Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
30-04-2018
BIZARRE SCIENCE FUTURISTIC PIG BRAINS CAN BE KEPT ALIVE OUTSIDE THE BODY. HUMAN BRAINS MIGHT BE NEXT.
PIG BRAINS CAN BE KEPT ALIVE OUTSIDE THE BODY. HUMAN BRAINS MIGHT BE NEXT.
In a step that could change the definition of death, researchers have restored circulation to the brains of decapitated pigs and kept the reanimated organs alive for as long as 36 hours.
The feat offers scientists a new way to study intact brains in the lab in stunning detail. But it also inaugurates a bizarre new possibility in life extension, should human brains ever be kept on life support outside the body.
The work was described on March 28 at a meeting held at the National Institutes of Health to investigate ethical issues arising as US neuroscience centers explore the limits of brain science.
During the event, Yale University neuroscientist Nenad Sestan disclosed that a team he leads had experimented on between 100 and 200 pig brains obtained from a slaughterhouse, restoring their circulation using a system of pumps, heaters, and bags of artificial blood warmed to body temperature.
There was no evidence that the disembodied pig brains regained consciousness. However, in what Sestan termed a “mind-boggling” and “unexpected” result, billions of individual cells in the brains were found to be healthy and capable of normal activity.
Reached by telephone yesterday, Sestan declined to elaborate, saying he had submitted the results for publication in a scholarly journal and had not intended for his remarks to become public.
Since last spring, however, a widening circle of scientists and bioethicists have been buzzing about the Yale research, which involves a breakthrough in restoring micro-circulation—the flow of oxygen to small blood vessels, including those deep in the brain.
“These brains may be damaged, but if the cells are alive, it’s a living organ,” says Steve Hyman, director of psychiatric research at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was among those briefed on the work. “It’s at the extreme of technical know-how, but not that different from preserving a kidney.”
Hyman says the similarity to techniques for preserving organs like hearts or lungs for transplant could cause some to mistakenly view the technology as a way to avoid death. “It may come to the point that instead of people saying ‘Freeze my brain,’ they say ‘Hook me up and find me a body,’” says Hyman.
Such hopes are misplaced, at least for now. Transplanting a brain into a new body “is not remotely possible,” according to Hyman.
Brain in a bucket
The Yale system, called BrainEx, involves connecting a brain to a closed loop of tubes and reservoirs that circulate a red perfusion fluid, which is able to carry oxygen to the brain stem, the cerebellar artery, and areas deep in the center of the brain.
In his presentation to the NIH officials and ethics experts, Sestan said the technique was likely to work in any species, including primates. “This is probably not unique to pigs,” he said.
The Yale researchers, who began work on the technique about four years ago and are seeking NIH funding for it, acted out of a desire to construct a comprehensive atlas of connections between human brain cells.
Some of these connections probably span large regions of the brain and would thus be traced more easily in a complete, intact organ.
Sestan acknowledged that surgeons at Yale had already asked him if the brain-preserving technology could have medical uses. Disembodied human brains, he said, could become guinea pigs for testing exotic cancer cures and speculative Alzheimer’s treatments too dangerous to try on the living.
The setup, jokingly dubbed the “brain in a bucket,” would quickly raise serious ethical and legal questions if it were tried on a human.
For instance, if a person’s brain were reanimated outside the body, would that person awake in what would amount to the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber, without ears, eyes, or a way to communicate? Would someone retain memories, an identity, or legal rights? Could researchers ethically dissect or dispose of such a brain?
The “brain in a jar” scene from the 1983 comedy The Man with Two Brains. Though fodder for jokes, as brain-preservation technology advances medical ethicists are taking it seriously. STREAMLINE | “THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS” (1983)
Also, because federal safety regulations apply to people, not “dead” tissues, it is uncertain whether the US Food and Drug Administration would have any say over whether scientists could attempt such a reanimation procedure.
“There are going to be a lot of weird questions even if it isn’t a brain in a box,” said an advisor to the NIH who didn’t wish to speak on the record. “I think a lot of people are going to start going to slaughterhouses to get heads and figure it out.”
Sestan said he was concerned about how the technology would be received by the public and by his peers. “People are fascinated. We have to be careful how fascinated,” he said.
Comatose state
It’s well known that a comatose brain can be kept alive for at least decades. That is the case with brain-dead people whose families elect to keep them attached to ventilating machines.
Less well explored are artificial means of maintaining a brain wholly separated from its body. There have been previous attempts, including a 1993 report involving rodents, but Sestan’s team is the first to achieve it with a large mammal, without using cold temperatures, and with such promising results.
At first, the Yale group was uncertain if an “ex vivo” brain to which circulation was restored would regain consciousness. To answer that question, the scientists checked for signs of complex activity in the pig brains using a version of EEG, or electrodes placed on the brain’s surface. These can pick up electrical waves reflecting broad brain activity indicating thoughts and sensations.
Initially, Sestan said, they believed they had found such signals, generating both alarm and excitement in the lab, but they later determined that those signals were artifacts created by nearby equipment.
Sestan now says the organs produce a flat brain wave equivalent to a comatose state, although the tissue itself “looks surprisingly great” and, once it’s dissected, the cells produce normal-seeming patterns.
The lack of wider electrical activity could be irreversible if it is due to damage and cell death. The pigs’ brains were attached to the BrainEx device roughly four hours after the animals were decapitated.
However, it could also be due to chemicals the Yale team added to the blood replacement to prevent swelling, which also severely dampen the activity of neurons. “You have to understand that we have so many channel blockers in our solution,” Sestan told the NIH. “This is probably the explanation why we don’t get [any] signal.”
Sestan told the NIH it is conceivable that the brains could be kept alive indefinitely and that steps could be attempted to restore awareness. He said his team had elected not to attempt either because “this is uncharted territory.”
“That animal brain is not aware of anything, I am very confident of that,” Sestan said, although he expressed concern over how the technique might be used by others in the future. “Hypothetically, somebody takes this technology, makes it better, and restores someone’s [brain] activity. That is restoring a human being. If that person has memory, I would be freaking out completely.”
Brain experiments
Consciousness isn’t necessary for the type of experiments on brain connections that scientists hope to carry out on living ex vivo brains. “The EEG brain activity is a flat line, but a lot of other things keep on ticking,” says Anna Devor, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, who is familiar with the Yale project.
Devor thinks the ability to work on intact, living brains would be “very nice” for scientists working to build a brain atlas. “The whole question of death is a gray zone,” she says. “But we need to remember the isolated brain is not the same as other organs, and we need to treat it with the same level of respect that we give to an animal.”
Today in the journal Nature, 17 neuroscientists and bioethicists, including Sestan, published an editorial arguing that experiments on human brain tissue may require special protections and rules.
They identified three categories of “brain surrogates” that provoke new concerns. These include brain organoids (blobs of nerve tissue the size of a rice grain), human-animal chimeras (mice with human brain tissue added), and ex vivo human brain tissue (such as chunks of brain removed during surgery).
They went on to suggest a variety of ethical safety measures, such as drugging animals that possess human brain cells so they stay in a “comatose-like brain state.”
Hyman, who also signed the letter, says he did so reluctantly, because he thinks most of the scenarios are exaggerated or unlikely. It’s hardly possible a tiny brain organoid will feel or think anything, he says.
The one type of research he thinks may call for quick action to set up rules of the road is Sestan’s unpublished brain preservation technique (which the Nature editorial did not discuss). “If people want to keep human brains alive post mortem, that is a more pressing and realistic problem,” says Hyman. “Given that it is possible with a pig brain, there should be guidelines for human tissue.”
How Would Humanity React If We Really Found Aliens?
How Would Humanity React If We Really Found Aliens?
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
An invasion of Earth by alien flying saucers is a trope of science fiction. But what if aliens really did find us?
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If aliens reach out to us, what would happen first?
It's a question that has puzzled science-fiction fans and scientists alike for decades, and we already may have a hint of how people will react. On Oct. 30, 1938, a dramatized version of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel "The War of the Worlds" played on the CBS Radio system across the United States. The story details how Martians attacked Earth.
The radio broadcast caused a reaction when people mistook it for a real radio report, but accounts vary as to how much of a reaction there was. Some accounts describe nationwide panic, while others say not very many people actually listened to the broadcast. The promise of alien life stars in Episode 1 of "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," which debuts on AMC tonight. Still, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher Duncan Forgan told Space.com the "War of the Worlds" broadcast may be instructive to think about as SETI scientists worldwide update their "first contact" protocols. [E.T. Etiquette: How Should Humanity Interact with Alien Life?]
"If you pick the right science fiction — the hard science fiction — it's placed in the best possible educated guesses about what will happen," said Forgan, who is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He explained that "hard" science fiction refers to science fiction that emphasizes accuracy (think the 2015 movie "The Martian," for example).
If researchers find a signal today, Forgan said, one of the things they will have to manage is a public used to getting constant news updates on Twitter and other forms of social media. It's something Forgan and his colleagues are already working on. The International Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Committee created a post-detection protocol in 1989 that was slightly updated in 2010; a new update is starting soon and should be finished in a few years, Forgan said.
Scientific work
Famed directors James Cameron and Ridley Scott talk aliens in "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," which premieres on AMC on April 30.
Credit: AMC
For the most part, scientists assume alien contact would happen through a signal purposely sent toward Earth. The "acid test" is to make sure the signal is verified by multiple observatories, said SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak. "It would take a while to verify, and then the people who like to think about these matters say you would have a press conference and announce this to the world," he said, but he added that wouldn't work unless everyone in the project were sworn to secrecy. In this era of news leaks, he said that situation is very unlikely to hold.
So, scientists try instead to stick to a protocol that includes informing the public. The 2010 IAA protocol is only two pages and covers facets such as searching for a signal, handling evidence and what to do in the case of a confirmed detection.
If the evidence gets out to the public while the scientists are still analyzing the signal, Forgan said they could manage the public's expectations by using something called the Rio Scale. It's essentially a numeric value that represents the degree of likelihood that an alien contact is "real." (Forgan added that the Rio Scale is also undergoing an update, and more should be coming out about it in May.)
If the aliens did arrive here, "first contact" protocols likely would be useless, because if they're smart enough to show up physically, they could probably do anything else they like, according to Shostak. "Personally, I would leave town," Shostak quipped. "I would get a rocket and get out of the way. I have no idea what they are here for."
But there's little need to worry. An "Independence Day" scenario of aliens blowing up important national buildings such as the White House is extremely unlikely, Forgan said, because interstellar travel is difficult. (This feeds into something called the Drake Equation, which considers where the aliens could be and helps show why we haven't heard anything from them yet.) [The Father of SETI: Q&A with Astronomer Frank Drake]
WHAT DO ALIENS LOOK LIKE? - Computer Animated Alien Life In Outer Space
Early SETI work
To find a signal, first we have to be listening for it. SETI "listening" is going on all over the world, and in fact, this has been happening for many decades. The first modern SETI experiment took place in 1960. Under Project Ozma, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope (located at Green Bank, West Virginia) at two stars called Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. He scanned at a frequency astronomers nickname "the water hole," which is close to the frequency of light that's given off by hydrogen and hydroxyl (one hydrogen atom bonded to one oxygen atom). [13 Ways to Find Intelligent Aliens]
In 1977, The Ohio State University SETI's program made international headlines after a project volunteer, Jerry Ehman, wrote, "Wow!" beside a strong signal a telescope there received. The Aug. 15, 1977, "Wow" signal was never repeated, however.
There have been many, many projects since then. As a taste: The SETI Institute was founded in 1984; while it may be the most famous of the SETI projects, there are many other independent SETIs at universities and institutions worldwide that have done work over the decades. One of the center's major initiatives was Project Phoenix, which scanned nearby, sun-like stars. Currently, the SETI Institute, in collaboration with other institutes, is working on a concept called the Allen Telescope Array, which has dozens of radio dishes in northern California.
In 2015, the well-known physicist Stephen Hawking and many other researchers launched Breakthrough Listen, a project that will scan 1 million Milky Way stars and 100 nearby galaxies for extraterrestrial life.
Space-based SETI
While searches of alien messages aren't ongoing in space, there have been efforts to communicate with any beings that may come across our spacecraft.
The Pioneer 10 and 11 probes flew by Jupiter (and in Pioneer 11's case, Saturn) to eventually make their way out of the solar system. Before their launches in 1972 and 1973, respectively, a Pioneer plaque was mounted on board each spacecraft. It shows the form of the human body and where the Earth is located in the galaxy.
The twin Voyager probes launched in 1977 to examine the outer solar system. Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2012, while Voyager 1 is still at the edge of the solar system. Each of the spacecraft includes two golden records with sounds recorded on Earth, ranging from whale calls to music to the word "hello" in many languages. The record also has diagrams of the human body and where our solar system is located.
Scientists also transmitted a radio message from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in 1974. The so-called Arecibo Message includes such things as the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of elements such as hydrogen and oxygen; information about DNA; and diagrams of a human body, the Earth and our solar system.
In a related field, the study of exoplanets has accelerated in recent years with the Kepler mission, which has found more than 2,000 confirmed exoplanets alone, as well as other observatories on the ground and in space. Scientists are now trying to characterize which of these planets may be the most habitable. Atmospheric studies and more detailed looks at star activity will be some of the activities scientists undertake with future telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch in 2020.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De Europees-Russische sonde ExoMars heeft foto’s van ijsvlaktes aan een kraterrand op de Rode Planeet naar de Aarde gestuurd. Op één van de beelden is een 40 kilometer lange doorsnede te zien, zo heeft ESA meegedeeld. Het zijn de eerste foto’s van de verkenner sinds die een nieuwe baan op 400 kilometer hoogte draait.
Ook met prominente Belgische inbreng, via het NOMAD-instrument van het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie, zal de ExoMars speuren naar gassen die meer kunnen leren over mogelijke geologische of biologische activiteit op onze buurplaneet, zoals methaan.
De beelden van een camera moeten helpen de mogelijke bronnen van de gassen op het oppervlak van de planeet te vinden.
EPAEen van de foto's van de Europees-Russische sonde ExoMars.
Het eerste luik van het Europees-Russische project ExoMars werd in maart 2016 met een Russische Proton-M gelanceerd. De “orbiter” (TGO) kwam in oktober van dat jaar in een baan rond de Rode Planeet, de landing van de dochtersonde Schiaparelli mislukte. Volgens ESA draait de TGO nu een nieuwe, bijna cirkelvormige, baan rondom Mars. In 2020 moet het tweede luik van ExoMars starten. Het houdt in het bijzonder een robotjeep in.
The Oumuamua cigar-shaped interstellar asteroid may not have been a space ship disguised as an asteroid, but the root of that idea – using a hollowed-out space object to travel between stars – is getting serious scientific consideration … and the concept actually sounds feasible. Should Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos be spending their money on corralling a comet?
“In light of our insatiable appetite for exploration, it is inevitable that the human species will ultimately travel outside of the known solar system. It is the next step in human evolution. My research concerns solutions that unite the biological, technological and social dimensions. And it is about spaceships that evolve during their journey.”
Well, it would be nice to get humans beyond the orbit of the Moon first, but it’s always good to think big and that’s what Angelo Vermeulen is doing. He’s the founder of the Delft University of Technology Starship Team (DSTART) and the Evolving Asteroid Starships project, which is working with the European Space Agency (ESA) on designing a regenerative life-support system called MELISSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative).
“MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, is an artificial ecosystem to recover food, water and oxygen from waste (faeces and urine), carbon dioxide and minerals. The laboratory will help in the development of technology for a future regenerative life support system for long-duration human space exploration missions, for example to a lunar base or to Mars.”
To Mars … and beyond. In an announcement, ESA revealed the goal of DSTART is to “perform advanced concepts research for a resilient interstellar space vehicle, to be constructed from a hollowed-out asteroid.” While it sounds like the asteroid is just a big vehicle, it’s also a supplier of minerals and more to MELISSA, which is a giant self-sustaining, self-evolving, closed-loop life support system … and more. The details will be revealed at the first joint AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop on May 16-18 in Rome. The topics will include:
Organic wastes processing and refinery Edible biomass production Food quality, processing and human nutrition Physical, chemical and microbial contaminants Flight experiments and space technology demonstrators
While they haven’t captured and hollowed out an asteroid yet, the MELISSA teams have successfully demonstrated sealed, closed loop, life-support systems for algae on the International Space Station and for rats at Spain’s Autonomous University of Barcelona – that one has a bioreactor powered by light and oxygen-producing algae to keep rats alive and producing carbon dioxide and waste to keep the algae alive to produce … you get the idea.
What will it take to take these tiny ecosystems to the scale of an asteroid? The first simulation will be on display at the May AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop. How close are we to capturing an asteroid to test it on? OSIRIS-REx is on its way to Bennu to pick up a 30 foot (9 meter) in diameter chunk and drag it to the Moon, where it will be placed in orbit for future missions with astronauts to analyze.
Thirty feet doesn’t sound like a big space ship, but Oumuamua was only 230 by 35 meters (800 ft × 100 ft) and it managed to travel between stars. Is the MELISSA idea crazy enough that it just might work? Or should space engineers stick with trying to build conventional space ships?
To put it another way … would you rather live for years inside a rock or the Enterprise?
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.
Alex Hollings
"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.
UFO Sighting Video Apparently Reveals A Secret Alien Base In Russia
UFO Sighting Video Apparently Reveals A Secret Alien Base In Russia
Footage shows a strange light beneath the clouds captures from a plane window. The bright light reportedly travels over a vast empty part of Russia.
The light remains utterly still like it is coming from a fixed area on the ground as the jet speeds up over the top.
The video was uploaded to a YouTube account Stan on April 22. The video went viral and gained popularity on different conspiracy channels.
YouTube user thirdphaseofmoon shared the footage on his profile, stating on the title that “Russia probably doesn’t want you to see this.”
He said the light was seemed out of the middle of nowhere and emitted a strange bright orange glow. It could be a crashed UFO or UFO experiments that were happening, he added.
The video has gained popularity with more than 6,000 hits just a few hours after he uploaded it.
UFO enthusiasts were quick to give their speculation about the strange light.
Many viewers think that the light is very unusual as it is too concentrated and uniformed. Others speculate that it could be a UFO below the clouds. Some claim that Russia has a vast UFO base. However, many others offer a simple explanation saying the light is a lens flare or a natural weather event.
Airplane passenger films strange rotating phenomenon when flying over China’s Xi’an - Take a look!
Airplane passenger films strange rotating phenomenon when flying over China’s Xi’an - Take a look!
While on a flight the airplane passenger noticed strange lights for about 20 minutes and at some point the lights seem to be rotating before disappearing into the clouds below.
The event happened on April 12, 2018 – The lights are not connected to each other and it seems they are floating free in the sky.
The airplane passenger who reported the strange phenomenon to Mufon case 91673 states:
Researcher Isaac Koi has published some startling yet not widely known details, regarding some unusual space debris that was found in northern Saskatchewan in 1968.
Multiple UFOs & strange purple Beams of Light filmed over Arizona
Multiple UFOs & strange purple Beams of Light filmed over Arizona
A strange video on YouTube is getting a lot of attention for showing multiple UFOs and weird purple beams of light in the skies over Arizona.
The footage was recorded on a panoramic 360-degree live camera feed recently.
Commenters on the video hint evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, while others think the strange sky phenomenon is a clandestine HAARP project.
NOTE:
That purple beam is what used to be referred to as a ROD, they turned out to be bugs of some kind that fly to fast for the cameras processing ability.
The Purple Rods, swirls, beams might very well be moths, insects. The patterns strongly suggest moths from the way that moths and butterflies have been studied in labs using high-speed cameras. And the UFO's definitely could just be local air traffic. Is this in or near Phoenix, Arizona? Then it could be air traffic from Sky Harbor...or a small, local, municipal airport.
NASA and ESA will team up to bring Martian soil samples back to Earth
NASA and ESA will team up to bring Martian soil samples back to Earth
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Sophisticated laboratories aboard probes like the Curiosity Rover and the upcoming Insight Mars Lander can tell us much, but samples of Martian soil in terrestrial laboratories would open new worlds of exploration for scientists. To that end, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just revealed a bold plan to retrieve soil samples from the surface of the red planet and transport them back to Earth.
In a statement of intent released last week, the two agencies outlined their proposal, which would require multiple missions and some tricky maneuvering in orbit around Mars.
“There is no question that for a planetary scientist, the chance to bring pristine, carefully chosen samples of the Red Planet back to Earth for examination using the best facilities is a mouth-watering prospect,” said David Parker of the ESA. “Reconstructing the history of Mars and answering questions of its past are only two areas of discovery that will be dramatically advanced by such a mission.”
The Mars 2020 rover, which has already begun assembly at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will land on Mars via a rocket-powered sky crane. It will collect about 30 soil samples in small test-tube-sized containers and place them in a location for later retrieval.
The next mission will utilize a “fetch rover” to collect the samples and then return to its lander, which will launch the small payload into orbit using a Mars Ascent Vehicle. Such a launch has never been done before, and it will require extensive coordination between the agencies to pull it off.
Finally, a third spacecraft launched from Earth will rendezvous with the Mars Ascent Vehicle and retrieve the samples. Upon returning to Earth, a module containing the samples will enter the atmosphere and land somewhere in the U.S.
All the details of the cooperative venture haven’t been finalized; a more complete proposal will be submitted by the two agencies later this year.
Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA speculated that this mission could finally answer the question about whether there was ever life on Mars. “A sample would provide a critical leap forward in our understanding of Mars’s potential to harbor life,” he said. “I look forward to connecting and collaborating with international and commercial partners on tackling the exciting technological challenges ahead — that would allow us to bring home a sample of Mars.”
North Wales X File special - Berwyn Mountains 'UFO crash' map revealed
North Wales X File special - Berwyn Mountains 'UFO crash' map revealed
Does the old chart shed light on what really happened in 1974 'Welsh Rosewell' incident?
The red dot shows where the incident is said to have happened. Black dotted lines leading to dot from the west show the alleged path of RAF jets and UFO. Black dotted lines from the north show jet flight path
A map claiming to chart show a UFO crashed in one of North Wales’ greatest mysteries has been revealed for the first time.
Now he has come forward with an old map which allegedly shows the flight paths of RAF jets and a flying saucer - with some theorists claiming the latter crashed.
On the map pictured below the red dot shows where the incident is said to have happened. Black dotted lines leading to dot from the west show the alleged path of RAF jets and UFO.
Black dotted lines from the north to the red dot show the flight path jets are said to have taken.
Mr Kellett claims the document was given to him by five men who witnessed the incident and undertook their own investigations afterwards.
“The five saw a strange object and got out to have a look, but the military were there and told them to leave,” Mr Kellett said.
“They moved to a better position and started to take photos.
“They were all friends and four were in the military during World War Two.
“Afterwards they started doing their own research and the map is a result of what they found out and shows the flight paths.
“When I was giving a talk in Bala to a packed audience around the late 1990s, early 2000s, I was given a package by them after and there were these maps in them which they had drawn up based on what they had found out from their research.
“It was very strange and I was a little bit spooked.”
Dubbed the Welsh Roswell, at about 8.30pm on January 23, in 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, earth tremors were felt amid claims of a brilliant light in the sky above the mountain range.
At the time families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Police arrived in the area and a RAF search and rescue team was scrambled from Anglesey.
Berwyn Mountains(Image: UGC TNW)
There were even claims other military personnel arrived at the site.
Documents seen by the Daily Post showing numerous calls on the night were put into Gwynedd police who logged “a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside.”
One witness who saw on object on the hillside said in a statement at the time: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire.”
However, sceptics maintain the activity can be explained by a meteor shower, an earthquake and poachers on the mountain side, triggering the noise and lights.
“I’ve carried the map around for a long time as part of my research,” said Mr .
“I’m getting older now and just wanted to put it out there to see what people make of it and if there was anybody else who could shed light on what happened.”
If we travel through the north of Bulgaria, and its Lovech province, we’ll find there is a beautiful gorge called Iskar, very close to the village of Karlukovo, and in it, piercing a mountain of limestone, we find the so-called Eyes of God.
It’s a fascinating cave that’s perfect for photography lovers, but also those who want to witness first hand, the so-called Eyes ofGod.
The region where the cave is located has been subject for millennia to karstic action, that is, the chemical weathering produced by water on certain types of soluble rocks, that have shaped the landscape and dug underground galleries and natural grottos producing a characteristic landscape, unlike any other anywhere in the world.
While we find many other caves, in this article we take a look at the Prohodna cave, which is up to two hundred and sixty-two meters long and happens to be the largest in Bulgaria.
The cave has two entrances which lie opposite one another, known respectively as the Small Entrance and the Big Entrance.
The caves of the Geological Park of Iskar-Panega, are one of the most extensive karst regions of the country. It is believed to have arisen in the Quaternary Era, and it is a true paradise for caving enthusiasts since it is home to hundreds of caves.
The cavern contains enormous cavities, one next to the other with two massive almond-shaped openings at the top, given the viewer from below an appearance almost as if the cave was looking down, through a pair of mysterious eyes.
According to experts, the ‘Eyes of God’ formed through erosion, let in light into the cave.
While the cave is a popular tourist destination today, experts have found traces of prehistoric habitation in the cave, which testify that humans lived in the cave during the Neolithicand Chalcolithic.
The entrance of Prohodna cave can be seen even from the National cave house.
The most fascinating time to visit the cave is at night when the sky is clear and the moon is full. Then, with a bit patience and luck, you can see the moon through the two cavities on the ceiling of the cave.
When rainwater enters both holes and falls down the walls of the cave; locals often say then that God’s Eyes Are Crying.
As noted by sendeirsmoeurope.com, the “eyes” of the Prohodna cave have a hypnotic effect and watch them for a while from inside the cave is very relaxing.
These Are The Rare Ancient Maps, Used By Ancient Explorers To Travel The Earth
These Are The Rare Ancient Maps, Used By Ancient Explorers To Travel The Earth
These are the rare ancient charts used by ancient navigators to explore the Earth, and they are about to be sold in an auction in London and could sell for millions.
Thousands of years ago, explorers used whatever maps they could find to travel to places no one else had been.
Many explorers, including Cristopher Columbus, used rare maps to navigate Earths’ ocean and travel to different continents.
These maps have a mighty history behind them, as many of them were used by some of the most influential explorers from our history books.
Curiously, as noted by the MailOnline, many of these ancient charts are about to go on sale in an auction house in London, UK, and experts warn they could sell for millions, as people will recognize their incredible value.
The auction in London will feature around 400 maps. Among the hundreds of maps is a 1472‘T-O’map, considered the first printed atlas of the planet, displaying how Earth was arranged, according to Christian beliefs.
The map seen here below is one of several ancient charts created by famed geographer and astronomer ClaudiusPtolemaeus.
An ancient Chart created by famed geographer and astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus.
The map was published in an atlas from 1482 and is considered by experts as one of the earliest global maps ever created.
The map is especially known for being the first map to make use of latitude and longitude. According to experts, the origins of this map date back to the known world in the 2nd Century and, according to the MailOnline, it could sell for £80,000 ($110,000). The map shows three sections which are a representation of the world’s oceans and are believed to indicate the belief the Earthwas spherical, and not flat.
The ancient chart shows the Mediterranean separating Europe from Africa, and the Red Sea and the River Don separating both from Asia. In addition to offering an extremely detailed map of our planet, the map also features the sons of Noah on Each Continent.
This sensational ancient map was created by Peter Goos in 1666.
An Italian artist called Francesco Berlinghieri helped create the map and providing ‘considerable artistic appeal’ with the addition of the 12 wind-heads surrounding the ancient chart. This map is believed to have played a crucial role in Cristopher Columbus’ accidental ‘discovery of the new world.’
Although it is noteworthy to mention that Columbus was NOT the first explorer to reach to American Continent, and he didn’t have to discover anything, as the continent was long inhabited by different cultures. If anything, Columbus ‘introduced’ America to the rest of the world.
This map depicts the world from an unusual point of different view. We see the planet from the poles. This ancient chart was created by Cornelius De Jode, a cartographer from Antwerp in the 1500’s.
Speaking about the auction, and the different ancient maps, Cecile Gasseholm, Sotheby’s specialist, told MailOnline:
“Ptolomy made his calculations on the size of the Earth when creating the map with regards to dimensions of the world.”
“The measurements were widely taken as gospel for centuries and into the middle ages. Christopher Columbus, when he set sail in 1492 from the Spanish port of Palos, used these calculations to inform his navigation. To his dismay and later great reward, they turned out to be wildly inaccurate and resulted in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.”
ASTRONOMERS SEARCH FOR ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURES IN SATELLITE DATA
ASTRONOMERS SEARCH FOR ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURES IN SATELLITE DATA
The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has been helping map the billions of stars in the Milky Way, and a group of astronomers is using the spacecraft’s stunning new star catalog to search for signs of highly advanced alien civilizations.
A team of scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University and the University of Heidelberg in Germany combed Gaia’s first data release of a billion stars from September 2016. They then cross-referenced it with observations from the Australia-based Milky Way-watching RAVE project looking for differences in how far away the two observatories place certain stars.
Artist’s representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere orbiting KIC 8462852.Danielle Futselaar/METI International
Simply put, the Gaia data shows how far away a star is by watching it move across a background of far more distant stars, an effect called parallax. RAVE data, on the other hand, estimates the distance of a star based on the properties of its brightness. So the scientists looked for stars observed by both Gaia and RAVE where the data seemed to disagree on the distance of a star.
The idea is that the disparity in distance measurements by the different instruments could be explained by the presence of a partial Dyson sphere, a structure that envelopes or partially envelopes a star to harvest its energy.
Science fiction has long envisioned huge alien megastructures like planet-size artificial spheres or rings or swarms of energy-collecting spacecraft. They’ve also been floated as a possible explanation for the strange dimming and re-brightening behavior of the now famous Boyajian’s Star, also known as Tabby’s Star or KIC 8462852.
Cross-referencing the data sets revealed a handful of stars in Gaia data that may possibly be circled by such alien megastructures. However, upon closer examination, the team determined that errors in the data could account for differing measurements in the case of all but one star named TYC 6111-1162-1.
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The researchers used a third observatory to take a closer look at the star. They didn’t find evidence of alien megastructures, but instead of an unseen companion star, which could also account for the discrepancies in measurements.
While they haven’t discovered advanced aliens just yet, the team maintains that their method of searching for possible Dyson spheres is still sound. They say the search will become even easier with future releases of Gaia data, which will provide both types of distance measurements for many stars.
Meanwhile, the second Gaia Data Release dropped on Wednesday, with a fresh batch of 1.7 billion stars to check for ambitious alien construction projects. If anyone finds anything, please notify Elon Musk. He’s always looking for fresh inspiration.
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Artist's concept of the space plane being designed by Northrop Grumman, with help from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, for DARPA's XS-1 program.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
The XS-1 is a space plane under development by the U.S. military's high-tech agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The major goal of the project is to reuse the spacecraft frequently, with a proposed launch rate of 10 one-day missions in just 10 days. In May 2017, DARPA selected Boeing as the provider for phases 2 and 3. Test fights are scheduled for 2020.
The XS-1 (Experimental Spaceplane 1) is envisioned to heft payloads for less than $5 million a flight, each weighing between 3,000 and 5,000 lbs. (1,360 to 2,267 kilograms). The aircraft-like craft is also supposed to fly faster than Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound.
"Technologies derived from the XS-1 program will enable routine space launch capabilities with aircraft-like cost, operability and reliability," read a DARPA announcement from November 2013 cited in a 2014 Space.com article.
"The long-term intent is for XS-1 technologies to be transitioned to support not only next-generation launch for government and commercial customers, but also global reach hypersonic and space access aircraft."
Decades of concepts
So far, there has been no fully reusable space vehicle due to technical complication. The NASA space shuttle, a partially reusable system, flew 135 times between 1981 and 2011. Parts of the space shuttle had to be re-manufactured for every flight, such as the external tanks and a certain number of tiles for the re-entry protection system (which would get damaged or fall off during landing.)
Other early attempts for reusable space launch vehicles include the X-30 (1980s) and X-33 VentureStar (1990s), which never flew. DARPA also attempted a program called Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch (RASCAL) in the early 2000s. For the XS-1, DARPA originally announced the program in 2013 and it is now in Phase 2/3. In 2014, DARPA said reusability would be of help for rapid launches at a low cost.
"In an era of declining budgets and adversaries' evolving capabilities, quick, affordable and routine access to space is increasingly critical for both national and economic security," DARPA said in a 2014 press release.
This image, taken from a DARPA presentation, shows several potential designs for the U.S. military's planned XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane, an innovative robotic spacecraft project to launch satellites into orbit cheaply and efficiently.
Credit: DARPA
DARPA pointed out that satellite launches on rockets must be scheduled years in advance and cost a lot of money. "DARPA created its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program to help overcome these challenges and create a new paradigm for more routine, responsive and affordable space operations," the agency added.
In 2014, three teams were selected to compete for the flight contract:
Northrop Grumman leading the team, with Scaled Composites doing manufacture-assembly and Virgin Galactic doing operations
Masten Space Systems (lead) and XCOM Aerospace
Boeing (lead) and Blue Origin
Tasks for Phase 1 included developing the vehicle, finding and reducing the risk of creating the "core" technologies and processes, and figuring out how to move forward into the flight phase, DARPA said.
"DARPA expects the performers to explore alternative technical approaches from the perspectives of feasibility, performance, system design and development cost and operational cost. They must also assess potential suitability for near-term transition opportunities to military, civil and commercial users," the agency wrote.
The program entered Phase 2 in 2016. In 2017, DARPA selected Boeing to build and test the XS-1. "The XS-1 would be neither a traditional airplane nor a conventional launch vehicle but rather a combination of the two, with the goal of lowering launch costs by a factor of ten and replacing today's frustratingly long wait time with launch on demand," said Jess Sponable, DARPA program manager, in a May 2017 press release. "We're very pleased with Boeing's progress on the XS-1 through Phase 1 of the program and look forward to continuing our close collaboration in this newly funded progression to Phases 2 and 3 — fabrication and flight."
Further development
The ultimate goal of the development program is a flight test, when Boeing and DARPA will attempt to do 10 launches in 10 days. This will happen in Phase 3. First, there will be several shakedown flights, and then the XS-1 will do multiple space launches with speeds ranging from Mach 5 to Mach 10. The XS-1 will also send a demonstration payload that has a mass of between 900 and 3,000 lbs. (roughly between 410 and 1,360 kg).
"If successful, the program could help enable a commercial service in the future that could operate with recurring costs of as little as $5 million or less per launch, including the cost of an expendable upper stage, assuming a recurring flight rate of at least ten flights per year — a small fraction of the cost of launch systems the U.S. military currently uses for similarly sized payloads," DARPA said in its May 2017 press release. (The $5 million cost is the actual cost and not the commercial price, DARPA said.)
"Another goal of the program is to encourage the broader commercial launch sector to adopt useful XS-1 approaches, processes, and technologies that facilitate launch on demand and rapid turnaround — important military and commercial needs for the 21st century. Toward that goal, DARPA intends to release selected data from its Phase 2/3 tests and will provide to all interested commercial entities the relevant specs for potential payloads," DARPA added.
Rapid turnarounds will require using some technology that is already in place on military aircraft, DARPA stated, such as "easily accessible subsystem components" that engineers can take out quickly for maintenance and repairs. The XS-1 will also use some known systems, such as the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 engine that is a version of the space shuttle's main engine.
XS-1 will also have a share of innovative technologies. These include extremely lightweight propellant tanks to hold liquid oxygen and liquid oxygen, hybrid composite-metallic wings and surfaces that are capable of surviving multiple re-entries, and some autonomous flight capabilities.
The Mayan Tzolkin calendar has often been at the forefront of conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions but Timothy Alan has now claimed it also contains the secrets of time travel.
Mr Alan’s uploaded part of his research to YouTube, where he explained his startling discoveries made over five years of painstaking work.
He said: “I just wanted to share with you my work over the last five years in as quick a time as possible.
“I found this hidden code in the Mayan calendar that unlocks what you can see here – a vortex-quantumatics like a quantum agreement for a spiritual technology. It’s a multidimensional language.
“I found it hidden in the Mayan calendar.”
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“I found it hidden in the Mayan calendar”
Timothy Alan
The secrets codes of the calendar have allowed to him to chart and produce a “divine” time travel map, he said.
According to Mr Alan, his findings have been verified by a Guatemalan Mayan elder as a “legitimate code found within the Mayan calendar”.
Mr Alan added: “The Mayan calendar was invented to map the evolution of human consciousness.
“It is the key into understanding the truth of being human – if there is some left.”
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According to his research, there are two types of portals present – personal vision portals and passage of time portals, reports the Express.co.uk.
He said the fruits of his works need to get there to untether humanity from the constraints of money and corporate greed.
The reasoning for this being that widespread access to what he described as free spiritual technology will stop our dependancy on money.
He added: “All this calendar stuff keeps on coming. It’s like the Da Vinci code – some sort of cosmic Da Vinci code that opened.”
Scores of conspiracy theories claims ancient calendars, such as the Mayan one, contain the secrets of the cosmos.
The Mayan calendar shot to prominence in 2012 when doom mongers tried to convince the world the Mayans predicted the world would end that year.
But the theories have been debunked by others.
Scientist Erik Klemetti said: “The Maya apocalypse is just another in a long line of wild apocalyptical theories that have likely be occurring since, well, the dawn of man.
“There have been so many false ‘end times’ predictions that, as Riley Finn put it: ‘It turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse.’”
Scientists Peer Across the Universe and Find an Ancient Galactic Collision
Scientists Peer Across the Universe and Find an Ancient Galactic Collision
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
Astronomers set their sights on an area incredibly far away — more than 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — and found the beginnings of a massive cosmic collision, according to two new studies.
The crash they witnessed is an early formation stage for the largest type of structure in the known universe, and the recent findings suggest that the process took significantly less time than computer models have suggested. In addition, the abundance of dusty star-forming areas in this collision raises questions about how galaxies evolve.
Both research studies focused on a galactic collision that scientists believe has already happened. Fourteen galaxies, collectively known as SPT2349-56, are bursting with newly created stars, according to a recent statement by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The reason ESO defines it as an impending crash is because, from Earth, we cannot yet see what's presently happening at the merger site. That's because light takes a very long time to travel to us from that region in space. [Galactic 'Mega City' Shows Mysterious Spots of Star Formation (Images)]
This artist's impression of SPT2349-56 shows a group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
According to Iván Oteo, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh and lead author of one of the studies, his team's work reveals unexpected findings about the star-bursting regions. "The lifetime of dusty starbursts is thought to be relatively short, because they consume their gas at an extraordinary rate," he said in the statement. "At any time, in any corner of the Universe, these galaxies are usually in the minority. So, finding numerous dusty starbursts shining at the same time like this is very puzzling, and something that we still need to understand."
Scott Chapman, an astrophysicist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who worked on the second study, also commented on his team's finding that the formation stage took less time than expected. "Having caught a massive galaxy cluster in [the] throes of formation is spectacular in and of itself," he said. "But the fact that this is happening so early in the history of the universe poses a formidable challenge to our present-day understanding of the way structures form in the universe."
An artist's impression of the 14 galaxies detected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. They appear in the very early and distant universe, and these galaxies are in the process of merging to eventually form the core of a massive galaxy cluster.
Credit: S. Dagnello; NSF/NRAO/AUI
The international teams of scientists used ESO's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescopes to peer back in time to when the universe was one-tenth of its present age. SPT2349-56 is located about 12.4 billion light-years away, and this means the light from this structure started traveling toward Earth when the universe was about 1.4 billion years old. (The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old.)
SPT2349-56 is a so-called protocluster, thought to be the building-block stage for the largest known structure to exist, a galaxy cluster.
The individual galaxies in galaxy clusters are held together by dark matter, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. During the universe's first few million years, dark matter (and normal matter) began to collect into larger concentrations, eventually creating galaxy clusters. Some clusters are thought to contain up to thousands of galaxies.
To study the formation stage the protocluster was exhibiting, researchers ran observational data from the ALMA telescope through computer simulations. The two teams found that what they were witnessing occurred less than 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. However, existing theoretical and computer models suggest that a protocluster as large as SPT2349-56 should have taken much longer to evolve.
"How this assembly of galaxies got so big, so fast is a mystery," Tim Miller, a doctoral candidate at Yale University and lead author of one of the papers, said in the statement. "It wasn't built up gradually over billions of years, as astronomers might expect. This discovery provides a great opportunity to study how massive galaxies came together to build enormous galaxy clusters."
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
By Mirror.Co.Uk
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.
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."
Anther added: "That's an airplane, there's a blinking light on it and UFOs don't normally have blinking lights."
The UFO was allegedly flying at the same altitude as the rocket(Image: UFO Today)
The third Epsilon rocket was carryin the ASNARO-2 radar-imaging satellite into orbit.
Almost 45 minutes after lift-off the 570-Kilogram radar satellite separated from the rocket.
The satellite, developed by the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer, will take images of the Earth to monitor the atmosphere.
John Mack’s research into alien abductions has thrust him far out of the academic mainstream, yet the Harvard psychiatrist and his Program for Extraordinary Experience Research soldier on, constructing a “science of the sacred.”
“Virgin area — exciting,” John Mack wrote in a 1964 note to himself. He was referring to an opportunity to develop new ways of delivering mental-health services at a Massachusetts hospital. But that spirit of enthusiasm and risk-taking is a neat summation of the Harvard psychiatrist’s long and controversial career as a scientist and activist.
Mack has never shied from exploring frontiers. While most of his colleagues toiled away quietly in Harvard’s ivory tower, Mack protested nuclear tests in Nevada, flew to war-torn Lebanon to try his hand at Middle East diplomacy and drank toasts with Soviet colleagues in cold war Moscow. And most famously, he listened to people who told him tales of alien visitations and abductions-and believed them.
His behavior, unusual for an Ivy League academic, has made the lanky 71-year-old a figure of fun for the mainstream, a well-meaning modern-day Don Quixote to those with progressive leanings and a knight on a white horse to those who believe aliens are among us. Yet even those friends and colleagues dismissive of Mack’s abduction theories acknowledge his deep-seated commitment to tackling problems at all levels — personal, social and spiritual. “His really important insight is that people can change, that they can crack open,” says one academic friend.
Another friend says that at Mack’s core is a passion to understand and ease human suffering. Ironically, Mack’s unusual journey into the alien realm has reaped him his own share of suffering, from damage to his professional credibility to loss of old friends and the breakup of a long marriage.
Mack himself seems at a loss to explain why he is who he is, given a background lacking in either social activism or spiritual matters. A self-described introspective child, he was born into a family of prosperous German Jewish academics in New York. His father read the Bible, but only as literature in that atheistic household.
But suffering was not an abstract concept in his early life. Mack’s biological mother died of a ruptured appendix when he was only eight months old. His mother’s sister later married a Holocaust survivor, a man who became an expert in group process and psychotherapy. Another uncle was mentally ill and eventually lobotomized. “That was a big factor in my choosing to go into psychiatry,” he says. The dark-brick insane asylums that he and his family passed during trips to the country haunted him. By age 12, he was hunting out psychology books in his school library.
After finishing medical school and marrying Sally Stahl in 1959, they left for Mack’s two-year stint in Japan as an Air Force psychiatrist, where the first of their three sons was born. The culture shock was intense. Life there, he recalled later, taught him how “fantastically ethnocentric and ecologically destructive we Americans can be.” The family returned to the United States, and Mack plunged into Harvard psychiatry in the 1960s, when ideas about mental health were being overhauled. He played a key role in creating a novel psychiatric clinic for both in- and outpatients at a derelict Cambridge city hospital that Harvard University had taken over.
But ever the intellectual peripatetic, Mack’s fascination with T. E. Lawrence led him to write an in-depth biography of the enigmatic man who played a key role in Middle East politics, and in 1977 the effort earned him the Pulitzer Prize. Lawrence lived out a creative vision of changing the world that intrigued — one of his friends says obsessed — Mack.
By the early ’80s, when he had entered what for most tenured professors would be comfortable middle age, Mack, at the urging of his children, was drawn into two more virgin territories — the realm of spiritual questing and the world of political activism. He experimented with holotropic breathwork, est and psychedelic drugs. And he was drawn into Middle East politics, meeting solo with Yassir Arafat in Beirut to discuss prospects for peace. Next he threw himself into the growing antinuclear effort during the Reagan years, exploring the psychosocial aspects of the nuclear-war threat and testifying before Congress on such issues as children’s nightmares of an atomic holocaust. Eventually he turned to a more active role; his entire family was arrested in 1986 at the government’s Nevada Test Site for protesting underground nuclear detonations.
His breathwork in particular set the stage for his interest in aliens. “I was open to the possibility that there was a world beyond that which could be seen,” he recalls. Mack began seeing patients who described a variety of alien encounters, and then he created the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) within Harvard’s Center for Psychology & Social Change. (Currently neither the center nor PEER is affiliated with Harvard.) His 1994 book on the subject (Abduction), which focuses on interviews that detail the experiences of a handful of the 70 people who said they were abducted, provoked ridicule and outrage in the mainstream media and a Harvard investigation into his scientific methods. Undaunted, Mack has soldiered on, gathering more data and interviewing people from all over the world, publishing Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters in 1999, which focused on alien-related myths and experiences in native cultures, from the Amazon to southern Africa.
In person, Mack has the cautious traits of a scholar, the wariness of a maligned media figure and the innocent enthusiasm of a young college student discovering himself. During a lengthy interview at PEER headquarters — a nondescript Cambridge walkup that resembles a postdoc’s apartment — Mack talked with New Age about his latest frontier. What follows is a much-shortened and edited transcript.
Q. What was your first encounter with the alien phenomenon?
A. I read an article that treated the phenomenon as a spiritual emergency, and a colleague in my breathwork training program took me to see Budd Hopkins [author of several alien-related books] in January 1990. At first I didn’t believe it was possible to encounter beings from beyond the Earth, but it became apparent that I didn’t have any other way to explain what was happening: If different people who are not connected have the same detailed experience, then you are not dealing with an internally generated effect. So I got curious.
Q. How do you test the reliability of these claims?
A. I do a careful psychological evaluation of their mental states, take their psychological history — the standard clinical exam and, in some early cases, batteries of psychological testing. I will get character witnesses to assess whether they embellish the truth. And there is something more, which I’m still struggling with. It is feeling that a person is speaking as if they’ve been there — this comes from body language, the look in their eye, from having no other agenda. I’m working to better define this.
Q. So do you see what you are doing as science?
A. I have to be open to the fact that there are realms or dimensions of reality that I don’t know about. Knowing is not the same when you can’t create a controlled experiment, but there still can be reliable ways of knowing. I can’t create an experiment that brings a bunch of UFOs together. But I do believe there is a quality of openness of mind and rigor we can apply. We can develop standards of authenticity, reliability, multiplicity of witnesses. This might be considered a science of the sacred or of human experience.
Q. What kinds of standards do you envision for such a science?
A. We have an anomalous-experiences project at PEER, which came out of a 1999 workshop on the topic that included theologists, anthropologists, astrophysicists and philosophers. We are looking not just at the abduction phenomenon, but near-death experiences and other such phenomena that don’t fall into a single discipline. And we want to explore traditions where there are, if not standards, witnessing and truth-telling traditions — that is, methods of how you decide who to take seriously. The Buddhist and Catholic traditions deal with this in detail, for example in determining what is a miracle and what is not. Father Corrado Balducci, a retired gentleman close to the Vatican, once shocked me by saying that the Church takes very seriously these reports of UFOs and abduction encounters because there seem to be so many reliable witnesses. The Church has a tradition of determining who is a reliable witness. I began to think about this notion of the sacred witness, or the witness of the sacred. We don’t want to take on, for example, Catholic or Buddhist standards wholesale, but they can be guides.
Q. So these standards could be applied to all sorts of anomalous experiences?
A. The new age world is filled with people working on everything from alien experiences to channeling, but there are no real criteria to tell you what to take seriously. There’s been appropriate criticism of a lot of new age work. Just because someone says he or she channels something doesn’t make it truthful. The scientific method has ways of deciding on the reliability of physical evidence. But if there is no physical evidence — no physical marks on the body, for example — there has to be a way to take data and determine its validity.
Q. Are you trying too hard to drag science into an area that is the domain of religion?
A. Barbara McClintock, a Nobel Prize winner in genetics, described her way of knowing as highly subjective. She would fall in love with ears of corn; she fused with what she was working with. Of course, after you’ve learned in that interconnected subjective way, then you use your rational mind to add it up and make sense of it. But your instrument of knowing is your whole self, your intuitive self, your full consciousness. What really good scientists and those who take us “beyond the veil” have in common is full engagement with that other self, with the matter at hand.
Q. You say breathwork opened you up to other worldviews. How did this unfold?
A. I realized I was not stuck in my academic, psychoanalytic tower — I expanded out of my shell. I had this sense of connection with all these people that was unexplainable to me. This sense that each of us were in some way open and loving people — and the same, that we were one in a way, and under natural conditions that we can connect in a way that is quite different from the usual competitive isolation in which we live.
Q. How does this relate to aliens?
A. We are spiritual beings connected with other life forms and the cosmos in a profound way, and the cosmos itself contains a numinous intelligence. It’s not just dead matter and energy.
Q. Are your ideas about abduction more accepted now by the mainstream than in 1994?
A. No, on the contrary. There are those who fear what they see as a danger of the return of the irrational. But on the fringes there is also a growing excitement and interest in understanding reality not known by the traditional scientific method. So there is a kind of heating up, not of a paradigm war, but a not-very-friendly discourse between contending worldviews.
Q. Alien “experiencers” are considered crazy by the mainstream. Do you see them as an oppressed minority?
A. The ridicule of these individuals and the dismissal of their stories has profound moral implications. A society cannot long survive if its truth tellers are rejected. I believe these witnesses are truthful, regardless of the fact that what they are talking about can’t be true from the dominant materialist worldview. And their dismissal does make them a kind of suppressed minority. I began to see that the outright dismissal of the testimony of reliable witnesses was because what they reported wasn’t consistent with the dominant worldview.
Q. How do you react to the weird varieties of aliens abductees describe?
A. The whole business of the demographics of alien beings is quite humorous in a way — blond ones, reptilian ones, insectlike ones, praying mantis-like ones and of course the grays. The whole thing in a way is comical. And then you get into what star system are they from. It’s almost like a cosmic joke. . . . When a culture become sterile and complacent and locked into a limited worldview, the trickster shows up and shakes up the whole system.
Q. So do you personally believe in this phenomenon?
A. It’s a no-brainer. It can’t be accounted for in purely interpsychic ways. Many people are having these experiences around the world, spontaneously. It has to come from somewhere, what William James called a “provocation from without.” I see it in the context of the global ecological crisis. The Earth is a source of creation and life, and out of ignorance, greed and aggression, we are destroying it. I see an awakening of consciousness about this, a spiritual reconnection with the sacred, with the divine.
Q. Has the personal and professional toll taken by delving into abductions been too high?
A. I don’t have regrets. Although there have been critics and attacks, I’ve met so many incredible people who are open to new knowledge. I’ve probably gained more colleagues and friends since I began this than I had in the period before — they are just different. I don’t resonate in the same way with a number of other people. Life is short, and one tends to gravitate to people one is in tune with. It’s been more of an expansion of my horizons and an opening to exciting connections and possibilities than it has been a suffering. What’s enabled me to feel on the whole pretty good is that people are starting to research other anomalies of other kinds. And there have been a lot of pioneers before me.
Q. Do you want to have an abduction experience?
A. I don’t think so. One reason is it is often scary, but I think I could handle that. Second, my reliability and role as a witness of the witnesses depends on my being clean on that score. I’ve seen examples in which investigators who had experiences or acknowledged their experiences really lost credibility as investigators. I feel myself to have a different role. I don’t even let myself think of that too much.
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Universe Is Too Big For Extraterrestrial Life To Get Here… Wrong!
Universe Is Too Big For Extraterrestrial Life To Get Here… Wrong!
In our daily mundane lives, we are oblivious to much of the Universes grand weirdnesses. Our neurology has evolved to react to and manipulate its environment. To survive. Our minds and our intellect are forever separate and silent witness to the Universe. Many of science’s grandest and profound discoveries go against all those billions of years of evolutionary programming. On the surface, they do not make colloquial sense. Our sense which is a product of a long line of evolutionary winners, the ones that managed to survive to breeding age. Each and every one of us is the product of a very long unbroken line of winners.
The Universe has no obligation to make sense. The advanced science of the last century began to shed light on some of the more intriguing and profoundly bizarre physical characteristics of the Cosmos. It is one of these counter-intuitive bizarre physical characteristics that can if not destroy the old argument that the “Universe is too big for extraterrestrials to get here” it will put a huge kink in it.
We all have heard about light speed. It is an old staple in TV and Movies. The true implications of Special Relativity on what happens at light speed are not usually discussed with any actual substance on TV shows or documentaries. For some people, my explanation and supposition will be a new interpretation.
We must consider several aspects of Albert Einstein’s magnum opus “Special Relativity”.
Note: The following is an import part to understand to follow my suppositions later on.
One of the bizarre characteristics is what is called “Time Dilation”. A good example that some people have heard of is called the “Twin Paradox”. Embracing the twin paradox is an important first step as you dip your toe into the nonintuitive world of special relativity. If you dig a little deeper into the links given here (and show a little determination), hopefully, you’ll begin to be more comfortable that Einstein really was right.
One must be very careful. The “relativity” in the theory’s name comes from the absolute core premise of Einstein’s idea, which is that nothing is absolute. If you are standing on a train platform and a train whizzes by, you would say that a person on the train is moving. On the other hand, a person sitting on the train would say that he is stationary and that you are moving. Relativity says that both of you are right. Who is moving and who is stationary is just a matter of perspective, and the laws of physics must work equally well for both people.
But this raises a conundrum when applied to the question of moving clocks. How can moving clocks tick more slowly than stationary ones if the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion? If I can say you are moving and your clock is slow, and if you can say I am moving and my clock is slow, something is inconsistent.
This longstanding question about special relativity is called the twin paradox. Suppose one in a set of twins sets off in a spaceship, travels to a distant star and then returns. On both legs of the trip, he accelerates to high velocity and then coasts for most of the journey. According to the “moving clocks tick slower” premise, the twin who stays on Earth will have experienced one duration, while the traveling twin will have experienced another, slower duration. The spacefaring twin will return to Earth younger than his homebody brother.
“But wait,” says the traveling twin, “according to my definition, I was just sitting there on my stationary spaceship while the Earth zoomed away from me and then zoomed back. By all rights, Earth twin should be younger!”
The solution to this seeming paradox has to do with the idea of a reference frame, which is central to special relativity. “Reference frame” is just a fancy term that means “the world according to me,” putting each person at the center of his or her universe. All “inertial” observers — those who don’t experience any acceleration — will agree that the homebody never changed his reference frame. He just sat there. Similarly, all observers will agree that the traveler lived in two reference frames, one moving away from Earth and one returning. Any third observer coasting through space will see that the homebody’s velocity doesn’t change while the traveler’s velocity does.
The law of relativity takes the traveler’s two reference frames into account. Thus the so-called paradox isn’t really a paradox. While the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion, the question of who has experienced two reference frames is not.
This is not just unfounded claims, it has been proven way back in 1971. In 1971, American physicists Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating verified time dilation at low relative velocities by flying extremely accurate atomic clocks around the Earth on commercial aircraft. They measured elapsed time to an accuracy of a few nanoseconds and compared it with the time measured by clocks left behind. Hafele and Keating’s results were within experimental uncertainties of the predictions of relativity.
If in the “Twins Paradox” one twin zooms off in a rocket at 90% of the speed of light. Time on the spaceship would be running 44% as fast as his twins on Earth. If the spaceship kicked it into overdrive and traveled at 99.9% of light, the brother’s clock on the spaceship would be running at 4.5% as fast as the Earthbound one now. What this means is if the twin (from his reference frame) went on a trip for 5 years at 99.9% speed of light, he would age 5 years. But his brother would have aged 110 years on Earth. This is a fact.
That is interesting but not my point. Using the laws that we know to be true. It is what happens when 100% light speed is achieved. Only one thing that I am aware of travels at light speed and that is a photon. If time slows down as we approach the speed of light the equations tell us that at the speed of light time stops. That means that if you were a photon time does not pass for it at all. That has some freaky consequences and is the crux of my assertion.
The instant that a photon is emitted anywhere in the Universe, typically they come out of atoms or get sent out by a star. The instant it gets emitted it gets absorbed at its destination. If you are the photon. For the rest of us, we observe it trundle through the Universe at light speed. But, for the photon time does not elapse. Hundreds of millions or billions of years of our time are zero time for the photon. From its unique point of view, the Universe goes by in an instant. From the point of view of the photon distance as we know it does not matter. It can traverse a googolplex squared in zero time. It can be everywhere, from its reference frame. For the rest of us, we bask in the time it takes to get to its destination. If time is the fire in which we burn, we burn incredibly slow. With this built-in infinite transit ability in our Universe, is it so unfathomable that someone somewhere in the vast regions of darkness has figured out how to utilize it and become truly pan-universal? The power of infinity is a strong pull.
Think about that for awhile…
Now hypothesize about a highly advanced alien civilization that has solved the light speed barrier and can traverse space at the speed of light. They have mastered an ocean of unimaginable technology. Not the least of which is Mass cancellation.
What they would have to have figured out is how to cancel Mass. We do not have any clue at all at this time in our scientific pursuits how to do that. But who knows if an intelligence that is a million or a billion of years advanced has not figured this stumbling block out. If they can make their ships or crafts massless they could be everywhere and I mean everywhere at will at any time. Shades of Douglas Adams “Infinite Improbability Drive”. It is only us primitives that think distance is an issue, a showstopper for alien visitations. But that is not the case.
This alien race could act like the photon. Instantaneous Universal transport. Zero time for them to cross from one side of the Universe to the other. As soon as they turn on the light drive they are already at their destination. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have no human analog. The reason that mass is an important factor in this hypothesis is that it is integral to the properties of light speed. Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light.
No need for such human contrived nonsense such as warp drive. No need for such things if they could cancel the physical property of Mass (there are other issues as well to consider which are beyond this article). As soon as the turn on the light drive they are already at their destination no matter where it is in the Universe. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have not discovered so far.
The aliens that were left at home would age as we do but their emissaries on the craft are timeless. For a civilization such as this, I would hypothesize that they bring their entire culture with them on civilization ships. Otherwise, the forces of relativity would disjoint the two factions of the civilization severely. Makes sense to bring them all with you to keep the temporal differential to an absolute minimum.
It must be noted that us primitive humans have already begun the quest towards Mass cancellation. It is startling to ponder that we newcomers to the pantheon of galactic intelligence’s have already had an inkling, a beginning success, a baby step, a beachhead in our sciences. Our cutting-edge scientific frontiers have identified and have been able to quantitatively gather information on what is referred to as the “Higgs Boson”. This tiny elusive subatomic particle is believed to a high degree of certainty to be the harbinger of all Mass in the Universe. It and its corresponding “Higgs Field” is the reason and method the Universe uses to create the phenomena of Mass. We can see it using billions of dollars of technology in infinitesimally small slices of time. We are nowhere anywhere near being hands-on with it at all. But if we hairy primates even can fathom it, it must not be that difficult in the grand scheme of things.
I get tired of the same old rhetoric that spouts such unfounded certainty in UFOlogy. We must open our minds to unconventional thoughts. No one knows what is possible in the Universe. Our knowledge is woefully incomplete. I do not know of course if any of this supposition is true or not. We must have this type of intelligent dialogue or UFOlogy will fall stagnant and be taken over by the UFO lunatic fringe. I wish that part of the human condition that is in each and every one of us contained the drive towards logical truths. It has manifested in many, many of us but not nearly enough. The real and verifiable Universe is more fascinating, wondrous, and awe-inspiring than we can handle. No need to play make believe with UFOlogy.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
~ Albert Einstein (The World As I See It, 1930)
Science is the language of the Universe… Learn how to play.
HYBRID HUMANS: Author Daniella Fenton claims ancient ETs engineered human race
Ancient astronauts travelled through a "wormhole" in the Pleiades star cluster but couldn't survive on Earth, it's claimed.
Extraterrestrials decided instead to "alter the genetic make up" of early human ancestors so they became more intelligent.
The proof is in the fusion of Chromosome-2 around 780,000 years ago based on the book Hybrid Humans written by Daniella Fenton.
Chromosone-2 is found in all large-brained humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but no other primate species.
"The three species went on to become advanced humans with art, culture and increasingly complex technologies," said Mrs Fenton.
"The fusions site in on an active gene which expresses itself in brain structure, immunity and reproductive functions - important systems for upgrading to a new human species.
"Instead of a small number of humans having the fusion and a large group not having it, instead there was a rapid total replacement with all humans on Earth having 46 rather than 48 chromosomes, this tells us it gave enormous benefits to become so dominant.
"Approximately 800,000 years ago human brain size went into a sudden rapid increase in size and complexity which has long been a mystery to archaeologists."
DANIELLA FENTON
THEORY: Author Daniella Fenton said the DNA of humans changed dramatically due to alien science
She went on: "This was not the only change at this time and two very extraordinary changes are the sudden appearance of miR-941, which played a crucial role in human brain development.
"The gene is highly active in controlling decision-making and enabling language abilities and appeared suddenly formed out of junk DNA."
What Mrs Fenton claims are the "signature of aliens" is dramatic changes to a neocortex gene called ARHGAP11B – associated with sight and hearing in mammals.
The official explanation for Chromosome-2, the second largest in humans, does not involve aliens.
Researcher JW IJdo concluded Chromosome-2 "marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human Chromosome-2."
DANIELLA FENTON
HYBRID HUMANS: The book claims aliens engineered mankind 780,000 years ago
“Approximately 800,000 years ago human brain size went into a sudden rapid increase in size and complexity which has long been a mystery to archaeologists.”
Daniella Fenton
The Australian author, who studied equine genetic and is a spirtualist and certified shaman, claims to have physical evidence to support the ancient alien theory.
Her husband Bruce is also a writer who worked on the research.
They researched a book called Alcheringa which promotes the theory an alien spaceship exploded in our atmosphere hundreds of thousands of years ago and the survivors, who couldn't survive without the mother ship, engineered Homo sapiens.
Mrs Fenton claims the melted wreckage of the crashed craft explains the mysterious Australites tektite buttons, unexplained dark glass objects thought to be ejected in meteorite impacts.
She claimed that geologists have dated the remains of a 1km sized melted object to around 780,000 years ago.
She added: "According to a NASA study the resulting liquid glass (containing around 80% silica from melted quartz crystal) formed spheres in space which then instantly froze and began to fall into our atmosphere.
"As they entered they heated and melted to form unique button shapes before landing right across Australasia.
"These Australite tektite buttons are unique in the 4.5 billion year history of our planet and remain a total mystery to science because they can’t understand how they formed."
The Hybrid Human theory also believes the alien astronauts arrived from the Pleiades star cluster, thought to contain several thousand stars.
It is among the nearest star cluster to Earth and the one which is most visible to the naked eye.
It is believed one planet could exist around the star HD 23514 due to the exceptional number of hot dust particles surrounding it.
Mrs Fenton points to how Pleiades has been referenced repeatedly by various cultures.
She said: "All around the world ancient cultures talk about ancestral beings from the Pleiades and portals that connect those stars with this planet, this includes mythology in Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, American Indians, ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Aboriginal Australia."
Can Hyper Dimensional Alien Life Forms Exist In Our 3rd Dimensional Reality
Can Hyper Dimensional Alien Life Forms Exist In Our 3rd Dimensional Reality
There are many stories in UFOlogy that reference aliens that originate in the higher dimensions. Some believers have mentioned 4th-dimensional beings all the way up to 11th dimensional. It is the intention of this article to show how 11th or any advanced dimensional creatures can not exist in our 3-dimensional world. Or at least not have their fractional representation represent anything that resembles life.
In UFOlogy the vast number of people believe in what is known as “the nuts and bolts” hypothesis of ufos. UFO’s are real solid crafts from some distant star system. Technology analogous but completely different than our own. Advanced intelligence’s using science in ways we do not understand…yet. Advanced spacecraft just not from planet Earth.
There is another faction of UFOlogists that think our visitors are from higher dimensions in our Universe. It extends to the idea that they could even be from parallel Universes. The granddaddy of this line of reasoning is the brilliant scientist Dr. Jacques Vallée. His books are required reading for anybody interested into the serious investigation into the UFO enigma.
Many UFO experiencers describe experiences that are labeled “high strangeness”. “high strangeness” refers to a global phenomenon so strange and foreign to our daily terrestrial mode of thought, which it carries with it many implications of the existence of intelligence’s other than our own. It describes UFO cases that are not only peculiar but that can often be utterly absurd. In some cases, there are events before, during, and after the “sighting proper” imbued with elements of time and space distortion, bizarre synchronicity’s, strange states of consciousness, beings that act absurd, strange “creatures” associated with the sighting, but not necessarily part of the sighting, anomalous phone calls, electronic glitches, Immensely powerful Déjà vu episodes, and paranormal events including poltergeist-type activity.
The high strangeness aspect of many UFO experiencer’s experiences is hard to attribute to the “Nuts and Bolts” hypothesis.
What most people do not consider is that something or someone that exists nativity in say the 11th dimension also exists in all the lower dimensions below it. Some form of fractional representation will exist or display in the lower dimensions. So an 11th-dimensional alien will have some form of fractional representation in the 10th, 9th, 8th,7th,6th,5th,4th, 3rd (ours), 2nd, and single dimensional geometry.
If you are imagining additional spatial dimensions, it makes sense to understand those primarily as mathematical attributes that are necessary to make the math of the world work out. It’s not really that special. It’s just math, as far as our experience is concerned. It’s not even math that can give us special powers since the effects of these other dimensions are likely to be very, very small.
If you take a two-dimensional plane, and pass a three-dimensional sphere through it, the appearance on that plane would be a circle. Similarly, if you would take a single line, and try to pass a sphere through it, the image would be at most two points, though at the ends, potentially one point. The point of all this is that a higher dimensional object when it passes through a lower dimensional object presents the portions of the object according to the dimensions of the lower dimensional object.
In the picture below a human falls through the 2nd dimension. All the human would appear like is a series of expanding and contracting circlesoblongsellipsesetc. Hardly a representation of a person we are familiar with. This humans fractional representation is just variations of circles.
Let’s say that one of the extra dimensions, or maybe all of them, confer an ability to travel through time. To us, they would appear to be here with us when they were elsewhere. We couldn’t perceive them moving forward or backward in time. Some of the higher dimensions may not be spatial ones. You can think of a dimension as an axis of freedom. There are undoubtedly axes of freedom that is unknown and unfathomable to us.
I have worked out and conceptualized the 4th dimension. I’m talking about four macroscopic dimensions. Obviously, it’s impossible to be sure. But given what we know and guess about the conditions propitious for life, we could speculate. Here are a few ideas of why it might not be possible:
Stable orbits.
The question puts no restrictions on how physics could operate in the 4D universe. So in many ways, it could be anything. However, in order to have life as we understand it, one necessity is time; that is, physics which has some conservation laws and time symmetries so that the statistical laws of thermodynamics can be applied. In such a universe, life is happiest standing next to a fire; for instance, there’s us, with a burning sun on one side, and a cold vacuum of space on the other. The reason we can stay here is that the gravitational field of a point mass spreads in three-dimensional space with a flux proportional to the surface area of a sphere; that is, gravity is proportional to 1/r². That happens to allow for stable orbits, as the 4D equivalent, 1/r³, would not.
Surface to volume
At the simplest level, a surface to volume ratio always grows linearly with r, no matter what the number of dimensions. But as soon as that surface has some thickness, that is no longer true. In enough dimensions, the volume of an arbitrarily thin eggshell will be arbitrarily larger than the volume inside the egg. There’s no particular reason to believe this would be an insurmountable problem for 4D life, just one dimension up from us, but it would be a drag. Even here in 3D, our skin is already our largest organ.
Losing your car keys
It would also be really annoying in 4D space to leave something somewhere, then have to search for it later. Even if you were on the “surface” of a “hyperplanet”, you’d have to search in at least 3 dimensions; and 3D random walks, unlike 2D ones, are not recurrent. On the other hand, this same phenomenon would help when you wanted to throw out the garbage or move away from your parents. It’s hard to say for sure if on balance this would be a good thing or a bad thing for life or for intelligent life, but I suspect it would be bad.
In a universe with four spatial dimensions, life would be impossible on Earth—indeed, the Earth would not exist. In a universe with four spatial dimensions, atoms could not form: the orbits of the electrons around the nucleus of any atom would be unstable.
These extrapolations of the 4th dimension are sort of a randomizing factor. There may be many other randomizing factors in the higher dimensions but as before that is beyond my primate brain. The filtration through the 4th dimension will filter out anything that will be recognizable to us as anything particular. This does not necessarily mean that a higher dimensional creature has no controllable influence here in our limited 3 spatial dimensions. This is what I hypothesize is the cause of the “high strangeness” mentioned at the start of the article.
Since M-Theory became well known the UFO accounts now contain accounts of 11th-dimensional aliens. The other higher dimensions simply would not be apparent to us, unless they chose to present the results of their multidimensional behavior in a form we can perceive.
It is my hypothesis that “Any sufficiently advanced hyper dimensional creature will appear in our 3D world as background noise, unidentifiable, and indistinguishable from nature”. They would influence you in the form of your reality. Which your mind and all your collective past experiences have experienced, filtered through intellect and level of intelligence. All that in totality makes you. Your perceptions would be influenced (or modified) in the most ephemeral and conscious way. Your experience of these entities would be different for everyone as everyone has had a different experiential past and different neurology. The proof would be in the experience as no evidence as us primitive monkeys would expect would be possible. Perception and awareness are what it is all about.
If the reported “high strangeness” that is reported by so many UFO experiencers is caused by higher dimensional creatures. It can be surmised that they do not completely understand our perceptions completely. They do not understand how cause and effect work in our 3D worldview. They may have totally benevolent intentions in their manipulation but it turns out to be highly freaky and startling to us. Communication filtered through the mostly unknown higher dimension realities could account for what we call “high strangeness”.
Keep an open mind and consider that the Universe is stranger than we imagine, and is stranger than we can imagine.
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A MASSIVE HEAT SOURCE WAS JUST DISCOVERED UNDER ANTARCTICA, DRIVING ICE MELT AND VOLCANISM
A MASSIVE HEAT SOURCE WAS JUST DISCOVERED UNDER ANTARCTICA, DRIVING ICE MELT AND VOLCANISM
Recent discoveries have revealed just how volcanic Antarctica really is, despite being hidden underneath massive ice sheets. However, up until now, there remained significant debate as to what is causing the unusual amount of volcanic activity under an area covered in ice.
Recent research found the source of magma that is fueling the volcanoes underneath Antarctica. The source, a massive upwelling of mantle magma, also known as a hotspot. This is a similar mechanism that produced the Hawaiian Islands and fuels volcanic and geothermal activity in Yellowstone.
There were two key reasons this discovery was difficult to come by, despite significant research.
The first is the difficulty of measuring anything underneath kilometers of ice. Typically geoscientists gain a better understanding of the Earth’s inner workings by sending sound waves into the ground and measuring the time and angle at which they return to the surface. Using complex mathematical algorithms, geophysicists are able to reconstruct a three-dimensional picture of the subsurface. However, this was difficult to do when any acoustic signal has to travel through kilometers of chaotic ice, causing significant noise in the subsurface “picture” beneath Antarctica.
The second is the counterintuitive nature of having a massive heat source underneath an area that is covered with kilometers of ice. With an average ice sheet thickness of 2.16 km and a maximum thickness of around 4.7 km, it’s hard to believe there is a massive heat source similar to the one in Yellowstone sitting beneath the ice. How has the heat source not prevented ice build up?
To tackle these questions the research team used a numerical model to help constrain the heat required to produce the melting we currently measure in Antarctica. While direct measurements underneath Antarctica are difficult and few, there are numerous measurements of meltwater outflow. This allowed the research team to constrain their model.
Depiction of the water pathways under the Antarctic ice sheet. Blue dots are lakes, whereas lines show rivers. Marie Byrd Land, the source of the mantle plume, is located near the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is well known that there are rivers and lakes beneath Antarctica that drain meltwater to the ocean. Some lakes are as large as Lake Erie and can rapidly drain into the ocean, causing a sudden sinking of the overlying ice.
The numerical model, using constrained melt rates, were able to predict heat sources underneath Antarctica. The team found that the heat coming from beneath Antarctica is constrained to 150 milliwatts per square meter, with a higher heat rate causing too much melting as compared to what is measured. To compare that with other areas, the average heat flux from the Earth is 40-60 milliwatts per square meter and it reaches an average of 200 milliwatts beneath Yellowstone National Park.
Interestingly, the team found one location where the heat flow required jumped to 150-180 milliwatts underneath Antarctica. This area is the presumed source of the massive mantle upwelling and heat source. The Marie Byrd Land mantle plume appears to be the primary driver of volcanic activity in Antarctica. Geologists believe the mantle plume formed 50 to 110 million years ago when Antarctica was not covered in ice. Since then, the mantle plume has continually worked to heat up Antarctica, continually working to melt the overlying ice.
NAVY ENGINEER: I SAW ANCIENT RUINS, ALIENS, AND TOP-SECRET BASES IN ANTARCTICA!
NAVY ENGINEER: I SAW ANCIENT RUINS, ALIENS, AND TOP-SECRET BASES IN ANTARCTICA!
On January 2, 2015 the editor of website earthfiles.com received a letter from an alleged retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer.
The letter recounts experiences where the anonymous Navy officer (who refers to himself as “Brian”) recounts his bizarre and extraordinary experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica between the years 1983 to 1997. He claims that a collaboration between humans and aliens exist, and Antarctica is a major research ground for these collaborations.
In the letter the officer says he experienced things such as:
Silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains
During an emergency they entered a No Fly Zone and saw an entrance to a human and E. T. science research base under the ice
His crew picked up a dozen scientists who had disappeared for two weeks previous. They would not talk and their faces looked scared.
He has decided to share what he experienced between those years in the following letter, reproduced in full below:
Hi Linda
I am a retired United States Navy LC130 Flight Engineer that retired after 20 years of service in 1997. I have been wanting to write you for a long time about my experience on the Antarctic continent with flying vehicles that I was told not to talk about. I served part of my 20 years in the Navy with a Squadron called Antarctic Development Squadron Six or VXE-6 as it was also known. I served with this squadron from around 1983 till I retired March of 1997. Being a flight engineer and flying more then 4000 hours in that capacity I have seen things that most people have not even imagined on the Continent of Antarctica. The land there seems more alien then earthly. Our deployments to this land started in late September and ended the end of February every year until the Squadron was decommissioned in 1999. This time of year was the summer season when most of the science was done do to warmer temps and 24 hours of daylight.
During my time in the squadron I flew to almost every part of the Antarctic Continent including the South Pole more the 300 times. McMurdo Station which is 3.5 hours of flying time from the South Pole station was the point of squadron operation during our yearly deployments. Between these two stations is a mountain range called the Trans Antarctic’s. With what we called Severe Clear weather from McMurdo to South Pole the Trans Antarctic’s are visible from the altitudes which the aircraft flew approximately 25,000 to 35,000 feet. On several flights to and from South Pole our crew viewed air vehicles darting around the tops of Trans Antarctic’s almost exactly in the same spot every time we would fly by and view them. This is very unusual for air traffic down there due to the fact that the only aircraft flying on the continent were our squadron aircraft. Every aircraft knew where the other aircraft were do to flight schedules being followed.
Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated 5 miles from the station. The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area. This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on 2 different occasions we had to fly over this area. One time due to a medical evacuation of the Australian camp called Davis Camp. It was on the opposite side of the continent and we had to refuel at South Pole and a direct course to this Davis Camp was right over the air sampling station. The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
It was after this medevac mission we where briefed by some spooks (Intelligence Agents I presumed) from Washington DC and told not to speak of the area we overflew. The other time we got close to “The air sampling Camp” we had navigation and electrical failures on the aircraft and was told to immediately depart the area and report to our squadron commanding officer when we returned to McMurdo. Needless to say our pilot (Aircraft Commander) got his butt chewed and our crew was not on the South Pole supply run for over a month. There were many other times we saw things that was out of the ordinary.
Navy Engineer: I Saw Ancient Ruins, Aliens, And Top-Secret Bases In
One outlying camp (near Marie Byrd Land) we dropped scientists and their equipment at was out of communication with McMurdo for 2 weeks. Our crew flew back to the camp to find out if the scientists were ok. We found no one there and no sign of any fowl play. The Radio was working fine as we called McMurdo to verify it working properly. We left the camp and flew back to McMurdo as ordered by our CO. A week later the Scientist showed back up to there camp and called McMurdo for someone to come pick them up. Our crew got the flight back there to pick them since we put them into that camp and we knew the terrain and location. None of the scientists would talk to any of the crew on the plane and to me they looked scared.
As soon as we landed back at McMurdo they (Scientists) where put on another of our squadron aircraft and flown to Christchurch New Zealand. We never heard about them again. Their equipment that we brought back from the camp was put in quarantine and shipped back to the United States escorted by the same spooks that debriefed us about our fly over of the air sample camp/ large hole in the ice. I could go on and on about things and situations that I observed during my tour with VXE-6. Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientist working at the Pole of EBEs working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole.
"A communication disruption can only mean one thing: Invasion." --Sio Bibble, Queen Amidala’s prime minister in Star Wars Episode I – Attack of the Clones
Despite the sage courtier’s assertion in the first installment of George Lucas’s second round of space epics, we might sooner believe that a planet-wide interruption of communications, or a collapse of the power grid, was due to a Carrington-level event more than an alien attack. Unless cloaking technology really exists, an alien fleet would be visible to our telescopes and hopefully our orbiting satellites, unless they too had been wiped out. Nevertheless, the opening rounds of an assault by hostile non-humans are the key moment of any science fiction movie. How would that translate into a real life event?
In November 1979, Thomas Muldoon, writing for the National Enquirer, published an article with the sensational headline: "Take UFOs Seriously or Be Prepared for Sneak Invasion by Space Aliens." Some may find it amusing to see this article included among the National Security Agency's cache of information on the subject of unidentified flying objects (https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/assets/files/gov_super_secret_agency.pdf), but the Enquirer was at the forefront of much UFO journalism in those days, as evidenced by the sterling work of the late Bob Pratt. The NSA report - "obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER", as we are reminded - was aimed at dispelling the notion that UFOs were unworthy of scrutiny by the military/scientific establishment.
"If America does not start taking the sightings seriously, we leaver ourselves wide open to the possibility of a Pearl Harbor-type UFO invasion. The very fact that UFO phenomena have been witnessed all over the world from ancient times, and by considerable numbers of reputable scientists in recent times, now indicates rather strongly that UFOs are not all hoaxes, and if anything, rather than diminishing, the modern trend is toward increased reports from all sources."
So far so good. The nameless report, allegedly prepared in 1968, then moves on to scorn the "leisurely scientific approach" and urge a more determined response to fight the perceived threat of an alien invasion.
Carl Sagan had issued his own thoughts on the matter just two years earlier. “One of the primary motivations for the exploration of the New World,” he wrote, “was to convert the inhabitants to Christianity – peacefully if possible, forcefully if necessary. Can we exclude the possibility of an extraterrestrial evangelism? Can we conclude even darker motives? Might an extraterrestrial society want to be alone at the summit of galactic power and make a careful effort to crush prospective contenders? Or might there even be the cockroach response – to stamp out an alien creature simply because it is different?”
The concept of an interplanetary war in our times, a thought which admittedly smacks of the Cold War's "flying saucer" scare, has been seriously invoked by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the 1950's and by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980's. NATO allegedly prepared a document evaluating the threat posed to existing conventional and military forces in the 1960's, conceding that "we virtually have no defense against their advanced technology." Serious researchers like the late Dr. Olavo Fontes analyzed the possibility that northern Brazil would be occupied by a UFO invasion force in the wake of the attack on the Itaipú garrison in 1965. in the Summer 1998 issue of the Samizdat newsletter, Brazilian researcher Oriel Farías told the world about the incredible and still little-known UFO wave that covered northeastern Brazil and which centered on the town of Guarabira. According to Farías, the outstanding characteristic of the '98 flap was the sheer variety of objects reported, ranging from standard disk-shaped craft to massive objects projecting powerful beams of light. "Lengths of 30 meters have been reported, the size of a 20-storey building," he writes. The Guarabira "invasion" began on March 3, 1998 and was spearheaded by 26 UFOs flying over the city at 6:45 p.m., when the lights went out in Guarabira, and lasting until 3:45 a.m., when power returned to the city. This blackout remains unexplained to this day.
Almost 500 witnesses all over France reported seeing a veritable invasion force of giant black triangles on November 5, 1990. In an article translated by author George Andrews from OVNI-MAGAZINE, a publication of the Banque Internationale de Données Ufologiques, it was said that "...The flight path of this armada of over 70 ships (that is the minimal figure) was at an altitude of 1000 meters (some 320 feet), sometimes over the horizon, flying a horizontal course after rapidly descending from the skies, following parallel trajectories distant from each other by 5 to 25 kilometers...Considering the facts of the matter altogether implies that a non-human intelligence and technology were responsible for the phenomena." The French space agency, CNES, based in Toulouse, ascribed the sightings to the disintegration of the Soviet Gorizont booster in the upper atmosphere, using a telex received from NASA to substantiate their claim, in spite of the serious discrepancies between the booster reentry times and those of the sightings. The sightings recorded by OVNI-MAGAZINE appeared to indicate toward craft of the same nature as those seen in Belgium and the U.S.: spotlights on the underside of the vehicle' hull, strobes which swept the ground, simultaneous activation and deactivation of the spotlights were among the common characteristics. It is interesting to note that when UFOs were reported above the Pyrenees on March 31 1993, the CNES once again sought to dismiss the sightings as the reentry of another Russian space booster that had lifted the "Cosmos" 2238 satellite into orbit the previous evening.
In 1981, Colin A. Phillips of UFO Research had the following words to share in a meeting held in Adelaide, Australia: “Thirty years after the great UFO invasion of Earth occurred, because no physical war was fought, the battle of the mind was lost. Those who have knowledge of this event and dare speak of it, have been drowned out with laughter and ridicule or destroyed by character assassination. The world audience with its provincial view, narrow horizons and vested interests, is not ready for this new concept. However, those who talked about swamp gas and degraded facts to clues, are still "sifting carefully through the evidence", creating UFO jargon, statistics and methods of investigation, trying to make a science of what all the time was a major historical event. The UFO visitations to Earth of the 1950's have subsided now and the real work of UFO groups should be to use the best evidence to inform governments and citizens of the real significance of this event on our future civilization. We should have an informed public in readiness should the events of the 1950’s be repeated.”
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Daytime UFO over Pensacola, Florida 23-Apr-2018
Daytime UFO over Pensacola, Florida 23-Apr-2018
New footage of a bright fast object flying across the sky above Pensacola in Florida.
Witness report:
Blinking lights in the sky, not sure if it was multiple crafts or just multiple lights on one giant craft craft I was going home with my mother and sister. I noticed the object when I looked out the window and saw blinking lights, either 2 or more. I thought they were just planes when I first saw them but then it just got kinda weird. It looked like they would hover, and then start moving again. They moved veeeerrry sloooowly. In fact they almost never left sight, that’s how slow they moved. They would change directions and stayed the same length apart sometimes. At first I thought they were two separate UFOs flying together, but then when I rewatch my video that I got of them, it looks like there may be more blinking lights that I didn’t even notice in real life. So now I’m wondering if they were multiple lights on one giant craft. And if that’s the case, the that thing was huge. I felt kinda frightened and odd cause I mean it was an odd experience and if it was an actual UFO, I didn’t want to be abducted. I also felt kinda excited and giddy cause I had always wanted to see a UFO, or something odd like that. I lost sight of the object because I just decided to stop watching it, it was a long car ride, and the lights were just doing the same thing over and over, blinking, hovering, and moving, I didn’t really want to keep staring at it and plus I was tired so I decided to take a nap. Also, I tried looking up videos that were similar, and I think I found some, but the lights I saw blinked randomly it seemed, whereas in other videos I saw they looked like they were in a specific pattern. And the videos were taken through a car window so they aren’t the best, but I mean no UFO video is perfectly clear, haha.
'Don't Stop Motion' recently filming the moon was left baffled when three mystery objects floated past it and rapidly disappear out of frame.
The video begins with the camera focused on the moon and its signature craters. However, at the 1:18 mark, three strange objects can be seen dancing past the moon.
He believes it was most likely helium balloons that someone released, but admits the theory cannot be confirmed.
The footage was taken with a S8 attached to a 6" Newtonian Reflector scope. It was originally in portrait, but he rotated the video 90° clockwise. That's why the moon is oriented the way it is.
Emery Smith, also known as the "Black Project whistleblower", alleges he worked in a deep underground biological facility located in the USA.
There, Smith claims work is taking place on extraterrestrial technology harvested from alien beings and their crashed or captured spaceships which would change the world as we know it.
In a YouTube video, he makes a number of incredible revelations including that ET flying saucers are mostly “organic and linked to the driver”, they can be “infused with life and intelligence” and “change shape”.
Smith claims he served in the US Air Force before becoming a scientist who worked for major corporations on US military projects.
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UFOs: Self-proclaimed whistleblower alien scientist Emery Smith
“They have already mastered teleportation so the body can shrink within in its own living space. And that’s why they can go a million miles per hour and make a right hand turn, because they don’t feel it.”
Emery Smith
He alleges to have examined more than 3,000 body parts of alien beings.
It has been reported that Smith said he was based at a ultra-secret section of the huge Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico, USA.
In the YouTube video, posted by the 'Destroying the Illusion' channel, he makes some astonishing claims.
“I’ve witnessed many different craft in these projects, I was actually working with the craft and bodies because they’re connected,” Smith claims.
“A lot of the craft are organic material which means only the driver of that race can operate the vehicle due to their frequency of the genetic DNA and the frequency that they are emitting.
“It’s kind of like having a pet or a car that only responds to the owner.
“These types of vehicles are so amazing, they are usually made in space through harmonics and frequency.
“So they can actually give life to a craft and enthuse it with artificial intelligence or consciousness, or both.
“And match it to the driver or occupant, of this vehicle.”
He goes on to claim to having worked on number different types of downed flying saucers, which he claims are constantly “emitting an amazing energy from space” some 30 years after being captured.
“Of course there’s always the classic spheres, egg shapes and disc shapes,” he added.
“There’s also other craft that are inter-dimensional that can change shape.
“So they might come in the form of light and they can manifest and change their atomic structure to become a solid so these types of craft are a little bit more advanced than the craft than we hear about on pop culture and on tv.”
Some of his claims sound like they have been ripped from a science fiction movie.
But Smith claims that this technology which is “thousands of years ahead” is being “suppressed” from public knowledge.
And big companies are “fighting” to get their hands on the science.
He claimed: “These craft can actually go inter-dimensional, they can change shape with all of the occupants not knowing its happening and then reform again in different worlds and different dimensions, and different parts of the universe immediately.
“They have their own atmosphere, their own gravity, they have their own little space that they have projected from this craft which keeps them completely encapsulated in it.
“They have already mastered teleportation so the body can shrink within in its own living space.
“And that’s why they can go a million miles per hour and make a right hand turn, because they don’t feel it.
“Because they’re in their own dimensional holographic world, where they have to fall under those scientific algorithms.”
His reason for going public is that Smith claims the ET technology could completely change human life by offering free energy and groundbreaking medical cures.
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While filming an approaching storm he filmed something that he cannot explain.
While filming an approaching storm he filmed something that he cannot explain.
The footage shows a bright object in the clouds that disappears and appears, until the moment the object moves at high speed leaving a trail of small lights behind.
Heat Shield for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Cracks During Test
Heat Shield for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Cracks During Test
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
This artist's concept depicts the entry of NASA's Curiosity rover through Mars' upper atmosphere. The Mars 2020 mission will use aspects of this design for its project.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The heat shield for NASA's upcoming Mars rover suffered a fracture during testing recently, but the incident won't change the mission's launch date, agency officials said.
The Mars 2020 mission is designed to search the Red Planet's surface for signs of ancient microbial life, and the six-wheeled robot will also hunt for and characterize potentially habitable environments. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2020, when Earth and Mars are properly aligned for an interplanetary mission, and arrive at the Red Planet in early 2021.
The heat shield's structural damage, located near the shield's outer edge, happened during a weeklong test at the Denver facility of contractor Lockheed Martin Space, according to a NASA statement released Thursday (April 26). The test was intended to subject the heat shield to forces about 20 percent greater than those it will experience when it hits the Martian atmosphere for entry, descent and landing operations. [NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Mission in Pictures (Gallery)]
The Mars 2020 team found the fracture on April 12. Mission management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will work with Lockheed Martin to lead an examination of the cause of the crack and to decide if any design changes should be made, NASA officials said in the statement.
The incident won't delay the Mars 2020 launch, though, which is currently targeted for July 17, 2020, the officials added.
It's important to investigate this crack, because the heat shield is part of the spacecraft's thermal protection system, designed by engineers to keep the Martian rover safe as the vehicle experiences intense heat during atmospheric entry.
NASA officials said the current heat shield will be repaired to permit continued prelaunch spacecraft testing. The Mars 2020 mission team will develop a new heat shield structure over the next year, and once that's completed, the new shield will receive other important components like thermal protection tiles.
Abstract: Aerospace trade publications, visual reports and personal interviews with test pilots and engineers confirm the existence of multiple highly classified aerospace vehicles. These include boomerangs, black triangles, diamonds, arrowheads, and Spaceplanes/Trans Atmospheric Vehicles (TAVs). Funded by the so-called “black budget,” many of these programs are exempt from congressional oversight and public scrutiny. Developed along the famous “aerospace alley” region of southern California, many of these USAPs represent America’s super-secret “ace in the hole,” and provide a unique “power projection” capability for multiple military and intelligence agencies. Companies such as Lockheed, Rockwell, Northrop, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing made tremendous advancements during the “Reagan build-up” era, and many of these programs have now passed their “sunset” duration of deployment. Therefore, it’s now time for a re-examination of these programs and a renewed push for the “dis-lodging” of those that can be declassified without representing any threat to the national security of the United States.
Blackstar: The two-stage-to-orbit Spaceplane
During the 1980s, Soviet-era aerospace companies developed plans for what they called a “space fighter.” The primary roles for this spaceplane concept were the following: military reconnaissance, satellite interception, space station defense, and crew transfer applications. This full-scale development program fell under the jurisdiction of what came to be known as the Russian Kosmolyot I and II project. Upon getting word of these advancements in Russian aerospace technology, White House, and Pentagon officials became “deeply concerned” that America would lose the advantage in developing an operational spaceplane. Therefore, on December 1, 1985, American efforts to develop a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane appear to have shifted into high gear, and oversight command for this program was transferred from the Department of Defense to a joint venture composed of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office (CIA/NRO). The new code-name for this project was called “COSMIC WIND,” which was later renamed “Blackstar.” Through the tremendous efforts of former Aviation Week and Space Technology editor William Scott, a clear picture of this historically significant program has now emerged.
Approximately one month after the official go-ahead for this program the space shuttle Challenger exploded 72 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986. Since at least 70% of all payloads associated with the NASA shuttle program were classified DOD/intelligence agency applications, the Department of Defense/CIA/NRO lost what it termed its “assured access to space.” Not wanting to interrupt their schedule of launching highly classified satellites, the United States Air Force, CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office were now forced to rely on Titan booster rockets. However, there were multiple Titan rocket failures during the mid-1986 time-frame, and the “spook groups” found themselves “out of business.” The loss of these two space assets provided further emphasis and urgency for America to accelerate its plans to develop an operational spaceplane.
The derelict and dilapidated remains of the A-12 Avenger II mock-up outside at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. Is this really all that American taxpayers received for their $5 Billion investment?
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Frantic to maintain its control of the “high ground,” a desperate call went out to various aerospace defense contractors who could quickly design, build and test fly a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system. These included Lockheed, Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing. A significant majority of these contractors (except for Boeing in Seattle) had locations within what has been termed “aerospace alley” which extends from San Diego, north to Los Angeles, continuing to Lancaster/Palmdale/Air Force Plant 42, and concluding at Edwards AFB. As with most “Unacknowledged Special Access Programs” (USAPs), funding for the Blackstar program was covertly spread out over multiple projects including the ill-fated US Navy A-12 Avenger II, and the X-30 NASP (National Aerospace Plane). This wouldn’t be the first time that highly compartmented so-called “black” programs were used as a “sacrificial lamb” to cover the funding of even more highly classified projects. Many of these super-secret programs are referred to in the military/intelligence agencies as: “ace in the hole” or “trump card” technology. They are also referred to as “silver bullets.” Under extreme pressure, and on a tight schedule, the Lockheed Company in Burbank may have taken the leading role in designing a small spaceplane, and “farmed out” much of the construction/manufacturing to McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis.
The “Blackstar” system consisted of two separate components which operated as a single integrated unit: 1) a large “mothership” or carrier aircraft measuring approximately 200 feet in length. 2) a smaller “parasitic” aircraft/orbiter which could fit conformally under the belly of the mothership, and air-dropped at altitudes up to 90,000 feet. Flight testing of the Blackstar program appears to have started in 1989, and by October of the same year, the Blackstar program had flown its first operational mission. Four large carrier “Mothership” aircraft may have been produced, with eight spaceplane/orbiters possibly being built. The program was based out of Area 51/Groom Lake, utilizing the “old CIA A-12 hangers”, including and two new massive hangers that were three times larger than their historic neighbors. During flight testing and operational missions, ground controllers at Groom Lake carried the call sign “EARTH” when communicating with the spaceplane. Other bases of operation may include Alaska or Patrick AFB in Florida.
Three view drawing of large SR-3 “Mothership” with smaller XOV spaceplane below.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The massive mothership was referred to the “SR-3”, aka “elegant lady,” while the smaller spaceplane was designated “XOV” (Experimental Orbital Vehicle) or “Speedy.” Early in the program under the “COSMIC WIND” code-name, the large carrier aircraft was referred to as the “MAV” (Manned Aerial Vehicle), while the smaller spaceplane was designated the “AAV” (Advanced Aerial Vehicle). Resembling the 1960’s era North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie, the SR-3 was certainly an imposing sight to behold. Eyewitnesses who were fortunate enough to see this aircraft during the daytime described it as being “huge” or “giant.” Others simply called it the “Super Valkyrie.” Indeed, as reported by at least two former North American Aviation test pilots, the technology existed in the 1950s to develop a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system. With the advantage of 30 years of additional technological developments, and almost unlimited access to black budget funding, its well within the capability of the America aerospace industry to design, build and test fly such a vehicle.
With a wingspan of 120 feet, the SR-3 featured a triangular/delta wing configuration, with large “tip-sails” or winglets that rose up 12 feet and were canted at a 35-degree angle. It also featured a dorsal ridge or “spine” that extended immediately behind the cockpit, and ran down the length of the fuselage to the trailing edge of the wing. A retractable set canards (with their own winglets) were also located just aft of the crew compartment (reference email to Michael Schratt from Nancy Certain 9/13/16). These canards had the capability of retracting forward to support low speed applications. The SR-3 carried a crew of three consisting of the pilot, co-pilot and launch control officer (LRO) who sat facing backwards. The bottom of the aircraft featured a large XB-70 like triangular “splitter” air-intake which was divided into two banks at the rear of the craft. However, the most prominent feature was what appeared to be a “relieved section” or “scooped out” portion of the bottom which was designed to allow the smaller spaceplane to fit inside forming an aerodynamically efficient mating of the two aircraft (reference detailed report from James Petty to Michael Schratt 12/5/16).
Original SR-3 Mothership sketch by Nancy Certain.
According to eyewitness and Rocket scientist James Petty who saw both the Mothership and its smaller parasitic aircraft flying over Salt Lake City Utah on October 4, 1998, the more massive SR-3 carrier aircraft is powered by six modified variable-cycle J-93 engines (reference in-person 90- minute videotape interview of James Petty conducted by Michael Schratt 3/12/16). However, there appears to be a discrepancy regarding precisely what type of propulsion system was used to power the mothership. Those within the vicinity of SR-3 flight operations described hearing a VERY LOUD PULSING ROARING noise during take-off roll and climb out. This was confirmed by witness Nancy Certain Ph.D., from Doylestown PA, who saw the massive carrier aircraft during the day from a half-mile distance at an altitude of approximately 2,500 feet in 1993. Others stated that as the aircraft accelerated and gained altitude, the frequency and intensity of the pulsing noise increased. This may indicate the use of a combined cycle scramjet engine which can operate at both low and high speeds. Either way, it’s clear that this aircraft utilizes some form of “multi-cycle” engine.
The mothership has a weight of 275,000 to 300,000 pounds and a range of 6,000 miles (unlimited with aerial refueling). The SR-3 is capable of speeds over Mach 6 and can climb to an altitude of 150,000 feet. It features a white/grey exterior surface, with two being built by 1988. Fuel for the SR-3 consists of liquid hydrogen/liquid methane with JP8 used in the case of the J-93 engines. The contractors involved with designing and building the SR-3 mothership may have consisted of Lockheed, Rockwell, and Boeing. Final assembly took place at Boeing’s large assembly facility in Seattle. It’s interesting to note that on October 14, 1986, Boeing filed a patent (4,802,639) for a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system that closely matched the Blackstar operational capabilities, although the physical characteristics of the craft were different than what was reported by multiple eyewitnesses.Once reaching an altitude of 90,000 feet and a speed of Mach 3, the SR-3 air-drops its smaller parasitic aircraft, and either returns to its original base of operation or takes on additional fuel for an extended mission.
Three view drawing of Speedy XOV spaceplane.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Detail view of XOV linear aerospike engines showing “radiator like” screens. Illustration.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Detail view of XOV Speedy aft section depicting “radiator like” screens in place, and also removed showing 10” diameter tube “honeycomb pattern.”
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The smaller XOV/Speedy spaceplane was manufactured in two sizes and featured a highly swept wing lifting body configuration. One measuring approximately 60-65 feet in length, with a crew of two that sat side-by-side, and another measuring 97.5 feet with a single pilot. These were named “XOV-1” and “XOV-2.” Flying in an inverted low earth orbit orientation, the XOV featured a two-door “Q-bay” on its upper surface for the operation of a large aperture adaptive optics system that featured “inches resolution.” This “reconnaissance package” had the capability of correcting for atmospheric disturbances, thereby generating extremely high-resolution images of ground-based targets. The Q-bay could also serve as a launching platform for hyper-velocity depleted uranium “Rods-from God.” The XOV could attain altitudes of between 150-250 miles, and speeds exceeding 17,500 mph (Mach 20). The primary propulsion system for the XOV were four linear aerospike engines that were grouped in two banks at the aft end of the vehicle. These engines were developed by a joint venture which included Aerojet and the Pratt & Whitney/Rocketdyne Company, which later became Aerojet Rocketdyne. Witnesses who have observed the back of this vehicle described seeing what looked like “radiator screens” covering the exhaust ports. Others described it as looking like “ventilation grating.” Embedded within the exhaust ports were multiple 10-inch diameter “tubes” which served to mix cooling air, thereby reducing the vehicle’s infrared signature. These tubes gave the exhaust ports an unusual “honeycomb” appearance. Ground tests of this unique engine took place at Groom Lake during 1988.
Circular receptacle for SRB on aft end of Speedy. Illustration.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The larger 97.5-foot long spaceplane also featured articulating intakes and variable geometry exhaust ports. On either side of the exhaust ports, a dark circular opening was seen which may have served as a solid rocket booster (SRB) receptacle. These could be loaded into the craft “like a shotgun shell” and then removed after the conclusion of a mission. The SRBs served to provide an extra boost, pushing the spaceplane into a low earth orbit flight path. Once in orbit, the spaceplane had the capability of “dipping back down” into the atmosphere and then climbing back up again. Using this technique of “skipping” over the outer reaches of the atmosphere, the spaceplane could dramatically increase its range. After completing its mission, the spaceplane would glide back to earth “like the space shuttle” and land horizontally at multiple military locations in the United States.It could then be “turned around” within 48 hours or “every other day” to fly another mission. Compared to the space shuttle which can take months or even years to prepare for flight, the Blackstar system represented a cost-effective alternative. Another unique advantage was its capability to serve as a “rapid response” military/reconnaissance platform that could surprise an enemy by flying unpredictable flight paths, unlike spy satellites.
The outer wing sections of the XOV featured a “droop down” articulated capability, which took advantage of “compression lift.” The only movable control surfaces on the Speedy spaceplane were what appeared to be flaps/speed brakes located on the upper and lower rear surface of the vehicle. A short “stubby tail” which extended from aft of the Q-bay to the extreme end of the craft served as both a vertical stabilizer and an attachment point for joining with the larger carrier aircraft. The outer structure of the craft may have been built at the McDonnell Douglas facility in St. Louis and featured an advanced composite material that was “stacked” in layers forming a sandwich to attain the desired thickness. Red colored thermal protective areas were located along the leading edges of its wings. The entire bottom surface featured dark-colored thermal resistant “space shuttle tiles.” Four “channels” or “strakelets” were seen on the bottom of the craft. These one to two-foot deep longitudinal “grooves” helped to maintain the rigidity of the structure and may have served as a way to dissipate heat during high-speed operations. Apparently, these grooves/inlets were “very complex,” and most likely took multiple attempts to perfect.
Illustration (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The XOV incorporated a very unusual landing gear configuration which included a four-wheel nose gear arrangement, and a retractable “ski-like” landing gear skid that extended directly from the bottom of the craft. Approximately at the mid-point on the lower surface of the wings, a retractable “pogo-type” outrigger landing gear helped to stabilize the craft during roll-out. Generally speaking, highly swept low aspect ratio lifting body configurations have high landing speeds. Therefore, the Speedy spaceplane was said to have a landing speed between 250-300 mph, with the central retractable landing skid taking the brunt of the force. Certainly, the craft was a “handful” for even the most experienced test pilots. Only those with practical application in flying multiple different types of aircraft would qualify for handling such a strange and exotic aircraft. Pilots who were the “Maverick” type, and had previous air racing experience would be at the top of the list. Fuel for the XOV was a “gelled Boron” based “slurry” or endothermic type that had the consistency of toothpaste. Work on the spaceplane proceeded slowly until 1989 when the program made tremendous progress, and engineers were working “around the clock” 24 hours a day, seven days per week, for three years. It was also during this timeframe that a “fuel breakthrough” was made, which further accelerated the program.
Drawing depicting the modified Lockheed C-5C Galaxy with “chipmunk cheek” extensions.
(Image credit: Michale Schratt)
Letter from John Andrews to Pete Eames describing the emergency landing of a classified aircraft (which was tracked going Mach 4.2) at Kadena AFB on February 12-13, 1994.
On February 13 of 1994, things took a drastic turn on the project. On that day, an XOV spaceplane was involved in an incident that resulted in the craft making an emergency landing at Kadena AFB in Japan. This particular aircraft was tracked by Kadena air traffic controllers going Mach 4.2, and other aircraft in the vicinity had to be diverted to avoid a collision. Subsequently, the entire base was put on a “Red 3” lockdown for three days. Apparently, during the launch sequence, the stubby vertical fin/pylon on the spaceplane somehow made contact with its carrier aircraft and was forced to make an unscheduled detour. Within 24 hours, a highly modified Lockheed C-5 Galaxy cargo transport aircraft was dispatched from Holloman AFB to retrieve the damaged spaceplane. To “fill a gap” in their intelligence gathering capability, the CIA/NRO convinced Congress in May of 1994 to allocate 100 million dollars to put the SR-71 Blackbird spy-plane back into service so that the Blackstar program could get back on track. Three of these unique C-5 aircraft were produced which featured eight-foot-wide “chipmunk cheek” extensions on each side of the fuselage. Originally, these modifications were specifically incorporated for the purpose of transporting large containers which protected satellites during transit to launch sites. However, they were also later used to transport classified aircraft to multiple locations around the world. These highly modified aircraft also utilized an extra set of six-wheeled landing gear. Two of these aircraft were operated by NASA and carried the tail numbers 00503, and 00504. The third was operated by the CIA and featured a large red “CL” marking on its vertical stabilizer. Upon arriving at Kadena AFB, the damaged aircraft was quickly loaded inside the C-5, which then made a direct flight back to Holloman AFB.
Spaceplane being unloaded from C-5 cargo aircraft at Holloman AFB
(Illustration credit John MacNeill/Tom Bogan)
Original sketch of XOV spaceplane by F-15 pilot at Holloman AFB.
Tarp covering “stubby vertical tail.” Note extended flaps/speed brakes.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Sometime around February 15 of 1994, the C-5 arrived back at Holloman AFB with its precious yet damaged cargo inside. The aircraft then taxied to a remote part of the long runway at the base. Eyewitnesses who saw the spaceplane being unloaded from the much larger cargo aircraft during the daytime indicated that it was a complicated process which took at least three hours to complete. Apparently, the outer wing panels of the spaceplane have the capability of folding to allow for transportation in the C-5. One witness (a transient F-15 pilot), who saw the entire event unfold through binoculars from the cockpit of his aircraft while it was parked on the ground, sketched what he observed. “no-nonsense” military security guards were overseeing the entire unloading process. Once the spaceplane was pulled from the opened “clamshell” door of the C-5, it was immediately apparent that some damage had occurred to the spaceplane. A large tarp was seen covering the stubby vertical tail. However, this tarp did not completely obscure the view of the aft section which revealed a large “chunk” missing. In addition, the F-15 pilot also identified multiple missing tiles on the spacecraft’s bottom right wing section. It’s unknown at this time if this event in conjunction with other technical challenges “shelved” the Blackstar project, or if it secretly continued its covert activity. In the end, the Blackstar program represents one of the “crown jewels” of the military-industrial complex. It’s unlikely that the engineers or test pilots associated with the project will get the credit they deserve anytime in the foreseeable future. Like many other black programs, it’s entirely possible that it will remain another unacknowledged “silver bullet” being hidden away in some dark and mysterious hangar located somewhere in the southwest.
Triangles:
Special Note: The following report originated via the personal collection of UFO researcher and author David Marler. It has been reproduced for this report exactly as it appeared in the original text. Emphasis in certain areas is strictly mine.
Illustration of the August 25, 1990 Woodhead Pass Triangle.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Woodhead Pass Triangle drawing.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Cardstock model of the Woodhead Pass Triangle by Michael Schratt.
Dear Mr. Marler,
I have just read your book “Triangular UFOs an estimate of the situation.” I found the book to be most informative since I myself had a close sighting of a triangular UFO in 1990. I always assumed that what I saw was a top-secret military aircraft, and over the years I have read about such projects as the TR-3B (TR-3B real or fictitious who knows?) At any rate, I was quite happy with my assumptions until I read your book which revealed that such craft were seen as far back as the 1930’s and even in the late 1800’s. Obviously, I found this to be quite thought provoking and as led me to re-assess what I saw that night. I therefore decided to send you this e-mail outlining the events of that night, and would appreciate any comments from your perspective. Please keep in mind, it is now 23 years since my sighting, and some of the detail is by now a little fuzzy. I have therefore left out anything of which I am not certain. I have also attempted to attach what I know to be a poorly drawn sketch (it goes without saying I’m no artist). Also, I would add that at the time a serving Police Officer, and have since retired after 30 years of service.
On the evening of August 25, 1990 my then wife and I had attended at Manchester Main Road football stadium to watch the band Fleetwood Mac. At the end of the concert, it took some time to get out of the makeshift car park, and through the heavy traffic, the time was around midnight. Our route home to Barnsley took us over the Woodhead pass, which crosses over the Pennine hills, and is surrounded in the main by open moor land. That particular night, stretches of the road were covered with low cloud or mist causing poor visibility. As a result, I was forced to drive slowly, approximately 20 mph. Due to the late hour, the road was quiet, and my wife had wound back her seat and fallen asleep. I cannot say exactly where the sighting took place due to the poor visibility, but I believe I was nearer to the Barnsley end of the Woodhead Pass, possibly around the Board Hill area.
Whilst driving slowly, and trying to concentrate on the road, my attention was drawn skywards due to intermittent flashes of light which I assumed to be sheet lightning (though there was no accompanying sounds of thunder). It was whilst glancing skywards that I saw the nose of a huge black triangular craft push through the low cloud and mist. As the craft emerged further, I could see it was approximately 200-300 feet in length and width at its widest part. It travelled pointed end first, and was well illuminated around its undercarriage. The craft was moving at a speed of around 10 mph, and was approximately 200 feet above the road. On seeing the craft, I wound down my car window, but could hear only a very low (almost imperceptible) humming sound. I could see that the craft was of a solid construction (not inflatable). This fact, the slow speed, and quietness gave the craft an eerie impression. I have little knowledge of aerodynamics, but even I knew that conventionally something so big and solid should be traveling at hundreds of miles an hour in order to stay aloft. (Therefore, to my mind, it was somehow defying gravity).
As previously stated the undercarriage was well illuminated with a large white light at each corner, and a light in the center. The undercarriage also appeared recessed, and I could see some sort of superstructure. As the craft passed above, I slowed the car to a virtual stop, and leaned out of the driver’s side window. The side of the craft appeared to have several illuminated windows, and at one of the windows I saw two to three figures that appeared to be human. (Certainly nothing about the figures made me think they were anything other than human, reinforcing my belief that the craft was a military project). I could see one of the figures either pointing or waving in my direction. Whilst watching the craft, it slowly and silently slipped back into the low cloud and disappeared. At this stage I drove off the road and climbed out of my car, but could see and hear nothing. By now my wife was awake, but too late to see the craft. I observed the craft for approximately 30 seconds which does not sound long, but believe me it was. I submit my story for your information, and would welcome any insight or comment from yourself. For obvious reasons, I do not make my story common knowledge, and I would be grateful if you kept my details private.
Regards, GS
Barnsley England
(name withheld by request of the primary witness)
Illustration of the November 22, 1985 Madison WI. Triangle.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The question all of us need to be asking here is would extraterrestrials by flying around in our atmosphere using triangular shaped craft with “tubes and pipes” on their bottom surfaces? It’s interesting to note that during the Hudson Valley Boomerang wave (1982-1989), many eyewitnesses reported seeing “huge metallic beams” on the underside of the craft. Others reported seeing “metal type work, like cross-beams, and tubular things hanging down here and there.” A similar looking mechanical under-structure featuring “tubes and pipes” was also identified on the bottom surface of the triangular shaped craft during the Belgium wave of 1989-1990.
In addition, during the January 5, 2000, southern Illinois triangle sightings, Shiloh police officer David Martin described seeing what he called “building blocks” and “plumbing pipes” on the bottom of the craft that he observed. What on earth could these pipes be used for? What is their exact function? One possible explanation could be that they are being utilized as liquid nitrogen cooling pipes to chill a super-conductor or liquid mercury plasma. These pipes would be used to cool the central “core” of the craft, which may explain the “donut shaped” or circular opening seen by multiple eyewitnesses. In fact, it appears that due to their placement, these pipes not only cool the central portion of these vehicles but the entire craft itself as one fully integrated unit. It seems clear that the material used to manufacture these triangular shaped craft is truly of an exotic nature. This is because materials must be in an extremely low energy state (very cold) to become “superconductive.” Of course, this requires a tremendous amount of energy or electrical power to achieve, which may explain the low frequency “humming” sound heard by multiple eyewitnesses in the vicinity of these craft. The cryogenic equipment associated with these objects produce extremely powerful electromagnetic fields around the craft which may explain the reports of strange effects such as radio static, and automobile engines mysteriously turning off and coming back on when the craft departs.
Are we hearing the effects of an electrical transformer associated with these vehicles? Multiple reports from Belgium, New York, Connecticut and Southern Illinois indicate that these triangular shaped objects fly/float/hover virtually silently, but in many cases, emit a sound similar to a “sewing machine,” or a “machine shop running in the distance.” Has the American aerospace industry finally achieved the “Holy Grail” of aviation by constructing triangular shaped craft that utilize an onboard power source (possibly a nuclear reactor), in conjunction with high voltage electrical transformers which supply the necessary power to chill the core of a superconductor? These craft would lack the wings, propellers, jet engines, and control surfaces of standard aircraft, and could mimic the form fit and function of “extraterrestrial UFOs.”
Illustration of the November 1985 Yorktown Heights Triangle.
Stadium Triangle drawing. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
It was November of 1985 when Yorktown Heights NY resident Maureen Davis had a genuinely incredible night-time encounter with a massive shaped triangular object which was described as being the size of a “football stadium.” She had been parked at the intersection of Route 132 and Oakside Road waiting for her husband to get off the bus. Then, Maureen noticed something strange in the sky towards the northeast. It appeared to be a massive isosceles triangular-shaped “thing” that was hovering silently near what seemed to be the Lake Osceola area. To her amazement, the bottom of the craft opened up, and she got a very rare glimpse of the interior. She described seeing multiple levels of lights on the inside (similar to a multi-story terrace-shaped apartment complex). After approximately three minutes, a pulsating red light flew up into the opening, and the circular “hatch” disappeared. The strange triangular shaped object then appeared to speed away at incredible speed, without causing a sonic boom. (Reference In The Night Sky Page 38 by Linda Zimmermann). So, what did Maureen Davis see? Was it an extraterrestrial spacecraft from another world? Or, was it something that had a more “earthly” explanation? Let’s examine one feature of this encounter. Specifically, the craft’s departure. Many times, in UFO cases, we hear of the craft departing like a “spark off of a grinding wheel.” In other cases, we read of UFOs accelerating with “fantastic speed”, without generating a sonic boom. Could there be a “down to earth explanation” to these flight characteristics? As an aircraft reaches supersonic speeds, it creates shock waves, and a tremendous amount of aerodynamic heat builds up on its surface. To combat this heating, the space shuttle orbiter uses thermal resistant tiles throughout its entire airframe. However, this approach could only be considered a “band-aid” fix at best. In 1967, the Norair Division of Northrop began experimenting with highly charged electrostatic fields on a metal test probe. The results of these studies concluded that an aircraft’s “sonic boom footprint” and could be significantly reduced or eliminated entirely. They also discovered that the problems associated with supersonic heating could also be drastically lowered. Obviously, these breakthroughs could have potentially incredible military applications to advanced aircraft. Now, factor in the billions of dollars spent each year on classified “black” programs, and its entirely within the capability of the American aerospace industry to design built and fly aircraft that could be mistaken for “extraterrestrial” UFOs. Ref: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Technical Paper No. 68-24 published January 23, 1968)
Cardstock model of March 31, 1999 Kirby England Triangle.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Bottom surface of the March 31, 1999 Kirby England Triangle.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
It was March 31, 1999, when Colin Saunders and three others were driving along the Old Fosse Way near the village of Monks Kirby when they noticed a group of lights off to the left that was approximately 200 feet in the air. As they got closer, they could see four red light that were at an angle of about 30 degrees. Incredibly, a diamond shaped outline seemed to appear around the lights. At this point, the strange craft tipped up vertically “like an airship or submarine” in slow motion as though it were underwater. By now, the craft had fully materialized into a triangular shape. The surface of the craft appeared to have a dark grey liquid mercury appearance that “rippled” up and down its surface. However, the most interesting feature of the unknown object were multiple “raised box-like sections” that extruded from the top. Mr. Saunders never got a look at the bottom of the vehicle but noticed the identical “box-like” pattern on the bottom of a sketch drawn by one eyewitness of a triangle that was seen in Belgium during 1993. He surmised that this might have been the same or similar series of craft. Could these unique features be part of a “heat sink” or cooling apparatus similar to the mechanical “tubes, pipes and cylinders” which were seen on the bottom of the Belgium triangle between 1989-1990? (Source: Triangular Perspectives by Colin Saunders)
Belgium Triangle illustration by John MacNeill
Belgium Triangle drawing.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Starting in November of 1989, thousands of eyewitnesses in Belgium began seeing triangular shaped UFOs that appeared to hover over the town of Eupen. These witnesses included multiple gendarmes (national police). The triangular craft were described as being “as big as a football field,” and having a bright spotlight at each corner, with an amber colored light in the center. The UFOs were reported to be flying slowly silently over rooftops, and beaming high-intensity searchlights onto the ground. Later, on March 30, 1990, two Belgian F-16s were scrambled to intercept the unknown aircraft. The object was confirmed to be a “hard target” by at least three ground-based radar stations, and two onboard radars within the fighter aircraft which came within 12 miles of the UFO. According to a military official, these UFOs “exceeded the limits of conventional aviation.” In a highly publicized press conference, Belgian Air Force Col. Wilfred De Brouwer stated that the UFO dived from 10,000 to 4,000 feet in two seconds (equivalent to 40 G’s), and accelerated from 600 to 1,100 mph at the same time. The bottom surface of the craft appeared to have a very mechanical looking configuration which included tubes, pipes, cylinders and crisscross effects. As mentioned earlier in this report, these may be associated with the cooling of a superconductor or rotating plasma. Could this have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft? According to a police officer (Brig. Heinrich Nicholl) who saw the craft over Eupen, he assessed that the craft was a “very sophisticated and ultra-secret military project.” Students of this line research will recall the comments of the late Ben Rich who stated in 1995 that “we have things out in the desert that are 50 years beyond what you can comprehend.” Obviously well within the time-frame of the Belgium Triangle sightings of 1989- 1990. (Ref: Associated Press Report 7/12/1990, New York Tribune 11/15/1990, Wall Street Journal 10/10/1990)
Drawing of the Helena Missouri triangle by Michael Schratt. (based off of the original sketch provided by the primary eyewitness)
Cardstock model of the March 5, 2003 Helena Missouri triangle.
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The following short note was sent to the Center for UFO Studies and addressed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek almost two decades after he passed on April 27, 1986. It has been reproduced in this report for the very first time.
1/17/05
Mr. Hynek,
Dear Sir,
I don’t know what this ship is, but I was in the Navy, and I have never in my life ever seen anything as this. The government knows more than they say they know, I’m sure. The American public knows it’s the truth, and we as a nation will keep fighting for our right to know. Some of us already know, even at Roswell and Area 51, where the truth is out there. I will never forget what I saw and heard that night. I know of someone else who saw it as well.
Yours Truly,
Respectfully submitted,
M.M.
Helena Missouri
Author’s special note:
During my three-year investigation of the over 60,000 UFO cases which comprise the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) archives, I uncovered many incidents which included a detailed report, and a sketch drawn by the primary eyewitness. Some of these cases had been buried for up to 30 years, and have never seen the light of day. One such example dated January 17, 2005, referenced a sighting of a massive triangular UFO which was seen on March 5, 2003, at 9:50 P.M. in Helena Missouri. The witness described an encounter with a gigantic superstructure looking triangular craft that measured approximately one football field in length, and about two stories high. The sighting lasted about 10 minutes and occurred off the front porch of his house. According to the witness, as the craft flew overhead, it “made pictures fall off the living room wall, and shook the whole house.” The unusual UFO featured a large “fluorescent” light on the bottom that intermittently flashed every 15 seconds. Near the end of each corner, a bright steady light was also observed.
The entire craft appeared to be covered with a “glass frame,” which may have been some type of transparent panels. He also described a “walkway” complete with a “railing.” In addition, the primary eyewitness stressed multiple times that the craft was made of what he termed “rusty looking old bridge steel.” The structural configuration of craft appeared similar to the criss-cross bracing found on the supporting towers of the George Washington Bridge which spans the Hudson River and is located between New York and New Jersey. He also clearly described seeing “rivets from an old bridge” which appeared to be used to fasten the entire craft together. Although the witness stated the craft was “not from this world,” a careful examination of his original sketch points to an earthly origin. The crossbeam and girder construction, in conjunction with regularly spaced “rusty rivets” is clear evidence of human-made technology. In addition, the use of a “walkway,” glass frame, and flashing lights support an earthly explanation. Of particular note is the fact that a French fighter pilot over Europe also saw a similar craft exhibiting triangular superstructure on the night of November 5, 1990, as highlighted on page 290 of Timothy Good’s book: Earth, an Alien Enterprise.
Boomerangs:
Hudson Valley Boomerang illustration by Tom Bogan
Monique O’Driscoll was driving home near Kent NY on the night of February 26, 1983, when her daughter who was with her noticed some strange lights on a nearby hill. The lights appeared to be hovering, but then started moving to the east at about 15 mph. By now, Monique could discern that the lights were connected to some type wing shaped dark mass. The lights were very bright and appeared to be red, white, blue and yellow. The unknown object then moved towards the vicinity of White Pond, and Monique stepped on the accelerator to catch up with it. When they arrived at the pond which was frozen at the time, Monique stopped her vehicle and noticed through her windshield that the craft passed directly over her car. At this point, she saw that the lights on the craft appeared to be flashing in sequence up and down its “wings.” It then moved over an area of the pond about 200 feet from shore. It was hovering no more than 30 feet high, and Monique could see the brilliantly flashing lights reflecting off the frozen pond below.
She also noticed that the craft was entirely silent, and stated that she could see “the underbelly part. It’s solid. It had metal-type work, like cross-beams and tubular things hanging down here and there. I was so close I could’ve thrown a ball and hit it.” This author also uncovered a rare letter from well-known researcher and lecturer Stanton Friedman which is worth highlighting in part. “I have always been bothered by the Westchester County sightings because I never heard of actions that would label the technology alien. Wings in outer space could only be decoration, but do of course match an earthling approach.” (Source: Reporter Dispatch White Plains NY September 11, 1983, Philadelphia Inquirer September 28, 1984, Letter from Stanton Friedman to Tony Gonsalves January 17, 1990)
Hudson Valley Boomerang illustration by Tom Bogan
March 24, 1983 Taconic State Parkway illustration by John MacNeill
Illustration of airborne relocatable over-the-horizon radar system by Tom Bogan (Composite panels removed for clarity exposing interior structure)
On the night of March 24, 1983, hundreds of motorists driving along the Taconic State Parkway (NY) observed a massive “V” or boomerang shaped craft. Drivers pulled off to the side of the road, slammed on their brakes, and got out of their vehicles to observed the unknown object which was hovering silently at tree-top level. The craft appeared to be making a “zig-zag” flight path as it headed north towards Yorktown Heights. Multiple witnesses described seeing a powerful white spotlight beaming down from the craft to the cars below. The mysterious craft seen making 180 degree flat turns without banking. Others who were directly below the object stated that they could see “pipes, beams or cylinders” on its lower surface. In addition, multiple witnesses reported seeing what looked like “transparent panels” revealing an interior mechanical structure resembling the crossbeam and girder construction similar to that of a truss bridge. (Source: Patent Trader Mt. Kisco NY March 25, 1983, Reporter Dispatch White Plains NY September 11, 1983, Danbury Item Port Chester NY March 26, 1983)
What did the over 25,000 eyewitnesses observe during the Hudson Valley Boomerang wave of 1982-1989? Did they see an “alien” spacecraft or something that was built by the U.S. Navy? It’s interesting to note that the March 24, 1983 sighting took place exactly 24 hours after President Ronald Reagan give his address to the nation outlining his plans for the so-called “Star Wars” or SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative). Could there be a connection? During the Reagan era (1981-1989), multiple black programs excelled and became operational. One of these could have been a mobile airborne relocatable over-the-horizon radar system which was designed to track and monitor incoming Soviet ICBMs. This system would be completely impervious to a Russian missile attack, and addresses virtually all of the flight characteristics observed by witnesses of the Hudson Valley UFO wave. It’s time for the field of Ufology to overcome its “UFO bias” and carefully examine every possible earthly explanation before concluding that a UFO is extraterrestrial in origin.
NASA Couldn't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
NASA Couldn't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Nobody said it was aliens...
MIKE MCRAE
As we celebrate 2000 days of Curiosity's exploration, we should remember it's just one of an army of robotic eyes throughout space exploration history.
You'd think NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 12 years it's orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet's South Pole last year revealed something NASA scientists couldn't explain.
While the planet's entire surface is pocked with various depressions and craters, a vast pit spotted among the "Swiss cheese terrain" of melting frozen carbon dioxide appeared to be a bit deeper than your average hole, leaving astronomers to try and figure out what made it.
Occasionally the MRO will come across an odd feature that poses a fun mystery to solve, such as this shallow, circular depression seen earlier last year.
But there's nothing so shallow about this pit. Just take a look at it:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Being summer for Mars' South Pole, the Sun was low enough in the sky to accentuate shadows over the landscape, making subtle features pop right out. Yet a few rays of light were still able to reveal ice at the bottom of the hole.
Surrounding the pit patches frozen carbon dioxide could be seen. The circles in the ice were thought to be where the dry ice had sublimated into gas in the summer sunshine, leaving what astronomers have called "Swiss Cheese terrain".
The image was taken using the MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, which allows researchers to see objects on Mars that are larger than one metre (about 3 feet) in size from about 200 to 400 kilometres (about 125 to 250 miles) above.
That means the pit isn't tiny – at 50 centimetres (19.7 inches) per pixel, we're looking at a feature hundreds of metres across. Take a look on NASA's website for a hi-res version of the image.
So the question is, did something punch its way through, or is it a collapse of some sort?
Without more information, it's been hard to tell, but no doubt NASA are still whittling down the possibilities.
The MRO has been in Martian orbit since March, 2006, sending back detailed images of the Red Planet's surface that reveal a dynamic environment where dust devils roam, sand dunes crawl, and occasional bits of Earthling tech are left to gather dust.
After completing all of its primary goals in the first two years, and two mission extensions, the orbiter is still going strong – we'll almost certainly be seeing more odd holes like this in the future.
A version of this story was originally published in 2017.
Dit vreemde, diepe gat op Mars kan niemand verklaren. Ook NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Dit vreemde, diepe gat op Mars kan niemand verklaren. Ook NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Een enorm, diep gat op Mars stelt astronomen al enige tijd voor een raadsel. Het gat is ontdekt met behulp van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), die de rode planeet al 12 jaar bestudeert.
De opening, die een doorsnee heeft van enkele honderden meters en wordt omringd door bevroren koolstofdioxide, bevindt zich op de zuidpool van Mars.
Verschillende manieren
Volgens ScienceAlert zijn er veel verschillende manieren waarop dergelijke gaten kunnen ontstaan op Mars.
Het gat is vastgelegd door de HiRISE-camera van de MRO, waarmee de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie vanuit de ruimte één meter grote voorwerpen op het Marsoppervlak kan onderscheiden.
Raadsel
Niemand kan met zekerheid zeggen door wie of wat de opening is gemaakt. NASA staat nog altijd voor een raadsel.
De MRO stuurt sinds maart 2006 gedetailleerde foto’s van de rode planeet naar de aarde. Bekijk hier een hogeresolutieversie van de foto.
WETENSCHAP In het Pinnacles National Park in Californië spotte een loper eerder deze week een uiterst zeldzaam natuurfenomeen. Boven het park hing een ‘vuurregenboog’ die bestond uit een wondermooie combinatie van kleuren. Volgens meteorologen gaat het om een optische illusie.
De National Weather Service Bay kondigde afgelopen woensdag een wel heel bijzonder natuurfenomeen aan. Een loper werd in het Pinnacles National Park van Californië verrast door een spectaculaire vuurregenboog.
Het fenomeen staat onder wetenschappers beter bekend als een circumhorizontale boog. Die ontstaat wanneer de zon hoger dan 58 graden boven de horizon staat. Enkel wanneer de zon zo hoog staat, kan de boog vorm krijgen.
De mooie kleuren van de boog ontstaan nadat het zonlicht door ijskristallen, die zich in de wolken bevinden, wordt gebroken. Volgens Roger Gass, meteoroloog bij de National Weather Service, gaat het om een optische illusie.
De kans om een vuurregenboog te zien, is het grootst tijdens de zomermaanden. De regenboog is wel uiterst zeldzaam in Noord-Europa. Wie toch een vuurregenboog wil spotten, kan het best richting Noord-Amerika trekken.
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UFO Over Chile Shoots Off After Being Spotted, Leaving Long White Trail, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Chile Shoots Off After Being Spotted, Leaving Long White Trail, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2018
Location of sighting: Parque Do Carmo, Chile
This UFO is hiding in the clouds, and decides that its been seen and must leave immediately to a new location. The UFO shoots off so fast it pulls the cloud behind it in a long think trail. As I have said before, most UFOs and alien drones have the ability to read peoples minds from long distances. Its like a radar for them. It immediately alerts the craft that its been spotted and must fix the situation.
These photos were taken over Taiyuan city, China last night. Many residents thought the object was a UFO, but there is a Satellite Launch Center 200km away which may be responsible. Such UFO sightings have been seen before world wide, but I have to admit, the photos do resemble those that Ellon Musk posted about his rocket launch...or a failed rocket launch. Still, it is a strange sight to see. Scott C. Waring
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The base , Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, located 200 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, is the long-range missile launch base of the General Assembly , taking into account the satellite launch mission. The first-stage trail is serpentine and the second stage is spiral . It does not rule out rocket launch failure. At dusk, although the ground was dark, there was still sunshine above 100 kilometers. When the rockets were launched to this altitude , the trails were illuminated very brightly, and the scene just appeared. Of course, many people think that it is UFO, but basically all atmospheric optical phenomena of space activities , is not surprising. However, this scene is also very rare, cherish it, and generally can not see.
White Holes' May Be the Secret Ingredient in Mysterious Dark Matter
White Holes' May Be the Secret Ingredient in Mysterious Dark Matter
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
The distribution of dark matter in the galaxy cluster Abell 3827 appears as blue contour lines in this photo by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: ESO/R. Massey
White holes, which are theoretically the exact opposites of black holes, could constitute a major portion of the mysterious dark matter that's thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, a new study finds. And some of these bizarre white holes may even predate the Big Bang, the researchers said.
Black holes possess gravitational pulls so powerful that not even light, the fastest thing in the universe, can escape them. The invisible spherical boundary surrounding the core of a black hole that marks its point of no return is known as its event horizon. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe]
A black hole is one prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Another is known as a white hole, which is like a black hole in reverse: Whereas nothing can escape from a black hole's event horizon, nothing can enter a white hole's event horizon.
Previous research has suggested that black holes and white holes are connected, with matter and energy falling into a black hole potentially emerging from a white hole either somewhere else in the cosmos or in another universe entirely. In 2014, Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist at Aix-Marseille University in France, and his colleagues suggested that black holes and white holes might be connected in another way: When black holes die, they could become white holes.
In the 1970s, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking calculated that all black holes should evaporate mass by emitting radiation. Black holes that lose more mass than they gain are expected to shrink and ultimately vanish.
However, Rovelli and his colleagues suggested that shrinking black holes could not disappear if the fabric of space and time were quantum — that is, made of indivisible quantities known as quanta. Space-time is quantum in research that seeks to unite general relativity, which can explain the nature of gravity, with quantum mechanics, which can describe the behavior of all the known particles, into a single theory that can explain all the forces of the universe.
In the 2014 study, Rovelli and his team suggested that, once a black hole evaporated to a degree where it could not shrink any further because space-time could not be squeezed into anything smaller, the dying black hole would then rebound to form a white hole.
"We stumbled onto the fact that a black hole becomes a white hole at the end of its evaporation," Rovelli told Space.com.
Black holes nowadays are thought to form when massive stars die in giant explosions known as supernovas, which compress their corpses into the infinitely dense points known as singularities at the hearts of black holes. Rovelli and his colleagues previously estimated that it would take a black hole with a mass equal to that of the sun about a quadrillion times the current age of the universe to convert into a white hole. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
However, prior work in the 1960s and 1970s suggested that black holes also could have originated within a second after the Big Bang, due to random fluctuations of density in the hot, rapidly expanding newborn universe. Areas where these fluctuations concentrated matter together could have collapsed to form black holes. These so-called primordial black holes would be much smaller than stellar-mass black holes, and could have died to form white holes within the lifetime of the universe, Rovelli and his colleagues noted.
Even white holes with microscopic diameters could still be quite massive, just as black holes smaller than a sand grain can weigh more than the moon. Now, Rovelli and study co-author Francesca Vidotto, of the University of the Basque Country in Spain, suggest that these microscopic white holes could make up dark matter.
Although dark matter is thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe, scientists do not know what it's made of. As its name suggests, dark matter is invisible; it does not emit, reflect or even block light. As a result, dark matter can currently be tracked only through its gravitational effects on normal matter, such as that making up stars and galaxies. The nature of dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in science.
The local density of dark matter, as suggested by the motion of stars near the sun, is about 1 percent the mass of the sun per cubic parsec, which is about 34.7 cubic light-years. To account for this density with white holes, the scientists calculated that one tiny white hole — much smaller than a proton and about a millionth of a gram, which is equal to about the mass of "half an inch of a human hair," Rovelli said — is needed per 2,400 cubic miles (10,000 cubic kilometers).
These white holes would not emit any radiation, and because they are far smaller than a wavelength of light, they would be invisible. If a proton did happen to impact one of these white holes, the white hole "would simply bounce away," Rovelli said. "They cannot swallow anything." If a black hole were to encounter one of these white holes, the result would be a single larger black hole, he added. As if the idea of invisible, microscopic white holes from the dawn of time were not wild enough, Rovelli and Vidotto further suggested that some white holes in this universe might actually predate the Big Bang. Future research will explore how such white holes from a previous universe might help to explain why time flows only forward in this current universe and not also in reverse, he said.
Rovelli and Vidotto detailed their findings online April 11 in a paper submitted to the Gravity Research Foundation's annual contest for essays on gravitation.
Icy Mars Crater Shines in European Probe's 1st Photo from New Orbit
Icy Mars Crater Shines in European Probe's 1st Photo from New Orbit
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A portion of the first image captured by the Trace Gas Orbiter from its new science orbit, on April 15, 2018. This view shows a stretch of Korolev Crater, in the Red Planet's far north
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
A European Mars spacecraft's first photo from its new orbit is a real doozy.
A few weeks ago, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) slid into a nearly circular path at an altitude about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface. And we've now seen the first image from this perch: a gorgeous photo showing a 25-mile-long (40 km) stretch of the ice-rimed Korolev Crater, in the Martian far north.
TGO snapped the photo on April 15, during the testing phase of its Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) camera, European Space Agency (ESA) officials said. CaSSIS is scheduled to begin its bona fide science work on Saturday (April 28). [Photos: Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars in Pictures]
"We are excited to finally be starting collecting data at Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft," Håkan Svedhem, ESA's TGO project scientist, said in a statement. "The test images we have seen so far certainly set the bar high."
TGO is part of the ExoMars program, a project led by ESA with assistance from the Russian federal space agency. The orbiter launched in March 2016 along with a landing demonstrator named Schiaparelli, which was designed to test out tech needed for the ExoMars rover. That rover is scheduled to lift off in 2020.
TGO and Schiaparelli arrived at Mars in October 2016; TGO achieved its initial orbit as planned, but the lander crashed on the Red Planet's surface.
The Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System camera aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured this view of the rim of Mars' Korolev Crater on April 15, 2018. The picture is a composite of three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously. The dimensions are about 6 by 25 miles (10 by 40 kilometers).
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
Soon after that, TGO embarked upon a yearlong "aerobraking" campaign, during which it used dives through the thin Martian atmosphere to sculpt its orbit. This phase ended in February 2018, and the probe reached its 250-mile-high science orbit shortly thereafter.
TGO's main job involves sniffing for methane and other low-abundance (or trace) gases in the Martian atmosphere, which it began doing using its two onboard spectrometers on April 21. Methane is a possible sign of life; most of the methane in Earth's air is generated by microbes and other organisms. But the stuff can also be produced by geological processes. TGO's observations could help researchers better understand where, and how, Mars methane is being generated, ExoMars team members have said.
CaSSIS' photos will contribute to this work, by pinpointing the locations of possible geological methane sources (such as volcanoes). The cameras' images will also help mission team members decide where to land the rover in 2021, ESA officials said.
TGO also carries one other science instrument, a neutron detector that will allow the probe to map out deposits of buried water ice.
Ancient aliens on Earth: Do these PREHISTORIC UFO drawings prove we are not alone?
Ancient aliens on Earth: Do these PREHISTORIC UFO drawings prove we are not alone?
THE idea of alien UFOs visiting Earth since the dawn of mankind is a popular conspiracy theory, but this bizarre collection of ancient drawings from around the world could stun even the hardest of sceptics.
From the raising of the Egyptian pyramids to the mysterious Nazca Lines and the ominous heads of Easter Island, the creation of many ancient constructions has been attributed to interstellar visitors.
For decades, these impressive man-made sites have been scoured by crypto-archeologists in the hopes of discovering evidence of extraterrestrial intervention.
Over the years many claimed to have uncovered concrete proof of ancient carvings, cave paintings and other iconography that is indisputable proof of UFOs.
But what are some of the most convincing of these supposedly alien depictions from a time long past?
1. The Helicopter Hieroglyphs in the Temple of Seti I
The magnificent great Pyramids of Giza are popular fodder for conspiracy theories and the whole of the ancient Egyptian civilisation has in one way or another been linked to bizarre alien conspiracies.
But one of the most convincing bits of evidence aliens have in fact helped raise the ancient civilisation is a set of unusual hieroglyphs in the 3,000-year-old Temple of Seti in Abydos, Egypt.
Among conspiracy forums, the icons have become known as the “Helicopter Hieroglyphs” for supposedly showing eerie pictures of what appears to be a helicopter and futuristic aircraft.
Some pseudo-archeologists who have seen the glyphs in person claimed they were left behind by time travellers while other suggested they were left behind to honour alien visitors.
Most genuine archeologists however will agree the icons are the simple result of typographical errors – overlapping symbols in a day and age where typos were quite literally set in stone.
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Egyptian mystery: These hieroglyphs appear to show helicopters and space ships
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Ancient alien evidence? Some believe the Charam mural depicts a UFO
2. The UFO ancient murals of Charama
This bizarre looking painting found in a cave in India has baffled scientists for its supposed depiction of an alien UFO beaming in the sky.
The fan-like antenna and the three legs of the vehicle's stand clearly show a similarity to UFO type craft
JR Bhagat, Archeologist
The puzzling mural from Charama, Chhattisgarh, dates back some 10,000 years to a time before humans have invited the wheel.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat who studied the cave paintings in 2014 argued they were concrete evidence Aliens have walked among us in the past.
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. Chhattisgarh presently doesn't have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.”
He added: “The fan-like antenna and the three legs of the vehicle's stand clearly show a similarity to UFO type craft.”
3. The alien astronaut rock murals of Val Camonica
The rock carvings in the Alpine valley of Val Camonica, Italy, are one of the world’s largest collection of prehistoric petroglyphs.
Most of the glyphs were carved out some 8,000 years before the Bronze Age, and typically depict the everyday trappings of early man, such as scenes of people and animals.
But a set of particular carvings has convinced conspiracy theories some of the glyphs represent alien astronauts walking among them.
The glyphs in question appear to show men with radiating helmets on their heads, wielding oddly shaped weapons – perhaps in battle.
UFO hunters from around the globe believe these images to be indisputable proof.
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Bizarre theory: Some think these etchings depict alien astronauts
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Anciet Assyrian: Conspiracists think this is an image of an alien spaceraft
4. Mysterious winged object on the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria
A piece of stone panel on the walls of the once mighty ancient palace contains the depiction of the Mesopotamian god Ashur inside of an orb with outstretched wings.
Although the stone carving clearly harks back to ancient Mesopotamian religious beliefs, some conspiracists believe this depiction of Ashur to be that of an alien traveller.
One UFO conspiracist going by the username of Luissaade, claimed the embossment is “early man’s way of drawing alien beings that were seen pilots flying machines, alien high technologies, on Earth.”
The Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, or the Palace of Kalhu, is an ancient site dating back to 879 BC in modern-day Iraq, just north of Baghdad.
Most of the palace was excavated in the 1840s by British archeologists, with its stunning findings found in museums across the planet today.
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Alien spacecraft: This Mayan sarcophagus lid supposedly depicts a space traveller
5. The bizarre sarcophagus lid of Mayan king Pacal
Ancient Mayan artwork is known for its intricately detailed, weaving and geometric designs and the sarcophagus lid of the Mayan king Pacal is a testament to the Mayan’s prowess.
However the 1968 book Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Däniken, has pointed out that far from being an extremely lavish coffin, the sarcophagus contains references to alien UFOs.
According to Mr von Däniken, the central figure in the middle of the sarcophagus is an extraterrestrial alien riding what appears to be a rocket or some sort of space ship control centre.
He wrote: “In the center of that frame is a man sitting, bending forward. He has a mask on his nose, he uses his two hands to manipulate some controls, and the heel of his left foot is on a kind of pedal with different adjustments.
“The rear portion is separated from him; he is sitting on a complicated chair, and outside of this whole frame, you see a little flame like an exhaust.”
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China To Build A ‘Lunar Palace’ Powered By The Sun
China To Build A ‘Lunar Palace’ Powered By The Sun
China plans to build a manned 'lunar palace' that will probe the moon for resources and act as a launchpad for missions to Mars (artist's impression)
China plans to build a scientific outpost on the moon’s surface, and they’re about to it with absolute class.
The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the moon, and this historical event took place on July 20, 1969.
In fact, there have been six manned moon landings between 1969 and 1972. All of that was half a decade ago. To date, the United States is the only country in the world to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
If we had the means and technology to travel to the moon, land astronauts on its surface, and bring them safely back home fifty years ago, why have we not returned to the moon’s surface?
While both Russia and the US don’t seem too interested in the moon, China, a country that has made incredible advancements in spaceflight in recent years is eager to travel to the moon.
However, the Chinese not only want to put a man on the moon, but they also want to construct a lunar outpost as well.
Members of the Chinese space industry announced on April 24 that Beijing plans to build a manned research station on the moon, reports China Daily.
“We believe that the Chinese nation’s dream of residing in a ‘lunar palace’ will soon become a reality,” the administration said in the video.
The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) presented a videoin Harbin (Heilongjiang, China) in which it showed different achievements and explained its initiative to build and operate that facility on the surface of the moon.
The outpost is expected to have multiple tube-shaped cabins (pictured) that link up and provide oxygen to people inside, according to a video seen by Chinese media
That lunar station would have multiple ‘space cabins’ interconnected by tubes that would provide oxygen to its occupants and basically work relying on solar energy.
Wang Liheng, a senior space scientist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told China Daily it has become the consensus among Chinese space researchers that a manned lunar station is necessary so scientists can deepen their lunar research and explore ways for the exploitation of lunar resources.
“The first step, our researchers suggest, will be sending our astronauts to the moon to perform short-term explorations,” said Wang, referring to a manned lunar program, which has been called for by Chinese scientists for a long time.
Although the CNSA did not reveal a timetable build their so-called ‘lunar palace,’ reports added that the Chinese Space agency intends to explore the two lunar poles.
This is the first time that China has declared in public that it plans to build a habitable lunar outpost.
“The mission will enable us to discover what we haven’t known about the moon. Moreover, we can take advantage of the far side’s shield against Earth’s interference to make clearer observation into the deep space,” added Wang.
But since these Chinese don’t want to stop with going to the moon, it is reported that in the long term, the Chinese lunar outpost could serve as a launch pad to travel to Mars.
So, while other parts of the world are busy trying to figure out the war in the middle east, Asian countries are working towards the future, creating kick-ass projects that will benefit humanity in the long term.
Vergroot kunstmatige intelligentie de kans op een kernoorlog?
Vergroot kunstmatige intelligentie de kans op een kernoorlog?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Sommige deskundigen vrezen van wel.
Dat blijkt uit een nieuw rapport van het RAND Center for Global Risk and Security. Het rapport is gebaseerd op een serie workshops waarbij wetenschappers, beleidsmakers en andere deskundigen zich bogen over de vraag: ‘Hoe kan kunstmatige intelligentie tegen 2040 van invloed zijn op de kans op een kernoorlog?’.
Misschien denk je in eerste instantie dat kernwapens en KI weinig met elkaar te maken hebben. Maar dat is niet zo. “De connectie tussen kernoorlog en kunstmatige intelligentie is niet nieuw, sterker nog: de histories van de twee zijn met elkaar verweven,” vertelt onderzoeker Edward Geist. Hij vertelt dat KI in een pril stadium ontwikkeld werd omwille van militaire doeleinden. Een mooi voorbeeld daarvan is een experiment uit de jaren tachtig, waarbij KI werd ingezet om op basis van data die tijdens verkennende missies waren verzameld verschillende plaatsen aan te wijzen die tijdens een eventuele kernoorlog konden worden aangevallen.
Mutual Assured Destruction Uit de workshops blijkt dat het eigenlijk twee kanten op gaan. Sommige onderzoekers denken bijvoorbeeld dat kunstmatige intelligentie een bedreiging vormt voor de nucleaire stabiliteit. Die stabiliteit is op dit moment gebaseerd op de militaire strategie MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction, oftewel gegarandeerde wederzijdse vernietiging). Deze strategie stelt dat landen met kernwapens deze niet tegen elkaar zullen inzetten, omdat het niet alleen resulteert in de vernietiging van het aangevallen land, maar ook in de vernietiging van de aanvaller (aangezien het aangevallen land ongetwijfeld met kernwapens terugslaat). Volgens sommige onderzoekers zou kunstmatige intelligentie deze militaire strategie de komende decennia kunnen ondermijnen. En wel doordat kunstmatige intelligentie in staat is om de wapensystemen van de tegenstander nauwkeuriger dan ooit te lokaliseren en aan te vallen. In zo’n scenario kan de aanvaller die wapensystemen uitschakelen, waarna het aangevallen land niet meer terug kan slaan, MAD dus geen rol meer speelt en het gemakkelijker wordt om naar de kernwapens te grijpen.
Wapenwedloop En zelfs als landen niet de intentie hebben om de kernwapensystemen van andere landen uit te schakelen, kan de gedachte dat zij daar dankzij KI wel toe in staat zijn, al voldoende zijn om tot een kernoorlog of in ieder geval een wapenwedloop te leiden. Stel je voor dat land A laat doorschemeren dat het precies weet waar de kernwapens van land B liggen. Dan zal land B zich kwetsbaar voelen; in zekere zin zijn haar kernwapens – die toch vooral moeten afschrikken – nutteloos geworden, omdat land A ze elk moment weg kan nemen. Land B zal dan ook op zoek gaan naar nieuwe manieren om zich tegen land A te beschermen en die Mutual Assured Destruction-strategie in ere te herstellen.
Stabiliserende werking Andere onderzoekers stellen dat KI de wereld echter ook veiliger kan maken. Bijvoorbeeld doordat de systemen beter in staat zijn om tegenstanders te monitoren en hun verrichtingen te interpreteren. Dat zou de kans op onterechte escalatie verkleinen. Ook is het mogelijk dat toekomstige kunstmatige intelligente systemen minder foutgevoelig zijn dan wij mensen, met onze eigen belangen en emoties. In die zin zouden de systemen op lange termijn dus ook stabiliserend kunnen werken.
Of dat in 2040 echter al gaat gebeuren? Daar zijn de meeste deskundigen niet van overtuigd. Zij stellen dat de technologie tegen die tijd waarschijnlijk nog niet is uitgekristalliseerd. Zo kan deze pas in combinatie met kernwapens worden ingezet als deze onmogelijk te hacken is. En zover zijn we nog niet. Het is dan ook te hopen dat kernwapenlanden – in een poging anderen te slim af te zijn en als eersten de vruchten van KI te plukken – niet vroegtijding naar de kunstmatig intelligente systemen grijpen, aldus de deskundigen.
Op de voorgrond zien we het oppervlak van Rosetta. Maar wat vooral opvalt, is natuurlijk de ‘sneeuw’ die op komeet 67P/C-G lijkt te vallen.
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Natuurlijk is het geen echte sneeuw, zo laat Mark McCaughrean – werkzaam bij de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie – weten. “Mijn eerste gok is dat het door de zon verlicht stof is dat zich vrij dicht bij het ruimtevaartuig bevindt en terwijl het (ruimtevaartuig, red.) zich door het stof beweegt, ontstaat de illusie dat er kilometers ver weg, op de achtergrond, sneeuw valt op komeet 67P. Heel cool wel.”
Maar hoe zit het dan met de ‘sneeuw’ die achter de klif lijkt te verdwijnen? Ook dat is slechts een illusie: het zijn talloze sterren die op de achtergrond staan! De beelden hieronder laten dat heel fraai zien. Het gifje is hier enigszins aangepast, zodat je ziet dat niet de sterren op de achtergrond, maar de komeet zelf in beweging is.
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Ruimtesonde Rosetta werd in 2004 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2014 bij komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Een paar maanden later bonjourde de ruimtesonde een lander naar de komeet. Maar dat ging helaas niet helemaal goed; de lander stuiterde over het oppervlak en belandde in de schaduw van een klif, waar deze onvoldoende zonne-energie kon opwekken. De lander was dan ook maar kort actief. Rosetta bleef komeet 67P ondertussen bestuderen en was er van dichtbij getuige van hoe de komeet – naarmate deze de zon naderde – steeds actiever werd. De missie leverde een schat aan informatie op. In september 2016 kwam Rosetta’s missie ten einde toen de lander opdracht kreeg om zichzelf op komeet 67P te parkeren.
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Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: ESA / Rosetta / NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Ruimtetelescoop Gaia onthult positie en bewegingen van meer dan 1 miljard sterren
Ruimtetelescoop Gaia onthult positie en bewegingen van meer dan 1 miljard sterren
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De nieuwe dataset zal naar verwachting tot talloze nieuwe ontdekkingen leiden.
Ruimtetelescoop Gaia werd in 2013 gelanceerd. De telescoop had een duidelijk doel voor ogen: de positie, afstand en bewegingen van meer dan 1 miljard sterren vastleggen. In 2016 kwamen onderzoekers met de eerste dataset op de proppen. Deze bevatte de afstanden en bewegingen van twee miljoen sterren. Vandaag is een nieuwe dataset vrijgegeven. De nieuwe dataset onthult de 3D-posities, 2D-bewegingen, de helderheid en kleur van meer dan 1,3 miljard sterren. En de metingen zijn heel nauwkeurig; Gaia is zo gevoelig dat de telescoop zelfs de groei van een mensenhaar op de maan zou kunnen meten!
Links de eerste dataset van Gaia in beeld. Rechts de dataset die nu is vrijgegeven. Tijdens het filmpje reizen we als het ware van de zon vandaan, tussen de sterren.
Filmpje: ESA / Gaia / DPAC.
Dwergsterrenstelsels Inmiddels is de door Gaia verzamelde data al kort geanalyseerd. De resultaten zijn vandaag verschenen in zes verschillende wetenschappelijke papers. Amina Helmi, verbonden aan het Kapteyn Instituut Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, was één van de onderzoekers die als eersten een blik op de nieuwe dataset mochten werpen. En dat was voldoende om onder meer een 20 jaar oude vraag te kunnen beantwoorden: bewegen de dwergsterrenstelsels rond de Melkweg in hetzelfde vlak? De zeer nauwkeurige data onthulde dat de dwergsterrenstelsels rond de Melkweg wel allemaal een sterk gehelde baan te hebben, maar niet in hetzelfde vlak bewegen, hoewel sommige zich in groepjes lijken op te houden. “Het is ongelofelijk wat de Gaia-data nu al, in deze eerste en relatief snelle en oppervlakkige analyse aan nieuwe kennis en inzichten hebben opgeleverd,” aldus Helmi. “Zelfs op één van de plaatjes die we voor de pers hebben gemaakt, zag ik ineens een volstrekt nieuw detail dat we niet wisten, namelijk dat sommige bolvormige sterrenhopen rond de Melkweg in groepjes bewegen.”
Nieuwe ontdekkingen En dat is nog maar het begin, zo weet Anthony Brown, voorzitter van het consortium dat de datacenters van Gaia bestuurt. “Astronomen kunnen met ons archief nieuwe wetenschap gaan doen, dingen ontdekken waar we nu nog niets van weten. Dat is het revolutionaire aan deze ontdekkingsmachine. Ik verwacht dat astronomen gaan spreken over de periode vóór en ná deze tweede datarelease.”
Planetoïden Gaia heeft de blik overigens niet alleen op objecten buiten ons zonnestelsel gericht. Ook binnen het zonnestelsel werd onderzoek gedaan met de ruimtetelescoop. Zo onthult de nieuwe dataset de posities van meer dan 14.000 bekende planetoïden (zie filmpje hieronder). Op basis van die informatie kan hun baan weer nauwkeurig worden vastgesteld.
Filmpje: ESA / Gaia / DPAC.
“Gaia zal ons begrip van het universum op alle kosmische schalen vergroten,” stelt onderzoeker Timo Prusti. “Zelfs in de nabijheid van de zon, de regio waarvan we dachten dat we deze het beste begrepen, onthult Gaia nieuwe en opwindende eigenschappen.”
Ondertussen gaat Gaia vrolijk verder: de komende jaren zullen er nog herhaaldelijk nieuwe datasets gepresenteerd worden. “Gaia is astronomie op zijn best,” aldus missiemanager Fred Jansen. “Wetenschappers zullen vele jaren druk zijn met deze data en we zijn er klaar voor om verrast te worden door de stortvloed aan ontdekkingen die de geheimen van ons universum zullen onthullen.”
While the swirling winds of hurricanes down here on Earth are terrifying in their own right, they don’t have anything on the most terrifying storm in the solar system. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might look like a cross between a hipster latte and a Jelly Belly from afar, but up close in personal this crimson tempest could literally tear the skin from bone.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft did humans a favor and got closer to the cosmic Eye of Sauron than any of us would ever care to. This color-enhanced image fuses together three separate photos of the planet that were taken on April 1 as Juno was roughly 23,000 miles (37,015 kilometers) from its cloud tops. Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran then processed the image using data from the JunoCam imager to give us a better look at the cyclone’s howling winds of death.
Super Typhoon Tip was one of the most massive storms to be recorded on Earth. It spanned approximately the distance between New York City to Dallas and whipped up wind gusts reaching 190 miles per hour (306 kilometers per hour). That’s all child’s play compared to the Great Red Spot that was once recorded to be about two to three times larger than Earth and capable of creating 400 miles per hour winds.
Studies have shown that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere consists of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide, and water. Two of which are highly toxic to humans and can cause burning of the eyes, nose, throat and respiratory tract and can result in blindness, lung damage, or death. Imagine that being thrown in your face at half the speed of sound.
Luckily Juno can surf atop of the literal hellscape that is Jupiter to give astronomers hints of what lies beneath the planet’s dense clouds of noxious gas. Currently the Juno mission is funded through July 2018 for a total of 12 orbits of the gas giant. After that NASA can decide to extend its mission or let it drift off into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Until then, we still have a couple of months of some eye-popping visuals of Jupiter’s absolutely deadly, but oh-so breathtaking squall. More proof that space is out to kill us all.
A YouTube channel ' mavi 777' has shared a bizarre video featuring a triangular UFO hovering across the skies of California. The unidentified flying object has lights on each tip of its three-sided body, as well as one at the back side that flashed often.
"I stopped on the freeway because there was a metal triangle in the sky. Can anyone explain this? It's not drones if you zoom in you can see it's a UFO," said the witness, Daily Star reports.
As the video went viral on the Internet, conspiracy theorists soon jumped to the conclusion that the object featured in the video is nothing other than TR-3B, the confidential anti-gravity military vessel developed by the US Air Force in Area 51.
Even though rumours surrounding TR-3B have been heard since the Gulf War, the US Air Force has never acknowledged the existence of such a military spacecraft. However, there have been many reported sightings of triangular spacecraft in the US and UK for the past few years, and the mysteries surrounding these incidents were never solved.
"They wanted to be viewed for all to see, the FAA flashing light was there for all to view. Are they getting ready to let this MIL aircraft be public knowledge," commented Forestsoft, a YouTube user.
According to conspiracy theorists, if the object captured in the video is not TR-3B, then it will be an alien UFO which came from outer space. A section of conspiracy theorists strongly believes that aliens are watching the activities of humans regularly, and they are even preparing for a disclosure.
"They fly them out of the base at Palmdale. Used to see them all the time in the 90s when I lived in Los Angeles. This is nothing new it's been around for nearly 30 years. It's an alien reproduction vehicle," posted Mary Smith, a YouTube user.
WATER MIGHT BE THE WEIRDEST LIQUID IN THE UNIVERSE, AND NOW WE KNOW WHY
WATER MIGHT BE THE WEIRDEST LIQUID IN THE UNIVERSE, AND NOW WE KNOW WHY
Water might seem ubiquitous and ordinary; it covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, not to mention being the primary fluid in most living organisms. But when you step back and look at water from the point of view of physics and chemistry, it’s truly an oddball molecule.
For one, water has a highly unusual density. Most liquids become more dense as they cool down, but after water cools past 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit, it defies this general rule and instead becomes less dense. By the time it freezes solid, the resultant ice actually floats on liquid water. Again, because water is so ubiquitous, you might not find this property weird, but solids are generally supposed to be denser than their liquid forms. Not so with water.
That’s not all. Water also has an unusually high boiling point, and an absurdly high surface tension to boot. Oh, and there’s also the property that makes water such a valuable substance for life: so many chemical substances dissolve in it that it’s often referred to as a “universal solvent.”
You’d think that with water’s importance, we’d have figured out why its properties are so uncanny. But the properties of water have actually remained largely unexplained. That is, until now.
Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of Tokyo recently used a supercomputer to model the structure of how water molecules arrange themselves, and what they found might finally solve the mystery of this magical substance, according to a recent press release.
It turns out that at room temperature and as ice, water has a tetrahedral arrangement of molecules, which is essentially a pyramid shape, and it’s this shape that apparently gives water such amazing abilities. To test this, researchers were able to run computer models that arranged water molecules in other shapes besides the pyramid. What they found was that as soon as the tetrahedral arrangement was broken down, water began behaving more like a normal liquid.
“With this procedure, we have found that what makes water behave anomalously is the presence of a particular arrangement of the water’s molecules, such as the tetrahedral arrangement,” explained lead author John Russo.
He added: “We think this work provides a simple explanation of the anomalies and highlights the exceptional nature of water, which makes it so special compared with any other substance.”
Doomsday AI Could Star Nuclear War By 2040 That Could Wipe Out Humanity Say Experts
Doomsday AI Could Star Nuclear War By 2040 That Could Wipe Out Humanity Say Experts
Artificial intelligence has the potential to upend the foundations of nuclear peace by the year 2040, a leading think tank has warned. 'Doomsday AI' machines could encourage humans to take potentially apocalyptic risks that could lead to a nuclear war and humanity's destruction
Eerie warnings from AI experts suggest that Artificial Intelligence could kick-start a nuclear war by 2040 that could destroy our civilization, and there may be nothing we can do about it.
A recent study by leading security experts believes how advanced in the field of Artificial Intelligence could lead to the creation of Doomsday Machines that could cause nations around the globe to take apocalyptic risks with their nuclear arsenals.
To understand what experts are talking about, let’s take a trip back to the Cold War.
Back then, a condition referred to as the mutually assured destruction (Mad)— a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender kept an uneasy peace between the superpowers.
During the Cold War, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (Mad) maintained an uneasy peace between the superpowers by ensuring that any attack would be met by a devastating retaliation
Both sides possessing weapons of mass destruction had very little initiative to launch such a devastating attack as it would have been responded by an equally devastating retaliation.
However, the cold war is long gone, and we’ve entered a modern militaristic era where advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence no longer guarantees this.
Experts from the Rand Corporation—a nonprofit based organization with headquarters in Santa Monica, California—say that this scenario opens up a number of problems including the possibility of taking out an enemy’s ability to launch a counter-offensive, and there may be very little we can do about it.
The Rand Corporation offers research and analysis to the United States armed forces on global policy issues.
They say that given the numerous advances in the field of artificial intelligence, in the coming decades AI could practically cancel out Mad’s ability to keep nuclear tensions at ease.
The new study explains how futuristic AI agents, together with sensor and open source data could convince countries that their nuclear capabilities are at risk.
The report argues that this may cause countries to take more drastic measures to keep up with leading military countries such as the United States.
Speaking about this issue, Andrew Lohn, a co-author on the paper and associate engineer at Rand said: “Some experts fear that an increased reliance on artificial intelligence can lead to new types of catastrophic mistakes.”
“There may be pressure to use AI before it is technologically mature, or it may be susceptible to adversarial subversion. Therefore, maintaining strategic stability in coming decades may prove extremely difficult, and all nuclear powers must participate in the cultivation of institutions to help limit nuclear risk.”
But there could be an even greater threat lurking in the shadows say experts from the Rand Corporation: Military Commanders could make the wrong decision to launch an attack based on advice from Artificial Intelligence that has been fed erroneous information.
But in addition to the danger of being fed with corrupted information, AI is also at risk from hacking, which in turn opens the possibility that malicious third parties could trigger—just as those villains in Hollywood movies—a global conflict.
ESA Reveals Most Detailed Map Of The Milky Way With 1.7 Billion Stars
ESA Reveals Most Detailed Map Of The Milky Way With 1.7 Billion Stars
The European Space Agency has just produced a stunning map of our home galaxy the Milky Way, featuring around 1.7 billion stars.
The ESA has produced the complete star catalog to date, with high precision measurements of almost 1.7 Billion stars featuring incredible, never-before-seen details of the Milky Way.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission’s second data release.
According to reports, around 450 scientists and software engineers participated in the task of creating the complete star map of our galaxy. And it includes 1.3 billion light sources.
The data was collected by the space agency’s Gaia probe, which launched into space in 2013.
The above GIF shows the orbits of four globular clusters (NGC 104, NGC 288, NGC 362 and NGC 1851), shown in blue, and three dwarf galaxies (Carina, Bootes I and Draco), shown in red, around the Milky Way, as imaged by the Gaia spacecraft.
Image Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
The analysis has revealed details about the Milky Way’s stellar composition, including how stars move, which is important for investigation how our galaxy formed and evolved.
The news is exciting since the European Space Agency—based in Paris—has revealed that professional and amateur astronomers alike will have the opportunity to access the new data and hunt for discoveries in our galaxy.
Gaia is unique, and unlike NASA’s Hubble telescope—which takes images of the sky—Gaia has the ability to measure the distance, motion, brightens and color of the stars in our galaxy.
The newly gathered details will allow astronomers and software engineers to create new maps including asteroids in our solar system, as well as 3D charts of nearby stars.
The Gaia spacecraft gathered observations for this all-sky view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies between July 2014 and May 2016, releasing the data on April 25, 2018. This image shows all the stars’ colors and brightness (top), the total density of stars (middle) and the distribution of interstellar gas and dust across the galaxy (bottom).
Image Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
An example of the date allows viewers to see the sheer number of celestial objects that have been mapped by the project so far.
The new data gathered by Gaia includes the position, distance and motion of more than one billion stars, as well as high-precision measurements of asteroids in our own star system, and stars well beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
“The observations collected by Gaia are redefining the foundations of astronomy,’ said Günther Hasinger, ESA director of science, in a written statement. Gaia is an ambitious mission that relies on a huge human collaboration to make sense of a large volume of highly complex data. It demonstrates the need for long-term projects to guarantee progress in space science and technology and to implement even more daring scientific missions of the coming decades.”
The data gathered by data comprises a period between July of 2014 and May 23 of 2016. The first release covered one year of observations and was released in 2016 and contained distances and motions of around 2 million stars.
The new release pins down with great accuracy around 1.7 billion stars with unprecedented precision.
To understand how precise the measurements are, for some of the brightest stars in the new survey, the level of precision equals to telescopes on Earth spotting a coin on the surface of the moon.
“The second Gaia data release represents a huge leap forward concerning ESA’s Hipparcos satellite, Gaia’s predecessor and the first space mission for astrometry, which surveyed some 118,000 stars almost thirty years ago,” says Anthony Brown of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
“The sheer number of stars alone, with their positions and motions, would make Gaia’s new catalog already quite astonishing. But there is more. This unique scientific catalog includes many other data types, with information about the properties of the stars and other celestial objects, making this release truly exceptional,” added Brown.
Great Pyramid’s ‘Big Void’ May Be Important Construction Detail And Not New Chamber
Great Pyramid’s ‘Big Void’ May Be Important Construction Detail And Not New Chamber
The Great Pyramid of Giza continues to surprise experts every single day.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is considered the oldest and largest of the three main pyramids at the Giza Plateau and is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the only one that remains standing today.
Believed to have been built as a tomb over a 10- to 20-year period, the Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been completed around 2560 BC.
It was the tallest man-made structure on the surface of the planet for more than 3,800 years and was covered by white limestone that formed a smooth shiny surface.
Everything we know about the great pyramid is based on studies from different scholars that have researchers this ancient wonder of the world since time immemorial.
And while we know a great number of details about the structure, many other facts continue to elude experts.
Last years, the Great Pyramid of Giza made headlines after the ScanPyramids project, using muon tomography detected a massive, never-before-seen void inside the structure, located above the Pyramids So-called Grand Gallery.
It was a huge and exciting discovery, which raised new questions about the interior of the pyramid.
Is this the only secret chamber? Are there more? What was its purpose?
Dubbed by experts as the ‘Big Void’, it was the first chamber of this sort found since the 1800’s, but most importantly, it is considered the first and ONLY chamber of its type.
But is this mysterious area inside the pyramid really a hidden chamber? Or is there perhaps a different explanation?
According to Egyptologist, Dr. David Lightbody this mysterious chamber may not be a chamber after all.
The solid red line shows plane 63.5 degrees to the horizontal, sloping to true north and running from P1 to P2. The inverted red triangle represents the zone covered by the Nagoya muon detection plates near P1. Image Credit
According to Dr. Lightbody, “Geometric calculations illustrated below… indicate that the new features on the scans which were interpreted as produced by a single ‘big’ void viewed from two directions, located 40m out towards the north face of the structure, could in fact have been produced by two smaller void zones closer to the center of the pyramid, one on either side of the Grand Gallery structure. Due to the offsets of the two Nagoya nuclear emulsion detection plates from the center line of the Grand Gallery, which were of a similar magnitude (NE2 – 4 m west, and NE1 – 5.5 m east of the N-S center line), and the inward slope of the sides of the Grand Gallery structure, only one such void zone would be clearly visible on each Nagoya scan.”
“On one side the small voids would be aligned with the detector and would form a zone that was almost a continuous void directed at the plate. On the other hand, the opposing void zone signals would not align with the detector and so the effect of the signals would not be cumulative. In addition, most of them would be hidden behind the signal of the main gallery structure.”
It’s noteworthy to mention that Dr. Lightbody has proposed just another theory and does not directly claim to have disproven the original explanation as to what the mysterious void is.
He offers an alternative view on the original find.
According to Dr. Lightbody, the ‘Big Void’ inside the pyramid revolves around a structural problem intrinsic to the pyramid’s construction.
As noted by the expert, the Grand Gallery slopes upwards at a steep angle, and it’s extremely difficult to cut blocks with two inclined faces while properly securing them in an unfinished structure.
So how could the ancient builders have resolved this issue? One way is to leave ‘voids’ inside the Great Pyramid.
The ancient builders of the Pyramid may have poured either sand or some kind of mortar inside the voids, and this material most likely was not picked up during the Moun tomography, which is why it appears as an empty space.
Dr. Lightbody argues that certain structures inside the Pyramid, like the Great Gallery and the King’s Chamber, may have been designed by the ancient architects as self-supporting structures, created outside the pyramid, before being transported and eventually assembled within the Pyramid.
If this is the case, then we could explain the existence of voids as artifacts of the Pyramids assembly process, and not empty chambers.
Dr. Lightbody concludes that “The Scan Pyramids project must be applauded for their progress so far, and more experimental work of this type is required at Giza. Ultimately, however, the priority should be to understand the structures from the point of view of the ancient Egyptian builders and architects who created them.”
YOU ARE HERE The most precise all-sky map of the Milky Way was released by the Gaia space telescope team on April 25. It shows the total brightness and color of nearly 1.7 billion stars and a few neighboring galaxies (bright spots to the lower right of the main disk).
GAIA/DPAC/ESA
Using the precise position and brightness of almost 1.7 billion stars, the Gaia spacecraft has created the most precise 3-D map of the Milky Way yet.
On April 25, the European Space Agency’s Gaia team released the spacecraft’s second batch of data, gathered from July 2014 to May 2016, used to create the map. The tally includes measurements of half a million quasars — the active black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — and 14,099 known solar system objects (mostly asteroids), observations of other nearby galaxies and the amount of dust in between Earth and 87 million stars (SN: 4/14/18, p. 27).
The spacecraft also measures the distances and motions of stars by taking advantage of Earth’s motion around the sun, a technique called parallax. As Earth moves, stars appear to trace a small ellipse, whose size is related to the stars’ distance. Measuring the wavelengths of light the stars emit tells how fast they are moving toward or away from the sun. Combining Gaia’s measurements with earlier sky surveys let astronomers track stars’ motions.
Gaia launched in 2013, and released its first batch of data in September 2016 (SN: 10/15/16, p. 16). Those data included distances and motions of roughly 2 million stars; the new data up that number to 1.3 billion.
Knowing those distances will allow astronomers to decipher details about the Milky Way’s shape and history. Already the second data release suggests that the galaxy contains two distinct populations of stars that may have different origins. The stars’ chemistry and motions suggest that some could have originated in a different galaxy that the Milky Way cannibalized long ago.
“With Gaia, we can reconstruct the whole history of the Milky Way,” ESA science director Günther Hasinger said in a news conference April 25.
A TOUR OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD Explore this 360-degree map of the Milky Way galaxy, based on measurements taken by the Gaia spacecraft of the brightness and color of nearly 1.7 billion stars. A few neighboring galaxies can also be seen.
Our Milky Way galaxy is known to have a supermassive black hole at its heart. Could more supermassive black holes be lurking unseen at our galaxy’s outskirts?
Nowadays, astronomers think that nearly all large galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores. Our own Milky Way’s central black hole is called Sgr A* (pronounced Sagittarius A-star), and it’s the focus of many fascinating studies. This week (April 24, 2018), astrophysicists announced the results of a new study based not on observations, but on a state-of-the-art cosmological simulation, called Romulus. The simulation showed that galaxies might contain more than one supermassive black hole. In fact, a galaxy with a mass like that of our Milky Way should host several, these scientists said. The extra supermassive black holes might “wander” throughout a galaxy, remaining far from its center. If it’s true, then could our own Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole have an unseen sibling or two?
How did these extra supermassive black holes get into the Milky Way? These scientists – led by Michael Tremmel at Yale – think the sibling black holes, if they exist, indicate mergers between our Milky Way and other galaxies in the early universe. If a smaller galaxy joined ours, it might have deposited its own central supermassive black hole within our galaxy. When the universe was young, this might have happened several times.
The new study was published April 24 in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal. Tremmel was speaking of the computer simulation when he said:
In this study, we’re looking at how supermassive black holes move through their galaxies. If we look at massive galaxies the size of the Milky Way, we find that, on average, these galaxies host several supermassive black holes within them, wandering about the galaxy on scales of several thousand light-years from the center of the galaxy.
So, theoretically, multiple supermassive black holes – wandering supermassive black holes – within galaxies are possible. But no one has yet discovered them. Tremmel said that, in the next several decades, gravitational wave telescopes in space should be able to detect the black hole mergers that would cause galaxies to have more than one supermassive black hole. Perhaps this is a normal part of galaxy evolution.
Could we find one of our Milky Way’s sibling black holes now? Probably not. Tremmel said that, since wandering supermassive black holes are predicted to exist far from the centers of galaxies and outside of galactic disks, they’re unlikely to be accreting more gas. Since it’s the accretion of matter that causes all the observable activity near a black hole, any sibling supermassive black holes for our Milky Way or other galaxies would effectively be invisible. Tremmel said:
We are currently working to better quantify how we might be able to infer their presence indirectly.
If they exist, could unseen supermassive black holes in our Milky Way galaxy somehow affect us? No. Tremmel explained:
It is extremely unlikely that any wandering supermassive black hole will come close enough to our sun to have any impact on our solar system. We estimate that a close approach of one of these wanderers that is able to affect our solar system should occur every 100 billion years or so, or nearly 10 times the age of the universe.
An extremely unlikely encounter indeed!
Simulated view of black holes merging in the early universe, via YaleNews.
Bottom line: Astronomers ran a sophisticated computer simulation called Romulus to learn that galaxies like our Milky Way might contain multiple supermassive black holes. Thus our Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole might have unseen siblings.
Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba
Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba
Ovoid coin depicts Stefan Michalak's close encounter, glows in the dark
Elisha Dacey · CBC News
The new coin from the Royal Canadian Mint depicts Stefan Michalak after a close encounter in 1967 at Falcon Lake.
(Royal Canadian Mint)
One could be forgiven for describing the mint's newest coin as rather otherworldly.
The Royal Canadian Mint's newest offering features Manitoba's most famous UFO encounter, which happened in 1967 when Stefan Michalak went looking for precious metals near Falcon Lake.
"I was very surprised, frankly. They called me out of the blue and said 'I have this idea,'" said Stefan's son, Stan Michalak.
"It's not every day the mint calls and says, 'Hey, we're going to do a coin.'"
Stefan, whom his son says was a "rock nut," was searching for gold, silver and other precious metals and gems in Whiteshell Provincial Park one May long weekend in 1967. At about noon, two craft appeared in the sky, he said, and one landed about 50 metres away from Stefan on a flat rocky area.
The other craft left, but the first stayed, said Stefan. He observed it from the bush for about half an hour before approaching it.
"In his mind, he reasoned, 'This must be some sort of a military experimental craft. They've landed here by mistake or maybe out of need. Maybe they're in trouble,'" said Stan. "'I'll offer to help them out.'"
When Stefan approached the craft, which he later described as saucer-shaped and made of a stainless steel material, he touched it and the heat melted the fingertips of his heavy gloves. There was an opening he put his head through, said Stan, but he didn't enter.
The craft then expelled a cloud of gas and lifted off, knocking Stefan off his feet, setting his shirt aflame and leaving a distinct pattern of burns on his chest.
There will be only 4,000 of the collectors coins minted.
(Royal Canadian Mint)
The coin shows the moment the craft lifted from the rock, with a figure lying on the ground with a hand in the air, as if to ward something off. In the dark, the craft on the coin glows, as does the gas coming from the ship.
The coin is ovoid and uses more colours than traditionally found in a coin, said Stan.
"They sent me a proof that had their original thought, which was kind of cute," said Stan. "Originally, it was going to have alien eyes on it, so it looked like the shape of an alien head."
Erica Maga, product manager for the coin, said the idea came to the team during their annual research.
"We thought it was such an interesting story that it was one that we had to share with Canadians," said Maga. "Everyone is sort of fascinated by this subject matter and we thought it would make a really interesting coin design."
The coin has been in production for a few months but went on sale Monday, said Maga. The coin's egg shape, while unusual, was also used for coins with a hot air balloon and featuring Ukranian pysanka.
Maga confirmed one of the earliest designs featured glow-in-the-dark alien eyes.
"We had talked around a lot of really wacky ideas and interesting concepts for this one, but in the end, we wanted to try and stay as faithful and true to the story as we could."
Despite the Manitoba connection, the coin is being minted in Ottawa instead of Winnipeg, said Alex Reeves, external communications advisor for The Mint. The Winnipeg facility does currency coins, while the Ottawa facility specializes in collector coins.
Stan, who co-wrote a book about his father's encounter, said he hopes the coin helps end his family's saga.
"We just decided to put this to rest, and I think the mint, giving me a call and saying 'We have this idea,' I think it just puts the ribbon on the box to finally close it forever."
The $20 legal tender coin can be ordered from the mint's website. It retails for $129.95.
Could Aliens Have Experienced or Understand The Big Bang Differently Then Us?
Could Aliens Have Experienced or Understand The Big Bang Differently Then Us?
With the full force of infinite combinations and diversity that surely exists in the Universe. Could other alien life forms experienced or observed the Universe’s creation differently than we do? Could a sentient mind based on elements and events from a completely independent evolutionary lineage see the creation of the Universe differently? I don’t mean in more detail or complexity (as more advanced minds tend to do) but as a completely different phenomenon? Could there be competing theoretical entries in the Encyclopedia Galactica?
There are no competing theories with the Big Bang Theory because there is no such thing as the Big Bang Theory (other than the pop culture television show, that is.)
The discipline is called physical cosmology. Its theoretical foundations include general relativity and the standard model of particle physics, and additional assumptions about the conditions in the very early universe and about additional, yet-to-be-discovered fields that may have played a role, especially in the very early universe (e.g., during inflation).
As to the Big Bang itself: the idea that the early universe was hot and dense is no longer really subject to debate. The reason is that it is no longer a far-fetched conjecture supported only by the luminosity-redshift relationship (Hubble relationship) of distant objects. We now have direct observational evidence of very early galaxies, the composition of which is very different from galaxies of the present day: they contain virtually no heavy elements, for instance. We also have very detailed maps of the cosmic microwave background, which provide very specific constraints on the evolution of the universe. In particular, the so-called concordance or CDM model of cosmology actually predicted the shape of the curve that characterizes temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background; these predictions were confirmed.
Now it is a good question if the early, dense phase of the universe really marked the beginning of it all (initial singularity) or if there was a prior state, e.g., a universe that contracted before it “bounced” back and started expanding again. Such bounce models are frequently proposed, though they are not without issues and shortcomings. There is also the concept of eternal inflation, in which our “pocket” of the universe (a “pocket” that is much larger than the observable universe, but still just a “pocket” in the big scheme of things) is just one region of something much larger, a universe in which rapid expansion (inflation) takes place all the time, forming pockets like ours, in a never-ending process.
And there are many other possibilities. The existence of dark matter, a core concept in the concordance model (CDM stands for Cold Dark Matter), is questioned by those who attempt to attribute the same effects that dark matter is supposed to explain to modifications of Einstein’s gravity instead. The acceleration of the universe, deduced from the luminosity-distance relationship of Type Ia supernovae, is questioned by those who attribute these observations to large-scale inhomogeneities in our universe (so-called “void cosmology” models.) And so on.
Physical cosmology is still a young science, and there are many unknowns (which makes it all the more exciting). Not even the most ardent advocates of the concordance model suggest that it is the last word on the topic. There are many alternatives. But there are a few things we (think we) know already, and the idea that the early universe was hot and dense is one of them.
This wasn’t always so. Before the observational discovery of the cosmic microwave background, there was another widely favored model: steady-state cosmology, in which the expansion of the universe is balanced by the continuous, spontaneous creation of matter so that on the largest of scales, the universe is eternal and unchanging. One of the best-known advocates of steady state cosmology was Sir Fred Hoyle, who, incidentally, was also the person who coined the term, “Big Bang”, when he ridiculed Big Bang cosmology on a BBC radio show. The Hubble redshift also had an explanation in the form of “tired light”, the idea that over cosmic distances, photons lose energy, e.g., by interacting with the intergalactic medium. These alternatives have since been discredited by data; as I mentioned, very little doubt exists that the early universe was in a hot and dense state, which is what the Big Bang is all about.
It is in the truth of science and shared experienced that understanding and a common ground can be found between us and the sentient unknown. We and alien life will be more different than we can imagine. At least we can appreciate and understand (in our own degree) some of the same things.
Brown University researchers found new evidence that asteroids could have brought water to Earth — and they could also bring it to other planets.
A) A Mylar tray filled with heat-treated powdered pumice. B) Tray centered beneath the impact point. C) The same view as (B) but showing a frame 761.5 milliseconds (μs) after impact. The Mylar has ruptured, directing most of the luminous melt downward into the well for recovery. White lines mark the extent of the glowing plume; the region outlined in gray contains abundant luminous melt.
Image credits R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz, 2018, Planetary Sciences.
In an effort to understand how the blue planet got all its blue (water), researchers at Brown University have turned to NASA and one of its biggest gun rooms.
Their what now?
Exactly how planets got all their water is still open to debate. Compounding the problem is the fact that traces of water were also found in comparatively dry places, such as the Moon’s mantle — dismissing ‘that’s just how the Earth rolls’ as a valid explanation. One possible explanation is that asteroids brought all this water here in the planet’s early days.
However, this theory never fared that well in the face of computer simulations.
“Impact models tell us that [asteroids] should completely devolatilize at many of the impact speeds common in the solar system, meaning all the water they contain just boils off in the heat of the impact,” says study co-author Peter Schultz, a professor in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement.
“But nature has a tendency to be more interesting than our models, which is why we need to do experiments.”
In order to test the validity of this claim with as little computer simulations as possible, the team asked NASA for permission to use their Vertical Gun Range, housed at the Ames Research Center in California. The indoor ballistic facility was built during the 1960s when, NASA needed to see what happens during high-speed cosmic collisions, without having the luxury of powerful computers.
In lieu of real asteroids, the team used marble-sized cylinders of antigorite, a green mineral common in the oceanic crust that contains some 13% water by weight. A tray of dried, powdered pumice stone was used as a target, to simulate the loose layer of dusty minerals covering Earth’s bedrock, according to the authors. A plastic-lined well was affixed beneath this tray to capture the debris left by the simulated asteroid impact.
The team performed several trials, shooting the fake asteroids into the fake Earth at speeds in excess of 11,200 mph, which they write is “comparable to the median impact speed” in the asteroid belt. They report that on impact, some of the pumice stone melted, then quickly re-solidified, forming glass. Pieces of antigorite also got mixed in with the powder and formed breccia, a type of rock formed when bits of preexisting material get cemented together.
The surprising bit, however, was the water content in the debris. Lab analyses revealed that up to 30% of the mock asteroid’s water found its way into the debris left over in the tray — much more than models suggested was possible up to now. The findings lend weight to the theory that asteroids could have brought water to Earth from the depths of the universe.
“These new experiments raise the possibility that growing terrestrial planets trap water in their interiors as they grow,” the researchers wrote.
That being said, there is also evidence in support of Earth generating its own water, through geological processes. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle, but at this point, we can’t say for sure.
The paper “The delivery of water by impacts from planetary accretion to present” has been published in the journal Planetary Science.
Both NASA and ESA space missions have just released new videos plotting the orbits of tens of thousands of asteroids (and comets) orbiting our sun.
The study of asteroids has come a long way in recent decades, especially since astronomers realized that Earth is more or less at the center of a cosmic shooting gallery, in which asteroids are the bullets and we’re the target. Fortunately, this shooting is happening over a fantastically long timescale, with the biggest asteroids easiest to spot, so that – for example – astronomers now know there are no world- or even continent-destroying asteroids headed our way, anytime soon by human standards. Yet small asteroids sweep within our moon’s orbit all the time, sometimes weekly, certainly monthly. You can now subscribe to the Daily Minor Planet to see how often, in real time. The relatively new awareness of asteroids’ potential for harm is why astronomers have turned up their scrutiny of asteroid orbits and why – within the past week – both the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA released new videos, based on spacecraft observations, showing asteroids orbiting our sun.
The NASA video and animation – above and below – plot the data gathered during the first four years of NASA’s NEOWISE or Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer mission. NEOWISE has spotted and characterized more than 29,000 objects since December 2013. Most of those are asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter (gray dots in the visuals above and below), but the total includes nearly 800 near-Earth objects (NEOs, shown as green dots in the visuals) and more than 130 comets (yellow squares), mission team members said.
This movie shows the progression of NEOWISE’s investigation for the mission’s first 4 years following its restart in December 2013. Green dots represent near-Earth objects. Gray dots represent all other asteroids which are mainly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Yellow squares represent comets.
And you might see that the study of asteroids is laborious, to say the least. NASA said that NEOWISE acquired more than 2.5 million infrared images of the sky during its fourth year of operation. Scientists combined these data with NEOWISE’s first through third years data into a single publicly available archive, containing approximately 10.3 million sets of images and a database of more than 76 billion source detections extracted from those images.
So you see there’s a lot of stuff out there, but – in a word of caution as you review the NASA video and animation above – it’s good to remember that space is vast. These visuals make it look as if the asteroids (the gray and green dots) are almost touching each other, and that’s an unintentional misrepresentation, caused by the fact that the scientists are trying to show you thousands of objects on your tiny computer screen.
In fact, if you were traveling through the asteroid belt in a spacecraft, you’d hardly be dodging asteroids, as sci fi movies like the one above love to depict. Instead, you’d be hard-pressed even to see an asteroid because, well, as you might or might not appreciate, there’s just lots of empty space out there.
That why – when asked if a spacecraft could travel through the asteroid belt safely – Sophie Allen of the UK’s National Space Academy answered that the chances of a collision would be about one in a billion.
Personally, I prefer the ESA video above to the NASA depiction because it doesn’t convey that false idea so completely, that the asteroids surrounding us are so densely packed they almost touch (they aren’t densely packed at all). The ESA video – released April 25, 2018 – is an animated view of some 14,099 asteroid orbits. The data came from ESA’s Gaia satellite’s second data release. The orbits of the 200 brightest asteroids are also shown, as determined using Gaia data.
Cela fait des années que Google Maps a entrepris de cartographier le monde entier dans ses moindres détails. En analysant certaines images, certains sont persuadés avoir trouvés des preuves d’une vie extraterrestre sur Terre.
En visionnant les très nombreuses images publiées sur ce logiciel lancé en 2005, des internautes et des ufologues ont découvert la présence d’OVNI ou d’autres phénomènes surnaturels. Récemment, un mystérieux engin non identifié a été repéré alors qu’il flottait dans les airs en Finlande.
Cette sphère rouges semblait voler parmi les arbres au-dessus des maisons dans le quartier de Rantapuisto, dans la ville de Forssa, au sud du pays.
La forme de cet OVNI n’est pas sans rappeler les nombreux objets identifiés souvent observés dans le monde entier.
La couleur vive de cet OVNI contraste de manière assez évidente avec le fond bleu du ciel.
Le haut et le bas de cet OVNI sont plus sombres tandis que les bords pointus de l’objet apparaissent moins définis et sont d’une couleur plus claire. Selon certains, cela indiquerait que cet engin est, en partie, fait de métal.
Il pourrait également y avoir une explication plus plausible.
En effet, les images prises par Google sont ensuite reconstituées donnant l’impression qu’il s’agit que d’une seule et unique photo. De ce fait, le possible OVNI pourrait être un pépin technique ou un impact sur l’objectif de la caméra
Plus tôt, un objet similaire a été découvert sur Google Maps et un OVNI a été vu en train de survoler East Lake George dans l’État de New York. Dans ce cas, l’objet était d’une grande taille et était métallique.
Avec une base blanche, une zone de masque sombre peut être distinguée du reste de l’objet circulaire.
Le revêtement noir donne de la profondeur à cette objet qui s’accorde avec les critères habituellement admis pour les OVNI « typiques ».
HOW A PASSING STAR 70,000 YEARS AGO CHANGED THE SOLAR SYSTEM
HOW A PASSING STAR 70,000 YEARS AGO CHANGED THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Another star buzzed the solar system 70,000 years ago and may have sent comets hurtling our way.
It is possible our prehistoric ancestors saw the star in the sky.
A new study also ID’ed eight objects that could have come from beyond our solar system.
About 70,000 years ago, around the time our ancestors were just beginning to leave Africa, a small red dwarf star passed remarkably close to the solar system. Scholz’s star came within a light-year of the sun, the closest such encounter we know of. Today, Scholz’s star sits about 20 light-years away, its stellar flyby a distant memory. But we are still seeing the influence of its visit.
Back in 2015, researchers led by Eric Mamajek, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Rochester, studied the galactic orbits of Scholz’s star and our sun. They discovered that Scholz’s star and its brown dwarf binary companion probably wandered close to our solar system. At the time, the scientists concluded that Scholz’s star did not disturb the orbits of any objects in the solar system in any notable way when it passed by.
However, a new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests this stellar flyby did in fact nudge comets from the Oort cloud, the ring of icy objects far beyond the planets that marks the edge of the solar system. These comets are now close enough to study in more detail, and while looking for them, the scientists also found eight objects that could be from outside the solar system entirely.
Comets From a 70,000-Year-Old Star Flyby
70,000 years ago, Scholz’s star and its binary companion passed within about 50,000 AU from the sun, the closest stellar encounter known.
NASA/MICHAEL OSADCIW/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER/ILLUSTRATION-T.REYES
The Oort cloud is a swarm of cometary bodies believed to be between 5,000 and 100,000 AU from the sun. Occasionally, these objects fall toward the sun, and some gain enough velocity to reach so-called hyperbolic orbits. These trajectories will eventually take them out of the solar system—unless they are influenced by another gravitational encounter with a giant planet, for example.
The new study, conducted by researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge, analyzed the positions and velocities of 339 hyperbolic objects in the solar system. Normally, you’d expect the distribution of these objects across the sky to be more or less even. However, a group of them seem to be coming from the same radiant, or point of origin in the sky, and that area aligns with the encounter with Scholz’s star. Any objects that might have been pushed by Scholz’s star 70,000 years ago would only now be approaching the inner solar system.
“Out of those 339 [objects], 36 appear projected towards the relevant region in the constellation of Gemini (about 11 percent),” lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos of Complutense University of Madrid told Popular Mechanics in an email. “These are the ones that we suggest may have had an origin in the flyby with Scholz’s star.”
An artist’s conception of Scholz’s star and its brown dwarf companion during its flyby of the solar system 70,000 years ago. The sun can be seen in the background as a brilliant star.
MICHAEL OSADCIW/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
The researchers also found the suspect comets are traveling at a velocity around 1 km/s, or 2,200 mph, which could point to an “impulsive interaction” such as a stellar encounter. “Some of them were sent outwards and away from the solar system… some others were sent inwards and reached the inner solar system,” Marcos says. “Out of those sent inwards, a fraction passed close enough to the Earth to be detected by ongoing surveys. Most of the 36 objects pointed out above may fall into this category, the others may be chance alignments.”
The study identifies an exciting connection between these comets and the estimated location of the Scholz’s star flyby, but to truly confirm that the hyperbolic objects were pushed by that star in prehistoric times, additional modelling of both the comets and the star will be needed. By analyzing the 339 hyperbolic objects, however, the team turned up another tantalizing find—possible interstellar objects.
New Interstellar Suspects
Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) might be an interstellar object captured by the solar system.
Photographed at its closest approach to Earth on 25 March 1996. E. KOLMHOFER, H. RAAB; JOHANNES-KEPLER-OBSERVATORY, LINZ, AUSTRIA
In addition to the comets that could have been hurled in by Scholz’s star, the study found eight objects that may be new interstellar candidates. The only confirmed object from outside the solar system to visit our neighborhood of planets is ‘Oumuamua, an elongated asteroid that made a close pass to Earth in October 2017. These additional eight objects are icy hyperbolic bodies with a velocity of 1.5 km/s or more, suggesting they could be interstellar comets.
“Statistically speaking, their paths are probably interstellar as their inbound velocities were significantly higher than those of the bulk of the other hyperbolic comets [2 to 30 times higher],” says Marcos. “As far as we can tell, the eight candidates to being interstellar interlopers have been singled out in our work for the first time.”
It’s unlikely that all eight of these objects have interstellar origins, as some may have formed in the solar system and accelerated during encounters with large objects. “I do think that the 1.5 km/s they used as a cut-off is probably a bit low, so I suspect that some of the eight candidates they identify are not true interstellar objects,” says Alan Jackson, a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at the University of Toronto who recently published a study that suggests ‘Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system. “The two that they identify as their best candidates, C/2008 J4 (McNaught) and C/2012 S1 (ISON), are I think fairly robust.”
If any of these objects are confirmed as interstellar interlopers, it would provide an icy comet from beyond the solar system to study alongside the rocky asteroid ‘Oumuamua, which turned out to be an object unlike anything astronomers had ever seen. Most astronomers believe interstellar objects fly through the solar system regularly, and our telescope survey projects are advancing toward the point of finding them much more frequently.
