer en de mens kwam weer tevoorschijn. In een wereld met veel minder grote dieren en een menselijke cultuur die er helemaal anders was gaan uitzien. (lees hieronder verder)
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Dat is het verhaal dat geschetst wordt door de 24 onderzoekers die meeschreven aan de nieuwe studie. Onder meer emeritusprofessor fysica en astronomie Adrian Melott van de universiteit van Kansas, die nu aan de universiteit van Washburn werkt. “We deden metingen op meer dan 170 verschillende plaatsen ter wereld om tot onze conclusies te komen”, aldus Melott.
Volgens de studie zou de ramp veroorzaakt zijn toen de Aarde geraakt werd door fragmenten van een uiteenvallende komeet, die een diameter had van zo’n 100 kilometer (dat is ongeveer de afstand van Brugge tot Brussel). Ter vergelijking: de asteroïde die verantwoordelijk wordt geacht voor de uitroeiing van de dinosauriërs had een diameter van bijna 10 kilometer. Resten van die gigantische komeet zouden vandaag nog altijd door ons zonnestelsel vliegen.
Dennenwouden
“Onze hypothese is dat de komeet uiteengevallen was in kleinere stukken en dat die kleine stukken insloegen op de Aarde. Dat zou een ongeziene ramp veroorzaakt hebben”, aldus Melott. “Chemische resten van onder meer koolstofdioxide, nitraat en ammoniak suggereren dan een tiende van de Aarde in vlammen opging. De analyse van pollen wijst er ook op dat dennenwouden vervangen werden door populierenbossen, een boomsoort die vaak vrijgemaakte ruimten inneemt.”
Volgens de studie zou de impact het Jonge Dryas veroorzaakt hebben, de plotse koude periode die op de ijstijd volgde. Maar ook het verbranden van biomassa, het verdwijnen van een groot aantal grotere dieren op het einde van het pleistoceen en een terugval in de mensenpopulatie. Zij die de vreselijke inslagen overleefden, waren trouwens nog niet veilig.
Ozonlaag
“Onze berekeningen doen vermoeden dat de inslagen de ozonlaag fel verzwakten, waardoor onder meer een toename van huidkankers en andere gezondheidsproblemen ontstaan zullen zijn. Onze studie is nog altijd een hypothese, maar de gegevens die we verzamelden kunnen eigenlijk alleen maar verklaard worden door een zware kosmische inslag”, klinkt het nog.
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Latest Nevada UFO sighting 2018!
Latest Nevada UFO sighting 2018!
New footage of a multiple lights in the sky above Las Vegas, Nevada.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of January 28, 2018. I’ll keep it short by saying that “UFO Tourists” would probably be far better off watching Nellis Air Force Base instead of wasting gas, money, time and energy going out to Area 51 to try and see UFOs. Whoever puts these amazing things in the sky must laugh their rear ends off knowing that the overwhelming majority of people have no idea what’s going on right here in their own backyard and under their noses. It’s true that the best place to hide something is in plain sight. I am definitely not the only person who is aware of what goes on at Nellis.
This Is What Bill Clinton Found In His Efforts To Discover the Truth About UFOs
This Is What Bill Clinton Found In His Efforts To Discover the Truth About UFOs
The US Government has been accused of withholding files on UFO encounters, but if there is one person who would know the entire information, that would be the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it was not the case, at least during Bill Clinton’s administration.
Bill Clinton reportedly spent much time in trying to know what other government agencies were not telling him about UFO encounters. His associate attorney general Webster Hubbell allegedly told the President about a secret government holding information on UFOs.
According to Hubbell’s memoir, President Clinton gave him two essential tasks, one to know who assassinated John F. Kennedy and the other one was to figure out how much the government knew about UFOs.
While investigating other agencies about UFO encounters, he found himself blocked at each turn. It was only after sufficient pressure when CIA director James Woolsey started declassifying records of the involvement of the CIA in UFO investigation and the projects of the Air Force to research UFO sightings.
Project SAUCER and Project SIGN were Air Force’s projects to research UFO sightings, which were conducted in spite of the official government announcement that no research was done in the aftermath of the Roswell Incident. These investigations were designed to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute all information relating to such sightings but only within the government. These projects were born on the premise that UFOs might be real and of national security concern.
The CIA also confirmed reports that the agency had years of records and a wealth of knowledge when it came to UFO research that was initially withheld from Clinton and Hubbell.
Disclosure of some files on US interest in UFOs involves no smoking gun evidence that conspiracy theorists are seeking. Mr Hubble concludes that a secret government wing holds all records on US interest in UFOs that even the President has been kept in the dark.
The Peterson Case is bound to be very creepy.QUARTER CIRCLE GAMES
We have our fair share of zombies in the gaming sphere already, so it's good to see that we're finally adding some newer titles that add aliens into the mix. Specifically, an upcoming game from English developer Quarter Circle Games explores Roswell incident that UFO enthusiasts have researched for years. The title, called The Peterson Case, takes players to the 1947 Roswell crash and the weirdness that surrounded it.
The self-professed horror game will have players follows Detective Franklin Reinhardt as he investigates a deserted house whose residents have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Set in 1947 in a remote area near the infamous Roswell site, the game will invite you to investigate the house as well as the myriad clues surrounding the family’s disappearance. The Peterson Case slowly turns into an investigation involving none other than aliens. Franklin must race to learn the truth “before it's too late,” whatever that means.
The announcement trailer does a decent job of setting the stage for what could be a pretty unique game, one of the most recent titles to explore the Roswell incident or aliens in the way only adventure games can. There haven’t been many games made specifically about Roswell or the theories about what actually happened there, at least not like this one, so it’ll be interesting to see how the company approaches the subject.
In the three-minute clip, we're treated to some pretty decadent visuals that bring to mind the excellent P.T., especially with how realistic the room and door look. There's also some sort of weird tentacle-like presence that's overtaking the house that our protagonist is exploring. A woman is standing in the hall, something obviously very wrong with her—and then the scene changes. You're taken through an opulent building, and then what looks to be the outside of a military camp, complete with guards. It's all unsettlingly realistic, and if this is indicative of the final quality of the horror game, it should make fans pretty happy, indeed.
The Peterson Case doesn’t have a release date just yet, but it’s set to debut on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Alien invaders have pulled out of Cambridgeshire - and taken their flying saucers with them.
Police data on UFO and ET sightings in the county has revealed the county is no favourite with bug-eyed monsters or little green men - or whatever aliens look like.
The data shows there was one report of aliens and one report of a UFO to the Cambridgeshire force in 2015.
The following year ET was a bit more active with two reports of aliens sighted and two of UFOs.
But last year (2017) not one extraterrestrial or their space craft were reported to police, according to figures released using freedom of information laws.
Dr David Sutton, editor of the Fortean Times, a monthly magazine of news and research on strange phenomena, said: "At Fortean Times we tend to associate Cambridgeshire with reports of mystery big cats – like the infamous 'Fen Tiger' – rather than UFO sightings.
"And on the strength of these figures, it's not exactly a UFO hot-spot, with 2017 having been a particularly disappointing year.
"Perhaps we should bear in mind, though, that these figures are based on emergency calls to the local police ... who are probably extremely grateful that they don't receive too many 999 calls about alien visitors."
But Tony Buckingham, founder of East Anglia UFO Group, said alienss are amongst us.
He said: "Although UFO sightings are down from a few years ago, they have not left Cambridgeshire. I interviewed two people just this week (Littleport and Chatteris).
"One of the sightings was a few weeks ago and the other was older. My feeling is that people have their heads down much more often (looking at phones etc I guess), and just don’t look up, like they once did.
Indeed last year (2017) an eagle-eyed amateur photographer spotted an eerie green UFO shaped light in the Cambridge skyline.
Carole Middleton was on a camera club outing with the Cambridgeshire Bat Conservation Trust on June 21 when she caught sight of a mysterious saucer shaped green light hovering above the old Cambridge pumping station in Cheddars Lane.
Cambridgeshire's most remarkable UFO sightings
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Three years ago a woman who is a member of the group saw 'a big gun metal grey triangle floating in a field' with her two children.
Following the incident all three claim to have developed supernatural abilities.
One of her children 'sees auras' around people of all different colours.
Her other daughter claims she has visitations at night time, and her third daughter has what looks like an implant on her hand which she claims gives her electric shocks which have given her an intelligence beyond her years.
Another member claims she was driving to Newmarket with her brother when she was chased by a flying saucer.
It came down behind her and she could see 'a big white light'. As fast as she was going, she couldn't get away from it - until she stopped in Newmarket and it 'just disappeared'.
Was it a lorry or an alien? You decide.
She claims ever since she's been visited by strange orbs, and on one occasion saw 'footprints in her bedroom mirror'.
Another lady in the group says she was driving through Newmarket several years ago at 7am when a 'red light' appeared in the distance.
It was was joined by five or six others which seemed to be 'dancing and playing tag', until one came forward very quickly and landed in the field opposite where they were sitting.
When she got out to have a look, a huge bright white object rose up - the height of a house - then just flew off behind them.
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Google Maps mystery: UFO hunters claim this object is an underwater alien base
Google Maps mystery: UFO hunters claim this object is an underwater alien base
GOOGLE maps is an informative mapping service that offers satellite images of locations around the globe. But every now and again strange and peculiar sightings are picked up. One photograph of a specific pin point in Antarctica shows a lonely iceberg that UFO hunters claim if an underwater alien base.
Google Maps is one of the most useful tools available on the internet, allowing people to visit all areas of the world from the comfort of their own home.
But as well as its informative qualities, the site also provides countless entertaining images.
Alongside the ordinary looking residential streets and national parks is everything from the amusing to the downright bizarre.
One particular image shows an isolated iceberg off the coast of Antarctica.
I'm not an iceberg expert but this object is really peculiar and looks like a vessel disguised as an iceberg
At the coordinate 72°43'13.53"S 78°40'21.56"W is a block of ice around 500 metres long.
Apart from its placing, the iceberg looks nothing out of the ordinary.
But according to UFO hunters the object is an underwater alien lair.
The website, UFO Sightings Hotspot, believes it doesn’t fit the normal iceberg description.
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The site reads: "Icebergs can be classified on the basis of their shape.
"The two basic types of iceberg forms are tabular and non-tabular.
"The shapes and forms from this iceberg look very different if we compare it with all the different shapes and forms of tabular and non-tabular icebergs.
"I'm not an iceberg expert but this object is really peculiar and looks like a vessel disguised as an iceberg.
While he worked on the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, Nick Pope sent extraterrestrial footage to a Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre.
Its analysts enhanced and analysed a raft of pictures and videos.
Nick says the US intelligence community has the same specialists – but their workings have not been made available.
He told Express.co.uk: "The detailed results of these analyses, perhaps including enhanced, crystal clear images of what the pilots encountered, haven't yet been made public, and may never see the light of day.
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ON THE INSIDE: Former investigator Nick Pope worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project
"In summary, sceptics may not be impressed by the blurry videos that have been made public – and I take their point – but somewhere in the US intelligence community there will be considerably more impressive material.
"However, whether any of this can be declassified and made public remains to be seen."
The Pentagon ran a top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) Programme from 2007 to 2012 at a cost of £16.5 million.
“In the US intelligence community there will be considerably more impressive material”
Nick Pope
It was the brainchild of former Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid, who pushed for its creation in 2007.
Reid – whose region of control extended over the infamous Area 51 – tweeted last month: “The truth is out there, seriously.”
His comments came as a serious of bizarre UFO encounters with US pilots emerged.
Depuis ses premières déclarations publiques sur le sujet en 2005, Paul Hellyer, 91 ans, n’a eu de cesse de répéter son message : oui les extraterrestres existent, oui les extraterrestres sont déjà parmi nous, et le gouvernement américain travaille avec eux depuis plus de 60 ans.
Dans ses révélations en date de mai 2015 par le biais d’une vidéo, Paul Hellyer a créé un véritable buzz sur la toile : « Nous n’avons plus que quelques mois » affirme-t-il, tout en dénonçant dans la foulée le rôle de la « money mafia » et des lobbys dirigeant nos sociétés.
Mais pourquoi diantre s’attarder sur de telles déclarations, qui ne sont en soi pas une première dans la rubrique phénomènes paranormaux ? Tout simplement parce qu’elles sont soutenues par un ancien ministre canadien (1963-1967), de la Défense qui plus est. Ce qui fait de lui l’officiel le plus haut gradé soutenant l’existence d’extraterrestres.
Dans cet article, nous avons choisi d’analyser une courte vidéo (10 minutes) de Paul Hellyer datant de 2013, et abordant spécifiquement la question de l’existence des aliens. Nous avons entre autres analysé ces déclarations sur la base de 19 critères verbaux, les dénommés critères « CBCA » (Criteria Based Content Analysis). Ces critères ont été développés dans les années 1960 par des psychologues allemands pour aider les juges à évaluer la crédibilité de récits dans des procès en situation de parole contre parole. Les recherches en psychologie du mensonge ont montré que ces critères permettaient de discriminer de manière fiable les récits véritablement vécus vs. inventés. Plus ces critères sont présents dans un récit, plus celui-ci sera jugé crédible (ex : quantité de détails, reproduction de conversations, etc.). Nous avons ainsi adopté une démarche en deux temps : codage de la présence de certains critères (verbaux, non-verbaux), puis évaluation de la crédibilité du témoignage sur base de ces critères.
Notre but : évaluer la crédibilité des déclarations de Paul Hellyer d’une part, déterminer si l’expérience qu’il décrit a des chances de correspondre à un événement réellement vécu par lui d’autre part, et le cas échéant s’il s’agit d’un vrai souvenir.
Il est toujours déconseillé d’analyser un récit trop souvent répété ou trop éloigné dans le temps des événements décrits, qui plus est sur base d’une vidéo dont des passages ont été coupés au montage.
Malgré cela, cette courte vidéo soulève un nombre conséquent de remarques immédiates quant à la crédibilité des affirmations de l’ancien ministre :
1. Pauvreté des détails fournis.
La quantité de détails fournie est l’un des critères les plus importants pour évaluer la crédibilité d’un récit. La présence de détails inattendus est également un critère d’analyse important en CBCA. Aucun de ces critères verbaux ne peut être considéré comme présent dans les déclarations de Hellyer dans cette vidéo, tant les descriptions données sont peu détaillées et stéréotypées dans les parties critiques de son récit.
Exemples :
Description des formes d’extraterrestres : il y aurait les « petits gris », les « grands gris », les « mantes religieuses » et les « blonds nordiques ». Nous n’en aurons pas de description plus détaillée sur toute la vidéo, et pour cause : à aucun moment Paul Hellyer ne prétend les avoir vus lui-même. Il fait au contraire état de « rapports » sur ces extraterrestres. Il s’agit donc de descriptions indirectes, expliquant la pauvreté des détails fournis.
Référence aux exemples connus d’interventions d’extraterrestres sur Terre : « Il y a eu la fois dans l’Ouest des Etats-Unis où un OVNI observait des missiles balistiques intercontinentaux et les a mis hors-service ». Encore une fois, Paul Hellyer fait une révélation de première importance, mais très peu étayée : en quelle année l’événement a-t-il eu lieu ? Au-dessus de quelle ville ?
2. Rigidité du récit.
La présence de reproductions de conversations est un autre indice de crédibilité en analyse CBCA. Comme pour la quantité de détails d’un récit, plus nombreuses sont ces reproductions, plus le témoignage est jugé crédible.
Bien que nous ayons une reproduction de conversation sur un élément critique des affirmations faites par l’ancien ministre (« Tous les mots que tu as lus sont vrais et bien plus encore »), une certaine rigidité du récit est à noter dans ce témoignage. En effet, « le » général à l’origine de cette affirmation aurait répété exactement la même phrase, mot pour mot, mais en deux circonstances différentes (une fois avec Paul Hellyer, une autre avec son neveu).
En codage CBCA, rappelons enfin que la phrase « Il a dit : ‘Tous les mots que tu as lu sont vrais et bien plus encore' » compte comme une reproduction de conversation ; mais pas la tournure indirecte « il m’a dit qu’en fait il avait eu des rencontres en personne ».
3. Usage d’expressions de doute.
Sur certains passages, Paul Hellyer utilise, sans s’en rendre compte, des tournures de phrases exprimant un doute sur ses propres affirmations. Il utilise également des qualificatifs, qui sont des mots censés renforcer ses propos mais qui en termes de crédibilité les fragilisent en réalité.
Exemples :
« [Les extraterrestres sont toujours en avance sur nous] j’imagine, vraisemblablement, en technologie »
« Il est évident que le gouvernement américain a pris toute cette idée de technologie avancée très sérieusement »
Journaliste : « Selon vous, de quelles technologies êtes-vous sûr qu’elles nous ont été fournies par des extraterrestres ? ». Paul Hellyer : « Fibre optique, puces électroniques, kevlar, lasers améliorés et tout un tas de trucs où leur technologie était bien plus avancée que la nôtre. A des années-lumière, vraiment, je pense »
4. Origine des croyances de Paul Hellyer.
Un autre aspect fondamental est de nature à remettre en question la crédibilité des affirmations de Paul Hellyer : l’origine de ses croyances en l’existence des extraterrestres.
Si ses convictions semblent être des certitudes, il est à noter qu’elles précèdent sa première expérience paranormale en personne. Dans cette vidéo, ses convictions semblent uniquement provenir de deux sources initialement :
La lecture du livre The Day After Roswell
Puis sa conversation avec « un » ancien général de l’armée de l’air américaine (sur lequel nous n’avons à nouveau pas plus de détails)
Il semblerait donc que sur base de ces deux éléments uniquement, Paul Hellyer ait pris la décision de faire des déclarations publiques sur l’existence d’extraterrestres.
Dans cette vidéo, toutes les autres affirmations ont ainsi été faites par l’ancien ministre sans aucune justification (ex : « il y a eu beaucoup de visites sur Terre, sans doute depuis des milliers d’années », « ils ont peur qu’on fasse exploser notre planète », « ils ont répertorié toutes les bases »). Il ne semble pas non plus émettre de quelconque réserve sur les « dizaines d’emails » qu’il aurait reçus suite à ses déclarations publiques.
Enfin, il est important de relever que ses convictions en l’existence d’extraterrestres sont nées après la période où il était à la tête du ministère de la Défense canadien. Ses croyances n’ont donc aucun rapport avec des informations confidentielles auxquelles il aurait eu accès par son statut.
5. Timing de la première expérience extraterrestre.
La date de la première expérience extraterrestre de l’ancien ministre soulève également un certain nombre de questions.
« L’un des problèmes que j’ai eus quand j’ai fait mes premières déclarations publiques c’est que les journalistes me disaient : « Vous en avez déjà vus ? ». Et je disais « non ». Alors ils me disaient : « On ne peut pas vous prendre au sérieux alors. »
En résumé sa première expérience survient :
1) après que sa conviction ait été forgée ;
2) qu’elle ait été déclarée en public ;
3) et que des journalistes lui aient dit que ses déclarations ne pouvaient être prises au sérieux tant qu’il n’avait pas vécu de rencontre lui-même.
6. Description de l’expérience de Paul Hellyer.
« Ma première observation, j’étais chez moi à Muskoka, il a quelques années pour Thanksgiving. Ma femme Sandra me dit : « je vais regarder les étoiles dehors ». Il y avait cette étoile très très brillante, juste de l’autre côté de la baie. On l’a tous les deux regardée, et d’un coup on l’a vu changer de position dans le ciel, de 3 ou 4 degrés, en 3 ou 4 secondes. Les étoiles, les satellites et les avions ne font pas ça. Ils ne le peuvent pas. C’était une expérience incroyablement intéressante. Et qui a bien entendu confirmé ma croyance en leur existence. »
La description de cette expérience, vécue en personne par Paul Hellyer, correspond au récit le plus détaillé de toute l’interview. On y trouve notamment :
Des détails spatiaux : « déviation de 3 ou 4 degrés », « de l’autre côté de la baie »
Des détails temporels : « en 3 ou 4 secondes », « pour Thanksgiving »
Des détails visuels : « chez moi à Muskoka », « cette étoile très très brillante »
Des reproductions de conversations (avec présence d’un témoin) : « ma femme Sandra me dit : ‘je vais regarder les étoiles dehors' »
Des descriptions d’interactions : « On l’a tous les deux regardée »
Ce n’est pas étonnant, dans la mesure où le récit d’un événement véritablement vécu est toujours plus détaillé que des récits d’événements rapportés. Bien que cette description soit assez peu riche en détails dans l’absolu, le fait qu’elle en contienne davantage que toutes les autres crédibilise le fait qu’elle soit véritablement survenue. D’autant que Paul Hellyer accompagne cette description de nombreux illustrateurs, qui sont des gestes n’ayant pas de sens en soi mais qui sont plus présents dans des descriptions de faits véritablement vécus (par exemple, le fait de pointer du doigt vers une direction en racontant un événement).
En supposant donc que le récit corresponde bien à un événement vraiment expérimenté par Paul Hellyer, il resterait donc à déterminer l’essentiel : s’agissait-il d’un vrai OVNI, ou d’un phénomène naturel mal interprété ?
On remarquera tout d’abord l’utilisation des mêmes chiffres pour les descriptions spatiales et temporelles (3 ou 4 degrés / 3 ou 4 secondes), dont la coïncidence peut être questionnée. On regrettera également le flou de la description sur la date de l’événement (« il y a quelques années »), rendant sa vérification et la recherche de phénomènes naturels concordants infaisable.
Notons également qu’à aucun moment Paul Hellyer n’affirme explicitement avoir vu d’OVNI dans son récit : il parle ainsi d’une « étoile » très très brillante. Pas d’un OVNI.
Par ailleurs, l’emploi même du terme croyance (« C’était une expérience […] qui a confirmé ma croyance en leur existence »), est également intéressant. Paul Hellyer a déclaré publiquement que les extraterrestres existent, dès 2005. Qu’il en avait la preuve. Avant même d’en avoir vu lui-même. Il est donc aussi surprenant que Paul Hellyer parle de croyance que d’entendre quelqu’un dire qu’un événement aurait confirmé sa croyance dans le fait que la Terre soit ronde.
Enfin, d’un point de vue non-verbal, Paul Hellyer affiche de subtils sourires lorsqu’il décrit son expérience (lorsqu’il dit « C’était une expérience incroyablement intéressante »). Comme une fierté d’avoir expérimenté par lui-même un tel événement. D’en « savoir plus » que les autres.