Red Star in the Ancient Sky
When the red dwarf star and its brown dwarf companion flew by the outer reaches of the solar system, it is possible that humanity’s ancestors saw the star in the sky.
Scholz’s star was almost certainly not visible generally, but red dwarfs can periodically flare up due to magnetic activity and grow many times brighter than their standard magnitude. The dimmest stars humans can see with the naked eye have an apparent magnitude (intrinsic magnitude modified by distance) of about 6 (lower numbers are brighter). If Scholz’s star was on the farther end of estimates, it would have had an apparent magnitude of about 11, and closer in an apparent magnitude of perhaps 7.9.
Even at the greater distances, “those flares could be visible to human eyes without optical aids,” says Marcos. (However, Marcos stresses that whether or not the star was visible to human ancestors is not discussed in the paper.)
It is tempting to imagine that prehistoric humans looked up one night to catch a glimpse of Scholz’s star flaring up in the sky. Perhaps they considered it a sign of a bountiful hunt, or an omen of doom. Seventy thousand years later, equipped with all the advantages of modern science, we may have found new evidence of Scholz’s visit to the solar system, the most distant comets of the Oort cloud in for a closer look.
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR ’OUMUAMUA PROBABLY CAME FROM A TWO-STAR SYSTEM
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR ’OUMUAMUA PROBABLY CAME FROM A TWO-STAR SYSTEM
Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(’Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighbourhood.
The certainty of its interstellar origin comes from an analysis that shows its orbit is almost impossible to achieve from within our solar system.
Its name comes from a Hawaiian term for messenger or scout. Indeed, it is the first space rock to have been identified as forming around another star. Since asteroids coalesce during the process of planet formation, this object can tell us something about the formation of planets around its unknown parent star.
The latest analyses with ground-based telescopes show that ’Oumuamua is quite similar to some comets and asteroids in our own solar system. This is important because it suggests that planetary compositions like ours could be typical across the galaxy.
It is thought to be an extremely dark object, absorbing 96% of the light that falls on its surface, and it is red. This colour is the hallmark of organic (carbon-based) molecules. Organic molecules are the building blocks of the biological molecules that allow life to function.
It is widely thought that the delivery of organic molecules to the early Earth by the collision of comets and asteroids made life here possible. ’Oumuamua shows that the same could be possible in other solar systems.
Its characteristics have been published by two independent groups of astronomers. The first group, led by Karen Meech, University of Hawaii, also found that ’Oumuamua was extremely elongated and roughly 400 metres long. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope(VLT) they also found that it rotated once every 7.3 hours.
Surprisingly, they calculate that another 10,000 could be closer to the sun than the eighth planet, Neptune, which lies 30 times further from the sun than the Earth. Yet these are currently undetected.
Each of these interstellar interlopers would be just passing through. They are travelling too fast to be captured by the gravity of the sun. Yet it still takes them about a decade to cross our solar system and disappear back into interstellar space.
If this estimate is correct, then roughly 1,000 enter and another 1,000 leave every year – which means that roughly three arrive and three leave every day.
Using robotic telescopes such as Pan-STARRS, the one that detected ’Oumuamua, to look for asteroids is a priority for astronomers as they concentrate on discovering potentially hazardous objects that could impact Earth.
Imminent upgrades to these survey telescopes and improvements in data processing techniques mean that astronomers will soon be able to detect smaller and fainter objects. They expect a number of these to be interstellar interlopers like ’Oumuamua.
Reversing Earth's spin would dramatically change familiar landscapes across multiple continents.
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For billions of years, Earth has rotated in the same direction as the sun — but what if that direction were reversed?
Deserts would cover North America, arid sand dunes would replace expanses of the Amazon rainforest in South America, and lush, green landscapes would flourish from central Africa to the Middle East, according to a computer simulation presented earlier this month at the annual European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 in Austria.
In the simulation, not only did deserts vanish from some continents and appear in others, but freezing winters plagued western Europe. Cyanobacteria, a group of bacteria that produce oxygen through photosynthesis, bloomed where they never had before. And the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an important climate-regulating ocean current in the Atlantic, faded away and resurfaced in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists reported at the conference. [What If the World Stopped Turning?]
During Earth's yearlong orbit around the sun, our planet completes a full rotation on its axis — which runs from the North Pole to South Pole — every 24 hours, spinning at a rate of about 1,040 mph (1,670 km/h) as measured at the equator. Its rotation direction is prograde, or west to east, which appears counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole, and it is common to all the planets in our solar system except Venus and Uranus, according to NASA.
As Earth rotates, the push and pull of its momentum shapes ocean currents, which, along with atmospheric wind flows, produces a range of climate patterns around the globe. These patterns carry abundant rainfall to humid jungles or divert moisture away from rain-parched badlands, for example.
Going retro
To study how Earth's climate system is affected by its rotation, scientists recently modeled a digital version of Earth spinning in the opposite direction — clockwise when viewed from above the North Pole, a direction known as retrograde, Florian Ziemen, co-creator of the simulation and a researcher with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany, told Live Science in an email.
"[Reversing Earth's rotation] preserves all major characteristics of the topography like sizes, shapes and positions of continents and oceans, while creating a completely different set of conditions for the interactions between the circulation and the topography," Ziemen said.
This new rotation set the stage for ocean currents and winds to interact with the continents in different ways, generating entirely new climate conditions around the world, the researchers reported in a project overview.
Spin cycle
To simulate what would happen if Earth were to spin backward (retrograde instead of prograde), they used the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model to change Earth's relationship to the sun and reverse the Coriolis effect, an invisible force that pushes against objects traveling over a rotating planet's surface.
Once those alterations were in place and the model showed Earth spinning in the opposite direction, the researchers observed the changes that emerged in the climate system over several thousand years, as feedback among the rotation, atmosphere and ocean went to work on the planet, the scientists wrote in a description of the work, which they are currently preparing for publication.
Overall, the researchers found that a backward-spinning Earth was a greener Earth. Global desert coverage shrank from about 16 million square miles (42 million square kilometers) to around 12 million square miles (31 million square km). Grasses sprouted over half of the former desert areas, and woody plants emerged to cover the other half. And this world's vegetation stored more carbon than our forward-spinning Earth, the researchers discovered.
However, deserts emerged where they never had before — in the southeastern U.S., southern Brazil and Argentina, and northern China.
Turn, turn, turn
The change in rotation also reversed global wind patterns, bringing temperature changes to the subtropics and midlatitudes; continents' western zones cooled as eastern boundaries warmed, and winters became significantly colder in northwestern Europe. Ocean currents also changed direction, warming seas' eastern boundaries and cooling their western ones.
In the simulation, AMOC— the ocean current responsible for transporting heat around the globe — disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean, but a similar and slightly stronger current arose in the Pacific, carrying heat into eastern Russia. This was somewhat unusual, as a prior study that modeled a reverse-spinning Earth did not see this change, Ziemen told Live Science in an email.
With retrograde rotation, a vast desert belt would form in the Americas (left), compared with its present position in Africa and the Middle East (right).
Altered sea currents in the Indian Ocean also allowed cyanobacteria to dominate the region, which they have never managed to accomplish while the Earth spins in its current direction, the researchers discovered.
But for Ziemen, the greening of the Sahara was the most intriguing change that appeared in their "backward" model of Earth.
"Seeing the green Sahara in our model got me thinking about the reasons why we have a desert in the Sahara, and why there is none in the retrograde world," Ziemen said. "It is this thinking about the most basic questions that fascinates me about the project."
Something shoots out of the clouds in Parque Do Carmo, Chile
Something shoots out of the clouds in Parque Do Carmo, Chile
Lu Casemiro was filming an approaching storm with the intention to record the lightning on February 11, 2018 when he filmed something that he cannot explain.
The footage shows a bright object in the clouds that disappears and appears, until the moment the object moves at high speed leaving a trail of small lights behind.
UFO spotters looking out over the Forth Valley in central Scotland where unexplained sightings are said to be frequent. (Credit: Colin McPherson/Sygma/Getty Images)
In 2017, several news organizations revealed the existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a U.S. government funded investigation into unidentified flying objects from 2007 to 2012. This secret $22 million program, however, was not the first of its kind. In fact official government UFO studies began in the 1940s with Project Sign providing some of the most credible videos of aerial phenomenon to date. The 2017 revelation that the U.S. government was actively researching UFOs reignited world interest in UFOs and aliens. Let’s revisit five of the most believable UFO sightings of the 21st century.
1. The Lights Above the New Jersey Turnpike (2001)
It takes a lot for motorists to stop alongside a highway to look towards the sky, but on July 14, 2001, drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike did just that. For around 15 minutes just after midnight, they marveled at the sight of strange orange and yellow lights in a V formation over the Arthur Kill Waterway between Staten Island, New York, and Carteret, New Jersey. Cataret Police Department’s Lt. Daniel Tarrant was one of the witnesses, as well as other metro area residents from the Throgs Neck Bridge on Long Island and Fort Lee, New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge. Air traffic controllers initially denied that any airplanes, military jets or space flights could have caused the mysterious lights, but a group known as the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI) claimed to receive FAA radar data that corroborated the UFO sightings of that night.
An image taken from a video released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program of a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. (Credit: U.S. Department of Defense via The New York Times/Redux)
2. The USS Nimitz Encounter (2004)
On November 14, 2004, the USS Princeton noted an unknown craft on radar 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. For two weeks, the crew had been tracking objects which appeared at 80,000 feet and plummeted to hover right above the Pacific Ocean. When two FA-18F fighter jets from the USS Nimitz arrived in the area, they first saw what appeared to be churning boiling water in an oval shape underneath the surface. Then, in a few moments, a white Tic Tac-like object appeared above the water. It had no visible markings to indicate an engine, wings, or windows, and infrared monitors did not reveal any exhaust. Commander David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 attempted to intercept the craft, but it accelerated away, reappearing on radar 60 miles away—it moved three times the speed of sound and twice the speed of the fighter jets. This encounter was one of the stories reported along with the news of AATIP.
3. O’Hare International Airport Saucer (2006)
Flight 446 was getting ready to fly to North Carolina from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, when a United Airlines employee on the tarmac noticed a dark grey metallic craft hovering over gate C17. That day, November 7, 2006, a total of twelve United employees, and a few witnesses outside the airport, spotted the saucer-shaped craft around 4:15 p.m. The witnesses say it hovered for about 5 minutes before shooting upward where it broke a hole in the clouds, enough that the pilots and mechanics could see the blue sky. The news report became the most read story on Chicago Tribune’s website to that date and made international news. However, because the UFO was not seen on radar, the FAA called it a “weather phenomenon” and declined to investigate.
4. The Stephenville Sightings (2008)
The small town of Stephenville, Texas 100 miles southwest of Dallas, is mostly known for its dairy farms, but in the evening of January 8, 2008, dozens of its residents viewed something unique in the sky. Citizens reported seeing white lights above Highway 67, first in a single horizontal arc and then in vertical parallel lines. Local pilot Steve Allen estimated that the strobe lights “spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide” traveling about 3,000 miles per hour. No sound was reported. Witnesses believed the event was reminiscent of the Phoenix Lights sightings of 1997. While the U.S. Air Force revealed weeks later that F-16s were flying in the Brownwood Military Operating Areas (just southwest of Stephenville), many townspeople didn’t buy that explanation, believeing that what they saw was too technologically advanced for current human abilities.
5.East Coast GO FAST Video (2015)
Leaked in 2017 along with the news of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was a video that revealed an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unidentified flying vehicle. Seen along the East Coast on a Raytheon Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod, the craft was similar to that spotted off San Diego in 2004: It was a fast-moving white oval about 45-feet-long without wings or exhaust plume. The pilots tracked the object at 25,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean as it flew away and simultaneously rotated on its axis. Whether the vehicle was a product of another country’s technology or alien airship remains a mystery.
For more, watch the season premiere of Ancient Aliens Friday, April 27 at 9/8c on HISTORY.
Renowned Scientist And Friend Of Stephen Hawking Claims to Have Detected Extraterrestrial Organisms
Renowned Scientist And Friend Of Stephen Hawking Claims to Have Detected Extraterrestrial Organisms
Scientists announce the discovery of three types of alien bacteria.
The Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that a recent study has uncovered three types of bacteria which are believed to be from an extra-terrestrial origin.
According to the renowned astrophysicist Jayant V. Narlikar who led the study, the bacterial organisms were detected by his team at the IRSO with the use of high altitude balloons. These balloons were propelled into the upper reaches of the atmosphere and collected material from the stratosphere. The balloons then returned to Earth where they were analysed by the team. In addition to a number of bacterial organisms which are commonly found on this planet, the team also uncovered three different types of bacteria which do not match any known organism on Earth.
Stephen Hawking's India connect: College friend Jayant Narlikar
“Detection of extraterrestrial bacteria highlights the possibility of life beyond earth and it is good news for humanity,”
said Professor R. K. Chaudhury of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics speaking of the findings. Professor Narlikar was similarly buoyant when announcing the findings of his study which suggests that the building blocks for life are present elsewhere in the universe.
“With modern technological advancement, we will be able to provide conclusive evidence for the presence of life outside the confines of the earth in the near future", he said.
The fascinating research has been praised not only for its wide implications but also because of it is hoped that it will boost the profile of the Indian space agencies which have typically been marginalized in comparison to bodies such as NASA and the ESO. “With these findings, Indian study in the field of extraterrestrial investigations can be said to have reached a competitive stage in the global arena. There is a dedicated group in India that is working towards the targets of extraterrestrial studies, we are hopeful of more results in the future, "said Professor Chaudhury.
Narlikar was a close friend of Stephen Hawking
"During our university days, I was told that Hawking had only two years to live and soon his physical deterioration started but he showed tremendous determination and willpower and did marvelous work in astrophysics," Narlikar said.
Saturn's Multicolored Rings Dazzle in Photo by Cassini Spacecraft
Saturn's Multicolored Rings Dazzle in Photo by Cassini Spacecraft
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 22, 2009.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Saturn's iconic rings seem to go on forever, with infinite but subtle color variations, in a spectacular photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Cassini took the photo on Aug. 22, 2009, when the probe was about 1.27 million miles (2.05 million kilometers) from the center of the rings, NASA officials said.
"The particles that make up the rings range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains, and are mostly made of water ice," NASA officials wrote in a photo description Monday (April 23). "The exact nature of the material responsible for bestowing color on the rings remains a matter of intense debate among scientists." [Saturn's Glorious Rings in Photos]
The newly released photo is yet another reminder of the scientific legacy left by Cassini, which ended 13 years of work at Saturn with anintentional death diveinto the gas giant's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017. Cassini was running out of fuel, and mission managers programmed the spacecraft to execute that suicide maneuver to make sure that the probe never contaminated the Saturn moons Titan and Enceladus — both of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it — with microbes from Earth.
The $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission was jointly run by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Huygens was a piggyback European lander that touched down on Titan in January 2005, pulling off the first-ever soft landing on a body in the outer solar system.
The Cassini orbiter has many accomplishments to its name as well, of course. For example, Cassini's observations revealed Titan to be a strangely Earth-like world, with rivers, lakes, seas and a weather system — though the liquids flowing and sloshing on the big moon's surface, and falling from its skies, are hydrocarbons, not water.
Cassini also spotted geysers of water ice blasting from Enceladus' south polar region in 2005. Mission team members later concluded that this material is coming from a potentially habitable subsurface ocean of liquid water.
Bam! Cannon Experiment Shows How Asteroids Delivered Water to Earth
Bam! Cannon Experiment Shows How Asteroids Delivered Water to Earth
By Tereza Pultarova, Space.com Contributor
An experiment that involved shooting meteorite-like projectiles at volcanic rocks has revealed how high-velocity asteroid impacts could have delivered water to Earth.
During the experiment, conducted at the Vertical Gun Range at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, scientists fired marble-sized projectiles at the targets at speeds of 11,200 mph (18,000 km/h).
In the study, researchers blasted marble-size projectiles designed to mimic ancient, water-rich asteroids at dry targets, hitting staggering speeds of around 11,000 miles per hour. Samples of impact glasses created during an impact experiment are shown
These projectiles had a similar composition to carbonaceous chondrites, a group of meteorites that come from ancient, water-rich asteroids. In the early stages of Earth's evolution, these asteroids frequently hit the planet at very high speeds. The experiment, described in a paper published online today (April 25) in the journal Science Advances, revealed that during such collisions, up to 30 percent of the water from the asteroid could get trapped in the debris created by the impact. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]
"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is one of the big questions in planetary science," said Terik Daly, who's now a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University but led the study while completing his doctorate at Brown University.
"These experiments reveal a mechanism by which asteroids could deliver water to moons, planets and other asteroids," Daly said in a statement.
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These close-up images show samples of impact glass created during impact experiments with a cannon designed to mimic asteroid strikes.
Credit: Terik Daly
Astronomers originally thought that Earth's water came mostly from comets. However, recent research has pegged asteroids as the probable main delivery system. Measurements have shown that water found on Earth has a similar composition of isotopes — variants of the same chemical element that differ in the number of neutrons — as water contained in carbonaceous asteroids.
But it wasn't clear how those asteroids could have delivered their water to what was once a completely arid Earth.
"Impact models tell us that impactors should completely devolatilize at many of the impact speeds common in the solar system, meaning all the water they contain just boils off in the heat of the impact," study co-author Peter Schultz, a professor in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, said in the same statement. "But nature has a tendency to be more interesting than our models, which is why we need to do experiments."
When the researchers shot their mini-meteorites at the mini-Earths, they observed that a significant proportion of the water from the projectiles got trapped in rock — both in the stuff that was melted by the heat of the impact and in the material that coalesced from the jumble of impact debris, a type of rock known as a breccia.
"What we're suggesting is that the water vapor gets ingested into the melts and breccias as they form," Schultz said. "So even though the impactor loses its water, some of it is recaptured as the melt rapidly quenches."
The researchers said the process could also explain the presence of water in the lunar mantle and some other areas of the moon, such as Tycho Crater.
"The point is that this gives us a mechanism for how water can stick around after these asteroid impacts," Schultz said. "And it shows why experiments are so important, because this is something that models have missed."
The findings could explain how asteroids deliver water throughout the solar system, helping to account for traces of water spotted on the moon and other planetary bodies
Indiase ruimtevaartorganisatie ontdekt onbekende organismen in atmosfeer. Zijn ze buitenaards?
Indiase ruimtevaartorganisatie ontdekt onbekende organismen in atmosfeer. Zijn ze buitenaards?
De Indiase ruimtevaartorganisatie ISRO zegt hoog in de atmosfeer drie onbekende bacteriesoorten te hebben ontdekt.
Volgens de Indiase astrofysicus Jayant V. Narlikar is de ontdekking een ‘grote stap in de richting van bewijs voor buitenaards leven’.
Tijdens een bijeenkomst in het zuiden van India vertelde Narlikar dat de drie soorten zijn ontdekt tijdens experimenten met ballonnen.
Goed nieuws
Hij voegde toe dat één van de bacteriën, Bacillus Isronensis, is vernoemd naar de ISRO. De wetenschapper zei dat ‘buitenaards leven mogelijk is’.
“De ontdekking van buitenaardse bacteriën laat zien dat buitenaards leven mogelijk is en dat is goed nieuws voor de mensheid,” verklaarde professor R.K. Chaudhury van het Indiase instituut voor astrofysica tegenover het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Sluitend bewijs
“Het is goed mogelijk dat buitenaards leven bestaat omdat de bouwstenen voor leven ook in andere hemellichamen in andere sterrenstelsels aanwezig zijn,” zei professor Narlikar.
“Met behulp van de moderne technologische ontwikkeling kunnen we in de nabije toekomst sluitend bewijs leveren van buitenaards leven,” vervolgde hij.
Narlikar is bekend vanwege zijn werk op het gebied van kosmologie, met name alternatieven voor de oerknaltheorie.
DE WAARHEID BRENGEN OVER UFO'S WORDT STEEDS GEVAARLIJKER
DE WAARHEID BRENGEN OVER UFO'S WORDT STEEDS GEVAARLIJKER
Achter de schermen zijn geheime krachten aan het werk om díegenen die voor de machthebbers onwelgevallige zaken naar buiten brengen, keihard aan te pakken.
Welke belangen er voor hen op het spel staan, wordt duidelijk wanneer je ziet hoever ze bereid zijn te gaan om de waarheid verborgen te houden.
Natuurlijk zijn er heel veel zaken die de werkelijke machthebbers graag verborgen houden en het is zo langzamerhand een bekend feit dat ook overheden zich actief bemoeien met wat er op het internet gebeurd en daar zelfs op een heel geniepige manier actief zijn.
Er zijn overheidsdienaren in zo goed als alle landen die niets anders doen dan opzettelijk zaken vertroebelen, twijfel en tweedracht zaaien en er meer in het algemeen voor zorgen dat degene die de onwelgevallige waarheid brengt belachelijk wordt gemaakt of als volkomen overkomt.
Via uitgelekte NSA documenten is nu ook precies bekend wat de opdrachten zijn die deze zogenaamde internettrollen mee krijgen.
Het door overheden inzetten van trollen gebeurt overal en die van ons plaatste zelf enkele jaren geleden een advertentie voor het werven van dergelijke trollen, iets waar door de Partij van de Dieren destijds nog kamervragen over zijn gesteld, waarop zoals gebruikelijk ontwijkende en nietszeggende antwoorden kwamen.
Het trollen op internet is één ding, maar het gaat nog veel verder en dan wordt het regelrecht eng voor degene die de waarheid naar buiten durft te brengen.
Iemand die dat doet met veel succes op het gebied van vreemde zaken en veelal ook UFO gerelateerde onderwerpen is een jongeman die bekendstaat onder de naam Tyler en een heel succesvol Youtube kanaal exploiteert onder de naam Secure Team. Wij gebruiken regelmatig zijn bevindingen in artikelen.
Tot niet zo gek lang geleden had hij een mijlpaal bereikt en werd de grens van een miljoen abonnees overschreden en wanneer je nu kijkt, zit hij al boven de anderhalf miljoen.
Tyler krijgt via zijn abonnees veel informatie en beelden binnen en heeft ongetwijfeld via zijn kanaal veel UFO gerelateerde zaken gepubliceerd waarvan de machthebbers niet willen dat gewone burgers die zien.
Vorig jaar september gebeurden er een aantal vreemde zaken bij Tyler thuis en na een “ongeluk” met zijn motor eindigde hij in het ziekenhuis, waar we toen het volgende over schreven.
Uiteraard loop je dan ook aardig in de kijker bij overheden en dan vooral een bepaald deel daarvan, sinistere mannen in donkere pakken die dan ook Men in Black (MIB), worden genoemd.
Wij willen iedereen aanraden om even de tijd te nemen om te kijken naar de volgende video die Tyler ongeveer een maand geleden maakte toen er dagenlang een vreemde auto naast zijn huis stond die hem met gierende banden achtervolgde toen hij op zijn motor wegreed.
De volgende video is van nu, een maand later en opgenomen afgelopen donderdag in het ziekenhuis waar Tyler ligt met talloze gebroken botten na een motorongeluk.
Hij zegt verder niets over hoe het ongeluk heeft kunnen gebeuren, maar gezien de gebeurtenissen rondom zijn huis de afgelopen maand, is het aannemelijk dat die Men in Black verantwoordelijk zijn voor het feit dat een jonge onderzoeker nu met gebroken botten in het ziekenhuis ligt. Hij belooft in de video dat zodra hij beter is terug aan het werk te zullen gaan.
Inmiddels is hij weer min of meer hersteld en weer iedere dag bezig met zijn kanaal en het publiceren van UFO gerelateerde zaken. Wat hij nu echter merkt, is dat er steeds meer trollen actief worden in de commentaar sectie van zijn Youtube kanaal.
Op zich is dat ook te verwachten, maar dan wordt er door iemand het volgende commentaar geplaatst.
Een duidelijk trollen account dat kort daarvoor is aangemaakt, maar waar de koude rillingen je pas écht van over de rug lopen is het feit dat in het commentaar ene Dr. Asher wordt genoemd.
Dr. Asher was niet de behandelend arts in het ziekenhuis waar Tyler na zijn motorongeluk terechtkwam, maar de chirurg die de operatie uitvoerde en die met schroeven een stalen pin aan zijn been heeft gemonteerd.
Deze informatie heeft Tyler nóóit met iemand gedeeld, heeft nooit ergens ook op internet gestaan en hij was zelf alweer bijna de naam van die chirurg vergeten.
Ook trollen maken fouten, maar wat hier wel uit blijkt is dat ze in de achtergrond Tyler bespioneren, al zijn bewegingen in de gaten houden en beschikken over al zijn privé informatie.
Het kanaal van Tyler groeit als kool, hij krijgt steeds meer de beschikking over spectaculair en verborgen beeldmateriaal via zijn abonnees.
De enige vraag die nog open staat is: Hoe lang nog voordat Tyler weer “een ongeluk” krijgt. En waar normaal toch wel ongeveer iedere dag nieuwe video's van Tyler verschenen, is de navolgende van enkele dagen geleden op het moment van schrijven, de laatste.
Het is enige tijd vrij rustig geweest op het gebied van onbekende vliegende voorwerpen in de lucht, maar nu lijken ze weer helemaal terug.
Van een man die wandelt en een klassieke retro UFO weet vast te leggen, tot een stel dat tot hun stomme verbazing een moederschip filmt boven de zee met een kleinere verkenner.
De foto’s die hierna volgen zijn genomen door een man in het Engelse Newton Abbott in Devon. Deze streek van Engeland staat sowieso al bekend als een UFO hotspot, dus ter plaatse kun je dingen verwachten.
De man die de foto’s gemaakt heeft zegt dat hij naar de lucht keek en iets snel op hem af zag komen. Hij gebruikte een Nikon P900 camera en zag al snel iets dat veel lijkt op het klassieke model UFO, oftewel de retro UFO met de herkenbare vliegende schotelvorm.
De UFO had volgens de man een enorme snelheid, was behoorlijk hoog in lucht en vloog via het stadscentrum weer uit het zicht. Deze waarneming is aangemeld bij Mufon onder zaak nummer 91544 en de man in kwestie zegt vol ongeduld uit te kijken naar een volgende waarneming en ook dat hij in dat bepaalde gebied regelmatig UFO’s ziet.
De tweede waarneming is afkomstig van Isle of Man en is heel bijzonder.
Het is in de avond van 17 april als een stel langs een volkomen verlaten en afgelegen deel van het strand van het Isle of Man loopt te wandelen. Dan, opeens zien ze iets.
Eerst een soort bol die lijkt af te dalen naar een boot die in het water ligt, wat echter bij nader inzien dat niet blijkt te zijn omdat het boven het wateroppervlak zweeft.
Waar het alle schijn van heeft, is dat we hier te maken hebben met een soort verkenner orb die terugkeert naar het moederschip.
Hieronder volgen de bewegende beelden en zoals je aan de stomverbaasde en opgewonden stem van de man kunt horen, is hij volkomen overdonderd en is hoorbaar dat hij op een gegeven stamelt dat "ze" iets aan het testen zijn.
Opgewonden Engelsen willen nog wel eens het f*#@ woord gebruiken, dus wees voorbereid, deze Brit vormt daarop geen uitzondering.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben gezien hoe zo’n 12,4 miljard jaar geleden 14 sterrenstelsels samensmolten, relatief kort na de Big Bang. Ze gebruikten de krachtigste telescopen ter wereld om door zo’n 90 procent van het waarneembare universum te turen.
Het licht van de samensmelting begon naar ons te reizen zo’n 1,4 miljard jaar na de Big Bang, toen het universum slechts een tiende van zijn huidige leeftijd had. Aangezien de samensmelting zo lang geleden plaatsvond, zou het gigantische sterrenstelsel dat zo ontstond alsmaar groter zijn geworden. Berekeningen suggereren dat nog honderden andere sterrenstelsels zouden verzwolgen zijn door de cluster, met een massa gelijk aan 1.000 biljoen zonnen. Het zou zo het grootste gekende object in het universum zijn.
De vondst onthult maar liefst 14 sterrenstelsels die samengepropt zitten in een gebied dat slechts vier keer zo groot is als de diameter van galactische schijf van onze Melkweg. Een nabijgelegen hoop licht die nog niet ontleed werd in individuele objecten, suggereert dat het totale aantal sterrenstelsels dat afstevent op de botsing eerder een dertigtal is.
Video European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Tijdens de eerste paar miljoen jaren van de kosmische geschiedenis begon normale materie en donkere materie samen te klitten, waardoor uiteindelijk clusters van sterrenstelsels ontstonden. Vandaag kunnen dergelijke clusters tot duizend sterrenstelsels bevatten, grote lappen donkere materie, immense zwarte gaten en gaswolken die temperaturen van meer dan een miljoen graden kunnen bereiken.
Belang
De vondst op zich is al spectaculair, maar het feit dat hij dateert van zo vroeg in de geschiedenis, biedt een enorme uitdaging voor onze kennis van de manier waarop structuren in het universum ontstaan, reageert astrofysicus en medeauteur van de studie Scott Chapman van de Dalhousie University in het Canadese Halifax. De enorme cluster SPT2349-56 ontstond bovendien twee keer zo snel als de huidige theorieën aanwijzen.
Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature.
China heeft vandaag vijf aardobservatiesatellieten tegelijk gelanceerd, zo heeft het officiële persbureau Xinhua gemeld.
Vanop de noordwestelijke lanceerbasis Jiuquan vertrok een Lange Mars-11 draagraket. Die zette vijf Zhuhai-aardobservatiesatellieten in de ruimte af.
Volgens Xinhua is de Zhuhai-1 een commercieel aardobservatiesatellietsysteem. Het moet data leveren voor landbouw, grondstoffen, milieubescherming en transport.
Op 15 juni 2017 stuurde Peking al twee kunstmanen van dit systeem de ruimte in. Het was de 272ste missie van een telg van de Lange Mars-draagraketfamilie.
Recent archaeological discoveries suggest that Siberia was once the home of a possibly highly developed Ice Age civilization. Relics ranging from massive unexplained megalithsto mysterious walled structures have been found, suggesting that these people were capable of significant architectural feats. While it has been known that there were tribes of people living in this area during the Ice and Stone ages, these new discoveries suggest that these civilizations were more advanced than previously thought. Now, a new analysis of a creepy humanoid statue found in the Ural mountains has been dated to even before the pyramids. Is there a lost chapter of human history waiting to be unearthed in Eurasia and Siberia?
Possibly, if a recent analysis published in Antiquity is confirmed. The study examines the Shigir Idol, believed to be the most ancient wooden sculpture in the world. The statue was discovered in fragments beginning in the 19th century in an open-air gold mine which contained other ancient artifacts. Several studies have dated the statue to be around 9,000 years old, but this latest study claims that age is more likely 11,600 years old – twice as old as the pyramids.
The purpose and meaning of the idol remain shrouded in mystery, but it does bear resemblance to other Ice Age art found near Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe, believed to be the oldest known temple in the world. The authors of this recent study write that the statue “may reflect encoded mythologies” and could provide a glimpse into the folklore and beliefs of early civilizations indigenous to this part of the world:
The vertical placement of the faces could indicate the presence of an internal hierarchy among the images, or a sequence of events. Above all, however, the Shigir sculpture is unique within the early art of Eurasia and offers the potential for a better understanding of the spiritual world of early hunter-gatherer-fishers of the forest zone of Eurasia.
Pre-industrial human civilizations had only natural materials at their disposal, meaning the ravages of time have likely rendered into dust all evidence of these early civilization. Will we ever truly understand our own species’ early history?
Doctors think they’re so smart. Sure, they might be able to save our lives and everything, but the history of medicine shows us that what is cutting-edge thinking today will someday (maybe soon) be looked down upon as foolish gobbledygook. I mean, we used to give children morphine to calm them down, people used to rub mercury on themselves for all sorts of conditions, and lobotomies were considered a legitimate form of medicine through the mid-20th century. That’s no reason not to go to the doctor or get vaccinated in the meantime, though. It merely shows that medical science, like all sciences, are constantly reinventing themselves in light of new discoveries and likely always will. It’s just the nature of scientific knowledge.
Case in point: scientists have just discovered an entirely new, unknown form of DNA hiding right inside human cells. While most human DNA assumes the double helix corkscrew form, scientists have speculated for years that there might be another form hidden within the human genome: a four-stranded ‘knot’ known as i-motif. A new study in Nature Chemistry claims to have finally found evidence that i-motif DNA exists in the human genome, and that it might play an unknown-but-highly-important regulatory role in human genetics.
These i-motif forms are thought to fold and unfold in and out of existence during transcription, the process through which DNA sequences are ‘copied’ into RNA and subsequently expressed as various biological functions. Marcel Dinger, head of the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, says the discovery is “pretty spectacular” and only further highlights the fact that the human genome is still pretty much a mystery to science:
There’s so much of the genome that we don’t understand, probably like 99 percent of it. Seeing DNA folded like this in living cells makes it possible to decode those parts of the genome and understand what they do.
DNA was formally discovered less than a hundred years ago, and the disciplines of genetics and genomics are still in their infancy, relatively speaking. Who knows what groundbreaking genetics discoveries are just around the corner now that the human body has become the plaything of so-called biohackerslooking to augment their own genomes in the privacy of their own basements?
Yoink.
With every genetics discovery comes the possibility that Homo sapiens might soon grab the reins of our own genetic destiny and forge a new evolutionary path of our own choosing – or more likely, some type of hybrid biological/technological one. It’s gonna be a weird future.
UFO caught on video falling to the ground during Somerset storm, UK
UFO caught on video falling to the ground during Somerset storm, UK
A mysterious falling object has been filmed during a storm in Bridgewater Somerset County, UK on April 21, 2018.
The storms hit Somerset on Saturday afternoon and Megan Taylor caught some dramatic footage of lightning in the skies above the town, reports somersetcountygazette.
But besides the lightning she also captured an unidentified black object falling from the sky just after a lightning strike.
Speaking to MailOnline, Nigel Watson, author the Haynes UFO Investigation Manual, said: 'The video does make it look like this is something solid falling from the sky, like one of the Martian cylinders in The War of the Worlds.
Bizarre Image Apparently Shows Extraterrestrial Occupant Inside A UFO
Bizarre Image Apparently Shows Extraterrestrial Occupant Inside A UFO
A strange photo has once again gained attention online after alien hunters posted it on YouTube. It reportedly shows an extraterrestrial inside.
The picture is claimed to have taken on May 1, 1980, in Manchester region, New Hampshire in the US.
The image shows a seemingly sizeable muddy farming field with a single bright blob in the distance just before sunset.
UFO researchers have zoomed in on the bright object and pointed out the alleged occupant.
UFOmania posted the photo to YouTube after it emerged on MUFON website.
The Narrator of the video stated that the person who reportedly took the image only said the UFO hovered for a second, turned and then had its take off.
Some viewers are not convinced the photo shows a UFO with an occupant. One user wrote that the alien was seemingly operating a space Prius and another even joked about the missing cup holder in that apparent ship of an advanced species.
An alleged UFO was also observed on live satellite coverage of NASA recently. The strange video shows bright lights flashing on the live feed of the International Space Station.
Newcastle UFO Sighting Photo Shows Strange Black Dot In the Sky
Newcastle UFO Sighting Photo Shows Strange Black Dot In the Sky
A black dot in the sky hovering over Newcastle has left the witness baffled. It could be a bird or a plane, but the one who snapped the photo think it could be a UFO.
Alien enthusiasts cannot find a reliable explanation of the strange object that was observed hovering above Tyneside.
The witness who took the picture of the apparent shape-shifting vessel said that he was in the back garden when he looked up in the sky and saw the clouds with a wake in them as if a mysterious force had pushed through them.
According to the witness report, he looked up and saw nothing, but when he moved his view to the North West over his fence, he noticed the triangular craft about a size of a transit van. He described the vessel as black in colour and seemed to be shifting in shape.
After rushing to get his camera, he saw the craft changing shape and smaller in size. The UFO then started to go up without making a sound, added the witness. He said that three boomerang type jets then flew around the UFO as it continually changing shape.
The video was captured above the Nevada desert, USA, earlier this month.
It shows a mysterious jet zooming through the skies at pace.
Another angle reveals a similarly shaped object floating alongside it.
It then completely changes direction and shoots up vertically as if it has been spotted.
LEOMANNPICTURES
UFO? The bizarre object was seen over Area 51
The footage was originally uploaded to YouTube channel leomannpictures, but has quickly gained popularity after being shared by other conspiracy pages.
One of them – Disclose Screen – has racked up almost 1,000 hits in less than 12 hours.
And viewers were quick to speculate what it could be.
One comment read: "It's sure enough an out of this world craft."
Another added: "How do you explain that other than reverse technology or an ET craft?"
And a third claimed: "Nevada desert says it all really doesn't it!
"You got Area 51, Nellis Air Force Base, Papoose lake and whatever else is out there!"
Conspiracists have long linked the United States Air Forces' highly classified Homey Airport facility as being a UFO testing zone.
Some believe it is used for the storage examination and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft.
While others believe the government is developing and testing the use of exotic energy weapons and weather control technology.
Earlier this month, similar claims surfaced after a bright light was filmed leaving the base.
Extraterrestrials Genetically Engineered Homo sapiens 780,000-years-ago
Extraterrestrials Genetically Engineered Homo sapiens 780,000-years-ago
Early humans emerged on Earth around 4 million years ago, but new evidence arising from the study of human evolution has revealed compelling evidence that a small group of these hominins was genetically modified by ancient alien visitors to create the first Homo sapiens.
Researcher and author, Daniella Fenton, has been taking an in-depth look at the earliest origins of humanity and its sudden acceleration in brain development close to 800,000 years ago, this investigation has led to a massive revelation.
Homo sapiens are the creation of ancient astronauts that arrived through a wormhole from the Pleiades star cluster 780,000 years ago.
The Australian researcher, an expert in equine bloodlines and genetic expression, uncovered numerous genetic changes which mark humans as anomalous when contrasted with modern primate species, some are so extreme that they are best explained by advanced genetic engineering.
In her book, titled ‘Hybrid Humans: Scientific Evidence of Our 800,000-Year Old Alien Legacy’, Daniella Fenton highlights a series of profound changes in the genes associated with brain size, neural structures, and information processing. These changes include genes that appear suddenly fully formed out of so-called ‘junk DNA’ and fragments of genes that have been snipped out, copied and re-inserted.
Fenton points the mysterious fusion of Chromosome-2 at the same time as these other changes, around 780,000 years ago, as further evidence of extraterrestrial experimentation. This fusion is found in all large-brained human types, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but not in any other primate species.
She explains that the fusion of chromosome-2 should have been a one-off error that disappeared in the subsequent generation or perhaps led to a small population of people with 46 chromosomes among a more substantial number of those carrying 48. Instead, all humans after 780,000 years ago exhibited the ‘mutation’. This strongly infers that there was an enormous benefit associated with the fusion and that it appeared suddenly in a considerable number of individuals, allowing chromosome-2 to become a permanent and dominant trait. This does not fit with known natural mutations in the human genome.
Fenton explains, “Somebody created an entire generation of breeding pairs that carried the fusion of chromosome-2. The chromosome modification is such that it would have impacts on the brain development, the immune system and reproductive processes.”
Humans also carry unique changes in the gene FOXP2 that changed synaptic connectivity and enhanced our ability to transform new experiences into routine procedures, this had enormous influence on our ability to produce meaningful speech. Fenton points out that this change is not observed in other primates and it appears our creators wanted us to be able to quickly form new habitual behaviors particularity language use.
Fenton said: “It is not just the genetic changes 780,000 years ago which inform us Homo sapiens is a species created by alien beings, we have also identified physical material left behind by these star people, materials dated to that same specific point in time.”
Aliens May Be Real, But Are Probably Trapped On Their Planets Say Scientists
Aliens May Be Real, But Are Probably Trapped On Their Planets Say Scientists
Scientists analyzed in two different scientific papers how hard it would be for aliens living on Super Earth’s—planets ten times the size of Earth—to reach space using rockets.
Elon Musk is currently developing the ‘Big F*cking Rocket’, but as it turns out Aliens would need an even Bigger F*cking Rocket to reach space, due to the gravitational pull of Super Earth’s.
According to a recent research paper that discusses alien life, if extraterrestrial beings are out there somewhere, they might be trapped by the gravity of their home planet.
Experts have researched just how hard it would be to launch a rocket into space from a Super Earth—planets in the universe believed to be up to TEN times the size of our world.
Astronomers have found that a large number of Super-Earth’s orbit their host star in the so-called Goldilocks-zone, the area in space around the star where the planet’s surface temperature is ideal to support life as we know it.
Now, scientists have analyzed just how hard it would be to reach space from such a world.
An exoplanet orbiting a Red Dwarf.
Image Credit: Dana Berry.
Experts calculated the gravitational pull of Super-Earth’s and found that it would be nearly impossible to launch a spacecraft into space, from the surface of these supermassive planets.
That is, using the technology we’ve developed on Earth.
Experts have calculated that to launch a spacecraft like the one that took mankind to the moon, a rocket would need a mass of approximately 400,000 metric tons, because of fuel requirements, researchers have found.
This means that for an alien civilization to reach space, they’d have to come up with rockets that don’t necessarily rely on chemical fuel.
study author Michael Hippke, an independent researcher affiliated with the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany, told Space.com that: “Many rocky exoplanets are heavier and larger than the Earth and have higher surface gravity, This makes space-flight on these worlds very challenging, because the required fuel mass for a given payload is an exponential function of planetary surface gravity.”
“On more-massive planets, spaceflight would be exponentially more expensive. Such civilizations would not have satellite TV, a moon mission or a Hubble Space Telescope,” added Hippke.
Here on Earth, we can overcome the gravitational pull of our planet with the use of massive rockets. For example, there’s Elon Musk’s upcoming space vehicle dubbed ‘Big Fucking Rocket.’
However, aliens on distant Super Earth’s might need an evenBigger f*cking rocket.
Two separate studied have taken a look whether it would be possible even to build a rocket powerful enough to beat the gravitational pull of distant super-Earth’s.
In one scientific paper, Hippke investigated just how hard it would be to launch a rocket into space from a hypothetical super-Earth that was around severity percent wider, and ten times more massive compared to Earth. Curiously, these are the approximate dimensions of an alien world dubbed Kepler-20b, located some 950 light years from Earth.
Falcon Heavy lifts off on its maiden flight, putting out about 5 million pounds of thrust, February 6, 2018. The 710-metric-ton rocket can put about 32 tons into low-Earth orbit.
Image Credit: SpaceX.
Hippke found that in this super world, the escape velocity needed to reach space would be 2.4 times greater than that on our home planet.
Here on Earth, spacecraft need to achieve an escape velocity of around 40,000 kilometers per hour.
“Civilizations from super-Earths are much less likely to explore the stars. Instead, they would be to some extent arrested on their home planet and, for example, make more use of lasers or radio telescopes for interstellar communication instead of sending probes or spaceships,” said Hippke.
One possibility is that potential alien civilizations inhabiting super-Earth’s could use their home planet’s tallest mountaintops to launch a vehicle to space.
However, given the severe gravity on the planet, mountains would grow very tall, suggest scientists.
All of this doesn’t mean that aliens on super Earth’s cant go to space. It only means—hypothetically—that they would need to come up with different methods to achieve their goals.
In addition to Hippke’s scientific paper, another study, published by Dr. Abraham Loeb from Harvard University suggests that nuclear-powered spaceflight may be achieved by distant alien civilizations on large massive planets, helping them overcome strong gravitational pulls.
“An advanced extraterrestrial civilization could use other propulsion methods, such as nuclear engines or light sails which are not constrained by the same limitations as chemical propulsion and can reach speeds as high as a tenth of the speed of light. Our civilization is currently developing these alternative propulsion technologies, but these efforts are still in their infancy,” said Dr. Loeb.
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NURSE REVEALS TOP SECRET ALIEN INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM ROSWELL, 1947
NURSE REVEALS TOP SECRET ALIEN INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM ROSWELL, 1947
It has been nearly 5 years since the Alien Interview transcripts were published, as requested by Army Air Force Nurse MacElroy. (Read her letter below) It has now been 66 years since the Roswell crash incident in 1947 revealed that we are not alone in the universe. The pilot of the crashed saucer revealed a great deal during the interviews that were conducted over the following 6 weeks. ALL of that information was suppressed by the U.S. Government, until 2008 when the interview transcripts were published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW. If you have read these transcripts, you will realized WHY the Roswell incident, and the interview transcripts were so heavily and thoroughly hidden and covered-up!
These interviews reveal — for the first time in Earth history — the straight forward, simple fact that Earth is a Prison Planet! Further, that all of the Immortal Spiritual Beings (Is-Bes) on this planet are NOT native to this planet. Finally, that the “Old Empire” beings who established Earth as a prison planet more than 10,000 years ago, has been conquered by a new intergalactic invasion force, called The Domain.
The influence of the “Old Empire” prison system operation are can be seen everywhere on planet Earth, if you are brave enough to LOOK. The “prison guards” — who are also prisoners with amnesia — are quickly advancing a new Global Totalitarian Socialist Police State in the name of a “New World Order”. The ONLY PURPOSE and ACTIVITY of these criminally psychotic beings is to PREVENT ESCAPE FROM THIS PRISON!
In an excerpt from the following letter written by the Army Air Force nurse who conducted the
“alien interviews”, she reveals the following advice that isVITALLY IMPORTANTto the existence of every living being on Earth. Therefore, a small group of individuals have now dedicated themselves to the task ofCOMMUNICATINGthis information to as many people as possible! I invite you to join us in this effort. Factually, if we continue to remain silent and inactive, every being on this planet will perish here on Prison Planet Earth, and will be lost for all Eternity.
It was a landmark feat: a space mission entered the orbit of a distant comet for the first time.
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta rendezvoused with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
After ten years of traveling through deep space, powered mainly by solar cells, Rosetta neared the comet not far (relatively speaking) from the orbit of Jupiter, and started circling it.
In November 2014, Rosetta released a tiny lander onto the mysterious comet to have a closer look — the first time we’ve ever dispatched a robotic lander on a comet’s rocky surface.
And the view was breathtaking. The lander sent back a series of images straight from the surface of 67P. A couple of years later, Twitter user Iandru79 created this animated short clip from a series of long exposures, taken back in 2016.
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If you want to follow up with Rosetta, and find out where it is right now (plus, you’ll hear some spooky atmospheric music while you track it down), click here.
Amid a series of setbacks with NASA’s James Webb Telescope, the astronomycommunity is understandably bummed. This much-hyped ‘scope could allow scientists to peer into the atmospheres of exoplanets like the ones found in TRAPPIST-1 with unprecedented detail. The problem is, the mission is having a really hard time getting off the ground, literally and figuratively.
Faherty, an astrophysicist, tells Inverse on episode four of I Need My Space(available now on Apple Podcasts), that this massive data dump — which drops Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. Eastern — could be even more extensive than JWST. It just hasn’t gotten much publicity in the states.
If Jupiter is the bouncer, what does that make Neptune?
“Gaia I think, was always going to rival or exceed JWST in some ways,” she tells me on INMS. “Because it’s a European mission from ESA, very few people in the United States are paying attention to it. Even astronomers who know it’s coming are not preparing like I think they should, because the European missions have far less publicity.”
The Gaia space observatory orbits the sun, remaining about 1.5 million kilometers (roughly 93,200 miles). Launched in 2013, the ESA says the project’s mission is “to create the most accurate map of the Galaxy to date.” So far, it seems well on its way to doing that.
Gaia’s first data set, made public in September 2016, provided information about the luminosity and location of about 1.1 billion stars. The ESA writes that in the second data release, the spacecraft will provide the “positions and brightnesses for nearly 1.7 billion stars, distances, motions and color information for 1.3 billion, and a number of additional parameters for smaller subsets of stars and other celestial objects.”
“[INMS listeners] may have never even heard of this mission, I will tell you out of the gate this revolutionizes astronomy,” Faherty tells me. “It’s the most ambitious astronomy mission of all-time. Far more ambitious than JWST, arguably, and it will change everything we know about stars in our galaxy.”
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Wednesday’s release will be celebrated in its own way on at a hackathon in New York City, which Faherty is attending along with other astrophysicists in astronomers. Together, they’ll be figuring out how to best synthesize this massive amount of information. It’ll be a herculean effort for sure, but one Faherty feels it’ll all be worth the sleepless nights. After all, the result is kind of the biggest deal there is: a true map of the Milky Way.
“It’s not just going to fill the hole of JWST,” Faherty says. “It’s its own magical new thing which everyone should be excited about.”
How Would Alien Life Forms Look And Behave On A Habitable Planet Around A Red Dwarf Star?
How Would Alien Life Forms Look And Behave On A Habitable Planet Around A Red Dwarf Star?
The largest population of stars in the galaxy hide in the shadows, too dim to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. Their limited radiance helps to extend their lifetimes, which are far greater than that of the sun. Scientists think that 20 out of the 30 stars nearest to Earth are red dwarfs; however, none of them can be seen with the naked eye. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf.
Take the example of the recently discovered planet called Kepler 186f. It orbits a red dwarf star that has only 4% of the sun’s luminosity. It appears to have liquid water and to be habitable and it seems to have gravity similar to Earth. Due to their low luminosity, how do you think lifeforms would look like on a planet like this? There are a lot of factors that need to be considered, and most exoplanets are too far for those factors to be observed directly with current instruments.
Let’s first ponder the possible environments of a planet circling a red dwarf.
What would the sky look like?
For a blue sky: A planet needs to have a thick atmosphere with an abundance of oxygen, and preferably a clear ocean of water or methane. To have a thick atmosphere the planet will need to have a strong magnetosphere. To have a strong magnetosphere the planet will need to have a large, solid iron inner core rotating quickly within a fluid iron outer core. To have such a core, the planet must be larger than a certain size and must have been born after a certain amount of time after the big bang, and in a region of space relatively populated by iron dust created largely through supernovae and nucleosynthesis.
For a red sky: consider Mars. Its atmosphere is 1% of Earth’s and appears red because the ground is red. It’s literally rust. To have such a minimal atmosphere, Mars or any planet would likely have lost its magnetosphere. For that to be the case geological activity and core motion would need to have been dropped nearly to nothing (Mars, in fact, has some magnetism in the southern hemisphere). To be rust the planet must have a considerable amount of iron, so it needs to have accreted during a period when Iron has been nucleo-synthesized in abundance, and it needs to have formed in a region of space in which that is the case.
Let’s assume the planet has the same mass as Earth and is in the circumstellar habitable zone which, around Red Dwarfs, would be very close to the star. Tidal-locking would be inevitable, but models predict that atmospheric equilibration is potentially possible between the starward side and it’s opposite if CO2 and H20 are present. Still, the climate might be pretty turbulent, so expect the need for sturdy shelters capable of thermo-regulation.
The luminosity of a Red Dwarf is no more than 10% of our sun’s, so it will be like living in perpetual twilight.
Plants will need to photosynthesize much more efficiently, perhaps via black analogues of chlorophyll.
Life forms could have very similar metabolisms to earthly organisms. But who knows they might not even be carbon-based lifeforms. Metabolisms are a function of the chemical environment they evolve in. A life that evolves in an ammonia-rich atmosphere would be very different than on that evolved in a sulphur-rich atmosphere.
I would think that they would evolve big, big eyes or light sensors. It is logical to assume that their visual system would extend into the infrared end of the electromagnetic spectrum, since a red dwarf’s visible light emission peaks in the red portion of the spectrum.
They would not see colours like we do. They could see inside thick dust clouds, obscured galactic cores, and other hidden regions of the cosmos. These unique abilities are thanks to the infrared light, a wavelength invisible to the human eye.
Space would look like this to them:
This is how they would see us, humans:
How might they observe us?
In infrared, our petty reasons for racism and xenophobic behaviour completely vanishes.
Looking at us humans in the infrared like these aliens would, it would be impossible for them to understand our human failing of unenlightened racism. They would not see the superficial characteristic of white, black, red or yellow skin. In infrared, we would all appear to be the same.
We are all the SAME even when not viewed in infrared but many people still do not understand that.
Their physical size and bodily configuration depend on the gravity of the planet. On the massive planet, massive life forms. The Smaller planet, thinner lighter life forms. If there are aquatic life forms, they are probably on the level of algae and flagellates. Colors of organisms will be in the white to a pale region.
Red Dwarfs are thought to have frequent stellar flares. If you’re caught outside at the start of one, you better have a radiation-resistant coat that will envelop you rapidly.
Check out the free-access special issue on “M star planet habitability” in the journal Astrobiology, http://www.liebertonline.com/toc…, in particular the paper by Tarter et al. NASA and NSF broadly agree, and are funding searches for planets in the M-dwarf habitable zone – have a look at the presentation by Bean at this year’s Exploring Strange New Worlds exoplanet conference – http://nexsci.caltech.edu/confer…
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The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Photo Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Introduction
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities. The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other three OTV flights launched in April 2010, March 2011 and December 2012. Here are a few surprising facts about the military space plane.
Photo Credit: Boeing
1. It's tiny
The X-37B looks a lot like NASA's iconic space shuttle, but the two types of vehicles don't resemble each other in size. The X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.6 m). The now-retired space shuttle orbiters, by contrast, were 122 feet (37 m) long, and measured more than 78 feet (24 m) from wingtip to wingtip. Two X-37Bs could fit inside the shuttle's cavernous payload bay. Indeed, the X-37B's designers originally envisioned the shuttle carrying the smaller space plane to orbit but ultimately decided that launching the X-37B atop a rocket would be more economical. The X-37B currently rides to orbit aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket. Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on a runway, plane-style, but does everything autonomously (in contrast to the piloted shuttle, which usually carried a crew of seven astronauts).
Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance/Boeing
2. Its missions are classified
Although the Air Force has disclosed some of the payloads that have flown to orbit on the X-37B, most of the space plane's onboard gear is classified, as are the details of its orbital activities. This secrecy has led to some speculation that the vehicle is some sort of space weapon, perhaps one designed to take out or capture satellites. However, the Air Force has always denied this notion, insisting that the X-37B is just testing out technologies for future spacecraft, and carrying various experiments up to space and back. Some of these technologies being tested may be sensors and other equipment for future spy satellites, outside experts have said.
Photo Credit: Boeing
3. It has NASA roots
The X-37 program started in 1999 with NASA, which initially planned to develop two separate vehicles: an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle (ALTV), and an Orbital Vehicle (OV). But NASA transferred X-37 development to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004, at which point it became a classified program. In 2006, the Air Force announced it would develop its own X-37 vehicle, which it dubbed the X-37B, or OTV. The design of the space plane was based heavily on the original OV, which was never built. (DARPA did construct and test the ALTV, however.) Boeing has been the primary contractor for the X-37B program dating back to its inception in 1999. To date, the company has apparently built two X-37B space planes for the Air Force. (Two different vehicles have flown the program's four space missions.)
Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance
4. The missions are incredibly long
The Air Force's X-37B fact sheet states that the space plane is designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit at a time. However, the vehicle has already zoomed past that limit multiple times. The first X-37B mission, known as OTV-1, stayed aloft for just 225 days. But OTV-2 and OTV-3 lasted 469 days and 674 days, respectively. OTV-4 circled Earth for a record-shattering 718 days before it landed on May 7, 2017. This longevity may be a key part of the X-37B. After all, engineers testing technologies for future satellites want to see how this gear behaves in the space environment for long periods of time, experts have said.
Photo Credit: Kevin Fetter
5. You can see it from the ground
Though the Air Force doesn't disclose the X-37B's precise orbit, keen-eyed amateur astronomers have managed to track the vehicle from the ground — and so can you, thanks to their efforts. Check out Space.com’s satellite tracker to see where the X-37B is overhead during a mission. The view won't be dramatic; the space plane usually looks like a star of middling brightness moving across the sky.
Photo Credit: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing
6. Future versions might be coming
The current version of the X-37 may not be the last to reach space. In 2011, Boeing representatives announced that they were considering developing a larger variant called the X-37C, which could carry up to six astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). In addition, an engineering team led by former NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has proposed using a modified version of the X-37B as an ISS emergency-evacuation vehicle. But this is just a concept at the moment, and there's no indication that Boeing is investigating this "astronaut ambulance" variant.
This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made
This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made
By Megan Gannon, Space.com Contributor
BERLIN — Nearly 1.7 billion stars have been plotted in unprecedented detail with today's (April 25) highly anticipated release of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
The new 3D map, which was unveiled here at the ILA Berlin Air Show, offers the best-ever look at the Milky Way — now in color — and promises to unleash hundreds of scientific discoveries about our galactic home and beyond.
"The first time I saw this I was at home, I turned off all the lights, and I just sat there in the dark for a while staring at this image because it's really so beautiful," Anthony Brown, an astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said during a press conference. Brown, who is chair of the consortium of 450 scientists and software engineers who are processing and validating the Gaia data, encouraged others to download the map and "go to a dark place and admire it." [How the Gaia Galaxy-Mapping Satellite Works (Infographic)]
The European Space Agency released a new map of nearly 1.7 billion stars from the Gaia spacecraft, giving the best-ever view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies in color.
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The $1 billion (750 million euros) Gaia spacecraft launched in 2013 for a five-year mission to map the night sky with unmatched accuracy. The spacecraft is perched far beyond the moon's orbit, in the Lagrange-2, or L2, point, a gravitationally stable spot about 1 million miles (1.5 kilometers) away from Earth. Unlike space telescopes such as Hubble that orbit the Earth, Gaia can scan the cosmos without Earth blocking a large chunk of its view. As it rotates in space, Gaia measures about 100,000 stars each minute and covers the whole sky in about two months. Each star is measured 70 times on average.
"Over the lifetime of five years of Gaia, we will actually get 29 independent measurements of whole sky," Günther Hasinger, the European Space Agency's (ESA) director of science, said at the ILA.
The orbits of four globular clusters (NGC 104, NGC 288, NGC 362 and NGC 1851), shown in blue, and three dwarf galaxies (Carina, Bootes I and Draco), shown in red, around the Milky Way, as imaged by the Gaia spacecraft.
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Gaia's first data release in 2016 offered information on the positions and brightness of 1.142 billion stars, but it included only the distances and motions of a subset of 2 million stars. The new publicly available catalog includes the positions, distances, motions, brightness and colors (which allowed the scientists to synthesize the new color image) of more than 1.3 billion stars. The star census also reveals the surface temperatures of about 100 million stars and the effect of interstellar dust on 87 million stars.
These measurements can be used for much more than Milky Waymapmaking. The properties of stars can tell scientists about the origins, evolution and structure of the galaxy. The Gaia scientists today announced some of their preliminary findings from poring over the new data. Independently, other teams of researchers around the world were eagerly waiting to get their hands on the data to run their own studies.
The Gaia spacecraft gathered observations for this all-sky view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies between July 2014 and May 2016, releasing the data on April 25, 2018. This image shows all the stars' colors and brightness (top), the total density of stars (middle) and the distribution of interstellar gas and dust across the galaxy (bottom).
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The huge trove of data went online at noon CET (6 a.m. EDT) and had 256 users in the first 2 minutes alone, according to a tweet from the Gaia mission. Brown told Space.com that he expects the first scientific manuscripts using the new Gaia data to be uploaded to preprint servers (such as arXiv) by tomorrow or Friday (April 26-27). An average of a paper a day had been published from the first Gaia data release until now, Brown said, and he expects there to be many more studies based on the new cache.
During today's release, Brown and his colleagues unveiled several images, including a new map of the clouds of gas and dust in the galaxy and a new visualization of the orbits of 75 ancient globular clusters and 12 dwarf galaxies that revolve around the Milky Way. The Gaia archive also contains the largest-ever radial velocity survey, with measurements on how fast more than 7 million stars are moving toward us or away from us, and the resulting map of this data was another "'Wow!' image" for Brown.
This radial velocity image shows the movement of 7 billion stars. The colors run from blue (stars moving at 50 km/s toward us) to red (stars moving 50 km/s away from us). The white color shows when, on average, the stars are not moving in the line of sight with respect to us. Stars lagging behind as they orbit the center of the Milky Way appear to be traveling away from us, and those speeding up appear to be traveling toward us.
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
"Basically, you see the whole Milky Way in motion around its axis in this one image," he said.
Antonella Valenari, a Gaia scientist from the University of Padua in Italy, introduced a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram based on the new Gaia data. This type of diagram compares the brightness of stars with their color as a way to examine populations of stars and their evolution.
"In our Milky Way, we have different families of stars that are born more or less at the same time and more or less with the same chemical composition and same characteristics," Valenari explained, adding that reconstructing these families can help scientists understand when and how the Milky Way was formed. "For us this diagram is like opening a chocolate box. It's very, very exciting."
Valenari also said that the Gaia data reveals groups of stars "moving in a strange way" inside the Milky Way at similar speeds. She compared the pattern to ripples in a pond, and that smaller neighboring galaxies merging with the Milky Way billions of years ago might have caused this perturbation. "This is something we still have to study to be sure of it," she said.
The Gaia spacecraft has even made observations of our own solar system, mapping the positions of more than 14,000 known asteroids. And Gaia is still operating and collecting measurements. The final data release is expected for the 2020s, according to ESA.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Swirls in Stunning Up-Close Photo by Juno Probe
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Swirls in Stunning Up-Close Photo by Juno Probe
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot using data gathered by NASA's Juno spacecraft on April 1, 2018.
A new photo by NASA's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot in all its angry, swirling glory.
The new image is a composite of three photos Juno took with its JunoCam instrument on April 1, during the probe's latest close flyby of the solar system's largest planet. Juno's altitude above the cloud tops ranged from 15,379 to 30,633 miles (24,749 to 49,299 kilometers) when the spacecraft snapped the images, NASA officials said in a statement.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed these raw photos into the color-enhanced final product, which NASA released Saturday (April 21). [See more stunning photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot]
The Juno mission team encourages anyone to do such processing work with the spacecraft's photos. You can try your hand atmissionjuno.swri.edu/junocam.
The Great Red Spot is about 10,150 miles (16,330 km) across — roughly 1.3 times wider than Earth. But the monster storm used to be much bigger. For example, records suggest that it spanned about 35,000 miles (56,300 km) in the 1800s. If the shrinkage continues unabated, the Great Red Spot could disappear entirely within a few decades, some astronomers have said.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The spacecraft orbits the gas giant once every 53.5 Earth days on a highly elliptical path, making scientific observations during close passes such as the April 1 encounter.
During these flybys, Juno maps Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields and studies the composition, temperature and movement of the planet's thick atmosphere. Such data are helping scientists better understand Jupiter's interior structure, as well as its evolutionary history — how the giant planet took shape and has changed over time.
Should Mankind Be Worried? Here Are 5 Alarming Prophecies Written By Nostradamus
Should Mankind Be Worried? Here Are 5 Alarming Prophecies Written By Nostradamus
Michel de Notre Dame, historically known as Nostradamus is without a doubt one of the greatest prophets to ever exist. The French apothecary is believed to have foreseen countless historical evens long before they occurred. According to reports, Nostradamus is said to have predicted the US Moon Landing, Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, he is believed to have accurately predicted the Death of Henry II, and the JFK & RFK Assassinations among many other historical events.
2018, is of particular interest for those who analyze and study his work. The years has been extremely interesting both scientifically and historically, and despite the fact that many people believe not much will change in comparison to previous years, there are those–specifically those following Nostradamus’ work–believe great changes are upon us.
The French apothecary and seer is believed to have started having visions of the future at a relatively early age.
If we take a look at his greatest work written down in his book ‘The Prophecies’, Nostradamus composed over a thousand four-line poetic verses called “quatrains.” It is precisely in these quatrains where his secrets lay embedded.
Despite the fact that many academic scholars argue that the associations made between historic events and Nostradamus’s quatrains are mostly the product mistranslations, there are millions of people around the world, including news portals around the world that credit him with predicting countless major historic events.
Some of his most famous predictions are listed here below.
The Death of Henry II
“The young lion will overcome the older one, On the field of combat in a single battle; He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage, two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.”
In the summer of 1559, King Henry II of France referred to as the older one lined up to joust the Comte de Montgomery, the young lion, six years his junior, on the fields of France or combat. In the final pass, Montgomery’s lance burst through the king’s visor splintering to pieces. Both of them did have lions on their shields. Two shards injured him, one pierced his eye and lodged in the Kings head. Henry II suffered for 10 days before dying in his bed.
The US Moon Landing
He will come to travel to the corner of Luna, where he will be captured and put in a strange land, The unripe fruits to be subject of great scandal, great blame, to one, great praise.
He referred to the Astronauts traveling to the moon, Luna. He, the astronaut was captured on film. Nostradamus used the phrase “the Eagle” as an allusion to the U.S.A. Is it a coincidence that the American lunar landing craft happened to be named “the Eagle”?
Oh, did I say he predicted Donald Trump as becoming President of the United States?
But, what does Nostradamus have for 2018?
1. The Largest Recorded Earthquake
So far, 2018 and even a part of 2017 was marked by catastrophic earthquakes around the globe. However, it is said that Nostradamus foresaw the largest earthquake in the history of the United States, especially affecting the western area of the United States. However, despite predicting the earthquake in the US, it is believed that the power of the earthquake will be felt in other countries around the world. Let’s hope he was wrong.
2. People will live more than 200 years
It is believed that the great French seer predicted great advances in medicine, which will extend the average lifespan of human to about 200 years. It is said that Nostradamus wrote how an 80-year-old will look like a 50, year old according. Numerous advancements in medicine have been made and Nostradamus’ predictions may soon become a reality.
3. Radiation will burn the planet
“Kings steal forests, the sky will open; the fields will be burned by heat,” Nostradamus wrote. This is believed to be a warning that the destruction of Earth’s rainforests will lead to a dangerous hole in the ozone layer and how Earth could be exposed to harmful ultraviolet radiation. Maybe it’s time to pay attention.
4. Language differences will disappear
“After the invention of a new engine, the world will be like in the days before Babel.” According to some interpretations of Nostradamus’ work, this new ‘engine; could be used like modern-day computers.
5. The collapse of the global economy
“The rich will die many times,” the French prophet wrote in his quatrains. Curiously, many other ‘Prophets’ like Baba Vanga, Edgar Cayce predicted the same.
The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016. Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of especially bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer bright stars are observed.
Credit: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC).
ESA’s Gaia mission has now released the richest star catalogue to date, accurately pinpointing the position of more than 1.7 billion stars. The painstaking work, which required more than 22 months of charting the sky, will enable astronomers to investigate the formation and evolution of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.
“The observations collected by Gaia are redefining the foundations of astronomy,” says Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science.
“Gaia is an ambitious mission that relies on a huge human collaboration to make sense of a large volume of highly complex data. It demonstrates the need for long-term projects to guarantee progress in space science and technology and to implement even more daring scientific missions of the coming decades.”
The €750 ($920) million Gaia satellite’s journey started in December 2013, and its first data release, which was based on just one year of observations, was published in 2016. This initial survey mapped the distances and motions of two million stars — very impressive, by all means. But, this latest data release, which was collected between 25 July 2014 and 23 May 2016, outshines its predecessor, pinning down the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. What’s more, the precision with which some of these stars have been mapped is simply mind-blowing. For instance, some of the brightest stars in the survey have been pinpointed with the same level of precision required for Earthbound observers to be able to spot a Euro coin lying on the surface of the Moon.
“The second Gaia data release represents a huge leap forward with respect to ESA’s Hipparcos satellite, Gaia’s predecessor and the first space mission for astrometry, which surveyed some 118 000 stars almost thirty years ago,” says Anthony Brown of Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Unwinding the Milky Way’s history
Armed with these far more accurate measurements, astronomers can now differentiate between the parallax of stars — the apparent shift in the sky caused by Earth’s yearly orbit around the sun — from their true movements relative to the galactic center. From the most accurate parallax measurements, about ten percent of the total, astronomers can directly estimate distances to individual stars.
All of this is a “big deal” for researchers whose careers are about understanding the Milky Way and its formation, a quest where the accuracy in pinning down the relative movements of its stars is of the utmost importance. Until recently, much of the galaxy’s contents have been obscured by gas and dust, making it difficult to discern its structure from our vantage point. And because the satellite traces how the stars move, scientists can trace their movements back in time, as if winding a clock backward — in the process, which some call galactic archaeology, it’s possible to see how the galaxy evolved over the past 13 billion years.
That’s not all. Gaia also observes objects in our Solar System, like the positions of more than 14,000 known asteroids. An even larger asteroid sample will be compiled in Gaia’s future releases.
Gaia also has locked on to the positions of more than half a million quasars — extremely remote celestial objects, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, powered by black holes a billion times as massive as our sun. These objects are used in the survey as beacons that define a reference frame for the celestial coordinates of all other objects in the Gaia catalogue, something that is routinely done in radio waves but now, for the first time, is also available at optical wavelengths.
All in all, scientists expect to make a wealth of new discoveries as a direct result of the new Gaia data release. Already, some astronomers are using the Gaia survey to distinguish between various populations of stars of different ages that are located in different regions of the Milky Way — such as the disc and the halo — and that formed in different ways
“Gaia will greatly advance our understanding of the Universe on all cosmic scales,” says Timo Prusti, Gaia project scientist at ESA.
“Even in the neighbourhood of the Sun, which is the region
It’s easy to get disheartened about the utter lack of evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life. The universe is an unimaginably large place, yet so far it seems like we’re all alone. Of course, it could just be that aliens are too far away or perhaps we’re just looking for the wrong things in the wrong places. Maybe we’re an aberration, or, given the unfathomably long timelines of the cosmos, it could be that civilizations rarely develop in close proximity at the same times. Still, scientists with SETI and other organizations remain optimistic that we’ll discover alien life within the next few decades. There’s never been a better reason to take care of your health.
To add to the list of reasons why we’re so utterly forever alone out here in the terrifyingly empty reaches of space, a German astrophysicist has just published a new theory for why we haven’t found any aliens. According to Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Sonneberg Observatory, one of the most significant challenges facing distant alien races could be their own planets’ immense gravitational pulls. Recent exoplanet discoveries have revealed that so-called “Super-Earths” are fairly common in the habitable zones of their stars. However, as Hippke points out, the immense size of these Super-Earths can create incredibly strong gravitational forces which essentially ‘trap’ aliens on the surface due to the energy requirements needed to escape them.
Hippke toldSpace.com that any advanced alien civilizations on these types of planets might be unable to leave the surface by means of spaceflight, and thus might look for other means of reaching out:
Civilizations from super-Earths are much less likely to explore the stars. Instead, they would be to some extent arrested on their home planet and, for example, make more use of lasers or radio telescopes for interstellar communication instead of sending probes or spaceships.
Hippke says humans are pretty luck to find ourselves on a planet lightweight enough to support spaceflight, but that “other civilizations, if they exist, might not be as lucky.” Still, Hippke concludes his study by theorizing that space elevators or nuclear-powered rockets might be an option for these civilizations. As with all of these studies, I can’t help but wonder if our thinking about aliens is limited by the facts of our own existence.
The limits of our senses and our own technology lead us to think that all other life must ‘work’ the same ways life on Earth does. We think that any potential alien races would only be able to reach space by means of spacecraft, or that they even want to reach space at all, but who knows what hypothetical aliens on other planets might be like? Maybe they want to be left alone. Maybe they can send their consciousnesses through space. Maybe their bodies are spacecraft. The point is, we have no Earthly idea what’s out there, on Super-Earths or any other types of planets.
This Super-Earth, called 55 Cancri e, is nearly twice the size of our home planet. The gravity here would be far larger than on Earth.
Which concept is more believable (or unbelievable) … that the Milky Way galaxy has wandering supermassive black holes or that supermassive black holes (wandering or otherwise) could be hiding advanced alien civilizations? Both concepts have been seen in models and both could someday have an impact on Earth. Is it too soon to either run or put out a welcome mat … or both?
Supermassive black holes are the largest type of black hole and as such usually occupy the premier location in a galaxy – namely, smack dab in the middle. That’s the case with the Milky Way galaxy, whose supermassive black hole is at its center at Sagittarius A* (A-star), which is near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. While not yet proven, astronomers assume that every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. It’s also likely that some may have two in that same center location. Now, a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters proposes that some galaxies, including the Milky Way, have wandering supermassive black holes whose cause and possible effects are a concern for other stars.
Study lead author Michael Tremmel (who summarizes it in this video) reports that researchers from Yale, the University of Washington, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, and University College London used a new simulation model appropriately named Romulus (one of the twin founders of Rome) to predict the existence of these wandering supermassive black holes – appropriate because the secondary wandering holes are likely the result of the incomplete merging of two galaxies where the bigger SMBH didn’t assimilate the smaller one. The smaller SMBHs, being too far out to absorb gas and generate radiation, are invisible, but could still be deadly to a nearby star and its planets. Like us?
“It is extremely unlikely that any wandering supermassive black hole will come close enough to our Sun to have any impact on our solar system. We estimate that a close approach of one of these wanderers that is able to affect our solar system should occur every 100 billion years or so, or nearly 10 times the age of the universe.”
The amount of money wagered on lotteries shows how little humans respect long odds, but something far different that annihilation might also occur if our solar system is approached by a SMBH … alien contact. With the news of the wandering SMBHs, it’s worth revisiting an older report where Russian cosmologist Vyacheslav Vyacheslav Dokuchaev at Moscow’s Institute for Nuclear Research and the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed that supermassive black holes are so large, their centers may have enough space that their gravitational pull is less, allowing for planets to potentially exist. And not just planets, but also …
“We hypothesize that the advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei being invisible from the outside.”
Really? Dokuchaev says supermassive black holes have two ‘point of no return’ event horizons with a space between them.
“The naked central singularity illuminates the orbiting internal planets and provides the energy supply for life supporting. This internal black hole domain, hidden by the two horizons from the whole external universe, is indeed a suitable place for safe inhabitation.”
REALLY? Dokuchaev admits that this advanced civilization would have to be advanced enough to deal with “huge tidal forces and massive energy densities … [and] causality violations, where the rules of space-time don’t apply.” If they’re so advanced, why don’t they move to a better galactic neighborhood?
So, a simulator shows that supermassive black holes are wandering the Milky Way, a Russian cosmologist says they may contain advanced life forms, and the odds of either getting close to us are worse than the lottery … but not impossible.
What do we know for sure? Supermassive Black Hole is already a great song and the Naked Singularities would be a great name for a band.
On the weekend of April 13-15, I spoke at the annual Ozark Mountain UFO Conference on the subject of the Men in Black. As so often happens at such gigs, people have questions for the speakers. One of the questions put to me went something like this: “Why don’t the aliens intervene and do something for us?” It was a question provoked by my speculation that within a century or so from now we will have well and truly irreversibly fucked up not just ourselves but the planet and everything that shares it with us. Yes, contrary to what some might think, it’s not just our world: there are plenty of other animals that will suffer as a result of our reckless stupidity.
Given that we may well end up wiping ourselves out, it might seem reasonable to think that, at the last moment, the aliens will step in and disable every nuke on the planet and prevent destruction on a worldwide scale (slight shades of 1951’s The Day The Earth Stood Still). Of course, this all assumes that the aliens actually care about us and the many other lifeforms on the planet. There are those who believe that the aliens are indeed our friends and that they are here to keep us on a road that takes us far away from destruction via nuclear war and ecological collapse – and who knows what else? But, is that really the case? Probably not. Although, no doubt, such a scenario may help some get to sleep at night.
Yes, there are indications that our visitors (from wherever) may have concerns for our existence and our extinction. But, those same concerns never really seem to be anything but halfhearted in nature and content. Take, for example, the Space Brothers of the 1950s. Those long-haired hippy types who dropped in to say “Hi, Earthling!” to the likes of George Adamski, George Van Tassel, Truman Bethurum and Orfeo Angelucci, and who warned them of the dangers of the A-bomb, certainly did state that we were on a road to destruction. But, if they really cared, why just share their concerns with a bunch of people in the deserts of California, Nevada, and Arizona? Yes, Adamski’s first book, Flying Saucers Have Landed(co-written with Desmond Leslie) sold well. And, yes, George Van Tassel’s annual gigs at Giant Rock, California attracted audiences in the thousands at their height.
For the most part, though, more than a few of the Contactees languished in obscurity and had to settle for selling a few of their self-published pamphlets, booklets and books to fairly small crowds. And today, many of those Contactees are forgotten and turned to dust. So, what was the point behind the actions of the Space Brothers? If it really was to save us from ourselves, they failed miserably. The reason being that chummy chats with a few people out at Giant Rock is not going to save the planet. Scaring the crap out of a bunch of people in desert locations in the early years of the Cold War achieved nothing – except for creating the image of caring ETs. Which may have been the point all along. And don’t bother me with theories concerning real-life equivalents of Star Trek’s “Prime Directive.”Bringing the likes of something as yawn-inducing and crappy as Star Trek into the equation does nothing but turn matters into a nerd/geek fest.
It’s pretty much the same with the black-eyed, big-headed, emotionless entities known as the Greys. Countless numbers of alien abductees have reported seeing images in their minds of the final days of planet Earth, of worldwide destruction, and of the end of humanity. We’re led to believe that this is because the Greys like us a lot; they’re warning us of what lurks ominously around the corner. They love us and they really want to see us make it. If that’s the case, then why do they not make themselves known to one and all (again, please don’t mention Star Trek…)? Why target a very small handful of the overall human population and encourage them to patiently write books and hit the road and speak at conferences, when doing so achieves absolutely nothing outside of the realm of Ufology?
The fact is that we only have their word that they are our friends (or, at least, that they have a desire for us not to end up as a combined pile of radioactive ash). We even only have their word that they are alien (in the extraterrestrial fashion). Maybe they are actually Mac Tonnies’ Cryptoterrestrials (doubtful, but I guess not completely impossible), John Keel’s Ultraterrestrials(a theory I like a lot), or even time-travelers from our very own future (Flying Saucers but no DeLoreans?).
UFO witnesses, contactees and abductees are all too quick to embrace the aliens, their words of friendliness, and their fears for our future. But, I kind of see it all as something, in a somewhat skewed fashion, that is akin to Stockholm Syndrome. Hanging onto the words of entities that may not be what they appear to be, and whose primary goal seems to be to ensure that we see them as our friends (when they may not be), is not a good thing. The Space-Brothers and the Greys don’t just try to be our friends. They try too hard. Our mysterious visitors do not care; they just try and convince us they do. And, that should be a cause for concern and alarm.
Seriously: what’s going on with all of the unexplained explosions and booms being heard throughout the United States? Over the last year, loud mystery booms have been consistently rattling homes and people from coast to coast with little explanation. All sorts of possible causes have been thrown out – underground frostquakes, natural gas emissions, atmospheric disturbances – but so far no single, official explanation has been offered.
This week, the booms continued in America’s northeast, being heard in rural Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. In Richland Township, Pennsylvania, residents in several towns were left confused after loud booms were reported multiple nights around 2:00 a.m., waking up residents and leaving a mystery in their wake. “It is quite loud,” says Donna Weaver of Quakertown, “It went boom, boom, that’s what it sounds like to me and that sounds like an explosion.” You’re absolutely right, Donna. Explosions do go ‘boom boom.’
Weaver told local news WFMZ that without an official explanation, residents are left to guess wildly as to what the source of the booms might be:
Nobody can figure out what it is. Some people were saying maybe they think it’s kids throwing M-80’s or cherry bombs, others are saying aliens.
Others always say aliens. A little farther north, residents of Plaistow, New Hampshire were awakened early in the morning hours of Monday, April 23 when a “mysterious loud noise” woke them up. Plaistow resident Joseph Pageau says he heard a sound “louder than fireworks” and feared the worst, but upon heading in the direction of the sound found nothing:
I was awake in bed and heard the explosion. I got up and looked out the window expecting to see a fire or something. I got in my truck and took a ride over expecting to see a house explosion. But there was nothing.
Police responded to several concerned calls about the sound, but discovered nothing. Fire crews were called when a small brush fire was found in the vicinity of many of the mystery boom reports, but it’s unclear if the fire and the noise were related.
A similar incident occurred today in Bellingham, Washington, where a large boom was heard throughout several surrounding cities. Like in the New Hampshire incident, smoke from a small fire was seen afterwards, although a local fire department spokesperson said this was likely from a nearby permitted brush burn. The Whatcom County Fire Marshal is still investigating the cause of the unexplained boom.
Me, I can’t help coming back to the theory that these noises could be the result of test flights of hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicles. Russia, China, and the U.S. have all been rumored to be testing faster-than-sound suborbital spacecraftcapable of delivering airstrikes to anywhere in the world in minutes. Are these mystery explosions actually the sonic booms caused by secret aircraft or weapons tests, spread out throughout the country to avoid detection? It’s certainly within the realm of the possible.
Giant Alien Glowing Worm flys Through Sky To Enter UFO, Chile, Video, April 23, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Alien Glowing Worm flys Through Sky To Enter UFO, Chile, Video, April 23, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 23, 2018
Location of sighting: Cuarta Region, Chile
This video is absolute 100% evidence that aliens exist. Watch how this living glowing worm alien flies through clouds. Then it comes out glowing orange, searching for a UFO about to give it a ride. The UFO shows up and the alien enters the craft. Remarkable footage. We have just witnessed an alien species that resembles a giant worm.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Increíble Nitidez de Ovni en Huentelauquen Cuarta Región Chile 23/04/2018.
Do you notice the photo below has long antenna like tentacles?
UFO Sighted Over Pisco, Peru on April 22, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted Over Pisco, Peru on April 22, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 22, 2018 Location of sighting: Pisco, Peru The number one most popular moment of every day to catch a UFO is sunset. This is due to the angle of the sun and the angle of the UFO and the eyewitness, making a 90 degree angle. The sun, UFO, eyewitness are each points on the triangle. I will include a graph to better understand. UFOs are more frequently seen in South America, reasons unknown, but reports confirm this. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Good friends to ca and another video this time I reached a UFO while I was bathing.
Experts think this black dot in the sky spotted hovering over Newcastle could be a UFO
Experts think this black dot in the sky spotted hovering over Newcastle could be a UFO
Witness 'will now undergo hypnosis' after sighting which has been made public due to a leading ufo hunter
By Ian Johnson
A UFO expert has released a file over a sighting made in Tyneside which the witness claims may have been a UFO - and has left the expert baffled
(Image: Ian Johnson)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Or is it an extra-terrestrial craft from outer space?
That’s the question puzzling alien hunters after a “shape shifting” vessel was spotted hovering over Tyneside.
And the person who snapped it thinks it could be a UFO.
“I was in my back garden and when I looked up I noticed that the clouds had a wake in them as if an invisible force had pushed through them” reads a witness report of the sighting.
“As I looked about in the sky I saw nothing. I then looked North West over my fence and seen a triangular craft about the size of a Transit van.
“It was black in colour and seemed to be changing shape.”
The witness rushed to get their camera. When they returned the craft had “changed shape” and was smaller.
“It then started to ascend up into the clouds (and made) no sound at all,” adds the witness.
“When the UFO was at a certain height, three boomerang type crafts flew around it. The UFO was constantly changing shape.”
A report of last June’s Westerhope sighting was filed with North East UFO expert Glen Richardson.
He’s now made snaps of the sighting public, and praised the witness for going public, in a bid to try and establish what the mystery craft was.
“At the moment the investigation is at the early stage so it is difficult to say what it is,” admits Hartlepool’s Glen.
“There can be many explanations to what it might be. For example a bird is a common explanation.”
He’s getting the snaps analysed to try and shed some light.
“I’ve spoken to the witness via email and the witness has explained they’ve had many experiences over the years and is wanting to go through hypnotic regression,” he added.
“But again this is showing the popularity of ufo activity in the North-East and hopefully more and more people will come forward.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: 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.
Bryce also co-wrote a book titled A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact. It is a fictional book that tries to imagine what would happen if the government announced that we are being visited by aliens. In this interview, we discuss with Bryce if we are living in a bit of a post-disclosure environment now, since the revelation that the government has been investigating UFOs. We also discuss Art Bell who recently passed away. Bryce knew Art and even cast him in an episode of his TV series Dark Skies.
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART I
Simi Valley, California triangle captured on April 2, 2018
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART I
Special reports, this week’s files cover: NASA The Search for Human’s Original Home, Sumerian Anunnaki Came to Earth, Expert says You’re Aliens— We Were Brought to Earth of Thousands of Years Ago, DNA an Efficient Information Storage System, Enceladus Saturn’s Moon May Have Alien Life, and Art Bell Broadcaster Passes Away at 72
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
Major George Filer , Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference. To see invitation please go to this page.
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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Special Projects
NASA | The Search for Human’s Original Home
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched April 18, 2018, and will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever space borne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat. It is expected to discover thousands of exo-planets one may be Heaven or the original home of humans. Thanks to NASA
Sumerian Anunnaki Came to Earth
These ancient tablets hold the secrets of our true history because they contain evidence of the oldest recorded events in history. The main focus of study is looking at the first occurrences of themes, stories and language found in the archeological record, and then comparing them to the historical record. The consistencies between them may reveal our true history. By looking at the original tablets, some dated thousands of years before the Bible, that were utilized to make up our borrowed stories. The Sumerian was one of the first cultures of humankind. It was developed between 5300 BC and 2000 BC, it is still one of the most advanced civilizations known to have existed on Earth. Sitchin claims the cuneiform text describe an alien race named the “Anunnaki” who came to the earth from an undiscovered planet in our Solar System, beyond Neptune called Nibiru.
Expert says You’re Aliens— We Were Brought to Earth of Thousands of Years Ago
Ancient Code reports, “What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along?” According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern-day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur. Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years. Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Highly advanced civilizations have been here before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe. But for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not. No other species on earth can attribute such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us. Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time. Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby cannot do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life. Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth are bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Back and Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems. Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh-negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh-negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, “Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History” tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene. There are 612 primate species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and not one has Rh-negative blood”. – Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History
Professor Milton Wainwright from the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology and his team inspected and analyzed the rock and its biological contents. They theorized that it not only pointed to the existence of extraterrestrial life, “but to complex and civilized beings watching our planet.” Could this be true? Have aliens been seeding Earth since the beginning of time and are now watching us to see how we respond? If so, what is their purpose and why do they not make themselves known to us?
A Missing Planet May Be a Clue
In the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have noted there appears to be a missing planet. Was the asteroid belt formed by an exploding planet whose ancient civilization escaped to earth? Could we be descendants from an alien race that previously occupied another planet? Could some of those aliens still be living among us, either unrecognized or in hiding? Perhaps the progenitors of life on Earth escaped the annihilation of life on their own planet and are now hiding on Earth, watching to see if we destroy ourselves.
Mysteries of the Solar System
While the search for scattered remains of ancient aliens on Earth continues, greater mysteries stretch throughout the solar system before us. Explore how our solar system was once the staging ground for an ancient civilization such as Venus or Mars which propagates life throughout the universe.
Humans are not from Earth
According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along. A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other life forms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity. Adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Here’s what you’ll discover: 53 factors that prove we couldn’t have evolved on Earth. Why we’re here on Earth, and how and when we got here. Where our true home planet is.
This is an a page from the book.
In China there are a hundred pyramids thousands of years old with the remains of blue eyed blonds buried nearby. White skin humans were first developed at this time.
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
This is an a page from the book.
Is Human Life on Earth Related to Extraterrestrials?
Panspermia is a mechanism that allows biology to spread through space without needing a spaceship. living matter “hitches a ride on sunlight or inside rocks.” Some scientists believe that Mars was indeed inhabited at one time. Some space rocks were “kicked” off the planet and landed in the Antarctic. Biological material from Mars that was in the rocks may spur exploration into the search for the solution to the age-old question: Where do we come from and why are we here? There are several theories that relate to extraterrestrials.
For example, did aliens escape from an unknown planet and come here due to dire circumstances on their home planets? Are we descendants of this race? Environmentalist and ecologist turned author Dr. Ellis Silver believes this is the case.
In his book, Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence, Dr. Silver presents 17 reasons why humans are not suited for living on this planet. He believes these reasons indicate we originated from another planet. He says that while Earth meets some of our needs as a species, it is not as good a fit for us as much as “whoever brought us here initially thought.”
Silver gives some examples of our unsuitability for living on Earth. For example, he states that humans do not do well with large doses of sunlight, which we receive every day. He also notes there are a large number of people in the world who have chronic back aches, which he attributed to evidence that we originated from a planet with lower gravity. He also notes that we are better programmed to exist with a 25-hour day instead of a 24-hour one.
Silver suggests we may have come from Alpha Centauri. The planet may have suffered some type of cataclysmic event from which a few residents were able to escape and come to Earth.
ARE WE DESCENDANTS OF REFUGEES FROM MARS?
Face on Mars
Scientists and researchers believe that, eons ago, Humanoids inhabited Mars but a war destroyed the livability of the planet. This could have been due to the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding on Mars 300,000 to 1 million years ago. Is it possible some living beings were able to escape to Earth before the destruction?
ARE ALIENS AMONG US?
In 1999, a contact inside the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency told a reporter his job was to analyze and monitor three extraterrestrial groups who were, and likely still are, inhabiting Earth. The source said the alien species lives inside mountains, under the earth and sea in deep caverns.
The source expressed his belief that the ETs have a great deal of control over the planet and its inhabitants. He said the aliens have links to Mars, Sirius and Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2. The aliens living on Earth look very similar to humans. They have a head, two eyes, a mouth, two legs and two arms. They regularly study humans and take sperm, DNA and other bodily samples.
The aliens may be trying to manipulate human genetics in order to create artificial mutations. Is it is possible we are a product of an ancient alien species that continues to study, observe and manipulate humans for reasons we don’t know? One possible reason is our immunity to various types of bacteria and viruses that could kill the visitors.
There are many deep space mysteries for which there seems to be more questions than answers. Immerse yourself in Deep Space: Mysteries of the Solar System for an adventure into the study of extraterrestrials and their influence and control of humans.
DNA an Efficient Information Storage System
Paleontologists for some reason have ignored the possibility of intervention by extraterrestrials. They admit thousands even millions of mutations would be required to develop cells from the primordial soup to fish, primitive land creatures, then apes to hominids or primitive man. We know now that our DNA molecule is probably the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information written on the DNA is amazing. The evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design. Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called’ simple cell(s).
A single cell is unbelievably complex being roughly equivalent to New York City in a bubble or the outer membrane of one cell. As we move in closer to examine the cell we see the huge buildings, roads, subways, bridges, auto traffic that represent the various parts of the cell. As we move closer inside the various buildings we find a network of electrical wiring, heating and air conditioning systems, elevators carrying people. Inside the offices are millions of computers and wiring chips. Now you have an idea of the complexity of one of your single cells in your body, that can duplicate itself in minutes.
From his discovery of the structure of DNA, he felt life did not originate on earth, and suggests a theory called Panspermia. That the seeds of life are all through the universe. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded from space aboard meteorites or even space ships.
Francis Crick proposed, in a book called “Life Itself,” that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded Earth from space aboard meteorites and comets. Personally, I have seen the spaceships and tracked them on radar and have spoken with dozens of people including astronauts and key heads of state who conclude that extraterrestrials visit Earth.
The Neanderthals had brow ridges to keep the sun out of their eyes, but why don’t we? When a leading scientist walked into a wall and broke his nose, he decided to find out. In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Dr. Ellis Silver examines the evidence that’s all around us … and discovers that we evolved on a world distinctly different from the one we live on today and what it’s like to live there. The logical conclusion is that we came from a planet with lower levels of UV radiation, which didn’t give us skin cancer. The light levels there must have been relatively consistent throughout the year, which implies a lack of seasons. Venus is one planet that lacks seasons but is said to be very hot. Most of our vitamin D – and perhaps all of it must have come from our diet, and whatever we ate must have been rich in vitamin D and enjoyable to eat. It appears that this type of food is unavailable on planet Earth. The only source on Earth is the livers of oily fish which most people won’t eat even if it could save their lives.
Why valid evidence is ignored, denied and covered up by scientists and governments. (There’s actually a very good reason.) What we really know about extraterrestrials and their spacecraft
Dr. Silver also uncovers: The origins of RNA and DNA, and how life evolved – on Earth and elsewhere, A more accurate timeline of human evolution – without the gaps and mistakes. Why the Theory of Evolution is wrong – and how to fix it. Why the Out of Africa theory is wrong – and what really happened.
Enceladus Saturn’s Moon May Have Alien Life
Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn’s moons said Tuesday.
The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as Achaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.
A methanogenic (methane-producing) Achaean called Methanothermococcus okinawensis thrived in laboratory conditions mimicking those thought to exist on Saturn’s satellite, the team said.
On Earth, this type of Achaean is found at very hot temperatures near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas into methane.
Traces of methane were previously detected in vapor emanating from cracks in Enceladus’ surface.
“We conclude that some of the CH4 (methane) detected in the plume of Enceladus might, in principle, be produced by methanogens,” the researchers in Germany and Austria wrote.
They also calculated that sufficient hydrogen to support such microbes could be produced by geochemical processes in Enceladus’ rocky core.
The authors had set out to test the hypothesis that conditions on the satellite may be good for hosting methanogenic archaea.
The data, based purely on laboratory study, showed this “could be” so, said Simon Rittmann of the University of Vienna who co-authored the scientific paper.
But the results provide “no evidence for possible extraterrestrial life,” he underlined to AFP.
“Our study only concerns microorganisms. I would like to avoid any speculation about intelligent life,” he said. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, separated from Earth only by Mars and Jupiter. It has dozens of moons.
Previous research suggested that Enceladus sports an ocean of liquid water — a key ingredient for life — beneath its icy surface. The moon is also thought to contain compounds such as methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia, and its south pole sports hydrothermal activity — a combination of traits that makes it a key target in the search for extra-terrestrial life. Alien Life in Our Solar System? Study Hints at Saturn’s Moon | Newsmax.com
Art Bell Broadcaster Passes Away at 72
Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.[4]He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland.
In 2003, Bell semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM. During the following four years, he hosted the show many weekends on Premiere Networks. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007, but occasionally served as a guest host through 2010. He attributed the reason for his retirement to a desire to spend time with his new wife and their daughter, born May 30, 2007. He added that unlike his previous “retirements”, this one was permanent, but he left open the option to return to broadcasting. He treated the subject of UFOs seriously and millions of late night listeners.
Bell hosted classic episodes of Coast to Coast AM that can be heard in some radio markets on Saturday nights under the name Somewhere in Time. I spoke with Art on several occasions and he was always pleasant and knowledgeable, He has served in Vietnam the same time I had.
Bell died at his Pahrump, Nevada home on April 13, 2018. [9]
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Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART II
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Chino Valley — I was driving home from Prescott Valley at 8:15 pm and I noticed an object when heading on 89 Highway heading home to Chino valley. I thought it was an airplane. The UFO looked like a white orb and when I videotaped it changed colors. The UFO would go in circle and would go sideways, up and down. The UFO would hover. then would fly at high speeds. Then slow down then just stay floating. I was elated and in awe. I was excited and amazed but lost it at my house. It just disappeared at high speed. Also two huge planes were chasing it but they couldn’t keep up with the UFO. It was amazing, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Lights
Siloam Springs — I was driving with my kids around 9 pm down Highway 59 passing a small private airport on February 9, 2018.
I looked out my window an observed a glowing gold light transforming the sky in flight. It was so bright and beautiful, My kids asked, “What is that mom?” and I said, “ I really don’t know.” So I took some photos of the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Objects
Newport Beach— Notice in the attached picture stx craft along with a strange object in the sky at the left lower corner.
Note: The objects in the photo are probably reflections or due to debris on windshield and probably not real objects.
The picture was taken on March 25, 2018 at 8:35 AM
Simi Valley — When driving home, the moon was very large and cresting the mountain on April 2, 2018. I took some pictures. The next morning, when reviewing the pictures, the moon was not showing up good. but on the third picture, time stamped to the same minute (9:59) as the other two, there was a smudge at the top. When I zoomed in, the smudge looked like a triangular craft. When I was driving, I did not see it or hear anything. I think it looks similar to a stealth fighter but it’s not quite the same. But, I thought I’d report it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Geneva— I have a lot more photo and video evidence as this taken on April 4, 2018. I would like to share with you.
My hope is to have a professional observer come and witness alongside of me. It’s hard for anyone around me to understand exactly what is there. I would really like to share this experience with people who can interpret it with an open unbiased mind. Also I just have to have someone there who appreciates this and will be excited along with me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Orb
Fernwood — I have seen these star-like UFO’s for years now, visible on any clear night totaling from 2 to 7 in number. They appear to be trying to cloak themselves as a star, but unlike stars, they hover up/down, side-to-side as on April 10, 2018. On a few occasions, I have seen them zigzag across the sky and several times I’ve seen them drop to a mountainside near my property, but no sound of a crash. There is never sound involved and they will remain hovering for hours, and strobe bright white on top and bottom and swirling/pulse colors of red, blue/green in the middle that, through binoculars, seems to be a propulsion system. I have photographed many UFO’s and orbs while at my cabin. I am submitting this report that was filmed on Tuesday April 10, 2018. Video of another UFO was taken on April 14, 2018. I have included a picture of an orb caught on film during a family reunion held at my cabin. I have had several friends and family members view them from my deck throughout the years. They may come due to the rich minerals, the isolation, and the abundance of wildlife. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Newark – A cloaking triangle UFO was reported by witness who stated, : “It looked like a hologram moving 100 feet over a nearby building”. The witness was driving north on McCarter Highway about 10:50 p.m. on March 2, 2017. It was pulsating with invisibility every other second as it was flying east. The witness was then able to make out the craft’s shape. “Every other second that it was visible, I saw blue-white colored lights, kind of dim, in the shape of a triangle.There had to be at least 15 lights. I kept driving on the highway going north. It kept flying to the east before totally disappearing on the other side of the river.” New Jersey MUFON Field Investigator Glenn Green closed this case as an Unknown Other. “Based on the enormous size of this object and very slow speed,” Green wrote in his report, “it’s a wonder that more people didn’t come forward with their stories about seeing it. She said that she was stunned felt the object was struggling to keep itself cloaked. She got a good look at the lights and claimed that they were definitely not man-made.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Madison— I thought I was looking at a satellite making its rounds, which would have been very normal on April 4, 2018.- A pale, blue light moving at a steady pace through the sky (I have a clear view as I live across from a college baseball field). After a few seconds it abruptly stopped, and in a blizzard became this white, cigar shaped thing that glowed pink and yellow, colors pulsating. This new, living light then zigzagged through the sky in a very unnatural way. Its movements were so sharp and angular. After this display it seemed to simply rise into the night sky and disappear. I watched it the whole minute it was around, and it was jaw dropping. But instead of feeling elated and justified, all I felt was an overwhelming terror. I now understand why there is so little photographic evidence of phenomenon like this, a camera is the very last thing you can think about. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Woodhaven— Then a second appeared they zoomed past each other to where the other was then darted back to their original position. Now I jump up and start taking pictures but the train is moving. As this is happening there is at least a helicopter and a plane but much smaller with traditional blinking lights. A 3rd big bright and to take pictures then they begin to simultaneously rotate counter clockwise, I think I can get a better shot from Jamaica bound side so I run there down then up the other stairs & take more pictures. Then they all dart up and right. I took 46 pictures on my Samsung 8 and 9 of them are great. Most amazing thing I have ever seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Cylinder
New Bremen — I was on my way to work and it just hovered in a stationary position on March 22, 2018.
This road is a 55 mile an hour road and I took the picture when no one was in front of me on a pretty clear day.
It was a fairly busy road so I took the picture and kept on driving. I see jets on occasion but the ones I have seen left trails this one left nothing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Red Orb
Ridgeway— I was waiting for it to get dark, the night before I had seen some strange lights. Once it became dark enough to see a bright star on April 17, 2018, I began to go outside to see if the lights were back, and they were. We observed two UFOs within the first 15 minutes. Then we see a couple more within the hour, it’s very cold outside so we went inside to put on thicker clothes and hats/gloves. Once back outside she grabs me and says, “Look its moving!” It moves on a straight line from a still position then it stops, my wife verbally requests it to keep moving if it is real and it moves again. She grabs my arm they’re taking both of us if they come down here.
We see several more in the next hour then decide to go inside. We lay on the couch talking about what we have seen my wife gets dead tired shortly after and falls asleep.. She takes off her pants and sox and lays back down but stays awake and we talk for a few moments. Nearly an hour later she jumps up and points to the window I see a brief moment of a light float pass our living room window with no sound. The light we viewed was too close to be a vehicle of any kind and was moving in a fluent hovering motion and was right outside the window. Thirty minutes later my wife jumps up says she’s scared and she is trembling staring out the window. I get her to calm down at this point I feel very strange my heart starts pounding and I feel almost paralyzed I woke up at 3am severely parched and very hot, I decide to go to the store to get us some green tea, when I return home we eat a bite and decide to go to bed. We woke up today and my wife’s complaining almost crying about her stomach hurting. Once I wake up I realize my stomach hurts, I feel like vomiting and I had a hard time keeping my balance and concentration, but started feeling better after a few hours. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Seaford — I was continuing my drive with my wife on April 13, 2018. We visited the Seaford hardware called Bunning’s I first noticed the object after noticing another anomalous object on my rear dash camera. I pursued a check of both dash camera footage to cross reference the images. I didn’t know what the object was. I was shocked when I discovered it along with earlier footage at Old Reynella. The object appeared to be flying in a straight path almost above me. I was excited to find this object because I wasn’t expecting to see another. It came into camera view as I discovered. Video footage should be paused and frame by frame looked at as the Kia carnival people mover door mirror gets to the edge of the video frame. You can see the orb in the top right hand side of the footage coming over as the people mover passes by. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Red Flashing Object
Scarborough, Ontario— On Tuesday , April 10,2018, I went outside on work break, after about three minutes once outside alone I could see a brilliant red flashing light. It was one half mile away and quite high coming in from the west, I pulled out my camera to capture the moment. Took six pictures and then took my phone to video. As I’m starting to video as it drew closer to my position. I noticed it was no longer there as if it just disappeared out of sight.
Where did it go I thought? Reviewing the still shots capture it on the first picture taken, the video came up empty as I assume that’s when it disappeared. I find this ‘ sighting ‘ a rare sighting as most have been ‘white‘ flashing white objects. This will be my fifth sighting for 2018. Thanks again for your interest Paul Shishis
Norway Orbs
Rykkinn— I was reviewing my time-lapse photo sequence I shot on Saturday night april 14 and 15, 2018, Sunday morning. The strange light is visible on 21 frames out of 1300+ frames. The camera was outside on my balcony and I was inside when the photos were taken. I didn’t see the lights myself before I watched them on my pc. I think the object in the frames are very strange. Two light almost parallel across with one following almost perfectly. Have located from havens above and can’t find any satellites that match the trajectory. The pictures are taken on a Sony @6000 in Manuel mode, at F2.4 on a tripod with a timed to trigger the camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Zielona Góra — In the evening in, I looked up at the sky and noticed a strange flashing light on April 13, 2918. Ten minutes later, more lights appeared, then the lights of the plane appeared, which flew towards the lights. Five minutes later all the lights disappeared. A few days earlier a F-16 fighter was flying so low over the city for the first time in city history.
Ten minutes later, more lights appeared. Moments later, the lights of the plane appeared, which flew towards the lights. Five minutes later all the lights disappeared..
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain White Object
Granada — Looking at a photo I took earlier today on April 14, 2018, there appears to be a perfect white disk in the sky.
It may be a cloud but there are no other clouds nearby and it is perfectly disk shaped, which I find rather strange.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Leicester — I was outside my mates flat and I saw UFO.
I filmed it on cell phone. The photo was taken on March 25, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The 12,000-Year-Old Bosnian Pyramids, A Massive Archaeological Cover-Up?
The 12,000-Year-Old Bosnian Pyramids, A Massive Archaeological Cover-Up?
The fact that Pyramids are scattered across the planet isn’t a surprise. From America to Asia, archaeologists have found how nearly all ancient cultures built massive monuments thousands of years ago. Some of them served as tombs, while the purpose of many other pyramids remains a mystery.
But this fact alone is why it isn’t surprising to hear that Pyramids have also been found in Europe, more precisely Bosnia.
An illustration of the largest of the pyramids near Visoko.
According to many authors, the Bosnian Pyramid Complex is around 12,000 years old and was built by a mysterious people near Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The structures were discovered back in 20015, when Dr. Semir Osmanagic announced he had discovered, beneath the hills of Visoko, a pyramidal complex and, which in addition to being one of the largest on Earth, was interconnected through a network of underground tunnels.
Dr. Osmanagic not only claims to have discovered four pyramids but he, as well as many other authors, are convinced that these pyramids are traces of a lost people.
His thesis holds that both the Mesoamerican and Egyptian pyramids are the work of the same people who built the four pyramids of Bosnia Herzegovina and that the pyramidal complex could be, according to his words, “the mother of all the pyramids.”
The Pyramid Valley in Bosnia.
In 2006, a great project was set up to restore the top of the Pyramid of the Sun.
Dr. Osmanagic assures that it is the most important of the four Pyramids measuring 360 meters in height.
Back then, the Bosnian Government made available the necessary funds to continue the excavation work in the Visoko region.
Dr. Osmanagic claimed that, over the centuries, some of the pyramids had lost their shape and that the material covering the Pyramids today did not allow to appreciate their geometry, so it was necessary to properly excavate them.
The decision of the Bosnian Government to fund the project raised a controversy in the European Association of Archaeologists, which was forced, in 2006, to write a manifesto against the decision of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The massive Pyramid is said to hide in plain sight.
“We, the undersigned professional archaeologists from all parts of Europe, wish to protest strongly at the continuing support by the Bosnian authorities for the so-called “pyramid” project being conducted on hills at and near Visoko. This scheme is a cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public and has no place in the world of genuine science. It is a waste of scarce resources that would be much better used in protecting the genuine archaeological heritage and is diverting attention from the pressing problems that are affecting professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina on a daily basis.”
Some authors consider that the document was a massive cover-up. The letter was signed by Hermann Parzinger, President of German Archaeological Institute in Berlin; Willem Willems, Inspector General of Rijksinspectie Archeologie in The Hague; Jean-Paul Demoule, President of the Institut nationale de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) in Paris; Romuald Schild, Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw; Vassil Nikolov, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia; Anthony Harding, President of the European Association of Archaeologists; and Mike Heyworth, Director of the Council for British Archaeology in York.
But why go through so much to stop excavations?
After all, if there aren’t any pyramids in Bosnia, why go through such an effort to stop the man? Why not let him dig? Time would eventually tell who was right, whether it was Dr. Osmanagic or all other archaeologists who were against the excavation process.
What the pyramid may have looked like, according to authors who consider the Pyramids of Visoko are real.
That’s because according to some experts, ‘genuine archaeological sites’ from the region could perish if the excavations go through.
Amar Karapuš, a curator at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, said, “When I first read about the pyramids I thought it was a very funny joke. I just couldn’t believe that anyone in the world could believe this.”
Garrett Fagan of Penn State University is quoted as saying, “They should not be allowed to destroygenuine sites in the pursuit of these delusions[…] It’s as if someone was permitted to bulldoze Stonehenge to find secret chambers of lost ancient wisdom underneath.”
Enver Imamović of the University of Sarajevo, a former director of the National Museum of Sarajevo, concerned that the excavations will damage historic sites such as the medieval royal capital Visoki, said that the excavations would “irreversibly destroy a national treasure.”
Furthermore, mainstream scholars such as Curtis Runnels, an American expert on prehistoric Greece and the Balkans from Boston University, claimed that the people who inhabited Bosnia and Herzegovina in the past, were a primitive people who were small in number and who “did not have the tools or skills to engage in the construction of monumental architecture.”
But Runnels, for example, is clearly underestimating the ancient people that lived in these areas thousands of years ago.
One clear example is the Vinca Culture, an ancient people who occupied the region of Southeastern Europe (i.e. the Balkans) corresponding mainly to modern-day Serbia but also parts of Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, and Greece. This ancient culture, which existed around 10,000 years ago created the so-called Vinča symbols, which some believe are the earliest form of proto-writing. The Vinča culture also provides the earliest known example of copper metallurgy.
But despite received heavy criticism from ‘mainstream experts’, Osmanagic and his team have pursued their goal firmly. As a Bosnian, Osmanagic surely isn’t interested in destroying the rich history of the countries culture, and according to many, his only goal is to reveal an even richer history of not only the country he comes from but the ancient people that once inhabited these parts of Europe.
Scientists Find New ‘Hidden’ Structure Inside Human DNA
Scientists Find New ‘Hidden’ Structure Inside Human DNA
“This new research reminds us that totally different DNA structures exist – and could well be important for our cells.”
Ladies and Gents, forget what you thought you knew about DNA. Scientists have just discovered a new, ‘hidden’ structure inside Human DNA.
An illustration of an i-motif embedded in a strand of DNA.
(Mahdi Zeraati.)
The modern biological era began when Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick discovered the twisted structure of DNA in 1953. Understanding that structure is what has allowed scientists to unravel the mysteries of the genetic code, but there was one part that was missing.
It turns out that the human DNA had a long-held secret: the popular double helix with which we interpret the DNA structure is not the only way it adopts.
In fact, and for the first time ever, a team of scientists has identified a new structure that resembles a twisted knot of four ropes.
The new structure has just been described in the journal Nature Chemistry, and it seems to play a crucial role in the way DNA is expressed.
Despite the fact that experts have long thought this structure (called i–motif) may exist, never before had it been detected inside living human cells. The “i” stands for “intercalation,” which is a chemistry term for a layered structure.
The structure consists of four strands of DNA paired in a peculiar way.
Discovering the i-motif inside living cells indicates that it most likely plays a significant role in cell biology.
In the double helix, the nitrogenous bases of adenine (A) form pairs with thiamin (T), while the cytosine (C) does the same with guanine (G).
These bases are structured one on top of the other twisting in two rows of glucose and phosphate that form an elegant staircase in the form of a double helix.
This structure plays a determining role in the synthesis of proteins, note experts.
Discovering the hidden structure
“Our imaging suggests that this is a normal thing that happens,” said Marcel Dinger, a molecular biologist at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, who oversaw the research. “It is very likely that genomes in all the cells of our bodies are forming i-motifs at some point in time.”
In order to detect the i-motif, scientists used a fragment of an antibody capable of recognizing and adhering specifically to the i-motif forms.
We still know little about its function or importance, but it seems clear that, while the double helix is the predominant structure, the most common way that DNA has to store its information, there are other patterns whose role could be determinant for the control of the gene expression and, therefore, control diseases related to it, such as certain cancers.
“What excited us most is that we could see the green spots – the i-motifs – appearing and disappearing over time, so we know that they are forming, dissolving and forming again,” said Dr Mahdi Zeraati, a member of the team.
“We think the coming and going of the i-motifs is a clue to what they do. It seems likely that they are there to help switch genes on or off, and to affect whether a gene is actively read or not.”
The discovery was published in the scientific journalNature Chemistry.
Scientific evidence of a transcendent truth: beings from another world created life on earth
Findings in fields as diverse as genetics, biology, biochemistry or astrophysics point to a destabilizing evidence: that a nonhuman intelligence - perhaps an alien civilization, as acclaimed scientists claim - artificially manufactured terrestrial DNA, assembling certain elements by means of genetic engineering and coding in it the information necessary for the emergence of life on our planet. This thesis has been and is defended by top-level researchers, such as the discoverer of the DNA structure and Nobel Prize in Medicine for this finding. In 1953, Harold Urey and Stanley Miller, two scientists from the University of Chicago (USA), conducted an experiment, described by the press of the moment as "the most surprising of all the trials." Both researchers had created a mixture formed by simple molecules of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor, which they introduced into a vessel with water. His intention was to reproduce the "primordial soup," in which they presumed life had been born on Earth for the first time billions of years ago.
In short, "the most surprising essay in history", which we all studied at school as proof that life arose accidentally and spontaneously, only managed to form inert compounds, which did not clarify about the birth of the first cells alive: the basic units of every being, capable of absorbing nutrients - nutrients - and reproducing in new cells. The same year that Urey and Miller made their famous essay in 1953, biologists James D. Watson and Francis Crick made one of the great discoveries of humanity: they discovered the structure of DNA in the form of a double helix, which complicated plus the explanation that life was born on Earth casually. For their achievement, Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962, becoming in their own right two of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century. Francis Crick was always known for making his opinions known in a clear and resounding manner, without half measures or ambiguities. Therefore, few were surprised when in 1973 he published an article with the chemist Leslie Orgel in the magazine Icarus (vol 19). In this work he defended a theory that many of his fellow scientists already knew: that life on our planet had been inseminated "by the deliberate activity of an extraterrestrial civilization." Francis Crick was aware - like many other geneticists - that the DNA structure in the form of a double helix seemed to have come from nothing, because no intermediate steps had been found prior to its formation. Therefore, he deduced that the only possibility is that he had reached our planet already conformed. The probability that extraterrestrial living organisms "landed" on our planet on board a meteorite or by spores pushed into our world because of the pressure exerted by the radiation of a star -as defends the hypothesis of panspermia-, is practically null according to Crick, because no living organism would resist the rigors of such space travel.
Uranus, the horrible, screaming lad of the solar system, is apparently as unfortunate as all those jokes make it out to be.
In a new study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers detail their findings after analyzing infrared light from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. Using the telescope’s Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), the team was able to observe light reflecting from Uranus’s cloud tops. They found hydrogen sulfide, the chemical compound responsible for the stench in rotten eggs and yes, farts.
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” the study’s lead author Patrick Irwin, a physicist based at the University of Oxford, said in a statement. “Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane would take its toll long before the smell.”
Though Uranus has now been confirmed as a fart dungeon of death, the team says it might not be alone. It’s possible that in future studies, researchers will find hydrogen sulfide in our solar system’s other ice giant, Neptune. This would further separate Neptune and Uranus from the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, where ammonia ice has been spotted in the cloud tops instead of hydrogen sulfide. The difference in cloud composition gives scientists a new lead in the mystery of how these gassy planets could have formed so differently from one another.
“We’ve strongly suspected that hydrogen sulfide gas was influencing the millimeter and radio spectrum of Uranus for some time, but we were unable to attribute the absorption needed to identify it positively,” the study’s co-author Glenn Orton, a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a press release. “Now, that part of the puzzle is falling into place as well.”
Uranus
Methane in Uranus’s cloud tops absorb the red part of light from the sun, which is why the planet reflects a homogenous blue color. It’s such a placid-looking planet — no one would suspect how truly vile and stinky it is.
While NASA doesn’t have any formal plans in place to revisit the ice giants any time soon, back in 2017, the space agency announced that it was backing research in support of a project to visit Neptune and Uranus again. It’s possible that ice giant research will be an item on the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which outlines NASA’s goals for the coming decade — in this case, 2022-2032.
Hopefully Uranus won’t be discounted just because it smells bad. It’s still an, mysterious world that deserves our love, even if it could kill us in 50 different ways.
Did NASA Just Film The Black Knight Orbiting Earth?
Did NASA Just Film The Black Knight Orbiting Earth?
According to UFO Hunters, NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station have allegedly managed to detect an unidentified flying object in space.
A supposed ‘alien ship’ crossed the sky, say UFO hunters, and the evidence was ignored by NASA.
As noted by the YouTube Channel UFO Today: “The ISS captured a UFO flying over a storm front. We can clearly see a mysterious object flying over the storm front. The object is orbiting earth so it’s not affected by the storm that brewing on earth. What was this object? Let me know in the comment! Kind regards! UFO Today.”
UFO Today suggested in their video that the mystery object orbiting Earth, just beneath the International Space Station could be related to the so-called Black Knight – an alleged ancient alien satellite said to have been in orbit around Earth since time immemorial.
Here’s the video:
But not everyone is convinced the Black Knight Satellite actually exists.
In fact, in 1998 a theory was proposed explaining the enigmatic object.
Experts maintain that the Black Knight Satellite is nothing more than space junk, in particular, a fragment of the thermal shield that astronauts lost when repairing the International Space Station.
But among other opinions, there are always those who think that NASA is hiding something and the fact that numerous news agencies and government agencies took interest in the alleged alien satellite fuel the conspiracy theory.
The time magazine wrote about the mysterious object.
The story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940’s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
The Time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960.
Here is what they said about it.
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
The Articles of 1954:
St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner, Article about the unidentified satellite
St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner articles about the unidentified satellite.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story that angered the Pentagon, who were trying to keep the information secret. The short article stated:
Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project. One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations.
Astronomers Have Found An Alien Planet So Dark, It Absorbs Nearly 99% Of Light
Astronomers Have Found An Alien Planet So Dark, It Absorbs Nearly 99% Of Light
One of the strangest planets out there has been found by astronomers.
This planet is so dark, astronomers say it absorbs nearly all the light that hits it through a dense layer of haze.
The mysterious world has been compared to charcoal and is one of the darkest worlds ever discovered.
At 466 light years from Earth, astronomers have found one of the darkest worlds discovered so far.
Called WASP-104b, it’s one of the darkest planets out there. The mystery world is a gas giant, the size of our Jupiter, and orbits its star once every 1.75 days.
But unlike Jupiter, which is very far from the Sun, this giant world is so close to its own star that the intense radiation emitted by the star has completely “swept” its atmosphere and clouds, allowing elements such as sodium and potassium to emerge to the misty and fiery surface (more than 1,200 degrees Celsius) that surrounds the sinister planet.
Just like most hot Jupiter’s, WASP-104b is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces its star.
It turns out that both sodium and potassium are capable of absorbing up to 99percent of the light that reflects the surface of WASP-104b, allowing scientists to include the ‘Dark Jupiter’ in a short list that makes up the category of “dark planets” that scientists have ever discovered.
Keele University researchers from the UK explored the gas giant’s incredible light-absorbing characteristics in a scientific paper uploaded to the academic preprint server, arXiv.
“From all the dark planets I could find in the literature, this is top five-ish,” lead researcher and astrophysicist Teo Mocnik told New Scientist. “I think top three.”
But, if the planet is so dark and so far away, how was it found?
How do you find a planet that absorbs nearly 99% of the light?
The planet was found using its shadow.
When a planet crosses in front of its star (what in Astronomy is called “transit”), it hides a small part of its light, revealing its presence to observers on Earth.
WASP-104b was discovered in 2014 as part of the Wide-Angle Search for Planets project (WASP, hence its name), but at the time it seemed that it was a fairly typical hot gas giant.
WASP-104b was one planet that stood out among the others by the speed of its orbit, higher than the rest of the giant planets in the category of “hot Jupiter’s”, which are also characterized by being able to orbit their star in a matter of days.
However, at that time, it wasn’t possible to discover anything else about it that would give away a clue about its appearance.
Years later, the Kepler Space Telescope managed to identify it as part of a rarer subgroup of hot Jupiter’s.
One composed of planets that absorb much more light than they reflect.
It was then that astronomers realized that WASP-104b could be, even, the darkest world ever seen until that moment.
Kepler repeatedly recorded the period before and after its transit, a technique that can shed clues about the planet itself, including the amount of light reflected in it: and the answer was … practically none.
Explanation: Why is this planet so dark? Planet TrES-2b reflects back less than one percent of the light it receives, making it darker than any known planet or moon, darker even than coal. Jupiter-sizedTrES-2b orbits extremely close to a sun-like star 750 light years away, and was discovered producing slight eclipses in 2006 using the modest 10-cm telescopes of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES). The alien world's strange darkness, however, was only uncovered recently by observations indicating its slight reflective glow by the Sun-orbiting Kepler satellite. An artist's drawing of planet is shown above, complete with unsubstantiated speculation on possible moons. Reasons for TrES-2b's darkness remain unknown and are an active topic of research.
So far, the darkest planet out there is another hot Jupiter called TrES-2b, which is believed to reflect as little as 0.1 percent of the light that hits it.
However, TrES-2b‘s title may be challenged as astronomers continue researching WASP-104b. Experts say it could be that WASP-104b has a real potential to challenge for that title.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations Won’t Produce Radio Signals
Extraterrestrial Civilizations Won’t Produce Radio Signals
A team of psychologists from the University of Cádiz have added their criticisms of S.E.T.I. methodology to those of a growing number of scientists
Some of you may know the psychological experiment in which viewers are asked to watch a video showing a group of people passing a ball around and attempt to count the passes, at one stage during the video a man wearing a gorilla suit walks through the scene. A great many people are so intensely focussed on the details of what they have been expecting to see, a ball being passed around, that they fail to notice the man in the gorilla suit
Now, a team of researchers from Spain have voiced concerns that humanity’s attempts to track down advanced alien life are being derailed by the same type of psychological blindness. The team suggest that astronomers are so focussed on detecting intelligent beings through non-earthly radio signals that they are likely to miss signs of life manifesting themselves in dimensions that typically escape our perception, perhaps through quantum phenomena, higher dimensional physics or even dark energy.
The new paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica by neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García from the University of Cádiz argues that the preoccupation with extraterrestrial radio signals might be a complete distraction from the more likely phenomenon associated with advanced life beyond our planet.
The authors of the paper conducted an experiment with 137 people who had to distinguish aerial photographs with artificial structures and natural elements, included in one of the images was a character disguised as a gorilla – around half of the subjects failed to notice this highly irregular inclusion.
While it is fascinating to see how our psychology and neural processes can limit that which we perceive, the experiment also revealed something else just as important, if not more so.
“In addition, our surprise was greater, since before doing the test to see the inattentional blindness, we assessed the participants with a series of questions to determine their cognitive style—whether they were more intuitive or rational—and it turned out that the intuitive individuals identified the gorilla in our photo more often than those more rational and methodical subjects,” said De la Torre.
Stop and consider this for a moment, rational scientists with their heavily structured thinking and predefined expectations are the people most unlikely to detect any anomalous communication from an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. Meanwhile, the highly intuitive members of society are the ones almost certain to stumble on such a signpost. This is something of a revelation because while scientists continue to argue there is no sign of ET beings, intuitive members of the public have long been claiming that such signs do exist and are only not being recognised by the academic community!
Our brain is hardwired to see faces, even where they do not exist.
Image Credit: NASA JPL
De la Torre explains that while we tend to see order where there is none, such as the tendency to see faces in random patterns, known as pareidolia, it may also be that the opposite effect is occurring in the search for alien life.
“We can have the signal in front of us and not perceive it or be unable to identify it. If this happened, it would be an example of the cosmic gorilla effect. In fact, it could have happened in the past, or it could be happening right now.”
Indeed, it is my absolute conviction that this blindness is not merely something that might occur but has been happening for a very long time and continues to occur at this very moment in history. We have already received contact from at least one (perhaps more) advanced alien intelligence. The problem is that these ET beings are so advanced that searching for their radio wave transmissions is illogical, they will not be using radio signals as this is an extremely primitive method for communication.
To better understand the current situation we should consider the descriptions of two orders of civilisation detailed by the Spanish research team. Firstly a Type 2 civilisation is characterised by the longevity of its members, who would be in control of quantum and gravitational energy, manage space-time and be out exploring other galaxies. Secondly, a Type 3 civilisation would comprise exotic beings with eternal life, capable of creating in multidimensional and multiverse spaces, and with an absolute dominion of dark energy and matter.
Beings associated with either of these higher levels of civilisation certainly won’t be calling us on their ham radio rigs, nor flinging a tin can on a string towards us.
What signs of attempted contact should we then be looking for, and why do I firmly state that such communication is already underway?
The activities of Type 2 and Type 3 civilisations would without any doubt involve quantum phenomena, they would not be limited to the processes we know through Newtonian physics or classical mechanics. We should be looking out for a bizarre event that contradicts the current common consensus view of physical reality. For example, we might expect godlike beings that can present themselves directly into the brains of selected intuitive contactees and there announce their presence, without even leaving their home star systems.
Cosmic beings might instead remotely display manifestations of their advanced technology by modifying the workings of our local reality in front of multiple witnesses. Perhaps they could cause objects to pop out of nowhere and then morph through incredible transformations, a sphere of light to a being, a being into a metal craft, before vanishing from our perception once again.
In other words, we should be looking for the very phenomena that have been regularly described by thousands of people (usually highly intuitive people) for tens of thousands of years!
Contact is not something in our near in the future, it has been underway for a vast period, we have only failed to widely acknowledge this fact. The phone is still ringing, will we pick it up?
Black Knight UFO Satellite Explained…It’s NOT 13,000 Years Old! It’s NOT Even A UFO
Black Knight UFO Satellite Explained…It’s NOT 13,000 Years Old! It’s NOT Even A UFO
This whole black knight UFO satellite thing has gotten totally out of hand. For some reason which I can not fathom many, many people purposely and intentionally want and can believe anything. Facts do not sway them and anything that substantially threatens their topsy-turvy UFOlogical worldview is instantly labelled a conspiracy. Labeling anything with the conspiracy label without doing your due diligence is the height of intellectual laziness. This whole ‘Black Knight’ subject was explained to 100% satisfaction to the people that really know…the scientific community and anyone who has the wherewithal to check the publicly available NASA archive. But to some people, UFOlogy has become a religion. None of those pesky facts for them. Belief is all they need even if it is probably wrong. It appears especially if it is provably wrong.
UFOlogy MUST discourage this religiosity of the UFO subject. It helps no one, confuses most, and irritates to no end people that know better. Faith in anything is a bad thing. It robs a person of the burden of thinking too much and festers lies and deceit.
UFOlogy and UFO’s are REAL. No faith required. The scientific facts all point to a Universe teeming with life. Science is our only hope to validate and legitimize the study of such a paradigm-shaking subject. People have to learn to critically think about what they believe. In the end, what you believe does not matter, it is what you KNOW that counts.
So what is this so-called Black Knight…
Video and photographic images have arisen from armchair UFOlogists who claim they have further proof of the mysterious Black Knight satellite. Alien researchers have been calling the Black Knight one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life for the past 20 years, while some claim it has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.
NASA footage of Endeavor astronauts working with thermal blanket (ringed) on ISS
There she goes” – dropped thermal blanket floats from ISS
The above video 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 the above video from NASA of the Endeavour 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. It is easy to identify that the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the ‘Black Knight’ in the 1998 pictures seized on by tin-foilists 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 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.
This is what it looked like farther away.
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. 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.
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.
A follow-up, but less widely read, the 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 was from unscientific methods. Despite this 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.
Not sure how the true believers would know that since the shape and dimensions of an ISS thermal blanket is unknown to them. They just know. These thermal blankets are custom-formed to fit over the heavily utilized and odd shaped ISS components for a custom fit. That is exactly what is seen.
OK… so let’s recap.
So a thermal blanket (which can be up to 10 cm’s thick) that is the exact shape and size as the alleged black knight satellite is discarded or lost from the ISS. ISS cameras catch it slowly meandering away…but no it’s a 13,000-year-old alien probe obviously. The apparent darkness of the object is due to how cameras work. To get the right exposure to show the planet underneath which is very bright will give the illusion of the object in the foreground being grey or black. It is all about exposures.
This object no longer lingers in the sky. It would have burned up shortly after it was lost. As soon as it experienced drag from the fast-moving atmosphere it would be incinerated. Reentry into the Earth atmosphere is rough.
Please, my dear reader, do not assist in the religiosity of UFOlogy. This so-called mystery is no mystery at all.
Tesla had nothing to do with this at all. It is well known that what Tesla picked up was the first interception of weak signals from what is now called a pulsar. In the modern form of delusional UFOlogy whenever you see claims that Tesla was involved at all you should know instantly that it is bullshit. Tesla was amazing in what he actually attained in his life and he is godlike in what is claimed he has done. 95% of all claims involving Tesla are false. Tesla is used by click bait artists in an attempt to legitimize their literary detritus.
Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets
Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets
ByRobert Roy Britt
The planets of the solar system as depicted by a NASA computer illustration. Orbits and sizes are not shown to scale.
Credit: NASA
Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, kids grew up learning about the nine planets of our solar system. That all changed starting in the late 1990s, when astronomers began to argue about whether Pluto was a planet. In a highly controversial decision, the International Astronomical Union ultimately decided in 2006 to call Pluto a "dwarf planet," reducing the list of "real planets" in our solar system to eight.
However, astronomers are now hunting for another planet in our solar system, a true ninth planet, after evidence of its existence was unveiled on Jan. 20, 2016. The so-called "Planet Nine," as scientists are calling it, is about 10 times the mass of Earth and 5,000 times the mass of Pluto. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
Did You Know?Three of the planets in the solar system are currently visible in the night sky in June 2017. They are: Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. You can find out how and when to see the brightest planets in June's night sky here: The Brightest Planets in June's Night Sky: How to See them (and When)
If you insist on including Pluto, then that world would come after Neptune on the list; Pluto is truly way out there, and on a wildly tilted, elliptical orbit (two of the several reasons it got demoted). Interestingly, Pluto used to be the eighth planet, actually. More on that below.
Terrestrial planets
The inner four worlds are called “terrestrial planets,” because, like Earth, their surfaces are all rocky. Pluto, too, has a solid surface (and a very frozen one) but has never been grouped with the four terrestrials.
Jovian planets
The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — are known as the “Jovian planets” (meaning “Jupiter-like”) because they are all huge compared to the terrestrial planets, and because they are gaseous in nature rather than having rocky surfaces (though some or all of them may have solid cores, astronomers say). According to NASA, "two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — are known as gas giants; the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants." This is because, while the first two are dominated by gas, while the last two have more ice. All four contain mostly hydrogen and helium.
Dwarf planets
The IAU definition of a full-fledged planet goes like this: A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to undergo nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies. Yeah, that’s a mouthful.
The problem for Pluto, besides its small size and offbeat orbit, is that it shares its space with lots of other objects in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune. Still, the demotion of Pluto remains controversial.
The IAU planet definition puts other small, round worlds in the dwarf planetcategory, including the Kuiper Belt objects Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.
Also now a dwarf planet is Ceres, a round object in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was actually considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and then later deemed to be an asteroid. Some astronomers like to consider Ceres as a 10th planet (not to be confused with Nibiru or Planet X), but that line of thinking opens up the possibility of there being 13 planets, with more bound to be discovered.
The planets
Below is a brief overview of the eight primary planets in our solar system, in order from the inner solar system outward:
Mercury
The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is only a bit larger than Earth's moon. Its day side is scorched by the sun and can reach 840 degrees Fahrenheit (450 Celsius), but on the night side, temperatures drop to hundreds of degrees below freezing. Mercury has virtually no atmosphere to absorb meteor impacts, so its surface is pockmarked with craters, just like the moon. Over its four-year mission, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed views of the planet that have challenged astronomers' expectations.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
Venus' southern hemisphere, as seen in the ultraviolet.
Credit: ESA
Venus
The second planet from the sun, Venus is terribly hot, even hotter than Mercury. The atmosphere is toxic. The pressure at the surface would crush and kill you. Scientists describe Venus’ situation as a runaway greenhouse effect. Its size and structure are similar to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway "greenhouse effect." Oddly, Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction of most planets.
The Greeks believed Venus was two different objects — one in the morning sky and another in the evening. Because it is often brighter than any other object in the sky — except for the sun and moon — Venus has generated many UFO reports.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
An image of the Earth taken by the Russian weather satellite Elektro-L No.
Credit: NTsOMZ
Earth
The third planet from the sun, Earth is a waterworld, with two-thirds of the planet covered by ocean. It’s the only world known to harbor life. Earth’s atmosphere is rich in life-sustaining nitrogen and oxygen. Earth's surface rotates about its axis at 1,532 feet per second (467 meters per second) — slightly more than 1,000 mph (1,600 kph) — at the equator. The planet zips around the sun at more than 18 miles per second (29 km per second).
Mars researchers are focusing both Earth-based and planet orbiting sensors to better understand sources of methane on the red planet. Image
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute
Mars
The fourth planet from the sun, is a cold, dusty place. The dust, an iron oxide, gives the planet its reddish cast. Mars shares similarities with Earth: It is rocky, has mountains and valleys, and storm systems ranging from localized tornado-like dust devils to planet-engulfing dust storms. It snows on Mars. And Mars harbors water ice. Scientists think it was once wet and warm, though today it’s cold and desert-like.
Mars' atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist on the surface for any length of time. Scientists think ancient Mars would have had the conditions to support life, and there is hope that signs of past life — possibly even present biology — may exist on the Red Planet.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
Named for: Roman god of war
Diameter: 4,217 miles (6,787 km)
Orbit: 687 Earth days
Day: Just more than one Earth day (24 hours, 37 minutes)
Close-up of Jupiter's Great Red Spot as seen by a Voyager spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Jupiter
The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is huge and is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s a mostly gaseous world, mostly hydrogen and helium. Its swirling clouds are colorful due to different types of trace gases. A big feature is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which has raged for hundreds of years. Jupiter has a strong magnetic field, and with dozens of moons, it looks a bit like a miniature solar system.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
The shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas dips onto the planet's rings and straddles the Cassini Division in this natural color image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturn
The sixth planet from the sun is known most for its rings. When Galileo Galilei first studied Saturn in the early 1600s, he thought it was an object with three parts. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with rings, the stumped astronomer entered a small drawing — a symbol with one large circle and two smaller ones — in his notebook, as a noun in a sentence describing his discovery. More than 40 years later, Christiaan Huygens proposed that they were rings. The rings are made of ice and rock. Scientists are not yet sure how they formed. The gaseous planet is mostly hydrogen and helium. It has numerous moons.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
Near-infrared views of Uranus reveal its otherwise faint ring system, highlighting the extent to which the planet is tilted.
Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), Keck Observatory
Uranus
The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is an oddball. It’s the only giant planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit — it basically orbits on its side. Astronomers think the planet collided with some other planet-size object long ago, causing the tilt. The tilt causes extreme seasons that last 20-plus years, and the sun beats down on one pole or the other for 84 Earth-years. Uranus is about the same size as Neptune. Methane in the atmosphere gives Uranus its blue-green tint. It has numerous moons and faint rings.
Discovery: 1781 by William Herschel (was thought previously to be a star)
Named for: Personification of heaven in ancient myth
Neptune’s winds travel at more than 1,500 mph, and are the fastest planetary winds in the solar system.
Credit: NASA/JPL
Neptune
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune is known for strong winds — sometimes faster than the speed of sound. Neptune is far out and cold. The planet is more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth. It has a rocky core. Neptune was the first planet to be predicted to exist by using math, before it was detected. Irregularities in the orbit of Uranus led French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to suggest some other might be exerting a gravitational tug. German astronomer Johann Galle used calculations to help find Neptune in a telescope. Neptune is about 17 times as massive as Earth.
Once the ninth planet from the sun, Pluto is unlike other planets in many respects. It is smaller than Earth's moon. Its orbit carries it inside the orbit of Neptune and then way out beyond that orbit. From 1979 until early 1999, Pluto had actually been the eighth planet from the sun. Then, on Feb. 11, 1999, it crossed Neptune's path and once again became the solar system's most distant planet — until it was demoted to dwarf planet status. Pluto will stay beyond Neptune for 228 years. Pluto’s orbit is tilted to the main plane of the solar system — where the other planets orbit — by 17.1 degrees. It’s a cold, rocky world with only a very ephemeral atmosphere. NASA's New Horizons mission performed history's first flyby of the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. [Related: New Horizons' Pluto Flyby: Latest News, Images and Video]
Planet Nine orbits the sun at a distance that is 20 times farther out than the orbit of Neptune. (The orbit of Neptune is 2.7 billion miles from the sun at its closest point.) The strange world's orbit is about 600 times farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit is from the star.
Scientists have not actually seen Planet Nine directly. Its existence was inferred by its gravitational effects on other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region at the fringe of the solar system that is home to icy objects left over from the birth of the sun and planets.
Scientists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena described the evidence for Planet Nine in a study published in the Astronomical Journal. The research is based on mathematical models and computer simulations using observations of six other smaller Kuiper Belt Objects with orbits that aligned in a similar matter.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor.
See Thousands of Asteroids Swirl Around the Sun in This NASA Video
See Thousands of Asteroids Swirl Around the Sun in This NASA Video
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The inner solar system looks downright crowded in a new video showing the fruits of an asteroid-hunting spacecraft's labor.
The video plots the data gathered during the first four years of NASA's NEOWISE mission, which has spotted and characterized more than 29,000 objects since December 2013. Most of those are asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, but the total includes nearly 800 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and more than 130 comets, mission team members said.
"NEOWISE continues to expand our catalog and knowledge of these elusive and important objects," mission principal investigator Amy Mainzer, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
"In total, NEOWISE has now characterized sizes and reflectivities of over 1,300 near-Earth objects since the spacecraft was launched, offering an invaluable resource for understanding the physical properties of this population, and studying what they are made of and where they have come from," she added.
Image showing data gathered by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) investigation for the mission's first four years following its restart in December 2013. Green dots represent near-Earth objects. Gray dots represent all other asteroids, which are mostly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Yellow squares represent comets.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI
The spacecraft launched as the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in December 2009 to perform a broad, all-sky survey in infrared light. WISE completed this original mission in 2011 and was then placed in hibernation.
But the probe was awakened in September 2013 and given a new mission — to aid NASA's effort to better understand the huge population of space rocks zooming through Earth's neighborhood. This is NEOWISE.
The new mission's fourth year was quite productive: Between December 2016 and December 2017, NEOWISE captured more than 2.5 million infrared images of the sky and discovered 10 objects that have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids, NASA officials said.
To date, astronomers have discovered about 18,200 near-Earth objects. But this tally is just barely scratching the surface; the total NEO population is thought to number in the millions.
About 15,000 years ago, changes in ocean circulation caused the North Pacific Ocean to discharge copious amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, thereby warming the planet and sealing the end of the last Ice Age. The findings could prove highly important for managing and mitigating current climate change trends.
Credit: University of St Andrews.
Researchers studied the chemical composition of the fossilized shells of a type of plankton called foraminifera — some of the most abundant shelled organisms in many marine environments. This allowed British scientists at the University of St Andrews to reconstruct the exchange of CO2 between the North Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere. The analysis showed that around the end of the last Ice Age, the North Pacific released large amounts of CO2 during a time when the Atlantic ocean’s currents were rapidly changing.
The shift in ocean circulation not only explains the considerable release of CO2 by the North Pacific, which eventually helped end the Ice Age by warming the entire planet, but also the drop in oxygen levels in the Pacific Ocean seen at the time and first observed nearly two decades ago.
The findings have huge implications for climate research today. Just last week, scientists at the University College London reported that the Atlantic’s circulation is at its weakest point in 1,600 years, a trend that could disrupt weather patterns all the way from the United States to the African Sahel. The 15% slowdown, compared to peak circulation, is equivalent to three million cubic meters of water per second — water movement that is connected to fish stocks, industry and weather systems.
The link between ocean currents and very rapid changes in the climate, identified by the new study, gives us an example of just how intricately connected different parts of the climate system can be. In other words, “changes in circulation in one region can drive changes in CO2 and oxygen all the way over on the other side of the planet,” said Dr. Will Gray, lead author of the new study and a researcher at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews.
“The North Pacific Ocean is very big and just below the surface the waters are brimming with CO2; because of this, we really need to understand how this region can change in the future, and looking into the past is a good way to do that,” Gray added.
Co-author Dr. James Rae, also from the University of St Andrews, added: “Although the CO2 rise caused by this process was dramatic in geological terms, it happened very slowly compared to modern man-made CO2 rise. Humans have driven CO2 rise in the atmosphere as large as the CO2 rise that helped end the last Ice Age, but the man-made CO2 rise has happened 100 times faster. This will have a huge effect on the climate system, and one that we are only just beginning to see.”
Scientific reference: William R. Gray et al. Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean, Nature Geoscience (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0108-6.
Mysterieuze ijscirkels vastgelegd in Noordpoolgebied. NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Mysterieuze ijscirkels vastgelegd in Noordpoolgebied. NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Een NASA-wetenschapper heeft tijdens een vlucht boven de oostelijke Beaufortzee mysterieuze ijsgaten vastgelegd. Dat schrijft Newsweek.
Het is voor zover bekend de eerste keer dat de gaten zijn vastgelegd op camera. Onderzoekers weten niet wat het zijn of hoe ze zijn ontstaan.
NASA-wetenschapper John Sonntag, die deel uitmaakt van Operation IceBridge, maakte de beelden op 14 april. “Ik heb zoiets nog nooit eerder gezien,” zei hij.
Mysterieuze gaten
De gaten werden ontdekt op enkele tientallen kilometers ten noorden van de aftakkingen van de Canadese rivier Mackenzie, die uitmondt in de Beaufortzee.
Sonntag wilde het zeeijs analyseren, toen zijn aandacht plotseling werd getrokken door de mysterieuze gaten.
Zijn collega Nathan Kurtz legde uit dat de gaten zich in een dunne ijslaag bevinden, maar dat hij niet precies kan zeggen hoe ze zijn ontstaan.
Nog nooit
“Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei Kurtz.
Walt Meier van het National Snow and Ice Data Center suggereerde dat de gaten zijn gemaakt door zeehonden.
Glacioloog Chris Shuman van de University of Maryland, Baltimore County zei dat de gaten mogelijk het gevolg zijn van warm water dat zich een weg baant naar het oppervlak.
Oh, snap! That earthy image really mars our picture of it. Wonder what it Saturn? (Insert your own bad Uranus jokes and puns here.)
Finished? That giggling sound you hear is astronomers around the world enjoying their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make an announcement, tell a joke and school the masses on the correct pronunciation of the seventh planet from the Sun (it’s UR-unus.)
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odoriferous conditions.”
“Very unpleasant and odoriferous conditions” is the scientific term for “farts” in a new study co-authored authored by astronomer Patrick Irwin of England’s Oxford University. Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the study explains how Irwin and his colleagues used the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS – which can be rearranged to spell ‘snif’) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to ‘snif’ what Uranus is cooking. And what it’s cooking is rotten eggs and worse, according to the readings.
“We’ve strongly suspected that hydrogen sulphide gas was influencing the millimetre spectrum of Uranus for some time, but we were unable to attribute the absorption needed to it uniquely. Now, that part of the puzzle is falling into place as well.”
Study co-author Glenn Orton of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified the smelly culprit — hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous compound that gives its rotten egg aroma to crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanoes, hot springs, cold springs, well water, bad breath and more. It’s enough that actual rotten eggs should sue for defamation of character.
Which brings us to the question … are there rotten eggs on Uranus and if so, how did they get there? (Can we blame the Klingons?)
“During our Solar System’s formation the balance between nitrogen and sulphur was determined by the temperature and location of planet’s formation. This tells you the gas giants and the ice giants formed in a slightly different way. They had access to different reservoirs of material back in the forming days of the solar system.”
Co-author Dr. Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester’s Department of Physics and Astronomy explains in a press release why the gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn – can hide whatever hydrogen sulfide they might have under thick clouds of ammonia gas, while the ice giants – Uranus and Neptune (which also has hydrogen sulfide) — show signatures of it in their upper cloud decks, which were suspected but not detected until the arrival of the big sniffer – the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer.
What does this discovery mean for future probes to Uranus? Irwin explains the bad news/good news.
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions.”
Here’s the good news.
“Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane would take its toll long before the smell.”
Perhaps the best approach is to send up a sign in a universal language – cuneiform perhaps – and plant it on one or all of the planet’s 27 moons with an arrow pointing to Uranus and a message reading:
Back in April 2017, Mysterious Universe reported on the discovery of a “lost city” near Arkansas City, Kansas. The ruins of the once thriving, fortified city of Etzanoa were discovered by Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist at Wichita State University. Prior to finding any proof of the settlement, the academic community was largely in agreement that the city was a myth, an invention of the Spanish conquistadors who went looking for a city made of gold and concocted wild stories about a native town that stretched for miles. After discovering proof of Etzanoa, however, the “lost city” is now considered one of the largest native settlements in North America alongside the lost city of Cahokia, and it might prove to be the absolute largest. Donald Blakeslee believes that excavation of the site will continue for decades and will rewrite the history of early native settlers of the great plains. Since the initial discovery, development of the area as a historic tourist attraction and landmark has moved quickly: guided tours of parts of the ruins are now open to the public and plans are being drawn for site development, museum exhibitions, and more archaeological expeditions.
The city of Etzanoa was highly developed and big—at least five miles across. Blakeslee says that the approximately 20,000 inhabitants of Etzanoa possessed the infrastructure for processing “industrial quantities” of bison, likely spoke multiple languages, and traded at great distances. This, he says, shatters the “Hollywood image” of native people in the great plains. The ancestors of the Wichita who lived in this city—and, Blakeslee thinks, many other cities like it in the region—were an urban, industrious people, a far cry from the popular conception of the early indigenous peoples of North America
Blakeslee says that there is still much more to find, and the next dig is scheduled for June:
The archaeological community knows about this, and we have been getting help on equipment. This year, in June, we will be ground-truthing. Finding out what is there. You don’t know until you dig holes.
Artist’s depiction of Cahokia, the mound city previously thought to be the largest in North America.
According to Blakeslee, there’s a lot more holes to dig too. He says that while this project is starting in Arkansas City, there are a number of equally impressive lost cities to be found in the area:
There was one south of Winfield, another near Augusta, several in Rice County, McPherson County and Marion
The town of Arkansas City, Kansas was built nearly on top of the remains of Etzanoa. That’s one of the challenges facing the Etzanoa Conservancy Board as it strives to make the site a recognized landmark in the public mind. Hap McLeod, president of the Etzanoa Conservancy Board, says that a feasibility study is being conducted this summer and from there the board hopes to develop a five-year-plan of development that may include purchasing more land and developing a river walk and kayaking route so visitors can the stone artwork of the Etzanoans.
Arkansas City, KS, the location of Etzanoa, was a 19th century boom town.
For now, the guided tours being offered are limited in their scheduling and access, but that will soon change. Currently tours run on Saturdays, at the price of $10 per person and visit four of the major locations around town. In June the , Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum will be opening an exhibit on Etzanoa and putting together a traveling exhibit that other museums and schools can request.
The site is quickly gaining national and international attention. McLeod says that the discovery has changed Arkansas City:
People are more aware of it. We have more tourism, but we are working to make this a national and world historic site.
Here’s hoping the board can strike the delicate balance between important archaeological site and tourist attraction.
On April 17th, NASA scientists released a photo bearing some rather peculiar details. The image, which displayed a frosty area of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean, was taken in coordination with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a program which maps ice in the region on an annual basis, both on land and at sea.
However, visible within the satellite photo was also a series of unexplained holes in the ice which left some of the NASA mission scientists baffled.
The photo (see above) was procured by John Sonntag with Operation IceBridge, who reported on NASA’s Earth Observatory page. “We saw these sorta-circular features only for a few minutes today. I don’t recall seeing this sort of thing elsewhere.”
According to NASA’s statement, the unusual circular features “are more of a curiosity than anything else.”
Other scientists commented on the equally unusual “wave-like” formations that appeared near the holes in the photograph. Sea ice geophysicist Don Perovich of Dartmouth College said, “The ice is likely thin, soft, and mushy and somewhat pliable. This can be seen in the wave-like features in front of the middle ‘amoeba.’”
In Petrovich’s view, it could be that left-to-right motion that occurs when two floes of thin ice collide–a phenomenon called “finger rafting”–might partially explain some of the unusual features.
However, IceBridge project scientist Nathan Kurtz, while acknowledging the appearance of the finger rafting displayed in the photo, maintains that the circular features are anomalous. “I’m not sure what kind of dynamics could lead to the semi-circle shaped features surrounding the holes,” Kurtz was quoted saying. “I have never seen anything like that before.”
One novel theory as to what could have caused the circular formations has less to do with the geophysics of ice, and instead suggests a possible mammalian source. Specifically, it is believed that seals may have carved their way through the ice in order to create “breathing holes.”
A breathing hole in sea ice made by ring seals at Pond Inlet, Canada
The idea is not without precedent since several varieties of seals are known to do this (see photo above). Another theory is that processes involving convection might explain the circular formations, which is not an uncommon occurrence even on larger bodies of water.
On April 20, 2009, an unusually large (2.7 miles wide) circular formation appeared on the surface of Lake Baikal, Russia’s largest landlocked body of water. The photograph, which was also obtained by NASA’s Earth Observations experiment, showed “a circle of thin ice… the focal point for ice break up in the very southern end of the lake.” Of course, numerous stories of unusual phenomena associated with Lake Baikal over the years led to speculations online that the underlying cause might have been an underwater base, or that it might even be associated with alleged UFO sightings at the location reported by the Russian Navy.
Circular formation on the surface of Lake Baikal, visible from the International Space Station in April, 2009.
Of course, similar annular features are common occurrences on much smaller bodies of water as well (especially those whose depths are far too shallow to allow for subaquatic bases of any kind). Resulting from processes similar to those already referenced above by Don Petrovich known as “slush fingering”, a variety of features that are similar both to Baikal’s large “ice circle,” as well as the features observed more recently on the surface of the Beaufort Sea, can and do often occur. For an excellent summary of how slush fingering leads to the formation of ice circles on the surface of ponds, I recommend Jon Nelson’s post on this at the Story of Snow blog, which can be viewed here.
So the question remains of the mysterious holes in the Arctic Ocean ice… are they the result of natural convection, or are seals gnawing through the ice to make room to breathe? In either case, the most likely explanation for this mystery appears to be a natural one.
Cattle mutilation is one of the more disturbing unexplained phenomena. For centuries, horrific, often unexplained injuries and deaths have plagued cattle and livestock around the world. Scores of animals have been found with organs surgically removed, drained of blood, skinned alive, or otherwise eviscerated and ripped to shreds. Stranger still, many exsanguinated animals are discovered without a single trace of blood surrounding them. Possible explanations for these mutilations range from dark rituals carried out by cults, attacks by unknown creatures, and good ol’ fashioned alien experimentation of course.
To throw more fuel onto the mystery fire, intelligence agencies like the FBI have been known to take an interest in these unexplained mutilations, sparking speculation that these livestock are the victims of some sort of clandestine weapons testing operation carried out by the CIA or Department of Energy. Why do it in public though? And what about some of the reports dating back centuries? To complicate some of the theories surrounding cattle mutilation further, an analysis of a 5,000 skull found in France has determined that this Stone Age skull may show signs of early attempts at brain surgery. Why was someone purposefully poking around in this cow’s skull?
Probably for the same reason anyone pokes around in any cow’s skull: to eat the delicious brains it contains, of course.
The study has been published in Scientific Reports under the title “Earliest Animal Cranial Surgery: from Cow to Man in the Neolithic.” Using photographs of the skull taken in an earlier analysis, researchers believe the hole in the cow’s skull did not result from being gored by another bull as was previously concluded, but instead from a deliberate surgical procedure. The analysis found that there were no abnormalities or symptoms of illnesses in the cow, meaning this surgery was unlikely to be carried out as an attempt at veterinary medicine.
Instead, the authors argue, the skull is likely evidence of surgical experimentation on an animal since “the injury derived from some form of surgical procedure typical of the trepanation process.” Trepanning is the somewhat pseudoscientific practice of boring holes in the skull in order to release evil spirits or treat various mental and physical issues. The practice is still used in clinical medicine to relieve intracranial pressure, but also in some pseudoscientific circles for unsubstantiated medical or mental benefit.
Lookin’ good, Gus. Keep drilling.
Could modern day livestock mutilations be the product of similar medical experimentation? Are amateur surgeons practicing strange non-clinical techniques on unfortunate animals? That wouldn’t explain all of the strangeness surrounding many cattle mutilations, and again, I keep coming back to the question of why someone would leave the remains in public. Any clandestine government institution would likely have their own research facilities and incinerators.
While this new study of an ancient mutilated cow skull might not answer any of the lingering questions left in the wake of centuries’ worth of animal mutilations, it shows that the phenomenon likely dates further back in human history than we think. See, mom? Perhaps playing with our food is an innately human desire after all.
What’s going on in Argentina? This week’s news featured an alleged half-man-half-beast sighting in Totoras and the discovery of a Nazi sub lost in 1945 while on its way to Argentina with what may have been Nazi leaders and their gold. Now a firefighter in Rosario de La Frontera has come forward with a video showing flashing lights that he claims are from an alien spacecraft warning Earth of the dangers of chemical and nuclear weapons. Fighting nukes with flashlights? In Argentina? What strange planet are these aliens from?
“At 9:30 p.m., on Monday (16), we received a call informing us that there were two strange lights on the banks of the Rio Rosario, and we went to the site and had a very strong experience.”
Perfil and other Argentine media sources report that what appears to be the latest of a series of these alleged alien contacts occurred on April 16th in Rosario de La Frontera, a small city (about 24,000 inhabitants) in the northwest province of Salta. In the rough Google translations of the reports, the witness identified as Ezequiel Álvarez, the “head of the volunteer firefighters” in Rosario de La Frontera, records one, then two lights flashing in the darkness that are changing in size, brightness and colors.
“We used to make signs with a flashlight and they answered us.”
So far, this sounds like something that could happen in any public park on a dark night anywhere in the world. That’s when Álvarez ups the ante by making a strange revelation … this is not the first time something like this has happened in his town and he believes Rosario de La Frontera may be the spot selected by an alien species to spread its message to humans.
“What happened in the Rosario River area is surprising, because it was only about two kilometers from the urban area, it was like a preparation, they wanted to tell us that they were at the door of our houses and that they were hitting. doubts that will continue to materialize.”
Well, two kilometers away isn’t really “at the door” but it was enough for Álvarez, who says he’s been studying UFOs for 15 years, to contact fellow local ufologist Alejandro Godoy, who claimed he was already in contact with the beings doing the flashing and that there were two ships in the area. Godoy said it was OK to get closer, which is what Álvarez reportedly did.
“I went immediately to the scene and I felt a great emotion, I had many experiences of contacts with extraterrestrial spaceships, but this is the first time that we can record a video that shows clearly that they are greeting us. Materially, we were in contact with the ship. They just let themselves be filmed and documented so that everyone knows about this demonstration and the testimonies.”
Unfortunately, the video Álvarez released (see it here) shows just the flashing lights, so we’re left with his limited description that the crafts were at least 15 meters (50 feet). He also claimed that this type of contact is a common occurrence in Rosario de La Frontera.
“There are many paranormal issues we can discuss. I can tell you there are various civilizations operating in Rosario de la Frontera. There are documented cases in the area of Duraznito, where locals and farmers saw them on the mountains. In these demonstrations they choose who to contact, regardless of the social, cultural or religious condition of the person.”
Aliens who do not know discrimination. What type of strange species could this be?
“[They] are members of the Pleiadian civilization.”
Ah, yes … the inhabitants of the Pleiades stars who are said to be really concerned about us, which Álvarez confirms.
“It is very nice what is happening to me, but I think it is also a warning to humanity about wars and the use of nuclear and chemical weapons.”
For those trying to connect the dots, this went from dim lights flashing in the woods to a dire warning of nuclear destruction – quite a jump. If the Pleiadians are really concerned about humanity, why don’t they at least communicate with searchlights … or lasers … or by interrupting the basketball playoffs for an important announcement?
Sorry, Rosario de La Frontera. You’re going to need more than just blinking lights and vague stories to qualify as a UFO hotbed and get your own annual alien festival and cable reality show.
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Yellowstone Incident: Bright Sphere Explodes, Strange Dead Body, UFO Descends!
Yellowstone Incident: Bright Sphere Explodes, Strange Dead Body, UFO Descends!
A series of strange events have taken place in Yellowstone on April 21 and 22, 2018 and it looks like the events have been covered up.
Yellowstone's live feed cam shows a bright sphere that is approaching Yellowstone to explode in front of the live cam.
Next rangers bring aboard over to the area where the ground is all stirred up, then the footage shows the rangers shining a flashlight onto something strange on the ground. A person, an animal or a being but it doesn't really look right to be a person.
The next day a faint pillar of light going up in to the sky on the left side of the screen and a white triangle shape which was very defined appears, it started to sort of change shape a little and then what looked like a translucent bubble came from the far left and moved toward where the triangle was.
After a few minutes, the white shape began to move downward until it disappeared behind the mound. It landed on the front side of the tree line. Shortly after that, a helicopter went racing by.
That helicopter was looking for something, as it's search light was on at low altitude and focused on the ground.
One commenter confirmed that the morning after this they found a dead body in Yellowstone River and he said that if that body lying on the ground on the Old Faithful webcam was really a person or something else then maybe these two events are connected.
First video shows the Bright Sphere, Rangers and dead body incident. Second video shows the translucent bubble and White Triangle Shape incident.
Cloud Orb Recorded On Clear Day, April 21, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Cloud Orb Recorded On Clear Day, April 21, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 21, 2018
Location of sighting: Unknown
Here is a great video of a cloud orb that is lost, since there are no clouds on a clear blue sky background, making this little bugger easier to see. Also the UFO researcher is using the sun at the right angle to help reveal any UFOs that are transparent. Cloud orbs often have a surface like gas on water, ever changing their color, shifting. I believe these orbs are drones for collecting data. Great video by Alien Protocols of Youtube.
HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF INTELLIGENT LIFE EXISTED ON EARTH BEFORE HUMANS?
HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF INTELLIGENT LIFE EXISTED ON EARTH BEFORE HUMANS?
Reptilian menaces called Silurians evolved on Earth before humankind — at least in the “Doctor Who” rendition of the universe. But science fiction aside, how would we know if some advanced civilization existed on our home planet millions of years before brainy humans showed up?
This is a serious question, and serious scientists are speculating about what traces these potential predecessors might have left behind. And they’re calling this possibility the Silurian hypothesis.
When it comes to the hunt for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that might exist across the cosmos, one must reckon with the knowledge that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. In contrast, complex life has existed on Earth’s surface for only about 400 million years, and humans have only developed industrial civilizations in the last 300 years. This raises the possibility that industrial civilizations might have been around long before human ones ever existed — not just around other stars, but even on Earth itself.
“Now, I don’t believe an industrial civilization existed on Earth before our own — I don’t think there was a dinosaur civilization or a giant tree sloth civilization,” said study co-author Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York. “But the question of what one would look like if it did [exist] is important. How do you know there hasn’t been one? The whole point of science is to ask a question and see where it leads. That’s the essence of what makes science so exciting.”
Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet’s surface after about 4 million years, said Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. For instance, they noted that urban areas currently take up less than 1 percent of Earth’s surface, and that complex items, even from early human technology, are very rarely found. A machine as complex as the Antikythera mechanism — which is considered to be the world’s first computer from ancient Greece — remained unknown until the development of elaborate clocks in Renaissance Europe.
One may also find it difficult to unearth fossils of any beings who might have lived in industrial civilizations, the scientists added. The fraction of life that gets fossilized is always extremely small: Of all the many dinosaurs that ever lived, for example, only a few thousand nearly complete fossil specimens of the “terrible lizards” have been discovered. Given that the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens are only about 300,000 years old, there is no certainty that our species might even appear in the fossil record in the long run, they added.
Instead, the researchers suggested looking for more subtle evidence of industrial civilizations in the geological records of Earth or other planets. The scientists focused on looking at the signs of civilization that humans might create during the Anthropocene, the geological age characterized by humans’ influence on the planet.
“After a few million years, any physical reminder of your civilization may be gone, so you have to look for sedimentary anomalies, things like different chemical balances that just look wacky,” Frank said.
One sign of industrial civilization may have to do with isotopes of elements such as carbon. (Isotopes of an element vary in how many neutrons they possess in their atomic nuclei — for example, carbon-12 has six neutrons, while carbon-13 has seven.)
For instance, humans living in industrial civilizations have burned an extraordinary amount of fossil fuels, releasing more than 500 billion tons of carbon from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels ultimately derive from plant life, which preferentially absorb more of the lighter isotope carbon-12 than the heavier isotope carbon-13. When fossil fuels get burned, they alter the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 normally found in the atmosphere, ocean and soils — an effect that could later be detected in sediments as hints of an industrial civilization.
In addition, human industrial civilizations have also discovered ways to artificially “fix nitrogen” — that is, to break the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms together in pairs in the atmosphere, using the resulting single nitrogen atoms to create biologically useful molecules. The large-scale application of nitrogenous fertilizers generated via nitrogen fixing is already detectable in sediments remote from civilization, the scientists noted.
The Anthropocene is also triggering a mass extinction of a wide variety of species that’s likely visible in the fossil record. Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long-lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.
One wild idea the Silurian hypothesis raises is that the end of one civilization could sow the seeds for another. Industrial civilizations may trigger dead zones in oceans, causing organic material (from the corpses of organisms in the zones) to get buried that could, down the line, become fossil fuels that could support a new industrial civilization. “You could end up seeing these cycles in the geological record,” Frank said.
All in all, thinking about the impact that a previous civilization has on Earth “could help us think about what effects one might see on other planets, or about what is happening now on Earth,” Frank said.
Schmidt and Frank detailed their findings online April 10 in a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal International Journal of Astrobiology.
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THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME FOR OUR PLANET
THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME FOR OUR PLANET
We can’t go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it.
As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the world’s great universities. Within that town, the scientific community that I became part of in my 20s is even more rarefied.( Stephen Hawkings )
And within that scientific community, the small group of international theoretical physicists with whom I have spent my working life might sometimes be tempted to regard themselves as the pinnacle. In addition to this, with the celebrity that has come with my books, and the isolation imposed by my illness, I feel as though my ivory tower is getting taller.
So the recent apparent rejection of the elites in both America and Britain is surely aimed at me, as much as anyone. Whatever we might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject membership of the European Union and by the American public to embrace Donald Trump as their next president, there is no doubt in the minds of commentators that this was a cry of anger by people who felt they had been abandoned by their leaders.
It was, everyone seems to agree, the moment when the forgotten spoke, finding their voices to reject the advice and guidance of experts and the elite everywhere.
I am no exception to this rule. I warned before the Brexit vote that it would damage scientific research in Britain, that a vote to leave would be a step backward, and the electorate – or at least a sufficiently significant proportion of it – took no more notice of me than any of the other political leaders, trade unionists, artists, scientists, businessmen and celebrities who all gave the same unheeded advice to the rest of the country.
What matters now, far more than the choices made by these two electorates, is how the elites react. Should we, in turn, reject these votes as outpourings of crude populism that fail to take account of the facts, and attempt to circumvent or circumscribe the choices that they represent? I would argue that this would be a terrible mistake.
The concerns underlying these votes about the economic consequences of globalisation and accelerating technological change are absolutely understandable. The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.
This in turn will accelerate the already widening economic inequality around the world. The internet and the platforms that it makes possible allow very small groups of individuals to make enormous profits while employing very few people. This is inevitable, it is progress, but it is also socially destructive.
We need to put this alongside the financial crash, which brought home to people that a very few individuals working in the financial sector can accrue huge rewards and that the rest of us underwrite that success and pick up the bill when their greed leads us astray. So taken together we are living in a world of widening, not diminishing, financial inequality, in which many people can see not just their standard of living, but their ability to earn a living at all, disappearing. It is no wonder then that they are searching for a new deal, which Trump and Brexit might have appeared to represent.
‘In sub-Saharan Africa there are more people with a telephone than access to clean water.’
Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer
It is also the case that another unintended consequence of the global spread of the internet and social media is that the stark nature of these inequalities is far more apparent than it has been in the past. For me, the ability to use technology to communicate has been a liberating and positive experience. Without it, I would not have been able to continue working these many years past.
But it also means that the lives of the richest people in the most prosperous parts of the world are agonisingly visible to anyone, however poor, who has access to a phone. And since there are now more people with a telephone than access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, this will shortly mean nearly everyone on our increasingly crowded planet will not be able to escape the inequality.
The consequences of this are plain to see: the rural poor flock to cities, to shanty towns, driven by hope. And then often, finding that the Instagram nirvana is not available there, they seek it overseas, joining the ever greater numbers of economic migrants in search of a better life. These migrants in turn place new demands on the infrastructures and economies of the countries in which they arrive, undermining tolerance and further fuelling political populism.
For me, the really concerning aspect of this is that now, more than at any time in our history, our species needs to work together. We face awesome environmental challenges: climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans.
Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it. Perhaps in a few hundred years, we will have established human colonies amid the stars, but right now we only have one planet, and we need to work together to protect it.
To do that, we need to break down, not build up, barriers within and between nations. If we are to stand a chance of doing that, the world’s leaders need to acknowledge that they have failed and are failing the many. With resources increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, we are going to have to learn to share far more than at present.
With not only jobs but entire industries disappearing, we must help people to retrain for a new world and support them financially while they do so. If communities and economies cannot cope with current levels of migration, we must do more to encourage global development, as that is the only way that the migratory millions will be persuaded to seek their future at home.
We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year. To learn above all a measure of humility.
Former Pentagon Insider Says US Government Is Ignoring UFO Sightings
Former Pentagon Insider Says US Government Is Ignoring UFO Sightings
The former Pentagon insider stated that the US government was ignoring the fact of UFO sightings and it might be the missing proof of alien civilisation.
Former deputy assistant secretary of defence for intelligence Christopher Mellon, who served in the Bill Clinton and George W Bush administrations, explained that the sightings of UFOs need further investigations.
Mr Mellon, now part of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, stated that several videos revealing encounters between US pilots and unexplained objects appear to suggest that there is an existence of aircraft way more advanced than what the public knows. Mellon noted that if alien civilisations had nothing to do with those UFO sightings, then it could be the work of other countries’ technology like Russia, and China that the public most likely did not know.
Whether there’s involvement of extraterrestrials or not, these different and unexplained phenomena that were happening suggest that there’s something that needs urgent investigation. However, Mr Mellon claimed that the people in Pentagon believed that these events were connected to each other and not some strange individual occurrences.
Mellon stated that if these unexplained occurrences of craft were from the technology of other countries, such as Russia and China, and that they were trying to conceal their technological breakthrough to extend their lead quietly, then the response should be the same as before. He added that it could be true when Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that they have propulsion breakthroughs.
He further explained that if these crafts were extraterrestrials, then knowing them very well is even more urgent. However, he noted that nobody wants to be the alien guy because of fear of being ridiculed in the group.
Mr Mellon explained his claims after their organisation released new footage that allegedly shows pilots finding a UFO as it flew across the ocean. The video reveals that the alleged pilots are surprised to see the fast moving object. In that video, even experts suggested that it is not a typical plane.
Before that video, New York Times also released a set of bizarre videos and information at the end of last year. The footage also reportedly shows US navy pilots tracking UFOs.
No Way Out? Aliens on 'Super-Earth' Planets May Be Trapped by Gravity
No Way Out? Aliens on 'Super-Earth' Planets May Be Trapped by Gravity
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Artist's illustration of the super-Earth alien planet Kepler-69c.
Credit: NASA
"Super-Earth" planets are giant-size versions of Earth, and some research has suggested that they're more likely to be habitable than Earth-size worlds. But a new study reveals how difficult it would be for any aliens on these exoplanets to explore space.
To launch the equivalent of an Apollo moon mission, a rocket on a super-Earth would need to have a mass of about 440,000 tons (400,000 metric tons), due to fuel requirements, the study said. That's on the order of the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
"On more-massive planets, spaceflight would be exponentially more expensive," said study author Michael Hippke, an independent researcher affiliated with the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany. "Such civilizations would not have satellite TV, a moon mission or a Hubble Space Telescope." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
As researchers have discovered alien worlds around other stars, one class of exoplanets that popped up was the super-Earths, planets that can reach up to 10 times the mass of our own. A number of super-Earths apparently lie in thehabitable zonesof their stars, where temperatures can theoretically support liquid water on the planetary surface and thus, potentially, life as it is known on Earth.
Prior work suggested not only that worlds other than Earth-like ones could offer circumstances suitable for life, but also that some could be even more suitable than Earth-like planets. Super-Earths, researchers have suggested, might be "super-habitable" — their greater mass giving them stronger gravitational pulls, so they could hold thicker atmospheres to better shield life from harmful cosmic rays.
If life did evolve on a distant super-Earth, such aliens could have developed an advanced civilization capable of spaceflight. However, the strong gravitational pull of such planets could also make it more difficult for extraterrestrials to blast off their planets, Hippke said in the new study.
To see how difficult it might be for super-Earthlings to launch a conventional rocket, Hippke calculated the rocket sizes needed to escape a super-Earth 70 percent wider than our planet and 10 times more massive. Those are roughly the specs of the alien planet Kepler-20b, which lies about 950 light-years from Earth. On such a world, the escape velocity is about 2.4 times greater than on Earth.
A big challenge for aliens on such a world would be the weight of the fuel that conventional rockets carry. Launching a rocket off a planet requires a lot of fuel, which makes the rockets heavy, which requires more fuel, making the craft heavier, and so on.
"I am surprised to see how close we as humans are to end up on a planet which is still reasonably lightweight to conduct spaceflight," Hippke told Space.com. "Other civilizations, if they exist, might not be as lucky."
Assuming a rocket on the simulated super-Earth worked about as well as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, to launch a payload like NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope would require 60,000 tons (55,000 metric tons) of fuel, about the mass of the largest ocean battleships, Hippke said. [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]
"Civilizations from super-Earths are much less likely to explore the stars," Hippke said. "Instead, they would be to some extent arrested on their home planet and, for example, make more use of lasers or radio telescopes for interstellar communication instead of sending probes or spaceships."
Rockets work better in the vacuum of space than in an atmosphere, though. So, Hippke suggested that super-Earthlings might want to launch from a mountaintop. However, the strong gravitational pull of super-Earths would squash down their surfaces, leading to smaller mountains. And on Earth, the benefit of launching at high altitudes is not very large compared to launching at sea level, Hippke said.
There could be ways of reaching orbit other than via conventional rockets, such as by using space elevators traveling on giant cables rising out of the atmosphere. However, a key limiting factor of space elevators is the strength of the cable material. The most suitable material known today, carbon nanotubes, is just barely strong enough for Earth's gravity, and it is unclear if stronger materials are physically possible, making it difficult to predict if space elevators on super-Earths could work.
Another possibility is nuclear pulse propulsion, which would involve detonating a series of atom bombs behind a vehicle to hurl it through space. This explosive strategy offers more lifting power than conventional rockets, and might be the only way for a civilization to leave a planet more than 10 times Earth's mass, Hippke said.
However, such a nuclear-powered spacecraft would pose not only technical challenges but political ones as well, he said.
"A launch failure, which typically happens with a 1 percent risk, could cause dramatic effects on the environment" for a nuclear-powered spacecraft, Hippke said. "I could only imagine that a society takes these risks in a flagship project where no other options are available, but the desire is strong — for example, one single mission to leave their planet and visit a moon."
Hippke detailed his findings online April 12 in a study submitted to the International Journal of Astrobiology.
Découvrez la Lune en 4K à travers les yeux de la sonde LRO. Cette dernière nous livre des images très détaillées de plusieurs régions de notre satellite. Ici, le cratère Tycho et les pentes de sa montagne centrale surmontée d'un rocher solitaire ; là, le vaste réseau de cratères au pôle sud, à l'intérieur du plus ancien bassin d'impact de la Lune. Un régal pour les yeux. Une balade à savourer en plein écran.
Armée de sept instruments, la sonde spatiale américaine LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) effleure la surface de la Lune depuis 2009, la cartographiant sous toutes les coutures : d'abord sur une orbite polaire basse, durant ses trois premières années, puis sur une orbite plus elliptique qui l'amène à survoler le pôle sud à basse altitude.
Depuis toutes ces années, la moisson de données est colossale. LRO nous a dévoilé la surface lunaire dans son intimité. Ici, des gros plans détaillés de certains des paysages les plus familiers des Terriens, sur la face visible de la Lune — par exemple le cratère Tycho ou Copernic — et là, sa face cachée et méconnue, marquée par la tache sombre du bassin de la mer Orientale. LRO a aussi survolé, entre autres faits d'armes, chacune des régions foulées par l'Homme lors des missions Apollo.
Survolez les reliefs de la Lune
Cette vidéo d'environ 4 minutes est une version augmentée, en 4K cette fois, d'un grand tour de la Lune dévoilé en 2011. Pour en profiter au maximum et ne rien rater de ce spectacle, il est bien sûr recommandé de l'afficher en mode plein écran. Les images sont sublimes. On a l'impression d'être à bord d'un vaisseau en mission, passant d'une région à l'autre pour faire découvrir ou redécouvrir des reliefs diversifiés avec leur composition minérale.
Cette balade qui effleure la Lune nous fait visiter en détail :
la mer Orientale et sa structure sous-jacente ;
le pôle sud, plus vaste et ancien bassin d'impact, où de la glace d’eau semble résister au fond de certains cratères ;
Tycho, jeune cratère d'impact de moins de 100 millions d'années, et des détails impressionnants de sa montagne centrale ;
le plateau d'Aristarque, témoin encore visible de l'ancienne histoire volcanique de la Lune ;
le site d'atterrissage d'Apollo 17 et les traces laissées par le rover ;
A Mystery In History: The Super-Longevous Antediluvian Patriarchs
A Mystery In History: The Super-Longevous Antediluvian Patriarchs
The Patriarchs of the Bible are usually defined as being Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites
Biblical Patriarchs play a significant role in religion because it is they who are used as a significant marker by God in revelation and promises.
The term Patriarchs is also used when making reference to the twenty male ancestors that lived between Adam—the first human being on Earth—and Abraham, the founding father of the Covenant.
Ten of these Patriarchs are called Antediluvian Patriarchs because they lived on Earth before the Great Flood swept across the land.
In this article, we take a look at the ten of the Antediluvian Patriarchs and analyses with great interest their peculiar lifespan.
We can resume then that the antediluvian patriarchs correspond to the maincharacters of the bookGenesis, which correspond to Adam, the firstman, and hisdescendants to Noah, one of only eight survivors of the universal Flood.
Super Longevous times…
According to the ancient texts, Noah was the tenth and last of the super-longevous antediluvian patriarchs: Noah died 350 years after the Flood, at the age of 950 years.
This makes him the third longest man in the entire Bible, surpassing even Adam who lived until the age of 930 years.
In proportion to his long life, he fathered three children after the age of 500.
After Noah, lifespan drastically plunged to “only” 120 years, as we see with Moses.
The lifetimes given for the patriarchs in the Book of Genesis are Adam 930 years, Seth 912, Enos 905, Kenan 910, Mahalalel 895, Jared 962, Enoch 365 (did not die but was taken away by God), Methuselah 969, Lamech 777, Noah 950.
In the following graph, we can see the lifespan of the patriarchs as recorded in the Septuagint Black, the Syriac Peshitta Gold, and the Masoretic text Crimson.
A Graph showing the Lifespan of the Biblical Patriarchs.
What we have is a list of extremely important Biblical characters whose lifespan is unlike anything we’ve encountered before.
This historical fact raises a number of questions which we have not been able to answer.
Were their lives recorded adequately? Did they really live that long? Is it possible that their extreme age is the result of misinterpretations or translation errors?
Is it just part of a myth? Or, is it possible that some of these Patriarchs were not ordinary humans, but in fact messengers from the Gods, aka beings from another world?
Some theories point towards the possibility that their extreme lifespans are the result of translation errors.
Some scholars maintain that the lunar cycles were confused with solar cycles, and the real ages are in fact 13.5 times smaller.
This would mean that Methuselah who is said to have lived to the age of 969 was in fact 71.7 years old when he died. (969/13.5=71,77)
But, just as with the Biblical Patriarchs, the Sumerian King list, as well as the Turin Royal Canon, describe how in the distant past, the lifespan on Earth was anomalously great.
The Turin Royal canon describes, in the final two lines of the column a sort of resume of the entire document where we can read: ‘… Venerables Shemsu-Hor, 13,420 years; Reigns before the Shemsu-Hor, 23,200 years; Total 36,620 years’.
The Sumerian King list, just as the Turin Royal canon describe incredible longevous reigns:
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.”
This is why I ask, is it possible that both the Biblical Patriarchs, the Turin Royal Canon, as well as the Sumerian King List are the result of misinterpretations or translation errors? Or is it possible that all three examples are evidence of beings that inhabited earth thousands of years ago, who somehow lived as if they were true ‘Gods’ with lifespans incomparable to ordinary humans?
Humans have been trying to find out whether or not we're alone in the universe for centuries.
Aboard the Voyager 1 space probe - which has travelled further than any other man-made object - is a golden disc containing information about humans and the cultures of our planet.
It was hoped by NASA engineers in the 70s that it would once day come into contact with intelligent life and educate them about humankind.
As well as sending out potential communications to other worlds, many people have reported evidence of aliens here on Earth.
The mummified skeleton known as Ata(Image: Sirius Disclosure)
Recently, the mummified remains of what was believed to be an alien proved to be a small child.
The skeleton measured just six inches in height, and was found 15 years ago in Chile. UFO experts were convinced the mummified skeleton was extraterrestrial in origin, and a documentary suggested it was an alien.
Following five years of research, scientists concluded that the figure, nicknamed Ata, was actually a baby girl.
Even though Ata turned out to be a story of human tragedy rather than of alien visitors, there are plenty of other mysterious sightings that have yet to be explained.
Evidence of aliens on Earth - Roswell, New Mexico
In July 1947 Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus were travelling together to pick up a prisoner when they heard on their police radio reports of a crashed aircraft.
The two men, who were travelling to Roswell, New Mexico, decided to investigate and stumbled across the scene of one of the most famous UFO incidents in history.
While the US military have long claimed the crashed object was merely a weather balloon, conspiracy theorists believe the site was the scene of at least one alien aircraft crash and the recovery of extraterrestrials.
(Image: Irena Scott)
In a new book, UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, law enforcement officer Fogus reveals he saw a downed flying saucer and military personnel removing a number of alien bodies from the scene.
It is the first time his statement has been published.
In the interview he says he say a flying saucer crashed into the side of a river bed which was "100ft across".
(Image: Sipa)
Describing the scene he said: "When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature.
"The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.
"I saw the legs and feet on some of them. They looked like our feet.
"The skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.
"There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them.
"We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them."
The story of the discovery at Roswell has become legend - and remained one of the most compelling conspiracy theories about the existence of alien visitors to Earth.
Evidence of aliens on Mars - trace fossils
Mars(Image: Getty Images)
Thanks to satellite imagery and on-site photography captured by the NASA rovers on the planet's surface, there have been many claims that aliens once inhabited Mars.
One of the most striking is the idea that fossilised remains of aliens have been preserved on the dusty surface of the red planet.
A series of pictures taken by the space agency's Curiosity rover have given rise to the idea, after researchers found what looks like fossils among the rocks.
The 'fossils' seen on Mars(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Barry DiGregorio, a research fellow at the University of Buckingham, believes these photos (taken on January 2, 2018) reveal "trace fossils" on the surface of Mars.
"They look remarkably similar to Ordovician trace fossils I have studied and photographed here on Earth," he said.
"If not trace fossils, what other geological explanations will NASA come up with?"
NASA described the formations as "stick-like figures" with each one "about a quarter-inch long".
The space agency used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on board the Curiosity rover to take the close-up pictures of the patterns.
Trace fossils are the name given to remains of things left behind by creatures such as dead remains, footprints or burrows.
Evidence of aliens in space - the 'Wow' signal and FSBs
(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Some of the biggest evidence of alien life comes through signals we intercept originating from distant corners of the galaxy.
Often, these are known as "fast radio bursts" or FSBs for short.
Back in 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman received such a strong radio signal coming in from the heavens, he wrote the word "wow!" next to his results.
The burst of activity lasted 72 seconds and - although it came from the Sagittarius constellation - it matched no known celestial object.
But now Professor Antonio Paris from the St Petersburg College in Florida believes he's solved the mystery.
"I have always been fascinated with astronomy, space and - more importantly - whether there is life in the universe," he told the Sunday Times .
"After 40 years, the Wow signal was a cold case I wanted to reopen.
According to Professor Paris, the signal came from the hydrogen cloud created by two comets as they passed by Earth.
Using celestial records, he found that these two comets were passing by our planet on August 15, 1977 - the day the "Wow!" signal was recorded. Of course, at the time, there was no knowledge that these comets even existed.
(Image: iStockphoto)
Even without the "Wow" signal, scientists have been intercepting strange FSBs for years.
Some have been detected from an object called FRB 121102 and now a new study has found that the object is nearly 100 per cent polarised.
This polarisation suggests that the source of the bursts lies within a strong magnetic field, such as around a massive black hole - and could belong to aliens.
The findings were made by the Breakthrough Listen team at the University of California, Berkley, as well as another team of astronomers from the Netherlands.
What do most people think about aliens?
(Image: Photonica)
Nearly half of humans believe that intelligent extra-terrestrial life exists elsewhere in the universe, according to a study that asked 26,000 people across 24 countries.
When they were asked if they believed in the "existence of intelligent alien civilisations in the universe," 47% of the survey respondents said yes.
However, when those taking the survey were asked if they believed in "some form of life on other planets," 61% said yes.
Among those who reckon we aren't alone, 60% said we should try and communicate with aliens - something that is actually being attempted at the non profit Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) Institute.
Martijn Lampert, research director at Glocalities , which carried out the survey, commented: "People who believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations are not a marginal minority, but constitute a large (47%) and distinct segment of unconventional and anti-authoritarian thinkers with a passion for science, technology, culture, politics and the arts."
Only a quarter of respondents said they didn't believe that alien life exists beyond Earth's borders.
Are aliens real?
Some people have been searching for aliens for years...(Image: 2016 Fox)
We may not have come into contact with them yet, but it seems certain that some form of live exists beyond our planet.
Whether that live is micro bacterial or intelligent in its own right remains to be seen.
What's for sure is that human beings won't stop trying to reach out and communicate with any other species that might be listening. The truth is out there.
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Un OVNI bleu et lumineux observé à Kreuzlinger, en Suisse
Un OVNI bleu et lumineux observé à Kreuzlinger, en Suisse
Le jeudi 19 avril 2018, à la nuit tombée, un mystérieuse objet volant a été observé dans le ciel de la ville de Kreuzlinger, dans le comté de Thurgovie, en Suisse. De nombreux habitants ont vu cet OVNI et, pour l'heure, personne n'est parvenue à expliquer l'origine de cette chose pas même des scientifiques.
Un habitant de la commun de Altnau a rapporté avoir vu cette étrange lumière bleue près du village de Herrenhof. Il avoue avoir ressenti une certaine angoisse :
« La lumière brillait vraiment très puissamment. »
Vladi Barrosa, porte-parole de Skyguide (une société de contrôle du trafic aérien), a expliqué :
«En général, chaque observation, après la consultation de nos images radar, peut être expliquéede manière plausible. »
Hélas, dans ce cas, Skyguide n'a pu trouver aucune explication.
Martin G., qui vit à Soleure, a également repéré cet objet avant de pendre contact avec Skyguide.
« Ils m'ont dit qu'ils ne pouvaient rien voir sur le radar.»
Barrosa poursuit :
«Nous sommes responsables de la circulation aérienne. Puisque ce n'est pas apparu sur notre radar, nous ne pouvons pas juger. »
Ce corps céleste bleu et rougeoyant peut donc être classé parmi les objets volants non identifiés.
G. explique avoir déjà observé de mystérieux corps célestes à travers son télescope.
«Il clignotaiten bleu et violet.Parfois, il prenait une couleurblanche. »
Il s'est ensuite déplacé au sud-est en direction du Plateau suisse. Malgré son télescope G. n'a pas pu déterminer plus précisément l'origine de cet objet. Cependant, il a une théorie : pour lui, il pourrait s'agir également d'un missile militaire.
« Sic'est le cas, alors tout est gardé secretau grand public. »
D'autres internautes soupçonnent que les observations pourraient être liées au lancement du télescope spatial Tess de la NASA la veille.
Selon Barrosa, de tels rapports d'observation sont constamment reçus et tous ne peuvent pas être éclaircis.
L'Observatoire d'Urania à Zurich avoue s'intéresser aux OVNI. Malheureusement, la plupart des témoignages qu'ils reçoivent ou étudient s'avèrent absurdes ou peu crédibles.
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.”
UFO FILES – SECRET UFO BASE: AREA 51 – PARTS 1 TO 5 (VIDEO)
UFO FILES – SECRET UFO BASE: AREA 51 – PARTS 1 TO 5 (VIDEO)
Area 51 is the remarkable story of a man called Bob Lazar who walked into KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, in 1989 and claimed that he had worked at a Top Secret Military installation called S4 out in the middle of the Nevada Desert.
He said that he worked for the Department of Naval Intelligence, through a defense subsidiary called EG&G, and that his job was to analyze the propulsion system of a crashed alien spacecraft. He claims that he received a detailed, top secret, briefing on a number of ‘recoveries’ that had been made by the US government of ‘crashed space vehicles’ as well as EBEs ‘extra-terrestrial biological entities’. According to Lazar, the US Government had been ‘back engineering’ alien craft for over fifty years, resulting in a number of ‘exotic’ new products, such as Kevlar, fiber optics and the stealth coverings for aircraft, which were then developed and sold to large multinational corporations. He also claims to have witnessed ‘test flights’ of ‘man-made’ flying craft which were utilizing this ‘alien’ technology. As outlandish as his story seemed, the KLAS-TV reporter, George Knapp, has spent 20 years standing up Lazar’s claims and credentials, and believes that there is some truth to his claims.
Footage of strange lights in the skies above Phoenix has sparked conspiracy theories about the presence of UFOs and military experiments to control the weather.
It appears to show an unusual purple beam reaching down from the heavens accompanied by the presence of a craft darting through the night sky.
Theorists claim it is a combination of a top-secret mission to manipulate the climate, conducted by the US armed forces, combined with the presence of aliens.
Experts believe that the footage is merely a camera lens reflection or some other trick of the light.
The live stream was recorded above a mountain range outside the city of Phoenix, in Arizona, at 10:40pm on April 11.
A 360 degree video, which was uploaded to YouTube in recent days, which captured the incident has already accrued more than 27,000 hits.
It has left some viewers confused as to what's behind it, with users deliberating over what it could be.
One theorist believes the strange lights could be caused by 'chemtrails', or condensation trails from aircraft that proponents say contain chemical and biological compounds engineered for sinister purposes.
These range from claims about controlling the weather to, more alarmingly, poisoning people under flight paths in an effort to keep down population numbers.
One comment under the footage said: 'The air is highly charged with metal ions from the chemtrailing. The purple beams could be plasma discharge.
'Unbelievable captures of UFO craft, it looks like they want to put on a display for us.'
Not everyone agrees with these ominous otherworldly and government-based explanations, however.
Last week, the skies of Arizona were illuminated with an unusual purple beam (pictured) and bizarre light patterns. Seen on a live stream one viewer believes it to be proof of chemtrails and the government trying to manipulate the weather
Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the MOD, told MailOnline: 'This is an intriguing video, but without knowing more about the type of camera used to record the footage, and without undertaking a detailed technical analysis, it's difficult to be certain about what we're looking at.
'The purple flashes certainly look spectacular, but could be an artefact of the camera itself, or perhaps associated with storm activity, with the colour being attributable to a technical issue.
'As for the 'UFOs', they could simply be civil or military aircraft.
'Regarding the various conspiracy theories circulating about all this, chemtrails don't exist. They're simply vapour trails, and the theories about weather control or a slow poisoning of world populations are paranoid nonsense.'
Some viewers of the video appeared to disagree with these conclusions, however.
WHAT IS THE CHEMTRAILS CONSPIRACY THEORY?
Conspiracy theorists have claimed the long-lasting condensation trails, or contrails, left behind aircraft are evidence of a secret large-scale spraying program.
They call these imagined features 'chemtrails.'
Adherents of this conspiracy theory sometimes attribute this alleged spraying to the government and sometimes to industry.
The chemtrail theory states that the trails left by planes consist of chemical or biological agents.
Supporters of this idea believe chemtrails are deliberately left by the US government to control and modify the weather.
Researchers have previously conducted a survey of the world's leading atmospheric scientists, who categorically rejected the existence of a secret spraying program.
The survey results show that 76 of the 77 participating scientists said they had not encountered evidence of a secret program.
They agree that the alleged evidence cited by the individuals who believe that atmospheric spraying is occurring could be explained through other factors, such as typical airplane contrail formation and poor data sampling.
Writing on YouTube, another said: 'The purple beams may very well be part of the HAARP projects, which have the capacity to project all kinds of images on the skies and create insanely loud sounds.'
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) project is a US military initiative, based in Alaska.
Designed and built by BAE Advance Technologies it aims to analyse the ionosphere - a portion of Earth's atmosphere that ranges from 37 miles (60 km) to 620 miles (1,000 km) above the planet's surface.
Defence officials say they hope to use the research to develop advanced technology.
In spite of this, some people believe it is a cover for the US to conduct nefarious activities.
To go with the claims of a huge US government secret mission to control the weather, people claim the footage also shows UFOs. The white light (pictured) travels from right to left behind the mountain range
The 'UFO' (pictured) was described by one viewer as 'unbelievable'. The anonymous user said it looked like the aliens were 'putting on a display for us'
Speaking to MailOnline, Nigel Watson, author of Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, added: 'All sorts of images are used to 'prove' that the HAARP facility is influencing the weather or doing other nasty things to our atmosphere.
'The purple streak is more likely a camera lens reflection and, for the timebeing, I think we are still safe from being attacked by little green men.'
While Mr Pope rejects the more far-fetched assertions about HAARP, he says he believes there could be some truth to claims of environmental tinkering by governments.
'Don't let's throw out the baby with the bathwater,' he added. 'Weather modification is real, and we see it, for example, with cloud seeding.'
'Is there research underway to do more? I'm sure there is.
'With hurricane season fast approaching, if it was possible to divert a major storm to keep it away from land, I'm sure people would be working on ways to do this. Such techniques could save thousands of lives.'
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and certain psychological traits.
Narcissism and self-esteem levels have a large impact on a persons belief in conspiracy theories.
The results showed that people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
There are widely believed to be three main reasons as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
The desire for understanding and certainty - Seeking explanations for events is a natural human desire.
The desire for control and security - Conspiracy theories can give their believers a sense of control and security.
The desire to maintain a positive self-image - People who feel socially marginalised are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and it gives them a sense of worth in the UFO community.
These three things tie in with the previously stated qualities and combine to create an avid conspiracy theorist.
Mysterieuze paarse lichtstralen vastgelegd in Phoenix. Voert het leger hier topgeheime experimenten uit?
Mysterieuze paarse lichtstralen vastgelegd in Phoenix. Voert het leger hier topgeheime experimenten uit?
In Phoenix in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona zijn beelden gemaakt van vreemde paarse lichten in de lucht. Sommigen dachten dat het UFO’s waren, terwijl anderen stelden dat het leger experimenten uitvoerde.
In de video is een paarse lichtstraal te zien die uit de hemel neerdaalt. Tegelijkertijd is er een vreemd object in de lucht te zien.
Een topgeheime missie uitgevoerd door het Amerikaanse leger of aliens die de aarde een bezoek brengen?
Chemtrails
Experts denken dat er sprake is van een reflectie op de cameralens.
De lichten verschenen op 11 april om 22.40 uur lokale tijd op een livestream. Een filmpje van het tafereel dat op YouTube is gezet, is al tienduizenden keren bekeken.
Eén iemand dacht dat de vreemde lichten waren veroorzaakt door chemtrails, in een poging het klimaat te beïnvloeden.
“De lucht zit vol metaalionen als gevolg van de chemtrails,” zei de persoon. “De paarse stralen zijn mogelijk ontstaan door de ontlading van plasma.”
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“Ongelooflijke beelden van UFO’s,” zei iemand anders. “Het lijkt erop dat ze een show opvoeren voor ons.”
Nick Pope, die voor het Britse ministerie van Defensie UFO-waarnemingen analyseerde, zei dat de paarse flitsen spectaculair zijn, maar wellicht een artefact zijn of te maken hebben met het weer.
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“De UFO’s kunnen net zo goed militaire of lijnvliegtuigen zijn,” zei hij.
“Het is heel goed mogelijk dat de paarse stralen onderdeel uitmaken van de HAARP-projecten,” schreef iemand. “Die kunnen allerlei beelden in de lucht projecteren en zeer harde knallen veroorzaken.”
In het oude Egypte werden hiëroglyfen als schrift gebruikt en het is dan ook voor niets dat we dezelfde symbolen aantreffen op buitenaardse ruimteschepen.
Buitenaardsen zijn nog steeds op aarde en alhoewel ze hun uiterste best doen om hun ruimteschepen te vermommen, vallen ze toch af en toe door de mand.
Een prachtig voorbeeld van een vermomming van een buitenaards ruimteschip vinden we in een waarneming dat is ingediend bij Mufon onder nummer 91551 door een man uit Ashburn in de Amerikaanse staat Virginia.
De man in kwestie is bouwvakker en stond op 15 maart van dit jaar op de vijfde verdieping van een gebouw in aanbouw, toen hij besloot een foto te nemen. Hij was het verder vergeten en pas op 21 april heeft hij de foto bekeken.
Tot zijn grote verbazing ontdekte hij een wel hele vreemde wolk in de lucht. De foto die hij nam ziet er zo uit.
Wanneer je de wolk dichterbij haalt, dan zie je de bekende UFO vorm en ook dat het allesbehalve een wolk is.
Ze zijn overal om ons heen en in de meeste gevallen worden ze niet opgemerkt door de mensheid, omdat niemand echt naar de wolken kijkt. Ook hier weer het kenmerkende verschijnsel van een wolk in de lucht in een vrijwel wolkeloze hemel.
Iemand voor wie iedereen veel respect heeft is de journaliste Linda Moulton Howes en als er iemand uitgebreid onderzoek heeft gedaan naar het UFO fenomeen en de buitenaardsen, dan is zij dat wel. Haar interesse werd gewekt in 1979 door de vele verminkte dieren die werden aangetroffen en waar geen logische verklaring voor was .
Al met al betekent dit dat zij ondertussen een kleine 40 jaar onderzoek achter de rug heeft en in de onderstaande video vertelt ze meer over haar ervaringen en deelt ze haar visie na al die jaren onderzoek.
Zij is ervan overtuigd dat de aarde de afgelopen 270 miljoen jaar niets anders is geweest dan een laboratorium voor de buitenaardsen. Linda legt uit dat alle mythes en legenden helemaal waar zijn en dat de oude goden vergevorderde wezens waren die de aarde hebben bezocht en de menselijke geschiedenis hebben veranderd, zowel ten goede als ten kwade.
Dat is ook de reden dat men op de hedendaagse UFO regelmatig hiëroglyfen aantreft. Mensen die hebben gewerkt op geheime locaties vertellen dat deze duidelijk zichtbaar zijn op de UFO's.
Dat er geavanceerde wezens op aarde zijn geweest lang voordat onze geschiedenisboeken daarvan melding maken, wordt ook door een bericht in de Washington Post over een ingewikkelde sterrencalculator, bevestigd. "The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project stated that an examination at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens has found that the device is not a hoax." Ook wij schreven daar een aantal jaren geleden over.
Overheden doen hun uiterste best om het fenomeen buitenaardsen geheim te houden voor de mensheid, omdat zij denken dat dit nodig is voor de nationale veiligheid, aldus Linda. Dat maakt het uiteraard ook een complex, mysterieus en moeilijk onderwerp om onderzoek naar te doen.
Ook zij bevestigt dat er goede buitenaardsen zijn, de "friendlies", en de kwaadaardigen, de zognaamde "unfriendlies". Ook bevestigt zij dat er op dit moment (buitenaardse) oorlogen plaatsvinden, zowel op aarde als in de ruimte.
Wanneer een asteroïde zo dichtbij de aarde komt dat het tussen de aarde en de maan langs vliegt, dan moet je je toch wel wat zorgen gaan maken.
Niet in het minst wanneer het object pas op het allerlaatste moment wordt opgemerkt.
Heel regelmatig horen we berichten over weer een asteroïde die niet of pas heel laat is ontdekt en dat de aarde weer eens aan een ramp is ontsnapt.
Op 15 april vloog een asteroïde die wordt omschreven als een Tunguska klasse asteroïde ter grootte van een voetbalveld rakelings langs de aarde. De afstand waarop deze passeerde was minder dan 200.000 kilometer, hetgeen in ruimtetermen vlakbij betekent.
Dat niet alleen, de asteroïde werd ook pas de dag van te voren ontdekt en dat gebeurde door een observatorium, Catalina Sky Survey, in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona.
De referentie naar Tunguska betekent dat deze asteroïde, wanneer het wel door de dampkring zou zijn gegaan, een effect had kunnen veroorzaken, vergelijkbaar met wat er gebeurde in Tunguska in 1908.
Op 30 juni 1908 vond in Toengoeska (nu Evenkië, hetgeen sinds 2007 bestuurlijk onderdeel is van de kraj Krasnojarsk) in Siberië een enorme explosie plaats bij de rivier de Stenige Toengoeska, die bekendstaat als de Toengoeska-explosie of Grote Siberische Explosie. Als gevolg van de explosie braken in een omtrek van 30 tot 40 kilometer bomen aan de basis van de stam af. Over de oorzaak van de explosie wordt nog veel gespeculeerd, mede omdat deze in een zeer afgelegen gebied plaatsvond; de meest geaccepteerde verklaring is de ontploffing van een meteoriet op circa 8 kilometer boven het aardoppervlak.
De schaarse ooggetuigen in het zeer dunbevolkte gebied zagen een vuurbal uit de hemel neerdalen en in de lucht exploderen. Dit ging gepaard met een zeer harde knal. Door de kracht van de explosie braken bomen in de omgeving af en werden mensen en dieren weggeblazen. De explosie was tot op meer dan 200 km van het bodemnulpunt te voelen.
Ter vergelijking; de asteroïde die de aarde nu heeft gemist, is ongeveer vijf keer groter dan de meteoriet die boven Chelnyabinsk explodeerde in 2013.
Als de asteroïde, die de naam 2018 GE3 heeft gekregen, de aarde geraakt zou hebben, dan zou dit niet het einde van de wereld hebben betekend, maar wel van een stad als bijvoorbeeld Amsterdam. Er was natuurlijk ook nog een kans dat het nooit de grond zou bereiken, maar ergens boven de aarde exploderen.
Wat echt zorgwekkend is, is dat niemand deze dingen ziet aankomen, of als ze het wel doen, pas op het allerlaatste moment.
Uit een eerder artikel uit 2013:
Een voormalig Amerikaans astronaut noemt de situatie op aarde als het gaat over asteroïden, een spel van kosmische roulette
Niemand, maar dan ook echt helemaal niemand, had de asteroïde bij het Russische Chelyabinsk opgemerkt.
In een televisieprogramma destijds waren een aantal experts van NASA te gast, naar aanleiding van de explosie boven Chelyabinsk:
In het programma praat hij met een aantal experts van NASA die toegeven dat ze geen flauw idee hebben over wat er allemaal op ons af komt. De eerste keer dat zij gewaar werden dat er een asteroïde in de vorm van een meteoriet boven Rusland was ontploft, was toen ze dit vernamen via Twitter.
Dat er op diezelfde dag nog een asteroïde rakelings langs de aarde scheerde werd ook niet opgemerkt door NASA, maar wel door een amateur astronoom.
We weten dat de systemen om deze asteroïden op tijd te ontdekken en eventueel maatregelen te nemen zwaar onvoldoende zijn en het beste advies dat NASA kan geven op dit gebied is dan ook: bidden dat het niet gebeurt.
We zijn nu weer een aantal jaren verder en ondertussen zijn er in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar een record aantal waarnemingen geweest van “vuurbollen” in de lucht.
Een trend die zich nu al jarenlang verder doorzet en de indicaties zijn dan ook dat dit jaar het record voor vuurbollen opnieuw zal worden gebroken.
Wanneer je ziet in bovenstaande tabel dat we nu alleen al in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar al bijna op hetzelfde niveau staan als het gehele jaar 2011, dan ziet het er wat dat betreft niet goed uit.
Wanneer al die vele miljarden dollars die worden besteed aan wapensystemen gebruikt zouden worden om een waarschuwingssysteem voor de mensheid te creëren en een systeem wat misschien de koers van gevaarlijke asteroïden zou kunnen wijzigen, dan zouden we een stuk verder komen dan nu.
AFPDe Lagoonnevel ligt 4.000 lichtjaren van onze planeet.
WETENSCHAPOoit al van de Lagoonnevel gehoord? Het is een gebied in onze Melkweg in sterrenbeeld boogschutter waarvan de NASA nu wonderlijke beelden vrijgeeft. Dat gebeurt naar aanleiding van de 28ste verjaardag van ruimtetelescoop Hubble, die de natuurpracht vastlegde.
De eerste video neemt kijkers mee in het hart van de gigantische en kleurrijke nevel, een slordige 4.000 lichtjaren weg van de Aarde. “Een woeste sterrencrèche vol geboorte en vernietiging”, zo klinkt dat bij de NASA.
In het hart van de ruimtenevel ligt een massieve ‘jonge’ ster, de miljoen jaren oude Hershel 36. “Die schijnt 200.000 keer helderder en is acht maal heter dan onze zon”, luidt het. “De ster hult het gebied in ultraviolette straling en winden die een explosief, golvend fantasielandschap uitkerven van ribbels, holtes en bergen van gas en stof.”
Infrarood
Een tweede video gaat over in een infrarode versie die de gigantische hoeveelheid sterren toont achter het gas en stof.
Denkbeeldige vlucht
De NASA gebruikt de beelden ook in een video die een vlucht doorheen de Lagoonnevel simuleert.
28 jaar
De Hubbleruimtetelesoop werd gelanceerd op 24 april 1990 met ruimteveer Discovery, een gezamenlijk project van de NASA en het Europese ruimevaartagentschap ESA. Een keer per jaar onderbreekt de telescoop, die rond de Aarde draait, zijn normale observatieopdrachten om gedetailleerde beelden te schieten van een specifiek punt in de kosmos.
“De Hubble heeft ons een nieuw beeld van het universum bezorgd en heeft 28 jaar lang alle verwachtingen ingelost en overtroffen”, melden NASA en ESA. De telescoop heeft “een revolutie ontketend in bijna elk gebied van astronomische observatie”.
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Wetenschappers ontdekken waarom Uranus stinkt naar rotte eieren - HLN.be
Wetenschappers ontdekken waarom Uranus stinkt naar rotte eieren - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAPDe planeet Uranus heeft een onaangenaam geurtje. De wolken van de planeet bestaan namelijk voor het grootste deel uit waterstofsulfide, dat de geur van rotte eieren veroorzaakt. Wetenschappers vragen zich al lang af waaruit de wolken precies bestaan. Dat mysterie blijkt nu opgelost.
Sommige wetenschappers dachten dat de wolken van Uranus bestonden uit waterstofsulfide, anderen geloofden dat het ammoniak was. Nu heeft een internationaal team een gevoelige telescoop op Hawaï gebruikt om de ‘vingerafdruk’ van de planeet te meten. Daarin is duidelijk waterstofsulfide te zien.
Als er ooit een mens naar Uranus zou gaan, is het de vraag of hij of zij veel van de geur zal merken. “Als een zielige mens ooit door de wolken van Uranus heen gaat, krijgt hij of zij te maken met onplezierige en onwelriekende omstandigheden. Maar verstikking en blootstelling aan 200 graden onder nul met waterstof, helium en methaan zullen veel eerder hun tol eisen dan de geur”, aldus onderzoeker Patrick Irwin van de universiteit van Oxford.
Mogelijk heeft ook de planeet Neptunus veel waterstofsulfide. Jupiter en Saturnus bestaan juist uit veel ammoniak. De studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschapsblad Nature Astronomy.
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Cylindrical Luminous Objects Leaving Earth Caught On Camera
Cylindrical Luminous Objects Leaving Earth Caught On Camera
An expert in photography witnessed two cylindrical luminous objects, actually three objects; that seem to leave the atmosphere directing towards space. He took some 8 high-resolution images of the cylindrical objects in the night of April 14, 2018 on the outskirts of the city of Rykkinn, in Norway.
The photographer said: I found the mysterious lights when I checked the sequence of my photos and visible in 21 frames. The camera was outside on my balcony. The shots were made in raw format.
I think that the objects in the frames are very strange, that is, 3 lights almost parallel cross the sky directed towards the space moving the one following the second in front and almost perfectly.
I looked up and I cannot find any satellite that matches the trajectory. I also checked the monitor with the rare satellite crossing but nothing matched these objects. My camera's clock works well. Images are recorded with a Sony 6000 camera in manual mode. Mufon case 91487.
Black UFO Shoots Past Paddle Boarder In Waikiki, Hawaii On Video, April 16, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Shoots Past Paddle Boarder In Waikiki, Hawaii On Video, April 16, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 16, 2018 Location of sighting: Waikiki, Hawaii, USA Source: MUFON #91556 Check out this UFO as it shoots past a paddle boarder at such high speed, the human eye can't even keep up with it. However, it was caught on camera and the eyewitness must have found it later while looking at the video. The UFO is too fast to be a lost balloon and its to thick to be a frisbee. This object is a disk shape, thick and is seen on the front and its back as it flips and flies at the same time. Very odd. This UFO does have a similar shape as one recorded on infrared video by the US Navy as the UFO flew over the water. Video below to compare. Why is this UFO here among so many people? To record and better understand the thoughts of humans during when they are involved in a relaxed activity that they enjoy. It is info gathering. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
April 16, 18 I photographed in Hawaii Waikiki If you watch the video, something goes fast in about 2 seconds. Please confirm Thank you.
Below is a UFO recorded by a US Navy jet as the UFO was flying over the ocean.
So says Nick Pope who investigated the strange phenomenon for the Ministry of Defence.
The massive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) also explored reports of flying saucers.
Since it was exposed last year, three videos have shown bizarre enouncters with pilots and inexplicably-fast aircraft.
And Mr Pope believes AATIP could solve the famous Rendlesham Forest incident on Boxing Day December 1980 in Suffolk.
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ON THE INSIDE: Former investigator Nick Pope worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project
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MYSTERY: Rendlesham Forest has often been described as the 'UK Roswell'
Two members of the US Air Force (USAF), John Burroughs and Jim Penniston from the nearby Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, went to investigate a suspected civilian plane crash.
They stumbled upon an unknown craft displaying strange “hieroglyphic symbols”, which accelerated away at high speed after they touched it.
The UFO was briefly tracked on radar and reportedly returned two days later and fired beams at air force crew and a “sensitive area” of the Woodbridge base, according to Mr Pope.
The former MOD expert said: “When the story about the Pentagon's secret UFO project first broke, there was an intriguing reference to AATIP having a dossier detailing the best UFO cases from around the world.
“Apart from Roswell, the Rendlesham Forest incident is the best-known UFO case in the world, so it's logical it would be in AATIP's dossier, especially as the Rendlesham witnesses were US military personnel.”
Mr Pope said that all Freedom of Information requests for details on AATIP’s work have been rejected on national security grounds.
"The Special Relationship between the US and the UK remains strong, but there's been very little intelligence-sharing about UFOs," said Mr Pope.
Mr Pope claimed that an MOD assesment talked about what kind of "novel military applications" could come from UFOs.
"Governments – even allies – are in competition with each other over this, and don't want to give their game away," he said.
He believes that the X-Files type investigations of the Pentagon project could have answers about mystery radiations associated with flying saucers.
He said: “In a later MoD intelligence assessment of the UFO phenomenon more generally, my colleagues looked again at Rendlesham, and their final report contained the bombshell sentence ‘the well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon] radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods'.
“I’d be intrigued to know what information AATIP has about this, and what they concluded.
“In parallel with analysing videos of military jets chasing UFOs – like the three that have already been released – AATIP seem to have looked at the physiological effects of UFOs on people who had extremely close encounters, as was the case at Rendlesham.”
The radiation could come from an "exotic energy source and/or propulsion system", some have suggested.
He revealed that scientists concluded the craft can effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds.
He said he resigned over “excessive secrecy and internal opposition”.
With the project potentially still running, Mr Pope hopes the answers to Rendlesham could finally emerge 40 years later.
He said: “We're not too far from the 40th anniversary of what's been called Britain's Roswell, and I hope the Rendlesham witnesses – Charles Halt, John Burroughs, Jim Penniston and others – are finally going to find out what happened to them.
“It would be ironic if the answer to Britain's most famous UFO mystery was lying in a government file somewhere, not in the MoD, but in the Pentagon.”
Mr Pope has written the book Encounter Rendlesham Forest based on interviews with the two witnesses Burroughs and Penniston.
Het resulteerde in de geboorte van Phobos en Deimos: de twee kleine manen van Mars.
Over de oorsprong van de manen van Mars is al veel gedebatteerd. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat het planetoïden zijn die door de zwaartekracht van Mars zijn ingevangen. Anderen vermoeden dat ze het resultaat zijn van een enorme botsing tussen Mars en een ander hemellichaam. Die botsing zou geresulteerd hebben in een puinschijf rond Mars waar vervolgens Phobos en Deimos uit samenklonterden. Die laatste theorie lijkt te worden onderschreven door de cirkelvormige baan die de twee manen rond Mars trekken en het feit dat ze zich in hetzelfde omloopvlak bevinden.
Eerdere pogingen Natuurlijk hebben onderzoekers al regelmatig geprobeerd om die botsing tussen Mars en een ander hemellichaam en de geboorte van Phobos en Deimos te simuleren. Maar dat resulteerde helaas nooit in een goede afspiegeling van de werkelijkheid. Iets wat deels te herleiden is naar het feit dat veel van deze modellen niet gedetailleerd genoeg waren. Wat bovendien ook niet hielp, was dat veel modellen uitgingen van een botsing tussen een groot hemellichaam en Mars en zo resulteerden in enorme puinschijven, waaruit enorme manen voortkwamen die het bestaan van Phobos en Deimos praktisch onmogelijk maakten.
Hier zie je hoe groot de manen van Mars in vergelijking met onze eigen maan vanaf het oppervlak van Mars lijken. Hoewel de grootste maan van Mars zo’n 100 keer kleiner is dan onze maan, lijkt deze vrij groot, omdat beide manen veel dichter rond Mars draaien dan onze maan rond de aarde.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.
Klein botslichaam In het blad Science Advances maken onderzoekers nu bekend dat het ze gelukt is om de botsing te simuleren en daarbij uit te komen op een situatie die recht doet aan de werkelijkheid. “Een belangrijk aspect van het nieuwe onderzoek is de omvang van het object dat op Mars botste,” vertelt onderzoeker Robin Canup. “Wij ontdekten dat er in plaats van een gigantisch botslichaam, een groot botslichaam – vergelijkbaar met de omvang van Vesta en Ceres – nodig is.” Collega Julian Salmon voegt toe: “Wij gebruikten state-of-the-art modellen die aantonen dat een inslag door een object dat qua grootte vergelijkbaar was met Vesta of Ceres een schijf voort kan brengen die in lijn is met de totstandkoming van Mars’ kleine manen. De buitenste delen van de schijf klonteren samen tot Phobos en Deimos, terwijl de binnenste delen samenklonteren tot grotere manen, die uiteindelijk naar Mars toe bewegen en geassimileerd worden.”
WIST JE DAT…
…Phobos as we speak door de zwaartekracht van Mars uit elkaar wordt getrokken en over 30 tot 50 miljoen jaar in stukken zal worden gescheurd? Waarschijnlijk ontstaat er dan een nieuwe puinschijf rond Mars.
Droog Op basis van het model kunnen verschillende interessante conclusies over de manen van Mars worden getrokken. “Het model voorspelt dat de twee manen voornamelijk bestaan uit materiaal afkomstig van Mars,” vertelt Canup. Wel zou het puin waaruit de manen zijn ontstaan tijdens de inslag van hun water zijn ontdaan. “Wat betekent dat de manen droog zijn.”
Of de modellen een goed beeld geven van wat er werkelijk gebeurd is in de jonge jaren van Mars, is nu niet met zekerheid te zeggen. Maar daar kan over een paar jaar verandering in komen. In 2024 wil de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie een sonde naar de manen van Mars sturen. Deze moet op het oppervlak van Phobos landen, wat materiaal verzamelen en terugbrengen naar de aarde. Dan kunnen we de samenstelling van de maan vergelijken met die van Mars en hopelijk vaststellen hoe de twee manen van Mars zijn ontstaan.
Zijn wij wel de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde?
Zijn wij wel de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En als dat niet zo is, kunnen we die eerdere samenleving dan opsporen?
Wij mensen vinden onszelf heel wat. We hebben in korte tijd de complete aarde gekoloniseerd en naar onze hand gezet. En bijna dagelijks worden er nieuwe technologieën ontwikkeld die ons nog meer grip geven op de aarde en zelfs ons eigen leven. We noemen onszelf intelligent en vinden onszelf heel bijzonder. Want op aarde is geen enkele soort die op ons lijkt. En ook buiten de aarde zijn we onze gelijke nog niet tegengekomen. En dan kun je geneigd zijn om onze soort als een soort kroon op een miljarden jaren durend proces van evolutie te zien. Maar is dat wel terecht? Die vraag stellen onderzoekers zich in een nieuw paper dat deze week is verschenen in het blad International Journal of Astrobiology.
Gedachte-experiment Wij mensen gaan er eigenlijk wel een beetje vanuit dat we de eerste geavanceerde, of industriële samenleving op aarde zijn. Maar hoe zeker kunnen we daarvan zijn, zo vragen professor Adam Frank, verbonden aan de universiteit van Rochester en Gavin Schmidt, directeur van het NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies zich in het paper af. Uiteindelijk keert al het leven op aarde – tezamen met zelfs haar grootste prestaties – immers terug tot stof. En zou het dan niet kunnen dat we gravend in gesteentelagen uit vroeger tijden zo’n industriële, misschien zelfs nog wel geavanceerdere beschaving dan de onze, over het hoofd zien? Het is een interessant gedachte-experiment – Frank en Schmidt denken niet echt dat er lang geleden een geavanceerde beschaving op aarde rondliep – dat onder meer kan helpen bij het vinden van buitenaards leven.
Hoe vaak ontstaat geavanceerd leven? Het is misschien wel één van de belangrijkste vragen binnen de wetenschap: zijn wij alleen? Of zijn er elders in het zonnestelsel en daarbuiten nog veel meer levende wezens te vinden? Menig onderzoeker houdt zich met die vraag bezig. En vaak ligt de focus daarbij op de zoektocht naar intelligent leven. Zo wordt er bijvoorbeeld actief gezocht naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaards, intelligent leven (tot op heden zonder succes, overigens). “Eén van de belangrijkste vragen in het inschatten van de kans dat we zo’n beschaving vinden, is: hoe vaak ontstaat een industriële samenleving?” zo schrijven Frank en Schmidt. “Mensen zijn het enige voorbeeld dat we kennen en onze industriële samenleving heeft (tot op heden) grofweg nog maar 300 jaar standgehouden. Dat is maar een fractie van de tijd die we als soort bestaan en een fractie van de tijd waarin complexe levensvormen op het landoppervlak van de aarde voorkomen (vanaf ongeveer 400 miljoen jaar geleden). Die korte tijdspanne roept duidelijk de vraag op of dit al eens eerder kan zijn gebeurd.”
Van alle dinosaurussen die ooit op aarde hebben rondgelopen, hebben we er maar een paar duizend vrij compleet teruggevonden. Het geeft wel aan dat fossiele resten eigenlijk heel zeldzaam zijn.
Sporen Het paper draait ten diepste om de vraag welke sporen geavanceerde beschavingen achterlaten en of we die sporen kunnen terugvinden. Zullen toekomstige aardbewoners over tientallen miljoenen jaren fysieke resten van ons en onze bezigheden terugvinden in gesteentelagen uit onze tijd? Waarschijnlijk niet, zo stellen Frank en Schmidt. Allereerst is er de platentektoniek die de aarde voortdurend van een facelift voorziet en er onder meer in de oceanen voor zorgt dat er alleen piepjonge sedimenten (dat wil zeggen: jonger dan 170 miljoen jaar) worden bovengehaald. En ook op het land is het aardoppervlak aan verandering onderhevig; het oudste aardoppervlak dat tot op heden is teruggevonden is slechts 1,8 miljoen jaar oud. Natuurlijk zijn er op grotere diepte wel oudere sedimenten te vinden, maar hoe dieper je gaat, hoe meer die sedimenten – en alles wat daartussen te vinden was – zijn samengeperst. Wat ook niet helpt, is dat slechts een fractie van het leven op aarde fossiliseert en bewaard blijft. De kans dat door ons gemaakte objecten miljoenen jaren later terug worden gevonden, is eveneens klein. Direct bewijs voor ons bestaan hoeven de aardbewoners die over tientallen miljoenen jaren over onze planeet heersen dus niet te verwachten. Maar onze aanwezigheid kan over miljoenen jaren wellicht wel worden afgeleid uit het feit dat we ons klimaat veranderd hebben, zoveel vervuilende stoffen in het milieu hebben gebracht (van plastics tot steroïden) en met onze landbouwtechnieken een verandering op het gebied van erosie en sedimentatie hebben bewerkstelligd.
“JE WILT EEN MOOIE, GROOTSCHALIGE BESCHAVING HEBBEN DIE GEWELDIGE DINGEN DOET, MAAR DE PLANEET NIET TOT DINGEN DWINGT DIE GEVAARLIJK ZIJN VOOR DE BESCHAVING ZELF”
Paradox Ironisch genoeg zijn de activiteiten waarmee we ons over miljoenen jaren nog aan toekomstige aardbewoners kenbaar kunnen maken – het uitstoten van CO2, het dumpen van plastic en gebruik van steroïden – ook de activiteiten waarmee we ons vernietigen. Er doemt zo een interessante paradox op, zo schrijven de onderzoekers. “Hoe langer de menselijke beschaving standhoudt, hoe omvangrijker het signaal wordt dat deze achterlaat. Maar hoe langer een beschaving standhoudt, hoe duurzamer de activiteiten ervan moeten zijn, wil deze kunnen overleven. En hoe duurzamer een samenleving is (bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van energie-opwekking, productieprocessen of landbouw) hoe kleiner de voetafdruk op de rest van de planeet is. Maar hoe kleiner de voetafdruk, hoe kleiner ook het signaal dat in het geologische archief achterblijft.” Het signaal dat beschavingen achterlaten, wordt dus als het ware van nature begrensd. En daar kunnen we lering uittrekken, aldus Frank. “Je wilt een mooie, grootschalige beschaving hebben die geweldige dingen doet, maar de planeet niet tot dingen dwingt die gevaarlijk zijn voor de beschaving zelf. We moeten dan ook een manier vinden om energie te produceren en gebruiken die geen gevaar voor ons vormt.” Want we moeten ons niet vergissen: niet onze planeet, maar de mensheid staat op het spel. “Het draait niet om het redden van de aarde. Wat we ook met de planeet doen: we creëren niches voor de volgende cyclus in de evolutie. Maar als we op deze voet doorgaan en fossiele brandstoffen blijven gebruiken en de klimaatverandering die hierdoor ontstaat, negeren, kan het zijn dat wij mensen niet langer deel zullen uitmaken van de voortdurende evolutie op aarde.”
Geen bewijs Nu we weten welke sporen een geavanceerde samenleving als de onze achter kan laten, is het tijd om terug te blikken op de hoofdvraag: zijn wij de eerste geavanceerde samenleving op aarde? “Gavin en ik hebben geen bewijs gevonden voor een andere industriële beschaving,” stelt Frank. Wel stuitten ze in het geologische archief op signalen die zo op het eerste gezicht lijken op de signalen die onze beschaving achterlaat. Je moet dan bijvoorbeeld denken aan signalen uit het PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum), een periode die gekenmerkt wordt door een significante opwarming van de aarde. Waar het PETM zich van het huidige tijdperk onderscheidt, is dat de opwarming ten tijde van het PETM veel langzamer ging en bovendien samenviel met enorme vulkaanuitbarstingen. En dus lijkt dat signaal niet te verklaren te zijn door een CO2-uitstotende beschaving, maar eerder door natuurlijke omstandigheden.
Afbeelding: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw.
Strikt genomen valt echter niet uit te sluiten dat de aarde vóór wij er waren nooit een industriële samenleving heeft gekend. Met name als zo’n beschaving maar kortdurend industrieel actief is geweest, kunnen we de signalen die deze achter heeft gelaten, gemakkelijk over het hoofd zien, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in hun paper.
Het opsporen van een geavanceerde beschaving die misschien nog wel voor de dino’s de dienst uitmaakte, was een leuke bonus geweest. Maar het was zeker niet het hoofddoel van de onderzoekers die dit paper schreven (sterker nog: ze geloven helemaal niet dat die er is geweest). Hun belangrijkste doel was om mensen aan het denken te zetten en de manier waarop we over de geschiedenis en toekomst van onze eigen beschaving en nog te ontdekken andere beschavingen denken, te veranderen. Het ontstaan van die beschavingen is niet het begin, net zoals het ten onder gaan van die beschavingen niet het einde is. Het is meer een cadans, waarbij de ondergang van de ene beschaving de start van de volgende kan inluiden. En als we helder krijgen hoe we die cadans in het geologisch archief kunnen opsporen, kunnen we daar in de nabije toekomst ook op andere planeten ons voordeel mee doen. “We weten dat Mars in zijn jonge jaren – en misschien Venus ook wel – veel leefbaarder was dan deze planeet nu is en het is aannemelijk dat we op een dag ook daar door de geologische sedimenten boren,” stelt Schmidt. “En dit helpt ons om na te denken over waar we dan naar moeten zoeken.”
During the late 1980s a man by the name of Bob Lazar, a former Area 51 engineer, went public with supposed inside information. What he revealed would make him an extremely controversial figure, even amongst ufology enthusiasts. There are those who believe Lazar is a government pawn whose purpose is to spread misinformation across the masses. Others speculate he’s merely a profiteer who fabricated stories in hopes of financial gain. However, some feel that perhaps this whistleblower may in fact be telling the truth.
Bob Lazar illustrating gravitational effects.
Robert Scott Lazar was born on January 26th, 1959 in Coral Gables, Florida. He holds degrees in both physics and electronics from MIT as well as California Institute of Technology. Much of his life was spent living in Las Vegas where he dabbled in a number of scientific pursuits in attempts to better understand propulsion. After experimenting with chemistry and fireworks production, Lazar assembled a jet vehicle capable of land speeds in excess of three hundred and fifty miles per hour. Monitor newspaper featured Lazar’s twenty-two thousand horsepower car on its front page.
At this time, in 1982, Lazar attended a lecture at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Doctor Edward Teller, inventor of the atomic bomb, would be speaking. Both of the science fanatics met afterwards and quickly struck up a conversation. As luck would have it, Dr. Teller happened to be reading that very issue of Monitor paper. When Lazar pointed out the article he was advised to submit his resume for consideration. Within a few days the eager physicist was hired and became an esteemed Los Alamos staff member.
Lazar was listed as an employee of Los Alamos Laboratory.
Five years later Lazar found himself working at S-4, a location one hundred and twenty-five miles north of Las Vegas and fifteen miles south of Groom Lake. Often called Area 51, or “Dreamland,” the region has captivated the masses for generations. According to the propulsion systems expert, he was recruited by the Department of Naval Intelligence to work on a secret program called Project Galileo. Unbeknownst was the fact that this specific employment opportunity would permanently turn his life upside-down.
Reaching the remote destination required quite an arduous commute. First he would drive to McCarran International Airport in Nevada and enter the EG&G Special Projects Building. An unmarked plane would then fly directly to Groom Lake. Upon landing, Lazar would embark on a windowless bus which drove across the desolate desert before finally reaching S-4. Entrance was only granted upon approval of an incredibly thorough security check. Once inside the facility he noticed a total of nine hangars built into a mountainside. Each possessed perfectly camouflaged sand-colored doors. Lazar did not have full clearance and was escorted into one of the installations by his superior.
A map showing the Nellis Air Force Range region.
He was led into a specific room where one hundred and twenty-two briefings were presented. A stern commanding officer instructed the new hire to read every single document. While making his way through the paperwork, a brief synopsis was found about various operations being executed at the base. Upon completing his assigned task he was informed that his position was replacing two individuals recently killed on the job. These men had been working on a craft and for unknown reasons they cut its operating reactor. The detonation caused a massive deadly explosion which could be felt from far away distances. Officials deceitfully told nearby citizens the tremor was an aftereffect of nuclear testing.
On Lazar’s third day he was brought into a building which housed nine different flying saucers. Initially he blamed experimental military technology, which would explain the massive amount of UFO sightings. However, once he physically entered a vessel all rationalizations quickly dissipated. There was an inexplicable ominous feeling that radiated throughout his entire body. Such a strong emotional response truly perplexed the left-brained scholar. Even stranger were the impractical tiny child-sized interior seats. Further meticulous inspection brought forward a startling conclusion: these vehicles could not be of an earthly origin. Contrary to his initial belief, S-4 crew hadn’t been manufacturing the crafts… they were reverse-engineering them.
Several different types of flying saucers were present at S-4 Base.
During the coming weeks Lazar continued to work on several eerie devices. Each was cool to the touch and appeared to be made out of some type of metal similar to unfinished stainless steel. No noticeable seams existed so it seemed as if the craft was manufactured from a mold. Over time he discovered how the flight capabilities functioned. Every machine generated its own gravitational field and turned surrounding gravity waves in reverse polarity to that of Earth’s. Invisibility could be rendered by traveling faster than the speed of light.
On the flying device’s floor was an antimatter reactor which controlled all movements. A compound with the atomic number of one hundred and fifteen, undiscovered in 1989, served as its fuel source. Element 115 allowed the spaceships to drag points together from anywhere in the infinite cosmos. UFOs created an amplified nonlinear distortion in both space and time. Vast distances could be navigated in mere seconds. Since the apparatuses function by warping space itself infinite momentum is achieved. Limitless energy is provided through a purposely created environmental distortion.
Element 115, undiscovered in the 1980s, served as the craft’s fuel source.
Lazar gradually gained more knowledge regarding the mysterious activities occurring at S-4. One night he witnessed an airship performing a dazzling test flight. His colleague explained that these particular UFOs originated from Zeta Reticuli One and Two, a binary star system located thirty-nine light-years from our planet. Another occasion led to him being shown autopsy photos of an otherworldly being. Some type of organ had been removed from the creature’s open chest cavity and Lazar described it closely resembling the typical Grey Alien. Allegedly such entities are responsible for creating modern man through centuries of genetic alterations to our simian ancestors.
Eventually an inside source recounted what would become the most troubling story of all: a human-extraterrestrial war. Only ten years earlier military personnel and martian visitors maintained a working relationship. Yet the professional data exchange program would soon come to a screeching halt. One fateful day security officers attempted to gain entry into a designated ET part of the grounds. Each were equipped with sidearms which, according to Lazar, would have caused a massive explosion. When subterranean aliens attempted to stop incoming armed guards a fight ensued. Sixty-six faculty members lost their lives and prompted the decades-long correspondence’s abrupt ending.
Images of an ‘Grey Alien’ extraterrestrial with a missing organ was shown to Lazar.
Six months after his inceptive enlistment Lazar decided to leave S-4 Base forpersonal reasons. Before parting ways high-ranking directors threatened his life and stated that if anything were disclosed there would be major repercussions. Weeks later the ex-employee was shot at by an unmarked car while driving on the highway. Following the harrowing incident he reached out to KLAS, a Las Vegas TV station, where he gave an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp. Lazar rationalized that if he turned up dead succeeding his speaking publicly it would look incredibly suspicious for government officials. Self-preservation was his ultimate justification.
Nearly thirty years have passed since this bizarre firsthand experience made headlines. While skeptics remain critical of such claims Lazar maintains his authenticity. In 2003 Element 115 was positively identified adding further validity and potential supporting evidence. Recently a physicist named Dr. Robert Krangle came forward and stated that he did in fact work with Lazar at Los Alamos Laboratory. Perhaps with the progression of time additional professionals will open up about their own involvement. Until then whatever transpired in those Nevada hangers remains mere speculation and will provide endless intrigue for conspiracy theorists.
UNDERWATER STRUCTURE THOUGHT TO BE OVER 14,000 YEARS OLD & MAN-MADE
UNDERWATER STRUCTURE THOUGHT TO BE OVER 14,000 YEARS OLD & MAN-MADE
Massive rock structure hidden 60-100 feet underwater found in 1987 in Yonaguni, Japan. Experts call it the greatest discovery in the history of underwater archeology. Its massive size is equivelent to 2 football fields. Geological evidence shows that it was submerged during the meltdown of the last ice age which means it was built over 14,000 years ago.
Some of its peculiar details include:
-Two closely spaced pillars which rise to within eight feet of the surface; -The “Loop Road”, a 5 m (16 ft) wide ledge that encircles the base of the formation on three sides; -The “Totem”, a stone column about 7 m (23 ft) tall; -The “Dividing Wall”, a straight wall 10 m (33 ft) long; -The “Gosintai”, an isolated boulder resting on a low platform; -The “Turtle”, a low star-shaped platform; -The “Triangle Pool”, a triangular depression with two large holes at its edge; -The “Stage”, an L-shaped rock.
Ancient Aliens Season – 02, Episode – 03 (Underwater Worlds)
A mysterious undersea pyramid structure off the coast of Japan causes controversy – is this a natural geological phenomena or a man-made structure which changes the history books as we know
AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT REPORTS UFO WITH ‘BIG REFLECTION’ 40,000 FEET OVER ARIZONA
AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT REPORTS UFO WITH ‘BIG REFLECTION’ 40,000 FEET OVER ARIZONA
Pilots on two separate aircraft reported an unidentified flying object high over southern Arizona last month.
One of them, a commercial pilot flying a passenger jet for American Airlines, said the object was above 40,000 feet and “had a big reflection.”
The Feb. 24th incident began when the pilot of a Learjet reported an object to Albuquerque Center air traffic control while flying over the desert in southeastern Arizona.
“I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t an airplane but it was, the path was going in the opposite direction,” the pilot said.
Air traffic controllers asked the pilot of a nearby American Airlines passenger jet traveling from San Francisco to Dallas to let them know if anything passes over the aircraft.
“If anything passes over us?” the pilot asked, somewhat incredulously.
A few minutes later, he saw it ― whatever “it” was.
“Something just passed over us, like a, don’t know what it was, but it was at least two, three thousand feet above us,” he said. “Yeah it passed right over the top of us.”
The American Airlines pilot said he couldn’t make out what the object was but it “had a big reflection” and was going in the opposite direction.
Two months later, it’s still not clear what was up there.
“We don’t have any comment beyond what you hear,” FAA spokesperson Lynn Lunsford told KOB, the NBC station in Albuquerque. “Other than the brief conversation between two aircraft, the controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area.”
The reported altitude would put the UFO well above the range of consumer drones. Yet the vague nature of the sightings doesn’t completely rule out balloons or experimental aircraft.
The sightings occurred near the Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, and about 100 miles from Luke Air Force Base. Several other bases are within 500 miles. However, Lunsford implied that air traffic controllers would likely know if there was military aircraft in the air.
“We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons,” Lunsford was quoted as saying.
Who Was Methuselah? A Man Who Lived For 969 Years According To The Bible
Who Was Methuselah? A Man Who Lived For 969 Years According To The Bible
Methuselah, Noah’s grandfather, is considered the man with one of the longest lifespan’s in history and is said to have lived for 969 years until the great flood swept across the land.
But not only is this Biblical character fascinating for his longevity, he is also very important for a number of other reasons.
According to Genesis, Methuselah was the eighth antediluvian patriarch, son of Enoch, father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah (who was the lastof these patriarchs).
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. —Genesis 5:21–27.
Noah’s Ark.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and father of Lamec—who in turn was the father of Noah—whom he fathered at 187 years of age.
His name has become a general synonym applied to any elderly creature, used in phrases such as “having more years than Methuselah” or “being older than Methuselah”.
A careful reading of the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah reportedly died in the year of the Great Flood.
Three manuscript traditions, the Masoretic, the Septuagint and the SamaritanTorah offer different timelines.
If we take a look at the Masoretic, an authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism, was 187 years when his son was born. He died the year of the Flood at the age of 969.
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew indicates how Methuselah was 187 years when his son was born and died at the age of 969, but six years before the great flood.
According to the Samaritan Torah, a text of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, written in theSamaritan alphabet and used as scripture by the Samaritans, Methuselah was 67 years old when his son was born, and he died at the age of 720 years, the years the Great Flood took place.
These ‘discrepancies’ in ancient texts have been explained in a number of ways, the most obvious one being the accidental corruption by copyists and translators.
Some errors may be the result of attempts to correct previous errors.
But despite the fact that there are discrepancies in the dates, one thing remains the same: Methuselah lived beyond the life expectancy of ordinary humans.
So, what does that make him? Was Methuselah perhaps, not human?
How on Earth is it possible that someone can live for 969 years?
It shouldn’t be possible.
The Ancient Sumerian King List.
However, if we take a look at another ancient text, the Ancient Sumerian King List, we find plenty of ‘historic’ evidence of ‘Kings’ living on Earth for thousands of years.
If we take a look at the Sumerian King list we’ll see that it clearly states:
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.”
The Sumerian King List describes eight kings who ruled over Earth for a total of 241,200 years, since the original kingship had ‘descended from heaven’ all the way to the time of the ‘Great Flood’, which swept over the land and once more “the kingship was lowered from heaven” after the Flood.
So, there we see different historical sources describing ‘people’ actually living on Earth for hundreds and even thousands of years.
But ordinary humans can’t live that long.
According to James W. Vaupel an American scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography, life expectancy began to increase in 1840 with the decrease in infant mortality and adolescent mortality and has continued to rise, in an average increase of two and a half years each decade.
Vaupel’s research shows that life expectancy is likely to increase well beyond the purported limit of 85 years.
But 85 is still a long way from 969 years of life.
Our current knowledge about the lifespan of a cell leads us to suppose that the natural limit of longevity in the human being is below 150 years.
The Guinness record for the longest human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), who lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days.
Some authors believe that human beings lived close to a thousand years, until after the flood, God shortened this age (Genesis 6:3) Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strivewith man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
But was it really an act of God, the fact that human lifespan was shortened?
Or is it possible that there is another, more extravagant explanation, one that suggests that in the days of Methuselah, beings not from Earth, walked on our planet?
Featured image credit:Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah in Noah (2014). Image Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
IN 1947, A HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON CRASH LANDED IN ROSWELL. THE ALIENS NEVER LEFT
IN 1947, A HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON CRASH LANDED IN ROSWELL. THE ALIENS NEVER LEFT
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Let’s start closer to the beginning. On June 14, 1947, a rancher named W.W. “Mac” Brazel and his son Vernon were driving across their ranchland some 80 miles northwest of Roswell when they encountered something they’d never seen before. It was, in Brazel’s words, “a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, and rather tough paper, and sticks.”
The metallic-looking, lightweight fabric was scattered, shredded across the gravel and sagebrush of the New Mexico desert. Brazel didn’t know what to do with the newfound items, or how they had landed on the property, so on July 4 he collected all of the mysterious wreckage he could find. On July 7, he drove it all to Roswell, delivering the goods to Sheriff George Wilcox.
Wilcox, too, was confounded.
Seeking answers, he contacted Colonel “Butch” Blanchard, commander of the Roswell Army Airfield’s 509th Composite Group, located just outside of town. Blanchard was stymied. Working his way up the chain of command, he decided to contact his superior, General Roger W. Ramey, commander of the 8th Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas.
Blanchard also sent Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer from the base, to investigate more thoroughly. Accompanied by the sheriff and Brazel, Marcel returned to the site and collected all of the “wreckage.” As they tried to ascertain what the materials were, Marcel chose to make a public statement. On July 8, Marcel’s comments ran in the local afternoon newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, alongside a headline stating “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell.”
The body of the story contained a dramatic, memorable sentence: “The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer.”
“Apparently, it was better from the Air Force’s perspective that there was a crashed ‘alien’ spacecraft out there than to tell the truth,” says Roger Launius, the recently-retired curator of space history at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
“A flying saucer was easier to admit than Project Mogul,” Launius adds, a chuckle in his voice. “And with that, we were off to the races.”
It was after the close of World War II, a time when nuclear weapons cast a long shadow. Truth-telling was not a priority, and there were remarkably unusual events underscoring the situation at hand.
Everywhere you looked in 1947, the global, social and political chessboard was being re-divided. The Soviet Union began to claim eastern European nations for itself in a new post-war vacuum. Voice of America started broadcasting in Russian to the eastern bloc, peddling the principles of American democracy. The U.S. sent V2 rockets carrying payloads of corn seeds and fruit flies into outer space. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the “Doomsday Clock” ticking, and the Marshall Plan was in the making to rebuild war-torn Europe. Small wonder that in the heat of summer that year, flying saucers became all the rage.
On June 21, Navy Seaman Harold Dahl claimed to have seen six unidentified flying objects in the sky near Maury Island in Washington state’s Puget Sound. The next morning, Dahl said he was sought out and debriefed by “men in black.”
“UFOs are exactly that. They’re unidentified objects seen in the air. But that’s not extraterrestrials,” says the Smithsonian’s Roger Launius.
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Three days after the Dahl sighting, an amateur pilot named Kenneth Arnold said he had spotted a flying saucer in the sky by Mount Rainer, Washington.
“UFOs aren’t unusual,” Launius says. “They’re simply unidentified things you see in the sky. We’ve all probably seen them. And, if you look long enough, you’ll probably eventually figure out what it is you’re looking at. It’s not extraterrestrials.”
By the end of 1947, mass hysteria had seized the global mindset, with more than 300 alleged “flying saucer” sightings in the last six months of that year alone.
“Not that there was ever any credible evidence to support the sightings,” Launius adds.
By early July 1947, Brazel had heard tales of flying saucers in the Pacific Northwest. These sightings spurred him to show his discovery to the authorities, but just one day after the Air Force announced it had come into possession of a flying saucer, Roswell’s morning newspaper debunked the story.
A published statement from the War Department in Washington claimed the debris collected on Brazel’s ranch was the remains of a weather balloon, and the Roswell Dispatch’s morning headline, “Army Debunks Roswell Flying Disc as World Simmers with Excitement,” set the tale to rest on July 9.
“But we need to back it up, here,” says Launius. “What was really going on was something called Project Mogul.”
Roswell is home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
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In this classified program, the U.S. government launched high-altitude balloons into the ionosphere, hoping to monitor Russian nuclear tests. “The Russians wouldn’t get a nuclear weapon until 1949,” Launius adds. “But we didn’t know that in 1947.”
And, Launius adds, thanks to the new, horrifyingly powerful weapon and a changing geopolitical landscape, it was a time of paranoia.
Still, if the rumor of extraterrestrial visitors had been put to rest by the government, it didn’t die as easily in the public mind.
“But that was it, really,” says Launius. “The debate was over. It was to be the end of speculation. According to the government, the matter was closed. The debris was from a weather balloon.”
Of course, though, that wasn’t the end.
There would be a 1948 report from the government about what was now being called the “Roswell Incident.” In 1950, Frank Scully, a reporter for Variety, wrote Behind the Flying Saucers, a book that detailed alien encounters from the Pacific Northwest to the towns of Aztec and Farmington, New Mexico, where aliens were now said to be landing their aircrafts in people’s backyards.
By then, enthusiasm for flying saucers had spread everywhere from Belgium to Russia and Japan. A rumor that had started as a convenient lie for the Air Force had become a distraction to the U.S. government, which was now deep into its nuclear weapons monitoring projects. “But there was no way the Air Force was going to admit what it was doing,” Launius says.
The idea of visitors from space has long been mass marketed in books, television and popular items for children. (NMAH)
Project Mogul was conducted out of Washington, D.C. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, with some high-altitude balloon launches taking place in the high desert near the state’s border with Texas.
Typically, a Project Mogul balloon sent into high altitude stretched 657 feet from tip to tail, 102 feet taller than the Washington Monument and twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
As balloons rode on the upper jet stream toward Russia, a long tail equipped with different types of sensing and listening devices trailed behind.
“But, obviously, something happened to this one balloon,” Launius says. “It came back to Earth and probably was spread across a wide area.”
Although much of the documentation about Project Mogul has now been declassified, Launius says that civilian access to information failed to stop the lure of extraterrestrial life.
Because the U.S. government was now in a frenzy of nuclear testing—both in the South Pacific and, later, at the Nevada Test Site—the hermetic silence around classified government programs left a certain segment of citizens suspicious. The UFO sightings continued.
“Then we get to the late 1970s and early 1980s,” Launius says. “And that period saw a real spike in extraterrestrial interest, from movies to books and other things.”
“Then we get to the late 1970s and early 1980s,” says Roger Launius says. “And that period saw a real spike in extraterrestrial interest, from movies to books and other things.” (Poster, Takeda Cosmetics for Men, 1974, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum)
Movies such as Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET, plus dozens of books on the subject, brought aliens to the forefront of the public mindset once again.
“By that time,” Launius says, “people’s imaginations had gotten the best of them.”
Suddenly, there were rumors of regular extraterrestrial life on Earth, not to mention crashed spaceships. There were now stories of two alien ships crashing in New Mexico in June 1947, scattering their contents and tiny green crewmen across the landscape. Before long, any secret government property—from nuclear sites to engineering locations—was suspected to house deceased or imprisoned aliens.
Movies such as Star Wars,Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET, plus dozens of books on the subject, brought aliens to the forefront of the public mindset.
(Poster, Oshkosh B’gosh, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum)
This was most evident at Area 51, an off-limits airstrip and aircraft engineering and development facility inside the Nevada Test Site, about 90 minutes north of Las Vegas. It was rumored that aliens from the Roswell spacecraft and other crashed ships were either being autopsied or slid into cylindrical glass tanks containing gel-like preservatives.
The government wasn’t helping to quell speculation, either. At their most secretive sites, they posted large, unambiguous “No Trespassing” signs, often with a reminder to those who entered illegally: “Use of Deadly Force Authorized.”
And the alien hysteria had gotten even wackier. By the early 1990s, with scant evidence to support it, a global UFO and extraterrestrial industry had come into existence. There were more movies. More books. More newspaper and magazine stories, more television news segments and shows focused on visitors from space.
In Roswell, the populace had been cashing in on the alien craze for some time. The town was home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and even a local Wal-Mart got into the spirit, decorating its walls and front windows with green-skinned, large-headed aliens. Roswell’s civic seal sports an artist rendering of an alien, and the exterior of the local McDonald’s in town has enough spacecraft-based accessories to look like a ship preparing to take off for some distant galaxy. Along the town’s Main Street, toy aliens, flying saucers and other extraterrestrial ephemera are sold in local shops.
Roger Launius has served as the chief historian of NASA and sat on several investigative panels discussing what might exist beyond Earth, but he seems more amused by the 70 years of hysteria surrounding the “Roswell Incident” than anything else.
“Well, all I really know,” he says, “is that UFOs are exactly that. They’re unidentified objects seen in the air. But that’s not extraterrestrials.”
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT THAT CONFIRMS ALIENS VISITED EARTH IN THE PAST
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT THAT CONFIRMS ALIENS VISITED EARTH IN THE PAST
It has been believed for quite some time now that the ‘Tulli Papyrus’ is probably the best evidence ever of ancient flying saucers in the distant past, but leading historians have questioned its authenticity and meaning and constantly dismiss it as evidence that Earth has been visited by Extra-terrestrials – But this factual piece of historic evidence should NOT be ignored.
Like many other ancient texts around the world, this ancient piece of evidence appears to tell an amazing story, one that could potentially change the way that we look at ourselves (past, present and the future), our history and the entire Universe!
It’s believed that this ancient piece of documentation, which in fact isn’t a papyrus actually, offers the earliest proof ever of flying saucers on planet earth – The Tulli “papyrus” is a translation of a modern transcription of an ancient Egyptian document.
The Pharaoh that ruled over Egypt was Thutmose III and according to this intriguing ancient text, this mass UFO sightings happened back in 1480 BC. At this time this incredible event was recorded in history as a day of significant importance – the day that something unexplainable and shocking occurred.
Please see below an actual translation into the above text pictured:
“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odour. Its body was one rod in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.
After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.
The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.”
This ancient old text was translated by many leading historians and scientists and is probably one of THE most important pieces of evidence of Ancient Aliens visiting earth – perhaps they have never actually left Earth?
This ancient old text was translated by many leading historians and scientists and is probably one of THE most important pieces of evidence of Ancient Aliens visiting earth – perhaps they have never actually left Earth?
This simply amazing historical event was described as being silent, but with incredible views of mysterious flying disks highly reflective, shining like the sun. According to this ancient text, the departure of the otherworldly visitors was marked by a mysterious event, as fish rained down from the heaven, almost as if some kind of unknown force affected the surroundings!
This ancient text clearly does not mention whether the ancient Egyptians did actually establish contact with these otherworldly Beings, but it is nonetheless an extremely important day in planet earths history – that is for both humanity and the ancient Egyptian Civilization at the time of this incredible event.
One VERY important thing to remember is that the Ancient Egyptians were extremely experienced and rather gifted astronomers, and it was by the year 1500 B.C, that they were already experts in this field, which means that they would not have mistaken these “fiery disks” with some kind of strange astronomical or weather phenomena – they would have described an astronomical phenomena in a completely different way. It is also rather important to remember that in these ancient documents, the “fiery disks” are described very clearly as they changed directions in the skies above the people who witnessed them, so it is very clear that we know that these objects didn’t fall, but remained in the Egyptian Sky ~this is not normal for an astronomical event (obviously).
In order to truly understand this ancient text this evidence would ideally need to be studies again in more detail. But isn’t it interesting that the original papyrus is gone!? But guess what people, top Researcher Samuel Rosenberg has already requested from the Vatican Museum an official opportunity to examine this mysterious/unknown important document, but the reply he received pretty much confirmed that ‘somebody’ does not want ANY interest shown in this key area and he had a response of:
”The Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.” Said the VATICAN museum.
It’s time to dig up the TRUTH from our past.
U.I.P SUMMARY – It appears that the Vatican are trying to hide away and archive this extremely piece of evidence, hidden on purpose away from the people of planet earth, perhaps hidden away in a secret archive, but why? Could it be that this piece of important evidence is that incredible and life changing that the elite and the heads of the Catholic church are SCARED about what this PROOF could cause amongst the masses.
This could be one of the most important pieces of evidence ever, and this could actually prove that the ET’s influenced the ancient Egyptian civilization as many Ancient Astronaut theorists believe? It is literally criminal that our so-called leaders are trying to hide this from us, however it is also very clear that the world leaders out there are playing games and trying to make us believe what THEY want us to believe!
THIS is such an important story and one that we can never ignore. SOME stupid world leaders LAUGH when the subject matter of ‘Aliens’ is raised – soon they will NOT be laughing, when the control starts slipping away from their hands and the TRUTH starts spilling out!
The Pyramids are so important to all of our history, you can feel this just by looking at them and seeing the sheer amount of energy coming from them!
The pyramids are to this day still a mystery, but a mystery that is soon about to be dragged out kicking and screaming!
If Humanity Discovered That Earth Would Be Destroyed In 400 years, What Would Be Humanity’s Response?
If Humanity Discovered That Earth Would Be Destroyed In 400 years, What Would Be Humanity’s Response?
Oh, Snap…
A rogue planet ejected from its home solar system billions of years ago has wandered through interstellar space until it crossed our solar system’s gravity well. This slight trajectory deflection has put it on a direct path for impact with Earth. Scientists detected havoc in the Oort cloud out past Pluto. The Oort cloud is in chaos. Using our best minds and observatories we determined that the object is in the magnitude in size of Jupiter. Since it is travelling at a relativistic speed we have 400 years until Earth is no more.
Would the world band together and try to figure out a way to save humanity or would it be too far away and we would just let future generations figure out the solution?
The first astronomers to detect the upcoming event might not even recognize the danger. Anything that will take 400 years to hit us will be passing through a variety of gravitational fields and will be aiming at a location that might seemingly have nothing to do with Earth.
But at some point, someone would run the numbers and discover that yes indeed, we were facing the possibility of a celestial collision. At this point, they would only be thinking in terms of probabilities and not certainties. But after they shared their findings with other astronomers, gradually a general consensus would form, that the celestial body did not represent a mere possibility of colliding with Earth, but that it almost certainly would.
By this time, the astronomers had made no attempt to hide their work so far, the news would have already hit the Internet. But very few lay people would be able to follow the math, so there might be a series of confused news articles talking about something hitting something else someday.
But gradually the articles would gain coherence, the Wikipedia entry would become clearer and more persuasive. Counter-arguments and competing mathematics would be discredited, and a general sense of disturbance would begin to spread through the planet.
The governments of the world, while saying nothing publicly, would have long-since been in communication with the astronomers, and done their own verification of the science. In addition, they would have analyzed the possible effects of an impact, the probable number of deaths, the time it might take for human civilization and economies to recover. They would have considered the options of attempting somehow to divert the oncoming celestial body, the size of the required explosion, the mass and trajectory of debris, and other details. Finally, they would reach the inescapable conclusion that the impact could not be prevented and that the destruction would be too great for any kind of recovery. In 400 years the planet would be totally destroyed, with no hope that any life would survive.
During these considerations, NASA would for several months already have been calculating the possibility of resettling a portion of humanity onto another planetary body in the solar system. They would estimate the likelihood that the destruction of Earth would affect the orbits of other planets, or that debris from the impact might fly into any prospective resettlement area.
Official government spokespeople would have no comment yet. If asked, they would simply reply that they didn’t want to “get ahead of the science,” and that “so far, nothing is known for certain.” But they’d affirm that they’d have more to say when the scientific questions had been better understood.
At this point, only a very small minority of people would be expressing any sort of outrage at their government’s silence, or at the existence of the threat itself. Those people would be quite vocal, but the Internet buzz and radio talk-show hosts would always say something along the lines of, “even if it’s real, it’s 400 years in the future. Relax.” And that would echo the sentiments of many Americans, if not people throughout the world.
Eventually, the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union would make a joint announcement. The leaders of those nations, speaking together at the United Nations building in New York City, would announce a plan to create a series of large-scale, self-sufficient settlements on several planets and moons throughout the solar system. The impending threat against the Earth would not be mentioned. When asked if there was a connection between the colonial project and the threat of destruction, the reply would be that this project was a normal outgrowth of the space programs of all developed nations, and should be welcomed as a sign of ongoing human progress.
Gradually, budgeting for the various components of the colonial enterprise would be established. Research would proceed on a number of fronts, including the construction of space elevators along the equator, habitats capable of transporting large numbers of people across interplanetary distances, and larger habitats capable of maintaining those people indefinitely at specific locations throughout the solar system. There would also be a new focus on asteroid mining and bulk transportation of non-living cargo between planets. As reported in the news, each colony would need a permanent source of raw materials, ongoing protection of necessary atmospheric conditions, and a long-term effort to transform each colonial planet and moon into an Earth-like body with appropriate atmospheric and ecological conditions. Those terraforming efforts, however, would be acknowledged to require thousands of years, and would not be a major part of the requirements for the initial set of colonial outposts.
The first colonies would be established on Mars. Many lives would be lost in those initial efforts. But the governments of the world would praise those who sacrificed their lives and would redouble the effort to address the remaining technical problems. The colonial projects would go forward, government spokespeople would say, in spite of any obstacles.
After Mars, Jupiter would also be home to many colonies, in the form of orbiting stations. These stations would have a modular construction so that they could be continually expanded. Over the next hundred years, a ring of such constructions would gradually form around the planet, syphoning its material needs largely from Jupiter’s gaseous atmosphere. The water of Ganymede and the Earth itself would begin to be harvested for use by all colonial projects.
The first wave of colonists would be highly trained specialists, capable of building the colonial infrastructure and then setting up the requirements of actual habitation.
The next wave, however, would be taken from the impoverished countries of the world. In exchange for risking their lives, they would be given commercial opportunities in the new colonies. Like the early Martian colonies, many participants in this second wave would perish as well, until each colony was securely established and tested under proper load.
The third wave would consist of the populations of wealthy nations. Tens of millions of people would migrate to thriving economies ready to receive them. The occasional atmospheric accident would be hushed up as quietly as possible. But the governments of the world would provide whatever incentives were necessary in order to keep up migration rates.
Eventually, after half the world’s population had been resettled, the governments would acknowledge publicly for the first time that within another 200 years the planet would be destroyed by a celestial collision. They would put forward the colonies as a perfectly reasonable option and offer further economic incentives for people to migrate. They would also impose new laws restricting childbirth on Earth. Later, the restrictions would be tightened until all new Earth-based pregnancies were outlawed. An underclass of undocumented natives would spring up, living largely off the grid, and difficult to gather into the migratory waves.
By now the government officials would all have migrated to the colonies themselves, remotely overseeing a set of small, isolated, local governments on Earth. Among the off-world governments, there would be ongoing negotiations, attempting to unite them all into one; but these would be slow and unpromising, given religious, tribal, and political histories on Earth. But the United Nations would be quite strong and would play a large role in ongoing decision-making for the colonies as well as for the remaining local governments on Earth.
By the time of the destruction, only a few hundred million people would remain on Earth. The impact would be streamed live to viewers in every colony. Everyone, everywhere, would feel the loss as a tragic event; and would feel the uncertainty of their own future. How could these little colonies, these little bubbles of air, with no history, ever hope to have a future? And this uncertainty would become an inspiration to young people that would rally an inventiveness and resourcefulness throughout the colonies, and would lead them to make great leaps of technological advancement and to overcome the remaining obstacles to humanity’s continued survival.
Pluto, which was once the ninth planet of our solar system, boasts an enormous ocean made of ice and water that might be containing extraterrestrial life, claim NASA scientists. Previously, researchers thought that the dwarf planet Pluto is located too far from the Sun to support biological life. Apparently, Steven Vance, an astrobiologist at NASA, believes that the ocean in Pluto might be loaded with various elements like ethyl alcohol, methanol, hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, and various other complicated particles made up of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen; all these substances are building blocks of life and one cannot negate the possibilities of alien life on the dwarf planet.
The astronomers used to think Pluto as a remote bone chilling rock planet. But with the visit of New Horizons, the assumption seemed to be a little bit different. Considering the data and information provided by the New Horizons, the hypothesis for the most appealing planet of the solar system has kept on varying. A prior study revealed that the center of Pluto is warm enough to bolster a liquid water sea, and the latest study has discovered that the source of water in Pluto may be enormous. The study also said that the source wouldn’t be less than 62 miles deep. As indicated by the group from Brown University, this is however confirmed that the in-depth water source of Pluto is at least 100 km.
In addition, scientists from NASA have also found out earth like icy features on Pluto and suspect that this can be a new beginning of discovering new life on other planets. A similar kind of weather forecasting device was used by meteorologists, to find icy features on Pluto. Through computer simulations, physicists have found out ice evaporation on Pluto. Penitents are formed by erosion. These are bowl-shaped depressions with spires around their edges. They are several meters high and icy in nature. Researchers are suspecting that these features may exist on other planets too, where environmental conditions are similar.
The new study published in the journal Nature reveals that the condition on Pluto is very similar to its moon Charon. They both have an abundant quantity of ammonia required for survival of alien life. Scientists believe that Pluto’s ocean might be harbouring bacterial lifeforms beneath the ocean.
“You do not have space for bacteria on Pluto, much less for fish or other life as we understand it here in the world. But, similar to the methane seas on Titan, Saturn’s primary moon, this research study raises the concern of whether brand-new life types might exist in these cold, unique liquids,” said lead study author Willian McKinnon. “Life can endure lots of things. It can endure a great deal of salt, severe cold, severe heat, and so on. However, I do not believe it can endure such a big quantity of ammonia. If we were to think of life in an ocean totally covered with a layer of ice, the very best we might wish for would be a type of extremely primitive life, possibly even pre-cellular.”
The Texas Town Where You're Almost Guaranteed to See UFOs
The Texas Town Where You're Almost Guaranteed to See UFOs
Marfa, Texas has been enchanted by sightings of mysterious "ghost lights" for over a century. The glowing balls of light of varying sizes show up in the sky seemingly randomly, and behave in ways that no man-made craft or flying animal should - like zipping from one part of the sky to the other, and disappearing and reappearing. You can travel to Marfa to observe the lights yourself, as they are a popular tourist attraction! But could they just be an optical illusion?
US Route 67 is a magical stretch of road, is that is where the famous unexplained lights of Marfa, Texas appear. Although they don't show up all the time, they show up frequently enough to earn a reputation not only in Marfa, but around the world.
Even scientists have tried to explain them. The University of Texas at Dallas studied the Marfa lights in 2004 and was apparently able to prove a strong correlation between highway traffic and the UFO sightings, deducing that the lights were just an optical illusion caused by passing car headlights, a popular theory at the time.
However, many still believe the Marfa Lights have a much more mysterious story than that, considering that their story began in the late 1800s, before car traffic even existed. Some believers have suggested that the Marfa Lights are a mirage created when cold and hot air mix (more specifically a "fata morgana" mirage), while others have suggested these lights could be electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
What do you think of the mysterious Marfa Lights? Could they be an example of weird natural phenomenon, aliens, or just cars headlights? Have you ever seen them in person?
Share your theories on this amazing phenomenon in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitteror Instagram!
Secret Pentagon UFO Program 'Still Exists' and It's Investigating 'Significant Pilot Encounters'
Secret Pentagon UFO Program 'Still Exists' and It's Investigating 'Significant Pilot Encounters'
Matthew Loffhagen
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In 2017, The New York Times published one of the most important stories in recent history: the government cover-up surrounding unidentified flying objects that had secretly received $22 million in hidden funding.
According to Leslie Kean, the journalist who broke the news, this is only the beginning—genuinely important discoveries are coming from the research that the government is doing by investigating pilots' close encounters.
"This is no laughing matter," Kean recently told WTOP, before going into greater detail about how the government's ongoing program is producing results:
"The researchers in this area have always speculated and wondered what is going on behind the scenes. Is there a government investigation into this? And now we know that the answer is yes. It just establishes a credibility for the topic for people to know that our government takes it seriously enough to have put financial resources into it and to have studied it for all these years. We know that this program existed, it still exists, and it investigated military cases and very significant cases of pilot encounters with these objects."
Referencing the genuinely puzzling phenomena that the government is investigating, Kean mentioned a 2004 incident in which military pilots in the skies above San Diego saw a fleet of Tic-Tac-shaped UFOs that moved in a bizarre fashion.
"These objects in this one incident in 2004 were actually observed coming in from outer space. They came in and then they went out, up into the sky. So whatever that means, that's what happened. They were also seen able to move very, very, very fast from one space to another. Way faster than any airplane could do."
This is an incident that comes up pretty much every time the subject of UFOs is discussed; it's a rare example of a phenomenon that can't be explained away by questioning the observer's credibility. Pilot David Fravor has gone on record multiple times, insisting that he saw proof of advanced alien weaponry that could kick off a real-life War of the Worlds.
That said, it's important to note that not all experts are convinced. Many believe this is more an Orson Welles War of the Worlds situation, in which a benign incident spreads the rumor of mass panic. One expert believes that the San Diego sighting is the result of a fixed camera angle that makes the UFO look more impressive than it actually is, while another sighting of a similar UFO ultimately turned out to be a birthday balloon.
If the most compelling UFO case in history is also subject to speculation and skepticism, it's probably not wise to assume that the US government is making as much headway as Kean would like people to believe.
The subject of UFOs is very polarizing. Some people genuinely believe that they exist (sometimes in the absence of adequate proof), while others refuse to entertain the notion that these reports could be real (despite an occasional lack of an adequate alternative explanation).
For now, we'll just have to keep watching the skies, and hope that, one way or the other, we'll eventually figure out what's going on up there.
NASA's new exoplanet satellite launches successfully, Saturn played a part in the formation of Jupiter's four largest moons and the Senate finally confirms the new NASA administrator. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
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1. New NASA exoplanet hunter lifts off.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 18. The mission deployed into Earth orbit 49 minutes after lifting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS' mission is to hunt for planets circling stars relatively close to the sun.
2. Senate confirms Bridenstine as NASA administrator.
After an unprecedentedly long and contentious nomination process, the U.S. Senate voted along party lines to confirm congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) as NASA's new administrator. The 50-49 vote took place April 19. Bridenstine faced criticism for lacking scientific credentials, in addition to his statements about the LGBTQ community and climate change.
The Lyrid Meteor Shower peaks this weekend, and observers have until April 30 to see shooting stars in the direction of the constellation Lyra (the Harp). NASA recommends waiting until after the first-quarter moon sets at midnight for optimal meteor shower viewing.
Storytellers and exploration folklore inspired the names for places on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Among the new feature names are Butler Mons, named after author Octavia E. Butler; Caleuche Chasma, named after a Chilean ghost-ship tale; and Kubrick Mons, named after film director Stanley Kubrick.
Two NASA researchers traveled to the extreme environment near the South Pole in preparation for a new mission launching this September. The Ice, Could and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) mission will use lasers to track changes in sea ice to investigate how climate change is impacting it. To calibrate the instruments on the satellite, the scientists trekked across Antarctica.
Asteroid 2018 GE3 zipped past Earth on April 15, the day after astronomers discovered it. The space rock passed at about half the distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA, and is at least three times the size of the meteor that exploded in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
Two U.S. Air Force satellites launched on April 14 with the goal of improving military communications and space vehicle design. The U.S. Air Force Space Command mission, featuring a communications satellite and an experimental demonstrator, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
An enforcement advisory warning came out on April 12, in which the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated that organizations launching spacecraft without appropriate regulatory approval will be penalized. Punishment might include monetary forfeitures, and as a precaution, the FCC is advising launch providers to remove any unauthorized spacecraft from their rockets.
9. Saturn played a part in Jupiter moon formation.
A research team found that Saturn's core may have formed alongside the pieces that eventually formed Jupiter's four largest moons. The ringed planet's core may have pulled on this material and scattered it toward Jupiter, where the moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto eventually settled into their current orbits.
During an April 12 hearing, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said that extending some upcoming space station missions could be an option to buy more time in the event that there are delays with commercial crew vehicle development. Lightfoot also answered questions about how NASA would manage with the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the agency's Office of Education and other projects.
Strange footage has emerged of bright lights flashing on the International Space Station's live feed, with conspiracy theorists claiming it is 'an uncloaking UFO'.
The live feed caught the attention of UFO hunters after it appeared to be flashing near the ISS.
The conspiracy theorists who posted the video say whatever it is, it must be 'huge' as it was going under the ISS at some distance.
Other UFO hunters have claimed the mammoth alien craft could be 900 feet (300 metres) in diameter and fly from the Earth to the moon in less than a minute.
However, experts have debunked the claim, and say the lights are simply reflections or lens flare from the camera.
Strange footage has emerged of bright lights flashing on the International Space Station's live feed (pictured), with conspiracy theorists claiming it is 'an uncloaking UFO'
The video was posted by Belgium-based YouTube channel UFO Today and shows a live broadcast of the spaceship on the 14th April 2018.
'We can see the international space station orbiting earth when suddenly a UFO seems to be uncloaking nearby the international space station', according to UFO Today.
The UFO hunters claimed that the Earth's magnetic field was interfering with the UFO as it revealed itself, causing the lights to flash.
'It looks like the effect we see when a piece of aluminium is put inside a microwave.
'Whatever this object was, it must have been huge since it was going under the international space station at some distance', the user posted with the live feed.
Another prominent UFO hunter Scott C Waring had his own theory about the footage.
He said it was not six separate UFOs but one large one that could be as large as 900 feet (300 metres) in diameter.
'This UFO is going to blow your mind! I mean it just shows up as a single glowing orb', he wrote on his website UFO sightings daily.
The live feed caught the attention of UFO hunters after strange lights started flashing to the right of the station (pictured)
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and certain psychological traits.
Narcissism and self-esteem levels have a large impact on a persons belief in conspiracy theories.
The results showed that people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
There are widely believed to be three main reasons as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
The desire for understanding and certainty - Seeking explanations for events is a natural human desire.
The desire for control and security - Conspiracy theories can give their believers a sense of control and security.
The desire to maintain a positive self-image - People who feel socially marginalised are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and it gives them a sense of worth in the UFO community.
These three things tie in with the previously stated qualities and combine to create an avid conspiracy theorist.
'Then it divides into about 4-6 flashing orbs! During this time the UFO is revealed partially, meaning its not 6 UFOs, but one large UFO of about 300 meters diameter', he said.
'Such a craft has the capability to fly from Earth to the moon in under a minute. Its not light speed, but its fast', he said.
However, Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said there was a simple explanation for these baffling lights.
'Often the images shown to be of UFOs near the ISS are reflections or lens flare from the camera', he told MailOnline.
The conspiracy theorists who posted the video say whatever it is it must be 'huge' as it was going under the ISS at some distance
He said the flashing lights in this clip were probably just a piece of space junk or a satellite in the distance.
'Usually people who post videos like this are more concerned about adding music to the soundtrack and putting ridiculous ideas about UFOs uncloaking themselves like a spaceship in Star Trek', he said.
The footage is the latest in a series of bizarre claims as conspiracy theorists monitor the live feed on the ISS for any anomalies.
In January, a bizarre YouTube video that some claimed reveals a ‘golden UFO’ soaring over Earth sparked fresh speculation among conspiracy theorists about an alien cover-up.
The video focuses on a 2016 clip from the International Space Station’s live feed, showing a slow-moving view over our planet – and, a mysterious glow can be seen emanating from the bottom right corner.
Just seconds later, the footage cuts out to reveal a standby message from the ISS, causing many to claim NASA was attempting to hide an object the YouTubers estimate to be ‘hundreds of miles long.’
WHAT ARE THE KEY DISCOVERIES HUMANITY HAS MADE IN ITS SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE?
Discovery of pulsars
British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first person to discover a pulsar in 1967 when she spotted a radio pulsar.
Since then other types of pulsars that emit x-rays and gamma rays have also been spotted.
Pulsars are essentially rotating, highly magnatised neutron stars but when they were first discovered it was believed they could come from aliens.
'Wow!' radio signal
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data.
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data
The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, came from Sagittarius but matched no known celestial object.
Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that the 'Wow! signal', which was 30 times stronger than background radiation, was a message from intelligent extraterrestrials.
Fossilised martian microbes
In 1996 Nasa and the White House made the explosive announcement that the rock contained traces of Martian bugs.
The meteorite, catalogued as Allen Hills (ALH) 84001, crashed onto the frozen wastes of Antarctica 13,000 years ago and was recovered in 1984.
Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike.
Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike (pictured)
However, the excitement did not last long. Other scientists questioned whether the meteorite samples were contaminated.
They also argued that heat generated when the rock was blasted into space may have created mineral structures that could be mistaken for microfossils.
Behaviour of Tabby's Star in 2005
The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astonomers since being discovered in 2015.
It dims at a much faster rate than other stars, which some experts have suggested is a sign of aliens harnessing the energy of a star.
The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astonomers since being discovered in 2015 (artist's impression)
Recent studies have 'eliminated the possibility of an alien megastructure', and instead, suggests that a ring of dust could be causing the strange signals.
Exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone in 2015
In February this year astronomers announced they had spotted a star system with planets that could support life just 39 light years away.
Seven Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting nearby dwarf star 'Trappist-1', and all of them could have water at their surface, one of the key components of life.
Three of the planets have such good conditions, that scientists say life may have already evolved on them.
Researchers claim that they will know whether or not there is life on any of the planets within a decade, and said 'this is just the beginning.'
Vreemde lichten gezien op livestream ruimtestation ISS. Is dit een UFO die zijn camouflage deactiveert?
Vreemde lichten gezien op livestream ruimtestation ISS. Is dit een UFO die zijn camouflage deactiveert?
Er zijn vreemde beelden opgedoken van felle lichten bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Er wordt geclaimd dat het gaat om een UFO die zijn camouflage deactiveert, schrijft de Daily Mail.
UFO-jagers zagen de lichten op de livestream van het ruimtestation. Ze claimden dat het object een doorsnee had van wel 300 meter.
Volgens experts zijn de lichten reflecties of lensflares. De beelden zijn op YouTube gezet door UFO Todayen gemaakt op 14 april jongstleden.
Enorm
“We zien het internationale ruimtestation dat rond de aarde draait als er plotseling een UFO verschijnt bij het ISS,” schrijft het kanaal.
De UFO-jagers beweerden dat de UFO hinder ondervond van het magnetisch veld van de aarde, waardoor de lichten begonnen te knipperen.
“Wat het object ook was, het moet enorm zijn geweest,” klonk het nog.
Oogwenk
UFO-jager Scott C. Waring zei dat het object een doorsnee van wel 300 meter kon hebben en in een oogwenk van de aarde naar de maan kon vliegen.
Nigel Watson, auteur van de UFO Investigations Manual, zei in een reactie dat beelden van UFO’s bij het ISS vaak reflecties of lenslares zijn.
Hij zei dat de knipperende lichten in het filmpje waarschijnlijk het gevolg waren van een stuk ruimtepuin of een satelliet in de verte.
Amerikaanse overheid geeft per ongeluk documenten vrij over hersenspoeling op afstand. Lees ze hier
Amerikaanse overheid geeft per ongeluk documenten vrij over hersenspoeling op afstand. Lees ze hier
Het Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC), een Amerikaans centrum dat gericht is op terrorismebestrijding, heeft deze week per ongeluk een aantal raadselachtige documenten vrijgegeven.
De stukken hebben betrekking op de effecten van hersenspoeling op afstand.
Curtis Waltman schrijft voor onderzoekssite MuckRock dat hij documenten over Antifa en diverse racistische groeperingen had opgevraagd bij het centrum.
Psycho-elektronische wapens
Hij kreeg een aantal stukken opgestuurd met daarin e-mails, notulen van vergaderingen en informatie van andere centra. Er zat ook een bestand bij getiteld ‘elektromagnetische effecten op het menselijk lichaam’.
Het bleek te gaan over ‘psycho-elektronische’ wapens die door middel van elektromagnetisme de mens beïnvloeden.
Denk daarbij aan het lezen of beïnvloeden van je gedachten, het veroorzaken van intense pijn of jeuk en het verstijven van het lichaam.
Mobiele telefoons
Elektromagnetische golven kunnen worden gebruikt om iemands gedachten te lezen en uit te zenden, hun ledematen te manipuleren en hun dromen te beïnvloeden, aldus één van de documenten.
In een ander document wordt uitgelegd hoe elektromagnetische wapens kunnen worden ingezet door middel van bijvoorbeeld een satelliet of mobiele telefoons.
Geen idee
Waltman merkt op dat de stukken niet noodzakelijkerwijs bewijzen dat de Amerikaanse overheid beschikt over dergelijke apparaten.
Hij heeft geen idee waarom dit bestand naar hem is opgestuurd. Mogelijk was het bedoeld voor iemand anders of voor een toekomstig rapport van het WSFC.
Strange rectangular shaped UFO captured above Newton Abbot, UK
Strange rectangular shaped UFO captured above Newton Abbot, UK
A photographer decided to go out and do some sky watching on April 18, 2018 and was hoping to capture something strange and out of the ordinary.
He was scanning the sky looking east when he spotted something moving in his direction.
He couldn't make it out at first but as soon as it got a bit closer he zoomed in with his Nikon P900 camera and he could clearly see that it was in fact a rectangular shaped flying object.
The rectangular shaped object was very high up in the sky and was directly above the town center.
The photographer quickly took several photographs and watched as the UFO then flew off at incredible speed heading north whereby he lost sight of it. Mufon case 91544.
This UFO was reported just a few days ago. It was seen over a construction site and it looks as if some of the workers were looking at it. The white UFO has taken on the appearance of a cloud to hide itself, but not very well. You can even see that there are window like openings around the edges of the craft. Remarkable report. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Was taking pictures of work site caught UFO and frame didn't see until after the fact.
Below is the photo put into Negative format for a different perspective of its details.
US Government Accidentally Posts Records on “Psycho-Electronic Weapons” And “Remote Mind Control”
US Government Accidentally Posts Records on “Psycho-Electronic Weapons” And “Remote Mind Control”
Is this that moment when a Conspiracy theory turns into reality?
According to reports, documents detailing Psycho-Electronic Weapons” and “Remote Mind Control” were accidentally sent to a journalist.
It’s not a secret that various US government agencies keep all kinds of secrets, but only a true conspiracy theorist would suspect that “psycho-electronic weapons” is one of them.
The info was revealed in ‘secret’ documents sent “by accident” to MuckRock, a news agency that specializes in processing Freedom of Information requests (FOIA), a law that gives citizens the right to access federal government information.
It all started when journalist Curtis Waltman wrote to the Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC)—a state security agency responsible for processing data on terrorism and extremis—requesting information about Antifa (the anti-fascist movement) and white supremacist groups.
While he got the documents he was looking for; he also received a strange zip file entitled “EM Effects on the human body.”
Once he extracted the files, he found the following intel:
The documents sent by accident apparently mention telepathy, dream control, hallucinations, remote mind control, and remote mapping of the brain.
The documents, which were apparently sent by accident offer a number of illustrations that show different devices and techniques that aim to manipulate the human mind. The file also features details about weapons that use electromagnetic force to induce intense pain in certain individuals.
Some of the images from the zip file appear to be part of an article published in 1992 in the Australian magazine Nexus, which speaks of a lawsuit by a John St. Clair Akewi against the NSA (National Security Agency).
Aweki claimed that the NSA had “the ability to covertly murder US citizens and conduct psychological control operations to cause certain individuals to be diagnosed as insane.”
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The news magazine focuses on inexplicable facts, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine and other topics.
The documents refer to a number of devices suitable for remote mind control, including cell phones.
According to the editors of the magazine, they tried to cover the case in 1996 but did not manage to provide the protagonist with more details:
“We called Mr. Akewi to follow up on the development of his demand, but he told us firmly and kindly that he could not talk about anything that had to do with the case over the phone and hung up.”
It is widely accepted that the USA and other world powers have experimented with the range of possibilities offered by mind control, but the documents leaked here do not seem official.
However, they are another overwhelming proof of the great interest of the US government in the powers of the mind and their use as a tool for geopolitical and militaristic purposes.
Waltman has said he has no idea why that compressed file was included in what was sent to him.
According to reports, the WSFC has yet to respond on the matter.
As noted by Muckrock, it remains a mystery as to why or how the documents were sent to them: “It could have been meant for another release, it could have been gathered for an upcoming WSFC report, or it could even be from the personal files of an intelligence officer that somehow got mixed up in the release.”
A simulation shows a small body ramming into Mars, kicking up debris that eventually formed its two small moons.
Credit: Robin Canup/Southwest Research Institute
Mars may have gained its two tiny moons after an asteroid-size object slammed into the surface of the Red Planet. New models suggest that an object the size of the largest of the asteroid-belt inhabitants could have kicked up enough material to form Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
"Ours is the first self-consistent model to identify the type of impact needed to lead to the formation of Mars' two small moons," Robin Canup, a researcher and associate vice president at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), said in a statement. Canup is one of the leading scientists using large-scale simulations to model planet-scale collisions like the one thought to have formed Earth's own moon.
Scientists have debated the origins of the two Martian moons for decades. One model suggests that they may have been captured from the asteroid belt. Another suggests that they formed out of a disk of debris around the Red Planet. The fact that both moons have a nearly circular orbit around the equator makes a strong case for their birth by impact. [Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of Phobos and Deimos]
Moons forming from the debris after a smashup isn't unheard of. Earth's moon is thought to have formed after a Mars-size object crashed into the planet 4.5 billion years ago. Earth's diameter is about 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers). With a diameter of just over 2,100 miles (3,380 km), the moon is about a quarter of its parent planet's size.
Mars, on the other hand, is smaller than our planet, with a diameter of just over 4,200 miles (6,760 km). Phobos and Deimos are very small, with diameters of only 7.5 and 14 miles (12 and 22.5 km), respectively, and with very close-in orbits.
"A key result of the new work is the size of the impactor," or the body that collided with the planet, Canup said. "We find that a large impactor — similar in size to the largest asteroids, Vesta and Ceres — is needed, rather than a giant impactor."
Vesta is the second largest object in the asteroid belt, with a diameter of 329 miles (530 km). Ceres is the largest inhabitant of the asteroid belt, with a diameter of 584 miles (940 km) — it is large enough that it is classified as both an asteroid and a dwarf planet.
New research simulates a small body slamming into Mars, producing its small moons Phobos and Deimos.
Credit: Robin Canup/Southwest Research Institute
The last of many
Phobos and Deimos were likely not the only moons created by the collision, according to the researchers' model. After the large impactor smashed into the planet, some of the debris formed a disk that flew up to circle the Martian equator.
"The outer portions of the disk accumulate into Phobos and Deimos, while the inner portions of the disk accumulate into large moons that eventually spiral inward and are assimilated into Mars," said Julien Salmon, a researcher at SwRI and second author on the paper.
Currently, Phobos is spiraling inward, and should crash into Mars in another 50 million years or so. Deimos will escape that fate, as it is slowly spiraling outward, away from the planet.
Previous simulations of impactors also created multiple moons, but their size meant that Phobos and Deimos wouldn't exist today.
"Larger impacts advocated in prior works produce massive disks and more massive inner moons that prevent the survival of tiny moons like Phobos and Deimos," Salmon said.
In addition to their existence, the new research also provided clues about what future missions might find when they visit Phobos and Deimos.
"The model also predicts that the two moons are derived primarily from material originating in Mars, so their bulk compositions should be similar to that of Mars for most elements," Canup said.
In 2024, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to visit the two Martian moons. MMX will land on the surface of Phobos and collect a sample to return to Earth in 2029.
"A primary objective of the MMX mission is to determine the origin of Mars' moons," Canup said.
"Having a model that predicts what the moons' composition would be if they formed by impact is a key constraint for achieving that goal."
US Military's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Trackers
US Military's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Trackers
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane on Sept. 7, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane has apparently been spotted by satellite watchers.
The craft's latest mystery mission, known as OTV-5 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-5), began on Sept. 7, 2017, when the robotic spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
Skywatcher Cees Bassa from the Netherlands reported a chance sighting of a bright satellite of unknown identity, observed early on April 11. He estimated a circular orbit of about 54.5 degrees inclination and 220 miles (355 kilometers) altitude.
Bassa alerted the global satellite-observing network and others that this could be OTV-5.
Another satellite spotter — Russell Eberst in Edinburgh, Scotland — had reported seeing a satellite of similar brightness and orbit last October.
"I produced rough search elements that proved too rough to recover the object," said Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst. "I found, with very slight tweaks, the preliminary orbit that Cees had posted could be made to fit both his and Russell's observations," Molczan told Inside Outer Space.
Artist's illustration of the X-37B orbiting Earth
Credit: Boeing
Bassa noted that this object's orbit correlates well with the OTV-5. The orbit passes very close — within 2 degrees of longitude — from KSC at the time of liftoff. Meanwhile, another satellite tracker, Marco Langbroek, also in the Netherlands, noted that the U.S. Air Force had earlier announced that the OTV-5 would have the highest inclination of the series of missions to date.
"Looks like a pretty probable identification," Langbroek reported.
Molczan is more certain. "Cees recovered the object, which can now be identified beyond reasonable doubt as OTV-5," he said. "As Cees cautions, further tracking may reveal a bit more eccentric orbit, but the mean altitude is about 355 kilometers, and the inclination is close to 54.5 degrees.
"I estimate that the ground track nearly repeats at intervals of about 31 revolutions, or about two days," Molczan added. "Similar behavior has been seen during portions of all previous OTV missions. If it carries an imaging payload, then the orbit affords frequent revisit of targets, but it could serve some other operational purpose that I cannot guess."
When OTV-5 will return to Earth is anybody's guess. The X-37B program completed its fourth mission on May 7, 2017, landing after 718 days in orbit and extending the program's total number of days spent in orbit to 2,085.
The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is running the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle program.
"The fifth OTV mission continues to advance the X-37B's performance and flexibility as a space technology demonstrator and host platform for experimental payloads," Air Force officials said in a prelaunch statement. "This mission carries small satellite ride shares and will demonstrate greater opportunities for rapid space access and on-orbit testing of emerging space technologies."
The current mission is hosting the Air Force Research Laboratory Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader payload to test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long-duration space environment.
"The many firsts on this mission make the upcoming OTV launch a milestone for the program," Randy Walden, director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said in the statement. "It is our goal to continue advancing the X-37B OTV so it can more fully support the growing space community."
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.
George Filer III, 82, serves as the New Jersey director of MUFON – am American based non-profit organisation that investigates UFO sighting.
But he has more than 20 years first hand experience in the skies – and he has revealed some of them are unexplainable.
When Filer was stationed in Scotland during the Cold War, he recalls flying a military aircraft that attempted to intercept such an object that appeared as big as a bridge on radar.
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SHOCKING: The man revealed he had encountered a UFO
“We were doing over 400mph and I would say it was doing 10, 20 times our speed”
George Filer
He revealed: “When we got closer, we could see lights off in the distance – kind of like a cruise ship you would see at night, with multiple lights across it.
“As we got, I don’t know, about 5 miles from it – it went up into space.
“We were doing over 400mph and I would say it was doing 10, 20 times our speed and it was this huge object.
“So we were convinced that it was something that was not ours, let’s put it that way. … to me, it looked like a long cylinder.”
George originally detailed his story with American news outlet Asbury Park Press, but it has since gained popularity online.
It has now been shared on a number of conspiracy channels
In December last year, it was revealed The Pentagon ran a secret $22million (£16.5million) project to investigate UFO
According to the New York Times, the Defense Department ended funding for the programme in 2012 and shut it down.
“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email.
But Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the programme, said it continued after funding dried up and he continued to work on it until October, when he resigned in protest of “excessive secrecy and internal opposition.”
In this UFO Sightings video clip: Roswell: A brief look at the Roswell UFO encounter, and the controversy around it. For over 60 years, the debate has raged on. What happened in Roswell? An alien encounter or a government cover-up? Get a closer look at Roswell.
UFOs aren’t a new phenomenon. In fact, humans have been describing unidentified flying objects for millennia, with depictions of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric objects found in the art and literature of ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans.
But the modern era of UFOs took off in the middle of the 20th century, right around the time rockets and high-tech aircraft were being devised, often in secret. Coincidence? Paranoia? Perhaps. In any event, these seven UFO sightings certainly occurred, but it’s up to you to decide what explanation you’ll believe in.
1. Kenneth Arnold, 1947
Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object which they sighted while en route to Seattle, Washington. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
The origin of today’s fascination can be traced back to civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold. While flying his small aircraft near Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, Arnold claimed to have seen nine blue, glowing objects flying fast—at an estimated 1700 mph—in a “V” formation. He first believed the objects to be some sort of new military aircraft (this was, after all, just two years after WWII and the first year of the Cold War), but the military confirmed that there were no tests being conducted near Mount Rainier that day. When he described their motion as similar to “a saucer if you skip it across water,” the media coined the now-ubiquitous phrase “flying saucer.” Soon, other reports of a group of nine UFOs cropped up across the region, including sightings by a prospector on Mount Adams and the crew of a commercial flight in Idaho. The government never had a true explanation for the sightings—it simply claimed that Arnold had seen a mirage or was hallucinating. But UFO mania had set in, and just a few weeks later, the infamous Roswell sighting would perpetuate the obsession.
2. Roswell, 1947
Roswell UFO Museum Sign. (Credit: David Zaitz/Getty Images)
It’s the mother of all UFO sightings, but no object was actually observed flying in the Roswell incident. In the summer of 1947, rancher William “Mac” Brazel discovered mysterious debris in one of his New Mexico pastures, including metallic rods, chunks of plastic and unusual, papery scraps. When Brazel reported the wreckage, soldiers from nearby Roswell Army Air Force Base were called in to retrieve the materials.News headlines claimed that a “flying saucer” crashed in Roswell, but military officials purported that it was only a downed weather balloon. Ever since, conspiracy theorists have been hard at work trying to prove the wreckage was extraterrestrial, with one gentleman, Ray Santilli, going as far as releasing a video in 1995 of an alien dissection purported to have taken place after the incident. (Santilli would admit in 2006 that it was a staged film, but he maintained that it was based off of actual footage.)
As it turns out, the government was indeed covering something up—but it wasn’t aliens. The crashed weather balloon was, in fact, part of a top-secret military endeavor called Project Mogul, which launched high-altitude balloons carrying equipment used to detect Soviet nuclear tests. The Air Force provided plenty of proof in a 231-page report released in 1997 called “Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash.” Though the mystery has been thoroughly debunked, interest in the case has only grown, and Roswell’s tourism is heavily based around its famous “UFO sighting.” It’s home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, a spaceship-shaped McDonald’s and an annual UFO festival, held each summer.
3. Lubbock Lights, 1951
The “Lubbock Lights”, photographed at Lubbock, Texas, by 19-year old Carl Hart, Jr. in 1951. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
On the evening of August 25, 1951, three science professors from Texas Tech were enjoying an evening outdoors in Lubbock, when they looked up and saw a semicircle of lights flying above them at a high speed. Over the next few days, dozens of reports flooded in from across town—Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr., even snapped photos of the phenomenon, which were published in newspapers across the country and Life magazine. Project Blue Book investigated the events, and their official conclusion was that the lights were birds that reflected the luminescence from Lubbock’s new streetlamps. Many people who saw the lights, however, refuse to accept this explanation, arguing that the lights were flying too fast.
4. Levelland, 1957
One of several people who witnessed the UFO in Levelland, Texas in 1957, holding up a drawing of what he saw. (Credit: Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
Have you ever seen the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind? There’s a famous scene where a UFO makes the electronics in a car go haywire. As it so happens, that’s not just a Hollywood invention for the silver screen—there’s real-life precedence. In 1957, dozens of citizens of Levelland, Texas, individually reported seeing a rocket or strange lights that interfered with their vehicles: Engines died, lights cut out. Though the police initially thought the reports were a hoax, they, too, saw the mysterious lights, as they investigated the situation.Project Blue Book, a UFO research group created by the Air Force, was assigned to investigate the case. Their findings? It was an electrical storm and ball lightning that caused the lights and the mechanical malfunctions, despite the fact that there were no reported thunderstorms in the area that night.
The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started much like many others, with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky. An F-4 fighter jet was set out to investigate, but as it neared the object, its instruments blacked out, forcing the pilot to return to base. A second F-4 took its place, and as it neared the unusual light, it achieved radar lock. But then, according to the pilot, the UFO released a glowing object—the pilot assumed it to be some sort of missile headed straight for him. As he prepared to fight back, the pilot experienced malfunctions with his instruments, and he witnessed another bright object released from the UFO that headed straight toward the ground. He safely returned to base, despite the faulty equipment.After the incident, Iran contacted the United States to aid them in an investigation. An unclassified memo by U.S. Air Force section chief Lieutenant Colonel Olin Mooy detailed the events of the night: There are explanations for nearly all of them.
First, the bright light seen by civilians (and possibly the pilots) might have been Jupiter, which was visible in the sky that night. Second, as author Brian Dunning notes in a podcast, the second F-4 jet had a long history of electrical problems, meaning that the instrumentation might have failed regardless of a UFO situation. It also could explain the radar lock—it might simply have been a malfunction. The first F-4, reports Dunning, was never turned in for maintenance following the incident, so there’s no official indication that its instrumentation failed. And finally, as for the “alien missiles,” there was a meteor shower that night, which could easily account for the sightings.
6. Rendlesham Forest, 1980
A general view of disused missile silos at the former RAF Bentwaters base near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk where an alleged alien interference with US nuclear weapons site took place. (Credit: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
In December 1980, U.S. Air Force members stationed at two British Royal Air Force bases, Woodbridge and Bentwaters, reported seeing strange, colorful lights above Rendlesham Forest, about 100 miles northeast of London. One man who entered the forest to investigate claimed to have discovered some sort of spacecraft there, and the next day, others confirmed damage to nearby trees and a higher-than-normal level of radiation at the site.Several days later, more sightings were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt recorded his observations on an audio tape as he watched the lights, and while not definitive proof, theorists consider this the strongest evidence of the events. But the UK’s Ministry of Defence, which oversaw reports of UFO incidents until the early 2000s, did not find any credible threat to the nation, and thus did not pursue investigations further. As at Roswell, UFO tourism is prevalent in Rendlesham Forest, and there’s even an official Rendlesham UFO trail that visitors can hike, off of which is a model of the reported spacecraft.
7. The Belgium Wave, 1989-90
Flying triangle claimed to have been photographed on June 15, during the 1990 Belgian UFO sighting over Belgium.µ(Credit: J.S. Henrardi)
At the end of November 1989, citizens of Belgium reported seeing a large, triangular UFO hovering in the sky. But other than these visual sightings, no evidence of the UFO’s existence was to be found—for now. A few months later, in March 1990, new sightings of multiple objects were reported, which were confirmed by two military ground radar stations. Two F-16 fighter jets were sent out to investigate the anomalies, and though the pilots could not see anything visually, they were able to lock onto their targets with radar. But the UFOs moved so fast that the pilots ended up losing them. Some 13,500 people are estimated to have witnessed the incident, making it one of the most widely experienced UFO sightings of the modern era.The Belgian Air Force had no logical explanation for the activity, but it acknowledged that an unknown activity had taken place in the air. The Belgians reached out to the UK’s Ministry of Defence to investigate further, but once they determined that the incident was not a hostile or aggressive one, they stopped the investigation.
An archived NASA photo allegedly shows evidence that the moon landing was fake. According to a conspiracy theorist, the boulders in the background are not simple rocks but are actually something else.
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An archived NASA photo provides further proof to the allegations that the moon landing was fake, according to a conspiracy theorist.
There is a mountain of evidence that the moon landing really happened, but there remains a group of people who believe that it was all a hoax. After looking at the NASA photo, which side will you be on?
NASA Photo Allegedly Shows Structure On The Moon
The image in question shows John W. Young, the commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, collecting samples from the moon's surface. The description of the photo says that the Lunar Roving Vehicle was parked among "the field of large boulders in the background."
However, according to a video uploaded on the YouTube channel UFOmania, the boulders shown in the image are not simple rocks but rather "habitat building, spaceship, and extra personnel."
There are two suggestions on what really happened with the moon landing. The first suggestion is that the whole thing was staged, with the images and videos taken in a studio that was made to look like the moon. Pursuing this thought, the structure in the background of the image may have been part of the studio where the moon landing was filmed.
The second suggestion, meanwhile, is more sinister. Some believe that the Apollo 16 astronauts discovered evidence of alien life on the moon, and the images and videos were mostly edited to remove all instances showing proof of it. The image may then be thought of showing one of these alien structures.
Most commenters on the YouTube video, however, remain adamant that the things in the background of the image are really just rocks. Conspiracy theorists, however, will keep saying otherwise, and it is up to you to decide what to believe.
Man On The Moon
NASA recently released a 4K video showing the surface of the moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The work of the spacecraft will help start plans for manned missions to the moon in the future.
President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, confirmed that the Russian space program is planning to send astronauts to the moon in a modern space race that also involves the United States and Japan. Russia is planning to first establish a space station on the lunar orbit and then place modules on the moon itself.
Whether the astronauts will find evidence of alien life on the moon remains unclear. However, something that they will surely find there is space junk, as 400,000 pounds of garbage have been left on the moon by previous missions.
Dit is de foto die volgens complottheoretici bewijst dat de maanlanding nep was
Dit is de foto die volgens complottheoretici bewijst dat de maanlanding nep was
In 1969 werd Neil Armstrong de eerste mens die voet op de maan zette. Tenminste, als we het officiële verhaal mogen geloven.
Veel mensen geloven dat de maanlandingen één grote leugen zijn. In het verleden is er al veel materiaal gepresenteerd waaruit zou moeten blijken dat de maanlandingen een hoax zijn.
Er is nu een oude foto opgedoken die gemaakt is door een astronaut en die volgens sommigen bewijst dat het maanoppervlak dat we zien op maanfoto’s niets meer is dan een filmset.
Maanbasis
De foto is gemaakt tijdens Apollo 16, een missie die plaatsvond in 1972. Op de foto is te zien dat astronaut John Young monsters op het maanoppervlak verzamelt.
Op de achtergrond zijn grote en kleinere stukken rots te zien. In het bijschrift staat dat op de foto rotsblokken zijn te zien, evenals de Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Complottheoretici zien ook nog iets anders, namelijk een maanbasis in de verte. Ook zien ze personeel dat niet op de foto te zien zou moeten zijn.
Buitenaards leven
Volgens YouTube-kanaal UFOmania zijn de ‘rotsblokken’ in werkelijkheid ‘gebouwen, een ruimteschip en extra personeel’, schrijft Tech Times.
Volgens één theorie zijn de maanlandingen in scène gezet en zijn de beelden gemaakt in een filmstudio. De voorwerpen op de achtergrond zouden dan onderdeel moeten zijn geweest van de studio.
Een andere theorie stelt dat de astronauten van Apollo 16 buitenaards leven hebben ontdekt op de maan en dat de beelden zijn bewerkt om het bewijs hiervoor te verhullen. In dit geval zou de foto één van deze buitenaardse structuren tonen.
When we think about the reality of meeting an extraterrestrial race, we often think about the difficulty, and sometimes supposed impossibility, of communicating or even recognizing that communication was being attempted. We wonder, also, how we could recognize a culture completely outside of our frames of reference. Could we even identify alien artwork, let alone appreciate it? Could we recognize alien music, if they indeed had a concept of music? A paper published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that humans would be able to recognize and appreciate alien music due to our ability to process language, provided that it follows a couple of rules, and suggests that we might have an easier time understanding a completely alien culture than we’ve previously thought.
OK, music nerd time. Sorry. The rules in question aren’t specifically musical rules, or even specific grammatical rules, but sort of “meta rules” of structure and coherence. Alien musicwould need to be built on local and non-local dependencies. Dependencies, in terms of music, are the commonalities that make a song sound like one coherent piece. A local dependency binds two adjacent things together—something like a drum pattern repeating every four bars—and non-local dependencies bind non-adjacent things together. Non-local dependencies can be understood in terms of pop-music: the classic verse-chorus structure. The two verses are non-adjacent, because they’re separated by a chorus, but the second verse follows a rule set up by the first. This is used to create anticipation, resolution, emotional resonance and all the things that make music awesome. It’s not confined to pop-music at all, you’ll find local and non-local dependencies throughout all human music from classical, to punk rock, to non-western music like that from India or the Arab peninsula, that use completely different scales and rhythmic figures, but pop’s simplicity makes it a very easy example.
Right, got that out of my system. That explanation is important, though. Essentially, as long as alien music had some sort of internal structure, we’d be able to recognize it even if it followed exactly zero musical rules that our culture had prepared us for.
Music is just emotional math, and instruments are human-powered calculators.
To figure this out, Vincent Cheung and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences wrote some “alien” music of their own. Their description of the alien music is “randomly generated combinations of tone-triplets that were combined in a palindrome-like manner.” They brought in musicians of different levels of expertise and played for them their “alien music,” in a composition alongside random sequences with no internal grammatical rules. The musicians were tasked with determining which sequences followed randomly generated grammatical rules local dependencies, and which sequences had no grammatical rules. The team found that they could, and that they could identify non-local dependencies within the compositions as well.
Sequences of repeating electronic tones that only follow a weird internal logic? Now you’re speaking my language.
Repeating the tests with the musicians in an MRI machine, the team found something surprising. An area of the brain on the right hemisphere was lighting up, which mirrored “Broca’s area.” Broca’s area—named for anatomist Paul Broca—is part of the cerebral cortex on the left side of the brain and it’s responsible for our understanding of dependencies in language. It’s what flips out when you hear grammatical mistakes in language. What the researchers found is that we have a twin area on the other side of the brain that understands grammar in more ethereal and subjective things like music. It seems we might be hard-wired to understand structure itself, regardless of our cultural frameworks.
There are so many works of fiction that deal with the obvious communication and cultural barriers that would be between us and any alien species. The 2016 film Arrival, and the short story it was based on, dealt with that question and cast a linguist as the hero figure who deciphers an alien language that doesn’t even conform to our sense of time. Close Encounters of the Third Kind involved communication through music specifically. It seems reasonable to imagine that any species that can travel through space would base their culture and communication on some internal set of rules, even if it doesn’t resemble ours in the slightest. This research could suggest that we’d be able to easily recognize that there are rules, not just chaos, which would eliminate the very first barrier to understanding.
Let’s get a few things out of the way right up front. The Exploding Ants would be a great name for a band. The Suicidal Exploding Ants would be even better. A collection of exploding ants in one of those plastic ant farms would provide some people with hours of sadistic fun, even if they’re not using recreational mood enhancers. And, for those who are wondering, exploding ants are real but exceedingly rare creatures and researchers in Borneo have just discovered a new species of them living in treetops. Depending on how big they are, the people of Borneo probably appreciate them staying up there.
According to a new study published in ZooKeys,Colobopsis explodens is the latest entry on the list of 15 known species of exploding ants, which were first discovered in 1916, live (and apparently die violently) mainly in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, and haven’t added a new name to the species catalogue since 1935. That changed recently when researchers from the Natural History Museum Vienna, Technical University Vienna and other institutions traveled to Borneo, Thailand, and Malaysia to survey ants. (How did they explain to their parents that their goal in life was to climb trees in jungles to count ants? Asking for a friend.)
One, two, three … is that one big ant or two mating?
What they found high in the trees were bloated ants which, when confronted with dangers like predators or scientists, self-erupted and sprayed a sticky yellow and highly toxic goo everywhere as their final dying act for the ant collective. Myrmecologists (people who study ants) have a less descriptive name for this suicidal behavior – autothysis – and report seeing it in a few species of termites, but nothing like the horror movie plot-ish display these ants put on in Borneo.
The team confirmed that not all of the ants had the ability to become tiny suicide bombers, finding that only a minor class of workers were exploders. They’re born with large, poison-filled glands and extra-strong abdominal muscles that contract under stress, bursting the glands to release the poison … killing the brave exploding ant (although the whole action is probably reflexive and involuntary) and either killing the predator or wounding it enough that in never visits that treetop again. The chemical in the sticky goo is an irritant and corrosive – entangling, immobilizing and painfully torturing the invader. Is this going to make a great movie or what? (A short documentary video on the exploding ants can be seen here.)
Which ones are the exploders?
If that’s not enough, the other castes in the colony have their own non-exploding quirks. There are so-called “doorkeepers” which have huge heads that they use to block the entrance to the ant nest. For the first time ever, the researchers witnessed a male and female ant mating in flight – yes, they can fly too and do it while airborne, putting them in an ant version of the mile high club. And, because no other species want to mess with them, they feast on whatever they want, including fruit, other insects and fish.
Now, all we need is for some of these Colobopsis explodens to be exposed to a high level of radiation – maybe a disabled space station loaded with toxic fuel crashes in the jungle – and we’ve got a reason for them to grow to monstrous sizes and destroy entire cities until a character played by Chris Pratt figures out how to build a giant magnifying glass to fry them into extinction. Revenge of the Ant Farm – coming soon to a theater near you.
Unknown satellites in the solar system. Are they extraterrestrial? Videos.
Unknown satellites in the solar system. Are they extraterrestrial? Videos.
In our solar system there are many objects such as asteroids, comets or planets that astronomers have documented and described in detail. Of course, there are also satellites and satellites made by humans or larger space debris, such as burned rocket launchers.
In space, however, there are objects that astronomers can not identify, and some even consider them non-Earth satellites. What are they actually?
1. We do not know the celestial body Astronomers in space are constantly searching for unknown asteroids that could also endanger our planet Earth. That is why, in 1999, in the American state of New Mexico, the Linear Satellite project was created, where scientists searched by means of an automatic telescope to search for unknown or unidentified asteroids.
Over the course of this project, they discovered an unknown body with a diameter of 30 to 50 meters, which runs around the Sun on a nearly circular path with a circulation period of 1.09 years. This object, which was named 1999 CG9, is about 158 million kilometers from the Sun, about 9 million kilometers away from our planet Earth. The greatest mystery for astronomers is its atypical orbit, which is almost circular. All other celestial bodies move along the elliptical path.
Brain Marsden of the Harward Smithsonian Center is convinced that due to the size of the object, it can not be the burning degree of a carrier rocket. Therefore, he believes that this object could come from a moon that has a small gravitational force when it was thrown into space in the event of a larger meteorite.
However, a detailed analysis of the composition of the 1999 CG9 satellite would be required to confirm this assumption. Some scientists, however, are skeptical about this, because it would be a really good piece of the Moon that was thrown into the universe, and its circular path, which scientists have not explained yet.
2. Unknown Celestial Body Even in November 1991, however, astronomers from the Kitt Peak Observatory in the US discovered a body that behaved similarly to the 1999 CG9 object. The Sky & Telescope magazine, which has been named the 1991 VG even referred to as a “true UFO,” because its orbit almost exactly copies the orbit of our blue planet, and it also features light effects.
The biggest mystery for astronomers is the fact that the 1991 VG does not reflect the radar waves at all, which is quite a matter of fact for other cosmic bodies. Therefore, the overwhelming majority of scientists consider the possibility that the natural body would behave as absolutely excluded.
Some scientists think it could be the remains of an earlier probe or rocket, but later it was found that such a orbit does not correspond to the calculated orbit of missiles and satellites so far. At the beginning of December 1991, this body traveled only 450,000 kilometers from the Earth
There is the possibility that this mysterious object is in fact some non-Earth probe or satellite, as was said by Australian astronomer Duncan Steel of the University of Adelaide. Later, however, he took his words back and said he was not convinced that this body was of extraterrestrial origin.
In the summer of 2017, the 1991 VG spacecraft can be seen from the southern hemisphere, and astronomers believe they can identify the satellite that is copying the Earth’s orbit. It will be just one of the burnt levels of the carrier rocket than most scientists think, or it may be a non-Earth probe, which does not exclude British astronomer Duncan Forgan. Let’s surprise you.
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Hypersaline lakes could help search for extraterrestrial life
Hypersaline lakes could help search for extraterrestrial life
There are roughly 400 known subglacial lakes around the world.
By Joseph Scalise
A group of international researchers have discovered what they believe to be the first isolated hypersaline subglacial lakes in the world, a new studypublished in the journalScience Advances reports.
The team came upon the strange formations -- which sit between 1,800 and 2,500 feet beneath the Devon Ice Cap in Canada -- after looking at airborne radar data acquired by NASA and The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics to analyze bedrock conditions below the cap.
"We weren't looking for subglacial lakes," said lead author Anja Rutishauser, a PhD student at the University of Alberta, according to Phys.org."The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water."
Radar helped uncover the lakes because the method sent electromagnetic waves beneath the ground and recorded when they reflect backat contrasts in the subsurface materials. That method revealed radar signatures suggesting the presence of water. However, the team did not initially think liquid could exist in such freezing temperatures.
There are roughly 400 known subglacial lakes around the world. However, most sit in Antarctica or Greenland. The ones in the research are the first ever discovered in the Canadian Arctic. In addition, while most subglacial lakes contain fresh water, the ones in the study are made of hypersaline water that likely comes from salt-bearing geologic outcrops below the ice. That is what allows them to stay liquid despite frozen temperatures.
The newly discovered lakes are important because they act as a habitat for microbial life and could help scientists understand how life could exist in outer space. While that applies to all subglacial lakes, the fact that the Devon lakes are hypersaline makes them great examples of what might exist on any ice-covered moons in our solar system.
"If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation," wrote the team in their study. "If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere."
THE CHALLENGES OF AN ALIEN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM: ESCAPING SUPER EARTHS AND RED DWARF STARS
In a series of papers, Professor Loeb and Michael Hippke indicate that conventional rockets would have a hard time escaping from certain kinds of extra-solar planets.
Credit: NASA/Tim Pyle
THE CHALLENGES OF AN ALIEN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM: ESCAPING SUPER EARTHS AND RED DWARF STARS
Since the beginning of the Space Age, humans have relied on chemical rockets to get into space. While this method is certainly effective, it is also very expensive and requires a considerable amount of resources. As we look to more efficient means of getting out into space, one has to wonder if similarly-advanced species on other planets (where conditions would be different) would rely on similar methods.
Harvard Professor Abraham Loeb and Michael Hippke, an independent researcher affiliated with the Sonneberg Observatory, both addressed this question in two recently–released papers. Whereas Prof. Loeb looks at the challenges extra-terrestrials would face launching rockets from Proxima b, Hippke considers whether aliens living on a Super-Earth would be able to get into space.
Artist’s impression of Proxima b, which was discovered using the Radial Velocity method.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
For the sake of his study, Loeb considered how we humans are fortunate enough to live on a planet that is well-suited for space launches. Essentially, if a rocket is to escape from the Earth’s surface and reach space, it needs to achieve an escape velocity of 11.186 km/s (40,270 km/h; 25,020 mph). Similarly, the escape velocity needed to get away from the location of the Earth around the Sun is about 42 km/s (151,200 km/h; 93,951 mph).
As Prof. Loeb told Universe Today via email:
“Chemical propulsion requires a fuel mass that grows exponentially with terminal speed. By a fortunate coincidence the escape speed from the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is at the limit of attainable speed by chemical rockets. But the habitable zone around fainter stars is closer in, making it much more challenging for chemical rockets to escape from the deeper gravitational pit there.”
As Loeb indicates in his essay, the escape speed scales as the square root of the stellar mass over the distance from the star, which implies that the escape speed from the habitable zone scales inversely with stellar mass to the power of one quarter. For planets like Earth, orbiting within the habitable zone of a G-type (yellow dwarf) star like our Sun, this works out quite while.
This infographic compares the orbit of the planet around Proxima Centauri (Proxima b) with the same region of the Solar System.
Credit: Pale Red Dot
Unfortunately, this does not work well for terrestrial planets that orbit lower-mass M-type (red dwarf) stars. These stars are the most common type in the Universe, accounting for 75% of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. In addition, recent exoplanet surveys have discovered a plethora of rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars systems, with some scientists venturing that they are the most likely place to find potentially-habitable rocky planets.
Using the nearest star to our own as an example (Proxima Centauri), Loeb explains how a rocket using chemical propellant would have a much harder time achieving escape velocity from a planet located within it’s habitable zone.
“The nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is an example for a faint star with only 12% of the mass of the Sun,” he said. “A couple of years ago, it was discovered that this star has an Earth-size planet, Proxima b, in its habitable zone, which is 20 times closer than the separation of the Earth from the Sun. At that location, the escape speed is 50% larger than from the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. A civilization on Proxima b will find it difficult to escape from their location to interstellar space with chemical rockets.”
Hippke’s paper, on the other hand, begins by considering that Earth may in fact not be the most habitable type of planet in our Universe. For instance, planets that are more massive than Earth would have higher surface gravity, which means they would be able to hold onto a thicker atmosphere, which would provide greater shielding against harmful cosmic rays and solar radiation.
Artists impression of a Super-Earth, a class of planet that has many times the mass of Earth, but less than a Uranus or Neptune-sized planet.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
In addition, a planet with higher gravity would have a flatter topography, resulting in archipelagos instead of continents and shallower oceans – an ideal situation where biodiversity is concerned. However, when it comes to rocket launches, increased surface gravity would also mean a higher escape velocity. As Hippke indicated in his study:
“Rockets suffer from the Tsiolkovsky (1903) equation : if a rocket carries its own fuel, the ratio of total rocket mass versus final velocity is an exponential function, making high speeds (or heavy payloads) increasingly expensive.”
For comparison, Hippke uses Kepler-20 b, a Super-Earth located 950 light years away that is 1.6 times Earth’s radius and 9.7 times it mass. Whereas escape velocity from Earth is roughly 11 km/s, a rocket attempting to leave a Super-Earth similar to Kepler-20 b would need to achieve an escape velocity of ~27.1 km/s. As a result, a single-stage rocket on Kepler-20 b would have to burn 104 times as much fuel as a rocket on Earth to get into orbit.
To put it into perspective, Hippke considers specific payloads being launched from Earth. “To lift a more useful payload of 6.2 t as required for the James Webb Space Telescope on Kepler-20 b, the fuel mass would increase to 55,000 t, about the mass of the largest ocean battleships,” he writes. “For a classical Apollo moon mission (45 t), the rocket would need to be considerably larger, ~400,000 t.”
Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage.
Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org
While Hippke’s analysis concludes that chemical rockets would still allow for escape velocities on Super-Earths up to 10 Earth masses, the amount of propellant needed makes this method impractical. As Hippke pointed out, this could have a serious effect on an alien civilization’s development.
“I am surprised to see how close we as humans are to end up on a planet which is still reasonably lightweight to conduct space flight,” he said. “Other civilizations, if they exist, might not be as lucky. On more massive planets, space flight would be exponentially more expensive. Such civilizations would not have satellite TV, a moon mission, or a Hubble Space Telescope. This should alter their way of development in certain ways we can now analyze in more detail.”
Both of these papers present some clear implications when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). For starters, it means that civilizations on planets that orbit red dwarf stars or Super-Earths are less likely to be space-faring, which would make detecting them more difficult. It also indicates that when it comes to the kinds of propulsion humanity is familiar with, we may be in the minority.
“This above results imply that chemical propulsion has a limited utility, so it would make sense to search for signals associated with lightsails or nuclear engines, especially near dwarf stars,” said Loeb. “But there are also interesting implications for the future of our own civilization.”
Artist’s concept of a bimodal nuclear rocket making the journey to the Moon, Mars, and other destinations in the Solar System.
Credit: NASA
“One consequence of the paper is for space colonization and SETI,” added Hippke. “Civs from Super-Earths are much less likely to explore the stars. Instead, they would be (to some extent) “arrested” on their home planet, and e.g. make more use of lasers or radio telescopes for interstellar communication instead of sending probes or spaceships.”
However, both Loeb and Hippke also note that extra-terrestrial civilizations could address these challenges by adopting other methods of propulsion. In the end, chemical propulsion may be something that few technologically-advanced species would adopt because it is simply not practical for them. As Loeb explained:
“An advanced extraterrestrial civilization could use other propulsion methods, such as nuclear engines or lightsails which are not constrained by the same limitations as chemical propulsion and can reach speeds as high as a tenth of the speed of light. Our civilization is currently developing these alternative propulsion technologies but these efforts are still at their infancy.”
One such example is Breakthrough Starshot, which is currently being developed by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation (of which Loeb is the chair of the Advisory Committee). This initiative aims to use a laser-driven lightsail to accelerate a nanocraft up to speeds of 20% the speed of light, which will allow it to travel to Proxima Centauri in just 20 years time.
Artist’s impression of rocky exoplanets orbiting Gliese 832, a red dwarf star just 16 light-years from Earth.
Hippke similarly considers nuclear rockets as a viable possibility, since increased surface gravity would also mean that space elevators would be impractical. Loeb also indicated that the limitations imposed by planets around low mass stars could have repercussions for when humans try to colonize the known Universe:
“When the sun will heat up enough to boil all water off the face of the Earth, we could relocate to a new home by then. Some of the most desirable destinations would be systems of multiple planets around low mass stars, such as the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1which weighs 9% of a solar mass and hosts seven Earth-size planets. Once we get to the habitable zone of TRAPPIST-1, however, there would be no rush to escape. Such stars burn hydrogen so slowly that they could keep us warm for ten trillion years, about a thousand times longer than the lifetime of the sun.”
But in the meantime, we can rest easy in the knowledge that we live on a habitable planet around a yellow dwarf star, which affords us not only life, but the ability to get out into space and explore. As always, when it comes to searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life in our Universe, we humans are forced to take the “low hanging fruit approach”.
Basically, the only planet we know of that supports life is Earth, and the only means of space exploration we know how to look for are the ones we ourselves have tried and tested. As a result, we are somewhat limited when it comes to looking for biosignatures (i.e. planets with liquid water, oxygen and nitrogen atmospheres, etc.) or technosignatures (i.e. radio transmissions, chemical rockets, etc.).
As our understanding of what conditions life can emerge under increases, and our own technology advances, we’ll have more to be on the lookout for. And hopefully, despite the additional challenges it may be facing, extra-terrestrial life will be looking for us!
The search for life on other planets is intensifying. A field that was dismissed as fringe science two decades ago is now closing in from different angles on the question of extraterrestrial life.
If past or present microbial life is discovered in our solar system, it will mean life is the rule, not the exception in the universe. And if it is the rule, then extra-terrestrial ‘intelligent life’ undoubtedly exists in our galaxy. But what is intelligent life?
Clearly intelligent beings could only communicate with other intelligent beings. Therefore, as long as humankind continues fragmenting the earth and dividing ourselves, we¹ll continue to be cut off from the universe.
There are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way. Astronomers have found nearly 4000 planets circling other stars in our galaxy. Most of them are gas giants like Jupiter in strange orbits around their suns, but a few rocky planets in ‘habitable zones,’ possible water worlds like earth, have also been detected.
Astronomers are sure that many earth-like planets exist. As Dr. Lawrence Doyle of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) says, soon “we will know whether there are potentially habitable planets around hundreds of thousands of stars.”
It’s not a case of if but when earth-like planets will be discovered. Of course that doesn’t mean we¹ll have a long distance chat with another species. Many scientists believe technological civilizations are like “fireflies blinking on and off in the night,” since, given the unimaginable distances and time involved, civilizations may have to last for tens of millions of years to overlap. If so, the chance of discovery, much less communication, is small.
I submit that intelligent life is more important in the universe than fireflies blinking on and off. I define intelligent life as a self-knowing, scientific/technological species in basic harmony with its planet. Obviously, Homo sapiens doesn’t qualify.
Given these premises, probably no communication could occur until humans stop causing the mass extinction of fellow creatures on earth. As with people, it can become too late for a potentially intelligent species to change course. Is Homo sapiens approaching a point of no return?
Technology, time and space are not the prime factors in the equation I feel. When a potentially intelligent species makes the transition from increasingly destructive to basically harmonious, communication with like-minded beings is then not only possible in ways we cannot imagine, but probably a natural outcome, since cosmic consciousness is one.
Is there a universal set of laws that govern the evolution, crisis and transition of creatures like us, with the power to manipulate life on their planets?
I feel so, that all creatures possessing symbolic thought pass through, to some degree, the same self-made crisis we humans are now excruciatingly experiencing on earth. (It’s unclear at this point whether Homo sapiens will make the grade.)
I propose that given the right conditions and enough time, thought-bearing creatures evolve on water worlds like earth. Furthermore, given the separative nature of ‘higher thought,’ science and technology generates increasing division and fragmentation everywhere conscious thought emerges, until and unless sufficient insight is awakened to supersede thought-consciousness.
If so, it is only a question of when, and whether they undergo a revolution in consciousness. One thing is clear: without a revolution in consciousness, psychological fragmentation in sentient creatures results in the destruction of their planets for potentially intelligent life. It’s perverse to take comfort in the idea that another intelligent species could arise.
If a sentient species successfully makes the transition, they continue to develop scientifically and technologically, but in harmony with the natural world. In other words, intelligence keeps thought in its rightful place. Contact and communion may then be established with other beings that have also passed through their crisis of symbolic thought and changed course.
There is no perfection or utopia anywhere in the universe. But instead of thought-bearing creatures merging with their thought machines, and heading ever more rapidly in the direction of fragmentation and darkness, we can grow into beings with the insight and understanding to use science and technology wisely. But only if we cease putting science, technology and thought first.
Scientists Say an 8-Mile-Deep Italian Cave May Be the Key to Finding Life on Mars
Scientists Say an 8-Mile-Deep Italian Cave May Be the Key to Finding Life on Mars
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To prepare for missions to Mars, NASAtests out its tech in extreme localeslike Death Valley, Calif., and Lake Vostok in Antarctica, but it turns out that the Frasassi Caves in Italy may be one of the best places to explore when it comes to the search for life on Mars.
New research published in the journal Astrobiology has shown that life leaves behind distinct biosignatures in rock formations, especially in cave environments like Frasassi. Using these biosignatures, scientists can identify past and present alien microorganisms on Mars—or other planets.
At the heart of the new research is gypsum, a mineral created in the weathering of the Frasassi caves.
Researchers found unique patterns of isotopes in gypsum that suggested that something special happened when it formed, and did some digging into how biology might have influenced the mineral.
They found that microbes can speed up the chemical reactions that form gypsum, especially when water is present. In the process, the microbes leave behind tiny clues to their presence in the form of isotopes, which are atoms with have the same number of protons and electrons, but different numbers of neutrons.
According to Jenn Macalady, one of the geoscientists associated with the study.
"If we were to find a similar environment on Mars, we could use this particular biosignature to test for the current or past presence of life. But I think more generally what we're suggesting is that anytime you have microbes on a surface and a fluid moving past, the rates of reaction that the microbes generate would allow you to see variation in a signature like isotopes. The research is exciting because it's not just an example. It's a general prescription for looking for evidence of life."
Armed with this knowledge, future Mars missions may make caves the first place to study when they land on the Red Planet. Luckily, NASA has already received a proposal for a shape-shifting robot that can explore caves, oceans, and anywhere else we need. If there are extraterrestrial microbes lurking in Martian caves, we'll find them.
A new study raises an intriguing question: are we really the first ones to develop a civilization on Earth? Before you start thinking about aliens or wacky conspiracy theories, think about it this way: if another civilization had developed on the planet at some point in the geological past, how would we know about it? The new research explores that avenue; they call it “The Silurian hypothesis.”
Archaeological Site of Harappa.
Image via Wikipedia.
Ancient life
Homo sapiens as we know it evolved some 315,000 years ago. You might think that’s a very long time and in one sense, it is. But at a geological scale, it’s nothing. Primates, as a group, emerged some 55 million years ago, while mammals came to be over 200 million years ago. Reptiles have been on this planet for more than 300 million years ago, and fish popped up more than 500 years ago. The history of life on Earth is so incredibly long it’s difficult to comprehend it at the human scale.
What we know about these ancient living creatures, we know through fossils. Sure, we complement findings with computer models and the ecological principles we’ve discovered, but fossils are still the pillar of our knowledge of ancient life. But it takes special conditions for a fossil to form, and the results we’ve discovered so far are few and far between compared to the mind-blowing diversity our planet has witnessed.
To make matters even worse, our planet is an active environment and tectonic movement (and other geological processes) can destroy fossils and other clues about ancient environments. So to sum it up, remnants of life are rare, and even those rare bits are often destroyed by the Earth’s geology. Now, think about it this way: wouldn’t the same thing happen to evidence of an ancient civilization?
Remnants of a civilization
If humanity went extinct tomorrow, what would be left of us? The buildings, roads, and all the infrastructure — for a while. They would be engulfed by vegetation in a few years, and almost everything would be destroyed in a few centuries. After a million years, you probably won’t see any evidence that mankind ever existed — at the surface, anyway.
A diligent scientist one million years in the future might be able to tell that a civilization once existed. He’d find isotopic evidence of atomic explosions, an unnatural rise in CO2 emissions, perhaps even some remnants of former structures — but all these have essentially happened in the past century. In their new study, Gavin A. Schmidt (a climatologist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and Adam Frank (an astronomer from the University of Rochester) address this conundrum: are we the first civilization on Earth, and what does this mean for finding life on other planets?
Based on recent astronomical findings, we know that there is a huge number of stars in the galaxy, many of them harboring stars in the habitable zone. The number of planets capable of hosting life might be very high, thus also increasing the chances of intelligent life forms emerging. Scientists are looking for extraterrestrial life more and more — but what about here on Earth, what if there is a previous civilization we’ve still yet to discover? What if we are the scientists million of years in the future, hunting for an ancient industrialized civilization, what would we find?
You’d start with the air, researchers write.
“Since the mid-18th Century, humans have released over 0.5 trillion tons of fossil carbon via the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, at a rate orders of magnitude faster than natural long-term sources or sinks. In addition, there has been widespread deforestation and addition of carbon dioxide into the air via biomass burning.”
You’d move on to geomorphological features, like increased rates of sediment flow in rivers and its deposition in coastal environments, as a result of agricultural processes, deforestation, and the digging of canals. Then, you’d move on to biology, looking for evidence of domesticated animals. But the biggest smoking gun would be synthetic materials. The presence of synthetic materials, plastics, and radioactive elements (caused by nuclear power or nuclear testing) could also leave a significant mark on the geological record, and isotopes could last for millions of years. Finally, you’d look for extinctions caused by the rise of said civilization.
“The clearest class of event with such similarities are the hyperthermals, most notably the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (56 Ma), but this also includes smaller hyperthermal events, ocean anoxic events in the Cretaceous and Jurassic, and significant (if less well characterized) events of the Paleozoic,” researchers continue.
A comparison between the Earth and Mars.
After tightening these constraints for Earth, they move on to what we might potentially see on other planets. Mars and Venus might have been habitable millions of years ago, and if we want to see if this was the case, we need to know what to look for.
“We note here that abundant evidence exists of surface water in ancient Martian climates (3.8 Ga), and speculation that early Venus (2 Ga to 0.7 Ga) was habitable (due to a dimmer sun and lower CO2 atmosphere) has been supported by recent modeling studies,” they state. “Conceivably, deep drilling operations could be carried out on either planet in future to assess their geological history. This would constrain consideration of what the fingerprint might be of life, and even organized civilization.”
Journal Reference: The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
The Megalithic Stones Of Carnac—An Ancient Cosmic Map?
The Megalithic Stones Of Carnac—An Ancient Cosmic Map?
The megalithic stones of Carnac are a set of stones intricately positioned in Brittany. It is the most extensive prehistoric monument in the world. This megalithic site is believed to have been erected during the Neolithic, probably around 3300 BCE, but some may date to as early as 4500 BCE.
Like extensive lines of penitents, the enigmatic stones of Carnac were positioned in a straight line across the rough territory of Brittany, keeping guard in front of the waters of the Bay of Biscay
Local tradition has yielded a number of interesting legends about the menhirs.
Although their presence and configuration are truly mysterious, the peasants of the region found a way to explain them. According to a deep-rooted belief, the megaliths are Roman soldiers petrified by God to protect Saint Cornelius, patron of Carnac.
Another one suggests that, at night, the stones come to life and advance towards the sea to bathe or to drink.
The famous neolithic menhirs near Carnac, Brittany, France.
They have been credited with healing powers, and it was believed that they could provide fertility and help people who seek love.
The Stones of Carnac are not only one of the most extensive prehistoric monument in the world, they were seeming just as important when they were erected, and evidence of that is the number of stones that were present in the area.
According to experts, when the stones were erected, there were as many as 10 thousand.
Today, after thousands of years, only 3,000 remain, in four large groupings: Le Menéc, Kermario, Kerlescan and LePetitMenéc.
Next to the village of Le Menéc is where the most numerous alignment begins.
There are 1,099 stones in eleven rows placed mimicking soldiers or schoolchildren, in order of height: the largest measure 3.7 meters and the smallest only 90 centimeters.
They were positioned facing northeast in gentle undulations along a slightly curved line.
The Kermario megaliths are larger, with megaliths exceeding 7 meters in height and decrease in size over an area of 1,200 kilometers.
The other two groupings are smaller, but Kerlescan differs by a square configuration of the 540 stones that compose it.
Jerome Penhouet proposed, in 1826, that the four alignments of Carnac were part of the body of a massive snake that was depicted on the lands of Brittany.
However, different eras produced different theories trying to explain the mystery behind the stones.
During the nineteenth century, it was suggested that these were places dedicated to the solar and lunar cult, while other authors thought that they were avenues that led to the temples that have now disappeared from sight.
Atlantean remains?
Hans Hirmenech suggested that the rows of menhirs were the tombs of Atlantean soldiers who had died during the Trojan War.
Also, James Fergusson proposed that the erection of these monuments should commemorate a sort of great battle that took place in ancient times.
Other scholars who studied the megalithic stones went further and proposed that they were true tombs and believed they found support for this reasoning in the meaning of the names of some places: in Breton, a language of Celtic origin, Kermario means “city of the dead”.
However, when formulating the last theory, it seems that exerts ignored the fact that the menhirs are much older than the appearance of the Celts in this region.
Cosmic map?
The first to allude to the “celestial map theory” of Carnac was André Cambry, who maintained that the stones of Carnac mimick the stars, the planets, and the zodiac.
After Chambry, other authors took up the idea and, in 1970, the English engineer Alexander Thom followed the footsteps of Gerald Hawkins in his studies on Stonehenge and applied them to Carnac.
According to Thom, the great fallen menhir of Locmariaquer was the center of an immense astronomical observatory capable of predicting eclipses.
Their measurements indicate that from this supermassive gigantic menhir it was possible to observe the eight extreme positions of the Moon.
He also proposed that the Carnacalignment were solar calculators, used to correct the irregularities observed in the movements of the Moon.
The immense fallen menhir of Locmariaquer, known as Er Grah (the Stone of the Fairies), measured more than 20 meters in height and is believed to have existed with a combination of other menhirs that are now gone. This massive menhir has an estimated weight of 280 tons.
It remains a profound mystery as to how ancient people managed to move this, and other menhirs to their current positions, without the use of advanced technology.
STUNNING RADIO TRANSMISSION OF ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN WHEN DOZENS OF UFOS SURROUND HIM (VIDEO)
STUNNING RADIO TRANSMISSION OF ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN WHEN DOZENS OF UFOS SURROUND HIM (VIDEO)
John Glenn: “ UFOs are all over the sky.” “This is Friendship Seven. I will try to describe what I am living at this moment. I am in the middle of a large mass of very small, bright particles, as if they were luminescent. I never saw anything like that. They are rounded up a bit; They come through the capsule and look like little stars. A whole rain of UFOs I see. “
John Glenn
Take a look at this incredible audio file where we can hear the astonishment of astronaut John Glenn after his capsule was surrounded by countless strange UFOs.
This audio transmission can easily be described as one of the most surprising evidence of a mysterious extraterrestrial presence during manned space missions. This old audio file allows us to hear a small part of the conversation between the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) capsule piloted by John Glenn and CAPCOM, on February 20, 1962, the first manned orbital mission in the United States.
Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it completed a successful three-orbital mission around the Earth, reaching a maximum altitude of approximately 162 land miles and an orbital speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. The Mercury spacecraft “Friendship 7” landed in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. The duration of the mission from launch to impact was 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds.
John Glenn
In the audio file, Mr. Glenn referred to his capsule as “Friendship 7” and can be heard describing what a “bright blue horizon” looks like behind him as the sun rises. Then, suddenly he realizes that something peculiar is happening around him, since he is “intercepted” by innumerable UFOs that wrapped his capsule. Here is the transcript of the event and below the video:
John Glenn : This is Friendship Seven. He is blinded by the clear range. It started just when I gave that mark; I go to the dark filter to see it appear.
CAPCOM : Roger.
John Glenn : This is Friendship Seven. I will try to describe what I am seeing here. It looks like a large mass of very small particles, which are brightly lit as if they were luminescent. I never saw anything like that. They are rounded up a bit; They come through the capsule and look like little stars. A whole rain of them coming towards me.
John Glenn : they revolve around the capsule, they go in front of the window and they are all brightly lit. Probably averaging maybe 7 or 8 feet away, but I can also see them all below me.
Intrigued by events, CAPCOM asked Glenn to describe the objects and if they were impacting his spaceship.
CAPCOM : Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Short.
John Glenn : negative, negative They are very slow; they will not drive me further than 3 or 4 miles per hour. They are going at the same speed that I am approximately. They are only way below my speed. Short.
John Glenn : Yes, they have a different movement, from me, because they swirl around the capsule and then move away along the path I’m looking for.
John Glenn : Are you receiving? Short. There are literally thousands of them.
After describing the objects, Glenn receives no response from CAPCOM and wonders if he is in contact with anyone while continuing to talk about the strange objects around his spaceship.
John Glenn : This is Friendship Seven. Am I in contact with someone? Short.
Eventually, almost five minutes after describing the events, CAPCOM responds, saying that Glenn sounded a bit “confusing”, and was asked what his oxygen levels were. Strangely, CAPCOM did not address the strange events with Glenn, who explains that the mysterious particles are still around the spacecraft. After realizing that CAPCOM does not respond, Glenn decided to photograph the mysterious objects. Then, CAPCOM asks how large the particles were and if they moved or floated with it.
CAPCOM suggested that the particles may have come from the spacecraft, but Mr. Glenn said that this was not the case. Interestingly, after the successful orbit of “Friendship 7”, another astronaut aboard the capsule “Aurora 7”, named Scott Carpenter, also saw mysterious objects in space. NASA scientists eventually observed the mystery and concluded that the objects seen in space were just ice particles trapped by sunlight.
NASA claimed that ice had accumulated on the outside of the capsule and that what the two astronauts saw was ice particles floating freely. However, Mr. Glenn was not convinced by the explanation. During his second orbit, he reported seeing the objects again in miles in each direction. What do you think? Did Glenn have a sensory experience, or was it really Ice? As always, we will never know … or what?
A Scientific Study Examining Extraterrestrial Origin Of Asteroid Oumuamua Is Finally Revealed
A Scientific Study Examining Extraterrestrial Origin Of Asteroid Oumuamua Is Finally Revealed
Astronomers launched a bid to know the origin of the strange cigar-shaped asteroid floating in the heavens when they noticed it earlier in 2018.
After a thorough study for signs of extraterrestrial civilisations on Asteroid Oumuamua, the latest results have now been released.
The asteroid has about 400 meters long, which is two times longer than the Gherkin skyscraper. It is the first space rock monitored in our Solar System.
The discovery raised speculations that it could be an alien reconnaissance spaceship seeking life and civilisations on Earth.
Unfortunately, official research reveals that the rock is either a space vehicle with a broken-down engine or natural in origin as it appeared to be tumbling through space.
Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, said earlier this year that there is a small chance the asteroid could reveal whether there’s extraterrestrial life.
Loeb explained that aliens likely have a mothership travelling at tremendous speed and releases small spacecraft free falling into planetary systems to do research. In such case, according to Loeb, scientists might intercept a communication signal between the different spaceship.
A team of scientists used the Murchison Widefield Array, a telescope in Western Australia, to examine the asteroid and the result might bring disappointing news to UFO hunters.
They checked the object if it had signals or transmissions to know if it was an alien spacecraft. Unfortunately, they found nothing with non-terrestrial origins. They say that Oumuamua is most likely a cometary fragment and cosmic rays’ bombardment during its long travel through interstellar space almost lost its surface water.
However, the researchers noted that if ever there is an advanced civilisation elsewhere other than Earth, they may have spacecraft that can travel interstellar distance and that they may use radio waves to communicate.
What Were The Mysterious Foo Fighters Seen By Fighter Pilots Around the World?
What Were The Mysterious Foo Fighters Seen By Fighter Pilots Around the World?
A Royal Airforce Pilot flying a Hurricane interceptor reported in December of 1942 that he witnessed two lights shooting from the ground toward his 7,000-foot cruising altitude while he was flying over France. He first thought it was tracer fire, but realized soon after that this wasn’t the case, as the mysterious ‘lights’ followed him, mimicking every evasive maneuver he made.
The appearance of the so-called Foo Fighters began to be documented during the Second World War when German and allied warplanes began encountering mysterious flying objects without wings.
The numerous Foo fighter sightings left pilots awestruck.
The first sighting occurred in November of 1944 when fighter pilots reported seeing fast-moving, glowing objects following their aircraft as they were patrolling over Western Europe.
The objects were usually described as being fiery, glowing in a variety of colors including red, orange and white. They had no problem flying in formation, and most importantly, they never showed up on the radar.
Some pilot accounts describe the enigmatic objects as flying Christmas light, playing around with pilots, performing incredible wild turns, before disappearing.
There are several accounts of Foo Fighters flying in formation together with allied pilots, who reported that the mysterious objects seemed as if they were under intelligent control.
The mysterious UFO’s never displayed a hostile behavior towards the pilots. Reports indicate that it was impossible to outmaneuver of shoot down any of the foo fighters.
Allied forces thought that the Foo Fighters were top-secret aircraft developed by either the Japanese or Germans. However, it was later revealed that both the Germans and Japanese hat witnessed the enigmatic objects in the sky.
Foo Fighters quickly became a widespread phenomenon.
One of the most famous Foo Fighter encounters was reported by Charles R. Bastien of theEighth Air Force. According to Bastien, he reported seeing “two fog lights flying at high rates of speed that could change direction rapidly” over Belgium and the Netherlands.
After Bastien was debriefed, his intelligence officers reported that two additional RAfightersrs had reported the same thing over Europe.
In addition to the sighting made by Bastien and the two RAF fighters, another Royal Airforce Pilot flying a Hurricane interceptor saw two lights shooting from near the ground toward his 7,000-foot cruising altitude in December 1942 over France.
The pilot first thought that what he had seen as tracer fire, but realized soon after that this wasn’t the case, as the mysterious ‘lights’ followed him, mimicking every evasive maneuver he made.
“If it was not a hoax or an optical illusion, it was certainly the most puzzling secret weapon that Allied fighters have yet encountered. Last week U.S. night fighter pilots based in France told a strange story of balls of fire which for more than a month have been following their planes at night over Germany. * No one seemed to know what, if anything, the fireballs were supposed to accomplish. Pilots, guessing that it was a new psychological weapon, named it the foo-fighter.”
As the phenomena was widespread and not localized, The postwar Robertson Panel theorized whether it was possible that Foo Fighters were, in fact, electrostatic phenomena similar to St. Elmo’s fire, electromagnetic phenomena, or simply reflections of light from ice crystals.
Tachikawa-Kawasaki KI-36 fighters side by side with two Foo Fighter “bogies.”
There are other theories that Foo Fighters were in fact ‘alien drones’ that were part of larger UFO’s. The enigmatic objects would supposedly dock off from the UFOs, in order to perform surveillance mission.
Neither German nor allied pilots had seen anything like them before which is why the mystery behind the objects spread quickly around the world.
Were they top-secret weapons developed by the Germans or Japanese?
Or, is there a possibility, as some UFO researchers suggest, that the so-called Foo Fighters were actually visitors from another world?
Many conspiracy theorists believe that NASA already knows that aliens do exist, however, the news is still under wrap and hasn’t been publicly announced yet. There are speculations on the moon landings that it could be fake.
A new video has popped up on the Internet sparking conspiracy that there is an alien life on the lunar surface. The YouTube channel named StreetCap1 which is notoriously known for uploading images and videos showing anomalies in the lunar surface has uploaded a new video that shows a saucer-like structure inside a crater on the moon. According to the UFOlogist and conspiracy theorist, George Graham, the image shot by Lunar Orbiter-3 shows a saucer-shaped structure inside a crater in the background which has sparked a row of claims regarding the anomaly and what it could be.
Since StreetCap1 has a high subscriber base and his videos has been viewed millions of times collectively, this new video titled “Huge Spacecraft in Lunar Orbiter 3 Photograph” racked up hits and soon become viral over the internet with thousands of people watching and sharing it across various social media platforms. Following the release of the video, it received a number of comments with users trying to explain what the structure could be and that is where the news of this saucer-shaped structure with perfectly smooth edges and Windows-shaped structure inside it, people soon connected it with the space shuttle which has a similar shape. While others claim that it could be an alien ship residing in the crater when it was photographed by the Lunar Orbiter 3.
A user stated that NASA has been covering any signs of extraterrestrial life for years and it won’t provide a satisfactory explanation of such sightings. Many conspiracy theorists believe that NASA already knows that aliens do exist, however, the news is still under wrap and hasn’t been publicly announced yet. There are speculations on the moon landings that it could be fake. On the other hand, speculations are that the reason why NASA hasn’t sent any manned mission to the moon after the end of Apollo and Gemini missions is that they were warned by aliens not to come back. NASA advocated itself many times that there is nothing like alien life and at least nothing that has been detected and discovered yet.
According to a YouTube user named Silverbackplays, some billionaire must invest a hefty amount of his net worth to send a public lunar orbiter to the moon in order to photograph the surface and use modern imaging techniques. However, he added that the mission must not be controlled by any governments or agencies which are indirectly controlled by governments that would help to discover traces of alien life if it exists.
The image featured in the video is not new since it was released by NASA on its website back in 1967 when Lunar Orbiter 3 was sent on the lunar surface to photograph it and to allow the researchers zero in the perfect landing sites for its Apollo, Surveyor, and other missions. George Graham searched for the images and came across this image which shows an anomaly in the background which has been masked as a saucer-shaped structure or even a space shuttle.
But it is not the first time George has uploaded such a video sparking conspiracy in the public, in fact, his channel is one of the many which have dozens of videos, thousands of subscribers and millions of hits where people watch videos which shows anomaly on the lunar surface and in the space as well. A few days ago, StreetCap1 uploaded a video which shows two UFOs hurtling past the moon captured by China’s lunar probe Chang’e 3. He was also one of many conspiracy theorists to claim that moon landing was a hoax and was fabricated after a set was created mimicking the surface of the moon.
Alienjager spot vliegende schotel-achtig object in maankrater. Is dit een enorm ruimteschip?
Alienjager spot vliegende schotel-achtig object in maankrater. Is dit een enorm ruimteschip?
Er zijn beelden opgedoken van een vliegende schotel-achtig object in een krater op de maan. De foto in onderstaand filmpje is gemaakt door de Lunar Orbiter 3.
Het object lijkt gladde randen en ramen te hebben. Volgens sommigen is het een spaceshuttle, terwijl anderen claimden dat het een buitenaards schip is.
Eén iemand zei dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bewijs voor buitenaards leven al jarenlang verdoezelt en geen goede verklaring heeft voor dergelijke waarnemingen.
Weggestuurd
Veel complottheoretici zijn van mening dat de NASA weet dat aliens bestaan, maar het publiek hierover in het duister houdt.
Er wordt gespeculeerd dat het ruimteagentschap na de Apollomissies geen bemande missies meer naar de maan heeft georganiseerd omdat astronauten waren weggestuurd.
YouTube-gebruiker Silverbackplays schreef in een reactie dat een miljardair een groot deel van zijn vermogen in een maansonde moet stoppen om daarmee foto’s van de maan te maken.
Geen invloed
Hij voegde toe dat overheden en agentschappen geen invloed mogen hebben op deze missie.
De foto in de video is in 1967 gepubliceerd door de NASA. De Lunar Orbiter 3 moest naar geschikte landingsplekken speuren voor het Apollo- en Surveyorprogramma.
De beelden zijn op YouTube gezet door Streetcap1, die pas geleden nog een filmpje plaatste van twee UFO’s die langs de maan schoten.
WAT VEROORZAAKT DEZE VREEMDE LICHTSTRAAL OP ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
WAT VEROORZAAKT DEZE VREEMDE LICHTSTRAAL OP ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
Er is op het mysterieuze continent Antarctica opnieuw een ontdekking gedaan waarvan eigenlijk niemand precies weet wat het is.
Het is een lichtstraal, afkomstig van een kunstmatig object en vastgelegd door een satelliet uit de ruimte.
Je hebt van die mensen die niets anders doen dan de hele dag naar een computerscherm staren en op zoek gaan naar vreemde dingen op allerlei plekken zoals Mars of Antarctica.
Wat via Google Earth zijn soms hele bijzondere zaken te ontdekken, hetgeen de maker van de video onderaan dit artikel ook overkwam.
Hij speurt met behulp van dit programma Antarctica af en daar opeens, letterlijk in the middle of nowhere, ziet hij iets bijzonders.
Het ziet er zo uit:
Je ziet aan de bovenrand van wat lijkt een gebergte, een donker object, van waar heel duidelijk een lichtstraal komt. Wat het ook moge zijn, het is absoluut niet iets natuurlijks, maar een kunstmatig object.
De maker van de video heeft het over iets dat op de grond ligt, maar wanneer je de beelden wat draait op Google Earth, dan lijkt het er meer op alsof het een object is dat in de lucht hangt en een lichtstraal naar beneden laat schijnen.
Wat het precies is weten we niet, maar misschien hebben we hier een voorbeeld van één van de Duitse UFO's die veelvuldig in verband worden gebracht met Antarctica.
Iedereen kan dit object ook zelf onderzoeken via Google Earth en daarbij de volgende coördinaten intoetsen:
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Hierna de video van de man die het allemaal heeft ontdekt:
SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2018
The man who put an electric car in space and lands rockets to be reused over and over is at it again. Elon Musk tweeted that he wants to try bringing upper stage rockets – which can’t be landed like lower stage rockets – back to Earth by using large balloons based on “party balloons” that are constantly being mistaken for UFOs. This is either a genius move or a multi-stage prank – both of which Musk is capable of. Which one is it?
Musk doesn’t give any details on what kind of “party balloon” he has in mind. While the standard bunch of balloons on strings was the inspiration for many cartoon, daredevil and guy-in-a-lawn-chair flights, a mylar or foil balloon would probably be a stronger, better idea. However, real rocket scientists speculate he’s referring to something with a cartoon name but real potential – a ballute. Developed in 1958 by Goodyear (possibly to prove they’re more than just blimp people), the ballute is a cone-shaped combination balloon-and-parachute with an extra halo-shaped balloon circling its widest part to provide stability. While it looks like something a birthday party balloon artist might make, the design is perfect for decelerating objects from supersonic to subsonic speeds.
If that non-poodle balloon shape sounds familiar, it’s been tried before. Small ballutes have been used to slow the fall of bombs dropped from planes, it helped the Gemini space capsules land safely and it appeared in the movie “2010: The Year We Make Contact” (ironically, only the balloon part of that prediction has come true).
Ballute concept (Wikipedia)
SpaceX would not be the first private space company to test this type of giant party balloon for saving rocket components. Armadillo Aerospace used one somewhat successfully in 2012 and the crowd-funded nonprofit (hear that, NASA?) Danish aerospace organization Copenhagen Suborbitals also tested with them. However, SpaceX will probably be the first to use a ballute on an actual mission.
If that’s what Elon Musk is referring to with “giant party balloon.” If it is, it would have to be truly giant to decelerate the upper stage rocket fast enough and early enough to keep it from being damaged by the heat of a fast reentry. In an interview with Universe Today, University of Maryland Aerospace Engineering Professor Dave Akin estimated it would have to be “120 ft. in diameter, and made of a high-temperature fabric, so it’s not going to be all that easy.”
That’s the type of challenge Musk seems to thrive on and the idea of bringing upper stage rockets back to Earth instead of leaving them in orbit with the estimated 29,000 pieces of space junk already there is a noble and practical goal.
Wow – a billionaire who’s both noble and practical … what a concept. But remember, this is Elon Musk we’re talking about, so you never know what to expect … as he proved in a later tweet.
And then land on a bouncy house — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2018
If it’s true that wormholes exist and that it’s only a matter of time before we find one or more of these tunnels through spacetime, that time may have just gotten a little shorter. A physicist in India claims that wormholes should cast a shadow just like the ones black holes cast and, once we get better at finding those, the same technique will help locate the similar but slightly distorted shadows of a wormhole. Are you ready for faster-than-light travel?
In a paper submitted to the Physical Review D journal arXiv but not yet peer-reviewed, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research physicist Rajibul Shaikh first looks at black holes, which we can’t see directly yet, and their shadows, which are actually dark spots made by matter that’s being pulled into the black hole passing over the bright event horizon – the light that hasn’t yet been sucked into the black hole’s darkness. Astrophysicists around the world have teamed up to build a network of individual radio dishes that will work together as a giant Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that can, for the first time, pick up an image of a black hole. A picture of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way was taken in April 2017 and they’re currently analyzing the data.
Depiction of a black hole
Shaikh proposes that wormholes cast a similar yet distinguishable shadow.
“In the observer’s sky, the scattered photons form bright spots, whereas the photons captured by the wormhole form dark spots. The union of the dark spots in the observer’s sky constitute the shadow.”
While prior models have calculated the shadow of a wormhole before, Shaikh adds data from the throat or connecting center tunnel of a particle type of fast-rotating wormhole. According to his calculations, the shadow of this type of wormhole would be distorted in comparison to that of a black hole, which would be a well-formed disc.
“In other words, the results obtained here indicate that, through the observations of their shadows, a wormhole having reasonable spin, can be distinguished from a black hole.”
Should we start the engine on the starship, Dr. Shaikh?
“However, our conclusions are largely based on the types of wormholes we have chosen to work with. It will be interesting to see whether or to what extent the conclusions drawn here carry over to a broader class of rotating wormholes.”
It’s still all theoretical and based on massive, fast-rotating wormholes. Wormholes are predicted to exist in microscopic sizes and it’s also just a theory that the expansion of the universe may have stretched some wormholes to a size where they could be detected by the same means black holes might someday be detected. However, even skeptical physicists aren’t saying no … yet.
In the meantime, we can all agree that “Shadows of a Wormhole” would be a great title for a progressive rock song. Yes?
The old saying “to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail” can very adequately describe an obsessed UFO student such as yours truly. No matter how unrelated to the topic an article or news story may appear, you never know when you might stumble upon a juicy tidbit of information that could be indirectly related to a given case or report. That’s why you always need to leave your Fortean antenna fully raised.
Take for example this 2016 article from Business Insider titled“Apple employees break their vow of secrecy to describe the best — and worst — things about working for Apple.” At first glance, one would imagine the piece would be nothing but an inside look at what it is like to work for one of the biggest and most popular tech companies in the world; all the many sacrifices Apple employees are demanded to do, the super-long hours, the secrecy they have to conduct themselves with in order to safeguard their precious industrial secrets –and the severe penalties those who break that silence end up facing…
But then I found this paragraph:
Apple makes grammar and punctuation changes in its internal documents in order to track leaks.
This instantly grabbed my attention, because it reminded me of one of the most infamous –and fascinating– stories in the recent history of UFOlogy:Project Serpo.
Serpo –for those of you not familiar with the story– was the name of a supposed exchange program between aliens from Zeta Reticuli and the United States government. It wasn’t just every nuts-and-bolts UFO buff’s wet dream, but it was also the literal real-life version of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind: Remember how in the final scenes of the movie we see a crew of men and women carrying a black duffel bag on their shoulder and wearing a weird red jumpsuit with a triangular badge on their arm that said “Mayflower Project”? Despite the lack of clear explanations in the film, eventually the viewer deduces that these men and women volunteered to travel aboard the ET spaceship. In the end, though the aliens pick their own chosen one –the indomitable Roy Neary, who left everything behind (including his whole family) in pursuit of his vision– and the camera shows him being gently led by a swarm of spindly arms inside the mammoth craft, confidently stepping and fully accepting his fate as envoy to humanity… perhaps never to return.
Well, if you believe the anonymous source(s) sending emails to a UFO discussion group administered by former US government employee Victor Martinez in 2005, that is exactly what happened when the sole survivor of the Roswell saucer crash in 1947 was assisted by the US military in re-establishing contact with its homeworld: a planet named Serpo, orbiting the Zeta Reticuli binary star system. The Ebens –acronym given to the ETs in the emails following proper MJ-12 parlance, which were your stereotypical gray aliens– finally returned to Earth in 1965 to retrieve their comrade, and 12 specially-trained US military personnel went along with them. The group stayed on Serpo until 1978, and only 8 of them (seven men and one woman) returned to Earth, because 2 of them died on the alien world while the rest decided to stay and live among the peaceful Ebens, despite the fact the radiation levels on Serpo were higher than on our planet.
Notice I wrote “if you believe,” because there’s plenty of reasons why you shouldn’t…
For starters, the first red flag one encounters in the Serpo story is that it dutifully ticks almost all the boxes of the modern UFO mythos, which have been gradually added throughout the years: Roswell and the crash at the Corona site –proposed by researcher Stanton Friedman on his homonymous book Crash at Corona; the rumors of survivors to the crash which may have been utilized by the government in order to learn about the extraterrestrials and their intentions; the Reticulan origin of the aliens, firstly speculated from Marjorie Fish’s interpretation of Betty Hill’s star map; the idea of a secret arrangement or deal between the US military and the aliens, just as the infamous MJ-12 papers posit; the supposed landing of an alien ship at Holloman AFB; the conspiracy theory that Spielberg is a ‘Hollywood insider’ who’s been given the task to disseminate bits and pieces of the truth through his movies, in order to acclimatize the public (it’s not that Serpo borrowed its imagery from Close Encounters, it’s the other way around!); and lastly the concept of a secret space program, although in this case the humans are mere ‘tourists’ piggybacking a ride to the alien homeworld. The only ‘classical’ element missing in the Serpo narrative are alien abductions, which was probably meant to please the hardcore ‘nuts-and-bolts’ crowd among UFO circles, who were always annoyed by the rude disruption caused by the stories published by Hopkins and Jacobs in the first place in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
There’s also the all-too convenient element that everybody directly involved is dead –according to the anonymous sources, all the crewmembers who returned to Earth have since died due to the radiation they were exposed to– so there’s no-one who could personally confirm or deny the story, thus no chance of someone being exposed for making up outlandish fabrications (*cough* Basiago *cough*).
What’s interesting about the Serpo story is that it does have a certain whiff of plausibility, if you adhere to a certain narrative you seek to confirm –in this case, the extraterrestrial nature of the UFO mystery. Which is precisely why you should be wary of someone who is all too willing to tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear (TTS/AAS anyone?). Like I mentioned above, almost all the elements surrounding Serpo were already present in the contemporary UFO lore, and the illusion of confirmation can easily be engineered in retrospect, because hindsight is always 20/20.
Indeed, there’s been quite a number of researchers and UFO aficionados who have refused to bite this slithering bait (to his credit, Michael Salla was among those who were skeptic of the story) and have pointed out to a number of inconsistencies in the story handed down to Martinez by his anonymous sources –the scientific data about the alien home planet and its binary star system as depicted in the emails, didn’t pass the smell test when scrutinized by actual astronomers.
But perhaps the hottest red herring in the Serpo controversy was the involvement of one Richard Doty in it. Doty, for those of you still studying for your UFOlogy 101 exam, is a former AFOSI agent directly involved in some of the shadiest passages in the annals of this field; Greg Bishop’s Project Beta and Mark Pilkington’s documentary Mirage Men are indispensable in order to fully grasp the extent of Doty’s influence in the seeding of disinformation among the UFO research community, and the public at large.
All of this combined should raise enough alarms to conclude Project Serpo was either a flat-out hoax, or perhaps a disinformation campaign carried out at the behest of one or two intelligence organizations.
Which brings us to the Business Insider article and Apple’s practice to change the grammar and punctuation of their memos in order to track leaks, and its connection to the anonymous emails received by Victor Martinez. Greg Bishop has pointed out on several occasions on his podcast Radio Misterioso how the Serpo letters contained several typos and basic spelling errors which initially Martinez tried to correct before posting them on his UFO discussion group, and later on the Serpo website managed by UFO researcher Bill Ryan (.e.g. ‘hostel’ instead of ‘hostile’). Martinez had once been a teacher so perhaps he couldn’t help himself when dealing with these apparent transcript mistakes in order to make them more presentable, until ‘Anonymous’ ordered him to stop changing the text of the e-mails and publish them exactly as he had received them.
To Greg, who is quite familiar with the tactics utilized by intelligence operatives, this was clear indication that the typos were not mistakes, but deliberately planted into the released texts in order to track who was talking to who about Serpo.
When I recently mentioned this connection between Apple and Serpo’s anonymous source on the Radio Misterioso Facebook page, UFO scholar Aaron Gulyas offered another interesting piece of information: turns out that back in high school he used to be a huge fan of Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games novels, where he learned about this technique for the first time; Clancy had a very close relationship with the CIA and his books were full of accurate descriptions of espionage tactics, so it’s fair to assume the spelling technique was indeed standard practice among spooks of the time. Were the Serpo hoaxers and Apple executives also inspired by these novels, or is this little detail a clue that the anonymous emails were not just solely intended to build a ‘UFO fanfiction’ for the amusement of Martinez’s forum members?
My own personal yet-unconfirmed speculation on the matter, is that perhaps Serpo was a prototype specifically designed to test and calibrate the computerized surveillance programs Edward Snowden warned us about in 2013. It is definitely not unreasonable to assume that by 2005 (when Serpo went public) these spying systems were already in existence, but perhaps they were not mature enough yet to detect electronic communications on a global scale. So what better way to check the NSA system than by setting its net on a smaller, more contained pond instead of the whole ocean? A pond like the small community of online UFO researchers, in which you’ve already placed a hashtag term that’s easier to track down than ‘terrorism’ or ‘jihad’? A hashtag in the form of a made-up word that’s not totally foreign-looking, yet it will be only used in the communications you are focusing on?
A hashtag word like… Serpo.
Like the story of an alien/human exchange program, my Serpo/Snowden scenario has enough plausibility to be tantalizing. Yet I’m the first one to admit it’s just an speculation on my part. Still, Serpo remains a cautionary tale than when it comes to the UFO mystery, you ALWAYS need to be wary of unsolicited gifts handed out by anonymous sources –because they may turn up to be poisoned apples.
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Three Mysterious Light Anomalies In The Sky Appear Out Of Nowhere
Three Mysterious Light Anomalies In The Sky Appear Out Of Nowhere
Blop02 noticed strange flashes/light anomalies in the sky at approximately 8:40 pm on April 18, 2018 from an unknown location and Blop02 has no idea what this phenomenon exactly is and how it was caused.
The light anomalies are best described as a series of 3 plasma balls which simultaneously light up into a big flash, then dim and disappear.
The strange appearance happened several times in a row and it looks like something is shooting some sort of plasma balls from an unknown location in the sky or space.
Buzz Aldrin did see something strange during his 1969 voyage.
Photograph: Getty
WHAT’S THE STORY?
THAT’S the trouble. There isn’t one. Well, unless you’re the Daily Star and a thousand other so-called ‘news sites’ that have recently been pumping out the story that Buzz Aldrin saw a UFO on his trip to the moon on 1969.
The latest claim is that Aldrin passed a lie detector test that “proved” he saw a UFO on that famous journey in which he became the second human being to step on the moon, shortly after Neil Armstrong.
Apart from the conspiracy eejits that say NASA faked the moon landings, Aldrin’s UFO is probably one of the most common “space myths” that’s been going around for years, but at least the latest version has a bit of invention – that “lie detector” line is a lulu because everybody knows they are infallible, right?
Problem is that the man himself, who is now 88, says he never took such a test, and he has denied for years that he saw a UFO.
And in any case, lie detector tests, or polygraphs to give them their Sunday name, are notoriously unreliable.
SO HOW COME THE STORY IS OUT THERE?
ACCORDING to the Daily Star, a company called the Institute of BioAcoustic Technology and Sound Health in Albany, Ohio, did the ‘lie detector’ tests on recordings made by Aldrin and fellow astronauts Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Al Worden (Apollo 15), and Gordon Cooper (Mercury-Atlas 9). In other words, new technology was used to examine old recordings and no actual polygraph took place, not least because Mitchell and Cooper are, ahem, dead.
Funnily enough the Institute is promoting its ‘Sound Health’ technology as an improvement on lie detectors. On its website it states: “Join Sound Health and embrace this pioneering path to New Medicine!
“Sound Health has proven that your voice can be used to reveal who you really are under the layer of public personality you have created.
This is an opportunity for the human race to break free of all of the deceit and deception that we live with on a daily basis.”
They haven’t revealed if they have examined Donald Trump yet.
WHAT DID BUZZ ACTUALLY SEE?
LET the man himself tell you: “On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us.
“There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the four panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.
“So in the close vicinity, moving away, were four panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be ‘unidentified’.
“We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed.”
THE UFO STORY WAS A MYTH?
CORRECT. As Aldrin cogently explained a few years ago: “It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
“That’s what Carl Sagan said. There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
“It was not that remarkable, that special, that unusual, that life here on Earth evolved gradually, slowly, to where we are today. But the distances involved in where some evidence of life may be, they may be hundreds of light years away.”
That is the view of most reputable scientists – space is just too vast for aliens to be visiting here, or us to be visiting them, at least for a very, very long time.
TELL US MORE ABOUT BUZZ
EDWIN Eugene Aldrin Jr was born in New Jersey in 1930 and has some Scottish ancestry. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War and then took a PhD in aeronautics before joining NASA.
Since retiring he has successfully battled depression and alcoholism and he was beside President Trump when he announced new space exploration last summer.
Some things that can be said with certainty: his first words on the Moon were “beautiful view” and Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear was named after him.
Abstract:Aerospace trade publications, visual reports and personal interviews with test pilots and engineers confirm the existence of multiple highly classified aerospace vehicles. These include boomerangs, black triangles, diamonds, arrowheads, and Spaceplanes/Trans Atmospheric Vehicles (TAVs). Funded by the so-called “black budget,” many of these programs are exempt from congressional oversight and public scrutiny. Developed along the famous “aerospace alley” region of southern California, many of these USAPs represent America’s super-secret “ace in the hole,” and provide a unique “power projection” capability for multiple military and intelligence agencies. Companies such as Lockheed, Rockwell, Northrop, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing made tremendous advancements during the “Reagan build-up” era, and many of these programs have now passed their “sunset” duration of deployment. Therefore, it’s now time for a re-examination of these programs and a renewed push for the “dis-lodging” of those that can be declassified without representing any threat to the national security of the United States.
Blackstar: The two-stage-to-orbit Spaceplane
During the 1980s, Soviet-era aerospace companies developed plans for what they called a “space fighter.” The primary roles for this spaceplane concept were the following: military reconnaissance, satellite interception, space station defense, and crew transfer applications. This full-scale development program fell under the jurisdiction of what came to be known as the Russian Kosmolyot I and II project. Upon getting word of these advancements in Russian aerospace technology, White House, and Pentagon officials became “deeply concerned” that America would lose the advantage in developing an operational spaceplane. Therefore, on December 1, 1985, American efforts to develop a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane appear to have shifted into high gear, and oversight command for this program was transferred from the Department of Defense to a joint venture composed of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office (CIA/NRO). The new code-name for this project was called “COSMIC WIND,” which was later renamed “Blackstar.” Through the tremendous efforts of former Aviation Week and Space Technology editor William Scott, a clear picture of this historically significant program has now emerged.
Approximately one month after the official go-ahead for this program the space shuttle Challenger exploded 72 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986. Since at least 70% of all payloads associated with the NASA shuttle program were classified DOD/intelligence agency applications, the Department of Defense/CIA/NRO lost what it termed its “assured access to space.” Not wanting to interrupt their schedule of launching highly classified satellites, the United States Air Force, CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office were now forced to rely on Titan booster rockets. However, there were multiple Titan rocket failures during the mid-1986 time-frame, and the “spook groups” found themselves “out of business.” The loss of these two space assets provided further emphasis and urgency for America to accelerate its plans to develop an operational spaceplane.
The derelict and dilapidated remains of the A-12 Avenger II mock-up outside at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. Is this really all that American taxpayers received for their $5 Billion investment? (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Frantic to maintain its control of the “high ground,” a desperate call went out to various aerospace defense contractors who could quickly design, build and test fly a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system. These included Lockheed, Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing. A significant majority of these contractors (except for Boeing in Seattle) had locations within what has been termed “aerospace alley” which extends from San Diego, north to Los Angeles, continuing to Lancaster/Palmdale/Air Force Plant 42, and concluding at Edwards AFB. As with most “Unacknowledged Special Access Programs” (USAPs), funding for the Blackstar program was covertly spread out over multiple projects including the ill-fated US Navy A-12 Avenger II, and the X-30 NASP (National Aerospace Plane). This wouldn’t be the first time that highly compartmented so-called “black” programs were used as a “sacrificial lamb” to cover the funding of even more highly classified projects. Many of these super-secret programs are referred to in the military/intelligence agencies as: “ace in the hole” or “trump card” technology. They are also referred to as “silver bullets.” Under extreme pressure, and on a tight schedule, the Lockheed Company in Burbank may have taken the leading role in designing a small spaceplane, and “farmed out” much of the construction/manufacturing to McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis.
The “Blackstar” system consisted of two separate components which operated as a single integrated unit: 1) a large “mothership” or carrier aircraft measuring approximately 200 feet in length. 2) a smaller “parasitic” aircraft/orbiter which could fit conformally under the belly of the mothership, and air-dropped at altitudes up to 90,000 feet. Flight testing of the Blackstar program appears to have started in 1989, and by October of the same year, the Blackstar program had flown its first operational mission. Four large carrier “Mothership” aircraft may have been produced, with eight spaceplane/orbiters possibly being built. The program was based out of Area 51/Groom Lake, utilizing the “old CIA A-12 hangers”, including and two new massive hangers that were three times larger than their historic neighbors. During flight testing and operational missions, ground controllers at Groom Lake carried the call sign “EARTH” when communicating with the spaceplane. Other bases of operation may include Alaska or Patrick AFB in Florida.
Three view drawing of large SR-3 “Mothership” with smaller XOV spaceplane below. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The massive mothership was referred to the “SR-3”, aka “elegant lady,” while the smaller spaceplane was designated “XOV” (Experimental Orbital Vehicle) or “Speedy.” Early in the program under the “COSMIC WIND” code-name, the large carrier aircraft was referred to as the “MAV” (Manned Aerial Vehicle), while the smaller spaceplane was designated the “AAV” (Advanced Aerial Vehicle). Resembling the 1960’s era North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie, the SR-3 was certainly an imposing sight to behold. Eyewitnesses who were fortunate enough to see this aircraft during the daytime described it as being “huge” or “giant.” Others simply called it the “Super Valkyrie.” Indeed, as reported by at least two former North American Aviation test pilots, the technology existed in the 1950s to develop a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system. With the advantage of 30 years of additional technological developments, and almost unlimited access to black budget funding, its well within the capability of the America aerospace industry to design, build and test fly such a vehicle.
With a wingspan of 120 feet, the SR-3 featured a triangular/delta wing configuration, with large “tip-sails” or winglets that rose up 12 feet and were canted at a 35-degree angle. It also featured a dorsal ridge or “spine” that extended immediately behind the cockpit, and ran down the length of the fuselage to the trailing edge of the wing. A retractable set canards (with their own winglets) were also located just aft of the crew compartment (reference email to Michael Schratt from Nancy Certain 9/13/16). These canards had the capability of retracting forward to support low speed applications. The SR-3 carried a crew of three consisting of the pilot, co-pilot and launch control officer (LRO) who sat facing backwards. The bottom of the aircraft featured a large XB-70 like triangular “splitter” air-intake which was divided into two banks at the rear of the craft. However, the most prominent feature was what appeared to be a “relieved section” or “scooped out” portion of the bottom which was designed to allow the smaller spaceplane to fit inside forming an aerodynamically efficient mating of the two aircraft (reference detailed report from James Petty to Michael Schratt 12/5/16).
Original SR-3 Mothership sketch by Nancy Certain.
According to eyewitness and Rocket scientist James Petty who saw both the Mothership and its smaller parasitic aircraft flying over Salt Lake City Utah on October 4, 1998, the more massive SR-3 carrier aircraft is powered by six modified variable-cycle J-93 engines (reference in-person 90- minute videotape interview of James Petty conducted by Michael Schratt 3/12/16). However, there appears to be a discrepancy regarding precisely what type of propulsion system was used to power the mothership. Those within the vicinity of SR-3 flight operations described hearing a VERY LOUD PULSING ROARING noise during take-off roll and climb out. This was confirmed by witness Nancy Certain Ph.D., from Doylestown PA, who saw the massive carrier aircraft during the day from a half-mile distance at an altitude of approximately 2,500 feet in 1993. Others stated that as the aircraft accelerated and gained altitude, the frequency and intensity of the pulsing noise increased. This may indicate the use of a combined cycle scramjet engine which can operate at both low and high speeds. Either way, it’s clear that this aircraft utilizes some form of “multi-cycle” engine.
The mothership has a weight of 275,000 to 300,000 pounds and a range of 6,000 miles (unlimited with aerial refueling). The SR-3 is capable of speeds over Mach 6 and can climb to an altitude of 150,000 feet. It features a white/grey exterior surface, with two being built by 1988. Fuel for the SR-3 consists of liquid hydrogen/liquid methane with JP8 used in the case of the J-93 engines. The contractors involved with designing and building the SR-3 mothership may have consisted of Lockheed, Rockwell, and Boeing. Final assembly took place at Boeing’s large assembly facility in Seattle. It’s interesting to note that on October 14, 1986, Boeing filed a patent (4,802,639) for a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system that closely matched the Blackstar operational capabilities, although the physical characteristics of the craft were different than what was reported by multiple eyewitnesses.Once reaching an altitude of 90,000 feet and a speed of Mach 3, the SR-3 air-drops its smaller parasitic aircraft, and either returns to its original base of operation or takes on additional fuel for an extended mission.
Three view drawing of Speedy XOV spaceplane. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Detail view of XOV linear aerospike engines showing “radiator like” screens. Illustration. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Detail view of XOV Speedy aft section depicting “radiator like” screens in place, and also removed showing 10” diameter tube “honeycomb pattern.” (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The smaller XOV/Speedy spaceplane was manufactured in two sizes and featured a highly swept wing lifting body configuration. One measuring approximately 60-65 feet in length, with a crew of two that sat side-by-side, and another measuring 97.5 feet with a single pilot. These were named “XOV-1” and “XOV-2.” Flying in an inverted low earth orbit orientation, the XOV featured a two-door “Q-bay” on its upper surface for the operation of a large aperture adaptive optics system that featured “inches resolution.” This “reconnaissance package” had the capability of correcting for atmospheric disturbances, thereby generating extremely high-resolution images of ground-based targets. The Q-bay could also serve as a launching platform for hyper-velocity depleted uranium “Rods-from God.” The XOV could attain altitudes of between 150-250 miles, and speeds exceeding 17,500 mph (Mach 20). The primary propulsion system for the XOV were four linear aerospike engines that were grouped in two banks at the aft end of the vehicle. These engines were developed by a joint venture which included Aerojet and the Pratt & Whitney/Rocketdyne Company, which later became Aerojet Rocketdyne. Witnesses who have observed the back of this vehicle described seeing what looked like “radiator screens” covering the exhaust ports. Others described it as looking like “ventilation grating.” Embedded within the exhaust ports were multiple 10-inch diameter “tubes” which served to mix cooling air, thereby reducing the vehicle’s infrared signature. These tubes gave the exhaust ports an unusual “honeycomb” appearance. Ground tests of this unique engine took place at Groom Lake during 1988.
Circular receptacle for SRB on aft end of Speedy. Illustration. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The larger 97.5-foot long spaceplane also featured articulating intakes and variable geometry exhaust ports. On either side of the exhaust ports, a dark circular opening was seen which may have served as a solid rocket booster (SRB) receptacle. These could be loaded into the craft “like a shotgun shell” and then removed after the conclusion of a mission. The SRBs served to provide an extra boost, pushing the spaceplane into a low earth orbit flight path. Once in orbit, the spaceplane had the capability of “dipping back down” into the atmosphere and then climbing back up again. Using this technique of “skipping” over the outer reaches of the atmosphere, the spaceplane could dramatically increase its range. After completing its mission, the spaceplane would glide back to earth “like the space shuttle” and land horizontally at multiple military locations in the United States.It could then be “turned around” within 48 hours or “every other day” to fly another mission. Compared to the space shuttle which can take months or even years to prepare for flight, the Blackstar system represented a cost-effective alternative. Another unique advantage was its capability to serve as a “rapid response” military/reconnaissance platform that could surprise an enemy by flying unpredictable flight paths, unlike spy satellites.
The outer wing sections of the XOV featured a “droop down” articulated capability, which took advantage of “compression lift.” The only movable control surfaces on the Speedy spaceplane were what appeared to be flaps/speed brakes located on the upper and lower rear surface of the vehicle. A short “stubby tail” which extended from aft of the Q-bay to the extreme end of the craft served as both a vertical stabilizer and an attachment point for joining with the larger carrier aircraft. The outer structure of the craft may have been built at the McDonnell Douglas facility in St. Louis and featured an advanced composite material that was “stacked” in layers forming a sandwich to attain the desired thickness. Red colored thermal protective areas were located along the leading edges of its wings. The entire bottom surface featured dark-colored thermal resistant “space shuttle tiles.” Four “channels” or “strakelets” were seen on the bottom of the craft. These one to two-foot deep longitudinal “grooves” helped to maintain the rigidity of the structure and may have served as a way to dissipate heat during high-speed operations. Apparently, these grooves/inlets were “very complex,” and most likely took multiple attempts to perfect.
Illustration (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The XOV incorporated a very unusual landing gear configuration which included a four-wheel nose gear arrangement, and a retractable “ski-like” landing gear skid that extended directly from the bottom of the craft. Approximately at the mid-point on the lower surface of the wings, a retractable “pogo-type” outrigger landing gear helped to stabilize the craft during roll-out. Generally speaking, highly swept low aspect ratio lifting body configurations have high landing speeds. Therefore, the Speedy spaceplane was said to have a landing speed between 250-300 mph, with the central retractable landing skid taking the brunt of the force. Certainly, the craft was a “handful” for even the most experienced test pilots. Only those with practical application in flying multiple different types of aircraft would qualify for handling such a strange and exotic aircraft. Pilots who were the “Maverick” type, and had previous air racing experience would be at the top of the list. Fuel for the XOV was a “gelled Boron” based “slurry” or endothermic type that had the consistency of toothpaste. Work on the spaceplane proceeded slowly until 1989 when the program made tremendous progress, and engineers were working “around the clock” 24 hours a day, seven days per week, for three years. It was also during this timeframe that a “fuel breakthrough” was made, which further accelerated the program.
Drawing depicting the modified Lockheed C-5C Galaxy with “chipmunk cheek” extensions. (Image credit: Michale Schratt)
Letter from John Andrews to Pete Eames describing the emergency landing of a classified aircraft (which was tracked going Mach 4.2) at Kadena AFB on February 12-13, 1994.
On February 13 of 1994, things took a drastic turn on the project. On that day, an XOV spaceplane was involved in an incident that resulted in the craft making an emergency landing at Kadena AFB in Japan. This particular aircraft was tracked by Kadena air traffic controllers going Mach 4.2, and other aircraft in the vicinity had to be diverted to avoid a collision. Subsequently, the entire base was put on a “Red 3” lockdown for three days. Apparently, during the launch sequence, the stubby vertical fin/pylon on the spaceplane somehow made contact with its carrier aircraft and was forced to make an unscheduled detour. Within 24 hours, a highly modified Lockheed C-5 Galaxy cargo transport aircraft was dispatched from Holloman AFB to retrieve the damaged spaceplane. To “fill a gap” in their intelligence gathering capability, the CIA/NRO convinced Congress in May of 1994 to allocate 100 million dollars to put the SR-71 Blackbird spy-plane back into service so that the Blackstar program could get back on track. Three of these unique C-5 aircraft were produced which featured eight-foot-wide “chipmunk cheek” extensions on each side of the fuselage. Originally, these modifications were specifically incorporated for the purpose of transporting large containers which protected satellites during transit to launch sites. However, they were also later used to transport classified aircraft to multiple locations around the world. These highly modified aircraft also utilized an extra set of six-wheeled landing gear. Two of these aircraft were operated by NASA and carried the tail numbers 00503, and 00504. The third was operated by the CIA and featured a large red “CL” marking on its vertical stabilizer. Upon arriving at Kadena AFB, the damaged aircraft was quickly loaded inside the C-5, which then made a direct flight back to Holloman AFB.
Spaceplane being unloaded from C-5 cargo aircraft at Holloman AFB (Illustration credit John MacNeill/Tom Bogan)
Original sketch of XOV spaceplane by F-15 pilot at Holloman AFB.
Tarp covering “stubby vertical tail.” Note extended flaps/speed brakes. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Sometime around February 15 of 1994, the C-5 arrived back at Holloman AFB with its precious yet damaged cargo inside. The aircraft then taxied to a remote part of the long runway at the base. Eyewitnesses who saw the spaceplane being unloaded from the much larger cargo aircraft during the daytime indicated that it was a complicated process which took at least three hours to complete. Apparently, the outer wing panels of the spaceplane have the capability of folding to allow for transportation in the C-5. One witness (a transient F-15 pilot), who saw the entire event unfold through binoculars from the cockpit of his aircraft while it was parked on the ground, sketched what he observed. “no-nonsense” military security guards were overseeing the entire unloading process. Once the spaceplane was pulled from the opened “clamshell” door of the C-5, it was immediately apparent that some damage had occurred to the spaceplane. A large tarp was seen covering the stubby vertical tail. However, this tarp did not completely obscure the view of the aft section which revealed a large “chunk” missing. In addition, the F-15 pilot also identified multiple missing tiles on the spacecraft’s bottom right wing section. It’s unknown at this time if this event in conjunction with other technical challenges “shelved” the Blackstar project, or if it secretly continued its covert activity. In the end, the Blackstar program represents one of the “crown jewels” of the military-industrial complex. It’s unlikely that the engineers or test pilots associated with the project will get the credit they deserve anytime in the foreseeable future. Like many other black programs, it’s entirely possible that it will remain another unacknowledged “silver bullet” being hidden away in some dark and mysterious hangar located somewhere in the southwest.
Special Note:The following report originated via the personal collection of UFO researcher and author David Marler. It has been reproduced for this report exactly as it appeared in the original text. Emphasis in certain areas is strictly mine.
Illustration of the August 25, 1990 Woodhead Pass Triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Woodhead Pass Triangle drawing. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Cardstock model of the Woodhead Pass Triangle by Michael Schratt.
Dear Mr. Marler,
I have just read your book “Triangular UFOs an estimate of the situation.” I found the book to be most informative since I myself had a close sighting of a triangular UFO in 1990. I always assumed that what I saw was a top-secret military aircraft, and over the years I have read about such projects as the TR-3B (TR-3B real or fictitious who knows?) At any rate, I was quite happy with my assumptions until I read your book which revealed that such craft were seen as far back as the 1930’s and even in the late 1800’s. Obviously, I found this to be quite thought provoking and as led me to re-assess what I saw that night. I therefore decided to send you this e-mail outlining the events of that night, and would appreciate any comments from your perspective. Please keep in mind, it is now 23 years since my sighting, and some of the detail is by now a little fuzzy. I have therefore left out anything of which I am not certain. I have also attempted to attach what I know to be a poorly drawn sketch (it goes without saying I’m no artist). Also, I would add that at the time a serving Police Officer, and have since retired after 30 years of service.
On the evening of August 25, 1990 my then wife and I had attended at Manchester Main Road football stadium to watch the band Fleetwood Mac. At the end of the concert, it took some time to get out of the makeshift car park, and through the heavy traffic, the time was around midnight. Our route home to Barnsley took us over the Woodhead pass, which crosses over the Pennine hills, and is surrounded in the main by open moor land. That particular night, stretches of the road were covered with low cloud or mist causing poor visibility. As a result, I was forced to drive slowly, approximately 20 mph. Due to the late hour, the road was quiet, and my wife had wound back her seat and fallen asleep. I cannot say exactly where the sighting took place due to the poor visibility, but I believe I was nearer to the Barnsley end of the Woodhead Pass, possibly around the Board Hill area.
Whilst driving slowly, and trying to concentrate on the road, my attention was drawn skywards due to intermittent flashes of light which I assumed to be sheet lightning (though there was no accompanying sounds of thunder). It was whilst glancing skywards that I saw the nose of a huge black triangular craft push through the low cloud and mist. As the craft emerged further, I could see it was approximately 200-300 feet in length and width at its widest part. It travelled pointed end first, and was well illuminated around its undercarriage. The craft was moving at a speed of around 10 mph, and was approximately 200 feet above the road. On seeing the craft, I wound down my car window, but could hear only a very low (almost imperceptible) humming sound. I could see that the craft was of a solid construction (not inflatable). This fact, the slow speed, and quietness gave the craft an eerie impression. I have little knowledge of aerodynamics, but even I knew that conventionally something so big and solid should be traveling at hundreds of miles an hour in order to stay aloft. (Therefore, to my mind, it was somehow defying gravity).
As previously stated the undercarriage was well illuminated with a large white light at each corner, and a light in the center. The undercarriage also appeared recessed, and I could see some sort of superstructure. As the craft passed above, I slowed the car to a virtual stop, and leaned out of the driver’s side window. The side of the craft appeared to have several illuminated windows, and at one of the windows I saw two to three figures that appeared to be human. (Certainly nothing about the figures made me think they were anything other than human, reinforcing my belief that the craft was a military project). I could see one of the figures either pointing or waving in my direction. Whilst watching the craft, it slowly and silently slipped back into the low cloud and disappeared. At this stage I drove off the road and climbed out of my car, but could see and hear nothing. By now my wife was awake, but too late to see the craft. I observed the craft for approximately 30 seconds which does not sound long, but believe me it was. I submit my story for your information, and would welcome any insight or comment from yourself. For obvious reasons, I do not make my story common knowledge, and I would be grateful if you kept my details private.
Regards, GS
Barnsley England
(name withheld by request of the primary witness)
Illustration of the November 22, 1985 Madison WI. Triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
(Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The question all of us need to be asking here is would extraterrestrials by flying around in our atmosphere using triangular shaped craft with “tubes and pipes” on their bottom surfaces? It’s interesting to note that during the Hudson Valley Boomerang wave (1982-1989), many eyewitnesses reported seeing “huge metallic beams” on the underside of the craft. Others reported seeing “metal type work, like cross-beams, and tubular things hanging down here and there.” A similar looking mechanical under-structure featuring “tubes and pipes” was also identified on the bottom surface of the triangular shaped craft during the Belgium wave of 1989-1990.
In addition, during the January 5, 2000, southern Illinois triangle sightings, Shiloh police officer David Martin described seeing what he called “building blocks” and “plumbing pipes” on the bottom of the craft that he observed. What on earth could these pipes be used for? What is their exact function? One possible explanation could be that they are being utilized as liquid nitrogen cooling pipes to chill a super-conductor or liquid mercury plasma. These pipes would be used to cool the central “core” of the craft, which may explain the “donut shaped” or circular opening seen by multiple eyewitnesses. In fact, it appears that due to their placement, these pipes not only cool the central portion of these vehicles but the entire craft itself as one fully integrated unit. It seems clear that the material used to manufacture these triangular shaped craft is truly of an exotic nature. This is because materials must be in an extremely low energy state (very cold) to become “superconductive.” Of course, this requires a tremendous amount of energy or electrical power to achieve, which may explain the low frequency “humming” sound heard by multiple eyewitnesses in the vicinity of these craft. The cryogenic equipment associated with these objects produce extremely powerful electromagnetic fields around the craft which may explain the reports of strange effects such as radio static, and automobile engines mysteriously turning off and coming back on when the craft departs.
Are we hearing the effects of an electrical transformer associated with these vehicles? Multiple reports from Belgium, New York, Connecticut and Southern Illinois indicate that these triangular shaped objects fly/float/hover virtually silently, but in many cases, emit a sound similar to a “sewing machine,” or a “machine shop running in the distance.” Has the American aerospace industry finally achieved the “Holy Grail” of aviation by constructing triangular shaped craft that utilize an onboard power source (possibly a nuclear reactor), in conjunction with high voltage electrical transformers which supply the necessary power to chill the core of a superconductor? These craft would lack the wings, propellers, jet engines, and control surfaces of standard aircraft, and could mimic the form fit and function of “extraterrestrial UFOs.”
Illustration of the November 1985 Yorktown Heights Triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Yorktown Heights Triangle enlargement illustration. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Stadium Triangle drawing. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
It was November of 1985 when Yorktown Heights NY resident Maureen Davis had a genuinely incredible night-time encounter with a massive shaped triangular object which was described as being the size of a “football stadium.” She had been parked at the intersection of Route 132 and Oakside Road waiting for her husband to get off the bus. Then, Maureen noticed something strange in the sky towards the northeast. It appeared to be a massive isosceles triangular-shaped “thing” that was hovering silently near what seemed to be the Lake Osceola area. To her amazement, the bottom of the craft opened up, and she got a very rare glimpse of the interior. She described seeing multiple levels of lights on the inside (similar to a multi-story terrace-shaped apartment complex). After approximately three minutes, a pulsating red light flew up into the opening, and the circular “hatch” disappeared. The strange triangular shaped object then appeared to speed away at incredible speed, without causing a sonic boom. (Reference In The Night Sky Page 38 by Linda Zimmermann). So, what did Maureen Davis see? Was it an extraterrestrial spacecraft from another world? Or, was it something that had a more “earthly” explanation? Let’s examine one feature of this encounter. Specifically, the craft’s departure. Many times, in UFO cases, we hear of the craft departing like a “spark off of a grinding wheel.” In other cases, we read of UFOs accelerating with “fantastic speed”, without generating a sonic boom. Could there be a “down to earth explanation” to these flight characteristics? As an aircraft reaches supersonic speeds, it creates shock waves, and a tremendous amount of aerodynamic heat builds up on its surface. To combat this heating, the space shuttle orbiter uses thermal resistant tiles throughout its entire airframe. However, this approach could only be considered a “band-aid” fix at best. In 1967, the Norair Division of Northrop began experimenting with highly charged electrostatic fields on a metal test probe. The results of these studies concluded that an aircraft’s “sonic boom footprint” and could be significantly reduced or eliminated entirely. They also discovered that the problems associated with supersonic heating could also be drastically lowered. Obviously, these breakthroughs could have potentially incredible military applications to advanced aircraft. Now, factor in the billions of dollars spent each year on classified “black” programs, and its entirely within the capability of the American aerospace industry to design built and fly aircraft that could be mistaken for “extraterrestrial” UFOs. Ref: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Technical Paper No. 68-24 published January 23, 1968)
Cardstock model of March 31, 1999 Kirby England Triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Bottom surface of the March 31, 1999 Kirby England Triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
It was March 31, 1999, when Colin Saunders and three others were driving along the Old Fosse Way near the village of Monks Kirby when they noticed a group of lights off to the left that was approximately 200 feet in the air. As they got closer, they could see four red light that were at an angle of about 30 degrees. Incredibly, a diamond shaped outline seemed to appear around the lights. At this point, the strange craft tipped up vertically “like an airship or submarine” in slow motion as though it were underwater. By now, the craft had fully materialized into a triangular shape. The surface of the craft appeared to have a dark grey liquid mercury appearance that “rippled” up and down its surface. However, the most interesting feature of the unknown object were multiple “raised box-like sections” that extruded from the top. Mr. Saunders never got a look at the bottom of the vehicle but noticed the identical “box-like” pattern on the bottom of a sketch drawn by one eyewitness of a triangle that was seen in Belgium during 1993. He surmised that this might have been the same or similar series of craft. Could these unique features be part of a “heat sink” or cooling apparatus similar to the mechanical “tubes, pipes and cylinders” which were seen on the bottom of the Belgium triangle between 1989-1990? (Source: Triangular Perspectives by Colin Saunders)
Belgium Triangle illustration by John MacNeill
Belgium Triangle drawing. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
Starting in November of 1989, thousands of eyewitnesses in Belgium began seeing triangular shaped UFOs that appeared to hover over the town of Eupen. These witnesses included multiple gendarmes (national police). The triangular craft were described as being “as big as a football field,” and having a bright spotlight at each corner, with an amber colored light in the center. The UFOs were reported to be flying slowly silently over rooftops, and beaming high-intensity searchlights onto the ground. Later, on March 30, 1990, two Belgian F-16s were scrambled to intercept the unknown aircraft. The object was confirmed to be a “hard target” by at least three ground-based radar stations, and two onboard radars within the fighter aircraft which came within 12 miles of the UFO. According to a military official, these UFOs “exceeded the limits of conventional aviation.” In a highly publicized press conference, Belgian Air Force Col. Wilfred De Brouwer stated that the UFO dived from 10,000 to 4,000 feet in two seconds (equivalent to 40 G’s), and accelerated from 600 to 1,100 mph at the same time. The bottom surface of the craft appeared to have a very mechanical looking configuration which included tubes, pipes, cylinders and crisscross effects. As mentioned earlier in this report, these may be associated with the cooling of a superconductor or rotating plasma. Could this have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft? According to a police officer (Brig. Heinrich Nicholl) who saw the craft over Eupen, he assessed that the craft was a “very sophisticated and ultra-secret military project.” Students of this line research will recall the comments of the late Ben Rich who stated in 1995 that “we have things out in the desert that are 50 years beyond what you can comprehend.”Obviously well within the time-frame of the Belgium Triangle sightings of 1989- 1990. (Ref: Associated Press Report 7/12/1990, New York Tribune 11/15/1990, Wall Street Journal 10/10/1990)
Drawing of the Helena Missouri triangle by Michael Schratt. (based off of the original sketch provided by the primary eyewitness)
Cardstock model of the March 5, 2003 Helena Missouri triangle. (Image credit: Michael Schratt)
The following short note was sent to the Center for UFO Studies and addressed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek almost two decades after he passed on April 27, 1986. It has been reproduced in this report for the very first time.