Les pièges des biais de confirmation
Si nous devions formuler une évaluation de crédibilité sur base de cette vidéo uniquement, nous pencherions donc pour dire que Paul Hellyer :
a véritablement vécu le phénomène qu’il décrit (vision d’une étoile très brillante)
est véritablement convaincu qu’il a eu affaire à des extraterrestres
qu’il s’agit en réalité d’un biais de confirmation, tant le fait d’avoir effectué de nombreuses déclarations publiques est engageant psychologiquement, et le pousse à interpréter toute nouvelle information de manière à ce qu’elle confirme ses croyances antérieures
Cette vidéo ne prouve donc aucunement l’existence des extraterrestres. Elle prouve seulement que de telles croyances peuvent exister à tous les échelons du pouvoir.
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Rex E Heflin. The Highway Maintenance Man & A UFO.
Rex E Heflin. The Highway Maintenance Man & A UFO.
Rex E. Heflin was a friendly guy but not known as a joker. He worked hard, loved his job and did it well, said his co-workers. If he told you something was true, you would take his word for it.
Rex E Heflin.
On August 3, 1965 at approx. 12:30 p.m. Heflin stopped his work van near the intersection of Myford Road and Walnut Avenue, near the city of Santa Ana. The 38-year-old kept a Polaroid camera in his vehicle to help document conditions, part of his duty. Heflin was a highway maintenance engineer for the Orange County road department — and a portion of his job was keeping road signs visible.
Driving about half a mile outside the perimeter of El Toro Marine Base, his van faced north and he noticed branches of a tree obscuring a railroad-crossing sign. Rex stopped to take a picture and report it to his supervisor on his van radio as he routinely did. He experienced radio failure and was unable to make contact.
Very clear saucer craft.
Still sitting in his van, he planned to take a picture of the sign (with his Model 101 Polaroid & ASA 3000 film) when he saw a flash of motion on the periphery of his left eye. A silvery craft flew slowly from left to right across Myford Road, Rex said.
Appearing about one-eighth of a mile away and approx. 150 feet altitude it seemed to hover, then cross his line of vision as Heflin photographed it through the car windshield. Moving toward the east, the craft tipped and revealed a dark underside. “This is when I saw a rotating beam of light emitting from the center of the UFO on the bottom side,” Rex Heflin stated. He took four Polaroid pictures.
Heflin assumed it was an experimental aircraft from El Toro, he said. He judged its size by comparing it to the 20ft. wide traffic lanes over which it flew. On September 18, 1965, Rex signed a statement that the information he supplied was a true.
Shot from side window.
In an unexpected phone call from Larry Tarrant of Sun City, California on Oct. 10, 2005, sadly informed me that Rex Heflin had died on October 7th, 2005.
The news came as a shock, since Rex had left a message a few days earlier on my answering machine that he wanted to “catch up” with what was happening on the four UFO Polaroid photos that he had taken on Aug. 3, 1965, which had been studied and restudied by numerous researchers during the ensuing years.
More recently, a team of scientists – Dr. Robert M. Wood, Dr. Eric Kelson, and I had reanalyzed Heflin’s photos with state-of the-art computer technology, and had our findings published in a refereed scientific journal, the Journal of Scientific Exploration.’
Our paper clarified certain questions which various researchers in the UFO field had raised over the years concerning the validity of Heflin’s pictures.
The smoke ring left behind.
The pictures of the object are unambiguously clear and present an immediate problem for skeptics: Either the photos are clever fakes or they are actual pictures of a very unconventional flying craft; there is simply no third alternative explanation. Heflin initially told investigators that he believed that he had probably photographed an experimental aircraft from a nearby Marine base. As we shall discover shortly, however, there are several unique features in the pictures themselves that lower the probability that the strange craft was one of “ours.”
Since pictures and photographic negatives can be touched up and doctored, all serious UFO photo analysis requires first-generation prints and /or original negatives. In the Heflin case, negative tampering was eliminated since his pictures were shot with a Model 101 Polaroid camera on 3000 ASA Polaroid film, i.e., no negatives. And when high-resolution prints of the original Polaroid pictures themselves were reanalyzed 30 years later employing image digitization technology (See Ann Druffel, Robert M. Wood, and Eric Kelson, “Reanalysis of the 1965 Heflin UFO Photos,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 2000, pp. 583-622), there were no indications of tampering.
But could Heflin have faked the pictures by using a suspended model or, perhaps, by tossing some object into the air? Very unlikely. The latest computer analysis revealed no string or support-like structures in any of the photos. In addition, shooting convincing pictures of a thrown object would require dozens of trials (and pictures) and the help of a confederate; no evidence for either scenario has ever surfaced.
In short, the latest photo analysis appears to confirm Heflin’s original account: that he snapped three daytime photographs of a wingless, hat-shaped object – approximately 20 feet in diameter and about one-eighth of a mile from his truck – and that the structured craft wobbled slightly before it stabilized and flew off silently toward the northeast.
The most controversial element of the Heflin story is his fourth photograph. When the UFO flew out of sight, Heflin claimed that he spotted a dark “smoke ring” in the sky where the UFO had been moments before, which he then photographed after stepping out of his truck. Early investigators were troubled by the smoke-ring picture. They claimed that the clouds in the picture implied that the smoke-ring photo and the three other pictures could not have been taken on the same day. Several skeptics, doubtful of the authenticity of the smoke-ring photo, then labeled all of the Heflin photos a hoax.
However, the recent reanalysis of all four of the Heflin photos, employing state-of-the-art technology (obviously not available back in the 1960s) now concludes that the smoke-ring photo, rather than discrediting Heflin, actually appears to strongly substantiate him.
First, the latest photo analysis was accomplished with all of the original Polaroid photos and high-resolution first-generation prints and does, in fact, show similar clouds in all four of the photographs. Second, computer enhancement of photo two shows a bright line (or light beam) extending out from the bottom center of the disc to its outer rim, which is exactly what Heflin claimed that he saw back in 1965. And finally, computer enhancement of photo three shows something quite extraordinary: There appears to be a stream of “black particulate matter” trailing behind the UFO, which was not apparent under normal viewing.
This additional discovery is by far the most significant since the reanalysis of the smoke-ring photo shows that the ring appears composed of the same sort of black particulate matter seen trailing the UFO in photo three. This similarity in two different photos strongly supports the veracity of Heflin’s encounter. How any of these peculiarities could have been artificially manufactured over four decades ago (or can even be conventionally explained today) is extremely difficult to comprehend.
In conclusion, it would appear that Rex Heflin µ
1) photographed an odd-shaped and silent experimental aircraft that in the 44 years since has not been reportedly seen again or identified;
2) he perpetrated an amazing hoax that no one yet has unraveled;
or 3) he was fortunate enough to have taken several clear pictures of a genuine unidentified flying object.
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Mars Rover snaps selfie and takes stunning panorama of Red Planet (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
Mars Rover snaps selfie and takes stunning panorama of Red Planet (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has sent a fresh update, and it appears the science-lab-on-wheels has been busy acting like a tourist, snapping selfies at famous sites and taking stunning panoramic photos of the Martian landscape.
The rover, which is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, sends back raw images of what it encounters based on commands sent from the mission team.
The latest batch of photos shows the dusty robot posing for a selfie on Vera Rubin ridge which it’s been investigating for the past few months in a bid to establish whether Mars is, or ever was, capable of supporting life.
In the background of the picture, the 3.4 mile high Mount Sharp can be seen just behind Curiosity’s head.
The selfie was included in a huge tranche of images recounting what Curiosity has been doing in recent months. From the collection, NASA researchers stitched together a stunning panoramic view of Gale Crater, which the rover has been exploring since it touched down in August 2012.
The full view features a total of 16 photos pieced together. The pictures were taken from the rover’s vantage point on the side of the mountain, more than 1,000 feet above the crater.
It stretches across an expanse greater than 30 miles and shows the route the rover has taken over the last five years as it trundles around at an average speed of one centimetre per second.
"Even though Curiosity has been steadily climbing for five years, this is the first time we could look back and see the whole mission laid out below us,” said Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works with Curiosity.
“From our perch on Vera Rubin Ridge, the vast plains of the crater floor stretch out to the spectacular mountain range that forms the northern rim of Gale Crater.”
Curiosity will soon go back to drilling for soil samples, this time along the Vera Rubin Ridge.
Lying within the U.S. state of Arizona is one of the most majestic natural wonders of our planet, the Grand Canyon. Carved over hundreds of millions of years by the Colorado River and measuring 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide, the Grand Canyon is a major natural phenomenon, but it is also a place of deep historical mysteries and oddities as well. One of the most unusual of these is the claim that somewhere under the earth here once ruled an advanced civilization with unknown origins and who have become lost to history, which supposedly inhabited a complex cave and cavern system that they left behind to sow bafflement and speculation with their passing. It is a very curious, far-out case that, if real, could shake our historical perceptions to the core.
The whole bizarre tale began with a curious article that appeared right on the front page of the April 5, 1909 edition of the Arizona Gazette, which gave a spectacular account from two alleged Smithsonian-funded archaeologists, a Prof. S. A. Jordan and G.E. Kinkaid, who claimed to have found deep within the bowels of the earth in the Marble Canyon region of the Grand Canyon a vast cavern system with evidence of some ancient lost civilization.
The Grand Canyon
The two men were reportedly funded by Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology, and claimed that they had found the entrance to the mysterious cavern system lying around 1,500 feet down the wall of a sheer cliff in a remote, undisclosed area. The area was described as being nearly inaccessible and surrounded by desolate, forbidding wilderness, and the more vocal Kincaid would say in his account of the discovery of the entrance and further study of it thus:
First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. It is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass. The scientists wish to work unmolested, without fear of archaeological discoveries being disturbed by curio or relic hunters. A trip there would be fruitless, and the visitor would be sent on his way. The story of how I found the cavern has been related, but in a paragraph: I was journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for mineral. Some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet above the river bed. There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with great difficulty. Above a shelf which hid it from view from the river, was the mouth of the cave. There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to what was, at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the river.
Upon making the treacherous trek down to the entrance there was apparently found a whole intricate system of tunnels, caverns and caves that allegedly meandered off into the darkness, and it was noted that much of it seemed to have been laboriously chiseled and hewn by hand right into the stone. Upon investigation the system was said to plunge to around a mile under the earth, with vast chambers that radiated out into new tunnels and which opened up into hundreds of rooms with oval doorways. Kincaid said of these passages and rooms:
The main passageway is about 12 feet wide, narrowing to nine feet toward the farther end. About 57 feet from the entrance, the first side-passages branch off to the right and left, along which, on both sides, are a number of rooms about the size of ordinary living rooms of today, though some are 30 by 40 feet square. These are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round air spaces through the walls into the passages. The walls are about three feet six inches in thickness. The passages are chiselled or hewn as straight as could be laid out by an engineer. The ceilings of many of the rooms converge to a center. The side-passages near the entrance run at a sharp angle from the main hall, but toward the rear they gradually reach a right angle in direction.
Even stranger than all of this were some of the things apparently found within this system of tunnels and caverns, which included numerous relics and artifacts such as weapons, various copper instruments, idols, urns, vases, all of which was taken as evidence of some ancient, previously unknown civilization apparently from the Orient. At one point they purportedly came across what appeared to be a grand shrine absolutely brimming with such artifacts, none of which were from that region or the known people’s inhabiting it. This shrine was described in Kincaid’s report thus:
Over a hundred feet from the entrance is the cross-hall, several hundred feet long, in which are found the idol, or image, of the people’s god, sitting cross-legged, with a lotus flower or lily in each hand. The cast of the face is oriental, and the carving this cavern. The idol almost resembles Buddha, though the scientists are not certain as to what religious worship it represents. Taking into consideration everything found thus far, it is possible that this worship most resembles the ancient people of Tibet. Surrounding this idol are smaller images, some very beautiful in form; others crooked-necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, probably, of good and evil. There are two large cactus with protruding arms, one on each side of the dais on which the god squats. All this is carved out of hard rock resembling marble. In the opposite corner of this cross-hall were found tools of all descriptions, made of copper. These people undoubtedly knew the lost art of hardening this metal, which has been sought by chemicals for centuries without result. On a bench running around the workroom was some charcoal and other material probably used in the process. There is also slag and stuff similar to matte, showing that these ancients smelted ores, but so far no trace of where or how this was done has been discovered, nor the origin of the ore.
Other rooms found were full of other bizarre items and there were even discovered granaries full of seeds. The report dramatically goes on:
Among the other finds are vases or urns and cups of copper and gold, made very artistic in design. The pottery work includes enameled ware and glazed vessels. Another passageway leads to granaries such as are found in the oriental temples. They contain seeds of various kinds. One very large storehouse has not yet been entered, as it is twelve feet high and can be reached only from above. Two copper hooks extend on the edge, which indicates that some sort of ladder was attached. These granaries are rounded, as the materials of which they are constructed, I think, is a very hard cement. A gray metal is also found in this cavern, which puzzles the scientists, for its identity has not been established. It resembles platinum. Strewn promiscuously over the floor everywhere are what people call “cats eyes”, a yellow stone of no great value. Each one is engraved with the head of the Malay type.
More bizarre discoveries were still to be made down within these dank tunnels, caves, and rooms as well. In many places were found mysterious hieroglyphics etched into the stone, on urns, and carved into stone tablets, although it was unknown what purpose they served or what they said. Perhaps the most fascinating and also macabre discovery made down there in the gloom was what can only be described as some sort of crypt, where there were allegedly found rows and rows of actual mummies stuffed into shelves carved into sheer stone walls. Kincaid explained the unsettling crypt in great detail, saying:
The tomb or crypt in which the mummies were found is one of the largest of the chambers, the walls slanting back at an angle of about 35 degrees. On these are tiers of mummies, each one occupying a separate hewn shelf. At the head of each is a small bench, on which is found copper cups and pieces of broken swords. Some of the mummies are covered with clay, and all are wrapped in a bark fabric. The urns or cups on the lower tiers are crude, while as the higher shelves are reached, the urns are finer in design, showing a later stage of civilization. It is worthy of note that all the mummies examined so far have proved to be male, no children or females being buried here. This leads to the belief that this exterior section was the warriors’ barracks.
Some areas were even more inscrutable and spooky, to the point that they were mostly seen as possibly dangerous. One such location seemed to permeated with a sense of dread and danger, and Kincaid’s description of it read almost like something out of an Indiana Jones film:
There is one chamber of the passageway to which is not ventilated, and when we approached it a deadly, snaky smell struck us. Our light would not penetrate the gloom, and until stronger ones are available we will not know what the chamber contains. Some say snakes, but other boo-hoo this idea and think it may contain a deadly gas or chemicals used by the ancients. No sounds are heard, but it smells snaky just the same. The whole underground installation gives one of shaky nerves the creeps. The gloom is like a weight on one’s shoulders, and our flashlights and candles only make the darkness blacker. Imagination can revel in conjectures and ungodly daydreams back through the ages that have elapsed till the mind reels dizzily in space.
What was the purpose of this particularly eerie place, if any of this ever existed at all? Kincaid doesn’t really say. There were also supposedly found barracks, sleeping quarters, and a vast dining hall complete with myriad cooking utensils. So extensive and complete was this veritable subterranean city that Kincaid speculated that there was enough space and facilities to comfortably house around 50,000 people, although who those people could be was left to speculation. Kincaid’s own theory was that this mysterious civilization had been there before the Native peoples of region, and indeed that the natives had possibly descended from them. He believed that these mysterious people had been there for thousands of years, and that they had developed their advanced civilization here in solitude. The newspaper article itself speculated that this civilization could have even come from ancient Egypt, proving that the Egyptians has made their way to the New World, saying that the discovery:
almost conclusively proves 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 whole tale is quite sensational, and the idea of some lost civilization from Egypt dwelling underneath the Grand Canyon captured the imagination of the public at the time, with Kincaid’s lost underground city going on to become the stuff of legend. The problem is, there is very little to corroborate this story or to even prove that Kincaid was ever a real person. No artifacts seem to have ever been recovered from the supposed amazing find, even though Kincaid claimed he’d shipped a number of relics to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for evaluation, nor were there any known pictures taken, and indeed there are no other articles in any other publication to support or verify the claims. Even the one that appeared in the Arizona Gazette was penned by an anonymous author, which does not bode well. Additionally, there seems to be no record of a Professor Kincaid or Professor Jordan within the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology, nor is there any paperwork concerning them or their supposed discoveries. The Smithsonian itself has bluntly said in a statement to The World Explorers Club :
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.
Considering this lack of evidence and the pure off-the-wall sensationalism of the report, it seems like there is a very good possibility that this was all a hoax perpetrated by either the newspaper to sell copies, the anonymous author, or Kincaid himself, if he was ever real to begin with, all made more plausible by being dressed up with references to the Smithsonian and then plastered on the front page for effect. However, when has anything like this ever stopped a good conspiracy theory? Despite all of the evidence that this underground civilization never really existed the story just will not die, and has been published and republished in numerous sources and debated as being possibly real ever since.
One of the more popular theories is that the venerable Smithsonian itself is engaged in a cover-up of the findings, destroying the evidence and the paper trail that leads to it in order to maintain the status quo and preserve the accepted historical paradigm. There are even those who claim to know the actual whereabouts of the cavern entrance, such as researcher Jack Andrews, who says that he was able to ascertain the location way back in 1972 and has only cryptically given hints about it that are maddeningly ambiguous, saying:
I think the “cave” described in the headline story of the Arizona Gazette, April 5, 1909 and its fantastic underground installation was, and still may be, located above an approximate six-mile stretch of the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, at the border of Marble Canyon and the Navajo Nation above an area near Kwagunt Rapids.
Conspiracy theorist John Rhodes also claims to know the secret to the location of Kincaid’s cave, although he is very secretive about it, only to say that it is constantly guarded by an armed security guard and adding that it has become a base of operations for a shadowy secret society. Even more bizarre is a theory proposed by researcher and for many professional crackpot David Icke, who is mostly known for his outlandish theories about reptilian humanoids infiltrating society in an effort to become our overlords and take over. Icke believes that the Kincaid cave system not only exists, but is also Reptilian central. In his sensationalist 1999 book The Biggest Secret Icke writes:
In 1909 a subterranean city which was built with the precision of the Great Pyramid was found by G. E. Kincaid near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It was big enough to accommodate 50,000 people and mummified bodies found were of oriental or possibly Egyptian origin, according to the expedition leader Professor S. A. Jordan. My own research suggests that it is from another dimension, the lower fourth dimension, that the reptilian control and manipulation is primarily orchestrated.
It is clear that the tale of Kincaid’s mysterious caves continues to incite speculation and debate, and that is a spectacular story that captures the imagination and shows no real signs of waning. Is there anything to it or is this all a pure hoax or half-truths? If the caves ever did exist, then where were they and who were the inscrutable people who supposedly inhabited them? Were they made by ancient out-of place Egyptians, some sort of other lost civilization, or underground goddam reptilian monsters? Such a place and its relics would be absolutely groundbreaking, rewriting history itself, but considering the lack of articles talking about them and the complete lack of any evidence, the story is a dead end at best, and will probably remain mysterious and fuel for conspiracies, just as buried in mystery as the city itself.
WETENSCHAPEen nieuwe onderzoeksmethode heeft een gigantische Mayastad aan het licht gebracht. Eeuwenlang zaten de bouwwerken verborgen onder de Guatemalteekse jungle. “Dit is de grootste archeologische vondst in honderd jaar”, jubelen de onderzoekers. De ontdekking plaatst alles wat we al wisten over de Maya’s in een nieuw perspectief.
Het einde van de Maya-beschaving is nog steeds een mysterie. Maar deze gigantische vondst zou het raadsel mee kunnen helpen ontrafelen.
De archeologen hebben 2.000 vierkante kilometer van de jungle in Guatemala, meer bepaald in de regio Peten - vanuit de lucht gescand. Daarvoor hebben ze gebruik gemaakt van de zogenoemde LiDAR-technologie (light detection and ranging) die toelaat om door het dichte bladerdak van de weelderige jungle te kijken.
Zo is er een verborgen netwerk van huizen, piramides, wegen, irrigatiekanalen en terrassen aan het licht gekomen. In totaal zou het om meer dan 60.000 tot nog toe onbekende bouwwerken gaan.
Wild Blue MediaOp deze afbeelding zijn de onbekende structuren te zien.
Hieruit concluderen de onderzoekers dat het Maya-rijk uiteindelijk veel omvangrijker was dan men altijd heeft aangenomen. Het zou zich zelfs kunnen meten met het Oude Egypte en China.
Ook het bevolkingsaantal zou veel te laag zijn geschat. Men gaat nu uit van mogelijk vijftien miljoen inwoners terwijl eerdere ramingen het hielden op een bevolking van maximaal vijf miljoen. Een wereld van verschil.
Bovendien blijkt nu dat veel mensen woonden in laaggelegen moerasachtige gebieden die als onbewoonbaar werden geacht. “De Maya-beschaving heeft letterlijk bergen verzet”, concludeert archeoloog Marcello Canuto.
Wild Blue MediaDe vondst is gigantisch en heeft onderzoekers verbaasd
Volgens wetenschapper Tom Garrison is deze vondst de belangrijkste in ruim honderd jaar, alleszins wat betreft de Maya’s. Bovendien moeten de archeologen nog een gebied van 20.000 vierkante kilometer doorzoeken. Francisco Estrada-Belli van het National Geographic Explorer-programma vermoedt dat er “nog honderden verborgen steden zullen gevonden worden”.
“Het is een revolutie”, besluit Estrada-Belli. “We zullen nog honderd jaar nodig hebben om te begrijpen wat we hier allemaal zien.”
Wild Blue MediaOnderzoeker Tom Garrison
De reportage van National Geographic over deze spectaculaire vondst en de daarmee samenhangende nieuwe bevindingen, ‘Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings’, gaat op 6 maart in première.
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The Ruins of a Massive Ancient City Have Been Discovered in Guatemala, UFO Sighting News.
The Ruins of a Massive Ancient City Have Been Discovered in Guatemala, UFO Sighting News.
This ancient Mayan civilisation was recently discovered using a special laser that maps through the trees from the air. Such a technique could also be used to better see the ruins on Mars and other planets and moons. The laser brings out details that the human eye will normally miss.
Two Triangle UFO Seen Near Las Vegas, Nevada, Amazing Catch, UFO Sighting News.
Two Triangle UFO Seen Near Las Vegas, Nevada, Amazing Catch, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2016, but posted this week Location of sighting: Red Rock canyon, Nevada, USA This video was taken by Steven Barone in Nevada back in 2016. It shows two glowing objects that move quickly, but have a triangle shape. Awesome catch by a world famous UFO researcher. Scott C. Waring Steven Barone of Youtube states:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of February 19, 2016. Everyone has their favorites and this is one of mine. It was an extremely lucky guess to set my night vision camera on the entrance to Red Rock Canyon and let it film for thirty minutes in the hopes something would show up. I have done it before but I never caught anything as incredible as this. These two triangles appear to have half domes on top and the crafts themselves seem to be triangles. I think this may be the only video I have filmed where I am pretty sure I caught triangular objects. There may be more in my collection but the objects I filmed in those videos were too far away to make out what the actual shapes were. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video.
Mayan 'Megalopolis' With 60,000 Structures Discovered in Guatemalan Jungle
Mayan 'Megalopolis' With 60,000 Structures Discovered in Guatemalan Jungle
Laser scans reveal Maya "Megalopolis" below Guatemalan Jungle. Laser technology known as LiDAR digitally removes the forest canopy to reveal ancient ruins below, showing that Maya cities such as Tikal were much larger than ground-based research had suggested.
In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya archaeology, researchers have identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, elevated highways, defensive walls, ramparts, terraces, fortresses and other human-made features that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala.
Complex irrigation and terracing systems supported intensive agriculture capable of feeding masses of workers who dramatically reshaped the landscape.
At its peak in the Maya classic period (approximately A.D. 250–900), the civilization covered an area about twice the size of medieval England, but it was far more densely populated.
De aarde maakte 2,3 miljard jaar geleden een 'midlife-crisis' door
De aarde maakte 2,3 miljard jaar geleden een 'midlife-crisis' door
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Verschillende geologische processen kwamen compleet stil te liggen.
Dat stellen onderzoekers van Curtin University. In het blad Nature Geoscience komen ze met nieuw bewijs op de proppen dat getuigt van een uitzonderlijk rustige periode in de geologische geschiedenis van onze planeet. De periode zou zo’n 2,3 miljard jaar geleden zijn ingezet, tijdens het Paleoproterozoïcum en wordt gekenmerkt door een enorme afname in vulkaanuitbarstingen. “Maar ook een afname in sedimentatie en een opvallend gebrek aan beweging van tektonische platen,” aldus onderzoeker Christopher Spencer.
“HET WAS BIJNA ALSOF DE AARDE EEN MIDLIFE-CRISIS DOORMAAKTE”
“Het vroege Paleoproterozoïcum was een significante periode in de geschiedenis van de aarde. Het was de tijd waarin de atmosfeer voor het eerst grote hoeveelheden zuurstof opnam en ook de periode waarin de eerste wereldwijde ijstijd zich aandiende. En het was de periode waarin andere geologische processen in feite stil kwamen te liggen. Het was bijna alsof de aarde een midlife-crisis doormaakte.”
Afremmen De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie op basis van ontzettend veel geologische informatie en een onderzoek naar gesteenten, verzameld in Australië, China, Canada en Afrika. “Hoe meer gesteenten en data we verzamelden, hoe duidelijker het werd dat er heel weinig over deze periode is ‘opgeslagen’ in het geologisch archief. De aardmantel was veel warmer dan vandaag de dag en vulkanen stelden de mantel door de tijd heen in staat om af te koelen en aangenomen wordt dat geologische processen daardoor af werden geremd. We geloven dat die continue afremming leidde tot de dramatische geologische veranderingen zoals we die zien aan het begin van het Paleoproterozoïcum.”
Verandering De ‘midlife-crisis’ van de aarde zou ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar hebben geduurd. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de periode een grote verandering in platentektoniek markeert: vóór de ‘midlife-crisis’ zou er sprake zijn geweest van een ouderwetse platentektoniek en daarna een meer moderne platentektoniek die sterk lijkt op de platentektoniek zoals we die vandaag de dag kennen. “Na deze periode begonnen de aardse geologische processen rond 2,2 tot 2 miljard jaar geleden weer ‘wakker te worden’, met het ‘opvlammen’ van de vulkanische activiteit en een verandering in de samenstelling van de continentale korst,” legt Spencer uit.
Het onderzoek is belangrijk, omdat het mogelijk meer inzicht kan geven in de natuurlijke grondstoffen op aarde en hun precieze locatie.
Gaan de Amerikanen de stekker uit het ISS trekken?
Gaan de Amerikanen de stekker uit het ISS trekken?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Er gaan geruchten dat de Trump-regering de geldkraan in 2025 gaat dichtdraaien.
Dat meldt The Verge. De site baseert zich op een voorlopig budgetvoorstel en twee anonieme bronnen die beweren dat het dichtdraaien van de geldkraan ook in het definitieve voorstel is opgenomen. The Verge heeft ook NASA om een reactie gevraagd, maar deze niet ontvangen.
Als de Amerikanen toch besluiten om het ISS ook na 2024 nog financieel te ondersteunen, is dat zeer waarschijnlijk slechts voor enkele jaren. Het ruimtestation zal nog voor het eind van het tweede decennium van deze eeuw uit zijn baan worden gehaald, omdat het dan echt begint af te takelen. Gehoopt werd dat het ISS dan een commerciële opvolger zou krijgen. Volgens The Verge is dat laatste tegen 2024 nog niet haalbaar.
Andere aandeelhouders Mocht de Amerikaanse overheid daadwerkelijk de geldkraan dichtdraaien, dan is het nog maar de vraag of de andere aandeelhouders – Rusland, Canada, Japan en de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie – er nog heil inzien om het ISS draaiende te houden. Zeker omdat de Amerikanen op dit moment het leeuwendeel van de kosten voor hun rekening nemen. Het lijkt nog niet zo aannemelijk dat de andere aandeelhouders zo’n gat in de begroting moeiteloos kunnen en willen opvangen.
Naar de maan De Amerikanen daarentegen, zouden met deze zet een hoop geld besparen. En dat geld kunnen ze dan weer voor andere dingen gebruiken. Trump maakte recent bekend een bemande maanmissie te ambiëren en dat kost vanzelfsprekend ook een hoop geld. En ook voor de president van de VS geldt: je kunt een dollar maar één keer uitgeven.
NASA moet met een beperkt budget (zo’n 19 miljard dollar per jaar) zoveel mogelijk zien te bewerkstelligen. Geen wonder dat er zo af en toe missies geschrapt worden. Zo sneuvelde vorig jaar nog de Asteroid Redirect Mission. Tijdens deze missie zou een deel van een planetoïde gepakt worden en in een baan rond de maan worden geplaatst, zodat astronauten deze gemakkelijk konden bezoeken. Hoewel er al aardig wat in de missie geïnvesteerd was, zette de overheid er toch een streep door, omdat deze relatief duur was.
Het belang van het ISS Dat het ISS mogelijk omwille van die maanmissie – die gezien wordt als een opmaat naar een Marsmissie – wordt opgeofferd, is ironisch. Juist in het ISS worden namelijk experimenten uitgevoerd en technologieën ontwikkeld die we tijdens missies naar de maan en Mars hard nodig zullen hebben. Ook wordt er al bijna twee decennia intensief onderzoek gedaan naar het effect dat een langdurig verblijf in de ruimte op het menselijk lichaam heeft. En hoewel dat reeds tot belangrijke inzichten heeft geleid, valt er nog genoeg te ontdekken. Met het wegvallen van deze ruimtemissie zouden de Amerikanen zichzelf dan ook wel eens in de vingers kunnen snijden.
Zover is het echter nog niet. Tot op heden zijn het immers niet meer dan geruchten. En zelfs als we de plannen straks in het budgetvoorstel tegenkomen, moet nog blijken of ook het Amerikaanse Congres daar enthousiast over is, zo benadrukt The Verge.
Google Maps UFO sighting: Is mysterious shape PROOF of alien life?
Found on Google Earth co-ordinates 34 ° 15'07.8'S 58 ° 49'47.4 “W, the mysterious shape is in the Parana Delta.
This is located between the cities of Campana and Karate in Buenos Aires.
A video of the land on YouTube explains why conspiracy theorists are so interested in it.
GreyFace write: “The circular land is surrounded by a thin channel of water with a outside diameter of 130 yards.
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Google Maps: Theorists believe a shape seen in Argentina is proof of a UFO
“Both the inner and outer circles are almost perfect. The centre circles moves and rotates on its own axis.”
Writing on website UFO Sighting Daily, Scott C.Waring said: “Argentina has an overabundance of UFO sightings compared to the rest of the world and I believe this is how aliens try to hide this particular entrance to their base.
“The shape is large and circular, big enough to fit a 100 meter UFO through it.
“The water below this floating island needs to be dove [sic] into and explored.”
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Google Maps: Do you think the mysterious shape is a UFO?
Another sighting on Google Maps could imply there is life after death - what do you think?
The image was taken near Niederurnen in Switzerland, by the Walensee lake.
One internet user from the US revealed their interesting interpretation of what the shape is. In their post “Something Scary and Real on Google Maps”, which brought the image to light, said: “Go to Google Maps, search’47.110579,9.227568’, click the green arrow, and click ‘Street view’.
“Look up two times and go left two times and spot something in the sky...You will see an angel in the process of stepping back into a portal.”
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New Technology Helps Find Thousands Of Mysterious Maya Structures Below Guatemalan Jungle
New Technology Helps Find Thousands Of Mysterious Maya Structures Below Guatemalan Jungle
An immense, interconnected network of ancient cities was home to millions more people than researchers previously thought.
A group of researchers has identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, superhighways and other human settlements belonging to the ancient Maya that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala.
This finding is a great advance in the archaeological investigation of the Mayan civilization.
The discovery was made possible thanks to the use of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging), a device that allowed archaeologists to digitally remove trees from aerial images of Mayan cities, revealing the ruins of a pre-Columbian civilization that was much more complex and it was more interconnected than most experts believed.
More than 60,000 houses, palaces, superhighways and other human settlements were revealed with the help of LiDAR.
Photo: Wild Blue Media, National Geographic.
“The LiDAR images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” said Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer who specializes in using digital technology for archaeological research.
The researchers scanned more than 2,100 km² of the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala, in the Petén department, resulting in the largest data set ever obtained with LiDAR for archaeological research.
In addition to hundreds of previously unknown structures, the images provided by the LiDAR scan show networks of superhighways connecting urban centers, quarries and complex irrigation systems and agricultural terraces, which allowed the ancient Maya to feed hundreds of workers in charge of building the great cities that have now been discovered.
At first glance, all you can see is the thick jungle and a mound (above), but thanks to LiDAR technology in combination with augmented reality software we are able to reveal an ancient Mayan pyramid (below).
Curiously, the ancient Maya never used the wheel or pack animals, however, “this was a civilization that literally moved mountains,” said Marcello Canuto, an archaeologist at Tulane University and a National Geographic explorer who participated in this research.
All these results suggest that Central America housed an advanced and complex civilization comparable to ancient Greece.
At its height in the Classic Maya period (250-900 AD), this ancient civilization occupied an area roughly twice the size of medieval England, but it was much more densely populated.
“Most people had been comfortable with population estimates of around 5 million,” said Estrada-Belli, who directs a multi-disciplinary archaeological project at Holmul, Guatemala. “With this new data, it’s no longer unreasonable to think that there were 10 to 15 million people there—including many living in low-lying, swampy areas that many of us had thought uninhabitable.”
Among the most surprising discoveries was the ubiquity of defensive walls, ramparts, terraces, and a number of fortresses.
“Warfare wasn’t only happening toward the end of the civilization,” said Garrison. “It was large-scale and systematic, and it endured for many years.”
The new investigation also revealed thousands of pits dug by looters.
“Many of these new sites are new to us, but they are not new to looters,” said Marianne Hernández, president of the PACUNAM Foundation, a Guatemalan nonprofit organization that promotes scientific research, sustainable development and the preservation of cultural heritage.
Environmental degradation is another concern. Guatemala is losing more than 10 percent of its forests annually, and habitat loss has accelerated along its border with Mexico to the illegal burning and deforestation of land for agriculture and human settlements.
Featured image credit: Wild Blue Media, National Geographic
It’s the sight that baffled South American locals and sparked talk of an extraterrestrial crash-landing onto earth.
Peru locals stunned by 'UFO' fireball
VIDEO The object reported crash landed in South eastern Peru
Now footage has emerged of a mysterious fireball shooting through the sky in Peru, before disappearing beyond the horizon.
Captured in the early hours of the evening, speculation intensified over a possible UFO as insiders questioned the trajectory of the falling object.
Peru locals were stunned to see a mysterious sight in the sky.
Photo: Youtube
Officials have attempted to quash alien talk, claiming it’s space debris instead.
“According to the first analysis, it would be a fuel tank of a disused satellite,” Commander Pedro Palza of the Peruvian Air Force said in a statement.
“We are talking about the part of a satellite that stopped operating. Commonly it is known as space junk.”
Just last month, an eerie site in Argentina has UFO enthusiasts claiming they found proof of aliens on earth, with the sight leaving even scientists baffled.
Officials have tried to downplay the incident, claiming it's space junk.
Photo: Getty
A strange circular piece of land called Ojo de la Tierra can be spotted using Google Maps, and according to believers could be the perfect hiding spot for a UFO.
This strange circular island is visible on Google Maps.
Photo: Google
The strange location rotates on its own axis, something scientists have as of yet not been able to explain.
Scott C. Waring, from website UFO Sighting Daily, however said the island could actually be a hidden entrance to a secret “alien base”.
Mysterious 'UFO' has been captured on video
. Source: SWNS
VIDEO A mysterious 'UFO' has been captured on video circling over a remote country town
An aircraft that represents a missing technological link between Lockheed's abortive "Tier III-" RQ-3 Darkstar unmanned penetrating and long-loitering spy aircraft and the company's history making RQ-170 Sentinel is now coming to light. This previously unknown (to the public) flying-wing drone was built by Lockheed Skunk Works in 1999, shortly after the RQ-3 program vanished.
This new program, which aimed to prove rapid manufacturing technologies and penetrating aerial reconnaissance capabilities, as well as the aerodynamic validity of a relatively small, tailless, swept-wing drone, was dubbed the X-44A and first took to the skies in 2001.
The shadowy aircraft's designation is outright confusing as the X-44 "Manta" is largely known as a program that aimed to test a tailless manned aircraft design that emanated from the same period of time. This notional aircraft would use thrust vectoring for primary flight control, with the objective being to realize new speed, fuel efficiency, and maneuverability capabilities with such a design, as well as to demonstrate simpler and cheaper forms of aircraft structures production.
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Concept imagery from the X-44 Manta program, which lost funding in 2000.
This USAF and NASA led program was supposedly cancelled around the turn of the millennium with some conceptual art being all that is left to show for it, which mainly includes drawings of
what appears to be a tailless F-22 with an expanded trapezoidal wing.
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This is the official entry for the X-44A as it appears in 2004 edition of the Department of Defense Directive 4120.15-L, Model Designation of Military Aerospace Vehicles, the Pentagon's official public master list of aircraft and missile nomenclature. The "none" portion of the entry indicates that it has no official popular nickname. Clearly, this does not properly correspond with Lockheed's X-44A drone. How or why this is the case remains unknown.
It is unclear at this time how Lockheed's fat little flying-wing drone also ended up with the same X-44 designation, but there doesn't seem to be any direct relation between the two programs.
A patent dated 1996 and belonging to Lockheed has been identified as the real X-44A's design, or at least very close to it. The X-44's skin is supposedly made out of nano-carbon fiber and it's powered by a Williams F112 turbojet engine. The F112 powerplant is used in cruise missiles, such as the stealthy AGM-129,but it has also been used in other unmanned technology demonstrators, like the McDonnell Douglas's X-36 and Boeing's X-50.
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Williams F112 jet engine.
Size wise, the X-44 has a wingspan of approximately 30 feet, making it roughly half the size of its RQ-170 successor. The airframe is modular in nature with a potato-like fuselage that could carry various sensors. It is also likely that the aircraft could have its wings detached for transport, similar to the RQ-170. The aircraft is guided by traditional control surfaces along its trailing edge and it features rakes, squared-off wingtips.
Aside from doing independent research for Lockheed Martin, the X-44 was apparently also part of some sort of competition between Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed, the outcome of which remains unknown but it seems as if Lockheed lost. The goal of that competition is unknown, but it could have been an early semi-disposable stealthy drone program very similar to the Air Force Research Lab's current Low-Cost Attritable Strike Demonstration (LCASD) initiative.
The aircraft wears the insignia below, a mysterious crest that has become popular in aerospace-defense crowds after being presented initially in Trevor Peglen's book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World.
The crest features a black manta ray, which is interesting because "Black Manta" was the nickname for the aforementioned canceled X-44 program. It reads pottus est melius quam satis bene: "Making something better than just good enough"—this could be in reference to the manufacturing techniques used in the X-44's creation. Indigo, Delta, Kilo seems to be a reference to "I Don't Know," underlining the deep classification of the program. The number one and constellation of stars remain a mystery. Usually six stars signify Area 51 as a primary test location, but in this case there are 11.
In recent years, the Skunk Works X-44 was refitted and used to evaluate visual cueing systems for the Navy's upcoming Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System(CBARS) tanker drone program. Lockheed, which hasn't yet shown off its entrant into the CBARS tender, faces stiff competition from General Atomicsand Boeing.
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What the X-44 provides us with is a new evolutionary stepping stone in a lineage of aircraft that collectively represent the Skunk Works' quiet dive into the high-end unmanned space—a space that became increasingly promising in the early 2000s.
The type likely served as one of the cruder forerunners to a family of stealth unmanned aircraft systems, some of which are undoubtedly still cloaked in secrecy. But one can clearly see how it helped spawn the P175 Polecatdemonstrator, which had similar program goals and overall similar design, but on a much larger and more advanced scale.
Other aircraft also likely existed during the early and mid 2000 that are part of this family of clandestine flying-wings courtesy of the Skunk Works. Following the attacks on 9/11, a penetrating and persistent reconnaissance capability would have been a top priority, and it is widely understood that a similar clandestine aircraft system belonging to Lockheed participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This was likely a semi-operational forerunner to the RQ-170 Sentinel, which first appeared publicly at Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan in 2007.
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A RQ-170 variant pictured at Andersen AFB on Guam.
The RQ-170 Sentinel in particular, which helped in finding and finishing-off Osama Bin Laden, kept tabs on the Iran's nuclear program, and famously fell into the hands of Iran in 2011, not to mention also likely flying missions over other hostile territories such as North Korea, is a known operational benefactor of the X-44A's existence, and there surely are others. You can learn all about the intriguing and mysterious saga of America's stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) programs and why they disappeared in this past TWZ super feature.
Hopefully the Skunk Works will post photos of this intriguing aircraft and more information on its backstory in the near future. That being said, the logic behind keeping it classified for so long is quite puzzling considering its simplicity and diminutive size compared to high-end unmanned systems we know of today.
Above all else, the nearly two decade old X-44A serves a reminder that there is so much technology and history buried in the deeply classified "black" world that we have yet to learn about.
We have reached out to Lockheed about the X-44 but have not heard back. We will keep you updated if we receive more information on this historic aircraft.
13 Billion Years Of Evolution: This Is The Most Detailed Model Of The Universe Ever Created
13 Billion Years Of Evolution: This Is The Most Detailed Model Of The Universe Ever Created
Named “Illustris: The Next Generation” or Illustris TNG for short, it is the most detailed model of our universe ever created.
This impressive simulation shows 13 billion years of evolution, and scientists say it could help unlock the secrets of the cosmos.
Mapping out the ways galaxies evolve in the simulation offers a glimpse of what our own Milky Way galaxy might have been like when the Earth formed and how our galaxy could change in the future, say, scientists.
Visualization of the strength of shock waves in the cosmic gas (blue) around the collapsed structures of dark matter (orange/white). Like in a sonic boom, the gas in these shock waves accelerates when flowing into cosmic filaments and galaxies.
Image Credit: IllustrisTNG Collaboration
Based on the basic laws of physics, the stunning simulation shows how our cosmos evolved from the Big Bang and includes some of the physical processes that played a crucial role in the evolution.
The first results of the IllustrisTNG project have been published in three different papers published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The findings, say, experts, should help answer fundamental questions in cosmology.
IllustrisTNG is not the first simulation created by experts. In fact, it is a successor model to the original Illustris simulation developed by the same research team. However, IllustrisTNG has been updated to include many of the physical processes that play crucial roles in the formation and evolution of galaxies.
To create the simulation, experts used evidence of the earliest days of our universe, gather from the Cosmic Microwave Background, leftover from he Big Bang. With this data, scientists managed to model the conditions o the time when our uiverse was a mere few hundred years old.
Researchers then added baryonic matter, which forms stars and planets; they included dark matter, which is believed to enable galactic structures to grow; and finally dark energy, the mysterious force behind all cosmic acceleration.
All of these elements are then coded into the simulation together with equations that describe supernova explosions and black holes.
Dr. Shy Genel, of the Flatiron Institute’s Centre for Computational Astrophysics, said: “When we observe galaxies using a telescope, we can only measure certain quantities.”
“With the simulation, we can track all the properties for all these galaxies. And not just how the galaxy looks now, but its entire formation history,” Dr. Genel added.
At their points of intersection, the cosmic network of gas and dark matter predicted by IllustrisTNG harbor galaxies quite similar to the shape and size of real galaxies.
For the first time, the simulations allow us to directly calculate the detailed pattern of galaxy clusters in space.
The new simulation predicts how our cosmic web is altered over time, especially in relation to the dark matter that underlies the cosmos.
Volker Springel, of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, and one of the experts that developed and programmed the simulation said:
“It is particularly fascinating that we can accurately predict the influence of supermassive black holeson the distribution of matter out to large scales,” says Springel.
“This is crucial for reliably interpreting forthcoming cosmological measurements.”
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 is relatively massive, and it moves fast. It’ll be closest to Earth on February 4, 2018 at about 10 times the moon’s distance. This post tells you how to watch online.
Asteroids are chunks of rock or metal – most likely debris left over from the formation of our solar system – and they sweep past Earth all the time. Little ones enter our atmosphere fairly frequently. But fast-moving asteroid 2002 AJ129 – which will pass close to Earth this Super Bowl Sunday, February 4, 2018 – is making a bigger stir than some because it’s a relatively big one, somewhere between 0.3 miles (0.5 km) and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) across. Its closest approach to Earth will be at 21:30 UTC (4:30 p.m. EST) on February 4; translate to your time zone. For sure, the Super Bowl will make a bigger splash than asteroid 2002 AJ129, however. At its closest, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the moon’s distance (about 2.6 million miles, or 4.2 million km).
This asteroid is a particularly fast-moving one. Its velocity at the time of closest approach will be 76,000 mph (34 km per second), higher than the majority of near-Earth objects during an Earth flyby. NASA said the high flyby velocity is a result of the asteroid’s orbit, which approaches very close to the sun – 11 million miles (18 million km).
Astronomers will be following on this object, which is categorized as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA). They’ve been following it for 14 years. Paul Chodas is manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. He said in a statement from NASA:
We … know its orbit very accurately. Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance — zero — of colliding with Earth on February 4 or any time over the next 100 years.