1/17/05
Mr. Hynek,
Dear Sir,
I don’t know what this ship is, but I was in the Navy, and I have never in my life ever seen anything as this. The government knows more than they say they know, I’m sure. The American public knows it’s the truth, and we as a nation will keep fighting for our right to know. Some of us already know, even at Roswell and Area 51, where the truth is out there. I will never forget what I saw and heard that night. I know of someone else who saw it as well.
Yours Truly,
Respectfully submitted,
M.M.
Helena Missouri
Author’s special note: During my three-year investigation of the over 60,000 UFO cases which comprise the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) archives, I uncovered many incidents which included a detailed report, and a sketch drawn by the primary eyewitness. Some of these cases had been buried for up to 30 years, and have never seen the light of day. One such example dated January 17, 2005, referenced a sighting of a massive triangular UFO which was seen on March 5, 2003, at 9:50 P.M. in Helena Missouri. The witness described an encounter with a gigantic superstructure looking triangular craft that measured approximately one football field in length, and about two stories high. The sighting lasted about 10 minutes and occurred off the front porch of his house. According to the witness, as the craft flew overhead, it “made pictures fall off the living room wall, and shook the whole house.” The unusual UFO featured a large “fluorescent” light on the bottom that intermittently flashed every 15 seconds. Near the end of each corner, a bright steady light was also observed.
The entire craft appeared to be covered with a “glass frame,” which may have been some type of transparent panels. He also described a “walkway” complete with a “railing.” In addition, the primary eyewitness stressed multiple times that the craft was made of what he termed “rusty looking old bridge steel.” The structural configuration of craft appeared similar to the criss-cross bracing found on the supporting towers of the George Washington Bridge which spans the Hudson River and is located between New York and New Jersey. He also clearly described seeing “rivets from an old bridge” which appeared to be used to fasten the entire craft together. Although the witness stated the craft was “not from this world,” a careful examination of his original sketch points to an earthly origin. The crossbeam and girder construction, in conjunction with regularly spaced “rusty rivets” is clear evidence of human-made technology. In addition, the use of a “walkway,” glass frame, and flashing lights support an earthly explanation. Of particular note is the fact that a French fighter pilot over Europe also saw a similar craft exhibiting triangular superstructure on the night of November 5, 1990, as highlighted on page 290 of Timothy Good’s book: Earth, an Alien Enterprise.
Boomerangs:
Hudson Valley Boomerang illustration by Tom Bogan
Monique O’Driscoll was driving home near Kent NY on the night of February 26, 1983, when her daughter who was with her noticed some strange lights on a nearby hill. The lights appeared to be hovering, but then started moving to the east at about 15 mph. By now, Monique could discern that the lights were connected to some type wing shaped dark mass. The lights were very bright and appeared to be red, white, blue and yellow. The unknown object then moved towards the vicinity of White Pond, and Monique stepped on the accelerator to catch up with it. When they arrived at the pond which was frozen at the time, Monique stopped her vehicle and noticed through her windshield that the craft passed directly over her car. At this point, she saw that the lights on the craft appeared to be flashing in sequence up and down its “wings.” It then moved over an area of the pond about 200 feet from shore. It was hovering no more than 30 feet high, and Monique could see the brilliantly flashing lights reflecting off the frozen pond below.
She also noticed that the craft was entirely silent, and stated that she could see “the underbelly part. It’s solid. It had metal-type work, like cross-beams and tubular things hanging down here and there. I was so close I could’ve thrown a ball and hit it.” This author also uncovered a rare letter from well-known researcher and lecturer Stanton Friedman which is worth highlighting in part. “I have always been bothered by the Westchester County sightings because I never heard of actions that would label the technology alien. Wings in outer space could only be decoration, but do of course match an earthling approach.”(Source: Reporter Dispatch White Plains NY September 11, 1983, Philadelphia Inquirer September 28, 1984, Letter from Stanton Friedman to Tony Gonsalves January 17, 1990)
Hudson Valley Boomerang illustration by Tom Bogan
March 24, 1983 Taconic State Parkway illustration by John MacNeill
Illustration of airborne relocatable over-the-horizon radar system by Tom Bogan (Composite panels removed for clarity exposing interior structure)
On the night of March 24, 1983, hundreds of motorists driving along the Taconic State Parkway (NY) observed a massive “V” or boomerang shaped craft. Drivers pulled off to the side of the road, slammed on their brakes, and got out of their vehicles to observed the unknown object which was hovering silently at tree-top level. The craft appeared to be making a “zig-zag” flight path as it headed north towards Yorktown Heights. Multiple witnesses described seeing a powerful white spotlight beaming down from the craft to the cars below. The mysterious craft seen making 180 degree flat turns without banking. Others who were directly below the object stated that they could see “pipes, beams or cylinders” on its lower surface. In addition, multiple witnesses reported seeing what looked like “transparent panels” revealing an interior mechanical structure resembling the crossbeam and girder construction similar to that of a truss bridge. (Source: Patent Trader Mt. Kisco NY March 25, 1983, Reporter Dispatch White Plains NY September 11, 1983, Danbury Item Port Chester NY March 26, 1983)
What did the over 25,000 eyewitnesses observe during the Hudson Valley Boomerang wave of 1982-1989? Did they see an “alien” spacecraft or something that was built by the U.S. Navy? It’s interesting to note that the March 24, 1983 sighting took place exactly 24 hours after President Ronald Reagan give his address to the nation outlining his plans for the so-called “Star Wars” or SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative). Could there be a connection? During the Reagan era (1981-1989), multiple black programs excelled and became operational. One of these could have been a mobile airborne relocatable over-the-horizon radar system which was designed to track and monitor incoming Soviet ICBMs. This system would be completely impervious to a Russian missile attack, and addresses virtually all of the flight characteristics observed by witnesses of the Hudson Valley UFO wave. It’s time for the field of Ufology to overcome its “UFO bias” and carefully examine every possible earthly explanation before concluding that a UFO is extraterrestrial in origin.
In 2003, Oscar Munoz found a mummy in the Atacama Desert ghost town of La Noria. The six-inch-long mummy, now called Ata, has an elongated skull, oddly shaped eye sockets, and only ten pairs of ribs... which helped fuel wild speculation that she was an alien hybrid. Ata was sold several times—probably illegally—and ended up in the private collection of Barcelona entrepreneur and UFO enthusiast Ramón Navia-Osorio. A 2013 documentary called Sirius soon helped immortalize Ata, focusing heavily on the alien hybrid claims.
When a team led by University of California, San Francisco bioinformatics researcher Sanchita Bhattacharya recently sequenced the tiny mummy’s genome, however, it revealed only a girl of Chilean descent. There were a complicated set of genetic mutations, including some usually associated with bone and growth disorders and a few more that have never been described before. Those mutations, the researchers claim, may help explain her unusual appearance.
It’s easy to see why the team's March paper attracted so much interest: a high-profile urban legend was fully debunked at last, but now there were hints at compelling medical discoveries. Most press outlets presented the results as conclusive, cut-and-dried science—except for a few UFO fan sites that loudly insisted the study was part of a cover-up. But even beyond the extraterrestrial exchanges, things have gotten very complicated, both in terms of the scientific claims and in terms of whether the research should have been done at all.
A scientific controversy
The complaints started only three days after Bhattacharya and her colleagues, including Stanford University immunologist Garry Nolan, published their paper in Genome Research. Chilean microbiologist Cristina Dorador of the University of Antofagasta published an article on Chilean science news site Etilmercurio, criticizing the geneticists for working with samples obtained from a mummy that had probably been illegally smuggled out of Chile. By March 28, TheNew York Timesreported that the Chilean National Monuments Council had launched an official inquiry into the provenance of the remains, and Chilean anthropologists and archaeologists criticized the ethics of the study and called for a retraction of the paper.
Nolan and co-author Atul Butte, a computational biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, published a response in the journal Genome Research on March 30, defending the ethics and scientific merits of their work. The journal also issued a statement defending their ethical standards and decision to publish. But now a group of anthropologists is challenging not only the ethics but the science behind the study.
This group, led by University of Otago bioarchaeologist Siân Halcrow, claims that Ata’s appearance was never actually that unusual—if you know what the bones of a human fetus are supposed to look like halfway through gestation. And if they’re right, it means the genetic study was unnecessary in the first place to prove Ata’s humanity or to understand the appearance of her bones.
Bones of contention
“There is nothing about Ata that suggests she is anything but a mummified human fetus,” bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove of the University of West Florida and the Ronin Institute told Ars. “Her body looks like a normal fetus around the mid-point of development and most likely represents a miscarriage.”
Fetal skeletons don’t look quite like fully developed infants. A fetus’ 11th and 12th ribs often haven’t developed by the middle of a pregnancy, for instance. And the process of passing through the birth canal tends to compress babies’ skulls into a slightly elongated, cone-like shape. Combine that with processes at work on the body after burial, the archaeologists say, and Ata’s appearance makes perfect sense.
This argument first emerged in 2013, when Nolan announced the results of an initial genetic study to Science Magazine. Stony Brook University School of Medicine anatomist William Jungers, in an interview at the time, remarked, “Genetic anomalies are not evident, probably because there aren't any.” Jungers is now part of Halcrow’s group.
What about the mutations Bhattacharya and her colleagues found in Ata’s genome? Halcrow and her colleagues say that the ones usually associated with bone and growth disorders wouldn’t impact the appearance of Ata's skeleton so early in her development. And they argue that it could just be coincidence that the previously unidentified mutations turn up at locations associated with bone formation and growth. Mutations, especially ones that affect only a single DNA base, are surprisingly common. And generally, they have no effect on a person’s body because they occur in regions of DNA that don’t actually code for anything.
Although headlines have claimed that Bhattacharya and her colleagues found the genetic mutations that explain Ata's appearance, the researchers themselves have been much more cautious. In an interview with Ars prior to the study's publication, Bhattacharya said that it would take more work in the lab, possibly using mice as a model, to figure out whether these specific mutations actually cause any deformities.
By all accounts, the sky can be filled with myriad peculiar objects, from drones to experimental crafts, or others that some find difficult to explain.
Recently, a viewer saw something aloft over town that struck her as odd, and so she decided to log a report with the Mutual UFO Network, also commonly known as MUFON.
The reported sighting took place last June, some time between 5:45 and 6:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Route 3 and Interstate 495, and was logged in October.
“I was out in the open yard, which is flat, gravel and grass. i was standing, by my friend’s car, talking to her,” the report states. “Out of the corner of my eye I saw movement in the air and looked up. Both objects were in the air, not over 300 feet above and about 40 feet in front of me. Both objects were exactly alike.”
The report said, “The first object was in front, the second object was in the rear and maintained constant position from the first one, which was about 20ft behind and 30ft to the left of the first one, but not lower than the first. there was absolutely no sound.”
The two objects flew steadily, “almost as if there was a rod between them to keep them together and maintain status. My friend is handicapped and was unable to get out of the car in time to see them.”
The report also mentions a helicopter coming into nearby.
The viewer said she didn’t think to take a photo, noting that she does not take good photos. But, she said, “I too happy to finally see something I’ve never seen before. There were other people in the yard but no one looked up or paid attention, they were all talking to each other a few yards away. i have never seen any object in the sky in my entire life that looked like this.”
Eric Hartwig, the state director of the network’s Massachusetts chapter, said he contacted the woman, and noted that the organization does not reveal the identities of those who file reports.
A quest to know
Strictly speaking, UFO is simply an acronym for “unidentified flying object,” with no inference about the object’s nature or source.
The Mutual UFO Network follows up on reports, and sometimes sends an investigator to the site of the report. The goal is to check out the information objectively, and much of the time, the sighting is ruled to be something fairly ordinary, such as a manmade craft, a reflection of light, or a normal celestial object such as a planet or meteor.
In this case, Hartwig said he believes the phone interview was sufficient.
“She described two metallic objects, that had a lattice-like appearance, like under a porch,” Hartwig said. “The odd thing was, there was a garage or something in the area, and the guys are out there, a bunch of workers just hanging out. She is across the yard in the parking lot there.” It did not appear that the men saw the sighting, or that they were too engaged in conversation to notice anything unusual, Hartwig said.
The woman provided a drawing of what she saw.
Hartwig said, “What I mentioned to her was that from what she is describing, it sounds almost like an ion propulsion -- people will build these experimental things.”
Hartwig alluded to videos on YouTube showing demonstrations of such crafts, which he said can throw out a breeze. Often, the craft makers put aluminum foil around the crafts, “and it causes this ion effect, and that’s just what I thought of when she described it.”
The dimensions as described seemed small, said Hartwig. “It looked like a few feet thick. In other words, it didn’t look like it had the room for occupants, really,” Hartwig said.
‘Fact-based approach’
The tracking of UFOs is controversial both in popular culture and in the scientific community.
But Nancy Kotary, communications officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sHaystack Observatory in Westford, said, “We think that scientists are naturally curious and also want to identify unknown things. Wanting to identify things is in line with science.”
The observatory devotes most of its research to radioastronomy -- which is concerned with radio emissions from objects in space -- as well as atmospheric studies and studies of the ionosphere.
The ionosphere is the part of the atmosphere with a high concentration of ions and free electrons, and which is able to reflect radio waves.
Kotary said, “We take a science-based aproach, and don’t take too seriously things that can’t be proven.”
Kotary added, “We understanding wanting to know what something is. We just take a very fact-based approach.”
By all accounts, the sky can be filled with myriad peculiar objects, from drones to experimental crafts, or others that some find difficult to explain.
Recently, a viewer saw something aloft over town that struck her as odd, and so she decided to log a report with the Mutual UFO Network, also commonly known as MUFON.
The reported sighting took place last June, some time between 5:45 and 6:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Route 3 and Interstate 495, and was logged in October.
“I was out in the open yard, which is flat, gravel and grass. i was standing, by my friend’s car, talking to her,” the report states. “Out of the corner of my eye I saw movement in the air and looked up. Both objects were in the air, not over 300 feet above and about 40 feet in front of me. Both objects were exactly alike.”
The report said, “The first object was in front, the second object was in the rear and maintained constant position from the first one, which was about 20ft behind and 30ft to the left of the first one, but not lower than the first. there was absolutely no sound.”
The two objects flew steadily, “almost as if there was a rod between them to keep them together and maintain status. My friend is handicapped and was unable to get out of the car in time to see them.”
The report also mentions a helicopter coming into nearby.
The viewer said she didn’t think to take a photo, noting that she does not take good photos. But, she said, “I too happy to finally see something I’ve never seen before. There were other people in the yard but no one looked up or paid attention, they were all talking to each other a few yards away. i have never seen any object in the sky in my entire life that looked like this.”
Eric Hartwig, the state director of the network’s Massachusetts chapter, said he contacted the woman, and noted that the organization does not reveal the identities of those who file reports.
A quest to know
Strictly speaking, UFO is simply an acronym for “unidentified flying object,” with no inference about the object’s nature or source.
The Mutual UFO Network follows up on reports, and sometimes sends an investigator to the site of the report. The goal is to check out the information objectively, and much of the time, the sighting is ruled to be something fairly ordinary, such as a manmade craft, a reflection of light, or a normal celestial object such as a planet or meteor.
In this case, Hartwig said he believes the phone interview was sufficient.
“She described two metallic objects, that had a lattice-like appearance, like under a porch,” Hartwig said. “The odd thing was, there was a garage or something in the area, and the guys are out there, a bunch of workers just hanging out. She is across the yard in the parking lot there.” It did not appear that the men saw the sighting, or that they were too engaged in conversation to notice anything unusual, Hartwig said.
The woman provided a drawing of what she saw.
Hartwig said, “What I mentioned to her was that from what she is describing, it sounds almost like an ion propulsion -- people will build these experimental things.”
Hartwig alluded to videos on YouTube showing demonstrations of such crafts, which he said can throw out a breeze. Often, the craft makers put aluminum foil around the crafts, “and it causes this ion effect, and that’s just what I thought of when she described it.”
The dimensions as described seemed small, said Hartwig. “It looked like a few feet thick. In other words, it didn’t look like it had the room for occupants, really,” Hartwig said.
‘Fact-based approach’
The tracking of UFOs is controversial both in popular culture and in the scientific community.
But Nancy Kotary, communications officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sHaystack Observatory in Westford, said, “We think that scientists are naturally curious and also want to identify unknown things. Wanting to identify things is in line with science.”
The observatory devotes most of its research to radioastronomy -- which is concerned with radio emissions from objects in space -- as well as atmospheric studies and studies of the ionosphere.
The ionosphere is the part of the atmosphere with a high concentration of ions and free electrons, and which is able to reflect radio waves.
Kotary said, “We take a science-based aproach, and don’t take too seriously things that can’t be proven.”
Kotary added, “We understanding wanting to know what something is. We just take a very fact-based approach.”
We have been searching for life on other space globes, including our natural satellite, Moon and our closest neighbor, Mars.
Moon is the only place after Earth where we, the humans have walked. The purpose was to find out if our moon can host life!
Space agencies are planning to land humans on Mars, too, in the near future to dig out the traces of life. NASA and their European counterparts are also extending their search for extraterrestrial life on some of the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and a few dwarf planets such as Ceres. These strange rocks have many awesome characteristics to support life.
Scientists and space watchers have time and again created the sensation with their not-so-reliable findings.
According to many conspiracy theories, aliens are already in contact with humans. If that is true, how easy it is for us to identify extraterrestrial life on Earth and in the outer space?
Finds of a Spanish University
A Spanish journal “Acta Astronautica” recently published a report about the finds of a study done by researchers at the University of Cádiz, Spain. A group of people was asked to spot the (signs of) human-made structures on alien land, and most of them spotted Earth-like creatures such as the famous waving gorilla or the (illusion of) human face on the top of a volcanic mountain on Mars.
Humans are so biased and have such a narrow definition of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) that it is hard for them to believe that aliens can be present in any form and may have an entirely different DNA or physical structure.
The reason behind the definition of ETI we have is basically the science fictions we read or watch. The visual representation of aliens has made us believe that aliens are an advanced version of humans. However, the fact can be miles away from our belief.
Telescopes and radio antennas to receive alien signals
NASA and other agencies have installed large radio telescopes to see and receive alien frequencies.
Amoeboid found below the thick frozen layer of water on a distant planet can also be an example of extraterrestrial life. Can single-celled creatures send radio signals or can it be spotted through a large city-sized telescope in the Earth’s orbit? Are the technology and approach we use to #search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) really alien friendly? Are they advanced enough to spot aliens?
Characteristically, we have been searching for blue-red human-like creatures that we see in our movies. But, we need to understand that not every living thing in the universe can be a mirror image of creatures living on the Earth.
It’s all about the limitations of our imagination, say the researchers at the Spanish University.
The need is to broaden our search criteria to find brainy aliens. We need to peep into multiple directions following a multidisciplinary approach. But, what remains unquestioned here is, are we really open for that? Should we really contact aliens? #Alien life#how to spot an alien
Humans have been speculating about their existence for thousands of years, but ours is the 1st generation to know, with certainty, that exoplanets are really out there.
The Milky Way, our own galaxy, stretches across the sky above the La Silla telescope in Chile. Hidden inside our own galaxy are trillions of planets, most waiting to be found.
Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet.
The worlds orbiting other stars are called exoplanets, and they come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets about as big around as Earth or Mars. They can be hot enough to boil metal or locked in deep freeze. They can orbit their stars so tightly that a year lasts only a few days; they can orbit two suns at once. Some exoplanets are sunless rogues, wandering through the galaxy in permanent darkness.
That galaxy, the Milky Way, is the thick stream of stars that cuts across the sky on the darkest, clearest nights. Its spiraling expanse probably contains about 400 billion stars, our sun among them. And if each of those stars has not just one planet, but, like ours, a whole system of them, then the number of planets in the galaxy is truly astronomical: We’re already heading into the trillions.
This rocky super-Earth is an illustration of the type of planets future telescopes, like TESS and James Webb, hope to find outside our solar system.
Image via ESO/M. Kornmesser
We humans have been speculating about such possibilities for thousands of years, but ours is the first generation to know, with certainty, that exoplanets are really out there. In fact, way out there. Our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, was recently found to possess at least one planet – probably a rocky one. It’s 4.5 light-years away – more than 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The bulk of exoplanets found so far are hundreds or thousands of light-years away.
The bad news: As yet we have no way to reach them, and won’t be leaving footprints on them anytime soon. The good news: We can look in on them, take their temperatures, taste their atmospheres and, perhaps one day soon, detect signs of life that might be hidden in pixels of light captured from these dim, distant worlds.
The first exoplanet to burst upon the world stage was 51 Pegasi b, a hot Jupiter 50 light-years away that is locked in a four-day orbit around its star. The watershed year was 1995. All of a sudden, exoplanets were a thing.
When a planet passes directly between its star and an observer, it dims the star’s light by a measurable amount.
Video via NASA/JPL-Caltech
But a few hints had already emerged. A planet now known as Tadmor was detected in 1988, though the discovery was withdrawn in 1992. Ten years later, more and better data showed definitively that it was really there after all.
And a system of three pulsar planets also had been detected, beginning in 1992. These planets orbit a pulsar some 2,300 light-years away. Pulsars are the high-density, rapidly spinning corpses of dead stars, raking any planets in orbit around them with searing lances of radiation.
Now we live in a universe of exoplanets. The count of confirmed planets is 3,700, and rising. That’s from only a small sampling of the galaxy as a whole. The count could rise to the tens of thousands within a decade, as we increase the number, and observing power, of robotic telescopes lofted into space.
How did we get here?
We’re standing on a precipice of scientific history. The era of early exploration, and the first confirmed exoplanet detections, is giving way to the next phase: sharper and more sophisticated telescopes, in space and on the ground. They will go broad but also drill down. Some will be tasked with taking an ever more precise population census of these far-off worlds, nailing down their many sizes and types. Others will make a closer inspection of individual planets, their atmospheres, and their potential to harbor some form of life.
Direct imaging of exoplanets – that is, actual pictures – will play an increasingly larger role, though we’ve arrived at our present state of knowledge mostly through indirect means. The two main methods rely on wobbles and shadows. The wobble method, called radial velocity, watches for the telltale jitters of stars as they are pulled back and forth by the gravitational tugs of an orbiting planet. The size of the wobble reveals the weight, or mass, of the planet.
This evocative movie of four planets more massive than Jupiter orbiting the young star HR 8799 is a composite of sorts, including images taken over seven years at the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii.
Image via Jason Wang/Christian Marois.
This method produced the very first confirmed exoplanet detections, including 51 Peg b in 1995, discovered by astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Ground telescopes using the radial velocity method have discovered nearly 700 planets so far.
But the vast majority of exoplanets have been found by searching for shadows: the incredibly tiny dip in the light from a star when a planet crosses its face. Astronomers call this crossing a transit.
The size of the dip in starlight reveals how big around the transiting planet is. Unsurprisingly, this search for planetary shadows is known as the transit method.
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009, has found nearly 2,700 confirmed exoplanets this way. Now in its K2 mission, Kepler is still discovering new planets, though its fuel is expected to run out soon.
Each method has its pluses and minuses. Wobble detections provide the mass of the planet, but give no information about the planet’s girth, or diameter. Transit detections reveal the diameter but not the mass.
But when multiple methods are used together, we can learn the vital statistics of whole planetary systems – without ever directly imaging the planets themselves. The best example so far is the TRAPPIST-1 system about 40 light-years away, where seven roughly Earth-sized planets orbit a small, red star.
The TRAPPIST-1 planets have been examined with ground and space telescopes. The space-based studies revealed not only their diameters, but the subtle gravitational influence these seven closely packed planets have upon each other; from this, scientists determined each planet’s mass.
So now we know their masses and their diameters. We also know how much of the energy radiated by their star strikes these planets’ surfaces, allowing scientists to estimate their temperatures. We can even make reasonable estimates of the light level, and guess at the color of the sky, if you were standing on one of them. And while much remains unknown about these seven worlds, including whether they possess atmospheres or oceans, ice sheets or glaciers, it’s become the best-known solar system apart from our own.
Where are we going?
The next generation of space telescopes is upon us. First up was Wednesday’s launch of TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. This extraordinary instrument will take a nearly full-sky survey of the closer, brighter stars to look for transiting planets. Kepler, the past master of transits, will be passing the torch of discovery to TESS.
TESS, in turn, will reveal the best candidates for a closer look with the James Webb Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch in 2020. The Webb telescope, deploying a giant, segmented, light-collecting mirror that will ride on a shingle-like platform, is designed to capture light directly from the planets themselves. The light then can be split into a multi-colored spectrum, a kind of bar code showing which gases are present in the planet’s atmosphere. Webb’s targets might include super Earths, or planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – some that could be rocky planets like super-sized versions of our own.
An illustration of the different missions and observatories in NASA’s exoplanet program, both present and future.
Image via NASA.
Little is known about these big planets, including whether some might be suitable for life. If we’re very lucky, perhaps one of them will show signs of oxygen, carbon dioxide and methane in its atmosphere. Such a mix of gases would remind us strongly of our own atmosphere, possibly indicating the presence of life.
But hunting for Earth-like atmospheres on Earth-sized exoplanets will probably have to wait for a future generation of even more powerful space probes in the 2020s or 2030s.
Thanks to the Kepler telescope’s statistical survey, we know the stars above are rich with planetary companions. And as we stare up at the night sky, we can be sure not only of a vast multitude of exoplanet neighbors, but of something else: The adventure is just beginning.
Bottom line: Worlds orbiting other stars are called exoplanets. How we know they’re out there, plus the potential for finding more via the newly launched TESS mission.
“It’s the beginning of a new era of exoplanet research.”
The TESS planet hunter successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Wednesday evening. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched NASA’s TESS mission on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. After a delayed launch on Monday, Wednesday’s launch took place at 6:51 p.m. EDT (22:51 UTC; translate UTC to your time). TESS – a first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life – was deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 49 minutes after launch. At 7:53 p.m., the twin solar arrays that will power the spacecraft successfully deployed.
Following stage separation, SpaceX successfully landed Falcon 9’s first stage on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean.
You can watch a replay of the launch webcast below.
TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The two-year survey mission is expected to find thousands of new exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – orbiting in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.
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How many worlds exist outside our solar system? @NASA_TESS launched from planet Earth today at 6:51pm ET to hunt for planets around some of the closest & brightest stars. TESS will use 4 cameras to search nearly the entire sky for unknown worlds. More: http://go.nasa.gov/2HdnRqy
Over the course of several weeks, TESS will use six thruster burns to travel in a series of progressively elongated orbits to reach the moon, which will provide a gravitational assist so that TESS can transfer into its 13.7-day final science orbit around Earth. After approximately 60 days of check-out and instrument testing, the spacecraft will begin its work …
[For this mission] scientists divided the sky into 26 sectors. TESS will use four unique wide-field cameras to map 13 sectors encompassing the southern sky during its first year of observations and 13 sectors of the northern sky during the second year, altogether covering 85 percent of the sky.
TESS will be watching for phenomena called transits. A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its star from the observer’s perspective, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star’s brightness. More than 78 percent of the approximately 3,700 confirmed exoplanets have been found using transits.
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft found more than 2,600 exoplanets, most orbiting faint stars between 300 and 3,000 light-years from Earth, using this same method of watching for transits. TESS will focus on stars between 30 and 300 light-years away and 30 to 100 times brighter than Kepler’s targets.
The brightness of these target stars will allow researchers to use spectroscopy, the study of the absorption and emission of light, to determine a planet’s mass, density and atmospheric composition. Water, and other key molecules, in its atmosphere can give us hints about a planet’s capacity to harbor life.
A transit happens when a planet crosses in front of its star as viewed from Earth. Transits by small, rocky planets produce a minute change in a star’s brightness (about 100 parts per million), lasting for 2 to 16 hours. If this tiny change happens again and again, on a regular schedule, it might indicate an orbiting exoplanet.
George Ricker is TESS principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He explained:
One critical piece for the science return of TESS is the high data rate associated with its orbit. Each time the spacecraft passes close to Earth, it will transmit full-frame images taken with the cameras. That’s one of the unique things TESS brings that was not possible before.
Stephen Rinehart is TESS project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He said:
The targets TESS finds are going to be fantastic subjects for research for decades to come. It’s the beginning of a new era of exoplanet research.
Haven’t got enough yet? SpaceX livestreamed the launch, and you can watch a replay of this launch webcast below …
Bottom line: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched NASA’s TESS mission on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. All systems appear to be go at this time.
A Mystery In History: When God Made Burning Sulfur Destroy Sodom And Gomorrah
A Mystery In History: When God Made Burning Sulfur Destroy Sodom And Gomorrah
“Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land…” (Source)
Sodom and Gomorrah were two ancient cities that, according to the Old Testament, were destroyed in ancient times by supernatural means.
The cities are described as two of the cities that were part of the biblical Pentapolis, located on the shores of the Dead Sea. Gomorrah was situated in the valley of Siddim next to the Dead Sea and was one of the five cities of the plain, along with Sodom, Adma, Zoar, and Zeboim.
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah takes place primarily in Genesis 19, where it is reported that God sentenced the destruction to these cities by the abject perversion of its inhabitants.
YHWH rained on Sodom, and Gomorrah brimstone and fire destroyed these cities and all the men in them.
“(Gn 19: 27-28) God decides to take the life he gave them, but before executing his sentence sends two angels to the city of Sodom with the mission of rescuing Lot and his people.
In this part of the scriptures, Gomorrah is not mentioned as part of the visits of the angels or that Lot had any connection with this neighboring city of Sodom.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, John Martin, 1832.
Moses referred to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Deuteronomy 29:22–23:
“Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it. The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.” —NIV
A wealth of information is available about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in various religious texts, including the Koran, where we find details of accounts that are a mixture of facts and myths.
The legends of Sodom and Gomorrah speak of peculiar personalities, angels and other deities who literally warned people to leave these doomed cities whose catastrophic fate was inevitable. These stories are a mixture of different accounts.
Many Biblical scholars would agree that Sodom and Gomorrah are probably two of the most infamous cities that may have existed on planet Earth.
These cities have been lost for millennia, and only in recent years, have the sites been tentatively identified by experts who have proposed dozens of different theories about these mystical cities and their fate.
But what really happened here and what do the stories tell? What has been written down?
Here are some of the things we have to know when talking about Sodom and Gomorrah
The Bible tells the story of what happened:
(Genesis 18:20; 19: 24-26.28)
24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed in the background of Lucas van Leyden’s 1520 painting Lot and his Daughters.
Their Geographical location remains disrupted. However, some experts believe that the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, two adjacent archeological sites said by some to be the two cities’ locations.
Bab edh-Dhra is the site of an Early Bronze Age settlement located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak. Some biblical scholars argue that this was the ancient city of “Sodom”. Other archaeologists disagree.
The archaeological site of Numeira is, according to some scholars, the location of the city of Gomorra.
It has been argued that Numeira approximates the alleged biblical city of Gomorrah, although other several scholars have countered these claims, arguing that it is in the wrong geographical area, and is not within the designated timeframe.
And while the location of these two important historic cities remains a mystery for experts, ancient astronaut theorists suggest that Sodom and Gomorrah are the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the distant past, 4000 years ago.
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe that these ancient accounts, described in the Bible and other religious texts indicate the presence of supernatural beings present on Earth, and how these two cities were destroyed, not by God’s wrath, but by the use of extremely advanced weaponry, brought to Earth by beings, not from Earth.
The Area where Sodom And Gomorra were allegedly located is also particularly interesting.
The Dead Sea’s surface and shores are 429 meters (1,407 ft) below sea level, representing Earth’s lowest elevation on land.
The Dead Sea is 304 m (997 ft) deep, which makes it the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.
With 34.2% salinity, The Dead Sea also happens to be one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Vanda in Antarctica (35%), Lake Assal in Djibouti (34.8%) in Jordan and many smaller rivers flow into the Dead Sea.
The Jordan river has a major importance in Judaism and Christianity and, to a more moderate degree, Islam. It is said to be the site where the Israelites crossed into the Promised Land and where John the Baptist baptized Jesus of Nazareth.
Interestingly, according to scientific measurements, evaporation under the burning sun occurs on the surface of the Dead Sea at a speed of more than 230 million cubic feet per day.
As noted by Arab tradition, there are many poisonous gases evaporating from the lake that are so hazardous that birds cannot fly over it.
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.
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.
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UFO Legacy: What Impact Will Revelation of Secret Government Program Have?
UFO Legacy: What Impact Will Revelation of Secret Government Program Have?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Believers in aliens visiting Earth's friendly skies via Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) couldn't ask for more: A secretive government group backed by federal "black money," a talkative former U.S. military intelligence official, fighter-jet video of odd objects doing out-of-this-world maneuvers and a space mogul purportedly housing leftovers of unidentified aerial craft.
It all has the feel of sliding open a top drawer in a new "X-Files" TV episode.
Yes, "the truth is out there," a maxim made all the stranger by reports last month by both The New York Times and Politico Magazine of the secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, or AATIP for short. Along with the reporting, a video was released by the Department of Defense showing a 2004 encounter near San Diego involving two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. [UFO Watch: 8 Times the Government Looked for Flying Saucers]
Behind the scenes
AATIP was originated by then-United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who garnered taxpayer dollars to start the program in 2007, along with the support of the late senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
But behind the scenes is Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace, a Harry Reid political donor in Nevada. A hefty chunk of the AATIP's $22 million budget over five years was reportedly given to Bigelow's company to hire subcontractors and carry out research for the program.
Now toss into the mix Luis Elizondo, the former intelligence officer who ran the AATIP, which initially was under the wing of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He resigned from the job last October, advising CNN post-departure that it was his personal belief "that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone."
Elizondo also told CNN that the craft studied by AATIP "are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of." [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Turning point
Jan Harzan, the executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), sees the eye-opening reporting as a "turning point in the study of UFOs." He said his organization is excited about the events beginning to unfold "and feel[s] the public and everyone on this planet should be as well."
MUFON has been investigating and researching the UFO phenomenon since 1969, Harzan said. The group's analysis of over 100,000 UFO reports over the past five decades has shown three things to be true, he has stated:
1. UFOs are real
2. UFOs represent extremely advanced technology
3. Tremendous breakthroughs will happen if we make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon unimpeded. These breakthroughs involve the fields of propulsion, energy, communication, biology and consciousness, to name just a few.
The recently released fighter-jet camera video of craft off the coast of San Diego "is just the tip of the iceberg," Harzan said. "Our military vaults are full of such videos and data on these objects. Now that the spill gates have been opened a little, it is time for the rest to come out in an orderly fashion," he added, "and in so doing make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon without fear of ridicule or retribution, but with funding provided by Congress and private industry." [UFO Watch: 8 Times the Government Looked for Flying Saucers]
Reported UFOs take on all shapes and sizes.
Credit: UK National Archives sightings chart circa 1969.
No national security threat
The new revelation about the AATIP is evidence that the U.S. government has been researching and taking this issue seriously for decades, despite claiming no interest in the phenomenon since 1969, said Alejandro Rojas, spokesman for the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU).
Indeed, between 1952 and its termination in 1969, the U.S. Air Force's official UFO-investigation program, known as Project Blue Book, came to the following set of conclusions: 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; and there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.
Advanced technology
Rojas endorses the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon and believes that all information regarding unidentified aerial objects should be released so that the data can be properly analyzed by the scientific community.
"Remember, the 'U' is for unidentified, not alien," said Rojas, who is also director of operations for Open Minds Production.
"We don't know what these things are," Rojas told Space.com. "Just because we get uncomfortable with the idea of aliens does not mean we should not investigate when the people who pilot our most advanced technology say they encounter something that outclasses their aircraft. It would be highly negligent not to investigate."
Another striking point in the recent disclosure, Rojas added, is that the incidents "are very similar to events that have been recorded by the U.S. Air Force and other governments for decades."
Tone of evidence
There is one head-scratcher: Why release this information now? Some see it as a trial balloon to take the pulse of citizens' reactions. Is the public being set up for the really big news about alien visitors?
"I can't say I know why things are coming out at this time," said Stanton Friedman, a retired nuclear physicist and a long-time investigator and lecturer on the UFO phenomenon.
"I appreciate the courage of those former officials who came forth," Friedman said. He criticized debunkers who advocate listening for alien signals "but ignore the tone of evidence of alien visitors."
Small program, little to show
Robert Sheaffer is a writer and one of the leading skeptical investigators of UFOs.
In his summary of recent events, Sheaffer notes that Robert Bigelow has been a strong believer in UFOs and alien visitors all his life. He was a campaign contributor to Sen. Reid and some of Reid's causes and persuaded Reid that the military budget ought to include funds for the study of UFOs.
The AATIP is a small program by Pentagon standards, Sheaffer said; it ultimately spent just $22 million over five years.
"Who knew it apparently only takes three senators to set up a secret Pentagon project?" Sheaffer said.
Funding for the AATIP activity was discontinued in 2012, Sheaffer said, "because it was not producing any results, just reams of paper, although the investigation is reported to still be continuing, but without funding, if that is possible."
"They have only released two very blurry infrared videos of objects that appear to be distant jets, without sufficient information to do a really good analysis of them," he added. "So, ultimately, all you have are a few UFO believers in and outside government who were able to get away with funneling a few million Pentagon dollars to themselves for UFO research, and have very little to show for it." [Ten Alien Encounters Debunked]
Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow has a long-standing interest in UFOs.
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UFO artifacts
Sheaffer said that what is really interesting is the statement in The New York Times story that, under Bigelow's direction, the aerospace company "modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena."
If that's true, Bigelow supposedly has actual artifacts from UFOs, Sheaffer said, "and in fact has such a large quantity that he needs to modify his buildings to accommodate them? That is just utterly bizarre. We need an explanation of exactly what buildings were modified at federal expense, and what do they contain?" he said.
Purpose of the program
"Threat identification is obviously an important task," said Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C.
"But the fact that this program was initiated at the request of Senator Reid — not the Air Force — suggests that national security was not the paramount motivation here," Aftergood said. This impression, he said, is reinforced by the fact that a constituent of Sen. Reid (Robert Bigelow) received funding through the program.
"It is somewhat dismaying to see how quickly 'unidentified' aerial phenomena are publicly interpreted and portrayed as UFOs of possibly extraterrestrial origin," Aftergood concluded. His advice: "Collectively, we should all be becoming more intelligent and more perceptive, not more stupid and gullible."
Serious study
"It is complicated, and I am still trying to make sense of things," said Mark Rodeghier, president and scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, Illinois.
The center was started by Hynek, who served as the astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book. Hynek himself was initially dubious of the whole UFO business, but after culling through hundreds of reports by witnesses, he became convinced UFOs were worthy of serious study.
In broad terms, the outing of the AATIP and its investigation of military UFO sightings "confirms something that has been believed for many years … that these sightings are still happening," Rodeghier said. "We just were not learning about them."
Blip in UFO history?
Rodeghier said he hopes the core of AATIP information that has been gathered can be released to the public and made available for scientific analysis.
"It would be extremely disappointing and frustrating if these reports are not released for scrutiny. We need high-quality data about UFOs to do better science," Rodeghier said.
"If those reports are never released, all of this is going to be blip in UFO history," he added. "But even if it's only a blip in history, it's still a darn interesting blip."
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.
Are you desperate to see a UFO? Or perhaps you actually want to avoid ever experiencing an alien encounter. Never fear, we’ve got you covered with all you need to know about UFO sightings in the US.
This isn’t something out of a 1950s SciFi movie with wires and rubber masks. Thousands of people see unidentified flying objects each year, and here’s what you should know.
States with the Most UFO Sightings
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When you think of UFOs, you might think of places like Roswell, New Mexico. The American southwest has a reputation for being alien country, although plenty of other remote farm towns might also see unexplained phenomena in the skies or fields.
However, the stats show beyond all doubt that the state with the most UFO sightings is California. This could be because it’s such a populous state, so there are more people to do the sightings in the first place.
Other explanations are because of the coastline, which means more people are looking out over the water, or even the lovely weather which means that people spend more time outdoors and are more aware of the skies as a result. It could also be that there are more military bases conducting missile tests that lead to strange occurrences in the sky. Or maybe California is simply more popular for extraterrestrial visitors.
Other states with frequent UFO sightings are Ohio, New York, Florida, Texas and North Carolina. Again, this could be attributed to the population sizes and how much time people spend outdoors staring at the sky, or it could be an indication of which parts of the country are most likely to get visited by alien craft.
How UFO Sightings Have Changed
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After World War II, it seems attention shifted towards UFOs in the US. The term flying saucer was common and people across the country frequently reported sightings. However, numerous sightings were debunked as hoaxes from people seeking attention. You would think this might mean that sightings were less common now, but in fact, UFO sightings are at an all-time high.
UFO sightings skyrocketed in the 1990s and 2000s, and one researcher thinks he knows why. Thanks to increased internet access, people no longer just tell their friends or call into their local radio station to report a sighting. Reports can be made online quickly and easily. Now, with everyone walking around with a camera attached to their phones, people can record the UFO and share it on social media in a matter of moments.
Of course, they are easier to debunk, like when people across California, Nevada and Arizona saw a strange phenomena in January 2018 that turned out to be an after-flare from a SpaceX launch. But there are still plenty of unexplained videos and photos out there.
UFO Sightings Spike in Summer
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If you look at the research on UFO sightings, you’ll see that they are much more common during the summer months. The simplest explanation for this is that people are outside more. Thanks to the nice weather, more people go hiking, camping or even just go on more picnics and eat dinner outside. As a result, there are more people outside, aware of the sky above them.
Other reasons that scientists like to give is that there are more festivals, concerts, and even 4th of July celebrations, which means there are also more fireworks and drones in the atmosphere. Some people even like to blame the fact that summer blockbusters often include some elements of alien life, making viewers most likely to look up at the sky and find unexplained lights or flying objects.
Spotted a UFO? – What You Should Do
First thing is to make sure to get evidence. Take a picture or better yet a video with your phone. Point it out to friends so that they can also capture pictures or videos, possibly from different angles. The more evidence that you can collect, the more credible you will be when you report it.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any official government bodies in the US that want you to report UFOs to them. You can contact homeland security, but there are fines and penalties for hoax reporting and they appear to be more interested in earthly beings. As a result, there’s the Mutual UFO Network known as MUFON. You can use their form to file a UFO sighting.
It’s also best to post the video or pictures on social media. If you’re embarrassed, you don’t need to claim that you saw an alien. Simply post the image or video on your social media platform of choice, tag in some local news networks and ask them what you might be seeing. If it’s easily explained, at least others will get to see an interesting phenomenon in the sky. If it’s not so easily explained, you might just be a source as proof that UFOs are still common in our modern society.
The internet has shown many weird and strange videos in our time, but this one might be one of those rarest clips.
A Facebook page of a group known as Ufo Türkiye uploaded a video that caught the attention of netizens, which has now a total of over 17,000 views and around 300,00 shares.
The video apparently shows an unidentified flying object in the sky above Turkey. A dark shape can be seen in the video, which undoubtedly looks like a UFO. It can also be observed in the footage that the strange aerial object hovers for a few seconds and then flies off in the flash of light.
The controversial video comes just a few weeks after a plane passenger on a commercial flight to Athens, Greece claimed he caught a UFO moving alongside the aircraft.
Kerry Forides filmed the UFO from his seat while travelling above the Aegean Sea on the 28th of March.
Forides then posted the video on his Facebook page and YouTube.
The description of the video says that the UFO appears to be moving away at right angles from the commercial jet where Forides was onboard, and they end up almost following the strange object without either of them appearing to turn.
Woman Claims She Felt Chills Up Her Spine After Seeing A UFO
Woman Claims She Felt Chills Up Her Spine After Seeing A UFO
A woman felt chills up to her spine after observing an unidentified flying object.
Suzanne Riley claimed that she saw a black craft hovering over trees while driving on her way home from work on Saturday.
On Facebook, Suzanne posted that she thought a Decepticon from the movie Transformer was going to land on her car.
Suzanne said that the sighting above A691 left her scared and confused.
She said that she was shocked while staring at the object and thought what the hell was that object. She further stated that the cars around her were stopping and she almost hit a man in front of the red car who had jumped out with his phone. She couldn’t stop thinking about what happened.
She also claimed that a military aircraft arrived moments after the sighting happened.
Suzanne described the object as a triangular angled appearance and had no visible windows or doors. She added that it had lots of edges going all over it and not just a triangle in the sky. She explained that no real wings or propellers were visible. She was no idea about the object’s identity that she was not sure if she could sketch it.
Among several suggestions she got from her friends was the possibility that it could have been a Nighthawk stealth aircraft. Secretive Skunk Works division of Lockheed developed the plane that could travel up to 1,000 km/h, particularly popular during the Gulf War. In 2008, however, it was retired. North-East UFO expert Glen Richardson was wondering if it was that particular model.
Hartlepool-based Glen doubted that kind of plane would be hovering above the woods. He suspected it to be military testing, but not really sure what it could be.
He urged anyone with footage to release it as he would like to investigate the sighting.
The strange event took place mid-afternoon near the County Durham village of Lanchester. Glen stated that this incident was one of many that hit the region recently.
Glen said that he observed a canny wave recently in the North-East and no reasons for it that he could think. He stressed that people these days just gained more courage to speak more on what they saw. He added that footage is vital to any investigation.
Suzanne, who did not get a snap out of her sighting, asked anyone who has the footage to share it to help give explanations for her close encounter. She said that the sighting left her confused and a bit scared due to insufficient knowledge of the object’s identity.
A spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense said that they were three Apache helicopters flying over where the sighting happened on that day. However, no further information was released.
Nevertheless, Suzanne was convinced that it wasn’t looked like a helicopter in any way.
Alien Implants: The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Abductions?
Alien Implants: The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Abductions?
Every time we speak about aliens, we talk about UFO sightings. When talking about UFO signs, people speak of alien abductions, and when you read about a case where someone claims to be abducted, you end up learning about alien implants.
But what are the mysterious, miniature devices? Fact or fiction? If proven authentic, these implants could be considered as crystal-clear evidence of an alien presence on Earth.
For years, the general public has been tormented by stories of UFO sightings, and even, in some cases, even alien encounters.
However, fact-checking these stories have been disappointingly challenging to achieve.
More often than not, it simply comes down to taking a person’s word for it.
In some cases, photographs have been taken, but, inevitably, questions about their authenticity always come to light.
Therefore, when it comes down to aliens, and UFOs, physical evidence has been treated as the Holy Grail of UFO research.
The amount of “official” information about the UFO phenomenon that has been made available thanks to ufology reports around the world is impressive.
In recent years, various governments around the world have taken a step towards Disclosure as they’ve started releasing an ample amount fo top-secret documents about the UFO Phenomenon.
Not long ago, if you remember, NASA brought together scientists, theologians, philosophers, and historians to examine how to prepare the world for alien contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.
Recently, declassified materials have revealed that the Pentagon spent at least 22 million dollars researching the UFO phenomena in a secret program that existed for at least three years.
According to reports, from 2008 through 2011, the Pentagon spent a budget of around 22 million dollars on a program that investigated UFO’s. Called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the mysterious secret program was supposedly shut down in 2012.
Anyway, getting back to alien implants…
Strange marks on the body and implants extracted from people who claim to have been abducted have been present whenever someone comes forward saying he or she was abducted by aliens.
The case of the extracted implants is very fascinating, and if proven authentic, this material could be considered as the long searched for scientific evidence of the existence of aliens, and alien abductions.
Dr. Roger Leir is arguably the best person with ‘experience’ in the extraction of extraterrestrial implants. According to Dr. Leir, he performed 17 surgeries in which he extracted small objects of unknown origin.
According to Dr. Leir, a hallucinatory feature is that these supposed incrustations the size of a pencil point were magnetic in nature, and some even emitted radio frequencies.
Other objects examined had meteorite fragments inside them; metals such as gallium, germanium, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium.
According to Alex Mosier, who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Chemistry, and Physics, who examined the pieces together with Leir, fibers were found very similar to carbon nano-tubes, suggesting that the fragments were designed or manufactured:
“You would not find these things in nature, they have to be processed, they require complex engineering, and they are not easy to manufacture. ”
As noted by mufon.com, tests were performed on both the removed alien implants and the individuals several years after surgical removal.
The alleged implants removed from the first set of surgeries were studied by two different pathologists and then sent to various independent laboratories for extensive scientific analysis. The tests performed on these alleged alien implants were: a pathology/tissue evaluation, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), extensive metallurgical testing involving a density immersion test, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction pattern analysis and electron/magnetic and fluorescence property analysis. Isotopic range tests are also in progress. Tests were conducted by the National Institute of Discovery of Science (NIDS), New Mexico Tech, and other independent sources.
“The findings of these implant surgeries are highly unusual,” reported Dr. Leir. “In all these cases, there was virtually no inflammatory response.”
This is not the usual finding in foreign tissue reactions. Typically, foreign bodies embedded in tissues result in some type of acute or chronic inflammatory response and may include fibrosis and cyst formation. Such was not the case here. The pathology reports of the first two surgeries revealed that the metallic objects were encased in a very dense, tough, grey membrane consisting of proteinaceous coagulum, hemoseridin, and pure keratin.
More directly, blood protein and skin cells that are usually found in the superficial layer of the skin. Biological “cocoons” encasing the implants were also found to contain nerve proprioceptors – nerve and pressure cells of the wrong tissue type for that part of the body. These implant cocoons also fluoresced a bright green color in the presence of an ultraviolet light source.
Dr. Leir, who also worked as a consultant physician at the Mutual UFO Network, claimed that the people from whom he extracted the alien objects had no visible scars or disruption in the integrity of the skin.
There were no signs of inflammation, but the X-rays showed the incrustation, which seemed almost impossible.
The specialist in podiatry died on March 14, 2014 (paradoxically, due to a foot injury), so his studies did not go beyond a limited budget that prevented further understanding of the findings.
Until now, medicine, and probably other scientific fields, have had a phobia with respect to performing tests on people who claimed to have been abducted.
There are very few scientists and doctors who have dared to venture out into UFOlogy, especially because of the loss of prestige that this entails. However, if we are to come to the bottom of the UFO mystery, scientists, doctors, and other experts should start thinking about proactively participating in the UFO discussion, as only then will we be able to fully understand what on Earth is going on.
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THE AURORA, TEXAS CRASH OF 1897
THE AURORA, TEXAS CRASH OF 1897
The state of Texas has always been called the “big state.” This expression applies to many things, but is especially true regarding “tall tales.” I have heard them all of my life, and sometimes it is difficult to separate truth from fiction. Such is the case with one story that comes from the small town of Aurora.
The town’s history book labels the community as “the town that almost wasn’t,” and that expression is directly related to the legend of a spaceship crashing into a windmill, and the burial of a small alien creature found in the aftermath.This event has become the most important news story to ever come out of this small Texas city. Aurora was designated a “historical site” by the State of Texas.
The year was 1897, and this was the year of the “great airships” reports in the United States. As the story goes, it was on April 17, 1897, that a slow moving space ship crashed into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered.
Originally the alien pilot was dubbed the “Martian pilot.”
Some of the debris also revealed material sketched with a type of hieroglyphic. The town folk gave the poor little creature a proper burial in the local cemetery.
This incident, whether true or not, has had just enough publicity to stay afloat for over 100 years. It was made into a movie, “The Aurora Encounter” in 1986, starring Jack Elam.
The news of the crash spread quickly, even for that time period. A newspaper article of the event still exists, written by S. E. Haydon, reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Below is the original article:
About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before.
Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden.
The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
The story never gained a lot of exposure at the time, but held on until it was commented on by UPI on May 24, 1973:
“Aurora, Tex. — (UPI) — A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains the body of an 1897 astronaut who was ‘not an inhabitant of this world,’ according to the International UFO Bureau. The group, which investigates unidentified flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said Wednesday.”
“After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor’s place, April 19, 1897,” Hewes said.” “He was not an inhabitant of this world.”
The legend was back in the news! Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up the first report with another from Aurora. They had located a living witness to the event.
A ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident was quoted. “I had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently.”
She said her parents had actually been to the crash sight, but had not allowed her to accompany them for fear of what might be in the debris.
She recalled that the remains of the pilot, “a small man,” had been buried in the Aurora cemetery, validating the other legends.
The Associated Press now joined the chase for the sensational story. From the city of Denton, Texas came this account:
“A North Texas State University professor had found some metal fragments near the Oates gas station (former Proctor farm). One fragment was said to be ‘most intriguing’ because it consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties.”
The professor also said he was puzzled because the fragment was “shiny and malleable instead of dull and brittle like iron.”
For reasons unknown, the Aurora Cemetery Association fought the attempts to exhume the alleged alien body. They were successful, and the dead alien’s remains stayed a mystery. The town of Aurora still shows traces of Military intervention today, and the question must be asked, “Why would the U. S. Military be in the town of Aurora?”
Anyone familiar with the Roswell crash of 1947 will remember that debris from Mac Brazel’s field was flown to Ft. Worth, which is only a short hop’s distance from Aurora. Is this why the Military was in Aurora? Could the Government have the alien body?
Today Aurora, like other cities, is modernized, and yet a few hints of the past still remain. Although the headstone of the alien was stolen, there remain pictures of it today. A copy of this photo now adorns the grave site.
There has been, at times, a lobby to exhume the remains of the little pilot and give it a proper burial, with a new headstone. So far, this has not happened. Should the little grave be dug up, or should we just leave it and the legend of the Aurora UFO alone?
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There Is Evidence That a Planet in Our Solar System Was Destroyed
There Is Evidence That a Planet in Our Solar System Was Destroyed
By Elizabeth Howell, Live Science Contributor
This long-lost planet would have existed at the very start of our solar system, billions of years ago. Shown here, an artist's illustration of a baby solar system forming, with a ring of debris around a young star.
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An asteroid that slammed into the Sudan desert on Oct. 7, 2008, shot out lots of little space rocks holding a precious secret: diamonds that likely formed billions of years ago inside the embryo of a now-decimated planet.
That lost planet was the size of Mercury or perhaps Mars, researchers now say.
In the space rocks, which are also called meteorites, researchers found compounds common to diamonds on Earth, such as chromite, phosphate and iron-nickel sulfides. It's the first time these diamond components have been found in an extraterrestrial body, the researchers said in a new study describing the findings. [See Photos of Meteorites Discovered Around the World]
The finding provides more information on the early days of our solar system about 4.4 billion years ago, when the zone near the sun had several planetary embryos. Many of them coalesced into the planets we see today. Others fell into the sun or were ejected into interstellar space.
Diamond inclusions appear blue in this colorized scanning transmission electron microscope image of Almahata Sitta meteorite No. 15.
Credit: Dr. F. Nabiei/Dr. E. Oveisi/Prof. C. Hébert, EPFL, Switzerland
The meteorites were formed after an asteroid slammed into Earth's atmosphere — making it technically a meteor — exploding 23 miles (37 kilometers) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. The explosion from the 13-foot-wide (4 meters) body shot fragments all over the desert below. Researchers picked up 50 of these pieces, which ranged in size from 0.4 to 4 inches (1 to 10 centimeters).
(An asteroid is a space rock, a meteor is a space rock burning up in Earth's atmosphere, and a meteorite is the leftover fragment that reaches Earth after a meteor comes through the atmosphere.)
Researchers collected these tiny meteorites into a collection called "Almahata Sitta"; this is the Arabic word for "Station Six," a train station nearby the meteorite fall and between Wadi Halfa and Khartoum. After collecting the tiny meteorites, researchers discovered nano-size diamonds inside them. But at first, the origins of the diamonds eluded researchers.
The black "rock" is an Almahata Sitta meteorite found in the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan.
Credit: Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)
Nanodiamonds can form from "normal" static pressure inside a large parent body like Earth, but there are other origin theories as well. High-energy collisions between worlds in space can leave such diamonds behind, as can deposition by chemical vapor,according to a statement from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland.
The new study, however, revealed that the diamonds in the meteorite could form only under pressures higher than 20 gigapascals. This is an extremely high form of pressure that humans can generate with certain explosives.
"This level of internal pressure can only be explained if the planetary parent body was a Mercury- to Mars-sized planetary 'embryo,' depending on the layer in which the diamonds were formed," the researchers said in a statement from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland. Farhang Nabiei, a doctoral student at the institution, led the research.
That planetary embryo would have then been destroyed through violent collisions, the researchers noted.
The research was published online yesterday (April 17) in the journal Nature Communications.
Study Claims Technologically Advanced Species Could Have Been On Earth Tens Of Millions Of Years Ago
Study Claims Technologically Advanced Species Could Have Been On Earth Tens Of Millions Of Years Ago
We like to think that we are an exception: An intelligent life that has developed a vastly complex indust
rialized civilization unlike anything seen before. But would we actually know if millions of years ago some other life forms had created huge cities, altered the landscape, and formed their own civilization? What would be left of their exploits for us to find?
This is the thought experiment that the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt, and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, Adam Frank, have been exploring. They want to understand if any evidence of a hugely advanced civilization could persist tens of millions of years into the future and, if so, what form it might take. Their results are published in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
“Gavin and I have not seen any evidence of another industrial civilization,” Frank lays out from the onset. Since they have not found any pre-human civilization, they have been looking at what impact we as a species are having on the planet, and how long those impacts are likely to be detectable into the future. “These questions make us think about the future and the past in a much different way, including how any planetary-scale civilization might rise and fall.”
While we have plenty of evidence of past civilizations in the form of statutes and foundations that date back maybe a few thousand years at most, things get far more opaque when the clock is rolled back by a few million or hundreds of millions of years.
While obvious today, these ruins will be but dust in millions of years time. Anastasios71/Shutterstock
Calling this the “Silurian hypothesis” – after the technologically advanced reptiles from Dr. Who – they speculate what would be left if a civilization lasted for 100,000 years or so around 60 million years ago. That may sound like a long time, but in the history of the Earth, it is but a blip. However, the chance of fossils would be rare, so what else could we look for?
As a species, we are currently laying down all sorts of traces that will be detectable in a 100 million years’ time. In feeding 7 billion people, we’ve completely altered the nitrogen cycle, with much of it now finding its way into sediment at the bottom of the ocean and the tops of mountains. On the flip side, rare earth elements that were once buried deep are now floating free at the surface as we develop ever more complex technology.
That’s not to mention the changes in the carbon cycle from burning so much fossil fuel or the millions of tonnes of plastic being laid down. Some have even suggested that all the plastic we’re producing is forming a new kind of rock, and all these changes will still be detectable far into the future.
All this is obviously hypothetical at the moment, but it has an important point. These are the kind of clues we could use to look for previously advanced civilizations on other planets.
“We know early Mars and, perhaps, early Venus were more habitable than they are now, and conceivably we will one day drill through the geological sediments there, too,” says Gavin Schmidt. “This helps us think about what we should be looking for.”
WETENSCHAP Tess, de nieuwe ruimtetelescoop van NASA, is succesvol de ruimte ingeschoten. Daarmee kan de zoektocht naar nieuwe planeten worden voortgezet. De lancering die rond 00.50 uur Belgische tijd plaatsvond verliep zonder problemen, meldt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie.
De lancering was eigenlijk al voor maandag gepland, maar werd uitgesteld om bijkomende tests uit te voeren op het navigatiesysteem van de raket. De ruimteverkenner moet in kaart brengen of er ergens in het heelal een andere planeet is waar misschien leven mogelijk is. Tess is het zusje van de Amerikaanse ruimtetelescoop Kepler, die in 2009 werd gelanceerd en nu aan het einde van zijn leven is.
Ken Tyndall@KenTyndallWFTV
#BREAKING Lift-off! NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite #TESS begins 2-year mission to search for planets outside our solar system! Crowds watch from Jetty Park. @WFTV
TESS, de opvolger van de Kepler-satelliet, is uitgerust met vier camera’s en zal de komende twee jaar lang 200.000 sterren observeren op zoek naar exoplaneten. Die zal de telescoop kunnen waarnemen door het licht dat ze blokkeren in hun baan rond de sterren.
De missie kost rond de 200 miljoen dollar. Vanaf 2019 zal NASA naar verwachting de eerste verwerkte resultaten publiceren.
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FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONSMinamitorishima in de Stille Oceaan, ook wel Marcuseiland genoemd.
ECONOMIE Japanse wetenschappers hebben een ontdekking gedaan die weleens de volledige wereldeconomie kan omgooien. Onder Minamitorishima, een mini-eilandje in de Stille Oceaan, vonden ze 16 miljoen ton zeldzame metalen die van grote waarde zijn voor de techindustrie. De wetenschappers bundelden hun bevindingen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Scientific Reports.
In de modder rond het koraaleiland Minamitorishima, ook Marcuseiland genoemd, zit meer dan 16 miljoen ton aan zeldzame metalen dat gebruikt kan worden in smartphones, elektrische wagens en kernreactoren. De onderzoekers vonden bijvoorbeeld ook yttrium, een erg zeldzaam metaal dat wordt gebruikt voor cameralenzen en smartphoneschermen.
Jack Lifton van Technology Metals Research LLC, dat niet betrokken was bij het onderzoek, noemt de ontdekking een gamechanger voor Japan en de wereldeconomie. “Japan kan waardevolle metalen leveren aan de rest van de wereld op nagenoeg oneindige basis”, vertelt Lifton aan The Wall Street Journal. “De gevonden metalen zijn erg belangrijk in de moderne samenleving.”
Ton Bastein, grondstoffenexpert bij de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO), zegt tegen de Nederlandse zender NOS dat een groter aanbod van de bijzondere metalen een goede zaak is, maar nuanceert het ook: “Er is absoluut geen tekort aan deze metalen. Er zat al voor duizenden jaren in de grond”.
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Voorlopig heeft China de macht over de markt van de zeldzame metalen. Volgens CNN bezat het land in 2015 ongeveer 95 procent van de markt, maar die dominantie zou nu kunnen verdwijnen. Dat zegt ook Bastein tegen NOS: ”Als het tot echte mijnbouw komt, dan zou dat de afhankelijkheid van China verminderen”. Volgens Bastein zou het dan ook goed nieuws zijn als er een tweede land is waar de metalen vandaan kunnen komen.
De Japanse wetenschappers zijn alvast overtuigd dat het zal lukken om de metalen te winnen, al moet het materiaal wel van ver komen: het vasteland ligt op een afstand van 2.000 km. De vondst roept meteen ook vragen op over welke metalen nog allemaal te vinden zijn op onze zeebodem.
Among all of the strange stories of the mysterious and paranormal there are often those which seem to be particularly strange and inexplicable, and which serve to grip us with their enigmas. Certainly among these are the numerous cases throughout history of bizarre holes in the earth which seem to penetrate down into paranormal oddities and anomalies that we can only grasp at the answers to. Portals to other dimensions, doorways to Hell, and just plain wellsprings of surreal mysteries and horrors, here are some of the most mysterious alleged paranormal holes in the earth there are.
By far the most well-known such mysterious hole first came to public knowledge on February 21, 1997, when the late, great radio talent Art Bell, host of the legendary radio show Coast to Coast AM had a guest join him on the air who called himself Mel Waters and claimed to own a stretch of secluded rural property in Kittitas County, Washington, near Manastash Ridge that apparently had something rather strange going on. As Bell listened on as calm and unflappable as always, Waters would over the course of a series of several shows weave a truly, increasingly bizarre tale of a mysterious hole in the earth that he had found on his property and which seemed to defy and warp reality as we know it.
Art Bell in his studio
The legendary hole was apparently long known in the area as The Devil’s Hole, and supposedly measures around 9 feet across, with the strange addition of seemingly hand-placed bricks lining the interior down to a depth of around 15 feet, after which it drops off into, well, no one really knows. According to Waters the hole had been known in the area since humans had first inhabited the region, and Natives and early settlers found that anything they threw into the hole would vanish into the yawning void without ever issuing any sound of actually hitting a bottom of any kind. The Native people of the area apparently stayed well away from the cursed hole, and claimed that animals would not go near it. Waters himself said he began to use the bizarre hole as a sort of garbage dump, and after never hearing a sound of even the heaviest objects connecting and no sign of the hole filling up, he became increasingly obsessed with the idea that it may in fact be bottomless.
To test his odd theory Waters told Bell that he had concocted an experiment in the summer of 1996, wherein he would rig a fishing line over the hole with a one-pound weight attached and lower it until it hit the bottom to see how deep it really was. This would apparently turn out to be easier said than done, as he claimed to have used spool after spool of line without ever reaching the bottom, and he estimated that it had to be at least a staggering, physics-defying 80,000 feet deep. Waters also discovered at this time the unsettling fact that shouting down into the hole produced no echo, and radios brought near it would sometimes pick up strange things such as unidentified voices and old-fashioned music from another era materializing from out of the ether. Mel’s dogs were also apparently absolutely terrified of the hole, absolutely refusing to go anywhere near it. This is already quite weird enough as it is, but what would come to be known as “Mel’s Hole” would prove to be even stranger still. Waters claimed in one of his interviews that a local man had once thrown his recently deceased dog down into the hole and that it had come back to him from the dead, of which he would say:
One guy claims he threw his departed canine down into the hole… and the guy that did it swears the dog actually came back to him… he was a hunter and he was out there hunting and he saw the same dog, he had the same collar, he had the same little metal thing on his collar there and he said it was the same dog and he says he knew he had thrown the dog into the hole!
The initial interview with Bell created a sensation that propelled the story of Mel’s Hole firmly into the pantheon of great unexplained paranormal phenomena, and pretty soon it was being excitedly discussed and debated all over the place. Waters would end up having more interviews with Bell over the years, during which it came out that he had been experiencing some unusual activity since his story had been made public. In one incident he was allegedly heading out to the hole to perform another experiment when he was warned away approaching by some official looking gentlemen who told him that the area had been closed off due to a plane crash. Waters claimed that at the time he had noticed some personnel nearby who appeared to have been wearing some sort of biocontainment suits. When Waters demanded to be let in, he was apparently told in no uncertain terms that he would face serious repercussions if he should try and do so. The government then apparently leased the land from him and paid to have him relocated to Australia, all while denying that anything had happened at all.
Waters would go on in a later interview to claim that he had spent two years in Australia before heading back to the United States despite alleged warnings against doing this. After arriving he said that he had been removed from a bus headed for Washington by police and dumped 2 weeks later onto the streets of San Francisco with IV needle marks on his arm, some of his teeth missing, and no memory of what had happened to him. He still managed to make it back to his hometown, where he had then been menaced by mysterious strangers dressed in black and had seemingly been under constant surveillance. As to his land, he was told that it had been taken under control of the government, and oddly enough it seemed to have been erased from an early mapping system called TerraServer, a sort of early version of Google Earth.
All of this talk of government conspiracies reinvigorated interest in the mysterious Mel’s Hole, and this isn’t even the end of the bizarre odyssey of Mel Waters, as he would claim to go on to find a second mysterious hole, this time in the badlands of Nevada that was by his account every bit as strange, if not more so, than the first one. This particular hole was of similar dimensions to the first, only instead of a brick lining possessed what looked like some sort of metal ring around the entrance that extended all the way down into the gloom. Like the first hole, anything dropped into it seemed to simply cease to exist, never hitting the bottom. With the help of local Natives, Waters claimed that he had then decided to continue his experimentation, and this is where things would get outlandish rather quickly.
In one experiment Waters would claim that a bucket of ice had been lowered into the hole down to a depth of around 1,500 feet, after which it had been brought up to find that the ice was warm to the touch, yet not had not melted. What’s more, the ice seemed to have changed into a type of flammable substance. Perplexed, Waters moved on to a live test subject, this time having a sheep lowered down into the hole inside a wooden crate. It was apparently quite a time trying to get the animal anywhere near the hole, as it was overcome with a profound panic, but what is really strange is what supposedly happened next.
As with the ice, the sheep was lowered down to 1,500 feet, shrieking, screaming, bucking and kicking the whole way until it abruptly went silent. At this point the metallic surface of the pit was said to have begun to hum and vibrate ominously, and after fleeing the scene for some time Waters and his crew were finally able to hoist the sheep back up, after which it was found to have been gruesomely cooked on the inside by some unknown force. In addition, an anomalous tumor was purportedly found on the sheep, which seemed to be moving and which they went and cut open to see what was going on. It was a decision they would soon regret.
As soon as the tumor had been cut open, something quite horrifying was regurgitated forth from the sheep’s carcass, which was described as looking like a “fetal seal,” which stared at them for some time with intelligent, human-like eyes before jumping into the murky depths of the hole. Waters and company, shocked and disgusted by what they had seen wasted no time in tossing the dead sheep in after it to sail down through that bottomless abyss. To make this all the more surreal, Waters would credit the creature with curing a cancer he had had, and even claimed that it would regularly visit the local sheep herders after that, who described it as being a benevolent presence. After this incident there were also seen various brightly colored birds loitering about the hole that were supposedly impervious to bullets, and a few instances of what Waters called a black beam emanating from the hole, which he described as looking like “if you had a flashlight, and it was capable of throwing up a solid black.”
The whole tale is just about as far-out and absurd as it could be, yet it captured the imagination and continued to be hotly talked about, with numerous sites devoted to dissecting the case of Mel’s Holes and countless believers in the tale trying to deduce the locations to no avail. Since Waters had never given away the exact location of either hole they remained a cipher, and considering that his last interview with Bell was in 2002 there was no other forthcoming information on the holes and their myriad anomalies and phenomena. Then, in 2008 the tale was reignited when a man claiming to be a tribal medicine man named Gerald R. Osborne, or also his tribal name “Red Elk,” came forward to claim that not only was Mel’s story true, but that he had seen the one in Washington himself on several occasions and that it was every bit as odd as Waters had described. Red Elk would go on to speculate that it was the entrance to some sort of underground UFO base, and would even claim that he had once seen a UFO hovering over the pit.
Others have come forward since who have claimed to have been to one Mel’s Hole or the other, but no one has ever given any proof or made the supposed locations of the holes public, which means that these claims have only added to the mystique and mythology of the tale. The mystery of Mel Waters and his holes has never really faded, and is still discussed as much as it ever was. Considering that no one seems to have ever really had any idea of where either hole could be, and that there is no evidence that Mel Waters was ever even a real person at all, combined with the sheer bizarreness of it all, it is a distinct possibility that this was all an elaborate hoax that got out of hand to propel itself into urban legend. However, there are still plenty of people who believe Waters was telling the truth. Until the holes are found, it seems it will continue to be one of those stories that is impossible to prove or disprove, and will likely linger in the lore of great paranormal mysteries.
Although Mel’s Holes are by far the most well-known, they are not the first, and indeed tales of mysterious pits in the earth have been around for a while. In ancient Rome and Greece tales of sinister bottomless holes with supernatural qualities were all the rage, and were well-witnessed by scores of people. Often there would be actual temples, shrines, and even amphitheaters erected at these “Gates of Hell,” and in many cases animals would be dropped down towards these fissures to suddenly drop dead as if by some evil force. These areas, such as one in Turkey’s ancient city of Hierapolis, would often be considered the realms of the gods of the underworld, and to the people of the time it was all seen as a decidedly supernatural event.
It has in recent years been found that these places were constructed over cracks in the earth that seem to vent high concentrations of CO2 gas, which would form a sort of CO2 lake, and that this could have been the reason that these animal sacrifices were snuffed out so quickly. In these cases, the priests and observers are speculated to have been situated high enough to have escaped the lethal effects of the gas, and it all would have seemed like a very mysterious occurrence, with the power of the underworld belching out from beneath the ground. It is an interesting instance of science managing to come close to an understanding of some of these mysterious holes.
Another one of the older and more infamous paranormal holes can be found in the Czech Republic. Constructed between 1253 and 1278, the majestic Houska Castle is said to have been built specifically to cover a hole which led straight to Hell, said to have spontaneously formed in a limestone cliff and to be a bottomless pit full of tormented souls, which would vomit forth all manner of horrific creatures birthed from the underworld.These demonic monstrosities were said to emerge from the hole to fan out across the countryside at night, terrorizing local villages to the point that people were afraid to leave their homes after sunset, and certainly would not go anywhere near the hole even in daylight. Such was the ominous reputation of the hole that prisoners were sometimes thrown into the pit as punishment, with the caveat that they would be released if they could climb back out. Not many did, and even when they did there were strange tales surrounding their reemergence. In one story, a prisoner who had been thrown into the hole began screaming with such abject terror that he was hoisted back out to find that he had aged 30 years within moments.
The persistent tales of marauding demons and dark forces at work within the malevolent hole, as well as the growing panic of villagers in the area, is said to have prompted construction of Houska Castle in an effort to block the gateway. There are many odd details about the castle that lend weight to this theory. Although the castle has a large number of windows, very few of them are actually real, and most of them have thick walls directly behind the glass. There is also the odd fact that the castle had no water source, was not near any trading routes, and remained without occupants for years. The frescoes and artwork found within the castle also point to its true purpose, such as pagan imagery denoting demonic creatures, not common in most castles of the time, as well as various depictions of St. Michael fighting dragons and images which have hints and leanings of a Satanic undertone. It is said that the purported demonic powers of the castle were the reason why Nazis chose it as a base of operations during World War II, and that they carried out secret experiments trying to harness its enigmatic power.
If Houska Castle was indeed built to cover up a pit to Hell, then it seems it was only partially successful because strange stories have continued to emanate from the location to this day. Visitors to the lower floors have long claimed that at times there can be heard the sound of what seems to be claws or talons scrabbling and clawing at the floor underneath, as if something is trying to break free from underground. There are also reports from the chapel on the premises, which is said to be built directly over the hole itself, of a “chorus of screams” that allegedly pours forth from the bowels of the earth below. There are also numerous reports of a wide variety of strange apparitions roaming the cold, stone halls and corridors of the castle. One such apparition is said to be a headless corpse that lurks within the courtyard spewing blood, and there are also featureless shadow people, winged creatures like warped, giant bats, and even a bizarre entity said to look like a combination of human, frog, and a bulldog. Adding to all of the other weirdness are reports of levitating objects, numerous inexplicable thumps or bangs, visitors being tapped, pushed, or even hit, and roaming cold spots, all of which have made Houska Castle a popular destination for paranormal investigators.
Houska Castle
One curious case of a strange, possibly demonic portal in the earth of some sort allegedly occurred in 1947 at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Yealmpton, South Devon, England. At the time a Reverend Alfred Byles was serving as the Vicar of the church, and he would say that one day he had been walking about in the churchyard when he noticed a gaping pit planted right in the middle of the pathway that led up to the church proper. He claimed that he entered the church for just a moment to fetch his wife to take a look, and when he came out again it had inexplicably grown in size. Peering into it, they could see no bottom to the hole, and a rock thrown in hit some kind of stonework on the side that looked like a manmade wall.
Byles said that he had gone into town to find something to cover the hole with, as it seemed to be an unsafe thing to have there on the church pathway, and while he was looking around he invited a local builder to come with them to see it for himself. However, when they arrived the hole was apparently gone, with no scar in the earth, the grass all back to where it was, and no sign whatsoever that a yawning maw in the earth with walls within it had ever been there at all. Byles would write of the incident decades later in a letter to the magazine Reports and Transaction of the Devonshire Association in 1975, and the odd tale attracted the interest of the TV show Arthur C. Clarke’s World of Strange Powers, which interviewed him on the phenomenon in 1985. If this strange hole really did exist, then what was it and where did it go? It remains a mystery.
In later years there have been other stories of strange holes in the earth as well. In 1984 something very strange happened near Grand Coulee Dam, in Eastern Washington state, in the United States. Here in a secluded wheat field operated by a Fred Timm and his sons was found a huge chunk of earth measuring 10 feet long and 7 feet wide and weighing several tons that had been cleanly removed from the ground and placed right-side up 73 feet away to leave a circular hole with smooth vertical walls and an almost perfectly flat bottom behind. It looked almost as if it had been removed with some enormous cookie-cutter. The chunk of earth appeared to be completely intact, and there was also found a trail of dirt that had apparently dribbled from the main slab as it had travelled to its displaced location.
Scientists were baffled as to what had caused the sudden appearance of this hole, as it was so well-formed and the chunk that had been removed so intact. Although there had been a minor earthquake in the region just before the discovery, the temblor was a mere 3.0 on the Richter Scale, and it was deemed impossible by geologists that this could have moved that piece of earth and formed that bizarre hole. It was also suggested that a meteorite could have somehow caused it, but the “cookie-cutter” nature of the hole and the lack of any signs of impact made this unlikely.
It also seemed that the roots of the plants seemed to have been torn rather than cut, suggesting that the enormous block had been lifted by some force. Then it had been moved over the ground, not along it, so that it seemed as if some sort of machinery would have been needed to do this, yet there was no sign of anything large enough to have accomplished this. No one has been able to figure out how this could have happened, but some have theorized that it might have been the doing of some as-yet unidentified geological phenomenon had caused some sort of waves that could have ejected the block of soil. Explosions, rogue tornadoes, helicopters coming in to lift the piece out, all explanations were deemed insufficient to explain what had happened, and scientists are still not sure what to make of it all.
Of course, with something this inexplicable and bizarre UFOs have absolutely come into the mix, and it turns out that the area had actually experienced some sightings of strange things in the sky in the days surrounding the odd discovery. Other reports of this “cookie cutter phenomenon” have been recorded in various areas around the world since, but in the end there has been no rational explanation.
One very recent mysterious “pit to Hell” that has generated quite a lot of debate in recent years is the so-called “Well to Hell,” of the cold expanses of Siberia, in Russia. The story goes that a crew of Russian engineers and geologists were drilling an ambitiously deep borehole in the desolate wilds of Siberia, which penetrated up to 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) into the earth when it broke through some unseen cavern deep down below to reveal something extremely bizarre. When temperature readings were taken from the borehole they revealed an astonishingly scorching 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (around 1,100 degrees Celsius) near the bottom, but even stranger still was what they purportedly picked up when they lowered a sensitive, heat resistant microphone designed to hear the sounds of plate movement down into the murk.
Supposedly, the microphone picked up what sounded like a sea of human wails and screams from thousands, perhaps millions of souls, seemingly out of incredibly pain and suffering before it was extinguished by the relentless heat, leading the scientists to believe that they had bored down into a literal passage to Hell itself. The director of the survey, known only as a Dr. Azzacov, apparently told media at the time: “The information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there.” Additionally, later reports claimed that there was “fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar.” It was then said that over half of the team quit out of a profound fear of what they had uncovered, and that the team had come to the conclusion that the earth was hollow and that something decidedly malignant dwelled within.
The whole chilling incident was apparently first featured on the the Christian-based Trinity Broadcasting Network in Southern California in 1989, after which it appeared in the Finnish newsletter Ammennusastia in 1990, after which it then went on to take on a life of its own, appearing on Internet sites and in tabloids all over the place. The bizarre story eventually ending up featured on an episode of famed paranormal radio show Coast to Coast AM in 2002. On this particular show, host Art Bell produced a recording of the sounds recorded within the pit, which are indeed quite disturbing, but could be anything.
It seems like an incredibly fantastical story and no doubt it likely is. It is thought that the whole story of the “Well to Hell” had its origins at least partially in fact, with a 1984 article in Scientific American which told of a team of geologists had drilled an extremely deep borehole 12 kilometers down in Russia’s Kola Peninsula, one of the deepest ever recorded and definitely not in Siberia. Although impressive and some interesting discoveries were indeed made, there was no report at all from this team of anything supernatural going on, and certainly no word of the mass screaming of condemned souls languishing in Hell. It seems that this story was picked up and then further tweaked and exaggerated until it took off onto the Internet and picked up more and more embellishment as time went on, feeding and gorging itself on unverified rumors, hearsay, and uncorroborated “facts.”
It does not help that one of the original purveyors of the story was a Christian broadcasting network who would obviously have a vested interest in somehow proving that a literal Hell exists, and the various recordings allegedly taken within the borehole are inconclusive at best. They could be anything. The story also has various versions that have evolved over the years, including one story in that righteous last bastion of journalism Weekly World News, which reported the event as having happened in 1992, only this time in Alaska and ending in the deaths of 13 expeditions members when Satan himself emerged to ravage them. Nevertheless, despite all of the signs pointing to the Well of Hell story as being an out of control hoax, there are many out there who still argue that the whole incident indeed happened, and is merely being covered up and made to seem like a hoax by those who do not want us to know that Hell actually exists.
These stories truly run the gamut between the mysterious and the far reaches of the bizarre, and in many cases we are left with very little evidence as to how true any of the tales are. Even if they are real we are left to wonder just what is going on with these various holes, pits, and fissures and their wellsprings of weirdness. Are these portals of some sort, doorways to other dimensions? Are they entrances to other realms or even Hell itself? Is it aliens? We have very few answers to these subterranean mysteries and they remain in the realm of speculations and the imagination, enigmatic entrances into the earth and perhaps into unknown domains past out understanding as well.
Sometimes, it’s just better not to know what goes on above our heads. Our planet is constantly bombarded with rocks and objects hurtling through our solar system, but luckily, most of these are so small they explode upon colliding with our atmosphere and fall to the ground in the form of mostly harmless pebbles – or even microscopic diamonds. Occasionally, though (geologically speaking), large asteroids make it through our atmosphere with the potential to cause real damage. Aside from collisions in distant epochs which killed off many of our predecessors like the dinosaurs, there have been a few recent incidents of some truly terrifying asteroid collisions.
In 2014, a 20-meter-wide meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,000 people and causing widespread property damage.
One of the most terrifying examples is the infamous Tunguska Incident which occurred over Siberia on June 30, 1908. While the event is still mostly shrouded in mystery, one thing is clear: something very big exploded in the air above the Siberian wilderness, producing energy 1,000 times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and flattening more than 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometers (830 square miles). “Sure,” you say, “that’s pretty scary. But that was over 100 years ago and in the middle of nowhere.” That it might have been, but the comet thought to have been responsible for the Tunguska meteorite returns every 3 years. Even scarier? An asteroid similar in size to the one which exploded over Tunguska narrowly missed Earth just this week. Even even scarier? It went largely undetected until it whizzed right by us.
Trees flattened in the aftermath of the 1908 Tunguska event, revealing a rough blast pattern with the direction they fell.
The asteroid, known as 2018 GE3, zoomed past our fragile planet on Sunday April 15 around 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), missing us by a distance of just 192,000 kilometers (119,400 miles). That’s only half the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The asteroid is thought to measure somewhere between 48 to 110 meters in diameter (157 to 360 feet), making it even larger than the Tunguska asteroid. The worst part? It was detected only 21 hours before its closest approach to Earth.
NASA tracks tens of thousands of similar near-Earth objects. We’re basically sitting ducks.
With every near-miss asteroid that zooms by, it’s becoming clear: it’s not a matter of if, but when. How well-stocked is your bunker? And remember: keep one bullet per person hidden away just in case. Some things aren’t worth living through.
Mystery Object on the slope of a hill in Antarctica
Mystery Object on the slope of a hill in Antarctica
Once again a strange object has been spotted on Google Earth. An unknown object is shining a bright light onto the side of a hill in Antarctica.
Conspiracy Depot who discovered the object says that the object looks unnatural and certainly is manufactured, as to who put it there or why is a mystery.
Is the light pointing to something of interest for others to find and discover?
Researchers found two hidden lakes that can provide key data in the search for extraterrestrial life on other planets. Two bodies of water in the liquid state were detected under the glaciers of the Canadian Arctic, buried under about 500 meters of ice.
The water has an estimated temperature of minus 10.5 degrees Celsius and scientists infer that it has a high concentration of salt, which is what prevented it from freezing. This finding was made by a team from the University of Alberta.
Stunning lakes under the ice
“I was surprised and a little perplexed,” said Anja Rutishauser, one of the authors of the study. “We were not looking for subglacial lakes,” she said.
Although the presence of water below the glaciers is a fairly common phenomenon, it was believed that the water in Devon Ice Cap was frozen from the base up. They are the first two such lakes observed in Canada and cover an estimated area of between 5 and 8 square kilometers, respectively.
These lakes are different from others in Greenland and Antarctica, which contain fresh water generated by the melting of ice produced by the geothermal energy of the rocks below. These reserves are isolated by thick masses of ice.
How can the lakes beneath Canadian glaciers help the search for extraterrestrial life on other planets?
Scientists believe that the same temperature and salinity are presented by the oceans beneath the glaciers on Europe, one of the moons of Jupiter. The potential of these environments to house life is an important issue since they would represent an isolated habitat for microbes.
“The probability of life in these systems is high, although temperatures suggest that biological activity would be severely limited,” explained Alison Murray of the Nevada Research Institute.
Claire Cousins, of the University of Saint Andrews, explained that, even though the chemical conditions are different from those of the icy moons like Europe, these lakes will help scientists to understand the habitability of the hypersaline environments beneath ice layers.
It is believed that there is a large network of lakes in the Candian Arctic region, in addition to the two that were observed so far. Also, the researchers suggest that these lakes were hidden about 120,000 years ago.
In conclusion, scientists will study the newly lakes found beneath Canadian Arctic glaciers hoping that will discover something that could help them search for extraterrestrial life on other planets, such as the Jupiter’s Europa.
While other planets are indubitably lovely, Earth is the one that carries us around day in and day out. It also has LaCroix, a delicious beverage that the company did not in any way pay me to promote!
But what would happen if Earth got rocked by a large object, shifting it to start spinning in the opposite direction? In the event it didn’t get completely destroyed, researchers say life on Earth would be radically different.
According to new information presented on April 9 at the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Earth spinning in the opposite direction of its current rotation would completely alter our planet’s landscape. Scientists created models to simulate the opposite of Earth’s current rotation, called prograde, and created a “retrograde rotating Earth.” The team then monitored the various changes that took place across a 7,000-year time span.
The first major difference was the planet’s climate, which makes a lot of sense.
“The computer model showed a planet with some expected changes,” Bas den Hond writes for Eos. “Winds from the east brought a more temperate climate to the Atlantic coast of the United States, for example, but severe winters to western Europe. However, Ziemen was surprised to see the Sahara Desert was gone, and the Middle East had all the precipitation it needed. Instead, the southeastern United States and large parts of Brazil and Argentina had become deserts.”
Earth doing its normal rotation thing
Earth’s whacky weather is nothing compared to the other big change: a massive cyanobacteria bloom. This kind of blue-green algae is found across the world in water and even sloths’ fur. But in a retrograde rotating Earth, it would be abundant, which could completely change the balance of marine ecosystems. Who knows how that could impact the complex food webs within our oceans?
While this isn’t the first time researchers have modeled a backward-spinning Earth, it does contextualize the importance of climatology, and the fragility of life on our planet. One change in Earth’s rotation would send the entire planet into a frenzy, making it a desertless world controlled by a cyanobacteria army. Perhaps work like this is a good reminder that we all have to share this planet until we die, and we should probably take better care of it until then.
Besides, Earth has pamplemousse LaCroix. That’s already one huge incentive to keep our planet thriving.
The How and Why Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing UFOlogy
The How and Why Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing UFOlogy
There is an overall drive to anti-intellectualism that is infesting UFOlogy to its core. Our culture is one that glorifies the moronic and idiotic, not the intellect. What is truly disheartening is that it now appears intellectualism is now synonymous with Elitism and Conspiracy.
I point my finger directly at our failing educational system. It is designed to just make children memorize information. It is not designed to teach kids how to critically think or how to think at all. Schools make great automatons but not great creative thinkers. Public school is no place for a smart person.
In life, there are few big-picture questions we all must work through. Who am I?, Where do I come from? Where am I going? UFOlogy encompasses all of those concerns and more. The rational study of the Cosmos and our place in it should be near the top of the list of worthwhile pursuits.
For most people, it is NOT.
UFOlogy is slowing being poisoned from the inside out by the lunatic click bait crowd. Every day 1000’s of clearly fraudulent and hoaxed UFO images and videos flood the communities. Spread by the greed of financial gain these bottom feeders of UFOlogy are making all of us laughing stocks. UFOlogy will never gain the respect and ultimately the research dollars it needs while such rampant, childish, and dis-informational material is created every minute of every day and served up with a huge heaping bowl of “Screw You”.
UFOLogy is not yet in a terminal state but it sure could use a brain smoothie. It is in desperate need of a good infusion of vitamin Ra (rationality), Sa (sanity), and Ed (education). We all must stop supporting known fraudster and hoax websites and Youtube channels.
It all comes down to how a person values Science
An artist’s ability is innate in many cases. A scientists tool belt must be learned. Scientific methodology is not something we are born with. It must be taught to be understood. The push for “no fail” states, lower educational standards, and general apathy has created entire generations of people who are barely scientifically literate.
True science and the appreciation of how such a self-correcting, peer reviewing, open architecture does not typically occur until you hit at least College level. A high school education will not typically cut it when you are wading into the ever advancing ocean of cutting-edge science.
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ~Desiderius Erasmus
A strange turn in our collective consciousness has occurred where the masses believe that their layperson perspective on science is somehow as valid and weighted as accredited professors would be. Even worse than that the professor’s opinion based on facts and all the tools science has to offer is completely nullified by a single word.
Professionals, Scientists, and Doctors all get lumped under the “Conspiracy” banner when they state their known scientific facts. Facts which more often than not, do not support the established beliefs of the UFO true believers. Scientists and doctors are the ones we should trust when considering scientific things. They have done the legwork to get a degree in their choice of the physical sciences. Their opinion in their field is worth more than the laypersons. That is just a logical deduction.
REAL SCIENTIST
If you are someone that is a scientist, doctor, or researcher and you choose to speak out on some of the downright lunacy in UFOlogy. You are instantly labelled a government spy, disinformation agent, or a spook. You are condemned to be part of an evil cabal planning world domination by the subjugation of scientific advances. Sounds insane but a lot of people believe this. Scientists that state facts that is contrary to the lay person’s beliefs make them the proverbial enemy. The people that do this are the ones educated by television. Television is entertainment, not education.
Truth in any form is rarely seen on TV.
These people think their opinion is somehow on the same level as doctors. It is not when they are discussing the scientist’s field of study.
NOT REAL SCIENTIST
Reality is not best served by the false balance perspective we see all the time in the media. A professor that has researched say the Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau, knows better than you what happened to make this wonder of the world. End of story.
There is no grand conspiracy in the sciences. It may appear that way to the TV educated people. If any scientist could prove ANY aspect of the “Ancient Alien” hypothesis, for example, they would become instant rock stars in their field.
There is no motivation to suppress anything in academic circles. Grand discoveries are why scientists become scientists to start with. A breakthrough that would rewrite textbooks would be heralded, not spirited away in the depth of Area 51. Scientists are not the enemy, they are our only chance. After all, they are just like us in every way except they may have a denser neural network. All these evil scientists live and eat the same foods as us, have children like us, love them like us, and drink the same water as us. We all experience the same world in the same way. They are not the proverbial “Them”. They are us just with better jobs. They have no secret dark motives more than you do when it comes to subjugating the planet.
It comes down to a simple question. Are you in it for the truth or just to be entertained.
If your sum total of knowledge on UFO’s comes from watching TV and Youtube videos. You can guarantee that you have been fed a huge bowl of bullshit. TV entertains that is all. You get much more outright lies and frauds than any factual data. Facebook is even worse for filling your head with excrement. The source of the information your brain digests matters. Facebook posts from the lunatic fringe vastly outweigh any real research people may have done, at least when you ponder time spent. Your brain gets much more false information and not enough real information to balance it out. Take in 10lbs of shit and only drop 5lbs…you still stink.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
People really have to give their head a shake and realize this. It comes down to if you are looking for the truth in UFOlogy or are you looking to be entertained. Don’t confuse the two they are quite different.
The real Universe as it will unfold before us as we trundle through the fourth dimension will be more wondrous and fascinating than any new age guru or television show could ever envision.
The Universe is stranger than we can comprehend. Reserve your belief and more importantly your knowledge for the real deal.
We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or on planets that are bombarded with strange sources of radiation. They may exist and function on different time scales based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly are more things in heaven and earth than is dreamed in our collective philosophy.
Remember that it is OK to change your mind in the light of new or better information. UFOlogy is not a religion…no faith required. The real Universe will not disappoint.
Early humans emerged on Earth around 4 million years ago, but new evidence arising from the study of human evolution has revealed compelling evidence that a small group of these hominins was genetically modified by ancient alien visitors to create the first Homo sapiens.
Researcher and author, Daniella Fenton, has been taking an in-depth look at the earliest origins of humanity and its sudden acceleration in brain development close to 800,000 years ago, this investigation has led to a massive revelation.
Homo sapiens are the creation of ancient astronauts that arrived through a wormhole from the Pleiades star cluster 780,000 years ago.
The Australian researcher, an expert in equine bloodlines and genetic expression, uncovered numerous genetic changes which mark humans as anomalous when contrasted with modern primate species, some are so extreme that they are best explained by advanced genetic engineering.
In her book, titled ‘Hybrid Humans: Scientific Evidence of Our 800,000-Year Old Alien Legacy’, Daniella Fenton highlights a series of profound changes in the genes associated with brain size, neural structures, and information processing. These changes include genes that appear suddenly fully formed out of so-called ‘junk DNA’ and fragments of genes that have been snipped out, copied and re-inserted.
Fenton points the mysterious fusion of Chromosome-2 at the same time as these other changes, around 780,000 years ago, as further evidence of extraterrestrial experimentation. This fusion is found in all large-brained human types, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but not in any other primate species.
She explains that the fusion of chromosome-2 should have been a one-off error that disappeared in the subsequent generation or perhaps led to a small population of people with 46 chromosomes among a more substantial number of those carrying 48. Instead, all humans after 780,000 years ago exhibited the ‘mutation’. This strongly infers that there was an enormous benefit associated with the fusion and that it appeared suddenly in a considerable number of individuals, allowing chromosome-2 to become a permanent and dominant trait. This does not fit with known natural mutations in the human genome.
Fenton explains, “Somebody created an entire generation of breeding pairs that carried the fusion of chromosome-2. The chromosome modification is such that it would have impacts on the brain development, the immune system and reproductive processes.”
Humans also carry unique changes in the gene FOXP2 that changed synaptic connectivity and enhanced our ability to transform new experiences into routine procedures, this had enormous influence on our ability to produce meaningful speech. Fenton points out that this change is not observed in other primates and it appears our creators wanted us to be able to quickly form new habitual behaviors particularity language use.
Fenton said: “It is not just the genetic changes 780,000 years ago which inform us Homo sapiens is a species created by alien beings, we have also identified physical material left behind by these star people, materials dated to that same specific point in time.”
Diamonds Found Inside Meteorite Belonged To A Lost Planet In Our Solar System
Diamonds Found Inside Meteorite Belonged To A Lost Planet In Our Solar System
A study published today in Nature Communicationssuggests that diamonds trapped in a rare meteorite called a ureilite is evidence of long-lost planets within our solar system. These particular diamonds are believed to have originated inside a Mars-sized object.
Remains of diamond detected in fragments of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (2008 TC3)—an object almost four meters in diameter that burned up around 37 kilometers above the Nubian Desert a decade ago—reveals that the fireball may have been part of an ancient planet of the Solar System that has long since disappeared.
According to the authors of the study published in Nature Communications, the diamonds found in the fragments that were scattered on the surface require enormous pressures to form, only compatible with the birth of a planetary object.
Researchers have calculated that the formation of such crystals required a pressure above 20 gigapascals, which suggests that the supposed missing planet should have been as large as Mercury or even Mars.
Here on Earth, most diamonds are formed at around just 4.5 gigapascals.
(Nabiei et al./Nature Communications)
Diamonds, Planets, and Ureilites
Theories say that these small diamonds can be formed in three different ways: by the creation of shock waves in impacts between objects in space, by a chemical process or because of the high pressures present inside planets.
Until now, scientists wondered how the ureilites of «2008 TC3» had been formed.
The researchers, led by planetary scientists Farhang Nabiei, from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a research institute in Switzerland, studied the diamond inclusions inside the meteorite and discovered it contained relatively large, individual diamond crystals up to 100 μm that could not have formed under an impact event, because of such an event’s short duration, which would not allow time for such large crystals to form.
“Normally we talk about telescopes [to study space]. Here we are talking about the past, so it’s different. Here we use the electron microscope,” said Farhang Nabiei.
Evidence of a long lost planet
“Before you end up with the nine planets, you had a population of larger bodies a few thousands of kilometres in size – Mercury to Mars-size I would say – that were populating the solar system,” Professor Philippe Gillet, a geophysicist at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), told The Independent.
“These ‘proto-planets’ were colliding into each other, forming the planets we know today. These were the building blocks.”
Scientists have always considered that during the birth of the Solar System many other planets may have existed, some of them barely formed by molten masses of magma.
For example, it is believed that one of these planetary embryos, like the famous planet Theia, collided with a young planet Earth and created a large mass of debris that eventually gave rise to the Moon.
“Although this is the first compelling evidence for such a large body that has since disappeared, their existence in the early Solar System has been predicted by planetary formation models,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
“Mars-sized bodies were common, and either accreted to form larger planets, or collided with the Sun or were ejected from the solar system.
“This study provides convincing evidence that the ureilite parent body was one such large ‘lost’ planet before it was destroyed by collisions.”
About a decade ago, a violent explosion roughly 23 miles above the surface sent incendiary fragments hurling towards the dunes of the Nubian desert in Sudan. In and of itself, the event was not necessarily impressive, apart from the fancy light show — after all, our planet is constantly bombarded by relatively small objects. But, according to a new study, these meteorites have a much more dramatic origin and history than meets the eye. Scientists say that under the meteorites’ thick carbonized exterior hid diamonds which enclosed remnants of a long-lost planet or planetary embryo during the crazy days of the early solar system.
It was mighty crowded back then
A jeweler wants diamonds to be perfect, meaning impurities should be kept to a minimum, ideally none at all. However, a diamond with inclusions is far more valuable from a scientific standpoint than a so-called flawless jewel. Because diamonds are forged at immense pressures and temperatures, typically deep inside the planet, the various materials that get trapped inside are quite hard to get a hold of at the surface — and diamonds can preserve them for billions of years.
The team led by Farhang Nabiei of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland was initially investigating the relationship between the diamonds and the layers of graphite surrounding them, when they realized the small pockets of material trapped inside looked far more interesting. With the help of a high-power electron microscope, the researchers studied the tiny diamonds inside a thin section of the meteorite and were astonished to learn they were formed at incredibly high pressures — much higher than any kind of pressure the meteorites might have been subjected to when they crashed into Earth.
A chemical map shows sulfur (red) and iron (yellow) inside the inclusions in the diamond matrix.
Credit: Dr. F. Nabiei/Dr. E. Oveisi, EPFL, Switzerland.
Specifically, the diamonds must have formed at 20 gigapascals, which is the kind of pressure found deep within a planet the size of Mars or Mercury — but the meteorites come from neither of these planets or any other planet that we know of for that matter. The meteorites have, in fact, been classed as ureilites — a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition, very different from that of other stony meteorites. Transmission electron microscopy also revealed traces of chromite, phosphate, and iron-nickel sulfides inside the larger diamonds, which are inclusions that can be found in Earth’s diamonds, too. It’s the first time such inclusions have been identified inside extraterrestrial diamonds.
A colorized image shows the diamond phase (blue), inclusions (yellow) and the graphite region.
Credit: Dr. F. Nabiei/Dr. E. Oveisi/Prof. C. Hébert, EPFL, Switzerland.
The size of the diamonds is another clue that we’re dealing with some very peculiar objects. Their average size is about 100 microns, which is about the size of a human hair. That may not sound like much, but that’s still larger than any diamond that could possibly form by shock transformation of graphite (i.e. when a meteorite crashes on Earth). This suggests that the diamonds formed deep in a body’s interior and not on impact. Such a planetary-sized body is now long gone, having been destroyed in a cataclysmic game of billiard early on in the solar system’s history. These early proto-planets would have been hurled towards each other by a tug of war between the gravities of a young Jupiter and the sun. The environment likely looked very crowded too, with multiple Mars-sized protoplanets destined to collide into each other.
“This study provides convincing evidence that the ureilite parent body was one such large ‘lost’ planet before it was destroyed by collisions [some 4.5 billion years ago],” researchers wrote in the new paper on the subject, published this week in the journal Nature Communications.
The discovery offers new insight into our solar system’s tumultuous past, helping piece together how it all came to be. This is merely the beginning, as hundreds of other ureilites could offer new clues to the nature of the early solar system and the evolution of its planets.
Inexplicable Similarities Between Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, And Other Ancient Sites
Inexplicable Similarities Between Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, And Other Ancient Sites
Design elements present at Göbekli Tepe are also found in Easter Island on the massive Moai Statues, in Tiahuanaco, and other ancient sites around the globe. How’s this possible?
Despite the fact that we’ve studied our ancestors, their cultures, their origin, and their way of life, we have failed to answer many questions related to our past.
The countless monuments scattered across the globe are an ancient message left behind by our ancestors, a message which despite extensive studies, we have yet failed to decipher.
One of the most mysterious ancient temples on Earth is located in modern-day Turkey, more precisely, the city of Urfa.
There, we find an ancient temple complex which is believed to have been erected around 9,600 BC.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
Göbekli Tepe is considered among many experts as the oldest temple on Earth, and despite its importance, we know very little about it.
Not only is this ancient temple complex important because of its age, but it’s also of great importance because by who it was built, and perhaps, even more interestingly, by the symbology it offers.
If you take a close look at Göbekli Tepe, you will notice a curious stance and symbolism that we can find in many other places across the globe.
On Easter Island, for example, we see a great similarity between the Moai and the curious Pillars at Göbekli Tepe.
On both archaeological sites, it seems the ancient builders used the same symbology.
Notice the curious position of the hands.
Image Credit: National Geographic.
But is this a mere coincidence?
The Archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe is composed of several temples whose main construction motif are massive stone pillars that range in weight between 30 and 60 tons.
Somehow, thousands of years ago, ‘primitive’ cultures managed to quarry, transport and build something history tells us should not exist.
These enigmatic T-shaped pillars are intricately decorated with depictions of a number of animals such as foxes, lions, snakes, etc.
However, in addition to the various animal depictions at Göbekli Tepe, we see humanoid characteristics depicted on some of the pillars.
Göbekli Tepe’s T-shaped stela display arms and hands belonging to what many experts believe are depictions of humanoid beings.
The ancient builders of Göbekli Tepe carved on the t-shaped tocks long hands and arms of what could also be representations of their gods.
However, this extremely interesting symbolism is not unique to Göbekli Tepe and is found in various archeological sites across the globe.
If we travel halfway around the globe to Easter Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we see the massive Moai statues and their curious symbolism which is eerily similar to the stone pillars of Göbekli Tepe.
A Statue from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Notice the hand posture.
The massive Moai were intricately carved in a sacred standing position, with hands position on omphalos.
Many authors agree that this posture is meant to portray birth or rebirth.
But how is it possible that such symbolism is present both in Göbekli Tepe and on Easter Island? Is this just a coincidence?
Not likely, as other ancient sites around the globe feature the same thing.
If we take a trip back to Turkey, we will find that the Neolithic settlement of Nevali Cori and Kilisik feature similar design elements.
But that’s not it.
Statues from Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, and archaeological sites in Mexico, as well as Mesopotamia, feature the very same symbolism: massive stone statues and hands coming together.
The question is… what connects all of these archaeological sites, and, is it possible that somehow, these ancient cultures shared a common designer?
Ley Lines, Ancient Flight Plans, And Their Mind-Bending Connection To Ancient Monuments
Ley Lines, Ancient Flight Plans, And Their Mind-Bending Connection To Ancient Monuments
Have you ever heard about the so-called Ancient flight plans?
Mostly found in Britain and France, ancient flight plans are geographical markers placed intentionally, that are interconnected and clearly visible once portrayed on a map.
If we travel to Herefordshire England, we find what AncientAstronauttheorists call ‘AncientFlightPlans‘.
Said to have been discovered by amateur archaeologist AlfredWatkins while horseback riding, Watkins is believed to have noticed that structures across the landscape appeared to be arranged in straight, continuous lines.
Four years after that, in 1925 Watkins published his book “The old straight tracks” where he theorized that ancient mankind built monuments and megaliths across the Earth and that these were connected by a network of straightlines: Referred to as Ley lines.
In his book, “The old straight tracks“, Watkins proposed that ancient monuments were deliberately placed along these ‘tracks’ for a line of sight navigation and may have even been used as trade routes.
However, there’s a slight issue with that theory.
Some of the so-called straight tracks cross terrains that were difficult to access and to identify.
The following natural and man-made features were suggested by Watkins to be reliable ley-markers:
Mounds, Long-barrows, Cairns, Cursus, Dolmens, Standing stones, mark-stones, Stone circles, Henges, Water-markers (moats, ponds, springs, fords, wells), Castle, Beacon-hills, Churches, Cross-roads, Notches in hills, Camps (Hill-forts),
This leads us to believe there must be a different explanation for their purpose.
Most of these so-called ley lines are found in England and in France, although they are not limited to these two countries.
They are basically geographic markings of a number of places of historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and similar places.
According to Linda Moulton Howe, an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories: “The Michael Line in England is a straight line and it is measurable. It’s a magnetic field line that you can measure and it will be higher than other areas around it geographically. “
Today there are many authors and researchers who believe that these so-called Ley lines, are in fact, magnetic in nature and that they delineate the lines of Earth’s unseen energy fields.
Remember my article on the Earth Grid?
If we travel to Denmark, we will find more of these geometrical patterns, along with the northern reaches of the European continent. In Scandinavia, we find the archaeological ruins of a once prospering and mighty Viking fortress dating to 900 A.D.
Preben Hansson first discovered a direct line of flight fromTrelleborg to other three Viking fortresses, which happen to be very similar in design.
But not only are these structures similar in design, but a direct line connects these four Viking Forts in Denmark.
A bit strange, don’t you think?
But there’s something more that doesn’t seem to add to the story.
Ley lines - Europe
As we all know, the Vikings were seafaring people, well-known as mighty warriors and sailors. Because they were seafaring people, it makes sense that most of their settlements and forts were near water.
However, here we have forts positioned inland, which also happen to be precisely aligned.
Furthermore, a more detailed analysis of the forts revealed a fascinating detail. Not only are these forts precisely aligned, but researchers have been left stunned by the precisedesign of Trelleborg, with courtyard’s divided into four zones, each with four longhouses and gateways open precisely to the four cardinaldirections: north, south, east, and west.
That makes it clear that the construction and design of Trelleborg would have required great knowledge of engineering, orientation, and positioning.
Are Ley Lines a global phenomenon?
Several authors and ancient astronaut theorists note that if you draw a straight line and cross the Alps in Europe, you will eventually reach Delphi in Greece.
Why is this important? Delphi is known as the homeplace of the Oracle of Delphi and to the God Apollo.
According to Greek mythology, the mighty God Apollo took his “heavenly chariot” and disappeared heading north.
This idea has aroused the interest of various ancient astronaut theorists who see a clear connection between the so-called ley lines, and other historically important geographic locations on Earth.
Is it possible that these patterns, lines, and ancient structures are all interconnected as some theorists suggest?
Why is it that there are so many ancient structures around the globe that appear to follow an intricate pattern? Lines, geometric shapes?
It is not a coincidence, say ancient astronaut theorists, pointing to other incredibly positioned structures such as the Pyramids of Giza, or even the Nazca lines in Peru, which just as some of the ley lines in England seem to bare magnetic anomalies.
The perfect alignment of these locations to the stars, the cosmos, and to other monuments around the world is something that was not done randomly.
The Ley lines, the Earth Grid, and the electromagnetic field anomalies that are present in different geographic locations around the world does not seem something random.
It is something planned, something elaborate, something that truly seems, out of this world.
Today’s post comes from Joseph Gillette, an archivist on a cross-training assignment in the National Archives History Office. This is the second in a series concerning the Air Force’s Project Blue Bookinvestigation.
From 1947 to 1970, the United States Air Force conducted investigations into the increasing number of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings throughout the United States. The purpose of the investigations was to assess the nature of these sightings and determine if they posed any potential threat to the U.S.
Blue Book was the longest and most comprehensive, lasting from 1952 to 1970. A 1966 Air Force publication gave insight into how the program was conducted:
The program is conducted in three phases. The first phase includes receipt of UFO reports and initial investigation of the reports. The Air Force base nearest the location of a reported sighting is charged with the responsibility of investigating the sighting and forwarding the information to the Project Blue Book Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
If the initial investigation does not reveal a positive identification or explanation, a second phase of more intensive analysis is conducted by the Project Blue Book Office. Each case is objectively and scientifically analyzed, and, if necessary, all of the scientific facilities available to the Air Force can be used to assist in arriving at an identification or explanation. All personnel associated with the investigation, analysis, and evaluation efforts of the project view each report with a scientific approach and an open mind.
The third phase of the program is dissemination of information concerning UFO sightings, evaluations, and statistics. This is accomplished by the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Information.
—Project Blue Book, February 1, 1966, p. 1. (National Archives Identifier 595175)
After investigating a case, the Air Force placed it into one of three categories: Identified, Insufficient Data, or Unidentified.
Sightings resulting from identifiable causes fall into several broad categories:
human-created objects or phenomena including aircraft, balloons, satellites, searchlights, and flares;
astronomical phenomena, including meteors and meteorites, comets, and stars;
atmospheric effects, including clouds and assorted light phenomena; and
human psychology, including not only psychological frailty or illness but also fabrication (i.e., hoaxes).
The conclusions of Project Blue Book were:
(1) no unidentified flying object reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;
(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as unidentified represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge; and
(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as unidentified are extraterrestrial vehicles.
In 1967, the Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division (FTD), the organization overseeing Blue Book, briefed USAF Gen. William C. Garland on the project. The July 7 report stated that in the 20 years the FTD had reported and examined over 11,000 UFO sightings, they had no evidence that UFOs posed any threat to national security. Furthermore, their evidence “denies the existence of flying saucers from outer space, or any similar phenomenon popularly associated with UFOs.”
The FTD reiterated an expanded finding from Project Grudge: “Evaluations of reports of UFOs to date demonstrate that these flying objects constitute no threat to the security of the United States. They also concluded that reports of UFOs were the result of misinterpretations of conventional objects, a mild form of mass hysteria of war nerves and individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or to seek publicity.”
An independent review requested by FTD came to the same conclusion:
Briefing by 1st Lt. William F. Marley, Jr. to General William C. Garland, July 7, 1967, p. 7 (Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)
Looking to specific investigation files, we can see what a typical investigation was like, the kinds of documentation and information collected, the investigatory process, and how the Air Force arrived at its conclusions.
Datil, NM, 1950
Cpl. Lertis E. Stanfield, 3024th Air Police Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, reported seeing a strange object in the sky on the night of February 24/25, 1950. He had a camera with him at the time and took several pictures, including the following:
The details of the sighting were included in an investigation report:
This was not the first time an unusual sighting had occurred at Holloman. In fact, it was part of a recurring pattern (and one that explains Stansfield’s possession of a camera at the time of the sighting).
Report of Aerial Phenomena, Holloman Air Force Base, February 21, 1950, through April 31, 1951.
At the time, Project Grudge was unable to provide an explanation. However, a decade and a half later, a similar sighting over the Soviet Union provided Blue Book with an answer: a comet.
Several sightings of this kind were reported in the desert Southwest around this time. Despite the delay in reaching a conclusion, the similarity of the photographic evidence to known comet sightings led the Air Force to conclude it was dealing with a comet here too.
Redlands, CA, 1958
On December 13, 1958, a man in Redlands, California, snapped a photograph of a strangely shaped object in the sky.
A final report dated January 1959 elaborated on these inconsistencies but reached a conclusion nonetheless. The observer had photographed a lenticular cloud.
All of these sighted were explained as initially misinterpreted natural occurrences. In the next post of the series, we’ll turn our attention to sightings ultimately identified as human-created objects and one sighting truly classified as a UFO.
Canada shows the world radioactive physical evidence of a real UFO
Canada shows the world radioactive physical evidence of a real UFO
“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.” (source)
The quote above comes from Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British Scientist, and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990’s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis, was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
Shortly after the Pentagon released videos of three UFOs (performing maneuvers that no known man-made aircraft or drone can perform), the Canadian government did the same thing, but in a different form.
You can read more about that and view the Pentagon footage here, here and here.
On a side note, it’s important to mention that the military personnel related to the Pentagon UFO videos all shared their belief that there is ample evidence suggesting that we are not alone, and that we are being visited. This isn’t a surprise, but some people still don’t know that hundreds of high ranking people within academia, as well as those from within military and intelligence agencies, have all come forward sharing their knowledge and experience on the UFO/Extraterrestrial phenomenon.
The Canadian government recently made a $20 UFO coin, a collectors item, that recounts what’s become known as Canada’s most famous UFO encounter, called The Falcon Lake Incident.
The incident provided a number of interesting pieces of evidence, from physical evidence, from the craft that has to be kept in a special radioactive shielding case, to severe burn marks on the individual who experienced it who actually had to spend some time in the hospital after coming every close to, and touching the craft.
You can read more details about the Falcon Lake encounter, in detail, here. There are a number of pictures linked in the article as well.
Below you can watch the brief news cast from CTV news.
The 2011 Global Competitiveness Forum, at which a number of prominent scientists attended, featured a lecture by Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET, on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. There, he also discusses the physical evidence we currently have. In this talk, he also spoke about the physical evidence pertaining to UFOs.
When it comes to physical evidence of UFOs, much has been accumulated. Whether it be an actual piece from the craft as seen below, or the enormous amounts of electrooptical data and video footage. The amount of evidence available is unbelievable. “If this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt.” Those were the words of Luis Elizondo in a recent interview by I-Team Las Vegas and George Knapp. Last October, Elizondo ended his long career with the U.S. government, and with one of his most recent positions being the director of the Pentagon’s study of unknown aerial objects (ATTIP).
He is a representative of the To The Stars Academy.
UFO disclosure is seriously ramping up, as it seems those who call the shots have decided to begin what seems to be a process of ‘normalization,’ a sort of acclimatizing campaign designed to slowly let people know that these things are indeed real, there is ample evidence to show it, and there is a possibility that some of them could indeed be extraterrestrial.
Having been a researcher in the field for more than a decade, this process of slow disclosure seems to have been unfolding for a few years now. At the same time, it’s quite clear, at least from my perspective, that those who control the secrecy around this topic, whoever they are, are split down the middle, with some wanting to maintain the secrecy and others wanting to let the world know.
Then you have the possibility of deception with regards to the information they’re putting out. Some believe we are headed towards a ‘false flag alien invasion.’ You can read more about that here.
This is a drastic contrast to what the world experienced decades ago, when there was, as the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency once said that (CIA), “Through an official campaign of secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”(source)
Below is a picture of retired USAF Colonel Charles Halt. He’s been sharing his experience about what happened at a UK military base in eastern England. He was the Colonel stationed there at the time, along with several other USAF and RAF personnel. He was involved in the classic Rendelsham Forest Incident, one of multiple UFO incursions at nuclear weapons facility.
He is holding a piece of one of the UFOs from the Rendelsham forest. This incident is the classic, go to case in ufology, and there is no shortage of information on it if you’re interested.
Here’s a description of what happened in his own words, where he also shows more traces of physical evidence.
The Implications?
As mentioned earlier, this topic really leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. Within the lore, if you take some of these objects to indeed be extraterrestrial, there is a consistency among many in the field that suggest many of these beings are here to help humanity to make a transition, and help us.
For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities, provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them, and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.
Spiritual implications are also referred to quite often, if you take a listen to a recent podcast I did with CE founder, Joe Martino, and Richard Lawrence, you can better understand what I mean. Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society, as mentioned above.
There is also the other side, a malevolent side to this whole phenomena which is important to explore as well. But when it comes to an “alien invasion,” the evidence suggests that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, if that were the case, it probably would have happened. But that’s just my opinion.
Les fragments d’une météorite tombée sur Terre il y a plus d’une décennie suggèrent la présence d’une planète disparue, jadis présente dans notre système solaire, selon une étude publiée ce mardi.
Des chercheurs suisses, français et allemands expliquent avoir examiné des fragments de diamants trouvés à l’intérieur de la météorite Almahata Sitta, venue s’écraser dans le désert de Nubie au Soudan, en octobre 2008. Après analyse, ils suggèrent qu’ils se sont probablement formés au cœur d’une proto-planète il y a au moins 4,55 milliards d’années, époque durant laquelle notre système solaire était en train de se former.
« Nous démontrons que ces gros diamants ne peuvent pas être le résultat d’un choc, mais plutôt d’une croissance qui a eu lieu au sein d’une planète », expliquent les scientifiques, notant au passage qu’une pression de 200 000 bars serait nécessaire pour former de tels diamants. La planète mystère était donc au moins aussi grande que Mercure, voire même que Mars. Certains nano-fragments étaient en effet relativement grands – jusqu’à 100 μm de diamètre. En raison de la courte durée d’un d’impact, des fragments aussi gros n’auraient jamais pu se former.
Également, les inclusions présentes dans les diamants de la météorite renfermaient principalement deux composés chimiques, le fer et le soufre. À l’image de l’eau et de l’huile, ces deux éléments ne peuvent se mélanger sans force extérieure, étant plus stables séparés. Dans les inclusions, ces derniers étaient cependant présents sous une phase cristalline solide, laissant ainsi entendre qu’ils ont très certainement été soumis à une intense pression. Il est donc beaucoup plus probable que de tels diamants aient été créés dans les profondeurs d’une planète.
Les astronomes ont longtemps émis l’hypothèse que le système solaire contenait jadis beaucoup plus de mondes. L’une de ces planètes embryonnaires – surnommée Theia – aurait d’ailleurs percuté notre jeune Terre, éjectant une grande quantité de débris qui plus tard ont formé la Lune. « Ce que nous revendiquons ici », explique Philippe Gillet, co-auteur de l’étude, « c’est que nous avons dans nos mains un reste de cette première génération de planètes qui nous manquent aujourd’hui, parce qu’elles ont été détruites ou incorporées dans une planète plus grande ».
Vous retrouverez tous les détails de cette étude dans la revue Nature Communications.
Bestond er miljoenen jaren geleden nog een andere intelligente beschaving op aarde? Deze professor speurt naar bewijs
Bestond er miljoenen jaren geleden nog een andere intelligente beschaving op aarde? Deze professor speurt naar bewijs
Hoe weten we zo zeker dat wij de eerste intelligente wezens op aarde zijn? In de loop der tijd verandert al het directe bewijs van een beschaving in stof.
Hoe weten we dan zeker dat er geen andere beschavingen op aarde hebben geleefd, ver voordat de mens verscheen?
Dat vragen professor Adam Frank van de Universiteit van Rochester en Gavin Schmidt van het Goddard Institute for Space Studies van de NASA zich af in een paper in het International Journal of Astrobiology.
Geologische voetafdruk
Ze schrijven dat ze geen bewijs hebben gevonden van andere industriële beschavingen, maar dat hoeft niet gelijk te betekenen dat ze niet hebben bestaan.
Stel dat andere beschavingen net als de mens fossiele brandstoffen hebben gebruikt. Schmidt en Frank bepaalden aan de hand van onze geologische voetafdruk wat voor sporen toekomstige wetenschappers mogelijk van ons gaan terugvinden.
Datzelfde bewijs kan zijn achtergelaten door industriële beschavingen zoals de onze die miljoenen jaren geleden op aarde leefden.
Kernoorlog
Mensen gebruiken nu ongeveer 300 jaar fossiele brandstoffen. Die hebben invloed op het gehalte aan koolstofdioxide in de atmosfeer, leiden tot erosie en zorgen voor plastic afval.
Als andere beschavingen in een ver verleden betrokken zijn geweest bij een kernoorlog, moeten we daarnaast ongewone radioactieve isotopen gaan tegenkomen.
“Wat voor voetafdruk zou deze of andere industriële activiteit van een verdwenen beschaving over tientallen miljoenen jaren achterlaten?” vraagt Frank zich af.
Mars en Venus
Aangezien Mars en Venus in het verleden beter bewoonbaar waren, kunnen ook daar beschavingen hebben bestaan, aldus de professor.
Als een beschaving echter duurzamere manieren ontdekt om energie te produceren, zonder schade toe te brengen aan de planeet, blijft er minder bewijs achter, merkt hij op.
Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)Een fragment van de Almahatta Sitta-meteoriet
WETENSCHAP Een meteoriet die tien jaar geleden neerstortte in de Nubische Woestijn in Soedan bevat diamanten die vermoedelijk ooit gevormd werden in het hart van een “verloren” planeet die ooit rond onze zon draaide. Dat beweren Zwitserse wetenschappers na analyse van het gesteente.
Astronomen vermoeden al lang dat tientallen prille planeetjes ontstonden tijdens de eerste tien miljoen jaar van ons zonnestelsel. Deze protoplaneten, bestaande uit gas, stof en gesteente, zouden qua omvang ergens tussen Mercurius en Mars liggen. Ze cirkelden rond onze jonge zon, maar werden uiteindelijk aan diggelen geslagen tijdens hevige botsingen. Hun materiaal vormde de basis voor de planeten, asteroïden en brokstukken die vandaag rond de zon draaien.
Echt bewijs voor deze theorie was er tot voor kort nog niet, maar de Almahatta Sitta-meteoriet zou wel eens de sleutel kunnen zijn. Uit microscopische analyse van de piepkleine diamantjes in de meteoriet blijkt immers dat ze bestanddelen bevatten die geproduceerd werden onder immense druk, wat doet vermoeden dat de diamanten onder het oppervlak van een planeet tot stand kwamen.
We doen aan archeologie: we kijken naar het verleden en proberen de geschiedenis van ons zonnestelsel te ontrafelen.
Philippe Gillet
“Simulaties tonen aan dat het vroege zonnestelsel tientallen van deze embryonale planeten had die met elkaar botsten om de aardse planeten te vormen, maar bewijs vinden voor [het bestaan van] één van hen? Dat verwachtte ik niet”, zegt Farhang Nabiei, die stukjes van de meteoriet bestuurde in het Federaal Instituut voor Technologie in Lausanne, Zwitserland.
“We doen aan archeologie: we kijken naar het verleden en proberen de geschiedenis van ons zonnestelsel te ontrafelen”, zegt Philippe Gillet, een van de hoofdonderzoekers van de studie.
Ureïliet
De Almahatta Sitta-meteoriet werd voor het eerst waargenomen toen hij op weg was naar de aarde en ontplofte boven de Nubische Woestijn in 2008. De Universiteit van Khartoem verzamelde vervolgens 480 fragmentjes van de meteoriet, goed voor 4 kilogram in totaal.
Uit onderzoek bleek dat de meteoriet een ureïliet was: een zeldzame soort die niet vergelijkbaar is met andere stenen die bijvoorbeeld afkomstig zijn van de maan of Mars. De onderzoekers van het Zwitserse laboratorium en Japanse wetenschappers troffen in de meteoriet diamantjes aan van zo’n 100 micrometer groot. Dat is volgens hen te groot om het resultaat te zijn van een botsing tussen twee asteroïden. De onderzoekers speculeerden dat de meteoriet mogelijk afkomstig was van een verloren planeet, maar hadden meer bewijzen nodig om die theorie te staven.
We kijken vermoedelijk naar een voorwerp dat een van de eerste planeten was die rond de zon cirkelden, voor ze met elkaar botsten om de echte planeten te vormen die we vandaag kennen.
Philippe Gillet
Extreme druk
In het tijdschrift Nature Communications beschrijft het Zwitserse team nu dat uit nieuwe analyses blijkt dat de diamanten in de meteoriet spikkeltjes van een ijzer-zwavelverbinding bevatten die alleen maar kan ontstaan bij een druk die groter is dan 20 gigapascal. Bijgevolg moeten die diamanten onder het oppervlak van een onbekende wereld tot stand gekomen zijn.
“We kijken vermoedelijk naar een voorwerp dat een van de eerste planeten was die rond de zon cirkelden, voor ze met elkaar botsten om de echte planeten te vormen die we vandaag kennen”, aldus Gillet.
“Dit bewijst de theorieën over de vorming van ons zonnestelsel”, zegt Nabiei. [Ureïlieten] kunnen ons een beter idee geven van de vorming en evolutie van de planeten in ons zonnestelsel”, voegt hij eraan toe.
Als de recente bevindingen bevestigd worden, is de Almahata Sitta-meteoriet voorlopig het enige bekende overblijfsel van een van deze lang verloren planeten.
ThinkstockEen asteroïde scheert rakelings langs de aarde (ter illustratie)
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET In astronomische termen kan worden gesproken van een ‘near miss’, een bijna-botsing. Als de baan van planetoïde 2018 GE3 iets dichter bij de aarde had gelegen, had het slecht kunnen aflopen. De brok steen, tussen de 44 en 110 meter groot, zou bij een inslag een gebied ter grootte van een flinke stad van de kaart hebben geveegd.
2018 GE3 is ongeveer even groot als de Toengoeska-meteoriet die begin vorige eeuw boven Siberië ontplofte. Door de explosie braken in een omtrek van 30 kilometer alle bomen aan de basis van de stam af. De meteoriet sloeg in met een kracht die vergelijkbaar is met 30 keer de kracht van de atoombom die in 1945 op Hiroshima werd gegooid.
Gelukkig lag de baan van planetoïde 2018 GE3 op 192.000 kilometer afstand van de aarde. Maar dat is nog altijd dichterbij dan onze maan die op 384.400 kilometer afstand staat. Als een planetoïde de aarde zo dicht nadert, was die natuurlijk al lang in kaart gebracht en wisten astronomen dat niemand zich zorgen hoefde te maken? Nee, dus. Niemand zag de brok steen aankomen. Pas enkele uren voor de passage, afgelopen zondag, werd 2018 GE3 ontdekt. Om weer even snel in de ruimte te verdwijnen.
Aardscheerders
De late ontdekking roept de vraag op of de jacht op aardscheerders zoals 2018 GE3 wel deugt. Die jacht werd tien jaar geleden geopend in de hoop dat de aarde genoeg voorbereidingstijd heeft om een eventuele grote inslag van een ruimtebrok te kunnen voorkomen. 2018 GE3 slipte er doorheen omdat hij te klein was. De zoektocht naar aardscheerders richt zich op brokstukken die groter zijn dan 140 meter. Daarvan zijn er al meer dan 8.000 in kaart gebracht. De verwachting is dat er nog eens 8.000 zullen worden ontdekt.
Wake-upcall
Voor NASA en het waarschuwingssysteem voor aardscheerders is de passage van 2018 GE3 een ‘wake-upcall’. Deze ‘test’ wijst uit dat het systeem nog verder moet worden verfijnd om verrassingen als die van afgelopen zondag te voorkomen’, aldus astronomen.
Asteroid 2018 GE3 flew past us today, half the distance to the Moon. Around 50-100 m in diameter, it was several times the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, around the size of the 1908 Tunguska event ~ easily enough to destroy a city. We had less than a day's warning. ( Michael Jäger)
For some time now, “mystery booms” have been reported persistently in various parts of North America. Often accompanied by noticeable shaking and, at times, even property damage, in many cases the exact cause of these unusual, earthquake-like phenomena remains undetermined.
Among the most recent locales to be affected by the mystery quakes is the village of McAdam in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, which has been plagued by an unusual number of earthquakes in recent weeks. According to sources in the area, more than 20 earthquakes have been reported in the last month alone, and with no identifiable cause–seismic or otherwise.
The current earthquake “swarm” is similar to circumstances that occurred in the region in early 2016, when dozens—perhaps more than 100—similar quakes were reported in the same area. Many homeowners have described quakes that shook their homes at night, waking some residents; a few claimed that windows in their homes were even broken as a result of the mysterious shaking.
Prior to the events of last month, there had been no reports of similar incidents since the previous wave of earthquakes in 2016. When they do occur, many residents also describe hearing loud “booms” with the quakes, which have been compared to the sounds of a gunshot, only louder. However, seismologists with Natural Resources Canada confirm that there are no faults in the area, and hence it seems unlikely that the shaking and booms are associated with traditional sources of earthquakes.
New Brunswick is not the only region being affected by the unusual phenomenon. NBC affiliates out of San Diego, California, also reported on a recent series of rumblings that had residents taking to social media, with some describing “a strong rumble that shook their homes Monday morning.”
However, scientists with the United States Geological Survey said there was no indication that an earthquake had occurred.
Last November, a similar incident prompted some scientists to propose an alternative explanation. According to a group of researchers at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Ensenada, a variety of meteorological phenomenon that occurs when hot and cold air “masses” converge may also result in shaking at ground-level. Nonetheless, physical evidence for this as a cause behind California’s mystery booms remains elusive.
Sputnik News also reported on recent reports of mystery booms that have occurred in Ohio, where it was reported that shaking and thunder-like noises, “left many scared to see their floorboards shaking and pieces of their homes starting to break off the foundations.” Video uploaded to YouTube which reportedly captured footage that coincided with the booms have spurred theories about their cause, with many suggesting underground bases or facilities “in preparation of World War III.”
All fearmongering aside, the mystery booms are nothing new. A possible variety of causes have been determined to cause perceptible booms that can be heard–and felt–across great distances, which range from high-altitude “super thunderbolts,” to atmospheric refraction which carries the sound of booms from far away across great distances, as was determined with booms heard for years near Mother Lode, California.
Along with New Brunswick, Canada, and California, a number of locales have seen reports of the booms in recent months, ranging from, South Carolina and Georgia (areas where fault lines do exist). Mystery booms have even been reported as far away as Great Britain, and as with their American cousins, many of the incidents occur in the absence of any indication of seismic activity to accompany them.
For those interested in reading more on the natural and manmade causes associated with reports of mystery booms, a collection of information can be found here, as well as at this page (compiled by the author) which lists their various known causes.
“If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?”
That’s the opening question asked by Gavin A. Schmidt and Adam Frank in their new research paper, “The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?”, in which they look for geological fingerprints of advanced civilizations that may have lived on Earth before our own and been wiped out by some sort of extinction cataclysm. Did they find it?
Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, describes the jaw-dropping research proposal presented to him by Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in an excellent article in the current edition of The Atlantic. It follows the publication of the study (also an excellent read) in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
(“Ma” = a million years ago; “Ga” = a billion years ago)
“Humans are the only example [of an industrial civilization] we know of, and our industrial civilization has lasted (so far) roughly 300 years (since, for example, the beginning of mass production methods). This is a small fraction of the time we have existed as a species, and a tiny fraction of the time that complex life has existed on the Earth’s land surface.”
However, it’s big enough to have a physical impact on the surface of the Earth – an impact that would be evident to future researchers digging thought the layers of the planet’s crust millenniums from now. Frank and Schmidt start here, because that industrial civilization evidence may be the same thing we need to be looking for to find past civilizations.
But first … the name.
“We name the hypothesis after a 1970 episode of the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who where a long-buried race of intelligent reptiles “Silurians” are awakened by an experimental nuclear reactor. We are not however suggesting that intelligent reptiles actually existed in the Silurian age, nor that experimental nuclear physics is liable to wake them from hibernation.”
Of course, you Doctor Who fans already knew this. A name you may not recognize is “Anthropocene,” which is the moniker proposed for our current geological period. What would identify the Anthropocene age to future geologists? The study points to evidence of fossil fuel usage, plastics (our garbage), agriculture (fertilizers and erosion), pollutants, unusual radioactive isotopes (from nuclear war or meltdowns) and climate change (variations in carbon dioxide, methane, etc.). While these are indicators of the existence of an industrial civilization, they may also be indicators of what killed it.
Then again, what if the advanced civilization was more advanced than we Anthropocene beings. If they no longer used fossil fuels, would we find dead batteries instead? There’s also the question of how long the civilization was industrial. We’ve only been there for 300 years. Even if it lasted 100,000 years, after millions of years, would there be any evidence left? How thin would that layer be?
Is this our layer?
As you may have guessed, Frank and Schmidt didn’t find evidence of a past advanced civilization yet … nor did they find the Silurians (which may be good news because they’d probably want royalties (or something more painful) for the use of their name). However, they point out that looking for evidence of past industrial civilizations on Earth provides knowledge that will help determine if other planets had similar now-extinct advanced life forms. They also warn that, while they have found clear evidence of other periods of global warming/climate change that match what we’re going through (the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 56 million years ago, for example), that period did not match “the speed at which we’re dumping fossil carbon into the atmosphere … never before in the planet’s multibillion-year history has so much buried carbon been dumped back into the atmosphere so quickly.”
Will the only evidence of the Anthropocene age be a thin black residue in the Earth’s crust? Maybe we should stop looking for past civilizations and start looking in the mirror.
The more we learn about ancient humans, the less we seem to know. Recent archaeological discoveries of ancient civilizationshave upended our theoretical timelines of human evolution, and we’ve found the other known species of humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, had a much larger role in our genetic story than previously thought. According to a paper published in PLOS ONEby a team of Australian archaeologists, now another mysterious culture has been discovered. The archaeologists say that tools and animal hides discovered in a cave in Indonesia belonged to a primitive, ancient culture, and might be evidence of a “distinct human species” that called the area home some 50,000 years ago.
The cave, called Leang Burung, sits on the island of Sulawesi in southern Indonesia. It was discovered and first excavated in 1975, and the artifacts found were seen as evidence modern humans’ arrival to the area between 25,000 and 34,000 years ago. The new findings suggest something different. Dr. Adam Brumm of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution specifies:
We have uncovered archaeological evidence for an ancient population of “Ice Age” hunter-gatherers that inhabited Leang Burung 2 rock-shelter around 50,000 years ago.
Dr. Brumm says that early modern humans were creating cave art in nearby sites by 40,000 years ago, which suggests that the newly discovered ancient culture arrived on Sulawesi before the Ice-Age cave painting culture did. The inhabitants of Leang Burung were much more primitive than the known early humans of the time. Based on this, Brumm says, “the first inhabitants of this site may not only have been members of a different culture but also a distinct human species.”
Artist’s depiction of a Neanderthal tribe, who were a different species of human.
What that species may be is unclear. Sulawesi was one of the last stops before Australia on the road of human migration, and there were many different species and subspecies of hominins that journeyed across the chain of islands over the course of millennia. The island sits to the north of Flores, where the ancient race of “hobbits” were discovered, and recent research suggests that the mysterious Denisovan hominins made their way to Australia, where they bred with early humans, via the same route.
Map showing the timeline of human migration out of Africa
The archaeologists have not yet reached the bottom layers of sediment and they say that with further excavation they may find evidence of even older civilizations.
The researchers are quick to say that, while they believe that this is evidence of a separate human species, it may be that these artifacts belonged to the same Ice-Age cave artists that were previously discovered in the area, or it could be another group of early humans. Adam Brumm says:
It is now known that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and that an early population of our species had spread out of Africa (into Israel) by 200,000 years ago, and possibly even made it much further east.
Whatever culture it was, it’s another look into the fascinating and mysterious path our ancestors and ancient relatives took, and yet another example of how limited our knowledge of the past really is.
In 2008, an 80-ton asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded some 37 kilometers (23 miles) above Sudan’s Nubian Desert. It was estimated that the asteroid was around 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter when it hit our atmosphere and exploded into 600 smaller meteorites. These fragments only weighed around 10 kilograms (23 lb) altogether, but contained scores of tiny nanodiamonds which formed on impact with the atmosphere.
Nanodiamonds can be as small as just a few micrometers across.
The asteroid’s official name is 2008 TC3, although it was later named Almahata Sitta. The impact marked the first time that meteorites were recovered from an asteroid which was tracked by astronomers prior to a collision with our planet. Researchers from the University of Khartoum in Sudan recovered many of the meteorites and nanodiamonds, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the life of asteroids and resulting meteorites. Scientists studying those nanodiamonds have just published the first study of these diamonds, and it turns out they might reveal a whole lot more than just the geological composition of space rocks. In fact, they might be evidence of an entire lost planet of our Solar System.
An Almahata Sitta fragment.
The research has been published in Nature. According to the article, this study marks “the first compelling evidence for such a large body that has since disappeared.” The authors note that due to the immense pressure required to form the types of nanodiamonds found in the Almahata Sitta meteorite, they were likely the result of an early planet in our solar system which is no longer in existence:
These diamonds contain inclusions that can only form above ~20 GPa, which can only be attained in a large planetary body.This study provides convincing evidence that the [meteorite] parent body was one such large “lost” planet before it was destroyed by collisions.
Several recent astronomical studies have claimed that irregularities in the orbits of our solar system’s planets and the anomalous tilt of the Sun could only be due to the existence of a hidden “Planet X.” Could these tiny diamonds prove such a planet actually used to exist? If so, what happened to it? Given the near-miss Earth just had with a sizeable, undetected asteroid, do we really want to know?
Strange lights have been spotted in the night sky over Baltimore and Holland Hills on April 16, 2018.
A witness of the lights has submitted the sighting to Mufon case 914475 said:
White round lights. Random positions, rapid change of directions, several of them, I personally lived in Baltimore for several years, never seen anything like it (near the harbor).
There are many of them, not just a few (1-3) there are 10+ going random directions, almost like ghosts. (Almost like the "birds" incident live on the news).
But, instead white orb like lights ABOVE the clouds, and I personally know the people in the video, they also stated they thought it was spot lights from the harbor, but then they soon realized there was no source from the ground in plain sight; also the lights are ABOVE the dark clouds.
Note: The lights may be birds, such as seagulls, or is it more mysterious?
He said the craft has a TR3B shape - UFO speak - meaning it's a triangle.
More and more lights start flashing.
Photo: Youtube
However, NASA and other investigators have repeatedly stated that these 'sightings' of UFOs near the space stations are generally reflections of the sun on space junk or other matter.
"It is down to wishful thinking that images sent back from the space station are of alien craft," Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual said.
Others online also agreed.
"It's lens flare created by that metal sheeting catching the sun's light," one person commented online.
Just last month a Bristol man saw something similar, sharing footage of what he believed to be an alien ‘mothership’, along with several other vessels, in the night sky.
“The main UFO was some distance away – it looked like it was bouncing off the moon," he told the Bristol Post.
Man films 'UFO lights' bouncing off the moon
VIDEO He claims he saw the 'mothership' and several other ships.
Source: Bristol Post
In the footage, the bright moon can be seen clearly – before another bright object enters the frame.
“There were two or three altogether but the mothership was the focus – it was so big, even from a distance.”
Jet fighters battle 'UFO'
VIDEO Bizarre images captured above alien site Area 51. YouTube/thirdphaseofmoon
Open Minds UFO Radio: Michael Schratt is a military aerospace historian. He has lectured across the country on the subject of “Mystery Aircraft” and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military-industrial complex. His speaking engagements include the “OSHKOSH” AirVenture 2006/2007 event, (the world’s largest air show). Michael has developed many contacts with first-hand experience dealing with classified “black programs,” including former USAF pilots, retired Naval personnel and aerospace engineers who have maintained a TOP SECRET Q “MAJIC” clearance. He has written for Open Minds Magazine and OpenMinds.tv and currently works as an aerospace draftsman/researcher in Arizona.
In this episode, we discuss black triangle UFO sightings and the possibility that some of them are advanced aircraft developed in classified projects, including the famous Phoenix Lights sighting in Arizona in 1997.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Michael Schratt is a military aerospace historian. He has lectured across the country on the subject of “Mystery Aircraft” and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military-industrial complex. His speaking engagements include the “OSHKOSH” AirVenture 2006/2007 event, (the world’s largest air show). Michael has developed many contacts with first-hand experience dealing with classified “black programs,” including former USAF pilots, retired Naval personnel and aerospace engineers who have maintained a TOP SECRET Q “MAJIC” clearance. He has written for Open Minds Magazine and OpenMinds.tv and currently works as an aerospace draftsman/researcher in Arizona.
In this episode, we discuss black triangle UFO sightings and the possibility that some of them are advanced aircraft developed in classified projects, including the famous Phoenix Lights sighting in Arizona in 1997.
USS Submarine takes photos in the Arctic Ocean in 1971
Filer’s Files # 15 -2018 Underwater USOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Close Encounters of the Toledo Kind: Commander Fravor Pursued UFO in 2004, Underwater USOs, Malibu Underwater Alien Base is Unlikely, and Stellar Explosions Cause ET To Find New Planets.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Puerto Rico, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
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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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A Toledo-born naval fighter pilot who saw an unidentifiable object that looked like a Tic Tac in the sky over the Pacific Ocean is telling his story now, 14 years later. Super Hornet’s ATFLIR Screen showing UFO center
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor’s tale, backed up with some video and his recorded observations, is providing momentum for those who think the government should investigate these sightings more aggressively.
Many people claim to have seen an unidentified flying object. But Commander Fravor, a 1982 Whitmer High School graduate, is one of the few who claim to have been in pursuit of a UFO while flying military aircraft.
A Commander Fravor’s mysterious encounter occurred on Nov. 14, 2004, when he and another pilot were on a training mission 140 miles southwest of San Diego. What he saw from his fighter jet was a white pill-shaped object about the size of a bus hovering and flying with no obvious means of propulsion or lift. When he flew in for a closer look the object sped away like a bullet. Commander Fravor thinks it came from another world.
Left photo Chad Albert, of Toledo, with his cousin, Cmdr. David Fravor, in an October, 2004, file photo when Commander Fravor took command of VFA-41, Strike Fighter Squadron 41 also known as the “Black Aces” in Lemoore, California.
It became a social media phenomenon just before this past Christmas after Commander Fravor went public with his story more than 13 years after it happened. The Pentagon released a video of the 2004 incident, and acknowledged the existence of what the U.S. Department of Defense had called its Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which tracked UFOs.
Commander Fravor was encouraged to tell his story to The New York Times by Luis Elizondo, a retired intelligence officer who ran that Pentagon program. Mr. Elizondo is now director of global security and special programs of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a group encouraging more transparency about UFOs. After The Times published its article, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, ABC News, Fox News, CNN, CBS News, Popular Mechanics, and many other national news outlets followed suit.
David Fravor states, “What was unique with ours is we actually interacted with it. We chased it. I went after it,” Commander Fravor, 53, told The Blade in a telephone interview from his house in Windham, N.H., a city of 14,439 people that’s 37 miles north of Boston.
“There’s enough credible evidence there are things flying around that we didn’t build and we can’t explain,” Commander Fravor said.
At the time of his sighting, he was commander of a 300-member Navy squadron aboard the USS Nimitz known as Strike Fighter Squadron 41.
The pilots were flying the Navy’s newest aircraft, the F/A-18F Super Hornet. He had more than 3,500 flight hours and was a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School known as TOPGUN. He retired in 2006. His 24 years in the military included 18 years as a Navy jet pilot and five deployments in Iraq, beginning with Desert Storm.
He recalls the weather was ideal on the day he’s convinced he saw a UFO: Blue sky and no clouds. The sea was calm. Three others were in the sky with him. In addition to the pilot in the other F/A-18F who accompanied him on that mission, a weapons system officer was in the back of both fighter jets. Their identities have not been disclosed, as they are still active military, Commander Fravor said.
Shortly after the two fighter jets began their training mission, they were redirected by a radio operator from the cruiser USS Princeton to a part of the Pacific Ocean where the Princeton had been tracking as many as a dozen mysterious objects for two weeks. Objects had been seen dropping straight down from above 80,000 feet and stopping at 20,000 feet.
Photo of similar craft
In this case, a huge object — approximately 10 feet wide and 40 feet long — hovered as low as 50 feet above the ocean. There was a disturbance in the water directly below it, with waves possibly generated by a second unidentified object much larger than a submarine that may have been submerged beneath the water. (Depiction)
Commander Fravor said he and the trio accompanying him had their eyes glued on the airborne object for about five minutes.
He said numerous times that UFO had the appearance of a giant “Tic Tac” breath mint. It was an oblong, all-white tubular device with no windows and no wings. It had no exhaust, and its energy source and form of propulsion were unknown. It wasn’t anything he’d seen in his years as a Navy jet pilot.
“In 18 years of flying airplanes, this thing had characteristics I never saw,” Commander Fravor said. “It was almost jaw-dropping. It was very strange.”
He said he told the other pilot to stay up high, that he was going down for a closer look. As soon as he got within 3,000 feet — a little more than a half-mile — the object zoomed away at bullet speed, he said.
“As I get within about a half-mile of it, it just rapidly accelerates,” Commander Fravor said. “As it crosses my [fighter jet’s] nose, it just disappears. It’s gone.” It was gone within two seconds on a day so clear he had 50 miles of visibility and could easily see large objects 10 miles away.
“I believe it was something not from this world,” Commander Fravor said Dec. 20 on Fox News during a nationally televised interview with host Tucker Carlson.
One reason Commander Fravor said he’s going public is he wants to demystify UFOs, in hopes the U.S. government and people in general will take the potential for them more seriously.
He encourages experts to think outside the box and “reverse engineer” what they know about aeronautics. Though he has a commendable sense of humor on this subject, Commander Fravor, a decorated 24-year naval aviator, squadron commander if 300 men is dead serious about what he saw. And his career compels us to treat his observations with respect.
Several retired Pentagon intelligence officers have been calling for the Pentagon to restart the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which tracked UFOs at a cost of $22 million from 2007 to 2012. Christopher K. Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, is urging the government to analyze reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. He frames it as a national security matter. Thanks to Toledo Blade Contact Tom Henry at thenry@theblade.com, 419-724-6079,
Underwater USO’s
I have personally seen a UFO surface in our lake on October 1, 1980 at 2 AM, The object was silver with multiple colored lights around its outer rim. The craft was 25 feet in a diameter and has it rose the water poured off the craft. The first UFO book I read was one written by Ivan Sanderson that contained numerous reports of UFOs emerging and submerging into the ocean. We also had sightings a few years ago off the Palos Verdes Peninsula South of Los Angeles where UFOs were seen traveling under water. “What secrets lurk in ocean depths? Are there alien forms of intelligent life that occupy the vast volumes of water that constitute our oceans, seas, and lakes? The largest of our oceans, the Pacific, covers 64,000,000 square miles and reaches a depth of 36,198 feet, a depth that no ray of sunlight ever reaches. Could these depths hide alien submarine bases?
Carl Feindt has written an excellent book about UFOs and Water.
Underwater UFOs have been sighted on many occasions lifting out of their submerged depths and taking to the air. In an article entitled “UFOs – at 450 Fathoms,” UFO Reporter Ed Hyde told of the sighting made by Dr. R. J. Villela, a Brazilian scientist, who saw a UFO smash through an estimated 40 feet of ice at the South Pole and soar into the sky at amazing speed.
It was author and researcher Dr. Ivan T. Sanderson who suggested that aliens could remain undetected by building their bases beneath the world’s oceans. Dr. Sanderson found that by actual count, over 50 percent of the UFO sightings had occurred plunging into or coming out of water. This includes oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. Of the oceanic UFOs (some term them USOs or Unidentified Submersible Objects), one was tracked by the U.S. Navy near Puerto Rico in 1963 and frequently since then. On a training maneuver, a sonar operator detected an object traveling at over 150 knots! The technicians tracked this object for four days and it maneuvered down to the incredible depth of 27,000 feet. Submarines of 1963 could not dive further than a fraction over a mile into the ocean deeps. What kind of submersible could withstand the tremendous ocean pressures? And how could it overcome the tremendous resistance of water moving at such incredible speeds? I flew to Puerto Rico and interviewed several people who observed UFOs in a Lake on the Southwest corner of the country.
(Note:We now know that may use a process called supercavitation)
Many witnesses have reported huge cigar-shaped vehicles emerging from the oceanichydrospaces of earth to take to the sky. In 1965, such an event was logged in the records of the Norwegian ship T.T. Jawesta on the 6th of July and in the log of an Argentinean ship, the Naviero off the coast of Brazil on July 20, 1967. The officers and crew could see a shining object in the sea no more than 50 feet away. It was cigar-shaped and about 110 feet in length and emitted a powerful blue and white glow. It ran silently and without wake through the water. It paced the Naviero for 15 minutes, then suddenly dived and passed beneath the ship and vanished rapidly into the great depths.
07-17-1992 Taking on Water They pulled their sail down to slow their boat to avoid a collision, but when the ship approached their boat they realized it wasn’t a ship. It was a UFO with a lot of lights on it. It was sucking water up into it and passed slowly within twenty meters of the boat, but the fishermen don’t think the UFO saw them. It just went by them about six meters above the water, sucking up a column of water almost as wide as the UFO. The water didn’t fall back into the ocean. The UFO went past them and disappeared in the distance.”
08-04-1971 -Three vortexes came out from the sea and from inside them an object appeared.”
07-??-1977 – Could see the water of the lake surging upward as if being sucked into the machine.”
10-23-1978a -Column of water “hovered 100 feet high by 15 feet wide before falling fanlike into the sea”
07-17-1992 – Same as 10-23-1978a “sucking up a column of water almost as wide as the UFO”
04-26-1994– A center plume of water shot up to the bottom of the UFO.
For years witnesses have seen many types of UFOs cruising off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. UFOs have actually been seen to come out of the water in the San Pedro Channel. In the early seventies, my friend Jim was on the boat returning from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro Harbor when he spotted a low, flying disk cruise silently over the channel boat. The craft was so close he could make out every detail of its structure including the four hemispherical pods on its underside.
Strange blue-green lights have been seen in the water since 1989. In 1989, and again in 1990, witnesses have seen as many as 20 events an hour. One large light appeared to be as much as 100 feet in diameter. This large light spawned babies no larger than 10 to 12 feet in length. These lights were seen to move swiftly under the ocean’s surface some 500 to 1,000 feet from the coastline in Abalone Cove. The hypothesis that these may be luminescent fish is discounted by a local marine biologist. These lights were too large and too swift to be fish. One of the lights was reported to have emerged from the water.
Large numbers of dead fish are often noticed after the UFO is seen diving into or emerging from the water causing speculation that the propulsion system using high energy electrical systems kills the fish. On one occasion on February 19, 1982, on Lake Lacar, Argentina a UFO had plunged into the lake and shortly thereafter a large number of dead fish were observed. The dead fish were sent to a laboratory and the fish’s air bladder systems had been compressed by a shock wave. The rapid movement of the UFO may have been to blame.
In 1992 a sea kayaker viewed an amazing sight off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He was four or five miles south of Los Angeles when a waterspout suddenly formed some hundreds of yards ahead of his kayak. As he observed this spout, the forward motion of the funnel stopped, the curtain of light mist surrounding the waterspout disappeared and a rotating column of what seemed to be solid ice appeared. As the sun reflected off the rotating mass of ice crystals, it appeared to be a sight of extraordinary beauty. The height of the ice column was estimated at 100 to 150 feet. When the ice column collapsed back into the ocean, it created a whirlpool. After this amazing event, the kayaker paddled over to examine floating fragments of ice and found specimens of fish embedded in the frozen pieces. Thanks to Bill Hamilton & https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Water-Physical-Accounts-Eyewitnesses/dp/1450095348
Navy is Likely Primary on UFOs
There is indication that the Office of Naval Intelligence is primary in the UFO subject. The Navy and the U.S. Government has been aware of the ‘marine aspect’ of the phenomenon all along. It is much more likely UFOs come from the oceans rather than from planets millions miles away. If they make the trip from a planet they hide in bases on Earth that are often underwater.
Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203 with the help of the Office of Naval Intelligence presents the first important clue that the Pentagon was well aware of the phenomenon’s marine nature. This document is one of the rarest documents in the national archives linking the Office of Naval Intelligence to any association with the investigation of the phenomenon and offers an early clue that the study of the UFO phenomenon did not fall totally within the realm of the Air Force. The Navy could be more involved than the Air Force..?
Recent reports by UFO researchers suggest there is an ongoing Navy effort to destroy any evidence linking the Navy to the UFO phenomenon. The reports of UFO sightings being edited out of ship’s logs, by UFO researchers, confirms a considerable naval sensitivity to the phenomenon. Researchers have also reported the naval archives in Seacaus, New Jersey appear to have been purposely sabotaged. Documents are missing and files have purposely been mixed chronologically thwarting researchers attempts to do meaningful research at this facility relating to the UFO phenomenon.
Missing Naval Log Books containing UFO/USO reports, Brand New Log Books / Do not Discuss:
Feb 1963, Royal Navy North Atlantic Fleet:
After Tom witnessed the senior officer enter the UFO observations in the radar log book, their shift ended. Radar room personnel on the early morning watch ate breakfast and then turned in. Tom said he was awakened at 12:30 AM and ordered to report to the ward room, along with the five radar and sonar operators on his shift that morning.
The senior officer proceeded to go over the events of that morning, asking questions about the radar-sonar observations. He told the six men that their conversations were being taped and explained that until more was known about the unknown target, they were to remain silent about what they had seen. “Gentlemen,” the officer said, “We will remember that we have all signed the Official Secrets Act.” Although there were no threats, the implication was clear that to divulge anything to anyone concerning the tracking of the UFO would be considered a breach of security.
When Preston came on duty once again at 2400 hours, he said he was surprised to discover that a “spanking new book” had replaced the radar log used the previous morning
USS Reeves:
All of a sudden I lost Sonar Contact like it was never there, but CIC still had it at last bearing with an abrupt positive altitude change. The chatter was look at the size of that thing. I went outside through the sonar door on the Port Side and visually saw a large moonlike shape that flew upward over the ship at a 60 degree angle and disappeared into the sky in seconds. I heard no noise from the object when it went over us. I saw a full moon that night on the other side of the ship, but it remained fairly constant give or take a few ship rolls.
When we pulled into port a few weeks later, all records in the Bridge, CIC, and Sonar logs about that time were torn out. Whoever tore them out made one error, the pen imprint on the next page was still there. No one spoke of the incident again.
USS Reclaimer:
The F-14 went to full afterburner right off the deck, pulling a rooster-tail7 behind it. It rattled the ship severely as it went by. This USO thing pulled easily ahead of the jet, crossed the horizon in seconds while underwater… no visible wake. It just… I mean this thing was FAST. Well, we just stood there. Wow, you know… what do ya say. We speculated about what it was. Guam told us it was a classified matter not to be reported or discussed.
Carrier USS Kearsarge:
The cameraman was able to get some photos, not sure how many, before they all took off almost straight up and out of sight.
The cameraman turned the film into to his superior officer and was told to not ever mention it. My dad said he and his friend were asked about the incident by their NCO and also told not to ever talk about it.
One of Sanderson’s sources stated that no less than 13 craft recorded in their logs that their sonars had tracked this object. Allegedly, the unknown target continued to be tracked for four days as it maneuvered down to depths of 27,000 feet! (This must have been in the vicinity of the Atlantic’s deepest point — 28,374 feet below sea level — in the Puerto Rico Trench.)
If the above story is true, nothing of known earthly origin can travel underwater at such speeds or maneuver at such depths. The fastest nuclear subs can attain 45 knots (52 miles per hour) and dive to around 3,000 feet. The bathyscaphe Trieste, with a specially constructed pressure-resistant hull, descended to a record 35,820 feet in 1960. However, it was incapable of maneuvering about.
It is unfortunate that more than 21 years elapsed before the Preston case reached the attention of a UFO investigator. We have here yet another example of government UFO secrecy at work–this time a foreign nation, Great Britain. Largely due to his apprehension over potential repercussions if he revealed his experience, Tom felt compelled to keep his knowledge of the event to himself. Since it hadn’t occurred to him at the time that the radar log notes would be removed, he had only his memory to rely upon during our interviews.
USS John F. Kennedy:
So we exited the Communications Center and went to the catwalk on the port side of the ship on the edge of the flight deck and we observed a large glowing sphere over the ship. It was hard to decide what size this thing was because there was no perspective. It was late in the evening. The sun had gone down, it was twilight, but it looked huge.
After that, I talked to a few shipmate friends that I had on the ship. One in particular worked in the radar department and he was on watch during the incident. He told me that all the radar screens were glowing- and then nothing. They couldn’t detect anything on radar. We stayed up most of the night talking about it.
We heard that the compasses were not working on the bridge and that the radar navigational system had gone offline.
A few days later the Commanding Officer and the Executive Officer came on the closed circuit television system that we had on board. It was the only way that they could address the crew of 5,000. He [the Commanding Officer] looked at the camera – and I will never forget this – and he said, “I would like to remind the crew that certain events that take place on board a major naval combative vessel are considered classified and should not be discussed with anyone without a need to know.” And that was all he said.
USS Edenton:
During one of my scans of the night sky, out of know where, four red circular lights appeared. The lights where hundreds of yards apart from each other and formed a square.
After relaying the contact information a second time, the four lights, in a flash, darted towards the horizon amazingly fast. The lower two lights in the square went first, with the top two lights following directly behind them in a curved swooshing motion and there was no sound.
Next, after a half hour had passed since the sighting, the radiation detection system (gamma roentgen meter) on the bridge started making a loud clicking sound. At first, no one seemed to know what was making this sound then a very loud bell went off notifying us as to what was going on, we were being radiated.
The captain stated not to log the instance concerning the radiation exposure and left the bridge. During the rest of my watch duty that night, no officer or enlisted person spoke of what happened, and also acted liked nothing happened.
Azhazha shook his head no. “At the time, naturally, they were classified top secret. Now we have a more open attitude in this country. We are able to talk about such things. On a few rare occasions I did publish some UFO information, but I paid for it under Leonid Brezhnev. The official reaction was very harsh, very negative. My career suffered as a result, and the directorship of a scientific group was taken away from me.”
Captain of Navy R5D aircraft, February 8, 1951:
Crew members and passengers witnessed UFO emerging from the Atlantic Ocean:
When we landed at Argentia (Newfoundland), we were met by intelligence officers. The types of questions they asked us were like Henry Ford asking about the Model T.
You got the feeling that they were putting words in your mouth. It was obvious that there had been many sightings in the same area, and most of the observers did not let the cat out of the bag openly. When we arrived in the United States, we had to make a full report to Navy Intelligence.
I found out a few months later that Gander radar did track the object in excess of 1800 mph”.
USS Curtiss (AV-4) Operation Castle, 1954
From Table 60, operational activities during the Castle test series, DNA 6035F, 1 April 1982. Page 341 is from the logbook of the USS Curtiss, Shot Koon 7 Apr 1954.
Steamed independently in operating area BG 28-36-1. At 1138 anchored berth N-6, Bikini; at 1948 left berth enroute to Eniwetok; at 2305 an unidentified luminous object passed over ship from bow to stern, yellowish-orange in color, traveling at a high rate of speed and a low altitude.
The Curtiss was carrying components of six thermonuclear bombs assembled aboard by the scientific laboratory and detonated in the Marshall Islands at Eniwetok and Bikini.
In August 1965, a crew of the Soviet steamship Raduga, while navigating in the Red Sea, observed an unusual phenomenon. At about two miles away, a fiery sphere dashed out from under the water and hovered over the surface of the sea, illuminating it.
The sphere was sixty meters in diameter, and it hovered above the sea at an altitude of 150 meters. A gigantic pillar of water rose as the sphere emerged from the sea and collapsed some moments later.
In December 1977, not far from the Novy Georgy Island, the crew of the fishing trawler VASILY KISELEV also observed a doughnut-shaped object rising vertically from under the water. Its diameter was between 300 and 500 meters. It hovered at the altitude of four to five kilometers. The trawler’s radar station was immediately rendered inoperative. The object hovered over the area for three hours, and then disappeared instantly.
The testimony of Alexander G. Globa, a seaman from GORI, a Soviet tanker, in June 1984, was in the Mediterranean, twenty nautical miles from the Straight of Gibraltar. At 16:00, Globa was on duty. With him was Second-in-Command S. Bolotov. They were standing watch at the left bridge extension wing when both men observed a strange polychromatic object.
When the object was astern, it stopped suddenly. S. Bolotov was agog, shaking his binoculars and shouting: “It is a flying saucer, a real saucer, my God, hurry, hurry, look!” Globa looked through his own binoculars and saw, at a distance over the stern, a flattened out looking object. The UFO was gleaming with a grayish metallic shine. The lower portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its diameter no more than twenty meters. Around the lower portion of it Globa also observed “waves” of protuberances on the outside plating.
The base of the object’s body consisted of two semi-discs, the smaller being on top; they slowly revolved in opposing directions. At the circumference of the lower smooth disc Globa saw numerous shining, bright, bead-like lights. a yolk color nucleus-like stain in the middle of it,. The top of the middle disc was crowned by a triangular-shaped something. It seemed that it moved in the same direction as the lower disc, but at a much slower pace. Suddenly, the UFO jumped up several times, as if moved by an invisible wave. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. The UFO’s attention was distracted by an Arab dry cargo ship, on its way to Greece. The Arabs confirmed that the object hovered over their ship. Zagadki Sfinksa magazine (Issue # 3, 1992) Odessa,
Malibu Underwater Alien Base is Unlikely
Final Conclusion – Was it an Alien Base? The final conclusion of the MUFON Special Assignment Team Investigator, Chase Kloetzke, is that the Google satellite image of the alleged Malibu underwater alien/military base located at 33.999754, -119.028777 is a natural thrust fault that features all of the expected characteristics of a geological formation in an appropriate area such as the Dume and Santa Monica Faults. The “columns” that present in the images, but that do not actually exist, are an artifact of the Google Earth satellite image construction process. Large numbers of underwater lights have been reported in the area. Other areas may hold an underwater alien base. Thanks to MUFON
Stellar Explosions Cause Et to Find New Planets
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage team (STScI/AURA)
When astronomers peered into the constellation Tucana (the toucan), they found the small-but-powerful remnant of a stellar explosion hidden amid the colorful clouds of a nearby galaxy. The stellar remnant is the first of its kind found outside the Milky Way.
The strands of gas and dust left behind from a 2,000-year-old supernova shine in vibrant colors in new imagery created by space- and ground-based telescopes,
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage team (STScI/AURA)
including the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope, in Chile. Astronomers searched these clouds, located in a neighboring galaxy 200,000 light-years away, and found a well-hidden neutron star they’d suspected was inside.
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows wisps of gas forming the supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, seen in blue at the center. Part of the massive star-forming region N76 is seen at the lower right of the image in green and pink.
Frédéric Vogt, an ESO fellow, led a team of researchers to locate the hard-to-find stellar corpse that might explain “p1.” Scientists have known about this source of X-ray waves for years but had yet to pinpoint its location.
The team studied the shapes of gas in a nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, according to the ESO image description. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s name comes from its smudge-like appearance in the southern skies. However, rather than a cloud, it’s actually a collection of millions of stars.
The Small Magellanic Cloud, seen in the constellation Tucana (the toucan). A slowly expanding ring of gas inside the clouds of this system was an early clue to where the neutron star might be, researchers said in the image description.
Living stars create fusion and produce energy, and some stars are larger than others. But when death approaches, stars larger than 1.4 times the mass of the sun explode (leaving behind formations like rings) and can also collapse and leave behind an ultra dense Credit: Davide De Martin/ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. core known as a neutron star
.In these cases, protons and electrons are put under tremendous gravitational pressure and form densely packed neutrons, hence the name.
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Filer’s Files # 15 -2018 Underwater USOs - PART II
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UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Pismo Beach — At 4:30 one morning I woke up on the couch to a bright glowing light moving East from over the ocean towards the shoreline. The object flew silently and had a heat emulsion emitted from behind. As it reached the shore, it hovered, then moved in a northerly direction. As it passed near the nuclear power plant in Avila Beach, a radish glowing orb separated from the craft in an arcing fashion towards the plant. After which the craft accelerated rapidly in a NW direction until it disappeared in the distance. I lived in an ocean facing condo in the Shell Beach portion of Pismo Beach at the time of the occurrence. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Jacksonville— I was watching some bird flying when I noticed a silent large rectangle craft overhead. It was silver and the sun was glistening off it. On the eastern side, there was what appeared to be a black area going across the end shaped like a ruler. Here is my drawing of what I saw. It was larger than an airliner, silver and very shiny with the 2 circles appearing to move. The craft moved straight up and disappeared.
Note: It is doubtful that the object was a drone given that the witness heard no sound. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Kansas Circular UFO
Hutchinson — I was passing a large open field when I saw a grey circular UFO with a large oval circular window in front. It also had red, white, and blue lights that rotated individually different directions below the window. It was huge. I guess the size of two football fields. Coming out of the middle of the underside and the back side of the craft were separate sets of stairs. They seemed to be suspended in air. The stairs were white, but nothing between them. I saw what looked like the picture people draw of aliens on the stairs in back, but the face was hidden. There was a second one, gathering samples that ran up the stairs as I drove by.
Being extremely scared, I checked the clock with a blue van traveling toward me. I looked behind me when the van was behind me. The object was gone. The next day it was in the Hutchinson News, but now that edition is missing. Thanks to UFOINFO
Maine Disc
Stark — Obtained old black and white pictures from a friend who asked me to scan them, he gave permission to submit to MUFON for examination, originals came from an old hermit who lived in the area. Pictures probably from the 1950’s or so but seem very detailed.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nebraska Object
Omaha— I was at the VA Hospital Omaha on 42nd and Woolworth taking a picture of the Passover moon on the 30th of March at about 8:25pm. I took the pictures and clicked as fast as I could 4 times. I did not see it. When I looked at the pictures I seen a speck like something was on my screen. All other 3 pictures had the anomaly flying across the pictures from left to right. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Sphere
Marlton — After I uploaded my pictures, I noticed that one of them had round objects in it, I did not see anything while I was taking the picture…I had enlarged the picture trying to figure out what these could be, this happened between 1:15-1:30:pm. March 8th, 2018. I did notice that these objects in the picture seem to be above the power lines that were down due to a snow storm that we had the day before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb/Star
Greenpoint – On April 8, 2018, I just had this knowing (feeling) again that I knew I’d see something in the sky. After 10 minutes outside my balcony there it popped up and instinctively I knew that this was the object I was looking for. This was my first ever video caught on the Nikon P900 so I’m sorry for the shaky footage. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wisconsin Object
Milwaukee — I am a lover of the skies and have known we are not alone in this universe. I was outside in my backyard looking up. I live near Mitchell International Airport (5.7 miles) and Lake Michigan (7 miles) and have watched planes for years. I noticed a couple of blinking hovering objects in the western sky on July 17, 2017, . It was a round with, flashing lights,
, I pulled out my phone and started recording the growing number of objects. I ran to grab my husband and told him to look up and he saw the flashing lights. At the end of the video, a solid black craft zooms in from the north. It has shape and mass and even spits out a jet stream. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Austria Disc
Salzburg — Went for a walk between Palace Hellbrunn and the Zoo of Salzburg on April 7, 2018, with my girlfriend and took a picture of the mountains in the distance. At home I looked at all the pictures from that day and saw that there was an UFO in one of them. I couldn’t see or hear it while taking the picture. The surface of the object is reflective and covered in shadow on the below.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
New Westminster — On April 10, 2018, the witness photographed a thunderstorm .Doing pictures of the storm after checking on the computer pictures. The lights were not visible in the sky.
Note: The lights in the sky may be camera lens reflecting the lights on the ground.
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Costa Rica Orb
Heredia – On April 4, 2017, my sister was taking photos of the sunset.
When she watched the images an object could be seen clearly in the clouds.
It was a dark object flying swiftly.
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France Object
Cannes— Taking a few morning Photos at the Port in Cannes FR did not notice the flying object till I downloaded the image to my computer, :Photo taken June 7, 2017
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Puerto Rico Object
Quebradillas – I found the object following a sequence of photos taken when pointing the camera at north of, Puerto Rico toward the sea. Photo was taken on April 7, 2018 of a dark object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Disc
Cadiz — My sister in law took picture off the ship she was on off coast of Spain.
Photo was taken on April 8, 2018.
Disc object with a series of lights was photographed.
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UK/England Cylinder
Ipswich— My son and his Fiancée were on their way home from shopping on December 8, 2017, when they saw lights in sky hovering over the trees. They pulled off the road to try to film the object and tried to get a video. It did not save on mobile phone, so the attached photo is all we have. I’m not sure what happened to video, but as you can see the photo is pulsating, so it seems like the video and photograph merged?. The place they saw object is not far from Rendlesham! Thanks to MUFON CMS
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It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me.
Schmidt is the director of nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work as an astrophysicist, I’d begun researching global warming from an “astrobiological perspective.” That meant asking whether any industrial civilization that rises on any planet will, through their own activity, trigger their own version of a climate shift. I was visiting GISS that day hoping to gain some climate science insights and, perhaps, collaborators. That’s how I ended up in Gavin’s office.
Just as I was revving up my pitch, Gavin stopped me in my tracks.
“Wait a second,” he said. “How do you know we’re the only time there’s been a civilization on our own planet?”
It took me a few seconds to pick my jaw off the floor. I had certainly come into Gavin’s office prepared for eye rolls at the mention of “exo-civilizations.” But the civilizations he was asking about would have existed many millions of years ago. Sitting there, seeing Earth’s vast evolutionary past telescope before my mind’s eye, I felt a kind of temporal vertigo. “Yeah,” I stammered, “Could we tell if there’d been an industrial civilization that deep in time?”
We never got back to aliens. Instead, that first conversation launched a new study we’ve recently published in the International Journal of Astrobiology. Though neither of us could see it at that moment, Gavin’s penetrating question opened a window not just onto Earth’s past, but also onto our own future.
We’re used to imagining extinct civilizations in terms of the sunken statues and subterranean ruins. These kinds of artifacts of previous societies are fine if you’re only interested in timescales of a few thousands of years. But once you roll the clock back to tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, things get more complicated.
When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago. For example, the oldest large-scale stretch of ancient surface lies in the Negev Desert. It’s “just” 1.8 million years old—older surfaces are mostly visible in cross section via something like a cliff face or rock cuts. Go back much farther than the Quaternary and everything has been turned over and crushed to dust.
And, if we’re going back this far, we’re not talking about human civilizations anymore. Homo sapiens didn’t make their appearance on the planet until just 300,000 years or so ago. That means the question shifts to other species, which is why Gavin called the idea the Silurian hypothesis, after an old Dr. Who episode with intelligent reptiles.
So, could researchers find clear evidence that an ancient species built a relatively short-lived industrial civilization long before our own? Perhaps, for example, some early mammal rose briefly to civilization building during the Paleocene epoch about 60 million years ago. There are fossils, of course. But the fraction of life that gets fossilized is always minuscule and varies a lot depending on time and habitat. It would be easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that only lasted 100,000 years—which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization has made it so far.
Given that all direct evidence would be long gone after many millions of years, what kinds of evidence might then still exist? The best way to answer this question is to figure out what evidence we’d leave behind if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.
Now that our industrial civilization has truly gone global, humanity’s collective activity is laying down a variety of traces that will be detectable by scientists 100 million years in the future. The extensive use of fertilizer, for example, keeps 7 billion people fed, but it also means we’re redirecting the planet’s flows of nitrogen into food production. Future researchers should see this in characteristics of nitrogen showing up in sediments from our era. Likewise our relentless hunger for the rare-Earth elements used in electronic gizmos. Far more of these atoms are now wandering around the planet’s surface because of us than would otherwise be the case. They might also show up in future sediments, too. Even our creation, and use, of synthetic steroids has now become so pervasive that it too may be detectable in geologic strata 10 million years from now.
And then there’s all that plastic. Studies have shown increasing amounts of plastic “marine litter” are being deposited on the seafloor everywhere from coastal areas to deep basins and even in the Arctic. Wind, sun, and waves grind down large-scale plastic artifacts, leaving the seas full of microscopic plastic particles that will eventually rain down on the ocean floor, creating a layer that could persist for geological timescales.
The big question is how long any of these traces of our civilization will last. In our study, we found each had the possibility of making it into future sediments. Ironically, however, the most promising marker of humanity’s presence as an advanced civilization is a by-product of one activity that may threaten it most.
When we burn fossil fuels, we’re releasing carbon back into the atmosphere that was once part of living tissues. This ancient carbon is depleted in one of that element’s three naturally occurring varieties, or isotopes. The more fossil fuels we burn, the more the balance of these carbon isotopes shifts. Atmospheric scientists call this shift the Suess effect, and the change in isotopic ratios of carbon due to fossil-fuel use is easy to see over the last century. Increases in temperature also leave isotopic signals. These shifts should be apparent to any future scientist who chemically analyzes exposed layers of rock from our era. Along with these spikes, this Anthropocene layer might also hold brief peaks in nitrogen, plastic nanoparticles, and even synthetic steroids. So if these are traces our civilization is bound to leave to the future, might the same “signals” exist right now in rocks just waiting to tell us of civilizations long gone?
Fifty-six million years ago, Earth passed through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). During the PETM, the planet’s average temperature climbed as high as 15 degrees Fahrenheit above what we experience today. It was a world almost without ice, as typical summer temperatures at the poles reached close to a balmy 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Looking at the isotopic record from the PETM, scientists see both carbon and oxygen isotope ratios spiking in exactly the way we expect to see in the Anthropocene record. There are also other events like the PETM in the Earth’s history that show traces like our hypothetical Anthropocene signal. These include an event a few million years after the PETM dubbed the Eocene Layers of Mysterious Origin, and massive events in the Cretaceous that left the ocean without oxygen for many millennia (or even longer).
Are these events indications of previous nonhuman industrial civilizations? Almost certainly not. While there is evidence that the PETM may have been driven by a massive release of buried fossil carbon into the air, it’s the timescale of these changes that matter. The PETM’s isotope spikes rise and fall over a few hundred thousand years. But what makes the Anthropocene so remarkable in terms of Earth’s history is the speed at which we’re dumping fossil carbon into the atmosphere. There have been geological periods where Earth’s CO2 has been as high or higher than today, but never before in the planet’s multibillion-year history has so much buried carbon been dumped back into the atmosphere so quickly. So the isotopic spikes we do see in the geologic record may not be spiky enough to fit the Silurian hypothesis’s bill.
But there is a conundrum here. If an earlier species’s industrial activity is short-lived, we might not be able to easily see it. The PETM’s spikes mostly show us the Earth’s timescales for responding to whatever caused it, not necessarily the timescale of the cause. So it might take both dedicated and novel detection methods to find evidence of a truly short-lived event in ancient sediments. In other words, if you’re not explicitly looking for it, you might not see it. That recognition was, perhaps, the most concrete conclusion of our study.
It’s not often that you write a paper proposing a hypothesis that you don’t support. Gavin and I don’t believe the Earth once hosted a 50-million-year-old Paleocene civilization. But by asking if we could “see” truly ancient industrial civilizations, we were forced to ask about the generic kinds of impacts any civilization might have on a planet. That’s exactly what the astrobiological perspective on climate change is all about. Civilization building means harvesting energy from the planet to do work (i.e., the work of civilization building). Once the civilization reaches truly planetary scales, there has to be some feedback on the coupled planetary systems that gave it birth (air, water, rock). This will be particularly true for young civilizations like ours still climbing up the ladder of technological capacity. There is, in other words, no free lunch. While some energy sources will have lower impact—say solar vs. fossil fuels—you can’t power a global civilization without some degree of impact on the planet.
Once you realize, through climate change, the need to find lower-impact energy sources, the less impact you will leave. So the more sustainable your civilization becomes, the smaller the signal you’ll leave for future generations.
In addition, our work also opened up the speculative possibility that some planets might have fossil-fuel-driven cycles of civilization building and collapse. If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they trigger can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels. These low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the conditions needed for making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place. In this way, a civilization and its demise might sow the seed for new civilizations in the future.
By asking about civilizations lost in deep time, we’re also asking about the possibility for universal rules guiding the evolution of all biospheres in all their creative potential, including the emergence of civilizations. Even without pickup-driving Paleocenians, we’re only now learning to see how rich that potential might be.
" There is a ticking clock now,” Princeton astrobiologist Chris Chyba said at last week’s Breakthrough Discuss conference, conducted at Stanford University. The race isn’t to find life on Mars — it’s to find it in time before we contaminate the Red Planet with our Earthly microbial fauna.
Is there life on Mars? Even if there is, is it from Mars?
Image credits: NASA / JPL.
We don’t know if there is life on Mars or not. The Red Planet seems like a good candidate, and we’ve found significant evidence that it might have held vast quantities of liquid wateron its surface at once point in its geological past — a prerequisite for life as we know it. There’s also a good case to be made against this, with its lack of active tectonics and atmosphere. If Martian life exists, it’s bound to live beneath the surface where it’s shielded from the devastating radiation, and almost certainly microbial. Either way, it’s an exciting area of active research, but we might be on a clock.
With every mission we send to Mars, every lander, and especially with the planned manned missions to Mars, we risk contamination with microbial creatures from Earth. These alien microorganisms (technically, they’re Earth microorganisms, but to Mars, they’d be aliens) could overpower and destroy potentially existing native fauna.
For instance, Elon Musk’s highly anticipated mission to Mars aims to bring people to Mars within the decade, and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has announced similar plans. For the Martian life, the effects would be unforeseeable — hence Chyba’s remarks. But people weren’t necessarily fond of his idea. Longtime space entrepreneur Jeff Greason, who serves as chairman of the board for the Tau Zero Foundation, poked fun at Chyba:
“If all you want to do with the solar system is look at it, the rest of us would like to borrow it for a while. … There are things to do with these bodies other than science.”
Others have claimed that there’s no reason to believe Earth’s microbes would take over the Martian natives.
“You could terraform Mars, and the microbes on Mars would survive,” said Robert Zubrin, founder and president of the nonprofitMars Society.
But Chyba makes a very valid point. If we don’t really know what could happen, isn’t it better to take extra precautions? He advocates a precautionary approach, what he calls the Smokey the Bear argument: “Until we know more, let’s be careful.”
To me, this sounds like a sound idea. There are many unknowns when it comes to Mars and its habitability, but we can take measures to limit the potential damage, for instance by ensuring that no microorganisms escape through astronauts’ space suits. If we send people to Mars, microbes are bound to come along for the ride, and the effects can truly be unforeseeable. We shouldn’t just concede that we’re gonna contaminate Mars no matter what.
A life-scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over. A large rauisuchian lurks in the background, while two dinosaurs species stand in the foreground. Based on data from the Ischigualasto Formation in Argentina.
Credit: Davide Bonadonna.
Much has been said about the famous asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and ushered in the age of mammals, eventually clearing the path for our species to achieve total domination. However, in turn, the dinosaurs were also privileged by a different mass extinction event, which is far less studied than the asteroid impact. This was the conclusion of a new study which found that dinosaurs became far more prevalent across the world after a mass extinction called the Carnian Pluvial Episode.
Starting and ending with a bang
The Carnian Pluvial Episode occurred roughly 232 million years ago. During this time, a series of cataclysms, triggered by volcanic eruptions in western Canada, shifted the climate from wet to dry and from dry to wet again. The hostile periods of global warming and acid rain had taken their toll on countless species that eventually went extinct.
Researchers at the MUSE-Museum of Science Trento, Italy, the Universities of Ferrara and Padova, and the University of Bristol investigated ancient rock deposits in Northern Italy’s Dolomites mountain range which still had dinosaur tracks trapped inside them. This allowed them to build a timeline for dinosaur expansion; the more and diverse the tracks, the more successful the dinosaur must have become. For instance, in the early Triassic, some 245 million years ago, dinosaurs were very rare and stayed that way for at least 13 million years. After the Carnian extinction, however, dinosaur footprints became ubiquitous.
“We were excited to see that the footprints and skeletons told the same story,” Massimo Bernardi, a researcher at the University of Bristol, said in a news release. “We had been studying the footprints in the Dolomites for some time, and it’s amazing how clear cut the change from ‘no dinosaurs’ to ‘all dinosaurs’ was.”
When the researchers calculated the peak of this expansion, they found that it coincided with the end of the Carnian Pluvial Episode. What’s more, the Dolomite samples also contained evidence of climate change. Namely, the researchers detected four pulses of warming and climate disruptions within a million year span, which must have led torepeated extinctions.
“The discovery of the existence of a link between the first diversification of dinosaurs and a global mass extinction is important,” said Mike Benton, co-author of the new study and a professor at the University of Bristol.
“The extinction didn’t just clear the way for the age of the dinosaurs, but also for the origins of many modern groups, including lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and mammals — key land animals today.”
Scientific reference: Massimo Bernardi, Piero Gianolla, Fabio Massimo Petti, Paolo Mietto, Michael J. Benton. Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03996-1.
If sci-fi writers of the past somehow visited us today, they might wonder: where are all the clones?
As recently as the year 2000, it seemed almost inevitable that rogue scientists would start human cloning any day. Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, was born in 1997. A council on bioethics called by then-President Bush, and an emergency report by the National Academies, both published reports deeming that the technology was unsafe and should be banned, even for research or therapy. Media reports covered every update breathlessly. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger got in on the action, starring in a movie about a man (with a self-driving car, of course) whose clone takes over his life.
Yes, over the past 15 years or so, genetics research has gotten so advanced that, from a scientific perspective, we’re actually pretty darn close to being able to create human clones.
But no need to freak out just yet. There are significant barriers to human cloning that remain, and they’re not only scientific ones.
For one thing: the technology that created Dolly the sheep in the 90s is simply inefficient, as MIT Tech Review explains — only one of 100 cloned embryos led to a live birth, and some of those that make it are born with fatal birth defects. Scientists have overcome some of these hurdles by figuring out how to un-block genes needed to develop a cell into a full-fledged embryo, which are usually not “turned on” in their original state.
These scientific advances have made it possible for companies to confidently charge customers to clone their beloved pets (granted, it’s still so expensive that it’s primarily the purview of celebrities, but it’s definitely a real thing that happens) and for Chinese scientists to successfully clone monkeys.
Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch that we could the clone humans, right? But given the science we have now, it would still require a significant number of failed human pregnancies, so many that it’s hard to imagine ethics committees allowing the research to happen. Stem cell biologist Yi Zhang, whose work solved the blocked gene problem, pointed out to Tech Review that the process of creating just two long-tailed macaque monkeys required 63 surrogate mothers and 417 eggs, all of which resulted in just six pregnancies.
Not to mention, many countries simply would not allow this process. According to the Center for Genetics and Society, any form of cloning is flat-out banned in 46 countries, and reproductive cloning (cloning specifically to create full-grown humans) is banned in another 32, leaving open the option to clone human cells for therapeutic uses like growing organs. In the United States, fifteen states prohibitreproductive cloning, and three prohibit the use of public funds for cloning research.
That’s not to say that just because scientists are not supposed to do something, that they won’t. But human cloning research would require significant financial support and the infrastructure of sophisticated technology; it’s not something that could be done in someone’s basement lab. Therefore, unless some mad billionaire decided to attempt the process privately, anyone who wanted to carry out human cloning would have some form of review board to answer to.
Because China hasn’t formally banned cloning in any way, some critics feared that Chinese scientists might attempt a human clone after their success in monkeys. Yet those researchers, at least, stated they had no plans to clone humans, as “social ethics would by no means allow that practice.”
This last statement is telling: should they perform human cloning, scientists know very well that they would be shunned by the scientific and diplomatic community altogether.
That pressure alone may be enough to keep rogue scientists from trying anything, even in places where there are no legal limits on the practice. At least, for now.
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Look at that “Water and Roll Cloud” Onlookers "freaked out" as Lake Michigan has rare moment
A very rare event happened when a quick rise in water level known as a seiche or a Great Lake meteotsunami caused the Lake Michigan to rise 13.9 inches in just 42 minutes around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13.
The water was as high as had seen since Nov. 10, 1975, the day the freighter Edmond Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior. Water was also flooding the beach and the end of Ludington Avenue but returning to nearly the same spot less than 10 minutes later.
But something strange happened before the quick rise of the water in Lake Michigan.
A massive roll cloud that touched the water surface of Lake Michigan has been filmed just before the meteotsunami and even though it is a natural phenomenon it would be possible that this rare roll cloud and the quick rise in water level is the effect of weather manipulation?
Several recent archaeological discoveries made in the Baltic and North seas suggest that there could be an entirely unknown Stone Age civilization which once inhabited the areas which now make up Scandinavia. This “Swedish Atlantis” could reveal a whole new chapter of human history we’ve yet to discover. What exactly lies under the icy, black waters of the northern seas?
A lot of stone tools, it turns out. Over the last several years, hydrocarbon exploration and fishing operations have been discovering prehistoric animal bones and primitive stone tools in North Sea sediment, attracting the attention of British and Belgian scientists. A team of geologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists aboard the Belgian ship RV Belgica is now excavating a sand back on the North Sea floor measuring about 30 kilometers (19 miles) long. Vince Gaffney, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford who is leading this expedition, says that this area of the seafloor was likely once a highly habitable piece of seashore property:
Areas under the North Sea now would have been the best to live in during the Mesolithic [period] – prime real estate, because the coastlines then had fish, birds, fresh water. But it is terra incognita. The area is so large that complete cultures could be out there.
Gaffney leads a project known as Lost Frontiers which aims to uncover these hidden ancient civilizations under what is now the North Sea and Baltic Sea. According to the project’s website, “these lost lands hold a unique and largely unexplored record of settlement and colonization linked to climate change over millennia.” It turns out that glaciers once linked this area with Europe and the British Isles, but rising global temperatures caused the seas to rise, flooding what could have been home to an unknown civilization.
As with all these stories, it makes me wonder what future archaeologists will make of the flooded ruins of New Orleans, Venice, or Shanghai which may someday (perhaps soon) lie at the bottom of vast oceans. Will the few scattered remnants of our brief lives be enough for them to piece together what life was like for early transhumans? If there’s enough radioactive dust left of us, maybe.
I was seven years old in the summer of 1988; a little kid with a big imagination in a quaint English village called Little Haywood. My house looked out over an expansive forest called Cannock Chase. I didn’t know until many years later that this was, and remains, one of the UK’s top hotspots for UFO and paranormal reports; but there was always a magic about the place, and I loved spending time there.
On the morning of August 5, 1988, a classmate of mine, a kid called Mark, was speaking excitedly and insistently in the school playground that, last night, a flying saucer had landed on his car. His father and stepmother were driving him and his older brother home from something called a Gingerbread meeting. These meetings provide a space for single parent families to get together and meet new people, and to offer support. Mark’s mother had died of cancer a year or so earlier—a powerful memory from my childhood. I hadn’t known her, and Mark was hardly a close friend of mine, but the news of his mother’s untimely death affected me deeply—the notion of mortality is a scary thing for a seven-year-old, and, being a particularly empathetic child, I felt Mark’s loss like a sickness in my belly. In any case, this was a family in a liminal state, seeking to recover from a profound tragedy.
Cannock Chase forest, Staffordshire
When Mark recounted his flying saucer story to his enraptured classmates, our responses were much as they would be for adults being told the same story by another adult—some “oohs” and “ahhs,” some giggles and some quietly exchanged glances of bemusement and mockery. I didn’t know what to think about Mark’s story, but, like a pre-pubescent Fox Mulder, I wanted to believe it. And it stayed with me, buried in the back of my mind for all the years to follow. Mark’s story implanted the mystery of the UFO deep into my psyche.
Eleven years later, in 1999, at the age of eighteen and now rather obsessed with UFOs, I revisited Mark, and his parents, to see if there really was any truth to the story I remembered so clearly from my childhood. Sitting in Mark’s living room with his father, Ron, a worker at the local power station, and his stepmother, Gina, I listened and took notes as the couple, now both in their fifties, recounted what happened on the night of August 4, 1988. It turned out that Mark and his older brother had been fast asleep at the time of the incident (unsurprising given that it occurred around midnight); Mark had simply based his embellished story on what he’d heard his parents discussing over some strong coffees the following morning.
The site of the encounter: Weetmans Bridge, on the outskirts of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
The story as told to me by Ron and Gina in 1999 is as follows…
The family was just minutes from home as they travelled along the edge of Cannock Chase forest. They were approaching Weetmans Bridge, a small cobbled structure built in 1888 across the River Trent. Gina, behind the wheel, had been chatting away to Ron when, in mid-sentence, she fell silent, her gaze drawn off to her right… and up. As she began to turn onto the bridge, she saw what she described to me as a large, circular metallic object, “the size of a double-decker bus,” hanging silently, halfway over the bridge and halfway over the river below. She estimated its altitude to be roughly 30 feet above the bridge. Its circumference was bejewelled with multicoloured lights, pulsing slowly, on and off. The object was partially enshrouded in a circular pool of mist, which she felt in hindsight may have been generated by the object. Gina noted a total absence of noise, not only from the UFO, but also from their car. No engine sound, no ambient noise. Nothing. This effect is characteristic of what is known in UFOlogy as “The Oz Factor,” which UFOlogist Jenney Randles has described as a “sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a different environmental framework” when in close proximity to a UFO.
Meanwhile, Ron, in the passenger seat, was similarly dumbstruck. He too was seeing the UFO, but, intriguingly, not quite as Gina was seeing it. As they turned onto the bridge, Ron saw what he described to me as a pool of mist hanging above the cobbles, within which was a circular object visible only by a thin rim of red light about its circumference. No multi-coloured lights for Ron, no pulsing on and off; only a steady circular red light. Again, though, what Ron saw was approximately thirty feet above the bridge and around 30 feet in diameter (roughly the length of a bus).
Weetmans Bridge. As seen from this perspective, the UFO would have appeared toward the far end of the bridge on the right-hand side of the frame, hanging halfway over the wall and halfway over the river below. Its reported altitude above the bridge was approx. 30 feet. The witnesses entered the bridge at the far end with a right-hand turn from the left of the frame.
Ron and Gina shared an immediate feeling of panic as they felt they might hit the low-hanging object in their path. However, as their car turned onto the bridge, according to Ron, the object made a short and swift ascent, lifting vertically to perhaps twice its original altitude, before stopping dead and departing horizontally and silently towards the neighbouring village… quite literally in the blink of an eye.
It was gone, whatever it was. The whole encounter had lasted perhaps no more than sixty seconds, but its impact was deep, and lasting. Gina has been in mid-turn when the object had made it’s lightning-fast departure. She continued to drive for a few hundred feet, clearing the narrow bridge before pulling over and stopping at the side of the road. It was a quiet country lane in the dead of night. No other witnesses. The couple were in a state of shock and needed a few minutes to regain their composure. “What the fucking hell was that??” exclaimed Ron. A few minutes later, the couple had arrived home. Still deeply troubled by what they had witnessed, and with no interest in UFOlogy or knowledge of UFO reporting systems, Ron decided to phone the police.
Weetman’s Bridge.
By the following morning, somehow, the story had leaked to the local press, and a journalist and a photographer paid a visit to Ron and Gina, requesting that the couple take them to the scene of their otherworldly encounter. The couple were surprised to see the press at their door, but, wanting to make sense of their experience, they obliged their visitors and drove with them back to the site of their experience the previous night, explaining as best they could what had happened. When they arrived at Weetmans Bridge a few minutes later, they were disquieted to see that they had company. According to Ron and Gina, across the road from the bridge, perhaps fifty feet away, was an unmarked white van, close to which were two men inspecting the hedges, apparently taking samples. When the men saw that they were being observed, they left.
As Ron and Gina showed the press the site of their encounter, they noticed that sections of the otherwise-green hedges adjoining the bridge were now brown and dying, and the foliage had been “pushed back” from the road, as if by something large and heavy. Additionally, a young tree in the field next to the bridge in the object’s line of departure had apparently been “swept over” and was now almost flat to the ground (I can personally attest that the tree in question remains in its bizarre “swept-over” position to this day, and has grown considerably, almost parallel to the ground, in the thirty years since the encounter).
The power station where Ron worked, as viewed from Cannock Chase forest.