You can see asteroid 2002 AJ129, too. The Virtual Telescope Project has scheduled two livefeeds:
– Live from Arizona, USA: February 4, 2018, starting at 11:00 UTC – Live from Ceccano, Italy: February 4, 2018, starting at 23:00 UTC
Astronomers discovered 2002 AJ129 on January 15, 2002. It was picked up by the former NASA-sponsored Near Earth Asteroid Tracking project at the Maui Space Surveillance Site on Haleakala, Hawaii.
Bottom line: Fast-moving, relatively weighty asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on February 4, 2018. It’ll pass no closer than 10 times the moon’s distance.
Mars’ Mount Sharp – whose flanks are the focus of the Curiosity rover’s studies on Mars – photobombed this January 2018 selfie of the rover.
View larger. | The Curiosity Mars rover appears to be looking at its own camera in this mosaic image. Behind it is Mount Sharp, photobombing the robot’s selfie.
NASA released this self-portrait of its Curiosity rover on January 31, 2018. This selfie of the rover is actually assembled from dozens of images taken by Curiosity’s Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). The imager acquired all of these shots on January 23, 2018, during Sol 1943.
NASA said it:
… shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it’s been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start of a clay-rich slope scientists are eager to begin exploring. In the coming week, Curiosity will begin to climb this slope. North is on the left and west is on the right, with Gale Crater’s rim on the horizon of both edges.
Poking up just behind Curiosity’s mast is Mount Sharp, photobombing the robot’s selfie. Curiosity landed on Mars five years ago with the intention of studying lower Mount Sharp, where it will remain for all of its time on Mars. The mountain’s base provides access to layers formed over millions of years. These layers formed in the presence of water — likely due to a lake or lakes that sat at the bottom of the mountain, which sits inside Gale Crater.
For news about other Mars missions this month, view the first episode of a new video series, The Mars Report.
Bottom line: Mars’ Mount Sharp – whose flanks are the focus of the Curiosity rover’s studies on Mars – photobombed this January 2018 selfie of the rover.
Although we have been calling Earth our home for many generations, there are many theories that claim humans evolved elsewhere in the galaxy and moved here sometime in the distant past.
Could this controversial and intriguing claim be true? If so, where do we come from and why did our traveling ancestors choose Earth?
Researcher and author Dr. Ellis Silver were best known for proposing a scientific evaluation of evidence suggesting man evolved elsewhere in the universe. In his book, Humans are not from Earth, he lists many reasons for why he believes there is evidence for mankind’s ancestry outside of the blue planet. He also evaluates possible points of origin and a timeline for our appearance on Earth.
Dr. Silver compared our human physiology to that of other animals and he believes there are many crucial differences between us. As a species, humans are particularly sensitive to sunlight. The sun has a dazzling effect on humans whilst most animals seem immune to this effect. While reptiles use heat from the sun to regulate their own internal temperature, humans experience serious troubles if exposed for more than two weeks. According to Silver, this behavior constitutes evidence that humans might have evolved on a planet with considerably less sunlight. Our genetic makeup was able to adapt to this increased radiation, but not without cost.
Humans also suffer from chronic illnesses at a much higher rate than other animals. This could be the result of a struggle to cope with damaging factors that weren’t present at the time of our evolution. “We are all chronically ill,” says Silver. “Indeed, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and not suffering from some (perhaps hidden or unstated) condition or disorder I would be extremely surprised – I have not been able to find anyone.
People suffer from bad backs and have done so throughout our history. Dr. Silver believes this problem can be traced back to humans evolving on a planet with a much lower level of gravity. Despite being the most advanced species on Earth, we are surprisingly ill-equipped for life here: sunlight harms us, we are plagued with illness and we have a strong dislike for raw or naturally occurring foods. And then there’s the overwhelming feeling of not belonging here that so many people experience. Dr. Silver claims this is not a passing thing but rather some kind of genetic longing for home.
“The Earth approximately meets our needs as a species, but perhaps not as strongly as whoever brought us here initially thought,” said Silver in an interview with Yahoo news.
Our internal body clocks evolved to work in conjunction with a 25-hour day. Silver believes this missing hour accounts for many of our biological problems and his claims are backed up by sleep researchers all over the world. This complication is not something recent and can be traced back through mankind’s history.
Dr. Silver explores the possibility that early pre-humans like Homoerectus were crossbred with another species. Other life on Earth could have arrived on comets or meteorites as primitive life-forms and evolved for billions of years into the species we see today, but we did not.
Humans evolved from a different strain of life somewhere else in the universe and were brought here as fully evolved Homo sapiens. This happened somewhere between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago. Silver speculates this could have happened for many reasons, the most interesting of them being that Earth might be a prison planet. He believes this could account for our violent nature and behavior. If this is the case, how long are we in for?
The book has been met with a healthy dose of criticism but as Dr. Silver points out, it is just intelligent speculative writing aimed at sparking debate. In any case, it makes for an interesting read.
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Le New York Times et les extraterrestres
Le New York Times et les extraterrestres
Le New York Times et CNN ont manqué une belle occasion de faire preuve de plus de circonspections.
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Quand vous croyez aux OVNIs et que vous voyez quelque chose que vous n'avez jamais vu, vous allez dire que c'est un OVNI.
Dans mon dernier billet, je cachais mal mon scepticisme face aux affirmations de trois articles du New York Times en décembre à propos d'un programme du Pentagone pour enquêter sur les OVNIS et un incident en 2004 sur une rencontre avec un OVNI au large de San Diego. Ces articles, sous un couvert neutre, ont fait sensation la semaine de leur parution, une des auteurs Leslie Kean donnant une entrevue à CNN en soulignant à gros trait que l'explication extraterrestre était très valide dans ce cas.
Comme j'indiquais dans mon récent article, cette campagne médiatique suit une campagne de financement du site pro-OVNI To The Stars dont certains des membres sont ceux qui participaient au programme du Pentagone comme mentionné dans les articles du NYT. Autrement dit, il y a comme une orchestration logique de toutes ces récentes déclarations publiques.
Les preuves d'OVNIS
Les affirmations des ufologues sur le cas mentionné par le New York Times et leur preuve "irréfutable" d'engins extraterrestres dans notre ciel reposent sur trois éléments:
-la déclaration de l'ex-pilote David Fravor sur l'évènement de 2004 du USS Nimitz
-une vidéo montrant un objet en forme de pilule accélérant soudainement très rapidement
-une vidéo montrant un objet de forme étrange effectuant une rotation hors du commun
Les ufologues prétendent que si un pilote dit qu'il a vu un OVNI, alors cela veut dire qu'il y avait bien un OVNI: un argument d'autorité. Que si une vidéo montre un objet accélérant à une vitesse incroyable, ce ne peut être qu'un OVNI d'une autre planète. Que si une vidéo montre un objet tournant comme aucun avion ne pourrait tourner, alors c'est un OVNI d'une autre planète.
J'ai attendu quelques semaines avant d'écrire la suite de mon premier article, car les experts continuaient à analyser les vidéos afin de rétablir les faits. Nous pouvons maintenant dévoiler le détail de ces analyses.
David Fravor
David Fravor était pilote de F/A-18 Super Hornet à bord du USS Nimitz lors de l'incident du 14 novembre 2004. Juste avant sa retraite, il a participé à la série Carrier de 10 épisodes diffusés à PBS, un documentaire sur la vie à bord du porte-avions USS Nimitz. Il n'est donc pas étranger à se présenter dans les médias.
Fravor est celui qui a descendu son avion le plus proche de l'OVNI Tic-Tac qu'il a décrit comme ayant la taille d'un chasseur, blanc, solide avec des contours définis, sans fenêtre ni moteur apparent, se déplaçant rapidement et pouvant freiner et s'orienter à volonté, capable de tourner plus vite que son avion pour finalement disparaître au loin. Son témoignage est corroboré par son WSO (Weapon System Officer) ainsi que par le 2e pilote qui était plus haut et a assisté à l'engagement.
Quand vous croyez aux OVNIs et que vous voyez quelque chose que vous n'avez jamais vu, vous allez dire que c'est un OVNI.
Mais, alors que David voit un OVNI, le 2e pilote voit plutôt un essai d'une nouvelle arme prototype. Pourtant c'est David qu'on voit dans les médias et qui prétend que c'est un OVNI d'origine extra-terrestre. Quand vous croyez aux OVNIs et que vous voyez quelque chose que vous n'avez jamais vu, vous allez dire que c'est un OVNI. Mais si vous ne croyez pas vraiment aux OVNIs et vous voyez un objet que vous n'avez jamais vu, vous direz peut-être qu'il s'agit d'un nouvel équipement en test comme le 2e pilote le prétend.
La vidéo de l'évènement du USS Nimitz
David Fravor, ébranlé par ce qu'il a vécu, en parle à la 2e équipe de pilotes prêts à décoller pour un exercice régulier. Ceux-ci possèdent un ATFLIR dans leur avion, une caméra infrarouge capable de suivre une cible aérienne.
Après avoir participé à leur exercice d'entraînement, un des avions se rend au point où le Tic-Tac avait été aperçu par Fravor et essaie de trouver l'objet sur leur caméra. Ils détectent un objet en forme de pilule à une distance inconnue (puisque le ATFLIR ne donne pas la distance comme l'énonce RAYTHEON le fabricant) et copie le vidéo, une fois retourné au porte-avions. C'est le vidéo qui se promène partout sur le web depuis 2007 et dont Fravor affirme qu'il est SIMILAIRE à ce qu'il a rencontré. Ce n'est pas nécessairement le même objet.
Ce qu'on voit sur le vidéo, même noir, peut être de couleur blanche sur un fond plus clair encore, mais n'importe quel avion très loin peut apparaître comme une pilule surtout si le vidéo est de piètre qualité et flou. Le mouvement très rapide à la fin n'est qu'un mouvement normal d'un avion très loin qui tourne, de la caméra qui change son zoom et qui perd le contact sur l'objet comme l'analyse ici le démontre.
Le vidéo GIMBAL
Ce vidéo absolument pas relié à l'évènement de 2004 (il proviendrait d'un exercice sur la côte est en 2015) montre un étrange objet noir qui semble faire une rotation tout à fait extraordinaire hors de cet univers.
En fait, une caméra infrarouge dans ce mode, montre la chaleur provenant d'un réacteur en noir, l'aura autour plus clair n'est qu'un problème de la caméra et de la compression digitale et la rotation vient d'un réajustement des lentilles à l'intérieur des caméras, un problème relié au gimbal, le nom du vidéo comme par hasard. Gimbal est un système d'axes qui permet d'orienter une caméra dans n'importe quelle direction.
Pour un oeil non averti, cela apparaît comme un OVNI alors que pour un pilote, il ne s'agit que d'un objet aérien bien commun (probablement un drone) en poursuite.
Il ne faut pas toujours croire ce qu'on lit
Le New York Times et CNN ont manqué une belle occasion de faire preuve de plus de circonspections. Avant d'ameuter la population que l'existence des extraterrestres était maintenant prouvée selon toute probabilité, ils auraient pu demander l'avis de plusieurs experts et même amateurs sur leurs faibles preuves facilement démenties par de simples explications rationnelles.
Donc, il n'y a toujours pas de preuves de l'existence d'extraterrestres sur Terre et c'est aussi bien ainsi.
For 70 years, the American people have been lied to about the extraterrestrial presence in our skies and on our planet.
For 70 years the Unidentified Flying Objects phenomena have been in our skies and have outrun our most advanced aircraft since World War II, even in the present day.
In those seven decades the 36 percent of American taxpayers who felt that there was an extraterrestrial presence of some sort were summarily ridiculed, laughed at, and referred to as the Tin Foil hat crowd. Interestingly enough, based on polling data, 80 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. government isn’t being truthful about what it knows.
On Jan. 18, 2017, more than 13 million pages of declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were released online via the National Archives. Among all that declassified material released were 70-year-old CIA documents that clearly indicated they were investigating the phenomena actively within the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. At last, a little bit a truth!
On Dec. 16, 2017, The New York Times published a groundbreaking story about the Pentagon’s five-year, $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The mainstream media jumped on it and it was the focus of the news cycle for a short time. Now we have another big splash of truth.
Did the news incite public panic on the scale of Orson Welles’ famed 1938 radio production of War of the Worlds? No!
Lots of people who were on the fence about the subject did say “Wow!” Of course, the serious skeptics just sniffed at the news, or they roared for weeks afterward, slamming Harry Reid and the Pentagon for spending a measly $22 million over five years on researching those silly UFOs!
Let’s look at it in a different way: It’s time to bring out the truth!
If the defense department is concerned that there is a “clear and present concern related to the potential advanced aerospace threat,” how about being square with the American people and humanity as a whole? Tell us the truth with real evidence and ask us to get behind the effort to further investigate and understand this phenomenon.
President Trump’s proposal for a $30 billion wall would equal about 5 percent of the total Pentagon budget. That’s an awful lot of money to spend on a politically and emotionally perceived threat.
$22 million seems like pittance in the scheme of things when you consider the awesome importance of the truth about the extraterrestrial presence in the world.
We don’t need the wall: We need the truth about whether we are alone in the universe. And don’t give us some bull that it will mess up people’s religions. Most people of faith believe that the Great Maker’s universe is full of wonders and great mystery.
We need the mainstream media to stand up and do their journalistic duty and put serious pressure on every member of Congress to demand the truth from the CIA, the Pentagon and any other agency that’s been sitting on this truth all these years.
The National Academy of Sciences needs to get off their laureled academic butts and put some real science behind the study of this entire area of study, not a whitewash like they did in 1968 with the Condon Report fiasco.
We need the president to stop tweeting and order his secretary of defense to demand a full and open briefing from all the unacknowledged special access groups in the Pentagon, and let the chips of the truth fall where they may. The people demand nothing less!
If you have a UFO sighting to report, use one of the two national database services: NUFORC.org or MUFON.com. Both services respect confidentiality.
On The Road
Cheryl’s future speaking engagements include:
Thursday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.: Liverpool Public Library, 310 Tulip St, Liverpool, N.Y.
Feb. 14-18: International UFO Congress, 10438 N. Fort McDowell Road, Scottsdale, Ariz. ufocongress.com.
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Evansville aliens? Witnesses report UFO sighting
Evansville aliens? Witnesses report UFO sighting
By: Sam Knef
"There wasn't any rhyme or reason for it happening. They just appeared."
Two witnesses, a man and a woman, were driving near Harmony Way and Cave Avenue on Evansville’s west side Saturday. They’ve chosen to remain anonymous.
“I just saw them in the sky, go what is that? And he looked up and he goes, oh,” the woman said.
"I stopped the van, got my phone out, and put it on the video,” said the man.
They say eight orbs of light making no noise were flying over the Evansville sky.
"And they were moving pretty fast, yeah."
Neither person knew what they were seeing, but tried to describe the phenomenon.
“They were dropping out of the clouds and going across the sky, and it was quite a spectacular site,” the man said. “It's really hard to explain your emotion. I didn't have any negative feelings at all. I didn't have any feelings of like being in danger, or that they were here to harm us in any way.”
They pair contacted the Mutual UFO Network, an organization that claims to be one of the largest UFO groups in the world.
"They’re unidentified flying objects,” the man said. “I think it validates the situation here, so keep your eyes to the sky."
They also claim a military aircraft followed the orbs before they shot back up into the sky. Unfortunately, that part wasn't captured on camera.
"People are gonna believe what they want to believe,” the woman said. "Something's out there. We can't be the only ones on this universe, you know."
UPDATE:
A representative of MUFON says the case is still under investigation and cannot confirm if the objects seen in the footage are UFOs, and that the group is based out of Irvine, California, and not Cincinnati as previously reported.
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(This story was originally published February 1, 2018)
Nick Pope, a former investigator of the UFO phenomenon for the British MoD, was reacting to claims made by experts that recent "UFO" footage released by the US Government was probably just a plane.
Yesterday, Express.co.uk revealed that in a radio podcast of the Big Picture Science Skeptic Check, produced at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, a panel of experts looked at the shocking radar video footage and the consensus was the object shown was just infrared heat from plane engines misidentified by US Navy pilots.
The US-based SETI Institute is a collective of scientists looking for evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
However, Mr Pope argued the footage should not be dismissed by SETI so readily.
He said: "I saw the SETI Institute's sceptical comments about the Pentagon UFO videos and thought I'd chip in, as I think they've misunderstood or failed to take account of something fairly important about this.
"While I agree that the videos themselves don't prove anything, I think the criticism of them is based on a misunderstanding. What many people don't seem to appreciate is that these videos haven't been illegally leaked - they've been declassified and legitimately placed into the public domain.
"Self-evidently, therefore, there's nothing in them that the US government, military or intelligence community regards as particularly sensitive.
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Does the US Government have crystal clear UFO images like this digital fake?
The detailed results of these analyses, perhaps including enhanced, crystal clear images of what the pilots encountered, haven't yet been made public, and may never see the light of day.
Nick Pope
"Yes, it's a big deal that military jets were chasing these objects, but while they weren't able to catch or identify them, the videos in and of themselves don't prove the pilots encountered extraterrestrial spacecraft.
"The real issue relates not to the grainy imagery that's been released to the world, but to the classified analyses that will have been undertaken by intelligence staff.
"When I worked on the MoD's UFO project we received a steady stream of photographs and films from the public, and from time to time, over the years, RAF pilots encountered UFOs and sometimes managed to get some gun camera footage.
"We'd send this material to the Defence Intelligence Staff and to a unit called the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (now subsumed within the Defence Geospatial Intelligence Fusion Centre at RAF Wyton).
"These imagery analysts are very bright people and have tremendously sophisticated tools at their disposal to enhance and analyse photos and videos.
"This is exactly what AATIP and other US intelligence community personnel will have done with these UFO videos, using their own IMINT (imagery intelligence) specialists.
"The detailed results of these analyses, perhaps including enhanced, crystal clear images of what the pilots encountered, haven't yet been made public, and may never see the light of day.
"In summary, sceptics may not be impressed by the blurry videos that have been made public - and I take their point - but somewhere in the US intelligence community there will be considerably more impressive material.
"However, whether any of this can be declassified and made public remains to be seen."
The video made global headlines in December, when a New York Times article revealed the existence of a top-secret US Department of Defense department which investigated the UFO phenomenon for five years from 2007 to 2012.
The Advanced Aerial Threat Identification program (AATIP) had a £16million budget to investigate any threat posed by unidentified objects observed by the military.
It was headed by Luis Elizondo, who resigned from the DoD last October to help set up the To The Stars Academy with former Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge to further UFO research privately.
The article also revealed the radar camera footage from a US Navy aircraft flying off the coast of San Diego in November 2004, which was said to show a UFO that "defied physics."
This footage was part of the so-called Nimitz UFO incident, in which several US Navy personnel reported seeing several tic-tac shaped UFOs over the sea, a case that was investigated by the AATIP.
Mr Elizondo later went on record to say the case, and others looked at by the AATIP, showed "there was very compelling evidence that we are not alone”.
Other debunkers have agreed it could well be a plane.
UFO believers discussing the SETI broadcast on debate website Reddit.com were not amused by the claims.
One posted today: "So our naval pilots are not trained or experienced enough not to be surprised and shocked by what are almost certainly distant jet exhausts?
"Also, he said 'the apparent strange movement of the object was just the camera itself moving, and the banking of the plane in pursuit.'
"Likely story, guys! Our military pilots are just ignorant potatoes in those cockpits with zero training? We just trust them to operate the most advanced and expensive aircraft known to man, but it's Idiocy up there apparently according to this guy. Give me a break."
Humanity has pondered the existence of alien life for centuries. However, it has been in just the past 100 years or so that modern science has backed some of this thinking. Scientists of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s believed that objects appearing on the surface of Mars were canals constructed by aliens. Particularly, astronomer Percival Lowell believed this concept and promoted it in works such as the book Mars As the Abode of Life (1908).
This belief in the scientific community led to a huge amount of pop culture based around the concept of extraterrestrials. This has resulted in some people even believing in the existence of aliens like the ones in the movies. Who knows? They could be out there. But some wonder how probable their existence is.
With aliens constantly being depicted in entertainment, even after the Martian alien canal hypothesis was busted, scientists considered communicating with otherworldly life forms. The first scientists looking for a close encounter believed the best bet was to use radio waves as the communication medium. The first of such proposed experiments was conducted in 1960 by astronomer Frank Drake.
One of the most eye-opening quotes about extraterrestrial alien life comes from the book Time for the Stars by Alan Lightman. The author states, “Are we alone in the universe? Few questions are more profound… Extraterrestrial contact would forever change the way we view our place in the cosmos” (Lightman 21).
Drake would definitely not be the last scientist to attempt to summon a response from an alien. But this was the first modern example of tests which would now be referred to as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1980, to bring more of a public interest to SETI, the legendary astrophysicist, astronomer, and astrobiologist Carl Sagan and several others formed The Planetary Society. In more recent years, other programs with goals similar to SETI’s have been established such as METI, messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.
Apart from radio waves, humans have tried other ways of communicating with hypothetical aliens. One example is a plaque which was attached to the Pioneer 10 probe in 1972. This plaque would be a unique kind of “message in a bottle,” except the ocean it was doomed to drift in was far more vast than any sea on Earth. It was inquired of Carl Sagan about sending such a message several months before the scheduled departure of the craft. So Sagan went to work, and assisting him with this undertaking was none other than Frank Drake, the man who had conducted the first modern SETI tests in 1960. The fruit of numerous labors and laborers, the Pioneer 10 plaque that was sent into space depicted a man and a woman and several objects. Through the imagery, the scientists were trying to give any aliens who might see this plaque an idea of what humans are like and where Earth is located.
This could be the first big mistaken researchers are making. They are looking to make contact. They are putting their faith in a sci-fi movie concept. What these scientists are attempting to do is call up and have a conversation with an alien or, better yet, a race of aliens. This is not to say that SETI is pointless, but it might not be the most opportune method for seeking alien life.
Perhaps scientists should strive to discover life in its simpler forms. As Lee Billings of Scientific American states in a recent article, if you were able to travel to another planet it is likely “you would find a planet dominated by microbes rather than charismatic megafauna.” Many scientists are now suggesting microscopic organisms could be more plentiful throughout the cosmos than macroscopic creatures.
Microbes Are a Realistic Form of Alien Life.
Source: Joi Ito’s PubPub.
A specific search for such minuscule life forms is not a new practice. Bacteria are, of course, microbes. Astrobiologists like Richard Hoover and Dave McKay have examined certain meteorites. Some of the microscopic structures found embedded in or on the space relics resemble bacteria. They have released their findings in past years. They have admitted that even though the fossilized structures appear to be remnants of bacteria there is still some skepticism as to whether those structures are alien in origin. This is because bacteria from Earth could have been attached to the meteorites once they entered our atmosphere.
So how do scientists narrow down the search for alien life even further? Billings’ piece may give us the best idea available at the moment. He informs his readers that one of oxygen’s properties is that it tends to descend from an atmosphere in the form of mineral oxides. It does not remain in its gaseous phase for long. Because of its nature, in an atmosphere such as Earth’s, the oxygen has to be reinstituted on a regular basis.
Astrobiologists have to accept oxygen may be one of the least familiar elements they come upon when studying potential life-supporting bodies. For example, atmospheric chemist David Catling has said the atmosphere of a world dominated by microscopic life could be largely comprised of methane and carbon dioxide gases. Keeping this in mind, this will hopefully narrow down the most likely planet candidates for life.
As the universe is unimaginably expansive and constantly growing, there’s pretty much no chance we everyday Earthlings will never get to see the majesty of deepest space firsthand. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), however, have given us a very compelling alternative.
Along with the Swedish Planetarium design company SCISS, researchers with the museum helped to develop a computer program called UniView that lets non-astronauts zip through the universe at light speed. It even lets you stop by your favorite planets or moons in the solar system.
On Wednesday, Jackie Faherty, an AMNH senior scientist who worked on the program, demoed the visualization software at the Inverse Lunar Eclipse Party and Science Fair at Caveat in New York City. To put it mildly, it blew our collective minds.
“The layers that you’re seeing, those are images taken by spacecrafts so we didn’t make a lot of what you’re seeing up,” Faherty tells Inverse. “I can fly us completely out of the solar system, out of the Milky Way, and even to the edge of the known universe.”
Faherty showed onlookers what UniView could do by flying to Saturn and showing us the gas giant’s huge ring systems. She couldn’t resist taking a pit stop at her favorite celestial object in the solar system along the way, which is one of Saturn’s many moons — Enceladus.
Jackie Faherty at her booth at the Inverse Science Fair. Via @shazthephotog.
“Enceladus is covered with this icy crust and there are these cracks that are all over it,” Faherty explained. “What’s happening is that Enceladus has geysers that are blowing off material from an underwater ocean and they’re polluting the one of the planet’s ring systems, it’s dumping material onto the other moons. It explains so much of what we saw going on in the moon system.”
All of the data that brings this universe inside your computer to life is curated and updated by the AMNH’s own repository, a version of which is available online on the museum’s website.
The galaxy is at your fingertips, space-nerds. Travel safely.
I-Team: Man who headed up secret government UFO study speaks out
I-Team: Man who headed up secret government UFO study speaks out
By: George Knapp
LAS VEGAS - A secret Pentagon program to study unknown aerial objects -- otherwise known as UFOs -- may not be finished after all.
The civilian contractor for the program was Bigelow Aerospace, based in Las Vegas. Their contract ended in 2012, but the man who managed the program inside the Pentagon thinks it is still operating.
His name is Luis Elizondo, and most of us first heard his name last October when he stood on a stage with rock star Tom DeLonge and other government insiders.
Elizondo said he had spent 10 years as the head of a secret study of unidentified aerial objects. He also was instrumental in the release of official UFO videos recorded by military pilots.
The I-Team sat down with him earlier this week to ask, among other things, why the Pentagon considered UFOs to be a potential threat.
"Is it a threat? And if it's a threat, is it the Russians or Chinese? These are the normal questions, whether dealing with terrorism or weapons of mass destruction or you'd ask for any national security issue de jour, and yet here we are with something that....."
Reporter George Knapp: "Doesn't fit."
Luis Elizondo: "That doesn't fit, doesn't fit."
Elizondo has spent most of his adult life protecting his country, on active duty in combat hotspots, handling terrorists at Guantanamo, and at the Pentagon, where he was the point man for AATIP, the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program. That program collected and analyzed information about encounters between the U.S. military and spectacular but unknown technology, what some would call UFOs.
"My job in the government at the time with AATIP was two-fold, to determine what it was and how it worked, not really focusing on who was behind the steering wheel or whatever. If we can answer the first two things, everything else we will be able to explain later," Elizondo said.
He says that even his immediate supervisor in the Pentagon was unaware of the program. Only a small list of people scattered in different branches and agencies had a need to know. The word threat is built into the name of AATIP, and even though the unidentified craft being reported by pilots and others didn't launch an Independence Day type attack on humanity or zap major cities with death rays, the defense department had to consider the possibilities.
The so-called Tic Tac UFO, for instance, was detected over several days in 2004 by personnel with the U.S.S. Nimitz battle group off the coast of San Diego. It didn't attack, but it demonstrated vast superiority over America's most advanced defense systems.
"I think if you were to take this issue that we've seen and we have something coming into our air space that we control that has a Russian star on the tail or a North Korean tail number, I think people would have a much different reaction and response because there's something we can identify and say, this is in our air space and shouldn't be here," Elizondo said. "You DOD, you CIA, you DHS, have the responsibility of protecting us, how did this happen? And yet, here we have the same scenario but there are no flags or numbers on the tail. In fact, there may not even be a tail on some of these things, and yet it's crickets. Nobody wants to have that conversation."
In 2007, a small group of senators led by Nevada's Harry Reid, initiated a program to change the culture surrounding UFO reports. Reid was motivated, in part, because of classified reports he'd read about UFO encounters over U.S. nuclear bases in which atomic weapons were somehow disabled.
"The communications in the missile defense installation was shut down. It didn't happen once. It happened more than once," former Senator Harry Reid said. "We have things in ships at sea, things in the water. What is that?"
Reid says he was also concerned that if adversaries like Russia or China could master the technology displayed by the Tic Tac or other UFOs, the U.S. military would be at a great disadvantage. Elizondo agrees.
"I think it is ridiculous to presume that other nations that are very sophisticated, very capable, aren't looking at this as well. I cannot go into detail about why I think that, but I am very confident they are aware," Elizondo said.
The program set up by the Pentagon to assist AATIP was housed at Bigelow Aerospace in southern Nevada. The contract ended in 2012, but Elizondo believes some version of the study is ongoing. Elizondo thinks it makes sense to study Tic Tacs and other UFOs and compares it to how you might react if someone pierced your home security system.
"The first thing you do, you come down your stairs as you look in your living room, you see muddy boot prints in your living room on the carpet that weren't there the night before. Nothing has been taken out of your house, nothing has been disturbed, no one has been harmed and yet every night, despite you locking the front door, closing the windows and turning on the alarm, there are muddy boot prints that keep showing up on your carpet. now, is that a threat?"
So, what about those Pentagon videos? Are they legit? And when will we get to see more of them released?
Tonight at 11 p.m., Luis Elizondo will tell us more about those dramatic encounters, why he left the pentagon, and what his new job will be, working with other former insiders at something called To The Stars Academy.
Man die geheime Pentagon-studie naar UFO’s leidde spreekt zich uit. Bekijk hier het interview
Man die geheime Pentagon-studie naar UFO’s leidde spreekt zich uit. Bekijk hier het interview
Het geheime Pentagon-onderzoek naar UFO’s loopt waarschijnlijk nog steeds. Dat zegt althans de man die jarenlang aan het hoofd stond van dat onderzoek.
Luis Elizondo leidde 10 jaar lang een geheime studie naar ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Hij was ook betrokken bij het naar buiten brengen van beelden van UFO’s die waren gemaakt door legerpiloten.
“Het was mijn taak binnen de overheid om vast te stellen wat het waren en hoe ze werkten, niet zozeer door wie ze werden bestuurd,” legde hij uit.
Heel zeker
Hij zei dat zelfs zijn baas in het Pentagon niet op de hoogte was van het bestaan van het UFO-programma. Slechts enkelen mochten weten dat het bestond.
Overheidsagentschappen willen hier niet over praten omdat ze ons moeten beschermen, maar deze objecten niet kunnen verklaren, aldus Elizondo.
“Het is belachelijk om te veronderstellen dat andere landen hier geen onderzoek naar doen,” zei hij. “Ik kan niet in detail treden, maar ik ben er heel zeker van dat ze zich hier bewust van zijn.”
Andere vorm
Elizondo merkte op dat het programma in 2012 officieel is beëindigd, maar denkt dat het in een andere vorm is voortgezet.
Het Pentagon bevestigde na berichtgeving van de New York Times dat het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie jarenlang in het geheim onderzoek heeft laten verrichten naar UFO’s.
Out of all the anomalous things falling out of the skies lately, one of the most terrifying is perhaps the unexplained giant chunks of ice which have been plummeting to the ground around the world. A pair of the mysterious ice balls fell in California in December and damaged the roofs of two homes, while another one fell in Florida in June 2017 out of a completely cloudless sky. The most recent case of a so-called “megacryometeor” happened in Alliston, Ontario when a six-pound (2.7 kg) ball of ice fell just feet from a home. Luckily nobody was hurt, but the case adds to the growing mystery of these anomalous ice balls which seem to be occurring with increasing frequency lately.
A Spanish megacryometeor from 2007.
“I had just stepped out the door. I had my towel, my phone to plug it into the hot tub and walking along here I heard this loud crash” says Alliston’s Kate Bearse whose home avoided certain catastrophe last week. “How lucky are we that it fell directly between two houses and not on the sidewalk where the kids were out playing,” she told local news. After hearing the noise, Kate and husband George found a 17-inch (45 centimeter) chunk of ice lying in a shallow dent in the ground. The Bearses called Environment Canada, but the agency is stumped. Environment Canada senior meteorologist David Phillips told CTV Barrie he’s heard of similar megacryometeors, adding “they’re very rare, but they’re always mystifying.”
George Bearse shows off the chunk of ice which would have meant certain death for him or his family had they been in its path.
(Beatrice Vaisman/ CTV Barrie)
A similar case a few months ago in Scotland when a piece of ice large enough to leave a sizeable crater fell mere yards away from a home with children. While the go-to explanation is that they must have fallen from aircraft overhead, many cases happen in locations far from flight paths, not to mention that accounts of similar so-called megacryometeors predate the invention of aircraft. Transport Canada is looking into this case. Aside from the aircraft theory, it is believed megacryometeors could be some sort of rare meteorological event which occurs under unique and specific atmospheric conditions, but data is scarce due to the rarity and unpredictability of their events and the fact that most samples melt before they can be collected.
These chunks of ice share some features with hailstones, but are formed under distinctly atmospheric conditions from those associated with causing hailstorms.
Could these megacryometeors be merely yet another symptom of the planet’s changing climate, or might there be increased aircraft activity overhead we don’t know about? Could these be related to the unexplained booms being heard around the world with terrifying regularity lately? Perhaps they’re simply natural weather phenomenon we’re only becoming aware of thanks to the information-sharing capabilities of the internet. Or maybe they’re just big hailstones. Until more study can be done, these deadly ice missiles remain a mystery.
From now on, when you Google “This is why we can’t have nice things,” a copy of this story should come up first. On January 27th, 2018, a truck driver ignored numerous warning signs and drove his semi-trailer over three of the 2,000-year-old geoglyphs better known to the world as the Nazca lines. Reports say that the truck made “deep scars” in the ground, causing severe and irreparable damage to the lines. What could have possessed him to do this?
From now on, when you Google “cheap truck drivers,” a copy of this story should come up first. According to Clarin, Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo claimed he was lost but actually drove off the Pan American highway at kilometer 424 to avoid paying a toll. The Peruvian Culture Ministry reported that the damaged area measured 50 by 100 meters ( (104 by 328 feet) and covered parts of three geoglyphs.
Well, at least they caught the driver. Knowing how much Peruvians love their Nazca lines, the court sought to throw more than a book at this guy — the Culture Ministry demanded nine months of preventive detention and a $1,550 fine while the investigation continued. He probably got it, right?
From now on, when you Google “what the hell is wrong with our courts,” a copy of this story should come up first. According to Peru21, a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the driver acted with intent and he was released. An appeal is pending.
Is there any good news? That depends on your definition of “good.” Let’s put it this way, if you Google “good news,” this story won’t come up for a few thousand pages. The damage was done to three straight lines. While they can never be returned to their original state, at least the driver didn’t do donuts over the rest of the 450 square kilometers of figures. However, if you believe that the lines were made by aliens as part of an elaborate map and landing strip, you may want to go along the border of the area and scratch a “We’re really sorry about this” message in giant letters in the dirt … along with some birds and lizards.
In the meantime, the Culture Ministry plans to beef up security around the lines and use drones for nighttime surveillance. Will it help? An archeologist for the lines told the media that incidents like this occur “daily” and the only reason this one got publicity is that someone was there to take pictures and post them on social media. (video here)
From now on, when you Google “stupid people the aliens should abduct and not return,” a copy of this story should come up first.
Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames.
Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27.
Earlier in the day, social media lit up as spectacular pictures and footage of a huge ball of fire soaring through the sky was seen over the cities of Tingo Maria and Pucallpa – which are some 115 miles from each other.
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Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames
But on Tuesday, the Peruvian Air Force said the incident may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket – and the three objects were fuel tanks from a satellite.
Peruvians had thought the fireball, also seen in the Brazilian state of Acre, was a meteorite falling to Earth.
Romulo Barros, the chief of the fire service in the Brazilian municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul, said that the local Navigation Centre had said the object was probably a meteorite.
He added that he believed the object had landed in the border region between the Acre and Peru.
Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27
The Peruvian Air Force said the incident may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket – and the three objects were fuel tanks from a satellite
Barros confirmed there had been no international flights in the airspace at the time of the incident.
However, Meteorologist Alejandro Fonesca, from the Universidade Federal do Acre, stated that no meteorites had been predicted to fall in the area.
He suggested the ball was more likely made up of space debris, a term used to describe defunct man-made objects, such as old satellites, that are left in space.
'When the debris enters the atmosphere it comes under intense friction and this causes it to set on fire. That is what could have happened,' he said.
Drie mysterieuze metalen bollen vallen uit de lucht in Peru. Dit ging eraan vooraf
Drie mysterieuze metalen bollen vallen uit de lucht in Peru. Dit ging eraan vooraf
Peruanen stonden voor een raadsel nadat op 27 januari drie mysterieuze objecten uit de lucht waren gevallen, schrijft de Daily Mail.
Inwoners van Larancahuani in de regio Puno waren bang dat er een meteoriet was ingeslagen.
Eerder die dag circuleerden er op sociale media spectaculaire beelden van een enorme vuurbal in de lucht boven de steden Tingo Maria en Pucallpa.
Dinsdag liet de Peruaanse luchtmacht weten dat het mogelijk ging om brandstoftanks van een satelliet en dat de vuurbal was veroorzaakt door de verbranding van een raket.
Meteoriet
Peruanen dachten dat de vuurbal, die tot in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Acre werd gezien, een meteoriet was die richting de aarde viel.
Brandweerchef Romulo Barros van Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre zei dat hem was verteld dat het object waarschijnlijk een meteoriet was.
Hij voegde toe dat het object volgens hem was geland in het grensgebied tussen Acre en Peru.
Ruimtepuin
Meteoroloog Alejandro Fonesca van de Federale Universiteit van Acre zei echter dat er geen meteorieten verwacht werden in het gebied.
Hij suggereerde dat het waarschijnlijk ging om ruimtepuin. “Als puin de atmosfeer binnenkomt ontstaat er frictie waardoor het in brand vliegt. Dit is wat er kan zijn gebeurd,” zei hij.
Mysterious Light Beam Appears in the Sky over Chucashia, Russia
Mysterious Light Beam Appears in the Sky over Chucashia, Russia
A mysterious bright beam of light stretching from the ground to the sky is seen in Chucashia, Russia and the photographer who took images of the phenomenon is not convinced that it was a natural phenomenon.
On February 1, 2018 in Chuvashia, Russia, Eduard Vazhorov noticed an enormous light pillar coming from the upper edge of the sun disk. The beam of light appeared at sunset and was visible for about 15 minutes before it gradually faded away.
Eduard interrupted his work and quickly grabbed his camera and ran to the common inter-storey balcony to capture the amazing spectacle.
After taking the photos he was looking for an answer for the unnatural looking phenomenon in Wikipedia. Now according to Wikipedia, a light pillar is one of the most frequent halo species, a visual atmospheric phenomenon an optical effect that is a vertical strip of light that stretches from the Sun during its sunset or sunrise.
Despite the explanation that the sun pillar is one of the most frequent halo species, Eduard is not convinced because he personally, not only observed the phenomenon, but he saw it for the first time which he believes it was just not a frequent halo species.
Very strange luminous phenomenon appears in the sky over Brazil
Very strange luminous phenomenon appears in the sky over Brazil
On January 30, 2018 a very strange intense colorful phenomenon appears in the sky over Ribeirão Claro in Paraná, Brazil.
The phenomenon seems like it is floating in the air with no direct contact to the surrounding clouds.
It is said that the phenomenon is a so-called cloud iridescence but it looks more like an earthquake light, which is a luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions.
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If you’re one of those folks who thinks the truth is out there, or if you’ve ever had a close encounter of any kind, an upcoming gathering of like-minded questioners could be for you.
The 27th annual International UFO Congress takes place Feb. 14-18 at the We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center in Fort McDowell.
The event is a pretty big deal. In fact, the Huffington Post reported that Guinness declared the 2014 gathering the world's largest UFO conference. It was the first time that category appeared in the Guinness records.
This year's congress will feature a film festival, social events, a night-sky watch and five days of expert speakers on topics related to UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters.
Unexplained Arizona events
Who knows: Maybe someone will be able to shed light on the mystery of the Phoenix Lights or the Phoenix Forgotten.
The Phoenix Lights is the name given to an eerie sighting of lights in a large “V” formation that traveled 300 miles across Arizona's sky on the night of March 13, 1997. Thousands of people, including then-Gov. Fife Symington, saw, well, something, according to The Arizona Republic. Later that night, orbs of light hung on Phoenix’s southern horizon.
The Air Force claims responsibility for the lights but some people aren't convinced.
Horror film is based on the Phoenix Lights incident of 1997. Wochit
The Phoenix Forgotten are three local teens who went into the desert seeking answers to the Phoenix Lights phenomenon and are never heard from again. They were the subject of a movie released in 2017.
UFO discussions, films
Among the featured speakers is Stephen Bassett, founder of the Paradigm Research Group that lobbies for the release of government information on extraterrestrial life. Bassett will talk about the prospects of disclosure of UFO-related information.
William Birnes, of the 2008-2009 History Channel program "UFO Hunters," will lead a discussion on what U.S. presidents know about UFOs.
Rev. Michael Carter, a minister from North Carolina, will talk about the spiritual transformation of people who have had extraterrestrial encounters.
Cheryl Costa, co-author of "U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference," will share information about statistical studies on UFO sightings and reports.
Sociologist Susan Palmer will speak about the phenomenon of when people who have been contacted by extraterrestrials start cults.
In addition to the conference, there will be a free film festival. Seven short films and three feature-length films will be presented starting Feb. 13. Winners of the film festival will be announced on Feb. 17.
International UFO Congress
When: Feb. 14-18. The film festival runs Feb. 13-17.
Where: We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center, 10438 N. Fort McDowell Road, Fort McDowell.
Admission: Registration for the full conference is $349. Passes to hear the speakers only are $309. Weekend passes are $119.
In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great technological achievements. Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines. Others saw motorized, winged crafts with screw propellers. Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.
As technologies of flight evolve, so do the descriptions of unidentified flying objects. The pattern has held in the 21st century as sightings of drone-like objects are reported, drawing concern from military and intelligence officials about possible security threats.
While puzzling over the appearance of curious things overhead may be a constant, how we have done so has changed over time, as the people doing the puzzling change. In every instance of reporting UFOs, observers have called on their personal experiences and prevailing knowledge of world events to make sense of these nebulous apparitions. In other words, affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads.
Reports of weird, wondrous, and worrying objects in the skies date to ancient times. Well into the 17th century, marvels such as comets and meteors were viewed through the prism of religion—as portents from the gods and, as such, interpreted as holy communications.
By the 19th century, however, “celestial wonders” had lost most of their miraculous aura. Instead, the age of industrialization transferred its awe onto products of human ingenuity. The steamboat, the locomotive, photography, telegraphy, and the ocean liner were all hailed as “modern wonders” by news outlets and advertisers. All instilled a widespread sense of progress—and opened the door to speculation about whether objects in the sky signaled more changes.
Yet nothing fueled the imagination more than the possibility of human flight. In the giddy atmosphere of the 19th century, the prospect of someone soon achieving it inspired newspapers to report on tinkerers and entrepreneurs boasting of their supposed successes.
The wave of mysterious airship sightings that began in 1896 did not trigger widespread fear. The accepted explanation for these aircraft was terrestrial and quaint: Some ingenious eccentric had built a device and was testing its capabilities.
But during the first two decades of the 20th century, things changed. As European powers expanded their militaries and nationalist movements sparked unrest, the likelihood of war prompted anxiety about invasion. The world saw Germany—home of the newly developed Zeppelin—as the likeliest aggressor. Military strategists, politicians, and newspapers in Great Britain warned of imminent attack by Zeppelins.
The result was a series of phantom Zeppelin sightings by panicked citizens throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in 1909, then again in 1912 and 1913. When war broke out in August 1914, it sparked a new, more intense wave of sightings. Wartime reports also came in from Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In England, rumors that German spies had established secret Zeppelin hangars on British soil led vigilantes to scour the countryside.
In the age of aviation, war and fear of war have consistently fueled reports of unidentified flying objects. A year after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Sweden was beset by at least a thousand accounts of peculiar, fast-moving objects in the sky. Starting in May 1946, residents described seeing missile- or rocket-like objects in flight, which were dubbed “ghost rockets” because of their fleeting nature. Rockets peppering Swedish skies was well within the realm of possibility—in 1943 and 1944, a number of V-1 and V-2 rockets launched from Germany had inadvertently crashed in the country.
At first, intelligence officials in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States took the threat of ghost rockets seriously, suspecting that the Soviets might be experimenting with German rockets they had captured. By the autumn of 1946, however, they had concluded it was a case of postwar mass hysteria.
The following summer, a private pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine flat objects flying in close formation near Mt. Rainier. Looking back on the event years later, Arnold noted, “What startled me most at this point was the fact that I could not find any tails on them. I felt sure that, being jets, they had tails, but figured they must be camouflaged in some way so that my eyesight could not perceive them. I knew the Air Force was very artful in the knowledge and use of camouflage.”
Given the name “flying saucers” by an Associated Press correspondent, they quickly appeared throughout the United States. Over the following two weeks, newspapers covered hundreds of sightings.