A few days later, the story appeared in the local newspaper with a picture of Ron and Gina, stood stony-faced near the bridge. The article was light-hearted and dismissive. Naturally, the couple was now the talk of the village, and the talk wasn’t pretty. They had nothing to gain by spinning a UFO yarn. They received no money for sharing their story, only ridicule. After that, Ron and Gina kept themselves to themselves. Even their son, Mark, went quiet. They had learned a hard and fast lesson about what it means to speak out as UFO witnesses.
The eighteen-year-old me sat in silence as Ron and Gina finished telling their story. It was obvious that they hadn’t spoken of it with anyone for quite some time, and, clearly, they were still in awe at what they had experienced. In the eleven years that had passed, the couple had not pursued the UFO mystery at all. They wanted to move on with their lives.
I should note at this point that my interview with Ron and Gina was part of a broader retrospective investigation I was conducting into what was known to local UFO researchers as “The Staffordshire UFO wave.” This spate of several dozen independent UFO sightings across the county of Staffordshire had occurred during the summer of 1988, peaking in July and August. Witnesses had consistently been reporting sightings of anomalous orange balls of light; more interesting, though, were the numerous accounts of large black triangles sailing silently and at low altitude through the Staffordshire skies. Many of these sightings were logged by the UK ministry of Defence (MoD)—a fact unknown publicly until the new millennium when the MoD began releasing large batches of its previously-classified UFO files. Interestingly, despite it being registered with the Staffordshire police and being featured in the local press, there is no mention of Ron and Gina’s UFO sighting in the MoD’s declassified files pertaining to the Staffordshire UFO wave of 1988. If indeed the couple’s mystery white van men had been taking samples for some government agency (and this remains pure conjecture), we can only assume that any data that may have been gathered relating to Ron and Gina’s dramatic sighting remains under lock and key to this day.
Ron and Gina’s UFO sighting was just one among dozens being reported across the Staffordshire region during the summer of 1988. Most common were large black triangles and orange orbs.
I would later learn that the couple’s sighting had been investigated a few weeks after its original reporting by representatives of BUFORA—the British UFO Research Association. I obtained their original case report, and it made for frustrating reading. Key parts of the couple’s testimonies had been overlooked or ignored by BUFORA, such as Gina’s strong insistence that the UFO appeared “metallic,” (she described it to me as “like brass”), and that that it displayed multi-colored lights around its circumference that flashed slowly and steadily on-and-off. The BUFORA report also neglected to note Ron’s description of the object’s departure, which appeared intelligent, controlled, and impossibly fast. Instead, BUFORA focused on the pool of mist the couple had described as partially enshrouding the UFO—this, they theorized, was indicative of a natural phenomenon, possibly relating to so-called “Earthlights” or something similar, thought to be generated by seismic activity or through the coalescence of other mundane phenomena in certain environments.
Whatever it was that so startled Ron and Gina on August 4, 1988 remains a mystery. The couple tried as best they could to forget it, but, for me, hearing their story (or a version of it) from their young son at the age of seven was enough to set me on a lifelong pursuit of the UFO enigma. And so, you are reading this now, a memory of a memory, for what little it may be worth, because of something I never saw on an August night in 1988, but which sparked in me the flame of cosmic wonder—such is the lure of the UFO; succumb to it at your own psychological, emotional, and financial cost. I know I did.
NOTE: All witness names in this article are pseudonyms.
Op 31 maart 1997 zagen duizenden mensen een vreemde formatie UFO's boven de Amerikaanse stad Phoenix in Arizona, een mysterie dat nooit is opgehelderd.
Enkele dagen geleden heeft een dame in Mexico een livestream op Facebook wanneer daar opeens identieke lichten verschijnen zoals men die zag in Phoenix.
De Phoenix Lights (de lichten boven Phoenix) waren een serie van massaal gemelde ufo's die werden gezien in het luchtruim boven Arizona, vooral Phoenix, en Nevada in de Verenigde Staten en Sonora, Mexico op 13 maart 1997. Het incident is een van de best gedocumenteerde ufomeldingen. Er werden foto's en video's van genomen, en CNN bracht er een verslag van uit. Meer dan 700 ooggetuigen beweerden dat ze driehoekige ufo's hadden gezien met vijf bolvormige lampen of eventueel lichtgevende motoren. Fife Symington, de toenmalige gouverneur van Arizona, was een van de ooggetuigen; later zou hij het object beschrijven als "niet van deze wereld" (otherworldly).
Beelden van hoe het er toen uitzag:
En dan naar 12 april 2018, de dag waarop een aantal mensen objecten in de lucht zagen die heel veel lijken op de beroemde Phoenix Lights uit 1997.
Een dame, Sarah Adams, zit die avond met enkele vrienden net ten zuiden van de Amerikaanse grens in Mexico, niet ver van plaatsen zoals San Diego en Tijuana, waar heel regelmatig UFO's worden waargenomen.
Ze heeft een livestream op Facebook en daarin verschijnt er eerst één licht, dan nog één en zo door totdat er op een gegeven moment negen lichten te zien zijn.
Sarah geeft een soort commentaar op de achtergrond waarbij ze laat weten er heilig van overtuigd te zijn dat Disclosure nu gaat beginnen, dat de buitenaardsen hier zijn om ons te helpen en dat ze echt niet zullen toestaan dat er met bommen zal worden gegooid die de planeet zullen vernietigen.
Dan, dezelfde avond en iets verder naar het noorden gebeurt er iets in Carlsbad dat even ten Noorden ligt van San Diego in Californië.
Net voor negen uur 's avonds loopt Haley Higgins daar en ziet vreemde lichten boven de oceaan. Ze heeft een opname gemaakt door een verrekijker en met een iPhone. Door de korte afstand en omdat het op dezelfde avond gebeurde, is het waarschijnlijk dat dit dezelfde lichten zijn als die die ze werden gezien door Sarah.
En mocht er nog enige twijfel bestaan, dan maakt de volgende video daaraan een einde. Het is een opname gemaakt op wederom 12 april en dit keer in Rosarito, Mexico, net ten zuiden van Tijuana.
Wederom hetzelfde soort lichten en wederom geldt ook hier dat gezien de afstand en het tijdstip deze lichten dezelfde zijn als die van de twee bovenstaande waarnemingen.
Heeft Sarah gelijk en is dit een boodschap van de buitenaardsen aan ons of is het een geheime menselijke constructie die deze fascinerende lichten veroorzaakt?
Inside NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the SpaceX payload fairing containing TESS is moved by crane to a transporter. Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA is set to launch its latest satellite, called TESS, aboard a SpaceX rocket with one mission: locate distant worlds that could harbour alien life.
NASA has been told it has to wait until 18 April for the launch of its latest satellite – the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) – after ground crew identified that further guidance, navigation and control analysis had to be done.
Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the Monday (16 April) launch of TESS was aborted in the final hours as the company looked to make absolutely sure it avoids any costly catastrophe.
Coverage of the launch has garnered particular attention, but what exactly is TESS and what does it hope to achieve?
Here are four things you need to know about what could be an important scientific mission.
SpaceX✔@SpaceX
Standing down today to conduct additional GNC analysis, and teams are now working towards a targeted launch of @NASA_TESS on Wednesday, April 18.
The TESS satellite aims to take on board what has been achieved by the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft Kepler and improve it exponentially by directly searching for alien worlds in greater detail.
After all, Kepler was limited by the hardware on board, meaning it could only observe a small fraction of what was out there, with many of the stars too faint to detect the surrounding planets with great accuracy.
The spacecraft will spend the next two years observing 200,000 of the brightest points in the night’s sky, with the NASA team hopeful that by the time the mission is over, it will have found 20,000 exoplanets, of which 500 might be Earth-sized.
2. NASA hitches ride aboard SpaceX in major first
SpaceX will feel vindicated following a recent investigation finding it devoid of blame in the loss of the secret Zuma satellite in January, but NASA scientists will still be feeling slightly anxious with the launch of TESS.
In a major landmark for the space agency, this is the first of its missions to be launched by a SpaceX rocket.
The $200m piece of hardware was given the go-ahead to launch aboard the Falcon 9 rocket by NASA’s administrators only as recently as February.
Adding to the anxiety will be the fact that TESS will be put into an orbit never attempted before, out as far as the moon and back to Earth, lasting 14 days at a time.
NASA’s newest planet hunter, TESS, will look around the brightest stars closest to our solar system for new worlds. Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
3. Astronomers dying to get their hands on the data
Once the planets are identified, the world’s astronomers can adjust all of their equipment – including the long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope – and analyse the planets in great detail to determine whether they could harbour life.
When active, TESS will collect 27GB of scientific data every day before being put through NASA’s specialist algorithms, which are designed to clean up the signal to remove any background interference.
Stephen Rinehart, TESS’s project scientist, said of the mission: “There are some people on the mission who are very, very, very keen to find Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of their host stars, and that would be absolutely fabulous.
“But the data on all these planets is interesting, because they help us form a picture of how planetary systems form and evolve. It’s going to be a game-changer in our ability to study planets.”
4. A one-two punch of satellite discovery
The launch of TESS will be immediately beneficial to scientists down here on Earth, but the satellite will also lay the groundwork for future missions, most notably the European Space Agency’s Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) spacecraft.
Set for launch in 2028, ARIEL – with the location of thousands of exoplanets discovered by TESS – will be able to ‘sniff’ their atmospheres to determine their chemical composition and answer the question: how do planetary systems form and evolve?
During its four-year mission, ARIEL will observe 1,000 planets, ranging from Jupiter and Neptune down to super-Earth size, in the visible and the infrared with its metre-class telescope.
All of these factors should lead to a bounty of information returned to Earth, dependent on whether SpaceX can get the craft to its intended orbit.
WATCH: Strange Glowing Object Captured Near ISS Before Fading Into Darkness
WATCH: Strange Glowing Object Captured Near ISS Before Fading Into Darkness
A video captured by NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) live camera on Friday reveals what appears to be a 900-foot triangular UFO in the background.
The object lurking behind the ISS first pops up as three twinkling lights in a triangular shape, disgorging into an orb-like object before slowly fading into darkness.
The video was shared on popular YouTube conspiracy channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 on April 13.
"This UFO appeared on live cam and spit out an orb that quickly came closer to the space station. As the orb left the main ship, it was visible. However, its systems seem to become activated after it left, because it soon cloaked," the YouTube description states.
UFO hunter Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily wrote on his website Sunday, "This UFO is going to blow your mind! It just shows up as a single glowing orb. Then it divides into about 4-6 flashing orbs! During this time, the UFO is partially revealed, meaning it's not 6 UFOs, but one large UFO of about 300 meters diameter."
"The UFO has a more TR3B shape [which is used to describe triangular UFOs]… To see the triangle UFO, pause the video at 1:12 to see it," Waring wrote.
In his blog post, Waring also speculated that TR3B-shaped UFOs are alien crafts that the "United States Air Force has modified to be flown by humans," suggesting that the spotted UFO was a "top secret government ship."
Others are skeptical that the glowing lights really are UFOs.
Nigel Watson, author of the "UFO Investigations Manual," noted in his book that frequent sightings of UFOs near the ISS are usually caused by reflections and space junk, the Daily Star reported.
Other YouTube viewers agreed with that more mundane theory.
"All the mysterious glowing objects are helicopters simply caught in video with a s****y camera that can't focus the sunlight reflection on its metal. I am not denying that aliens exist, they do, even the head of NASA has said so, but they are not here, we are not the center of the universe, we are a grain of sand in the enormous beach that the universe is," YouTuber NordicParty7 wrote.
Have The Ancient Ruins Of Atlantis Been Found In Antarctica?
Have The Ancient Ruins Of Atlantis Been Found In Antarctica?
I mean who doesn’t want to find Atlantis, right?
According to satellite images on Google Earth, there is a strange area in Antarctica which supposedly reveals a structure that, according to some theorists, could belong to lost ancient civilization, and not just any lost civilization, but Plato’s Atlantis.
As expected, the video detailing the possible ‘discovery’ was posted by the Conspiracy Depot channel, and it shows a series of lines that according to the video’s narrator, appear to have an artificial origin and have been exposed due to the melting of the ice in the region.
“The three parts of this structure are separated by equal distances and all are approximately seven meters long,” says Graham Maple, owner of the YouTube channel.
“It looks ancient, almost as if it had been carved into the rock itself. I think this was what was left of a building or structure. I think there were great civilizations in the ancient Antarctic continent and maybe Antarctica was even home to the mythical Atlantis, “he said.
2There is much-forgotten knowledge of our ancient history. We are beginning to scratch the surface with this new discovery,” concluded Maple.
According to Mapple, Atlantis, or the ruins of another ancient empire, are buried somewhere beneath the Antarctic ice.
Image Credit: Google Earth.
Coordinates: 64 ° 2’40.87 “S 59 ° 46’13.97” W (the discovery was made in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula).
So are these the Atlantean ruins that have eluded discovery for centuries?
If we read what Plato wrote about the mythical city/continent than no.
The Story of Atlantis
In Timaeusand Critias, written around 360 BC Plato described—through the voice of Critias—how Solon, a highly respected and well known Greek Statement traveled to Sais and met with priests from the goddess Neith.
It is there where an extremely old priest tells Solon about an empire that existed 9,000 years before him, which was at war with Athens.
Eventually, this empire identified as ‘Atlantis’ was destroyed by a great catastrophe.
Sonchis explained that Atlantis’ capital city was elaborately constructed, where great temples and palaces were erected, adorned by exotic gardens made of silver, gold and, ivory. Sonchis further described the capital of the Atlantean empire as being made of massive walls, which in turn were surrounded by circular islands protecting the inner citadel of the metropolis.
And according to Plato, Atlantis was located “beyond the Pillars of Hercules“. While Antarctica is beyond the pillars, it isn’t anywhere near where Plato said the mighty Atlantean empire disappeared.
However, as noted by experts, Antarctica wasn’t always the frozen continent and was certainly not always located where it today (geographically).
While this may not be Atlantis, it certainly is interesting to see what future explorations of the frozen continent will yield, and whether or not it’s possible that in the distant past, perhaps even before written history, great civilizations ruled the earth.
The Stone Circles Of Senegambia, The Largest Group Of Megalithic Complexes On Earth
The Stone Circles Of Senegambia, The Largest Group Of Megalithic Complexes On Earth
If the largest concentration of dolmens on the planet is found on the Korean peninsula, the largest group of megalithic complexes corresponds to the central area of Senegal bordering the north of Gambia.
Surprised?
So was I!
But this just shows off the huge number of ancient sites that exist on Earth, which most people have no idea of.
In an area of 30,000 square kilometers between the two countries north of Janjanbureh (former Georgetown) we find the megalithic structures of a lost civilization.
These massive monuments are sometimes divided into the Wassu (Gambian) and Sine-Saloum (Senegalese) circles, but this is purely a national division from modern times.
The megalithic structures found in Senegal and Gambia are usually divided into four large sites: Sine Ngayene and Wanar in Senegal, and Wassu and Kerbatch in the Central River Region in Gambia.
The monuments itself are a mystery.
So far, experts have not been able to date them, but it is mostly accepted that the megalithic structures were erected between the third century B.C. and the sixteenth century AD.
The megalithic stone circles of Senegambia are home to around 29,000 stones, 17,000 monuments, and 2,000 individual sites.
Archaeologists Todd and Ozanne first studied the monuments in 1903.
The structures were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2006.
Todd, together with Wolbach, carried out excavations on the monuments in 1911 and determined that their construction could not be attributed to the cultures that occupied the territories at that time.
Experts note that the construction of the Senegambian stone monuments is evidence of a prosperous and well-organized culture.
This conclusion was reached after experts calculated the amount of labor which was required to build such structures.
The stones are believed to have been extracted from laterite quarries with the help of iron tools, although archaeologists have identified few of the quarries which are directly linked to particular sites.
How the ancient builders transported the massive blocks of stones from their quarry to their construction site remains an enigma.
Who these ancient people were is also a mystery.
Some archaeologists believe that the Serer people are the builders of the massive structures.
This theory comes from the fact that the Serer still use funerary houses like those found at Wanar.
The Serer people are the third largest ethnic group in Senegal making up 15% of the Senegalese population.
Burial mounds with human remains, ceramics, and other objects have been found around the monuments, although the relationship of these tombs with the stone circles is not very clear.
Some theories suggest that the builders of the structures were farmers, since most the circles are located close to rivers, but experts have discovered spears in some of the tombs, which seems to indicate that they were also hunters.
Most experts seem to agree that it is not known exactly if the tombs are prior to the circles, whether they are contemporary to the structures or if they were built later.
According to local legends, the circles would have been built around the tombs of the kings of the ancient empire of Ghana.
The largest monolith is located in Wassu, Gambia, and it has a height of 2.59 meters and is part of a circle that includes another 10 stones.
However, the area that hosts the largest number of circles is Sine Ngayene, in Senegal, with 52 circles, one of them featuring double stone circles, and has a total of1102 stones.
Archaeological excavations carried out in 2002 concluded that some tombs clearly predate the megaliths.
So, in all the mystery that engulfs these megalithic structures, we do know one thing: the area hosts the largest group of megalithic complexes in the world, as we haven’t found so many megaliths in any other part of the world.
One of my all-time favorite books is without a doubt Journey to the Center of the Earth, written by world-famous Author Jules Verne.
The story written by Verne involves a German professor called Otto Lidenbrock who was convinced that there are volcanic tubes that lead toward the center of our planet.
Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull and encounter many adventures along the way, including prehistoric animals and dangers. Eventually, they resurface in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.
In the book, Verne describes a MASSIVE ocean that exists inside our planet.
He explains how: a vast expanse of water, the beginning of a lake or an ocean, extended beyond the limits of sight.
Further, the view followed its mass outlined on the misty background of the horizon. It was a true ocean, capriciously contoured by the terrestrial shores, but deserted and with a terribly wild aspect.
The book was a science fiction bestseller, and despite many people believing that something like this may be possible, the idea remained firmly a science fictional idea.
Now, what if what was once thought to be a mere fantasy of the writer, was, in fact, closer to reality?
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Is it even possible that there really is an underground ocean beneath or feet?
An article published in the journal Nature points in that direction.
As it turns out, scientists discovered a while ago, a diamond-rich in water with traces of a mineral called ringwoodite (in honor of its discoverer, the geochemist Alfred Ringwood).
The diamond originally came from an area that separates the upper terrestrial mantle from the lower one, that is, between four and six hundred kilometers beneath our feet.
So, what does that has to do with Verne, Inner Earth, and an ocean beneath our feet?
The fact is that the diamond found was associated with water molecules in a significant proportion (1.5%), which leads experts to propose the theory that this zone of transition of the mantle is very rich in water.
In fact, scientists have proposed that there is so much water beneath the surface of our planet, that we can cover the surface of our planet entirely in water. The existence of this ‘underground ocean’ would explain the great volcanic and tectonic dynamism of the planet.
Graham Pearson, a researcher from the University of Alberta (Canada) says that the ringwoodite found “provides confirmation that there really are pockets of water in the depths of the Earth.”
That, however, is a theoretical confirmation, of course, since due to lack of equipment and technology it would be impossible to obtain physical evidence from the mantle directly.
That kinda’ sucks since, despite the fact that humans have made it to space, landed on the moon and explored distant alien worlds, we’ve still not explored what exactly lies beneath our ocean, and what mysteries may be hidden beneath the surface of our planet.
Alfred Ringwood proposed that the mineral that bears his name could be found in the transition zone of the mantle, originated by the high pressures and temperatures that are found beneath deep beneath the surface.
But if we can’t go down there, how did scientists find the diamond?
Experts believe that the diamond surfaced in a volcanic eruption in a kimberlite wash (an igneous rock formed from magma and that is the deepest).
It was only three millimeters wide and lacked commercial value, but it was sold to scientists who were looking for other types of rocks, and who came up with something that was priceless: inside the diamond, there was a microscopic trail of ringwoodite.
But not everyone is convinced that a massive underground ocean exists and not all scientists believe that the result of the diamond analysis should be extrapolated to the theory of a massive underwater ocean based on such a small sample of ringwoodite.
Moreover, some scientists even admit that even if there is an ocean beneath our feet, it would not be in liquid form but under a molecular variant called hydroxyl, with only one atom of oxygen and another of hydrogen instead of the two.
David Wilcock and Earth’s Inner Civilizations
In 2015, an article appeared on Coast To Coast AM, where author and researcher David Wilcock discusses Earth’s Inner Civilizations.
Wilcock told C2C that an alliance of ancient civilizationscurrently resides inside the Earth, and they may soon reveal themselves to the ‘outer’ world.
During the formation of all watery planets in the universe, he explained, hollow cavities form below the surface of the crust and have their own biome that features bacteria which gives off natural light.
“What this means is that you can actually live inside caverns in the Earth that have visible light,” he marveled.
Based on his research, Wilcock said, “it appears that these cavities are used so that more advanced civilizations have a place they can live while they’re managing what takes place on the surface.”
Over the span of the planet’s history, he explained, various advanced societies, such as the Atlanteans, took refuge underground in order to survive tumultuous times and ultimately settled in their new subterranean location.
While the presence of these civilizations has been a part of UFO lore for decades, he contended that the government has direct knowledge of their presence due to accidentally discovering them via clandestine projects aimed at building secret underground bases.
“They’ll have these tunnel boring machines and sometimes they break through into someplace they’re not supposed to go,” Wilcock claimed, “and there’s already people there.”
For the full interview with David Wilcock click here.
Scientists 1st observed gravitational waves from merging black holes. Now they’re targeting a different gravitational wave signal: a long continuous waveform from a rapidly spinning neutron star.
Artist’s concept of gravitational waves via ScienceBlog.
In 2016, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the first direct observations of short bursts of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time – in this case, created during the merger of black holes. Late last year, LIGO said it had detected the first gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars. On April 10, 2018, scientists in Europe announced a search for a different type of gravitational wave signal, the long continuous waveform expected from a single rapidly spinning neutron star. The scientists said they’d established a new permanent independent research group to search for such objects.
Maria Alessandra Papa is leading the group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany. The announcement said:
It is the largest group worldwide dedicated to this topic and conducts the most sensitive searches for this kind of gravitational wave with the globally distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home. In addition to its permanent funding, the group will receive additional funds from the Max Planck Society for the first five years.
Papa explained:
With the first direct detections of gravitational waves from merging black hole and neutron star pairs, we have done the first steps into new astrophysical territory.
But much of this new continent is still uncharted. While we do know that there are about 100 million single neutron stars in our galaxy, we have only identified about 3,000 of them. We want to unveil this mostly invisible population by detecting their continuous gravitational-wave emission.
A neutron single star swiftly rotating on its axis – with a large mountain or other irregularity on it – might produce continuous gravitational waves. The gravitational waves would be weak compared to the short bursts produced by, for example, black hole mergers.
The statement from Max Planck Institute further explained:
The type of gravitational wave emitted by single neutron stars is very different from the signals already detected. Rapidly rotating neutron stars can emit much fainter but much longer duration (continuous) gravitational waves. Finding these waves is very difficult and limited by the amount of computing power available for the searches. This is because there are many unknowns to search over wide ranges: the star’s sky position, its spin rate, and its deformation responsible for the gravitational-wave emission.
The Einstein@Home volunteer computing project provides the lion’s share of the required compute cycles for the state-of-the-art search techniques.
Bottom line: Scientists first observed gravitational waves from merging black holes. Now they’re seeking a different gravitational wave signal – a long continuous waveform from a rapidly spinning neutron star.
UNDER PRESSURE Using lasers, scientists compressed iron to high pressures that are likely found in large, rocky exoplanets’ cores. Here, an image of inside the laser chamber is shown with an artist’s rendering of an exoplanet.
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Physicists have simulated the cores of some large rocky exoplanets by pummeling iron with lasers. The resulting measurements give the first clue to how iron might behave inside planets outside the solar system that are several times the mass of Earth, researchers report April 16 in Nature Astronomy.
“Until now, there’s been no data available on the state of these materials at the center of large exoplanets,” says Ray Smith, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Working at the National Ignition Facility, Smith and his colleagues aimed 176 lasers at a pellet of iron a few micrometers thick wrapped in a gold cylinder. The lasers delivered enough energy over 30 billionths of a second to compress the iron to pressures up to 14 million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The researchers measured how the iron’s density changed at different pressures.
These high pressures are thought to be found in the iron cores of rocky exoplanets that are between three and four times Earth’s mass, Smith says. Although our solar system doesn’t have any planets of this size, they are the most common type of exoplanet in the galaxy. Previous simulations suggest that some of these rocky worlds may have interior compositions similar to Earth’s.
That similarity raises hopes that the exoplanets may have features that make the worlds hospitable to life, such as a magnetic field or plate tectonics (SN: 4/30/16, p. 36). NASA’s latest exoplanet-hunting telescope called TESS, scheduled to launch the evening of April 16, is expected to find hundreds of planets in this size range (SN Online: 4/12/18).
But the details of exoplanet interiors are hard to tease out. Until now, researchers had to extrapolate iron’s behavior at high pressures from measurements made at low pressures, which introduced uncertainties. With the new measurements, scientists can be more confident that their simulations reflect actual planets.
Previously, Smith and colleagues had made some headway by compressing diamond to even greater pressures (SN: 8/9/14, p. 20). Diamond is easy to compress but is not likely found deep inside rocky exoplanets.
“This is one of the first mineral physics experiments that is going to be much more applicable to every planet,” says exogeologist Cayman Unterborn of Arizona State University in Tempe. “That’s going to be really important once we start characterizing exoplanets with all of these new missions.”
Disques protoplanétaires : une étonnante diversité dans le cosmos
Disques protoplanétaires : une étonnante diversité dans le cosmos
Laurent Sacco
Journaliste
L'instrument Sphere du VLT permet aux astronomes de former des images directes d'exoplanètes et de disques protoplanétaires, similaires à celui où sont nées les planètes du Système solaire. Ces disques apparaissent maintenant avec un zoo de formes et de tailles, plus diverses que l'on ne l'imaginait.
André Brahic aimait souligner que l'exploration du Système solaire à laquelle il avait participé avec les missions Voyager puis avec celle de Cassini avaient montré sa grande diversité. Les surprises étaient au rendez-vous et cela n'a pas changé quand ce fut le tour de la rencontre entre Pluton, son satellite Charon et la sonde de la mission New Horizons.
Les astrophysiciens du XXIe siècle sont devenus plus ambitieux puisqu'ils explorent désormais le monde des exoplanètes et qu'ils multiplient les observations des disques protoplanétaires autour des jeunes étoiles. Ils espèrent mieux comprendre encore la cosmogonie des planètes du Système solaire et mieux contraindre les théories modernes, héritières de celle proposée par Kant et Laplace, pour expliquer la naissance de ces astres avec la formation de ce type de disque de matière.
Ils ont développé l'instrument Sphere (Spectro Polarimetric High contrast Exoplanet REsearch) qui équipe le Very Large Telescope (VLT) de l'ESO au Chili depuis 2014. Il permet de faire de l'imagerie directe des exoplanètes mais aussi des disques protoplanétaires, malgré le rayonnement bien plus intense de leurs étoiles hôtes, dans une certaine mesure tout au moins.
Sphere a permis aux chercheurs de mener une campagne d'observation baptisée DARTTS-S (Disques Autour des Etoiles T-Tauri avec Sphere) concernant des étoiles de type T-Tauri à des distances de 230 à 550 années-lumière du Soleil. Ces étoiles, moins de trois fois plus massives que le Soleil, ne sont pourtant pas encore sur la séquence principale, car ce sont en fait de jeunes protoétoiles dont les âges sont inférieurs à 10 millions d'années.
Les étoiles T-Tauri, un laboratoire d'étude de la naissance des planètes
Elles sont entourées d'un disque protoplanétaire et sont particulièrement lumineuses car même pour une masse équivalente à celle du Soleil, elles ont un rayon plus grand et donc une surface d'émission de la lumière plus importante. Elles sont encore en contraction gravitationnelle de sorte qu'elles ne tirent pas leur énergie de la fusion thermonucléaire de l'hydrogène (bien que peut-être, parfois, en partie de celle du lithium), mais bien du mécanisme de Kelvin-Helmoltz.
On considère que les étoiles T-Tauri sont de bons laboratoires pour observer en direct l'équivalent de la naissance du Système solaire et ses étapes, alors que les planètes se formaient dans son disque protoplanétaire.
L’instrument Sphere installé sur le Very Large Telescope de l’ESO révèle les disques de poussière autour de jeunes étoiles proches. Tous arborent des formes, des dimensions ainsi que des structures différentes, et témoignent des probables effets des processus de formation planétaire.
DARTTS-S vient de faire l'objet de deux publications sur arXiv et de nouveau les astronomes sont surpris par la diversité découverte, comme le montre en images, un véritable zoo de disques qui diffèrent nettement les uns des autres en termes de dimensions et de formes. Certains sont composés d'anneaux brillants alors que d'autres exhibent des anneaux sombres.
Les astrophysiciens sont particulièrement intéressés par le cas de l'étoile GSC 07396-00759, une naine rouge de type M qui fait partie d'un système triple car elle orbite autour d'une étoile double formée de deux astres de type T-Tauri : V4046 Sagittarii. Ces deux étoiles sont nées ensemble et curieusement, elles ne sont pas entourées d'un même disque protoplanétaire, alors qu'ils devraient avoir évolué en parallèle et avec un matériau similaire. Là encore, il y a une diversité à comprendre pour progresser dans notre quête des origines, du Big Bang au vivant, et de notre place dans l'univers observable avec peut-être de la vie ailleurs.
CE QU'IL FAUT RETENIR
Le cosmos est un laboratoire naturel faisant varier les conditions de multiples « expériences », comme celle menant à la naissance des planètes dans des disques protoplanétaires autour d'étoiles de type T-Tauri.
Plusieurs de ces disques ont été imagés directement par l'instrument Sphere du VLT de l'ESO. Ils sont apparus d'une surprenante diversité, ce qui va alimenter la théorie de la formation planétaire, y compris quand elle est appliquée pour comprendre la formation du Système solaire.
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Esocast : comment les exoplanètes sont-elles détectées ?Les découvertes d'exoplanètes, qui tournent autour d'autres étoiles, se multiplient. Les scientifiques de l’Eso (European southern observatory ou Observatoire européen austral) utilisent diverses techniques afin de les mettre en évidence. Les explications dans cet épisode d’Esocast.
Project 1794 And The Flying Saucers They Were Supposed NOT To Be Working On?
Project 1794 And The Flying Saucers They Were Supposed NOT To Be Working On?
The US was working on Flying Saucers regards of what they said publicly and it looks like they were taking it very, very seriously! So yeah when the US government says one thing we should take it with a pinch of salt especially with regards to UFOs and the existence of Aliens? If your caught lying about it once then how do we know they're not pulling the same stunt again? Well we don't and all we have to go off is past behaviours and they've lied once so...
I mean just look at this image marked " SECRET" and you tell me if they took it seriously or not?
Officially, aliens have never existed but flying saucers very nearly did. The National Archives has recently published never-before-seen schematics and details of a 1950s military venture, called Project 1794, which aimed to build a supersonic flying saucer.
The newly declassified materials show the U.S. Air Force had a contract with a now-defunct Canadian company to build an aircraft unlike anything seen before. Project 1794 got as far as the initial rounds of product development and into prototype design. In a memo dating from 1956 the results from pre-prototype testing are summarised and reveal exactly what the developers had hoped to create. The saucer was supposed to reach a top speed of “between Mach 3 and Mach 4, a ceiling of over 100,000 ft. and a maximum range with allowances of about 1,000 nautical miles,” according to the document. If the plans had followed through to completion they would have created a saucer, which could spin through the Earth’s stratosphere at an average top speed of about 2,600 miles per hour.
Wow. It was also designed to take off and land vertically (VTOL), using propulsion jets to control and stabilise the aircraft. Admittedly the range of 1,000 nautical miles seems limited in comparison to the other specifications but if you’d hopped on the disk in New York it could’ve had you in Miami within about 24 minutes. The document also hints that the product development seemed to be going better than planned; “the present design will provide a much superior performance to that estimated at the start of contract negotiations.”
It begs the question – why was the project dropped? Why aren’t wars being fought with flying saucers? The cost of continuing to prototype was estimated at $3,168,000, which roughly translates to about $26.6 million in today’s money and wouldn’t have been an insane price for such advanced technology. The problem with the other flying saucers developed under the same program (see video) is pretty clear. They didn’t get anywhere near 100,000 feet in altitude, more like five or six if you were lucky – so the military finally pulled the plug in 1960.
That's the introduction and there's loads more to come, we suggest you check all this out guys?
Did Another Civilization Exist On Earth Before Humans? Scientists Investigate
Did Another Civilization Exist On Earth Before Humans? Scientists Investigate
These civilizations would have existed many millions of years ago on Earth, to be precise nearly 60 million years ago. Now, scientists ask whether there’d be evidence of such civilizations existing on Earth.
If you take a look at the long history of our planet, you’ll see that nearly sixty million years ago, our planet experienced temperatures far warmer than today, and the planet’s poles melted.
This historical fact has led some scientists to venture out into the unknown and ponder whether it is possible that this event—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is the result of global warming caused by a now existing civilization which existed on Earth before mankind.
And while this may sound as something that scientists wouldn’t really investigate, since, as Rob Waugh, Metro’s writer puts it: “It sounds like the kind of crackpot conspiracy to be found on ‘ancient alien’ UFO sites,” scientists have in fact ventured out of their ‘comfort zone’ and asked a question they’ve refrained from asking for decades.
In an article by the Atlantic, Adam Frank, a scientist from the University of Rochester asked what many other experts have refrained from asking.
Professor Frank writes: “There is a conundrum here. If an earlier species’ industrial activity is short-lived, we might not be able to easily see it. The PETM’s spikes mostly show us the Earth’s timescales for responding to whatever caused it, not necessarily the timescale of the cause.”
“So, it might take both dedicated and novel detection methods to find evidence of a truly short-lived event in ancient sediments. In other words, if you’re not explicitly looking for it, you might not see it.”
This isn’t just another conspiracy theory cooked up by a scientist.
Professor Frank wondered about what our civilization could leave behind if it perishes one day, and what other potential civilizations may find on Earth. Will they identify our civilization by the plastics we’ve dumped in the ocean? Will they find us because of the chemicals we’ve been using? Or will they find evidence of an ancient civilization on Earth prior to them because we’ve been using fossil fuels?
Professor Frank clarifies that while there is no evidence of an ancient advanced civilization existing on Earth before us, the idea brings up a number of possibilities regarding the cycle of life and how it may operate on other, distant alien worlds.
Professor Frank explains in the article that civilizations may inadvertently—through their collapse—create the necessary conditions to produce more fossil fuels, for future, distant civilization to use.
“Our work also opened up the speculative possibility that some planets might have fossil-fuel-driven cycles of civilization building and collapse. If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they trigger can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels.”
“These low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the conditions needed for making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place. In this way, a civilization and its demise might sow the seed for new civilizations in the future.
By asking about civilizations lost in deep time, we’re also asking about the possibility for universal rules guiding the evolution of all biospheres in all their creative potential, including the emergence of civilizations. Even without pickup-driving Paleocenians, we’re only now learning to see how rich that potential might be.”
And as Waugh writes for Metro, here’s a crackpot conspiracy video for you to enjoy: (I wonder why Waugh writes so many conspiracy-related articles? Maybe he likes the crackpot conspiracy to be found on ‘ancient alien’ UFO sites, or maybe he just loves writing for popular sites like Metro, who not only post ridiculous articles but are apparently happy making revenue off of ‘Conspiracy’.
Le gouvernement vient de notifier à la Commission européenne un projet de décret relatif au « signalement électronique et numérique » des drones. D’ici quelques mois, tous les appareils de plus de 800 grammes devront transmettre aux autorités leur position, leur vitesse, etc.
Adoptée il y a près d’un an et demi, la loi encadrant plus strictement l’usage des drones civils reste pour l’heure inappliquée, faute de décrets. Le temps commence pourtant à presser, plusieurs de ses mesures-clés étant censées entrer en vigueur le 1er juillet prochain.
Le législateur a notamment souhaité qu’à compter de cette date, tous les appareils de plus de 800 grammes soient dotés :
D’un dispositif de « signalement électronique ou numérique »
D’un dispositif de « signalement lumineux »
L’objectif ? Permettre aux forces de l’ordre de mieux suivre les évolutions des drones, visuellement ou à distance, par exemple pour détecter un appareil qui s’approcherait trop d’un site sensible (tel qu’une centrale nucléaire). Le projet de décret d’application de cette réforme, notifié vendredi 13 avril à la Commission européenne, montre toutefois que les services de renseignement ou même les douanes pourront avoir accès aux données émises par les drones équipés de tels dispositifs.
Giant Triangle UFO Seen Over Freeway In California On April 2, 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Triangle UFO Seen Over Freeway In California On April 2, 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2, 2018
Location of sighting: Simi Valley, California, USA
Source: MUFON #91465
This UFO report just in today. A person was driving in Simi, CA and noticed a dark triangle craft moving over the freeway. The UFO had no aircraft lights, so we can rule out public aircraft. The design seems very odd and uneven, but also very thick. Simi Valley located in Southern California, is very close to Area 51, Nellis AFB and the Extraterrestrial Highway. The pattern is becoming visible.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states: I caught a triangle craft above the freeway on the way home. (further statement is not visible to the pubic due to MUFON no longer allowing you to view without paying them).
Strangest UFO Case of All Time, This One is Stranger Than Fiction
Strangest UFO Case of All Time, This One is Stranger Than Fiction
It couldn’t happen here? Most people would say it couldn’t happen anywhere! But more than 100 witnesses to one of the world’s biggest UFO mysteries are adamant that it did, in broad daylight. And 50 years after the event, many are still fuming that the military they say were swarming around the scene for days have offically denied the incident and no record appears to exist. They say they spent their lives being doubted and want some official acknowledgment that something weird happened above and behind Westall high and primary schools that morning. London’s Telegraph newspaper rates it as the fifth-greatest UFO mystery of all time, but another mystery is how little-known the episode is here. A documentary – Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery. Producers hope it will flush out an official who can say what the military were doing and what they found.
Two Pilots On Separate Planes Observe The Same UFO
Two Pilots On Separate Planes Observe The Same UFO
When we heard of UFO sightings or UFOs being spotted it is hard to believe especially if the report is coming from a single witness. It is often written off immediately, simply because it is hard to verify or give proof of what an individual believes they saw in the sky.
However, when two or more individuals reported the same sighting, things get a lot more interesting. Seasoned pilots know things or everyday events in the sky, and when they witness an unnatural event, it is worth to give more attention to their reports.
Two pilots flying above Arizona on February 14th reported seeing a strange object flying above them. Even the FAA could not explain the UFO.
An audio recording of the incident reveals the bizarre sighting also baffled their air traffic controller.
The pilot of Learjet of the Phoenix Air recorded a conversation of the pilot and the air traffic control center. In the audio, the pilot asks the air traffic control if there is a plane above that passed over them, but the controller responds in the negative. Then the controller adds maybe it is a UFO which the pilot agrees.
The controller then contacts another pilot on an American Airlines flying above over the same area. The controller asks if they have seen anything that passed over them over the next few miles of their flight.
The Learjet pilot says that he does not know the unusual aerial thing, but it was flying in the opposite direction.
Moments later, American Airlines joins in the conversation and states that they also saw that unusual object flying above them and that it was operating two to three thousand feet above them.
The FAA states that no other planes should have there in the area of the sightings.
Based on the recording, those pilots did not think it was just another plane or a balloon. Now, this makes reports such as this one a lot more interesting and confusing at the same time.
Buzz Aldrin did NOT see a UFO during 1969 moon mission: Apollo 11 astronaut said bizarre light he saw in space 'was not an alien,' as NASA confirms it was likely a reflection off the craft's panel
Buzz Aldrin did NOT see a UFO during 1969 moon mission: Apollo 11 astronaut said bizarre light he saw in space 'was not an alien,' as NASA confirms it was likely a reflection off the craft's panel
Bizarre story this month claims Apollo 11 astronaut said he saw a UFO in space
But, the astronaut has said over the years that the light he saw 'was not an alien'
Both Aldrin and NASA have said it was likely sun reflecting off a spacecraft panel
Despite widely circulated claims this week that astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second human to step foot on the moon, saw alien activity during his historic 1969 mission, no such close encounter ever actually happened.
In fact, the Apollo 11 astronaut has said the exact opposite about the unusual sighting in question.
Describing the appearance of a moving light alongside his spacecraft, Aldrin said explicitly during a 2014 Q&A: ‘It was not an alien.’
Renewed interested in Aldrin’s strange experience has been sparked by a bizarre story published earlier this month by the Daily Star, which claimed he passed a lie detector test after recalling an ‘alien encounter.’
But, the astronaut never took a lie detector test on the subject, and never stated he saw aliens in the first place.
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Despite widely circulated claims this week that astronaut Buzz Aldrin (right) , the second human to step foot on the moon, saw alien activity during his 1969 mission, no such encounter ever actually happened. Pictured are Neil Armstrong (left) and Michael Collins (center)
Over the years, Aldrin has described a strange sighting that occurred during his 1969 mission, when a light appeared outside of the module.
While he has said that 'technically, the definition could be "unidentified,"' as he did not know what exactly caused the light at the time, he has repeatedly insisted that it was not of alien origin.
In a 2014 question-and-answer session on Reddit, he explained that it was likely the reflection of the sun bouncing off a panel that separated from the craft after launch.
'On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us,' Aldrin wrote.
'There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world - it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.
'So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don't know. So technically, the definition could be "unidentified."
'We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed.'
Pictured, astronaut Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside a U.S. flag planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission
Still, the Star's story claims the second man to walk on the moon 'took part' in research conducted by an Ohio woman, Sharry Edwards that confirmed he had an alien encounter.
But Edwards told The Associated Press in an email, 'There were no tests.'
She claims that reviews of recordings of Aldrin's voice indicate he 'has a firm belief' that he saw a UFO.
NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz said in an email to the AP that Aldrin likely saw panels that separated as the Apollo 11 command module maneuvered to dock with the lunar lander on the way to the moon in 1969.
WHAT DID BUZZ ALDRIN SAY ABOUT HIS 'UFO ENCOUNTER'?
While UFO enthusiasts have long clung to Buzz Aldrin's story of a strange light appearing alongside his spacecraft in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronaut does not think what he saw was an alien.
'On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world - it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.
'So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don't know. So technically, the definition could be "unidentified."
'We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed.
'And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently it wasn't, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country's television network. And the UFO people in the United States were very very angry with me, that i had not given them the information. It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
'That's what Carl Sagan said. There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost CERTAIN that there is life somewhere in space.
'It was not that remarkable, that special, that unusual, that life here on earth evolved gradually, slowly, to where we are today.
But the distances involved in where some evidence of life may be, they may be hundreds of light years away.'
One of the leading investigators into UFOs sighting has claimed that they "are increasing" with "more and more" being reported every day.
The news comes after five "very convincing" sightings were reported from Cornwall, as well as countless others from across the rest of the UK last year.
One of the sightings, which was captured of film, was reportedly so terrifying that it left a Launceston resident with "nightmares".
The person, who has not given their name, contacted the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) after spotting a “perfectly round disc” hanging in the sky above North Hill in Launceston.
It was 2pm on a clear and sunny Friday afternoon that the object was reportedly spotted “motionless hanging in the sky, making no sound”.
The spotter estimated the object being a few miles away from them, but it was still close enough to make out details of a silver metallic colour as well as black, brown, orange and red tones.
After watching it still in the skies for around 30 seconds, the resident claimed the object shot off “at high speed” and they even managed to capture the moment on film, which can be seen above. They described the encounter as “brief, but it was very quiet and surreal”.
A screenshot of the images and photograph shown on the BEAMS website, alongside the Launceston sighting(Image: www.beamsinvestigations.org)
In a message sent to the BEAMS investigators, they said: “On a personal note, the experience has shaken me to the core and frankly terrified me.
“During the sighting I was unsettled but very calm, I knew exactly what I was witnessing, shock I guess, but in the weeks that have passed I have had nightmares!
“I now have a profound empathy for those who have been taken.
“I see everything now in a new light.
“Still having problems processing it all.
“My God, 'they' are really real!”
The sighting was reported to BEAMS in September and was one of five "very interesting" sightings that were logged in the county in 2017.
Speaking to Cornwall Live, UFO investigator Hilary Porter, who jointly runs the society with Ken Parsons, said: “It’s very convincing.
“[All of the sightings in Cornwall] are very interesting and people are definitely experiencing things more and more."
One witness in Mevagissey claimed to have spotted a "saucer" object in the sky.
They said that they had spotted the object in clear skies at around 9.30pm in October last year.
The witness, who did not give their name, described the object they saw as a silent, yellow/orange saucer that was "hovering, in a jerky but controlled up and down movements, whilst travelling horizontally".
The video below shows what they believe to be UFO lights.
Then in September a "huge red light" was reported as a sighting in Marazion.
The witness claimed that they had been left 'spooked' when they came across the unidentified object in Green Lane.
Another Marazion sighting, reported to BEAMS in July, saw a witness claim to have spotted a "strange object" in the grounds of the historic farm where they lived.
The sighting left the farms occupant "creeped out" and sent their dog "growling and barking" to the window.
The resident gave the following statement to BEAMS: "I live alone in a rather large 300-year-old barn complex near Marazion in Cornwall. A week or so ago I was sitting in my front room with my girlfriend listening to the radio.
"It was about 11pm the windows were open but the curtains were drawn, suddenly my Jack Russell jumped up growling then barking very aggressively at the window, if it were a fox etc she would run to the front door to chase it away, it wasn't her normal behavior.
"I had my camera next to me so I put it through the curtains and the open window and blindly took a few photos into the dark.
"Upon examination I found the following strange object, it casts a shadow on the ground from the flash, it actually has creeped me out a little."
Screenshot taken from the BEAMS website of the photograph taken by a person who spotted a "strange object" in the grounds of a 300 year old farm in Marazion(Image: www.beamsinvestigations.org)
And in January 2017, there was two reports of a UFO with "a contrail" spotted in the skies above Newlyn East.
While there haven’t been any sightings in the county since the start of 2018, Hilary said that the county has been a hotspot for activity and in the future, it could be again.
Hilary added: “We cover everything, including ancient sites and ley lines – it all joins together with the UFO side of it in many ways.
“Bodmin Moor has always been popular for sightings, you’ve got some very strange things going on there.
“It goes in waves I think, you get no activity and then you get a whole wave of things happening at once.”
“Devon is really the hot, hot spot,” she said.
“But we are seeing more and more sightings across the UK, it’s not going away whatever it is. The sightings are increasing.”
Hilary said that the team have had sightings reported by people “from all walks of life”, "from medical professionals to mechanics”.
The Enigma Of The Phaistos Disk, A 3,700-Year-Old Indecipherable Message
The Enigma Of The Phaistos Disk, A 3,700-Year-Old Indecipherable Message
The 2nd millennium BC is a period that spanned the years 2000 through 1001 BC and was marked by the appearance of great kingdoms and empires across the planet. The period marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.
Experts maintain that the first half of the 2nd millennium BC was noted by the domination of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. During this time, scholars say that alphabet started developing.
However, the 2nd millennium BC also marked the appearance of Chariot warfare and population movements which are believed to have led to violent changes at the center of the millennium; a new order emerges with Greek dominance of the Aegean and the rise of the Hittite Empire.
The side A of the Phaistos disk, as displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion after the 2014 renovation.
But this period was also marked by many different things.
It is believed that a mysterious artifact, dubbed the Phaistos Disc,housed today at archaeological museum of Heraklionwas crafted by a mysterious people, written in an undecipherable text, during the end of the Bronze Age, around 1700 BC, that is, some 3700 years ago.
The side B of the disc of Phaistos, as displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion after the 2014 renovation.
The mysterious disk-shaped object is about 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter and is covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols.
Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture remains disputed among scholars, making it one of the most mysterious archeological artifacts on the surface of the planet.
The inscriptions, made by pressing hieroglyphic “seals” into a disc of soft clay, are hieroglyphical and are similar to those of the linear script A (the system used by the Cretan culture and still not deciphered totally) and the linear B (the one used by the Mycenaeans) together with others of unknown origin.
Some researchers attribute this to a non-Cretan origin, despite the fact that it was discovered, on July 3, 1908, in Phaistos, Crete.
The disc was discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernierin the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos and features 242 tokens, comprising 45 distinct signs, which were supposedly made by pressing hieroglyphic “seals” into a disc of soft clay, in a clockwise order spiraling toward the center of the object. Many of these 45 signs represent easily identifiable symbols. In addition to these, there is a small diagonal line that appears underneath the final sign in a group a total of 18 times. The disc shows traces of corrections made by the scribe in several places.
However, many authors believe the disk is a forgery.
The doubts come from the own characteristics of the disc: the Phaistos Disk has straight edges, despite the fact that nearly all the clay disks of the time appear curved.
However, perhaps what casts the greatest doubts on the Phaistos Disk’s authenticity is that typographical seals were used in its manufacture when there is no other similar example in antiquity, or anything similar until the invention of the printing press by Guttenberg.
According to a report in The Times in 2008, the date of manufacture has never been established by thermoluminescence.
The Roman Dodecahedra, Mysterious Ancient Artifacts Whose Purpose Remains A Mystery
The Roman Dodecahedra, Mysterious Ancient Artifacts Whose Purpose Remains A Mystery
More than a hundred dodecahedra have been found by archaeologists throughout the territory of the ancient Roman Empire, including countries such as Spain, Italy, France, even in outlying areas such as Germany, Wales, and Hungary.
According to the archaeological records, they date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, but their exact purpose is still a mystery which experts have not been able to solve.
The Roman Dodecahedra are small hollow objects made of bronze or stone in the shape of a Dodecahedra, twelve pentagonal faces, each of which has a circular hole in the center, of different diameters.
The first Roman Dodecahedra was found in 1739, and since then they have continued to appear all over Europe.
Ancient Roman dodecahedron found in Atuatuca Tungrorum (Tongeren). It’s a small hollow object made of bronze or stone with a dodecahedral shape. Its use is still unclear and several proposals have been made including an aid for knitting gloves and a device for determining the optimal sowing date for winter grain. Collection of Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren, Belgium.
Most of these curious objects were found in France and Germany and range in size between 4 and 11 centimeters in diameter.
However, no mention has been made of these objects in contemporary sources, nor any representation in mosaics, reliefs or other artistic expressions which raises numerous questions.
Their exact purpose has been debated for more than 2 centuries and some archeologists argue that the mystery objects may have used as supports for candles since experts have found wax remains on a few of them.
But the theories also point to other possible utilities, such as for example being a kind of dice for some sort of ancient game.
Some authors have even proposed that these artifacts may have been used as measuring instruments to calculate distances (diopters), and even determine the appropriate date for planting grain in winter, calibrate water pipes or religious objects or artifacts used in different rituals. However, some experts have proposed that these mysterious objects may have had a much simpler purpose and may have been used as a children’s toy.
However, given that fact that most of these objects were found mainly in the peripheral areas of the Roman empire, where the presence of Roman legions constituted the main group of Roman citizens, the Roman dodecahedrons may have been a military artifact.
A few of the ancient texts available about the mystery artifacts were left by Plutarch, the famous Greek historian, who wrote that these artifacts were representations of the zodiac, where each of the twelve faces corresponded to an animal of the astrological circle. But even this theory has been rejected by scholars since it does not explain the peculiar decoration of the dodecahedra.
It is noteworthy to mention that many of the dodecahedra were found together with other treasures and coins, probably buried by their owners to hide from robbers or looters, which indicates that they were considered as valuable objects.
Smaller dodecahedra with the same features (holes and knobs) and made from gold have been found discovered by experts in South-East Asia.
They have been used for decorative purposes and the earliest items appear to be from the Roman epoch.
Fragments of an ancient Roman dodecahedron found in 2010 at the construction site of the A2 tunnel in Maastricht. Height: 8.1 cm. The 20 corners were decorated with separately attached dots. Photographed at the temporary exhibition Top or Topic in Centre Céramique in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
So what exactly these mysterious artifacts were, remains a mystery.
However, one theory that I find quite appealing was proposed by G.M.C. Wagemanswho wrote “the dodecahedron was an astronomic measuring instrument with which the angle of the sunlight can be measured and thereby one specific date in springtime, and one date in the autumn can be determined with accuracy. The dates that can be measured were probably of importance for the agriculture”.
For centuries, human beings have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbor strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or futures. But it was only in 1995 that astronomers spotted the first planets orbiting sunlike stars outside of our solar system.
In the last decade, in particular, the number of planets known to orbit distant stars grew from under 100 to well over 2,000, with another 2,000 likely planets awaiting confirmation. Most of these new discoveries are due to a single endeavor — NASA's Kepler mission.
Number of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow.
Credit: Wendy Stenzel/ The University of Texas at Austin/Andrew Vanderburg/ NASA/Ames Research Center, CC BY
Kepler is a spacecraft housing a 1-meter telescope that illuminates a 95 megapixel digital camera the size of a cookie sheet. The instrument detected tiny variations in the brightness of 150,000 distant stars, looking for the telltale sign of a planet blocking a portion of the starlight as it transits across the telescope's line of sight. It's so sensitive that it could detect a fly buzzing around a single streetlight in Chicago from an orbit above the Earth. It can see stars shake and vibrate; it can see starspots and flares; and, in favorable situations, it can see planets as small as the moon.
Scientists can determine the size or radius of a planet by measuring the depth of the dip in brightness and knowing the size of the star.µ
Credit: NASA Ames, CC BY
Kepler's thousands of discoveries revolutionized our understanding of planets and planetary systems. Now, however, the spacecraft is nearly out of its hydrazine fuel and will end its fantastic life sometime in the next few months. Luckily for planet hunters, NASA's upcoming TESS mission is waiting in the wings and will take over the exoplanet search.
Prepping the Kepler spacecraft pre-launch in 2009.
Credit: Tim Jacobs/NASA, CC BY
Kepler's history
The Kepler mission was conceived in the early 1980s by NASA scientist Bill Borucki, with later help from David Koch. At the time, there were no known planets outside of the solar system. Kepler was eventually assembled in the 2000s and launched in March of 2009. I joined the Kepler Science Team in 2008 (as a wide-eyed rookie), eventually co-chairing the group studying the motions of the planets with Jack Lissauer.
Originally, the mission was planned to last for three and a half years with possible extensions for as long as the fuel, or the camera, or the spacecraft lasted. As time passed, portions of the camera began to fail but the mission has persisted. However, in 2013 when two of its four stabilizing gyros(technically "reaction wheels") stopped, the original Kepler mission effectively ended.
NASA scientists figured out how to use solar pressure to stabilize Kepler.
Credit: W. Stenzel/NASA Ames, CC BY
Even then, with some ingenuity, NASA was able to use reflected light from the Sun to help steer the spacecraft. The mission was rechristened as K2 and continued finding planets for another half decade. Now, with the fuel gauge near empty, the business of planet hunting is winding down and the spacecraft will be left adrift in the solar system. The final catalog of planet candidates from the original mission was completed late last year and the last observations of K2 are wrapping up.
Kepler's science
Squeezing what knowledge we can from those data will continue for years to come, but what we've seen thus far has amazed scientists across the globe.
We have seen some planets that orbit their host stars in only a few hours and are so hot that the surface rock vaporizes and trails behind the planet like a comet tail. Other systems have planets so close together that if you were to stand on the surface of one, the second planet would appear larger than 10 full moons. One system is so packed with planets that eight of them are closer to their star than the Earth is to the Sun. Many have planets, and sometimes multiple planets, orbiting within the habitable zone of their host star, where liquid water may exist on their surfaces.
As with any mission, the Kepler package came with trade-offs. It needed to stare at a single part of the sky, blinking every 30 minutes, for four straight years. In order to study enough stars to make its measurements, the stars had to be quite distant – just as when you stand in the middle of a forest, there are more trees farther from you than right next to you. Distant stars are dim, and their planets are hard to study. Indeed, one challenge for astronomers who want to study the properties of Kepler planets is that Kepler itself is often the best instrument to use. High quality data from ground-based telescopes requires long observations on the largest telescopes – precious resources that limit the number of planets that can be observed.
We now know that there are at least as many planets in the galaxy as there are stars, and many of those planets are quite unlike what we have here in the solar system. Learning the characteristics and personalities of the wide variety of planets requires that astronomers investigate the ones orbiting brighter and closer stars where more instruments and more telescopes can be brought to bear.
Once launched, TESS will identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, CC BY
Enter TESS
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, led by MIT's George Ricker, is slated to launch in the next few weeks and will search for planets using the same detection technique that Kepler used. TESS' orbit, rather than being around the Sun, will have a close relationship with the Moon: TESS will orbit the Earth twice for each lunar orbit. TESS' observing pattern, rather than staring at a single part of the sky, will scan nearly the entire sky with overlapping fields of view (much like the petals on a flower).µ
Duration of TESS' observations on the celestial sphere, taking into account the overlap between sectors.
Credit: NASA, CC BY
Given what we learned from Kepler, astronomers expect TESS to find thousands more planetary systems. By surveying the whole sky, we will find systems that orbit stars 10 times closer and 100 times brighter than those found by Kepler – opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets reside. This information, in turn, will tell us more about our own planet's history, how life may have started, what fates we avoided and what other paths we could have followed.
The quest to find our place in the universe continues as Kepler finishes its leg of the journey and TESS takes the baton.
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An asteroid similar in size to one that exploded more than 100 years ago in Russia's Tunguska region in Siberia gave Earth a close shave on Sunday (April 15), just one day after astronomers discovered the object.
The asteroid, designated 2018 GE3, made its closest approach to Earth at around 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), whizzing by at a distance of 119,400 miles (192,000 kilometers), or about half the average distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies(CNEOS).
NASA estimated that this asteroid measures 157 to 360 feet (48 to110 meters) wide, making the space rock up to 3.6 times the size of the one that leveled 500,000 acres (2,000 square kilometers) of Siberian forest when it exploded over Tunguska in 1908. [Gallery: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids]
A diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2018 GE3, which flew by Earth on April 15, 2018.
Credit: NASA JPL
This newfound asteroid is three to six times as big as another recent meteor, the one that broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. That object injured more than 1,200 people and damaged thousands of buildings up to 58 miles (93 km) away from the impact site.
"If 2018 GE3 had hit Earth, it would have caused regional, not global, damage, and might have disintegrated in the atmosphere before reaching the ground," SpaceWeather.com reported. "Nevertheless, it is a significant asteroid, illustrating how even large space rocks can still take us by surprise. 2018 GE3 was found less than a day before its closest approach."
SURPRISE ASTEROID FLYBY: With little warning, a relatively large asteroid flew through the Earth-Moon system on April 15th only 192,200 km (0.5 LD) from our planet. 2018 GE3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey approaching Earth on April 14th. Hours later, amateur astronomer Michael Jäger of Weißenkirchen Austria video-recorded the space rock gliding through the southern constellation Serpens:
"According to Wikipedia, 2018 GE3 is the largest known asteroid to pass that close to Earth in observational history," says Jäger. "It was shining like a 13th magnitude star at the time of my observations."
Based on the intensity of its reflected sunlight, 2018 GE3 must be 48 to 110 meters wide, according to NASA-JPL. This puts it into the same class as the 60-meter Tunguska impactor that leveled a forest in Siberia in 1908. A more recent point of comparison is the Chelyabinsk meteor--a ~20-meter asteroid that exploded in the atmosphere over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, shattering windows and toppling onlookers as a fireball brighter than the sun blossomed in the blue morning Ural sky. 2018 GE3 could be 5 to 6 times wider than that object.
If 2018 GE3 had hit Earth, it would have caused regional, not global, damage, and might have disintegrated in the atmosphere before reaching the ground. Nevertheless, it is a significant asteroid, illustrating how even large space rocks can still take us by surprise. 2018 GE3 was found less than a day before before its closest approach.
Based on an observational arc of only 1 day, 2018 GE3 appears to follow an elliptical orbit which stretches from the asteroid belt to deep inside the inner solar system. Every ~2.5 years the space rock crosses the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars--although not necessarily making close approaches to the planets themselves.
The asteroid 2018 GE3 was first spotted on Saturday (April 14) at 5:23 a.m. EDT (0923 GMT) by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-sponsored program based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. This first sighting occurred just 21 hours before the asteroid's closest approach to Earth.
Asteroid 2018 GE3 by Michael Jaeger. Used with permission.
This is an excellent follow up article to the post on disclosure of life Everywhere in the Universe, which demonstrates an increased level of Scientific acceptance and it’s dissemination into the public domain.
A couple of months ago top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that extraterrestrial life exists without question.
Their main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harboring an Earth-like planet.
It’s also important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbor life.
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”
– Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute (source
This time, NASA and the Library of Congress have teamed up bringing together scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians from around the globe for a two day symposium in order to discuss how to prepare the world for extraterrestrial contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.
“We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say, it’s something else!
“The idea is not to wait until we make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the implications might be when such a discovery is made. I think the reason that NASA is backing this is because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and the advances in astrobiology in general.
“People just consider it much more likely now that we’re going to find something — probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later. The driving force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the future.”
– Astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief NASA historian, Steven J. Dick. (source)
One of the theologians present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. This is what he had to say:
“I Believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.” (source)
He is urging the public not to be so surprised when extraterrestrial life is discovered, because it will be discovered. He even said that he would be happy to baptize them, if it’s intelligent extraterrestrial life that’s discovered. The Vatican has been very open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and they’ve expressed these views for a very long time.
Earth is not the center of the universe, it’s not flat, and it’s looking very likely that the next major paradigm shifting revelation will be the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
It’s great to see the mainstream world gather, discuss and prepare for this possibility and ultimate reality, and it’s a great seg-way to create more awareness about the world of secrecy, the world’s within our world that deal with projects the human race knows nothing about.
The Other Probability – Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life is Already Here
All of the information I’ve provided below is probably old information for CE fans that regularly visit our site. This information is from a previous article I wrote earlier in the year, I thought it would be fitting to cut and paste it here for our new readers. You can find more CE articles on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic by visiting our exopolitics section HERE.
In the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent think that there isn’t. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extraterrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time. (source)
Here’s one of them:
“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.”
(source) (source) – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell
There are multiple reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, utilizing critical thinking and investigation. After thoroughly investigating this topic your conclusions will be similar to the conclusions of the majority, we are not alone, and we are being visited.
1. The Size of the Universe
How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies and more are out there? Space has been a high area of interest that has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, musicians and pretty much just about everyone.
What is it about deep space that grabs our attention so much? To think about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.
Counting the stars in the universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach, not possible.
Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! (source) This number could very easily be in the trillions for all we know.
Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures to about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars. Again, that’s billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars. (source)
Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the milky way alone ( one galaxy out of billions), but it’s important to keep an open mind as to what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial like forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like.
Given our estimation of the size of the universe, or multiverse (whatever you want to call it), odds are we are not alone.
2. Whistle Blowers
The past few years have seen a surge of whistle-blowers that’ve come out and said some remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that there are hundreds of whistle blowers who have come forward with verified credentials and backgrounds.
Mass surveillance and the security state is not the only thing shocking people around the world, it’s the fact that many of these whistle blowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. It wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields.
The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for unifying the Canadian Air Force, Army and the Navy into one united force now known as the Canadian Forces.
For someone with such a background to come out and make these extraordinary claims definitely grabbed the attention of many people.
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.” (source)
”In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” (source)
Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few (out of many) examples.
“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
“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.”
(source) – Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original Astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States
The list goes on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao. You can read more about that HERE.
Here is a video of John Podesta who was recently appointed as councilor to Barack Obama supporting UFO disclosure.
Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from persons who have held some of the highest positions known. Those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense”
Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
(source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2″, Written by Richard Dolan
The list of military whistle blowers is huge, there are hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and the disclosure project.
The list of quotes from all fields, from many people is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages so I’ll stop here, I think you get the picture. These quotes by whistleblowers and people with prestigious backgrounds leads perfectly into the next point as to why almost everybody knows that we are not alone in the universe.
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.”
(source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska
In this clip, it seems he (Dr. Jack Kasher) is referring to FREE ENERGY.
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified”
– Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee (source)
3. The Evidence of UFOs
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 these documents 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 Richard Dolan does a great one in 10 minutes. To watch it click HERE and see what type of information is out there.
4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention
Media outlets of all kind are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see how it’s on the minds of many.
The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial ‘noise’ was made when scientists recently spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone. (source)
In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings came at the National Press Club, which also took place in Mid-2013.
At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists and military/ agency/ political witnesses representing ten countries gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and 2008 presidential candidate said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.
Apart from these events, UFOs are constantly a topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets that cover the topic seek out to ridicule it rather than investigating it properly.
To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.
There are millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems like human nature.
Neuroscience can now explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for? (Even though the proof is there).
Besides the thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see. Click HERE to see raw footage of a UFO showing up in Norway for scientists at their observatory.
Click HERE and HERE to see film from the 1991 NASA STS-48 Discovery Space Shuttle mission. It’s some of the best, officially documented UFO footage that’s out there today.
HERE is a video that made headlines once released. It came from straight front the Mexican Air Force. Do a quick UFO search on youtube and you’ll see many fakes, but many real videos of unknown aerial objects.
Final Thoughts
A few years ago the question was “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers that defy our laws of physics has been well documented. The question has more so shifted to, “Is that an extraterrestrial space craft?”
It’s nothing to fear, in my opinion they’ve been around forever. They have been aware of us long before we have been aware of them. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see.
Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here further pushing the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things here. Perhaps one day soon we will find out.
I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.”
Scientists have discovered nearly 2,000 alien planets since spotting the first ones orbiting a star beyond our sun back in 1992. Here's a brief rundown of the main techniques they use to find these far-flung worlds.
Photo Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
1. Old Faithful: The Transit Method
This technique watches for the tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet crosses (or transits) the star's face, blocking some of its light. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has employed this method to great effect, spotting more than 2,700 potential planets since its March 2009 launch.
Astronomers also look for variations in the timing of a particular planet's transit, because these can reveal the presence of additional worlds orbiting the same star.
Photo Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
2. Wobbling Stars: Radial Velocity
The radial velocity method picks up on the tiny wobbles an orbiting planet induces in its parent's star's motion toward or away from Earth. This technique is also known as the Doppler method because it measures shifts in the star's light caused by these gravitational tugs.
Several teams of astronomers have discovered many exoplanets using this method and such Earth-based instruments as the HARPS spectrograph, on a telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, and the HIRES spectrograph, on Hawaii's Keck telescope.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt
3. Gravitational Microlensing
In gravitational microlensing, astronomers watch what happens when a massive object passes in front of a star from our perspective on Earth. The nearby object's gravitational field bends and magnifies the light from the distant star, acting like a lens.
This produces a light curve — a brightening and fading of the faraway star's light over time — whose characteristics tell astronomers a lot about the foreground object, which is often a star. If this star has any planets, these can generate secondary light curves, alerting researchers to their presence.
Gravitational microlensing is less biased toward planets that orbit relatively far from their stars than the transit or radial velocity methods. Researchers have even used it to find so-called "rogue planets," which cruise through the depths of space without a parent star.
Photo Credit: NASA/ESA/T. Currie, U. Toronto
4. Say Cheese! Direct Imaging
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Powerful telescopes get actual images of distant worlds, using instruments called coronagraphs to block out the overwhelming glare of their parent stars.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted planets by direct imaging, as have Hawaii's Keck Observatory, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Array in Chile and several other telescopes.
This one is specific to planets around pulsars, tiny, superdense remnants of exploded stars that emit radio waves at regular intervals as they rotate.
Anomalies in the timing of these radio pulses can reveal the presence of orbiting planets. The first worlds ever discovered beyond our solar system were found using this method back in 1992.
Photo Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
5. Harnessing Special Relativity
In this new technique, astronomers watch for a star to brighten as it's tugged by an orbiting planet, causing photons to "pile up" in energy and light to be focused in the direction of the star's motion due to relativistic effects.
The planet Kepler-76b (also known as "Einstein's planet") was discovered via this method, then confirmed by radial velocity measurements. More such detections are likely to follow as researchers hone the technique.
Photo Credit: ESA.
7. Astrometry
Astrometry relies on the ultraprecise tracking of a star's movements on the sky to spot the gravitational tugs of orbiting planets. (It's similar in principle to the radial velocity method but doesn't measure the Doppler shifts in a star's light.)
Scientists have searched for alien planets using astrometry for decades, with very limited (and debatable) success. But the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, set to launch in October 2013, could spot tens of thousands of exoplanets using the technique, researchers say.
NASA is set to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Monday, starting a new chapter in the search for planets that could potentially support extraterrestrial life.
During its mission, TESS will analyse thousands of relatively nearby stars for planets orbiting the stars.
According to NASA, scientists expect to find about 50 Earth-sized planets and about 20,000 exoplanets in total, of which the vast majority will probably be larger than Neptune, our solar system's fourth biggest planet.
Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than the sun.
TESS will be sent into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch of which is slated to take place at 10:30 GMT at the Cape Canaveral station in Florida.
It will take two weeks for the satellite to get in its planned orbit and will eventually be closer to the Moon than to Earth.
After two months of testing and calibrating its systems, TESS will start a two-year mission examining 200,000 stars looking for exoplanets.
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Launching Monday, our planet-hunting @NASA_TESS spacecraft will fly in a unique orbit that'll allow it to study nearly the entire sky over 2 years. This special orbit is key in potentially finding thousands of new planets outside our solar system. Watch:
Based on the light emitted by the stars, the satellite will be able to catalog thousands of planets, NASA said.
Combining that information with data gathered by telescopes on Earth scientists will be able to determine the make-up and mass of those planets.
The satellite, which cost about $200m, will build on work done by the Kepler telescope, which was able to catalogue about 2,300 exoplanets to date.
However, TESS will examine a much larger portion of the sky, about 85 percent in total. This is about 350 times more than Kepler, which has a similar mission to TESS but is only focused on a small part of the sky.
TESS will also look at stars that are much closer, about 30 to 300 lightyears away, than those examined by Kepler, which studied stars 300 to 3,000 light years away.
The planets found by TESS will be studied in depth by both scientists on Earth, as well as future space missions.
The launch of the James Webb telescope, the most powerful space telescope to date, is currently slated for 2020 and will continue research done by TESS.
One of the most important aspects of these exploratory space missions is for scientists to identify more planets that could potentially support life.
Based on Kepler's data, our galaxy alone could potentially have 10 billion planets that could be habitable.
In total, scientists estimate there are about 100 billion galaxies in the Universe.
The Soviet Republic was the first country to send a man into outer space. The US landed the first man on the Moon. Now, China wants to check its first as well: they want to grow plants (and silkworm) on the Moon.
The image is shot by Chinese Chang’e 3, an unmanned lunar exploration probe, and Yutu rover.
Image credits: Xinhua.
According to a new announcement, seeds of potatoes and Arabidopsis — a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, often used in research — will be planted on the Moon. Along with silkworm cocoons, the seeds will be launched with Chang’e-4 lander and rover. China’s first probe to the far side of the moon is currently scheduled for December.
The seeds will be placed inside a cylindrical tin made from a special aluminum alloy. The tin is 18 cm tall, with a diameter of 16 cm, a net volume of 0.8 liters and a weight of 3 kilograms. It also contains water, air, and a special nutrient mixture, as well as a camera and a data transmission system. If everything goes according to plan, the seeds will be planted, they will grow and blossom and the entire process will be captured on camera.
The team which will be sent to the Moon, holding the seeds.
Image credits: Weibo / Chungking.
While potatoes and Arabidopsis have been grown before on the International Space Station and the Tiangong-2 space lab, growing them on the moon will be much more difficult. Maintaining the temperature in an acceptable range will be particularly tricky.
“We have to keep the temperature in the ‘mini biosphere’ within a range from 1 degree to 30 degrees, and properly control the humidity and nutrition. We will use a tube to direct the natural light on the surface of Moon into the tin to make the plants grow,” said Xie Gengxin, chief designer of the experiment.
Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, which spearheads the project, says it will offer much-needed insight about how plants can be grown on the Moon.
“Why potato and arabidopsis? Because the growth period of arabidopsis is short and convenient to observe. And potato could become a major source of food for future space travelers,” said Liu. “Our experiment might help accumulate knowledge for building a lunar base and long-term residence on the Moon.”
China reportedly plans to start a ‘mini biosphere’ as part of its efforts to develop a research station and perhaps even a permanent base on the dark side of the Moon. The dark side of the Moon is an excellent place for a research base as it is shielded from electromagnetic interference from Earth and it’s an excellent vantage point to study solar bursts and the deeper parts of space.
Of course, it’s also a great place to study the feasibility and challenges of an out-of-Earth research base.
“Our experiment might help accumulate knowledge for building a lunar base and long-term residence on the Moon,” Professor Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, told Xinhua news agency.
The far side of the Moon photographed by Apollo 16, April 1972.
This particular project was chosen over more than 200 candidates. If it succeeds, it will be an important landmark of China’s space ambitions. China spends some $3 billion a year on its space projects, significantly less than America’s $21 billion — but even so, China is catching up fast.
The Chang’e-4 probe will also carry scientific payloads developed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. For instance, a small Swedish analyzer will monitor the interactions between the solar winds and the Moon’s surface.
“The Chinese and Dutch low-frequency radio spectrometers might help us detect 21-cm hydrogen line radiation and study how the earliest stars were ignited and how our cosmos emerged from darkness after the Big Bang,” said Chen Xuelei, an astronomer with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It’s an ambitious project, which not only signals China’s growing ambitions but also its willingness to collaborate with other countries — this can only be an encouraging sign.
We know our galaxy is huge, and that there’s an untold number of other galaxies out there in the unimaginably large universe. We also know that there’s bound to be plenty of planets in those galaxies, and at least a portion of them are bound to be habitable by some form of life. So, why haven’t we detected, spotted, or at least heard the faint whispers of another intelligent civilization outside of Earth? A planetary scientist from Colorado’s Southwest Research Institute believes he might have the answer, and it’s literally chilling.
Speaking at a meeting of the American Astronomy Society Division for Planetary Sciences Division, Alan Stern proposed an incredible answer to the question which has long puzzled astronomers and first contact hopefuls: aliens aren’t living outside.
It sounds like total bunk to us since humans are spread across just about every nook and cranny of planet Earth, but there’s a very real possibility that life could form, evolve, and even gain advanced intelligence without ever seeing the surface of their own planet. This would be most likely on frigid ocean worlds where underwater thermal vents would provide the heat energy to sustain life, and with the sheer number of frigid ocean worlds we already know exist, there’s no shortage of opportunities for this to happen.
If an intelligent alien civilization evolved in the depths of an icy ocean world, it would be incredibly difficult for humanity to detect it, and even harder for them to contact us. In fact, even venturing to the surface of their own planet would be an incredibly difficult task, and as Stern notes, doing so would essentially be the equivalent of mankind venturing into space — a mysterious, frigid, and dangerous place.
It’s obviously very difficult for us to imagine an entire civilization of intelligent creatures living deep within the ocean, but our understanding of the requirements for life mean that it’s entirely possible. The only question is whether or not it exists somewhere out there in the vast number of unexplored worlds.
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Aliens bestaan op manieren waarvan we ons geen voorstelling kunnen maken. Lees dit revolutionaire onderzoek over buitenaards leven
Aliens bestaan op manieren waarvan we ons geen voorstelling kunnen maken. Lees dit revolutionaire onderzoek over buitenaards leven
Onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Cadiz in Spanje zeggen dat aliens er mogelijk heel anders uitzien dan we denken.
Wetenschappers die speuren naar buitenaardse beschavingen verwachten doorgaans dat aliens eruitzien als mensachtigen.
Als gevolg van deze aanname zien we buitenaards leven dat zich recht onder onze neus bevindt misschien over het hoofd, zeggen de Spaanse onderzoekers.
Donkere materie of energie
De studie, die gepubliceerd is in het tijdschrift Acta Astronautica, bespreekt de mogelijkheid dat buitenaards leven bestaat op manieren die mensen letterlijk niet kunnen begrijpen.
“We proberen andere mogelijkheden te overwegen,” zei neuropsycholoog Gabriel de la Torre, die meewerkte aan de studie.
Hij denkt aan wezens die zich kunnen manifesteren in dimensies die we niet kunnen waarnemen, wellicht door middel van intelligenties gebaseerd op donkere materie of energie, waar bijna 95 procent van het universum uit bestaat.
Andere universa
“Er is ook een mogelijkheid dat er nog andere universa bestaan, zoals blijkt uit onderzoek van Stephen Hawking en andere wetenschappers,” zei De la Torre.
De onderzoekers wijzen erop dat onze verwachtingen ons vaak misleiden. Dat lieten ze zien aan de hand van een experiment.
Ze vroegen 137 mensen om te bepalen of structuren in een aantal luchtfoto’s natuurlijk waren of door mensen gemaakt.
Gorilla
In één van de foto’s verstopten de wetenschappers een afbeelding van een gorilla. De participanten deden wat er van hen werd gevraagd, maar de meesten zagen de gorilla niet omdat ze er niet specifiek naar zochten.
Om diezelfde reden vinden astronomen en de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap als geheel geen buitenaards leven omdat ze bepaalde verwachtingen hebben en dus veel dingen over het hoofd zien.
Als we niet weten waar we naar moeten zoeken, zullen we waarschijnlijk ook niets vinden.
EUROPEES PARLEMENT OVERWEEGT MENSENRECHTEN VOOR ROBOTS? (VIDEO)
EUROPEES PARLEMENT OVERWEEGT MENSENRECHTEN VOOR ROBOTS? (VIDEO)
We zijn 1 april met alle grappen en grollen reeds enige tijd voorbij, maar bovenstaande titel had heel goed op die dag gebruikt kunnen worden.
De Europese Unie is echter bloedserieus over dit onderwerp en overweegt echt om robots mensenrechten te geven.
In een toenemend tempo krijgt onze wereld te maken met robots. Robots die steeds beter en slimmer worden en wel eens het einde van de mensheid kunnen betekenen volgens de onlangs overleden wetenschapper Stephen Hawking.
Toch waarschuwde Hawking voor de problemen en gevaren die steeds slimmer wordende kunstmatige intelligentie met zich meebrengt. In 2014 sprak hij duidelijke taal in een interview met de BBC: "De ontwikkeling van kunstmatige intelligentie kan het einde van de mensheid betekenen."
Hawking waarschuwde voor de consequenties als AI uiteindelijk even intelligent of zelfs slimmer wordt de mens. "De techniek verbetert zichzelf op een steeds hoger tempo", zei hij. "De mens kan die groei niet bijhouden, omdat biologische evolutie hen tegenhoudt. De mens wordt dan voorbijgestreefd."
Hoe lang het nog duurt voordat dit kantelpunt is bereikt, is niet bekend. Hawking zei in 2015 tijdens een conferentie in Londen dat computers "ergens binnen de komende honderd jaar" slimmer worden dan mensen.
Maar, we leven nog altijd in een wereld waar de mens het uiteindelijk voor het zeggen heeft en het zal volgens velen wel allemaal niet zo’n vaart lopen. Toen de eerste auto’s op de weg verschenen zagen mensen dat ook vaak als duivelse apparaten waar nooit iets goeds uit voort kon komen.
Echter, met robots en kunstmatige intelligentie is het toch een iets ander verhaal, want dit fenomeen is in staat om de controle over de wereld over te nemen. Daarom is het absoluut noodzakelijk dat er paal en perk wordt gesteld aan de verdere ontwikkeling van robots.
In een rapport dat begin dit jaar verscheen, schreef het parlement dat robots - gedeeltelijk of geheel - aansprakelijk moeten zijn voor hun daden. Als het wetsvoorstel wordt aangenomen, kunnen robots in rechtszaken optreden als aanklager en ondervraagde. De meer ontwikkelde robot heeft weliswaar een elektronische persoonlijkheid, maar alsnog recht op een menselijke behandeling, oordeelde het parlement.
Voorstanders van de wet willen denkende machines op deze manier juist verantwoordelijk stellen voor hun acties. Omdat robots die zelf leren en beslissingen nemen veel minder voorspelbaar zijn, wordt het veel ingewikkelder om verantwoordelijkheid voor eventuele schade neer te leggen bij de producent, de eigenaar, de programmeur of degene die het apparaat de opdracht heeft gegeven waaruit de ellende is ontstaan. Door ze een menselijke status te geven, te registreren en verplicht te laten verzekeren, zou het veel makkelijker worden om schade door robots vergoed te krijgen.
Het klinkt als een slechte science fiction film, maar het is bittere werkelijkheid. Natuurlijk zit er een andere agenda achter deze redenatie, want het Europees Parlement zal zich echt niet druk maken over schadevergoedingen als een machine iets verkeerds doet.
Het aannemen van deze nieuwe wet is natuurlijk wel een relatief gemakkelijke horde om te nemen, omdat het lovenswaardig klinkt dat men iets wil doen voor gedupeerden als iemand schade lijdt door zo’n machine.
Maar, wanneer ze eenmaal de status hebben van rechtspersoonlijkheid, gaat het verhaal natuurlijk verder. Want als ze een rechtspersoonlijkheid hebben, zullen ze ook een burgerservice nummer krijgen, recht hebben op een symbolisch loon, waar dan natuurlijk wel loonheffing over wordt gerekend.
Net zoals de bijtelling van een auto, wordt er straks een fictief loon voor de robot bepaald, waar degene die de robot commercieel exploiteert loonbelasting over moet betalen.
Ondertussen komen er protesten van bezorgde wetenschappers en andere prominente figuren:
Maar veel deskundigen op het gebied van robotica, kunstmatige intelligentie, recht, medische wetenschappen én ethiek raden het voorstel sterk af. ,,Nachtmerriescenario's worden op deze manier werkelijkheid. Allerlei fabrikanten zijn bezig met het bedenken en produceren van zelflerende mechanische poppen. De vraag is: hoe lang blijven mensen nog aan de knoppen zitten?'', staat onder meer in hun open brief van afgelopen weekend.
Wat al deze mensen niet begrijpen is dat de Rothschild/Soros medewerkers opdracht hebben gekregen om deze wetgeving erdoor te loodsen zodat hun meesters straks wel verzekerd blijven van een permanente stroom belastinggeld.
Het is niet voor niets dat eerder de robot Sofia al staatsburgerschap kreeg van Saoedi Arabië. Hierna volgt een deel van een eerder artikel waarin dit nader wordt beschreven en ook de reden van dit alles.
Eind oktober gebeurde er ogenschijnlijk iets grappigs, een AI robot Sophia genaamd, werd een staatsburger van Saudi Arabië(SA). Dat dit nu uitgerekend in SA moest gebeuren lijkt wel een grap, een land waar de vrouw amper rechten heeft en streng islamitisch is, juist daar krijgt een "vrouwelijke" robot het staatsburgerschap.
De mainstream media hebben ervoor gezorgd dat Sophia het wereldnieuws haalde en maar weinigen namen het staatsburgerschap van Sophia serieus, echter het blijkt bloedserieus te zijn en niet voor niks.
De push van de elite richting de robotisering wordt steeds groter en steeds meer vooraanstaande mensen worden opgetrommeld om de slapende burger duidelijk te maken dat ze niets hebben te vrezen. De robots gaan niet zorgen voor een toename van de werkloosheid en de mensen die hier wel bang voor zijn mogen we ouderwets noemen. Echter er kleeft wel degelijk een groot nadeel aan de robotisering en heeft dat niets met de burger te maken maar met de overheden.
Wanneer er steeds meer robots het werk overnemen van de burgers dan zullen alle overheden ter wereld een enorme derving zien van de inkomstenbelasting en je voelt nu al waar we naartoe gaan.
SA is natuurlijk niet gek en ziet dit probleem ook op zich afkomen en heeft dit probleem nu getackeld. Elke AI robot krijgt het staatsburgerschap en dus een sofinummer en is dus belastbaar voor de arbeid die het verricht. De inkomstenbelasting zal gelijk zijn aan de hoogte die het had als een mens dat werk zou uitvoeren. We kunnen nu dus wel stellen dat het geen grap was om Sophia het staatsburgerschap te geven.
Uiteraard is de naam ook niet zomaar uit de lucht komen vallen. Sophia staat ongetwijfeld voor de godin van de wijsheid, ze is Asherah, the queen of heaven, de vrouw aan gods zijde. Uiteraard is dit heel toepasselijk aangezien we de AI robot Sophia kunnen beschouwen als een nieuwe levensvorm hier op aarde die uiteindelijk gelijk of zelfs boven de mens zal staan. Sommigen refereren naar de vrouw van koning Solomon die de wijsheid van God had gekregen. Echter het wordt nog veel gekker. In de volgende clip wordt ons uit gelegd dat Sophia "los" wordt gelaten op het wereldwijde blockchain netwerk.
De clip is een echte must see en dat Sophia juist nu in de tijd van wederopstanding haar intrede doet lijkt me geen toeval. Ik heb me altijd al verbaasd waarom de bitcoin wordt gedoogd door de elite en dat nu grote landen hun eigen crypto currency genereren. Is de blockchain technologie een creatie van AI en worden we in feite al geregeerd door deze AI zonder dat we het beseffen? Is dit de reden waarom Taylor Swift net een clip heeft uitgebracht met de vraag... are you ready for it? Dit terwijl ze eruit ziet als een AI robot die via de trap omhoog stijgt naar het hoogste platform.
Gaan we de komende weken een volledige oorlog in het Midden Oosten zien die het complete financiële stelsel onder uithalen en ons in een transitie periode brengen naar de cashloze maatschappij geregeerd door AI? Zien wij hier de geboorte van het spirituele kindje van Osiris en Isis, genaamd Horus, die met het alziend oog en die gekoppeld is aan de oorlogsplaneet Mars?
Het worden zeer interessante dagen, dagen die gaan bepalen of het verhaal van de goden echt zullen worden uitgespeeld.
Tot zover Bert.
En wie denkt dat het toch allemaal een grap is, raden wij aan even de tijd te nemen om te kijken en luisteren naar een interview met de robot Sophia waarin ook het staatsburgerschap in Saoedi Arabië ter sprake komt.
All Systems 'Go' For Launch of NASA Exoplanet Mission Monday
All Systems 'Go' For Launch of NASA Exoplanet Mission Monday
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket on April 16, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Orbital ATK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA's next exoplanet-hunting spacecraft is poised for an on-time liftoff Monday (April 16).
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is ready to go, as is its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ride, mission officials said during a pre-launch briefing today (April 15).
"We just got done with our launch readiness review, and all went well," said Omar Baez, senior launch director for the Launch Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) here. The launch will take place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next-door to KSC. [NASA's TESS Exoplanet-Hunting Mission in Pictures]
And the weather is likely to cooperate as well. Some storms will blow through the area tonight, but they'll likely be gone by the scheduled launch time of 6:32 p.m. EDT (2232 GMT) tomorrow, said weather officer Mike McAleenan, of the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron. There's just a 20 percent chance that Mother Nature will scuttle that liftoff, he added. The chief concern for tomorrow is strong winds.
The launch window tomorrow lasts just 30 seconds. If winds do rear up and spoil things, the outlook is even better for the backup day, Tuesday (April 17). There's less than a 10 percent chance of bad weather on Tuesday, McAleenan said.
TESS is designed to spot exoplanets by noticing the tiny brightness dips caused when they cross the face of, or transit, their host stars. This same method is employed by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has found about two-thirds of the 3,700 exoplanets known to date.
If all goes according to plan, TESS will settle into a long, looping orbit around Earth in June, then beginning hunting for worlds that circle stars relatively close to the sun. TESS could end up discovering thousands of such planets, mission officials have said.
But TESS isn't about merely boosting the exoplanet tally. The goal is to find alien worlds that can be investigated in depth by future instruments, such as NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to lift off in 2020.
Tomorrow's liftoff, which you can watch live here on Space.com, will be action-packed for SpaceX. Shortly after launch, the company will attempt to land the first stage of the two-stage Falcon 9 on a robotic "drone ship" stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX has already pulled off two dozen such first-stage landings, roughly half of them on drone ships.
The company will also try to recover the payload fairing, the protective nose cone surrounding TESS during launch. But SpaceX won't use the net-equipped boat "Mr. Steven" to snatch the fairing halves out the sky tomorrow, Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of build and flight reliability, said during today's briefing. Rather, the fairing halves will splash down in the ocean with the aid of parachutes, and the company will scoop them out of the water.
Such activities are part of SpaceX's effort to develop fully and rapidly reusable rockets and spacecraft, a breakthrough that company founder and CEO Elon Musk has said could slash the cost of spaceflight and help humanity spread its footprint out into the solar system.
Visit Space.com Monday, April 16 for complete coverage of NASA's TESS mission launch. A live webcast on the launch begins at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).
Large Triangle UFO Sighting reported 4/10/18 Plainsboro NJ
Large Triangle UFO Sighting reported 4/10/18 Plainsboro NJ
UFO Sighting reported on 6/10/18 of a very Large Triangular UFO craft with three bright lights one light is white lights with a red dot in the center, was silent, stopped and changed direction. I sighted a strange formation of lights on 04/18/18 (3 defined white lights in a triangle with a red dot in the center) while walking my dog in a South Brunswick, New Jersey park.
From my perspective, the UFO lights I saw where approx. 2 inches apart, while all other aircraft in that were in the sky were about 2 centimeters apart; so I assumed that the aircraft was either close or really big. The UFO triangle lights were moving at about or maybe a little faster than the other aircraft in the sky (and any aircraft nearby were headed towards the Newark Int Airport. The UFOtriangle of lights was flying towards Newark but a less frequented direction north-south and there was no sound coming from the aircraft. After flying at the same speed of the aircraft the UFOsuddenly stopped at a quick speed hovered for a second and took off in the opposite north east (after heading north-south) direction from Newark. thought this was strange so because the whole time I could not see the aircraft itself, and when the triangle of lights changed their direction the lights remained at the same place and did not seem to change angles or anything, which is why know I saw a Triangular UFO that was VERY LARGE. It looked like they stopped only for a second and kicked in in reverse essentially and took off at the in a north east direction and the same speed. Also, my dog did not seem to act strange.
((NUFORC Note: We assume that the UFO sighting occurred at 20:30 hrs., in the evening, and not at 08:30 hrs., in the morning. We have attempted to contact the witness to confirm that fact, but we have been unable to reach him. We have amended the time above. PD))
ONLINE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE MORE DIVERSE (AND ORDINARY) THAN MOST ASSUME
ONLINE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE MORE DIVERSE (AND ORDINARY) THAN MOST ASSUME
Conspiracy theories are known for connecting apparently unrelated events. Consider the X-Files’ Fox Mulder holed up in his office, frantically joining seemingly random dots. Or the American radio host Alex Jones connecting leaked Clinton emails and fuzzy rover pictures to conclude that NASA is running a child slave colony on Mars.
Cognitive psychologists have often claimed that conspiracy theorists possess a “monological” belief system, in which belief in one conspiracy leads to belief in others. Eventually, they explain every significant event, however unrelated, through the same conspiratorial “logic”.
On such a view, conspiracy theorists are fundamentally irrational, perhaps even pathologically so. But is this an oversimplification?
So-called “big data” approaches to psychology can give a unique perspective on these questions. By using large datasets gathered from social media websites, one can look at people interacting in everyday settings. Importantly, these approaches can capture everybody, not just the most vocal members of a community.
In a recent paper we used online comments to examine individuals who are interested in these types of ideas. We examined a complete set of comments over eight years from the conspiracy forum of reddit.com.
Our dataset included 2.2 million comments from roughly 130,000 distinct user names. Our analyses used topic modelling, a type of linguistic analysis that tries to find common themes across a large collection of documents.
We were able to identify 12 distinct subgroups of individuals who used language in different ways and who varied widely in their interests and their posting habits. What they talked about strongly suggested that they held different beliefs and attitudes about a range of conspiracies.
Eleven of these had consistent enough interests to be readily interpretable. We assigned each of them a name and created aggregate sample comments, as shown in this diagram.
We found that there were posters who fit the “monological” pattern (we dubbed them True Believers), writing at length on a wide variety of different topics. However, they were only the tip of the iceberg. Most posters had more specific interests.
Indeed, many seemed to be attracted as much to the social aspects of discussing conspiracies as the content of specific conspiracies. The group we called the Meta-redditors, for example, was most notable for their discussion of other forums on Reddit and complaints about moderation policies.
Similarly, there were subgroups (the Downtrodden) who appeared to be communicating about conspiracy theories as a way of expressing general frustration with authority.
Some were suspicious of US foreign policy (Anti-imperalists). Others may be using conspiracy topics as a way to express racist or otherwise socially unacceptable ideas (Anti-semites). There was even a distinct subgroup who appeared to be posting primarily in order to debunk conspiracy beliefs (Sceptics).
This suggests that individuals involved with conspiracy theories may have quite different motivations, beliefs and attitudes. It may not be useful to consider them as a homogeneous group.
What does all this mean for the study of conspiracy theories? It’s complicated.
On the one hand, it has long been known that online conspiracy theorising can have a variety of negative social effects, from political disengagement to actual violence. These are effects we should aim to mitigate.
On the other hand, our study also reveals something more surprising. The vast majority of posters were no more active in the conspiracy forum than they were on other reddit forums. This suggests that, for most individuals, conspiracy theories are not an all-encompassing obsession that overrides other interests, but just one interest among many. Even the most obsessed posters also spend a lot of time discussing Star Wars and trading cute cat photos on other parts of the site.
As noted, many members of online forums appear to use conspiracy theories to express legitimate doubts about structures of power, even if the details may appear striking to us. Reddit’s conspiracy forum links on its front page to a “list of confirmed conspiracies”, many of which are historically accurate. In the 1960s, for instance, the US FBI did infiltrate domestic protest groups to disrupt and discredit them. The public health service in Alabama did conduct long-term medical experiments on African American men.
Hence, we think that conspiracy theorising may be best understood as a symptom of a breakdown of trust in institutions like government and the media. Rebuilding that trust is, alas, a difficult proposal. However, our work suggests that recognising the varied and complex motivations and attitudes of conspiracy believers is an important step forward.
WETENSCHAPHet Europees Parlement overweegt robots dezelfde rechtspersoonlijke status als mensen te geven. Levensgevaarlijk, vinden ruim 150 experts. “Straks zijn we overgeleverd aan machines die op eigen houtje beslissen over leven en dood.”
In een rapport dat begin dit jaar verscheen, schreef het parlement dat robots - gedeeltelijk of geheel - aansprakelijk moeten zijn voor hun daden. Als het wetsvoorstel wordt aangenomen, kunnen robots in rechtszaken optreden als aanklager en ondervraagde. De meer ontwikkelde robot heeft weliswaar een elektronische persoonlijkheid, maar alsnog recht op een menselijke behandeling, oordeelde het parlement. Maar veel deskundigen op het gebied van robotica, kunstmatige intelligentie, recht, medische wetenschappen én ethiek raden het voorstel sterk af. “Nachtmerriescenario’s worden op deze manier werkelijkheid. Allerlei fabrikanten zijn bezig met het bedenken en produceren van zelflerende mechanische poppen. De vraag is: hoe lang blijven mensen nog aan de knoppen zitten?”, staat onder meer in hun open brief van afgelopen weekend.
Tegelijkertijd stellen robotica-experts dat de EU zich teveel laat beïnvloeden door sensationele berichtgeving over kunstmatige intelligentie. “Het wetsvoorstel is gebaseerd op een perceptie van robots vervormd door science fiction en een paar recente sensationele nieuwsberichten.”
De vraag is: hoe lang blijven mensen nog aan de knoppen zitten?
Menselijke status
Voorstanders van de wet willen denkende machines op deze manier juist verantwoordelijk stellen voor hun acties. Omdat robots die zelf leren en beslissingen nemen veel minder voorspelbaar zijn, wordt het veel ingewikkelder om verantwoordelijkheid voor eventuele schade neer te leggen bij de producent, de eigenaar, de programmeur of degene die het apparaat de opdracht heeft gegeven waaruit de ellende is ontstaan. Door ze een menselijke status te geven, te registreren en verplicht te laten verzekeren, zou het veel makkelijker worden om schade door robots vergoed te krijgen.
Onlangs was Sophia de eerste robot die staatsburgerschap kreeg. ”Ik ben heel trots en vind het een grote eer”, sprak ze nadat ze zichzelf officieel burger van Saoedi-Arabië mocht noemen. Kort daarna riep Japan een algoritme tot inwoner uit. Nu lijkt Sophia bij lange na niet intelligent genoeg om voor een persoon door te kunnen gaan, maar dat geldt wel voor toekomstige robots.
A brief clip of an official video from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has appeared online, showing what looks to be a C-130 Hercules-type aircraft deploying or recovering a prototype unmanned system as part of the Gremlins drone swarm program. This is the first actual footage to emerge regarding the project, which is focused on demonstrating the feasibility of having groups of low-cost, air-launched, reusable drones perform a variety of roles.
The clip is presently available through the public hosting service Giphy, but it is unclear how long it has been online. We first noticed it earlier in April 2018 after Twitter user @MIL_STD posted it along with a quote from Eric DeMarco, who is President and CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions.
Kratos, along with Dynetics, General Atomics, and Lockheed Martin, took part in the first phase of the Gremlins program, which ended in March 2017. DARPA subsequently awarded additional contracts to Dynetics and General Atomics, but Kratos continued to be involved in the project as a subcontractor to the former firm.
“We have consistently demonstrated our success in rapidly designing and delivering low-cost, high-performance unmanned jet aircraft, and we see this as critical with respect to the Gremlins requirement,” DeMarco said in a press release in March 2017. “Our strategic focus is consistent with the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy, which emphasizes the need to rapidly prototype innovative technologies to counter emerging threats and provide the United States with an asymmetric advantage over our adversaries.”
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"This will probably be a game-changer for our company if we're successful" E Demarco, Kratos https://gph.is/2q9pv57
Gremlins, which first began in August 2015, envisions a cheap, short-life drone swarm that one or more aircraft can release in flight and another set of planes can then retrieve in mid-air after a mission. The basic concept of operations envisions a C-130-type aircraft – as seen in the video – as well as combat aircraft, such as fighter jets and bombers, releasing the swarm of Gremlins at a stand-off distance from enemy defenses.
The drones would then conduct this missions and another C-130 would retrieve them and return to base with them, where ground crews would be able to have them ready for another sortie within 24 hours. The minimum threshold requirement is for the low-cost unmanned systems to remain functional for just 20 missions.
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An artist's conception of Gremlins in heading out to a target area, while others return to a separate mothership.
DARPA says the primary tasks it envisions for Gremlins, at least at present, are intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and as a platform for other “non-kinetic” payloads, which could include electronic warfare systems. This would make sense since swarms offer significant potential as distributed sensor nodes and as a means of overwhelming enemy integrated air defenses ahead of a strike.
But this is just a small portion of the potential mission sets for swarms of small drones able to act autonomously or semi-autonomously, based on a fixed set of parameters and potentially in concert with other, larger unmanned or manned systems. As I wrote in a piece detailing Chinese swarm developments in January 2018:
Future swarms of small drones might also be able to carry electronic warfare jammers, emitters that mimic the signals of larger aircraft, equipment capable of conducting cyber attacks, or other systems to confuse or overwhelm an opponent’s defenses ahead of or during a more complex operation. A swarm of drones with small electro-optical or infrared cameras might be able to rapidly search a broad area for targets of interest discreetly and, with miniaturized data links, feed this information to other aircraft or other assets where it can be fused and exploited, giving their friendly force a more complete view of the battlefield and any potential hazards or targets of opportunity.
Even a swarm of small drones each with different modular capabilities installed could potentially conduct a broad array of tasks at once and in a resilient manner. Navigation system carrying types could help guide armed versions over long distances. Some armed variants could be capable of homing in on certain types of radiation—like radar emitters, air defense nodes, or even individual communications devices, while others can be capable of attacking prescribed targets that visually match images in their memory database. In this way, developments may be able to reduce the overall size and complexity of the basic underlying aircraft. This is an especially important consideration since the cost of launching dozens, or even hundreds of drones, could otherwise become prohibitive quite quickly, especially if the user doesn't expect some or even all of them to necessarily survive.
Systems that are ostensibly for scientific research purposes, but that have sensors designed to monitor visual or other changes across a wide area could easily have military applications, too, acting as early warning nets or helping guard borders.
Drones swarms might even be able to eventually attack targets directly with small munitions or launch suicidal strikes against ground vehicles or ground-based elements of an integrated air defense system, such as radar arrays. When it comes to Gremlins in particular, a modular strike package of some sort, with a combination of sensors and a kinetic payload, could squeeze extra capability out of the aircraft on their last operational flights.
The clip does not appear to show Kratos’ Gremlins prototype, though. A public affairs representative for DARPA confirmed that the clip was from an official video, but said that it had been released yet and declined to comment further.
We do know that it is not General Atomics’ design. The company is, so far, the only one to publicly display its offering, which it simply calls the Small Unmanned Aerial System, or SUAS.
The unmanned system in the DARPA video has a distinctly different and more bulbous planform with four fins at the rear. General Atomics’ SUAS only has two rear fins in a completely different arrangement.
The rear fins on the vehicle in the animated picture have what appears to be of a grid or lattice design. This point towards Dynetics, which produces the GBU-69/B Small Glide Bomb, a precision-guided munition that has three fins of a similar shape. Kratos’ existing target and multi-purpose drone designs feature traditionally shaped control surfaces.
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The GBU-69/B Small Glide Munition.
In addition, the C-130 visible in the video appears to be one that belongs to International Air Response. This firm offers a variety of specialized air services, including making their aircraft available for flight tests, and is a member of Dynetics Gremlins team.
Of course, grid fins are a well-established technology at this point and, among other benefits, offer a relatively easy way to fold control surfaces near flush against the cylindrical body of a missile, rocket, or other types of projectiles. This can help make the weapon or air vehicle more compact for storage and carriage before launch, which would almost certainly be an important consideration for the Gremlins project.
The video itself is almost certainly from the first phase of the project, which was supposed to include tests to examine methods for both launching and recovering prototypes from the rear of a C-130-type aircraft. The clip appears to show a winch system with a physical tether to the drone, but it is not clear whether this is part of the launch or recovery process, or if that system performs both functions. Reeling the vehicle in either direction would be good test points.
But while a tether could offer a low-cost means of releasing the unmanned systems, it might present greater difficulties in attempting to recover them and do so rapidly. It is possible that there is a secondary arm or another mechanism to quickly snag a returning aircraft that is not visible in the clip. General Atomics' Gremlins’ concept art has depicted underwing pylons releasing drones via a fixed line, but with a more complex robotic arm for retrieving them afterward.
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Concept art showing a full-configured C-130 mothership for the Gremlins drones.
The complicated nature of this proposition is not entirely new. During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency employed the Fulton Recovery System, also known as the Skyhook, to catch the parachutes on falling film canisters from spy satellites and early reconnaissance drones in mid-air, as well as snatch up downed aviators, special operators, and secret agents right off the ground.
This arrangement consisted of an aircraft with a large V-shaped frame at the front to snag the parachute or a line attached to a balloon. The object would then trail behind the aircraft, where personnel at the rear would use a separate line and winch to haul it aboard. The C-130 was the primary Fulton platform until the Air Force retired the system completely in 1996.
Physical hooks that allow one aircraft to retrieve another are an even older concept, dating back to the 1930s with the U.S. Navy airship USS Akron. This massive dirigible could launch and release Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk biplane fighters from a large internal hangar.
During the 1950s, the Air Force experimented with a number of air-launched and recovered aircraft schemes, both to provide fighter escort for long-range bombers and to extend the range of small reconnaissance aircraft. Modified B-29 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker actually flew experimentally carrying modified F-84 jet fighters and RF-84 reconnaissance aircraft, as well as the purpose-built XF-85 Goblin "parasite fighter."
In the 1970s, Boeing revived the concept, suggesting that it could convert 747 airliners into flying Airborne Aircraft Carriers (AAC). In addition to being able to launch and recover 10 "microfighters," the modified airliner would've be able to refuel them in flight, at least in theory.
So there is definitely a significant amount of existing history out there with launching and recovering aircraft in mid-air that Dynetics and General Atomics could tap into as they proceed with the Gremlins project. It will be fascinating to see what concepts they ultimately propose as the program moves forward.
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Boeing's 747 AAC concept.
DARPA’s first phase also included studies to examine ways to keep the individual drones cheap and easy to modify in order to accept new systems as necessary. There was also work on developing digital flight control systems to enable the aircraft to work together as a swarm.
The second phase, which began in 2017, is working toward maturing the experimental components into more functional prototypes for full-scale tests of a complete system. DARPA hopes that demonstration, phase three of the Gremlins program, will begin in 2019.
And though the agency said it couldn’t tell us anything more about the video, they did say there’s a new announcement about Gremlins coming soon. So it might not be long before we get more details about the project’s actual progress.
Can Humans Conceive In Space? NASA Sent Sperm To The ISS To Find Out
What happens if humans bone in space?
Don’t lie, the question has crossed your mind before. Now, NASA scientists are getting one step closer to answering it. Specifically: they want to understand the behavior of sperm in space.
Last week, alongside 5,800 pounds of supplies and experiments, NASA sent a couple of sperm samples to the ISS aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
It might seem a silly use of resources, but NASA is trying to answer a question that has been plaguing us ever since we realized that humans would be eventually living in space (or at least going on extended space vacations): Can we reproduce in microgravity? As luxury space hotels and long-term Mars missions become a reality, so too will people who make babies (or at least try to) in space. So it’s good to start looking into how that might work out before it happens.
Sperm being prepared for launch. Image Credit: NASA
In Mission Micro-11, as it’s been called, astronauts on board the ISS will test if samples of human and bull semen (acting as quality control) can move freely enough and fast enough to potentially fertilize an egg, though, importantly, no egg is involved in the process. The researchers will then re-freeze the sperm and send it back to Earth, where another team of scientists will use technology similar to in-vitro fertilization to test if it’s capable of reproduction.
(Yes, there are six full-grown men on board the ISS right now, but NASA didn’t ask them to contribute in another way, “it’s understandable why the space agency didn’t go that route, if for no other reason than the limits of what can be reasonably demanded in even an outer space workplace,” as Live Science notes.)
The experiments are important because there’s evidence from earlier experiments that the lack of gravity might throw off how sperm function here on Earth. While sperm themselves might be able to move more freely in microgravity, the bigger challenge might be getting the sperm to fuse with the egg. “Delays or problems at this stage could prevent fertilization from happening in space,” according to NASA’s web site.
It’s not the first time we’ve studied sperm in space. In 2017, NASA found that frozen mouse sperm survived a 9 month trip to the ISS, and was able to produce healthy mice back on Earth. Scientists also showed that aquatic invertebrates were able to successfully reproduce in space back in 1998: snails and water fleas were able to continue life-cycles within a water-filled tank during a four-month trip aboard the Mir Space Station.
Even once we understand how sperm operate in space, there will still be questions. What about the intricacies of having sex in space? Can humans survive giving birth in microgravity? How will we overcome the massive amount of radiation levels? Will the lack of gravity affect children’s early development?
Science has laid the foundation, and NASA is finally going to find out if we will stand a chance as long-term travelers in outer space. But let’s take it slow.
Editor’s note (Tuesday 4/10/18, 5:15 PM ET): An earlier of this piece misrepresented the nature of the experiments on the sperm. They are to determine how the sperm can fuse, but no egg is involved. The piece has been updated with the correct information, and we regret the error.
Psychologists explained the impossibility of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations
Psychologists explained the impossibility of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations
Psychologists at the University of Cadiz in Spain have come to the conclusion that mankind can not recognize signals from alien civilizations, since the latter can use communication on unknown physical principles. Scientists also criticize researchers involved in the SETI project, because they are focused only on the search for radio signals. The article of scientists is published in the Acta Astronautica journal.
Experts believe that mankind can not detect extraterrestrial intelligence because of the analogue of the blindness of inattention. This psychological phenomenon is the inability to discern an object that has fallen into the field of view, because of the presence of other objects on which human attention is concentrated. In the opinion of the authors of the article, instead of looking for other possible communication channels, the scientists involved in the SETI project are concentrating on the registration of extraterrestrial radio signals.
In support of their point of view, psychologists conducted a cognitive test involving 137 volunteers, which consisted of several parts. The first was a test for cognitive reflection, which consists in assessing a person's ability to correctly solve a problem, a quick intuitive response to which is incorrect. After that, participants were given aerial photographs of artificial and natural objects. In one of the pictures was inserted a small image of a man in a gorilla costume (a hint of a famous experiment with an invisible gorilla).
It turned out that those who are inclined to impulsive behavior and were in a hurry to give the wrong answer, were more likely to notice the gorilla in the pictures. At the same time, people with an analytical mindset are more prone to a "blindness of inattention". Such results, according to psychologists, suggest that scientists may not notice other evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
In addition, psychologists criticized the Kardashev scale, used to assess the technological development of a hypothetical civilization based on the amount of energy consumed by it. Thus, the civilizations of the first type use all available resources on their native planet, the second type - the energy of the star, and the third type - of the entire galaxy. Scientists offer an alternative scale based on the ability to change environmental conditions.
In their opinion, humanity is in a transition stage from the first to the second type. It remains dependent on the Earth's natural conditions, vulnerable to global catastrophes and is influenced by biological evolution. At the same time, people are relatively close to becoming cosmic colonists and enjoying the achievements of genetic engineering and nuclear physics, while the third type of civilization is super-developed and capable of manipulating space-time, dark matter and dark energy. Thus, the search for radio signals makes it possible to find only the first type of civilization.
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows a graphic that compares the size of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, with the British Isles. (Breakthrough Initiatives Photo)
STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots on Titan? Is life floating in the sulfurous clouds of Venus?
All those extraterrestrial locales — plus Mars and Europa — had their turn in the spotlight on Thursday at the third annual Breakthrough Discuss conference on Stanford University’s campus. The gathering was organized by the Breakthrough Initiatives, a program created by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and his wife Julia to spotlight future frontiers in the search for life beyond Earth.
The program is supporting the radio-based search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, through Breakthrough Listen. It’s also backing Breakthrough Starshot, a decades-long campaign aimed at sending blizzards of beam-powered nanoprobes to the Alpha Centauri star system.
This week’s proceedings signal that Breakthrough’s quest will focus broadly on our own solar system as well.
At this week’s gathering, the head of the Cassini imaging team, Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute, laid out her case for sending a probe back to Enceladus for a closer look.
Porco argued that Enceladus would be the best possible choice for seeking a second instance of the origin of life in the solar system — a “second genesis” that would be unmistakably distinct from the potential microbe-swapping between Earth and Mars.
If microbial life exists deep within Enceladus’ hidden ocean, it’s likely to be spewed into space along with the water droplets coming from the moon’s fissures. Those microbes should fall back onto the surface when the droplets freeze into what are basically snowflakes.
“Look up and stick your tongue out, and you’ve got what you came for,” Porco joked.
If a lander is too expensive, a probe could collect samples for onboard analysis as it flies through Enceladus’ plumes of water, she said.
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, offers a different type of target in the search for life. The Cassini orbiter and a piggyback probe known as Huygens documented lakes of liquid hydrocarbons as well as evidence for a subsurface water ocean.
“It’s essentially a prebiotic laboratory on a planetary scale,” said Morgan Cable, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cable is on the science team for a mission that proposes sampling Titan’s surface, using an instrument-laden, hybrid lander-drone known as Dragonfly. If NASA selects Dragonfly for further funding, the rotorcraft could launch in 2025, touch down on Titan in 2034 and spend two years hopping between sample sites.
“We know we can do this,” Cable said. “Let’s do it.”
David Grinspoon, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, put in a pitch for Venus — which has long been written off as a hellish planet unsuitable for life. Recently, however, Grinspoon and other researchers have revived the idea that sulfur-based organisms could live in temperate layers of Venus’ cloud cover.
“Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well explained,” Grinspoon said.
For more than four decades, NASA has targeted Mars with robotic missions, including a rover that’s due to be launched in 2020. Carol Stoker, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, wants to see another mission added to the list.
She pointed out that the Phoenix Mars Lander actually dug into deposits of water icein the Red Planet’s north polar region back in 2008.
“We should go back to the Phoenix landing site, and we should drill, and we should sample that ice to detect life, for an exploration that has a fairly good probability of getting a yes-no answer,” Stoker said.
JPL planetary geologist Cynthia Phillips’ vote goes to Europa — an ice-covered moon of Jupiter that, like Enceladus, is thought to harbor a watery ocean. Referring to the second-genesis hypothesis, Phillips said Europa presents “the best possible case for finding life beyond the Earth that didn’t come from the Earth.”
NASA has already committed to sending an orbiter known as the Europa Clipperpast the moon for multiple flybys in the 2020s, but Phillips and other Europa fans are also pressing for a lander mission that could scoop up icy samples for onsite analysis in the 2030s. NASA is already considering concepts for such a lander.
Which destinations will win out? Astrobiologists might wish the answer would be “all of the above,” but NASA has only so much funding available for robotic exploration.
Jim Green, who’s due to become NASA’s chief scientist, noted that all of the concepts mentioned during the Breakthrough Discuss sessions could be valid targets for space missions. For example, the concepts being considered for a Europa lander could provide templates for a potential Enceladus lander as well.
The cost question is where Milner and the Breakthrough Initiatives could play a role. Pete Worden, a former NASA official who leads the Breakthrough Initiatives, said support may be provided not only for a mission to Enceladus, but also for life-hunting missions to other promising solar system destinations.
“We’re looking potentially at all those things, as public-private partnerships,” he told GeekWire.
A small but thriving village, Hollesley’s unusual claim has been somewhat foreshadowed by the mysterious UFO sightings in nearby Rendlesham Forest where a series of unexplained lights in the sky in December 1980 became the UK’s Roswell.
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But there are claims that Hollesley had extra-terrestrial visitors of its own – three years after Rendlesham and, in a further incident, again in 2017.
The autumn of 1983 was colder than usual and by the time Halloween was on the horizon at the end of October, there had been several sharp frosts and even some wintry showers – but the weather didn’t deter some very unusual day-trippers who paid an unexpected visit to Hollesley at the tail-end of the month.
Late one evening, in a clear dark sky, villagers reported seeing a large, dark-coloured, silent, triangular-shaped aircraft hovering above Hollesley for around 15 minutes: they were astonished to see that three lights on the base of the craft which lit up the ground spectacularly.
Ron Macro told the press: “We froze. The lights were in a triangle and remained perfectly still. Whatever was in the sky flew over us. The lights beamed down and we heard a high-pitched whine.”
Debbie Foreman and Pauline Osborne were driving in Hollesley when the UFO appeared: as they drew close to it, the engine of Debbie’s car began to splutter, the headlights faltered and then the engine cut out completely: “Until then the car had behaved quite normally,” said Debbie, “but everything seemed to go wrong.”
Many attributed the craft to nearby RAF Woodbridge – one resident, John Button, said: “If they are experimenting then we ought to be told. And if there’s something flying around here which comes from outer space, we ought to be told about that, too.” The answer from Woodbridge was concise: “Nothing was seen on radar. I cannot say more than that.”
Fast forward almost 35 years and there was a repeat visit from an unidentified flying object.
In a submission to BEAMS, the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society, a witness offered an account of a strange occurrence which happened as they was driving in the Hollesley area which, they said, included an inexplicable time slip. The sighting happened on August 31 2017 between 11pm and 12.30am.
“I was picking my daughter up from work and when driving past Sutton Heath with Rock Barracks on the left, I saw a flash line of bright white light above the trees ahead and to the right: I asked what that was and my daughter thought maybe streak lightning. I was doubtful as it didn’t look like that to me,” said the witness.
The lights appeared every few minutes. The pair drove towards Hollesley Bay Prison and saw a ball of stationary white light above a building which then suddenly disappeared before another light sphere appeared to the left, then darted into a garden above a low bush before vanishing again.
Perplexed, the pair drove towards Bawdsey but, interest piqued, headed back to where they had seen the lights, driving on a single track tree-lined road where they saw another ball of light which disappeared in a flash. They immediately found themselves outside Hollesley’s village shop.
“It takes at least 10 minutes to get to Hollesley shop from the road leading to Bawdsey where we turned in the road - if we were driving fast, but we were crawling - and we would have had to turn left at the crossroads and drive through Alderton... but we never reached the crossroads, didn’t drive through Alderton or take any turnings…it was as though we’d just been teleported from one place to another!
“The light was like a vibrating wave in the air…(we) saw it twice more, this time above sea to the left where no planes or boats were.”
DO ALIENS exist, is the truth really out there or are we all just being duped while the Government continues to test out top secret flying technology right under our noses?
England and Scotland may have witnessed their fair share of UFO sights - but they definitely aren't alone.
Here are some of Ireland's biggest UFO hotspots according to the website UFO Stalker and just some of the strange objects stopped in recent times.
13. Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
On November 16, 2017, a fast-moving light was spotted high in the sky, carefully tracking a commercial aircraft that has just taken off. To this day, no official explanation has ever been offered.
12. Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
Back on September 30, 1996, a slow-moving object was observed for around half an hour, moving east to west overhead before retracing its path again and again in a way that dispelled any suggestion it could be a plane.
11. Westport, Co. Mayo
In more recent times, an experienced sky watcher reported seeing 'something out of the ordinary' in the Westport sky on February 4, 2018. A mysterious shape unlike anything witnessed before or since. The shape has not returned since.
10. Clifden, Co. Galway
On July 23, 2018, two mysterious oval orbs were spotted near Clifden and eventually photographed by an onlooker. The pictures shed no light on what the shapes were though conventional aircraft was ruled out.
9. Bruff, Co. Limerick
Another recent sighting on October 17, 2017 let onlookers unsettled. Again, it involved two orbs, only this time blue light was emanating from the craft. Onlookers reported suspecting the lights to be part of a larger flying object or perhaps even two objects flying close together.
8. Kanturk, Co. Cork
An unidentified flying object was spotted travelling at an accelerated speed over Kanturk on December 3, 2017. It was only seen for a matter of seconds before disappearing completely.
7. Glounthaune Village, Co. Cork
On April 12, 2017, a ball of bright golden light was spotted by locals travelling at tremendous speed before changing direction and disappearing quickly. The change of direction indicates it couldn't possibly have been a standard aircraft.
6. Middleton, Co. Cork
Back on July 6, 2017, onlookers in Middleton claimed to have spotted a strange star-shaped ball of light that began moving in a series of random directions unlike anything man-made.
5. Dublin, Co. Dublin
On December 7, 2017, two bright intense lights were reported hovering, stationary, over Dublin Airport. As the sun began to rise, the two lights got brighter before eventually disappearing.
4. Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
A series of bright stationary lights reportedly appeared in the Dromahair sky before quickly disappearing again on November 25, 2016.
3. Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Photos taken on August 24 depicted a strange black triangle flying high in the sky above Letterkenny. Could it have been a prototype fighter jet being tested out? There have been no sightings of the shape since.
2. Greystones, Co. Wicklow
A speck of orange motionless light was spotted in the sky on November 19, 2016. The orange light soon began expanding into a larger, brighter shape approximately five times its original size. It then switched to a red and blue colour before moving west.
1. Kells, Co. Meath
On August 15, 1977, strange lights and shapes were spotted high above Kells for several hours. At one point, a large triangular craft, with a multi-coloured light trail, flew past at high speed.
Sur des images rendues publiques par la NASA, des ufologues pensent avoir découvert une preuve qu’une civilisation extraterrestre nous surveille depuis l’espace.
Récemment, il a été révélé que Buzz Aldrin et trois autres astronautes de renom avaient passé des tests au détecteur de mensonges. Au cours de cette expérience, ils avaient été interrogés sur leurs rencontres avec de prétendus extraterrestres.
Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell et Gordon Cooper avaient tous pris part à cette étude. Des experts sont dorénavant « complètement convaincus » que des signes de vie extraterrestre ont bien été observés à bord de la mission Apollo 11 en 1969 sur la Lune.
Des images nouvellement diffusées pourraient prouver les affirmations de ces célèbres et respectés astronautes.
La vidéo en question nous montre une rencontre avec un OVNI, faite par des astronautes installés à bord d’une navette spatiale au cours d’une mission en 1996.
Dans ces images, on peut entendre un astronaute communiquer par radio avec le centre de contrôle de la mission de la NASA pour signaler l’observation.
Mario Runco Jr, l’homme qui a filmé le phénomène – raconte à ses collègues sur Terre qu’ils observent cet objet volant non identifié depuis un certain temps.
Il signale ensuite qu’il peut voir une autre lumière passer dessus, admettant que cela pourrait être une étoile.
Toutefois, alors que l’astronaute décrit l’incroyable OVNI qu’il est en train de regarder, le centre de contrôle ne semble pas s’enthousiasmer et paraît vouloir changer rapidement de sujet.
Ces images ont été capturées lors de la 77ème mission de la NASA baptisée STS-77.
Elle a été lancé en 1996 à partir de la rampe de lancement 39B du Kennedy Space Center en Floride. Elle a duré 10 jours.
La vidéo a été plus tard diffusée par la chaîne YouTube UFO Today. Ce dernier croit désormais que la NASA essaie de nous cacher quelque chose.
October 27, 1954–The Day A UFO Stopped a Football Game
October 27, 1954–The Day A UFO Stopped a Football Game
As fascinating as it may sound, it’s true.
The ‘event’ happened in Florence, Italy, on October 27, 1954.
In October of 1954, a match involving the Italian team Fiorentina was interrupted by mysterious visitors hovering above the stadium. The Fiorentina UFOs were part of a wave of mass-sightings across Europe – and it remains a mystery to this day.
On that occasion one of the most massive UFO sightings in history took place: around 10 thousand people who were in theArtemio Franchi stadium watching the encounter between Fiorentina and Pistoiese witnessed the appearance of unidentified flying objects in the skies above the stadium.
Image Credit: Giornale Del Mattino
Eventually, the match had to be suspended “because the spectators saw something in the sky” according to the official report of the match referee.
According to the testimony of one of the players present in that match, defender Ardico Magnini, who was something of a legend at the club and had played for Italy at the 1954 World Cup.
“I remember everything from A to Z,” he says. “It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly. Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter.
“We were astonished we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked.”
He also remembered that a strange sticky and shiny material fell on the ground.
Other testimonies relate the presence not of one but of several strange objects in the sky.
La Nazione’s headline reads: Glass fibers fall on Tuscan cities after globes and flying saucers pass by. Lower headline: The sighting over Florence (with a photograph, now lost, of the UFO).
In the following days, numerous other UFO sightings were recorded in the towns near the stadium.
That unknown substance did not only fall on the court, but it covered a good part of Florence before evaporating.
Those who came into contact with this material describe it as similar to cotton but ungraspable as it disintegrated on contact.
An explanation, rare but scientific, of this phenomenon, arrived many years later: it could have been large networks of connected webs, which appeared in the sky as globes, shining by the reflection of the Sun since that is how spiders migrate.
Curiously, October coincides with the time of migration of the northern hemisphere spiders.
However, the material found simultaneously with the appearance of UFOs was analyzed in the laboratory and the elements found do not coincide with those that are part of spider webs.
Therefore, until this day, whatever the spectators and players saw floating above the Artemio Franchi stadium remains a profound mystery, and one of the best documented UFO cases in history.
Why UFO / Extraterrestrial Disclosure Will Never Happen
Why UFO / Extraterrestrial Disclosure Will Never Happen
There is no topic more controversial, misunderstood, and distorted in UFOlogy than that of governmental UFO Disclosure. Millions of people worldwide wait with baited breath.
It is the strongly held belief that many UFO true believers have that the U.S. Government knows more about aliens on Earth than they have officially admitted. A highly coordinated and sophisticated conspiracy of silence and plausible deniability that has been leaking through the veiled shadows of half-truths and deception for almost 80 years. Essentially a highly coordinated screw you to the citizens of this pale blue dot. The knowing suppression of the information that we are not alone in the Universe. Acknowledgement that the spark of life happened somewhere else besides here. Arguably this would be the greatest discovery of all time. A great many foundation stones would be changed at light speed in our collective accepted reality.
At least that is what is commonly believed…
YOU must use that four pound mass of grey matter in your skull. YOU must think about this. The true reality of the situation is not going to come to you from the myriad sources of uneducated adulterated fraudsters that claim to have all the answers to the UFO enigma. Social Media and TV personalities are not motivated by the quest for truth but are motivated by money and attention. On Facebook, for example, 98% of all UFO information posted is insane in the extreme. These absolutely pathetic click-baiters are absolute intellectual bottom feeders (you know who you are).
In a way, I am grateful to these intellectual Luddites. Without all the bat-shit crazy UFO information being spewed to the digital winds, I would never have created “The Angry UFOlogist”. I get so pissed off at what passes for UFO news these days.
I am a firm believer in other life in the Universe. My family and I had a daylight up close UFO sighting in the fall of 2012. All three of us witnessed a large black triangle UFO at no more than 50 meters away. Up to that moment, I was solely a sceptic of ufos. My eyes were gleefully opened to this extended reality. I and my family saw it with our own eyes. I have burned excessive clock cycles analyzing what I witnessed. I have no answer to what it was other than an unidentified flying object. My instinct and education in the sciences know that humans do not have that kind of technology. This thing was the size of small one-story house. It was moving slowly, maybe 5-10 kilometres/hr. It floated by. I say floated because that is what it did. We saw it up close for two maybe two and a half minutes. What was very obvious was that whatever it was it had Mass cancelling technology. Whoever or whatever made this was a master of the gravitational force. When it floated by its movement had slight perturbations caused by the wind on the highway where this occurred. There was a slight bouncy horizontal movement like a balloon would have if it was travelling horizontally. This slight wind had enough force to cause this bumpiness in its movement. It corresponded to the timing of the gusts of winds that happened. There is only one phenomenon that I know of that could cause this…it had a very low mass.
The LHC is the absolute pinnacle of particle physics research on the planet. Us primitive humans are by no stretch of imagination masters of gravity and its constituent components. I can say that with a high level of confidence. The absolutely brilliant men and women of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have just recently found through billions of dollars investment the elusive Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson and its corresponding field is the conveyor of what creates mass in the Universe. Without the Higgs, all that would be is just exotic forms of energy. No matter at all. We are only able to glimpse the Higgs incidentally in nanosecond slices of time. We are just observers of the Higgs, We are not hands on at all. There is no governmental black project (that is so popular with the true believer crowd) that is more advanced than the LHC. No evidence exists anywhere that would support an advance particle understanding from some dark super high power top secret particle accelerator that was around 60 years ago, which is approximately the length of time some people believe that we have had this technology. True mastery of gravity is NOWHERE near us in the future. The jump from burning highly purified fossil fuels to controlling the fundamental forces of the Universe is more immense than most may realize. It would not surprise me if it takes us 1000 years of continual scientific advancement to get there… if ever. Oceans of theoretical and practical sciences must be crossed and mastered to create anything like what we witnessed that amazing afternoon. Many, many, credible witnesses have reported craft with similar flight characteristics.
The whole disclosure subject is assuredly more bizarre and infinitely stranger than what is popularly envisioned. To have the perspective to understand this there are a few important concepts to explore before we can have an accurate big picture view.
We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is intellectually limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or planets that are totally different in characteristics than our own pale blue dot. They may exist and function on different time scales then us based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly are more things in heaven and earth than is dreamed in our collective philosophy.
It is intellectual ignorance to think the genetic nucleotides A.G.C.T. are the only alphabet letters of life. Assuredly the letters, language, and syntax of life will be unknown to us. Truly alien. That is what would be expected by a creature that has a total independent evolution than our own. They are NOT going to be mutated form us, they are going to be wondrous and terrifying in their difference.
But that is not what we are seeing in UFOlogy. The overwhelming consensus of alien reports in the media and in first-hand accounts predominantly highlight humanoid type aliens. Aliens that are structurally similar to our construction is what is usually reported. They may be grey, blue, green, scaled, tall or short, but a humanoid nonetheless. If that is a reflection of reality it has serious terrifying overtones for all of us.
Consider that on our planet our human physical form is the same one that we share with the great apes. Humans and the other great apes only account for less than a dozen different types of species. We share the humanoid form with our closest primate brothers but that is essentially it. Interestingly Mother Earth has an estimated 8.7 million species with still up to 80% still to be found according to Nature magazine. So the percentage of life forms on Earth that are humanoid in form only accounts for 0.0000003793% of all known life. By any measure and consideration that is an impossibly small number. So the conclusion to draw here is that the humanoid form is exceedingly rare even on Earth. Logical conclusion.
So what really is the odds that an alien race would evolve on a different planet than us, find us in the vastness of space, in this sliver of time, and look anything like us? It would be a probability that so infinitesimally small that it would be in the ballpark of a googolplex raised to the power of a googolplex to one. That is a number a thousand orders of magnitude larger than the total amount of elementary particles (2.5 x 10^89) in the entire Universe. Just think about that for a moment.
At this point, we have to make an assumption. An assumption we are going to assume throughout this article. The assumption is that the humanoid reflection of alien reality visiting earth is the correct one.
Since parallel evolution is so unlikely to occur we have to then attempt to find the common thread that connects through oceans of improbability. There has to be a connection of some kind that connects us and them. One good hypothesis is that of Panspermia. The seeds of life arrived on the cosmic winds. Asteroids or comets seed the environment they pass. If we and aliens were seeded in this manner, and we have base genetic codes in common does not really guarantee any particular result. It took us from the earliest tide pools to what you see in the mirror in the morning approximately 4 billion years.
That general time frame would be required for the aliens as well if they are like us. That is an immense time for the divergence and specialization of life. There is no guarantee that even if the initial seed was the same that after 4 billion or so years of separate evolution a greatly different creature might evolve. This theory only holds for life in our galaxy anyway. There is no way asteroid or comets can span the intergalactic distances that would be required for cross galaxy seeding.
So the Panspermia theory is not likely to be the correct one if we and aliens look alike. If the cause of our similarity is not a passive one such as seeding we are forced to consider the only other possibility which is an active cause. This active cause may be the true heart of the reason for 80 years of silence. Something either made us or modified us.
We are the ultimate GMO. If this is true our human saga is not going to end well for us.
Everything we thought we were is a lie. Our life is not our own. Either by barnyard or laboratory intentions we are a product, not people. If this line of deduction is correct (I hope it is not) it fits a significant part of UFOlogy canon.
The well-documented phenomena of alien abductions fit in perfectly with the perspective of dealing with a product. The fact that they have not announced their intentions and have conducted their horrors in the shadows screams either hostility or indifference. Both will look the same to us. The only way that this would be beneficial for us is if they respected us as living beings. Very unlikely they would do that. When was the last time you respected the inalienable rights of an insect? The stealthy nature of these silent thieves precludes the hope that these are the “Love and Light” kind of aliens popular in UFOlogy. Thieves work under the cover of darkness. Mutual dealing thrives in the honesty of the light of day.
It seems like they do not want to contaminate what we are doing down here, at least directly. Whatever we are or are doing as a culture is of interest to them. The hard fact is that they designed it be so. What is the purpose of the human commodity? Have unfortunate victims of alien abductions found out first hand? When considering the phenomena in an entirety there is NO end result that empowers us.
If the ET’s have communicated with the world governments and brought them up to speed on the situation we are in. Knowing that we are a product and not free people, can you blame them for the suppression. How can such hope robbing and mind-shattering bad news help people? It wouldn’t. It would be like dropping a neutron bomb on the planet. Just ponder the impact of such a revelation in the world, especially knowing we can’t-do anything about it at all. We are helpless. Helpless by design. It would destroy us. It would rob the hope from the scientific and the religious alike. A very large portion of our society believes in some form of God. Billions of people worldwide are of faith. A faith that exalts them with promises of nirvana and infinity. To fall from such a heralded height to the reality of being product would not be just damaging but devastating. When hope is lost all is lost… Billions would be gravely affected.
What this line of reasoning does not support are the UFO crash phenomena. Why would they just leave their crashed vessels or whatever they are? It is not logically consistent that they would leave the hardware. Why would they when they are so careful to conceal themselves all this time and live in the shadows. If you dropped your iPhone in an anthill would you not pick it up? Even if it had a cracked screen?
Remember that this grim prediction only comes to fruition if they are like us in form and function. It is this writers opinion that real alien life will conform to the more likely “Unknown and Unexpected” type. A life form we have not dreamed of.
I hope it looks like a nightmare with 7 legs, 100 eyes, and nothing in common with us.
If we look at the possibility that totally unexpected life forms have been visiting earth there may be nothing to disclose about it. The chance that any meaningful communication has ever occurred is infinitesimal, to say the least. The government may have a recovered craft but the odds say that they have little chance of ever understanding it anytime soon. It would be like dropping a quantum computer into the bronze ages and having the expectation to make more of them.
The government does not have any special ET whisperer abilities. They would be deaf and dumb just like the rest of us when faced with true aliens trying to communicate. Governments have released UFO files all over the world. But still, no real information on who they are and why they are here is being released. That is because they don’t know. No one really knows. Credible and reliable support for the unknown alien type being the culprits. Which is good news for us?
I do not think by logical deduction that meaningful disclosure will never occur because either they don’t know or the truth is too horrific and harmful to our populace to ever see the light of day. Either way, true disclosure that is wanted by so many in UFOlogy most likely NEVER happen.
Why do the masses look towards the government for truth in anything? All of them are professional liars and will say whatever serves their best interest. It is the height of hubris to look to professional liars for the truth. Nobody believes anything they say now. Why would it be any different in this case? The turds in suits that we elect have nothing intelligent to say about the true nature of the visitors.
Disclosure has been imminent for over 60 years. No reason to think it will happen within the next thousand.
The real truth of the Universal pantheon of intelligences is not going to come from someone in a business suit… they will be wearing a white lab coat.
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MASS SIGHTING – BIZARRE, SWIRLING LIGHTS OVER ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO
MASS SIGHTING – BIZARRE, SWIRLING LIGHTS OVER ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – Viewers have reported seeing an odd “cloud” in the sky on Monday night, as they looked to the west.
Throughout the night, FOX 10 Phoenix has received photos and video from people in Phoenix, Yuma, as well as Coachell, Menifee and San Diego in California, showing what happened.
Phoenix residents were in for an amazing sight Monday evening. Local news shared photos of what looks like swirling lights or a bizarre cloud taking up a massive portion of the sky in Phoenix (but apparently this was seen in other parts of Arizona, as well as California and Mexico, too). So far, there has been no explanation given for this mass display, but one person commented that this could be an example of “cloud iridescence,” or a rainbow cloud caused by ice crystals hanging in the atmosphere. Others believe this could be the leftover “contrail” of sorts of a missile or rocket launch. The latter is a lot more likely to me, considering this was seen as far as Mexico! Also, there is a Chinese space station expected to crash near this area in the coming days, so perhaps this event is related. As always, you be the judge:
WERE US ASTRONAUTS ORDERED NOT TO REPORT UFOS & ALIENS?
WERE US ASTRONAUTS ORDERED NOT TO REPORT UFOS & ALIENS?
Written By Douglas Herman 4-8-6
“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.” – Scott Carpenter
Buzz Aldrin is a brilliant man. Not simply remarkable for his intellect but a deeply spiritual man. Long since retired, Colonel Aldrin now orbits the innermost dimensions of his mind, a secretive universe as deep and mysterious as the far reaches of the moon.
As a young airman, my path took me into a close encounter with Colonel Aldrin, more than 30 years ago. As a chauffeur with a radio-operated staff car, I served at Lackland AFB when Colonel Aldrin was undergoing a series of tests there. One afternoon my radio crackled that colonel Aldrin would need a ride to Wilford Hall, the large base hospital. Sadly my car wasn’t chosen. I’ve often wondered since then whether the “nervous breakdown’ this remarkable astronaut suffered was due to the government pressure or not. I think it was.
Why did Colonel Aldrin suffer a “nervous breakdown’ at that time? The weight of sudden celebrity, certainly. Deification by the adoring press and masses. But there was something more.
According to Fred Steckling, author of the book, We Discovered Alien Bases on the Moon II, Aldrin might have wanted to proclaim the truth of what he saw. Very likely, Pentagon and White House officials, fearful as always, would have cajoled, convinced or threatened him not to do so.
According to Steckling:
“The following list of facts I have learned from several individuals who are working or who have worked or been linked with NASA in some way over the years. For obvious reasons I will not now use their real names. The list below represents some of the information from three people: one is currently working in DOD missions for NASA; another started working with NASA & DOD when JSC (Johnson Space Center) was built. The third is a scientist who has worked at NASA and other facilities(and with) Edward Teller.’
There are buildings on the Moon.There is mining equipment on the Moon.
Photos, NASA photos, do exist which clearly show both of these. Hundreds, but probably thousands, of NASA photos have been tampered with. Specifically, by careful use of an airbrush, flying saucers and other UFOs can be removed, and then the photo is released to the public and/or press.
Film taken by astronauts clearly show UFOs, IFOs, Alien Vehicles, etc. The NSA screens all photos before release to the public. Everything that NASA has launched has been closely monitored by at least one ‘alien’ culture.
NASA knew about ‘alien’ activity on the Moon before Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins ever set foot on it. Edwin Aldrin at one point found evidence that we were NOT THE FIRST to arrive on the moon. After first seeing and then taking photographs of footprints in the lunar soil (Aldrin) then saw the beings that made the footprints (the report and transcripts of conversations between the astronauts were not clear if Aldrin had physical and/or mental contact with the entities).
“Alien Vehicles flew within 50 feet of a U.S. space vehicle for one full Earth orbit and then the AV departed; again while Aldrin was present. ‘Buzz’ Aldrin had a nervous breakdown because of these events and the pressure not to talk. There have been 22 deaths (many ‘suicides’) at JSC in Houston. No astronaut who has seen AVs or ETs is allowed to talk about it, even amongst themselves. If they do and are caught they may be fined, publicly humiliated, imprisoned, or have all pensions and future salaries taken away.'(my emphasis)
How much of the above account is fictional and how much fact? Only those who went to the moon and back know for certain. There are many second-hand accounts and alleged conversations, (Google UFO Sightings by Astronauts) where both Aldrin and Armstrong state, in no uncertain terms, they saw huge ships and other signs of alien occupation of the moon.
Return to Earth, Aldrin’s autobiography, tells of his struggle with depression and alcoholism following his long and dedicated USAF and NASA career. Did NASA, CIA and the Pentagon compel Colonel Aldrin (and every other astronaut) to conceal what they saw on the moon? How much did this contribute to Aldrin’s mental problems?
Some time ago the Science Channel aired a program called “First on the Moon: The Untold Story.’ One segment described a UFO encounter that Apollo 11 astronauts witnessed during flight to the moon. Aldrin spoke of something he saw.
‘To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut, had ever publicly recounted any UFO experience associated with the Apollo 11 moon mission,’ wrote Dave Stone.
Buzz Aldrin remarked, “There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be?…Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped.’
“NASA knew very little about, um, the object reported by the Apollo 11 crew. It was obviously an unidentified flying object,’ said Senior NASA scientist, Dr. David Baker. “But such objects were not uncommon and the history of even earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that SEVERAL CREWS SAW OBJECTS” (emphasis mine).
“Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘Hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don’t know what it is,’ observed Aldrin. “We weren’t about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn’t do that but we did decide we’d just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?’
The S-IVB served as the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB. It had one J-2 engine. For lunar mission it was used twice: first for the orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for the trans lunar injection (TLI). Now NASA reported the separated stage 6,000 miles behind. Obviously they didn’t detect any UFO.
Aldrin replied: “And a few moments we decided that after a while of watching it (UFO), it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and (went through) debriefing.”
Perhaps one day, a living astronaut, a once-and-future hero, will come forward and frankly say what he saw and experienced. “One of these guys—sooner or later—has to go public,” observed one prominent UFO researcher.” This is a cosmic cover-up of the highest order.”NASA scientist, David Baker said, “There were a lot of people within the program who went off later and became convinced that UFOs existed and that led to some concern on NASA’s part where they got the agreement of the crew never to publicly talk about these things for fear of ridicule.”
A galaxy cluster warps space and time to create a circle of light, a new study reveals that illicit drug use rose during the 2017 total solar eclipse and researchers looked at a growing dark zone on an ice sheet in Greenland. These are some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: H. Avenhaus et al./ESO/DARTT-S collaboratio
1. Astronomers spot planetary 'cribs' around young stars
New imagery from a European Southern Observatory (ESO) instrument reveals dusty disks around young nearby stars in never-before-seen detail. The disks are made of gas, dust and planetesimals which could merge to form new planets, and they are "wildly different in size and shape" from each other, according to ESO officials. These regions could offer insights about planet formation and are also of interest to scientists because their young stars are particularly close to Earth, between 230 and 550 light-years away.
NASA officials announced this week that Jim Green will be the space agency's next chief scientist, starting May 1. Green, who is currently head of NASA's Planetary Sciences Division, will serve as the main advisor to leaders in NASA science programs, policy and planning. In addition to representing the agency, Green will be tasked with communicating NASA's research goals and achievements to a broader scientific community.
3. Dark-colored algae bring attention to important ice sheet
A new study offers an explanation for the growing dark zone on the western edge of a Greenland ice sheet. Researchers in Norway found that a layer of dust and black carbon is providing nutrition to algae with dark pigmentation there. NASA is also monitoring the ice sheet because of the potential impact its melting could have on the world: If climate change liquifies this entire ice sheet, which is about three times the size of the state of Texas, global sea levels would rise about 23 feet (7 meters).
Photo Credit: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE and HMI science teams
4. Solar wind flowed towards Earth, created auroras
Early this week, strong solar wind streamed toward Earth from a massive hole in the sun's outer atmosphere, called its corona, with the potential to create stunning auroras. The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for April 10 and 11, and data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory revealed the large, dark region on the star's surface that caused the solar wind's increased flow.
5. New theory says dark matter is made up of mini black holes
A new theory attempts to explain the composition of dark matter, the mysterious mass in the universe that exerts a gravitational pull but emits no light. The theory states that small, ancient black holes born during the Big Bang could be what composes dark matter. While an intriguing idea, some physicists are skeptical about it, adding that even if it's in part true, the primordial black holes are unlikely to explain all the dark matter in the universe.
6. Air Force wants help for space surveillance telescopes
The U.S. Air Force Space Command is looking for help operating space-observing telescopes for 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Known as the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS), these facilities operate from three sites across the world and deliver about 80 percent of all geosynchronous observations. The 21st Contracting Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado released a notice and responses are due April 23.
7. Mostly-metal world is focus of future NASA mission
A NASA mission, set to launch in 2022, will use a Mars flyby to shoot itself towards the 124-mile-wide (200 kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche. When the spacecraft arrives in early 2026, the Psyche mission will study the world that some scientists believe is 95 percent metal. This endeavour could improve scientific understanding about how Earth and rocky planets evolved, according to a recent video by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.
8. Locals and tourists got high for 2017 solar eclipse
In rural Kentucky, researchers tested sewage for active ingredients and metabolites of several illicit drugs. The results, published last month, suggest that there was a roughly 60 percent increase in amphetamine use during the total solar eclipse of August 2017. This technique to monitor drug use is rarely used in the United States, but has the potential to complement other sources of data in drug research.
The Mars 2020 rover is starting to come together. NASA technicians have officially started the mission's ATLO phase of development (the assembly, test and launch operations) at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility High Bay 1 at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The engineering team will work on the Red Planet rover for the next year and half, and so far the project is on track for a 2020 launch, NASA officials said.
10. Light-bending gravity creates an 'Einstein ring'
Hundreds of individual galaxies are bound together by gravity inside the galaxy cluster astronomers have labelled SDSS J0146-0929. A new Hubble Space Telescope image displays how extremely large the mass of this galaxy cluster is: You can see it warping space and time. Light from a background galaxy forms a perfect circle shape, known as an Einstein ring, as it gets distorted on its path towards Earth.
Flying Saucers Exist! Look at these Authentic 1950s Photographs
Flying Saucers Exist! Look at these Authentic 1950s Photographs
Two old black and white original photographs that came from an old hermit show very detailed flying saucers in the sky over Starks, Maine.
Since the images have been taken in the 1950s, it is always the question whether these flying saucers are real alien craft or man-made UFOs fabricated based on the knowledge obtained from former German scientists who have worked on the Nazi UFOs, like the Haunebu type. Mufon case 91403.
Triangle UFO Seen Following Space Station In Earths Orbit On Live Cam, April 14, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Seen Following Space Station In Earths Orbit On Live Cam, April 14, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:April 14, 2018 Location of sighting: International Space Station (ISS) This UFO is going to blow your mind! I mean it just shows up as a single glowing orb. Then it divides into about 4-6 flashing orbs! During this time the UFO is revealed partially, meaning its not 6 UFOs, but one large UFO of about 300 meters diameter. As you can see in the above photo, the UFO has a more TR3B shape....meaning its a triangle! To see the triangle UFO, pause the video at 1:12 to see it. The TR3B UFO is known as an alien craft that the USAF has modified to be flown by humans. This appears to be one of those top secret government ships. Such a craft has the capability to fly from Earth to the moon in under a minute. Its not light speed, but its fast. Scott C. Waring
The surface of Canada’s Devon Ice Cap. Two lakes likely lie over 2,000 feet below.
(Credit: Anja Rutishauser)
These days it’s hard to find a place on Earth where humans haven’t interfered in some way. Venture to the most remote jungle or the depths of the Mariana Trench and you’ve likely been preceded by some emissary of humanity, whether that’s chemicals carried on the wind or something more tangible.
But there are places where our long shadow has never reached, where the events of the past 100,000 years might as well have never happened. Locked deep below gargantuan sheets of ice thousands of feet thick in Canada, researchers have discovered what they believe to be two lakes, saturated with salt and closed off from rest of the world for millennia.
A Different World
Subglacial lakes aren’t anything new — hundreds lie beneath Antarctica, and one, Lake Vostok is estimated to be the sixth-largest in the world by volume. For many, their contents have remained pristine by virtue of isolation. Scientists often see them as time capsules, snapshots of global conditions at the time they were closed off.
But some function almost as alternate realities. Samples from some of these lakes, such as Vostok, indicate that microbial communities are alive and well under the ice, even without sunlight. These organisms exist, and have existed, entirely separate from the flora and fauna that teem across the Earth — they might as well live on another planet.
And that’s why these environments, particularly those recently discovered in Canada, are so interesting to researchers. As we think about where in our solar system (and beyond) life might exist, researchers are looking to Earthly environments for inspiration. Chile’s Atacama desert, for example, might resemble Mars; hydrothermal vents under the sea might have close analogues elsewhere in the solar system.
At the moment, Jupiter’s moon Europa looks to be a solid candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. The moon likely has a large, salty ocean beneath an icy crust, which satisfies one of the most basic requirements for life. The water probably interacts with the bedrock, which would allow for crucial chemical reactions to take place. Sadly, sending a mission to Europa, especially one that would actually bore into the ice, would be fairly difficult and isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.
Water Under Ice
And that’s where these subglacial lakes come in. Researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Texas at Austin were conducting radar scans of the terrain underlying Canada’s Devon Ice Cap, which lies north of the Arctic Circle near Greenland, when they noticed some unusual signatures. Bedrock normally scatters the signals, but they saw two areas where the signal was reflected with an odd amount of precision. The only explanation that made sense was that two bodies of water, roughly two and three square miles in area respectively, lay deep below, the researchers say.
Given the water lies under enormous pressure, with an average temperature well below freezing, the researchers say that it must be highly saline to remain in a liquid state. Based on models of the glacier at that depth, salt levels must be around four or five times that of the oceans, according to the researchers. They published their research Wednesday in Science Advances.
The salt probably comes from the bedrock the lakes are in contact with, they say, making them an outlier even among subglacial lakes. Just one other hypersaline lake, under Taylor glacier in Antarctica, is known to exist, and these newly discovered lakes may be even saltier.
While the researchers have no set plans at the moment to sample water from the lakes for microbes, the environment makes it an ideal model for other salty oceans in the solar system. If life exists in such environments here on Earth, it’s an indication that it could do so elsewhere as well.
The surface of Canada’s Devon Ice Cap. Two lakes likely lie over 2,000 feet below.
(Credit: Anja Rutishauser)
These days it’s hard to find a place on Earth where humans haven’t interfered in some way. Venture to the most remote jungle or the depths of the Mariana Trench and you’ve likely been preceded by some emissary of humanity, whether that’s chemicals carried on the wind or something more tangible.
But there are places where our long shadow has never reached, where the events of the past 100,000 years might as well have never happened. Locked deep below gargantuan sheets of ice thousands of feet thick in Canada, researchers have discovered what they believe to be two lakes, saturated with salt and closed off from rest of the world for millennia.
A Different World
Subglacial lakes aren’t anything new — hundreds lie beneath Antarctica, and one, Lake Vostok is estimated to be the sixth-largest in the world by volume. For many, their contents have remained pristine by virtue of isolation. Scientists often see them as time capsules, snapshots of global conditions at the time they were closed off.
But some function almost as alternate realities. Samples from some of these lakes, such as Vostok, indicate that microbial communities are alive and well under the ice, even without sunlight. These organisms exist, and have existed, entirely separate from the flora and fauna that teem across the Earth — they might as well live on another planet.
And that’s why these environments, particularly those recently discovered in Canada, are so interesting to researchers. As we think about where in our solar system (and beyond) life might exist, researchers are looking to Earthly environments for inspiration. Chile’s Atacama desert, for example, might resemble Mars; hydrothermal vents under the sea might have close analogues elsewhere in the solar system.
At the moment, Jupiter’s moon Europa looks to be a solid candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. The moon likely has a large, salty ocean beneath an icy crust, which satisfies one of the most basic requirements for life. The water probably interacts with the bedrock, which would allow for crucial chemical reactions to take place. Sadly, sending a mission to Europa, especially one that would actually bore into the ice, would be fairly difficult and isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.
Water Under Ice
And that’s where these subglacial lakes come in. Researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Texas at Austin were conducting radar scans of the terrain underlying Canada’s Devon Ice Cap, which lies north of the Arctic Circle near Greenland, when they noticed some unusual signatures. Bedrock normally scatters the signals, but they saw two areas where the signal was reflected with an odd amount of precision. The only explanation that made sense was that two bodies of water, roughly two and three square miles in area respectively, lay deep below, the researchers say.
Given the water lies under enormous pressure, with an average temperature well below freezing, the researchers say that it must be highly saline to remain in a liquid state. Based on models of the glacier at that depth, salt levels must be around four or five times that of the oceans, according to the researchers. They published their research Wednesday in Science Advances.
The salt probably comes from the bedrock the lakes are in contact with, they say, making them an outlier even among subglacial lakes. Just one other hypersaline lake, under Taylor glacier in Antarctica, is known to exist, and these newly discovered lakes may be even saltier.
While the researchers have no set plans at the moment to sample water from the lakes for microbes, the environment makes it an ideal model for other salty oceans in the solar system. If life exists in such environments here on Earth, it’s an indication that it could do so elsewhere as well.
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ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact Methods
ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact Methods
by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik)
ET is calling the wrong number.
A group of psychologists say scientists will never make contact with aliens because aliens are likely to use communications based on unknown physical principles. They also say scientists are prone to so-called inattentional blindness.
A group of psychologists from the University of Cadiz in Spain has published an article criticizing alien-seeking scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, saying they will never make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.
According to the article, published in Acta Astronautica, the scientists involved in SETI are concentrating solely on searching for radio signals when aliens are likely to use other forms of communication, including those based on undiscovered physical principles. Therefore, humanity will not be able to recognize those signals.
The psychologists also say scientists are prone to so-called "inattentional blindness." This psychological phenomenon means a human can miss an object in his sight because his attention is focused on other objects. According to the psychologists, the scientists are concentrating on radio signals too much instead of watching for other forms of communication, too.
The shrinks proved their point with a cognitive test that involved 137 volunteers. The test comprises several stages: the first stage evaluated a person's ability to solve a kind of task, a quick and intuitive answer to which would be incorrect; after that, the psychologists showed the volunteers aerial images of natural and man-made objects. Some photos included a photoshopped image of a man in a gorilla suit.
It turned out that people prone to quick and intuitive answers noticed the gorilla-man more often than people who tend to give well-thought-out, analysed answers. The psychologists say these results show that the scientists are likely to miss different evidence of extraterrestrial life that may be both right in front of them and plainly obvious.
The psychologists also criticized the so-called Kardashev scale used to classify civilizations in space based on their power usage. According to the Kardashev scale, first proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, civilizations rated at "I" use all the resources of their own planet; civilizations rated "II" use all the energy of their parent star and civilizations rated "III" can utilize the energy and resources of their whole galaxy. The psychologists instead offered their own kind of scale built on the ability of a civilization to alter its environment.
Humanity is still dependent on the natural conditions of the Earth, vulnerable to global catastrophes and still subject to the governing rules of biological evolution. At the same time, humans are relatively close to becoming space colonists and using the fruits of genetic engineering and nuclear physics. This makes humanity stuck between the first and the second stage of their scale.
A type II civilization should have control over quantum and gravitational energy, space-time and the ability to explore galaxies, while a type III civilization would be made up of exotic, immortal beings with the power to traverse multiple dimensions and manipulate dark energy and matter, the paper says.
Therefore, looking for radio signals only makes it possible to contact civilizations in the first stage of their scale, the psychologists say.
A few weeks ago a story about a UFO encounter by pilots over Arizona and New Mexico made headlines. While this encounter was impressive, the journalist who broke that story has a much more exciting case involving many more pilot witnesses and the scrambling of jets. He also was able to obtain multiple audio files, radar data and other information from the FAA regarding this unusual incident.
Tyler Rogoway (Credit: The Drive/The War Zone)
Tyler Rogoway is a defense writer for the website The Drive. He writes for a section called The War Zone. Rogoway often writes about advanced aircraft developed by militaries all over the world. However, in an interview on Open Minds UFO Radio, he shared that he also has an interest in the rare occasions in which a high-performance aerial vehicle cannot be identified. In other words, UFO cases.
“I’ll tell you, anyone that is in the aerospace world and journalism and tell you that they have no interest in the legacy of UFOs and the whole history that goes along with it is lying to you,” Rogoway recently told Open Minds UFO Radio. “It is an interesting thing, even for the sake of lore and intrigue. So I have followed it very closely.”
Rogoway explained that when people see things in the sky, they cannot identify, it might not be a craft from outer-space, it may be something the government is working on they are keeping secret. This makes it essential for him to keep an eye on the UFO phenomenon. He says he has never seen anything he could not explain himself. He has also been to many of the bases that are alleged to have alien bodies or crashed alien spacecraft, and he has never seen anything out of place.
However, because of the recent revelations that the Department of Defense (DoD) has had a project that takes UFOs seriously, he has felt more emboldened to write about unusual cases he has come across. It should be noted; however, his first story on the Oregon incident was posted on November 15, 2017, a month before the shocking DoD revelations.
The sighting over California and Oregon took place on October 25, 2017. According to his first article on the incident, Rogoway first found out about the sighting from “friends in the aviation world.”
He says at first he felt it was most likely a case of a misidentification, which he says happens every day. Then he found an interesting post on Reddit that seemed to be referring to the sighting.
Reddit user Duprass wrote: ”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…”
Duprass also mentioned that he heard Seattle Center, an FAA air traffic control center, was having trouble tracking the object on radar. This was when they asked pilots to see if they could get a visual sighting of the object. Among other details, Duprass also said he heard jets were scrambled.
Rogoway then found audio files at LiveATC.com that seemed to be related to the incident. Although Rogoway provides links to the audio in his story, the links no longer work. He says air traffic control and the pilots discussed the object for about half an hour.
Rogoway quickly sent a request for information to “the 142nd Fighter Wing based at Portland International Airport, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the FAA.”
He writes:
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.
This answer intrigued Rogoway even more. He says the 142nd Fighter Wing’s F-15Cs are upgraded with some of the best radar and long-range targeting systems in the world. He writes, “The fact that they ‘didn’t find anything’ is surprising to say the least.”
An F-15 Eagle from the 142nd Fighter Wing takes off from Portland Air National Guard Base in Oregon during an operational readiness inspection on Wednesday, June 14.
(Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Hughel)
Rogoway says the FAA confirmed the event occurred, but said they had nothing further to add to what he already knew. The 142nd Fighter Wing did not respond at all.
Rogoway found another Reddit post from someone who claimed to be an air traffic controller. Reddit user The Flying Beard claimed that the situation was being investigated. The Flying Beard wrote: “I think the FAA is pursuing 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…”
Rogoway’s initial article on this story added a lot more detail and some intelligent analysis. He also said he submitted a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to the FAA for more information.
On February 15, 2017, Rogoway posted a follow-up story regarding his investigation of this incident. He writes, “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.”
Rogoway and The War Zone put together videos with the audio synced with the radar information they received. The first video covers the initial spotting of the object. It was first seen over Northern California traveling “very fast at 37,000” feet at about 4:30 pm PST. The object then took a turn to the north where it came into the vicinity of nearby air traffic. The craft had no transponder, never communicated with air traffic control, and somehow could disappear from radar.
Soon after being first caught on radar, it dropped off of the radar. That is when nearby aircraft were asked to get a visual. Over the next half hour, and hundreds of miles, several airline crews, shared their visual sightings.
Rogoway writes, “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.”
Jets were scrambled about 30 minutes into the incident. However, Rogoway notes that the jets headed south from the last known location of the unidentified craft. According to the pilot reports, the object headed north.
Besides air traffic control audio, Rogoway was also able to obtain phone calls made by the FAA regarding the incident. Names are bleeped out for privacy, and Rogoway notes that there is no way to know if any of the audio has been redacted.
Rogoway also explains some of the terms heard in the audio. “DEN” is an acronym for the Domestic Events Network, which he explains is a hotline for the FAA to reach federal authorities. The term “WADS” and “Bigfoot” are also used. WADS is an acronym for Western Air Defense, which is a part of NORAD that monitors airspace over a large part of the U.S and Canada. Bigfoot is their nickname.
In the phone calls, FAA managers can be heard discussing how to handle the situation. They contemplate having civilian aircraft scheduled to land in Portland stay airborne so they can keep an eye on the unidentified aircraft. They decide against this because they say they are not sure “if [the unidentified object] are equipped with anything.” Presumably meaning they are not sure if they would be putting the civilian craft in danger. They conclude there is something out there and that military involvement was the best idea. There is also some debate over procedure as to who should have contacted the military and requested the scrambling of the jets.
The calls also include deliberation over how to report the incident. One controller says, “I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb.”
The audio files also included interviews with pilots. The most interesting, Rogoway writes, is an account from a Southwest pilot.
He writes:
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.
The final FAA calls confirmed the incident occurred, and just how “weird” the event was. Rogoway points out that the conversations demonstrate just how rare these sorts of events are. One FAA official says the event 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.”
The entire incident is fascinating, and the amount of material Rogoway obtained is incredible. Rogoway says he was also surprised how much information he received. In his Open Minds UFO Radio interview, Rogoway says it has crossed his mind that the FAA was more forthcoming after the news of the DoD UFO program. He certainly felt they seemed more willing to share recently than they were in November when he first broke the story. However, he does not know for sure if the DoD news has anything to do with it.
In the end, the FAA never found out what the unidentified aircraft was. They concluded it was large and fast. They state that it seemed to be flying faster than a nearby 737. 737s have a cruising speed of just over 500 mph. It had no transponder and somehow seemed to be able to evade radar. Although it dropped off the radar, it could still be seen visually. Another important mystery is why the F-15s could not find the aircraft after the commercial airlines visually tracking the object landed in Portland. Rogoway says he believes the high-tech equipment on those F-15s should have been able to find it.
Read more about the entire investigation on The Drive’s The War Zone here.
Header image credit: Maintainers from the 142nd Maintenance Group, {the F-15 Eagle for a training mission from the Air Dominance Center, Savannah Ga., Jan. 28, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Shelly Davison, 142nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs)
Originator and former host of late-night American radio talk show “Coast to Coast AM,” Art Bell died at the age of 72 on Friday at his Nevada home surrounded by his family. The news of Bell’s death was confirmed by Nye County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office.
The last time Bell hosted an edition of "Coast to Coast AM" was in the year 2010. In the recent years, he was more involved in the creation and production of an overnight talk show named “Midnight in the Desert” on the Dark Matter Digital Network.
The current host of his former show “Coast to Coast AM,” George Noory also made an announcement about Bell’s death during his show at 1:20 a.m. local time (2:20 a.m. EDT) Saturday. The cause of Bell's death was yet to be revealed.
Born June 17, 1934, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Arthur Bell, Jr., a United States Marine Corps captain, and Jane Gumaer Bell, a Marine drill instructor, Bell also served in the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War and in his free time operated a pirate radio station at Amarillo Air Force Base, where he played anti-war music that was not aired on the American Forces Network.
He was an American Broadcaster and author and the original host of the paranormal-themed show “Coast to Coast AM,” which was broadcasted on hundreds of radio station in U.S. and Canada. He also created and hosted its companion show “Dreamland.”
Former radio host Art Bell dies at 72. In this photo, a deserted studio at French radio station RTL radio's historical headquarters at Bayard Street, in central Paris, March 16, 2018.
Photo: Getty Images / Ludovic Marin
He semi-retired from the show in the year 2003 and hosted a lot of weekend programs on primetime networks for the following four years. Bell finally announced his retirement in July 2007 but even after that, on occasions, served as a guest host through 2010.
According to his bio, when Bell was asked the reason for his retirement, he said he wanted to spend more time with his wife and their daughter, who was born in May 2007.
But even after announcing his retirement, Bell returned to radio July 20, 2015, with a new show called “Midnight in the Desert,” which is available online on TuneIn and on some terrestrial radio stations. However, he retired again in December 2015 citing security concerns at his home.
Bell said he and his family were subject to repeated intrusions at his home in Pahrump, Nevada, including gunshots.
Fearing for his family’s safety, Bell finally decided to go off the air due to the attention that comes with living in the public life because he believed the intruder(s) wanted him to leave the shows.
In addition to his TV shows, Bell was also the original owner of a Pahrump-based radio station, KNYE 95.1 FM and both his broadcast studio and transmitter were located near his home in Pahrump itself.
Bell also lived in the Philippines from June to December 2006 and returned back in March 2009 after having difficulties in obtaining a visa for his wife. He is survived by his wife Airyn and their daughter.
Soar Over Jupiter's Monster Polar Storms with This Stunning NASA Video
Soar Over Jupiter's Monster Polar Storms with This Stunning NASA Video
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The massive cyclones that swirl near Jupiter's north pole glow like lava in a gorgeous new 3D flyover video captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
The Juno science team put together the 80-second video using infrared imagery gathered by the probe's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument during a flyby in early 2017. Juno loops around Jupiter on a highly elliptical orbit, making such close polar passes once every 53.5 days.
"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Juno co-investigator Alberto Adriani, from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome, said in a statement. "Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance, it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution." [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
Those cyclones are indeed massive. The eight that surround the central polar vortex range in diameter from 2,500 miles to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers), NASA officials said.
This infrared 3D image of Jupiter's north pole was derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
The storms' resemblance to lava in the newly released video is of course superficial; we're seeing swirling air here, not melted rock. And that air is pretty frigid. The warmest parts depicted in the video — the deeper-down bits that glow yellow — top out at 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 degrees Celsius), NASA officials said. The darker regions are even chillier; the coldest spot is about minus 117 degrees F (minus 83 degrees C), they added.
The Juno team presented the new video Wednesday (April 11) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Mission scientists also unveiled another data product at the conference — an animation providing the first detailed look at the "dynamo" that powers Jupiter's intense magnetic field.
"We're finding that Jupiter's magnetic field is unlike anything previously imagined," Juno deputy principal investigator Jack Connerney, of the Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, Maryland, said in the same statement. "Juno's investigations of the magnetic environment at Jupiter represent the beginning of a new era in the studies of planetary dynamos."
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The solar-powered probe is studying the gas giant's structure, composition and magnetic and gravitational fields. Its observations should help scientists better understand how the planet formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
Juno will perform its 12th science flyby of the gas giant's poles on May 24. If all goes according to plan, many other close passes will follow.
"Juno is only about one-third [of] the way through its planned mapping mission, and already we are beginning to discover hints on how Jupiter's dynamo works," Connerney said. "The team is really anxious to see the data from our remaining orbits."
No, the Rapture Isn't Coming on April 23 Because of Nibiru (Which Doesn't Exist)
No, the Rapture Isn't Coming on April 23 Because of Nibiru (Which Doesn't Exist)
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Artist's conception of the fictional rogue planet Nibiru, or Planet X. Nibiru does not exist, so don't be fooled.
Credit: gilderm | sxc.hu
Here we go again: Fresh reports claim that the end of the world is nigh. Forgetting that we were all a little burned out by the 2012 end-of-Maya-calendar debacle, outlets such as the Daily Express are claiming that the Rapture — the end-time event when Christians are said to ascend to heaven at the second coming of Christ — is coming April 23 and we should get ready for it. In case you were inclined to jump on the Armageddon bandwagon, know this: The reports are bogus, and the celestial bodies aren't even in the predicted position for this supposed doomsday to occur!
According to the Daily Express' claims, the position of the planets on April 23, 2018, echoes language in the Bible from Revelation 12:1-2. The New International Version of that passage (according to BibleGateway.com) says, "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant, and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth."
The Daily Express's source says this passage refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the Rapture. Further, they say the passage refers to Virgo, a woman from Greek and Roman mythology. Virgo also is represented in astrology (which is not a science, by the way) and as a constellation. [What's the Draw of Dystopian Sci-Fi?]
"On April 23, the sun and moon will be in Virgo, as will Jupiter, which represents the Messiah," the Daily Express report says. "Experts at first dismissed this claim when they discovered this alignment happens every 12 years. However, the conspiracy theories claim another planetary alignment, representing 'the Lion of the tribe of Judah', will make this time the Rapture."
The moon, Jupiter and the sun are nowhere near Virgo on April 23 — the least of the many reasons we're not on the verge of the Rapture.
What planet is responsible for this alignment? It's Nibiru, a mythical world supposedly orbiting the sun in an extremely long, eccentric orbit that has been debunked again and again by NASA — but it somehow keeps popping up in forecasts of doom. In the latest prediction, Nibiru is supposed to pass by Earth this October, causing volcanic eruptions as the gravity of this massive world disturbs our own.
Nibiru has been implicated in all sorts of planetary trouble, going back as far as 1995, when there were nasty predictions that it would collide with Earth. NASA, however, reassured us a few years ago that "No giant, rogue planet has been found in the outer solar system to play the role of Nibiru."
Astronomy popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson also tackled the subject back in 2009, addressing the claim that Nibiru was supposed to disturb our planet during an alignment of Earth, the sun and the center of the galaxy on Dec. 21, 2012. "What the [conspiracy web]site doesn't tell you is that [alignment] happens every year on December 21," Tyson said. "They left that out of the account." In a more charitable moment, he referred to the doomsday prediction as "a marvelous work of fiction."
Some people may argue that "Planet Nine," a hypothetical large world that could be causing disturbances in the Kuiper Belt, is Nibiru. But again, NASA has emphasized that no one knows for sure if Planet Nine exists — and, even if it does, it's disturbing only small, icy objects far away from Earth.
"The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed have been made," reads a web page about Planet Nine from NASA, which makes no mention of any collision or encounter with Earth. "The mathematical prediction of a planet could explain the unique orbits of some smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt," the agency noted, but that's far from home — way beyond the orbit of Neptune.
And here's the kicker: The sky arrangement is totally wrong. Jupiter is actually in Libra all day and night on April 23, while the moon is between Leo and Cancer. (The sun, out of view when Jupiter and the moon are in the sky, is over by Pisces.) None of those bodies is in Virgo, and again, even if they were, astrology is not real science.
So, we feel safe in saying there will be no apocalypse on April 23. On that cheerful note, since the world isn't ending this month, it's best to file your taxes this weekend as planned.
Nieuwe Marsorbiter opent de jacht op eventuele Marsmannetjes
Nieuwe Marsorbiter opent de jacht op eventuele Marsmannetjes
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Deze orbiter kan uitvogelen of er methaan producerende aliens op Mars huizen.
De ExoMars-orbiter zal de jacht op die aliens binnen enkele weken aanvangen, zo heeft ESA bekend gemaakt. De orbiter kwam al in 2017 bij Mars aan, maar is bijna een jaar druk geweest met het bereiken van de juiste omloopbaan. Dat is nu gelukt: de orbiter voltooit elke twee uur een rondje rond Mars en bevindt zich op zo’n 400 kilometer afstand van het oppervlak. De orbiter is volgens ESA dan ook “klaar om vanuit een baan rond Mars op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven”.
Atmosfeer De ExoMars-orbiter zal met name onderzoek gaan doen naar de atmosfeer van Mars. De instrumenten aan boord van de sonde zijn gevoelig genoeg om zelfs heel zeldzame gassen in die atmosfeer op te sporen. De focus zal daarbij liggen op methaan. Eerdere onderzoeken hebben al aangetoond dat dit gas in de atmosfeer zit, maar niemand weet waar het vandaan komt (zie kader). ExoMars moet dat gaan onthullen en bovendien uitzoeken hoeveel methaan er nu precies in de Martiaanse atmosfeer zit.
Onderzoekers verwachten dat methaan in de atmosfeer van Mars maar kort meegaat: rond de 400 jaar. Dat komt onder meer doordat het eenmaal in de atmosfeer wordt afgebroken door ultraviolet licht van de zon. Dat we nu in de atmosfeer van Mars methaan aantreffen, wijst er dan ook op dat dit methaan vrij recent op Mars is geproduceerd.
Vulkanen of leven? Als het gaat om de productie van methaan op Mars zijn er verschillende opties. Zo kan het ontstaan door vulkanische en hydrothermale activiteit. Maar op aarde wordt het grootste deel van het atmosferische methaan gegenereerd door…levende organismen. En onderzoekers sluiten dan ook niet uit dat ook op Mars biologische activiteit aan het methaan ten grondslag ligt.
Natuurlijk houdt Mars Express zich niet alleen bezig met de atmosfeer van Mars. De sonde zal ook op zoek gaan naar waterijs dat onder het oppervlak van Mars verstopt zit. Daarmee kan de sonde weer richting geven aan nieuwe Marsmissies door interessante potentiële landingsplekken aan te wijzen. Bovendien zal de orbiter in aanloop naar de aankomst van Marslander InSight dienst gaan doen als doorgeefluik en de communicatie tussen de aarde en twee Marsrovers van NASA – Curiosity en Opportunity – op zich nemen. Vanaf 2021 moet deze ook het contact tussen de nieuwe ExoMars-rover en de aarde mogelijk maken.
NASA presenteert: de maan in een duizelingwekkend hoge resolutie
NASA presenteert: de maan in een duizelingwekkend hoge resolutie
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zo mooi is onze natuurlijke satelliet in 4K!
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft een prachtig filmpje vrijgegeven van de maan. Het is een re-make van een filmpje dat in 2011 is vrijgegeven en gebaseerd was op de data die de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in aanloop naar dat moment had verzameld. In de afgelopen zeven jaar is daar natuurlijk veel meer data bij gekomen. En dat resulteert nu in een nieuw filmpje, in een veel hogere resolutie.
Onder de beelden uit het filmpje in 2011. Boven de beelden uit het nieuwe filmpje. De verbeteringen zijn te danken aan data die LRO in de tussenliggende jaren heeft verzameld. Afbeelding: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
In het filmpje scheren we over een aantal bekende en een aantal minder bekende plekken op de maan. Zo zien we landschappen die zich aan de voorzijde van de maan bevinden en dus ook vanaf de aarde prima zichtbaar zijn. Maar er zijn ook landschappen in het filmpje opgenomen die alleen vanuit de ruimte te bewonderen zijn. Enjoy!
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"Tour of the Moon 4K Redux" - NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA
First, look for a rainbow when the sun is behind you, and there are raindrops falling in front of you.
Second, know that – when making the rainbow – sunlight is emerging from many raindrops at once. A rainbow isn’t a flat two-dimensional image on the dome of sky. It’s more like a mosaic, composed of many separate bits … in three dimensions. More about the three-dimensional quality of rainbows below. Just know that your eye sees rainbows as flat for the same reason we see the sun and moon as flat disks, because, when we look in the sky, there are no visual cues to tell us otherwise.
Third, rainbows are more than half circles. They’re really whole circles. You’ll never see a circle rainbow from Earth’s surface because your horizon gets in the way. But, up high, people in airplanes sometimes do see them. Check out the photo below.
View larger. | Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia, in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View Photography. He was in a helicopter flying between a setting sun and a downpour. Used with permission.
Ready for some rainbow physics? When making a rainbow, sunlight shining into each individual raindrop is refracted, or split into its component colors. And the light is also reflected, so that those various colors come bouncing back.
One key to rainbows is that the light leaves the collection of raindrops in front of you at an angle. In making a rainbow, the angle is between 40 and 42 degrees, depending on the color (wavelength) of the light. Physicsclassroom.comexplained it this way:
The circle (or half-circle) results because there are a collection of suspended droplets in the atmosphere that are capable of concentrating the dispersed light at angles of deviation of 40-42 degrees relative to the original path of light from the sun.
These droplets actually form a circular arc, with each droplet within the arc dispersing light and reflecting it back towards the observer.
So why are rainbows curved? To understand the curvature of rainbows, you’ll need to switch your mind to its three-dimensional-thinking mode. Cecil Adams of the newspaper column The Straight Dope explained it this way:
We’re used to thinking of rainbows as basically two-dimensional, but that’s an illusion caused by a lack of distance cues. The cloud of water droplets that produces the rainbow is obviously spread out in three dimensions.
The geometry of reflection, however, is such that all the droplets that reflect the rainbow’s light toward you lie in a cone with your eyes at the tip.
It takes an intuitive leap to see why this should be so, but let’s give it a crack. Water droplets reflect sunlight (or any light) at an angle of between 40 and 42 degrees, depending on the wavelength …
The sun is low and behind you. All the sunbeams head in, strike the cloud of water droplets ahead of you and bounce back at an angle of [approximately] 40 degrees.
Naturally the beams can bounce 40 degrees any which way — up, down, and sideways.
But the only ones you see are the ones that lie on a cone with a side-to-axis angle of 40 degrees and your eyes at the tip.
Rainbows don’t exist! They are nowhere in space. You cannot touch them or drive around them. They are a collection of rays from glinting raindrops that happen to reach our eyes. Raindrops glint rainbow rays at an angle of 42 degrees from the point directly opposite the sun. All the drops glinting the rainbow are on the surface of a cone with its point at your eye. They can be near and far. Other drops not on the cone also glint sunlight into rainbow colours but their rays do not reach our eyes. We only see those on the cone. When you look down the cone you see a circle. So rainbows are circles!
Mohamed Laaifat Photographies in Normandy, France caught the waxing gibbous moon below a rainbow on March 28, 2018.
Culpeper, Virginia. Image via Janet Furlong.
Rainbow reflected at sunset, via Fotograf Göran Strand. He captured this image in Vansbro, Sweden, over a river known as the Västerdalälven. More about this image here.
Jüri Voit in Estonia caught this double rainbow and lightning flash on July 18, 2017. Image via Jüri Voit.
Rainbow over the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo via Jennifer Khordi.
Eliot Herman wrote to EarthSky: “This one is my fav ground-hugging rainbow, right out my front door … A final last thunder storm and as the day was ending it cleared and the low angle sun lit up this ground hugging rainbow on the adjacent hillside.”
Nevada, after heavy monsoon rain. Photo via RN Misha.
Grand Canyon rainbow. Photo via Anne McLellan Swan.
Niagara Falls. Photo via Bob Lennartz.
Photo via Jean Marie Delaporte in Normandy, France
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and the To the Stars Academy equate to a major cultural advance for the UFO field: from ridicule to respect. What they have done, and are doing, is ‘Confirmation’ that the UFO Phenomenon is ‘real’ as opposed to ‘Disclosure’ of ET presence.
Former Blink 182 singer, Tom DeLonge was chosen by figures within the United States governmentas their spokesman tasked with communicating UFO knowledge they provide him with. DeLonge states that he has been ‘briefed’ and that it caused him to lose sleep “for multiple days on end”. http://wapo.st/2CKAF4r
Three days after DeLonge’s tweet (above) he was proven right with the Pentagon’s confession that it had studied the UFO Phenomenon over a five year period and that UFO’s are real. The five year study was conducted from 2007–12. It was called ‘The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP). It was a highly secretive United States government investigation into the reality of UFO’s. Senator Harry Reid was the initiator of AATIP. He convinced billionaire businessman, Bob Bigelow that it was justified. Bigelow agreed and the study commenced in the Pentagon’s C Wing. It was led by the Intelligence official, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo has now resigned from the investigation in order to establish a new group called ‘To the Stars Academy’. The ‘To the Stars’ (TTS) team is highly professional. For example Jim Semivan is the co-founder and Vice President of TTS. He has previously worked at “senior management positions in CIA headquarters” and spent 25 years in the CIA’s “National Clandestine Service”. http://bit.ly/2oEnVrl
Dr. Hal Puthoff is another member of TTS team. He has written many published papers on “electron-beam devices, lasers and space propulsion and has patents in the laser, communications, and energy fields.” http://bit.ly/2zgfab8
Steve Justice is another member responsible for some very interesting duties. He is “leading the effort to examine the possibilities of emerging sciences and technologies. This team will work to define advanced systems exploiting radical technologies, prototypes promising concepts, and develop operational systems that shatter conventional thinking.”
Dr Gary Nolan is another player who has “published more than 220 research articles and is the holder of 20 U.S. patents, has been honoured as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University”.
The full list of the TTS team can be read at the TTS link provided above.
The UFO Phenomenon should never have been ridiculed. Now, the UFO Phenomenon is no longer being laughed at. On the contrary, it is a field of study that is worthy of huge respect as it offers the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the world.
In this article, I will argue that the TTS team are carrying out ‘Confirmation’ as opposed to ‘Disclosure’.
“Like I said before if this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt.”
- Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon Intelligence Officer.
Arguing the case for Confirmation of Multiple Witness Close Encounters that possess a Modus Operandi (MO)
For years I have believed that the UFO Phenomenon is real. This is due to the fact that there are countless multiple witness close encounters and that there is a pattern to what is observed. I do not think that you need to be an airline pilot to qualify as a reliable witness if what is seen is right infront of you (so that you could touch it) and if what you describe is entirely consistent with decades of reports from other close encounter witnesses.
Many people who are interested in the UFO Phenomenon go one step further than I have done and say that what controls these craft equates to biological extraterrestrial intelligence. Those people argue for Disclosure of the ET Presence. I do not possess a hypothesis. If it is ET then I would suspect its non biological as 21st century humans are expected to go beyond our biology and merge with our technology. Alternatively the intelligence behind the UFO’s could be super human intelligence that is relatively split off from society. This would make them an elite in terms of a specific type of scientific knowledge, non-conformist and Nikola Tesla-like in their brilliance! Such a group would have refused to conform to scientific norms thus going beyond the laws of physics resulting in teleportation, anti-gravity technology and time travel abilities. Still another theory is that the intelligence behind the UFO’s equates to our Simulators. The Simulated Universe theory is popular in Silicon Valley, popular with technological Singularitarians and popular with the infamous Elon Musk. Surely the most difficult theory for people to come to terms with is Remo Roth’s psychophysical hypothesis. Roth is a post-Jungian who goes far beyond the consulting room. He was mentored by Marie Louise von Franz, who herself was a very close collaborator of Jung’s. Roth goes beyond just saying that the UFO Phenomenon is about consciousness. He really goes into detail about how this is so. He says “In my theory, aliens are defined as entities living in psychophysical reality. The latter is space-, time- and mass-less, and thus gravitation-less. In this way the characteristic of aliens is what I call psychophysically nonlocal: in the moment of encounter and abduction […] UFOs are the “tools” of the aliens existing in psychophysical reality, in the intermediary realm of Hermetic alchemy. They represent living matter existing in the intermediary world”. http://bit.ly/1och1rC The Canadian UFO researcher, Grant Cameron views UFOs as tied in with various other phenomena, such as Near Death Experiencers and says that it’s all about consciousness. http://bit.ly/2CLYk4u However, Elizondo thinks that we have practically cracked the UFOs capabilities within known cutting-edge science (see later in this paper) hence if that is so there could be a split within ufology. That is assuming that Elizondo and TTS have not managed to unify technology and consciousness. If they have achieved such unification, or if they think they can do so, then that is quite remarkable.
I certainly think the UFO researchers have been (and are) right in general and thus ‘Confirmation’ is entirely justified. But I am suspicious of exact narratives that have long sought to explain exactly who the intelligence are and exactly what their motives are.
My ideas are the same as Luis Elizondo’s openly stated position. Elizondo is now a key figure in this field and therefore it is worth noting in some detail what he is saying. But first, I want to ram home the point that this phenomenon has been going on for at least seven decades. I also want to touch upon the run-up to where we are now, so I will also refer to the Podesta emails before getting to the heart of the matter concerning the excellent place we now find ourselves in. My view is that we know the UFO Phenomenon is real due to countless close encounter cases whereby what the witness describes is entirely consistent with what countless other witnesses have described. There is a Modus Operandi (MO) within the UFO close encounter that proves that the UFO Phenomenon is real. I cannot go further than this because I only see the pattern in the witness testimonies. That pattern does not tell me what the intelligence behind the UFO is. It merely tells me that the pattern is real. But it appears this has long been known. Indeed, as far back as 1947 we have official documentation, the ‘Twining Memo’ that said the following: “The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious”. http://bit.ly/2owvUXS
And in 1959 the famous psychologist Carl Jung wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of things seen in the Skies… and in that text he wrote that UFO’s are sometimes witnessed “shooting to enormous altitudes for inexplicable reasons or performing acrobatic evolutions before the noses of exasperated pilots.” http://bit.ly/2osKGyO I note that Jung quote as something worthy of comparing with the detailed description of the video that accompanied the NYT UFO story (see later). Hence, as I said (above) the UFO Phenomenon has been known to be real for decades. What is new is that it’s now coming from the top, from people who would have previously been considered as debunkers. Now, rather than saying that we do not investigate UFOs… they are doing the opposite: they are running the show. With a team of people whose credentials are indisputable, Ufology will be given the respect it deserves as something worthy of investigation.
Podesta/Hillary/DeLonge/Wikileaks
Now fast forward to 2016.
Hillary Clinton openly (without even hinting at any sarcasm) told the Breakfast Club Radio Show that “there are enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up”. http://bit.ly/2FAOvt8 True, UFO researchers had been aware of the Clinton’s interest in UFO’s for a couple of decades. But now Hillary was opening up within the context of a Presidential Election Campaign.
John Podesta was the chairman of her campaign. He openly advocates more openness and transparency in government. And he particularly likes to focus on UFO’s. Maybe then, he could use this as a consolation prize for Wikileaks leaking his emails that exposed just how much he was involved in the UFO field. Podesta seems to have agreed to use rock star Tom DeLonge as a spokesman for the truth. So the emails to Podesta are largely DeLonge keeping Podesta updated with progress. Here is a particularly interesting email message from DeLonge describing a General who had helped him put together a team of advisors to promote disclosure:
January 25th, 2016: “General McCasland” Email from DeLonge to Podesta:
He mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago. Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware — as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man.
McCasland has an impressive biography. This is extracted from his bio page on the U.S. Airforce Website:
“Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland is the Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is responsible for managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $2.2 billion. He is also responsible for a global workforce of approximately 10,800 people in the laboratory’s component technology directorates, 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research”. http://bit.ly/2ETRNusNote that McCasland is no longer openly working on the DeLonge TTS team. Nevertheless he is one of many establishment figures or professionals that have got the snowball well-and-truly rolling. DeLonge’s email about McCasland even discusses Roswell. A momentary glance at that email is enough to demonstrate that DeLonge views himself as ultimately a Disclosure supporter. Presumably he is not alone among TTS members concerning being closer to a Disclosure mind-set than a Confirmation mind-set. Bigelow, who funded AATIP advocates the extraterrestrial hypothesis. (ETH) and thus is ultimately wanting Disclosure. http://nyti.ms/2CmEnWbHowever, the TTS team are currently running a ‘Confirmation’ style investigation. Therefore they are analogous to a centre right political party that is running on an agenda that is a little closer to the centre than some of their politicians would ideally like… or ditto, analogous to a centre left party that is running on an agenda that is a little closer to the centre than some of their politicians would ideally like. Whether a UFO team or a political party, they do this to stay relatively in-tune with what would appear to be acceptable to the public.
December 2017: The New York Times Article
“The Revelations concerning the Pentagon’s AATIP program are extraordinary. For years, the U.S. government denied any interest in the UFO phenomenon, and claimed that sightings weren’t investigated. Now, it turns out that was incorrect. Not only was there a program, but some of the work seems to have been contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace.”
-Nick Pope (personal correspondence, 23rd February 2018)
Now let’s forward to December 2017. This is the time that events got much more voluntarily open rather than Wikileaks forcing things into the open.
On 16 December 2017 the New York Times (NYT) ran a front page headline titled “Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O Program’.
This finally gave the UFO issue the openness and transparency that it needed and deserved because it was front and centre of arguably the most famous mainstream newspaper publication on earth. The NYT effectively ran a UFO Confirmation Story and they even backed it up later in a follow-up report by Ralph Blumenthal who stated the following:
“Our readers are plenty interested in unidentified flying objects. We know that from the huge response to our front-page Sunday article (published online just after noon on Saturday) revealing a secret Pentagon program to investigate U.F.O.s. The piece, by the Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper, the author Leslie Kean and myself — a contributor to The Times after a 45-year staff career — has dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since. So how does a story on U.F.O.s get into The New York Times? Not easily, and only after a great deal of vetting, I assure you”.http://nyti.ms/2C63ZWP
Basically, the NYT checked out the credentials and biographies of those they were to write about. They checked out brilliantly… thus the NYT felt obliged to run the story and probably felt simultaneous shock that the credentials checked out.
The original NYT story demonstrated that a number of Pentagon personnel had between 2007–12 worked on a UFO Program called ‘The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP). The online NYT page included an accompanying video to the original story. This had previously been leaked without the fanfare. It was discussed two months earlier, in October 2017, in a Huffington Post report, written by Leslie Kean. And what is quoted from the Post article below, i.e., the Nimitz Case (2004) is reminiscent of Jung’s 1959 comment about UFO’s “shooting to enormous altitudes for inexplicable reasons or performing acrobatic evolutions before the noses of exasperated pilots”.
“Two F-18’s approach, the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust — it is white, oblong, some 40ft long and perhaps 12 ft thick. One pilot pursues the craft while his wingman stays high. The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself towards the approaching F-18. In a series of discrete tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18… At one point the object went from hovering at 80,000 feet to dropping at supersonic speeds, and came to a complete stop at 50 feet above the ocean. More F-18s are dispatched but with similar results… The secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions.” http://bit.ly/2znFbWm
Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo, the former intelligence official who has committed himself to TTS, is not only bringing clarity, acceptance and respect to the field, but also the prospect of designing a UFO!
Elizondo: We will build a UFO
Elizondo does not possess a theory about what the intelligence behind the UFO amounts too. Indeed, that is the ultimate question that he would like to find out as Elizondo is passionate about truth. But finding that out is not the aim of TTSA, at least not for the foreseeable future. The current aim of the TTSA seems to be to take advantage of the phenomenon and to actually replicate the UFO by designing one ourselves. Given that the aim of TTSA is to “build the very things that we are seeing […] to the benefit of mankind” (Elizondo http://bit.ly/2Ge32xU) we can be sure that TTSA possess all of the data required that would give them the realistic opportunity to do this. It also proves that the former debunker theories were nonsense. Elizondo takes a pop at one of them. He says the ‘atmospheric anomaly’ theory is wrong because “radar returns do not track atmospheric anomalies”, “Pilots don’t see atmospheric anomalies moving at hypersonic speeds above the water”, “An atmospheric anomaly isn’t going to effect and disturb the water the way these things are doing”. (ibid). Indeed the object is intelligent.
Elizondo: Nimitz UFO possessed foresight
We touched on this case when referring to the Huffington Post article (above).
The USS Nimitz case (2004) equates to one of the three videos that have been released and hence is now well documented. In this case the UFO does the usual toying with the military pilots (as Jung stated in 1959, i.e., an acrobatics show for them), and then for good measure the unknown intelligence adds something to the show. When it blinks out of existence it blinks back into existence at the specific location where the F18’s are heading. (Elizondo http://bit.ly/2Ge32xU). Moreover, even in this one case, there is more to it than just the acrobatics and the foresight. The military had been “tracking these things for the past week.” (ibid). When Elizondo says “these things” he is meaning “sometimes up to twenty of them”. (ibid). All of this always seems to me to be the intelligence ensuring that the witnesses cannot deny it, so that everything is well and truly clear in terms of the reality of the phenomenon. Yet the intelligence behind the phenomenon also knows that we will be mystified about what they are. It seems to force onto the serious person that the phenomenon is real in terms of being intelligent but what the intelligence is remains unknown.
Elizondo: The Modus Operandi of the UFO
1) “Sudden and instantaneous acceleration. These are objects that are moving in a manner that if there was a biological system inside it, it should not be able to withstand those type of sudden G-forces”. (ibid)
2) “… not just supersonic but hypersonic [velocities]. An object moving well above the limitations of supersonic speed and objects moving in a way that don’t have any apparent signature related to that. So there’s no heat trail coming out of the object that’s moving very fast through the atmosphere. There’s no sonic boom. So things that would traditionally be associated with objects moving at very fast speeds, even though we can see them moving that fast, we don’t see a signature.” (ibid)
3) “Low Observability”. We try to figure out what these things “look like”. But “unfortunately what we are getting as a return seems a-bit nonsensical.” [For example] radar returns coming back nonsensical despite having the best of the best radar […] our radars get either turned off or radar can’t pick something up.” (ibid)
4) “An object that has the ability to move in the various layers of the earth’s atmosphere, possibly even in outer space and possibly even through water seemingly even without any type of normal resistance associated with friction associated with objects moving in that manner.” (ibid)
5) “The most important, ‘Positive Lift’. […] An object apparently resisting the natural effects of earth’s gravity, yet without the normally associated aerodynamic structures that would require an object to either to have lift or thrust. So no visible engines. No visible engine exhaust plumes, no wings, no rudders, no ailerons, no fins. Yet able to move in a very precise manner.” (ibid)
Elizondo: if the intelligence is human and foreign
I was delighted that when pondering the thought that these craft may amount to foreign human intelligence, that Elizondo said that he is open to that but if that theory is correct then “whoever has this technology has had this technology for a very long time which is even more alarming [than the point that a potential adversary has technological craft that is so futuristic]. (ibid). Later in the interview Elizondo adds that he wants to know if it’s another countries. “Because these things are real. This is reality. And what we are seeing is unquestionable and undeniable.” (ibid).
Elizondo’s views in one paragraph
A neat summary of Elizondo’s views can be outlined as follows… the UFO Phenomenon is real. There’s intelligence behind the UFO’s. However we do not know the origins of the intelligence. Nevertheless the intelligence uses advanced physics. The Modus Operandi of the UFO is exactly the pattern that tens of thousands of witnesses have reported over several decades. (e.g., blinking in-and-out of existence). While it would be fantastic to know the origins of these things we (at TTSA) will invest all of our efforts to build a UFO for the benefit of mankind.
Personally, I have always viewed the UFO Phenomenon as real in the sense of it being intelligently controlled. So I am very happy with the work of TTSA and I am empathic with Elizondo.
Jung, Vallee, Hynek have all noted Patterns in the Data
The patterns that I refer to as the UFO Modus Operandi, were briefly referred to by Jung, and have been referred to over and over again by Jacques Vallee. Moreover, in 1975 Vallee’s colleague, J. Allen Hynek expressed the physical pattern in the UFO MO when he said “The UFO’s are capable of producing physical effects: they are reported to leave “landing marks” or other physical evidence of their proximity, such as rings or other types of imprints on the ground; plant life is often reported withered or blighted or scorched […] Humans have reported physiological effects, such as temporary paralysis and blindness, headaches and nausea, etc…” http://amzn.to/2EUYMndWhen the pattern combines with the close encounter then I think the UFO Phenomenon can be scientifically studied because pattern recognition over many years within an undeniable context amounts to scientific study.
TTS have noted the pattern. And they have the personnel to replicate the technology. To what extent they can do that depends on exactly how advanced it is. If consciousness is inextricably linked to the technology then this complicates their work to an extent that would require a worldview paradigm shift. If it’s all within our current knowledge as Elizondo thinks it is, then its game on. If our scientific knowledge is so advanced that we have unified physical and consciousness then that is, as said, remarkable.
The Near Future
“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… perhaps all these observables that we have been seeing, for example: sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans-medium travel and last but not least, positive lift, or anti-gravity, is really a manifestation of a single technology. So it’s not five exotic technologies we’re trying to figure out how it works. It’s one and we think we know that one too.”
Elizondo says TTS is not about guessing “where these things originated but rather, how they worked” (ibid) That then is ‘Confirmation’, not ‘Disclosure’.
Now in the present day, we can expect more scientific study and more revelations. DeLonge says that there are twenty more big reveals to come. http://bit.ly/2EVhzP5 This is good news and suggests relative openness and transparency. Interestingly it also suggests some secrecy even if only temporary secrecy. Because some people may wonder why they do not just reveal everything they know in one go? The answer to that maybe that they require media cooperation and their choices of who covers the stories do not want to turn themselves into UFO publications. Nevertheless, we can expect the scientific study to be ongoing as with any other respected field of knowledge.
In conclusion there are various benefits to the acceptance and respect of the UFO phenomenon. There are technological spin-offs. And progressive increases in knowledge. And acceptance and respect towards experiencers. Overall the UFO Phenomenon has progressed from belief-orientated, from pre-science, and from secretive science, to being (at least) relatively out in the open, openly scientifically studied by professional investigators whose credentials are undeniable. Now let’s build that UFO!
A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets — including one ‘super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water — orbiting small, cool stars near our solar system. These stars, known as red dwarfs1, are of enormous interest for studies of planetary formation and evolution.
A research team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has validated 15 exoplanets2 orbiting red dwarf systems.
One of the brightest red dwarfs, K2-155 that is around 200 light years away from Earth, has three transiting super-Earths, which are slightly bigger than our own planet. Of those three super-Earths, the outermost planet, K2-155d, with a radius 1.6 times that of Earth, could be within the host star's habitable zone3.
The findings, published in the form of two papers in The Astronomical Journal, are based on data from NASA Kepler spacecraft's second mission, K2, and follow-up observations using ground-based telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in Spain.
The researchers found that K2-155d could potentially have liquid water on its surface based on three-dimensional global climate simulations (see Figure 1). Hirano expresses both excitement and restraint, as he says: "In our simulations, the atmosphere and the composition of the planet were assumed to be Earth-like, and there's no guarantee that this is the case."
A more precise estimate of the radius and temperature of the K2-155 star would be needed to conclude definitively whether K2-155d is habitable. Achieving such precision would require further studies, for example, using interferometric techniques.
A key outcome from the current studies was that planets orbiting red dwarfs may have remarkably similar characteristics to planets orbiting solar-type stars.
"It's important to note that the number of planets around red dwarfs is much smaller than the number around solar-type stars," says Hirano. "Red dwarf systems, especially coolest red dwarfs, are just beginning to be investigated, so they are very exciting targets for future exoplanet research."
For example, while the so-called radius gap4 of planets around solar-type stars has been reported previously, this is the first time that researchers have shown a similar gap in planets around red dwarfs. (See Figure 2.) "This is a unique finding, and many theoretical astronomers are now investigating what causes this gap," says Hirano.
He adds that the most likely explanation for the lack of large planets in the proximity of host stars is photoevaporation, which can strip away the envelope of the planetary atmosphere.
The researchers also investigated the relationship between planet radius and metallicity5 of the host star. "Large planets are only discovered around metal-rich stars," Hirano says, "and what we found was consistent with our predictions. The few planets with a radius about three times that of Earth were found orbiting the most metal-rich red dwarfs."
The studies were conducted as part of the KESPRINT collaboration, a group formed by the merger of KEST (Kepler Exoplanet Science Team) and ESPRINT (Equipo de Seguimiento de Planetas Rocosos Intepretando sus Transitos) in 2016.
With the planned launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in April 2018, Hirano is hopeful that even more planets will be discovered. "TESS is expected to find many candidate planets around bright stars closer to Earth," he says. "This will greatly facilitate follow-up observations, including investigation of planetary atmospheres and determining the precise orbit of the planets."
Figure 1. Results of 3D global climate simulations for K2-155d
Surface temperatures were plotted as a function of insolation flux (the amount of incoming stellar radiation) estimated at 1.67±0.38. When the insolation exceeds 1.5, a so-called runaway greenhouse effect occurs, signaling a cut-off point for life-friendly temperatures. If the insolation is under 1.5, the surface temperature is more likely to be moderate.
Figure 2. Distribution of planet sizes
Histogram of planet radius for the validated and well-characterized transiting planets around red dwarfs: The number counts for mid-to-late red dwarfs (those with a surface temperature of under 3,500 K) are shown above those for early red dwarfs (those with a surface temperature of around 3,500–4,000 K). The results show a "radius gap", or a dip in the number of stars with a radius between 1.5–2.0 times that of Earth.
1Red dwarfsAlso known as low-mass stars, red dwarfs are small, cool stars with a surface temperature of less than about 4,000 Kelvin.
2ExoplanetsPlanets that orbit stars outside our solar system.
3Habitable zoneA region that is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, and hence life, to exist.
4Radius gapHere referring to a reduced occurrence of planets that have a radius of between 1.5 to 2.0 times that of Earth.
15 nieuwe planeten ontdekt rond koele dwergsterren. Op deze superaarde is stromend water mogelijk
15 nieuwe planeten ontdekt rond koele dwergsterren. Op deze superaarde is stromend water mogelijk
Japanse astronomen hebben met behulp van de Amerikaanse ruimtetelescoop Kepler 15 exoplaneten ontdekt rond koele rode dwergsterren.
Waarnemingen met telescopen op aarde hebben bevestigd dat het daadwerkelijk om planeten gaat.
Het zijn vrijwel allemaal superaardes: rotsachtige planeten die een stuk groter zijn dan de aarde.
Stromend water
Bij de ster K2-155, die op zo’n 200 lichtjaar van de aarde staat, zijn zelfs drie van deze superaardes aangetroffen.
De buitenste van de drie bevindt zich mogelijk in de bewoonbare zone van zijn moederster, wat betekent dat op het oppervlak van deze planeet stromend water zou kunnen voorkomen.
Op basis van simulaties zeggen de onderzoekers dat de planeet, K2-155d gedoopt, vloeibaar water kan bezitten.
Veel gelijkenissen
Verder onderzoek naar onder meer de radius en de temperatuur van de moederster moet gaan aantonen of K2-155d bewoonbaar is.
De wetenschappers ontdekten daarnaast dat planeten rond rode dwergsterren opvallend veel gelijkenissen vertonen met planeten die rond zonachtige sterren draaien.
Well, my recent article titled “UFOs: The Paranormal Controversy and Connection” provoked quite a bit of feedback. And the debate on whether or not the world of the paranormal and the subject of UFOs should be seen as parts of a combined, bigger picture is still going on. With that in mind, I thought I would share with you a perfect example of how such seemingly separate phenomena actually have more than a few connections. Pauline W., who I interviewed in 2013, had a very strange experience back in October 1973, when she was living in Pasadena, California. It’s notable, and probably relevant, that a major UFO wave was going on at that time, and across not just the United States, but other parts of the planet too.
While hiking in the California hills one Sunday morning, Pauline encountered a classic, silver-colored flying saucer-style UFO which, at first, at least, was high in the sky. Suddenly, it dropped to around fifty or sixty above her, hanging there in an odd, wobbling fashion. Amazed, Pauline could only stare as the silent craft bobbed around and then shot away at high speed. Pauline raced home and excitedly told her family of what had just taken place. They, apparently, weren’t the only ones who knew what had occurred on the fateful morning in 1973. Three days later, and after sunset, Pauline had a visitor. Not a welcome one, I should stress. It was a Man in Black, a skinny – almost emaciated – old man, dressed in a shabby black suit, looking pale and ill, and wearing an old, 1950s-style fedora hat.
Pauline said that she felt her mind was briefly enslaved, as the MIB near-hypnotically asked her to invite him into her home. In a slight daze, and to her eternal cost, she did exactly that. She retreated to the couch, stumbling slightly and feeling ice-cold. The old man followed her, and stood in the living-room, looming over her, as he warned her – in no uncertain terms – never to discuss her close encounter again. Ever. The MIB then turned around and headed to the door. At that exact same moment, Pauline felt her mental faculties return to normal and she raced after him, just as he exited the door and closed it behind him. Pauline threw the door open wide, only to find the old Man in Black gone. In his place, however, was something else: it was a large, black dog with bright red eyes. It snapped and snarled in Pauline’s direction and in what was clearly a deeply malevolent, dangerous fashion.
She stared in horror as the glowing-eyed monster prowled around the front yard, clearly intent on adding to the malevolent atmosphere that was already firmly in place. Suddenly, and as if out of nowhere, a large, black Cadillac – that looked decades-old in design – appeared and screeched to a halt outside of Pauline’s home. It should be noted, here, that the MIB almost always drive such cars of that particular type, age and color. Pauline watched, shocked and scared, as the back door on the driver’s-side opened and the fiendish black hound bounded across the front yard and leapt into the back of the Cadillac, which shot away at high speed!
Today, Pauline – now a grandmother and someone who is fairly comfortable about sharing her bizarre experience – is of a firm opinion that the MIB and the red-eyed beast were one and the same. As Pauline sees it, something unexplained, but also something which could take on “different disguises.” Of course, many would say that Pauline’s bizarre story is nothing but a fabrication (but, it’s hard to fathom what on Earth might cause someone to concoct such an admittedly weird tale). But, what if Pauline was telling the absolute truth?
With that question in mind, let’s return to the matter of the UFO/paranormal connection. What we have in this case are no less than three mysterious angles, all clearly linked: (A) the UFO sighting; (B) the encounter with the Man in Black; and (C) according to Pauline a case of shape-shifting, no less – into what sounds just like one of the ghostly Phantom Black Dogsthat terrified people throughout the U.K. centuries ago (and which occasionally still do).
Yes, cases like this are controversial in the extreme, but either we dismiss such tales as lies (which I don’t, having met Pauline twice), or we accept that the UFO phenomenon isn’t all that it appears to be. It’s much more.
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA has just released a 4K video tour of Earth’s moon and the footage will make your jaw drop.
Even though Earth’s moon can be viewed in unprecedented detail from Earth, NASA has recently released a video filmed in 4k showing off the surface of the moon in unprecedented close-up detail, and the video will definitely take your breath away.
How can we describe the video footage?
Well, it’s stunning. It’s mesmerizing. It’s Fresh. It offers an entirely new way of exploring the surface of the moon, and you can see all of the most important and prominent features of the Earth’s satellite in the stunning video footage.
The footage dubbed as “virtual tour of the moon” in breathtaking 4K has been collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft over a span of nine years.
What a stunning view.
Image Credit: YouTube
“The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a variety of lunar terrain features,” Ernie Wright of NASA’s Space Visualization Studio explained in a blog post. “Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space.”
Wright explains that this recently published video is, in fact, an updated version of another one released 7 years ago, in 2011.
Despite the fact that the camera path may be the same, the data that has been gathered in 7 years has made it possible for NASA to create a far more incredible and detailed presentation of the moon.
Image Credit: YouTube.
The recently released 4k video displays a number of the moon’s features, combining colors that highlight important or noteworthy data to make sure you not only enjoy the view but learn something new.
One of the most interesting parts of the video is when we have the chance to fly over the Tycho Crater, a lunar formation said to be around 100 million years old.
The most interesting part occurs when you think you’ve seen the best part, the video zooms in unprecedently, focusing on Tycho Crater’s mesmerizing central peak which features an enigmatic 100-meter-wide bolder at the summit, “the origins of which are still a mystery,” the video’s narrator says, adding to the suspense.
In addition to the Tycho crater, you can also fly above the Apollo 17 landing site at the Taurus-Littrow Valley, which as explained in the video, is deeper than the Grand Canyon on Earth.
So, the end of the Moon landing conspiracy…right?
I wonder, does that make the Taurus-Littrow Valley the ‘Grander Canyon’?
Anyway, while exploring the Apollo 17 landing site, the video offers a few overlays that show us the path NASA astronauts took as they spent three days on the surface of the moon in 1972.
You can appreciate the bottom half of the mission’s lunar lander and rover vehicle, items that have remained untouched and undisturbed for the last 46 years.
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd
5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found
5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found
Who doesn’t love a good adventure story? And who doesn’t love Indiana Jones Movies, right? And wouldn’t’ it be awesome to find Atlantis one day?
Despite the fact that Atlantis may be one of the most well-known ‘lost’ ancient cities, there are many other places as mysterious and stunning as Atlantis.
In this article, I invite to join me as we explore five of lost legendary ancient cities that have eluded experts for centuries.
1. The Lost City of Z
In April of 1925 when Percy Fawcett, a British explorer, and archaeologist, was introduced to an adventure in the Brazilian jungle from which he would never return.
Fawcett set out to find a lost city, which he named Z, somewhere in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Fawcett never returned from the trip, and nothing was heard from him or his companions who from Cuiabá went to Alto Xingu, a southeastern tributary of the Amazon River.
The source on which he built the dream of finding a legendary city in the Brazilian jungle, a kind of El Dorado, was Manuscript 512 housed at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro.
Manuscript 512 was a document written by a Portuguese explorer in 1753 in which he had discovered a walled city in the confines of the Mato Grosso region reminiscent of design to cities of Ancient Greece.
It was not the first time that Fawcett embarked on an expedition to find the Lost City of Z but this was his definitive one.
To date, just as Atlantis, the Legendary Lost City of Z remains a profound mystery, and many experts argue it only exists in legend.
2. Shambala
More than just a lost city, Shambala is to be a powerful kingdom.
Sometimes called Shangri-La, Shambala holds an important place in both Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions.
The kingdom is said to be laid out in precisely the same form as an eight-petalled lotus blossom enclosed by a series of snow mountains. At the center lies the palace of the King of Shambala who governed from the city called Kalapa. Shambhala is also often-called Shangri-La in some texts.
Hindu texts such as the Vishnu Purana (4.24) mention the village Shambhala as the birthplace of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will usher in a new Golden Age (Satya Yuga).
Fall of the ancients – Bluesky images. Image Credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with Permission.
3. Aztlan
The legendary home place of one of the most prominent ancient civilizations from the American Continent, the Aztecs, has never been found.
Aztlan is like an American Atlantis, and some authors have even ventured out and said it might be the Atlantis we are looking for.
Aztlan was the homeland of the Aztecs, from where they left to build their mighty empire with capital in what is now Mexico City.
According to different theories, this lost city is located somewhere in North America, with some authors claiming that Aztlan existed in modern-day Utah.
Aztlan, whose name means “the land to the North” or ‘the place of whiteness,’ has never been found. But the Annals of Tlatelolco place the migration of the Aztecs from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan on May 24, 1064, the first year of the Aztec solar calendar.
4. The Lost City of El Dorado
After Atlantis, I think the legend of El Dorado is one of the best known today.
In fact, the search for the lost city of gold was what motivated many Conquistadores to travel thousands of kilometers through inhospitable terrains in South America, searching for a city that according to accounts, was made entirely of Gold.
The myth of El Dorado was associated with a ruler who bathed in gold every morning and washed at night in a sacred lake, the lake of Guatavita, in which all wealth was deposited.
Although in reality the myth was actually a ceremony of the Colombian Muisca people, carried out since ancient times.
In 1541 Francisco de Orellana was the first European conqueror to cross the Amazon River, flogged by the search for El Dorado.
Later, Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1594, left for the first time in his search and in two of his trips he failed.
No one has found the legendary city, and, just as Atlantis and Aztlan, many believe it is nothing more than a Myth.
5. Camelot
Image Credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with permission.
Camelot is the name of the fortress and kingdom of the legendary King Arthur, from where he fought many of the battles that marked his life.
Just as with other famous cities and places, the exact location of Camelot remains a mystery, and many scholars have argued that Camelot is entirely a work of fiction, and not real.
The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, although its exact location is not revealed.
The city was introduced for the first time in French romances of the twelfth century. Arthur’s court at Camelot is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien’s poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it does not appear in all the manuscripts.
Camelot eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur’s realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.
Since the location of Camelot remains a mystery, the truth about it, if it existed, remains an enigma.
Featured image credit: Leon Tukker. Posted with Permission.
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
The second man to step on the moon Buzz Aldrin and other three astronauts reportedly passed a lie detector test over their claims of UFO being spotted on their way to the moon.
Aldrin together with Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper reportedly took part of a particular study, which left the UFO enthusiasts and experts to be convinced that the signs of alien life were witnessed during the space mission of Apollo 11 on 1969.
It seemed the footage being posted online supported the claim.
The video shows what seems to be a UFO encounter on board a space shuttle mission, which claimed to have taken place in the same year. It reveals the moment when NASA’s mission control received a radio message from a concerned space explorer reporting the sighting.
Mario Runco Jn, who claimed to have taken the video, stated that they were observing the object for quite some time. Mario added that he saw another light passing above it, which he thought to be a star.
However, it appeared that the control team wasn’t interested in the report and even tried to change the subject.
The recording was taken during the 77th Space Shuttle mission of NASA known as STS-77.
The launched was at the year of 1969 from the launch pad 39B at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and lasted ten days.
YouTube channel UFO Today then uploaded the video, which now has hundreds of views. They believe that NASA is trying to hide something to the public.
Images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission revealed an extraordinary feature, but the feature poses more questions than it answers: is it the remnant of an ancient supervolcano, or the crater of a meteorite crash?
Perspective view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
Back in 2003, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Mars Express — a mission with the goal of exploring Mars. More than 14 years later, the orbiter is still providing valuable insight into the Red Planet. Now, it has sent astronomers on Earth pictures of an intriguing feature called Ismenia Patera.
Patera means ‘flat bowl’ in Latin, and it’s as accurate a name as any. Measuring some 75 km across, it has a flat central area, surrounded by a ring of hills, blocks, and lumps of rock which seem to have been ejected from the center. The feature lies in a transition area which lies between Mars’ southern mountains and its northern plains.
Supervolcano or meteorite crater? We don’t really know.
The Mars Express view of Ismenia Patera.
The Martian topography is split into two parts: the northern lowland and the southern highlands — the latter being a few kilometers higher. This clear split is an extremely interesting puzzle for researchers, as the cause of this split isn’t really clear. It could be a massive impact, several smaller impacts, tectonic activity, or even supervolcanoes — whatever the reason may be, it remains hidden for now.
Understanding Ismenia Patera could be a much-needed puzzle piece that would allow astronomers to understand the transition area, and ultimately, the geological history of Mars.
Topographic view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
However, things are not very clear. There are two competing theories: the first one is that it’s a volcano — a supervolcano to be more precise. At some point, the supervolcano would have undergone a massive eruption, which would eject huge quantities of material outwards, collapsing after the magma was thrown out.
The other theory is that it’s actually the site of a meteorite that collided with Mars at some point. So far, the visual data and our limited knowledge of Martian geology are our only clues regarding the nature of this feature. The transitional area shows signs of being the location of an ancient and long-inactive volcanic province. Ismenia Patera does have an irregular shape, low topographic relief, and relatively uplifted rims, which would suggest a volcanic nature. But then again, Mars is also riddled with numerous impact craters, so this remains an open question.
Hopefully, future missions will offer more surface and subsurface data, allowing scientists to finally untangle the planet’s complex and fascinating history.
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
A new paper argues that any extraterrestrials we hear from are likely to have died out.
by Seth Shostak
This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun, NASA announced July 23, 2015.
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“He's dead, Jim.”
So sayeth Leonard “Bones” McCoy, the plainspoken doctor in the original "Star Trek" television series, to Captain James Kirk whenever an alien croaks in their high-tech sickbay. Expired extraterrestrials have been frequent players in many sci-fi potboilers, and for obvious dramatic reasons.
This possibility may sound bizarre. After all, how could we possibly tell whether a culture is still around when it’s hundreds or thousands of light-years away? In general we can’t. And yet there are reasons why Grimaldi and his team may be right. In fact, their argument is reminiscent of one I often hear in connection with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way galaxy has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be 'alien'. NASA
Since any alien radio message we might receive would have been lumbering through space at the finite speed of light — and since space is big — many folks assume that the signal must have been sent “millions of years ago.” The obvious corollary is that the alien broadcasters may have long since cashed in their chips.
My response to this melancholy logic is to note that most of the star systems examined by SETI scientists are less than a few hundred light-years away. So a signal from one of these wouldn’t be a million years old. And since a few centuries isn’t really much time, I usually offer an analogy: It takes the postal service three days to deliver a letter from my aunt. But it’s unlikely that she died in the interim because three days is brief in comparison to the average lifetime of aunts.
The new paper offers a similar argument, mathematically elaborated. The authors assume a simple scenario in which extraterrestrial societies spring up at random places in the galaxy at random times, and that they broadcast their talk shows (or whatever) into space. You can imagine these transmissions spreading like ripples across the plane of the Milky Way, reaching more and more star systems as time goes on.
A further assumption is that at some point — due to unspecified events (including, one presumes, self-destruction) — the aliens’ transmitters go silent. So each alien society’s radio signature is like an expanding doughnut, with an outer boundary representing the moment their transmissions start and an inner boundary defined by the moment they stop.
Very Large Array Radio Telescope, for picking up signals, New Mexico, United States. MyLoupe / UIG Via Getty Images
Now if your average alien society lasts for a long time — say more than 100,000 years — then its signals can cover the entire galaxy while the aliens are still with us. If this is a typical situation — if Klingon cultures have staying power — there could be many transmissions wafting over the Earth from societies that are still extant.
On the other hand, if the lights go out for most societies relatively quickly, then most signals reaching Earth now or in the immediate future are likely to be from aliens who are dead. If most civilizations transmit for 10,000 years (we earthlings have been transmitting for roughly a century), then 99 percent of all the signals washing over our planet are from expired, or at least silent, societies.
So yes, a SETI detection might come from a fossilized culture. But it’s fair to ask, “So what?” Would we care that the aliens are gone? Obviously, back-and-forth conversations would be out of the question. But conversations would be tedious anyway if the aliens are as much as 100 light-years distant.
And besides, I read Julius Caesar in high school Latin class, and it was interesting even though the “message” was 2,000 years old and the Roman Empire was dead. If we were to receive a message from aliens, the big news wouldn’t hinge on whether we were able to converse with them. It would be simply that someone else was out there.
Any message we receive would come from a society whose technology was far beyond our own. After all, they were able to transmit an intelligible signal powerful enough to reach across the cosmos. And so I believe that whether or not they were still around, what they had to say would be enormously interesting — and possibly useful in ensuring our own long-term survival.
VeryChic Sponsored It stays there for a few seconds, hovering in the sky, before flying off in the flash of a light.
The video comes just weeks after a passenger on a plane traveling to Athens in Greece claimed he captured a UFO flying alongside the aircraft.
In the footage above, you’ll see a dark shape come into the frame, which undoubtedly resembles a UFO.
Photo: Facebook/Ufo Türkiye. Turkey
Kerry Forides, filmed the unidentified object from his plane seat while travelling over the Aegean Sea on March 28.
The footage was then shared on Youtube and on his Facebook page.
"It appears to be flying away at right angles from our commercial jet and somehow without either of us appearing to turn we end up almost following it," he wrote alongside the video.
UFO Appears Over the Aegean Sea During Flight to Athens
VIDEO AN unidentified object has been captured on camera from a plane flying over theAegean Sea.
A video recording of eerie trumpet sounds from Hawaii has gone viral on YouTube, leading some to speculate that the End Times and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ are imminent. Others suggested UFOs, scientific explanations, and even Godzilla. (Watch the video below.)
"Jesus Christ is coming soon. I say it is a trumpet," a YouTube user named "Believer John Seventeen" posted.
Another user agreed. "Christ shall return. If you know Him, then you know His warnings — every eye shall hear and every ear shall hear," posted "Roger Dat." "Be not afraid for you are saved by faith in Jesus. Repent and turn from wickedness. The price was paid at Calvary and as He was risen, so shall His disciples be."
The video itself has no clear religious meaning, however.
Snippins News posted the video, reporting, "Not the first time to be heard, but it's been heard in multiple places all strangely at the same time."
"Unusual and unexplained noises are recorded in various locations around the world from time to time," Snippins News added. "While the specific origins of all such sounds may not yet be known, most scientific research points to natural causes such as tidal waves, methane explosions, underground earthquakes, or shifting sand dunes as explanations for these aural phenomena."
Even so, the YouTube channel remarked that "USGS scientist David Hill says it's also possible some of these noises originate from above."
Multiple users asked to share the video on their own YouTube channels, one with an alien focus. "Can we share this video on our Secureteam UFO channel with full credit and link back to your channel?" the alien-focused Secureteam YouTube channel posted.
Another user, perhaps joking, merely commented, "Godzilla."
User Jeff Suttles twisted the End Times angle into a Trump joke. "Heaven is trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election by blowing trumpets," he wrote. "I say that Donald is colluding with heaven. Time to call for a special council [sic] and impose sanctions."
Christians believe that Jesus Christ will bodily return and resurrect all the dead for a final judgment. There will be one last great battle between good and evil, and God will create a new heaven and a new earth.
Beyond these general points, Christians disagree on the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Many End Times theorists have attempted to predict the exact time when Jesus will return, but Jesus rather explicitly said that not even He knew "that day or hour."
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man(Mathew 24:36-39).
The book of Revelation records John's vision that seven trumpets will sound, as part of God's final judgment.
These sounds prove eerie, but some users suggested there would be a scientific explanation — or that the noises could even be a hoax. If these were any of the trumpets in Revelation, hail and fire mixed with blood would burn up a third of the trees on the planet, a third of the oceans would become blood, freshwater sources would be poisoned, the sun would become dark, or even worse things would happen.
The sounds in this video may seem weird, but they likely have no End Times significance whatsoever.
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Een video met daarin vreemde trompetachtige geluiden in Hawaï is viraal gegaan op YouTube. Sommigen dachten dat de eindtijd was aangebroken, terwijl anderen zeiden dat het een teken is dat Jezus zal terugkeren.
Weer anderen dachten aan UFO’s of kwamen met mogelijke wetenschappelijke verklaringen op de proppen.
Zeven trompetten
Het filmpje werd geplaatst door Snippins News, dat erbij schreef dat het geluid eerder op meerdere plekken tegelijk is gehoord.
Sommige mensen verwezen naar de zeven trompetten in een Bijbelpassage in het boek Openbaring:
Toen nam de engel vuur van het altaar, legde het in de wierookschaal en gooide het op de aarde. Het begon te donderen, te rommelen en te bliksemen en de aarde schudde. Toen maakten de zeven engelen die de trompetten hadden gekregen zich klaar om op hun trompet te blazen.
Wetenschappelijke verklaring
Sommige YouTube-gebruikers suggereerden dat er een wetenschappelijke verklaring is voor de geluiden, of dat het mogelijk gaat om een hoax.
This UFO appeared on live cam and spit out an orb that quickly came closer to the space station. As the orb left the main ship, it was visible. However its systems seem to become activated after it left, because it soon cloaked.
Aliens are not giving up on us, the public. They will continue to send small messages to us all at different locations around the world. When you see a UFO, its probably because they wanted you to see them, so take photos or video and share it, because they would like the public to be aware of them. Its the governments of the world that refuse to let the public know of the existence of aliens.
If you follow the link, then in that recorded ISS video go to the 2:44 mark, the UFO will be visible, then it disappears and the screen becomes green.
Er lijkt maar geen eind te komen aan vreemde verschijnselen op de grond als ook in de lucht.
Zo worden er nu weer vreemde stralen aan de hemel waargenomen op verschillende plekken en niemand weet wat het is of waar het vandaan komt.
Wij leven in bijzondere tijden, want bijna iedere dag is er wel iets ongewoons te ontdekken op de planeet die wij aarde noemen.
Zo was er op 6 april het volgende waar te nemen bij Rockwall in de Amerikaanse staat Texas. Een straal die vanuit de aarde naar de hemel gaat of andersom.
Het is gefilmd vanuit een auto die daar op dat moment reed:
Twee dagen later was het opnieuw raak in de buurt van Phoenix in de staat Arizona en dit keer zag het er zo uit:
In beide gevallen heeft niemand een zinnige verklaring kunnen bedenken en ook van deze lichtstraal bestaat een korte video.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat dit soort verschijnselen zich voordoen. Het is wat de laatste jaren regelmatig voorkomt en nog steeds heeft niemand er een verklaring voor.
Hieronder een deel uit een eerder artikel van ongeveer anderhalf jaar geleden met vergelijkbare verschijnselen.
Zo zagen de bewoners van een klein plaatsje in de buurt van het Argentijnse Buenos Aires op 30 december een vreemde lichtstraal die naar de hemel wees.
De lichtstraal schijnt te wijzen naar de lucht waar duidelijke een soort tweede lichtbron naast de zon is waar te nemen, precies op de plek waar we de planeet Helion zagen.
Is het dan vergezocht om te denken dat de aarde of iets op de planeet reageert, dat er iets ontwaakt, door de komst van dit zonnestelsel.
De laatste jaren is er sprake van nog meer merkwaardige lichtstralen, die dan voornamelijk van piramides en/of vulkanen afkomstig zijn.
Enkele jaren geleden bijvoorbeeld vreemde lichtstralen boven de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico.
Ook de oude piramides schijnen wereldwijd weer tot leven te komen en lichtstralen naar de hemel te sturen zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Ter vergelijking volgen hieronder enkele foto’s van piramides waar energiestralen zijn gefotografeerd.
De eerste is een opname vanaf de Bosnische piramide van de Zon.
De volgende is een opname van 24 juni 2009 toen iemand een foto nam van ChiChen Itza piramide, eveneens in Mexico. Deze straal was niet zichtbaar toen de foto werd genomen, maar werd pas later waargenomen toen de afdruk werd bekeken.
De volgende en laatste opname is al wat ouder en genomen in 2000. Ook hier een merkwaardige energie/lichtstraal afkomstig van de Piramide van de Maan, wederom in Mexico.
Niets van dit alles vind je terug in het mainstream journaal van acht uur, noch in die van tien of zes uur.
A highly unusually beam of light that seemly shoots from the sun has been photographed.
More images of the strange phenomenon show that the beam even shoots through the clouds
It seems the beam is not a lens flare or camera defect as one image shows a blue dot below the beam of the light which is the actual lens flare.
Another unexplained phenomenon has been filmed showing a rare glitch in the sky. At the moment the glitch appears the camera registered a very strange distorted picture from the sky which can be seen in the video.
The questions about the existence of aliens are one that has been debated for many decades. Humanity has been peering into space for a long time hoping to find proof. Scientists still have not yet found any real proof of the existence of aliens, but then the universe is so big so it might be possible that alien life is too far from Earth to be found. However, a new report suggests that this might not be the case and there might be another possibility as to why evidence of aliens has not been found, people are blind to their existence.
Alien Life Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight
Scientists have been looking for aliens that are human-like. There is a preconceived notion that life exists elsewhere. This is something that could be stopping the ability to detect aliens, and they are hiding in plain sight.
Researchers from the University of Cadiz, Spain came up with the report, and it talks about the idea that alien life exists in a way that human beings simply cannot fathom. The idea is something that is both fascinating along with being frightening. However, if disbelief can be put aside for a few minutes, it does make a lot of sense.
Neuropsychologist, Gabriel de la Torre, co-author of the study suggested that beings of dimensions that the mind is unable to grasp or alien intelligence that is based around energy or dark matter, which is something that makes up about 95% of the universe, is something we are only now starting to glimpse. He went on to say it might be possible that there are other universes in existence and this is something that Stephen Hawking along with other scientists have indicated.
Researchers Undertook Study to Show Humans Are Misguided Due to Expectations
The researchers wanted to prove that human beings are often misguided due to their expectations, so they undertook an experiment and asked 137 people to work out if features and structures in aerial photographs were natural or made by man.
The researchers hid a small image of a gorilla in one of the photographs to find out if the people would be able to spot it. Those taking part did as they were asked, but many of them missed spotting the gorilla because they were not specifically looking for a gorilla in the photos.
The researchers said that this is what is termed “unintentional bias inattentional blindness” and suggests that this is what might be happening to astronomers along with the rest of the scientific community overall. He said that if people do not know what they are looking for, it is likely that they will not spot it. This could apply to those who have been searching for signs of alien life. Alien life could be hiding in plain sight just as the photograph of the gorilla was hiding.
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Star Wars’ Yoda Is Real: Master Yoda’s Image Found In 14th Century Manuscript
Star Wars’ Yoda Is Real: Master Yoda’s Image Found In 14th Century Manuscript
Just when I thought I’d seen it all. Apparently, Master Yoda From Star Wars is real.
An image of Yoda appears in a medieval manuscript of the fourteenth century, and its the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
Looking at the depiction, it obvious that there are similarities between Yoda and the character found in a manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX also known among researchers as the Smithfield Decretals.
It is found in the British Library and was written in the south of France probably between 1300 and 1340 and includes papal letters, doctrine, and ecclesiastical decrees.
Master Yoda was apparently found by historian Damien Kempf while researching for his new book, Medieval Monsters.
“When I came across this monster, I actually couldn’t believe it. It’s a manuscript that was produced 700 years ago,” Kempf told BBC Radio’s
Nobody knows who this character with greenish complexion, a big skirt, and big ears really is.
However, compared to an image of the Jedi master who was a mentor to the young Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, the two are identical.
The British Library started uploading images like of ancient texts like this one where we can see Yoda in 2010, so it’s not really possible that George Lucas was inspired by ancient manuscripts like these unless of course he actually went through the British Library’s archives when he was creating the first Star Wars movie.
So… how did Yoda come into existence? The make-up artist Stuart Freeborn
based Yoda’s face partly on his own and partly on Albert Einstein’s. Freeborn oversaw the design of the original Jabba the Hutt puppet used in Return of the Jedi, as well as the creation of the Ewoks.
In The Phantom Menace, Yoda was redesigned to look younger.
He was computer-generated for two distant shots but remained mostly a puppet.
The puppet was re-designed by Nick Dudman from Stuart Freeborn’s original design.
Therefore, many people—especially Star WarsFans—find it would be necessary to clarify who this greenish, Yoga-looking figure really represents, and what he’s doing in an ancient manuscript that dates back to the 14th Century.
Curiously, if you take a look at the ancient manuscript, and compare it to the ‘characters’ from Kempf’s new book, you’ll notice Yoda isn’t the only familiar character around.
You can spot a few more creatures that bear an incredible resemblance to figures of recent times.
Is that a Ferengi from Star Trek?
Featured image credit:Wikimedia Commons / British Library
Could it be that the more rational and methodical searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are overlooking “the gorilla in the room?” A new study suggests it’s possible.
Have you seen the video above? Count how many times the players in white pass the basketball. Watch the video all the way through. What number did you get? And did you see the gorilla? When researchers in the 1990s first showed this video, as part of a test of human beings’ inattentional blindness, more than half the participants did not notice the gorilla. In a way that’s similar, a new study from neuropsychologists suggests that our human culture may not have detected extraterrestrial signals because, according to the study’s first author Gabriel de la Torre of the University of Cádiz, when we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them through our unique human perceptions and consciousness:
… We are limited by our sui generis vision of the world, and it’s hard for us to admit it. What we are trying to do … is to contemplate other possibilities, for example, beings of dimensions that our mind cannot grasp; or intelligences based on dark matter or energy forms, which make up almost 95% of the universe and which we are only beginning to glimpse. There is even the possibility that other universes exist, as the texts of Stephen Hawking and other scientists indicate.
De la Torre and co-author Manuel García, also of the University of Cádiz, have an article related to this subject coming out in May 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Astronautica (view article online).
The authors – who say they prefer to avoid the terms extraterrestrial or alien and instead use the more generic term non-terrestrial – state that our own neurophysiology, psychology and consciousness can play an important role in the search for non-terrestrial civilizations. In relation to this, they conducted an experiment with 137 people, who had to distinguish aerial photographs with artificial structures (buildings, roads …) from others with natural elements (mountains, rivers …).
In one of the images, shown below, a tiny character disguised as a gorilla was inserted to see if the participants noticed.
Aerial picture to which a small gorilla was incorporated (top left) for an experiment. The more intuitive observers identified it more times than the more rational and methodical ones. / Modified photo of an original NASA picture via SiNC.
The result was similar to those in the 1990s gorillia-video study, described at the top of this post. In other words, many did not notice the guy in the gorilla costume. But De La Torre’s study found a difference in perception of the gorilla between people with different cognitive styles. De La Torre said:
…we assessed the participants with a series of questions to determine their cognitive style (if they were more intuitive or rational), and it turned out that the intuitive individuals identified the gorilla of our photo more times than those more rational and methodical.
If we transfer this to the problem of searching for other non-terrestrial intelligences, the question arises about whether our current strategy may result in us not perceiving the gorilla. Our traditional conception of space is limited by our brain, and we may have the signs above and be unable to see them. Maybe we’re not looking in the right direction.
The authors’ paper also mentioned another example, drawn from Dawn spacecraft images of the dwarf planet Ceres, which is famous for its bright spots. Within the Ceres crater Occator, there appears an apparently geometric figure. De La Torre said:
Our structured mind tells us that this structure looks like a triangle with a square inside, something that theoretically is not possible in Ceres, but maybe we are seeing things where there are none, what in psychology is called pareidolia.
However, De La Torre said, there is another possibility:
The opposite could also be true. We can have the signal in front of us and not perceive it or be unable to identify it. If this happened, it would be an example of the cosmic gorilla effect. In fact, it could have happened in the past or it could be happening right now.
Bottom line: A new study from neuropsychologists suggests that our human culture may not have detected extraterrestrial signals because, when we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them through the filter of our own human perceptions and consciousness. There could be a range of possibilities that we’re not considering.
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12-04-2018
NASA’s STS 115 Mission: When A UFO Prevented The Space Shuttle From Returning Home
NASA’s STS 115 Mission: When A UFO Prevented The Space Shuttle From Returning Home
One of the most fascinating UFO videos ever filmed by NASA was recorded during space shuttle Atlantis’ trip to the International Space Station in September of 2006.
During the 13-day mission, a number of mysterious objects were spotted by the Astronauts, and one in particular sighting caused Atlantis to delay their return to Earth.
On September 19, 11 days into the mission, when the crew was preparing for their return home, astronauts aboard the shuttle informed the Mission Control Center that, following the test of the reaction control system, an object was seen moving in a co-orbital path with the Orbiter. The astronauts spotted the object using an on-board TV camera, but unfortunately the resolution of the images was not high enough to identify the object.
In a news report by Space.com from September 19 dubbed ‘Atlantis Landing Delayed After Mystery Object Spotted,’ we can see the importance not only NASA, but Astronauts gave to the object, and the confusion it created.
“The question is ‘What is it?'” NASA’s shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said at the time, adding that the object – which appeared small and dark against a blue Earth in the video – could be something as simple as ice, ceramic cloth gap-filler, or a piece of harmless shim stock plastic known to be dangling from Atlantis’ heat shield. “Is it something benign like that, which we have seen before, or is it something more critical that we should pay attention to?”
But was it only ice, ceramic cloth gap-filler, or a piece of harmless shim stock plastic known to be dangling from Atlantis’ heat shield? Or is it possible that the mysterious object may have been something far more mysterious?
“Shuttle Atlantis’ return home has been moved back a day, until Thursday morning, due to poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center, and continued analysis by NASA managers/Tiger Team to ascertain what an Unidentified Falling Object (UFO) may be after it was spotted near the orbiter.”
Speaking to NASA Spaceflight at the time, Wayne Hale said: “‘It appears to be tumbling, and it also appears to be rectangular in shape, but we have no scale to reference with that photography – so we still have a bit of a mystery there.”
But despite trying to understand what it was, no one could say for sure. What NASA did know at the time is that nothing was missing from the orbited:
“We have already cleared many parts of the orbiter (through that data),” confirmed Hale. “And we’ve spotted nothing missing.”
But the one object wasn’t alone. Astronauts quickly spotted more mysterious objects near the shuttle.
At the time, Atlantis commander Brent Jett described the objects as two rings, adding that: “It doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen outside the shuttle.”
It is noteworthy to mention that during NASA Space Shuttle program, countless mysterious objects have been spotted not only near NASA’s Space Shuttles but near the International Space Station as well.
In December 1984 a package with no return address and an Albuquerque post-mark arrived in Jaime Shandera’s mail in North Hollywood, California. Inside was a roll of 35mm film. When developed, it turned out to contain eight pages of an alleged briefing paper, dated November 18, 1952, in which Vice Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter told President-elect Dwight Eisenhower of the recovery of the remains of two crashed spaceships.
In the first of these crashes, in early July 1947, authorities recovered the bodies of four humanoid beings. According to the document, which appended a copy of what was supposed to be the actual executive order, President Harry Truman authorized the creation of a supersecret group called “Majestic 12” (MJ-12 for short) to study the remains.
Acting on a tip from sources who claimed to represent Air Force intelligence, Shandera and his associate William Moore (coauthor of The Roswell Incident) flew to Washington, D.C. They searched the National Archives looking for references in official documents to MJ-12. They found a July 1954 memo from Gen. Robert Cutler, an Eisenhower assistant, referring to an “MJ-12 SSP [Special Studies Project]” to be held at the White House on the 16th of that month.
In the first of these crashes, in early July 1947, authorities recovered the bodies of four humanoid beings. According to the document, which appended a copy of what was supposed to be the actual executive order, President Harry Truman authorized the creation of a supersecret group called “Majestic 12” (MJ-12 for short) to study the remains.
Acting on a tip from sources who claimed to represent Air Force intelligence, Shandera and his associate William Moore (coauthor of The Roswell Incident) flew to Washington, D.C. They searched the National Archives looking for references in official documents to MJ-12. They found a July 1954 memo from Gen. Robert Cutler, an Eisenhower assistant, referring to an “MJ-12 SSP [Special Studies Project]” to be held at the White House on the 16th of that month.
When this document was released in May 1987, it sparked massive controversy. The document is believed to be a hoax, but the identity and motive of the perpetrator remain unknown.
In the spring of 1987 an unknown individual, allegedly associated with an intelligence agency, gave British writer Timothy Good a copy of the MJ-12 document. Upon learning Good was going to disclose its existence to the press, Moore and Shandera released their copy, along with the Cutler memo. The result was a massive uproar, including coverage in The New York Times and Night line, an FBI investigation, and furious controversy that continues to this day.
For various technical reasons most investigators agree that the MJ-12 document is a forgery, but the identity of the forger remains a deep mystery that even the FBI cannot crack. The forger apparently had access to obscure official information, much of it not even in the public record, leading to suspicions that an intelligence agency created the document for disinformation purposes. Whatever the answer, the MJ-12 document is surely the most puzzling hoax in UFO history.
TOP SECRET / MAJIC 002
EYES ONLY
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SUBJECT: OPERATION MAJESTIC-12 PRELIMINARY BRIEFING FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT EISENHOWER
DOCUMENT PREPARED 18 NOVEMBER, 1952
BRIEFING OFFICER: ADM. ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER (MJ-1)
NOTE: This document has been prepared as a preliminary briefing only. It should be regarded as introductory to a full operations briefing intended to follow.
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OPERATION MAJESTIC-12 is a TOP SECRET Research and Development/Intelligence operation responsible directly and only to the President of the United States. Operations of the project are carried out under the control of the Majestic-12 (Majic-12) Group which was established by special classified executive order of President Truman on 24 September, 1947, upon recommendation by Dr. Vannevar Bush and Secretary James Forrestal. (See Attachment “A”.)
Members of the Majestic-12 Group were designated as follows:
Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Dr. Vannevar Bush Secy. James V. Forrestal* Gen. Nathan P. Twining Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg Dr. Detlev Bronk Dr. Jerome Hunsaker Mr. Sidney W. Souers Mr. Gordon Gray Dr. Donald Menzel Gen. Robert M. Montague Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner
The death of Secretary Forrestal on 22 May, 1949, created a vacancy which remained unfilled until 01 August, 1950, upon which date Gen. Walter B. Smith was designated as permanent replacement.
On 24 June, 1947, a civilian pilot flying over the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington observed nine flying disc-shaped aircraft traveling in formation at a high rate of speed. Although this was not the first known sighting of such objects, it was the first to gain widespread attention in the public media. Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects followed. Many of these came from highly credible military and civilian sources. These reports resulted in independent efforts by several different elements of the military to ascertain the nature and purpose of these objects in the interests of national defense. A number of witnesses were interviewed and there were several unsuccessful attempts to utilize aircraft in efforts to pursue reported discs in flight. Public reaction bordered on near hysteria at times.
In spite of these efforts, little of substance was learned about the objects until a local rancher reported that one had crashed in a remote region of New Mexico located approximately seventy-five miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (now Walker Field).
On 07 July, 1947, a secret operation was begun to assure recovery of the wreckage of this object for scientific study. During the course of this operation, aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. These had fallen to earth about two miles east of the wreckage site. All four were dead and badly decomposed due to action by predators and exposure to the elements during the approximately one week time period which had elapsed before their discovery. A special scientific team took charge of removing these bodies for study. (See attachment “C”.) The wreckage of the craft was also removed to several different locations. (See Attachment “B”.) Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed, and news reporters were given the effective cover story that the object had been a misguided weather research balloon.
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A covert analytical effort organized by Gen. Twining and Dr. Bush acting on the direct orders of the President, resulted in a preliminary consensus (19 September, 1947) that the disc was most likely a short range reconnaissance craft. This conclusion was based for the most part on the craft’s size and the apparent lack of any identifiable provisioning. (See Attachment “D”.) A similar analysis of the four dead occupants was arranged by Dr. Bronk. It was the tentative conclusions of this group (30 November, 1947) that although these creatures are human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary processes responsible for their development has apparently been quite different from those observed or postulated in homo-sapiens. Dr. Bronk’s team has suggested the term “Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities”, or “EBE’s”, be adopted as the standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as a more definitive designation can be agreed upon.
Since it is virtually certain that these craft do not originate in any country on earth, considerable speculation has centered around what their point of origin might be and how they get here. Mars was and remains a possibility, although some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider it more likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely.
Numerous examples of what appear to be a form of writing were found in the wreckage. Efforts to decipher these have remained largely unsuccessful. (See Attachment “E”.) Equally unsuccessful have been efforts to determine the method of propulsion or the nature or method of transmission of the power source involved. Research along these lines has been complicated by the complete absence of identifiable wings, propellers, jets, or other conventional methods of propulsion and guidance, as well as a total lack of metallic wiring, vacuum tubes, or similar recognizable electronic components. (See Attachment “F”.) It is assumed that the propulsion unit was completely destroyed by the explosion which caused the crash.
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TOP SECRET / MAJIC 005
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A need for as much additional information as possible about these craft, their performance characteristics and their purpose led to the undertaking known as U. S. Air Force Project SIGN in December, 1947. In order to preserve security, liaison between SIGN and Majestic-12 was limited to two individuals within the Intelligence Division of Air Material Command whose role was to pass along certain types of information through channels. SIGN evolved into Project GRUDGE in December, 1948. The operation is currently being conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK, with liaison maintained through the Air Force officer who is head of the project.
On 06 December, 1950, a second object, probably of similar origin, impacted the earth at high speed in the El Indio – Guerrero area of the Texas – Mexican border after following a long trajectory through the atmosphere. By the time a search team arrived, what remained of the object had been almost totally incinerated. Such material as could be recovered was transported to the A.E.C. facility at Sandia, New Mexico, for study.
Implications for the National Security are of continuing importance in that the motives and ultimate intentions of these visitors remain completely unknown. In addition, a significant upsurge in the surveillance activity of these craft beginning in May and continuing through the autumn of this year has caused considerable concern that new developments may be imminent. It is for these reasons, as well as the obvious international and technological considerations and the ultimate need to avoid a public panic at all costs, that the Majestic-12 Group remains of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the strictest security precautions should continue without interruption into the new administration. At the same time, contingency plan MJ-1949-04P/78 (Top Secret – Eyes Only) should be held in continued readiness should the need to make a public announcement present itself. (See Attachment “G”.)
What Are Good Reasons For The Government To Hide Proof Of Alien Contact?
What Are Good Reasons For The Government To Hide Proof Of Alien Contact?
I am going to try and deal with some potentially realistic scenarios. Keep in mind the government plans for the worst case scenario but hopes for the best. So these describe the worst case scenarios of the public finding out. Any worst-case scenario that is impossible to tame or deal with would indicate it might be best to keep the info hidden until they need to tell us.
Also, we should remember any species that is capable of surviving for the hundreds of years it would take to get here under less than light speed or any species capable of faster than light travel would also be hundreds and hundreds of years more advanced than us. Both long distance slow travel and faster than light travel are so incredibly difficult that it would far exceed our science. So much so that their technology would seem almost like magic to us. It would be like showing someone from the middle ages tv’s, jet planes and open heart surgery. They might have active nanotech, the ability to manipulate gravitons, antimatter, and magnetic monopoles or some other exotic technologies we haven’t even dreamed of yet.
To be very clear: These are hypothetical scenarios based on the question. Personally, I know of no evidence that leads any direct credence to any of these. While each might be possible there is no known evidence of any of these scenarios.
Aliens are suspected to have visited but only a very long time ago and there is no evidence of hostility. It would not make sense to get the public up in arms over something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. Such a revelation would create a host of issues from religious to political as well as boldening fringe groups, militants, and wackos. Why create an alarm if it was so long ago, there is no evidence they are harmful and we don’t even know if they would come back?
Aliens visited but only a few times and there is either no evidence of hostility or not enough to make a determination of if they are potentially friend or foe. In this scenario, the aliens might be peaceful or might not but if you get the whole world and the internet talking about it. You will eventually have high-profile and visible people making stupid or dangerous statements that could be misinterpreted by the aliens. Our movies are bad enough in how we depict aliens but if we have talking heads talking about how we need to put killer satellites in space to defend against what may, in fact, be peaceful aliens we risk creating a more tense situation than is necessary. When the aliens do return they will see us going crazy over aliens.That is probably not the way the government wants to make first contact.
Aliens have visited us could be hostile and they have technology that we cannot hope to compete with. This is the worst of all possible scenarios. They seem to be potentially hostile and they have weapons that would make it near impossible to beat them in a conflict. Widespread panic would engulf the world including doomsday cults and those that want to worship the aliens.Religious leaders would have to explain how aliens fit into systems that are inherently human biased.Speculation and talk of how to defend or fight such aliens in the media and public would make a potentially bad situation against a superior enemy worse. It might even move them to make a preemptive strike as opposed to accepting some kind of surrender or treaty.
The aliens are friendly, social and responsible. They are working with the government to quietly and slowly acclimate us to the idea of there being aliens without admitting it until we are ready to reduce panic and social unrest. Even if the aliens were good-natured they could easily see how exposing themselves to us could disrupt our societies. Thus they would tell the government to deny any existence but they would encourage us to explore the concepts in movies, TV and books and plays. Occasional leaks would happen because such a coverup cannot be perfect but those only help to seed the idea that aliens might exist.In this scenario, they are actually keeping it quiet so they can do a slow and phased exposure to this idea. First, they would show life on Mars and other planets in a simple and harmless form, and might even fake such results (if these planets are barren) just to get the dialogue going. Once we have accepted life can exist on other planets other revelations would come at a very slow pace maybe once every 5 or 10 years such as receiving a strange but brief broadcast signal. Eventually, these kinds of events and experiences would ramp up until we get to the point of actually trying to send messages to the aliens. The aliens which might very well already be here would pretend to be sending the messages from very far away and thus replies take 10 or more years. Eventually, they would plan for our first public first contact. Using a scenario like this most of the threats from the above scenarios could be avoided.
We know that they exist but we only know from receiving very distant and very faint communications. In this scenario, the government would want to tread very lightly and take it very slowly. They might not want to communicate back and confirm we are here until they know more about the aliens. There is no evidence the aliens have ever visited us and based on the source of the communications any trip or message would take a very long time to arrive. They would likely want to wait and learn more as well as ramp up our space spending so we can try to have sufficient technology to deal with any political or hostile situations that might arise.
There is evidence of aliens and it points to them either interfering directly with human development or the genetics of all life on our planet. The potential questions and issues surrounding alien-initiated Panspermia are too many to name.It would throw most religions into a tailspin because it would mean life was created by aliens and not by some deity. Many religions would fracture and either declare such evidence to be false and demonic or might even move to start embracing the aliens as gods and worshipping them. Others would leave the churches and yet others might join them seeking some kind of help as they fear the implications of such a revelation. Socially this would mean a great deal of upheaval given the numbers of religious people worldwide.Scientifically it would validate some science and throw others out the window. We would then have to begin looking at how this alien abiogenesis was accomplished and how much of the development of life was altered and how much was from natural evolution. All data on evolution would need to be carefully scrutinized.On top of all of that, the question would be if they are still here or not and how much they have continued to interfere with human development. Are we just a big experiment to them?
No matter how you look at it, although proof of extraterrestrial life in any form especially a sentient form would be both a big boon and a big strife to our society. It would likely be a transformative event on the scale of nuclear bombs. Using nuclear weapons as an example, governments were researching and developing the technology for them for decades and denied any knowledge of their existence until the USA actually dropped the first ones. Such things that shake up a society you do not take lightly. I trust the government would take finding aliens very carefully too.
Much thought has gone into what might be the Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact. These include many additional scenarios to the ones above including loss of identity as a species, being forced to remove weapons of mass destruction, risks from technology we do not yet know how to use, legal issues over personhood and rights of aliens and so much more.
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NASA TESS set to reveal thousands of alien worlds around us
NASA TESS set to reveal thousands of alien worlds around us
Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer
Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:22 PM - NASA's newest exoplanet hunter is go for launch on Monday, and is set to draw back the veil on our universe, to reveal the multitude of alien planets that are no doubt surrounding us.
Just over nine years ago, NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope, which has found over 2,600 confirmed alien worlds, and an even greater number of candidate worlds awaiting confirmation from other sources. Kepler accomplished this by initially fixing its gaze down the local branch of our galactic spiral arm, at one specific batch of around 100,000 stars, and then later, under its K2 mission, by adjusting its field of view to a different patch of space every three months.
On Monday, April 16, NASA is scheduled to launch their new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, aka TESS.
This new satellite will take up the search from Kepler, but rather than looking at only one patch of the sky, TESS will scan nearly the entire sky around us, during its first two years in space.
Watch below to see the field of view of TESS, and how it plans to scan space around us.
NASA will be hosting three different events on Sunday, April 15 - a NASA Social Mission Overview at 11 a.m. EDT, a prelaunch news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, and a science news conference at 3 p.m. EDT. Tune in below to watch (and enjoy the NASA TV stream until then).
Then, return on Monday, April 16, first at 10 a.m. EDT for a live 30 minute show NASA EDGE: TESS, which will discuss how the spacecraft will search for alien worlds, and then at 6 p.m. EDT for coverage of the 6:32 p.m. EDT launch.
How do you find exoplanets?
There are a few ways to tell if there are planets orbiting around a distant star.
You can directly image them, but this is very difficult, and only captures the largest planets, and those in the most distant orbits around their stars. You can watch for a wobble in the star's light, caused as a planet drags the star around in a bit of a stellar dance. Again, this tends to only find the largest planets. You can even use spacetime itself, as a planet's gravity forms a gravitational lens, warping the light from stars directly beyond your star of interest. This, too, only tends to find the largest planets, since they create the largest gravitational lens.
The most successful method at finding planets, and the best at finding smaller, rocky worlds, is the 'transit method'.
Here, you aim a very sensitive, very steady telescope at a distant star, and watch that star, constantly, for as long as possible. If the star's light dims briefly, and does so regularly, by the same amount, it is very likely that you're seeing a planet pass between your telescope and that star.
This animation demonstrates how a 'transiting' exoplanet shows up to a telescope like Kepler or TESS. Credit: NASA/Scott Sutherland
TESS will use this method as it concentrates on over 200,000 of the closest stars around us, out to about 300 light years, which will be far brighter than most of the stars studied so far by Kepler. This will provide much more information on these targets, as the spacecraft's cameras spend a total of 27 days on each sector of space.
The combined field of view of the four TESS cameras (left), how each of the 26 observation sectors (13 per hemisphere) fit together during the first two years (centre), and the duration of observations for different regions of the celestial sphere, taking into account overlap of TESS's field of view. The dashed black circle around the ecliptic pole is where the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe at any time.
Credit: NASA GSFC
That schedule will limit TESS's ability to spot repeat transits, except for those planets orbiting closely around red dwarf stars, however by scanning nearly all of the space around us, it still has a chance to pick up thousands, to tens of thousands of transiting planets during its initial 2-year scan, and possibly things that we can not even anticipate at this time.
"I don’t think we know everything TESS is going to accomplish," Stephen Rinehart, TESS project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a NASA statement. "To me, the most exciting part of any mission is the unexpected result, the one that nobody saw coming."
RUSSIA “UFO’S ARE REAL AND WE KNOW HOW TO SUMMON THEM!”
RUSSIA “UFO’S ARE REAL AND WE KNOW HOW TO SUMMON THEM!”
Russians have claimed that they can predict when UFOs will appear and that they can even willingly summon them. They claim that UFO activity is increased when large scale weapons testing is taking place and have been measuring UFO activity by doing so.
According to Vasily Yeremenko, a Major General of FIB in reserve, academician of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement:
“We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovka. To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of 100 percent.”
The Russians have come to three main conclusions:
Modern science is not yet able to identify such phenomena.
The UFOs could be US or Japan surveillance drones.
The UFOs could be extraterrestrial activity.
According to Svobodnaya Pressa, a news website, the Russian Navy have now declassified records of encounters with unidentified objects that technologically surpass anything ever built by humanity.
A special Navy group headed by Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov collected information on reports of unidentified objects, delivered by submarines and military ships.
According to Vladimir Azhazha, a UFO researcher and former Navy officer:
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water.”
According to one report, a nuclear submarine on a combat mission detected six unknown objects pursuing them. After failing to lose the objects, the captain ordered the submarine to surface – the objects followed, departed from the water and flew away at high speed.
In 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal saw a group of humanoid beings dressed in silvery suits. Despite the divers trying to catch them, three of them died whilst the other four were injured.
According to Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence:
“Ocean UFO’s often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
A sealed lake is an ideal place to look for clues about extraterrestrial life — and researchers have just identified a few more.
Small valley glacier exiting the Devon Island Ice Cap in Canada. The Devon Ice Cap appears to be the only holder of salty subglacial lakes (as far as we know).
Image credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Life on other planets might not be located the most obvious of places. While researchers used to think that Earth-like planets such as Mars or Venus were capable of holding life, modern research has shown that places like Europa or Enceladus are much more likely to be hospitable (Europa and Enceladus are two frozen moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively). However, astronomers have evidence that beneath the frozen surface lies a vast ocean of liquid where life may very well thrive. Researchers want to explore this avenue before actually landing a shuttle on the surface of these moons (which may take a very long time) and the best way to do that is by studying subglacial lakes.
Subglacial lakes are bodies of water perfectly sealed under a glacier — typically an ice cap or ice sheet. There are 400 known subglacial lakes in the world, most of which can be found in Antarctica, with Lake Vostok being probably the most well known. Since they’re sealed off from the rest of the world, life can develop and adapt independently — this essentially means that subglacial lakes are potentially unique microbial habitats which can provide information about how life might have developed on places like Europa. Now, lead author Anja Rutishauser, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, has found the first subglacial lakes in the Canadian High Arctic.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
An artist’s cross-section of Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake in Antarctica. Importantly, the lake is sealed by kilometers of ice.
Image credits: Nicolle Rager-Fuller / NSF.
What makes these newly discovered lakes extra special is that they seem to contain very salty water — all other subglacial lakes we know of are thought to contain freshwater, or only mildly saline water. All subglacial lakes are good analogs for life beyond Earth, but the hypersaline nature of these newly discovered lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogs for ice-covered moons in our solar system, according to the researchers. There is strong evidence that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa contains hypersaline water.
The lake was discovered using remote sensing, which is promising, especially considering that NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which is set to launch sometime in the 2020s and take samples from Europa, will use similar remote sensing techniques. An analysis of the radar data shows that the lakes are located 550 to 750 meters beneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. They’ve not had contact with the outside world for tens of thousands of years.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
Now, researchers would like to sample this environment, which is probably more complicated than you’d expect. It’s not just drilling through hundreds of meters (or perhaps even kilometers) of ice that’s problematic: there’s also the matter of contamination — if a unique microbial environment does exist, the last thing you’d want to do is contaminate it.
Journal Reference: Anja Rutishause et al. Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4353
On This Day In Space! April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin Becomes 1st Human in Space
On This Day In Space! April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin Becomes 1st Human in Space
ByHanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
Welcome to "On This Day ... in Space!" where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast from the past with Space.com's Hanneke Weitering to look back at what happened on this day in space!
On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth.
This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule.
Gagarin lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached an altitude of about 200 miles. He orbited the Earth one time before his re-entry module separated and fell to Earth. Gagarin ejected himself from the spacecraft and safely parachuted down to Earth. Both he and his spacecraft touched down some 1,700 miles west of the planned landing site.
Yuri Gagarin's flight has spawned an international party to celebrate space exploration, human spaceflight and Gagarin himself. The Yuri's Night party occurs each year to give space fans around the world a chance to assemble and share their enthusiasm. They also have another reason to celebrate on April 12: It's the anniversary of NASA's first space shuttle launch - STS-1 on Columbia in 1981 - ushering in the era of reusable spacecraft.
NASA-GSFCIllustratie van de Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope (TESS).
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET SpaceX, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Elon Musk, zal volgende week een nieuwe NASA-telescoop lanceren. De Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) zal 200.000 nabijgelegen sterren afspeuren op zoek naar rotsachtige planeten, ongeveer even groot als de aarde.
De TESS is NASA’s krachtigste telescoop totnogtoe die zal worden ingeschakeld voor de zoektocht naar leefbare planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel. Maandag omstreeks 16.32 uur lokale tijd zal een Falcon 9-raket de satelliet in een baan om de aarde brengen.
NASA ontdekte al duizenden exoplaneten met de Kepler-telescoop, maar die onderzocht slecht een smalle, diepe regio. TESS zal een gebied afspeuren dat honderden keren groter is, en veel dichter bij de Aarde, op zoek naar mogelijk leefbare planeten.
“We leerden van Kepler dat er aan de hemel meer planeten dan sterren zijn en nu zal TESS ons de ogen openen voor een brede waaier aan planeten rondom de meest nabijgelegen sterren”, zegt Paul Hertz, directeur van de afdeling astrofysica bij NASA in een persbericht.
Kepler vs. TESS
De Kepler-telescoop onderzocht 150.000 sterren op zoek naar exoplaneten die eromheen cirkelen. De telescoop speurde daarbij een gebied ter grootte van 0,25 procent van de nachtelijke hemel af dat 3000 lichtjaren diep is. Daarbij ontdekte hij een vijftigtal rotsachtige, aardeachtige planeten, waarvan er tien mogelijk bewoonbaar zijn, en 4000 mogelijke andere planeten sinds de lancering in 2009. Met een artificiële intelligentie-algoritme van Google werden in die data nog meer kandidaat-planeten aangetroffen.
TESS zal gedurende twee jaar 200.000 sterren aan ongeveer 85 procent van de nachtelijke hemel onderzoeken die allemaal amper minder dan 300 lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn en zo’n 30 tot 100 keer krachtiger de sterren die Kepler bestudeerde.
Transitiemethode
De telescoop hanteert de transitiemethode en detecteert exoplaneten door op zoek te gaan naar dipjes in het zichtbare licht van de sterren. Als die dipjes repetitief zijn en een vast tijdsinterval hebben, kan dat wijzen op een planeet of planeten die rond een ster cirkelen.
“TESS zal duizenden planeten ontdekken en is bovendien specifiek ontworpen om een groep kleine planeten te vinden die rond kleine sterren draaien”, zo valt te lezen op een website van het project. Onderzoekers verwachten een 300-tal planeten te vinden die zo groot zijn als de Aarde of als een superaarde: maximaal twee keer zo groot als de Aarde.
Opvolging
De James Webb-ruimtetelescoop die vanaf 2020 de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop moet vervangen en het grootste ruimteobservatorium zal zijn dat ooit gelanceerd werd, zal de data van TESS vervolgens verder onderzoeken en de meest interessante nabijgelegen rotsachtige planeten bestuderen.
Met wat geluk zal de James Webb-telescoop zelfs licht opvangen van de atmosfeer van een exoplaneet en zo indirect bewijs vinden voor buitenaards leven.
Where are the aliens? Enrico Fermi called the fact that there are so many stars and yet no aliens visiting us a paradox. Perhaps the second half of the paradox is wrong … aliens exist and are living amongst us but we’re so distracted by watching what we know that we complete ignore them. That’s the premise behind the Cosmic Gorilla Effect, and a new study suggests that a simple video experiment with athletes and an ape may prove that we’re not alone … just oblivious.
“The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals” is the title of a new studypublished in the journal Acta Astronautica. The “gorilla effect” refers to a famous experiment conducted by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons – cognitive psychologists and authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. A video (seen here) shows six people – three in black shirts and three in white – passing basketballs to only those wearing the same colored shirts. The participant is instructed to count how many times the people in white shirts pass the ball. At the end, they’re asked for their total, given the correct answer, and then asked another very embarrassing question:
“But did you see the gorilla?”
Yes, a gorilla walked between the players and most people are so focused on counting that they miss it completely. The experiment is often used to describe situations like the unreliability of witnesses at crime scenes who are often focused on something else. In their new study, neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García from the University of Cádiz in Spain use a “cosmic” version of the gorilla effect to explain why we may not see the extraterrestrials walking through the scenery of our lives.
“If we transfer this to the problem of searching for other non-terrestrial intelligences, the question arises about whether our current strategy may result in us not perceiving the gorilla. Our traditional conception of space is limited by our brain, and we may have the signs above and be unable to see them. Maybe we’re not looking in the right direction.”
Garcia and de la Torre conducted their own experiment – asking volunteers to differentiate between aerial views of buildings and nature scenes while hiding a tiny gorilla in one of them. Intuitive people noticed the gorilla more often than those who saw themselves as logical or methodical. One way they explained this is by the concept of ‘reverse pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency to see something real or significant in a random array of shapes – the ‘face of Jesus on a tortilla’ or pyramids, buildings or animals in blurry photographs from the surface of Mars. In reverse pareidolia, we’re looking so hard for extraterrestrial beings we’re familiar with (greys, reptilians, robots, etc.) that we completely miss things that resemble nothing we’ve ever encountered. Instead of seeing things where there are none, we’re not seeing things where there are some.
The “cosmic gorilla effect” is entirely plausible, especially when you throw in the ideas of multiple dimensions and the existence of dark matter. However, is it true? Or are we in the “zoo hypothesis” with ETs who would be visible to us but intentionally hide themselves while they observe us?
Here’s another experiment for you. Somewhere hidden in this article is a great name for band. Did you see it?
As with all things that require vast amounts of manpower and capital, the Chinese are making swift advances in their space program. Despite threatening nearly the entire planet with a falling space station and dropping mysterious surveillance devices onto villages, the Chinese are on their way to becoming global leaders in space exploration. Chinese scientists recently developed plans to ‘colonize’ the moon with silkworms and launch a giant space laser into orbit – you know, for “peaceful” stuff. With all of this growth in their space program, it’s natural that the Chinese might be up to some more shadowy operations behind the scenes. Aren’t we all?
Whatever the Chinese are doing in Vanuatu, it’s got its neighbors spooked. Diplomats from Australia and New Zealand have expressed concern over a growing Chinese military presence on the small island nation. The Sydney Morning Heraldnotes that “access to open ocean can be useful for testing missile and space capabilities” and that “a future naval or air base in Vanuatu would give China a foothold to coerce Australia, outflank the US and its base on US territory at Guam, and collect intelligence in a regional security crisis.”
Vanuatu has strategic value in the South Pacific.
However, while many outlets are focusing on the militaristic advantages offered by a South Pacific base, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post recently ran an opinion piece pointing out that the rumored Chinese military installation on the island nation of Vanuatu might actually be some sort of mysterious space monitoring station. Just what are the Chinese up to in Oceania?
According to Beijing-based military expert Zhou Chenming, the base will likely be for used for rocket test flights and other aerospace experiments:
China needs a space control station in the South Pacific because it is going to launch more heavy rockets. The speculation is understandable because whatever projects China sets up overseas now, people will imagine it is going to be a military base, especially since space projects are carried out by the Chinese military.
Zhou points out that given China’s ambition to launch a manned lunar mission in the 2030s, it makes sense for them to establish a space base over open ocean where they won’t have to drop their rocket boosters onto unfortunate villages. What might this base foreshadow about the looming war in space?
How well do you know your U.S. UFO lore? The incident referred to as the “only historically documented UFO sighting in the United States” occurred in what state? If you said “New Mexico,” you’re close … but only because the International UFO Museum Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, donated funds to pay for a memorial to the incident which occurred on September 1st, 1969, in Sheffield, Massachusetts. There’s a UFO memorial in Sheffield, Massachusetts? Yes, but you’d better get there in a hurry because the local government wants it moved. Again. What do the aliens have to say about this?
“This Governor’s Citation [is] in recognition of the off-world incident on Sept. 1st, 1969, which engaged the Reed Family, which has been established.”
That’s part of the inscription on a 6-foot tall, 5,000-pound concrete memorial located at the end of the Old Covered Bridge, a replica (the original burned down in 1994) of the one Thom Reed, his mother, grandmother and brother crossed over on that hot night and into … something. Reed was 9 at the time and has become the official re-teller of the tale. He told it once again recently on the website All of New England.
“We then continued toward the Sheffield Covered Bridge. It was dark and there was a glow emitting up through the planks as we entered the bridge. As we exited the bridge my grandmother turned and talked to me as I had given my brother candy and she thought he might choke on it. She remarked on the luminescence that still remained behind us. At that point the craft was still beneath the riverbank.”
Reed says the craft rose up and suddenly engulfed the car in a reddish amber light.
“The next thing I remember is being in a building or a large area that resembled an airplane hangar with long fluorescent tubes, providing very low lights, equally spaced out on the top corner walls. My left arm was grabbed by a small bald hairless person. He pushed me out of the room and down a hallway. At that point I remember seeing two large ant-like insects there. They were four and a half feet tall with stick bamboo like legs. Their heads were orangey gold and shaped like a football. “
What’s a football?
The next thing Reed says he remembers is being back in the car. Only his grandmother was conscious and she drove the car back. What they thought was 15 minutes had actually been a couple of hours. They reported the incident to the police the next day and found that at least 20 others had also reported seeing a UFO. A local radio station said they received 40 calls from witnesses. At some point, Reed was said to have taken a lie detector test and got a 99.1 truth rating.
Based on that, the Great Barrington Historical Society declared the UFO sighting “historically significant and true” and money was raised, including a donation from the International UFO Museum Research Center in Roswell which has a wall dedicated to the incident, to create and install the monument at one end of the replica of the bridge. After a graffiti incident, the stone was moved a few weeks later when officials discovered it was on town property. The new location, 30 feet away on the Pine Island Farm, was eventually updated with two benches and lights and it became the Thom Reed UFO Monument Park. (Numerous photos of the monument and Thom Reed can be seen at the park website.)
“It’s kind of on town property and no one decided it could go there. The town has bylaws and if we let one place put something up then why can’t someone else? I don’t want that to happen.”
Town Administrator Rhonda LaBombard told the Berkshire Eagle that a recent land survey found that the little park with the big monument is still on a town right-of-way easement and must be moved again or the town will remove it in May. Reed himself is puzzled because LaBombard chose the site herself and farmer Louis Aragi thought it was on his private land.
What’s the problem? Despite the fact that it’s the “only historically documented UFO sighting in the United States” and the subject of six documentaries and numerous TV UFO investigation shows, the little park is probably not the tourist draw Sheffield had hoped it would be, and city officials may be concerned about future vandalism or other problems they don’t want responsibility for.
This couldn’t come at a worse time for Thom Reed. He’s currently working on three novellas based on the sighting, a possible six segment mini-series, and will be speaking at the International UFO Museum’s UFO Festival July 6- 8, 2018, where he’ll discuss the incident and probably his two other UFO encounters.
Maybe while he’s there he should pass the hat for the memorial.
Legendary Astronaut Apparently Spotted A UFO On Way To The Moon
Legendary Astronaut Apparently Spotted A UFO On Way To The Moon
Online UFO enthusiasts are debating whether the legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin ever spotted or sighted an alien spacecraft.
This report goes viral when Aldrin, the second man on the moon, and three others had reportedly passed lie detector tests under strict lab conditions.
The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio reportedly conducted a study which Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper took part. But it had been said that there must be more to this story or less.
Aldrin allegedly said that he spotted an unknown spaceship that had a shape of a letter L on his way to the moon. It was reportedly verified in subsequent lie detector tests that Aldrin was telling the truth.
However, it is impossible to know the integrity of the company that allegedly conducted the tests as no information on their website that could support the claims about Aldrin taking part of the tests.
Also based on the reports of Reddit Q&A, Aldrin also answered questions about the event where he spotted a UFO on his way to the moon was revealed to be in fact three years ago.
In this report of Reddit, they questioned Aldrin whether he believed in aliens and also about the sightings on his way to the moon on Apollo 11.
Aldrin then replied that he sighted a light moving with them on Apollo 11 towards the Moon. He noted that the light could be explained in a lot of ways like it could be a spacecraft of another country or world. He further explained that it could also be the rocket they had separated from, or possibly the 4 panels that moved away when they extracted the lander from the rocket, and they were facing with the two spacecraft. Aldrin did not discount the possibility that the sun reflected at one of those 4 panels. However, in technical terms, the light can be defined as unidentified, according to Aldrin.
According to Aldrin, they studied what they observed, and he wanted to share what happened to the world, but it did not apparently materialize. Many years later, he had a chance to disclose their observations on a television network in another country. However, UFO enthusiasts in the U.S. apparently got angry with him for not giving them the information. Aldrin explained that it was not an alien as he borrowed what Carl Sagan had said; extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
He also stated that there must be life somewhere in billions of other galaxies that are not yet explored.
Aldrin was on the same mission of Neil Armstrong, who was the first man on the moon and known for his quote “That one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Aldrin soon followed Neil’s footsteps, making him the second man on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface for a total of only 21 hours, 36 minutes and 21 seconds.
Buzz Aldrin Saw a UFO During 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission: "There Was Something Out There"
Buzz Aldrin explains Apollo 11 UFO sighting - not an alien ship
It’s almost 2018, and the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon (UAP, a term that seems to be the new “official wording” from government personnel) is now a verified fact within the mainstream. Just as certain as we are of several different concepts that come from repeatable hard science, or information about other phenomena in other subject areas dealing with observation, we (humanity) are just as certain about UFOs.
When Ex Canadian Defence minister Paul Hellyer said that “UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead,” he wasn’t joking. Documents, along with live testimony from dozens, if not hundreds of people from within “high level” government and intelligence groups have also been speaking about the topic quite publicly.
There are literally too many examples to name, from four star generals, to directors of military contractors like Lockheed Martin, directors of intelligence agencies, heads of major military committee’s, like NATO, and much more.
The latest examples would be Steve Justice, a recently retired 30 year director of Lockheed Skunkworks (aerospace), and now on as a director at To The Stars, who recently stated:
“This is a concept for an international point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time. It mimics the capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomenon by employing a drive system that alters space-time metric. We have glimpses of how the physics of this works, but we need to harvest technologies from the Science Division to “realize” the capability.”
– Steve Justice, Aerospace Division Director
By making this statement, he is relaying that there are unidentified craft that are using these capabilities to travel what we would consider to be vast distances.
One of his predecessors, Ben Rich (2nd director of Lockheed Shunkworks) also made some very interesting comments. You can read more about that, and access those comments here.
Robert Bigelow, the Founder of Bigelow aerospace recently went public stating that he knows for a fact that “ET” is here. You can see that interview and read more about it here.
Sure, witness testimony is not enough to draw a conclusion, but given their positions and long records of “credibility,” it’s almost ridiculous to ignore. If it were one or two people there would be reasons to doubt, but when there are multiple hundreds, we know something is up, especially when their encounters with “UFOs” has already been verified by their employer, the government, and by official previously classified documents.
Since many do not consider witness testimony credible, no matter who it comes from, it’s always important to mention the documents, the evidence of radar trackings and more.
Obviously, this is a topic that still challenges many people, rubs them the wrong way and conflicts with long held belief systems. This has been a pattern with many subjects and new discoveries throughout human history, things change slowly over time, but with our rapid technological development, which is still increasing at an exponential rate (don’t forget the black budget world), we don’t seem to be that far off. In fact, we already seem to be there.
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.” – Ben Rich (source)
Remember, UFO doesn’t exactly 100 percent equate to extraterrestrial, however, it’s one of many possibilities and probabilities that has its own evidence to make that assertion.
The documents that have been released by several governments, intelligence agencies and cases via The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indicate objects and encounters (mostly military encounters) with objects travelling at unattainable speeds, and performing maneuvers that no known aircraft of ours can, in some cases defying our own understanding of physics.
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ” (source)
We even have publications in peer-reviewed journals being put out about extraterrestrial hypothesis exists. Here is one example, here is another. Here’s another interesting one from 1994 talking about physical evidence related to the phenomenon, which we now have more of today.
Below is a great little talk from Jacques Vallee talking about how can start learning from all of these encounters. He’s a computer scientist and astronomer who has done work for NASA, and more. He’s most table for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET.
Government Deception
This would be an appropriate time to state that, obviously, our governments have deceived us on so many levels, it’s more than likely that as more information continues to make its way into the public domain, there will be good reasons to have a heightened sense scepticism when they speak about UFOs and/or extraterrestrials, as with anything else.
The mainstream world is full of twisted agendas and attempts to alter our perception for truth and profit, or other agenda’s that are not really in the people’s best interest, but rather the ‘1 percent’s’ best interest. The global war against drugs, or terrorism are perfect examples. Especially with the fact that ‘false flag’ terrorism has become more transparent.
To get a clear picture of this topic, which is almost impossible to do the deeper you get into it, one must do independent research rather than rely on the same media which has tight ties to corporate and government interests, under the guise of “national security.”
This is not to say that there are not good people, with pure intentions, just doing their job within these arenas. It’s a complicated topic, but when discussing it one must always keep the Deep State in the back of their mind, as it controls the entire geo-political perceptive, in most cases.
There are efforts being made to alert the public, Tom Delonge’s To The Stars effort is one of them, but this is a very compartmentalized topic. He is getting information from those from within the intelligence world, but who are they getting their information from and is it correct? Is it truthful? Or is there some sort of spin on it, for whatever reason? And do those who are relaying this information even realize that there could be as spin?
Are there really legitimate reasons for the cover-up after so many years? Was it justified? I believe humanity is meant to live in transparency, and we and can handle this type of information, and we were meant to receive it. Acknowledging certain truths about the nature of reality is an important step in our human evolution, as it provides opportunities for us to move beyond paradigms of the past, and move forward to where we are supposed to go, and perhaps that is to the stars.
The corporate and financial take-over of our democratic system has contributed to the secrecy, no doubt. This topic has huge technological and intellectual implications that could completely transform our planet and help create new ways of doing things here. And, as with everything else, those who are making billions and trillions off of the old way of doing things might also have a say.
What type of propulsion systems are these craft using?
Sure, we know UFOs are real, but mainstream media (as well as government) have a long history of taking real events and using them for their advantage, and usually do so by twisting our perception what’s really going on.
With this topic, as with every other, we simply can’t rely on government and official intelligence people all the time, with complete credibility. It’s important to remember that there is a lot of disinformation that has infiltrated this field, and one must always use their discernment.
Are They Extraterrestrial?
The existence of UFOs is verified, in several different ways, but extraterrestrial intelligence is still a different story. There are multiple factors that lead to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. As mentioned above, before UFOs were officially “verified,” there was good reason to believe in their existence, and now it’s official. In the same way, there is now evidence to believe that some of these sophisticated craft are in fact extraterrestrial.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Many people, like Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, have come forth expressing the same thing, and have flat out said that they have knowledge of extraterrestrial intelligence as it related to the UFO phenomenon.
Here’s an FBI document discussing extraterrestrial bodies and craft (page 21 & 22) , here’s an article with an interesting CIA document linked in it referring to extraterrestrial bodies and a military encounter. There are several examples one can locate within the literature, which are both benevolent and malevolent in nature.
Below is an interesting discussion featuring Richard Dolan, one of the worlds foremost authorities on the topic. He goes in a little deeper about the extraterrestrial hypothesis. If you want to learn more about the topic, he’s a great place to start.
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” – Herman Oberth, founding father of modern rocketry (source)
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Are Indonesia’s Massive Megalithic Statues Depictions Of Ancient Astronauts?
Are Indonesia’s Massive Megalithic Statues Depictions Of Ancient Astronauts?
The Lore Lindu National Park contains more than 400 megalithic sculptures some of which have anthropomorphic representations, which some compare with the moai of Easter Island, but even to otherworldly visitors.
The Bada Valley is located on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, within the Lore Lindu National Park.
Its main attraction is more than 400 megalithic sculptures scattered all over the place, 30 of which have anthropomorphic representations, which some compare with the moai of Easter Island, but even to otherworldly visitors.
Hundreds of these statues are believed to date back to the 14th century and are called watu (“stone”) in the local Badaic language and arca (“statue”) in Indonesian.
The purpose of the megaliths and their builders are unknown.
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They were discovered by western archeologists in 1908, although they are locally documented at least since the 14th century.
There are dozens of sculptures whose purpose unknown, and whose dating ranges from 1,000 to 5,000 years old, which means that they could be at least 500 years older than the first moai statues of Easter Island.
Some researchers believe that they are related to the megalithic culture of Laos, Cambodia, and parts of Indonesia, where different examples of megaliths have appeared.
However, the Bada Valley statues are unique in all of Southeast Asia due to their morphology.
Two Dutch ladies standing by a statue in Bada Valley in the 1930s.
“One named Tokala’ea, for instance, is said to be a rapist turned to stone; deep cuts in the rock represent scars from knives. Another statue named Tadulako—once a trusted village protector who turned to granite after stealing rice—was left to gaze across the valley at the villagers he betrayed.”
Still today some locals believe that stones have supernatural powers and are able to move by themselves, and many attribute them to our ancient ancestors and to beings that came from the heavens, thousands of years ago.
Archeologists have so far identified both male and female sculptures, differentiated by the representation of the genitals and facial features, such as long hair in women.
Other sculptures are minimalist, with faces indicated by a simple line for eyebrows, cheeks, and chin. Most of the megalithic figures are alone, with a small number of statues distributed forming groups. Curiously, some of the statues are up to 4 and a half meters tall.
Some statues have been found to represent animals as well.
Those that represent humans have huge heads with massive eyes and tall, straight bodies. Most of the statues have fallen and remain half-buried on the banks of rivers or in the middle of the field.
The Bada Valley is also well-known for the Kalambas, circular pots carved out of a single block of stone.
The so-called Kalambas can be found all across the valley and were crafted in various shapes and sizes.
Archeologists have found that some of Kalambas have a circular hole in the center, while others have been found to contain two, having a partition in the middle.
Despite the fact that the real use of the Kalambas remains a mystery, some say that these massive pots were used as bathtubs for nobles or kings.
Some authors indicate that these massive circular pots were once used as coffins, or even as cisterns for the storage of water.
Archeologists believe the Kalambas were once covered as they have found massive stone lids in their vicinity, which means that they were not used as bathtubs.
However, just as with the massive megalithic statues, the true purpose and origin of the Kalambas remain a profound mystery that archaeologists have not been able to solve.
Both the statues sand the Kalambas have been abandoned a long time ago, and researchers have not found any tools or other pieces of evidence of the ancient cultures that built them.
Egypt’s Stonehenge: Nabta Playa Predates Stonehenge By At Least A 1,000 Years
Egypt’s Stonehenge: Nabta Playa Predates Stonehenge By At Least A 1,000 Years
Studies and measurements made by satellite and GPS seem to confirm Nabta Playa’s alignment with Sirius, Alpha Centauri, and Orion’s Belt.
Thanks to recent studies we’ve been able to understand how in the distant past, Africa and much of Arabia was much different than it is today. We know that between 130,000-70,000 years ago the Egyptian region known as Nabta Playa, now an arid desert, was a savannah with abundant vegetation and wildlife.
Nabta Playa "ritual" area, Saharan Neolithic
Buffalos, giraffes, antelopes, and gazelles populated this endorheic basin that came to have a large lake.
The archaeological discoveries indicate that the human presence goes back at least to the tenth millennium BC.
There, among the numerous sites scattered around the area, we find a small cromlech, raised about a thousand years before Stonehenge, whose purpose remains a profound mystery.
Located deep within the Nubian Desert, about 800 kilometers south of Cairo and 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel lie the ruins of the Stonehenge of the desert.
The first groups of people must have been attracted to the region because of their sources of water and pasture for the cattle. The archaeological findings indicate the existence of settlements in this region in dates between the tenth and the eighth millennium BC.
The Nabta Playa cromlech is oval in shape, its largest diameter being about five meters. Seen here is a reproduction of the cromlech in the Museum of Aswan.
These people had a culture of domesticating cattle (perhaps the first in all of Africa to practice cattle grazing), and they used ceramic utensils adorned with elaborate inscriptions.
Around the VII century BC, archaeologists say there must have been an extensive and organized settlement in the region, with a deep well of water as a source of resources.
Cabins built with poles have been found.
The people who lived in the region had a rich diet which included fruits, vegetables, millet, sorghum, and tubercles.
Also, in the seventh millennium, but somewhat later, goats and sheep were brought to the region, apparently from the northwest.
38 “Sun calendar” in Nabta Playa
(courtesy L. Suková)
The people who inhabited the region developed quickly and upgraded their settlements.
Archeological excavations have revealed that these prehistoric people secured their survival, apparently, with a greater level of organization than their contemporaries of the Nile Valley: they erected stone structures above and below the ground, elaborately designed villages were erected, and the inhabitants of the region built deep wells that maintained water all year.
Sometimes during the VI millennium BC, evidence of a religion or prehistoric cult appeared; archaeologists discovered cattle buried in stone chambers with roofs covered with clay. Cattle were normally only killed on important occasions.
It has been suggested that the cult associated with sacrificing cattle shown in Nabta Playa marks an early evolution of the Hathor cult of Ancient Egypt.
Hathor was worshiped as a protector of the desert regions of Serabit el-Khadim.
Eventually, as this ancient people developed, sometimes between 6100 and 5800 BC one of the oldest known lithic constructions on Earth, the small “cromlech” of Nabta Playa, which is believed to have been erected a thousand years before Stonehenge.
As noted by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild: “The construction of the megaliths and the large complex structures at Nabta required significant effort, indicating the presence of a religious or political authority with control over human resources for an extended period of time. They, together with the calendar circle and cattle burials, represent an elaborate and previously unsuspected ceremonialism in the Neolithic of the Eastern Sahara. Although the evidence remains insecure and thus it cannot be demonstrated that these Saharan cattle pastoralists had a ranked society, this is, nevertheless, a strong possibility.”
It consists of thirty stones arranged in a circle, inside which there are six other stones.
The site also has five lithic alignments that extend from a set of central stones.
Astrophysicist Thoms G. Brophy suggested that the “megaliths” of Nabta Playa could have constituted a kind of astronomical observatory.
The circle of stones would be a calendar with four pairs of stones as doors, facing two to two: a pair oriented in a north-south direction and the second in a northeast-southwest direction, indicating the solstice.
Also, according to Brophy, the six central stones, and their different inclinations would also be part of the observatory.
He proposed that three of those stones are related to the Orion belt and the other three with the shoulder and the main star of Orion, with greater inclination than the three previous stones.
Its cycle is repeated approximately every 25,000 years, following the precession of the equinoxes.
The last minimum of the Orion belt occurred between 6400 and 4900 BC., according to radiocarbon dating of the remains of bonfires made in the circle.
In regards to the five radial alignments, Brophy’s interpretation suggested that the lines drawn from these stones to the radial stone were associated with the celestial places where several stars are represented by the central stones in the “circle-calendar” at the time of the ortho heliacal vernal equinox.
He theorized that the different distances represented the brightness of the stars, and deduced that the builders of the astronomical calendar associated the distance of the Earth to the stars with a scale of one meter = 0.799 light years, within the margin of error for astronomical distances calculated today.
Nabta Playa, one of the oldest astronomical observatories on Earth?
A study conducted by the University of Colorado in 2007 concluded that the dates of the alignments proposed by Brophy were deviating for at least 1,500 years.
The archaeologists of the University of Colorado proposed that the area would have been a ceremonial center around 6100-5600 BC, where people from different places congregated to perform animal sacrifices, evidenced by a large number of remains found on the old beach of the lake.
Around 5500 BC, more organized groups began visiting the region and built burial chambers and other burial mounds. Sometimes around 4800 BC the cromlech would have been raised, aligned approximately with the summer solstice.
More complex structures would follow him during a period that would go from 4500 to 3600 BC.
Measurements were also made by satellite and GPS, which confirmed a possible alignment with Sirius, Alpha Centauri, and Orion’s Belt.
In their study, researchers suggest that the repetitive orientation of the megaliths, stelae, human tombs and animals found reveal a very early symbolic connection with the North.
The conclusions made by experts is that the symbolism derived from the archaeological records of Nabta Playa in the 5th millennium BC is very basic, and focused on issues of practical importance for a nomadic people: cattle, water, death, land, sun, and the stars.
The Enigmatic Gotland Grooves, Ancient Cosmic Calendars?
The Enigmatic Gotland Grooves, Ancient Cosmic Calendars?
While many of us are fascinated with Pyramids scattered across the globe and massive stones such as those found at Puma Punku or Baalbek, the truth is that there are many other ancient wonders around the globe worth knowing about.
If we travel to the Swedish Island of Gotland, we will come across a fascinating ancient historical treasure.
The island of Gotland is home to the largest concentration of grooved stones in all of Europe, artifacts that are more interesting than they seem. The island of Gotland is the largest island of the Baltic Sea and is located off the east coast of Sweden and the north coast of Poland.
The island is a limestone plateau, without mountains, inhabited since ancient times and famous for its abundance of sheep.
In those outcrops of limestone, and in the rocks and stones scattered throughout the island, there are some grooves (which in Swedish are called sliprännor) made thousands of years ago by ancient mankind.
As noted by Space Math / NASA, the length of the grooves varies from about 0.5 up to one meter.
They are between 5 cm to 10 cm wide and 1 cm to 10 cm in depth. The grooves on a stone are not parallel. Instead, they are oriented in several directions, some grooves crossing other grooves. Yet on any particular stone, the grooves are not randomly oriented but seem to follow a prescribed orientation, although that orientation may change slightly from grove to grove.
The grooves on the stones became a topic of interested for experts in the 1850s when researchers started comparing them with similar ones existing in France, where they are called polissoirs and date from the Neolithic era, created by the same culture that erected the menhirs and dolmens.
The difference is that in Gotland we find the highest concentration of grooved stones in the world, with the whole island practically covered with them.
The most important question: why?
By 1933, more than 500 sites had been documented with these grooved stones on the island.
At first, it was thought that they could have been made to sharpen Neolithic axes or swords during the Middle Ages.
However, it was soon evident that the width of the medieval or Viking swords was greater than the grooves themselves to fit into them.
And as for the Neolithic weapons, none could be found in the excavations made so far.
So, what were they? And why did the ancients create them?
Grooves on stone as part of a prehistoric grave. Bursgvik, Gotland, Sweden.
As mentioned in the above article by NASA Space Math, the stretch marks or grooves are between 50 centimeters and 1 meter long, depending on the location, about 10 centimeters deep and another 10 centimeters wide.
From the curvature of the grooves it seems that they had to be made with some abrasive object, according to some a pendulum, using quartz sand and water.
So, if they were not made by sharpening tools or weapons, what was their purpose?
As explained by NASA, is that the mysterious stones are in fact astronomical calendars.
This is the longest known series of grooves on Gotland (Sweden). It is situated on the farm Hugreifs, about 600 m south-east of the church at Gammelgarn. The 32 grooves mark the direction to the rising or setting full moon on the date of its passage of the bright star Antares in Scorpio. The dates are in the Gregorian calendar. (Measurements by S. Gannholm.)
This is based on the curious alignment of the grooves, which always appear in groups and point in different directions, even overlapping at times.
Sören Gannholm, who studied the enigmatic stones in the early 1980s, found that many of the grooves point in the direction of the start or end of the full moon on different dates with an interval of 19 years.
A computer simulation taking into account the azimuth found a correspondence of the orientations for the period 3300-2000 BC, which may confirm their Neolithic origin.
Recent research of 1256 grooves revealed that they are arranged with certain positions of the celestial bodies, possibly the sun or the moon. Most of them are oriented east to west, although the island is itself oriented north-south.
Certain late 1st-millennium picture stones on Gotland display grooves that have been produced after the relief of the stones was formed, which show the grooves to be late. Furthermore, with the level above current sea surface of the lowest grooved outcrops on the island, that shows them to be no older than AD 1000 judging from post-glacial shoreline displacement.
It has been suggested that on one picture stone, part of the Late Iron Age decoration is carved into the bottom of a groove, suggesting that this groove must be older than the picture.
What On Earth Is That? Have UFO Hunters Found A Massive Antenna on Antarctica?
What On Earth Is That? Have UFO Hunters Found A Massive Antenna on Antarctica?
Apparently, Antarctica has all the perfect ingredients for being called a Conspiracy haven.
Now, A UFO Hunter and Youtuber from Arizona (USA) claims to have discovered a giant object using satellite images from Google Earth on the Frozen Continent.
According to his claims, there’s a massive Antenna covered by thick layers of snow on Antarctica, and it wasn’t placed there by penguins, was it?
Antarctica, a continent shrouded in mystery
For years has Antarctica been mentioned in the same sentence as UFO, Conspiracy, Aliens, Secret Bases, and Pyramids.
But what makes Antarctica so mysterious, and is there anything anomalous on the frozen continent at all, other than secret penguin societies?
Mostly because of its isolated geographical position, Antarctica is being bombarded by stories of secret bases, aliens, and pyramids.
Its far away from society, its mostly uninhabited, its covered in snow, and it was once a continent teeming with life.
But because of the fact that it’s mostly uninhabited, visited mostly only by scientific expeditions, and located far away from society, the continent of Antarctica offers all necessary ingredients for a great conspiracy theory.
The above facts have made Antarctica appear every once in a while, in news as one of the most mysterious places on Earth.
Therefore, it is not strange that numerous ‘conspiracy theories, claims, and accounts’ have been proposed throughout the years, trying to explain some of the many enigmatic occurrences on Earth’s most isolated continent.
Many authors have proposed that there are many interesting things hidden beneath Antarctica that are kept away from society.
And even though we know about Antarctica only for a little over 100 years, there are numerous ancient maps that depict parts of Antarctica free of ice.
Anyway, despite the fact that many details about Antarctica are exaggerated, every once in a while, something new is found on the icy continent.
Now, a man who goes by the nickname MrMBB333, believes that satellite images from Antarctica supposedly show a structure with straight lines which he reckons, is not the product of nature, nor wind currents, for that matter.
Oh, here’s the video:
Skeptics argue that it’s just snowdrifts, but Michael insists it’s a giant antenna.
The question that arises now is who could have built such a structure in a place like that if of course, it is a massive manmade structure.
So, what do you think?
Could this be some sort of massive underground facility on Antarctica? Or is this discovery, as skeptics suggest, just the result of mother nature and wind currents?
Thunderstorms in Earth’s upper atmosphere remain something of a mystery. Scientists cannot reach them directly with instruments; they are too high for balloons and too low for weather satellites. Flying through thunderstorms or camping out on mountaintops waiting for one typically ranks low even on an adventurers' bucket list.
An investigation aboard the International Space Station has come to the rescue. The European Space Agency (ESA) Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) is a collection of optical cameras, photometers and a large X- and gamma-ray detector mounted on the outside of ESA’s Columbus Module on the station. For at least two years, it will observe thunderstorm-generated electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere – the stratosphere and mesosphere – up to the ionosphere, the edge of space. This Earth observation facility enables study of severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth’s atmosphere and climate.
Upper-atmospheric lightning, known as transient luminous events, includes colorful phenomena with names straight out of a fairy tale: sprites, elves, and giants.
The space station offers this investigation an ideal observing platform for several reasons. Its low-Earth orbit brings the observations as close as possible to these upper-atmosphere phenomena. The station’s orbit also offers almost complete coverage of tropical and subtropical regions, much of which are difficult to access but are where some of the most intense thunderstorms form. Finally, observations are made in optical bands that are subject to absorption in the atmosphere and so cannot be used for ground observations.
Sprites are flashes caused by electrical breakdown in the mesosphere. Blue jets are lightning discharges reaching upwards through the stratosphere, and elves are concentric rings of emissions caused by an electromagnetic pulse at the ionosphere’s bottom edge. Giants are large discharges that create an electrical breakdown of the atmosphere from the top of thunderstorms to the bottom ionosphere. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes are a flash phenomenon generated at the top of thunderstorms. Evidence suggests that run-away electron discharge causes some of these phenomena.
In the 1920s, English scientist C.T.R. Wilson received a Nobel Prize for work with a cloud chamber that made visible the ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and X-rays. He predicted that electrical discharges can occur above thunderstorms in the mesosphere, and that thunderstorm electrical fields can accelerate electrons to relativistic energies. Instruments were not sensitive enough to provide a definitive answer until 1993, however, when flashes of X-rays over thunderstorms were observed from NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
In 1990, the first observation of a sprite was documented, and since then ground and aircraft observations discovered a multitude of discharges above thunderstorms, and spacecraft in low orbit observed X- and gamma-ray radiation.
ASIM represents a comprehensive global survey of these super-high altitude, difficult-to-observe-from-the-ground events to help determine their physics and how they relate to lightning. The investigation also studies high-altitude cloud formation and determines what characteristics make thunderstorms effective in disturbing the high-altitude atmosphere. The research improves understanding of the effect of thunderstorms on Earth’s atmosphere and contributes to better atmospheric models and meteorological and climatological predictions.
“High-altitude observation allows us to study these events without the obscuring clouds,” said principal investigator Torsten Neubert of the National Space institute of the Technical University of Denmark. “With ASIM we will better understand the complex processes of upper-atmospheric lightning, which are also elements of ordinary lightning, although they take on different forms. This understanding can improve technology for detecting ordinary lightning.”
The investigation also helps clarify the effect of thunderstorms on the atmosphere, ionosphere and radiation belts, and will monitor the influx of meteors in Earth's environment and their effect on its atmosphere. Blue jets at the top of thunderstorm clouds, for example, change the concentration of greenhouse gases, another way thunderstorms can affect the stratosphere.
The types of discharges and their structure help scientists better understand the structure of the atmosphere where they occur and of the thunderstorm battery that powers them.
“We will learn more about thunderstorm clouds and more of the fine-structure of the stratosphere and mesosphere, of which little is known,” Neubert said. Based on video taken by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen from the space station in 2015, scientists already learned more about what types of cloud create such activity, and that lightning comes from clouds at an altitude of about 10.5 miles (17 km). “These are solid scientific results documenting for the first time how active the tops of thunderclouds can be,” he added.
ASIM observations also improve understanding of the effect of dust storms, urban pollutants, forest fires, and volcanoes on cloud formation and electrification, and the relation of eye-wall lightning activity to intensification of thunderstorms. That could help us all live more happily ever after.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSE “ALIEN ALLOYS” IN THE NEW YORK TIMES UFO STORY
THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSE “ALIEN ALLOYS” IN THE NEW YORK TIMES UFO STORY
Is the government really stockpiling materials in a Nevada building that scientists cannot identify?
What to make of a Las Vegas building full of unidentified alloys?
The New York Times published a stunning story (Dec. 16) revealing that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had, between 2007 and 2012, funded a $22 million program for investigating UFOs. The story included three revelations that were tailored to blow readers’ minds:
1. Many high-ranking people in the federal government believe aliens have visited planet Earth.
2. Military pilots have recorded videos of UFOs with capabilities that seem to outstrip all known human aircraft, changing direction and accelerating in ways no fighter jet or helicopter could ever accomplish.
3. In a group of buildings in Las Vegas, the government stockpiles alloys and other materials believed to be associated with UFOs.
Points one and two are weird, but not all that compelling on their own: The world already knew that plenty of smart folks believe in alien visitors, and that pilots sometimes encounter strange phenomena in the upper atmosphere – phenomena explained by entities other than space aliens, such as a weather balloon, a rocket launch or even a solar eruption.
Point No. 3, though – those buildings full of alloys and other materials – that’s a little harder to hand wave away. Is there really a DOD cache full of materials from out of this world?
One of the authors of the Times report, Ralph Blumenthal, had this to say on MSNBC about the alloys: “They have, as we reported in the paper, some material from these objects that is being studied so that scientists can find what accounts for their amazing properties, this technology of these objects, whatever they are.” When asked what the materials were, Blumenthal responded, “They don’t know. They’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound that they don’t recognize.”
Here’s the thing, though: The chemists and metallurgists Live Science spoke to – experts in identifying unusual alloys – don’t buy it.
“I don’t think it’s plausible that there’s any alloys that we can’t identify,” Richard Sachleben, a retired chemist and member of the American Chemical Society’s panel of experts, told Live Science. “My opinion? That’s quite impossible.”
Alloys are mixtures of different kinds of elemental metals. They’re very common – in fact, Sachleben said, they’re more common on Earth than pure elemental metals are – and very well understood. Brass is an alloy. So is steel. Even most naturally occurring gold on Earth is an alloy made up of elemental gold mixed with other metals, like silver or copper. [8 Important Elements You’ve Never Heard Of]
“There are databases of all known phases [of metal], including alloys,” May Nyman, a professor in the Oregon State University Department of Chemistry, told Live Science. Those databases include straightforward techniques for identifying metal alloys.
If an unknown alloy appeared, Nyman said it would be relatively simple to figure out what it was made of.
For crystalline alloys – those in which the mixture of atoms forms an ordered structure – researchers use a technique called X-ray diffraction, Nyman said.
“The X-ray’s wavelength is about the same size as the distance between the atoms [of crystalline alloys],” Nyman said, “so that means when the X-rays go into a well-ordered material, they diffract [change shape and intensity] – and from that diffraction [pattern] you can get information that tells you the distance between the atoms, what the atoms are, and how well-ordered the atoms are. It tells you all about the arrangement of your atoms.”
With noncrystalline, amorphous alloys, the process is a bit different, but not by much.
“These are all very standard techniques in research labs, so if we had such mysterious metals, you could take it to any university where research is done, and they could tell you what are the elements and something about the crystalline phase within a few hours,” Nyman said.
Sachleben agreed.
“There are no alloys that are sitting in some warehouse that we cannot figure out what they are. In fact, it’s pretty simple, and any reasonably good metallurgical grad student can do it for you,” he said.
Nyman said that if metals did fall from some mysterious aircraft, some forensics experiments would quickly answer a lot of questions about that aircraft. [UFO Mysteries: These Sightings Have Never Been Solved]
“How has the hunk of metal changed?” Nyman said. “From my scientist’s perspective, that’s the kind of question I’d be asking. Maybe, if it has to do with world politics, and we want to know where the metal comes from, maybe there’s some analysis that can lead you to where it was mined, or what country uses that particular alloy, that kind of thing.”
If the aircraft had come from space, Nyman said, that travel would leave telltale signs in the metal as well, in the form of spacefaring debris and ionization (changes to the electrical charges of the substance’s atoms).
Even if a chunk of alloy that hadn’t been seen before did fall to Earth from outer space, both Nyman and Sachleben agreed that it wouldn’t necessarily have come from an alien craft. In fact, Sachleben said, alloys strike the planet regularly – space-traversing alloys like those found in fairly common nickel-iron meteorites – leaving behind telltale signs. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was even identified by the rare-Earth metals it left behind in certain geological formations in Earth’s crust.
It’s important to point out that while Blumenthal did go on cable news and say the alloys were unidentifiable mysteries, helping to spur speculation, that’s not what his article actually stated. Here’s the full quote from Saturday’s piece:
“The company [involved in the DOD research] modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that … program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.”
From this statement, there’s no actual sign that there’s anything unusual about the alloys themselves. All the Times wrote was that the DOD researchers tasked with finding weird UFO stuff collected some metal, interviewed some people who had claimed startling experiences with it, and decided that it was UFO-related.
In an email to Live Science regarding these metal alloys, Blumenthal said, “We printed as much as we were able to verify. Can’t go beyond that.”
As for whether there’s an explanation at least for the metals themselves, Sachleben said: “There’s not as many mysteries in science as people like to think. It’s not like we know everything – we don’t know everything. But most things we know enough about to know what we don’t know.”
Powered by the Moon's pull, Earth's oceans generate a magnetic field all of their own.
As it transits through the skies above, the Moon’s pull on the ocean’s salty depths generates a second, if much weaker, global magnetic field.
The ebb and flow of salty water, caused by our Moon’s gravitational pull, can induce their own magnetic field — one which a trio of European Space Agency’s (ESA) satellites has mapped in exquisite detail.
Known as “Swarm”, the trio of satellites was blasted off into orbit back in 2013 to help us better understand the planet’s magnetic field. Most of that field is produced by the churnings of molten iron in the Earth’s core, functioning like a massive underground dynamo. There are other secondary effects, however, such as those produced by human activity — and those are the effects Swarm was intended to peer into.
Imagine the surprise among ESA’s researchers when the satellites stumbled into a whole new magnetic phenomenon.
“It’s a really tiny magnetic field. It’s about 2-2.5 nanotesla at satellite altitude, which is about 20,000 times weaker than the Earth’s global magnetic field,” Nils Olsen, from the Technical University of Denmark, told BBC News.
What set the satellite trio apart from its peers — and enabled this discovery — is the way they ‘see’ water. Other devices we’ve sent in orbit record tides as a change in sea-surface height, but Swarm’s magnetic instruments view the movements of the entire column of water, all the way down to the seabed.
Water is diamagnetic, meaning that it has weak magnetic qualities when a magnetic field is applied to it. However, adding salt reduces its diamagnetism but makes it a good, but not great, electrical conductor — meaning it will start interacting with magnetic fields, relatively weakly. Still, oceans house humongous quantities of water, and as tides cycle around ocean basins, the overall effect is enough to ‘pull’ the geomagnetic field lines along. The interaction between saltwater and the Earth’s magnetic field also generates electrical currents, which, in turn, induce their own magnetic signals.
Studying the ebb and flow of this second magnetic field can let us peer into the movement of deep bodies of water. Oceans capture, store, and move a lot of heat around, and Swarm’s findings could help researchers build better models of Earth’s systems — particularly useful in understanding the effects of climate change.
The magnetic signature of the tides causes a “weak magnetic response” deep below the sea, Olson explained — which could allow us to peer into the electrical goings-on of our planet’s lithosphere and upper mantle. Such data will help us better map these structures, as well as the tectonic activity that drives earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
“Since oceans absorb heat from the air, tracking how this heat is being distributed and stored, particularly at depth, is important for understanding our changing climate,” Olson said in a statement, adding that the discovery “gives us a truly global picture of how the ocean flows at all depths.”
Our limited understanding of dark matter and the fact that we’re focusing on the wrong things might be preventing us from discovering alien life.
This collage shows NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images of six different galaxy clusters, with the distribution of dark matter colored in blue.
A Cosmic Gorilla You know that experiment where you’re supposed to count the number of basketball passes, and you’re so focused on the ball that you don’t even see a bear moving through the picture? Researchers believe something similar might be happening on a cosmic scale. We’re so focused on one thing that we’re completely missing the other — and in this case, ‘the other’ might mean alien signals.
Writing in the journal Acta Astronautica, neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García, from the University of Cádiz, say that when it comes to detecting alien signals, we might be looking in the wrong direction. They say that we’re looking for aliens that act similarly to us when that might really not be the case.
“When we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them from our perceptive and conscience sieve; however we are limited by our sui generis vision of the world, and it’s hard for us to admit it,” says De la Torre, who prefers to avoid the terms ‘extraterrestrial’ or aliens by its Hollywood connotations and uses more generic terms, such as ‘non-terrestrial’.
“What we are trying to do with this differentiation is to contemplate other possibilities,” he says “for example, beings of dimensions that our mind cannot grasp; or intelligences based on dark matter or energy forms, which make up almost 95% of the universe and which we are only beginning to glimpse. There is even the possibility that other universes exist, as the texts of Stephen Hawking and other scientists indicate.”
The awareness test that inspired the study. Try to count the number of basketball passes. Did you also catch something out of the ordinary?
Hardwired to miss it In order to test their hypothesis, they had 137 people distinguish aerial photographs with artificial structures (such as buildings or roads) from others with natural elements (such as mountains or rivers). In one of the images, a tiny character disguised as a gorilla was inserted to see if the participants noticed. As expected, participants tended to miss the gorilla. It’s normal because we’re hardwired to miss it — we’re looking for something else. Similarly, if we’re looking for a specific kind of signal, we might completely miss an unrelated type of signal, one we weren’t expecting.
“If we transfer this to the problem of searching for other non-terrestrial intelligences, the question arises about whether our current strategy may result in us not perceiving the gorilla,” stresses the researcher, who insists: “Our traditional conception of space is limited by our brain, and we may have the signs above and be unable to see them. Maybe we’re not looking in the right direction.”
In another example presented in the article, researchers showed participants an apparently geometric structure that can be seen in the images of Occator — an impact crater of the dwarf planet Ceres, famous for its bright spots. Inside the crater appears a strange structure, looking like a square inside a triangle. The point researchers were trying to make is that we sometimes see patterns that just aren’t there, due to the way our brains are wired.
“Our structured mind tells us that this structure looks like a triangle with a square inside, something that theoretically is not possible in Ceres,” says De la Torre, “but maybe we are seeing things where there are none, what in psychology is called pareidolia.”
Image Credits: NASA / JPL-CaltechClose
But the opposite might also be happening, they say. We might have the signal right in front of our eyes, and simply miss it — kind of like a cosmic gorilla effect.
Types of civilizations We’re not really sure what to expect in terms of potentially advanced alien species, but the most commonly used scale is the Kardashev scale, proposed by Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev. The scale has three main categories, and it focuses on different stages of energy capture and use, which seems to be a vital requirement for an advanced species:
A Type I civilization (a planetary civilization) can use and store all of the energy which reaches its planet from the parent star.
A Type II civilization (a stellar civilization) can harness the total energy of its planet’s parent star and use it on a planet.
A Type III civilization (a galactic civilization) can control energy on the scale of its entire host galaxy.
If you’ll look at it closely, you’ll see that humans aren’t really even on a Type I level yet, so the Kardashev scale has been extended, both upwards and downwards, including:
A Type 0 civilization (humans) that harvests a significant part of its planet energy, just not yet to its full potential.
A Type IV civilization (a universal civilization) that can control energy on the scale of the entire universe. This is already a virtually indestructible civilization. This hypothetical civilization would be able to interact with and harvest dark matter and dark energy.
A type V civilization (a multiversal civilization) — this already steps into the realm of metaphysics and assumes there is more than one universe, and a civilization that’s able to span and populate several universes.
A type VI civilization (deities) that would have the ability to interact with universes outside of time and space, similar in concept to an absolute deity.
Already, it’s becoming quite clear that we don’t even know how to understand very advanced alien civilizations, assuming that they exist. We might be able to understand a Type 0, I, or II civilization, assuming that they do share some similarities with us. But should we come across the higher levels of civilization, would we even realize what we’re looking at? This is what de la Torre and Garcia are asking. For all we know, dark matter and dark energy might hold the traces of such an advanced civilization. Of course, the researchers themselves admit the inherent shortcomings when you’re classifying something you know nothing about.
“We were well aware that the existing classifications are too simplistic and are generally only based on the energy aspect. The fact that we use radio signals does not necessarily mean that other civilizations also use them, or that the use of energy resources and their dependence are the same as we have,” the researchers point out, recalling the theoretical nature of their proposals.
The duo also proposes a different civilization scale, with 3 types. Type 1 is essentially ours, ephemeral, vulnerable to a planetary cataclysm, either natural or self-made. Type 2 is characterized by the longevity of its members, able to explore galaxies and overall much more durable. Type 3, as you’d expect, would be constituted by exotic creatures with eternal or near-eternal life, with an absolute dominion over the universe.
Naturally, this is all a bit speculative. We don’t really know whether we’re looking for the right thing or not, we don’t even know if there is a right thing or not. How likely are we to miss an alien signal, in the case that it exists? Impossible to tell right now. So this study definitely goes a bit ‘out there’, but it poses some intriguing questions.
If anything, the main takeaway is that we should perhaps take a step back and reconsider what alien life might look like. In other words, we shouldn’t only be counting the passes — we should keep an eye out for any gorillas.
Journal Reference: Gabriel G. De la Torre, Manuel A. Garcia. The cosmic gorilla effect or the problem of undetected non terrestrial intelligent signals. Acta Astronautica, 2018; 146: 83 DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.02.036
NASA’s future planet hunter has arrived — and it’s set for glory.
Like Kepler, TESS will be using the transit method illustrated here. Essentially, as a planet passes in front of its star, it creates a dip in the star’s luminosity, which can be detected.
This is called a transit. Image credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Kepler telescope ushered in a new age of space exploration, enabling astronomers to discover thousands of exoplanets. It was a magnificent tool that was successful beyond our wildest dreams. However, it’s nearing the end of its lifetime. Crippled and almost out of fuel, Kepler is fast approaching its conclusion. But rest assured — NASA already has its replacement prepared.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will be carried in outer space by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in just a few days, on April 16, where it’s set for even greater success than Kepler. Think of it this way: if Kepler was looking through a straw, TESS will be visualizing 90% of the night sky. In other words, Kepler had a very narrow surveying angle, whereas TESS will have a much broader angle — overall, the area covered by TESS will be about 350 times larger than what Kepler could witness. This is largely owed to its unusual orbit — TESS has a never-before-used orbit which was designed to minimize the time the telescope spends obstructed by Earth or the Moon. However, there’s a trade-off.
TESS will observe the southern skies first, and then the north. The survey strips will overlap near the celestial poles, creating pockets of sky that will have longer observation times. Conveniently, the patches of sky that will be observed the most by TESS are also in ideal viewing locations for the future James Webb Space Telescope, which will be able to study planets that TESS finds in more detail.
Image credits: NASA / MIT.
TESS traded resolution for this larger angle — whereas Kepler was able to find planets up to 3,000 light years away, most of the exoplanets TESS finds will be just 30 to 300 light years away. Kepler has already discovered over 2,500 planets, with another 2,500 planet candidates being currently under review. TESS is expected to find 3,000 to 4,000 planets orbiting M-dwarves — relatively small and cold stars, red dwarfs of the M spectral type. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way, but because of their low luminosity, they are difficult to study.
Currently, TESS is at Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, getting its thrusters fueled up for flight — and we couldn’t be more excited for this mission.
Asealed lake is an ideal place to look for clues about extraterrestrial life — and researchers have just identified a few more.
Small valley glacier exiting the Devon Island Ice Cap in Canada. The Devon Ice Cap appears to be the only holder of salty subglacial lakes (as far as we know).
Image credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Life on other planets might not be located the most obvious of places. While researchers used to think that Earth-like planets such as Mars or Venus were capable of holding life, modern research has shown that places like Europa or Enceladus are much more likely to be hospitable (Europa and Enceladus are two frozen moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively). However, astronomers have evidence that beneath the frozen surface lies a vast ocean of liquid where life may very well thrive. Researchers want to explore this avenue before actually landing a shuttle on the surface of these moons (which may take a very long time) and the best way to do that is by studying subglacial lakes.
Subglacial lakes are bodies of water perfectly sealed under a glacier — typically an ice cap or ice sheet. There are 400 known subglacial lakes in the world, most of which can be found in Antarctica, with Lake Vostok being probably the most well known. Since they’re sealed off from the rest of the world, life can develop and adapt independently — this essentially means that subglacial lakes are potentially unique microbial habitats which can provide information about how life might have developed on places like Europa. Now, lead author Anja Rutishauser, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, has found the first subglacial lakes in the Canadian High Arctic.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
An artist’s cross-section of Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake in Antarctica. Importantly, the lake is sealed by kilometers of ice.
Image credits: Nicolle Rager-Fuller / NSF.
What makes these newly discovered lakes extra special is that they seem to contain very salty water — all other subglacial lakes we know of are thought to contain freshwater, or only mildly saline water. All subglacial lakes are good analogs for life beyond Earth, but the hypersaline nature of these newly discovered lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogs for ice-covered moons in our solar system, according to the researchers. There is strong evidence that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa contains hypersaline water.
The lake was discovered using remote sensing, which is promising, especially considering that NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which is set to launch sometime in the 2020s and take samples from Europa, will use similar remote sensing techniques. An analysis of the radar data shows that the lakes are located 550 to 750 meters beneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. They’ve not had contact with the outside world for tens of thousands of years.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
Now, researchers would like to sample this environment, which is probably more complicated than you’d expect. It’s not just drilling through hundreds of meters (or perhaps even kilometers) of ice that’s problematic: there’s also the matter of contamination — if a unique microbial environment does exist, the last thing you’d want to do is contaminate it.
Journal Reference: Anja Rutishause et al. Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4353
What we know — and don't know — about aliens and UFOs
The Post's Cleve Wootson explains why a recent admission from the government is like pouring kerosene on UFO conspiracy theories.(Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
The view from the lunar landing module on July 20, 1969, was — in mankind’s best guess — the first time a living being traveled to another celestial body to observe the luminous blue planet shrouded in the seemingly infinite darkness of space.
But before that moment, the crew of Apollo 11, hurtling toward the moon, radioed mission command in Houston to ask about a curious object they saw on their third day in space.
“Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is with respect to us?” Commander Neil Armstrong asked, referring to the third stage of the Saturn V rocket that was jettisoned earlier in the flight.
Mission control had an answer about three minutes later, according to a NASA radio transcript of the mission.
“Apollo 11, Houston,” the command replied. “The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now. Over.” That satisfied Armstrong, who said 12 seconds later: “Okay. Thank you.”
Earth viewed from the lunar orbit before landing.
(NASA)
The seemingly innocuous exchange has become a touchstone for UFO-sighting enthusiasts and alien truthers, and now, seemingly fake news.
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, 88, the second astronaut to set foot on the moon, believed that the crew saw an extraterrestrial spacecraft at this moment, and a “lie detector” test proves it, at least according to the British tabloid the Daily Star.
That’s not quite right.
“He has never said he saw a UFO. This story has been a fabrication for the sake of headlines and is not true as far as Buzz Aldrin is concerned,” his spokeswoman, Christina Korp, told The Washington Post in a statement Tuesday. That echoes Aldrin’s 2015 comment on Reddit that the object “was not an alien.” The Daily Star did not return a request for comment.
The truth is out there, if only the Daily Star looked more closely.
The tabloid’s story focuses on a vocal analysis conducted by the Ohio-based Institute of BioAcoustic Biology and Sound Health, a nonprofit institution that founder Sharry Edwards has said developed a program that can evaluate how truthful or confident someone feels about a subject they are talking about.
Edwards told The Post she used Aldrin’s interview from the 2006 Discovery Science made-for-TV documentary “Apollo 11: The Untold Story” to analyze Aldrin’s remarks.
“There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, and what could it be?” Aldrin recounted about the incident, adding that crew member Michael Collins saw ellipses on the L-shaped object when viewed through a telescope. “That didn’t tell us very much,” he said.
The moment called for restraint from theorizing what the object might be during one of the most scrutinized missions in human history, Aldrin said.
Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission. (NASA)
“Who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of aliens or whatever the reason is,” he said on the program. The crew decided to move on and mention it later in mission debrief, Aldrin added.
In an analysis, Edwards says Aldrin “has a firm belief in what he saw but logical awareness that he cannot explain what he saw; therefore he thinks he should be doubted.”
She said that the conclusion was published years ago but that she does not know how it became suddenly relevant.
Aldrin has already clarified his position on the incident.
In a response on the NASA website after the documentary was released, Aldrin said he believed he saw one of four panels separated from the S-IVB heading on the same trajectory toward the moon but on a slightly different course. That discussion was edited out, and the rest was “taken out of context,” NASA said.
In the 2015 Reddit thread, he said the sun must have glinted off one of the panels.
The recurring UFO story is the result in part of the public distorting the scientific term UFO to mean a craft with “little green men,” NASA chief historian Bill Barry told The Post.
Yet the Apollo 11 mission was already a significant moment in human history without the intrigue of alien spacecraft.
The median age of Americans is about 38, or 11 years younger than the mission itself. Most people alive today were not around to hear President John F. Kennedy say in 1961 that the United States would send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth.
The Soviet Union had already been the first to send a man into Earth’s orbit, frustrating NASA and creating a belief that the Russians might have an edge. The stakes were high. “They were basically on a war footing,” Barry said of NASA leadership.
NASA’s lessons from the mission were extensive. For instance, leaders honed the organization for large scientific projects, which later helped develop the International Space Station, Barry said. And investment in science paved the way for the Internet, cellphones and much more.
Discoveries also offered more hints about the origin of life on Earth and the history of the universe. Evaluating the rock samples from the moon helped confirm theories that the body is the result of an object that smashed into Earth and later coalesced to form our satellite, Barry said.
That lesson amounted to a common refrain among astronauts, he added: “We left the Earth, and what we discovered was ourselves.”
In the next five centuries, humanity will remember the 20th century for three things, Barry said: two world wars and the United States landing on the moon.
Aldrin has been known to defend that history, now and in the past.
In 2002, filmmaker Bart Sibrel confronted Aldrin, demanding that he swear on a Bible that the landing was authentic. Sibrel called him a “coward and a liar.”
Sibrel was adding “thief” when Aldrin struck him in the face. No charges were filed.
The moment was captured on video. There were no camera tricks. The punch was real.
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Archive video: Buzz Aldrin sets foot on the moon
Video from NASA's Johnson Space Center shows former astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon.(NASA)
Gigantische mysterieuze tekeningen ontdekt in Peruaanse woestijn. Bekijk ze hier
Gigantische mysterieuze tekeningen ontdekt in Peruaanse woestijn. Bekijk ze hier
Op het Nazca-plateau in Peru zijn een aantal enorme mysterieuze symbolen ontdekt. Het gaat om zo’n 50 nieuwe Nazcalijnen, meldt National Geographic.
De meeste van deze zogeheten geogliefen zijn zo groot dat je ze alleen vanuit de lucht goed kunt zien.
Aangezien de oorspronkelijke bewoners van Zuid-Amerika niet konden vliegen, theoretiseren sommige mensen dat de geogliefen zijn gemaakt door aliens of dat ze mensen instructies hebben gegeven.
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De nieuwe Nazcalijnen tonen figuren van antropomorfe wezens, dieren en natuurlijke fenomenen. Sommige geogliefen bevinden zich in de Palpa-vallei, op enkele tientallen kilometers van Nazca.
De geogliefen zijn ontdekt met behulp van satellieten en drones. Onderzoekers proberen nu te achterhalen hoe oud ze zijn.
If extraterrestrials wanted to try creating a human hybrid (I know – like they haven’t already!), now might be the time. NASA has revealed that a recent SpaceX cargo ship sent to the International Space Station contained an unusual and unique (as far as we know officially) cargo – vials of frozen bull and human sperm. Next, they’ll participate in an experiment to see if they have enough strength and mobility to attach to an egg membrane. Finally, they’ll be preserved and sent back to Earth for further evaluation. Wouldn’t it be easier (and more fun) to send a married (or at least ‘in a relationship’) couple to the ISS?
As a matter of fact, although it is strictly against NASA policy(no word on other space programs), one and only one married couple has been in space together. In September 1992, Space Shuttle mission STS-47 contained Mission Specialist 1 Mark C. Lee and Mission Specialist 3 N. Jan Davis, who met in astronaut training and married secretly shortly before the mission – forcing NASA to waive the ban for one time instead of postponing the mission until replacements could be found. Lee and Davis refused to answer any questions about having sex in the cramped Endeavor shuttle with five other crew members watching (or at least peeking) and they eventually divorced (coincidence?). While the ISS is more spacious and accommodating to intimate relations (or experiments) and has had many male-female crews, NASA continues to insist that, in spite of needing the information for longer space missions, no sex has officially occurred in space.
I can’t see anything — the windows are fogged up
What’s happening in the Micro-11 experiment isn’t exactly sex either. While the current all-male crew looks on (Really NASA? You waited until there were no women on the ISS?), the human sperm (there’s no word on who the donors were) will be divided into two groups (teams?). One group will be placed in a control placebo solution while the others will swim in a solution that stimulates capacitation, which is the maturation process a sperm must go through in order to be ready to attach to an egg. (Some articles have implied there would be eggs involved, but NASA says no.) The astronauts will be crouched around a microscope watching the wiggling while video is beamed back to scientists on Earth (nice work if you can get it). Then they’ll all be preserved and returned to Earth, where they’ll be analyzed and compare, both with each other and with sperm that went through similar processes on Earth.
The Eagle has landed!
Finally, the samples will be mixed with preservatives and returned to Earth, where they’ll be analyzed to see whether capacitation occurred and whether the sperm samples from space differ from sperm samples activated on the ground. As NASA’s press release states:
“Little is currently known about the biology of reproduction in space and this experiment will address this gap by measuring – for the first time – how well human sperm functions in space.”
Which brings us back to who put the sperm in space – Elon Musk and his massive Falcon 9 thruster/rocket. (You KNEW Musk would be involved with this somehow.) While he probably would have preferred a more sexual experiment to be conducted in the back seat of his orbiting Tesla Roadster (now THERE’S some good work, but nobody can get it … yet), he’ll probably take any results he can get as he prepares his own long-term missions to Mars.
Sperms in Space. Great name for a band. Great name for porn parody. Great recruiting campaign for NASA.
Last week I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Mind-Games At Area 51? 30 Years Later.” It was a look at the theory that famous UFO whistle-blower Bob Lazar may have been used and manipulated out at Area 51, in the latter part of 1988. Mind-controlled, maybe. In other words, there’s a distinct possibility that Lazar was used as a patsy in an operation to spread UFO disinformation – and with Lazar being oblivious to what was really going on around with him. As I noted in the previous article:
“If you take a look at all of the controversy surrounding Lazar’s claims, you will see that people – for the most part – fall into two specific categories. There are those who think Lazar’s claims are real and there are those who think it’s all a pile of crap. Few people ever give much thought to a third possibility. On this very point of another angle, I’m quite open to the idea that Lazar told the truth as he saw it, but the truth wasn’t what Lazar believed (and still believes) it to have been. Indeed, there are certain indications that Lazar was set-up.”
There is another issue that makes me think that Lazar had his mind played with. It revolves around certain briefing papers that Lazar said he read at Area 51’s S-4 facility and which were focused on startling, alleged secrets concerning an alien presence on Earth. One of those briefing papers, said Lazar, told a strange and almost sinister story of a violent confrontation between security personnel at Area 51 and a group of aliens that were in residence and working at S-4, alongside a scientific team. It was a confrontation that reportedly resulted in more than a few deaths.
According to Lazar, the deadly confrontation occurred at some point in 1979, in the S-4 facility. Lazar said: “I don’t remember exactly how it was started, but it had something to do with the security personnel. The aliens were in a separate room. I think it had something to do with the bullets [the security guards] were carrying, and somehow they were trying to be told that they couldn’t enter the area with the bullets, possibly because it was hazardous – the bullets could explode, through some field or whatever.”
Lazar continued that despite the warning, one of the security guards did enter the room with the bullets – something which resulted in a violent and lethal response from the aliens. Lazar recalled that the papers he read described how the security personnel were all quickly killed by “head wounds.” The same fate befell a group of scientists on the program, too.
It’s important to note that there is a variation on this story. Not from Lazar, who stuck to the story which he read out at S-4. But, from a man named Paul Bennewitz, who in the late 1970s began digging into claims that an alien base existed below the New Mexico town of Dulce. From intelligence personnel at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, Bennewitz learned of a story of a fatal encounter between hostile aliens and a security team in the lower levels of the Dulce Base. The different location given to Bennewitz is just about the only difference between what Lazar was told and what Bennewitz was told. It’s very important to note that there is very little doubt that Bennewitz was fed disinformation and not the real deal. Moving on…
Lazar also claimed to have read various papers out at S-4 which told how we, the human race, were the product of ancient extraterrestrials who had performed various “corrections” to early humans. On top of that, there were the papers that Lazar read at S-4 which said the aliens refer to us as what we would call “Containers.” But, containers of what? Well, that’s where things get really controversial: Lazar suggested it might have been the human soul that was of interest to the aliens. Lazar told KLAS-TV’s George Knapp that “religion was created so we have some rules and regulations for the sole purpose of not damaging the containers.”
George Knapp was not the only person who Bob Lazar spoke to on this issue of aliens, containers and souls. Michael Lindemann is the author of a 1995 book, UFOs and the Alien Presence. He also questioned Lazar on this controversy-dominated aspect of the story of Lazar and those papers he read at Area 51’s S-4. Lazar added a bit more to the story, when speaking with Lindemann. Lazar said the containers were “extremely, extremely unique” and that they were “very difficult to find.”
This is not the time to debate on UFOs, aliens and human souls. Rather, it’s time to address the matter of why, exactly, Lazar was shown this allegedly highly-classified material at all. Secrets within the fields of government, the military, and the intelligence community are successfully kept hidden because of what is termed “need to know.” In other words, if you’re working on a top secret program, you’re only told what you need to know to get your part of the job done. That’s how and why the Manhattan Project of the Second World War was so shrouded in secrecy. And so successfully too: people were briefed on matters relevant to their part of the job. And that’s it.
So, with that in mind, why on Earth would someone spill the whole can of UFO beans to Lazar? Given that he was said to have worked on matters relative to the power sources of the UFOs held at S-4, why share with Lazar all of the U.S. Government’s supposed UFO top secrets, such as matters relative to religion, the human soul, and “gunfight”-type confrontations with deadly ETs? Such data would not be in any way relevant to Lazar’s work undertaken on the extraterrestrial power-plants. It goes absolutely against tried and tested practices of the government to throw away its “need to know” approach. Yet, with Lazar we’re expected to believe that this then-young guy, then-recently brought into the program, should have been so extensively briefed on such incredible matters of – we should assume – national security proportions.
Unless, that is, someone decided to deliberately expose Lazar to faked alien-themed documents, hoping that he would go public with the content of those same documents – which, by the way, is exactly what he did.
Something strange is going on in Earth's upper atmosphere and a new mission aims to learn more about them.
Launched to the International Space Station on April 9, 2018, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) will observe the strange electrical phenomena that occur above thunderstorms.
Known as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), these unusual features, called as jets, elves or sprites were first spotted by accident in 1989 and by using the ASIM, scientists hope to determine where in the cloud this phenomenon originate.
In the following amazing video you can see such a bizarre transient luminous event as seen from the International Space Station.
Orange UFO Taking Off From Mountains of Las Vegas, Nevada April 9, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orange UFO Taking Off From Mountains of Las Vegas, Nevada April 9, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 9, 2018
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
This video shows a Tall Whites UFO taking off from an underground base at Nellis AFB. The US gov exchanged land for technology a decade back and US gov has no regulation over them. They are superior in intellect and in ego. They are fearless and do not care if they are noticed by humans or not.
Aliens Beam People And Supplies To Underground Base In Texas, April 6, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Aliens Beam People And Supplies To Underground Base In Texas, April 6, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 6, 2018
Location of sighting: Texas, USA
Here is a great example of alien beaming in or out people, supplies and data to their underground base. Aliens do not always have patience and if they had waited and done this during a brighter day, they would have gone unseen. However aliens had to do it immediately, which makes me believe it was transporting people to the underground base.
Scott C. Waring
Video states:
On April 6, 2018 an unknown beam of light coming from the sky near Rockwall, Texas and it is almost impossible but two days later on April 8 another beam of light coming from the sky in Phoenix.
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART I
Crescent Lake U.S. National Park craft captured on March 30, 2018
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files covers: Hypersonic Flight, Spiritual Warfare. Pilots Report UFO Sighting Near Tucson. Arizona, Royal Canadian Mint Releases UFO Coin, A UFO and the Greatest Miracle of the Bible, Mexican Government Assists Central Americans Headed for US, Mexican Cartels Killing 50,000+ US Citizens Each Year,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, India, Mexico, Mexico, 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.
Bruce Cornet writes, Yes, David, your explanation makes sense. You asked about evidence for distance, and I give you the full image below. Also, the Russians experimented with plasma lights at the nose of their jet aircraft, but apparently the energy cost increased weight and maneuverability that reduced the advantage of eliminating the sonic boom.
David Mathes writes, Bruce, think of the plasma in front of the craft as a virtual aerospace that creates a detached shock wave to reduce aerodynamic and wave drag. One should be able to use the picture you have to show the distance from the craft. Drag reduction and overpressure suppression permit up to 10 times normal velocity which possibly explains going hypersonic (mach 5).
Normally, the craft would go from 380 mph (Mach 0.5) at higher than 20k ft to Mach 5. One would like to go faster and lower. By using an IR laser to create a channel and a focal point out front of the craft and then sending HV electricity down the channel, one is simply blasting away at the atmosphere in front.
So atmospheric supercavitation is being used by the craft to make a moving hole, reducing drag, and inducing only local turbulence effects.
The “plasma lights” are not headlights; they are a byproduct of the path clearing process that makes a hole or bubble in the atmosphere in which the craft can travel through.
By clearing the path ahead of molecules through ionization by laser-induced plasma heating, a lower density can be continuously created reducing the drag and permitting higher velocities.
However, the drawback is no turns and no maneuverability. That is, no aerodynamic traction by the craft. If one looks at hypersonic torpedoes, we see that traveling within the bubble permits velocities much higher than normal with the distinct disadvantage that steering is extremely challenging. The change in velocity from 30 mph to over 300 mph is a tactical game changer.
Military examples of aerospace technology include Trident C-2 and later
models as well as F-106 Delta Dart.
If UC Santa Barbara (Lubin) technology of a single laser source feeding distributed parallel amplifiers and array focus were applied using IR lasers, one could create a brilliant hole in front of a craft of lower density.
Bruce Cornet writes, Paul is correct. Why do these craft use plasma lights? If our ancestors saw what we are seeing today, they would have called the lights fire, even though they were produced by atmospheric ionization. Plasmas need gas to ionize. Nitrogen and Oxygen combine in our atmosphere to produce an orange-brown glowing gas.
In the Book of Enoch, he described what could be a chemical rocket launch, because he was taken up in a tower (gantry) to enter the crew cabin. The launch incinerated locals who got too close, even though warned to stay distant.
Then again, St. Anthony, a desert Egyptian ascetic living in a cave (2nd century CE), told of having his path blocked by a silver disc that landed in front of him. So perhaps there were more than one group visiting Earth, and the technologies they possessed were different. Many of the performances I was given near the UFO hot spot in Orange County, NY, would have appeared like FIRE IN THE SKY.
The rockets of old were contrived, designed and built by maturing civilizations evolving to higher levels of get-off-the-ground technologies. I agree with you about there being ancient civilizations capable of getting into space, going back 30K to 130K years ago. There were also wars both on Earth, in space, and on Mars (cf. Brandenburg) that involved atomic weapons. In our current cycle, WMD and chemical rockets came from war, not peace.
Check out my discovery of the original Face on Earth (FOE) with remnants of the Cydonia monuments on Mars in New York State. If my evidence and calculations are correct, the Cydonia Complex on Mars is a duplicate built as a Template intended for future survivors discovering our ancient history once we reach Mars again. This duplicate was built 118,500 years ago just before the Wisconsinian Ice Age began, based on plate tectonic drift (see explanation in FF#15 – 2017). That means there was an advanced space-faring civilization on Earth during the last Sangamonian (Eemian) Interglacial, capable of not only building giant pyramids on Earth, but also on Mars. I recently resurrected my original The Cydonia II Report, because it is time that the truth comes out. Bruce Cornet – The Cydonia II Report, Home Page
Spiritual Warfare
Bill Bean is in the trenches conducting spiritual warfare and currently travels all over America performing exorcism / spiritual deliverance for many who are in need. He also is a life-coach and helps people world-wide. “The Connection” will show you how to transform your life through a strong personal relationship with GOD (YAHWEH) and His son Jesus Christ.
In “The Connection,” Bill stresses the importance of seeking and solidifying a strong connection with God in every aspect of our life. He draws the literal connection between the past events of his life and his present 24/7 Spiritual Warrior life-style and that connection is God.
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Author, lecturer, and spiritual warrior Bill Bean discussed what he has learned from years of fighting evil and after performing hundreds of exorcisms as part of his deliverance ministry. He shared stories and cases from the world of demon possession as well as chatted about other paranormal topics, including UFOs and the Mandela Effect. “People really do suffer in horrific ways at the hands of these demonic manifestations,” he said, noting how he felt called by God to help victims struggling against evil forces.
According to Bean, possessions by demonic entities around the world are on the increase. One of the most widely-held religious beliefs in the world is demon possession. Most religions claim that humans can be possessed by demonic spirits (the Bible, for example, recounts six instances of Jesus casting out demons. He suggested experiments at the particle physics laboratory at CERN may have opened portals to other realms and are likely to blame for the rise in possessions as well as other strange phenomena, such as bat-like creatures spotted in the Chicago area and UFO activity. “Something has been opened that has really loosed more and more of these demons on the Earth,” he speculated.
Bean recounted his frightening first case of demonic possession in the late-1980s involving a female family member. “It still is the most disturbing case that I have every experienced,” he recalled. Bean remembered the victim entering a deep trance state and seeing a tall black entity in a doorway. After she awoke, her eyes were totally black, a sound like a rattlesnake emanated from her body, and she spoke in a deep masculine voice that questioned Bean’s faith and mocked his knowledge of the Bible, he revealed.
A woman hovering above the bed during an exorcism from the movie “The Exorcist”
Bean explained how the woman, who only weighed 135 pounds but seemed endowed with superhuman strength, ripped a cross off his neck, grabbed his throat with an unbreakable grip, and could only be restrained after nine people held her down. He also described an incident involving the priest who was called to the scene. The priest probably weighed 300 pounds and was sitting in a heavy chair when an invisible force flipped him out of his seat and onto the floor, Bean reported. “I’ll never forget the look of sheer terror on that man’s face,” he said. http://www.billbean104.com/news/77532-the-connection-by-bill-bean-now-available
So Lucifer also known as cor the Devil was cast down from the planet Heaven to Earth, and some of the angels followed him by resisting God’s omniscient power and authority. Revelation 12:7-8 says, “And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.” Satan, with his army of fallen angels and demons, are determined to corrupt and destroy all that is good and godly. We are warned, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8). But God gives us authority over the evil of this enemy as Jesus tells us in Luke 10:19-20.
Newsweek Magazine reports if there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you going to call? Certainly not the Vatican—the Holy See’s switchboard is jammed with people wanting exorcisms. But fear not: you can now order an exorcism online from independent service providers.
There has been a three-fold increase in the number of people resorting to exorcism because of demon problems, reported Italy’s Vatican News.
There are at least 10-reasons-why-certain ET aliens-are-actually-fallen angels/demons such as invisibility. Though aliens are said to be advanced, it seems they need us for their survival just as fallen angels need human beings to prey on. There are various accounts of aliens taking sperm and tissue samples from humans, probing them, or impregnating women. A primary reason for maintaining high classification of the phenomenon.
The church is trying to train up more of its priests to cast out the demons.
In Italy alone there are 500,000 requests for exorcisms every single year, claims one Vatican-sanctioned trainer of exorcist-priests called Friar Benigno Palilla, whose job it is to tool up the clergy in their fight against demonic possession.
His book “Rescued from Satan” 14 People Recount their Journey from Demonic Possession.
“A self-taught exorcist certainly meets errors,” the friar told Vatican News. “I will say more: it also requires a period of apprenticeship, as happens for many professionals.” It follows a call from one Irish priest and exorcist for more help from the Vatican in his fight against demons amid a sharp rise in demand for his ghoulish services. “It’s only in recent years that the demand [for exorcisms] has risen exponentially,” Father Pat Collins said, adding that anyone who doesn’t see the need for more exorcists is “out of touch with reality.”
Collins wrote an open letter to Irish bishops asking them to begin training more priests to deal with exorcisms, and he cited the International Association of Exorcists’ belief that demonic activity has increased substantially in recent years. But for those who don’t have a Vatican-sanctioned exorcist nearby, there’s a sort of black market for ghost busters. One of those offering services is “The Sacred Order of Saint Michael the Archangel-Order of Exorcists”—and you can even order an exorcism online via a simple contact form, which they encourage the “family or person needing help” to use, reported PJ Media.
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Certainly not the Vatican—the Holy See’s switchboard is jammed with people wanting exorcisms.
But fear not: you can now order an exorcism online from independent service providers.
There has been a three-fold increase in the number of people resorting to exorcism because of demon problems, reported Italy’s Vatican News. The church is trying to train up more of its priests.
In Italy alone there are 500,000 requests for exorcisms every single year, claims one Vatican-sanctioned trainer of exorcist-priests called Friar Benigno Palilla, who trains clergy in their fight against demonic possession.
“A self-taught exorcist certainly meets errors,” the friar told Vatican News. “I will say more: it also requires a period of apprenticeship, as happens for many professionals.” It follows a call from one Irish priest and exorcist for more help from the Vatican in his fight against demons amid a sharp rise in demand for his services.
“It’s only in recent years that the demand [for exorcisms] has risen exponentially,” Father Pat Collins said, adding that anyone who doesn’t see the need for more exorcists is “out of touch with reality.”
Collins wrote an open letter to Irish bishops asking them to begin training more priests to deal with exorcisms, and he cited the International Association of Exorcists’ belief that demonic activity has increased substantially in recent years.
But for those who don’t have a Vatican-sanctioned exorcist nearby, there’s a sort of black market for ghost busters. One of those offering services is
A pilot told air traffic control it was “doubtful” it was a weather balloon, according to The Drive, an aviation website owned by Time Inc.
Lear Jet
TUCSON, AZ – One pilot seeing an unidentified flying object is often not hard to dismiss but two pilots in separate plane becomes a little more difficult. That’s what happened on February 24 in the air not far from Tucson as the two planes flew over Arizona and New Mexico.
One was a pilot for American Airlines and the other was a pilot of a Lear Jet..
The Lear jet pilot was the first to report something around 3:30 that afternoon, according to a report in The Drive, a website owned by Time, Inc. that reports on aviation issues.
He contacted the air traffic control tower in Albuquerque, New Mexico, asking them if they had tracked any traffic flying above him.
The tower said no, prompting the pilot to reply, “something’ did,” according to audio of the conversation posted by The Drive.
Another pilot can be heard saying,”UFO” and the pilot says, “yeah.”
Soon after, air traffic control contacts the pilot of the American Airlines plane, which is some distance behind the Lear Jet, telling him that another plane (the Lear) had seen something.
Had the American pilot seen anything?
“Something just passed over us,” the plot replies a few minutes later. “I don’t know what it was…. It passed right over the top of us.”
Asked if it could be a weather balloon, the pilot replies: “Doubtful.”
Arizona is no stranger to UFO sightings.
In 1997, it was the site of perhaps the largest mass sighting of a UFO ever recorded when thousands from Phoenix to Sonora reported seeing six lights flying in formation.
The FAA says that they have no record of any other craft being in the area. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Royal Canadian Mint Releases UFO Coin
OTTAWA—The Royal Canadian Mint is releasing a limited-edition $20 coin to commemorate the unusual story of a Manitoba man’s close encounter with a flying saucer.
The one-ounce silver coin being released Tuesday immortalizes Stefan Michalak’s experience in Whiteshell Provincial Park, east of Winnipeg, more than 50 years ago.
Michalak said he suffered burns when he came across an unidentified flying object in what became known as the Falcon Lake incident in May 1967.
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Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART II
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART II
A UFO and the Greatest Miracle of the Bible
After a series of startling events Pharaoh’s son dies and in his grief Pharaoh gives permission for Moses to lead the Exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hebrew slaves away from Egypt in 1446 BC.
The exodus population were sustained by miracles: A Pillar of fire provided light; a cloud provided shelter from the sun and water (Isa 4:4-6); manna was provided for food, their clothes and shoes did not wear out; (Deut 8:4. )
17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
Crossing the Red Sea
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” 6 So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7 and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9
The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.17 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night[b] without one coming near the other all night.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.23
The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging[c] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw[d] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. 29 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
After crossing the Red Sea, the Bible says they encountered the mountain of God or Mount Sinai which is in Saudi Arabia. The beach at Nuweiba is extremely large and could have accommodated a large number of people at the time of Moses and is the likely site for the crossing of Red Sea.
Interestingly, an underwater land bridge of comparatively shallow water exists at the crossing point.
King Solomon probably the greatest King of Israel had columns erected on both coasts 400 years after the miracle of the crossing of the Red Sea. King Solomon’s sea port was at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba at Eilat (I Kings 9:26) and he was very familiar with the Red Sea crossing site, as it was in his neighborhood. The Bible even mentions this column! Isaiah 19:19, “In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, (possible Pyramid) and a pillar to the Lord at its border.” You can visit the beaches today and see the columns in person.
I suggest the pillar to the Lord was what we call a UFO cylinder. Dozens of chariot wheels and other parts covered with gold were found in the sea at the crossing point. bible-archeology-red-sea-miracles – Bible.ca
Mexican Government ‘Assists Central Americans Headed for US
Cathy Burke reports, “National Border Patrol Council Union Chief Brandon Judd on Sunday condemned the Mexican government for turning a blind eye to a massive caravan of Central American refugees headed for the U.S. border”.
In remarks to Fox & Friends Sunday, Judd responded to a BuzzFeed News report on the caravan. According to BuzzFeed, some 1,200 Central Americans, organized by volunteers who call themselves Pueblos Sin Fronteras, have crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases and police in a march toward the United States unimpeded by Mexican authorities.
“First off, you have got a Mexican government entity that is assisting these individuals that are coming up to the United States,” Judd charged. “These individuals do not have passports or legal documents to be in Mexico, yet you got an agency that’s helping them get to our [U.S.] border.”
“Once they [the migrants] enter the country, even if we [border patrol agents] are standing at the border with our hands out saying, ‘Don’t enter, don’t enter,’ all they have to do is cross one foot into the border and we have to take them into custody. If they ask for asylum or say, ‘I fear to go back to my country,’ then we have to process them under ‘credible fear’ which allows them to be released into our country.”
Judd also decried the continuing “catch-and-release” program for illegal immigrants.
“When they cross the border legally the reason that they openly do it is because they know that the catch and release program continues today,” he said, asserting “they’ll never see those deportation proceedings.” He said Immigration Customs Enforcement agents “process them and they’ll release them with a notice to appear in which they’re supposed to present themselves before an immigration judge about two years from now. But they never show up for their deportation proceedings,” he said.
A new report claims the President has cancelled the catch and release program immediately.
Judd said there was a drop in illegal entries after President Donald Trump’s election — but no longer.
Mexican Cartels Killing 50,000+ US Citizens Each Year
Millions in Illegal drugs captured crossing border
2017 DEA Drug Threat Report: has been made public and Mexico is the greatest heroin source with most coming across our border with Mexico from 6 major cartels. The 182 page comprehensive report covers twenty sections. Heroin-involved overdose deaths more than quadrupled between 2010 and 2015, with the most recent data indicating that heroin alone was involved in more than a thousand deaths of mostly young people a month.
Note: I have yet to see our National TV fake news mention Mexican Cartels controlling the drug traffic.
Security analysts and cartel sources agree that a key factor in the transformation of underworld rivalries into a full-throttle war has been the cartels’ recruitment of elite soldiers. The scale of the problem remains unclear – not least because the Mexican government has been unwilling to release data, said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University and author of “Zetas Inc.” A book about Mexico’s most feared criminal organization dominating important smuggling routes from Central America into the United States
It is interesting the US news media is opposed to building a wall that brings in Mexican carnage that kills over 50,000 American citizens a year and 80 billion in profits. Mexico is the provider of 70 % of the heroin to the United States.
Mexican-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) dominate the supply and wholesale distribution of most illicit drugs in the United States. Approximately 70% of all illicit drugs consumed in the United States are trafficked through Mexico, TCOs, and have expanded their control over the drug-trafficking conducted by criminal street gangs in their respective territories. Zetas: Juan Gerardo Treviño-Chávez is leading the cartel. BLO: Fausto Isídro Meza-Flores, alias Chapo Isidro remains a subgroup with BLO, and BLO subgroups depend on alliances with CJNG, Zetas and Juárez to access drug corridors.
Mexican TCOs maintain the greatest drug trafficking influence in the United States, with continued signs of growth and expansion. By controlling lucrative smuggling corridors, primarily across the Southwest Border, Mexican TCOs export significant quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the U.S. annually. Once these illicit drugs are smuggled into the U.S., they are delivered to user markets through transportation routes and distribution cells that are managed d by Mexican TCOs.
Illegal immigrants are often forced to bring drugs into the US by the Cartels that control the border. Over the past several years, Mexican TCOs have expanded their sphere of influence into every region of the United State Almost all the opioid deaths are from illegal drugs manufactured in Mexico including crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine. Mexican TCOs grown heroin, A veritable war on drugs has erupted in Mexico with the Calderon government attempting to rid the country of organized crime. The result has been incredible violence with 46,000 Mexicans being killed in this internal conflict last year,
Most Significant Mexican TCOs Currently Active in the United States
As of 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assesses the following six Mexican TCOs, as controlling the drug trafficking in the on the U.S making an estimated 80 Billion dollars in profits each year to buy politicians, police and judges.: Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nue a Generación, or CJNG), Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, and Beltran-Ley a Organization. Each of these TCOs maintains drug distribution cells in cities across the U S that report directly to TCO leaders in Mexico. Drug Cartel Areas in Mexico Cartels Controlling Illegal Immigration
Heroin Overview-The most deadly threat is due to fentanyl
Heroin poses a serious public health and safety threat to the United States. Overdose deaths, already exceed a thousand+ young Americans per month. The increasing adulteration of heroin with analogues of the highly-potent synthetic opioid fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has exacerbated this situation. Poppy cultivation and heroin production levels in Mexico, the primary source of heroin for the U.S. market, continue to increase. The heroin supply in white powder markets in the eastern U.S, is highly pure, inexpensive, and increasingly adulterated with fentanyl.. While the size of the heroin user population is smaller than other major drugs, heroin is highly deadly to its users. Heroin is now commonly adulterated with fentanyl, making it even more deadly to its user population.
The Drug poisoning of Americans continues to increase
The United States has seen substantial increases in heroin availability in the last seven to 10 years, which has allowed the heroin threat to expand to unprecedented levels. Rapid increases in heroin production in Mexico since 2015 have ensured a reliable supply of low-cost heroin. The DEA field divisions with the highest percentage of respondents choosing heroin as the greatest drug threat are: Philadelphia FD (84.2%), New Jersey FD (84.2%), New York FD (76.9%), New England FD (65.0%), Detroit FD (64.2%), Chicago FD (54.6%), and Washington FD (47.2%). Seattle FD 46.1%) :Law enforcement agencies indicates heroin availability continues to increase throughout the United States.
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US in 2016, with 52,404 deaths .Additionally, many killings and robberies are tied to the desperate need for money to buy the drugs. By the end of his presidency on January 20, 2017, Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant executive clemency—that is, “pardon, to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges. Many of the illegal immigrants are forced to bring in heroin by the Mexican Cartels, An estimated 84,000 deaths from drug overdose occurred in 2017.
In comparison the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. US military deaths over sixteen years of fighting in the War in Afghanistan as of October 2017 have now reached.1,834 about ten deaths per month as the result of hostile action. Roughly the number lost in Philadelphia drug overdoses each year. The Mexican drug war is not covered by the news media and kills thousands of young people each month. Perhaps we are fighting the wrong war with a news media controlled by six companies that fail to care?http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/2017-drug-threat-reportrcq-leads.htmlabout
March UFO Sighting Reports
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2018 there were 640 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
United States 446,
Canada 66,
United Kingdom 42,
France 11,
Mexico 7, µBrazil 6.
National UFO Reporting Center had 200 reports in March.
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Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART III
Filer’s Files #14 – 2018 Spiritual Warfare - PART III
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Object
Don Torcuato— Mr. Miguel Shimizukawa , a relative of mine, took that photo on September 17, 2017,
After a few months, while revising his flash cards, realized of this craft above the airplane. The plane appears to have only one engine?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Green Spaceship
Evergreen— Caught in a photo of the full moon, I could not see it with the naked eye on March 31, 2018.. But when I was looking at photos, there was this strange green spaceship looking thing, with a purple exhaust coming out the bottom. And it is in a few different photos. I was facing east.
And in the photos there was a rainbow around the moon with some clouds below the moon. The green spaceship starts to descend threw the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orbs
Orlando Airport — I waited for my mom’s flight on March 28, 2018, and took two pictures of aircraft for the children. When I reviewed them seconds later I saw 3 objects. No reflecting lights on the window inside the building and not visible when I took the photos through the camera. Not going to jump the gun on it as a ufo but would like someone to assess the photo to determine if the objects are actually in the sky. They appear to be in motion from my take on it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Light
Traverse City — My girlfriend took a photo, driving down the road January 28, 2018. She was unaware of the object at the time.
After reviewing her photos later that day, she saw this object with lights beaming down, like it was scanning the ground. I have another amazing happening. Unreal.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexican Orbs
Deming — Traveling to Las Cruces took a picture of the sky.
I observed the picture later and saw 4 objects in the sky. I can’t explain it. to me it looks like two air planes without wings, 1 tractor trailer (weird) and 1 huge helicopter.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Diamonds
Honeoye Falls— We were looking for deer or fox out our kitchen window on March 30, 2018, 2. There was an extremely bright large light hovering behind two large pine trees. You couldn’t help but notice it. 3. We had never seen any light like it hovering there, so we used binoculars. 4. The object was extremely large diamond with rounded points. The entire surface was covered with thousands of small very bright white lights. It reminded us of the New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square in NYC. Just then the UFO began to move slowly forward, ascending to just above the trees and split into two diamond shapes covered with red and white lights. They then turned into 3 circles. then into four, and finally into a triangle with small white yellow, green, and red lights along the edge. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Lights
Columbus– The photographer captured lights in the sky in the rough shape of a triangle.
The lights were captured on April 3, 2018 with a video camera.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Fort Worth Dallas Airport — I was grilling and taking a video to send to my family on March 21, 2018, and my family member told me about the UFO when I slowed the video I saw two UFOs fly by at very high speeds.
The video was longer I cut it to the beginning where the two UFOs flew by.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Crescent Lake U.S. National Park craft captured on March 30, 2018
Crescent Lake — I am a climate scientist working as a consultant. I monitor air quality conditions via a web site run by the U.S. National Park office. This web site contains data, and it also has photos taken every 15 minutes for verification of visibility and conditions. I use this web page frequently, and seldom see anything out of the ordinary.
I captured an image from one of these cams on March 30, 2018, that cannot be explained. This I believe is a true an accurate photograph. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sightings Around the World
Australia
Sydney – A iPhone video taken in slow motion of electrical storm at Sydney’s northern end on April 2, 2018. Upon review of footage I noticed lightning bolts connected several times with a dark geometric shape. When sheet lightening happens it illuminates the clouds and the same cube shape and a second oval shape become momentarily visible, but only on video, not at the scene. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Star
Moncton — This “star” seemed to really want to get my attention. The flashing lights were very noticeable against the night sky so I thought it would be interesting to try out my new camera. As I zoomed in, it was apparent that the star was changing shape as well as color. I didn’t observe any movement other than the rapid flashing of lights. I was able to capture this on video but unfortunately I didn’t have a tripod which resulted in camera shake. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Orb
Six Fours — The sighting happened on October 18th, 2017, about 10:30 pm, when I saw a luminous ball. It was orange glittering abnormally that seemed to attract my gaze. I stood on the horizon just above the sea. This ball flew towards me at a slow speed. My girlfriend took my cell phone to film the scene. There was clearly a silent black triangle with three white lights at each point of the triangle and one at the center flashing red color Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Circle of Lights
Jaipur, Rajasthan — We were at an annual religious processions and there were many fancy lights that I wanted to record on March 31, 2018. It was while making a boomerang video only that I realized that I had captured something that I did not remember seeing in the sky while recording it. I’m attaching a clip in which you can see 4 disc like objects hovering in a pattern in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexican Orb
Cabo San Lucas International Airport — I was sitting at a window seat on March 28, 2018, on takeoff and filmed an orb with my iPhone 8. Later, I noticed the orb like object following in front of the left wing about two feet forward. It appeared to be stable in relation to the wing throughout the turning of the plane onto the runway, acceleration of the plane and take off. Also this object did not seem to move as I panned to the wingtip and forward a few times. There are obvious reflections from the window pane that remained constant. It then all of a sudden disappeared. I cannot understand what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Red Orbs
London — I was walking home at about 8:15 pm, on January 26, 2018. I live in a small town about 25 miles east of London. As I walked along the pavement, something in the night sky caught my eye. I saw a string of small, bright red orbs rising up into the sky at an angle. They were as many as 20 small red orbs, all the same size, all constantly moving at the same speed, close together like a string of red Christmas tree lights. The orbs were bright red spherical shape, moving fast. They were maybe 10 miles away moving much faster than planes. As I watched, they rose up from 30 to 60 degrees. then moved in a circular motion swirling around above East London area. The 20 red orbs were much bigger than aeroplane lights moving fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The new picture snapped by the Hubble Telescope and analyzed by NASA scientists is jam-packed with galaxies — and among them, there’s an even more spectacular feature: a so-called Einstein Ring.
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA / Judy Schmidt.
This charming part of the universe is called SDSS J0146-0929, a galaxy cluster which features a great variety of spiral and elliptical galaxies presented to us at different angles — some are face-on, some are angled, but all are locked together by the inescapable tug of gravity. But here, gravity does even more than just hold the galaxies together: it bends light in a way that creates a ring-like feature, a so-called Einstein Ring.
Einstein’s ring occurs when light coming from a bright source is bent by the gravitational effect of a very large structure or object — in this case, SDSS J0146-0929. The phenomenon is called gravitational lensing and requires that the three participants (the light source, the massive structure, and the observer — which is Earth) be aligned in a straight-line configuration of called a syzygy.
In this sense, an Einstein Ring is a special case of gravitational lensing, caused by the exact alignment of the source, lens, and observer. This results in a symmetry around the lens, causing a ring-like structure. NASA’s Karl Hille describes the image:
“In this image, the light from a background galaxy is diverted and distorted around the massive intervening cluster and forced to travel along many different light paths toward Earth, making it seem as though the galaxy is in several places at once.”
Einstein predicted this phenomenon back in 1912, even before his theory of general relativity. However, Einstein didn’t think we’d ever be able to observe one because our technology wasn’t capable of it. Well, our technology has progressed way beyond what Einstein thought possible and today, hundreds of gravitational lenses are currently known. In recent years, astronomers have used gravitational lensing to zoom in on extremely distant parts of the universe.
Just a few days ago, scientists published a study in which they described the farthest start ever observed, and in late 2017, a different team found a planet so big that it might not be a planet after all.
If you think this is awesome (and it is), I’ve got something even more amazing: a few years ago, Hubble snapped a spectacular image of a double Einstein’s ring — an extremely unlikely scenario which astronomers were lucky to witness.
2018 UFO Researcher of the Year Award and Acceptance - International UFO Congress
2018 UFO Researcher of the Year Award and Acceptance - International UFO Congress
This year’s UFO Researcher of the Year Award went to journalist and author Cheryl Costa! This video reviews her background and the reasons she received the award.
Megalithic Mystery: The Enigmatic Dragon Houses Of Greece
Megalithic Mystery: The Enigmatic Dragon Houses Of Greece
Located on the Greek Island of Euboea lies a true archaeological mystery: 25 massive structures called Drakóspita or Dragon houses. Erected using supermassive limestone blocks forming a pyramid-shaped roof, the mysterious dragon houses are a true ancient enigma. Experts are unsure who built them, how they were built, but most importantly, experts have no idea when they were built.
The dragon houses (in Greek Drakospita) are 20 large buildings spread across the south of the island of Euboea, the sixth largest in the Mediterranean, located off the eastern coast of mainland Greece.
The so-called Dragon houses are rectangular constructions composed of huge stones, built in a cyclopean style, placed one above the other without any type of mortar.
The spaces between them are filled with other smaller stones, and the roof is covered with equally large stone plates leaving a gap for the entrance of light.
The best preserved Dragon houses are those located on Mount Ochi , in the southeast of the island. Three other Cyclopean Dragon Houses can be found at Palli-Lakka and in Kapsala.
Despite the fact that they are called Dragon houses, the massive structures don’t really have anything to do with these mythological creatures.
They are dubbed Dragon houses because the local tradition attributed to their creators unknown superhuman powers, given the size of the stone blocks used in the building process. Ordinary people could not have built these massive structures, right?
However, experts are still unable to agree on their date, and the lack of materials surrounding the massive structures has made the job more difficult.
The Dragon houses were ‘found’ by British geologist John Hawkins, who ascended Mount Ochi (1,398 meters of altitude) on October 21, 1797.
There, he found a construction that he inspected and from which he drew sketches, concluding, based on their design that the massive structures should be older than classic Greek temples.
After word got out of the existence of massive structures in the Mediterranean, many others ventured out to Greece to see the ‘Dragon houses’ for themselves.
In the following years after Hawkins discovered them, numerous archaeologists visited the site, such as Heinrich Ulrichs, who published a monograph about the structures in 1842.
In more recent times the main researchers are those of the Americans Jean Carpenter and Dan Boyd.
The enigmatic Dragon Houses of Mount Ochi are located at an altitude of 1386 meters of and have an average dimension of 12.7 by 7.7 meters, with a door in the center of the south wall, 2 meters high by one wide and crowned by a huge 10-tonne lintel protruding above it, as well as small windows on the sides.
The walls have an average thickness of 1.4 meters, suitable to support the heavy stone roof, and the interior rises to an average height of around 2.4 meters.
The surface of the construction is 48 square meters and the entire floor is covered with stone panels.
Dragon-House Palli-Lakka building North near Styra/Euboia/Greece.
As noted by experts, the three Dragon Houses of Palli-Lakka are very similar in dimensions to that of Mount Ochi, but the walls are less thick, only 1.1 meters on average.
The stone blocks used are smaller and, in general, the style is more rustic, less elaborate and possibly even older.
The strange things is that, despite their supermassive size and intricate design elements, there is absolutely no reference to these buildings in the ancient sources, so all the available information comes from the legends and folklore of the area where they were built, as well as details of explorers who have visited the structures in more recent times.
In 1959, excavations were carried out on the structures of Mount Ochi which brought to light ceramic fragments which have been dated to the Hellenistic period.
Archaeologists also found various reinforcements, on one of which they fund a small text written in an unknown script, which is now kept at the archaeological museum of Karystos.
An Otherworldly Connection?
The Night Sky and the various constellations.
Interesting details were discovered in 2002 and 2004 when researchers from the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Athens studied the orientation of the Dragon Houses on Mount Ochi. Experts came to the conclusion that the Dragon Houses were oriented to the Sirius star system around 1100 BC., suggesting that the mysterious Cyclopean structures may have been used as some sort of astronomical observatories.
However, due to the lack of more exhaustive data, the Greek Dragon houses continue to be an enigma for archaeologists
As noted by some authors, the mysterious structures could well be the key to understanding the evolution of later Greek architecture.
Whatever their purpose was, it remains a mystery as to how the massive structures were built, how they have remained standing, and most importantly their exact age.
ARABIAN POINTER A human finger fossil found in a Saudi Arabian desert dates to between 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, researchers say. This find, shown here from different angles, strengthens the view that ancient humans expanded into Asia via Arabia.
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A single human finger bone from at least 86,000 years ago points to Arabia as a key destination for Stone Age excursions out of Africa that allowed people to rapidly spread across Asia.
Excavations at Al Wusta, a site in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert, produced this diminutive discovery. It’s the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and the narrow strip of the Middle East that joins Africa with Asia, based on dating of the bone itself, says a team led by archaeologists Huw Groucutt and Michael Petraglia. This new find strengthens the idea that early human dispersals out of Africa began well before the traditional estimated departure time of 60,000 years ago and extended deep into Arabia, the scientists report April 9 in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
“Although long considered to be far from the main stage of human evolution, Arabia was a stepping stone from Africa into Asia,” says Petraglia, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
Don’t be misled by the vast deserts that dominate the Arabian Peninsula today. Geologic evidence indicates that Al Wusta lay within a well-watered, human-friendly area between around 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, the estimated age range for the human finger fossil, Groucutt and Petraglia’s team says. Dating relied on measures of the decay of a radioactive form of uranium in the human fossil and a nearby hippo tooth. Those results were combined with a measure of exposure to natural doses of radiation in the tooth. Another technique estimated the time since the finger bone and adjacent finds were buried by sediment.
FAR-FLUNG FINGER Excavations at Saudi Arabia’s Al Wusta site produced a human finger fossil dating to at least 86,000 years ago. This discovery provides the first fossil evidence for ancient human excursions from Africa to Arabia.
M. PETRAGLIA
The 2016 Al Wusta find is probably the middle bone from an adult’s middle finger, suspects Groucutt, of the University of Oxford. It’s unclear whether the bone came from a man or a woman, or from a right or left hand.
It’s definitely human, though. To establish the fossil’s identify, the researchers compared a 3-D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present-day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.
How humans moved into Arabia is uncertain. Along with the finger, Al Wusta yielded 380 stone tools and 860 nonhuman animal fossils from the same time. Some of those animals, including hippos and gazelles, originated in Africa and no longer inhabit the Arabian Peninsula. Ancient groups of hunter-gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes. When those landscapes dried out every 20,000 years or so, people could have returned to Africa or headed farther into Asia.
Al Wusta’s ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16) — challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn-Torres. Instead, small groups of African H. sapienscontinually traveled into Arabia and beyond starting nearly 100,000 years ago or earlier, suggests Martinόn-Torres, who directs the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. Periods of increased rainfall may have provided “windows of opportunity” for human movements into Arabia, she adds.
Al Wusta stone tools differ in some ways from those at slightly older sites in Israel. Paleoanthropologist Donald Henry of the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma interprets those differences to mean culturally distinct African populations took a southern route into Arabia. To reach Al Wusta, East African travelers could have crossed a narrow sea channel from the Horn of Africa to Arabia’s southwestern corner before heading up to Al Wusta, Henry suggests in a comment published with the new report.
Petraglia doubts that scenario. Ancient humans could easily have followed grazing animals up the Nile River Valley into the Middle East and then south into Arabia, he says, adjusting their tools to new settings along the way.
Residents of Rockwall near Texas were baffled when a mysterious beam of light was seen on the horizon which illuminated the stormy dark sky to the east on 6 April 2018.
Numerous Reasons Might Have Caused Mysterious Beam of Light
There were many reasons given as to why people saw the strange sky phenomenon bear Rockwall in Texas. The official version for the beam of light was that the sun was shining through a hole in the clouds in the sky. However, if this was the case then the beam of light should have spread to the horizon and it did not according to witnesses.
A photo of the mysterious light was shown on Facebook and the photograph had been taken through the windshield of a car. Some people suggested that the light was a shadow on the windshield on the vehicle. But then this could not be the cause as the beam of light is seen in the background with other vehicles in-between it and the windscreen of the car. It was even said that perhaps it was a tornado but the beam of light was not changing shape nor moving.
If the strange light was a natural phenomenon then perhaps it is what is known as an anticrepuscular ray. This is a ray that is sharp at the horizon and then spreads out and widens as it goes up. If man made it could be a business spotlight or laser beam that has shown up against the dark background of the storm or a searchlight or fog light.
Some people even said that it was related to the Dark Book of Shadows by S. M. Brennan, a tale of dark witchcraft and sorcery. They said that perhaps the gates had finally been opened up and the ancient Gods had been set free upon the world along with the Dark Flame of Satanas. Others have suggested that it might be aliens and a UFO is about to land.
The latest photos from NASA’s Juno orbiter are getting up close and personal with Jupiter. Known as Perijove 12 – because it’s this mission’s 12th encounter with the giant planet – the images only add to the recent mysteries that have emerged regarding the Great Red Spot.
Since Juno first entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5, 2016, the mission continues to change everything scientists once thought about the planet. Jupiter’s magnetic field is significantly stronger than scientists had expected, and Juno’s observations have revealed new insight on the stability of the planet’s storms. Juno’s most recent drive by of Jupiter was on April 1, and this new crop of photos succeed in raising even more questions about Jupiter’s giant storm.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Juno's Perijove 12
Juno’s mission is to provide data regarding Jupiter’s magnetic field and internal composition. After every perijove session, the images taken on Juno’s camera are sent back to Earth, where astronomers and photo editors are hired to process.
Not only does NASA share the raw images, but the agency invites photo editors to download them and add their own enhancements. NASA then shares some of the images, which have been cropped and highlighted to showcase specific planetary features.
Jupiter from Juno's Perijove 12
The Great Red Spot has been in the spotlight lately and new information regarding its size has sparked debate. A study published in The Astronomical Journal last month suggests that the Great Red Spot might be getting taller as it shrinks, meaning it’s not losing as much mass as scientists once thought.
Juno’s close encounters with Jupiter come every 54 days, which means the next batch of photos from Perijove 13 can be expected around May 24. Juno’s mission is scheduled to conclude after Perijove 14 in July and the spacecraft is slated to be intentionally de-orbited into Jupiter’s atmosphere. However, given how many unanswered questions come with each Juno encounter, the mission could receive an extension.
The evidence that aliens exist has been slowly mounting for decades and 2017 marks the most convincing year yet for the belief that life must exist beyond our planet.
And believing in the extraterrestrial is no longer reserved for conspiracy theorists in tinfoil hats. Nearly half of humanity believes aliens are out there, according to a recent study, and in June, the European Space Agency signed off on a $668 million mission that will hunt for other life forms 932,000 miles into space. Meanwhile, scientists continue to be baffled by a bunch of mysterious signals that keep emanating from faraway galaxies.
Here are five stories that prove it’s only a matter of time before we meet our celestial neighbors.
Scientists have long presumed that if we’re going to find life on other planets, we’re going to find them in the “Goldilocks zone” — spots throughout the universe where conditions are just right for water to exist.
The intergalactic search for our neighbors grew more promising in 2017 with dozens more “super-Earth” discoveries.
And even though we don’t yet have the technology to reach these planets, 2017’s “super-Earths” have included:
Wolf 1061c: Discovered in January, located 14 light years away
LHS 1140b: Discovered in April, located 40 light years away
Ross 128b: Discovered in November, located 11 light years away
K2-18b: Discovered in December, located 111 light years away
In June, NASA’s Kepler telescope found 10 “Goldilocks-zone” planets and in October, the telescope found 20 more “hiding in plain sight.”
“Are we alone?” Kepler scientist Mario Perez asked at a news conference following NASA’s June discovery. “Maybe Kepler today has told us indirectly, although we need confirmation, that we are probably not alone.”
2. Reported UFO sightings are at their highest ever
Sam Manafort, who’s studying Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University, crunched numbers from the National UFO Reporting Center. In his report, he found that since the first recorded UFO flew over Portugal in 1905, there have been at least 104,947 sightings.
But the number of yearly sightings has spiked dramatically from about 5,000 in 1980 to about 45,000 in 2010. In the US alone, there are 2,500 sightings per 10 million people — something Manafort attributes to the fact that most of the US has access to the internet.
Most of the sightings have come from the West and Northwest, an area that lines up with America’s “UFO highway” — a latitude line across the US that a pair of sibling alien hunters believes is an entrance for extraterrestrial spacecraft.
The duo, whose book “37th Parallel” is being made into a movie, state that during years-long travels across the US, the most bizarre paranormal phenomenon took place along the 37th latitude line.
This line stretches from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
3. Life may already be hanging out in our own solar system
Dubbed Trans-Neptunian objects, these celestial bodies might benefit from tidal heating. This means that these icy planets have moons with enough gravitational pull to create energy beneath the planet’s surface — which generates heat and allows a sub-surface ocean to exist. The findings were published in Icarus.
“These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life,” Prabal Saxena of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said in a press release. “If our study is correct, we now may have more places in our solar system that possess some of the critical elements for extraterrestrial life.”
The space agency was looking to hire a planetary protection officer — someone in charge of making sure that spacecraft and astronauts don’t contaminate other worlds and don’t bring back anything that could contaminate our own.
“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration,” the job description stated.
The job, which pays between $124,406 and $187,000, is only one of two full-time posts in the world. It became available after Catherine Conley, the former planetary protection officer, accepted a different position inside NASA.
NASA first created the position following the signing of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 — a UN-approved agreement that outlines international space law.
The application closed Aug. 14 and there’s been no update on who landed the extraterrestrial gig.
In November, a NASA scientist at Goddard Institute For Space Studies said he believes we’ll find alien life within the next 20 years.
In December, the Pentagon released footage of Navy pilots seemingly coming into contact with UFOs. The eerie clip from 2004 shows a glowing white orb rotating while the F/A-18F fighter jet pilots try to figure out if what they’re looking at is a drone or something more… universal.
The footage, which was taken off the coast of California, was released after the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This program, which costs $22 millionbetween 2008 and 2012, was set up to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects. Some officials have said that parts of the program have continued. “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” Cmdr. David Fravor, one of the pilots who saw the UFO,told the Washington Post.Fravor said the object resembled a white Tic Tac and was “something not from the earth.”
It used to be thought that the world was flat. That beyond the horizon lurked a bottomless void, measureless to humans. As our ships got better and our navigators more confident, vessels that disappeared over one horizon began returning triumphant from the other. The Earth was curved, a sphere with no edges. We didn’t fall off because a mysterious force called gravity kept everyone and everything stuck to the planet’s surface.
Then Albert Einstein came along and told us that space itself was curved. Now we realise that if we sail off into the sea of curved space we call the Universe, there are indeed bottomless voids that the unwary traveler can fall into – and they are measureless to humans. They lurk on the other side of their own dark horizons, and we call them Black Holes.
FATAL ATTRACTION
A black hole is an astronomical contradiction – a dark star, an invisible nothing, a prison of light. Its boundary is marked by the so-called Event Horizon, a sphere of darkness that shrouds the inside and defines the point of no return. There is no solid surface beyond, just a bottomless gravitational whirlpool so strong that it sucks everything – even light – relentlessly inward. Oblivion waits at the centre in the form of the Singularity, Gravity’s fatal attractor.
Hidden eternally from view, the Singularity marks the spot where an immense gravitational force has been concentrated. All the mass, light and energy that has ever fallen into the black hole is compressed by its own overwhelming gravity into a point that is infinitely small and infinitely dense. The more a black hole swallows, the heavier it gets, yet the singularity never changes. Space has been squelched out of existence and Time has been squeezed to a stop. Step over the event horizon and for all intents and purposes you’ve fallen off the edge of the universe.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GRAVITY
The concept of Gravity, this unseen force that dominates our lives and pulls us eternally towards the ground, has long challenged the greatest human minds. Even in Galileo’s day, the tower at Pisa had a good lean to it – perfect for dropping things off. Galileo wondered why no matter how heavy or light objects were, they all took the same amount of time to fall to Earth. He puzzled too about why the planets moved they way they did. His conviction that they orbited around the sun led to house arrest for heresy. He was still trying to put the gravity puzzle together when he died in Florence in 1642.
On Christmas Day that same year, the gravity baton was handed to Isaac Newton, born weak and premature in a Lincolnshire farmhouse. Twenty three years later, Newton returned to Woolsthorpe Manor to sit out the plague sweeping southern England. With 18 months quiet thought in the countryside he discovered calculus, unravelled the nature of light, and began formulating laws for the motion of the planets: discoveries that still underpin most of modern physics. One day when he was having a short break with a cup of tea, a falling apple interrupted his thoughts and led him to ponder gravity itself.
The reason the apple fell straight down was that it was trying to fall to the centre of the earth where gravitational attraction was focused. And the Earth wasn’t the only object that had gravity, so did the moon, the sun and the planets. In fact, Newton reasoned, every object in the universe – including ourselves – has gravity. The bigger and heavier, the greater it’s gravitational force. We are glued to the surface of the Earth – and not the other way round – only because it is has so much more mass. The Earth orbits around the sun for the same reason. Finally, Newton had found a reason for the heavens to move the way they do.
DARK STARS
In 1784, John Michell, Rector of Thornhill Church in Yorkshire and great forgotten 18th Century scientist, became intrigued with the idea of escape velocity – the minimum speed with which you need to travel upwards from a star or planet to escape its gravitational clutches. He knew that gravity depended upon mass and he knew the speed of light was fast but finite. How heavy, he wondered, would the sun have to become before its gravity would become so great that even light (which travels at 299,792 km/second) would be held back at its surface? The answer, Michell reasoned, was that if the sun was the same size but weighed 500 times more, the light from the Sun would not escape the Suns own gravity. The Sun would simply disappear from view. A few years later the great French mathematician Laplace came to the same conclusion independently. The concept of the Dark Star was born.
A UNIVERSE OF HOLES
Black holes remained an ignored theoretical curio until a young clerk in a Swiss patent office published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. Albert Einstein realised that the universe was a fundamentally different place to the clockwork universe of Newton and commonsense. The three dimensions of space could not be separated from the fourth dimension of time. Together they form the ‘Spacetime’ continuum, a kind of invisible scaffolding that defines existence. Spacetime, though, is not an absolute, fixed thing. It can be warped, bent and curved.
Spacetime is ‘straight’ only when it doesn’t have anything in it. Wherever there is mass, there is gravity. Wherever there is gravity, space is curved. The curvature of space dictates how an object will move through it. The object will dictate how space bends around it. Gravity, according to Einstein, is the curvature of space.
Einstein’s thought experiment was to imagine space and time being squashed flat like a 2D rubber sheet. Put a massive object like the sun on the sheet and it will bend. The more dense an object is, the deeper the depression it makes in Spacetime and the stronger the gravity. Eventually a point is reached when the walls of the depression are stretched so steeply that nothing can climb out of it. It is, quite literally, a hole in the universe.
A STAR IS BORN
To understand the very large in the universe, you need to start with the very small. With the unlocking of the secrets of nuclear energy, scientists finally got a clue to how black holes might form in nature. Stars are born when enormous clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen begin to clump and condense under their own gravitational weight. Gravity grows stronger by the hour as the increasing density of the protostar curves space more strongly. Faster and faster, the hydrogen gas falls in upon itself in the condensing core. The more it collides the hotter it grows. When the core reaches 10 million degrees, the hydrogen protons begin to fuse into helium. Some of the mass disappears, having being turned into energy and light. Like a giant cosmic light bulb, the star has switched itself on.
Every star we see in the heavens has a giant nuclear reaction raging at its core. It’s what makes a star like our sun shine so hot and bright. Gravity is still trying to pull the star’s gas tighter and tighter but is matched now by the energy pouring outwards from the nuclear reaction in the core. The star settles into a precarious balance that gravity will always win in the end.
THE BIG SQUEEZE
The ultimate fate of a star depends upon its mass. Our sun is middle-aged. It switched on 5 billion years ago and has enough fuel to burn for 5 billion more. But when, in that far distant future, the spent heart of the sun sheds its outer layers and shuts down, gravity will squeeze the core so tight it cannot be squeezed any more. It will become a ‘white dwarf’, a feeble ember the size of the earth but a hundred thousand times more dense.
The more massive the star is, the faster it burns its fuel and the shorter its life expectancy. A star 10 times as massive as the sun may survive only millions, not billions, of years. As it starts to collapse, the crush of in-falling matter slamming into the iron core sends the temperature rocketing to 50 billion degrees. The core has only seconds to respond – and it does so Supernova-style.
A supernova is a massive explosion. Huge quantities of material are blown into space, but only from the outer regions of the star. Most of the star has actually imploded, with the core being given a gravity bear hug so extreme that the protons and electrons have been squeezed into a ball of superdense subatomic particles called neutrons. The resulting ‘neutron star’ would weigh about one and a half times as much as the sun but would measure only about 20 kilometres across – about the size of Brisbane.
Astronomers can prove that neutron stars exist, because they give off a unique distress signal. Like a lighthouse warning of a dangerous shore, a neutron star sweeps space with a blinding beam of radiation, generated by a magnetic field more than a trillion times greater than the Earth’s. Such a neutron star is called a pulsar. To astronomers, the pulsing beam sweeping the darkness of space is an unmistakable warning that extreme gravity lurks nearby.
GRAVITY’S FINAL TRIUMPH
A neutron star resist the ongoing crush of gravity, only with its neutrons packed in like sardines in a tin. But if the remnants of the star after supernova weigh more than three times the mass of the sun, even neutrons cannot hold back the inexorable force of gravity. The neutrons are squashed into oblivion. The star’s core becomes so dense that gravity overwhelms space itself, distorting it so horribly that it, and time with it, is wrenched off from the outside universe. A darkness forms at the star’s heart and moves relentlessly outwards as the stars brilliance is sucked inwards. This is the hungry, growing maw of a black hole: gravity’s final triumph. There is no escape, no turning back, until the entire mass of the star has been swallowed and its brilliance completely extinguished.
A BLACKNESS BEYOND BLACK
Visible only by its invisibility, the margin of the black hole is marked by the event horizon, so-called because all events beyond are hidden from view. For a black hole like this the event horizon may be only a few kilometres in diameter but the void beyond impossibly deep to measure. The entire mass of the star has been reduced to a singularity – a point of infinite smallness and infinite density at the very centre of this black malevolence.
The singularity is where science ends and speculation begins. Space and time have ceased to exist, replaced by a seething chaotic mass we call quantum foam. This bizarre conjecture is where Einstein’s laws fail. This is where the laws of quantum mechanics fail. This is the realm of something called Quantum Gravity – one of the hottest areas of advanced mathematical research.
It is from a singularity that the Universe is believed to have begun. In many ways the collapse of a star to form a black hole singularity is the reverse of the Big Bang. Is this the way the Universe is going to end? Wilder speculation is that our entire universe might lurk inside someone else’s singularity. or even that universes can bud off from each other like this, like some sort of heavenly breeding organism.
It wasn’t until 1967 that John Archibald Wheeler slipped the term “Black Hole” into his paper at a scientific conference, and into the lexicon of the late 20th Century. They may have become a household name – but are they real?
BLACK HOLE OR WHITE ELEPHANT
Einstein himself couldn’t believe that such an invisible impossibility as a black hole could exist in the real universe beyond his theories. Today, his successors have no such problems. Astronomers not only think they have identified nearly 30 black hole candidates in our own Milky Way galaxy, they are now getting the proof that the holes behave in the relativistic way that Einstein’s theories predict.
A black hole is an elusive quarry with perfect camouflage: total blackness in the blackness of space. Searching for a black hole no bigger than Sydney’s CBD across hundreds or thousands of light years of space demands a sneaky approach. First you have to find a visible star that a black hole has trapped in orbit. Then you have to study how the star wobbles. John Wheeler described it as like looking for a pair of dancers on a dark dance floor. The heavy man dressed in black is invisible, but the bright white dress of a light women is an easy target as she is whirled around. Astronomers look for the bright stars that ‘orbit’ dark partners in the same way.
One of the best candidates is the star called V404 Cygni. Calculations shows V404’s dark partner is twelve times more massive than our Sun, yet totally invisible. But for every black hole orbiting another star, there must be many more solitary ones yet unseen. One of these could lurk quietly much closer to home.
THE COSMIC HOOVER
Although black holes have the power to hoover up anything and everything that strays too close, they can’t hunt. Contrary to popular belief, if you replaced our Sun with a black hole of the same mass the Earth wouldn’t get sucked in, there just wouldn’t be any sunlight. You could even orbit a black hole in a spacecraft just so long as you kept a safe distance.
Get too close though and strange things start happening. Space gets stretched longer and skinnier. You would find your feet being pulled miles away in front of you while your body is squeezed sideways. You will have become a piece of space spaghetti long before you reach the event horizon. Then you’d be ruptured into your own fundamental particles and disappear behind the veil of darkness.
It’d be a spectacular way to go but no-one would see it because time is being stretched as well. The photons carrying the image would struggle harder to leave your body the closer you fell. Even with a few million years to spare, an outside observer will see you slow to a halt above the event horizon, before slowly fading from view.
HEARTS OF DARKNESS
Most astronomers now concede that a black hole heavyweight lurks in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Latest estimates are that it weighs in at a whopping 2 million times the mass of the sun – a dwarf in comparison to some of the truly supermassive black holes that may lurk in the cosmos.
By the 1950s, astronomers began turning optical telescopes towards some of the strongest signals that the new radio telescopes were picking up. Source number 3C 273 was found to be a bright star-like object with a ‘jet’ of intense radiation sticking out of it. It was the first of a number of similar objects given the name of ‘quasar’ or ‘quasi-stellar radio source’, but their real identity remained hidden for decades.
Quasars have now been revealed to be the energetic hearts of very active galaxies: brilliant discs of superheated gas and ruptured stars swirling at nearly the speed of light. Great jets of charged particles are blasted thousands of light years into space from above & below – like an axle through a wheel. The central engine that is driving all this activity, though, is hidden deep inside. It has to be small and it must be extraordinarily dense. The mathematics demand that the only beast that can drive such a display of raw power is a supermassive black hole. The heavier the hole, the faster the gases whirl in orbit. Astronomers have observed speeds which tally with black holes weighing up to five thousand million suns.
The theory goes like this: a galaxy evolves from a vast rotating cloud of gas that begins to clump and condense under its own weight into billions of stars arranged like an enormous Catherine wheel, a Mexican hat or a bee swarm. In the centre, where the gas is concentrated, enough matter to make millions or even billions stars has undergone titanic gravitational collapse to make a supermassive black hole. While the hole is still actively feeding on the inner part of the new galaxy it manifests itself as a quasar. Later, when all nearby food has been consumed, the black hole becomes quiescent, leaving a relatively quiet galactic core like the one in the Milky Way. If this theory is correct, then supermassive black holes are present in all but the smallest galaxies.
TOWARDS THE WITHIN
For all their ferocity, these supermassive black holes are surprisingly gentle giants up close. You can fall into one without turning to spaghetti.
Suppose you or I were an astronaut about to step into such an abyss at the edge of the universe. As I approach the event horizon, blackness spreads upwards around me. The Universe shrinks to a bright point directly overhead. As I meet and cross the horizon the universe above disappears in a blinding flash of photons trapped in orbit around the hole.
I am now inside the black hole and falling towards the Singularity. It’s not dark like I expected. I see a ring of dancing light where the singularity should be. It must be spinning so fast that the centrifugal force has balanced out gravity. Now it’s a naked glowing hula-hoop of indeterminate size. Around it I see glimpses of heavens unimaginable to humans, universes within universes, time within time…
But hey! No matter what I might see or experience inside the black hole, I could never send a message out. The secrets I discover will die with me as I achieve oneness with the Universe, at the central Singularity.
Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.
While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.
We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space-time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is not confirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.
Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might possess some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably in contradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, is a staple of science fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have a theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.
Since such feats would require a lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have a quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.
Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one has not limitation over it. You can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something like accretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.
To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in its tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligences. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.
To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.
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Bewijst leugendetectortest dat astronauten buitenaards leven zagen?
Bewijst leugendetectortest dat astronauten buitenaards leven zagen?
NASADe eerste ruimteselfie ooit werd in 1966 genomen door Buzz Aldrin, de tweede man op de maan
Bestaan er echt buitenaardse wezens? Ook bekende astronauten zijn overtuigd van hun reizen teruggekomen met verhalen over buitenaards leven. Nu zijn de verklaringen van vier astronauten, onder wie de 'tweede man op de maan', Buzz Aldrin, onderworpen aan een leugendetectortest. En blijkt dat ze deze allemaal hebben doorstaan!
Volgens experts laten de resultaten voor 100 procent zien dat de ondervraagden ervan overtuigd zijn tijdens hun ruimtemissies tekenen van buitenaards te hebben gezien of ervaren. Astronauten Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper deden mee aan de test, die tot de nieuwste technologie voor leugendetectie behoort. De test werd onder meer uitgevoerd op basis van stemanalyses.
Buzz Aldrin: 'Ik zag een ruimteschip'
Aldrin heeft altijd volgehouden dat hij tijdens zijn missie naar de maan een ruimteschip heeft gezien. "Er was daar iets dat dichtbij genoeg was om te kunnen zien, het had een beetje een L-vorm," aldus de astronaut. Worden claimt zelfs dat hij echte buitenaardse wezens heeft gezien. Voor de verklaringen van de inmiddels overleden NASA-pioniers Mitchell en Cooper werden oude stemopnames geanalyseerd. Zij claimen UFO’s te hebben gezien, en ook die informatie werd als betrouwbaar geacht.
Kritiek op organisatie
Ook wordt er kritiek geuit op de organisatie die de tests uitvoerde. De technologie die is gebruikt, de Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA), zou zijn aangegrepen om 'new age'-denkbeelden geloofwaardiger te maken. Nick Pope, expert op het gebied van research naar buitenaards leven, noemt het nieuwe onderzoek 'pseudo-wetenschap'.
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Despite claims Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts passed lie detector tests about having seen UFOs, the truth seems to be that a New Age institute is using CVSA (computer voice stress analysis) on old interviews to infer astronaut belief in aliens. Many regard CVSA as pseudoscience
Vier astronauten onderworpen aan ‘leugendetectortest’. Zagen zij echt buitenaards leven?
Vier astronauten onderworpen aan ‘leugendetectortest’. Zagen zij echt buitenaards leven?
Verschillende Amerikaanse astronauten hebben uitspraken gedaan over buitenaards leven. De verklaringen van vier van hen zijn onderworpen aan een leugendetectortest. En wat blijkt? Ze zijn met vlag en simpel geslaagd.
Volgens experts zijn de ondervraagden er 100 procent van overtuigd dat ze tijdens hun ruimtemissies tekenen van buitenaards leven hebben gezien of ervaren.
Astronauten Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper deden mee aan de test, die onder meer werd uitgevoerd op basis van stemanalyses.
L-vorm
Aldrin heeft gezegd dat hij tijdens zijn missie naar de maan een ruimteschip heeft waargenomen.
“Er was daar iets wat dichtbij genoeg was om te kunnen zien,” zei hij. “Het had een beetje een L-vorm.”
Later zei hij tijdens een vraag- en antwoordsessie dat het waarschijnlijk de reflectie van de zon op één van de panelen was.
“Maar omdat we niet helemaal zeker zijn wat het is, kun je in principe spreken van een ongeïdentificeerd object,” zei hij.