News of these reports circled the globe. Soon, sightings occurred in Europe and South America. In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bomb tests, and tensions between the United States and the USSR, speculation ran rampant.
Finding themselves on the front line of the Cold War, Germans on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered the United States the most likely culprit. West Germans thought the discs were experimental missiles or military aircraft, while Germans in the communist Eastern bloc considered it more likely that the whole thing was a hoax devised by the American defense industry to whip up support for a bloated budget.
Others had more elaborate theories. In 1950, former U.S. Marine Air Corps Major Donald Keyhoe published an article and book titled The Flying Saucers Are Real, in which he contended that aliens from another planet were behind the appearance of the UFOs. Based on information from his informants, Keyhoe contended that government authorities were aware of this, but wished to keep the matter a secret for fear of inciting a general panic.
Such a claim about UFOs was new. To be sure, at the turn of the century during the phantom airship waves, some had speculated that the vessels spotted might be from another planet. Already at that time, people were deeply interested in reports of prominent astronomers observing artificial “canals” and structures on Mars. Evidence of Martian civilizations made it seem conceivable that our interplanetary neighbors had finally decided to pay us a visit. Still, relatively few bought into this line of reasoning.
But by going further, Major Keyhoe struck a chord in a timely fashion. In the aftermath of World War II and over the course of the 1950s, it seemed that science and engineering were making remarkable strides. In particular, the development of guided rockets and missiles, jet airplanes, atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear energy, and satellites signaled to many that there were no limits—not even earth’s atmosphere—to technological progress. And if our planet were on the verge of conquering space, it would hardly be a stretch to imagine that more advanced civilizations elsewhere were capable of even greater feats.
But all this raised a question. Why were the extraterrestrials visiting us now?
Keyhoe believed that aliens had been keeping us under observation for a long time. Witnessing the recent explosions of atomic weapons, they had decided the inhabitants of planet Earth had finally reached an advanced enough stage to be scrutinized more closely. Still, there was no reason for alarm. “We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age,” Keyhoe concluded. “We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”
The flying saucer era had begun. Not everyone would remain as sanguine as Keyhoe. As concerns over global nuclear annihilation and environmental catastrophe grew during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, claims about UFOs took on ever more ominous tones.
Times changed. And so, again, did the UFO phenomenon.
SHOW LOW —The world’s oldest and largest group of Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, investigative and research organizations has a new chapter locally in Show Low. MUFON — the Mutual UFO Network — began 47 years ago.
The new Show Low chapter is led by Dave Loomis and a group of 120 people. They met at their first meeting on Saturday, Jan. 20 at the City Gym on E. McNeil St. Loomis said he was encouraged to have that many people, considering it was wet and snowy that day.
“I think there’s enough interest that come summertime, we should be having meetings of a couple hundred people because a lot of people on the Mountain are interested in this stuff,” Loomis said.
He said the group plans to have small meetings about every other month with maybe one guest speaker and he plans to save up money so he can have one big meeting annually with several guest-speakers.
“It all depends on how many people get involved,” Loomis said.
The guest speaker on the first day was, appropriately, a local living legend in the UFO enthusiast community. Travis Walton, of Snowflake, is, whether he wanted to be or not, the most-likely-to-be-true abductee of a UFO encounter in the world. His case is the most documented and investigated case of an abduction in UFO history. Walton wrote a book afterward and it became a popular movie, “Fire in the Sky.”
Many people showed up for the occasion. Some were there out of curiosity and others showed true excitement to gather and hear Walton speak. But first some history:
The disappearance
Walton, as many locals familiar with the case know, was cutting wood on a crew Nov. 5, 1975, for a U.S. Forest Service contract with several co-workers on the day he was allegedly abducted. Walton was then 22 years-old. The crew was working long hours and had finished at dusk south of Heber in the Sitgreaves National Forest.
While driving homeward, the crew — riding in a crew-cab pickup in the dark — saw some lights they thought might have been hunters on a ridge or a low-flying aircraft. Upon investigation, there was a disk-shaped craft hovering about 20 feet over the ground nearby.
Walton quickly left the vehicle to check it out and his co-workers yelled for him to come back. As Walton describes it, he crouched under the object as he got under it and when he stood up, he thinks the proximity of getting too close must have set something off with the visitors. As he stood up, a blue beam, as witnessed by the rest of the crew, hit Walton hard, throwing him back about 10 feet, but held him airborne, just a few feet off the ground in the beam with his arms spread backward.
The rest of the crew got scared, started screaming and took off in the truck. They thought Walton was dead as his body looked lifeless to them.
Walton remembers thinking he was in a hospital-type room being the subject of medical procedures.
The investigation
Five days of investigation, including polygraphs and separate interviews, each turned up the same description from the witnesses. Each were threatened with murder charges as the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office and more than 100 people searched the area for Walton’s body. But nothing turned up from the searches, including a body to make charges.
The re-appearance
Five days later, Walton describes that the craft returned him to a street in Heber where, as he came to, from some kind of trance, he saw the craft above him, leaving in about a second and going straight up. Walton saw a light in the distance that turned out to be a gas station in Heber, so he began walking toward it He called his brother for help from a payphone. He thought he’d only been missing for an estimated two hours.
Walton to this day, still describes the same events in the same detail, but says the movie ‘Fire In The Sky’ was fictionalized and “took some liberties with what actually occurred,” so Walton has a new movie called ‘Travis,’ which has many clips from witnesses from back when it happened. The 80-minute movie was shown to the crowd following an introduction of Walton where he spoke briefly. He did a Q&A session following. Travis and the crew all lost their jobs in the immediate aftermath of the ordeal and were all treated like they were a bit off.
But hearing Walton speak he doesn’t sound like he’s crazy. He eloquently philosophizes his thoughts of what an alien civilization might do if they wanted to investigate the human race and Earth.
“They’re not going to come down here and land on the White House lawn, if that’s what you think,” Walton says. “Scientists like Michio Kaku say that these other civilizations, if you look out into the night sky, based on these star systems out there; there could easily be millions of years ahead of us. And if you stop and think about all the technology we have here on Earth at this time- — it has all happened in the last 200-300 years, so if we have done that in 200-300 years, how far do you think these other civilizations would have progressed over hundreds of thousands of years, or even a million?” says Walton.
“There are probably civilizations out there traveling that may have been around for at least 200-300 years before we even had any technology, or maybe they are even a million years ahead of us, we don’t know.” Walton points out that they are most-likely smart enough to know, like Star Trek’s Prime Directive suggests, not to influence other civilizations with technology ahead of their time. The aliens probably know that if they or their technology were captured by the United States, Russia, or China, it would upset the balance of our planet and cause wars and severe disruption if not total chaos. “I don’t think we have much to be worried about from them. I mean, if they wanted to have the Earth they would have just taken it,” said Walton.
MUFON, being an investigative group has a mission statement: The Scientific Study of UFO’s For The Benefit of Humanity. To learn more or join the club, contact Loomis or visit their website, www.showlowmufon.com.
Incredible photos show UFO-like clouds near Cheyenne
Spoiler alert: These are lenticular clouds.
Author:Allison Sylte
A 9NEWS viewer sent us photos Monday of a series of three clouds that sort of looked like UFOs near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
“I’ve never seen clouds like this,” viewer David Smith wrote via Your Take.
One of the best parts about working at 9NEWS is the fact that we have meteorologists at our disposal to explain the science behind cool cloud photos (apparently, most offices do not have this perk)
A view of lenticular clouds near Cheyenne Wyoming.
Here’s what 9NEWS Meteorologist Cory Reppenhagen had to say about the photos:
These get called flying saucers or UFOs a lot, not only because of their lens shape, but since they also appear to hover. The wave in the air that is causing these lenticulars is maintaining a crest in a constant location. So, lenticulars stand in one place for a period of time.
You don’t see the mountain range in the shot, but that is likely what is causing this. High winds out of the west and northwest hit the mountains or other obstruction, and causes a disruption in the flow of air, making a wave downstream of the obstruction.
A smooth cloud forms at the crest of the wave where the air meets the dewpoint, and as the air falls down the other side of the wave, evaporation occurs.
Lenticulars can form at any level of the atmosphere, but this variety is altocumulus.
There have been very strong winds in Wyoming the last couple days. There is a High Wind Warning in parts of Wyoming Tuesday with 35 to 45 mph sustained winds and gusts near 70 mph.
So there you go – these aren’t UFOs but rather lenticular clouds caused by a unique combination of wind and the mountains.
Do you have an awesome photo to share or a science question we can solve? Email us at yourtake.9news.com.
Muna, “place of soft or tender water,” is a small town with just over 11,000 inhabitants, mainly of Mayan origin.
Located in the southern part of Yucatán, very close to the archaeological site of Uxmal (UN Cultural Heritage Site), Muna will delight your senses.
Coming from Mérida, drive towards the Umán highway, through Yaxcopoil and Abalá until you get to Muna, only a 67 km drive. In this peaceful small town you can start your visit at the local market and have breakfast at one of the food stands located along the side; in this market you can find a wide array of typical Yucatecan fruits such as guanabana, pitaya (dragon fruit), carambola (star fruit), orange, lime, zapote, chicozapote, mamey and more.
Chapel “La Asunción” in Muna. (Photo: Niccolo Brooker, found in mexico.photium.com)
In Muna you can visit the “highest” hill in the state of Yucatan, from which you can observe the beautiful Mayan jungle, with the magnificent pyramid of Uxmal in the background! Besides, you can visit the six colonial chapels dedicated to San Bernardo, San Mateo, San Sebastián, La Soledad, Santa María and San Andrés which are famous for their colonial architecture.
The “Mirador de Muna,” is a must… located on the old highway to Uxmal and on the highest point of the surrounding hills, from this lookout point, you will have a breathtaking view of the forest known as “bosque bajo de Yucatán” (Yucatáns low jungle). With Uxmal’s “Adivino” pyramid in the background, it is an amazing panorama!
You can also take a tour of the cenotes in the area, the tour starts with a guided walk through the jungle, until you get to the entrance of the cenote, where you can swim and relax in its clear waters.
Muna is also famous for its handcrafts: embroidered textiles, clay and wood items carved by the magical hands of the Muna artisans.
The Muna cenote where residents saw a flying object getting into the water, emerging seconds later to disappear in the sky. (Photo: SIPSE)
Additionally, Muna is also uknown among UFOlogists, for frequent UFO sightings. In fact many locals claim to have seen “strange things in the sky”…
One of the most important Muna’s UFO sightings took place in 2004, as a group of locals say that they saw a flying object, landing on top of a nearby cenote, where it remained for a few seconds, and then disappeared into the sky at high speed.
Even though Muna residents were used to see these objects in the sky, that particular time, the whole thing happened very close to the ground, near the population, and many people claim to have seen this thing falling into the cenote and then flying out of it, in broad daylight (even a group of local taxi drivers witnessed the event).
For more information on this UFO sighting check the following link (in Spanish): sipse.com
These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed
These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed
Aerospace firms aim to usher in a new era of supersonic travel.
by Kate Baggaley
Boeing's concept for a jet-powered hypersonic aircraft.
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Commercial airliners haven’t broken the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired in 2003. But now some aerospace firms hope to usher in a new era of supersonic air travel. Boom Supersonic, for one, plans to build 1,451-mile-per-hour planes that would be able to make the trip from New York to London in 3 hours and 15 minutes starting in 2023.
Other firms aren’t content with supersonic flight. They’re designing so-called hypersonic aircraft capable of flying five times the speed of sound, or around 3,800 miles per hour. These ultra-fast planes would likely first be used by the military for strike and reconnaissance missions. But experts say hypersonic technology could make its way into commercial jets. It would then be possible to fly anywhere on Earth in under three hours.
“It’s certainly within the realm of possibility,” says Dr. Kevin Bowcutt, senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics for Boeing Research & Technology. “I think we have the technology now where we could actually do it.”
BUILDING A FASTER JET
It’s no easy task to create a plane that can slice through the air at hypersonic speed.
A few aircraft have flown that fast, including Boeing’s experimental X-51A WaveRider. But all hypersonic planes built so far have been powered by rocket engines or used rocket boosters. Rockets are powerful but heavy because they have to carry the oxygen needed to burn fuel with them. “Rocket motors are great for going to space and powering missiles, but they’re less than ideal for carrying people,” Bowcutt says.
That’s why Boeing and Lockheed Martin are working to develop jet-powered hypersonic aircraft. So far, information about these incredibly fast aircraft is sparse; Lockheed Martin declined to provide details on their plane.
Boeing unveiled a new design earlier this month at a conference in Orlando, Florida. At low speeds for takeoff and landing, the sleek plane would be powered by a turbine engine, much like a regular commercial plane. But for the main portion of flights, it would switch over to an engine called a dual-mode ramjet that can only operate at speeds above Mach 3.
A regular turbine uses whirling fan blades to suck air into the engine and other blades to compress the air so more oxygen can come in contact with the fuel. But this equipment would melt if used at hypersonic speeds. The ramjet instead uses the shockwaves created by traveling at such high speeds to squeeze incoming air.
Flying at such high speeds creates an incredible amount of friction, so a hypersonic aircraft would have to be made out of heat-resistant materials such as a nickel alloy, Bowcutt says.
A hypersonic aircraft using this technology could be available within 10 to 20 years. What would it feel like to fly on one? You’d be pushed back into your seat as the plane accelerates to take off, just as with a regular passenger jet. “The only difference with a hypersonic plane is that the feeling of takeoff would persist for a few minutes until you got up to speed and altitude,” Bowcutt says. “Then it would feel no different than any other airplane.”
You’d be traveling at 90,000 to 100,000 feet. That’s much higher than today’s airliners, which typically fly at altitudes around 35,000 feet, and high enough to see Earth’s curvature below and the blackness of space above. To strengthen the fuselage, the plane might substitute virtual windows for real ones. Cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior would feed video to the virtual windows, recreating what you’d see if you actually looked out of the plane.
A SPEEDY FUTURE
Both supersonic and hypersonic flight face many hurdles before they can be used for commercial air travel. One hurdle will be dealing with the environmental impacts of emissions at such high altitudes. Another will be finding enough of a market for this ultra-fast form of travel; to support its supersonic speed, the Concorde demanded four times as much fuel per passenger as other jets, which drove up ticket prices.
When it comes to hypersonic passenger travel, "It's hard for me to see, at least in the next 15-20 years, that it's going to be so cost competitive that it's going to compel the airlines to take a stab at it," John Plueger, president and CEO of Air Lease Corporation, a company that leases aircraft around the world, told CNBC.
And then there’s the sonic boom that is created by aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms can startle humans and wildlife on the ground; to avoid that, the Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden supersonic flights over land. The Concorde used to go supersonic only over the ocean, limiting the routes it could fly.
But engineers are hard at work on ways to quiet the sonic boom. NASA is hoping to create a supersonic plane that can fly quietly enough to convince the FAA to lift its ban, opening the door for airlines to offer supersonic commercial flights over land.
The agency selected Lockheed Martin to create the preliminary design for its QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) aircraft. The plane’s shape would scatter the shockwaves produced at intense speeds so they couldn't combine to form a loud sonic boom. Instead they will create a soft thump, like the sound of a neighbor closing their car door.
“If you were at a barbeque and there’s people out there and you’re chatting and there’s potentially some music, you would never hear it,” says Peter Iosifidis, the QueSST program manager at Lockheed Martin.
Hopefully, this will inspire the FAA to update its rules around 2025, he says, allowing supersonic travel to become widespread within a few years.
Supersonic speed would cut many journey times in half. But hypersonic flight could make commercial air travel still faster and more convenient. International day trips around the world could eventually become routine. You could travel from New York to London in about an hour. Or you might wake up and eat lunch in Los Angeles and then spend two hours flying to Tokyo. “You have a meeting, maybe grab a bite to eat, come home and you sleep in your bed,” Bowcutt says.
MANY WORLDS Alternate universes with different laws of physics could still host galaxies, stars and planets, a new study suggests.
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Not all fundamental forces are created equal. An alternate universe that lacks the weak nuclear force — one of the four fundamental forces that govern all matter in our universe — could still form galaxies, stars, planets and perhaps life, according to calculations published online January 18 at arXiv.org.
Scientists have long thought that our universe wouldn’t exist, or at least wouldn’t support life, without certain physical laws. For instance, if gravity were much stronger than it is, most matter would collapse into black holes; if it were weaker, the universe wouldn’t form structures such as galaxies or planets. The strong nuclear force holds atomic nuclei together, and the electromagnetic force carries light across the universe.
“Those three forces, gravity, strong and electromagnetic, are part of the deal,” says theoretical physicist Fred Adams of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. But the weak nuclear force — responsible for making neutrons decay into protons, electrons and neutrinos — might not be so essential (SN: 4/29/17, p. 22). “That’s the only one you can get rid of entirely without messing everything up,” he says.
A previous study had argued that a universe lacking the weak force could exist. Some physicists think our universe is just one in an infinite multiverse, where many different cosmoses exist side-by-side, possibly governed by different physical rules. We live in this one simply because we couldn’t live anywhere else(SN Online: 10/10/14), some scientists say.
“People talk about universes like they’re very fine-tuned; if you changed things just a little bit, life would die,” Adams says. But “the universe and stars have a lot more pathways to success.”
In the new research, he and his colleagues simulated how matter was created in the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear force. In our universe, one consequence of neutron decay is that most of the universe is made of hydrogen, which consists of a single proton and electron. Stars, in their hot cores, fuse protons into helium and heavier elements and then scatter them into space, helping to create everything from planets to physicists. But with no weak force, a universe would be filled with neutrons that didn’t decay — a dead end for building heavier elements.
The only way such a universe could create complex matter would be to have started out with fewer neutrons and more free protons than our universe did. That way, neutrons and protons could link up and make deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen. So Adams and his colleagues tweaked the simulated universe’s initial neutron and proton content, too.
Stars fueled with deuterium would still shine, the simulations showed, but the objects would look different. Burning deuterium is more efficient than burning hydrogen, so these stars would be a little hotter, larger and redder than our stars. But the stars could still create all the elements of the periodic table up to iron, and stellar winds could carry those elements out into space.
Any planets that formed would have water made with deuterium instead of hydrogen, which is toxic to life in our universe. “But if life had to evolve with deuterated water … it might be OK,” Adams says.
Adams and his colleagues are some of the first to explore the consequences of a “weakless” universe seriously by tweaking the numbers, says Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in either study.
The paper does not help figure out if the multiverse is real, though. “We hope that eventually we’ll know,” Rees says, but “I’m not holding my breath.”
Wednesday’s Super Blue Blood Moon was seriously showing off this morning, and rightfully so. The tangerine spot in the sky delighted many stargazers, as evidenced by some unreasonably gorgeous photos of it on social media.
Sure, the moon wasn’t “blue,” as its name suggests. Its color comes from the careful arrangement of the sun, moon, and Earth during a lunar eclipse. As Inversepreviously reported, when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow, our atmosphere scatters more blue light than red, causing observers on our planet to see a copper moon.
No matter what color it is, one things for sure: the Super Blue Blood Moon is pure internet magic. Gaze upon the moon’s splendor in these spectacular photos, unless you have actual stuff to do, like work, or feeding your cat:
A recycled Falcon 9 carrying GovSat-1 awaits launch in Florida.
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SpaceX has some routine business to take care of this week before the long-anticipated debut of Falcon Heavy, its newest and most powerful rocket yet.
Elon Musk's commercial space venture on Tuesday scrubbed the scheduled launch of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket set to lift the GovSat-1 satellite into orbit. The mission was called off so SpaceX can swap out a sensor on the rocket. Weather conditions had also been less than ideal for launch much of Tuesday. The launch will now be attempted again from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday during a window starting at 1:25 p.m. PT.
GovSat-1 is a communications device built for a public-private partnership involving the government of Luxembourg and satellite operator SES. The Falcon 9 that the satellite sits atop is one of a handful that SpaceX has flown on a previous mission, landed, recovered and reconditioned for further launches. This particular rocket is the same one that carried a spy satellite to space for the US National Reconnaissance Office last year.
Two missions will apparently be all that this reused rocket will see, however, as SpaceX has no plans to recover it again after GovSat-1 is launched.
This fairly routine mission happens against the backdrop of the planned demonstration launch of Falcon Heavy, currently scheduled for Feb. 6. If it succeeds, Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in use since the Saturn V that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon, and it will also send Musk's red Tesla Roadster on a journey toward Mars because, well, Elon thinks that'll be cool.
The Falcon 9 GovSat-1 launch has nothing to do with the Falcon Heavy launch, but if Wednesday's mission were to fail for some reason, it's possible it might lead to the Falcon Heavy debut being pushed back as well. SpaceX postponed all launches for several months when a Falcon 9 exploded on the launch pad in 2016.
It's also interesting that SpaceX won't attempt to recover the rocket's first stage on Wednesday. After Falcon Heavy's launch, it will attempt to land all three of the powerful system's first stage rockets.
You can watch the GovSat-1 mission live or replay it afterward via the embed below:
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3 Ancient Underground Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
3 Ancient Underground Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Thousands of years ago, for reasons unclear to scholars, ancient cultures around the globe decided to escape from the surface of our planet, and seek shelter deep within Earth.
Somehow, ancient cultures managed to create incredible underground cities that feature many rooms, living quarters, religious centers, underground farms, and shelters.
Since the Middle Ages, building tunnels was necessary to survive, even to practice pagan rituals without being seen, plan a revolution, attack unexpectedly or connect two peoples.
Some of these cities we are are about to explore even came to be declared a World Heritage Site.
The underground city of Derinkuyu.
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1. The ancient underground city of Derinkuyu
Derinkuyu in Cappadocia in Turkey is probably the largest underground city that has been discovered to date.
It extends for more than eight levels as deep as 80 meters with more than 600 entrances to the surface.
Although the date the original city was built is unknown, the Turkish Department of Culture believed the underground city was built during the 8th century BC.
It is believed to have been built by the Phrygians, ancient Indo-European people, who worshiped the “great mother,” Cybele.
The Phrygians developed an advanced culture, famous for its music and the legend of King Midas, a king of Phrygia, who turned into gold everything he touched.
It is estimated that Derinkuyu, based on the storage capacity of food and resources, had about 10,000 inhabitants and that it could shelter 30,000 in case of need.
The city had a communications network with the outside of the city and was connected to the city of Kaymakli.
Derinkuyu, with an area of 4 square kilometers, is built on a soft and easily worked surface. The terrain is composed of smooth volcanic stone; mixed with mud and ash from volcanic eruptions.
2. The underground city of Naours
This ancient settlement is located in northern France where ancient cultures build two miles of tunnels, featuring more than 300 underground rooms, hidden around 100 feet beneath the surface. It is believed that Naours was first built as a Roman quarry during the third century A.D. and was later expanded into a fully functional underground city after local inhabitants started using it as a shelter during the wars and raids of the Middle Ages.