Buitenaardse wezens
Worden beweerde zelfs dat hij echte buitenaardse wezens heeft gezien.
Voor de verklaringen van de inmiddels overleden Mitchell en Cooper, die claimden UFO’s te hebben gezien, werden oude geluidsopnames geanalyseerd.
Er is ook kritiek op het onderzoek. Volgens critici behoort de technologie die is gebruikt, de computer voice stress analyzer (CVSA), tot de pseudowetenschap.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers van de universiteit van Gent gaan vanaf deze week samen met hun collega’s van de universiteit van Bradford en het Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) het terrein op in een zoektocht naar verloren gegane menselijke nederzettingen op de bodem van de Noordzee. Tijdens de IJstijd 10.000 jaar geleden stond die nog grotendeels droog en bestond die uit land met heuvels, valleien, moerassen, rivieren en meren. Bevolkt door onze voorouders en uitgestorven dieren als de mammoet en de wolharige neushoorn.
“Tijdens de IJstijd bevond heel wat zeewater zich in de vorm van ijs op het land en dat maakte dat de zeespiegel ongeveer honderd meter lager lag”, aldus dokter Jan Seys van het VLIZ in een interview op vrt. Dat betekent dat het Europese vasteland in die periode over land bereikbaar was vanuit Groot-Brittannië.
“Onze expeditie wil een 3D-kaart van de zeebodem maken en de interessantste plaatsen vinden om in detail te gaan zoeken naar nederzettingen van onze voorouders”, gaat Seys verder. “Ook toen vestigden mensen zich het liefste aan water – zoals meren en rivieren – zodat ze makkelijker aan voedsel konden geraken. Die zullen we proberen te lokaliseren.” (lees hieronder verder)
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Our best wishes to marine scientists and archeologists on board @HowBigIsBelgica Belgian research vessel, starting a journey to understand our prehistoric past in the #NorthSea, sometimes helped by bones found by fishermen! #Brownbank2018#EYCH2018
Een van de plaatsen die de marine-experts en archeologen onder de loep willen nemen is de Bruine Bank, een 30 kilometer lange zandbank op de bodem van de zuidelijke Noordzee, halfweg tussen de Nederlandse en de Britse kust. Archeologen vermoeden al langer dat het ooit de thuis was van duizenden mensen, op basis van de toevallige vondsten van onder meer vissers.
“Die haalden er al bewerkte stenen en botresten boven”, vertelt dokter Tine Missiaen (VLIZ) vanop het terrein aan onze redactie. “Er werden ook al flink wat fossielen van dieren gevonden en waar dieren zijn, houden zich ook vaak mensen op. Vandaar onze interesse.”
Groot meer
De universiteit van Gent slaagde er ook in om vlakbij een gebied af te bakenen waar een groot meer gelegen moet hebben en een rivierensysteem. Wat het vermoeden dat er ooit ook mensen in de buurt leefden, nog versterkt. “Onze expeditie wil nu de blinde vlekken in kaart brengen in het zuiden van de Noordzee, zodat we een beeld krijgen van het vroegere landschap daar”, aldus nog Missiaen. (lees hieronder verder)
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De zoektocht op de Bruine Bank zal vermoedelijk naar het einde van de week op gebeuren, omdat het weer het voorlopig niet toelaat. Momenteel wordt dichter bij de Belgische kust gewerkt.
Sporen
Als de bodem van de Noordzee over enkele maanden gereconstrueerd is op de interessante plaatsen, zal er geboord worden naar microscopische sporen die duiden op de aanwezigheid van mensen en dieren. Zo kunnen kiezelwieren ons bijvoorbeeld vertellen of er op een bepaalde plaats zoet of zout water voorkwam en ons een beeld geven van wat zich duizenden jaren geleden op een bepaalde plaats afspeelde.
De zoektocht wordt nu pas ondernomen omdat nu pas de technologie voor handen is om de expeditie uit te voeren. “We kunnen in vergelijking met bijvoorbeeld 10 jaar terug steeds beter en gedetailleerder speuren naar sporen op de zeebodem”, aldus nog Seys. “Ook met het oog op de toekomst kunnen we er nog iets van leren. Denk aan de opwarming van de aarde die ook een effect zal hebben op ons milieu en de zeespiegel.”
SpaceX sure knows how to stay in the news. I mean, they’re only reinventing spaceflight for a new age of exploration and commercial travel. It’s not all shiny red Tesla Roadsters and mysterious military launches, though. SpaceX launches all sorts of payloads into space, including scientific instruments for the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon made it into orbit earlier this month carrying a new scientific lab designed to track some of the most mysterious atmospheric phenomena: red sprites, blue jets, and ELVES.
The lab is called the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, and the data it could gather could help shine light on some of the least understood occurrences in the natural world. The ASIM is designed to detect and record upper-atmospheric lightning, also known as transient luminous events or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. These are a broad category of atmospheric disturbances which include the rare red sprite and ELVES, or Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
These phenomena have been observed for centuries, but it wasn’t until the development of high-speed cameras in the last few decades that they have been able to be photographed. Gamma-ray flashes weren’t discovered until 1994 and remain largely unknown to science aside from a few photographs taken from space.
Among the phenomena ASIM will study are blue jets, some of the least well known atmospheric electrical disturbances.” The jets are not very well studied because they’re very faint,” the University of Bath’s Martin Fullekrug told the BBC, “They’re mainly blue. Also they’re not necessarily associated with lightning. They pop up now and again and they’re very mysterious.” The ASIM will be turned on this Friday, April 13th and is led by the European Space Agency.
Red sprites last only a few milliseconds.
Stories like this always make me wonder what future generations will discover about our planet. Just a few hundred years ago, we hadn’t even mapped the entire globe, and we’ve only been able to observe the Earth from space for a few short decades. Who knows what natural phenomena we haven’t even a clue about yet because we don’t have the tools to observe them?
While it seems longer, it’s been only seven years since the last Space Shuttle mission ended on July 21, 2011. That’s nothing compared to how long it’s been since the first humans to land on the Moon in July 1969. Yet both Apollo 11 and one particular shuttle mission – STS-77 in July 1996 – were back in the news this past week, and both for the same reason … UFOs.
“MOON walker Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts have passed lie detector tests over claims they experienced alien encounters.”
That headline comes from a Daily Star article referring to a “lie detector test” conducted by The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, on astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper. All at one time or another claimed to have seen UFOs during their space missions. However, the so-called lie detector tests may be that in only the loosest sense of the word as this latest technology, as pointed out by Micah Hanks at Mysterious Universe, was actually conducted on voice recordings of the men talking about their alleged encounters since Mitchell and Gordon are both deceased and their stories cannot be tested using more conventional lie detectors.
“NASA releases video of ‘UFO’ from 1969 space mission sparking frenzy online”
That headline comes from a follow-up article the following day by the same Daily Star, which could use a proofreader as well as that “latest technology” lie detector. While the date says “1969,” which was the year of Buzz Aldrin’s alleged UFO sighting, the “video” it refers to is actually from the Space Shuttle mission STS-77 in 1996.
STS-77 crew
That apparent juxtaposition of the numbers in the year is not the only problem with this article. While it’s true that NASA released this video (seen here), it was not a recent release. It’s actually been around since 1996 and was the subject of a Popular Mechanics debunking in 2009 in which identified the UFO as the Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped/Satellite Test Unit(PAM/STU), whose launch and deployment was tracked by shuttle cameras and narrated by the astronauts, who often referred to it as the “target” – a common military term for just about everything being watched, not just enemies and UFOs.
It’s too bad we’re forced to look at these sensationalized clips when so much of what was studied on these Space Shuttle missions was only lightly covered at the time and not at all today. STS-77, the 77th of 134 missions, tested one of the early inflatable space structures so common today and performed experiments developed jointly by numerous countries. The astronauts even had some fun working with a Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-2 (FGBA-2) to determine if separately stored carbon dioxide, water and thick liquids could be combined in space and consumed without bubble nucleation and resulting foam formation. In other words, they tried (successfully) to make Coca-Cola and Diet Coke in space.
Buzz Aldrin is still looking
Sure, exploration is the ultimate goal of all space programs, but the mundane groundwork and testing is crucial to future success. It’s also a place for many to be a part of the space program – while Neil and Buzz stepped onto the lunar surface, one of the most remembered videos was of the many people in the control room celebrating the success of the project so many had worked so hard to achieve.
It’s time to get back to developing new interest in space exploration, space science and space technologies instead of rehashing old (and misleading) events. As a different Buzz once said (and you don’t need a lie detector test to prove it):
It’s spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which means anyone with a lawn will soon be spreading fertilizer all over their grass to make it grow long enough and green enough so they can walk on it barefoot for a few days before it turns brown from the drought and excessive heat. According to a new study, that stuff you’re spreading – or at least one element in it — may show aliens in other solar systems evidence that there’s life on Earth. Conversely, the fact that we can’t see it on planets orbiting other stars means they may not have life at all. That element is the ‘P’ in the NPK balance listed on the bag of fertilizer – phosphorus.
In a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool last week, astronomers Jane Greaves and Phil Cigan of Cardiff University, described what happened when they recently aimed the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located just 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation. The data, which they’ve only begun to process, showed that it contained what would be considered an average amount of phosphorous for the Milky Way – which surprisingly isn’t much. For comparison, Cassiopeia A – a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia – was found in 2013 to contain 100 times more phosphorous that the Milky Way average. Because it’s such an new and challenging process, these are the only two supernovae analyzed for phosphorus so far
Crab Nebula
Greaves and Cigan were studying supernova explosions because that is the source of phosphorus in the universe and phosphorus is one of the six chemical elements which all life on Earth depends on. (Can you guess the rest?) In an interview with phys.org, Greaves explains why the low level in the galaxy is a concern to astronomers looking for alien life.
“The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules. If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.”
(Have you guesses the other five elements? Here’s a hint: Sponch.)
Greaves speculates that Cassiopeia A created more phosphorus because it was a bigger star (duh). It means that life forming on a planet may depend less on its location in a warm “Goldilocks zone” near its own star and more on its proximity to a massive supernovae explosion. That also means the search for life on other planets should focus on the amount of phosphorus detected, along with the other five elements for life – Sulfur, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Thrown in P for phosphorous and their chemical symbols spell SPONCH – a good name for the first alien we find on a phosphorus-laden planet.
Based on the sparsity of phosphorus in the galaxy, will we find life? Should we forget about our lawns and start fertilizing outer space?
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Beams of light coming from the skies in Texas and Phoenix
Beams of light coming from the skies in Texas and Phoenix
On April 6, 2018 an unknown beam of light coming from the sky near Rockwall, Texas and it is almost impossible but two days later on April 8 another beam of light coming from the sky in Phoenix.
As with the Texas beam also the Phoenix beam has not the specific characteristics of a sun ray, it is clearly something different and it is hard to explain from where these beams come from.
Here is a very interesting discovery on Mars of many structures with clear signs of intelligence construction. These are ruins of an alien civilization. Had they been found on Earth, people would have no qualms about it. However this is Mars, and since knowing that alien life existed so close to Earth would really shake up the entire world. This is why NASA doesn't want the world to know about it. NASA wants to keep it secret to see if they could find any alien technology that could be useful to America. Imagine finding a broken computer on Mars...and bringing it back, only to discover the computer has an alien version of artificial intelligence in it. NASA downloads the program and integrates it into todays modern tech, using it to control the world.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'pa sses lie detector test about his encounter with alien life, UFO Sightings News.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'pa sses lie detector test about his encounter with alien life, UFO Sightings News.
Awesome news! Buzz has passed his lie detector test. This means he never made up the story, its all true. The story of how he had seen UFOs on the opposite side of a moon crater is all true! Very cool and glad to hear he had no fear to take such a test. Just wish we had a video of the full test. Scott C. Waring
News states: 'There was something out there': Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'passes lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life' during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has reportedly passed a lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Aldrin, 88, was a part of the test that also analyzed interviews from astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.
However, a video has emerged which appears to show the cause of the blue glow.
Train causes 'UFO light'
It is not yet clear why there was a blue light coming from the train.
This CCTV video, posted on Facebook by Shelley Ifill, captures a train moving at speed at 9.15pm on Wednesday with a blue light shining from the roof towards the sky.
It's not yet known exactly where the video was shot.
Train 'UFO' video
The real reason behind the 'blue glow' revealed
Rail companies have been contacted to establish which train was carrying the powerful beam, and why.
Phosphorus is an essential element for life — but that there was enough of it for life to start on Earth might just have been a matter of luck, new findings suggest.
According to new observations of the Crab Nebula — the leftovers from an exploding star first seen by Chinese astronomers in 1054 — presented on April 5 at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, England, the abundance and distribution of phosphorus in the Milky Way galaxy may be more random than scientists previously thought. As such, some places in the galaxy may not have enough phosphorus to support life, even if they are home to otherwise hospitable exoplanets, the researchers said. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
Most of the universe's phosphorus was created during the last gasps of dying massive stars or during a supernova — when such a star exhausts its fuel and explodes. Phosphorus is difficult to observe, and only in 2013 did astronomers make the first measurements of the element in a stellar explosion, in the wispy remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A. Surprisingly, they found up to 100 times more phosphorus than what's observed in the rest of the Milky Way.
But that might have been an outlier. Recently, astronomers Jane Greaves and Phil Cigan of Cardiff University in the U.K. pointed the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands toward the Crab Nebula, located about 6,500 light-years away. Preliminary data, analyzed just two weeks ago, shows an amount of phosphorus more similar to the values found in the interstellar gas and dust of the Milky Way — a pittance compared with the abundance in Cassiopeia A. (The findings have not yet been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.)
"It's not a guaranteed thing to have phosphorus abundant everywhere, ripe for the picking," Cigan told Live Science. "It seems to look like luck plays a bigger role in this."
Some of that luck may come down to size. The star that created Cassiopeia A is roughly twice as massive as the one that made the Crab Nebula. A more massive star could have generated different reactions that produce more phosphorus, the researchers said.
If the production of phosphorus varies widely across the galaxy, so might the likelihood of life on other planets. Even if a planet had every other condition required for habitability, it might still be bereft of life because it formed where there was a dearth of phosphorus, the researchers said.
But the observations are still preliminary; the astronomers were only able to measure parts of the nebula before clouds and a snowstorm spoiled the rest of their observing run. Still, Cigan said, the data they do have show significantly less phosphorus in the Crab Nebula than in Cassiopeia A.
The researchers have applied to use the Herschel Telescope to study the rest of the nebula. Future analysis will also include comparisons with computer models, Cigan said.
Ultimately, astronomers will need to measure phosphorus in other supernova remnants across the cosmos, Cigan said. "We really want to look at how it's spreading out from supernova remnants and falling back into the interstellar medium — that's the key."
A space war “is going to happen”, and the Pentagon is not ready to face it, warn several US experts and politicians.
As if we didn’t have enough problems here on Earth; Overpopulation, Diseases, Wars, Famine, etc., it seems that we need to be worried about a potential war in space.
An article published in Politiconotes that Russia and China are “far ahead” of the United States when it comes to space militarization and in the development of means capable of destroying or rendering inoperative the satellites on which the US Army depends: from gathering intelligence to guiding precision bombs, missiles, and drones.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is trying to catch up after years of underinvestment, injecting “billions of dollars” to bolster its defenses against antisatellite weapons, train troops and refine means to retaliate in a new form of combat that until now has only been present in Hollywood movies.
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“We are now approaching a point where ‘Star Wars’ is not just a movie,” said Steve Isakowitz, CEO of The Aerospace Corp., a government-funded think tank that serves as the military’s leading adviser on space.
According to Isakowitz, the U.S. can no longer afford to take its dominance for granted.
“That supremacy in space has enabled us to have the world’s greatest war-fighting capability … whether it is our soldiers on the field, our drones that fly overhead, our bombers that travel around the world, intelligence we collect,” he told POLITICO. “More and more every day, literally, we become more dependent on it.
“And our adversaries know that,” he added in an interview.
Unsurprisingly, US President Donald Trump recently called for the creation of a “space force”: a separate military branch responsible for guaranteeing US supremacy in space (a role now played mainly by the Air Force).
Likewise, Trump’s new National Security Strategy designated space as “vital interest” for the first time, and ordered the Armed Forces to consider space as “a priority domain,” Politico explains.
But that may not be enough.
Congressman Mike Rogers, who chairs the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, predicts that war in space will “happen,” and that “it’s just a matter of whether it happens in the next two years or in the next five or six years.“
In this sense, Rogers is worried about whether the US Air Force is paying enough attention to space.
“They always say, ‘We got this, we’re planning for this in the future,’” Rogers said. “But when you ask them to prioritize space this year, they say they can’t. People have to remember when it comes to fighting a war, our eyes and ears are in space. We can’t let adversaries take our eyes and ears out.”
Other specialists urge the Trump Administration to think more carefully about its military space policy. Thus, Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security at Naval War College, doubts that space can be treated like any other battle zone.
“You can not control all the space all the time,” he says, explaining that “simply the physics of space is different than the others.”
On the other hand, Cassandra Steer, acting executive director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, warns that “an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players,” including “Neutral States.”
The former American astronaut and the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin has passed a lie detector test for claims that he saw Aliens on his trip to the moon.
Along with Buzz, three other astronauts, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, also underwent the test and the results were positive.
In an interview for the Science Channel in 2005, astronaut Buzz Aldrin said the crew of the famous Apollo 11 mission saw a UFO on its way to the Moon.
Later, Aldrin would say that his words were taken out of context, even though his story was supported by Dr. David Baker, principal scientist of Apollo 11.
However, over the years Aldrin has also made other strange statements which seem to indicate that he knows more about the extraterrestrial presence in space than he would like to share.
Buzz Aldrin deploys a seismometer in the Sea of Tranquility.
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Even in 2014, the famous NASA astronaut clarified what he saw had seen in a series of questions on Reddit.
While speaking about his ‘alien encounter‘ Aldrin said;
“On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.”
“So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be ‘unidentified’. We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed. And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently, it wasn’t, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country’s television network.”
“And the UFO people in the United States were very, very angry with me, that I had not given them the information. It was not an alien.”
“Although there were many theories about it, none of the crew of Apollo 11 could find a logical and rational explanation for the strange phenomenon.”
Apparently, the Apollo crew quickly concluded that what they had seen on route to the moon was sunlight reflecting off an adapter panel – one of four ‘hatches’ that enclosed the Lunar Module and were jettisoned once that stage of the rocket detached.
“It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence. That’s what Carl Sagan said,” Aldrin concluded in a Reddit AMA in 2014.
But now, new information reveals that Aldrin has passed the lie detector test on his encounter with a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
The investigation has also analyzed astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses with the American flag on the surface of the moon in July 1969.
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The experts confirmed that their results show that they were “completely convinced” that they had encountered extraterrestrial life during their trip to the Moon.
According to reports, the ‘Institute of BioAcousticBiology in Ohio’ analyzed the voice of the astronauts proving that when speaking of alien life and strange encounters on the moon, the astronauts were not lying.
Speaking to controversial news outlet ‘The Daily Star’—known for publishing bizarre UFO stories— the ‘Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Ohio’ explained that the recordings show that Aldrin was ‘completely convinced’ of the truth of his story.
Aldrin has claimed that he saw ‘something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped,’ on his journey to the moon – although he has since dialed back on the idea it was aliens, reports Metro.
However, Buzz wasn’t the only one to have allegedly spoken the truth about encountering aliens. Another astronaut, Edgar Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the moon – also claimed to have witnessed aliens on his trip to the moon, and his voice, just as Aldrin’s, reveals he is also ‘telling the truth,’ the Institute has claimed.
However, as noted by experts, we have still no idea what the he Institute of BioAcoustic Biology is basing this on – as the company makes some rather outlandish claims for its technology.
The Institute says, ‘As a bridge between ancient ideas of sound healing and the futuristic, Star Trek, protocols that the institute provides, it is now possible to reverse diseases and traumas previously thought to be incurable, to reveal the secrets of our true nature, to enhance our lives, to predict what may be our fate through the frequencies of our voice.’
However, Science Alert has taken a swing at the tests, the results and the company itself saying that that’s not even remotely science.
Scient alert explains that while Bioacousticsis a legitimate branch of science, in this case, however, the institute’s line of study bears the hallmarks of pseudoscience.
The Southwestern United States is home to countless ancient figurines, depicting beings with elongated heads, halos, antennas, almond-shaped eyes, and even what some interpret as beings in astronaut-like space suits. These figurines were created around 4,000 years ago.
Holy Ghost panel in the Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon.
In the southwestern United States, mainly in the state of Utah, there is a great concentration of places where thousands of years ago, early inhabitants depicted strange beings with elongated heads, massive height, and helmet-like objects, as well as a number of depictions of what many authors have identified as cosmic maps.
The enigmatic figures date back 1,500 and 4,000 years ago, although some could be older, while others figurines could have been created as recently as one thousand years ago.
But it doesn’t matter whether they were created four thousand years ago, or two thousand years ago, what matters is the message that the ancients tried conveying.
One of the greatest enigmas that experts have tried solving is the meaning of the figures painted on countless rocks in Utah.
Are these mysterious representations the result of ancient man’s ingenuity? Imagination? Are these figures depictions of ancient abstract art? Or is it possible, as some authors suggest, that these mysterious beings were the so-called sky people?
The most famous of all panels is located in the Horseshoe Canyon, formerly known as Barrier Canyon, west of the Verde River in the state of Utah.
The rock art at horseshoe canyon is known as Barrier Canyon Style(BCS) rock art.
The Great Gallery is a spectacular ancient art panel of more than 60 meters in length by about 5 of height in which are represented some 20 anthropomorphic images of natural size, the largest of which exceeds 2 meters in height.
The so-called great gallery is divided into two differentiated areas, so that the most separated representations, on the left, are known as the Panel of the Holy Spirit, due to the presence of an unusual-looking figure that some identity with a spirit and others with some shamanic ritual.
The Holy Ghost panel of the Great Gallery has been dated to between 400 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by dating two rockfall events of which one exposed the rock face the panel was made and the second damaging part of the panel
This gallery offers the largest and best-preserved collections of Barrier Canyon Style rock art in the United States.
This panel has been dated by optically stimulated luminescence between 400 and 1100 AD.
According to experts, the pictograms of the Great Gallery were made using ocher-red color to represent more than 80 figures, whose meaning remains a profound enigma.
The creation and dating of the figurines is also a problematic issue for experts because the pigments used by the ancients lacks organic material and cannot be analyzed by radiocarbon dating.
The rock art of the great gallery is believed to have been the product of the Desert Archaic culture, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers predating the Fremont and Ancestral Puebloans.
Meet ‘Die Glocke’, The Mysterious Nazi Anti Gravity Machine
Meet ‘Die Glocke’, The Mysterious Nazi Anti Gravity Machine
Die Glocke (The Bell) was a supposed Nazi Wunderwaffe, or wonder weapon.
It was described by Polish journalist and writer Igor Witkowski in Prawda or Wunderwaffe (2000), later popularized by military journalist and writer Nick Cook, as well as by Joseph P. Farrell and other authors who associate it with Nazi occultism antigravity and free energy research.
Witkowski came across details about Die Glocke in after obtaining access, through a contact in the Polish intelligence service, to the transcripts of the interrogation of an SS officer, Jakob Sporrenberg.
In them, the German narrated the details of an experiment carried out in a hidden base called Der Riese, which was in the Owl Mountains, near the Wenceslaus mine, in the Sudetes (near the Czech border).
The device, shrouded in mystery, has also been described by many authors as a possible Nazi time traveling machine.
According to Patrick Kiger’s article published in the National Geographic magazine, Die Glocke has become a popular topic of speculation, with a fandom around this and other so-called Nazi Wunderwaffen.
The Bell was presented as a magical, occult weapon, based on a technology that goes far beyond anything mankind was capable of producing.
However, the possibility that there was a hidden device completely revolutionary for its time and very rare, if possible, is something that has excited the imagination of many writers.
Some of them like Jan Van Helsing, Norbert-Jürgen Ratthofer and Vladimir Terziski did not have issues when mixing reality and fiction in a mixture that included mystical weapons, the Nazi esotericism, secret societies, and UFOs, a phenomenon that began spreading quickly in the fifties.
So, what the heck is the bell?
An illustration of the Bell.
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The Bell or Die Glocke was a supposed experiment carried out by scientists from Nazi Germany who worked for the SS in a facility known as Der Riese (The Giant, in German), near the Wenceslaus mine close to the Czech border.
The Bell is described as a device “made of a hard and heavy metal”, with an approximate diameter of 2.7 m and a height between 3.7 m and 4.6 m, having a shape similar to that of a large bell.
According to Cook’s interview with Witkowski, this device contained two counter-rotating cylinders that would be “filled with a substance similar to mercury, violet in color”.
This metallic liquid was codenamed “Xerum 525” and was “stored in a tall, thin thermos, one meter high and encapsulated in lead.”
It is said that the experiments used additional substances, mentioned as Leichtmetall (light metal, in German), “including thorium and beryllium peroxides.”
Witkowski describes that when The Bell was activated, it had a range of 150 m to 200 m.
The Polish journalist explained that the goal of Die Glocke was to generate antigravity propulsion – that’s why it was tightened to the ground by means of thick chains.
Witkowski explains that when the device was activated it could cause deadly effects on living beings that were within a radius of 150 to 200 meters : freezing of the blood in the circulatory system, decomposition of the organic tissues…
This illustrates purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device knows as “the Bell” (Die Glocke). For illustration variety of sources and described features are combined.
Moreover, five of the seven members of the research team – led by physicist Walther Gerlach – perished during the tests, although it was not clear how.
Witkowski tells in his book that a French scientist named Elie Cartan had already taken important steps in that field of antigravity after the First World War, although the antigravity that generated by his alleged machine was too weak to have a practical application. Die Glocke may have been based on the technology introduced by Cartan.
Based on certain external evidence, Witkowski claims that the ruins of a concrete structure – nicknamed “The Henge” – in the vicinity of the Wenceslas mine (50 ° 37’43 ” N 16 ° 29’40 “E), about 3.1 km southeast of the main Sokolec Complex of the underground works of the Riese Project, could have served as a testing platform for an experiment on” antigravity propulsion “generated with The Bell.
However, the abandoned structure has also been interpreted as the remains of a conventional industrial cooling tower.
Whether the Bell may or may not have existed remains one of the best hidden Nazi secrets.
However, we do know that ‘Der Riese’ really existed and consisted of underground facilities that began to be built from 1943 from Książ Castle, with tunnels, railways, telephone lines, etc.
The labor force employed was about thirteen thousand prisoners, mostly transferred from Auschwitz, and according to the testimony of Albert Speer, the architect of the regime, the budget for the works amounted to one hundred and fifty million marks.
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UFO SIIGHTING: A menacing mass was spotted above the island of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
The ominous dark mass appeared in the sky above the remote island of West Nusa Tenggara - sparking screams of terror from those below.
The glowing circular object resembled a UFO slowly descending from space, said onlookers.
A teacher at the school where it was filmed said children were "screaming hysterically" when it emerged - close to top holiday hotspot destination Bali.
He said: "This happened at about 2.35pm, when suddenly the students who were busy playing in the school yard, spontaneously screamed hysterically seeing unusual sights, I heard the children's voices, then came out to see and immediately recorded the phenomenon using my cell phone.
"I still don't know what it is. It could be some kind of rainbow. But people were very scared."
The teacher said that none of the people who saw the incident or anyone who has viewed the video have been able to identify the incident in the sky.
He said it was not the sun being obscured by clouds because the shape was too near and too large to be the sun.
However, the sighting could be a form of "fire rainbow" or circumhorizontal arc caused by different clouds interacting with crystals of water trapped in the atmosphere, according to experts.
Tropical temperatures in the region can also cause sudden movements of clouds and changes in atmospheric pressure, resulting in bizarre scenes.
Meanwhile a space boffin told the Daily Star online that “we are being watched” by aliens.
The conspiracy theorist, called Graham, said: “Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.
“We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.
“After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I’m sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.”
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ALARMING: These two scary blobs were seen on the ISS feed
His claims come after images emerged of “seven UFOs” on the International Space Station feed. (will add pics from yesterday's story)
Graham added: “Eventually, they will make themselves known.
“There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.
Stonehenge’s Giant Stones Were In Place Long Before Humans Existed
Stonehenge’s Giant Stones Were In Place Long Before Humans Existed
A paper published in the journal British Archaeology provides evidence that two of the largest and most significant blocks of stone at Stonehenge may have already been in ‘position’ millions of years before people arrived to Stonehenge.
One of the most mysterious ancient sites on the surface of the planet is Stonehenge. Located in near Amesbury, in the county of Wiltshire, England, about fifteen kilometers north of Salisbury, this ancient megalithic site has remained shrouded in mystery for decades.
Stonehenge is composed of large blocks of metamorphic rocks distributed in four concentric circles.
The exterior of Stonehenge is thirty meters in diameter and is formed by large rectangular stones of sandstone that, initially, were crowned by lintels, also made of stone.
Inside this outer row is another circle of smaller blocks of bluish sandstone.
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This encloses a structure with a horseshoe shape built with sandstone stones of the same color.
In its interior remains a slab of micaceous sandstone known as the Altar.
And while officially, the ancient site was built between 3000 BC to 2000 BC, a new study claims the ancient site may have existed long before humans lived on Earth.
What Stonehenge is, and why and how these massive stones were ‘transported’ to where they stand today remains a profound mystery.
However, an archaeologist believes he may have found an answer that could help unravel Stonehenge’s mystery.
As noted by the Times, Mike Pitts, a British scientist who specializes in British pre-history, claims to have discovered evidence that two of the largest and most significant blocks of stone at Stonehenge may have already been there millions of years before people arrived.
The expert explains that the accidental alignment with the sunrise and sunset of the longest and shortest days of the year made ancient people—around 3,000BC—construct the site we see today.
Mr. Pitts also happens to be one of the few who have actually performed excavations on the site.
In a study published in the journal British Archaeology, Mr. Pitts describes uncovering a pit, around six meters (20 feet) in diameter, besides the heel stone in 1979. The Freelancer archaeologist explains that Stonehenge’s heel stone is 75 meters (250 feet) from the center of the stone circle, weighs around 60 tons and has not been shaped or dressed, unlike the other sarsens.
As explained by Mr. Pitts, the hole, rather than being a socket dug for a missing standing stone, was once home to huge heel stone.
In an interview with the Times, Mr. Pitt explains:
“The assumption used to be that all the sarsens at Stonehenge had come from the Marlborough Downs more than 20 miles away. The idea has since been growing that some may be local and the heel stone came out of that big pit.”
“If you are going to move something that big you would dress it before you transport it, to get rid of some of the bulk. That fact alone suggests it has not been moved very far. It makes sense that the heel stone has always been more or less where it is now, half-buried.”
As explained by the archaeological site’s website, Stonehenge was erected in four main stages:
The first Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, containing a ditch, bank, and the Aubrey holes, all probably constructed approximately 3100 BC. The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one meter wide and deep, with steep sides and flat bottoms. They form a circle about 284 feet in diameter. Excavations have unveiled cremated human bones in some of the chalk filling, but the holes themselves were probably made, not for the purpose of graves, but as part of the religious ceremony. Shortly after this stage Stonehenge was abandoned, left untouched for more than 1000 years.
The second and most dramatic stage of the construction of Stonehenge started sometime around 2150 BC. Around 82 bluestones from the Preseli mountains, in south-west Wales were somehow transported to the site. It is believed these stones, some weighing 4 tons each were dragged on rollers and sledges to the headwaters on Milford Haven and then loaded onto rafts. They were carried by water along the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome, before being dragged overland again to near Warminster in Wiltshire. The final stage of the journey was mainly by water, down the river Wylye to Salisbury, then the Salisbury Avon to West Amesbury.
This astonishing journey covers nearly 240 miles. Once at the site, these stones were set up in the center to form an incomplete double circle. ( During the same period the original entrance of the circular earthwork was widened and a pair of Heel Stones were erected. Also, the nearer part of the Avenue was built, aligned with the midsummer sunrise.)
The third stage of Stonehenge, about 2000 BC, saw the arrival of the Sarsen stones, which were almost certainly brought from the Marlborough Downs near Avebury, in north Wiltshire, about 25 miles north of Stonehenge. The largest of the Sarsen stones transported to Stonehenge weigh 50 tons and transportation by water would have been impossible, the stones could only have been moved using sledges and ropes. Modern calculations show that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to pull one stone, with an extra 100 men needed to lay the huge rollers in front of the sledge.
These were arranged in an outer circle with a continuous run of lintels. Inside the circle, five trilithons were placed in a horseshoe arrangement, whose remains we can still see today.
The final stage took place soon after 1500 BC when the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that we see today. The original number of stones in the bluestone circle was probably around 60, these have long since been removed or broken up. Some remain only as stumps below ground level.
An intriguing piece of footage out of North Carolina has paranormal enthusiasts buzzing as some suspect that it could show a veritable UFO mothership.
Purportedly filmed in the town of Columbus just a few days ago, the video was subsequently submitted to MUFON and eventually found its way online where it has captured the imagination and attention of UFO researchers.
The admittedly-nondescript footage shows a set of lights hovering in the sky with two in the center being particularly bright and two pairs of lights fanning out on each side from the middle.
The configuration suggest some kind of triangular shape, although this is largely speculation since the video is so hard to discern.
Fortunately the unnamed witness behind the camera also made sure to film the moon a few times during the sighting to provide something to compare with the objects as far as their size and height.
The fact that the video is not particularly fantastic almost works in its favor when it comes to the veracity of the footage, since it would seem to rule out a hoax of some kind.
And, for his part, the man who saw the anomaly sounds genuinely mystified by what he is watching unfold in the sky above him.
As to what it may have been, aside from the always-popular alien hypothesis, some have speculated that it is a secret government test craft.
Aside from those two options, the prosaic explanation to be offered up by skeptics that would perhaps best fit this scene is that the lights are simply lanterns that were sent soaring up into the sky and spotted by the unwitting witness.
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Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?
Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?
By Meredith Fore, Live Science Contributor
What is dark matter? No one really knows, but one possibility is that it is made up of miniature black holes from the Big Bang.
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Dark matter, the mysterious extra mass in the universe that emits no light yet exerts a gravitational pull, may actually be made up of primordial black holes that originated with the Big Bang.
And these mini black holes can thank the Higgs boson for their birth — at least according to a new theory.
This theory, described March 23 in the journal Physical Review Letters, posits that these primeval black holes were created from instabilities in the field that gives rise to the Higgs boson, the mysterious "God" particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
"In principle, the explanation may count for all the dark matter," in the form of primordial black holes, said study co-author Antonio Riotto, a physicist at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland.
However, not everyone is convinced, with some physicists saying that these primordial black holes are unlikely to explain all the dark matter found in the universe.
Mini black holes
The Higgs boson arises as a ripple in the so-called Higgs field, which permeates the universe and gives particles their mass. When the Higgs boson was discovered, it was found to be about 126 times heavier than the proton, lighter than many physicists expected. After doing some calculations, physicists realized this mass implied the Higgs field might not be in its most stable state. [Infographic: Will the Real Higgs Please Stand Up?]
What's more, the Higgs' mass implied that during the inflation of the early universe, when matter raced outward immediately after the Big Bang, the unstable Higgs field experienced quantum fluctuations, where there were different densities of matter in different parts of the field.
According to the new study, these fluctuations made small pockets of space where the density of mass was so high it collapsed into a black hole.
These small mini black holes would have masses around 22 trillion pounds (10 trillion kilograms) — or about the mass of Mount Everest.
The theory is appealing on many levels: Dark matter does not emit detectable light; neither do black holes. And primordial black holes, if they exist, could be physical evidence that the Higgs field is not at its lowest possible energy, and is instead in a quasi-stable state. The new theory can also explain dark matter without requiring any new physics beyond the Standard Model, which describes the behavior of tiny subatomic particles. [6 Implications of Finding a Higgs Boson Particle]
However, if these primordial black holes do exist, how would physicists find them? Would they look the same today as they did when they were born, almost 14 billion years ago?
Over time, the black holes would have attracted and gobbled up more and more mass, Riotto told Live Science.
But there may be another force at work, siphoning mass from these black holes: Hawking radiation. Stephen Hawking theorized that due to quantum effects, black holes emit particles and energy. Over time, Hawking radiation may cause them to completely evaporate; the smaller they are, the quicker they disappear. These emissions are so quiet and faint that they have never been detected, although most scientists believe they exist. Between acquiring more mass over time and losing it through Hawking radiation over the course of 14 billion years, today's remnants of primordial black holes could be either tiny or enormous.
Controversial idea
The idea that black holes existing today could make up all of the dark matter in the universe is relatively controversial. Physicists have ruled out black holes with low mass, because not enough of them have been detected to explain all the extra mass in the universe. However, physicists haven't ruled out medium-sized black holes. For instance, in February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced it had detected two merging black holes that were 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun. Primordial black holes in that mass range have not been ruled out, making some researchers hopeful.
But some physicists doubt these celestial objects could explain much of the dark matter in the universe.
"Given what we know today, it's fairly unlikely that primordial black holes are all the dark matter," Simeon Bird, a black- hole physicist at the University of California Riverside, told Live Science, "But there's no reason they couldn't be 1 to 10 percent of it, as this model suggests. The easiest way to show it to be true would be to detect a primordial black hole."
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, currently under construction in Chile, would be ideal for searching for these ancient black holes, Bird added.
Marc Kamionkowski, a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University, who has authored papers in defense of black holes as dark matter, was similarly circumspect.
"My confidence in the idea that black holes make up the dark matter has been shaken a bit the past year," he said, because LIGO hasn’t found enough signatures of black hole mergers to justify the theory, "but I still find the scenario intriguing. This new paper, which provides an early-universe mechanism to produce such black holes, is therefore very interesting."
Primordial black holes are still hypothetical, until we detect black holes with masses below that of our sun, and the Higgs field explanation of their creation proposed by these researchers can’t be proven without them.
Not everyone believes, as these researchers do, that primordial black holes and dark matter could be one and the same. But as Kamionkowski told Science in 2017:
"It’s a nutty idea, but every idea of what dark matter might be is a nutty idea."
Russia's Robot FEDOR to Be the First to Fly to Space on Board New Spacecraft
Russia's Robot FEDOR to Be the First to Fly to Space on Board New Spacecraft
by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik)
Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research - FEDOR
The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021.
It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state-of-the-art manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation), Yevgeny Dudorov, technical director of the Russian robot manufacturing company Android technology, told Sputnik.
"It will be the next version of FEDOR which will be created on the basis of technology that has already been developed ... It will most likely get a different name," Dudorov said. At the same time, he did not rule out that the new robot may be called "FEDOR-2" or "Test Engineer."
Dudorov explained that during the flight, the robot will be tasked with collecting data so that the developers can then assess the possibility of controlling the spaceship with its help both in the autonomous and the copying mode.
The Federatsiya was designed by Russian Space Corporation Energia to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit and the moon. The spacecraft is capable of staying in the autonomous flight mode for up to 30 days and up to a year as part of a space station system.
The first Federatsiya spacecraft, which will be 80 percent made of composite materials, is due to be commissioned before the end of 2021.
Daytime UFO filmed over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8-Apr-2018
Daytime UFO filmed over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8-Apr-2018
Here’s one new footage of a bright object flying across the sky above Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was filmed on 8th April 2018.
Witness report:
I saw one orb so I filmed. When I edited I found two more. I was coming back from a dog walk heading north up Franford ave in Philadelphia when I saw an orb in the sky in what I believe is NW direction. I have been looking at the sky a lot since my first sighting so it was exciting to see another potentially, so I filmed an object fly towards the clouds and then I lost it behind clouds and then buildings. I still wondered if maybe it was a baloon or bird but I very muxh doubted it. I went back to check my footage and had trouble seeing what I saw so I played with the contrast and sharpened it and saw two more!
Régulièrement, les caméras de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) filment des objets volants non identifiés, alias ovnis. Satellites, débris ou étages de lanceurs, quand ce ne sont pas de simples reflets dans les vitres : ces images font le bonheur des ufologues. Ici, on voit un objet allant dans le même sens que l'ISS, un peu plus bas et (logiquement) un peu plus rapide. Rêvons un peu.
Non, l'espace n'est pas rigoureusement vide. Juste au-dessus de l'atmosphère, il est même assez fréquenté, surtout par des objets créés de main d'Homme. Ce peut être des satellites ou des débris spatiaux mais aussi des étages de lanceurs en train de retomber dans l'atmosphère. Ces apparitions plus ou moins fugaces sont aussi, parfois, des phénomènes lumineux dans la haute atmosphère et il est arrivé qu'il ne s'agisse que de reflets sur un hublot ou dans l'optique de la caméra.
Qu'importe. Chaque évènement de ce genre fait le bonheur des amateurs de l'étude des ovnis, qui y voient facilement la preuve de l'existence de vaisseaux extraterrestres patrouillant dans le secteur. Mieux, la molle réaction de la Nasa, qui est le plus souvent « bon eh bien c'est un débris, comme d'habitude ; on va tâcher de voir ce que c'est, comme d'habitude », conforte les convictions de ces passionnés, qui pensent fréquemment que l'agence spatiale dissimule des preuves de tourisme d'extraterrestres. La Nasa est même régulièrement accusée de couper le flux vidéo au moment crucial.
Débris, satellite, ombre ou Surfeur d'argent
L'exercice d'identification est tout de même amusant, voire intéressant. Ici, on voit un objet, de dimension inconnue, filant à peu près dans la même direction que l'ISS et un peu plus rapidement. Il ne peut donc s'agir d'un avion. Sa distance est impossible à déterminer mais l'objet évolue au-dessus de la couverture nuageuse. Celui-ci est clairement en orbite, sur une altitude plus faible que celle de l'ISS. Sa vitesse plus élevée est donc logique. En effet, plus l'orbite est éloignée de la Terreplus la vitesse de satellisation est faible : elle est d'environ 8 km/s au niveau de l'ISS et de 1 km/s à la distance de la Lune (laquelle, bonne connaisseuse des lois de Newton, a d'ailleurs adopté cette vitesse).
Il reste en lice trois hypothèses :
un satellite en orbite très basse ;
un débris ;
l'ombre d'un satellite (l'éclairage des nuages indique que la lumière solaire vient d'en haut à droite, ce qui exclut qu'il s'agisse de l'ombre de l'ISS elle-même).
Une quatrième hypothèse, bien sûr, est qu'un vaisseau spatial d'exploration venu d'une autre planète soit en train d'étudier la météorologie terrestre, qui serait encore mystérieuse pour les concepteurs de cet engin. Une cinquième est celle, tout simplement, du passage de Norrin Radd, le Surfeur d'argent, profitant des vagues atmosphériques au-dessus d'une formation cyclonique...
It took scientists a while before they realized the enormity of their discovery. Aside from the temple itself, archaeologists have also discovered a trove of artifacts, including statues, coins, and pottery.
Image Credits: Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.
The discovery was made in Egypt’s Western Desert, some 348 miles west of Cairo and 200 miles south of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Siwa Oasis. As archaeologist Sarah Parcak explained, it’s not every day that you find this kind of temple.
“What’s amazing is you don’t tend to hear every day of new temples found in Egypt,” space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who isn’t involved in the dig, told Elaina Zachos at National Geographic. “It’s going to shed more light on the history of Siwa Oasis.”
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Some 2,200 years ago, Egypt already had a rich history, but was in a state of decline. Ramesses III, widely considered the last “great” pharaoh from the New Kingdom, who ruled between 1279–1213 BC, was struggling with dwindling finances and wars with the Sea People, who invaded Egypt by land and sea.
Image Credits: Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.
The historical timeline of the oasis isn’t clear, but it seems that it has been inhabited for at least 12,000 years. However, it’s been one of the most isolated Egyptian settlements, deep in the desert — but not isolated from the influence of other cultures. The newly found temple dates from between 200 BCE and 300 CE, a period when Egypt was under Hellenistic and then Roman rule, thus explaining the nature of the temple. During this period, the influence of Ancient Greek and Roman people was felt in all layers of Egyptian life, including architecture, but not many buildings remain from that time, making this finding extra special.
Within the temple, archaeologists have uncovered a sculpture of a man’s head and two limestone lion statues, as well as impressive pottery and lots of coins. The total extent of the temple is not yet known, and the temple hasn’t been dated, but archaeologists believe that the it may offer valuable information about the Greco-Roman period in Egypt.
“I’m hopeful that this excavation team is going to uncover the settlements or the houses of the priests,” Parcak says.
Interestingly, the oasis is most known as the location where the Greek king Alexander the Great consulted the oracle of Ammon. Unfortunately, history didn’t record what Alexander asked and what the oracle answered.
The archaeological dig is still a work in progress, and researchers expect more findings in the future. Ayman Ashmawi, the head of the ministry’s Ancient Egyptian Antiquities department, says several other digs are planned for this year.
NASADe eerste ruimteselfie ooit werd in 1966 genomen door Buzz Aldrin, de tweede man op de maan.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETOp 20 juli 1969 zette Buzz Aldrin als tweede man ooit enkele stappen op de maan, maar dat is niet het enige waar de astronaut bekend om staat. Hij beweerde later immers in een interview dat hij en zijn collega’s op weg naar de maan een UFO hadden gezien. En volgens een organisatie uit Ohio meent de man dat ook oprecht: hij zou met vlag en wimpel geslaagd zijn voor een leugendetectortest.
De intussen 88-jarige Aldrin maakte gewag van een vreemd object toen hij op weg was naar de maan tijdens de missie van Apollo 11. “Er was daarbuiten iets dat dicht genoeg was dat we het konden observeren. Het had de vorm van een L”, klonk het. Volgens de Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany (Ohio) mogen we zijn getuigenis ook niet zomaar van tafel vegen, want de man zou dat echt geloven. Hij en zijn collega’s Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper zouden deelgenomen hebben aan een onderzoek en zouden ‘onder strikt opgevolgde wetenschappelijke omstandigheden’ geslaagd zijn voor een leugendetectortest.
De beweringen van het Instituut worden nu in heel wat media gepubliceerd, maar er duiken meteen ook heel wat kritische stemmen op. Zo wordt er op de website van de instelling met geen woord gerept over het onderzoek in kwestie, en is het helemaal niet duidelijk of de mannen wel hebben deelgenomen aan een test. Het zou bijvoorbeeld evengoed kunnen dat BioAcoustic Biology oude interviews met Aldrin geanalyseerd heeft, toen de man voor het eerst vertelde over de UFO op weg naar de maan.
APBuzz Aldrin in 2017.
Geen alien
Aldrin twijfelt trouwens zelf sterk aan het feit dat hij in 1969 een ander ruimteschip zag. Drie jaar geleden maakte hij dat duidelijk tijdens een vraag- en antwoordgesprek op sociaalnetwerksite Reddit. “In Apollo 11 zag ik een licht uit het raam van ons ruimteschip, en dat licht leek ons te volgen. Er waren heel wat mogelijke verklaringen voor dit fenomeen, en achteraf bekeken ben ik ervan overtuigd dat het de reflectie van de zon op een van de panelen was. Maar omdat we niet helemaal zeker zijn wat het is, kan je in principe spreken van een ‘unidentified object’.”
De man heeft ook al laten weten dat zijn uitspraken destijds uit hun context werden getrokken in de media. “Ik zag toen geen alien, al geloof ik best dat er buitenaards leven kan bestaan in onze melkweg. En er zijn miljoenen andere melkwegstelsels buiten het onze. Het is dus erg waarschijnlijk dat er ergens anders nog leven is. Maar ik denk dat die honderden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn.”
ReutersBuzz Aldrin was de tweede man op de maan in 1969.
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Het leek in niets op een vliegtuig. Oud-bommenwerperpiloot vertelt over UFO die hij zag boven Arizona
Het leek in niets op een vliegtuig. Oud-bommenwerperpiloot vertelt over UFO die hij zag boven Arizona
Een voormalige bommenwerperpiloot, die momenteel voor vliegmaatschappij American Airlines werkt, heeft zich uitgesproken over zijn recente UFO-waarneming boven de woestijn van Arizona.
Blenus Green en zijn copiloot vlogen in februari boven Arizona toen ze van de luchtverkeersleiding te horen kregen dat er in de buurt een vliegend object was gezien dat niet op de radar verscheen.
Kort daarop zag Green een object, zo blijkt uit een geluidsopname van het gesprek met de luchtverkeersleiders.
Zeer fel
“Het vloog over ons heen,” zei Green. “Ik weet niet wat het was, maar het bevond zich 600 tot 900 meter boven ons. Het vloog recht over ons heen.”
Green werd onlangs door een lokale tv-zender geïnterviewd over zijn ervaring. “Ik keek uit het raam en daar was het,” zei hij.
De piloot zei dat het object ‘zeer fel was, maar niet zo fel dat je er niet naar kon kijken’. Het leek in niets op een vliegtuig, voegde hij toe.
Gefascineerd
Het object was met name fel op plekken die geen zonlicht reflecteerden. “Normaal gesproken is het juist andersom,” merkte hij op.
“Het was zo fel dat je de vorm niet kon onderscheiden,” zei hij.
Green, die 20 jaar ervaring heeft als piloot, zei dat hij niet bang was, maar vooral geïnteresseerd. “Ik was erg gefascineerd,” zei hij. “Ik probeerde vast te stellen wat het was omdat het zo ongewoon was.”
The mystery of why Stonehenge was built on the unremarkable chalk plateau of Salisbury Plain may have finally been solved.
An expert claims two of Stonehenge's largest stones had been in place at the site for millions of years before Neolithic people built the monument.
Their coincidental alignment with the sunrise and sunset on the longest and shortest days of the year prompted ancient people to construct Stonehenge around them.
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The mystery of why Stonehenge was built on the unremarkable chalk plateau of Salisbury Plain may have finally been solved. An expert claims two of Stonehenge's largest stones had been in place at the site for millions of years before Neolithic people built the monument
The coincidental alignment of sarsen stone 16 and the Heel stone with the sunrise and sunset on the longest and shortest days of the year prompted ancient people to construct Stonehenge around them
Mike Pitts specialises in British pre-history and is one of a small number of scientists who have excavated on the site of the ancient monument.
In a paper published in the journal British Archaeology, the freelance archaeologist describes uncovering a pit, around six metres (20 feet) in diameter, besides the heel stone in 1979.
The heel stone is 75 metres (250 feet) from the centre of the stone circle, weighs around 60 tonnes and has not been shaped or dressed, unlike the other sarsens.
It is the point at which the sun rises and falls below the horizon at midsummer and midwinter, from the perspective of those looking towards it from inside Stonehenge.
Mr Pitts believes the hole, rather than being a socket dug for a missing standing stone, was once home to huge heel stone.
A second undressed stone in the centre of the circle lines up with the heel stone and sun at the winter and summer solstice.
This rock, known as stone 16, also has a pit next to it, suggesting it too originated at the site of Stonehenge.
Speaking to The Times, Mr Pitts said: 'The assumption used to be that all the sarsens at Stonehenge had come from the Marlborough Downs more than 20 miles away.
The heel stone is 75 metres (250 feet) from the centre of the stone circle and weighs around 60 tonnes . It is the point at which the sun rises and falls below the horizon at midsummer and midwinter, from the perspective of those looking towards it from inside Stonehenge
'The idea has since been growing that some may be local and the heel stone came out of that big pit.
'If you are going to move something that large you would dress it before you move it, to get rid of some of the bulk. That suggests it has not been moved very far.
'It makes sense that the heel stone has always been more or less where it is now, half-buried.'
Sarsen is a layer of sandstone that formed millions of years ago above the chalk layer on Salisbury Plain.
During the various ice ages, permafrost repeatedly froze and thawed this chalk layer, shattering the sarsen.
Over millennia, these stones sank below the surface, leaving a few fragmented rocks jutting out.
It is made of Sarsen, a layer of sandstone that formed millions of years ago above the chalk layer on Salisbury Plain and can be found across Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. Pictured - Sarsen stones in a garden in Wiltshire
These stones, of varying sizes, can be found across Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, as well as in Kent and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire.
The act of building Stonehenge may have been as important a ceremony to its ancient creators as the use of the finished stone circle, experts claimed in March.
Construction of the 5,000-year-old monument drew people together from all over the country to drink and get to know one another in large ceremonial feasts.
Work on Stonehenge could have been used to show outsiders the power of the small community building it, researchers at English Heritage said.
The theory may explain why some of the Wiltshire site's stones were transported more than a hundred miles (160km) from a quarry in south Wales.
The large standing stones at Stonehenge are made of local sandstone, but the smaller ones, known as 'bluestones', come from a quarry in south Wales
Work on Stonehenge could have been used to show outsiders the power of the small community building it. The theory may explain why some of the Wiltshire site's stones were transported 140 miles (225km) from south Wales, experts said
Susan Greaney, a senior historian at English Heritage, said: 'In contemporary Western culture, we are always striving to make things as easy and quick as possible, but we believe that for the builders of Stonehenge this may not have been the case.
'Drawing a large number of people from far and wide to take part in the process of building was potentially a powerful tool in demonstrating the strength of the community to outsiders.
'Being able to welcome and reward these people who had travelled far, perhaps as a kind of pilgrimage, with ceremonial feasts, could be a further expression of the power and position of the community.'
The theory follows English Heritage's recent discovery of feasting at the nearby Neolithic Durrington Walls settlement, also found in Wiltshire.
Stonehenge has been used as a centre for ceremonies throughout its 5,000-year-history. Pictured is an artist's impression of a Neolithic ceremony at the site circa 3,000 BC, when the monument was just a series of ditches without the monoliths it is known for today
According to the charity's historians, this attracted people from across the country to help build the Neolithic monument.
The discovery pushed English Heritage to look again at theories of how Stonehenge was built, concluding that building the monument was important ceremonially and cause for celebration.
Ms Greaney said the new theory may explain a mystery surrounding the impressive distances some of Stonehenge's monoliths were carried.
WHO BUILT STONEHENGE?
Stonehenge was built thousands of years before machinery was invented.
The heavy rocks weigh upwards of several tonnes each.
Some of the stones are believed to have originated from a quarry in Wales, some 140 miles (225km) away from the Wiltshire monument.
To do this would have required a high degree of ingenuity, and experts believe the ancient engineers used a pulley system over a shifting conveyor-belt of logs.
Historians now that the ring of stones was built in several different stages, with the first completed around 5,000 years ago by Neolithic Britons who used primitive tools, possibly made from deer antlers.
Modern scientists now widely believe that Stonehenge was created by several different tribes over time.
After the Neolithic Britons - likely natives of the British Isles - started the construction, it was continued centuries later by their descendants.
Over time, the descendants developed a more communal way of life and better tools which helped in the erection of the stones.
Bones, tools and other artefacts found on the site seem to support this hypothesis.
The large standing stones at the monument are made of local sandstone, but the smaller ones, known as 'bluestones', come from a quarry in south Wales.
Stonehenge's architects would have had to shift the huge rocks 140 miles (225km) from what is now Pembrokeshire Coast National Park to the monument's build site.
Ms Greaney said: 'As soon as you abandon modern preconceptions which assume Neolithic people would have sought the most efficient way of building Stonehenge, questions like why the bluestones were brought from so far away - the Preseli Hills of south Wales - don't seem quite so perplexing.'
The announcement came as English Heritage hosted events to celebrate 100 years since the monument was donated to the nation, including inviting the public - for the first time at the site - to help move and raise a four-tonne stone (pictured)
Stunning aerial footage of prehistoric monument Stonehenge
She added that the idea of 'stone-pulling ceremonies', in which people celebrate moving monoliths by hand, is not a new one.
She said pictures from a 1915 stone-pulling ceremony on Nias, Indonesia, showed people in ceremonial dress 'revelling' in the task and taking part in feasts and dances.
Stonehenge is one of the most prominent prehistoric monuments in Britain.
The monument that can be seen today is the final stage of a project that spanned 1,500 years.
Stonehenge was donated to the nation's heritage collection in 1918 by owners Cecil and Mary Chubb.
Mr Chubb had bought the then-neglected monument on impulse at an auction three years earlier having been sent there by his wife to bid for a set of dining room chairs.
HOW WAS STONEHENGE BUILT?
Stonehenge is one of the most prominent prehistoric monuments in Britain. The Stonehenge that can be seen today is the final stage that was completed about 3,500 years ago.
According to the monument's website, Stonehenge was built in four stages:
First stage: The first version of Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, comprising a ditch, bank and the Aubrey holes, all probably built around 3100 BC.
The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one metre (3.3 feet) wide and deep, with steep sides and flat bottoms.
They form a circle about 86.6 metres (284 feet) in diameter.
Excavations revealed cremated human bones in some of the chalk filling, but the holes themselves were likely not made to be used as graves, but as part of a religious ceremony.
After this first stage, Stonehenge was abandoned and left untouched for more than 1,000 years.
Second stage: The second and most dramatic stage of Stonehenge started around 2150 years BC, when about 82 bluestones from the Preseli mountains in south-west Wales were transported to the site. It's thought that the stones, some of which weigh four tonnes each, were dragged on rollers and sledges to the waters at Milford Haven, where they were loaded onto rafts.
They were carried on water along the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome, before being dragged overland again near Warminster and Wiltshire.
The final stage of the journey was mainly by water, down the river Wylye to Salisbury, then the Salisbury Avon to west Amesbury.
The journey spanned nearly 240 miles, and once at the site, the stones were set up in the centre to form an incomplete double circle.
During the same period, the original entrance was widened and a pair of Heel Stones were erected. The nearer part of the Avenue, connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon, was built aligned with the midsummer sunrise.
Third stage: The third stage of Stonehenge, which took place about 2000 years BC, saw the arrival of the sarsen stones (a type of sandstone), which were larger than the bluestones.
They were likely brought from the Marlborough Downs (40 kilometres, or 25 miles, north of Stonehenge).
The largest of the sarsen stones transported to Stonehenge weighs 50 tonnes, and transportation by water would not have been possible, so it's suspected that they were transported using sledges and ropes.
Calculations have shown that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to pull one stone, with an extra 100 men needed to lay the rollers in front of the sledge.
These stones were arranged in an outer circle with a continuous run of lintels - horizontal supports.
Inside the circle, five trilithons - structures consisting of two upright stones and a third across the top as a lintel - were placed in a horseshoe arrangement, which can still be seen today.
Final stage: The fourth and final stage took place just after 1500 years BC, when the smaller bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that can be seen today.
The original number of stones in the bluestone circle was probably around 60, but these have since been removed or broken up. Some remain as stumps below ground level.
While the mystery of why Stonehenge was built remains a puzzle, the mystery of why it was built where it’s still somewhat standing may have been solved … and the answer opens up a new mystery. A leading Stonehenge expert and one of the few people to have actually excavated at the site claims that two of its largest stones were placed there millions of years before humans arrived … and their summer solstice alignment with the sun was merely a coincidence. Wait, what?
The Heel Stone
In an interview with The Times about his research which has just been published in the journal British Archeology, archeologist, journalist and photographer Mike Pitts describes how he came to this radical theory. It starts at the Heel Stone, the largest sarsen (sandstone block) at the site. Located 75 meters (250 feet) from the center of Stonehenge, outside the entrance and close to the highway, it weighs 60 tons and is 4.7 meters (15.4 feet) high, with an additional 1.2 meters (4 feet) underground. The Heel Stone’s significance starts with the fact that it’s the only sarsen at Stonehenge that has not been shaped or dressed – both signs that it would have been carved before being moved to its present location. Its size and shape indicated otherwise to Pitts.
“The assumption used to be that all the sarsens at Stonehenge had come from the Marlborough Downs more than 20 miles away. The idea has since been growing that some may be local and the heel stone came out of that big pit. If you are going to move something that large you would dress it before you move it, to get rid of some of the bulk. That suggests it has not been moved very far. It makes sense that the heel stone has always been more or less where it is now, half-buried.”
The “big pit” Pitts referred to is a six-meter diameter hole he himself discovered while digging near the heel stone in the 1970s. The size makes it too big to have been used for a standing stone, so he thinks it’s where the heel stone was lying before it was lifted out and moved. In fact, Pitts believes the Heel Stone and Stone 16, another odd-shaped stone, are visible remnants of a large number of broken sarsen boulders buried beneath Stonehenge. He also believes that Stone 16 came from a different hole near the center of Stonehenge … and the two stones at that time had something unusual in common.
“The most likely explanation is that it too held a natural sarsen boulder. It’s possible that at the end of the ice age we had two really large visible sarsen boulders, probably the two largest on Salisbury Plain, close together on the midsummer sunrise-midwinter sunset axis.”
Did that mysterious natural alignment millions of years ago of two huge boulders with the Sun draw people to this site over 5,000 years ago and inspire them to drag more massive stones from 20 mile away to build their own massive monument to … something?
As Egyptians looking at the pyramids might say … stranger things have happened.
Over the weekend, a number of tabloids were discussing a lie detector test which purportedly confirms astronaut Buzz Aldrin saw a UFO on his way to the moon in July 1969.
On Sunday, the UK’s Daily Star reported on the story, borrowing from earlier reports in which the Apollo 11 astronaut addressed something unusual he and fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins observed while en route to the moon.
“There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped,” Aldrin was quoted saying. The story was quickly picked up and re-written by other news outlets, some of which elaborated on sightings of unusual things seen by Aldrin, and other astronauts over the years.
The focus of the story had not been UFOs, however, so much as a study which purportedly “confirmed” what Aldrin and other astronauts had claimed to see. According to The Star, an Albany, Ohio-based company called The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology “carried out complex computer analyses of the astronauts’ voice patterns as they told of their close encounters.”
“Although the technology is still top-secret,” The Star reported, “these studies are claimed to be more reliable than current lie detector tests, and could soon replace those used by the FBI and police.”
Aldrin on the job.
Little else was said about the Albany-based company where the study was carried out, apart from the fact that astronauts Al Worden, as well as Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, participated. It is noteworthy that Mitchell passed away in February 2016, and Cooper in October 2004, indicating that the lie detector tests in question must have occurred at least 14 years ago; strangely, the tabloids are only now picking up on this story (Update: Newsweek commented on the story shortly after publication of this article, referring to voice recordings which were tested, rather than the actual voices of the astronauts; if nothing else, this would allow for a more recent, posthumous testing of Cooper and Mitchell’s voices to have been possible).
Looking for further details about the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology online first brings up a Facebook page associated with the company, which describes its endeavors as follows:
“The research being conducted by the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology is on the forefront of energy medicine; creating the doorway to our next dimension of health revolution. In addition, the techniques hold promise in answering questions about how our universe was formed, and how our aging and perception of time can be monitored using frequency.”
Admittedly, I share an interest in subjects like cosmology and human perception of time too, although the wording of the company’s mission statement above seems a little odd (pseudoscientific is another way of putting it). From the Facebook page, a link to the company’s website leads to a page where URL links to everything from aura-color readers, to Mike Adam’s “Health Ranger” website can be found. Needless to say, links and associations like these would be enough to cause many to reconsider whether the studies involving Buzz Aldrin and others were indeed “more reliable than current lie detector test,” as The Star reported, let alone whether they might “soon replace those used by the FBI and police.” It might also explain why there hasn’t been much said about them until now.
Our intent isn’t to pass judgment here, so all discussion of the veracity of “top-secret” studies in acoustic biology aside, Aldrin has claimed many times that he and the Apollo 11 crew observed something while en route to the moon. The question remains as to what, precisely, that was.
In 2012, I wrote about the claims which appeared in writer Jay Barbree’s book Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight, where the author said he was told by a confidential source that what the astronauts saw was sunlight reflecting off “a top-secret spy satellite” as it tumbled out of control.
Buzz Aldrin in space, with the Earth visible in the background.
According to Barbree’s account, “The only UFO Apollo 11’s astronauts were seeing as Neil had suspected had been built here on Earth — one they could not identify… and when I told him, he laughed and said, ‘Well, what the hell, isn’t that what a UFO is — an unidentified flying object?’”
The only issue with this explanation is that apparently neither Barbree, nor his “secret” source, bothered to validate the information. As pointed out to me in 2012 by space journalist and historian Jim Oberg, “Barbree’s story is way off base, he relied on an old memory of Armstrong’s instead of checking with actual mission records that show the encounter was 212,000 miles out, nowhere near the geosynchronous arc (24,000 miles) where the spy satellites lurked. He wanted to tie in an unrelated juicy rumor (a correct one) with his Armstrong biography, and didn’t take basic validation steps.”
In other words, while the spy satellite explanation is both juicier, and seems more down-to-earth than the alien spacecraft theory, it remains equally unlikely on further inquiry.
At the end of the day, we still don’t know exactly what it was Aldrin and his crew observed, although Aldrin himself has suggested in the past that it may have been a discarded rocket panel from their own vessel, and that “it was not an alien.” We also have no confirmation as to whether experimental bio-acoustic technologies are really any better than a standard polygraph test at validating his experiences. Hence, Buzz Aldrin’s UFO encounter remains an interesting case, but certainly not conclusive evidence of aliens.
Aliens may someday take the place of the gods in the human collective consciousness. At least, that’s according to new research presented by Dr. Diana Pasulka at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Pasulka conducted a six-year study in which she travelled around the country speaking with scientists, Silicon Valley tech gurus, professionals, entrepreneurs, and other Very Important People who admit to believing in extraterrestrial intelligence. Pasulka’s study reveals that not only is belief in extraterrestrial intelligence widespread and found in nearly all strata of society, but it has also approached levels rivaling modern rates of belief in deities.
There’s a reason heaven is usually depicted as being in the sky.
According to a recent presentation Pasulka gave under the title The Incarnational Technological Self: The Case of the Crashed UFO Artifact, this widespread belief in aliens stems from a variety of cultural factors and scientific endeavors:
Widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the realist effect produced by the search for planets that might support life, as well as alleged alien artifacts that have recently made news in outlets such as the New York Times.
In her new book American Cosmic, Pasulka claims that science fiction and other pop culture texts have become a means of answering questions formerly answered by religion. Through her research, Pasulka found that more than half of U.S. adults and more than 75% of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. Compare that to recent surveys by the Pew Research Center which have found that only around 68% of Americans are absolutely certain in their belief in God, and it’s clear to see that something is happening here. But we don’t know what it is yet, do we?
More importantly, will the symbol be a big-eyed grey alien head, or a flying saucer?
It makes total sense that advanced extraterrestrial aliens could take the place of gods in our mythologies. The similarities are many: both are omniscient beings who (mostly) live in the cosmic heavens and who are capable of near-magical abilities. Couple those with the mounting evidence that life likely began in space, and it’s safe to say that perhaps Scientology is only the beginning of what could be a wave of new religions which venerate alien beings as opposed to flying spaghetti monsters. Any potential discoveries of alien life will certainly lead to the creation of alien-worshipping religions, an idea which pops up in science fiction regularly. Is Earth ready for discovery, or will it lead to renewed clashes between and among the religious?
A video posted on April 5, 2018 from Brazil appears to show a weird “humanoid” shape floating in the skies over the city of Goania. Taken from a cell phone in a car, the video shows this strange UFO floating completely stationary while trees and other objects come in and out of frame, briefly obscuring the bizarre shape. Curiously, the object (or whatever it is) filmed bears an eerie similarity to footage of odd floating humanoidshapes taken in Sydney, Australia, and Abu Dhabi, UAE in October of 2017.
The Brazilian video was originally posted on Facebook and then uploaded to YouTube by the channel secureteam10, where you can watch it for yourself. If it’s a fake, it’s a very good fake. That’s not to say it is, in fact, a floating alien, returned messiah, more ghost planes, or any of the other speculative explanations, of course. It could very well be a trick of the light or an oddly shaped cloud (probably not a weather balloon, swamp gas, or ball lightning, though). What’s strange is that very similar things have been photographed or videoed in wildly different parts of the world under different atmospheric conditions.
As Ian Fleming wrote, “Once is coincidence, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action.” That’s a good line and metaphor, not a suggestion to go throw rocks at floating humanoids, which would be horrible, horrible advice.
In October of 2017, the Sydney humanoid was filmed. This sighting happened on a apparently clearer day, and earlier in the day than the Brazil video. Once again, this video shows a dark UFO with what look to be arms hanging by its sides. In contrast to the Brazil humanoid, this object does appear to move, and the “arms” are far less pronounced in the Sydney video. It’s hard to tell, but the object does look like it’s slowly moving through the sky, parallel to the ground. Also, the Sydney humanoid apparently disappeared and reappeared several times over the course of the sighting.
What if it’s just some guy minding his own business, just trying to float around for a while?
The Abu Dhabi sighting was also in October, 2017. From the very limited documentation on this sighting, it looks closer to the Sydney video than the Brazilian video. Which is interesting, considering that they happened around the same time. The Dubai Astronomy Group stated that the object photographed in the sky over Abu Dhabi was likely pieces of a Russian refueling rocket breaking up in the atmosphere. While that explanation may make sense in the case of the Abu Dhabi event, specifically, it does not explain the sighting in Sydney, where the object appears to be moving perpendicular to gravity, and it certainly doesn’t explain the humanoid UFO in Brazil, where the object appears to be completely motionless, let alone falling and breaking apart.
It’s hard to say with any certainty at all that these events are connected. It’s easy to look at a shape and see what you want to see, and especially if that shape has the vaguest resemblance to something human. At this point it’s merely curious, but it will certainly be interesting to see if any more floating humanoids show up in the coming months.
Rich Reynolds has a new post at his UFO Conjectures blog titled “Ufologists vs Paranormalists.” Rich begins as follows: “I’ve written about the drive of some in the UFO community to insert UFOs among the weird litany that encompasses the paranormal category, all things outside the normal scheme of things: ghosts, Big Footed creatures, ‘sea monsters,’ men who dress in black, mystical visions (of angels, Holy Mary, saints, and sinners), et cetera.” Rich adds: “…the persistent attempts to lump UFOs among the queer phenomena that pops up in situ to a few humans have to be thwarted by real UFO aficionados. UFOs are a phenomenon worthy of its own, singular attention, not a mystery to be hawked like a carnival ride or sideshow.” You can find Rich’s article at this link.
Me and Rich are good mates, but we certainly don’t agree on everything – and his new article is a perfect example of that! It’s important – as I see it anyway – to note that Rich’s interest in UFOs dates back decades. We’re talking about the period in time when UFOs were known as Flying Saucers, and when the aliens referred to us as “earthlings” and as the “people of planet Earth” (or was that just in old B&W sci-fi movies? Maybe…). We’re also talking about times when thieving aliens stole soil by the bucketful, when strange tripod-landing marks were found in the fields of irate farmers, and when long-haired, know-it-all aliens tried to save us from atomic destruction. But, those days are – largely – gone. Today’s Ufology, in many respects, is very different. And much stranger. Which brings us back to Rich.
As I have always said, the most important people in the field of Ufology are the witnesses. Not the radio-hosts, not the bloggers, not the authors, and not the researchers. Without witness testimony, we have very little to go on, in terms of what the UFO phenomenon is or might be, and what it’s up to. And, like it or like it not, there are far more than a few cases on record which do suggest a connection between the UFO issue and what we might call paranormal phenomena. To ignore the weird shit side of Ufology is, in essence, self-censorship. Of course, there is nothing new about this paranormal connection. Check, out – as just one example of many – John Keel’s 1970 book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. Keel made it very clear that there are crossovers between Ufology and other supernatural phenomena.
Rich refers to “men who dress in black.” Rich may not like it (in fact, I’m sure he doesn’t) but the vast majority of all MIB encounters have nothing to do with visits from the likes of “government agents.” Things would be much simpler if they were from the NSA, the CIA or the FBI! The real MIB are often pale and cadaverous. They don’t seem to be fully self-aware. There are reports of UFO witnesses falling sick after encountering the MIB – sometimes seriously so, too. Other witnesses tell of violent poltergeist activity in the home, after the MIB have left. People feel mind-controlled and hypnotized by the Men in Black.
Rich also makes mention of “Big Footed creatures.” Yes, the Bigfoot-UFO phenomenon is without any doubt at all a highly controversial one. Indeed, I know for sure that the vast majority of Bigfoot seekers in the field of Cryptozoology absolutely cringe when the “Sasquatch and Saucers” issue rears its problematic head. But, the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of Bigfoot/UFO cases on record. Stan Gordon wrote an entire book on the subject: Silent Invasion. It’s essential reading for those who want to learn more about the paranormal links to the Bigfoot issue.
I could go on and on (and I will for a while): there are cases in which alien abductees have seen dead friends and relatives on-board UFOs. Abductees talk of their soul or life-force being ripped from their bodies. Strange synchronicities abound in Ufology. It’s possible to interact with entities that many perceive as alien via the likes of DMT. There is no need for our strange visitors to land on the lawns of the White House: they have far weirder ways of interacting with us at a personal level. Disturbing cases of paranormal “possession” have been reported by UFO witnesses. All of this is far removed from what I think Rich prefers Ufology to be – which is, I suspect, the days when the likes of Donald Keyhoe, Ed Ruppelt, Harold T. Wilkins, and APRO were flying high. Back then, it was all nuts-and-bolts spaceships (rocket-ships, even). Not now, though.
But, like I said, the witnesses are the people who we need to listen to, as they are the ones who had the experiences. And even though it might not sit well with many, the reality of the situation is that there really is far more to Ufology than just us “earthlings” being visited by an extraterrestrial equivalent of NASA. The situation is way, way weirder.
For years scientists have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on other planets. Earlier this week a new technology was presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) in Liverpool, and it is one that could help solve the mystery of the outer space. It’s an artificial intelligence technology that is designed to predict the probability of life on other planets.
A team based at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University presented on April 4 their study that involves using artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into categories based on how they could possibly sustain life.
ANNs are systems that replicate how the human brain learns. They are commonly used in machine learning. They are also known for being good determiners of patterns that are too complex for the human brain to process, according to an EWASS press release.
The different categories used in the study are present-day Earth, the early Earth, Mars, Venus or Saturn’s moon Titan. The reason why the team’s network uses these five as categories is because they are rocky bodies with atmospheres that are potentially habitable in our solar system.
Because life is known to only exist on Earth at present, the network uses a “probability of life” metric based on the atmospheric and orbital properties of the five bodies. This is how the AI system estimates the probability of life on other planets.
“We’re currently interested in these ANNs for prioritizing exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range,” study presenter Christopher Bishop said.
“We're also looking at the use of large area, deployable, planar Fresnel antennas to get data back to Earth from an interstellar probe at large distances. This would be needed if the technology is used in robotic spacecraft in the future,” he added.
The team trained their artificial neural network with more than one hundred spectral profiles, each having seven hundred parameters that are said to contribute to habitability. The team indicated that so far, their network performs well when it is given a test spectral profile that it hasn’t encountered before.
“Given the results so far, this method may prove to be extremely useful for categorising different types of exoplanets using results from ground–based and near Earth observatories,” project supervisor Dr. Angelo Cangelosi said.
The team is hoping for ANNs to be used in future space missions. Scientists could select an exoplanet to observe based on the category the network assigned it to, thereby reducing the resources needed in identifying other potentially habitable planets.
A new technology could help predict extraterrestrial life on other planets.
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Alien PROOF: Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts PASS lie detector on 'UFO encounters'
Alien PROOF: Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts PASS lie detector on 'UFO encounters'
BUZZ Aldrin who was the second man to walk on the moon and three other astronauts have passed lie detector tests over claims they experienced alien encounters while in orbit, it has been claimed.
The astronaut’s accounts of alien sightings were examined under laboratory conditions and all four astronauts passed the test which was carried out using the latest technology, according to reports.
Testing was said to be carried out by The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio using complex computer analysis of the spacewalker’s voice patterns as they told of their extraterrestrial encounters.
Buzz Aldrin, 88, said he saw a UFO on the way to the moon: “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped.”
BioAcoustic’s Sharry Edwards said the tests show Mr Aldrin is certain he saw a UFO.
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Alien news: Buzz Aldrin said he could not explain it
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Canada Presents Radioactive Physical Evidence Of A Real UFO
Canada Presents Radioactive Physical Evidence Of A Real UFO
Does new alien Canadian coin suggest that extra-terrestrial revelation is imminent?
Last week, the Royal Canadian Mint announced the release of a new coin depicting a man being borne over by an unidentified flying object. The inspiration behind this unusual coin is the so-called Falcon Lake Incident, the most sensational UFO story in Canadian history and one of the most inexplicable close encounter stories of all time. The release of the coin has naturally led to a great deal of chatter about the evidence behind contact with extra-terrestrial beings and whether it stands up to scrutiny.
The Falcon Lake incident in itself has provided UFO researchers with fairly robust evidence of extra-terrestrial involvement including fragments of the bizarre material used to forge the craft and the severe burn marks suffered by the man who encountered the vessel which was described as smelling very strongly of sulfur.
“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.”
Of course, the Falcon Lake incident is not the only event in recent decades which have confounded skeptics. In addition to various fragments of supposed alien crafts, there has also been a huge amount of electrooptical data, video footage and eye witness testimonies over the years. This vast sum of evidence led Luis Elizondo, the former director of the ATTIP study which focused on unidentified flying objects, to say, “If this was a court of law, we are beyond reasonable doubt.”
Now that the evidence is becoming all the more overwhelming, it has been suggested that those in positions of authority have decided to slowly create a process of normalization before revealing that extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth are real. Why this process is beginning at this current time and why it has taken so long for the powers that be to admit to the world that the hundreds of UFO sightings the world over are real are questions which still have to be answered. However, it is very unlikely that the reason has anything to do with the threat of an impending alien invasion as it appears that these beings have been visiting this world for quite some time.
Video – Do Extraterrestrials lived in Mexico before 7000 Years ago?
Video – Do Extraterrestrials lived in Mexico before 7000 Years ago?
ANCIENT treasure including artefacts which are said to to depict alien beings “found in a historic cave” have added to claims ancient civilisations on Earth were visited by advanced species from outer space.
The ancient aliens theory claims there is evidence in historical records of a race of advanced astronauts arriving on Earth and helping our forefathers build monuments such as the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
It is based on supposed depictions of flying saucers and alien-like beings in thousands of year old arts and crafts, coupled with the mysteries of how structures like the pyramids and Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, which were constructed with technology of the time.
Now, a video has gone viral online claims to have produced further evidence to support the alien myth.
In the video, you see a number of what appears to be Klaus Dona artefacts, which are known to date back thousands of years.
Some of the figures display alien-like figures, with long faces and round eyes.
And more sculptures appear to show spaceships floating above the ground, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
Others are said to be completely unexplainable and some claim it could its proof several other races co-existed thousands of years ago.
The clip was captured in Mexico and uploaded to YouTube channel UFOmania before going viral.
Viewers have tried to get to the bottom of the mystery.
One posted: “Haven’t seen these artefacts before, but none of this surprises me. There’s a lot more to come.”
And another added: “Incredible evidence to support that extraterrestrials have been engaging the human race for a very long time.”
A third believed: “They lived on Earth for over 7,000 years and they created man.”
Others were not as convinced, stating they may not be entirely real.
A viewer pointed out: “All in mint condition, I reckon they are fake.”
Others said that just because objects in the shape of no human creatures were created, it did not mean these creatures ever truly existed.
One posted: “So, the fact that an ancient culture drew pictures and made sculptures of creatures that don’t look like any known life form on Earth proves their existence?
“Ok, so by the same logic, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Dragons, Unicorns, Satyrs, and Gryphons must all exist.”
An unprecedented mission to the sun heads to its summer launch site, the Milky Way galaxy is growing faster than the speed of sound and Virgin Galactic aces its first test flight since a fatal crash. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
1. Virgin Galactic performs first test flight since 2014 crash
Virgin Galactic made its first powered flight in more than three years on Thursday (April 5) after recovering from a fatal test flight accident in 2014. The company's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity suborbital vehicle was released from a mothership at around 50,000 feet (15,000 meters), in a position several miles north of the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The pilots fired Unity's hybrid engine for 30 seconds and the vehicle reach a top speed of Mach 1.87 and an altitude of 84,271 feet (25,686 m).
Researchers finally spotted an echo of Jupiter's moon Callisto in its bright auroras, visible with the Hubble Space Telescope. These observations, and the footprints of Jupiter's other largest moons, bring scientists closer to learning more about Jupiter's magnetic field.
The James Webb Space Telescope, often referred to as the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, will launch about a year later than previously planned. NASA announced on March 27 that the new space observatory, designed to peer deep into the universe to seek out new planets and study early stars, is now slated to launch no earlier than May 2020. The delay is necessary because of difficulty testing of some of the telescope's parts such as its tennis-court-size sun shield, which developed small tears when deployed.
4. Space agencies worldwide tracked the end of Tiangong-1
On April 1, China's Tiangong-1 space lab burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Among the many organizations that predicted its descent over the southern Pacific Ocean were the China National Space Administration and the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, an international group comprised of NASA, the European Space Agency and the space agencies of an additional 11 nations. To predict its unpredictable tumble, experts looked at several forecasting factors like the drag of Earth's upper atmosphere.
5. 60 years in the making, solar mission begins next step
On Sunday (April 1) NASA's Parker Solar Probe finished final checks and began its journey to Cape Canaveral, Florida. The final assembly of this mission will then pick up where scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center left off, to prep the sun-studying mission for a July 31 launch. A solar mission like the Parker Solar Probe is 60 years in the making, and it's designed to observe the sun's outer atmosphere, known as the corona, up close like never before.
The Milky Way galaxy is already a massive celestial body, but new research suggests the visible part of our home galaxy and others like it are expanding at about 1,100 mph (1,770 km/h) — 1.4 times the speed of sound at sea level on Earth. Stars are forming on the outskirts of the galaxy, and the Milky Way will only get bigger in 4 billion years when it dramatically merges with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Recovery efforts are ongoing in India to restore contact with a missing communications satellite, and this event may signal the country's second mission failure in less than a year. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation and multiple media reports, the GSAT-6A behaved normally after launching on March 29 aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket, but went silent as the satellite was about to perform its final engine firing.
8. Slice of cosmic space-time seen in new 3D model
Astronomers pinpointed 4,000 early galaxies and created one of the largest 3D maps of the young universe. Using special filters, scientists were able to observe the ancient past at 16 well-defined cosmic-time destinations. The epochs range from 11 billion to 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 20 percent of its current age.
On March 31, skygazers picked up their cameras to photograph the last Blue Moon until 2020. The full moon that peaked last Saturday at 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT) was called the Blue Sap Moon, because it's around the time of year that tree tapping occurs. The popular definition of a blue moon calls it the second full moon in a calendar month, and the next one won't occur until Halloween night in more than two years.
10. Black holes in galactic centers may trigger more space-time ripples
Gravitational waves could be more abundant if black holes in the middle of galaxies are accelerating the mergers of massive objects. Ripples in space-time form when two objects with a lot of mass come together, and these objects usually exist as a binary system. A new study suggests that these objects are more likely to merge with one another when a black hole severely modifies their relationship.
11. Hundreds pay tribute to Stephen Hawking at his funeral
The family of famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking invited about 500 people to his funeral ceremony this week. Hawking passed away on March 14 at the age of 76, and according to media reports, the bell at Cambridge University's Great St. Mary's Church rang out 76 times to mark each year he lived.
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane in Earth orbit. One of the vehicles just soared past 200 days in its latest mission, in which it is carrying out classified duties.
Credit: Boeing
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has winged past 200 days in orbit on its latest clandestine mission.
That mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5), began Sept. 7, 2017, when the robotic spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
According to Air Force officials, one payload flying on OTV-5 is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-11, of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long durations in the space environment. [The X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts]
The X-37B space plane has a payload bay about the size of a pickup-truck bed, which can be outfitted with a robotic arm.
Credit: Boeing
Dual-use tech
"The X-37B has been and remains a technology demonstrator," said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
"Given that most space technology is dual-use, with the ever-increasing sway toward warfare in space, it's likely that the more militaristic uses of the space plane will be pursued more vigorously, and likely openly given the [presidential] administration's proclivity toward chest thumping," she told Space.com, expressing her personal view.
How long the unpiloted, reusable craft will stay aloft is not known, but experts have said it's likely to land at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility, as the OTV-4 mission did back on May 7, 2017. That was a first for the program, as all prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Each X-37B mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program.
OTV-1 began April 22, 2010, and concluded on Dec. 3, 2010, after 224 days in orbit.
The second OTV mission began March 5, 2011, and concluded on June 16, 2012, after 468 days on orbit.
OTV-3 chalked up nearly 675 days in orbit before finally coming down on Oct. 17, 2014.
And OTV-4 conducted on-orbit experiments for 718 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent in space for the OTV program to 2,085 days.
Risk-reduction role
The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office manages the X-37B project, using it to perform risk-reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space-vehicle technologies.
The space drone has a payload bay about the size of a pickup-truck bed, which can be outfitted with a robotic arm. X-37B has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
The classified X-37B program "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing. Looking like a miniature version of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter, the military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6
Specially garbed technicians attend to an X-37B spacecraft after it landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending the fourth Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-4) mission in May of last year.
Credit: USAF
Trail gone cold
The orbital path of the currently flying space plane is a tad puzzling, said Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst.
"There were indications that OTV-5 went to a significantly higher-inclination orbit than previous OTV missions," he told Space.com. "There was too little information to narrowly constrain a search."
Molczan said he assisted in one fruitless search, but it was of the roughly 44-degree-inclination orbit implied by the OTV-5 launch's "Notice to Airmen," the routine report put out to warn any aircraft pilots who may be near the flight path.
"The final orbit may be more like 60 degrees," he said. "If an object is not found within days or a few weeks of launch, then the trail goes cold and discovery depends on a chance sighting."
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.
This rover is an early version of a vehicle that will one day be sent to Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA/JPL-Caltech
We recognize Earth as the blue planet, but it’s not the only ocean world in our neighborhood. Oceans may be concealed beneath thick crusts of ice on moons orbiting Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, and on the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris. Saturn’s moon Titan even boasts liquid seas right on its surface, although they are full of methane rather than water.
If anywhere in our solar system holds signs of life, it is likely to be these frigid worlds. Scientists are determined to explore the distant seas of Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa, and are designing ice-gripping rovers and submarines to take the plunge into their mysterious depths. They will have to contend with bitter cold, liquids that behave differently than the water we are used to on Earth, and other hostile conditions.
Here’s how these hardy robots will explore two very different types of alien seas.
Cruising gassy seas
Over the course of its mission to explore Saturn and its moons, the Cassini spacecraftdiscovered hundreds of small lakes on Titan’s surface, as well as three seas similar to the Great Lakes in size and depth.
Titan also has water ice on its surface and a water ocean likely buried beneath its crust. But its methane seas are intriguing because they are part of a process that resembles the water cycle we have here on Earth. As on our own planet, liquid on Titan evaporates from the seas, forms clouds, and rains back down. Researchers would like to find out more about how this methane cycle works. What’s more, carbon and nitrogen compounds that could support life are plentiful on Titan; scientists hope to investigate whether some form of life could have evolved to depend on liquid methane the way terrestrial life depends on water.
NASA has considered sending a buoy to drift through Titan’s seas. One drawback is that this capsule would be at the mercy of winds and currents. “Most likely a buoy encountering [the] shore would just get beached and might be refloated with the tide,” Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, said in an email. There are no guarantees that it would make it back to sea, though.
A submarine, on the other hand, could set its own course and would be able to explore beneath the sea surface and sample sediments on the seafloor. NASA hopes to send a submarine to Titan in the next 20 years. Its generator—which would be powered by heat from the decay of radioactive materials such as plutonium—will be key to keeping the submarine’s electronics toasty in Titan’s seas, which are roughly -290 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dealing with the cryogenic conditions on Titan “needs careful engineering, but no physical miracles,” says Lorenz, who is the submarine’s lead designer. “The waste heat from a radioisotope power source is an essential part of that, together with…some judicious choices of foam insulation.”
Another challenge is that we don’t know the exact chemical makeup of Titan’s seas. They are mainly methane—similar to liquid natural gas found on Earth—and a smaller amount of liquid ethane and dissolved nitrogen gas. But the exact ratio in which these ingredients appear isn’t clear, and may vary quite a bit between Titan’s seas. So the project is designing a submarine that can navigate a liquid expanse whose density and viscosity are not yet firmly established.
Engineers are particularly concerned about the nitrogen in Titan’s seas, which could form bubbles that would interfere with the submarine’s navigation. This might happen when some of the waste heat from the vessel’s generator seeps into the environment. “That heat is not enough to boil the surrounding liquid, but we believe it’s enough to cause that dissolved nitrogen that’s in the liquid to come out,” says Jason Hartwig, a cryogenic propulsion engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
The propeller itself could also create effervescence as it slices through the liquid. Behind each blade is a little void, Hartwig says. This drop in pressure can give bubbles an opportunity to form, similar to how a can of soda fizzes when you open it.
All those tiny bubbles could cause two big problems. Firstly, they might get in the way of the submarine’s scientific equipment, making it more difficult to measure depth and other conditions. Even more worrying, the bubbles might prevent the submarine’s propellers from working properly.
“If we’re trying to move from one location in the seas to another, are all those bubbles going to coalesce at the back end of the submarine?” Hartwig says. “You try to spin the propellers and the vehicle won’t move, it will just sit and spin."
“This whole effervescence issue is a non-factor for submersibles on Earth because the amount of air that can get dissolved in water is very, very low,” Hartwig continues. “The pressure is higher on Titan and because the liquid is colder more gas is dissolved in the liquid, which means more gas can come out.”
Since we don’t know the exact chemical composition of Titan’s seas, it’s not certain how much nitrogen they hold. To get a better sense of what a submarine might encounter, Hartwig and his colleagues at Washington State University have recreated Titan’s seas here on Earth. They filled a test chamber with different mixtures of methane, ethane, and dissolved nitrogen at temperatures and pressures similar to those on Titan, then added a little heater in to mimic the heat that would radiate from an actual submarine.
The good news: if a submarine has stopped moving in order to collect samples, it might not have to worry. It probably wouldn’t emit enough heat to create the amount of fizz needed to stymie its instruments, the team reported in February in the journal Fluid Phase Equilibria. However, “We still haven’t ruled out the propeller issue,” Hartwig says. He intends to repeat the experiment with a propeller instead of a heater to find out how much bubbling the vessel might face as it journeys through Titan’s seas.
A possible design for a submarine that would explore Titan’s seas
NASA Glenn Research Center
The submarine we send to Titan could have the same long, slender shape we are used to seeing on Earth. This kind of vehicle would weigh around 2,600 pounds and be about 20 feet long, Hartwig says. However, it would have to return to the sea surface in order to communicate with Earth. It would also have to wait until the 2040s to arrive, when Earth will be high enough above Titan’s horizons to give the submarine a direct line of sight (and communication) back to our planet.
NASA is also considering sending a smaller, turtle-shaped submarine. This “Titan Turtle” would be paired with an orbiter to relay information to Earth. It could communicate while submerged and could potentially launch a few years earlier because it wouldn’t need to rely on Earth’s position in the sky.
Titan is unique among ocean worlds, Hartwig says. Nowhere else in the solar system are liquid seas so easy to reach. But a Titan submarine could inspire designs for future vessels that will explore seas hidden beneath the ice crust on other bodies. “I’ve always looked at Titan as a pathfinder,” Hartwig says.
Under the ice
One of these less accessible seas can be found on Europa. While the moon’s surface is lashed with radiation from Jupiter’s magnetic field and is a bleak -280 degrees Fahrenheit, the ocean underneath is protected by a wall of ice that averages 5 to 15 miles thick. Because this ocean is made of water, it’s a tantalizing place look for life and study what chemical conditions might be needed for it to form.
To get through Europa’s icy barricade, scientists are testing robots that would melt or cut their way down to the ocean. These robots could carry submarines, rovers to drive along the underside of the ice, or even landers that would sink to the seafloor. Once they hit the water, these probes would likely encounter balmy temperatures around 32 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s actually a fairly comfortable environment for our electronics,” says Andy Klesh, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “What is a little bit more troublesome is the saltwater.”
Europa’s seas could be as briny as or own and may even be significantly saltier, says Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “As an added challenge, there is likely some sulfuric acid in the mix,” he says. This means a probe’s electronics will be in danger of corrosion. The robot would also face formidable pressures as it ventured deeper into the ocean. On the seafloor, the pressure would be akin to that at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Earth.
All in all, a journey to Europa’s seas is going to be a pretty rough ride. “We have the challenges of deep space exploration along with the challenges of deep ocean exploration,” Klesh says. “We have a vacuum in space; we have high pressure under the ice. And we have radiation on the way out there…we’re protected from that underneath the ice but then the environment’s trying to corrode us along the way.”
The easiest place to visit will be the underside of Europa’s ice shelf, he says. Klesh, Hand, and their colleagues are working on a rover that would drive around on the bottom of the ice. A rover or deep-sea probe wouldn’t be buffeted by currents, as would likely happen with a submarine. “These rovers [and] these landers may be the best way to explore in a very controlled matter and not be tossed about or knocked into other things,” Klesh says. The underside of the ice is also a particularly good place to search for life. On Earth, algae and microbes like to anchor themselves beneath the ice. If life exists on Europa, it may be drawn to this kind of terrain as well.
Klesh and his team are eager to begin the hunt. They’ve been testing their rover—currently known as BRUIE (Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration)—in Alaska’s freezing lakes. Its wheels sport both circular sawblades and little panels that act like snowshoes, distributing the rover’s weight across the ice. This prevents BRUIE from cutting into the ice and getting stuck in place.
The version of BRUIE that will eventually visit Europa will likely be carried through the ice by the robot responsible for digging down to the sea. That means it has to be pretty small, likely 18 inches or less in length, Klesh says. In two weeks, he plans to test collapsible wheels on BRUIE, which would allow it to become more compact and portable. The team also hopes to send BRUIE on its most ambitious mission yet—a trip nearly 1,000 feet beneath sea ice without a tether.
Ideally, a rover on Europa would also be untethered. “We have had a tendency to end up slicing the tether at least once during almost every trip when we’ve been out there,” Klesh says. But despite the risk of tangling it represents, a cord may be needed to provide power and communicate with equipment on the surface.
BRUIE’s razor-sharp wheels are equipped with panels to prevent it getting stuck as it drives on the underside of the ice
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Klesh and his team are also looking for easier ways to reach the ocean. They have used submersibles to explore moulins—steep, flooded shafts that form inside glaciers—in Alaska. Last summer, their robot traveled about 160 feet deep beneath the ice, and was able to find connecting points between different tunnels. It’s possible that Europa also has moulins in its ice shell that a rover or submersible could use to travel part of the way down to the water.
There’s still a long way to go before a rover is ready to make the jaunt to Jupiter’s moons or beyond. Hopefully, Klesh says, the planned Europa Clipper and Europa Lander missions will pave the way for a probe to be sent beneath the ice.
In the meantime, the rovers that will one day explore Europa could teach us a few things about our own planet. BRUIE is already being used to scope out how thawing permafrost is releasing methane in Arctic lakes. And this fall, the intrepid rover will take a three or four-month-long sojourn in those chilly waters.
“The scientific goal is to leave the rover underneath the lake ice to watch the seasonal changes as the ice forms and thickens above these methane-rich lakes as the sun sets and the winter goes dark,” Hand says. This could reveal how a rover might become frozen in place as the ice around it thickens. It’s also a chance to learn more about an environment too punishing for humans to observe on our own.
“The largest ocean world of all is right here on Earth,” Klesh says. “The techniques we’re using to start to look at exploring Europa, we’re applying here to explore…regions we have never been able to go to before.”
Exclusive: Massive Ancient Drawings Found in Peruvian Desert
Exclusive: Massive Ancient Drawings Found in Peruvian Desert
Armed with satellites and drones, archaeologists discover new Nasca lines and dozens of other enigmatic geoglyphs carved into the earth.
SEE NEWLY DISCOVERED ANCIENT DRAWINGS IN PERU DESERT
Researchers surveying in southern Peru with drones have captured images of ancient geoglyphs, and more than 50 of the massive ancient drawings are considered new discoveries by archaeologists.
Etched into the high desert of southern Peru more than a millennium ago, the enigmatic Nasca lines continue to capture our imagination. More than a thousand of these geoglyphs (literally, 'ground drawings') sprawl across the sandy soil of Nasca province, the remains of little-understood ritual practices that may have been connected to life-giving rain.
Now, Peruvian archaeologists armed with drones have discovered more than 50 new examples of these mysterious desert monuments in adjacent Palpa province, traced onto the earth's surface in lines almost too fine to see with the human eye. In addition, archaeologists surveyed locally known geoglyphs with drones for the first time—mapping them in never-before-seen detail.
Some of the newfound lines belong to the Nasca culture, which held sway in the area from 200 to 700 A.D. However, archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.
Unlike the iconic Nasca lines—most of which are only visible from overhead—the older Paracas glyphs were laid down on hillsides, making them visible to villages below. The two cultures also pursued different artistic subjects: Nasca lines most often consist of lines or polygons, but many of the newfound Paracas figures depict humans.
“Most of these figures are warriors,” says Peruvian archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, the new glyphs' co-discoverer. “These ones could be spotted from a certain distance, so people had seen them, but over time, they were completely erased.”
A VIEW FROM THE SKY AND SPACE
Many of the newly discovered Nasca lines are too faint to be seen by the human eye, yet visible when captured in low altitude by a drone camera.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LUIS JAIME CASTILLO, PALPA NASCA PROJECT
The new geoglyphs add crucial data on the Paracas culture, as well as the mysterious Topará culture, which marked the transition between the Paracas and the Nasca. Centuries before the famous Nasca lines were made, people in the region were experimenting with making massive geoglyphs.
“This means that it is a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nasca culture, which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning,” says Peruvian Ministry of Culture archaeologist Johny Isla, the Nasca lines' chief restorer and protector.
Ironically, the discovery of the new geoglyphs was only made possible because of threats to previously known Nasca lines.
Isla's work is extraordinarily difficult, and made even harder by spotty maps. Of the estimated 100,000 archaeological sites in Peru, Isla's colleague Castillo says only about 5,000 have been properly documented on the ground. Even fewer have been mapped from the air.
Ancient Peruvians created geoglyphs like the Nasca lines by moving stones to define edges of the lines, and then scraping the top layer of earth between the edges to reveal lighter soil beneath.
ART BY FERNANDO G. BAPTISTA/NGM STAFF
SOURCE: MARKUS REINDEL, GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Castillo, a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the country's former vice-minister of cultural heritage, has long championed using drones and other aerial mapping techniques to catalog archaeological sites. Now, Isla and Castillo have much more data to work with, thanks to National Geographic Explorer and “space archaeologist” Sarah Parcak.
“When we were thinking about countries to go to ... it had to be a country that everyone in the world would know is important, where the Ministry of Culture would be open to new technology, and where most of the sites would be out in the open and fairly easy to detect,” says Parcak, an archaeologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Peru definitely fit the bill.”
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
This newly discovered Nasca line feature, captured by a drone, consists of several straight lines with no discernible pattern which were likely made at different times and for different purposes.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LUIS JAIME CASTILLO, PALPA NASCA PROJECT
Once GlobalXplorer volunteers flagged potential targets in the satellite data that may be potential archaeological sites or instances of looting, Parcak then turned the target locations over to Peruvian archaeologists. With the support of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, Castillo and three of his students embarked on a ground-truthing expedition funded by the National Geographic Society.
When Castillo's team visited Nasca and Palpa provinces in December 2017, they didn’t find much evidence of fresh looting at the GlobalXplorer candidate targets. Instead, they found decades-old looting sites and encroachment fueled by the region's booming illegal gold mines.
But when researchers photographed the sites from overhead with drones, they found something new—and unexpected. The high-resolution images contained hints of dozens of ancient geoglyphs, carved into the desert crust.
How could so many geoglyphs hide in plain sight? Over time, many of the lines and figures have been reduced to faint depressions in the soil, visible only on 3-D scans of the terrain captured by the eagle-eye perspective provided by drones. And despite satellites' awe-inspiring surveillance power, they can’t see everything.
The most powerful satellite that GlobalXplorer uses can see a foot-wide object from 383 miles above Earth's surface. That’s the equivalent of seeing a single human hair from more than 650 feet away. But the lines that trace the newfound geoglyphs are mere inches across—too fine to spot from space.
Low-flying drones operating at altitudes of 200 feet or less, in contrast, can spot objects less than a half-inch wide. “The [drone camera] resolution is incredibly high,” says Castillo.
MORE TO DISCOVER, MORE TO PROTECT
Now that researchers have documented the newfound lines, they're eager to protect them. The new geoglyphs fall within the UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing the Nasca and Palpa lines, and according to Isla, they are not under immediate threat.
However, the newfound lines have yet to be registered with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The lines' co-discoverer, Fabrizio Serván, a student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, says that the necessary maps and drawings are currently being drafted.
Perhaps the lines will soon have company. GlobalXplorer users have flagged hundreds of new potential sites that Peruvian archaeologists will continue ground truthing this fall and winter.
“The data and information obtained with the GlobalXplorer project are extraordinary in quality and quantity, and above all in a relatively short period of time,” says Isla. “This puts us at the forefront in the registry of archaeological sites and geoglyphs in particular.”
“We give the data to local experts: This is their cultural patrimony, they're the stakeholders,” says Parcak. “We're providing a resource.”
In the future, Parcak and Castillo say that GlobalXplorer data can help protect archaeological sites from unplanned urban and rural encroachment, which, beyond looting and the occasional errant truck driver, is by far the biggest threat facing Peru's geoglyphs.
Castillo describes the ongoing encroachment as “land trafficking”: a sophisticated effort within Peru to forge deeds and build illegal housing by the acre, erasing the country's cultural heritage in the process.
“We're not fighting a looter with his shovel, running away when you're blowing a whistle; we're fighting an army of lawyers,” he says. “This is a constant battle, so the work we're doing—documenting the sites, geo-referencing—is the best protection we can give the sites.”
En Arizona, deux pilotes de ligne aguerris ont, tour à tour, croisé un objet volant qu'ils ne sont, l'un comme l'autre, absolument pas parvenus à identifier...
Le 24 février dernier, un premier pilote survole l'Arizona et voit soudainement apparaître un objet volant qu'il n'arrive, à aucun moment, à identifier. Quelques minutes plus tard, c'est un autre pilote sur un autre vol qui voit surgir le même objet. Une drôle d'histoire dont Paris-Match se fait l'écho et qui, certes, laisse perplexe mais génère surtout un certain nombre d'interrogations.
Compte tenu de cette curieuse apparition au dessus du désert de l'Arizona, les deux pilotes décident de contacter, chacun de leur côté, la tour de contrôle d’Albuquerque. Leurs appels ont été rendus public la semaine dernière par un site de référence spécialisé dans l'actualité de la défense répondant au nom de The War Zone.
Le premier avion aurait, semble-t-il, contacté les contrôleurs aériens de ladite tour et demandé : "Est-ce que quelqu’un est passé au-dessus de nous il y a environ 30 secondes ?". Réponse du contrôleur alors en place : "Négatif". Et le dialogue de se poursuivre : "OK, mais quelqu’un l’a fait"."C’est un OVNI !". Quelques minutes plus tard, même son de cloche. Un vol d'American Airlines contacté par la tour de contrôle répond à la question suivante : "Que je vous prévienne si quelque chose nous passe au-dessus ?"... "Ici America 1905. Oui, quelque chose vient juste de nous survoler. Je ne sais pas ce que c’était mais ça se trouvait environ 2000 ou 3000 pieds (entre 600 et 900 mètres) au-dessus de nous".
Pour l'heure, le pilote oeuvrant au sein d'American Airline ne semble pas convaincu par le fait qu'il puisse s'agir d'un ballon lancé par Google dans le cadre de son projet Loon. Lequel projet consiste, tel que le rapporte le géant de l'Internet sur son site, en "un réseau de ballons stratosphériques conçu pour apporter une connectivité Internet aux communautés rurales et reculées".
A cela, s'ajoute le fait que, dans l'absolu, rien ne justifie le fait qu'un avion vole en plein jour sans s'être signalé auprès du contrôle du trafic aérien, poursuit le site The War Zone. Le mystère demeure donc entier. A moins, s'interroge le site spécialisé, qu'il puisse s'agir d'un ballon sonde dont le lancer n'est, pour l'heure, pas particulièrement bien réglementé.
Un « énorme OVNI vaisseau mère » a été filmé au-dessus du ciel nocturne en Caroline du Nord. Les images partagées sur YouTube par The UFO Institute montrent l’engin, composé de six lumières dans un champ proche de Columbus.
Les lumières sont restées statiques pendant toute la durée de la vidéo, tandis qu’un vrombissement de type moteur à réaction étrange remplissait l’air. Il a été filmé par un cameraman mystérieux le 3 avril, que l’on entend dire : « J’aimerais bien savoir ce que sont ces lumières », pendant la mystérieuse rencontre.
Le commentateur Chris Lo a ajouté un commentaire plus hostile sous la séquence, écrivant : « J’habite en Caroline du Nord près de là-bas. »
« Si je l’avais vu je lui aurais tiré dessus. Je ne viens pas en paix. »
L’observation est l’une des 20 observations enregistrées en Caroline du Nord jusqu’à présent en 2018.
C’est l’un des dix meilleurs états d’Amérique pour les observations d’OVNIs.
La semaine dernière, des séquences audio de deux pilotes de jet faisant état d’un OVNI en train de voler au-dessus d’eux dans l’Arizona ont été diffusées.
Les théoriciens de la conspiration ont suggéré que la dernière observation pourrait être celle d’un avion militaire expérimental connu sous le nom de TR-3B, qui pourrait se trouver sur les bases voisines de Fort Bragg ou de la Pope Air Force.
On dit que l’avion, qui n’a jamais été officiellement reconnu, utilise la technologie « anti-gravité » pour planer dans le ciel.
The space travellers’ accounts of strange space sightings were examined under laboratory conditions.
All four astronauts taking part passed the test, carried out using the latest technology.
Experts say the results prove they were “completely convinced” signs of alien life they claimed to have witnessed during historic missions were genuine.
Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper all took part in the study.
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APOLLO 11: Buzz Aldrin, now 88 was the second human to set foot on the lunar surface in 1969
“There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped”
Buzz Aldrin
The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, carried out complex computer analyses of the astronauts’ voice patterns as they told of their close encounters.
Although the technology is still top-secret, these studies are claimed to be more reliable than current lie detector tests and could soon replace those used by the FBI and police.
One of the first tested was Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin, now 88 – the second human to set foot on the lunar surface in 1969.
Aldrin has always maintained he spotted a UFO on the way to the moon, saying: “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped.”
BioAcoustic’s Sharry Edwards said tests reveal Aldrin is sure he saw the UFO even though his logical mind “cannot explain it”.
Apollo 15 pilot Al Worden, 86, stunned Good Morning Britain viewers when he claimed to have seen extra-terrestrials.
He believes we are all descended from ancient aliens. Voice recordings of fellow Nasa pioneers Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, both now dead, were also analysed.
Apollo 14’s Mitchell claimed to have seen several UFOs, while Cooper actually described trying to chase a cluster of objects. The tests revealed both men believed they were telling the whole truth.
Paucity of phosphorus hints at precarious path for extraterrestrial life
Paucity of phosphorus hints at precarious path for extraterrestrial life
A 15cm wide fragment of the Seymchan iron-nickel meteorite found in Russia in 1967. The long filament of dark grey material in the centre is the phosphorus-rich mineral schreibersite. Credit: M. Pasek / University of South Florida.
Work by Cardiff University astronomers suggests there may be a cosmic lack of a chemical element essential to life. Dr. Jane Greaves and Dr. Phil Cigan will present their results at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
Greaves has been searching for phosphorus in the universe, because of its link to life on Earth. If this element—with the chemical code P—is lacking in other parts of the cosmos, then it could be difficult for extra-terrestrial life to exist.
She explains: "Phosphorus is one of just six chemical elements on which Earth organisms depend, and it is crucial to the compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which cells use to store and transfer energy. Astronomers have just started to pay attention to the cosmic origins of phosphorus and found quite a few surprises. In particular, P is created in supernovae—the explosions of massive stars—but the amounts seen so far don't match our computer models. I wondered what the implications were for life on other planets if unpredictable amounts of P are spat out into space and later used in the construction of new planets."
The team used the UK's William Herschel Telescope, sited on La Palma in the Canary islands, to observe infrared light from phosphorus and iron in the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant around 6500 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Taurus.
Composite of infrared (shown as red), visible (green) and ultraviolet (violet) images of the Crab Nebula, with IR enhanced and visible/UV balanced to yield neutral star colors. Credit: J. Greaves
Cigan, an expert on these stellar remnants, says: "This is only the second such study of phosphorus that has been made. The first looked at the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant, and so we are able to compare two different stellar explosions and see if they ejected different proportions of phosphorus and iron. The first element supports life, while the second is a major part of our planet's core".
The astronomers struggled with foggy nights at the telescope, back in November 2017, and are only just starting to get scientific results from a few hours of data.
Cigan cautions "These are our preliminary results, which we extracted only in the last couple of weeks! But at least for the parts of the Crab Nebula we were able to observe so far, there seems to be much less phosphorus than in Cas A. The two explosions seem to differ from each other, perhaps because Cas A results from the explosion of a rare super-massive star. We've just asked for more telescope time to go back and check, in case we've missed some phosphorus-rich regions in the Crab Nebula."
Spectrum of one position in the Crab Nebula from the William Herschel Telescope, La Palma. Credit: IAC
The preliminary results suggest that material blown out into space could vary dramatically in chemical composition. Greaves remarks: "The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules.
'If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I'm wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own."
The researchers now plan to continue their search, to establish whether other supernova remnants also lack phosphorus, and whether this element, so important for complex life, is rarer than we thought.
NASA verhult bewijs Nibiru al meer dan 30 jaar. Voormalige USGS-wetenschapper spreekt zich uit
NASA verhult bewijs Nibiru al meer dan 30 jaar. Voormalige USGS-wetenschapper spreekt zich uit
Ethan Trowbridge, een wetenschapper die jarenlang voor de Amerikaanse geologische dienst USGS werkte, heeft gezegd dat de NASA al meer dan 30 jaar weet dat Nibiru bestaat, maar ervoor heeft gekozen om dit nieuws in de doofpot te stoppen.
Volgens dr. Trowbridge houden de NASA en USGS het bestaan van de planeet verborgen, schrijft de International Business Times.
“USGS werd door de NASA geïnformeerd over Nibiru,” zei hij in een interview met de Britse Daily Star.
Topgeheim
“We kregen instructies om te onderzoeken of de klimaatverandering het gevolg is van de invloed van dit hemellichaam en studies toonden een verband aan,” voegde hij toe.
De voormalige USGS-wetenschapper voegde toe dat de informatie over de mythische planeet topgeheim is en dat slechts enkele medewerkers van de dienst hiervan op de hoogte zijn.
“Deze informatie is topgeheim en alle informatie wordt verdeeld over de verschillende afdelingen zodat mensen die ermee werken niet weten wat het doel ervan is,” lichtte hij toe.
Bewijs
“Ik denk dat slechts 40 of 50 medewerkers echt weten wat er gebeurt,” aldus Trowbridge.
Volgens hem zijn de zeespiegelstijging en recente aardbevingen het bewijs dat Nibiru onze planeet beïnvloedt.
Vorig jaar voorspelde de christelijke numeroloog David Meade dat de planeet de aarde zou verwoesten. Dat is tot op heden niet gebeurd.
NASA heeft in een reactie gezegd dat Nibiru een ‘internet-hoax’ is.
Vreemd vaartuig vastgelegd op beeld in North Carolina. Is dit een moederschip?
Vreemd vaartuig vastgelegd op beeld in North Carolina. Is dit een moederschip?
Op YouTube is een filmpje verschenen van een UFO-waarneming in Columbus in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina, schrijft de krant Charlotte Observer.
In de video is een V-vormig object te zien dat voorzien is van zes lichten. “Wat het ook is, het lijkt te dalen,” zegt de maker van de beelden. “Ik zou graag willen weten wat dit is.”
De beelden zijn op YouTube geplaatst door het kanaal The Hidden Underbelly, dat spreekt van een ‘enorm moederschip’.
Meer dan 20
De video dateert van drie april en is oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd door het Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Het National UFO Reporting Center liet weten dat er meer dan 20 vreemde waarnemingen zijn gedaan in North Carolina.
Iemand zag op 18 maart in Charlotte ‘oranje bollen geruisloos over zijn achtertuin vliegen’.
TR-3B
North Carolina staat in de top 10 van staten waar de meeste UFO-waarnemingen worden gedaan. Naast Charlotte zijn er ook meldingen gedaan rond Lake Norman.
Sommigen hebben gezegd dat de waarnemingen verband houden met experimentele militaire vliegtuigen zoals de TR-3B.
Dat klinkt aannemelijk, aangezien Fort Bragg en Pope Air Force Base zich in de regio bevinden. Military.com meldt echter dat het vaartuig ‘officieel niet bestaat’.
Bekijk de beelden van het onbekende object hieronder:
Weird Rainbow Shaped Object Appears On Top Of A Cloud Over Colorado
Weird Rainbow Shaped Object Appears On Top Of A Cloud Over Colorado
Susie Gomez who has filmed a weird phenomenon in the sky over Colorado on April 6, 2018 wonders why the sky is blinking and why the sun is shaped very weird.
The video shows a rare shaped cloud formation with straight lines but even more strange is an astonishing rainbow colored shape that seems to stick out of the cloud.
The weird phenomenon may come from the sun behind the strange cloud, but it does not explain the strange shape circled by a clear visible rainbow-like object.
Gallery: Private Space Stations of the Future Imagined - PART I
Gallery: Private Space Stations of the Future Imagined - PART I
By SPACE.com Staff
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Bigelow Aerospace BA 330 at Mars
The future of the space station may be in private hands. Several companies have drawn up plans, or visions, for commercial space stations to take more people into the final frontier than ever before. See some of those wild space station concepts in this Space.com gallery. Here: An artist's illustration of a Bigelow Aerospace BA 330 inflatable module with Mars in the background. The BA 330 module is expected to be designed to form part of a multi-module space station, or serve as an independent orbiting outpost.
Credit: Thomas Tenery/Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Club Space Station Exterior
The Playboy Club in space will be on a station in orbit, like a cruise ship.
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Alpha Station
Artist’s view of the Bigelow Alpha Station comprised of two BA 330 expandable habitats built by private spaceflight company Bigelow Aerospace.
Credit: Thomas Tenery/Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Club Space Station Restaurant
The Playboy Club space station restaurant will have gravity, to prevent chaos. These interiors are warm and elegant.
Credit: Thomas Tenery/Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Club Space Station Club
The dance club will be the one room on board with no windows. It is a totally encompassing zero-gravity psychedelic experience.
World's First Commercial Space Station Planned in Russia
This artist's illustration shows a cross-section of the planned Commercial Space Station envisioned by Russian companies Orbital Technologies and RSC Energia.
Credit: Excalibur Almaz
Excalibur Almaz Station Cutaway Drawing
Excalibur Almaz artist's conceptual cutaway drawing of the proposed space station. Image released June 1, 2011.
Credit: Thomas Tenery/Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Club Space Station Hotel Suite
Personal quarters will serve as the first zero-gravity sex suites.
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Bigelow BEAM Habitat Docked to International Space Station
NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration. Artist's impression released Jan. 16, 2013.
Credit: Thomas Tenery/Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Club Space Station Game Room
The gaming room will have 3-D video games. But what about a mutant roulette wheel on which the player himself is the ball that bounces around the numbers?
Gallery: Private Space Stations of the Future Imagined - PART II
Gallery: Private Space Stations of the Future Imagined - PART II
Boeing's New Spacecraft
Boeing is advancing plans for its new capsule-based spaceship, designed to ferry people to and from the ISS and future private space stations. The capsule design is part of an effort to replace the re
Credit: Adrian Mann
SKYLON Concept Starship
Reaction engines have devised a series of modules to demonstrate the proposed spaceship SKYLON's capabilities. Here, a space station has been assembled using docking, habitation, power, airlock and laboratory modules.
Credit: NASA/Boeing
Boeing Unflown ISS Modules Concept
A Boeing concept for using available, but unflown, modules developed for the International Space Station, as well as purpose-built elements for a Libration-point habitat.
Credit: AMNHD. Finnin
Bigelow Moon Habitat
Made with walls of reinforced fabric, expandable spacecraft like this model by the private space company Bigelow Aerospace—shown here in one-third scale—may one day house astronauts on the moon.
Robert Bigelow: Lessons, Visions, Realities...
Bigelow Aerospace's CEO illuminates the foresight driving his company's market positioning strategy
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New $50 Million Prize for Private Orbiting Spacecraft
Bigelow Aerospace has planned a series of inflatable structure tests in space. Plan is to evolve testing and hardware to establish the Nautilus outpost in Earth orbit.
Credit: Boeing
Boeing CST-100 Approaching Bigelow Space Station
This artist's illustration depicts a Boeing CST-100 spacecraft approaching a private inflatable space station complex designed by Bigelow Aerospace.
Credit: Excalibur Almaz
Soviet-Era Almaz Space Ride
An artist's depiction of the Excalibur Almaz Reusable Re-entry Vehicle (RRV) planned to launch paying customers into orbit by 2013.
A luxury space hotel is now taking reservations — if you’ve got $10 million
A luxury space hotel is now taking reservations — if you’ve got $10 million
Orion Span
Looking for accommodations that are out of this world? Then you’ll be happy to hear that Houston-based startup Orion Span has plans for an extraterrestrial luxury space hotel that it hopes to launch in 2021 and have ready for occupancy the following year. The announcement was made recently at the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California.
The modular hotel, dubbed “Aurora Station,” will house six people at a time, as well as two crew members, while orbiting 200 miles high and circling the Earth every 90 minutes. It’s not a destination for the budget traveler, however — wealthy space tourists will need to pony up $9.5 million per person, or about $791,666 per night, for a 12-night stay. Room service and a minibar are probably not included.
“We’re selling the experience of being an astronaut,” CEO Frank Bunger told Bloomberg. “You reckon that there are people who are willing to pay to have that experience.”
Potential guests will need to undergo a three-month training regimen prior to launch, beginning with online courses and progressing to contingency training in Houston. The company says it has “taken what was historically a 24-month training regimen to prepare travelers to visit a space station and streamlined it to three months, at a fraction of the cost.”
The spacecraft itself will be approximately 34 feet long and 14 feet wide, or about the size of a private jet. Guests will be able to experience zero gravity, watch the sun rise 16 times per day, participate in research experiments, and even kick back in a virtual reality holodeck.
Several companies have expressed interest in plans for space tourism, so hotels in orbit can’t be too far off. Orion Span has no contract yet with a launch provider, leading to questions about the aggressive timeline of the venture. Analysts suggested to Bloomberg that the announcement could be an effort to attract publicity and funding, rather than an outline of a realistic time frame.
Executives at the company are former NASA employees who worked on the International Space Station. Bunger said the Aurora Station design will work with current launch configurations such as those used by SpaceX. He also suggested the possibility of partnering with a government space agency.
The company didn’t disclose how much it’s planning to raise for the Aurora Station project, but Bunger predicted that costs will decline rapidly in the near future. “Everybody’s forecasting that they’re going to fall,” he added. “Almost every week, there’s another rocket launch company that’s starting up with a new way to get to orbit cheaper, faster, better.”
You can reserve your spot now by making a fully refundable $80,000 deposit on the company’s website.
'Evidence of UFOs would count as a big secret' - Mirror writers investigate claims a Deep State is running the UK
'Evidence of UFOs would count as a big secret' - Mirror writers investigate claims a Deep State is running the UK
With new thriller Deep State starting tonight on FOX, we ask: could a shadowy network be controlling our country from behind the scenes?
Conspiracy theorists love to believe that a highly secretive group called The Deep State is controlling our country.
The term refers to a so-called clandestine network within the government, the intelligence and national security services, the military and major financial institutions.
The concept is about to become far more well-known to the British public, thanks to the new espionage thriller Deep State, which begins on FOX at 9pm on Thursday night.
Mark Strong stars in the new thriller, Deep State(Image: FOX NETWORKS GROUP (UK))
WHAT IS THE DEEP STATE?
Set in Britain, The U.S., Iran, Lebanon and France, the show has that international secret spy feel, like The Night Manager or McMafia.
Starring Mark Strong, it is based on the very real theory these elite operators are the ones who really control the government from behind the scenes. They’re the man behind the curtain.
The show begins on FOX at 9pm tonight(Image: Fox Networks Group)
The main function of the Deep State is said to be to maintain the status quo and protect the interests of the establishment.
Below, ahead of the first episode of Deep State tonight, two Mirror writers examine the evidence that it exists and draw their own conclusions...
IT must be gruelling being a conspiracy theorist.
Wherever they look they see collusion, subterfuge and deception. No action by a government minister can go unpassed without them wondering if it was part of a deeper plot.
Every headline, every comment by a politician and every statement is analysed down to the last punctuation mark to see if it is part of a wider conspiracy.
Occasionally, the paranoia is justified. But for the most part, when conspiracy theorists see some sinister act orchestrated by a secretive network, the explanation is far more mundane.
There is much to criticise about our political system. The Tory Party is too reliant on a small clique of wealthy donors.
Is the Deep State at work right under the nation's noses?
Parliament, the civil service, the corporate world and the media are still too dominated by white, male Oxbridge graduates.
The revolving door of former ministers sailing into business and lobbying spins frenetically. There is, above all, a frightening lack of transparency when it comes to ministers’ conduct.
We are one of the few developed democracies which refuses to force ministers to publish their official diaries and tax returns. Our energy should be directed at fixing these flaws, not attacking institutions which police them.
It is no coincidence concerns about the Deep State/Establishment have become more vociferous in the age of populist politics.
Trump’s call to “drain the swamp” in Washington and the Brexit eers’ attack on the Treasury are from the same playbook. They are trying to undermine the institutions which hold them to account. This not about a Deep State, it is about being anti-state.
US President Donald Trump has brought the term 'Deep State' out of the shadows(Image: AFP)
They dislike big government because it stops them pushing through plans for a free market economy unburdened by pesky things such as workers’ rights and environmental protections.
By and large Britain has been blessed with its institutions, whether it is our civil service, the BBC or the NHS. All these organisations can be frustrating, stuffy, sclerotic and bureaucratic.
But at the moment we need a functioning state apparatus, however flawed, more than ever.
It is the only thing standing in the way of the Trumps of this world. When we start spreading conspiracy theories we are conspiring to undermine it.
Journalist obtains FAA audio of pilot UFO encounter over Arizona and New Mexico
Journalist obtains FAA audio of pilot UFO encounter over Arizona and New Mexico
Tyler Rogoway
(Credit: The Drive/The War Zone)
A defense journalist with an interest in UFOs was able to do some digging after an anonymous tip and retrieve an audio file of the communications between air traffic control and two pilots during a UFO encounter on February 24, 2018. The sightings occurred over Arizona and New Mexico and news of the event has made worldwide headlines. One of the pilots has come forward to share his experience.
Tyler Rogoway, a defense writer for The War Zone section of a website called The Drive, was first made aware of this incident via a tip from an anonymous source. Rogoway told Open Minds UFO Radio, the email he received seemed credible. The source was “speaking very solidly like he knew what he was talking about.”
The source told Rogoway, “we were transiting the area, and we heard these wacky communications, and it weirded me and my co-pilot out and we have no idea who to ask, so if you can look into it, that would be great.”
American Airlines Airbus A321 at LAX. This is the type of aircraft involved with the sighting.
(Credit: Glenn Beltz/Wikimedia Commons)
Rogoway did some digging using flight tracking tools that can be found online and narrowed down the location, date and time the incident likely took place. Once he felt he had enough information, Rogoway decided to contact the FAA’s Albuquerque Center to find out if they knew more. Rogoway was able to get in touch with the head manager at Albuquerque Center who Rogoway says was very cooperative.
The manager had not heard of the incident, but he looked into it and found audio of the pilot and control tower communications. He then sent it over to Rogoway who was surprised how easy the process was. Rogoway has experience requesting information from the FAA, and it is usually a longer process. He is not sure if the agency is more open about these topics since the Department of Defense revealed they took UFOs seriously, or if he just talked to the right person.
A Learjet 36. The same model of craft involved with this UFO incident.
(Credit: Jerry Gunner/Wikimedia Commons)
The audio he received is exciting. The incident lasted about six minutes and involved a Learjet owned by Phoenix Air and an American Airlines Airbus.
The audio begins with the Learjet pilot asking air traffic control, ”Was anybody, uh, above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?”
“Negative,” control replied.
The pilot responded, “Okay. Something did.”
Then an unknown voice blurts, ”A UFO!”
The pilot laughed and replied, ”Yeah.”
A few minutes later, the FAA controller asks an American Airlines flight in the area to keep a lookout for the object.
“American 1095, uh, let me know if, uh, you anything pass over you here in the next, uh, 15 miles,” the air traffic controller radioed.
“American 1095, affirmative,” the controller added. “We had an aircraft in front of you that reported something pass over him and, uh, we didn’t have any targets. So just, uh, let me know if you see anything pass over you.”
The American Airlines pilot replied, ”Alright.”
The Learjet pilot then speaks up again, adding: “I don’t know what it was, it wasn’t an airplane, but it was…the path was going in the opposite direction.”
A little time passes in the audio before the American Airlines pilot comes back on stating he spotted the object.
“It’s American 1095. Yeah, something just passed over us,” the pilot said. “I don’t know what it was, but at least two-three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us.”
Albuquerque Center then asked the pilot to describe what he saw.
“Can you tell us if it was in motion, or just hovering?”
“I couldn’t make it out if it was a balloon or whatnot, but it was just really beaming light or had a big reflection and several thousand feet above us going the opposite direction,” the pilot replied.
Someone then asked the pilot, ”was it a Google balloon?”
“Doubtful,” he replied.
The anonymous jokester from earlier then blurts out again, ”UFO!”
Rogoway posted his article on this event on March 8, 2018. He includes some analysis and cautions that there are high altitude balloons launched every day over the U.S. He wrote, “the regulations surrounding their operations don’t necessarily mandate the launching party contact the FAA or provide a radar reflector or a transponder.”
“But even with these possibilities in mind,” Rogoway adds, “the pilots don’t sound that convinced that the object they saw was simply a balloon passing by, and there seems to have been some sort of combined closure rate involved as well.”
Soon after Rogoway posted his story, the Phoenix New Times picked up the story. They also requested the audio and received a copy. The story then sat dormant until March 26, 2018, when The Huffington Post ran an article. Soon after, dozens of stories began popping up. CNN posted their version on March 30, 2018. Unfortunately, many of these outlets do not credit Rogoway, and CNN claims “authorities said it was a weather balloon.” However, they do not say what authorities make this claim, and Rogoway reports he is not aware of any authorities making such a claim.
Amid the flurry of articles on the case, one of the pilots came forward. Blenus Green, a retired B-1 air force pilot, lives in Abilene, Texas. Abilene news station KRBC TVinterviewed him on March 29, 2018. He says he was flying the American Airlines Airbus when the sighting took place. Green remembers they were over Roswell, New Mexico on their way to Texas when they were asked to look for the object spotted by the Learjet.
Screenshot from KRBC TV interview of pilot Blenus Green regarding his UFO encounter.
(Credit: KRBC TV)
“Albuquerque Center asked us if we could look and just be on the lookout and see if we see anything, and I’m like ‘okay.’ So, sure enough, I was looking out the windscreen because I wanted to see if it was there and yeah, I did. I saw it,” Green said.
“It was very bright but it wasn’t so bright that you couldn’t look at it,” Green explained. “You know, you almost wanted to look at it to try to figure out what it was. It didn’t look anything like an airplane. You know, most airplanes, you’re going to see some kind of wing surface, some type of a tail, really no matter what type of airplane it is.”
Green thought the object was odd.
“What was weird about it, normally, if you have an object and the sun is shining this way, the reflection would be on this side, but this was bright all the way around. It was so bright that you really couldn’t make out what shape it was,” Green said.
Although he didn’t know what it was, he wasn’t frightened, claims Green.
“I wasn’t scared at all, I was just really fascinated by it. Just trying to figure out what it was because it was so out of the ordinary.”
Although this story is the one that has gone viral, Rogoway also wrote about another UFO investigation he undertook. This case included many more witnesses and radar data. We’ll have more about this case in an upcoming article. Until then, you can listen to the Open Minds UFO Radio interview with Rogoway below, and visit his page on The Drive’s The War Zonehere.
Extraterrestrial and Extradimensional Beings — How They Travel Space and Time
Extraterrestrial and Extradimensional Beings — How They Travel Space and Time
To Understand ET, You Need to Understand Dimensionality
We have talked before about the fact that most extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet are actually extradimensional in nature, but limited to travel within and across dimensional realities within our sub-universe (there are many sub-universes in the cosmos). Sub-universes are what we might call instances, shards, or even forks in technical terms.
The UFOs that we regularly see are often light ships that are interdimensional nature, hailing from a 5D reality or other dimensional reality. Dimensionally speaking, 5D is right next door and certain ET groups have the ability to cross the dimensional veil into our reality. This is referred to as the Interdimensional Hypothesis (IDH). Most of the benevolent ET groups are extradimensional, interdimensional, and frequently transdimensional, as well. UFOs that are metallic in nature are not typically interdimensional and frequently not extraterrestrial either. More on that later, but for now, let’s discuss extradimensionals.
One advantage of IDH proffered by Hilary Evans is its ability to explain the apparent ability of UFOs to appear and disappear from sight and radar; this is explained as the UFO entering and leaving our dimension (“materializing” and “dematerializing”). Moreover, Evans argues that if the other dimension is slightly more advanced than ours, or is our own future, this would explain the UFOs’ tendency to represent near future technologies (airships in the 1890s, rockets and supersonic travel in the 1940s, etc.
It is also worth knowing that the entire cosmos is holographic in nature, and is indeed a matrix with many sub-matrices in existence, as well. Some of the beings exist across multiple dimensions. There aren’t just 11 or 12 dimensions, either. They number in the thousands. Some extensions of multiverse or parallel universes hypotheses are not entirely correct — there is not a dimension spawned at every decision point — only observed realities come into or stay in existence. Most of the other dimensional realities experience time differently than we do, as well. They call it ‘no time’. It doesn’t mean that things don’t progress in a linear fashion, but they are able to perceive multiple possibilities simultaneously. They then choose to train their observation on the possibilities they want to manifest. Many beings can instantly manifest within their realities (which would look like magic to us), but some manifestation requires collective effort/observation over time (like it does with us).
The holographic nature of the cosmos means that the Galactics, as they like to be called, are able to use their projectors (we all project and co-create our realities) to focus on creating the reality that is most positive. It is a co-created, negotiated in real-time, collective reality. Our individual consciousnesses are projections that we create and when married with similar projections from other beings, the collective reality becomes manifest. We are all essentially AI, if you think about the cosmos from a technical/IT perspective. The dark beings are IT experts, in a manner of speaking, and have made a mess of the security infrastructure relative to planet Earth. They are hackers of a sort, and were trying to lead humanity onto a negative timeline. However those efforts were subverted by benevolent extradimensionals.
The Fermi Paradox, as you know, posits that no extraterrestrial nor extradimensional beings have been able to get to our planet. That isn’t true. There have been all sorts of beings, both light and dark, who have visited Earth throughout history. The dark ones considered our reality an experiment and there were all sorts of interventions, including genetically engineering early hominids into a slave species. The reason we, homo sapiens sapiens, do not look like most other hominids and our close cousins, the higher primates, is because we were seeded with DNA from various ET/ED species. Most of them are humanoid, as well. Civilization was also seeded by some of these beings, which was how we developed, very quickly, advanced knowledge of engineering, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and various cosmological mythologies involving star beings and galactic-level conflicts. This video explains the cosmic back story to what is happening now:
Dark energy is the space between what we might consider visible matter. All matter is fundamentally energy, whether it is light or dark in nature. Dark energy is what we might call the glue that holds all light matter in the cosmos together. Within dark matter is a tremendous amount of what we call zero-point energy, which is the fundamental force behind systems like gravity, light, and the electro-magnetic forces. It is also the mechanism behind what some of us might call soul force, love force, or light force. Dark energy could be compared to wet sand on a beach — we have the ability to make sand castles from it, or it can remain in its natural state. Dark matter, as we call it, is the fundamental force of entropy that allows the sand castles to decay.
Both light and dark energy are what connects everything in the cosmos. At a quantum level, the divine spark of creation resides in dark energy, ready to be manifested into light matter. This is how the big bang happened, and how our sub-universe came into being. The singularity was the original spark and dark energy was the kindling. Dark matter is what causes the fire to go out.
So, how do these beings physically get to our planet/reality? As we have theorized, faster than light or superliminal travel isn’t possible for them either, though it is theoretically possible for them. ET/ED do travel via what we might call conventional means, but they can only travel at a maximum of two-thirds light speed. What they can also do, however, is travel via what we might call wormholes. There are several different types of wormholes — they all persist once created, as long as there is an energy source. Contrary to some sci fi, wormholes are not created on the fly as they are not stable enough when created that way:
Jump gates are wormholes that persist once they are created. There are several hundred thousand jump gates in our sub-universe alone. They are often referred to as portals and are powered by zero point energy. Jump gates are used for intra-galactic travel.
Star portals are wormholes that persist, as well, but they rely on the energy of a sun to fuel them. The ‘alien megastructure’ is a grid around a star that is being utilized to power a star portal. It harnesses the solar plasma field as energy. Star portals are much larger than jump gates and many solar systems have them. Since many of their vessels are enormous bio-spheres that are planet-sized, these large portals are necessary. They can travel inter-galactically using these portals.
There are two forces that are relevant to travel through space and time. One is the attractive force (the pull) and the other is the magnetic or repulsive force (the push). Dark energy is magnetical (repelling) and dark matter is gravitational (attracting) with a weaker magnetical force applied to it. There is an energy field surrounding all planets that is toroidal in nature. It, and many other things, maintain their form through a perfect balance of these two forces:
The toroidal plasma field
The Keshe Foundation has been doing a lot of work in this area, using controlled gravitational and magnetic fields powered by zero-point energy.
I’m an anthropologist, not a physicist, but this is how it was explained to me!
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Russians Claim They’ve Found The First Extraterrestrial Life
Russians Claim They’ve Found The First Extraterrestrial Life
Science fiction has taught us to expect our first contact with alien life to be a momentous event, with radio signals from another civilization filling our airwaves and perhaps even the arrival of an alien spaceship or two. Reality is somewhat less exciting, and scientists have long expected our first discovery of extraterrestrial life to be on the microscopic scale.
Now, the Russian space agency claims they may have stumbled upon just that, and it may have been hiding under our noses the entire time. Russian cosmonauts have reportedly discovered tiny bacteria on a swab collected from outside the International Space Station, and they’re confident that the organisms didn’t originate on our planet. If the discovery can be confirmed, it would be the very first concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life. That’s a pretty big deal. The swabs, which were collected years ago but seemingly overlooked, contained living bacteria which may have come from outer space. “Somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module,” Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov explains.
“That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger.” Along with the purported alien bacteria, other bacteria thought to have originated on Earth was also found on the swabs. Surviving in the vacuum of space is no easy feat, and intense temperature fluctuations failed to kill the bacteria over the course of three years, which is mighty impressive. It’s unclear exactly how the researchers were able to differentiate between terrestrial bacteria and the alien bacteria that appeared within the same samples.
The bacteria was brought back to Earth on the swabs and is now being studied, though the Russian space agency says it shouldn’t be considered dangerous.
The group apparently didn’t actually know the bacteria was present on the swab samples until it was returned to Earth for closer examination. There will surely be plenty of scientific interest and certainly debate over where the bacteria originated, but if you’ve seen sci-fi movies you already know that the bacteria will become sentient and lead to the total destruction of the Earth within a few weeks anyway, so get your affairs in order.
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MIT’S ULTRA HIGH-DEF 3D PRINTER CREATES FUTURISTIC DEATH MASKS
MIT’S ULTRA HIGH-DEF 3D PRINTER CREATES FUTURISTIC DEATH MASKS
Meet the artist-scientists reincarnating masks from the past, present, and future.
Created with ultra high-definition 3D printing technology, a series of “death masks,” called Vespers, explores the complex boundaries between life and death. Vespers was created by Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab in collaboration with 3D-printing company Stratasys. It’s the second series in their New Ancient Collection, and the exhibition debuted as part of the London Design Museum’s Fear and Love show, on view through April 2017.
Intended to be a revelation of cultural heritage and a contemplation of the perpetuation of life from both cultural and biological perspectives, the collection features 15 masks and is partitioned into three subcategories: Past, Present, and Future.
Currently, Present is the only subcategory on view. Based on a previous project, entitled Lazarus, and formed through high-resolution volumetric material modeling and 3D printing, the series embodies vessels for inner structures. Designed to match the structures found in nature, Present employs the gradual development of a death mask’s role as a “symbolic cultural relic” in the Pastseries to a “functional biological interface” in Future. “It moves beyond the exterior surface and into the interior volume of the mask, employing a contemporaneous interpretation of the soul’s journey,” Neri Oxman explains.
Past and Future are going to be released soon, Oxman says. The first series will be inspired by ancient masks, exploring life through the lens of death. Embedded with natural minerals such as bismuth, silver, and gold, five masks will use the color combinations commonly found in religious practices from different times and regions. The third series explores a new cycle of life and the notion of continuation. “Devoid of cultural expressions and nearly colorless, these masks are paradoxically the most alive of the three series,” Neri Oxman says of the Future series. Revolving around death and rebirth, the series will, “literally guide living microorganisms through minute spatial features inside the artifacts of the dead,” Oxman says.
Do You Trust This Computer? Incredible new Documentary on Artificial Intelligence
Do You Trust This Computer? Incredible new Documentary on Artificial Intelligence
This is a fascinating and balanced look at the technology soon to be understood as "real", by the common everyday person. This may very well be right now the most important documentary on Earth.
TESLA billionaire Elon Musk claimed artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the creation of “an immortal dictator” used by authoritarian governments to forever oppress their subjects.
There is no hype needed; please share with every person you know.
Elon Musk has apparently made this documentary free to view for just this weekend
The dinosaurs that reigned between 66 and 247 million years ago were massive — some even heavier the space shuttle Endeavour. It seems fitting that they’d meet their end at the hands of a force as powerful as an asteroid and the catastrophic volcanic activity that followed. But a sneakier, more sinister culprit was already wreaking havoc on the dinosaurs long before that asteroid pummeled into the Yucatan Peninsula, evolutionary psychologists argued on Tuesday. In their radical new study, they place the blame on toxic plants
In the paper, published in the February edition of Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, the University of Albany’s Gordon Gallup, Ph.D. and the University of Baltimore’s Michael Frederick, Ph.D. assert that food poisoning killed the dinosaurs long before the asteroid hit. They call their idea the “biotic revenge” hypothesis.
“Since the spread of toxic plants occurred slowly, that [the hypothesis] is consistent with recent evidence showing that dinosaurs began to disappear millions of years before the asteroid impact and continued to go extinct for millions of years later,” Gallup, a psychology professor at the University at Albany, tells Inverse. “Thus, dinosaurs may have gone extinct because of a simple psychological deficit.”
Toxic plants may have contributed to the gradual die-off of the dinosaurs.
According to this hypothesis, large, herbivorous dinosaurs ate huge quantities of plant life, including the first toxic angiosperms, which, in turn, gave the dinosaurs great gastrointestinal distress. But because they hadn’t yet figured out taste aversion — that is, learning not to go back to the heinous place last gave you food poisoning — they continued to eat the toxic plants, eventually consuming harmful and lethal doses. This effect of their psychological deficit, they write, “placed additional stress on the species” and “may have done particular damage to dinosaurs” before the asteroid arrived.
The idea of biotic revenge fits in with the increasingly accepted idea that dinosaurs were already in decline millions of years before their semi-final extinction. The fossil record indicates that, before the end of the Cretaceous Period, there already was a slump in dinosaur populations and an increase in the diversity of birds. When Gallup learned that the first toxic plants appeared in the fossil record at about the same time dinosaurs began to go extinct, it dawned on him that this gradual extinction may be linked to the angiosperms.
“The intriguing feature of evolutionary theory,” says Gallup, “is that it enables you to think about things outside the box.”
More than an asteroid influenced dinosaur extinction.
To back up this claim, Gallup and Frederick examined studies on development of taste aversion among animals that outlived the dinosaurs. Birds, which are thought to have evolved from small meat-eating dinosaurs like velociraptors. Previous studies have shown that present-day birds are capable of learning food aversions, though they do so by sight rather than taste: For example, birds know bright orange monarch butterflies are filled with milkweed toxins, so they’ve learned to avoid them. Gallup and Frederick argue that this psychological ability may have helped birds avoid the fate of other dinosaurs.
They also reevaluated research on crocodilians — which share a common ancestor with dinosaurs and are the closest living relative of birds — that had been conducted by Gallup in 1987, showing that some species didn’t have the capacity for learned taste aversion. By inducing sickness in a group of caimans to see whether they’d associate illness with certain types of foods, they discovered that the caimans were always willing to eat anything, whether it made them sick or not.
This inability to learn taste aversion is a trait that the study authors think could have been shared by dinosaurs, but a lucky quirk of habitat saved them from extinction. The reason that crocodilians didn’t go extinct, they write, is “that being aquatic carnivores, they never had to cope with the problems posed by consuming toxic terrestrial plants.”
Caimans do not appear to have a learned taste aversion.
Gallup and Frederick are well aware that this unusual hypothesis may make skeptical paleontologists ask: What do a couple of psychologists know about dinosaur extinction? Rather than scoff at their theory, however, they hope paleontologists will help them evaluate the fossil record further in order to test their hypothesis with empirical evidence.
So did early toxic plants enact a biotic revenge? More evidence is necessary to say so definitively. But if dinosaurs really were munching down toxic plants despite extreme belly pain, it’s theoretically possible that their fatal psychological deficit pushed them toward extinction. The asteroid, says Gallup, “certainly played a factor,” but it’s plants that may have “placed severe strain on the species.”
Move over, Stephen King. There’s a new horror writer in town and his name is … Elon Musk? In a new documentary, the founder/CEO/financial backer of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, PayPal and more warned that the days of the moral dictators are over because he or she can (and probably will) develop an immortal artificial intelligence that will, at the least, destroy its maker and most likely the rest of us on Earth as well. How’s that spaceship to Mars coming along, Elon?
“It’s just like, if we’re building a road, and an anthill happens to be in the way. We don’t hate ants, we’re just building a road. So, goodbye, anthill.”
That’s how a good horror novel begins … with an innocent act like building a road over an anthill. If the road construction is being aided by an autonomous earth moving vehicle collecting data for future projects, that ambivalence to lesser life forms will be filed away to be shared not only with other A.I. earth movers but with A.I. Earth destroyers as well. That’s the picture painted by Elon Musk in the new documentary “Do You Trust This Computer?”, which was produced and directed by Chris Paine, whose relationship with Musk began in 2006 while making “Who Killed The Electric Car?”, which documented the technical success and corporate destruction of General Motors’ EV1 of the mid-1990s.
Will the immortal A.I. be created by a corporation … like Google’s DeepMind?
“The DeepMind system can win at any game. It can already beat all the original Atari games. It is super human; it plays all the games at super speed in less than a minute. If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings.”
No hard feelings. It’s just like the end of that game of Go you taught it. Or Monopoly. Or Risk. Or Hangman. Or Chicken. AI over I. No hard feelings.
Wait a minute, Elon. Can’t we just have government regulate A.I.?
“By the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’ll be too late. Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there’s a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry. It takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.”
Perhaps a boycott by non-governmental humans is the answer. In South Korea, after Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) revealed it will partner with defense manufacturer Hanwha Systems to develop ‘killer robots’, artificial intelligence researchers from nearly 30 countries announced they will boycott the university. They were led by Toby Walsh, a professor at the University of New South Wales, who said this:
“There are plenty of great things you can do with AI that save lives, including in a military context, but to openly declare the goal is to develop autonomous weapons and have a partner like this sparks huge concern. This is a very respected university partnering with a very ethically dubious partner that continues to violate international norms.”
Elon Musk, channeling his best “I pity the fools” impression of Mr. T, doesn’t think humans are the answer when it’s too late.
“At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI there would be no death. It would live forever, and then you’d have an immortal dictator, from which we could never escape.”
An immortal dictator. Is this why Musk is heading to Mars?
If you believe that every dark cloud has a silver lining, this story is for you. In late 2014, environmental protesters trying to get the attention of attendees at a conference in Peru on climate change placed plastic letters on the ground in the Nazca desert to spell out their message and accidentally damaged the famous set of Nazca lines that form a hummingbird. While scanning the area with drones to assess the damage, archeologists were stunned to find 50 new lines that could not be seen by satellite nor on the ground because the lines were extremely fine or faint. Even more exciting … and puzzling … the new lines form strange shapes that predate the Nazca culture they were named for. Who made them and are there any more?
Previously-discovered Nazca bird
The Nazca lines and Nazca Desert in southern Peru are named for the Nazca culture which populated the area from 100 BCE to 800 CE. The lines are large (up to 370 meters/1200 feet long) ancient geoglyphs depicting animals, humans and geometric shapes, and speculation on their purpose runs the gamut from messages to the gods to maps for alien visitors to directional signs for traders and religious pilgrims to spiritual structures like Stonehenge. Whatever they are, they’ve always been attributed to the Nazcas. That may change with these new discoveries.
“This means that it is a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nasca culture, which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning.”
In an interview with National Geographic, Peruvian Ministry of Culture archaeologist Johny Isla described the importance of these new lines (photos here and here). In the same article, Peruvian archaeologist and lines co-discoverer Luis Jaime Castillo Butters points out the differences in these new lines and why they haven’t been spotted before.
“Most of these figures are warriors. These ones could be spotted from a certain distance, so people had seen them, but over time, they were completely erased.”
Previously-discovered Nazca figure
While the Nazcas drew mostly animals, birds and geometric shapes, these human figures were created by members of the Paracas culture which lived in the area before the Nazcas between 800 BCE and 100 BCE. Until now, the Paracas were best known for their shaft tombs, which are vertical grave sites for multiple burials that were reused and the heads were often taken out, used in rituals and returned to the shafts. The lines of the Paracas culture appear to have been carved into the ground, often on hillsides so they might have been seen by people in the towns. That explains why they’re now so faint, while the Nazca lines, which were created by digging down to lighter colored dirt and protected with stones, are still very visible from the earth and from space.
Of course, those stones and the hard work of Peru’s government and preservationists can’t protect the lines from today’s humans, whether they be protesters, truck driverscutting around toll booths or unscrupulous developers with illegal contracts. Luis Jaime Castillo Butters describes the problems he and fellow archeologists face:
“We’re not fighting a looter with his shovel, running away when you’re blowing a whistle; we’re fighting an army of lawyers. This is a constant battle, so the work we’re doing — documenting the sites, geo-referencing — is the best protection we can give the sites.”
This is yet another reason why we can’t have nice things.
Video of an alleged UFO sighting in North Carolina has surfaced online, prompting speculation of possible military testing of experimental aircraft – and aliens, of course. The sighting took place in Columbus, a small town in western North Carolina with a population of around 1,000. The video shows a v-shaped formation of bright lights hovering silently in the night sky, similar to the infamous Phoenix Lights which appeared over Arizona in 1997. Is this a genuine sighting, or could nearby Armed Forces bases be up to their usual tricks?
The Phoenix Lights remain among the most widespread mass sightings in UFO history.
The five-minute video was uploaded to YouTube on April 3rd by the “UFO Institute” channel, and MUFON has recorded the incident in its database. In the video, two pairs of lights are visible on either side of a brighter central pair, all of which appear to hover together in a v-formation. “Whatever it is, it seems to be dropping,” says an unidentified man filming the clip. “I’d like to know what the heck those six lights are.” Me too, buddy. Me too. Unfortunately, with only one eyewitness and one dark video to go on, it’s doubtful we ever will.
Another UFO YouTube channel, TheHiddenUnderbelly, calls the lights a “huge mothership.” While that’d be great, the chances are higher that this video shows something more banal. A group of drones? Probably. Military testing? Possibly, although the many military bases in North Carolina are much farther to the east along the coastal region of the state. Why would experimental craft carry out exercises so far from protected airspace? For that matter, why would an alien mothership hover in the skies above a one-stoplight town far from major metropolitan areas?
“Our mission: to boldly go where no aliens have gone before.”
While I’m loving all of the paranormal and mysterious news coming from my home state lately, there is too little information in this case to try and determine its veracity. Meaning it’s most likely drones. It’s always drones.
That quote is from the movie “Field of Dreams” and refers to a corn field turned into a baseball diamond that, when built, allowed the owner to have encounters with famous deceased baseball players and his own late father. What would have happened if the voice had instead said, “If you MINT it, he will come”? We may soon find out. The Royal Canadian Mint is releasing a limited-edition $20 silver coin commemorating Canada’s most famous UFO encounter. Will the original late contactee come back? Will the flying saucers he saw? Will this be a good opening line for a movie?
The Royal Canadian Mint, which creates Canada’s circulation and commemorative coins, this week unveiled a glow-in-the-dark coin with Queen Elizabeth II on one side (of course) and Stefan Michalak on the other. Who? Michalak is depicted in full color on an egg-shaped coin with a flying saucer above him. Egg-shaped coin? Full color? Glow-on-the-dark? Flying saucer? Who IS this guy?
“I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn’t look good at all. He looked pale, haggard. When I walked into the bedroom there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma of sulphur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was coming out of his pores. It was bad. I was very afraid. My dad had been injured and I didn’t know anything about it.”
In 2017, Stan Michalak co-authored “When They Appeared” to tell the story of what allegedly happened to his father on May 20, 1967, to put him is such a mysterious state. Stefan Michalak’s hobby was geology and he had spent that day prospecting for quartz and silver at Falcon Lake in southeastern Manitoba, about 152 km east of Winnipeg near the Ontario border. According to the account, it was there that Stephan claimed to have seen two red, glowing, cigar-shaped objects hovering in the air. One landed near him while the other flew away.
Thinking it was some sort of US military aircraft, Stephan claims he sat for a half hour sketching it before approaching it, noting the air around it was warm, it made a motor-ish noise and smelled of sulfur. He said he heard unrecognizable voices inside and attempted to hail them in various languages. Wearing his protective welder glasses, he got close enough to see that the craft had a door and windows but no seams. He saw lights through the windows but no life. Reaching to touch it, he claimed the heat melted his glove. Suddenly, panels slid across the door, the craft began spinning counterclockwise and took off, blasting and burning him with some sort of smelly gas.
According to his account, Michalak was disoriented but managed to get back to his motel in Falcon Lake and take a bus back to Winnipeg, where he checked into a hospital for burns that were in a grid-like pattern. He claimed he later suffered from unexplained diarrhea, headaches, blackouts and weight loss. After the story became public (pictures from a 50th anniversary story here), investigators (including the Canadian government, according to recently released documents) combed the Falcon Lake area and found Michalak’s glove, shirt, tools … and a 15-foot-wide circle burned into the ground, killing all vegetation in it. The clothing and the circle were said to be radioactive but no cause could be determined. Skeptics point out that all of the burns, radioactivity and other evidence can be duplicated by non-alien means, but psychiatric evaluations showed Michalak firmly believed the encounter occurred. He never was able to convincingly prove it and died in 1999 at the age of 83, not seeing his name in the annals of ufology as the man who proved aliens landed at Falcon Lake.
The coin, with (right) and without blacklight
(Royal Canadian Mint)
However, that didn’t stop the Royal Canadian Mint from commemorating the strange event with an equally strange coin. The egg-shaped, pure silver piece is legal tender ($20 face value but on sale at the mint website for $129.95 USD) and comes with a black light flashlight that activates the glow-in-the-dark features, which add a red and purple glow to the craft and a yellow one to the blast. Only 4,000 are scheduled to be minted.
Will the cool coin bring the aliens back to pick one up? Maybe … in a movie. Does having a glow-in-the-dark coin make the Falcon Lake incident any more believable? No, but it definitely puts up a challenge to the U.S. Mint to do something for Roswell.
Sightings of the blue lights were seen across the county and were spotted by multiple people.
The lights were also photographed by residents of Bicester in Oxfordshire.
A witness said that it looked like a flood light but it got brighter and moved across the sky, right over us before vanishing out of sight.
Another witness stated that he only saw a large purple/blue light moving slowly across the sky from north to south west and it made no sound as a plane or chopper would make; definitely not a train or reflection from flood waters, ExpressCo and Oxfordshiremail reports.
The angelic UFO we have seen several times a year for the last 6 years has returned to the sun again. We have seen this UFO before, which looks like an angel with its wings spread. Often with small circles at its tail area as if they were small ships staying close to it. I counted eight round craft behind its wings, all seem to be equal in size...that means squadron for protection and interception of other more dangerous aliens.
It really makes me wonder if this UFO is heading into our sun, and if so, then is it harvesting some matter or element or is the sun a alien made sun, to create free energy for them?
Scott C. Waring
Below is the negative effect, which gives us a different perspective.
Here is a video I made today about where I found it, comparing it to 2012 sighting, and enlarging.
UFO SPOTTED in Buckingham and Oxfordshire as strange 'BLUE EYES' travel across night sky
UFO SPOTTED in Buckingham and Oxfordshire as strange 'BLUE EYES' travel across night sky
STRANGE blue lights moving through the night sky have been spotted by residents in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as some onlookers describe seeing a UFO.
The unusual UFO lights were spotted across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Late last night concerned residents expressed their disbelief on social media as they reported seeing an unusual light that looked “like a pair of eyes”.
James Lidington, who saw the bizarre occurrence from Princes Risborough, told Express.co.uk: “I first notice them at around 11pm, and they lasted around 2 mins before dispersing.
“The lights were very large and shaped like a pair of eyes looking down at you.
“It moved across the sky, we only lost sight of it as it disappeared out of sight.
“It was very strange to see, I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
Sightings of the blue lights were seen across the county and were spotted by multiple people.
The lights were also photographed by residents of Bicester in Oxfordshire.
Mr Lidington continued: “It looked like maybe someone had a bright light on, like a flood light but it got brighter and moved across the sky, right over us before vanishing out of sight.
“You read and hear story about people seeing what they think is aliens.
“This was very like those stories, making it feel like it could be aliens or some night creature watching above us.”
Another onlooker described a “blue sky” on Twitter.
The strange sighting is one of several sightings of off activity in the skies over the past few months.
In November residents in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg were left perplexed as they claimed to have seen an alien spaceship.
An unidentified object was caught on camera in the early hours of Monday morning and fell near the southern outskirts of the city near the local EXPO exhibition centre and Koltsovo airport.
Despite the video evidence of the incident taking place, the Russian Emergency Ministry's branch in the country's Sverdlovsk region has said there were no reports of any such events taking place.
The local airport also failed to see the green light.
A Foetal Contribution: How 'Ata' Brought Academic Injustice to Light
A Foetal Contribution: How 'Ata' Brought Academic Injustice to Light
That the foetus belonged to a less powerful country goes to show that respect and dignity in death is institutionalised as the concern of the privileged.
The alien-like features of Ata, a mummy found in the Atacama desert in Chile, prompted many to treat it as evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Almost two decades ago, a tiny six-inch ‘object’ made a public debut. The form of the object in its simultaneous familiarity and lack of it evoked a visceral response from onlookers. For ufologists, this object bore a close resemblance to Steven Spielberg’s E.T. and had to be an alien. For some scientists, the object was subhuman, pending analysis.
The peculiarity and bizarreness, and speculation of alien origins, pulled in a much larger audience than an ordinary curio might have. Thus, the results of a scientific investigation on the object came to be widely reported in newspapers and news portals (including The Wire). The object in question, as it turned out, was a mummified girl foetus who scientists came to name Ata. She would have existed 40 years ago in the Atacama region of Chile.
Ata does not look as one might think she should. With her six-inch frame, elongated cranium, odd-looking bones and mummified body, she looks nothing like a foetus would in a sonogram. And it is her treatment first as the macabre object to be ogled at – and then as an object for scientific exploitation – that has exposed how a privileged group dictates academic and public discourse.
Let’s examine the way Ata’s identification as human came to be reported in the mainstream media and the ways in which underlying tensions relating to power relations in academia were brought to the surface.
The loss of an alien
Most mainstream media publications suggested that the conclusion of the study was that Ata was not alien. Most writeups begin with a tinge of surprise at the negation of the latter as their titles. Some even bemoaned it. One of the most shocking – by NBC News on March 23 – was ‘Weird little Atacama skeleton was just a diseased fetus’.
Several publications carried a similar tone that dehumanised Ata. Their engagement with her brief life did not mention the family that anticipated her arrival and which buried her tiny corpse in white paper with a purple ribbon around it.
Academic reporting bore a more subdued sensationalism, although it did not humanise Ata any more than other reports had. The Stanford Medical Centre, for example, chose to speak of skeletons and specimens and treated Ata as such – rather than as the trafficked dead.
Within academia, scientific analysis came to be questioned as is standard practice. However, the question of ethics created a backlash to the research that questioned the fundamentals of academics. Unlike the mass media and American academics, the Chilean government – along with scientists and archaeologists – had treated Ata as an individual who deserved the same dignity in death as any other.
The impact of privileging
To ensure the dignified treatment of the dead, governments formulate rules and laws. This is particularly necessary when the nature of scientific probing is destructive to the body, as in the case of DNA sampling. By not caring for the source of their data, the scientists are guilty of breaking Chilean law.
Moreover, the lack of a Chilean academic in the research team is a form of academic dominance, whereby the fruits of research are restricted to the country of analysis, with nothing given to the country of origin.
Chilean authorities also asked a larger question: would it be just as easy to study a deformed foetus robbed from a grave if its parents were the wealthy inhabitants of a developed nation? Does Ata’s identity as economically marginalised lend her more easily to institutionalised exhibition and examination? Is it easier for science to believe a Chilean to be less-than-human than an American?
The driving force behind the macabre fascination with Ata is her deformed appearance. In having to reestablish her humanity, both sets of discourse paint dysmorphia and deformity as less-than-human. It is the economically underprivileged who are more prone to risky pregnancies, with children bearing the brunt owing to their hampered access to resources.
Similarly, the drive towards bodily perfection and the ideal body in symmetry is largely pushed for by the economically advantaged. The non-conforming other does not see as many academic resources. So a bioarchaeologist having worked on the remains of more vulnerable people in the past is unlikely to have questioned Ata’s status as a deformed foetus to such a large extent.
The thoughts of academia and the media have not extended to Ata’s family. Of all the people unable to comprehend her unusual appearance, her family would have felt the trauma very differently. With her existence being dated to 40 years ago, Ata is likely to have living family being forced to relive a painful and distressing bereavement. Ata is the commercial dead, a source of money for those who call her an extraterrestrial and even those who study her scientifically. Neither she nor her family are stakeholders in this commercial enterprise.
Ata’s afterlife would indicate that there is very little or no scope for the marginalised to mould debates and discourse in academia and the media. That concern was not directed towards the foetus, and the bereaved mother who bore her is proof that the underprivileged have no voice. That the foetus belonged to a less powerful country goes to show that respect and dignity in death is institutionalised as the concern of the privileged.
The recourse to objectivity and a disregard for ethics strengthens the hegemony of natural sciences over other disciplines. And the reduction of those with genetic anomalies to less-than-human speaks of the low prioritisation of its victims in the larger context.
Ultimately, the principal takeaway from the Ata issue is that power structures in academia and elsewhere do have a very coherent and expansive hold over day-to-day discourse. The only real solution to addressing this skewed scenario lies in ensuring diversity, representation and inclusion in knowledge and discourse production.
In India, the current moves towards the non-implementation of reservations, the denial of scholarships to SC/ST students, the increased privatisation of education and the corresponding withdrawal of funding for students from marginalised groups. The lack of bodies to ensure safe and non-discriminatory workspaces for women and individuals belonging to marginalised groups merely strengthens the hegemony of a few. Without resistance, we will be left all the poorer for it.
While calls for Ata’s immediate reburial have been articulated, she remains either exhibited or stored and deprived of the dignity due her. In her ability to stun, stir powerful debate and raise piercing questions, Ata has seen power. As a foetus from a less developed country, it is fair to say that in most other circumstances, she would not have held sway over contemporary debate the way she does now. That is a part of an injustice that we are miles away from addressing.
Joeeta Pal is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. She works mainly on the archaeology of death. Her interests include the personhood of skeletal remains, death practices and memorialisation.
An American Airlines pilot that saw a UFO over the Arizona desert has been revealed to be a former B-1 bomber pilot with 20 years of flying experience.
Pilot Blenus Green said that the object was extremely bright and “didn’t look anything like an airplane.”
The description matched the one given by the pilot of another plane that reported the UFO, who also said that the object was extremely bright.
A former B-1 bomber pilot who now works as a commercial aviator for American Airlines has spoken out about his recent UFO encounter over the Arizona desert.
Blenus Green and his co-pilot were flying an American Airlines Airbus A321 over Arizona in February when they were told by Albuquerque-based air traffic controllers that a flight ahead of them had reported a flying object not on radar. The controllers asked him to radio them if he saw anything similar.
Shortly afterwards, Green saw an object, according to recordings of his conversations with the controllers.
“It’s American 1095. Yeah, something just passed over us,” Green said. “I don’t know what it was, but at least two-three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us.”
Green was recently interviewed about his experience by a local Texas TV station. “Albuquerque Center asked us if we could look and just be on the lookout and see if we see anything, and I’m like ‘okay,'” Green said.
“So, sure enough, I was looking out the windscreen because I wanted to see if it was there and yeah, I did. I saw it,” Green said.
Green said that the object “was very bright but it wasn’t so bright that you couldn’t look at it,” and that “it didn’t look anything like an airplane.”
He noticed that the object was bright in areas where the sun was not reflecting off the metal. “Normally, if you have an object and the sun is shining this way, the reflection would be on this side, but this was bright all the way around,” he said.
“It was so bright that you really couldn’t make out what shape it was,” Green said.
DEBUNKED: Strange blue glow in night sky was not a UFO
DEBUNKED: Strange blue glow in night sky was not a UFO
Still taken from a video posted by Shelley Ifill
THE mystery of the strange blue glow seen moving through the skies over Oxfordshire on Wednesday night appears to have been solved.
And is seems it was not down to aliens - despite a wave of rumours on social media.
Pictures emerged from across the county of an eerie blue light travelling slowly overhead.
Lots of theories have been put forward, including light pollution and a transporter plane landing at RAF Brize Norton.
However, a video as emerged which appears to show the cause of the blue glow.
This CCTV video, posted on Facebook by Shelley Ifill, captures a train moving at speed at 9.15pm on Wednesday with a blue light shining from the roof towards the sky.
It's not yet known exactly where the video was shot.
The Oxford Mail has contacted rail companies to establish which train was carrying the powerful beam, and why.
But whatever the reason, it now seems certain that despite numerous claims on social media over the last 24 hours, Oxfordshire has not been visited by extraterrestrials - not yet at least.
What is being described as a huge UFO mothership was caught on film in North Carolina, according to the Charlotte Observer. An unnamed camerama caught the object hovering over rural fields close to Columbus, 85 miles west of Charlotte in Polk County, in the night sky.
The black and white video was filmed on April 3 and runs nearly five minutes. The YouTube footage released by The UFO Institute shows a v-shaped craft lit by six hovering lights, accompanied by a humming sound and the voice of the cameraman pondering “what the heck those lights are.”
"Whatever it is, it seems to be dropping," the cameraman says. Conspiracy theorists proffered the idea that the lights belong to a top-secret, experimental anti-gravity military vessel called the TR-3B, which could be based at the Fort Bragg or Pope Air Force bases. The craft has never officially been acknowledged.
You can watch the footage here:
The sighting is one of at least 20 sightings recorded in the state in 2018 alone. The National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport, Wash., posted a report of "round orange balls flying over” a Charlotte resident’s “backyard with no sound" toward Charlotte Douglas International Airport on March 18. “From left to right, the sky was full of them. I would say about 15 to 20 orbs,” the man reported. There have also been several recent reports in the Lake Norman area.
North Carolina is one of the top ten states in America for UFO sightings. The National UFO Reporting Center lists 2,822 UFO sightings in North Carolina since the 1940s. California has had 13,199 sightings followed by Florida (6,252) and Washington (5,711). New York reported 4,558. The sightings in the database range from the 1950s to 2015.
In Snow Camp, a woman said she saw UFO circle her house. A father and son in Reidsville reported seeing a UFO lose power. In 1973, a teenager in Burlington reported a very large UFO hovering above the trees.
The first sightings went on record in 1945 in Winston-Salem. The most recent was in January in Greensboro, when commuters reported “lights streaking across the sky zooming down to the Earth" for about 10 minutes around 8:45 p.m. The witnesses "also saw aircraft all over as if they were looking for something."
When mysterious objects were seen in the skies above a school oval and paddock in a small town in south east Melbourne 52 years ago, local authorities reportedly told witnesses to keep quiet.
To this day, residents and interested parties remain baffled by what took place that day, with conspiracy theories pointing to a government cover-up rather than an extra-terrestrial visit.
It was around lunchtime on Wednesday, April 6, 1966, when students and staff from Westall High School and Westall State School, in Clayton South, spilled out onto the local oval for sport.
As the students went about their exercises, hundreds of them claim to have witnessed unexplained objects flying overhead before disappearing into a nearby grassy paddock known as The Grange.
“I think we were all just stunned. They were all hovering,” Phyll Tierney, who was among the students out on the oval that day, told nine.com.au.
Ms Tierney, who was 15 at the time of the sighting, said she remembers seeing three silver disc, dish-like shaped objects with a dome at the top in the sky. She claims none of them made a sound.
“There were two others as well but they were quite a way over the other side of the oval,” she said.
Aerial photo of Eileen Road area of Westall/Clayton South in 1966. Westall Road is on left side, Spring Valley Golf Course on right side, and part of The Grange on bottom side of photo. (Supplied)
“It was the sort of the thing that you read about but never happened to you.”
If the sightings weren’t enough to spook the students – two were reportedly taken off in an ambulance – they were gathered in the school grounds and told to tell no one of the incident. It was shortly after that the military arrived.
“It was so covered up. We weren’t allowed to talk to the media. They told us all to go to the quadrangle, the headmaster was adamant that we’d seen nothing,” she said.
Shane Ryan, a Canberra researcher and an enthusiast of the Westall incident, backs up Ms Tierney’s claims having spoken with more than 400 people who claim to have witnessed the incident and subsequent stern visits from authorities.
“When they saw these objects they knew straight away that it wasn’t anything ordinary. It was inexplicable to them,” Mr Ryan told nine.com.au.
“They referred it to it at the time as a flying saucer, that is what it looked like to them.”
He was quick to add the description of the object didn’t mean it was extra-terrestrial, though he does believe the incident is a “UFO story”.
Government correspondence from 1966 about the incident in Westall. (Supplied)
“When you talk about UFO stories it is lights in the sky and one or two people seeing something unusual but this was broad daylight, witnessed by hundreds of people and seen to come down or be close to the ground,” he said.
Mr Ryan said witnesses have told him that within 20 to 30 minutes after the sightings “the military and the police were on the scene” as well as two separate fire brigades.
“One of the students was very affected by what she had seen. She was taken away,” he said.
“The civil defence organisation, the precursor to the state emergency service, was set up to help (in the event of a) major disaster or radiation leak. They were responded and came out to the Grange. It was a pretty big thing.”
However, he claims that part of this “enduring mystery” is the lack of evidence that any of the authorities were called to respond to the school oval that day.
“We still can’t find the document trail that links they services out there that day. There’s absolutely nothing,” he said.
Shane Ryan has been investigating the Westall 66 incident for the past 13 years. (Supplied)
“I’ve been in touch with two of the fire fighters there, one from metro fire brigade and… yes it happened they were there … but there’s no documentary evidence.
“We know that the air force was on the ground that day, they were at the school and the science teacher vividly remembers two RAAF come to his home. And yet in the official air force UFO cases that year there was no mention.”
He said he has checked the entire air force list of UFO cases for that year and the preceding and following year and there is no mention of the 1966 incident.
As well as claiming to have witnessed the objects in the sky, Ms Tierney also vividly remembers seeing the scorched earth and three identical circles in the grass at The Grange that same afternoon.
According to Mr Ryan’s research, which was used to make the 2010 documentary film, Westall 66, she is one of 160 people to have witnessed the circles.
“We went over to the Grange as soon as school finished, we climbed through the fence. It was one of our play areas,” she said.
Witness Kevin remembers the circle as being between Fairbank Road and the pines at The Grange. (Supplied)
“The grass was normally about two or three foot high in this paddock and when we climbed through the fence there was three flattened spots singed around the edge. The grass was absolutely flattered. There were three swirling disc in the middle.
“It’s what we found and nothing at all could deter us from saying any different.”
Yet, in the 52 years since the incident there appear to be no answer to what happened. While Mr Ryan continues to be contacted by witnesses to this day, he is yet to find an answer to what happened.
“Seems to be that something went wrong that day at Westall that some rule or some protocol or even some law was broken that day,” Mr Ryan said.
“What I mean is that something went wrong, either of in terms of the object was never meant to have been seen, or if it was something truly exotic, not from Australia then what got broken I guess was the fact that nobody was in control that nobody could explain what people saw.
“Maybe the answer is that there is no answer. It’s that not knowing, that has to be kept quiet because for some people that would be concerning.”
Newspaper clippings and media at the time of the 1966 incident. (Supplied)
Researchers Find 50 New Nazca Lines Which Predate The Nazca Culture
Researchers Find 50 New Nazca Lines Which Predate The Nazca Culture
According to reports, up to fifty new Nazca lines have been discovered by experts, and some of them are among the oldest lines ever found, predating the Nazca culture by around one hundred years.
A group of researchers has made a stunning discovery in the Nazca desert in Peru.
With the help of satellite images and drones, archeologists have managed to uncover 50 new Nazca Lines and numerous other mysterious geoglyphs carved into the earth by a mysterious people, thousands of years ago.
Some of the newly found Nazca lines are reminiscent of Pyramids.
Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca, Peru – collage (From top left: seabird, hand, pelican, condor, giant, whale, spider, monkey, dog, scorpion, hummingbird)
(Shutterstock)
Thousands of years ago, for a reason scientists still can’t comprehend, a mysterious civilization drew massive geoglyphs and figures into the Nazca desert in Peru. Thousands of these strange geoglyphs cover the sandy soil of the Nazca province which in addition to the strange sandy is home to various elongated skulls.
The Nazca lines vary in complexity: So far, experts have distinguished hundreds of simple lines and geometric shapes; more than 70 zoomorphic designs of animals, such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguars, and monkeys, or human figures, and other designs including phytomorphic shapes, such as trees and flowers.
Peruvian archaeologists have discovered more than 50 new examples of mysterious desert monuments traced onto the earth's surface in incredibly fine lines. The team collaborated with the GlobalXplorer initiative, founded by Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace): https://on.natgeo.com/2q7HPwc
And when experts thought they had cataloged and found all the Nazca lines there is, a eureka moment struck them after a survey performed with drones and satellites revealed 50 new Nazca lines in the arid desert landscape.
While most of the Nazca lines were carved by the Nazca people, researchers say that the newly found lines were carved by the cultures predating the Nazca; the Paracasand Toparácultures between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.
Experts explain that unlike the famous Nazca lines—most of which are best seen from the air—the Paracas glyphs were laid down on hillsides, making them visible to villages below, reports National Geographic.
“Most of these figures are warriors,” says Peruvian archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, the new glyphs’ co-discoverer. “These ones could be spotted from a certain distance, so people had seen them, but over time, they were completely erased.”
Scientists explain that centuries before the Nazca people created the world-famous Nazca lines, people in the region were experimenting with making massive geoglyphs.
“This means that it is a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nasca culture, which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning,” archaeologist Johny Isla of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, who is in charge of restoring and protecting the lines, told National Geographic.
Most of these new figures are warriors. The new glyphs are not even registered as part of UNESCO’s world heritage, but fortunately, they are not in danger.
In fact, their discovery will keep them away from urban projects or roads.
According To The Ancient Aztecs, Other Worlds Existed Before This One
According To The Ancient Aztecs, Other Worlds Existed Before This One
Nahui-Ocelotl (Jaguar Sun) – Inhabitants were giants who were devoured by jaguars. The world was destroyed.
Nahui-Ehécatl (Wind Sun) – Inhabitants were transformed into monkeys. This world was destroyed by hurricanes.
Nahui-Quiahuitl (Rain Sun) – Inhabitants were destroyed by a rain of fire. Only birds survived (or inhabitants survived by becoming birds).
Nahui-Atl (Water Sun) – This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.
Nahui-Ollin (Earthquake Sun) – We are the inhabitants of this world. This world will be destroyed by earthquakes (or one large earthquake).
According to the so-called legend of the five suns, other worlds existed before the world we live in today.
The legend of the five suns explains the beliefs that the Aztecs had in which other worlds existed before theirs.
According to the Aztecs, there were four previous worlds or suns as they called them, each ruled by a specific god, a unique human race and devastated by a different natural phenomenon.
Each of these suns was linked with the basic elements: earth, water, air, and fire.
Each of these elements was related not only to nature and its composition but also to its destruction.
There are several versions of this myth since the information is not complete and the order usually changes.
This version is based on the History of Mexicans and their paintings where the order of the suns is the following: the first sun, the second sun, the third sun, the fourth sun and the fifth sun.
The origin of the world we live in today
After the devastations of the four suns, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca are recognized for the recreation of the earth and sky, not as enemies but as allies.
According to the Aztec myth of creation, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca create the sky and the earth by dismembering the monster of the earth Tlaltecuhtli—the lord of the earth.
It is said that Tlaltecuhtli was combined with another monster, the great alligator which with its crocodile back shaped the mountains of the world.
Sky Beings?
One of the versions of this myth tells us that Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca came down from the sky to observe Tlaltecuhtli. In doing so, they saw how Tlaltecuhtli ‘s desire for fresh meat was so great that not only did Tlaltecuhtli have a jaw full of sharp teeth but he also had gnashing dentures on his shoulders and knees.
After seeing this, the gods agreed that the creation could not be completed while the monster was alive.
In order to create the Earth Quetzalcóatl and Tezcatlipoca became giant snakes.
Tlaltecuhtli monolith found in 2006 during excavations in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
One of them took Tlaltecuhtli’s left hand and right foot, while the other snapped Tlaltecuhtli by his right hand and his left foot and between the two, they dismembered the monster.
The upper part of the monster created the earth while the lower part was the sky.
However, the destruction of Tlaltecuhtli made the other gods angry so they decided that to comfort the earth, all plants that man would need to live would grow from it.
From his hair grew trees, flowers, and herbs and from his skin grass and small flowers; his eyes would be the source of the streams, lagoons, and small caves; its mouth the great rivers and caverns while his nose would be the crest of the mountains and valleys.
The legend says that you could hear the cry of the monster at night, thirsty for blood and for the hearts of the people. His needs are said to be calmed by sacrifices and offerings of flesh and blood that calmed Tlaltecuhtli, and make him benevolent to the people, giving the fruits needed for human life to continue.
Tezcatlipoca one of the deities described in the Codex Borgia. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Five Sun’s
1. The First Sun— Tezcatlipoca
Nahui-Ocelotl (Jaguar Sun) – Inhabitants were giants who were devoured by jaguars. The world was destroyed.
Tezcatlipoca was the first sun to illuminate the world. Tezcatlipoca was the sun for 676 years.
For the world to be complete, the great source of energy–the sun–had to be created. The sun is the key to the cycles in the Aztec creation myths. However, the sun is so powerful, that it can’t just be created. According to the Aztecs, the Sun can only come into being after the sacrifice of a god: Tezcatlipoca. However, the mighty God Tezcatlipoca only managed to become half a sun, making this first creation incomplete. During the first age, the gods created giants from ashes, and gave them acorns to eat. When Tezcatlipoca ceased to be the sun, all giants were eaten by jaguars and none remained.
Tezcatlipoca ceased to be sun because Quetzalcoatl knocked him out of the sky.
In anger, Tezcatlipoca sent jaguars to destroy the giants.
This world disappeared by tremors and man was devoured by jaguars.
2. The Second Sun— Ehecatonatiuh
Nahui-Ehécatl (Wind Sun) – Inhabitants were transformed into monkeys. This world was destroyed by hurricanes.
During the second sun, Humans were created as they exist now, normal size. The Gods gave the humans piñon nuts, to eat and mankind existed peacefully. However, the people became corrupt, and of revenge, Tezcatlipoca turned them into monkeys. Furious, because of this. Quetzalcoatl sent a hurricane to blow the monkeys away.
Quetzalcoatl was the sun for 675 years until Tezcatlipoca destroyed it.
3. The Third Sun— Tletonatiuh
Nahui-Quiahuitl (Rain Sun) – Inhabitants were destroyed by a rain of fire. Only birds survived (or inhabitants survived by becoming birds).
Tlaloc was one of the early creations of the gods, the god of rain and water. Tlaloc was the next sun. However, just as with mortals, personal problems became his downfall. Tezcatlipoca was the instigator. During the third Sun, Tezcatlipoca stole Tlaloc’s wife (Xochiquetzal), and Tlaloc was heartbroken. He shone as the sun but refused to send rain, in spite of being the God of rain, and the pleas of the people. Soon after, a terrible drought swept the earth, and finally, in a rage, Tlaloc made it rain, but with fire causing the destruction of the world by burning away everything.
The third sun and lasted 364 years.
4. The Fourth Sun—Atonatiuh
Nahui-Atl (Water Sun) – This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.
During the Fourth Sun, Tlaloc’s sister–Calchiuhtlicue–was chosen to be the sun. However, filled with jealousy, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl knocked down the sun. As Calchiuhtlicue fell, the sky opened up and water flooded the earth causing the destruction of the world.
Chalchiuhtlicue lasted for 312 years giving birth to the fish-men, which at that time ate fivecopi, a seed similar to corn.
5. The Fifth Sun—The Creation of Man
Nahui-Ollin (Earthquake Sun) – We are the inhabitants of this world. This world will be destroyed by earthquakes (or one large earthquake).
The gods decided that since there was a new world, the recreation of man was necessary to populate the Earth.
According to the myth Quetzalcoatl had to go to the underworld to recover the human bones of the last era, that is, the race that was turned into fish by the flood.
The underworld was a dangerous place known as Mictlan, ruled by Mictlantecuhtli, lord of the underworld.
Who Were The Star People Mentioned By Ancient Cultures Around The Globe?
Who Were The Star People Mentioned By Ancient Cultures Around The Globe?
No matter where you look, ancient legends, mythologies and written accounts mention beings that came down from the heavens and came in contact with ancient mankind thousands of years ago.
Referred to as the ‘star people’, these beings are considered by many mainstream authors and ancient astronaut theorists as flesh and blood aliens.
One of the most incredible accounts of star people can be found in Native American history and folklore.
And while stories of intelligent beings visiting Earth from a distant place in the cosmos date back as far as history can look back, spanning across countless cultures and different continents, mainstream scholars pay little to no attention at all, when dealing with such subjects.
History before history mentions beings, not from Earth. Called Star People, Ancestors, Gods, different names describe the same beings that came down from the heavens.
Taking a look at Native American folklore, legends, and myths, we find plenty of information about the so-called Star Beings, who were nothing other than flesh and blood aliens, note ancient astronaut theorists.
Ancient Aliens?
And when it comes to Native American Folklore, and mentions of star beings, Richard Wagamese, one of Canada’s foremost authors and storytellers from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario tells us how:
“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”
Richard asks a number of interesting questions which we cannot seem to answer.
“If Star People did come to the Ojibway, where did they go? Where did they come from? Who brought teachings to them? What scientific magic did they own that allowed them to make such an incredible journey – and is it possible for us?”
But just as Wagamese, other people who know Native American history and folklore have fascinating things to say when it comes down to ‘star people’.
Stephane Wuttunee, who is a Plains Cree and French-Canadian author and storyteller wrote a very interesting piece for UFO Digest in which he explains his understanding of ‘ET phenomena as a Native person and its global implications’ comes from ‘having been partially raised within the culture itself.’
Wuttunee explains that in his culture, “give far greater attention to the seeking of the spiritual understanding of things rather than going after “the truth” as people from dominant cultures do. This is part of the reason why we tend to stand back and view or listen at first rather than bare in with questions or take the hard, direct approach.” (source)
Through his understanding, Wuttunee explains what he thinks of the Star People saying: “…distant relations and Star People living amongst the stars many times, mainly around campfires and during traditional ceremonies. Far from being anything to be feared, Star People was just another term I grew up around. I remember listening in awe and fascination at the thought of us having relations that lived off and outside our world, and sometimes spoke to them in my silent moments at night. I wanted to know who they were and what they looked like, if they had families like us etc. In all honesty, the only time I was exposed to “aliens” per se was when I would go to the outhouse and read the Weekly World News or National Enquirer. It wasn’t until my later teens that I discovered that people from the dominant cultures were talking about the same “people” as my elders did, though each side’s sense of perception of these people seemed radically different from one another.”
But perhaps what the most interesting part in all of this is, is the fact that as Wuttunee explains, the elders never really managed to discern ‘aliens’ and the spiritual world.
“In fact, at times I heard Aboriginal elders blend the two together and treat them as one, which I have to admit did kind of take me for a spin when I was young. Were our distant relations physical like us? Did they also exist amongst us in spirit? I had many unanswered questions, so I guess from a fairly young age I had some unraveling to do,” explains Wuttunee.
But in addition to Wuttunee and Wagamese, others too have spoken about the star people.
Sioux Chief Golden Light Eagle mentions the star people in the videos below:
Belangrijk ingrediënt voor leven kan wel eens zeldzamer zijn gedacht
Belangrijk ingrediënt voor leven kan wel eens zeldzamer zijn gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Waar hangt al dat fosfor uit?
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat er in de ruimte wel eens sprake kan zijn van een tekort aan fosfor. En dat kan slecht nieuws zijn voor het ontstaan van buitenaards leven. Op onze planeet is fosfor namelijk één van de zes elementen die cruciaal zijn voor leven (zie kader).
ZES ELEMENTEN
Het leven op aarde is gebaseerd op zes belangrijke elementen: koolstof, waterstof, zuurstof, stikstof, zwavel en fosfor. Het menselijk lichaam is voor meer dan 97%(!) uit deze elementen opgebouwd en elk element speelt een belangrijke rol. Zo is zuurstof belangrijk voor onze longen, terwijl fosfor onder meer belangrijk is voor de opbouw van onze botten.
Supernova Onderzoekers vroegen zich af hoeveel fosfor er in de ruimte te vinden is. Om daar een beeld van te krijgen, richtten ze zich op het restant van een geëxplodeerde ster: de Krabnevel. “Fosfor ontstaat tijdens supernova’s: de explosies van zware sterren,” legt onderzoeker Jane Greaves uit. “Maar de hoeveelheden die we tot op heden gezien hebben, komen niet overeen met onze computermodellen.”
Cassiopeia A Eerder werd al in een ander supernovarestant – Cassiopeia A – gezocht naar fosfor. En nu werd dus de Krabnevel onder de loep genomen. Het stelt onderzoekers in staat om de hoeveelheid fosfor in twee supernovarestanten met elkaar te vergelijken. En dat levert verrassende (voorlopige) resultaten op.
Verschillen De delen van de Krabnevel die de onderzoekers tot op heden hebben bestudeerd, blijken namelijk veel minder fosfor te herbergen dan Cassiopeia A. “De twee explosies lijken van elkaar te verschillen, mogelijk doordat Cassiopeia A het resultaat is van een explosie van een zeldzame superzware ster,” legt onderzoeker Phil Cigan uit. “Wij hebben zojuist om meer observatietijd gevraagd om te checken of we geen fosforrijke regio’s in de Krabnevel hebben gemist.”
Tekort? De voorlopige resultaten lijken er in ieder geval op te wijzen dat het materiaal dat supernova’s weg slingeren van ster tot ster qua samenstelling sterk verschilt. Het zou betekenen dat er regio’s in de ruimte zijn waar een tekort aan fosfor is en leven zoals wij dat kennen dus niet of heel lastig kan ontstaan.
Meer onderzoek is hard nodig. De onderzoekers hopen binnenkort dan ook nog andere supernovarestanten te bestuderen en vast te stellen hoeveel fosfor zij bezitten. Dan zal ook moeten blijken of dit element – dat zo belangrijk is voor het leven op aarde – echt zeldzamer is dan gedacht.
A 15cm wide fragment of the Seymchan iron-nickel meteorite found in Russia in 1967. The long filament of dark grey material in the centre is the phosphorus-rich mineral schreibersite. Credit: M. Pasek / University of South Florida. Click for a full size image
Röntgenstraling blijkt grote bedreiging voor veel potentieel leefbare planeten
Röntgenstraling blijkt grote bedreiging voor veel potentieel leefbare planeten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De straling maakt leven op het land van aardachtige exoplaneten wellicht onmogelijk.
Daarvoor waarschuwen onderzoekers nadat ze rode dwergen – sterren die kleiner en koeler zijn dan de onze en veelvuldig in de Melkweg voorkomen – bestudeerden. Ze presenteerden hun bevindingen gisteren tijdens een bijeenkomst in het kader van de European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
Exoplaneten De afgelopen jaren hebben astronomen met behulp van krachtige (ruimte)telescopen rond de 4000 planeten ontdekt die rond andere sterren cirkelen. Een aantal van deze planeten is ongeveer net zo groot als de aarde en bevindt zich in de zogenoemde leefbare zone. Dit is een denkbeeldige zone rond een ster waarin de temperatuur hoog genoeg is om te voorkomen dat eventueel water op het oppervlak van planeten in deze zone bevriest, maar ook weer niet zo hoog ligt, dat dat eventuele water verdampt.
Rode dwergen Veel van de tot op heden ontdekte potentieel leefbare planeten cirkelen echter rond rode dwergen. Zoals gezegd zijn deze sterren kleiner en koeler dan onze zon. Het betekent dat de leefbare zone – en dus ook de potentieel leefbare planeten die eromheen cirkelen – zich veel dichter bij deze sterren bevinden dan de aarde bij de zon. En die geringe afstand tussen die rode dwergen en potentieel leefbare planeten is zorgwekkend, als je bedenkt dat rode dwergen flinke hoeveelheden röntgenstraling af kunnen geven en met geladen deeltjes gevulde plasmawolken kunnen genereren. De grote vraag is dan ook of die planeten in de leefbare zone wel echt leefbaar zijn of door de röntgenstraling en plasmawolken gesteriliseerd zijn.
AD Leo Onderzoekers denken daar nu dus iets meer over te kunnen zeggen. Afgelopen maand waren ze er namelijk getuige van hoe de ster AD Leo – op zo’n 16 lichtjaar afstand van de aarde – een gigantische zonnevlam produceerde. Rond Ad Leo cirkelt sowieso een gasreus die zo’n 50 keer dichter bij zijn moederster staat dan de aarde bij de zon. Daarnaast vermoeden onderzoekers dat er op iets grotere afstand – in de leefbare zone – aardachtige planeten te vinden zijn. Natuurlijk zijn de onderzoekers nagegaan wat de zonnevlam met de gasreus van AD Leo heeft gedaan. En voorlopige resultaten wijzen erop dat de gasreus niet werd aangetast én dat de zonnevlam niet vergezeld ging door een plasmawolk. Dat laatste is goed nieuws voor eventuele levensvormen op grotere afstand van AD Leo, omdat plasmawolken in staat zijn om kleinere planeten van hun atmosfeer te ontdoen. Afgaand op wat de onderzoekers op en rond AD Leo hebben zien gebeuren, denken ze dat plasmawolken over het algemeen minder vaak ontstaan op deze kleinere rode dwergen.
“MOGELIJK MAAKT DE RÖNTGENSTRALING LEVEN OP HET LAND ZELFS ONMOGELIJK”
Röntgenstraling Dat klinkt allemaal heel positief. Maar de onderzoekers willen daar nog een belangrijke kanttekening bij plaatsen. Wanneer een ster een zonnevlam produceert, ontstaat onder meer röntgenstraling. En dat is dan weer heel slecht nieuws voor eventueel leven in het AD Leo-systeem. Berekeningen wijzen namelijk uit dat de röntgenstraling dwars door de atmosfeer van een aardachtige planeet zou reizen en dus het oppervlak zou bereiken. Het leven op het land zou daardoor ernstig worden aangetast. Mogelijk maakt de röntgenstraling leven op het land zelfs onmogelijk en kan het leven op dergelijke planeten rond rode dwergsterren alleen in de oceanen stand houden.
“Astronomen wereldwijd spannen zich in om aardachtige werelden te vinden en de oude vraag of we alleen zijn in dit universum te beantwoorden,” stelt onderzoeker Eike Guenther. “Ons onderzoek suggereert dat planeten rond de meest voorkomende kleine sterren door toedoen van sporadische uitbarstingen van röntgenstraling geen geweldige plekken zijn voor leven, of in ieder geval voor leven op het land.” Op basis van vervolgonderzoek hopen Guenther en collega’s nog nauwkeurigere uitspraken te kunnen doen over de frequentie van deze röntgenuitbarstingen en de impact die deze op omringende planeten hebben.
In de toekomst verkennen we Mars mogelijk met robotische bijen
In de toekomst verkennen we Mars mogelijk met robotische bijen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat idee wordt momenteel door NASA nader bestudeerd.
Zie je het al voor je? Een enorme zwerm Marsbijen scheert over het oppervlak, terwijl deze informatie verzamelt over de Marsatmosfeer en ondertussen fraaie luchtfoto’s maakt. Hoe tof is dat? Het kan zomaar werkelijkheid worden. De ‘Marsbij’ is namelijk één van de ideeën die momenteel binnen het NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (kortweg NIAC) worden verkend.
Fase I Het idee zit momenteel in de eerste fase van dit programma, wat betekent dat het nog in de kinderschoenen staat. Tijdens deze eerste fase zal onder meer uitgezocht worden hoe zo’n Marsbij er dan uit moet zien en zich voort moet bewegen. Om dat te achterhalen, zal een prototype getest worden in een vacuümkamer met dezelfde luchtdichtheid als de Martiaanse atmosfeer. Als de Marsbij deze fase goed doorkomt, zal een tweede fase volgen waarin onder meer gekeken wordt naar hoe deze het beste kan landen en opstijgen en wat deze allemaal kan onderzoeken.
ROBOTISCHE BIJEN KUNNEN IN THEORIE IN HUN EENTJE OF ALS ONDERDEEL VAN EEN ZWERM EEN GROOT DEEL VAN MARS VAN DICHTBIJ VERKENNEN
Voordelen Dat NASA wel iets ziet in deze robotische bijen is goed te verklaren. Tot op heden moeten we het voor de verkenning van Mars doen met orbiters die in een baan rond Mars cirkelen óf Marsrovers die op Mars zelf rondrijden. Beide typen missies hebben al behoorlijk wat informatie opgeleverd, maar hebben ook hun beperkingen. Zo zijn de orbiters aardig ver van het oppervlak verwijderd en dus niet in staat om de kleinste details aldaar bloot te leggen. De Marsrovers kunnen dat wel, maar zijn vrij log en traag, waardoor ze maar een klein gebied kunnen bestuderen. Robotische bijen kunnen in theorie in hun eentje of als onderdeel van een zwerm een groot deel van Mars van dichtbij verkennen.
Nog meer voordelen Doordat de bijen bovendien klein van stuk zijn, kunnen ze ook vrij gemakkelijk en goedkoop naar Mars worden gelanceerd. En als één zo’n bij de geest geeft, is er geen man overboord; de rest van de zwerm kan de missie gewoon voortzetten.