Archaeologists estimate that at its peak the underground city of Naours provided shelter for more than 3,000 inhabitants, and included its own chapels, stables, wells, and bakeries.
3. The underground city of Kaymakli
The underground city of Kaymakli.
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Kaymaklı is one of several underground cities (Derinkuyu, Mazi, and Özkonak) located in the Cappadocia region, in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
It is thought that it was probably built between the fifth and the tenth centuries.
Although the lack of decoration and documentation make it difficult to date, the ancient city has been occupied by various cultures over the centuries.
Its main function was to shelter the inhabitants of the region in case of invasions.
Its strategic position in the center of the Cappadocia region (20 kilometers south of Nevşehir), made it a refuge easily reachable by the inhabitants.
The ancient city only has one entrance; but once underground, it extends for 2.5 km².
In the interior, there are areas for storing food, stables, cisterns, cellars, kitchens, churches and even graves arranged in a maze of tunnels and stairs.
In the kitchens, it is appreciated that the walls and ceiling are impregnated with soot. In the churches, there are remains of the Byzantine frescoes that adorned them.
Like many other ancient underground cities in the region, this city too has a number of ventilation shafts.
The entrance is protected by a disk-shaped stone that was placed to block the passage of enemies entirely, and that could only be moved from within.
A second disc protects the city, a few meters further on the entry tunnel: as “double insurance” in case the first entry was broken into.
There is an underground tunnel in the direction of the neighboring underground city of Derinkuyu (9 km to the south), although the tunnel has not been completely excavated.
Scientists from all over the world use astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, archaeology and other sciences to investigate the Earth’s formation as well as the emergence and extinction of life on Earth.
Around 13.8 billion years ago, an enormous explosion that scientists call the Big Bang spurred the formation of our planet. The explosion produced increasingly dense, cloud-like masses of hydrogen dust; the biggest turned into our sun, while smaller ones became planets. One of those planets is our Earth.
Some scientists believe around 600 to 700 million years later, meteor showers bombarded the earth, carrying with it large volumes of water and amino acids. Life, in the form of single-cell bacteria, began.
Since then, bacteria has evolved into more complex forms, though different beings have also become extinct.
2. Geological eras
Geologists divide the periods from the Earth’s formation up until now into a number of eras based on the changes that happened in each of them.
We are currently in the Holocene era, which started around 11,700 years ago when the Ice Age ended.
More recently though, a number of scientists have argued that because of the nuclear bomb testings of the 1950’s and population explosion, humans have entered a new era, called the Anthropocene.
They argue that with more than seven billion people, human activity has drastically influenced nature and the extinction of a number of wildlife.
The Earth is no stranger to disappearing life forms. There are have been many periods of extinction, from when the first organism emerged on Earth until today.
However, according to fossil records, only five eras have drastically reduced the population of living beings on earth to warrant the label of mass extinction.
3. First period of extinction
Entering early to mid period of the Ordovician Era, the Earth was still warm with an ideal humidity level for living. However, towards the end of the period – around 443 million years ago – everything changed suddenly, when the old continent Gondwana reached the South Pole. The temperature dropped drastically and ice formed everywhere, lowering the water level.
Subsequently, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the sea dropped, causing the number of plants to decrease dramatically and an ecosystem chaos ensued because certain plants, used as sources of food, became scarce.
Some 86% of the population of living beings disappeared within three million years. Some of the organisms affected by the first extinction were Brachiopods, Conodonts, Acritarchs, Bryozons, and also Trilobites that lived in the ocean.
4. Second period of extinction
The second period of extinction, during the Devon Age, happened around 359 million years ago. A relentless meteor shower is believed to be one of the causes of mass extinction. Other causes include a drastic decrease in oxygen levels globally, the increased activity of tectonic plates, and climate change. These changes caused around 75% of living creatures to die.
Extinction in this period impacted life in the sea which, at the time, was dominated by corals and stromatoporoids.
5. Third period of extinction
The third period of extinction, around 251 million years ago, during the Permian Age, was the biggest and worst that ever happened on Earth.
The formation of the giant continent Pangea caused immense changes in geology, climate and the environment. Volcanic eruptions that continued for 1 million years released around 300 million square kilometres of lava while more than 1750 metres of sediment was formed in the Siberian Traps.
The eruptions burned forests four times the size of Korea. It produced large volumes of carbon dioxide that caused global warming. As a result, frozen methane below the sea melted, producing a global warming effect 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
The global warming lasted for approximately 10 million years. A terrible mass extinction was inevitable. Only 5% of the population of life on Earth survived and 95% perished from massive drought, lack of oxygen and acid rain that made plants unable to survive.
6. Fourth period of extinction
The fourth period of extinction happened around 210 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Age.
The slow splitting of Pangea caused volcanoes to form in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. After a spike in atmospheric carbon dioxide, global warming started again, with scientists speculating it lasted as long as eight million years.
This caused coral and conodonts, an eel-like ancient sea creature to face serious crisis. Coral-based creatures did not survive.
A meteor rain also hastened the destruction in this period: Around 80% of living creatures, including reptiles died, with some 20% of the creatures that became extinct sea-based lifeforms.
Additionally, a number of creatures that lived on land that died in this period were pseudosuchia, crocodylomorphs, theropods and several large amphibians.
7. Fifth period of extinction
The fifth period of extinction happened around 65 million years ago and is more popularly known as Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. It was the fastest period of mass extinction, occurring over one to 2.5 million years.
It’s possibly the most known period of mass extinction because this was when dinosaurs were wiped out from the face of the earth. Scientists believe a meteor fall in today’s Gulf of Mexico compounded with high volcanic activity which produced a significant amount of carbon dioxide, killed half of the earth’s living population.
8. How does the future look?
Some scientists believe that we have entered the sixth period of extinction since 2010. The massive emission of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels has affected the lives of many plants and animals. Scientists predict that this will affect many life forms on Earth in the next three to four decades. Who knows?
De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?
De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?
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Meerdere zaken wijzen erop dat de magnetische polen van onze aarde “binnenkort” zullen omslaan. Lees: noord wordt zuid en zuid wordt noord. Een publicatie van één wetenschapper daarover was genoeg om het internet te doen gevolgen dat het einde der tijden nu echt wel nabij is. Maar moeten we ons echt zorgen maken? Zijn we echt met z’n allen gedoemd? Een expert van National Geographic geeft meer uitleg.
De eerste vraag: gaan we met z’n allen sterven?
“Ja.”
Wat?
“We gaan allemaal sterven, uiteindelijk toch. De kans dat we allemaal tegelijk en wel meteen zullen vergaan als de magnetische polen omslaan, is echter klein. Onbestaand zelfs.”
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Oef. Maar wat is zo’n geomagnetische ommekeer eigenlijk?
“Als de geologische geschiedenis zichzelf herhaalt, zullen de magnetische polen van onze aarde uiteindelijk omslaan. Eenvoudig gezegd: de Noordpool wordt de Zuidpool en de Zuidpool wordt de Noordpool. Het is zeker geen nieuw fenomeen. Uit de magnetische vingerafdrukken in oude gesteentes kunnen we afleiden dat zo’n ommekeer de voorbije 20 miljoen jaar al meermaals voorgevallen is. Gemiddeld om de 200.000 à 300.000 jaar zelfs.”
“De vorige ommekeer dateert wel al van zo’n 780.000 jaar geleden. Je zou dus kunnen stellen dat een nieuwe al lang over tijd is. Het klopt inderdaad wel dat sommige gegevens erop wijzen dat er binnenkort opnieuw een ommekeer zit aan te komen. Maar dan is binnenkort wel op te vatten in de geologische betekenis. Het is niet zo dat de Noordpool morgen plots de Zuidpool zal zijn. Onze gok is dat alles wel nog een tijdje zal blijven zoals het nu is. Al kan niemand zo’n ommekeer met enige precisie voorspellen.”
En wat zijn de gevolgen van zo’n ommekeer?
“Ook dat is nog heel onduidelijk. Wetenschappers menen dat de vorige flips nogal traag verlopen zijn. Dat wil zeggen: het duurde duizenden jaren voordat noord zuid werd en omgekeerd. Dat is zowel goed als slecht voor wie bezorgd is over hoe zo’n ommekeer het leven op aarde zal beïnvloeden.”
“De trage verandering is enerzijds goed, omdat het betekent dat we tijd hebben om ons voor te bereiden en om ons best te doen om alle mogelijke nadelige effecten te voorkomen. Anderzijds is het ook slecht, want het magnetische veld rond onze aarde beschermt ons ook tegen schadelijke stralingen van de zon en uit de kosmos. Na een ommekeer zal dat veld, dat schild, minder krachtig zijn.”
Vogels zullen na een magnetische ommekeer opnieuw hun weg moeten zoeken.FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK
Zal de gewone sterveling er iets van merken?
“De enige grote opmerkbare verandering, is dat na een ommekeer je kompasnaald Antarctica als het noorden zal aanduiden en de Noordpool als het zuiden. Daardoor zullen de namen van het Amerikaanse continent tijdelijk (tot de volgende ommekeer, nvdr.) een beetje verwarrend zijn aangezien Noord-Amerika dan ten zuiden van Zuid-Amerika zal liggen”
“Een ander interessante gevolg is dat dieren die het magnetische veld van de aarde gebruiken om te navigeren - zoals bijvoorbeeld vogels, zalmen en zeeschildpadden - verdwaald kunnen raken tijdens hun routine-uitstapjes. Uiteindelijk zullen ze de verandering wel onder de knie krijgen en zal het leven opnieuw z’n gangetje gaan. Heel wat einde-der-tijden-profeten hebben geprobeerd om zo’n magnetische ommekeer te koppelen aan massale uitstervingen, maar de gegevens bevestigen dat gewoonweg niet.”
We moeten ons dus helemaal geen zorgen maken?
“Niet bepaald. Het klopt wel dat het magnetische veld rond de aarde zwakker wordt na een ommekeer. Al is dat op zich niet zo ongewoon, want ook nu is de kracht van dat veld aan hevige veranderingen onderhevig. Volgens de NASA wijst niets er ook op dat het veld volledig zal verdwijnen. Waarom? Omdat dat nog nooit gebeurd is.”
“Als het veld echter substantieel zwakker wordt en een hele tijd zwak blijft, dan zullen we minder beschermd zijn tegen de hopen hoog-energetische deeltjes die voortdurend rondzweven in de kosmos. Dat betekent dat alles en iedereen op aarde blootgesteld zal worden aan hogere stralingsniveaus, wat na een tijd kan leiden tot een stijging in ziektes als kanker en mogelijk ook een invloed zal hebben op ons elektriciteitsnetwerk en op ruimtereizen. Maar dat zijn gevolgen waarop we ons kunnen voorbereiden. En we hebben ook nog altijd een dikke laag atmosfeer om ons te beschermen, natuurlijk.”
“Op dit moment doen we zelf al heel goed ons best om kankerverwekkende gifstoffen te introduceren in onze omgeving en om onze natuurlijke ecosystemen van functie te veranderen… We hebben op korte termijn dus belangrijkere zaken aan ons hoofd.”
“Tot slot nog één pluspuntje: een zwakker magnetisch veld betekent dat de aurora’s (zoals het bekende Noorderlicht, nvdr.) op veel meer plaatsen te zien zullen zijn. Onze nachten zullen dus nog epischer worden.”
Het magnetische veld rond de aarde beschermt ons onder meer tegen zonnestraling.FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK
WETENSCHAP Dat de magnetische polen op aarde van positie zouden wisselen, lijkt op zich straf. Toch gebeurde dat al vaker en zál het ook blijven gebeuren. Er zijn aanwijzingen dat we nu weer in zo’n lange overgangsperiode zitten. Op zich geen ramp - sorry, aanhangers van doemscenario’s - maar toch kan zo’n switch mogelijk chaotische gevolgen hebben, als licht, gsm’s en computers zouden uitvallen.
De omkering van het aardmagnetisch veld betekent op dit moment dat de naald van een kompas niet langer naar het noorden zou wijzen maar naar het zuiden. Niet ongewoon: pas sinds zo’n 780.000 jaar bevindt de magnetische zuidpool zich op de geografische noordpool, wat dus daarvóór niet het geval was.
Zo’n switch gebeurt heel langzaam en kan zelfs duizenden jaren duren. Volgens experts zitten we er mogelijk op dit moment in. Dat zien ze onder meer aan het aardmagnetisch veld dat de laatste 200 jaar met 15 procent afgezwakt is. Een wetenschappelijk rapport op de site Undark waarschuwt ervoor dat de bescherming die het aardmagnetisch veld normaal biedt tegen allerhande schadelijke zonne- en kosmische straling, door die verzwakking vermindert en dat zo meer van die “onzichtbare krachten die levende wezens schade kunnen toebrengen of doden” onze aarde kunnen bereiken.
Satellietsystemen die de elektrische en elektronische netwerken op de aarde regelen kunnen verstoord geraken en zo licht, computers en gsm’s doen uitgaan. Zelfs het doorspelen van de wc wordt dan problematisch, beweert het verslag, dat Daniel Baker aanhaalt, directeur van het Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics aan de University of Colorado. Hij vreest ook dat “delen van de planeet onbewoonbaar worden tijdens de omwisseling”.
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Doorheen de geschiedenis van onze planeet keerden de magnetische polen elke 200.000 à 300.000 jaar om. Omdat de laatste magnetische ompoling dateert van 780.000 jaar geleden, zijn we al even ‘overtijd’. Soms mislukt zo’n poging tot poolshift overigens. Die laatste keer was 40.000 jaar geleden.
De magnetische ompoling is een van die klassieke fenomenen die in bepaalde middens aangezien worden als het inluiden van het einde der tijden. Maar daar zijn helemaal geen wetenschappelijke aanwijzingen, laat staan bewijzen, voor. Het enige dat vaststaat, is dat na de omkering je kompas het noorden op Antarctica zal situeren en het zuiden ergens in de buurt van Canada. En ook dat vogels, zalmen en zeeschildpadden, die gebruik maken van het magnetisch veld om zich te oriënteren, zich zullen moeten aanpassen.
Een van de beste redenen om aan te nemen dat het magnetisch veld, dat dus wel kan verzwakken, niet helemáál zal verdwijnen, komt van de NASA: omdat het in het verleden ook nog nooit gebeurd is.
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Magnetisch veld aarde kan ieder moment omkeren. Worden delen van de wereld hierdoor onbewoonbaar?
Magnetisch veld aarde kan ieder moment omkeren. Worden delen van de wereld hierdoor onbewoonbaar?
Het magnetisch veld van de aarde is de afgelopen 200 jaar met 15 procent afgezwakt. Wetenschappers zien dit als teken van een aanstaande magnetische omslag.
Volgens Daniel Baker van de Universiteit van Colorado in Boulder zijn er duidelijke aanwijzingen voor een omkering.
Als zoiets gebeurt zullen sommige gebieden op aarde onbewoonbaar worden, voorspelt hij.
Ieder moment
Historisch gezien keert het magnetisch veld van de aarde eens in de 200.000 tot 300.000 jaar om.
Het is nu wachten op de volgende omslag, aangezien het magnetisch veld 780.000 jaar geleden voor het laatst is omgekeerd.
Uit de nieuwste satellietgegevens van de Europese ruimteorganisatie ESA blijkt dat een omkering ieder moment kan plaatsvinden.
Onophoudelijke activiteit
Wetenschappers spreken van ‘onophoudelijke activiteit’ die erop wijst dat het magnetisch veld op het punt staat om te keren.
Bij een omslag worden we blootgesteld aan de zonnewind, die gaten in de ozonlaag kan veroorzaken.
Ook kunnen elektriciteitsnetwerken uitvallen, kan het klimaat drastisch veranderen en kan het aantal ziektegevallen stijgen.
Ernstige zaak
“Dit is een ernstige zaak,” zei professor Richard Holme van de Liverpool University.
Onderzoekers voorspellen dat er na een omslag jaarlijks honderdduizenden mensen zullen sterven als gevolg van blootstelling aan straling uit de ruimte.
170 jaar
Maar ze voegen toe dat ze niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen wanneer het magnetisch veld precies zal omkeren.
“We bestuderen het veld nog maar zo’n 170 jaar,” zei dr. Colin Forsyth van University College London.
WETENSCHAPCuriosity, de Mars-verkenner van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA, heeft na maanden klimmen eindelijk de flanken bereikt van de bergkam Vera Rubin. Daar maakte de verkenner zestien foto’s die samen een prachtig panorama van de Gale-krater vormen, waar Curiosity in 2012 landde. Het is de eerste keer ooit dat er zo’n groot overzichtsbeeld vanop de planeet werd gemaakt.
De Mars-verkenner heeft sinds de landing meer dan vijf jaar geleden in totaal 18 kilometer afgelegd, en pas nu, na een maandenlange klimtocht, kon het staaltje toptechnologie even terugkijken op zijn tocht en prachtige foto’s maken van het dal waarin het geland is. Het resultaat vormt een van de mooiste panoramabeelden ooit van de rode planeet. Een hogeresolutiebeeld kan je hier downloaden.
Curiosity schoot de beelden al op 25 oktober vorig jaar, vanop een hoogte van 327 meter. Pas deze week liepen ze echter bij de ruimtevaartorganisatie binnen, nadat de Maven-satelliet erin geslaagd was een recordhoeveelheid data in één keer door te sturen. NASA plakte de zestien beelden aan elkaar en veranderde de witbalans, zodat de kleuren overeen zouden komen met daglicht op aarde.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSEen detail van het panorama. Curiosity landde in 2012 op de Bradbury landingsplaats, en legde sindsdien een tocht van 18 kilometer af, hier deels weergegeven met een grijze lijn.
154 kilometer breed
Op de beelden is goed te zien hoe groot het dal is van de krater waarin Curiousity landde. In totaal is de Gale-krater 154 kilometer breed. De afstand vanop de bergflank waar de foto’s zijn genomen tot aan de tegenoverliggende bergen is ongeveer 30 kilometer. NASA toonde zich bijzonder verheugd over de beelden. “Hoewel Curiousity al vijf jaar aan het klimmen is, is het de eerste keer dat we konden terugkijken en een volledig beeld te zien kregen van de missie die achter ons ligt”, aldus projectleider Ashwin Vasavada. “Vanop ons terras op de Vera Rubin-bergkam toont de bodem van de krater zich in al zijn glorie tot aan de spectaculaire bergkam die de noordelijke rand vormt van de Gale-krater.”
Curiousity bereidt zich nu voor op nieuwe boorwerkzaamheden in de ondergrond, waarna de stalen in de verkenner zelf geanalyseerd zullen worden. Het is al meer dan een jaar geleden dat de verkenner nog nieuwe boorstalen heeft genomen.
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA maakte ook dit beeld van bovenaf. De ster is waar Curiosity in 2012 landde, en de zwarte lijn het pad dat de verkenner sindsdien aflegde.
REUTERSCuriosity maakte vorige week nog dit zelfportret vanop de bergkam waar hij zich momenteel bevindt. Links in beeld is de krater die op de panoramafoto te zien is.
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Footage of a UFO passing the Blue Blood Moon
Footage of a UFO passing the Blue Blood Moon
The USAToday live feed were showing the Griffith Observatory live broadcast of the Lunar Eclipse Blue Blood Moon event on January 31, 2018 when suddenly a UFO comes into view travelling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame.
Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular interval.
Not only people in Australia saw it with their own eyes, a resident of Los Angeles, California recorded the portion of the UFO at the moment it passing the Moon. Mufon case 89921.
What has the U.S. government been hiding about UFOs?
What has the U.S. government been hiding about UFOs?
Dom Armentano
From mid-September to Dec. 28, 2017, the Army Corps of Engineers sent about 192 billion gallons of contaminated Lake Okeechobee water to the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon. Although there were no toxic algae blooms like the year before, the discharges sent a plume of chocolate-brown water through the river and into the Atlantic Ocean, devastating the estuary's oyster and sea grass populations.Wochit, Wochit
On Dec. 16, three experienced journalists posted a bombshell story on the New York Times website: The Pentagon had authorized a secret research project (2007-2012) to study unidentified flying objects.
Even more importantly, Luis Elizondo, the Pentagon project coordinator and a career intelligence officer, later asserted that in his opinion some UFOs were real objects and appeared to demonstrate a technology that the U.S. did not have and did not understand. To highlight that point, the Pentagon also released “gun camera” film of a Navy pilot’s 2004 close encounter with an objectthat displayed wildly unconventional flight characteristics.
The mainstream media was caught completely off guard by the sensational Pentagon revelations, although they should not have been. Some breathlessly opined that never before had a U.S. intelligence agency acknowledged UFOs were solid objects that defied conventional explanation. Well, not exactly. While that assertion is true in some narrow sense, the belief that the U.S. intelligence community had been unaware of the exotic nature of UFOs until the recent Pentagon study is just totally bogus.
In point of fact, they have known about the unconventional nature of the phenomenon for decades and have chosen to hide the bulk of that information (dozens of military gun camera films, for example) from Congress and especially from the American people.
Contrary to the media coverage of the Pentagon story, the U.S. defense and intelligence communities actually have known about the exotic nature of UFOs since at least 1947. There exists, for example, a once-secret document (dated Sept. 23, 1947) written by Gen. Nathan Twining (Air Material Command) that acknowledges reported flying discs “are real and not visionary or fictitious” and that the discs “must be considered evasive when sighted ... which lends belief to the possibility that some of the objects are (intelligently) controlled.”
And since the U.S. military had dozens of reports from experienced military pilots and FAA controllers and ground personnel that the discs could hover, turn on a dime and then accelerate at incredible speeds — unlike any technology that existed then or now — it was implicit even in 1947 that these flying objects were not ours.
In short, the deep intelligence state has known for at least 70 years that some UFOs were real; yet it has chosen to keep the information in support of that conclusion either confidential or simply denied that it even existed. But a decades-long public policy of secrecy and denial on a subject as important and mind-bending as UFOs is foolish and dangerous in the extreme and puts our entire democratic process at risk.
If any of this commentary sounds familiar, it should since I first raised these issues in a series of articles published by TCPalm in 2008. In those articles, I pointed out there was substantial evidence gathered over many decades that some UFOs were likely extraterrestrial; the intelligence community was withholding that information; and the reasons for the secrecy likely related to fears of a public panic or to national security concerns since many important UFO sightings had occurred in the vicinity of U.S. defense installations and nuclear weapon storage facilities.
Despite any possible national security concerns, several prominent public figures, most notably Hillary Clinton, have called for more increased transparency on the subject of UFOs. Curiously, my call for disclosure in 2008 went over like a lead balloon. Most of my professional colleagues in law and economics thought I had lost my mind (even though I had studied the phenomenon for almost 40 years); and the Cato Institute abruptly ended its 20 year affiliation with me (as an adjunct scholar) one day after my first UFO article appeared. So much for courage and open inquiry in the academy.
The good news is these perverse attitudes are changing somewhat. The New York Times' Pentagon project revelations have created an important opportunity for more serious media coverage of past and current government UFO research. We must take advantage of that opportunity now and push for open Congressional hearings and full disclosure.
Dom Armentano is professor emeritus in economics at the University of Hartford (Connecticut). He lives in Vero Beach.
Daytime UFO sighting filmed over Miami, Florida on 28th January 2018.
Witness report:
On January 28th, my family went for a afternoon of carnival fun at st rose Catholic Church in Miami Florida . Upon arrival we noticed two silver white object just sitting in the sky like a pin on a board. My aunt took her camera and took a picture and I took my iPhone plus 7s and started to film. After a few minutes my phone died which was surprising since it was fully charged. I took her camera which was a new camera for professionals and when I aimed towards the ufos. The camera would not work but as soon as I put the camera towards a level in which I can take a pictures of a family member it would work. I did this several times and others tried as well with the same outcome. Maybe 10 minutes later I can see fighter jets in the distance which suddenly the object just vanished .No one really noticed which was seared and at the beginning we thought it was a ballon but it didn’t move
Britain’s Area 51: Paranormal hotspot for UFO and ghost sightings REVEALED
Britain’s Area 51: Paranormal hotspot for UFO and ghost sightings REVEALED
ONE of the most haunted places in Britain and a hotbed for sightings of ghosts and UFOs has been identified – as a leafy stretch of the A30.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: Windwhistle Hill has had strange goings on report for over 400 years
Experts say the eight-mile section of the Somerset route from Chard to Crewkerne has been the centre of repeated reports of scary goings on dating back 400 years.
They include a constant series of sightings around Windwhistle Hill of "strange, unusual and eerie lights, sounds, figures and shapes''.
Locals have even started to dubbed the road as "Area-oohh-aarr 51".
Gloria Dixon, of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), says the Somerset road is liniked to years of spooky tales.
She says the the scary sightings on the mysterious hill are connected with the area's history of highwaymen, smugglers and witches.
BUFORA researchers have investigated the stretch of A30 road connecting Crewkerne and Chard and have found "mystical" reports dating back to 1662.
“Windwhistle Hill is steeped in the traditional folklore of strange lights, visions and figures with ghostly highwaymen and galloping horses”
Gloria Dixon
Gloria wrote on the BUFORA website: "Reports of strange visions and incidents have continued to date.
"According to the literature, during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Windwhistle [Hill] had a history of highwaymen and smugglers in this area.
"The A30 used to be a coaching route from London to the West Country and highwaymen could hide in the beech trees waiting for the carriages with their cargoes of valuables.
"It has been suggested that the Windwhistle Inn near the summit was the central point for these highwaymen.
"They would use the wells and caves all around the area to hide their treasures and also the bodies of those they had robbed.
"The story goes that some skeletons have been discovered in these hideouts.''
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Mrs Dixon's research focuses particularly on two separate experiences encountered by a local mother, Kate Walker, when she was travelling between Yeovil and Chard with her family.
"As they came to the top of the hill Kate and her family all observed a huge orange light diffused by cloud, to their left-hand side and at the far end of Windwhistle Hill," wrote Mrs Dixon.
"It seemed to be right beside the road, not very high up, and partially obscured by cloud, but they did not feel any alarm as there was a power station and pylons further along.
"However, as they drove nearer to the light, it was easier to observe and Kate states it was massive and totally static and very low and bright.
"She describes it as being cigar shaped and vast in size, maybe 200-300 feet, and she estimates the light to be approximately 800-1000 feet above them.
"As they got closer she noticed that the pub on the right hand side of the road, The Windwhistle Inn, was almost in total darkness, except for a light in a small upstairs window."
Mrs Dixon writes that Kate looked up again at the light, which by that time was almost on top of the family.
It is then said that Mrs Walker "lost" around half an hour, a space of time that was unaccounted for in her memory.
And just a few days after the "puzzling incident", the family encountered another altogether more chilling experience in virtually the same spot.
They are said to have seen two people in front of them, on the left hand verge, with one appearing to be lying down, and the other standing.
She wrote: "Their initial thoughts were that someone had been injured and went to slow down.
"But to their astonishment, the person standing took one step out in front of them, with one foot remaining on the grass verge at the roadside, while the other was right over the centre of the road.
"Kate described the figure as being abnormally tall with legs that were horrendously long and thin.
"Her husband swerved to the far side of the road, around the figure, and they kept on driving and did not look back.
"They all agreed that there was no one who could possibly have legs that long."
Mrs Dixon also notes that, in a book on East Somerset, Alan Holt comments that Whindwhistle Hill – named for the winds whistling through its tall treetops – is haunted by a witch.
Holt alleges that the woman was knocked down by a stage coach many years ago.
A number of further reports from the archives of the Yeovil Weekly News tell of other strange incidents experienced over the years.
One witness reports that in 1991 herself, her husband and her grandson perceived a tall strange figure looking through their farm window.
This was followed a few days later by their observations of a "saucer-shaped object".
Another witness tells how he was driving a lorry on Windwhistle Hill in 1976 or 1977, when he claims his lorry went out of control as though by some "strange force".
He says he felt as though the lorry was hovering over the road.
And a final witness tells how she and her husband observed a very large unidentified object, silver and shaped like a humming top, near Windwhistle Hill in November 1959.
They watched it as though “hypnotised" from about 11pm to 9am the next day and for some reason felt unable to tell anyone.
Mrs Dixon writes: "It appears that there is a history of odd occurrences in this area.
"Certainly Windwhistle Hill is steeped in the traditional folklore of strange lights, visions and figures with ghostly highwaymen and galloping horses. It's tantalising stuff."
Millions of years of evolution may have rendered us Earth-locked, a Canadian-Russian research team reports. Zero- and microgravity conditions seem to severely impair our immune systems’ ability to function, so much so that they’d struggle to deal with even minor viruses like that of the common cold.
Image credits BagoGames / Flickr.
A team of Russian and Canadian researchers have analyzed the protein make-up in the blood of 18 Russian cosmonauts to get an idea of their immune system health. They report that the crew, who spent six months aboard the International Space Station, showed signs of significantly weakened immune systems that would struggle to deal even with minor pathogens.
No gravity, no service
“The results showed that in weightlessness, the immune system acts like it does when the body is infected because the human body doesn’t know what to do and tries to turn on all possible defense systems,” said Professor Evgeny Nikolaev of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and paper coresponding author.
Our bodies, like those of all other organisms on Earth, have been tailored by evolution to adapt to specific conditions. It makes perfect evolutionary sense to adapt to the place you’re living in, but humans are now trying to do something that no life before us ever tried — we want to leave the planet. That’s quite problematic since it takes us out of the set of conditions we’re designed to function in.
Environmental factors associated with spaceflight, most notably microgravity and radiation exposure, tend to mess up our bodies’ inner workings. Our metabolism, heat regulation systems, heart rhythm, muscle tone, bone density, vision, our respiratory systems, they all go a bit haywire once you take us off the planet.
It all adds up to take a toll. Astronauts who went on deep space or lunar missions were five times more likely to die from cardiovascular diseases than their counterparts who stayed in low orbit, or people who never left Earth (around 43% compared to under 10% for the latter). And that’s considering that astronauts are way fitter than the average Joe and have access to the best medical care available.
To get a better idea of how space travel impacts human physiology, the team looked at the level of 125 proteins in the blood of astronauts who spent six months aboard the ISS. Proteins underpin virtually all complex tasks inside the body, so by looking at their state in the blood researchers could infer the state of the crew’s immune systems. Samples were first taken from the cosmonauts 30 days before they left for the ISS to establish a baseline. To track changes in their immune systems, the team also took blood samples immediately after the cosmonauts returned to Earth, and seven days later. Individual proteins were counted using a mass spectrometer.
The results aren’t very encouraging at all
”When we examined the cosmonauts after their being in space for half a year, their immune system was weakened,” said Dr Irina Larina, the first author of the paper, a member of Laboratory of Ion and Molecular Physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
“They were not protected from the simplest viruses. We need new measures of disorder prevention during a long flight.
It doesn’t bode well for future explorers, as our immune system is what’s literally keeping us alive all day, every day. The effects were manageable, although severe, after only six months. But future missions are likely going to take much longer. A one-way trip to Mars, our closest viable candidate for a colony, would take around six to eight months — and colonists wouldn’t have the medical means and infrastructure available on Earth, meaning they’ll have to rely on their now weakened immune systems much more than the cosmonauts. So it can become a problem. {However, we can get to work on understanding and then address these changes before we start poking around the final frontier.
“We must understand the mechanism that causes disorders. If we find the pathways that are affected by the weightlessness, we will be able to find the target for the remedy and we’ll be able to offer new pharmaceutical products that will prevent these negative processes.”
The paper “Protein expression changes caused by spaceflight as measured for 18 Russian cosmonauts” has been published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
A pole reversal is always preceded by a weakened magnetic field, meaning more cosmic radiation will hit Earth’s surface.
Credit: NASA.
Throughout its history, Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped regularly. The last time this occurred was around 786,000 years ago, and judging from the paleomagnetic data which researchers studied, we’re in for a new pole reversal soon. According to scientists operating the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm trio, clusters of molten iron and nickel are ‘on the run’, draining the dipole. There’s a revolution shaping up, and if precautions aren’t taken, the consequences could be dire for modern human civilization.
The Earth’s magnetic field looks like that which would be produced by placing a bar magnet at the center of the Earth, with the North Magnetic Pole corresponding to the South Geographic Pole and vice versa. The Earth’s magnetic dipole originates in swirling currents of molten iron deep in the Earth’s core, and extends more than 10 Earth radii, or 63.7 million meters out into space on the side facing the Sun, and all the way to the Moon’s orbit, at 384.4 million meters on the opposite side. Magnetic field lines loop out of the South Geographic Pole and into the North Geographic Pole.
Credit: NASA Cosmos.
There are currents that guide the molten iron inside the planet’s core and, consequently, the magnetic poles can move or shift over time, losing or gaining strength. Scientists not only know that the magnetic field’s intensity changes over time, but they also know when dramatic shifts in intensity or pole reversal occurred. That’s because such events are recorded in the “frozen” ferromagnetic (or, more accurately, ferrimagnetic) minerals of consolidated sedimentary deposits or cooled volcanic flows on land.
It’s from these records that geologists learned that the last magnetic reversal took place 786,000 years ago. It happened very quickly, too, having occurred in less than 100 years.
Polar mood swings
“It’s amazing how rapidly we see that reversal,” said UC Berkeley graduate student Courtney Sprain. “The paleomagnetic data are very well done. This is one of the best records we have so far of what happens during a reversal and how quickly these reversals can happen.”
In 2014, Sprain and colleagues performed a study on the magnetic field alignment in layers of ancient lake sediments that are now exposed in the Sulmona basin of the Apennine Mountains east of Rome, Italy. This study allowed them to determine the age of the last reversal as well as other novel insights, like how Earth’s magnetic field can sometimes weaken only to snap back into place (the last time this happened was 40,000 years ago).
Right now, Earth’s magnetic field is decreasing 10 times faster than normal, which is why many scientists believe this century could see a pole reversal. The latest satellite imagery data from ESA suggests the north magnetic pole is especially turbulent and unpredictable.
In the last 50 years, the north magnetic pole has already moved considerably — so much so that satellites orbiting right above the South Atlantic, which is near the geographic South Pole, are now bombarded by charged particles from the sun and interstellar space.
The planet’s magnetic field acts like a shield against this sort of radiation but since pole reversal implies a temporary weakening of the field first, radiation exposure is bound to increase.
So what does this all mean for us? Not anything good, unfortunately.
Because the field’s intensity is bound to decrease considerably, much more radiation from space will be able to reach the planet’s surface than it does today. However, life on Earth shouldn’t be affected too much by this directly — humanity has lived through several pole reversals and we’re still here. Likewise, there were no mass extinction events coinciding with a pole reversal that scientists could find.
However, much has changed since the last time the planet’s magnetic field weakened by this much. For one, much of our existence is predicated on not only electrical power but also satellite-based communications, which nowadays are synced so much with the power grid that the two are basically inseparable. If our fleet of satellites was to suddenly come offline, much the world could suffer blackouts which could last for years. In the ensuing chaos, it’s anyone guess what would happen next.
Now, we know for sure that a pole reversal is going to happen relatively soon at a geological timescale and we also know there’s a big risk such an event will scramble our satellites. What we don’t know is when exactly this will happen. It could happen anytime from a generation from now to a couple hundred years. What’s certain is that we have to prepare for the inevitable. For this reason, many space-based firms as well as public institutions are collaboration not only to develop new standards for how to build and deploy tomorrow’s satellites — which are much sturdier in the face of cosmic radiation — but are also working on informing the public and other important stakeholders of the potential consequences.
Modern civilization is becoming increasingly reliant on technology. Here at ZME Science, you frequently read about artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Such stories will only become mundane but as we increasingly leave duties for AIs to handle, vulnerabilities in theface of power and comm-link loss will only become worse.
A pole reversal is always preceded by a weakened magnetic field, meaning more cosmic radiation will hit Earth’s surface.
Credit: NASA.
Throughout its history, Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped regularly. The last time this occurred was around 786,000 years ago, and judging from the paleomagnetic data which researchers studied, we’re in for a new pole reversal soon. According to scientists operating the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm trio, clusters of molten iron and nickel are ‘on the run’, draining the dipole. There’s a revolution shaping up, and if precautions aren’t taken, the consequences could be dire for modern human civilization.
The Earth’s magnetic field looks like that which would be produced by placing a bar magnet at the center of the Earth, with the North Magnetic Pole corresponding to the South Geographic Pole and vice versa. The Earth’s magnetic dipole originates in swirling currents of molten iron deep in the Earth’s core, and extends more than 10 Earth radii, or 63.7 million meters out into space on the side facing the Sun, and all the way to the Moon’s orbit, at 384.4 million meters on the opposite side. Magnetic field lines loop out of the South Geographic Pole and into the North Geographic Pole.
Credit: NASA Cosmos.
There are currents that guide the molten iron inside the planet’s core and, consequently, the magnetic poles can move or shift over time, losing or gaining strength. Scientists not only know that the magnetic field’s intensity changes over time, but they also know when dramatic shifts in intensity or pole reversal occurred. That’s because such events are recorded in the “frozen” ferromagnetic (or, more accurately, ferrimagnetic) minerals of consolidated sedimentary deposits or cooled volcanic flows on land.
It’s from these records that geologists learned that the last magnetic reversal took place 786,000 years ago. It happened very quickly, too, having occurred in less than 100 years.
Polar mood swings
“It’s amazing how rapidly we see that reversal,” said UC Berkeley graduate student Courtney Sprain. “The paleomagnetic data are very well done. This is one of the best records we have so far of what happens during a reversal and how quickly these reversals can happen.”
In 2014, Sprain and colleagues performed a study on the magnetic field alignment in layers of ancient lake sediments that are now exposed in the Sulmona basin of the Apennine Mountains east of Rome, Italy. This study allowed them to determine the age of the last reversal as well as other novel insights, like how Earth’s magnetic field can sometimes weaken only to snap back into place (the last time this happened was 40,000 years ago).
Right now, Earth’s magnetic field is decreasing 10 times faster than normal, which is why many scientists believe this century could see a pole reversal. The latest satellite imagery data from ESA suggests the north magnetic pole is especially turbulent and unpredictable.
In the last 50 years, the north magnetic pole has already moved considerably — so much so that satellites orbiting right above the South Atlantic, which is near the geographic South Pole, are now bombarded by charged particles from the sun and interstellar space.
The planet’s magnetic field acts like a shield against this sort of radiation but since pole reversal implies a temporary weakening of the field first, radiation exposure is bound to increase.
So what does this all mean for us? Not anything good, unfortunately.
Because the field’s intensity is bound to decrease considerably, much more radiation from space will be able to reach the planet’s surface than it does today. However, life on Earth shouldn’t be affected too much by this directly — humanity has lived through several pole reversals and we’re still here. Likewise, there were no mass extinction events coinciding with a pole reversal that scientists could find.
However, much has changed since the last time the planet’s magnetic field weakened by this much. For one, much of our existence is predicated on not only electrical power but also satellite-based communications, which nowadays are synced so much with the power grid that the two are basically inseparable. If our fleet of satellites was to suddenly come offline, much the world could suffer blackouts which could last for years. In the ensuing chaos, it’s anyone guess what would happen next.
Now, we know for sure that a pole reversal is going to happen relatively soon at a geological timescale and we also know there’s a big risk such an event will scramble our satellites. What we don’t know is when exactly this will happen. It could happen anytime from a generation from now to a couple hundred years. What’s certain is that we have to prepare for the inevitable. For this reason, many space-based firms as well as public institutions are collaboration not only to develop new standards for how to build and deploy tomorrow’s satellites — which are much sturdier in the face of cosmic radiation — but are also working on informing the public and other important stakeholders of the potential consequences.
Modern civilization is becoming increasingly reliant on technology. Here at ZME Science, you frequently read about artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Such stories will only become mundane but as we increasingly leave duties for AIs to handle, vulnerabilities in theface of power and comm-link loss will only become worse.
Despite an observable universe sprinkled with several trillion galaxies, each stuffed with a trillion planets, we see no evidence of anyone. No signals, no megastructures, no interstellar rockets. While astronomers routinely uncover puzzling objects in the sky, these always turn out to be manifestations of natural phenomena.
Without mincing words, we can state that the cosmos has offered us no hint of the presence of beings as clever as, or cleverer than, Homo sapiens.
It’s tempting to jump from this observational fact to a disappointing conclusion: There’s no one out there. That’s not to say that the universe is sterile. Most astrobiologists seem comfortable with the premise that life might be widespread. But their optimism doesn’t always extend to complex, intelligent life.
It’s possible that we inhabit a universe whose occupants are mostly pond scum. After decades of seeing semi-humanoid aliens strut across the silver screen, it would be more than a little disappointing to think that the actual cosmic bestiary largely consists of plants and animals that are microscopic, or at best, no smarter than cane toads.
That situation would make humans very special, a circumstance that seems at odds with the enormous amount of real estate available for life, as well as the billions of years since the Big Bang during which intelligence could arise.
So, could there be a plausible explanation for why the universe seems so short on keen-witted company?
Filtering Out Intelligent Life
Economist Robin Hanson has suggested that life inevitably encounters a barrier on its evolutionary path to thinking critters – a Great Filter that keeps down the average IQ of the universe.
What could this barrier be? Perhaps life itself is rare because it’s difficult to cook up in the first place. Maybe the transition from single-celled to multi-celled organisms is a bridge too far for most ecosystems. Possibly the emergence of intelligence is a fluke, like winning the Powerball, or perhaps all thinking beings inevitably engineer their own destruction shortly after developing technology.
The idea that there are insurmountable hurdles in the path to intelligence leads to an interesting corollary. Consider the possibility that we’ll someday find microbes under the dry surface of Mars, or beneath the frozen ice of a moon like Enceladus or Europa. That would tell us that one hurdle – the origin of life – can be removed from the list. After all, if biology began on both Earth and another nearby world, then it’s a safe bet that it’s commonplace. No strong filter there.
If we were to discover more sophisticated life somewhere, perhaps equivalent to trilobites or dinosaurs, that would also eliminate some of the postulated filters. Indeed, Nick Bostrom, at Oxford University, has said that it would be horrifyingly bad news to find such complex organisms on another world. Doing so would tell us that the Great Filter is in our future, not our past, and we are doomed. Homo sapiens will come up against a wall that keeps us from extending our dominion beyond Earth. Our species, as lovely and promising as it is, would would have a destiny that is short and dismal.
The appeal of the Great Filter idea is that it takes a fairly limited observation – we don’t see any evidence of aliens in the night sky – and draws an astounding (if dystopian) conclusion about humanity’s destiny.
Could the Great Filter Theory be Full of Holes?
One could argue whether the various hurdles that have been suggested are really all that daunting. For example, the claim that the evolutionary step from insensate creatures to thinking beings could be incredibly unlikely.
A premise of the Rare Earth hypothesis, put forward in a book by Peter Ward and Don Brownlee, published nearly two decades ago, is that the physical conditions of our planet are both finely tuned for our existence and seldom encountered elsewhere. Yes, smart creatures arose on Earth, but that’s because our planet is really special. However, the recent detection of thousands of planets around other stars suggests that terrestrial worlds are hardly in short supply. If there is a Great Filter, it’s not likely to be lack of suitable habitats.
Other suggested barriers to intelligence are less easily dismissed because they depend as much on sociology as on astronomy. Many people seem almost proud to bray that humanity is going to Hades in a handbasket. If nuclear war doesn’t do us in, climate change will. But given that we have at least a chance of being smart about these threats and avoiding total self-destruction, it seems pretty clear that some reasonable fraction of alien societies will also be able to keep themselves alive and kicking for the long term.
Indeed, it’s my opinion that the Great Filter idea falters not on the merits or otherwise of the proposed filters, but on the initial premise: Namely that, because we don’t see any evidence for other intelligence, we require some general mechanism to keep the cosmos short on sentience. Sure, it’s amusing to enumerate some of the difficulties in going from murky chemical soup to space-faring beings, but it seems far more likely that the problem here is a too-hasty conclusion about the prevalence of cosmic confreres.
The efforts to find radio and light signals from other worlds, known as SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), has so far failed to uncover any hailing signals from aliens. But these experiments are both underfunded and still in their early days. Even if the universe is chock-a-block with transmitting societies, SETI could easily miss them, simply because of inadequate instrument sensitivity or the fact that only a small number of star systems have yet to be searched.
A common, and regrettable, error is committed when people note that the SETI scientists have been toiling for more than 50 years without a discovery, as if that suggests that intelligence is rare. It doesn’t. Throughout most of that period, observations were restricted by the lack of telescope time or by receivers that could only examine small slices of the radio dial.
In addition, it’s worth remarking that humanity is in the process of developing artificial intelligence, a technological trajectory that other sophisticated societies could very well follow. Unlike biological intelligence, AI can self-improve at tremendous speed. Also, there aren’t obvious limitations to the spread of machines throughout the cosmos. The implication of this observation is that the majority of the intelligence in the universe is likely to be synthetic. And machine intelligence might be small, localized, and cryptic.
The absence of evidence would hardly qualify as evidence of absence. The Great Filter theory, in other words, could be no more than an appealing solution looking for a problem.
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