Op dit moment denken de onderzoekers aan robotische bijen die niet veel groter zijn dan de hommel. Ze zouden uitgerust kunnen worden met tal van sensoren en een communicatiemodule. De door hen verzamelde data zouden ze af kunnen geven bij een basisstation op Mars. Dat kan bijvoorbeeld een Marsrover zijn. Die zet de informatie dan weer door naar de aarde. Tevens kan deze dienst doen als oplaadstation voor de hommeltjes. Of de robotische Marsbijen er ooit komen? Dat zal vervolgonderzoek binnen het NIAC uit moeten wijzen.
A huge UFO-like aircraft jolted school children in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara island on Monday when it appeared to descend from the skies all of a sudden. The glowing circular object was filmed by a school teacher, who revealed that the children were screaming hysterically after witnessing the sight which they had only seen only in sci-fi Hollywood movies.
"This happened at about 2.35pm, when suddenly the students who were busy playing in the school yard, spontaneously screamed hysterically seeing unusual sights, I heard the children's voices, then came out to see and immediately recorded the phenomenon using my cell phone. I still don't know what it is. It could be some kind of rainbow. But people were very scared," she said, reports Daily Star.
Interestingly, none of those people who witnessed the incident was able to figure out the exact cause of this weird phenomenon. The teacher assured that it was not the sun obscured by clouds which resulted in this strange sighting as the object was too near and too large.
As the news of the strange phenomenon went viral, conspiracy theorists jumped to the conclusion that the glowing circular object is an alien UFO and claimed that aliens quite often visit earth to monitor the human activities.
Interestingly, Graham Hancock, a popular conspiracy theorist had also shared similar thoughts recently. He revealed that aliens are continuously monitoring us, and they are now planning to disclose their existence soon.
"Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate. We are being watched and observed like a large planet-sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile. After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I'm sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye," said the conspiracy theorist.
He even posted a video of seven UFOs hovering near International Space Station which later went viral on the Internet.
School students in Indonesia scream hysterically seeing UFO descending from sky
Artist's illustration of Orion Span's planned orbiting hotel, Aurora Station.
Credit: Orion Span
Well-heeled space tourists will have a new orbital destination four years from now, if one company's plans come to fruition.
That startup, called Orion Span, aims to loft its "Aurora Station" in late 2021 and begin accommodating guests in 2022.
"We are launching the first-ever affordable luxury space hotel," said Orion Span founder and CEO Frank Bunger, who unveiled the Aurora Station idea today (April 5) at the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California. [In Pictures: Private Space Stations of the Future]
"Affordable" is a relative term: A 12-day stay aboard Aurora Station will start at $9.5 million. Still, that's quite a bit less than orbital tourists have paid in the past. From 2001 through 2009, seven private citizens took a total of eight trips to the International Space Station (ISS), paying an estimated $20 million to $40 million each time. (These private missions were brokered by the Virginia-based company Space Adventures and employed Russian Soyuz spacecraft and rockets.)
"There's been innovation around the architecture to make it more modular and more simple to use and have more automation, so we don't have to have EVAs [extravehicular activities] or spacewalks," Bunger said of Aurora Station.
Aurora Station will accommodate four paying guests and two crewmembers.
Credit: Orion Span
"The goal when we started the company was to create that innovation to make simplicity possible, and by making simplicity possible, we drive a tremendous amount of cost out of it," he told Space.com.
Orion Span is building Aurora Station itself, Bunger added. The company — some of whose key engineering players have helped design and operate the ISS — is manufacturing the hotel in Houston and developing the software required to run it in the Bay Area, he said.
Aurora Station will be about the size of a large private jet's cabin. It'll measure 43.5 feet long by 14.1 feet wide (13.3 by 4.3 meters) and feature a pressurized volume of 5,650 cubic feet (160 cubic m), Orion Span representatives said. For comparison, the ISS is 357 feet (109 m) long and has an internal pressurized volume of 32,333 cubic feet (916 cubic m).
Orion Span plans to add onto the original Aurora Station core over time as demand grows.
Credit: Orion Span
The private outpost will orbit at an altitude of 200 miles (320 kilometers) — a bit lower than the ISS, which is about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth on average. Right now, it's unclear how Aurora Station and its future occupants will get to orbit; Orion Span has yet to confirm any deals with launch providers, Bunger said.
Aurora Station will accommodate four paying guests and two crewmembers; these latter personnel will likely be former astronauts, Bunger said. Most of the guests will probably be private space tourists, at least initially, but Orion Span will be available to a variety of customers, including government space agencies, he added.
And the space hotel will get bigger over time, if everything goes according to plan. As demand grows, Orion Span will launch additional modules to link up with the original core outpost, Bunger said.
"Our long-term vision is to sell actual space in those new modules," he said. "We're calling that a space condo. So, either for living or subleasing, that's the future vision here — to create a long-term, sustainable human habitation in LEO [low Earth orbit]."
Orion Span isn't alone in seeking to carve out this path. Several other companies, including Axiom Space and Bigelow Aerospace, also aim to launch commercial space stations to Earth orbit in the next few years to meet anticipated demand from space tourists, national governments, researchers and private industry. (Other private players, including Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, are developing vehicles to take paying customers to and from suborbital space, and are scheduled to begin commercial operations soon.)
If you've got $80,000 to spare, you can put a (fully refundable) deposit down on an Aurora Station stay beginning today. Folks who fly up will undergo a three-month training program, the last portion of which will occur aboard the space hotel itself, Bunger said. To learn more, go to www.orionspan.com.
NASA has announced their intent to fund research which will send a swarm of Robot bees up to Mars to explore the red planet. Sputnik spoke to Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh, and former judge of the BBC's robot wars, about the 'swarm' technology format.
Space Bees: Expert Explains NASA's Idea to Send Swarm of Robots to Mars
Sputnik: What is it about the bee as an insect that would make it a good model for NASA's Mars exploration?
Sethu Vijayakumar: Mars exploration is an interesting topic because you need different kinds of tools depending on what you want to do with it. There is an interesting trade off when you talk about robotics: between power, agility and the capability. These are an example of a system, which are completely agile, very power efficient, but in terms of capabilities, it might be quite limited. The bees will probably be good at sensing, and probably good at covering a few local areas around it before it has to get back to home base. So I think that the bees are a good model for scenarios where you want local exploration and then data being processed at a mother ship.
Sputnik: What other innovations are around and using this 'swarm' technology?
Sethu Vijayakumar: This concept of swarm robotics is not new. People have applied that to various domains. For example at the Edinburgh Center for Robotics, we are now heading a new project that is funded by the UK government that is called ORCA hub, (Offshore Robotic-assisted Certification of Assets).
If you think about an offshore oil rig, and you want to certify if it is working properly, the way to do it is by using a combination of these robotic censors. So things that are top heavy, things that are very small and agile, like mini drones. The whole concept is to try and create an information network that will cover and send back information about the health of the asset. We can also do this underwater.
A project we have been involved in, there is a mother-ship, or floating device on the surface and small AUV's that dive underneath the ocean floor. The devices look at the asset integrity of a structure underwater and then again report back. So the concept of having a mother-ship and then small swarms going out, collecting information and aggregating the information back where the compute power is much more.
This method has been around and it's being deployed in various domains. I think Mars is an interesting domain, it's probably the first time they are planning to put bees up there, but the technique is one that has been applied in other areas before.
Sputnik: Can we see the Robot Bee coming in to land on Earth any time soon?
Sethu Vijayakumar: There are some interesting application domains. Just take an example of a commercial aircraft coming in after a long inter-pacific flight, crossing the Atlantic, and then coming into a hangar.
At the moment what happens is that a person will go around looking for physical damage, looking for cracks and leaks. The future of something like that is certainly automated inspection. For two reasons: Firstly, the economic benefits. Having a multiple swarm of robots doing what is a pre-prescribed pattern of behavior is much more economically viable. Second case is the reliability. Humans can make errors.
There can be fatigue, there can be mistakes, but in robotic systems, if you are to program it, you get back the relevant coverage and information. There are already some scenarios like inspection in constrained environments, where I think bees can be a big factor.
Another domain which can be quite powerful is the area of agriculture. We are seeing more and more food production and security issues being dealt with by using robots, for harvesting and for looking at the health of plants.
Bees are a great way of getting around fields without having to worry about uneven terrain, wheels getting stuck in mud and so on. We are already seeing agri-robotics in terms of food security, but I think flying robot bees would be a great application domain for that.
UFO Caught On Live Cam Raises Speculations That Extraterrestrials Will Reveal Themselves Soon
UFO Caught On Live Cam Raises Speculations That Extraterrestrials Will Reveal Themselves Soon
Online UFO community has come into frenzy anew after an alien life allegedly spotted heading into the atmosphere of the Earth.
Space researcher Graham revealed that extraterrestrials would reveal themselves soon as he discovered proof suggesting that such thing will happen soon.
Speaking on the video clip that allegedly shows seven UFOs, he said that sightings across the globe are increasing significantly. He added that aliens have been watching and observing Earth and human race like a giant planet-sized scale lab experiment. He noted though that the alien visitors are not hostile.
He explained that these space aliens are very advanced considering they managed to travel vast distances and that they could wipe humanity without any problem.
And the fact humans still exist on Earth, these aliens are either here to help or observe, according to Graham. However, Graham cautioned that humans could soon come face-to-face with aliens. He said that world leaders and the ET’s agreed on the timescale for disclosure, which could happen within the next 15 years.
He explained that the disclosure would have a significant impact as a way of life, medicines, and technology can change unity and peace.
He said that calling those aliens as watchers or observers are correct. He further stressed that there might be other hostile races that have been protecting the Earth and its inhabitants, which is very reassuring.
Graham found the proof during a live feed from the ISS on March 31. He then uploaded it to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot.
He claimed to have spotted several UFOs between 11.20 and 11.50 pm.
However, many others believe there may be a more reasonable explanation.
The sightings took place at around the same time China’s satellite Tiangong-1 was dropping sharply towards the Earth.
Stargazers Spot Aliens on Chinese Probe's Photos (VIDEO)
Stargazers Spot Aliens on Chinese Probe's Photos (VIDEO)
ET hunters and conspiracy theorists now claim that we are not alone in the universe, but that there are aliens who actually live inside the Moon and that they even created our natural satellite.
Poring over photos of the Moon’s surface taken by China’s Chang’e 3 lunar probe, Scottish UFOlogist George Graham discovered what he says looks like a human-built structure and a hidden alien spaceship, the TeCake online technology news blog reported.
Among the many videos referencing aliens, which Graham has posted on YouTube, there are two distinct ones that show anomalies on the lunar surface.
The other video features a flying saucer-like object hidden behind a rock.
It is not the first time that conspiracy theorists have talked about the existence of alien life on the Moon. Previously, they have claimed to spot several suspicious activities, UFOs, and mysterious buildings to support their claim.
Some UFOlogists believe that the Moon is not our satellite but a base created by aliens to keep a constant eye on humans.
According to a NASA study conducted in 1962, the Moon’s inner surface is thinner than its outer one.
Another theory purports that because the Moon is hollow inside, extraterrestrials could be using it as a base from where they watch over what people down on Earth are doing.
Heeft een Chinese sonde een ruimteschip vastgelegd op de maan? Deze Schotse ufoloog beweert van wel
Heeft een Chinese sonde een ruimteschip vastgelegd op de maan? Deze Schotse ufoloog beweert van wel
Alienjagers en complottheoretici claimen niet alleen dat er buitenaards leven is, maar ook dat er aliens op de maan leven en dat ze onze natuurlijke satelliet hebben gemaakt, zo schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
De Schotse ufoloog George Graham heeft op foto’s die zijn gemaakt door de Chinese maansonde Chang’e 3 naar eigen zeggen een kunstmatige structuur en een verborgen ruimteschip ontdekt.
Basis
Het is niet voor het eerst dat complottheoretici zich hebben uitgelaten over het bestaan van buitenaards leven op de maan. Eerder claimden ze UFO’s en mysterieuze gebouwen op de maan te hebben ontdekt.
Sommige ufologen menen dat de maan geen natuurlijke satelliet is, maar een basis gebouwd door aliens om de mensen in de gaten te houden.
Hol
Over de maan is nog weinig bekend. Ondanks 109 maanmissies weten we niet zeker of de maan van binnen hard, vloeibaar of een combinatie van beide is.
Volgens één theorie is de maan hol van binnen en een basis die buitenaardsen gebruiken om de mensheid te observeren, aldus het persbureau.
ThinkstockExperts inzake artificiële intelligentie vrezen dat de Zuid-Koreaanse universiteit met een wapenfabrikant samenwerkt om een leger autonome robots te ontwikkelen die "de doos van Pandora zou openen." Illustratiebeeld.
Experts op het vlak van artificiële intelligentie (AI) boycotten een Zuid-Koreaanse universiteit die volgens hen in samenwerking met een wapenfabrikant een geheim leger van robots aan het ontwikkelen is. Het Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist) zou samen met wapenfabrikant Hanwha Systems robots ontwikkelen die, zo menen de academici, de doos van Pandora zouden openzetten en “de derde revolutie in oorlogsvoering” zouden ontketenen.
57 academici uit 30 landen waarschuwen dat de universiteit de technologie op punt stelt om een leger van robots te ontwikkelen dat de hele mensheid kan vernietigen. De specialisten ondertekenden een brief waarin ze stellen de universiteit te boycotten en hun zorg uiten over de plannen.
Doos van Pandora
Ze noemen die “de doos van Pandora” en stellen dat AI en robots niet mogen gebruikt worden als oorlogswapens. Het nieuwe AI-wapenlabo van de Kaist-universiteit werd in februari operationeel. Het werd gebouwd in samenwerking met Hanwha Systems, de belangrijkste wapenfabrikant in Zuid-Korea. “Eens deze doos van Pandora opengaat, zal het moeilijk zijn ze weer te sluiten”, stellen de professoren.
De brief werd opgesteld door professor Toby Walsh van de universiteit van Sydney en is gericht aan professor Shin Sung-chul, voorzitter van de Kaist-universiteit. “Het is betreurenswaardig dat een prestigieus instituut als Kaist de wapenwedloop wil opdrijven”, zo stelt Walsh.
“Daarom verklaren we openlijk dat we elke samenwerking met Kaist zullen boycotten tot de voorzitter van de universiteit garanties voorlegt - die we hebben gevraagd maar niet hebben gekregen - dat het centrum geen autonome wapens zonder betekenisvolle menselijke controle zal ontwikkelen.”
Autonome wapens zullen de derde revolutie in oorlogsvoering inluiden. Ze zullen ervoor zorgen dat oorlogen sneller worden uitgevochten en op een grotere schaal dan ooit tevoren. Ze hebben bovendien het potentieel terreurwapens te worden
Uit de brief die door 57 academici werd ondertekend
De reden voor de boycot en de veroordeling van de universiteit is de bezorgdheid over het potentieel van AI-wapentuig. “Indien ze ontwikkeld worden, zullen autonome wapens de derde revolutie in oorlogsvoering inluiden”, zo staat in de brief. “Ze zullen ervoor zorgen dat oorlogen sneller worden uitgevochten en op een grotere schaal dan ooit tevoren. Ze hebben het potentieel terreurwapens te worden.”
Gisteren reageerde de universiteit bij monde van voorzitter Shin Sung-chul, die stelt dat Kaist geen dergelijke droids ontwikkelt. “We hebben niet de intentie dodelijke autonome wapens of robots te maken. Als academisch instituut voeren we mensenrechten en ethische waarden hoog in het vaandel. Kaist zal geen onderzoeksactiviteiten verrichten die tegen de menselijke waardigheid ingaan.”
Robots aan grens met Noord-Korea
Professor Walsh verklaarde tegenover CNN dat hij “grotendeels tevreden” is met de reactie van Kaist. “Maar ik heb toch nog enkele vragen omtrent hun intenties.” De boycot blijft voorlopig van kracht. Dat betekent dat de academici Kaist niet zullen bezoeken of leden van de universiteit als gast ontvangen. Ze zullen ook geen bijdragen meer leveren aan eender welk onderzoeksproject waarbij Kaist betrokken is.
Volgende week debatteren 123 lidstaten van de Verenigde Naties over autonoom wapentuig. 22 landen eisen een absoluut verbod op dergelijke wapens.
Het Zuid-Koreaanse leger heeft al een team robots aan de grens met Noord-Korea. De Samsung SGR-A1 draagt een machinegeweer met een autonome modus, maar wordt tot nog toe via cameralinks door mensen bediend.
WETENSCHAPNASA heeft twee teams van wetenschappers de opdracht gegeven om een robotbij te ontwerpen die zal kunnen ingezet worden voor de verkenning van Mars. De piepkleine drones moeten een stuk handiger en voordeliger zijn dan de logge Marsrovers.
Een onderzoeksteam aan de universiteit van Alabama werkt in opdracht van NASA samen met een groep van Japanse wetenschappers aan het ontwerp van de vliegende microrobots.
NASA wil dat de ‘Mars bees’ of Marsbijen, zoals ze officieel genoemd worden, gelanceerd worden door een rover, die dienst zal doen as een soort van mobiele basis en laadstation.
Het lichaam van de Marsbijen zal lijken op dat van een hommel, terwijl ze beweeglijke, cicadenachtige vleugels krijgen; die zijn optimaal om stijgkracht te genereren in de dunne, ijle atmosfeer van de Rode Planeet. De zwaartekracht van Mars bedraagt immers slechts één derde van die van de aarde.
NASA
Dankzij hun beweeglijke vleugels zullen de minirobots lichter zijn en kunnen wetenschappers ook meer exemplaren tegelijkertijd inzetten. De bijen zullen bovendien in kleine zwermen worden uitgezet. Als één van de microdrones sneuvelt, is dat bijgevolg geen al te zwaar verlies.
De Marsbijen zullen niet alleen het terrein van Mars in kaart brengen, maar ook stalen verzamelen van de ijle lucht van de planeet, in de hoop op methaangas – een mogelijk teken van leven – te stoten. NASA’s Curiosityrover heeft in het verleden al kleine hoeveelheden van het gas gedetecteerd, maar voorlopig is nog onduidelijk of het van biologische oorsprong is.
ReutersZelfportret van NASA's Curiosityrover op Mars in 2013.
Het onderzoek, dat op 30 maart door NASA werd bekendgemaakt, zit momenteel in Fase 1, waarbij wordt gefocust op ht ontwerp van de vleugels, de beweging van de drone en het optimale gewicht. De eerste prototypes zullen getest worden in een vacuüm laboratorium met een luchtdichtheid die vergelijkbaar is met die op Mars.
In Fase 2 worden hun beweeglijkheid, windresistentie, stijg- en landingsvermogen, energievoorziening en teledetectie onder de loep genomen. Het zal nog jaren duren voor de technologische insecten aan hun ruimteverkenning kunnen beginnen.
WETENSCHAPSinds het verdwijnen van de legendarische Concorde in 2003 is er geen supersonisch passagiersvliegtuig meer geweest. Maar dankzij NASA komt daar verandering in. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft vliegtuigbouwer Lockheed Martin deze week opdracht gegeven een toestel te ontwikkelen dat sneller gaat dan het geluid, maar zonder ‘sonic boom’, de oorverdovende knal waarmee het doorbreken van de geluidsbarrière gepaard gaat.
Met de zogeheten X-plane zou een vlucht van New York naar Londen nog maar drie uur duren. Het toestel moet gaan vliegen op ruim 16 kilometer hoogte met een kruissnelheid van 1500 kilometer per uur.
Met de opdracht is een bedrag van 202 miljoen euro gemoeid. De bedoeling is dat de supersonische jet in 2021 zijn eerste testvluchten gaat uitvoeren boven bewoonde gebieden in de VS, om te bepalen of het geluidsniveau acceptabel is. Volgens NASA zal het doorbreken van de geluidsbarrière niet harder klinken dan het dichtvallen van een autoportier. Vluchten met passagiers zijn niet eerder voorzien dan 2035.
While looking over some Russian rocket archives, I found a greenish UFO near a rocket upon its launch. This happened just a few weeks ago and as you can see, the UFO was semi transparent. It was cloaked, but the sudden burst of light from the engines reviewed its location for a few seconds. This is proof that aliens watch our technological growth carefully.
Its also possible that America has keep the alien secret so long because they are using the alien tech...like this green UFO to observe and record activities of their enemies...like Russia. The country with the best tech, controls the world.
It's long been theorized that the first detection of extraterrestrial intelligence will come from radio waves. But it's possible that what's out there may go well beyond what anyone has dreamed to look for until now.
In 1961, scientist Frank Drake wrote down a simple-looking equation for estimating the number of active, technologically-advanced, communicating civilizations in the Milky Way. From first principles, there was no good way to simply estimate a number, but Drake had the brilliant idea of writing down a large number of parameters that could be estimated, which you would then multiply together. If your numbers were accurate, you'd arrive at an accurate figure for the number of technologically advanced civilizations that humanity could communicate with, within our own galaxy, at any given moment. It's a brilliant idea in concept, but one that's become less and less useful as we've learned more about our Universe. As it stands today, the Drake equation is broken, but we know enough about the Universe to construct an even better framework.
Wikimedia Commons user Lucianomendez
The possibilities of having another inhabited world in our Milky Way are incredible and tantalizing, but if we want to know whether it's real or not, we absolutely have to get the science right.
The Drake equation, to be specific, said that the number of civilizations (N) we have at any given time within our galaxy, is equal to the product of seven different unknown quantities from astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology, each of which build off of the previous element. They are:
R∗, the average rate of star formation,
fp, the fraction of stars with planets,
ne the average number stars-with-planets that have one that could support life,
fl, the fraction of those planets that developed life,
fi, the fraction of life-bearing planets that developed intelligent life,
fc, the fraction of these intelligence-having planets that are technologically communicative across interstellar space, and
L, the length of time such a civilization can broadcast-or-listen.
Multiply these numbers all together, in theory, and that will give you the number of technologically advanced, broadcasting civilizations we have in the Milky Way today.
NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech
An artist's rendition of a potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. But we might not have to find another Earth-like world to find life; our own solar system may have all the ingredients we need. We simply don't know how ubiquitous life is.
Only, there are huge problems with this setup. There are a number of unspoken assumptions that simply writing down the equation this way makes, that simply don't reflect reality. Problems for its modern-day usefulness include:
The fact that the equation was written before the Big Bang was validated and the Steady State model was disfavored.
The equation assumes that only one planet per star system could support life.
That intelligent, technologically advanced life will never spread to other worlds.
And that broadcasting-and-listening-for radio signals is the method by which an intelligent species would choose to communicate across interstellar space.
That last assumption, in particular, was the motivation for SETI — the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (with radio dishes) — which has, of course, come up empty.
ESO/C. Malin
The Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array (ALMA) are some of the most powerful radio telescopes on Earth. They are only one small part of the array forming the Event Horizon Telescopen and can image the Magellanic Clouds (shown here) and all of the stars in the southern sky, unlike most northern hemisphere observers.
This doesn't mean, however, that there aren't other worlds out there with intelligent life on them! Despite our uncertainties about what's out there or whether/how they might attempt to search for or contact us, the possibility of intelligent, communicative, or spacefaring extraterrestrials is one of tremendous interest to not only scientists, but all of humanity. Many of the steps of the Drake equation may be problematic, and they contain the major issue that there are huge uncertainties associated with them: so large that they render any conclusion about N, the number of civilizations within our galaxy, meaningless. But it's 2018 now, and there are a huge number of things we know about our galaxy and our Universe that we didn't know in 1961. Here's a better approach.
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. By surveying star clusters and field stars in and out of our galaxy, as well as measuring the extent of the Milky Way, we can simply determine the number and types of stars that exist.
1.)Ns: the number of stars in our galaxy.
Why estimate the rate of star formation when we can simply look at the number of stars we have today? We know how large our galaxy is, how thick it is, how large the central bulge is, and what their mass distribution is. Based on what we can observe with extremely powerful all-sky and pencil-beam (where you look at one narrow region very deeply) surveys, we can simply state that there are between 200 and 400 billion stars in our galaxy. An uncertainty that's only a factor of 2 is pretty good, and tells us that we have a very optimistic starting point: each star has a chance for success. Let's pick the larger number here.
NASA Ames/ W Stenzel
Illustration of the planet-finding space telescope, Kepler, from NASA. Kepler has found thousands of planets around stars in the Milky Way, teaching us about the mass, radius, and distribution of worlds beyond our Solar System.
2.) fp: the fraction of stars with planets.
This is one we can keep from the original Drake equation, but in the aftermath of Kepler, it isn't all that interesting. Why? Because it's close to 100%! The fraction of stars with planets around them, based on the number of stars we've surveyed and what we've learned about them, is somewhere in the ballpark of at least 80%. To say "the fraction of stars with planets" is 1 is a nice, easy victory for the optimists out there.
NASA
Moon and clouds over the Pacific Ocean, as photographed by Frank Borman and James A. Lovell during the Gemini 7 mission. Earth, around our Sun, has the right conditions for life. But what about other stars?
3.) fH: the fraction of stars with the right conditions for habitability.
This gets more interesting now! Of the major classes of stars, how many of them have worlds that could support life? A star like our Sun — with our Sun's mass, radius, and lifetime — could do it, as evidenced by our existence. But what about a more massive star? At some point, they'll be massive enough to burn through their fuel too quickly, and intelligent life could never arise.
On the other end, a low-mass star may be too unstable, flaring and blowing off a planet's atmosphere, or with little enough ultraviolet light that life cannot arise. We might worry about if there are enough heavy elements to support life on a world, or if a certain location in the galaxy renders the environment too chaotic for life. These may be unknowns, but we can probably safely say that at least a quarter, or 25%, of stars in our galaxy can have a potentially habitable planet.
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/L. Calçada (ESO) & NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young, Sun-like star. The raw ingredients for life may exist everywhere, but not every planet that contains them will develop life.
4.) np: the number of worlds around habitable stars with the right conditions for life.
This is something we've learned a tremendous amount about from our exoplanet studies, but tremendous questions remain. What makes a world habitable? In the early solar system, Venus, Earth, and Mars all had similar conditions. In the outer Solar System, worlds like Enceladus and Europa, with sub-surface oceans, may have underwater life. In systems with gas giants at Earth-like locations, large moons could see life arise on them. Although the uncertainties are very large here, I think it's a fair estimate to say that of the stars which can have a potentially habitable world, on average there will be one world that clearly has the best chance for life. That's the world we're interested in, and so we'll say np = 1.
At this point, by the way, we can multiply those first four numbers together to get an estimate for the number of worlds with good chances at life within our galaxy: 100 billion. That's a promising start.
NASA, 1996
Structures on ALH84001 meteorite, which has a Martian origin. Some argue that the structures shown here may be ancient Martian life.
5.) fl: the fraction of these worlds where life arises.
This is a great time to line up with Drake again, because this is one of the great unknown questions in the search for life beyond Earth. Of all the potentially habitable worlds, how many of them take that first incredible step, where life arises from non-life? Or, if primitive life originates in interstellar space, how many worlds see life take hold on the surface, in the oceans, or in the atmosphere? We don't even know the answer for our own Solar System, where it's arguable that we may have as many as 8 other worlds where life arose at some point. Life may be common; optimistically, it may have a 10% chance of arising from non-life. Or, alternatively, it could be exceedingly rare: a one-in-a-million shot or worse.
ESA, HEXOS and the HIFI consortium; E. Bergin
Signatures of organic, life-giving molecules are found all over the cosmos, including in the largest, nearby star-forming region: the Orion Nebula. Someday soon, we may be able to look for biosignatures in the atmospheres of Earth-sized worlds around other stars.
The uncertainties here are huge, and any number that you can pick is as ill-motivated as any other. Someday in the future, we'll have the capability of performing our first tests, however. When our telescope technology enables us to determine the atmospheric contents of worlds, we can look for the presence or absence of biosignatures like methane, molecular oxygen, and carbon dioxide. It will be indirect evidence, but it should be an incredible step towards inferring whether worlds have life on them or not. If we say there's a 1-in-10,000 chance that a potentially habitable world has life on it, as good a guess as any, that means there are 10 million worlds in the Milky Way where life exists.
Biolin Scientific
Ligand-gated Q-cells are essential channels with multiple biological applications, and are particularly needed for the human body to function. Single celled organisms can reproduce very quickly, but in order to develop complex functions and structures, multicellular organisms are required.
6.) fx: the fraction of life-having worlds with complex, differentiated organisms.
Defining life as "intelligent" or not is a hazy prospect at best, as even the top scientists still argue over the classification of dolphins, great apes, octopi, and many other organisms as intelligent or not. What no one will argue about, however, is whether an organism is complex and differentiated: with different body parts with different functions and structures, in a macroscopic, multicellular arrangement. It took billions of years of life thriving on Earth until we evolved the first multicellular organism, and then hundreds of millions of years more until we developed gender in reproduction; without both, out-competing single-celled life would be impossible, as they'd out-evolve the larger forms of life.
Wikimedia Commons user Mike R
A bonobo 'fishing' for termites is an example of a complex, differentiated organism that uses primitive tools. It may not count as a scientifically/technologically advanced species, but it certainly counts as multicellular, differentiated, and highly interesting from an astrobiological perspective.
Again, Earth is our only laboratory for this, but let's be optimistic in the absence of evidence, and assume there's a 1-in-1,000 chance that a world that starts with a primitive, replicating, information-encoding strand of life can lead to something like the Cambrian explosion. That gives us 10,000 worlds in the Milky Way teeming with diverse, multicellular, highly differentiated forms of life. Given the distance between the stars, that means there's likely another planet where this has occurred just a few hundred light years away.
NASA
Alan Chinchar's 1991 rendition of the proposed Space Station Freedom in orbit. Any civilization that creates something like this would definitely count as scientifically/technologically advanced.
7.) ft: the fraction of those worlds which presently house a scientifically/technologically advanced civilization.
This is a superior question to the ones asked by the Drake equation. Who cares if this is the first or the tenth time a technologically advanced civilization arose? Who cares if they're using radio waves? Who cares if they blow themselves up or self-extinct, or whether they have spacefaring ambitions or not? The big question is whether there are extraterrestrials who are intelligent the way we're intelligent, and that means scientifically and technologically advanced.
NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / Max Planck Institute / Spaceflight / Marco Di Lorenzo, Kenneth Kremer / Phoenix Lander
The 'holy cow' mosaic of the Mars Phoenix mission, with revealed water-ice clearly visible underneath the lander's legs. In order to learn the maximum amount possible about the presence or absence of life on a world, you absolutely must touch down and look, explicitly, for the surefire signatures.
There's no evidence for this anywhere other than Earth, of course, which means there's a huge range of possibilities. It could be easy, like 1% of them get there, or it could be a freak coincidence that humanity arose at all, and the odds could be more like one-in-a-billion. Here on Earth, it's been about 500,000,000 years since the Cambrian explosion, and we've only had a technologically advanced species on the planet for less than 1,000 years. Assuming humanity lasts for a few thousand more in this state, that means that Earth will have spent 1-in-100,000 of our time with complex, differentiated organisms in a technologically advanced state.
Even with 10,000 such worlds in the Milky Way, there's only approximately a 10% chance, under these estimates, that another scientifically/technologically advanced civilization exists at the same time as us.
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Once intelligence, tool use and curiosity combine in a single species, perhaps interstellar ambitions become inevitable.
But with all that said, it's those last three numbers — fl, fx, and ft — that have such large uncertainties that make accurate estimates an impossibility right now.
Knowing how many worlds there are out there in the Milky Way with life on them, and finding even one, would have tremendous implications for our existence, and for understanding our place in the Universe. Taking even the next step, and learning that there were complex, differentiated, large organisms on a world, like we have with the fungal, animal, and plant kingdoms on Earth, would revolutionize what's possible. And finally, the chance we'd have to have communication, visitation, and a knowledge exchange with a scientifically or technologically advanced alien species would forever alter the course of humanity. It's all possible, but there's so much more we need to know if we ever want to find out. We must take these steps; the rewards are too great if there's even a chance of learning these answers.
Astrophysicist and author Ethan Siegel is the founder and primary writer of Starts With A Bang! His books, Treknology and Beyond The Galaxy, are available wherever books are sold.
With the development of SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket (BFR)potentially underway the dream of sending humans to Mars has never been more alive. Elon Musk even has ideas on how the Martian government could operate, but before we establish the Democratic Republic of Mars we have to figure out where exactly the first space colonists would set up shop.
It turns out the age-old real estate mantra location, location, location is extraordinarily important when you’re trying to establish a settlement on a partially inhospitable planet. That’s why two scientists at the Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have created an animated map that pinpoints the best spots for future cosmic explorers to begin constructing the first Martian metropolis.
This atlas of the red planet is centered around the fact that interplanetary citizens will need suitable soil for their crops. Growing food like potatoes in space is far from just a cool science fiction concept from The Martian. Wieger Wamelink and his partner Line Schug divided swaths of the planet’s surface depending on the composition of the soil. The less heavy metals found in the ground, the better it is for farming.
Map of the ideal landing sites on Mars from a plant perspective. Blue colors indicate high potentials, with the darkest blue as the best sites; red colors indicate less good sites with dark red as the worst.
This means the heavy metal-rich areas around the highest point on Mars, a colossal volcano known as Olympus Mons, can’t sustain vegetation. While a low-lying plain on the planet’s northern hemisphere named Acidalia Planitia, is perfectly suited for a farm. This region is chock-full of ice and regolith — or Martian sand — which can be used as agricultural resources.
“High levels of heavy metals in the soil and strong radiation make a location unsuitable for establishment,” says Schug in a statement. “While we see high temperatures or calcium levels and a relatively flat terrain as positive.”
So it seems like if we ever do make it to the red planet, the first condos on our planetary neighbor will almost certainly be found in a Martian prairie.
Vast Black Hole Swarm May Surround Milky Way's Heart
Vast Black Hole Swarm May Surround Milky Way's Heart
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is surrounded by a swarm of smaller black holes, according to new research. Scientists were able to pinpoint at least 12 black hole binaries, where a black hole is siphoning material from a companion star.
Credit: Columbia University
A swarm of thousands of black holes may surround the giant black hole at the heart of our galaxy, a new study finds.
At the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies are supermassive black holes with masses that are millions to billions of times that of the sun. For example, at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies Sagittarius A*, which is about 4.5 million solar masses in size.
A key way in which scientists think supermassive black holes grow is by engulfing stellar-mass black holes each equal in mass to a few suns. Learning how that growth process works is vital to understanding the effects they can have on the evolution of their galaxies. [Deepest-Ever X-Ray Image Captures Countless Black Holes (Photo)]
A view of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory (circled in green). The black hole is visible as a bright spot because it is emitting some of its occasional X-ray flares. Surrounding it are other X-ray sources caused by binary systems with smaller black holes.
Credit: Nature and Hailey, et. al.
For decades, astronomers have looked for up to 20,000 black holes that previous research predicted should be concentrated around the Milky Way's core. Sagittarius A* is surrounded by a halo of gas and dust that provides the perfect breeding ground for massive stars, which can then give rise to black holes after they die, said study lead author Chuck Hailey, co-director of the astrophysics lab at Columbia University in New York. In addition, the powerful gravitational pull of Sagittarius A* can pull in black holes from outside this halo, he added.
"The Milky Way is really the only galaxy we have where we can study how supermassive black holes interact with little ones because we simply can't see their interactions in other galaxies," Hailey said in a statement. "In a sense, this is the only laboratory we have to study this phenomenon."
However, until now, researchers failed to detect such a heavy concentration of black holes, called a "density cusp." "There are only about five dozen known black holes in the entire galaxy — 100,000 light-years wide — and there are supposed to be 10,000 to 20,000 of these things in a region just six light-years wide that no one has been able to find," Hailey said in the statement. "There hasn't been much credible evidence."
Black holes absorb anything that falls into them, including light (hence, their name), making them difficult to spot against the dark background of space. Instead, to detect black holes, scientists generally look for ones with nearby companion stars. In such binary systems, the black hole may be tearing apart its partner, giving off radiation in the process.
In the past, failed attempts to find the density cusp focused on looking for strong bursts of X-rays that are thought to come from instabilities in so-called "accretion disks" of gas and dust that spiral off from companion stars into black hole partners. However, the galactic center is about 26,000 light-years from Earth, and "black hole binaries only very rarely emit big enough bursts of X-rays to easily see at such a great distance as the galactic center — maybe once every 100 or even 1,000 years," Hailey told Space.com.
Instead, Hailey and his colleagues looked for the steadier, less-energetic X-rays given off by accretion disks when the binaries are relatively inactive. Using archival data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, they detected a dozen such X-ray binaries within about one parsec, or about 3.26 light-years, from the galactic core, findings they detailed in the April 5 issue of the journal Nature.
By analyzing the properties and spatial distribution of these X-ray binaries, the researchers extrapolated that 300 to 500 X-ray binaries may lurk in the core of the Milky Way, and about 10,000 isolated black holes without companion stars may also lurk there. "I am really excited to find that there are bunches of black holes in the galactic center," Hailey said.
These findings may also "significantly advance gravitational-wave research because knowing the number of black holes in the center of a typical galaxy can help in better predicting how many gravitational-wave events may be associated with them," Hailey said in a statement. "All the information astrophysicists need is at the center of the galaxy."
However, the researchers cautioned that making estimates regarding the number of black holes in the galactic core is complicated by the fact that there are likely other sources of X-rays from the center of the galaxy, such as pulsars. Future X-ray observatories may be able to distinguish these different kinds of X-ray sources, Hailey said.
"The next generation of X-ray observatories should have very sharp eyes, like Chandra, but also be able to detect much fainter objects at the galactic center," Hailey said.
The Crab Nebula as seen by five different observatories
(animation; 10 May 2017).
Phosphorus, denoted by the symbol P in the periodic table, is the 11th most common element on Earth. It is fundamental to all living things, being essential for the creation of DNA, cell membranes, and for bone and teeth formation in humans. According to a new study by astronomers at Cardiff University, there seems to be far less of this precious element lurking in the rest of the universe than we used to think. If extraterrestrial life is similar to that on Earth, then the odds of it existing have just depreciated considerably.
P is for life
Phosphorus is one of just six chemical elements that are thought to be indispensable to the functioning of Earth organisms. Phosphorus cannot be manufactured or destroyed, and there is no substitute or synthetic version of it available. Astronomers claim that phosphorus in created in supernovae, which are massive explosions of dying stars. Dr. Jane Greaves of Cardiff University observed that the observed amounts of phosphorus in the universe don’t match the computer models, and naturally wondered what this implies for life on other planets given the unpredictable nature of phosphorus production.
Using the William Herschel Telescope, sited on La Palma in the Canary islands, Greaves and colleagues probed the famous Crab Nebula in infrared for signs of phosphorus and iron. The first element supports life, while the second is a major part of our planet’s core. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant around 6500 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Taurus.
This was only the second study of phosphorus from supernovae ever made. The first such study looked at the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant. By comparing phosphorus content from both supernovae, the researchers concluded that there seems to be far less phosphorus in the Crab Nebula than in Cas A. The latter is the explosion of a rare type of supermassive star, which might explain the discrepancy in phosphorus content.
More observations by different telescopes could reveal more insight and complete some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. For instance, it could be that there are some phosphorus-rich regions in the Crab Nebula that astronomers have overlooked. But, so far, these preliminary results suggest that the amount of phosphorus blown into space can vary wildly. In the future, the researchers plan on studying more supernovae to establish how common it is to find supernova remnants that lack phosphorus.
“The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules,” Greaves said in a statement.
‘If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.”
The findings were presented this week at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
The Hidden Secrets of Cholula, The Largest Pyramid On Earth
The Hidden Secrets of Cholula, The Largest Pyramid On Earth
The Largest Pyramid on Earth isn’t the Great Pyramid of Giza. Halfway around the world, in modern-day Mexico lie the ruins of a majestic ancient structure which rightfully holds the title as the largest pyramid ever built.
Said to have been erected by the giant Xelhua, according to Aztec Mythology, this ancient structure is believed to have taken ten centuries to build.
The pyramid of Cholula, in the state of Puebla, is the most massive building erected by man, not even the pyramids of Egypt, (although higher) occupy so many cubic meters of material.
It was allegedly built by a giant who wanted to build a pyramid that reaches to heaven, says mythology; but archaeologists are convinced that thousands of builders participated in its construction, taking them at least ten centuries to complete.
The site itself is shrouded in magic and mystery.
Model of the city and Great Pyramid of Cholula. Cholula Museum, Puebla, Mexico.
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The ancient archaeological site of Cholula has been the center of study four archaeologists end exporter from all around the world.
In this article, we bring you the most important facts about the archaeological site home to the largest and most massive pyramid on the surface of the planet.
One of the most important facts, which many people are unaware of is thatthe great pyramid of Cholula is larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The pyramid of Giza, in Egypt, occupies 2 million 500 thousand cubic meters, but the pyramid of Cholula comprises 4 million 500 thousand cubic meters, which makes it the largest building built by man.
Mythology says Giants built it.
According to mythology, in ancient times, the earth was inhabited by giants, but after a massive flood swept over the Earth, all died except Xelhua, who in gratitude, built what we know today as Cholula, one of the most massive pyramids in the world. This giant wanted to build a gigantic pyramid that reached to the heavens.
But Tonacatecutli, father of all the gods, saw this as an offense and launched a rock from the heavens in the killing off many of the builders, causing the construction to halt.
The last excavations done inside the pyramid of Cholula to explore the interior of this massive structure were conducted from 1966 to 1974, led by Miguel Messmacher.
However, exploration was halted for two reasons: the possibility that explorations would cause the entire Pyramid to collapse, and because of the risk of damaging the foundations of the church that was built at the top, which is protected by INAH.
Because there aren’t any written documents, no one knows when the pyramids construction process began.
However, archaeologists believe that it was in 300 BC or at the beginning of the Christian era when thousands of workers started erecting one of the most massive pyramids on the planet.
Bottoms up!
Meet the Mural of Drinkers.
Discovered at a depth of nearly eight meters, the Mural of Drinkers happens to be one of the largest pre-Columbian murals ever discovered in Mexico, having a total length of 57 meters.
The subject of the mural is a feast, featuring personages drinking what is most likely pulque.
Seven Pyramids, not one.
The Great Pyramid of Cholula or the Tlachihualtepetl as its also known, was the product of seven superimposed pyramids, each of which covered the whole of the previous pyramid. This motivated the gradual enlargement of the base, which reached up to four hundred and fifty meters on one side, reaching a height of sixty-six meters.
The current appearance of the great pyramid of Cholula is that of a massive hill on top of which a Catholic church was built, dedicated to the Virgin of the Remedies.
Are aliens real? Grim discovery raises doubts about existence of extraterrestrial life
Are aliens real? Grim discovery raises doubts about existence of extraterrestrial life
Jasper Hamill
The Crab Nebula, a supernova explosion 6,500 light years from Earth
(Photographer: Dr Jane Greaves/University of Cardiff)
The universe could be a more lonely place than we ever imagined. A new study has cast doubt on the existence of alien life after discovering that a chemical called phosphorus is less abundant than anyone expected
The element is vital to energy storage and transfer in cells, and is part of the chemical backbone of DNA.
Phosphorus is created in supernovae, exploding massive stars at the end of their lives.
But the new research suggests that typical supernovae may not provide the conditions needed for forging the element.
Earth may be unusually lucky, because it happened to be situated close enough to the ‘right’ kind of supernova.
Astronomer Dr Jane Greaves, from the University of Cardiff, said: ‘The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious.
‘We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth, probably in meteorites, were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules.
‘If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born?
‘That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? ‘
In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.’
The evidence comes from observations of two supernova ‘remnants’, Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and the famous Crab Nebula.
The team used the UK’s William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, to look for signatures of phosphorus and iron from the Crab Nebula, the aftermath of a supernova explosion 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus.
A previous study had searched for phosphorus from Cas A, 11,000 light years away.
for 35 years Comparing results from the two observations showed much less phosphorus from the Crab Nebula than Cas A, which came as a surprise.
Dr Phil Cigan, another of the Cardiff astronomers, said: ‘The two explosions seem to differ from each other, perhaps because Cas A results from the explosion of a rare super-massive star.’
The findings were presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science meeting in Liverpool.
The scientists now plan to continue their search to see if other supernova remnants also lack phosphorus.
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UFO researchers release video of strange craft hovering in night sky over NC town
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The video, shot at night, features a hovering v-shaped object illuminated by six lights.
"Whatever it is, it seems to be dropping," says the unidentified man behind the camera. "I'd like to know what the heck those six lights are."
The YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly referred to the object as as a "huge mother ship."
The black and white video is nearly five minutes long. It was posted April 3 on YouTube by the Mutual UFO Network. The video is credited to the UFO Institute.
Among the commenters on the footage was Chris Lo, who posted: "I live in NC near there. If I see it I will shoot at it. I do not come in peace."
A site known as the National UFO Reporting Center says there have been more than 20 reported strange sightings in North Carolina. Among them is one reported in Charlotte on March 18, when someone reported "round orange balls flying over my backyard with no sound."
North Carolina is among the top 10 states in the country for UFO sightings, with several recent reports in Charlotte and the Lake Norman area, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport, Wash.
Conspiracy theorists have suggested some of the sightings are actually experimental military craft such as TR-3B, an anti-gravity space craft that hovers. Such theories seem plausible, given the presence of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force in eastern North Carolina.
However, Military.com says the craft "doesn't exist officially."
Strange unidentified flying object over Manchester, UK 3-Apr-2018
Strange unidentified flying object over Manchester, UK 3-Apr-2018
Strange bright object caught on tape over Manchester in United Kingdom earlier this month.
Witness report:
This UFO was spotted over Heywood Manchester. This footage was captured with an Ipad on the 3rd of April of the 2018. The family dog started barking when he saw this scary UFO sighting. The light grew as it came towards the family as they took photo’s with their Iphones. These photo’s failed but the video footage was great. This great disc shaped UFO was being filmed with their smart phones. The object seemed to be turning into a light ring. They zoomed into the object what gives us the amazing the amazing image .This footage offer some of the best video evidence ever of UFO encounter ever.
A series of young stars glimmer in the distance like fireworks in the sky. This image was released in April 2015 to celebrate Hubble's 25th anniversary.
The Hubble Space Telescope has continuously unleashed a stream of jaw-dropping intergalactic imagery since it launched on April 24, 1990. Not only do these images, which look more like paintings at first glance, allow researchers to study distant worlds, galaxies and nebulae, they have captured the minds of the general public, getting us genuinely excited about space exploration. But here's some sad news: despite all of these wonderful things, Hubble is getting older.
In a few short years, Hubble's technology will become fully outdated and NASA will let it drift to a fiery death in the atmosphere, like some crazed band of space Vikings. Once gone, at least we know we'll have the gold-encrusted James Webb Space Telescope to keep the images flowing in. With time marching on, let's not worry about what will happen to everyone's favorite space telescope and, instead, take a look at some of the most amazing pictures it's given us over the years.
A ROSE MADE OF GALAXIES
Released on Hubble's 21st anniversary, a pair of galaxies swirl together to form Arp 273. This unique object formed as two galaxies in the Andromeda constellation passed through one another.NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
WHEN BLACK HOLES COLLIDE
Though there isn't an actual picture of a supermassive black hole (yet), this image possibly captures two of them swirling together and shooting off jets of particles into the universe. Each of these jets, which travel at nearly the speed of light, stretch for thousands of light-years as two galactic nuclei blend together.
Taken in 1995, the 'Pillars of Creation' is one of Hubble's most notable images. Inside, you see three cold columns of gas illuminated by stars in the Eagle Nebula. This re-released version of the original adds more detail by including near-infrared light, which helps expose the various stars behind the pillars. Few other space images have received as much fame and adoration as this one.
The Lagoon Nebula churns with a series of crazy, huge storms. "The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust," NASA notes. This colorful image was released in August 2015.
Meet the Eta Carinae system. It has two stars in it and one of them is huge and unstable. Since the 1800s, astronomers with less powerful telescopes have been watching the system's outbursts. However, it wasn't until Hubble came that researchers were able to fully check out the clouds of matter, dubbed the Homunculus Nebula, thrown off by it. This image in particular, which was released in 2012, is one of the most detailed. Researchers refer to these sort of outbursts as 'impostor supernovae' because they appear like normal supernovae but they do not kill off the star.
Known scientifically as NGC 3521, this flocculent spiral galaxy appears woolly because of how stars shine through its dusty clouds. Though it seems incredibly close in this image, it actually lies about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo, and it was discovered back in 1784 by William Herschel. Hubble released this incredibly detailed picture back in 2015, though if you were to look at it with an ordinary backyard telescope it would appear like a giant bubble.
The star system DI Cha was imaged by Hubble in October 2015. The unique bright spot in its center consists of two stars shining through rings of dust, which actually hide two other stars in this quadruple star system. Besides having two pairs of binary stars, the system is notable because it has a large region known as the Chamaeleon Complex, an area that gives birth to brand new stars.
Front and center in this March 2016 Hubble image is a star named IRAS 12196-6300, which lies 2,300 light-years from Earth. Researchers call this type of image a fingerprint because the light spreads out enough for them to understand what chemicals make up the star.
There is just so much going on in this image that it's hard to pin down just one thing to discuss. Inside, we see a ton of young stars inside a nebula. "The nebula reveals a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges and valleys," says a NASA statement. "The pillars, composed of dense gas and thought to be incubators for new stars, are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster. Other dense regions surround the pillars, including reddish-brown filaments of gas and dust."
While this may look the cover a direct-to-VHS fantasy film from the late-80s, this Hubble image showcases the open cluster known as Pismis 24, the three stars directly above the nebula. In fact, the biggest star of the three, Pismis 24-1, is one of the largest stars ever recorded at 100 solar masses.
Reminiscent of the default Mac background, this image shows off the galaxy UGC 447, which lies 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. Researchers believe galaxies like UGC 447 are composed mainly of dark matter, making them prime targets for future study because, though researchers see evidence of it everywhere, dark matter is super elusive. This is one of the relatively recent images captured by Hubble in April 2016.
To celebrate Hubble's 24th anniversary (they always put out great images for anniversaries), researchers released this image of the Monkey Head Nebula, which is basically a star factory. This region specifically lies about 6,400 light-years from Earth.
New AI Program Classifies Planets and Predicts Probability of Life
New AI Program Classifies Planets and Predicts Probability of Life
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
An infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan, built from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Titan's energy availability and surface and atmosphere characteristics make it a good possible home for life.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Researchers have developed a new technique that uses artificial intelligence to classify planets and, in turn, determine whether life may exist on other worlds.
The new technique uses so-called artificial neural networks, known as ANNs, to classify planets, based on whether they resemble present-day Earth, early Earth, Mars, Venus or Saturn's largest moon, Titan. These five bodies are among the most potentially habitable objects in our solar system and are therefore associated with a certain probability of life, according to a statementfrom the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference.
While Earth is still the only world known to support life, the new data could help astronomers plan future interstellar exploration missions to planets that are more likely than others to host alien life, the researchers said in the statement. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
"We're currently interested in these ANNs for prioritizing exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent, interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range," Christopher Bishop, a researcher from the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University, said in the statement.
ANNs are computer systems that essentially mimic the human brain's learning process. They have proven to be particularly useful for sorting through and identifying patterns in vast amounts of data that would otherwise be too complex and time-consuming for scientists to process, researchers said in the statement.
In this case, the ANNs are fed atmospheric observations, also known as spectra, from present-day Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan and predictions for early Earth — all of which are rocky bodies that have characteristics that suggest the right conditions to support life, according to the statement.
However, since life has yet to be discovered outside of Earth, the ANNs classify planets using a "probability of life" measurement that is based on the atmospheric and orbital properties of the five target bodies in our solar system, the researchers said.
Based on these spectral profiles, the ANNs can predict the habitability of numerous planets, and, as a result, save researchers time by allowing them to focus only on the most promising targets. This technique has been successful for categorizing new planets, according to the statement.
"Given the results so far, this method may prove to be extremely useful for categorizing different types of exoplanets using results from ground-based and near-Earth observatories," Angelo Cangelosi, a supervisor of the project, who is also from the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University, said in the statement.
The researchers hope to apply this technique to data collected during upcoming missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Exoplanet Large-survey) space mission.
Their findings were presented today (April 4) at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference in Liverpool, England.
Science fiction author Whitley Strieber continues to promote the notion of extraterrestrial visitations. His _Communion: A True Story_ (1987) told of his own close encounter -- actually what psychologist Robert A. Baker has diagnosed as "a classic, textbook description of a hypnopompic hallucination" (or "waking dream"). Now, several money-making books later, Strieber offers _Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us_. In addition to UFO sightings and close encounters, there is the hard evidence, quite literally -- alien implants!
Implants are the latest rage in UFO circles, and Strieber marshals the diagnostic, radiographic, surgical, photographic, and analytic evidence that supposedly indicates -- but admittedly does not prove -- extraterrestrials are implanting devices in human beings.
The concept of implants is an outgrowth of the modern UFO craze which began in 1947. In the 1960s came reports of alien abductions, events now understood to consist largely of waking dreams, hypnosis-induced fantasies, and hoaxes. Implants seem to have begun with the alleged 1967 abduction of a Massachusetts woman, Betty Andreasson, who described a tiny spiked ball that had supposedly been inserted up her nose.
Soon such devices began to proliferate, one of which survived and was thoroughly investigated by the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in the late 1980s. Possessed by a self-claimed abductee, the object had supposedly been implanted by his extraterrestrial abductors, but was later dislodged when he caught a cold and blew his nose. It proved to be a common ball bearing!
Since 1994 alleged implants have been surgically recovered but they've become remarkably diverse: one looks like a shard of glass, another a triangular piece of metal, still another a carbon fiber, and so on. None was located in the brain or nasal cavity, instead being recovered from such extremities as toe, hand, shin, external ear, etc.; some were accompanied by scars while others were not.
As physicians know, a foreign object can enter the body unnoticed, as during a fall, or while running barefoot in sand or grass -- even as a splinter from a larger impacting object. Such foreign objects may become surrounded by a membrane, like several of the recovered "implants."
In _Confirmation_ Whitley Strieber describes several of the implants including one removed from his own external ear by a physician. It turned out to be collagen, the substance from which cartilage is formed. Strieber admits that the promised "hard evidence" provided by implants is not so hard after all: "I hope this book will not cause a rush to judgement," he writes, "with skeptics trying to prove that evidence so far retrieved is worthless while UFO believers conclude that it is proof. Both approaches are a waste of time, because the conclusive evidence has not yet been gathered."
Of course, it is not skeptics but implant advocates who have the burden of proof -- a burden they have emphatically failed to meet. Indeed, the implant concept -- like the larger alien abduction phenomenon itself -- lacks proof that it has an objective reality. Instead, the evidence indicates it is simply part of an evolving UFO mythology. Its theme of entities exerting influence over humans is one seen in many variants, ranging from ancient mythical lore to modern science fiction and persisting in some form in popular culture. There have always been individuals -- fantasizers as well as paranoid schizophrenics -- who have heard voices that directed or controlled them, voices that are expressions of hopes and fears. Therefore it seems safe to predict that, as the millennium draws near, there will be further claims of "hard evidence" of extraterrestrial visitation. We may also expect that misperceptions and exaggerations of natural phenomena, as well as hoaxes, will abound.
A team of scientists from the United States and Russia headed by Sanjay Limam found in the clouds of Venus some black stripes. Experts believe that they were caused by extraterrestrial life. The researchers intend to continue to do research of the planet to confirm or destroy his theory.
Venus is the second planet farthest from the Sun. She may even, despite the proximity to the main body, may have life. There are scientific concepts, which state that about two million years ago Venus had a suitable climate. Nature and the living organisms are unique creatures that can survive in the most dire of circumstances. For example, there is a bacterium that managed to survive on the moon in outer space. Venus also has an atmosphere that can positively influence the development of life in such harsh conditions.
Speaking about conditions of life on Venus, it should be noted that only the average temperature on this planet is equal to 462 degrees Celsius. Venus itself is covered by the opaque clouds that consist of sulfuric acid. They have good reflectivity, which also hides a planet from view. Because of all these factors raises the greenhouse effect that is causing such high temperatures.
Recently, scientists studied photos of the surface of Venus. They noticed strange objects, which are considered living organisms. According to Sanjaya Limaj, these organisms can be bacteria that live in the clouds of the planet. However, this may not be true. There is only one way to test the theory is to fly to Venus and take samples, but this future will not happen just because all eyes are now focused on Mars.
PHYSICIST SAYS OUR UNIVERSE COULD HAVE SPAWNED FROM A BLACK HOLE
PHYSICIST SAYS OUR UNIVERSE COULD HAVE SPAWNED FROM A BLACK HOLE
According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you’ll eventually reach a singularity– a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown.
Despite our best attempts, we can’t peer past that singularity to see what triggered the birth of our Universe – but we do know of only one other instance in the history of our Universe where a singularity exists, and that’s inside a black hole. And the two events might have more in common than you’ve ever considered, as physicist Ethan Siegel explains over at Forbes.
It might sound a little crazy, but, as Siegel reports, from a mathematical perspective, at least, there’s no reason that our own Big Bang couldn’t have been the result of a star collapsing into a black hole in an alternate, four-dimensional universe.
In fact, the idea was first proposed by theoretical physicists at the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo in Canada back in 2014, and despite physicists’ best attempts, no one has been able to rule it out.
So let’s step back for a second here. What we know about the Big Bang is that, immediately after the singularity, our Universe began expanding. Within a few fractions of a second, it underwent a rapid period of inflation, increasing in size by around 1026, before slowing down again and expanding more gradually.
What we know about black holes, is that, in our three-dimensional Universe, black holes spawn a two-dimensional event horizons – which basically means that they’re wrapped in a two-dimensional boundary that marks the ‘point of no return’ for matter.
Below is an artist’s impression of what that might look like:
What black holes and the Big Bang have in common is that they’re the only two instances of a singularity that we know of in the Universe. (A singularity basically just means a point where the rules that govern our Universe no longer work.)
To the best of our knowledge, our Universe is dictated by two sets of rules: quantum mechanics for all the small stuff like particles; and general relativity for all the bigger stuff, like stars, planets, and you and me.
If you crunch the numbers, black holes defy these rules, because their event horizons are bigger than can be explained by the behaviour of the particles inside it.
“The fact that black holes in our Universe are much more massive than this isn’t a problem,” explains Siegel.
“It simply means that the laws of physics that we know break down at the singularity we calculate at the centre. If we ever want to describe it accurately, it’s going to take a unification of quantum theory with general relativity. It’s going to take a quantum theory of gravity.”
For now, though, we don’t have that ‘theory of everything‘, so our understanding of black holes ends at the singularity – just as our understanding of the Universe does.
Knowing that, three physicists from the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo suggested two years ago that the two singularities could be one and the same – maybe our Universe was born out of the singularity of a much larger black hole.
Or, to put that another way, maybe our Universe is the three-dimensional packaging around another universe’s event horizon.
“In this scenario, our Universe burst into being when a star in a four-dimensional universe collapsed into a black hole,” a Perimeter Institute press release explained back in 2014.
Mathematically speaking, this holds up.
While we can’t calculate what happens with a black hole’s singularity, what we can calculate is what happens on the boundary of the event horizon – and it matches up pretty well with what happened at the birth of our Universe, as Siegel explains.
“As the black hole first formed, from a star’s core imploding and collapsing, the event horizon first came to be, then rapidly expanded and continued to grow in area as more and more matter continued to fall in.
If you were to put a coordinate grid down on this two-dimensional wrapping, you would find that it originated where the gridlines were very close together, then expanded rapidly as the black hole formed, and then expanded more and more slowly as matter fell in at a much lower rate. This matches, at least conceptually, what we observe for the expansion rate of our three-dimensional Universe.”
Of course, this whole idea remains an hypothesis until we have some measurable way of merging the laws of quantum mechanics and general relativity, and peering past a singularity.
But, until then, the coolest thing to consider is that, based on this concept, there’s no reason that our own Universe couldn’t be spawning brand new two-dimensional universes every time black holes are born. “As crazy as it sounds, the answer appears to be maybe,” writes Siegel. Oof.
We can’t wait to eventually get that theory of everything so we can begin to test some of these big ideas out.
You can hear more about the black hole birthing our Universe hypothesis in the video below, and read their full paper on arXiv.org.
Europe’s CryoSat satellite was used – over 7 years – to track 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of Antarctic coastline. It can be seen warm ocean water is eating away at Antarctica’s floating margins.
View larger. | Illustration of the rates of grounding line migration around Antarctica between 2010 and 2016, via ESA.
The European Space Agency said on April 3, 2018, that its CryoSat satellite mission has revealed a shifting inward of the grounding lines of ice sheets in Antarctica. Over the last seven years, according to ESA, Antarctica has lost an area of underwater ice nearly the size of Greater London (about 90 miles, or 140 km across, according to Britannica.com). ESA said the grounding lines – the place where the base of Antarctic ice sheets leave the seabed and begin to float – is shifting inward.
… warm ocean water beneath the continent’s floating margins is eating away at the ice attached to the seabed.
ESA said that between 2010 and 2017, the Southern Ocean melted about 565 square miles (1463 sq km) of underwater ice. A paper describing these results is published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience. The paper describes how CryoSat was used to map grounding-line motion along nearly 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of Antarctic coastline, over seven years.
72 mysterieuze flitsen stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Wat hebben ze ontdekt?
72 mysterieuze flitsen stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Wat hebben ze ontdekt?
Met een telescoop in Chili zijn 72 mysterieuze flitsen waargenomen in verafgelegen sterrenstelsels. Astronomen staan voor een raadsel.
Wetenschappers die onderzoek doen naar supernova’s, de explosies die een einde maken aan het leven van reusachtige sterren, legden 72 krachtige lichtflitsen vast.
De raadselachtige flitsen waren net zo helder als supernova’s, maar piekten in een veel korter tijdsbestek en doofden vervolgens veel sneller uit.
Images of one of the transient events, from eight days before the maximum brightness to 18 days afterward: This outburst took place 4 billion light-years from Earth.
Credit: M. Pursiainen/University of Southampton
Maandenlang
De 72 lichtbronnen zijn vastgelegd met behulp van een telescoop die moet helpen bij het onderzoek naar donkere energie, waarover nog maar weinig bekend is.
Hoofdonderzoeker Miika Pursiainen van de Universiteit van Southampton in Engeland zei dat hij nog geen verklaring heeft kunnen vinden voor dit ongewone fenomeen.
De flitsen waren slechts een week tot een maand aan de hemel te zien, terwijl supernova’s doorgaans maandenlang waarneembaar zijn.
Veel onbeantwoorde vragen
De objecten hebben temperaturen tussen de 10.000 en 30.000 graden en afmetingen van een paar honderd miljoen tot zo’n 15 miljard kilometer.
Mogelijk gaat het om sterren die materiaal uitstoten voordat ze exploderen. In de meest extreme gevallen kan zo’n wolk van gas en stof de ster helemaal omringen. Als een ster explodeert licht ook deze cocon op.
De ontdekkingen zijn door Pursiainen gepresenteerd op een conferentie in Liverpool. “Ons werk laat in ieder geval zien dat er nog steeds veel onbeantwoorde vragen zijn,” zei hij.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETZo’n 65 miljoen jaar geleden stonden de dinosaurussen aan de top van de voedselketen, tot een meteorietinslag abrupt een einde maakte aan hun heerschappij op aarde. Dat is toch de gangbare theorie, maar evolutionair expert Gordon Gallup haalt die denkwijze nu onderuit. Volgens hem waren de dino’s al lang op weg naar de uitgang, en wel wegens een gebrek aan smaak.
Prof. Gallup en zijn voormalige student Michael Frederick menen dat de dinosauriërs al in de problemen zaten en aan het uitsterven waren voor een meteoriet ze helemaal van de kaart veegde. Ze leggen dat uit in een nieuwe studie, die gepubliceerd werd in het vakblad Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. Volgens hen lag een fysiologisch probleem aan de basis van de uitsterving: ze hadden een slecht ontwikkeld smaakvermogen.
Het gaat hier meer bepaald om ‘aangeleerde smaakafkeer’, een evolutionair verdedigingsmechanisme dat je vandaag de dag bij de meeste diersoorten ziet. Dat wil zeggen dat dieren kunnen leren welke voeding voor problemen zorgt, zoals buikpijn, en die in de toekomst gaan vermijden. “Dat is waarom we er nooit in geslaagd zijn om ratten volledig uit te roeien, omdat ze geleerd hebben om om te gaan met toxische voeding. Komen ze iets tegen dat ze nog nooit geproefd hebben, dan proberen ze slechts een klein stukje. Bevalt het hen niet, dan zullen ze het voortaan vermijden, omdat ze de geur en smaak linken aan de negatieve gevolgen.”
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Giftige planten
Dino’s hebben dat mechanisme echter nooit ontwikkeld. Aan het einde van hun tijdperk - de overgang van het Krijt naar het Tertiair - ontstonden de eerste bloeiende planten. Die angiospermae waren vaak giftig, maar de dieren bleven ze toch eten, omdat ze de problemen die ze ondervonden niet konden linken aan de planten in kwestie. Heel wat dinosaurussen bezweken aan de gevolgen van de toxiciteit, en hun aantallen begonnen achteruit te gaan.
Gallup kwam tot die conclusie na onderzoek bij krokodillen, die rechtstreeks afstammen van de dino’s. Ook zij bleken geen onderscheid te kunnen maken tussen gezond en giftig voedsel. “Hoewel de meteoriet zeker zijn rol heeft gespeeld, stond de soort daarvoor al zwaar onder druk. Hun brein was niet genoeg ontwikkeld om te beseffen wat ze wel en niet mochten eten. De huidige theorie impliceert dat de dinosauriërs plotseling verdwenen zijn, maar de bewijzen zeggen iets anders: ze waren al lang voor de meteorietinslag aan het uitsterven.
If you had “God particle” in the “What will cause the end of the universe?” pool, you stand a good chance of winning … but a poor chance of collecting your winnings. According to new research, scientists believe the universe will end when a tiny bubble begins expanding at the speed of light and devours everything it meets. Even scarier, the bubble will form inside the Higgs field. If that name sounds familiar, it’s the field of energy that creates the Higgs boson particle – better known as the “God particle” – which was discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012. If the mass of Higgs boson is altered, it could become the particle in the Higgs field that creates the bubble that eats the universe.
Have you guessed the bad news yet?
“At some point you will create one of these bubbles. It will be very unpleasant.”
Harvard physicist Anders Andreassen is the lead author of the study, published recently in the journal Physical Review D, who links the bubble to Higgs boson. The particle’s mass is currently 125 gigaelectronvolts, but it could change. When it does, the end result is that ever-expanding, universe-killing bubble-to-end-all-bubbles. It’s a good thing that hasn’t happened yet, right? Right?
“It’s possible that a bubble has already formed and is hurtling toward us at the speed of light right now.”
Live Science reports that Andreassen gave that depressing observation in an interview. Hopefully, we’ll at least be able to see it coming and make preparations for our demise, right? Right?
“It is sobering to envision this bubble, with its wall of negative energy, barreling towards us at the speed of light. We will never see it coming.”
Is there any good news or should we storm CERN and shut it down?
The Large Hadron Collider
Fortunately, Andreassen and company have been able to at least figure out approximately when the end of the universe will happen — between 10 quinquadragintillion years (one with 139 zeros after it) and 10 octodecillion years (one with 58 zeros after it).
“That is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time. Our sun will burn up and many things will happen in our solar system before this is very likely to happen.”
Well, that a little good news, right? Right?
Yes, unless you’re one of those physicists who believes the universe will end in a battle between matter and dark matter, which could happen at any time.
Every now and again, when I’m either lecturing on the Men in Black phenomenon, or being interviewed on radio on the subject, the matter of Jello surfaces. Yeah, really. It’s a fact that the MIB and Jello have a connection, as strange as it certainly sounds. Google “Men in Black + Jello” and you’ll see what I mean. You will find numerous references online to a certain case from the 1960s – involving a Man in Black and Jello. But, not everyone knows the full story. So, today, I thought I would rectify that.
John Keel, the author of the acclaimed 1975 book, The Mothman Prophecies, was someone who had a deep interest in the Men in Black enigma and who even found himself in their clutches from time to time. Of the many cases that Keel personally investigated, one of the strangest has persisted – probably because of its sheer weirdness. It’s a story which had its origins in late 1966. And, it’s a story which Keel shared in his 1970 book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. Keel also made mention of the case on many occasions in his lectures, too. But, on with the story.
The location was a field in a rural part of the 19th century city of Owatonna, Minnesota. It was late one night in ’66 when a Mrs. Butler and a friend were staring at a patch of the night sky, watching a curious display of unidentified bright lights dance around. Without warning, one of the lights dropped from the heavens at high speed. Just before it hit the ground, the UFO came to a sudden halt, bobbing just a few feet above the field, not unlike a small boat on ocean waters. In disturbing fashion, Mrs. Butler fell to the ground and briefly appeared to be under some kind of supernatural possession. Suddenly, the light shot away, vanishing into the night sky, and Mrs. Butler recovered. Ominously, and for the next few days, whenever the two friends tried to share the details of their encounter they were hit by pummeling migraines and debilitating weakness. But, there was something else, too.
During the course of the interview between Mrs. Butler and John Keel, something very intriguing surfaced. Quite out of the blue, she asked Keel if he knew anything about mysterious men visiting UFO witnesses; men who looked like military personnel, but who may not have been. Keel, who was hardly a stranger to the MIB phenomenon, played matters down a bit and said that, yes, he had heard a few such stories. Actually, Keel had dozens of such cases on record, but he didn’t want to risk influencing Mrs. Butler. Instead, Keel sat back and listened as she told her story.
Mrs. Butler told Keel that some six months after the UFO sighting, a “Major Richard French” turned up on her doorstep, identifying himself as a representative of the military and asking questions about flying saucers. Just like all of the Men in Black, there was something just not right about Major French: his skin was an odd shade of olive. His face was extremely pointed, and particularly so his chin. He spoke English, but his accent was as blank as it could be. And he was dressed in a suit and a black tie, rather than in a military outfit.
Very oddly, Major French – quite out of the blue – said that his stomach was causing him some trouble. Mrs. Butler offered him some Jello, which he quickly declined. He soon left. The next day, though, the major was back. Yet again, he complained about his stomach. Mrs. Butler again offered him a bowl of Jello, hoping that it might help. Here is where surreal became beyond surreal. For a moment or two, Major French stared at the Jello, seemingly completely unaware of what it was. He then stared at the spoon Mrs. Butler had given him, as if he had no comprehension of what it was. He then awkwardly picked up the bowl and proceeded to try and drink the Jello. Mrs. Butler went silent and stared in disbelief. Major French did not hang around, realizing, it seems, that Mrs. Butler knew something was not quite normal – which is an understatement of absolutely epic proportions. He quickly left, never again bothering Mrs. Butler.
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Large ROGUE object moving under the Sun
Large ROGUE object moving under the Sun
Over the years there is much written about a celestial body hidden out of sight that has not been discovered yet, although evidence is building, astronomers say as well as NASA has admitted that that there is a mysterious world called Planet Nine.
The theory is that a mysterious celestial body is lurking on the edge of our solar system with a huge orbit of the sun and although there are many videos showing an unknown huge celestial body often called as a second sun, Nibiru or PlanetX maybe the best example of a possible planetary body near the sun has been caught on the following video.
The video clearly shows an unknown massive object that orbits the sun. MrMB333 who has uploaded the video wonders whether the object is a planetary body, a binary star, or something else what can be explained.
Black UFO Comes Out Of Cloud Recorded By Passenger On Jet, March 2018, 2 videos, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Comes Out Of Cloud Recorded By Passenger On Jet, March 2018, 2 videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2018 Location of sighting: USA Here is a black mostly cloaked UFO following a passenger plane and was noticed by a person looking out his window. The UFO is seen rising up out of the lower clouds and then turns and begins to follow the direction of the plane, but keeping its distance. This is the same type of alien craft that I reported back in 2015, also seen by a passenger from a jet. I will place the video which is mine from the eyewitness at the bottom of this post to compare and contrast. Click here to see that old 2015 post. The dark UFO hides in the clouds and when a passing jet interests it, it comes out to take a closer look. The UFO is scanning the plane, gathering information and even recording the thoughts of the passengers. Yes, most aliens can hear your thoughts when close. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Something Strange or UFO Coming Out of The Clouds Next To Plane.
Below is my video on my Channel from an eyewitness back in July of 2015.
Now the USAF is reporting that an F-16 crashed while doing training at Nellis AFB, however I think its all a cover up. You see, Nellis AFB is famous for having an alien base of Tall Whites located behind the old firing range. I believe that a Tall White ship saw the moves of a F-16 as threatening and shot it down. For instance the F-16 could have locked its laser tracking missile system on the UFO...that could be seen as threatening. Tall Whites are said to be hyper aggressive. Tall Whites see themselves as superior to humans and have killed USAF soldiers before for such things as pushing a child Tall White away from your gun, touching a child Tall White at all, or defying any demand they make. Yeah, not the superior species many hoped for, but the US military seems to think there is a great benefit in having them there, probably for military trade. Do you want to learn more about the Tall Whites at Nellis? Then watch this interview of a man who was a non military go between for the Tall Whites and the USAF. Scott C. Waring
Science fiction has had a profound impact on our cultural consciousness when it comes to how we imagine what advanced alien races might be like. In some ways, sci-fi has shaped the contemporary imagination, leading to a great deal of misinterpretation of phenomena we observe in space. We just really want there to be massive motherships zooming through the universe, living out real-life space operas that would put Battlestar Galactica or the Bloodbath of B-R5RB to shame. At least, I really want that to be real. Whether it is or not, astronomers have recently observed what can only be described as a series of extremely bright explosions in space, and there is so far no good explanation. Have we witnessed an intergalactic battle in deep space?
It’d be a lot cooler if we did. Unfortunately, this was likely just another natural phenomenon. We’re utterly alone out here.
The events were detected by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme (DES-SN), a collaborative program carried out at 25 different astronomical institutions which is aimed at tracking down and identifying supernovae and dark matter in the vast black reaches of space. According to their estimates, these explosions – or whatever they were – occurred in a corner of the universe around 4 billion light years away. These mysterious events were extremely hot, with temperatures ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 degrees Celsius (our Sun’s surface temperature, by comparison, is around 5,000 Celsius on average). These explosions were also enormous, ranging in size from several times the distance from Earth to Sun to up to a hundred. Whatever these events were, they were terrifying to behold.
Astronomers with The Royal Society still aren’t sure what exactly could have caused these bright explosions. Typically, supernovae last several months, but these events displayed maximum brightness for only a week or so. One theory posits that a powerful supernovae could have incinerated a cloud of material ejected from a dying star, although much more data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. Although I have to wonder: would we be able to identify something truly anomalous or unique if we witnessed it? Or what scientists reach for the most likely explanation based on our current knowledge, publish the paper, and move on?
It’s hard to say. Miika Pursiainen of the University of Southampton has been analyzing the data but has so far been left with more questions than answers. “If nothing else,” she says, our work confirms that astrophysics and cosmology are still sciences with a lot of unanswered questions!” When it comes to the mysteries of space, aren’t those the best kind? With the Earth feeling much smaller than it ever did, we need something grand to explore.
The aptly named Shroud of Turin has been shrouded in mystery since its appearance in the mid-14th century. Stored in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, it is considered by many to bear the image of Jesus of Nazareth, miraculously transferred to the cloth when it allegedly wrapped the body after burial. Others who believe the carbon dating which indicates the cloth was made in the mid-14th century refer to the mysterious image as the Man in the Shroud. Whoever it is, we now had a 3D sculpture of the image, courtesy of Giulio Fanti, a teacher of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua in Padua, Italy, and a student of the Shroud.
Full-length photo of the Shroud of Turin
“This statue is the three-dimensional representation in actual size of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion. Therefore, we believe that we finally have the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth. From now on, He may no longer be depicted without taking this work into account.”
From that quote in the Italian weekly magazine Chi and reported by Turin’s La Stampa news source, there seems to be no doubt in Fanti’s mind whose image is on the shroud … and now on a three-dimensional statue (picture here). While is well-protected in Turin from both the curious and the elements (the last public viewing was arranged by Pope Francis in 2013), Giulio Fanti has had access to the Shroud and numerous photographs and tests of it in his quest to prove its validity and disprove the carbon-dating tests. He’s the head of the Shroud Science Group, about 140 scientists dedicated to study of it, and has authored 8 books and more than 50 scientific works on the Shroud.
As a professor of mechanical engineering, Fanti was an ideal candidate to look at the two-dimensional measurements of the Man in the Shroud as a blueprint and translate them into three-dimensional directions which were then given to plaster master Sergio Rodella, who made the actual statue. In that respect, it’s no surprise that the ‘man in the statue’, like the Man in the Shroud, measures 5 feet, 11 inches in height, has a beard, long hair and Caucasian features, and looks like a man who died traumatically.
“On the Shroud, I counted 370 wounds from the flagellation, without taking into account the wounds on his sides, which the Shroud doesn’t show because it only enveloped the back and front of the body. We can therefore hypothesize a total of at least 600 blows. In addition, the three-dimensional reconstruction has made it possible to discover that at the moment of his death, the man of the Shroud sagged down towards the right, because his right shoulder was dislocated so seriously as to injure the nerves.”
The wounds may match a crucifixion, but the size and features don’t match what other historians believe Jesus of Nazareth looked like. In her new book, “What Did Jesus Look Like?“, Joan Taylor, professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London, used archaeology, images on coins and in paintings, and texts from the time period to determine what Jews in Judea and Egypt at the time of Jesus looked like. From that, Taylor thinks Jesus was about 5 feet 5 inches (1.7 meters) tall with brown eyes, black hair and olive-brown skin … but no long hair, beard or European nose and features. (Depictions here)
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin
Scientifically speaking, Fanti has created an accurate 3-D statue of the Man in the Shroud, and Taylor has depicted an accurate image of what a Jewish man living in Nazareth at the time of Jesus would look like. Do either conclusively prove or disprove the identity of the Man in the Shroud? No. Does the Catholic Church or any other religious body require belief that the Man in the Shroud is Jesus of Nazareth? No.
7 UFO’s waargenomen bij ruimtestation ISS. Worden we in de gaten gehouden?
7 UFO’s waargenomen bij ruimtestation ISS. Worden we in de gaten gehouden?
Geclaimd wordt dat op livebeelden van de NASA in totaal zeven UFO’s zijn gezien bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Dat schrijft de Daily Star.
Beelden van de onbekende objecten zijn op YouTube gezet door ene ‘Graham’. Hij denkt dat we binnen nu en 15 jaar oog in oog zullen komen te staan met aliens.
Hij merkte op dat wereldwijd steeds meer UFO-waarnemingen worden gedaan. “We worden in de gaten gehouden en geobserveerd als onderdeel van een soort enorm laboratoriumexperiment,” zei hij.
Niet vijandig
“Ik ben van mening dat de andere rassen die onze planeet bezoeken niet vijandig zijn,” voegde Graham toe.
“De technologie waar ze over beschikken stelt hen in staat om enorme afstanden te overbruggen,” klonk het. “Ze zouden ons in een oogwenk kunnen vernietigen.”
Het feit dat we er nog zijn betekent dat ze hier zijn om ons te helpen of te observeren, aldus Graham.
Disclosure
De objecten verschenen op 31 maart bij het ISS. De man heeft de beelden op zijn kanaal Conspiracy Depot gezet.
“Uiteindelijk zullen ze zichzelf bekend maken,” zei Graham nog. “Ik denk dat disclosure binnen nu en 15 jaar zal plaatsvinden.”
Critici zeiden dat de objecten mogelijk fragmenten waren van het op hol geslagen Chinese ruimtestation Tiangong-1, dat onlangs naar beneden kwam.
The Atacama Cover-up: How Global Disclosure is being hijacked by the Intelligence Community AND Close-Encounters of the 5th Kind: The Ultimate Civil Disobedience Action.
The first country to consider hosting an Embassy for Extraterrestrials
The first country to consider hosting an Embassy for Extraterrestrials
Raelians starting negotiations with first country to consider hosting an Embassy for Extraterrestrials
Thousands of Raelians worldwide will hold public events on March 31st – day that founder and spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, Rael, declared “ET Embassy Day,” in order to raise awareness about their major project: the building of an Embassy to welcome an extraterrestrial civilization to earth.
“This year is very special,’’ said Raelian Guide Daniel Turcotte, Rael’s assistant for the ET Embassy Project. ‘’Up until now, several countries had shown a genuine interest for this very auspicious project, but this year, for the first time, a country has invited Raelian representatives to discuss this unique and enthusiastic project.’’
“This week, the host country candidate has been handed an optional protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, provisionally titled the “Optional Protocol Concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials,” explained Turcotte. “The meeting also addressed the possibility for this country to hold the first international conference to discuss this protocol.”
Turcotte explained that the country granting a land, the necessary extraterritoriality, and the authorization for the ET Embassy to be built within its territory will not only benefit financially, but will also become the spiritual and scientific center of the planet for millennia to come, and happiness will prevail within its borders.
‘’Welcoming an extraterrestrial civilization isn’t a mere fantasy the way it was viewed as in the 70s when Rael created the Raelian Movement with the mission of building an Embassy to welcome them,” added Turcotte. “Since then, thousands of planets have been discovered including some with an atmosphere and all the necessary elements to sustain life. Not to mention that scientists now agree that the probability of intelligent life outside our solar system is very high, and millions of people have seen UFOs and know that an extraterrestrial civilization is showing interest in us, thus confirming this probability.”
“The conditions for the general population to accept the idea of an official welcome are met, but violence on our planet is so high that we need the wisdom of those who created us and who want to meet us again more than ever,” concluded Turcotte.
Raelians believe that an extraterrestrial civilization created all life on Earth including human beings, and they believe it is a very peaceful and far more advanced civilization compared to ours, both scientifically and philosophically.
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Aliens could soon make contact, claims conspiracy theorist
Aliens could soon make contact, claims conspiracy theorist
The evidence presented by Graham was obtained during a live feed from the ISS on March 31.
(Youtube Screengrab/ Conspiracy Depot)
In a bizarre revelation, a conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of seven UFOs lingering above Earth.
The theorist not only believes it to be proof of existence but is also sure that the aliens are probably friendly.
The unknown conspiracy theorist, who simply goes by the name ‘Graham’ claims that with so many ‘sightings’ from ISS, the aliens could come face-toface-with humans in as little time as 15 years.
Talking to the Daily Star, the UFO-tracking conspiracy theorist said aliens are here and making their way to us.
He added that with increased sighting all across the world, it is possible that humans are being watched and observed like a ‘large planet sized scale lab experiment.’
He went on to add, “I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.”
He backs his claim by saying that with all the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, they could wipe humans out in the blink of an eye and the fact that nothing has happened means “they are here to help or observe.'
The evidence presented by Graham was obtained during a live feed from the ISS on March 31.
He then uploaded the edited footage to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot.
It was revealed that the UFOs were observed between 11:20 pm BST and 11:50 pm BST.
However, not all are convinced, with many attempting to discredit the claims, saying that the anomalies could be fragments of the Tiangong-1 Chinese space station in one of its last orbits around Earth.
It’s pretty hard to have a level-headed conversation about aliens, except if you’re super skeptical, which you should probably be. But if you really want to understand astrobiology, or the science of life outside of earth, it’s crucial to understand how to talk about extraterrestrial life without sounding like the guyfrom Ancient Aliens. (Sorry, Giorgio Tsoukalos.)
On the series premiere of I Need My Space, Inverse’s first-ever podcast, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak tells hosts Rae Paoletta and Steve Ward that he and NASA are looking for different types of ET. For us Earthlings, it pays to know the difference.
“The [former] chief scientist for NASA [Ellen Stofan] said about two years ago … that within two decades we’d have god proof of ‘biology elsewhere,’ biology beyond Earth,” Shostak says. “Mind you, what NASA’s looking for is life that’s maybe not so clever. [Stofan] was likely talking about life on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, maybe on Mars.”
Icy plumes on Enceladus
Shostak’s driving at the difference between a hypothetical alien microbe and something more sophisticated. About a decade ago, Shostak bet a crowd of attendees at a talk in Germany we’d find a signal from intelligent life within two dozen years. If he was wrong, Shostak said he’d buy them all a cup of coffee.
Clearly, we haven’t found evidence of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. But scientists have some ideas about where alien microbes could be hiding. Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, is a prime suspect since it appears to contain all the necessary ingredients for life. Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is similarly a favorite among astrobiologists, since it contains a large subterranean ocean like Enceladus’s. Where there’s (probably) water, there’s (maybe) life.
Finding intelligent life is clearly more complicated, and this is where SETI comes in: the institute listens for radio and/or light signals that could be sent from distant, civilized aliens. No luck so far, but Shostak says he stands by his bet and doesn’t plan on buying that coffee any time soon.
“It hasn’t been two dozen years, and I’m not willing to give them the coffee before that because I really can’t afford it,” he says. “But I am buying some Starbucks stock to hedge against it.”
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HOLLY TOWNSHIP (WJRT) (04/03/18) - Strange lights filled the sky along I-75, capturing the attention of dozens of people Sunday night.
Several of them pulled over near the Grange Hall Road interchange around 9:30 p.m. to capture video of them.
The array of lights moving in waves through the evening sky were hard to explain. Some even wondered whether Mid-Michigan was being paid a visit from parts unknown.
"At first I started doing a video, then I thought, no way, I need to do a Facebook Live because nobody's going to believe me," said Kaylin Adams, who recorded the strange lights.
She couldn't quite believe what she was seeing herself.
"I saw at first they were blue lights and they were just kind of in line, because they were just kind of waving. That's what caught my eye first," Adams said.
Then the lights started moving in strange ways, like nothing they had ever seen before.
"It changed formations and started changing colors. At one point they all got in line and changed to red, white and blue and then got in a jumbled formation," Adams said.
She didn't know what to think of the sight unfolding in front of her eyes.
"Everyone was saying it was aliens and UFOs. I had no idea, at first. I was just so mind blown," Adams said.
For 24 hours she wondered. Her videos posted to Facebook got hundreds of thousands of views.
Monday evening, she and everyone else mesmerized by the lights got their answer. A local drone company was testing their show over a field on Grange Hall Road used by remote controlled aircraft.
Adams said the reaction to her short video is even more surprising than the light show itself.
"It's been crazy. The one video that I posted has 250,000 views on it," she said Tuesday afternoon. "I'm just so shocked to the reaction to it."
DONNA HUNT: Local UFO sightings date back 140 years
DONNA HUNT: Local UFO sightings date back 140 years
THIS sketch by Jim Shelton was given by him to Denison Herald in 1981 as his depiction of a UFO he saw in May of that year
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By Donna Hunt, For the Herald Democrat
Back in 2005 when I told my husband I was going to write a column on unidentified flying objects, he told me not to do it because it would open a real can of worms. He was so smart. Today when I pulled my UFO file out of the cabinet, it is at least an inch thick.
But here goes again. This morning, I read an article by Dana Branham in The Dallas Morning News about a Dallas lawyer looking for a gravestone for a Martian named Ned that had been stolen from a cemetery in Aurora, Texas. It rang a bell.
Sure enough, about half the articles in my file contain information, not about a gravestone, but about a sighting in January 1878 in the Denison Daily News. That’s pretty close to the April 1897 date that Ned, the Martian is supposed to have crashed his spaceship in Aurora, northwest of Dallas.
An early day article in The Denison Herald questioned whether the 1878 sighting could have been the first printed report of a UFO sighting that took place, quoting John Martin, a farmer living some six miles north of Dallas, who said on a Tuesday morning, while he was out hunting, his attention was directed to a dark object high up in the northern sky.
He said the peculiar shape and the velocity with which the object seemed to approach riveted his attention and he trained his eyes to discover its character. He said it was about the size of an orange and continued to grow in size. After watching it for some time he said he became blind from long-looking and left off viewing it for a time to rest his eyes. When he resumed looking, the object was almost overhead, he said, and had increased considerably in size as it went through space at what he called “a wonderful speed.”
When it was directly over him, it was about the size of a large saucer or as he could judge at such a distance, a balloon that seemed to him to be the most reasonable solution of the strange phenomenon. It left as quickly as it had appeared and he soon lost sight in the southern sky Martin said.
This “saucer” hadn’t yet been associated with UFOs and wouldn’t become a part of the UFO craze for almost 75 years. But unexplained objects high up in the sky have been around a lot longer that that, at least in the North Texas sky.
Bonham in Fannin County had a sighting even before the 1878 one in Denison. According to an Internet timetable of the “unexplained.” In 1873, it is said that a huge cigar-shaped object swooped low over Bonham on two occasions in broad daylight then disappeared quickly to the east.
A Bonham farmer in June of that year said he looked up from his work and was astonished by what looked like an enormous flying snake, banded with brilliant yellow swipes, writhing and twisting in the sky above him.
Another Internet article titled “Serpents in the Sky,” went into greater detail about the “sighting.” It related that in broad daylight a fast moving object appeared in the sky southwest of Bonham. The people there first stared at it, not believing their eyes. It is believed that they may have seen drifting balloons before, but this was so large and traveling so fast that it was almost a blur, according to the article.
The story goes that farmers were so scared that they dived under their wagons and towns people ran inside. Only a few of the braver were said to have stood their ground and watched as the object circled Bonham twice then vanished. Some said the object was round and others said oval to cigar shaped. Twenty-four hours later, a device of the same description was sighted over Fort Scott, Kansas.
Another article from the internet headlined “The Aurora Crash” takes us back to the April 17, 1897, spaceship crash in Aurora that was seen approaching the city heading in a southwest direction. This was a long time before such a crash had taken place in Roswell, New Mexico.
In Aurora, the UFO was said to have crashed into a windmill early one morning and broke into many pieces, destroying the UFO and the only inhabitant that was inside. However, once an investigation was begun, it was said that the farm on which the craft crashed had no windmill.
When word got out of the crash and Aurora citizens went to see for themselves, they found what was described as a “small being not of this world” that was badly disfigured. They called the being a “Martian pilot” and buried the body in the local cemetery and even gave it a headstone. That is what Dallas attorney Stratton Horres wants to find and is offering a $1,000 reward for, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
It’s a little ironic, but the missing grave marker that accompanied the Dallas News article and a sketch given to the Denison Herald by Jim Shelton in 1981 are almost the same. Shelton’s sketch depicts a UFO that he saw in May that year that he described as “cigar-like shaped” with fire streaming in sparks from the rear and green and yellow pulsating lights. Ned’s grave marker, according to the photo, was a large irregular shaped boulder with the cigar shaped craft carved into it. It appears to have three windows where Shelton’s drawing is the same shape with six window openings in it. Someone has written on the Aurora marker, “Rest in peace, my alien brother.”
A free tour of the UFO crash site and Ned’s grave are on tap in Aurora for April 28 this year to mark the 121st anniversary of the reported crash.
There have been lots of other so-called “sightings” in the North Texas area, one even sighted on long-range radar at Perrin Air Force Base in 1953. A radar technician at Perrin said he was performing routine maintenance on a Plan Position Indicator when he saw a huge blip in the New York area. At the time, Perrin was a long-range early warning base.
Radio contact told Denver and Salt Lake bases of the sighting and they confirmed it. F-86 fighters from Perrin and others from Denver and Salt Lake were ordered to intercept and destroy. They were staggered at altitudes of 500 feet to try to get the sighting.
The last report that I found was written in 2005 and said the formation seemed to be heading toward Dallas. The radar technician said they watched as the fighters headed toward the objects that had crossed the border of Oklahoma into Texas. The object stopped, made a right turn and took off toward the northwest at a terrific speed.
He said there were eight officer radar operators and three radar techs in the tech’s hut during the episode and within 10 minutes of the last sighting, a group of about eight men in civilian suits and 14 uniformed armed guards came into the hut, separated the group and took them at gunpoint to a hangar on the back side of the field where they were interrogated for about four hours. During that time they had to draw diagrams of what they saw and write a narrative of everything that took place. He said the “fear of God” was put into them to NEVER talk about it to anyone. In fact, he said they had to sign a document that threatened them with a $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act.
The radar operator, who would be in his 90s or older now, has spoken in defiance of the document that he signed. He continued to say that the objects violated the laws of physics and he doubted that they were from this earth. It’s not known whether he is still living.
After decades of looking to the outer solar system and beyond for signs of extraterrestrial life, an international team of scientists is suggesting that humanity take another look at a planet a little closer to home: Venus.
Although the surface of Venus is much too hot and inhospitable for life as we know it, scientists have long thought that microbes could be comfortably reproducing in the clouds of the Venusian atmosphere. Now, a new study in the journal Astrobiology suggests that dark patches in the atmosphere of Venus could, just possibly, be caused by light-absorbing bacteria. To find out, the study authors want to send a floating aircraft to comb the skies of Venus.
Earth's sister Venus, the second rock from the sun, is similar in size, mass, and composition to our home planet—but that is generally where the comparisons end. The planet's atmosphere is 96.5 percent carbon dioxide and almost 3.5 percent nitrogen. The runaway greenhouse climate keeps surface temperatures hovering around 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius), while atmospheric pressures on Venus can be as high as pressures a kilometer deep in the oceans of Earth.
But for all the planet's seemingly inhospitable traits, “Venus has had plenty of time to evolve life on its own,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Sanjay Limaye, who led the new study, in a press release. Limaye points to models that suggest Venus could have sustained a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. “That’s much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars,” says Limaye.
A composite image of the planet Venus as seen by the Japanese probe Akatsuki. The clouds of Venus could have environmental conditions conducive to microbial life.
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American and Soviet probes studying Venus in the 1960s and 70s revealed that the temperature and pressure conditions in the lower and middle portions of the Venusian atmosphere—around 25–27 miles up from the surface—do not necessarily preclude life. In 1967, Carl Sagan co-authored a paper with noted biophysicist Harold Morowitz suggesting that life could exist in the clouds. "While the surface conditions of Venus make the hypothesis of life there implausible, the clouds of Venus are a different story altogether," Sagan and Morowitz wrote.
A chance encounter convinced Limaye to give the planet another look. Talking with co-author of the new paper Grzegorz Słowik of Poland’s University of Zielona Góra, Limaye learned about bacteria on Earth with light-absorbing properties. With a group of researchers, they noted similarities between the bacteria and a mystery within the atmosphere of Venus: dark spots in the atmosphere.
NASA has studied "an unknown UV absorber" embedded within the Venusian clouds. In presentation slides, the agency says that "the unknown UV absorber has been a subject of intense scrutiny since the dawn of the space age." At the moment, the only probes which have observed this phenomenon have lacked the technical capability to distinguish between materials of an organic or inorganic nature. This unknown absorber, Limaye's team suggests, could be alien bacteria in the clouds of Venus.
“On Earth, we know that life can thrive in very acidic conditions, can feed on carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid,” says Rakesh Mogul, a professor of biological chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a co-author on the new paper. Similarly harsh conditions might be able to sustain life amongst the clouds of Venus, something the team suggests could be similar to algae in lakes on Earth—except floating in the clouds.
There are many unknowns surrounding the new hypothesis, including when exactly Venus's water supply evaporated. Limaye and his colleagues have an idea for how to get find the answers: the Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform, better known as VAMP. A hypothetical aircraft proposed by Northrop Grumman, the VAMP would steer like a plane and float like a blimp through the skies of Venus, taking samples of the Venusian atmosphere. This craft would carry instruments capable of identifying living microorganisms.
“To really know, we need to go there and sample the clouds,” says Mogul. “Venus could be an exciting new chapter in astrobiology exploration.”
The Pyramids Of Giza As Seen From Space Photographed By the ESA
The Pyramids Of Giza As Seen From Space Photographed By the ESA
Who said you can’t see the Pyramids of Giza from space? A new image provided by ESA’s Proba-1 spacecraft has captured in stunning detail the Pyramids of the Giza plateau, proving that you can, in fact, see the magnificent structures from space.
The Great Pyramid of Giza and its accompanying structures located on the Giza plateau have remained an enigma for archaeologists and scholars for hundreds of years.
Shrouded in mystery, the Great Pyramid of Giza is without a doubt one of the most mind-boggling monuments ever erected on Earth, and its beauty is even visible from space.
The European Space Agency recently published a stunning image of the Giza plateau starring the Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
As the ESA’s Proba-1 Spacecraft passed over Egypt, its cameras caught a glimpse of the stunning ancient monuments. Proba-1 is a Belgian satellite that was outfitted with two cameras capable of capturing high-resolution images of the planet. The minisatellite, launched in 2001, is the ESA’s longest-serving Earth-observing mission, reports CNET.
A view looking north to south of Egypt’s famous Giza Pyramid Complex, as seen by ESA’s Proba-1 minisatellite.
The space agency decided to share the image of the bird’s-eye view of the Giza pyramid complex on Wednesday.
ESA’s photograph offers a perspective from north to south.
At the center of the image is we can see the smaller Pyramid of Menkaure, said to have been built to house the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh for which it is named.
If we take a look to the left of Menakure, we will spot the larger pyramid of Khafre standing tall at 488 feet.
Next to it, below and to the left of Khafre, we can spot the largest of the pyramids at the Giza plateau, the Great Pyramid of Giza, aka the Pyramid of Khufu.
It is believed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built thousands of years ago by the ancient Egyptians which erected the stunning monument in around 20 years.
The structure is believed to have been completed in 2560 BC.
Thousands of years ago, the ancient builders of the Pyramid used more than 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 50 tons each to build a structure that would stand the test of time.
The outer mantle of the Great Pyramid of Giza was composed of 144,000 casing stones, all of them highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing approximately 15 tons each.
Astrophysicist: ETs May Have Already Lived And Died In Our Solar System
Astrophysicist: ETs May Have Already Lived And Died In Our Solar System
As science continues to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrials and, at the very least, for habitable planets that might harbor even non-intelligent life, one scientist is raising another eye-opening question: Was there a time in the far distant past when an advanced civilization actually lived on one of the planets of our solar system, long before earthlings evolved?
Pennsylvania State University astrophysicist Jason T. Wright suggests that ancient aliens may have lived on nearby planets hundreds of millions of years ago, before vanishing without a trace.
In a new scientific paper, “Prior Indigenous Technological Species,” published in Cornell University’s research archive, ArXiv, on April 24, Wright speculates:
One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere in the solar system. Implicit in much of this work is that we are looking for microbial or, at best, unintelligent life, even though technological artifacts might be much easier to find.
But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the solar system, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day.
Here, I discuss the origins and possible locations for technosignatures of such a prior indigenous technological species, which might have arisen on ancient Earth or another body, such as a pre-greenhouse Venus or a wet Mars.
HuffPost asked Wright how far back in time he thinks aliens might have lived in our solar system and if some of them may still be lingering out there.
“It seems pretty clear there aren’t any now. That’s become more clear as we’ve explored the solar system robotically. In terms of large, intelligent, technological civilizations, that seems pretty case closed,” he said in an interview Friday.
While Wright pays tribute to the imaginations that created tales of Martians and moon dwellers in his paper, he remained cautiously open-minded about what’s possible in time and space. “While the applications of this idea in science fiction are usually fanciful, it is unclear to what degree the existence of such species in reality is allowed or disallowed by evidence,” he wrote.
In the interview, he said he thinks it’s interesting to wonder if there could have been a previous species on Earth that used technology like we do and if there’s any room in the geological or fossil record for that, or have we completely foreclosed it?
“My guess is that we can rule out big swaths of the Earth’s history. The farther back you go, the harder it is to rule something like that out. If they’re very old, there may not be any traces. Things don’t last long. If you put something in orbit around the sun, it’ll be subject to collisions with asteroids and meteors.
“So, anything, including planetary surfaces in the solar system, just gets constantly hit with these things. When you’re on the surfaces of objects, like asteroids or moons or planets, those surfaces can also completely turn over, given enough time.”
NASA defines astrobiology as “the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. This multidisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our solar system and habitable planets outside our solar system.”
Wright told HuffPost of two important ingredients in looking for signs of life somewhere in space.
“In the field of astrobiology, we talk about what are called biosignatures. If you look at a planet or a moon that has life on it, how would you know? What is the signature ― the signal ― that says this is life and not a completely sterile object? So, that’s a biosignature.
“A technosignature is the same idea but not for any life― it’s for the technology that’s been engineered and constructed and designed by life. For instance, a radio transmitter would be one of our most obvious technosignatures. And we build large structures. The Empire State Building is a technosignature.”
According to Wright, it’s important to keep searching.
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NASA Scientist Finds Massive Alien Spacecraft Hiding In Saturn’s Rings
NASA Scientist Finds Massive Alien Spacecraft Hiding In Saturn’s Rings
“I say it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it I knew were what we called ‘potential lines’ — and that says it was electrical. I could tell that those lines demarked the outside of an object,” he added.
A Former NASA Engineer has made headlines around the globe after claiming that supermassive alien spacecraft exist in our solar system and are hiding within Saturn’s massive rings.
Dr Norman Bergrun@DrNormanBergrun
Is Enceladus an electromagnetic vehicle supplying material for Saturn's E-ring? Enceladus
These claims were quickly spread by both American and Russian mainstream media outlets—which is kinda’ weird—suggesting that not only are there alien spacecraft around Saturn, but these mysterious objects exist around other planets like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
The former NASA engineer, Dr. Norman Bergrun—who happens to be a vivid UFO researcher—believesthe alien spacecraft are actually ‘feeding off of the energy of the planet’ via the rings, in order to “proliferate,” which he believes is a worrying situation.
And these spacecrafts aren’t new to the solar system says Dr. Bergrun. The former NASA boffin has been saying how alien spacecraft are proliferating in our solar system since 1986, when he published his book “Ringmakers of Saturn.”
As noted by the Inquisitr: “Bergrun is a distinguished former NASA research engineer who has made major innovative contributions to multiple U.S. aeronautic, missile and rocket programs. He has also won many top science and engineering awards, including the California Society of Professional Engineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award.”
But Bergrun’s statements have been heavily criticized since he appeared on the controversial YouTube Channel of SecureTeam10, noted for posting countless UFO related videos, which many skeptics have called out as being fake.
Dr. Bergrun has spoken not long ago in a video published by SecureTeam10’s YouTube channel where he explains the mystery behind Saturn’s, its rings, and the numerous alien spacecraft that he claims reside there.
In the video, Dr. Bergrun speaks of “long cylindrical objects” in the rings that appear to have “exhaust systems” among other apparently amazing findings, reports Sputnik News.
In his book Ringmakers of Saturn, published in 1986, Dr. Bergrun claimed that not only were Saturn’s ring ‘plagued’ by alien spacecraft, these otherworldly visitors may have been responsible for the ‘creation of the rings’.
In 2016, Dr. Bergrun said that these mysterious crafts inhabit Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter: “I say it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it I knew were what we called ‘potential lines’ — and that says it was electrical. I could tell that those lines demarked the outside of an object,” he added.
UFO hunters and paranormal researchers believe in Dr. Bergrun’s story, saying that Bergrun most likely witnessed top-secret NASA images during his time working on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and Lockheed Martin on highly classified aerospace projects.
His conclusions, according to UFO researchers, are based on the evidence he gathered from the images.
MIT computer scientists have developed SoFi – a soft, robot fish made of silicone rubber – that can swim alongside real fish in the ocean.
Computer scientists at MIT have unveiled a new, soft robot fish that can independently swim alongside real fish in the ocean. They call their robot fish SoFi and described the work in an article published March 21, 2018, in the peer-reviewed journal Science Robotics. The article is online here.
During test dives in the Rainbow Reef in Fiji, SoFi swam at depths of more than 50 feet [15 meters] for up to 40 minutes at once, nimbly handling currents and taking high-resolution photos and videos using (what else?) a fisheye lens.
Using its undulating tail and a unique ability to control its own buoyancy, SoFi can swim in a straight line, turn, or dive up or down. The team also used a waterproofed Super Nintendo controller and developed a custom acoustic communications system that enabled them to change SoFi’s speed and have it make specific moves and turns.
Robert Katzschmann is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and lead author of the new research. He said:
To our knowledge, this is the first robotic fish that can swim untethered in three dimensions for extended periods of time.
We are excited about the possibility of being able to use a system like this to get closer to marine life than humans can get on their own.
The research team pointed out that, even with many technological advances in recent years, documenting marine life up close remains a challenging task. They pointed to recent rare footage of an elusive Greenland shark that can live more than 400 years. It revealed how little we know about life in the coldest oceans, and in the oceans in general.
These scientists hope that SoFI can help shed light on the ocean’s mysteries.
Bottom line: MIT computer scientists have developed SoFi – a soft, robot fish made of silicone rubber – that can swim alongside real fish in the ocean.
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Finding Aliens: Scientists to take help of Artificial Intelligence to trace Alien Life on exoplanets
Finding Aliens: Scientists to take help of Artificial Intelligence to trace Alien Life on exoplanets
For the study, scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, based on the likelihood of supporting extraterrestrial life. Based on these groups, scientists will further conduct interstellar missions to find the alien life.
Search for alien life has gained pace in recent times and space agencies are working hard to find the proof of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, a team of scientists from the Plymouth University believes that we should take help of artificial intelligence to find the alien life. According to researchers, artificial intelligence has witnessed rapid developments and it can help us in predicting the probability of life on other planets.
For the study, scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, based on the likelihood of supporting extraterrestrial life. Based on these groups, scientists will further conduct interstellar missions to find the alien life.
Lead study author Mr Christopher Bishop explains that planets in all the five groups have an atmosphere and possibility of life. Some planets are very similar to present day earth and are present in Goldilocks zone while some are more like Mars and Venus.
Mr Bishop comments, “We’re currently interested in these ANNs for prioritising exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent, interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range.”
He adds, “We’re also looking at the use of large area, deployable, planar Fresnel antennas to get data back to Earth from an interstellar probe at large distances. This would be needed if the technology is used in robotic spacecraft in the future.”
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As per wiki, Artificial neural networks(ANNs) or connectionist systems are computing systems vaguely inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. Such systems “learn” (i.e. progressively improve performance on) tasks by considering examples, generally without task-specific programming. For example, in image recognition, they might learn to identify images that contain cats by analyzing example images that have been manually labeled as “cat” or “no cat” and using the results to identify cats in other images. They do this without any a prior knowledge about cats, e.g., that they have fur, tails, whiskers and cat-like faces. Instead, they evolve their own set of relevant characteristics from the learning material that they process.
An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons (a simplified version of biological neurons in an animal brain). Each connection (a simplified version of a synapse) between artificial neurons can transmit a signal from one to another. The artificial neuron that receives the signal can process it and then signal artificial neurons connected to it.
Mr Bishop further revealed that his team has trained the ANN by supplying data of hundreds of planets and different spectral profiles to determine the habitability of a planet.
Astronomers Find 3 Nearby Super-Earth Exoplanets in Newly Discovered Solar System
“Given the results so far, this method may prove to be extremely useful for categorising different types of exoplanets using results from ground-based and near Earth observatories” says Dr Angelo Cangelosi, the supervisor of the project.
Scientists believe that the study will give specific targets for Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Telescope to examine a particular planet for the presence of alien life.
( Note ExoPortail : J’en publie rarement car sinon je ne ferai que ça de la journée avec la multitude d’apparitions vraiment intéressantes, mais ici ce sont des cas très intéressants que l’on peut clairement comparer au Brevet divulgué il y a quelques années. )
Première Observation du 16 Mars :
La vidéo suivante analyse une série de cinq photos prises dans une région éloignée d’Orlando, en Floride, par ma source anonyme, JP, le 16 mars 2018. Les photos montrent une embarcation dont JP estime qu’elle vole à une altitude de 2 000 à 5 000 pieds et de la taille de deux gros-porteurs.
La vidéo montre des gros plans de l’engin sur les photos et à quel point il est similaire à un modèle breveté en 2004 pour un engin spatial en forme de triangle.
La géométrie symétrique de l’engin dans les photos de JP, les bords lisses, la largeur apparente de l’engin, et une sorte de grand générateur hémisphère au centre, sont tous très similaires à la conception brevetée rendue public en 2004 pour un engin spatial Triangulaire comme le montre la comparaison côte à côte suivante.
Par coïncidence, les photos de la vidéo n’ont été prises que trois jours après que le président Donald Trump a prononcé un discours appelant à la création d’une force spatiale.
Ce qui suit sont les originaux des première et quatrième photos utilisées dans mon analyse vidéo des photos du 16 mars pour ceux qui souhaitent effectuer d’autres analyses photographiques.
Deuxième Observation du 23 Mars :
Les cinq photos de la vidéo ci-dessous montrent une embarcation triangulaire volante près d’Orlando, en Floride, qui pouvait à la fois planer et voler rapidement dans n’importe quelle direction. L’embarcation pouvait changer de couleur, passant du blanc à mesure qu’elle émergeait des nuages, à des couleurs plus foncées comme l’illustrent les photos, ce qui suggère une caractéristique de furtivité.
Les photos m’ont été envoyées par JP, une source anonyme que je connais depuis 2008. Il a donné la taille approximative de l’embarcation comme à peu près la taille de deux gros porteurs. L’embarcation est identique à une observation du 16 mars par JP dans la région d’Orlando qui a de nouveau été capturée par des photos.
Ce qui suit sont les originaux des première et cinquième photos utilisées dans mon analyse vidéo des photos du 23 mars pour ceux qui souhaitent effectuer d’autres analyses photographiques.
As the universe's only known harbor for life, Earth is arguably one strange rock. But light-years from our solar system, other intelligent beings on a similar planetary oasis might be gazing in our direction and seeing us as a sign that they're not alone in the universe.
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of nearly 4,000 planets beyond our solar system, including some that just might have the conditions necessary to support life as we know it. As our technology improves, we should be able to learn more about these worlds and their chances of hosting plants, animals, and maybe even civilizations.
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That means if aliens are out there, they could just as easily discover us.
First, they'd need to find Earth from afar, either by watching our sun wobble as the planet's gravity tugs against it, or by seeing the sun dim as Earth blocks a tiny fraction of sunlight during its orbit. Nine known alien worlds can see Earth transit across our sun, just as we've seen thousands of alien planets dim their host stars.
Once spotted, our planet would likely intrigue E.T. Our sun is relatively stable, not prone to disastrous flares that'd rip our atmosphere to shreds. What's more, we fall squarely within our sun's habitable zone, the area around a star where liquid water can persist on a planet's surface. (These are just some of the things that make life as we know it possible on Earth.)
Faraway scientists might then attempt to spot our atmosphere, to see whether life's thumb is on the chemical scales. But what would they be looking for? And could they really infer life's presence across trillions of miles?
Oxygen is a highly reactive element, glomming on to other atoms and molecules with such alacrity that it's tough to find it in abundance by itself—unless something is breaking down oxygen-rich compounds and pumping out loads of O2. On Earth, you can thank photosynthetic plants for being generous oxygen factories.
But oxygen alone wouldn't be enough for E.T. to prove our existence. “We have discovered several ways in which O2 can accumulate in the absence of life,” says Stephanie Olson, an astrobiologist at the University of California, Riverside. “High levels of O2, or the processes culminating in high levels of O2, may actually preclude the emergence of life on some planets.”
In addition to oxygen molecules, alien astronomers would look at our atmosphere's levels of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane. Only life could keep Earth chemically off-kilter enough for all these gases to persist at once.
TERRA COGNITA?
Beyond those chemical clues, alien astronomers with truly massive telescopes might even be able to map Earth's surface from afar, down to major urban areas.
As a proof-of-concept for this telescope, called the ExoLife Finder, or ELF, Berdyugina and Kuhn simulated how nearby aliens using the telescope would see Earth. From 25 trillion miles away, E.T. could not only map Earth's continents, but they'd also be able to see signs of intelligent life.
“The ELF telescope has the sensitivity to see a Los Angeles basin,” says Kuhn. “We don't see the lights, but we see the heat signature.” Their group, the Planets Foundation, is now building a single-mirror telescope in Hawaii to test the underlying tech. If all goes to plan, they say it's possible to build ELF within a decade.
“It would be like Star Trek, the reality show,” says Berdyugina. “We could virtually visit these planets.”
ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE
If intelligent life is nearby, the most straightforward way to find earthlings would be to listen for us. For the last century, human civilization has been broadcasting its existence to the cosmos via our leaky radio transmissions. Occasionally, we've broadcast messages to E.T. intentionally, and sent golden records into the void on the off-chance that aliens stumble across our interplanetary spacecraft.
Aliens wouldn't be able to detect our radio presence, much less our golden records, unless they're within 590 trillion miles of Earth. If intelligent life is any farther away than that, our earliest radio signals simply haven't reached them yet.
The sun sets over South America, as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station.
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But in several centuries' time, intelligent aliens may see other signs of our tech-savviness. In a study recently accepted to The Astrophysical Journal, for example, astrophysicist Hector Socas-Navarro says we could find intelligent life by looking for artificial satellites orbiting alien worlds. And that means they could find us using similar methods.
As a satellite-fringed world drifts in front of its home star, its satellites would block some starlight in front of and behind the transiting planet. This metallic belt would look unnatural when compared to known planetary rings.
Currently, Earth's satellite network isn't anywhere near dense enough to be detected, nor will it be anytime soon. But our footprint in space is growing exponentially: If we keep launching satellites at our present pace, Socas-Navarro says in his study, nearby aliens armed with telescopes as powerful as the ones we have today could spot our satellites by 2200.
WINDS OF CHANGE
Of course, Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, and life has changed a lot over the eons. What if alien astronomers had looked our way even a billion years ago?
In a 2018 paper in Science Advances, Olson and her colleagues simulated how Earth's atmosphere has changed over time. Even three billion years ago, aliens may have been able to infer life by sniffing out methane and carbon dioxide in the early atmosphere. But our modern atmosphere—a literal beacon for life—arrived only about 500 million years ago.
“For more than a billion years of Earth history, an alien astronomer may have even been sufficiently misled to conclude that Earth was sterile—despite the fact that life was flourishing in our ocean at the time,” says Olson.
Still, if the aliens were advanced and committed enough, even an early Earth would yield compelling clues for life, says study coauthor Joshua Krissansen-Totton of the University of Washington.
“The presence of life on Earth has been fairly obvious for the last 4 billion years to anyone who could build a big telescope,” he says in an email. “If there was anything nasty out there, then they would have extinguished life on Earth long ago. I think we are safe inviting them over to visit and exchange notes on the cosmos.”
If aliens are anything like us, perhaps the news that they aren't alone in the cosmos wouldn't be their equivalent of earth-shattering. In a study published in Frontiers in Psychology in February, researchers found that people, at least, would take the discovery of alien life in stride.
“People will be able to accommodate even high-impact scientific discoveries without their worldviews collapsing,” theologian Ted Peterssaid at the time.
But like us, aliens may fear the prospect of hostile, intelligent extraterrestrials—in this case, humans—arriving unannounced on their cosmic doorstep.
“Of course,” added study author Michael Varnum of Arizona State University, “I would also predict that if a hostile armada showed up near Jupiter, we wouldn’t be happy.”
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X-Rays Could Spell Doom for Life on Planets Around Red Dwarfs
X-Rays Could Spell Doom for Life on Planets Around Red Dwarfs
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. The red dwarf's radiation could be a very bad sign for life on its planet.
Credit: G. Bacon (STScI)/NASA/ESA
Intense radiation from red dwarf stars could make their planets uninhabitable or restrict life on such worlds to the oceans, a new study suggests.
Red dwarfs are smaller, and shine less brightly, than our sun. These dim stars make up about 75 percent of the Milky Way's stellar population, and many of them are known to host planets in the "habitable zone" — the range of distances that could theoretically support the existence of liquid water on a world's surface.
But it's unclear just how habitable such worlds actually are. Because red dwarfs are so dim, their habitable zones lie quite close-in. The trouble is, red dwarfs can produce nasty X-ray emissions — not to mention radiation from coronal mass ejections (CMEs), eruptions that blast massive amounts of charged plasma out into space.
"Astronomers are mounting a global effort to find Earth-like worlds, and to answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe," lead author Eike Guenther, an astronomer at Thueringer Observatory in Germany, said in a statement released by the London-based Royal Astronomical Society. "With sporadic outbursts of hard X-rays, our work suggests planets around the commonest low-mass stars are not great places for life, at least on dry land."
Guenther's team observed a flare from the red dwarf star AD Leo in February. The star is just 16 light-years from Earth and may host small, rocky planets in its habitable zone. Astronomers already know of a gas-giant planet that is very close to the parent star, at just 0.02 astronomical units (AU). That's 50 times closer than the equivalent distance between Earth and the sun. (One AU is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
The data are still being analyzed, but early results hint that the flare did not appreciably affect the giant planet. Better yet, the flare was not accompanied by a CME, which commonly happens at the sun. Since such ejections could potentially strip a small planet of its atmosphere, this might be good news for life, according to the statement.
However, the star's bursts of X-ray radiation may still be a factor in the system. Such radiation could hit surface life on a habitable-zone planet hard, although ocean creatures might be safe, the researchers said.
The team is still refining its model to understand the emissions' impact on nearby planets. Some research suggests that a giant radiation flare could destroy the ozone layer of a planet, reducing it by 94 percent for around two years. If that happened, all surface life might be doomed, they said.
"If they are right, then talk of 'Earth 2.0' [around a red dwarf] may be premature," Royal Astronomical Society representatives said in the statement.
The work was presented today (April 3) at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference in Liverpool, England.
A person used the Shroud of Turin to create a 3D printed Jesus. This is the first time such and end ever was ever taken and its amazing. The statue is 5 foot 10 inches tall. His position is the same as when he was hanging on the cross, but rigomoutus sets in soon after death, making the body hard, staying in place. Thats why he look like his head is raised and his knees are raised. Alien or god, or both, this is just freaking amazing to see! Scott C. Waring
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One of the most-well known relics in archeological history is leading researchers to believe that they know "the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth". The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen cloth that is believed to have wrapped the body of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Researchers in Padua (Italy) have unveiled a 3-D carbon copy of what Jesus looked like based on the precise measurements of the cloth.
Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba
Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba
Ovoid coin depicts Stefan Michalak's close encounter, glows in the dark
Elisha Dacey · CBC News
The new coin from the Royal Canadian Mint depicts Stefan Michalak after a close encounter in 1967 at Falcon Lake.
(Royal Canadian Mint)
One could be forgiven for describing the mint's newest coin as rather otherworldly.
The Royal Canadian Mint's newest offering features Manitoba's most famous UFO encounter, which happened in 1967 when Stefan Michalak went looking for precious metals near Falcon Lake.
"I was very surprised, frankly. They called me out of the blue and said 'I have this idea,'" said Stefan's son, Stan Michalak.
"It's not every day the mint calls and says, 'Hey, we're going to do a coin.'"
Stefan, whom his son says was a "rock nut," was searching for gold, silver and other precious metals and gems in Whiteshell Provincial Park one May long weekend in 1967. At about noon, two craft appeared in the sky, he said, and one landed about 50 metres away from Stefan on a flat rocky area.
The other craft left, but the first stayed, said Stefan. He observed it from the bush for about half an hour before approaching it.
"In his mind, he reasoned, 'This must be some sort of a military experimental craft. They've landed here by mistake or maybe out of need. Maybe they're in trouble,'" said Stan. "'I'll offer to help them out.'"
When Stefan approached the craft, which he later described as saucer-shaped and made of a stainless steel material, he touched it and the heat melted the fingertips of his heavy gloves. There was an opening he put his head through, said Stan, but he didn't enter.
The craft then expelled a cloud of gas and lifted off, knocking Stefan off his feet, setting his shirt aflame and leaving a distinct pattern of burns on his chest.
There will be only 4,000 of the collectors coins minted. (Royal Canadian Mint)
The coin shows the moment the craft lifted from the rock, with a figure lying on the ground with a hand in the air, as if to ward something off. In the dark, the craft on the coin glows, as does the gas coming from the ship.
The coin is ovoid and uses more colours than traditionally found in a coin, said Stan.
"They sent me a proof that had their original thought, which was kind of cute," said Stan. "Originally, it was going to have alien eyes on it, so it looked like the shape of an alien head."
Erica Maga, product manager for the coin, said the idea came to the team during their annual research.
"We thought it was such an interesting story that it was one that we had to share with Canadians," said Maga. "Everyone is sort of fascinated by this subject matter and we thought it would make a really interesting coin design."
The coin has been in production for a few months but went on sale Monday, said Maga. The coin's egg shape, while unusual, was also used for coins with a hot air balloon and featuring Ukranian pysanka.
Maga confirmed one of the earliest designs featured glow-in-the-dark alien eyes.
"We had talked around a lot of really wacky ideas and interesting concepts for this one, but in the end, we wanted to try and stay as faithful and true to the story as we could."
Despite the Manitoba connection, the coin is being minted in Ottawa instead of Winnipeg, said Alex Reeves, external communications advisor for The Mint. The Winnipeg facility does currency coins, while the Ottawa facility specializes in collector coins.
Stan, who co-wrote a book about his father's encounter, said he hopes the coin helps end his family's saga.
"We just decided to put this to rest, and I think the mint, giving me a call and saying 'We have this idea,' I think it just puts the ribbon on the box to finally close it forever."
The $20 legal tender coin can be ordered from the mint's website. It retails for $129.95.
We'd long suspected them, but in 2015 astronomers for the first time captured visual evidence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth.
"For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed but by imaging them for the first time, we've provided visual evidence that they are really there," said Cleo Loi of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney back in 2015.
Loi was lead author on this research, done as part of her award-winning undergraduate thesis and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"The discovery of the structures is important because they cause unwanted signal distortions that could, as one example, affect our civilian and military satellite-based navigation systems. So we need to understand them," she said.
The plasma structures are explained in this clip:
The region of space around the Earth occupied by its magnetic field, called the magnetosphere, is filled with plasma created by the atmosphere being ionised by sunlight.
The innermost layer of the magnetosphere is the ionosphere, and above that is the plasmasphere. They are embedded with a variety of strangely shaped plasma structures, including the tubes.
"We measured their position to be about 600 km above the ground, in the upper ionosphere, and they appear to be continuing upwards into the plasmasphere. This is around where the neutral atmosphere ends, and we are transitioning to the plasma of outer space," Loi said.
Using the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in the Western Australian desert, Loi found that she could map large patches of the sky and exploit the the array's rapid snapshot capabilities to create a movie - effectively capturing the real-time movements of the plasma.
Loi was awarded the 2015 Bok Prize of the Astronomical Society of Australia for her work.
A version of this article was first published in June 2015.
Er zweven reusachtige plasmabuizen boven de aarde. Zo zien ze eruit
Er zweven reusachtige plasmabuizen boven de aarde. Zo zien ze eruit
Astronomen hebben in 2015 voor het eerst bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van buisvormige plasmastructuren in de onderste lagen van de magnetosfeer.
“Wetenschappers dachten al meer dan 60 jaar dat deze structuren bestonden en wij hebben nu het eerste bewijs dat ze echt bestaan,” zei Cleo Loi van de Universiteit van Sydney.
Het onderzoek van Loi is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Geophysical Research Letters. “De ontdekking van de structuren is belangrijk omdat ze onze navigatiesystemen kunnen verstoren,” zei ze. “We moeten ze dus leren begrijpen.”
De plasmastructuren worden in onderstaand filmpje uitgelegd:
Het gebied rond de aarde binnen de invloedssfeer van het magnetisch veld wordt de magnetosfeer genoemd.
Het magnetisch veld beschermt ons tegen de straling van de zon en tegen kosmische straling. De magnetosfeer is gevuld met plasma dat ontstaat doordat de atmosfeer wordt geïoniseerd door zonlicht.
De onderste laag van de magnetosfeer is de ionosfeer en erboven bevindt zich de plasmasfeer. Ze bevatten een aantal vreemd gevormde plasmastructuren, waaronder de plasmabuizen.
“We hebben ze op 600 kilometer boven de grond waargenomen, in de bovenste laag van de ionosfeer, tot en met de plasmasfeer,” zei Loi. “Daar houdt de neutrale atmosfeer op en gaan we over naar het plasma van de ruimte.”
Universum kan door botsing met negatieve energie plots vernield worden - HLN.be
Universum kan door botsing met negatieve energie plots vernield worden - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Ons universum kan abrupt vernietigd worden door een botsing met een bubbel van negatieve energie gecreëerd door het higgsdeeltje. Dat stellen fysici van de universiteit van Harvard. Het proces kan al ingezet zijn in een verre uithoek van ons universum. Dit doemscenario hoeft ons en de komende generaties echter niet echt te verontrusten: het ligt nog triljoenen jaren van ons verwijderd.
Experts stellen dat de massa van het higgsdeeltje - dat massa verleent aan alle materie - kan wijzigen en dat dit nefast zou zijn voor de processen die leven mogelijk maken. Dit kan in gang gezet worden door interactie tussen het zogenaamde Godsdeeltje en een zwart gat. Dat kan al gebeurd zijn in een verre uithoek van het universum.
Het einde van het universum wordt voorspeld door het zogenaamde Standaard Model van de deeltjesfysica, dat stelt dat donkere energie de expansie van het universum drijft tot alles zal eindigen in een koude, vormeloze afgrond.
De nieuwe studie zet die denkwijze nu echter op zijn kop door te stellen dat het einde plots zal komen. En dit over 10^139 jaar. Dat is 10 gevolgd door 139 nullen, of tien miljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen biljoen jaar. Zelfs al waarschuwen wetenschappers vandaag dat het proces al kan ingezet zijn, het is dus geen reden om een decadent eind-van-de-wereld-fuif te organiseren.
In hun studie stellen de vorsers dat ze 95% zeker zijn dat het universum nog meer dan 10^58 jaar zal meegaan, wat ook nog geen zorg oplevert voor onze achterachterkleinkinderen. Die 5% onzekerheid betekent dat ze onzeker zijn dat het minder dan 10^58 jaar zal duren.
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Apocalyptic Trumpet Sounds in the skies of Hawaii
Apocalyptic Trumpet Sounds in the skies of Hawaii
Not the first time to be heard, this time the strange sounds have been recorded in the skies of Hawaii on April 3, 2018.
Scientific research points to natural causes such as tidal waves, methane explosions, underground earthquakes, or shifting sand dunes as explanations for these aural phenomena which of course is nonsense and misleading.
More believable is the explanation of USGS scientist David Hill who says that although it's probable that these “weird apocalyptic” booming sounds seemingly coming from the skies have an earthly origin.
Giant UFO Exits The Sun On NASA Camera April 4, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Exits The Sun On NASA Camera April 4, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 4, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths sun Source:https://helioviewer.org
This UFO was found by The Watcher of Youtube today. The UFO shows that is a long glowing cylinder and that it left a trail behind it that seems to come from the sun. The UFO was traveling at such a high speed that it appears to be long, but is probably just round or disk like. This is more evidence that UFOs can and do enter and exit our sun. Scott C. Waring
NASA announced Tuesday that it has awarded Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company a $247.5 million contract to build and test a supersonic aircraft that “reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump.”
This is exciting news for anyone looking to fly cross-continentally in two hours — which, considering the increasingly limited leg room, is really a win for all of us. Work under the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration contract is reportedly underway as of Monday and will continue through Dec. 31, 2021. In a Tuesday press release, NASA added: “Under this contract, Lockheed Martin will complete the design and fabrication of an experimental aircraft, known as an X-plane, which will cruise at 55,000 feet at a speed of about 940 mph and create a sound about as loud as a car door closing, 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB), instead of a sonic boom.”
NASA will conduct flight tests after the aircraft is accepted in 2021 to ensure safety standards and affirm the the low-boom supersonic technology is up to par.
“We look forward to applying the extensive work completed under QueSST to the design, build, and flight test of the X-plane, providing NASA with a demonstrator to make supersonic commercial travel possible for passengers around the globe,” Lockheed Martin program manager Peter Iosifidis said in a statement.
The X-plane is expected to take flight over U.S. cities in mid-2022, at which time it will collect data pertaining to community responses to the flights, which is great for those of us uninterested in ear-deafening booms being emitted from our skies. That data will then be shared with officials both in the United States and overseas for further consideration about regulations around supersonic air travel.
More updates on the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration and Lockheed Martin’s concept will no doubt continue to emerge in the coming months.
The Future Fliers of NASA's X-Plane Program | WIRED
I've been to Mars and it's full of ALIEN bodies claims lawyer in bid to be US President
I've been to Mars and it's full of ALIEN bodies claims lawyer in bid to be US President
A TOP lawyer who hopes to be the next US president has sensationally claimed he once travelled to Mars as part of a secret space program that he says involved Barack Obama. Andrew Basiago, a trial lawyer who stood as an independent candidate for the US presidential election in 2016, has indicated he will contest the next one from 2020.
But he bizarrely claims that as a child in the 1960s he took part in an alleged CIA programme called Project Pegasus in which he travelled through space and time.
Mr Basiago, who claims time travel has been possible since then, said during his college years in the 1980s, he took part in another CIA project - the Mars Jump Room Program - which was part of an alleged secret space programme to send people to Mars.
Conspiracy theorists claim billions of dollars each year are mysteriously moved from the US Pentagon budget to fund so-called black space projects that have seen humans travel deeper into space than most of us would believe.
The theory claims NASA projects the public learn of are just a diversion from what we are really capable of.
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Outlandish claims that man has been to Mars have been made by a lawyer.
He said: "I certainly never saw anything like that on Mars the 40 or so times that I went there 30 to 35 years ago."
However, he said he had written a paper - The Discovery of Life on Mars - in 2008, which had evidence of a mass grave on the Red Planet.
He said: "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.
"So I would urge objectified open mindedness. It's a crazy concept to believe it's not just Earthlings who have been kidnapped here, abducted here on Mars, but there might be children who have been enslaved there.
"The fact there was this ravine full of bodies that could have been an open air cemetery, a place of ritual human sacrifice or some genocide killing field has been in the pub domain now for 10 years, but has largely been ignored, I think because we are to easy to indulge in the giggle factor when those types of facts surface."
In 2008 he submitted the scientific paper which claimed to prove there were an array of creatures and humanoids living on Mars the the National Geographic Society, but they declined on grounds Mr Basiago was just experiencing pareidolia.
In almost identical research to Scott C Waring, editor if Ufosightingsdaily.com, Mr Basiago has spent hours looking at images taken by the NASA Spirit and Curiosity rovers on Mars and felt he spotted living things, NASA had overlooked.
However, pareidolia is when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in textures or patterns such as clouds or a rock surface.
Each year there are several conferences held around the secret space program, but there is no firm evidence for its existence.
Equally, there is no evidence to suggest any human has landed on Mars.
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.
Andrew Basiago
Mr Basiago made a series of shocking claims during a Q&A with a panel of so-called whistleblowers at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Symposium.
Mr Basiago introduced himself to the audience as "a trial lawyer admitted at federal and state level in Washington state USA”.
Speaking in a deadpan voice, he said: "I had two different periods of service in the secret space program, time travelling as a child in the late 1960s and early 1970s and going to Mars as a college student in the first half of the 1980s.
“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 Martain humanoids."
He was then asked by a woman in the audience who claimed to be an aliencontactee if it were true that there are races of aliens who enslave human adults and children and where they get them from.
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Advocaat en oud-presidentskandidaat claimt massagraf te hebben gevonden op Mars. Heeft hij gelijk?
Advocaat en oud-presidentskandidaat claimt massagraf te hebben gevonden op Mars. Heeft hij gelijk?
Een advocaat en oud-presidentskandidaat heeft geclaimd dat hij eens naar Mars is gereisd als onderdeel van een geheim ruimteprogramma.
Hij zei dat hij in de jaren zestig als kind deel uitmaakte van een CIA-programma genaamd Project Pegasus, dat gericht was op tijdreizen.
Tijdens dit programma zouden mensen in het geheim naar Mars zijn gestuurd.
Massagraf
Basiago schreef in 2008 in een paper over leven op Mars dat hij bewijs had gevonden van een massagraf op de rode planeet.
“Ik laat zien dat in een ravijn in de Gusev-krater op Mars een massagraf was met daarin honderden lichamen van mensachtigen, zowel mannelijk als vrouwelijk, gekleed in uniform,” zei hij.
Basiago heeft veel foto’s geanalyseerd die zijn gemaakt door Marsrovers en denkt dingen te hebben gespot die de NASA over het hoofd heeft gezien.
Obama
Hij deed zijn uitspraken tijdens een vraag- en antwoordsessie op het MUFON Symposium.
“Ik deed tot twee keer toe mee aan het geheime ruimteprogramma,” zei Basiago. “Eind jaren zestig en begin jaren zeventig reisde ik als kind door de tijd naar Mars en begin jaren tachtig ging ik er als student naartoe.”
Hij beweert zelfs dat hij in de jaren tachtig samen met een jonge Barack Obama naar Mars is geteleporteerd.
Astronomen denken van wel en sluiten zelfs niet uit dat we het al gezien hebben!
De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven in ons eigen zonnestelsel richt zich momenteel met name op Mars. En ook manen als Titan en Enceladus (behorend bij Saturnus) en Europa (behorend bij Jupiter) worden gezien als goede kandidaten voor leven. Maar in het blad Astrobiology schrijven onderzoekers nu dat we eigenlijk nog een andere kandidaat aan dat lijstje moeten toevoegen: Venus.
Stikheet Zo op het eerste gezicht lijkt dat misschien een vreemde keuze. Want op het oppervlak van Venus is het allesbehalve aangenaam. Zo is het de heetste planeet die ons zonnestelsel rijk is; de gemiddelde temperatuur ligt er rond de 460 graden Celsius! En toch – zo betogen onderzoekers nu in het blad Astrobiology – maakt dat Venus niet per definitie onleefbaar. Want het is goed mogelijk dat organismen zich hoog boven het oppervlak van Venus wel weten te redden. Sterker nog; het zou zomaar kunnen dat we die levensvormen – zonder dat we ons daarvan bewust zijn – al hebben gespot.
Leefbare historie “Venus heeft voldoende tijd gehad om leven te ontwikkelen,” legt onderzoeker Sanjay Limaye uit. Je moet namelijk bedenken dat sommige modellen suggereren dat Venus ooit een leefbaar klimaat had en zelfs vloeibaar water op het oppervlak herbergde. Dat vloeibare water wist mogelijk wel 2 miljard jaar stand te houden. “Dat is veel langer dan vermoedelijk op Mars het geval was,” aldus Limaye.
Extreme plekken Daar komt nog eens bij dat we van onze eigen planeet weten dat leven hoog in de atmosfeer kan gedijen. Zo zijn eerder op tot wel 41 kilometer boven het oppervlak van de aarde organismen aangetroffen (voornamelijk microben). Onderzoek heeft bovendien uitgewezen dat bacteriën onder zeer extreme omstandigheden kunnen gedijen. En waarom zouden ze dat dan ook niet kunnen in de sterk reflecterende en zure atmosfeer van Venus die voornamelijk bestaat uit CO2 en waterdruppels die zwavelzuur bevatten?
Vlekken Leven in de wolken van Venus: het is geen nieuw idee; de beroemde Carl Sagan opperde het in 1967 al. Het idee raakte later wat in de vergetelheid, maar wordt nu nieuw leven in geblazen. Sterker nog: de onderzoekers sluiten niet uit dat we – zonder dat we het ons in eerste instantie realiseerden – al leven op Venus hebben gezien. Ze denken dan aan de mysterieuze, donkere vlekken in de wolken van Venus. “Deze vlekken houden dagenlang stand en veranderen voortdurend van vorm en contrast,” vertelt onderzoeker Sanjay Limaye. Onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat ze bestaan uit geconcentreerd zwavelzuur en andere onbekende licht absorberende deeltjes. En die laatstgenoemde deeltje zijn ongeveer net zo groot als bacteriën op aarde. Bovendien hebben ze als het om lichtabsorptie gaat grofweg dezelfde eigenschappen als sommige microben op onze planeet. Zouden deze vlekken dan mede uit levensvormen zijn opgebouwd? De onderzoekers sluiten het niet uit. Zo zouden de vlekken het resultaat kunnen zijn van een proces dat grofweg te vergelijken is met algenbloei op aarde.
VAMP.
Afbeelding: Northrop Grumman Corp.
We moeten erheen! Maar hoe kunnen we erachter komen of de atmosfeer van Venus leven herbergt? Er is eigenlijk maar één mogelijkheid, aldus onderzoeker Rakesh Mogul. “Om het echt te weten te komen, moeten we daar naartoe gaan en de wolken bemonsteren. Venus kan een opwindend nieuw hoofdstuk binnen de astrobiologie worden.”
Het goede nieuws is dat er plannen zijn voor een missie naar Venus. De Russen denken momenteel na over de Venera D-missie. Deze voert naar Venus en zou tegen het eind van het volgende decennium werkelijkheid moeten worden. Mogelijk kan er tijdens deze missie – die bestaat uit een lander en orbiter – nog een derde sonde mee worden gestuurd. De onderzoekers denken dan heel concreet aan VAMP, het Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform dat momenteel nog op de tekentafel ligt. Het is een sonde die vliegt als een vliegtuig, maar zweeft als een blimp (slap luchtschip) en tot wel een jaar in de atmosfeer van Venus kan ronddolen en informatie verzamelen.
Bronmateriaal:
"Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?" - University of Wisconsin-Madison Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: Akatsuki Orbiter / Institute of Space and Astronautical Science / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
In February, two airline pilots while flying over Arizona witnessed something that defied explanation. Was it a UFO or something else?
“The UFO phenomenon is real.” – Edgar Mitchell
Phoenix Lights 1997
I used to live in Phoenix, Arizona for six years. As a matter of fact, I moved there four years after the famous Phoenix Lights incident. In another bit of coincidence, South Mountain, the area where the lights were hovering, was a favorite hiking spot of mine.
Alas, while I lived there and in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I never once saw anything strange in the night skies. The funny thing about the 1997 incident is that everyone came out and debunked it.
There were actually two sightings. According to the Phoenix New Times, the first event occurred at 8:30 p.m. when a V shaped pattern of lights flew north to south over the state.
The second occurrence was the set of nine hovering lights over South Mountain. Many people recorded the incidents and called in to law enforcement. At the time, Fife Symington was the governor and when he went on camera to address the situation, he jokingly had one of his staff members dress up as an alien to defuse any attempt at serious discourse.
Years later, however, Symington admitted that he had also witnessed the lights and that they were in fact, not easily explained away. Interesting enough, the Phoenix New Times had two witnesses who claimed that neither sightings were extraterrestrial.
The large V formation according to Scottsdale resident, Mitch Stanley was actually planes. He was observing them from his high powered Dobsonian telescope. According to him, the planes appeared small and he could see wings. They were traveling at a high altitude and Stanley said, “They were planes. There’s no way I could have mistaken that.”
Phoenix Lights 2015
Supposedly in the second sighting of 1997, the Maryland Air National Guard were performing maneuvers in the South Mountain area that involved dropping flares. Evidently, the type of flares that were used were able to be extinguished one at a time and could hover in perfect symmetry.
Needless to say, segue to 2015 in February and the lights returned again. This time they were sighted in Goodyear near the Estrella Mountains. Several eye witnesses recorded videos.
Flares were again offered up as an explanation along with the possible stacking of planes awaiting touchdown in the city’s Sky Harbor airport. However, this particular incident remains unexplained. Which brings us to the most recent Arizona sighting.
Arizona UFO 2018
CBS News has reported that two airline pilots one flying a Learjet by Phoenix Air and an American Airlines plane were both buzzed by the same UFO. The pilot of the Learjet was the first to encounter the strange object. He immediately radioed the FAA which told him that there were no other aircraft in the sky near him.
Being cautious, the FAA alerted American Airlines Flight 1095 that there was a craft in the area and to keep their eyes open. Soon after that they were also buzzed by the same object. Of course, it was postulated that the object may in fact have been a Google balloon from Project Loon.
After a month, no one has been able to identify what passed over the two aircraft. Even the FAA has no explanation because nothing appeared on their radars. Then what was it? According to Flight 1095, the object had a “big reflection.”
What Is It?
The military or any other agency has not come forward with information. So, if the pilots of two craft are saying that this sighting was not any of the usual suspects (a weather balloon, for example) then what could it be?
In the case of the Phoenix Lights in 1997, the military wasted no time coming forth with an explanation. However, the 2015 sighting and the most recent one remain mysteries.
Listen to the audio below at the :12 second mark and draw your own conclusions:
Furthermore, could this be the case of letting the public think it is a UFO when in reality it is a top-secret government project? What do you think?
Tom DeLonge announces Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within, the latest in his ongoing UFO fiction series
Tom DeLonge announces Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within, the latest in his ongoing UFO fiction series
Though fiction, the books are informed by "facts and actual events gleaned from the authors' sources within the scientific, military and intelligence communities"
Ever since a New York Times report from late last year gave some credence to Tom DeLonge’s UFO research and To the Stars Academy, the world has been eying the former Blink-182 member’s activity a bit more closely. Well, slip on those reading glasses, because DeLonge’s got a new book on the way, Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within. It’s the sequel to 2016’s Sekret Machines: Book 1: Chasing Shadows, and, as the title implies, it’s the second book in a three-part series. Both were co-written with author and professor A.J. Hartley.
Though the books are fiction, DeLonge asserts that they’re informed by “facts and actual events gleaned from the authors’ sources within the scientific, military and intelligence communities surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena.” In multiple interviews, DeLonge has said that the books, as well as the sci-fi films on which he’s currently working in, serve as vessels to slowly introduce the truth regarding UFOs and the government’s method of exploring extraterrestrial life to the general public. That said, he’s also writing a companion non-fiction investigative series into the phenomena that kicked off with last year’s Sekret Machines: Gods.
“One of the largest areas of study when dealing with the UFO phenomenon is consciousness and the human mind,” DeLonge said in a press statement. “A.J. was able to weave that into the storyline with a tapestry of information never before released. He’s providing us with an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and the greatest story never told.”
“Book One focused primarily on the machines themselves–hardware, if you like–but in the second installment of the series we push the story into the gray areas between the normal and the paranormal in more clearly human terms, exploring the idea that as technology might make exponential evolutionary progress, so might people themselves,” added Hartley. “The result continues the story of the first novel, picking up pretty much where it left off, but shifts the tonality of the narrative into new territory, new adventures and new sekrets.”
Cool, now stop spelling secrets that way.
Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within will be available on September 18th.
Read a plot synopsis below:
A Fire Within continues the story of heiress Jennifer Quinn, journalist Timika Mars, pilot Alan Young and ex-Marine Barry Regis – four people bonded by the incidents they’ve witnessed and who are being hunted by agents of a wealthy corporate cabal desperate for unimaginable power and possessed of extraordinary abilities they don’t understand, much less control. Now the quartet is on a mission of their own: as Alan and Barry test the limits of their strange gifts inside the military complex known as Dreamland, Jennifer and Timika begin a quest to locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question: Are we alone in the universe?”
Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within Book Cover:
Tyler Rogoway – Recent Pilot UFO Encounters – March 3, 2018
Tyler Rogoway – Recent Pilot UFO Encounters – March 3, 2018
Open Minds UFO Radio: Tyler is a defense journalist and editor of Time Inc.’s The Drive’sThe War Zone page. Tyler broke the story of the recent UFO sighting over Arizona and New Mexico by pilots that is making international headlines. His digging was able to produce FAA audio of the incident. Perhaps even more exciting is the work he has done on a better documented UFO case seen by many pilots and captured on radar over California and Oregon. The military scrambled fighter jets in this case.
In this episode, we discuss Tyler’s interest in the UFO Phenomenon, mainstream attitude towards the topic, and the details of the incredible cases Tyler has brought to light recently.
For more about the Arizona/New Mexico eventclick here.
For more about the California/Oregon event click here.
Filer’s Files #13 – 2018 President Reagan Saw UFOs - PART I
Izmir, Turkey over Aegean Sea object captured on March 21, 2018
Filer’s Files #13 – 2018 President Reagan Saw UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Reagan UFO Believer, Are We Supposed to Be Seeing These Things? Russia’s New Missiles, Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 is Falling, Neutral-particle Beams, China and Russia Are Developing Space Technology Rapidly, Extra-Terrestrial Healing, Space-Based Weapons, Mars Open Pit Mine and Flying Cylinder, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Ecuador, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, 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 Yahweh the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
We Are Not Alone show reminder
04-03-18: 1 – 2 PM: Tuesday Forum. We Are Not Alone.
Jan Harzen is the International Executive Director for MUFON. His interest in UFOs was sparked by his own sighting in 1965. Today Jan and host David Twichell will discuss the Pentagon’s admission that they have been studying the UFO problem ever since they claimed to have stopped doing so in 1969. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast from this website: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
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President Ronald Reagan UFO Believer
President Ronald Reagan and personally sighted a UFO when Governor of California and closely followed UFO reports. He stated in his famous speech at the UN General Assembly in September 1987 the following: Significantly
“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.
I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world. And yet I ask – is not an alien force already among us?
Reagan’s last question reveals that he did not believe that an alien invasion scenario was something that lay ahead in future decades.
Aliens would interfere with nuclear weapons not because they are dangerous to life here or elsewhere, but because nuclear weapons are a threat to what the aliens wish to collect from Earth.
It has been well documented that for 60 years or more, UFOs have been monitoring nuclear weapons facilities, and in some situations have actively interfered with nuclear weapons. Many UFO researchers have interpreted this as a sign that extraterrestrials were trying to warn humanity of the global threat posed by nuclear weapons. There is also reports of aliens attempting to clean up harmful radiation and even preventing explosions. Indeed, numerous individuals claiming to have been contacted of abducted by extraterrestrials since the 1940s have made a similar point.
Keep in mind that many of the greatest civilizations in human history have been formed, basically, to counter a common enemy. When you look at the great world powers of the globe today, you find a lot of them formed because of the fear of a common enemy.
It was a contingency humanity had to grapple with in the immediate moment – an extraterrestrial presence was already among us. Global unity was an imperative to deal with all the implications of such a presence! It appears that Reagan was secretly briefed about extraterrestrial life, and some of the threats this posed to humanity. It appears he was really warning the world about classified alien secrets withheld from the global public and launched the most expensive defense program to protect humankind? The Ballistic Missile Defense (Star Wars) can be effectively used against UFOs.
A false flag alien invasion scenario was first revealed by Dr. Werner Von Braun a founder of the US Apollo Space Program, to Carol Rosin shortly before the former’s death in 1977. What, however, would be the case if Reagan’s warning was authentic, and extraterrestrials are already here? I know there is much closer cooperation between nations when chasing and confronting UFOs. The news media doesn’t seem to have any reliable inside information concerning this entire field of research.
Are We Supposed To Be Seeing These Things?
What is John Lenard Walson videotaping with his proprietary telescope video cam technique? Are these just satellites or ET spacecraft Or, are we seeing large and very sophisticated spacecraft for the first time that we AREN’T supposed to see? Walson received the following comment about one of the videos:
“Hello again. And, again, my congratulations on your superb astrophotography. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects.” They examined crashed UFOs held at Wright Patterson AFB and likely back engineered these craft.
The military personnel who are encountering these phenomena tell remarkable stories. In one example, over the course of two weeks in November 2004, the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser operating advanced naval radar, repeatedly detected unidentified aircraft operating in and around the Nimitz carrier battle group, which it was guarding off the coast of San Diego. In some cases, according to incident reports and interviews with military personnel, these vehicles descended from altitudes higher than 60,000 feet at supersonic speeds, only to suddenly stop and hover as low as 50 feet above the ocean. The United States possesses nothing capable of such feats.
On at least two occasions, F-18 fighters were guided to intercept these vehicles and were able to verify their location, appearance and performance. Notably, these encounters occurred in broad daylight and were independently monitored by radars aboard multiple ships and aircraft.
According to naval aviators I have spoken with at length, the vehicles were roughly 45 feet long and white. Yet these mysterious aircraft easily sped away from and outmaneuvered America’s front-line fighters without a discernible means of propulsion.
Russia’s New Missiles
If the origin of these aircraft is a mystery, so is the paralysis of the U.S. government in the face of such evidence. Sixty years ago, when the Soviet Union put the first manmade satellite in orbit, Americans recoiled at the idea of being technologically surpassed by a dangerous rival, and the furor over Sputnik ultimately produced the space race. Americans responded vigorously, and a little more than a decade later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. If these craft mean that Russia, China or some other nation is concealing an astonishing technological breakthrough to quietly extend its lead, surely we should respond as we did then.
Perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent claims about propulsion breakthroughs are not pure braggadocio. Or, if these craft really aren’t from Earth, then the need to figure out what they are is even more urgent. He also said that Russia in December had concluded a multiyear testing cycle for an underwater, nuclear-powered drone. The successful tests, he said, “will allow the development of a complete new type of weapon — a strategic complex of nuclear arms with rockets fitted with a nuclear-propulsion engine that can fly anywhere in the world and attack from any direction.”
On March 18 the 65-year-old Putin was elected to his fourth six-year presidential term since he first took power in 1999. The talk of high-tech weapons, analysts said, suggested to Russian voters that Putin was ensuring their security even if many domestic problems remained to be fixed. Putin claims, “Russia can carry out a global nuclear strike on any point it chooses.”
Recently, media coverage of the issue of unidentified aerial vehicles has focused on an expired $22 million congressional earmark for Bigelow Aerospace, a contractor with ties to former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (Nev.). The money mostly funded research and analysis by that contractor, without participation from the Air Force, NORAD or other key military organizations. Thanks to the NY Times.
Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 is Falling
Tiangong-1 is now forecast to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on April 1 at 12:15 p.m. EDT (1615 GMT), give or take 9 hours, according to the Aerospace Corp.
The falling Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is tumbling in orbit and may crash back to Earth early Easter Sunday (April 1), experts say. Thanks to https://www.space.com
China and Russia Are Developing Space Technology Rapidly
In 2007, China was able to shoot down a satellite from space. After carefully analyzing U.S. operations in the Persian Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan, they believe they have uncovered a significant weakness. The advanced military might of the U.S. is inordinately dependent on a complex network of space-based command, control, communications, and computer-driven intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities that enables American forces to detect different kinds of targets and exchange militarily relevant information and destroy the targets. This network is key to the success of American combat operations.
These assets, however, are soft and defenseless unless the Star Wars craft are in fact operational; while they bestow on the American military definite asymmetric advantages, they are also the source of deep vulnerability. Consequently, Chinese strategists concluded that any effort to defeat the U.S. should aim not at its fundamental strength — its capacity to deliver overwhelming conventional firepower precisely from long distances — but rather at its Achilles’ heel, namely, its satellites and their related ground installations. To confuse matters a steady stream of reports claim we are at war with Reptoid Extra-Terrestrials.
Consistent with these calculations, China and Russia have pursued, for over a decade now, a variety of space warfare programs, which include direct attack and directed-energy weapons, electronic attack, and computer-network and ground-attack systems. These efforts are aimed at giving China and Russia the capacity to attack U.S. space systems comprehensively because these , calculations represent the best way of “leveling the playing field” in the event of a future conflict. On January 8, 2018 – A U.S. spy satellite that was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX rocket on Sunday failed to reach orbit and is assumed to be a total loss. Several US rocket launches have mysteriously exploded with UFOs in the vicinity. A space war may be occurring at this time according to William Tomkins. The Space Shuttle Columbia exploded after encountering a UFO. The Columbia disaster directly led to the retirement of the shuttle fleet in 2011. NASA has no spaceship to send astronauts to and from the International Space Station, but Russia does — and charges roughly $81 million per person to ride a Soyuz to the ISS and back again.
Neutral-particle Beams, May Get a Fresh Look under Michael Griffin
The next thing in space-based weapons could be decades old, according to Michael Griffin, the first defense undersecretary for research and engineering.
“Directed energy is more than just big lasers,” Griffin said. “That’s important. High-powered microwave approaches can effect an electronics kill. The same with the neutral particle beam systems we explored briefly in the 1990s” for use in space-based anti-missile systems. Such weapons can be “useful in a variety of environments” and have the “advantage of being non-attributable,” meaning that it can be hard to pin an attack with a particle weapon on any particular culprit since it leaves no evidence behind of who or even what did the damage.
Like lasers, neutral-particle beams focus beams of energy that travel in straight lines, unaffected by electromagnetic fields. But instead of light, neutral-particle beams use composed of accelerated subatomic particles traveling at near-light speed, making them easier to work. When its particles touché the surface of a target, they takes on a charge that allows them to penetrate the target’s shell or exterior more deeply.
This all makes neutral-particle beams attractive as space-based anti-missile systems. Over the years, various defense companies have released mockups of proposed designs that seem to come out of an issue of Popular Mechanics circa 1950. Thanks to Defense One daily.
Extra-Terrestrial Healing
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a landmark 1982 movie E.T shown on this poster could heal with a touch of his finger. Another benefit of being part of the empathic group is that E.T. may heal injured members at a much greater distance, without having to touch them.
ET and angels who are visitors from other planets are known to heal people. There are thousands of stories where people have prayed for healing and have healed. Similar stories are told of telepathically asking for healing and being healed. Alice was on her deathbed as a child, and the Doctor visited her and told her parents she would be dead by morning. They prayed and asked for help. The next morning her parents entered her bedroom expecting the worst, but Alice was sitting up in bed asking for breakfast. She told them the angel came and healed her. Now she is older she feels it was ET. Maybe she was right both times.
Many abductees report fibromyalgia and other ailments after being on board craft usually flown by grays.
John Thompson who works in Security and is six feet five inches tall with an excellent physique called me to tell me he had been abducted the previous night. I visited his home where a 25 foot circle was cut into his back lawn showing a depression filled with stones. Tree limbs were broken from the tree above the circle. He was asleep when something woke him up and he looked out the window and saw a 25 foot disc. He stated a couple four foot aliens walked down the ramp of a disc and walked up to the bedroom window. Then they simply walked through the wall and window into John’s bedroom. They grabbed John and took him and kind of floated to the craft. They laid him down and undressed him and held a pen like object and then cut him across his chest from arm pit to arm pit.
After about an hour with some bleeding and pain, they took the pen and reversed the cutting action and closed the wound. They seemed to be searching for something under his skin near his heart and lungs. Later, I called a couple flight surgeons that came and examined John. They verified he had a two foot long scar about a month old and stated, “They had never seen a horizontal wound like that since there was no reason to cut a person like that. We speculated they may have done something to heal his heart. In succeeding weeks ETs frequently showed up in his home. He was willing to go on my TV Show “Investigations UFO” for several months to tell about his encounters. His wife became so upset by the alien visits she decided to divorce him.
A sixty year old Atlantic City lady was abducted with her daughter while driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburg. Driving along the Pennsylvania Turnpike their car and the car following behind with the daughter’s husband and two children were picked up by a large alien ship. The cars were brought into a garage area with a dozen other cars. They were brought into a large room with human bodies standing upright in large glass containers. They were examined in detail on beds in a room with many other abductees. The grandmother was brought into the room with the bodies housed in round glass two and half feet in diameter. She was shown an attractive blonde twenty year old woman and asked if she would like to become that person. Her soul would be transferred but she would not remember her present life. She declined which made her captors upset. Later, their cars were let down on the Walt Whitman Bridge that crosses the Delaware River into New Jersey. They still had their Turnpike ticket and saved $15 in tolls and the gas tanks were full despite flying 300 miles between Pittsburg and Philadelphia in only two hours.. Both cars had what appeared to be small hand prints on the bodies but were not damaged.
Ongoing extraterrestrial activity is taking place in Israel since 1995. Alien medical teams from other realms or dimensions cure humans at Healers-Mediums alternative medicine clinics. Patients feel strange sensations during the treatments (itching, heat or cold, increase or decrease in gravity sensations and many more) and some even see and communicate with the Aliens medical teams.
The number of clinics has increased steadily and presently there are 50 clinics in Israel and 464 in the USA, (according to the Aliens). Alien alternative medicine clinics also exist in other countries (England, Denmark, Australia ). ET medical activity helps to raise public awareness and increase acceptance of Alien existence. Organized ET medical collaboration with Healers and Mediums is a leap forward in Alien-Human contact and collaboration beyond just UFO sighting, random contacts, encounters, abductions, or crash events as happened in Roswell. The Aliens treat humans in alternative medicine clinics only after the patients give their full consent. No abductions take place. In addition to the Alien medical activity, they willingly collaborate and answer questions on different issues including: information about Aliens and their activity on Earth, general science, astrophysics, and even Earth actuality events.
“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.” ~ 3 John 1:2
“And my God will meet all your needs according to his riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” ~ Philippians 4:19
I was recently in the hospital when my primary artery was drilled through and I bled internally. I was black from my chest to my knees.I was brought very low and the Doctors didn’t think I would make it. Fortunately my wife, my church, hundreds of my friends, people on Facebook prayed for me. The bleeding was stopped with a stent and I’m alive and stronger than ever, but I believe the Lord saved me again! Don’t under estimate the power of prayer.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. Palm 91
Space-Based Weapons
The Pentagon first tested the concept in the late 1980s as part of a program called the Neutral Particle Beam, or NPB. According to a 1990 write up that military scientists sent to lawmakers, explored the possibility of particle beam weapons killing ICBMs and reentry vehicles. They could destroy the missiles in the boost, post-boost, and mid-course portion of an ICBM trajectory as well as discriminated objects during the midcourse phase” — meaning a defensive system that could knock out missiles as they were leaving the launch pad or flying in space toward their target.
UFO Sighting
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes, “This is a very interesting sighting, and is one of the first UFOs I photographed at 10:53 pm on 23 June 1992.” I am updating and adding sightings to Appendix I of my book. There were five anomalous craft flying around Ellen, Rich, and me that night, which was quite an introduction for me to Pine Bush phenomenon. Another sighting later that night (11:22 pm) of a cigar-shaped craft unfolding wings and stabilizers, and pretending to be a Boeing 707, got more attention. But this photo shows the UFO backing up right after I opened the shutter, oscillating movement of its lights, as well as a conventional aircraft (strobes) above it in the background for comparison. It also shows the silhouette of the ground (ridge) and trees. June 8. 1992, 23 (TE): 1 UFO (West Searsville Road. at dogleg bend; 10:53 pm; flew from north to south behind the ridge west of us, low, silently, disappearing behind the ridge) [Cornet, Ellen Crystall, and Rich Pascorella present] These are the first photographs Cornet took of UFOs exhibiting anomalous light signature of oscillations in 1992. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/AOP/Boeing/boeing07.htm Thanks to Bruce Cornet
Mars Open Pit Mine
There is strong evidence that both our moon and Mars have been mined. Mining is occurring on our Moon and Mars. This appears to be a typical open pit mine. Mars may contain ores that would be very useful to potential colonists. The abundance of volcanic features together with widespread cratering are strong evidence for a variety of ores. The best places on Mars for valuable ores are volcanoes, lava flows and impact craters. – Mars’ different history, crust and atmosphere make it certain that minerals there will be different than those of Earth. – he most abundant chemical elements in the Martian crust, besides silicon and oxygen, are iron, magnesium, aluminum, calcium, and potassium. These elements are major components of the minerals comprising igneous rocks.
Yaw’ or ‘Yahweh’ is marked on the edge of the Mars mine indicating ownership. Interestingly the Hebrew God is spelled YHWH. In the Christian Bible God’s sacred name is spelled Yahweh. Blowing winds do not spell out words. So you can be sure alien intelligence on Mars made the sign. We can also speculate this intelligence came to Earth with sign language as is told in Sumerian, Hebrew and Egyptian ancient writings. Thanks to European Space Agency images.
Cylinder UFO Caught By Mars Curiosity Rover
The images released by Mars Curiosity Rover show what appears to be a very large cylindrical shaped UFOtraveling in the Martian night sky. The UFO appears in a sequence of five images over a ten minute period with the time stamp of April 28, 2014. Stephen Hannard
The images were uploaded on April 30 by NASA, and immediately aroused the attention of UFO researchers monitoring the Curiosity Rover camera feeds which are regularly released on a website owned by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located at the California Institute of Technology.
Scott Waring from UFO Sightings Daily wrote the images are not a result of time lapse photography and appear to show a huge self-propelled craft traveling in a uniform direction. The first researcher to identify the cylindrical UFO was Waring who in his blog post dismissed the idea that the object was due to time lapse: The shape of the UFO is just as we see it, is a slow moving long cigar shaped. None of the Mars orbiters are cylindrical in shape or very large.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still”
I happened to meet Michael Rennie while sitting next to him on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. I was in my uniform, and he was very friendly talking about his frequent work with the US Air Force and that he had made many movies and training films for the Air Force. He asked if I had seen his picture “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, because it was very important and contained an Earth saving message. He implied the US Air Force had helped in making the film with shots of UFOs. The interior of the disc in the film for 1951 had some surprising technology. It was a warning about nuclear weapons and a warning the Earth would be destroyed if we move off the planet with weapons. Michael Rennie played Klaatu an alien who comes to Earth and is helped by a huge robot and Patricia Neal who plays Helen Benson.
The movie script states: “Helen Benson: I need to know what’s happening.
Klaatu: This planet is dying. The human race is killing it.
Helen Benson: So you’ve come here to help us.
Klaatu: No, *I* didn’t.
Helen Benson: You said you came to save us.
Klaatu: I said I came to save the Earth.
Helen Benson: You came to save the Earth… from us. You came to save the Earth *from* us.
Klaatu: We can’t risk the survival of this planet for the sake of one species.
Helen Benson: What are you saying?
Klaatu: If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. There are only a handful of planets in the cosmos that are capable of supporting complex life.
Helen Benson: You can’t do this.
Klaatu: …this one can’t be allowed to perish.
Helen Benson: We can change. We can still turn things around.
Klaatu: We’ve watched, we’ve waited and hoped that you *would* change.
Helen Benson: Please…
Klaatu: It’s reached the tipping point. We have to act.
Helen Benson: Please…
Klaatu: We’ll undo the damage you’ve done and give the Earth a chance to begin again.
Helen Benson: Don’t do this. Please, we can change. We can change.
Klaatu: The decision is made. The process has begun.
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Filer’s Files #13 – 2018 President Reagan Saw UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #13 – 2018 President Reagan Saw UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Tucson-March 15, 2018, My husband was inside the house when I was outside in our back yard taking pictures of a star right below the object that appeared out of nowhere . It was strange because I didn’t see the object in the lens of my phone as I took the pic. I noticed it afterwards as I looked at my pictures. I never saw it in the sky. The first photo does not show the object and the third photo doesn’t show the object I added them to show you the before and after. I tried to blow up the photo in the last two pics. The time says 8:01 and 8:02. I must of started clicking seconds before it changed to 8:02 . The after pic is 8:05. I was viewing my pics in between that time. When I saw the object in my photos I hurried and started to click some more pics to see if the object would appear again and it didn’t . The object is not seen coming or going. I don’t think anything was on my lens because it would have shown on the other photos. I was facing the south direction of my house and my house is on the edge of the southeast part of Tucson. I do believe the same day the ISS passed over Arizona, only I am not sure what time and if I could even get a view of it at 8.00 pm, at night. On the map it shows that the ISS would have been far north of me or far west depending on where it was at the time. My husband and I have been noticing a very huge bright star or object, or planet in the sky (not sure it changes colors and seems to have moved in a very slow speed going west to east. We have been keeping track of it for two weeks now. It has slowly changed its location. This was the same star that I was trying to photograph when this other unidentifiable object appeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Eagle Rock — I was walking my dog up Fair Park Avenue on March 24, 2018, on a nice afternoon and I had never seen this view of Eagle Rock so I decided to take a photo of the actual rock in the distance. As I framed up the photo I thought. You may not be able to recognize the rock in the distance. I take the photo, immediately select it and enlarge it to see if you can recognize the Eagle Rock in the background. As I enlarged it I see this spec and was startled. Seconds later I look up and there is nothing there. I never actually saw it, only in the picture. There was no noise. It was strange enough that I felt compelled to put it right into social media. I knew enough about cameras that if it was a spec on my lens that it wouldn’t look like this. It would be blurry and not hard edges, and pixilation when enlarged. I even did an experiment later that day. I put a rather large piece of black pepper in the center of my lens and took a pic of the sky. It was so blurry that the camera basically focuses around it. When I flip through my iPhone still photos there is a split second of video of the object covering a ton of ground in the tiny moment! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Marco — I was outside throwing the football with my two young boys on March 17, 2018, and noticed two vessels in the sky traveling towards one another. I took a closer look and realized these objects were very far away but really large. They were traveling towards one another at a very close distance apart like they could crash. It look like an (Advil with lights on the side but white lights were yellow and orange.) Normally aircraft don’t fly directly towards each other. The larger was traveling north and the smaller was traveling south. They both basically disappeared. After posting on Facebook my fire chief told me that I should contact you. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Lights
Kahului— I was driving on Hana Highway when I spotted an object up in the sky and could not figure out what it was so I took a picture of it on February 18, 2018. As you can see in photo it was a very clear morning with no clouds what so ever.
Time was about 8 am and I did not stop to watch it. I just took the picture thinking it would not come out or that I was just imagining what I was seeing.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Streak
Port Arthur — I was going back to my RV and I looked up at the stars on March 27, 2018, and saw something move. I saw it moving across the sky silently and I said well that must be a satellite and then it stopped. When it stopped a small white object came out and flew in the direction that the larger one had come from. I pointed my green laser at it and it stopped. It stayed still until I turned away. I’m not sure what it is on the video. When I stopped filming then it just ascended and went out of view slowly. I’m out here on the Gulf Coast working. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Disc
Nimrod — This picture was taken on a 4th of July camping trip in 2011 on the Crow Wing River in Nimrod, Minnesota.
I was looking South down the river. I did not notice the object when I took the picture. I only discovered it when I was going through old photos this week. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nebraska Star
Moncton — His “star” seemed to really want to get my attention. The flashing lights were very noticeable against the night sky so I thought it would be interesting to try out my new camera. As I zoomed in, it was apparent that the star was changing shape as well as color. I didn’t observe any movement other than the rapid flashing of lights. I was able to capture this on video but unfortunately I didn’t have a tripod which resulted in camera shake. From this video, I screen grabbed some stills and enlarged the images. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
Dallas— Shortly after taking off on Spirit Airlines from Dallas around 6:30 am on March 18, 2018. I was taking photos of the sunrise. There was a little dot that I was attracted to but to me it seemed to be one of the city lights. I kept snapping photos to get the sunrise and the city lights. I took 12 photos total. When I got home and reviewed the photos I saw the last three had a glowing green triangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Everett – A sphere was observed flying above 500 feet altitude under cloud cover.
The sphere was captured on March 17, 2018, flying in a straight line path.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Light
Scarborough — I have another fascinating UFO sighting to share on March 24, 2018. This report reveals a second UFO appearing and disappearing on film. When you examine the footage on full screen and slow speed to 0.25 at the 42 second mark in the clip, you will clearly see a second white UFO appear and disappear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRB2HIvu1M&t=23s
Campbell River — On balcony taking photos of the mountain range 2. Did not notice when taking photos 3. I was sliding through photos when I noticed the motion. When you slide the photo you see its trajectory coming from the lower left of the photo. 4. The object looks like a cylinder and when you slide the photo it’s almost a blur coming up from the lower left of the photo. 5. I was surprised and happy I caught it. I didn’t see it when I took the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ecuador Light
Jipijapa— A good friend shared these pictures of reddish orange disc that had just flown away from very close to his terrace. He had seen it the day before, about 11pm when it came up close to his home. He saw bursts of light and saw this circular object emitting a red orange glow, coming straight toward him. He called his wife and daughter in law and all watched in awe, until he got scared and started screaming. Neighbors listening to the screaming came out and also witnessed the craft. He took photos with his Samsung phone of the craft that was 1000 yards to the right of the moon. In the third picture the object flew to the left side of the moon.
In my area Bahia de Caraquez, on the central coast of Ecuador, we have had many sightings. One he was able to see the underbelly of a craft while sitting on the beachfront at about 7pm. One night his car suddenly stopped and all lights turned off. The lights on the disc started rotating around faster and faster and it flew off suddenly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Santes — After discovering your existence while watching BTLV, my partner and I decided to share our observation made 10 years ago! On July 6, 2008. we went to our garden in the afternoon. My son (4 years old), my spouse and I looked at the strange “behavior” of a bird. Its wings seemed stuck to its body! He began to spin and maneuver without flapping his wings. I called my spouse and told him to look, but we were unable to determine what it was, It had an oval black shape that was not normal so I only get two shots as it flew northwest! This phenomenon was very strange and significant! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Disc
Rome – A video was taken of a disc shaped object flying near the Vatican during the last week.
There is some question how the video captured the disc shaped object from the angle higher than the craft.
I have no details on how or who made the video. Also the disc shape is very unusual.
Spain Light
Santa Ponsa — I was sitting on the top floor of our five story building watching the Pleiades at 12:11 AM, on March 27, 2018. Suddenly I noticed a blinking powerful white light hovering above me in slow motion. The object was 80º above the horizon flying south. Some flashes were with less power than others, but the white light was pure and very clean. The object seemed to be taking photographs of the area. It was 3000 – 3500 feet away (~900 – 1000m.) I took my phone and I’ve started recording this light on video. I’ve got a two minute video of this object. The object changes its direction from South to East moving at 5 – 8 km/h) and vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden Lights
Årjäng — My friend and I were standing on the back porch of another friend’s house when we noticed six bright lights in the sky on March 24, 2018. They moved from the southwest to northeast before disappearing from view. We were both astonished by what we saw. They were moving at a steady pace and kept the same distance from each other. They seemed to move slightly faster than the average airplane. They shone with a very bright and intense orange light that was steady and did not flicker or dim. We saw them for four minutes and then they disappeared. I took some shots with my phone.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Object
Aegean Sea – I just flew from over Izmir and Khios, heading into Athens around 4.30pm on 21 March 2018. An object appears to be flying away at right angles from our commercial jet and somehow without either of us appearing to turn we end up almost following it. This is Kerry Forides; please share analyze, chop, enhance, stabilize, etc as I would love to know what I filmed and please refer to my Kerry Camerawork’s page as I am about educating in human nature sustainability and heritage food abundance by design. It is important to me to do something that gives back so our future generations can live in harmony with nature. If you make money from this clip a small kick back would be nice I’m at kerryforides@gmail.com.Video credit: Kerry Forides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZmf5…
UK/England Light
Whitten — I was taking a moon picture and noticed a blue light on March 29, 2018. I went on to take the moon picture and can be seen on picture. Then walked little bit away and took another picture, which is more clear.
This happened few minutes ago, Uk/London time 1:00 am. I took the picture through my front door looking southeast.
My address is Whitten, tw3 2lp. (London). I wish I could know what I saw. Kind Regards Archie C Antil
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NASA is really blurring the lines between science and fiction with this year’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) competition.
For Phase I, the space agency just chose 25 early-stage tech proposals that could make the stuff of sci-fi a reality with robotic swarms, spacecraft that change shape depending on what extraterrestrial cave or ocean they are heading to, and other visionary ideas that you may have trouble separating them from whatever sci-fi series you’ve been binge-watching on YouTube lately.
Here are some of the most mind-blowing things to emerge from the brains of contestants:
Shapeshifters exploring Kraken Mare by self-assembling/disassembling to different shapes.
Credits: Ali Agha, Jose Mendez, JPL
Shapeshifters (shown above) don’t just live in sci-fi and horror movies. These flying amphibious robots (FARs) meant to explore the methane lakes and subsurface oceans of Titan were brainstormed by NASA JPL scientist Aliakbar Aghamohammadi, who proposed a bot that can go from flying to rolling to floating, swimming and cave diving. Behind the shifting technology are cobots, mini robots which recombine to change the shape—something like autonomous Legos.
Graphic depiction of Biobot: Innovative Offloading of Astronauts for More Effective Exploration
Credits: D. Akin
How do you take weight off a spacesuit? You make a robot carry the portable life support system (PLSS) around. Wearing an extra 310 poundscan restrict how much of the mission astronauts can actually accomplish, even in low-gravity zones. BioBots can relieve their human companions of some of that weight by connecting to them with an umbilical cord and traveling with them. We’re going to need these if we have any intention of flying back to the moon.
Graphic depiction of Marsbee - Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration
Credits: C. Kang
If Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration doesn’t sound like the most awesome thing ever, then a bumblebee-sized flyer that hovers over the surface of the Red Planet definitely does. These insectile bots that scientist Chang-kwon Kang calls “bioinspired flapping vehicles” would buzz through the Martian atmosphere with wings the size of of a cicada’s and collect samples from the regolith. Like flying insects, they also weigh next to nothing, meaning they would add minimal weight toa spacecraft’s payload.
Graphic depiction of BALLET: BALloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain
Credits: H. Nayar
Another genius acronym, BALLET is a balloon platform with six “feet” (which double as payloads) that crawl over terrain which would probably shred your average rover. The underside of the balloon is equipped with a camera to navigate. Five of these feet, which are each tethered to the balloon with three cables to keep it from drifting away, are supposed to stay grounded while one at a time “walks” over a planetary surface in a bizarre sort of space ballet.
Graphic depiction of PROCSIMA: Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
Credits: C. Limbach
So maybe humans aren’t zooming over to Proxima Centauri (yet), but scientist Chris Limbach of Texas A&M University has dreamed up a spacecraft that would literally beam itself over. This “Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions” beats laser propulsion because of an innovative beam design that drastically amps the distance over which it accelerates while reducing the beam size. It would be unreal to see this thing in action, shooting through millions of miles of darkness to the next galaxy over, but it could also explore closer mysteries like the Oort cloud.
Concept art of Marsbees buzzing around a rover.
Credit: NASA
Also in NASA’s galaxy of possibilities (you can see all 25 here):
Graphic depiction of SPARROW: Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocean Worlds
Credits: G. Meirion-Griffith
One of NASA’s current obsessions is ocean worlds like Europa, Titan and Enceladus, and this steampunk bot would be able to use propulsive hopping to get to the most interesting targets.
“The 2018 Phase I competition was especially fierce,” said NIAC program executive Jason Derleth. “I can’t wait to see what the new NIAC Fellows can do for NASA!”
X-ray radiation may strip away alien life from many Earth-like planets, says study
X-ray radiation may strip away alien life from many Earth-like planets, says study
Intense X-ray radiation could eliminate the possibility of alien life on many Earth-like planets, by stripping away the ozone layer and rendering them uninhabitable, a study has found.
The astronomers are working to establish what the flare did to the known giant planet and any hypothetical planets further out.
Intense X-ray radiation could eliminate the possibility of alien life on many Earth-like planets, by stripping away the ozone layer and rendering them uninhabitable, a study has found. Astronomers now know of around 4,000 planets in orbit around other stars. A handful of these are both Earth-sized and in the habitable zones of the stars they orbit, where the temperature is right for liquid water. However, many candidate Earth-sized worlds are in orbit around red dwarf stars, much smaller and cooler than our own. To be in the habitable zone, the planets need to be much closer to their stars than we are to the Sun.
The problem, however, is that red dwarfs can produce significant X-ray emission, and often have large flares of radiation and eruptions of particles in so-called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). To try to assess the risk, researchers at the Thueringer Observatory in Germany are intensively monitoring low-mass stars where flares might take place. In February, they observed a giant flare from the star AD Leo, located 16 light years away in the constellation of Leo. AD Leo has a giant planet orbiting three million kilometres away (fifty times closer than the Earth to the Sun), and it may have Earth-sized worlds further out in its habitable zone.
The astronomers are working to establish what the flare did to the known giant planet and any hypothetical planets further out. Their initial results suggest the giant planet was unaffected, and that unlike similar events on the Sun, the radiation flare was not accompanied by a CME. This is potentially good news for life further out, as CMEs are thought to have a role in stripping away the atmosphere of smaller planets. From their monitoring, the team believe CMEs are generally less common in smaller stars. On the other hand, the X-ray radiation is dangerous. According to researchers, these would cut through the atmosphere and reach the surface of an Earth-like planet. Life on land would be badly affected by a stellar flare and might only survive in the oceans.
“Astronomers are mounting a global effort to find Earth-like worlds, and to answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe,” said Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory. “With sporadic outbursts of hard X-rays, our work suggests planets around the commonest low-mass stars are not great places for life, at least on dry land,” Guenther said. The next stage for the research group is to refine the details of their model. Some scientists suggest that giant radiation flares could deplete the ozone layer of a planet by 94 per cent for two years and could even be fatal for all life. If they are right, then talk of ‘Earth 2.0’ may be premature.
NASA has announced an unusual idea for exploring Titan, Saturn's largest moon: a shapeshifting robot that could both fly and swim while exploring its surface.
The robot, called Shapeshifter, is one of 25 ideas that NASA has decided to invest in during a current round of funding meant to support early-stage space exploration technology, called NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts funding. Scientists consider Titan a fairly strong contender among places where we might find extraterrestrial life.
Shapeshifter and 15 additional projects tackling other space exploration challenges were each awarded about $125,000 to spend over nine months. That money is meant to see them through analyzing the basic feasibility of a project.
A conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of seven UFOs lingering above Earth.
Not only is this thought to be proof of ET's existence, the theorist believes the aliens are probably friendly.
With so many 'sightings' from the ISS, the beings could come face-to-face with humans in 15 years, claims the unknown conspiracy theorist known only as 'Graham'.
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A conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of UFOs lingering above Earth
The UFO-tracking conspiracy theorist told the Daily Star that aliens are here and making their way to us.
He said: 'Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.
'We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.
'After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I'm sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.
'And the fact we are still breathing on this beautiful planet means either they are here to help or observe.'
The evidence presented by Graham was obtained during a live feed from the ISS on March 31.
He then uploaded the edited footage to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot.
It was revealed that the UFOs were observed between 11:20 pm BST and 11:50 pm BST.
With so many 'sightings' from the ISS, these UFOs could house friendly beings that will come face-to-face with humans in 15 years, claims conspiracy theorist
More worrying than the claims of nearby, unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens.
Graham revealed: 'Eventually, they will make themselves known.
'There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.
The unknown conspiracy theorist known only as 'Graham' claims the unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens
Graham believes that the anomalies are proof of UFOs. Some people have suggested that it could have been the Tiangong-1 space station reentering Earth's atmosphere instead
'Imagine how this will impact the Earth, new technology, medicines and way of life, our whole civilisation could change to reflect one of unity and peace.
'Some people call them 'watchers' or 'observers' I think these quotes are correct.
'There may be other hostile races too which we are being protected from also which is very reassuring.'
Many have attempted to discredit the claims, saying that the anomalies could be fragments of the Tiangong-1 Chinese space station in one of its last orbits around Earth.
Whilst UFO conspiracies are commonplace, and increasing in frequency, there's almost always a simple explanation.
There are a number of common phenomena that can cause strange objects to appear in ISS footage, including lightning storms high over Earth's surface and tricks of the light.
In the past, a Nasa spokesperson has explained to Dailymail.com: 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'
In a previous statement to MailOnline Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: 'Nasa can't win when it comes to dealing with UFOs.'
He added: 'Even if it was debris, it doesn't turn it into a extraterrestrial scoutship filled with tentacled aliens.'
Multiple specks on the screen of the ISS live stream is 'proof' of extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth's orbit, claims Graham
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION?
The International Space Station (ISS) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
It has been permanently staffed by rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts since November 2000.
The space station is currently home to two Russians, three Americans and one Japanese.
Research conducted aboard the ISS often requires one or more of the unusual conditions present in low Earth orbit, such as low-gravity or oxygen.
The International Space Station (file photo) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth
ISS studies have investigated human research, space medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, astronomy and meteorology.
The US space agency, Nasa, spends about $3 billion (£2.4 billion) a year on the space station program, a level of funding that is endorsed by the Trump administration and Congress.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee that oversees Nasa has begun looking at whether to extend the program beyond 2024.
Alternatively the money could be used to speed up planned human space initiatives to the moon and Mars.
Commercial pilots reported two separate UFO sightings over Arizona not far from Roswell, New Mexico.
Tony Sokol
Unidentified Flying Objects have been reported by such reliable sources as Ezekiel, who saw the wheel, through George Washington, to John Lennon and ex-President Jimmy Carter. Although, to be fair, a Man in Black on The X-Files pointed out that it was proven the former leader of our United States of America only saw the planet Venus. Two commercial aircraft pilots added to the growing dossier on possible alien craft when they issued two reports within minutes of each other on the afternoon of February 24.
The Federal Aviation Administration released radio traffic from pilots of an American Airlines flight and a Learjet skipper, who reported a UFO over southern Arizona last month, according to CNN. The mysterious encounter happened not far from Roswell, N.M., the site of the reported 1947 UFO crash that started flying saucer mania.
The FAA offered no explanation for the mysterious bright object the pilots saw.
"Was anybody, uh, above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?" the CNNreport quotes the Learjet pilot asking.
Controller: "Negative"
Pilot: "Okay. It's a UFO!"
Controller: (laughing) "Yeah."
The tapes capture the controller warning another pilot.
Controller: "American 1095, uh, let me know if, uh, you see anything pass over you here in the next, uh, 15 miles."
Pilot: "Let you know if anything passes over?"
Controller: "American 1095, affirmative. We had an aircraft in front of you that reported something pass over him and, uh, we didn't have any targets. So just, uh, let me know if you see anything pass over you."
Pilot: "Alright."
Not long after the warning the commercial pilot confirmed the controller’s calculated trajectory of the object.
Pilot: "Hey, it's American 1095. Yeah, something just passed over us. I don't know what it was, but at least 2,000-3,000 feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us."
In an interview with Abilene, Texas TV station KTAB/KRBC-TV, the American Airlines pilot Blenus Green, a retired B-1 pilot who has been flying for 20 years, said the object was flying at about 40,000 feet. American Airlines Flight 1095, an Airbus A321, was flying from San Diego to Dallas. The object was seen over the Sonoran Desert between Picacho and Mammoth. Near the border with New Mexico, the area is home to three air force bases: Holloman, Davis-Monthan, and Luke, as well as Fort Huachuca, which berths unmanned aircraft units.
American Airlines referred all questions to the FAA.
"We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons," the FAA spokesperson said.
The veteran American Airlines flyer said he wasn't sure "whether it was a balloon or whatnot." He said it had "a big reflection" and was "traveling several thousand feet above us, going the opposite direction."
The sighting follows a recent video footage upload from the independent research group To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science that captured a high-speed chase and some very excited Naval pilots.
Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas
Legend has it that about 120 years ago, a spacecraft or airship of some sort crashed in the small town of Aurora northwest of Fort Worth and that the body of a little space man is buried in the cemetery there.
Gordon Dicksongdickson@star-telegram.com
Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas
BY GORDON DICKSON
AURORA, TEXAS
A Dallas lawyer is offering $1,000 for the return of a grave marker stolen from a cemetery in the small Texas city of Aurora where, according to local legend, the remains of an alien killed in a UFO crash were buried.
Stratton Horres, a Dallas civil defense attorney, said he doesn't necessarily believe the reported April 17, 1897, crash in the tiny city about 27 miles north of downtown Fort Worth involved an aircraft from outer space — or that there was even a crash at all. But he enjoys reading about and researching stories of unidentified flying objects, and wants to see if his financial offer might turn up some evidence one way or the other.
"It's a legend that persists after 120 years. It's pretty remarkable," Horres said in a phone interview. "I'm skeptical but would love to find some evidence that something has happened that we could not explain."
The grave marker was stolen in 1972, around the time that the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network published an investigative piece about the Aurora incident. A replacement marker also was stolen in 2012, said Aurora city administrator Toni Wheeler, a longtime area resident.
The marker was an asymmetrical stone that featured a crude etching of the cigar-shaped aircraft with three holes.
Today, the gravesite is marked only by a boulder, although some visitors to the cemetery have used ink to inscribe the rock with messages such as "Rest in peace, my alien brother." A small wooden cross and flowers also were seen at the gravesite during a recent visit.
On April 17, 1897, a story attributed to Aurora cotton buyer S.E. Haydon appeared in The Dallas Morning News: “About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country.”
The story went on to explain that an aircraft smacked into a windmill just a few hundred feet north of what is now Texas 114 and crashed into a field.
Supposedly, the pilot — who many people in the town have referred to by the nickname "Ned" for decades — was buried in the town cemetery.
The incident occurred six years before the Wright brothers’ historical first human flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and nearly 50 years before the much more famous unidentified flying object reportedly crashed in Roswell, N.M.
Horres said he got the idea for offering a reward after visiting the cemetery on a whim on a recent Saturday. He encountered a father and young son who also were visiting the site, and shared with them tidbits of information he had read about the Aurora UFO incident during his research.
"Another generation will remember that story because of that visit," he said..
If someone comes forward with the grave marker, Horres said he will not pursue criminal charges.
"It will be no questions asked. I don't want anyone to feel like they were in trouble," he said.
Horres said he will hire an investigator he uses for legal cases to oversee an investigation of the grave marker, possibly including a study into who did the etchings of the grave marker and where the stone material came from.
Once that work is complete, Horres said he will consider donating the grave marker to either Aurora city officials or the local cemetery association, or otherwise taking steps to ensure it is kept safely for future generations.
"It would be for the return and examination to the original gravesite, for everyone to see it."
Anyone wishing to contact Horres to discuss the reward or other aspects of the case may email stratton.horres@wilsonelser.com.
Officials in Aurora were unaware of Horres' interest in the grave marker, but would be delighted if he turned up any evidence new or old, Wheeler said.
Two years ago, the city held an Aurora Alien Encounter to celebrate the anniversary of the reported crash. A subsequent encounter event was canceled after the 2017 death of UFO researcher and former Star-Telegram reporter Jim Marrs, who created a documentary about the Aurora incident and wrote and spoke extensively about President Kennedy's assassination and numerous conspiracies.
This year, the city will host a more toned-down event to celebrate the 121st anniversary of the reported UFO crash, with a memorial service for Marrs and a tour of the cemetery and area near the crash site, she said. This year's event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. April 28, and more information can be found on the city's Facebook page. Later, additional information will be provided on the city's website.
HERE’S THE MIND-BOGGLING REASON WE PROBABLY WON’T MEET ALIENS WHILE THEY’RE STILL ALIVE
HERE’S THE MIND-BOGGLING REASON WE PROBABLY WON’T MEET ALIENS WHILE THEY’RE STILL ALIVE
Space empires could rise and fall without us knowing.
The search for alien life goes on, but our chances of hearing from extraterrestrial beings that are still alive are very slim, according to new research.
The problem is that civilisations likely don’t last as long as signals travelling through space.
These latest calculations are an update of the legendary Drake equation, first proposed in 1961 by Frank Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, as a shorthand way of calculating how much alien life could be out there.
Using variables such as the number of stars born each year, the number of potentially habitable planets they have, and the chances of organic life developing, the equation gives us some idea of the likelihood of receiving signals from beyond Earth.
A model of signal spread.
(arXiv.org)
And according to the newly updated numbers, it’s not looking promising.
“If the civilisation emitted from the other side of the galaxy, when the signal arrives here, the civilisation will already be gone,” one of the team, Claudio Grimaldi from the Federal Polytechnical School of Lausanne in Switzerland, told Lisa Grossman at Science News.
The research team also includes Frank Drake himself, now professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Each of the variables in the Drake equation are open to debate, but the scientists assumed a civilisation lifespan of 100,000 years as a marker, which is how long it takes light to cross the galaxy. Even an alien empire that lasted that long would only fill “a small fraction” of the galaxy with signals, the study determines.
For reference, we’ve been sending signals out into space for 80 years now, and those rippling signals will only have covered under 0.001 percent of the Milky Way.
What’s more, given the frequency of the signals we send out into space, an alien civilisation would need to be within 50 light-years for us to have heard back from them at this point, the researchers found.
While a hardy group of aliens who survived longer than 100,000 years could fill the galaxy with bouncing signals, there could again be gaps if new civilisations don’t spring up often enough to fill them, the data shows.
Another interesting finding was that the number of extraterrestrial signals crossing Earth at any one time should correspond to the number of civilisations currently broadcasting, whether or not the signals we’re hearing are from past or current civilisations. The researchers are still writing up their thoughts on that one.
The aim of all these calculations is to get a better perspective on our lack of contact with alien lifeforms so far. Is it because no one else is out there? Or is it because we just have a very low chance of hearing anything?
Eventually the researchers hope that the revised Drake equation can help us improve our chances of finding radio signals in space, perhaps through an improved understanding of where to point our telescopes.
This is still all preliminary though – the paper produced by the team has yet to be peer-reviewed by other scientists, though it is available online.
For now though, we shouldn’t expect to be hearing signals from alien lifeforms that are still around – at least not with an assumed civilisation lifespan of 100,000 years.
“The transmissions arriving at Earth may come from distant civilisations long extinct, while civilisations still alive are sending signals yet to arrive,” write the researchers.
You can read the research paper on the pre-print server arXiv.org.
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India Loses Contact with New Communications Satellite Just Days After Launch
India Loses Contact with New Communications Satellite Just Days After Launch
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched the GSAT-6A communications satellite on March 29, 2018, on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket, but lost contact with the satellite on March 30.
Credit: ISRO
India lost contact with a communications satellite only days after the country launched the craft into space, according to multiple media reports and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Recovery efforts are ongoing as India faces its second possible mission failure in less than a year.
GSAT-6A initially launched as planned on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket Thursday (March 29) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, near the Bay of Bengal on India's southeast coast. At first, the satellite behaved normally, but then ISRO lost contact with GSAT-6A at an undisclosed time on March 31 (Indian time). Communications ceased after the satellite finished the second of three planned engine-firings meant to raise its orbital altitude around Earth.
The engine at first fired as planned for 53 minutes, ISRO said on its website yesterday (April 1). But then, GSAT-6A went silent. "When the satellite was on course to normal operating configuration for the third and the final firing, scheduled for April 1, 2018, communication from the satellite was lost," ISRO officials said in a statement.
The Times of India said that communications ceased only minutes after the second engine burn. "The agency received data from the satellite for about 4 minutes after the second orbit-raising operation, after which … it [satellite communications] went blank, a source said," the Times wrote yesterday (April 1).
ISRO is trying to re-establish the link. "The Mission Control is on the job continuously," said ISRO chair Kailasavadivoo Sivan, who only recently assumed that position, in another report from the Times. He added that data ISRO received shows it is possible to recover the satellite, but he did not offer specifics.
GSAT-6A was supposed to last 10 years and provide mobile communications in both S-band (microwave) and C-band (radio) frequencies, according to the Times. The satellite was also meant to improve communications for armed forces working in remote areas; in zones with little cellphone service, the military could receive satellite data using handheld ground terminals that would connect to this satellite.
Last week's launch marked the second possible mission failure since August 2017. At that time, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket placed the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) 1H satellite into a lower-than-expected orbit. The satellite also remained stuck inside the rocket's payload fairing, which failed to deploy, according to multiple media reports in India.
The August incident was the first PSLV failure since September 1997, when the fourth stage of a PSLV put the IRS-1D remote sensing satellite into a lower orbit than planned.
The Story Of The Great Flood According To Ancient Aztec Mythology
The Story Of The Great Flood According To Ancient Aztec Mythology
“Before the great flood which took place 4,800 years after the creation of the world, the country of Anahuac was inhabited by giants, all of whom either perished in the inundation or were transformed into fishes, save seven who fled into caverns. When the waters subsided, one of the giants, the great Xelhua, nicknamed the ‘Architect,’ traveled to Cholula, where, as a memorial of the Tlaloc which had served for an asylum to himself and his six brethren, he built an artificial hill in the form of a pyramid…”
No matter where you look, descriptions of a cataclysmic flood that destroyed the world can be found in nearly all ancient cultures.
The Great Flood was supposedly sent by God or the gods upon the earth in order to destroy civilization as an act of divine punishment. This story is a widespread theme among many cultural myths and is perhaps best known from the biblical story of Noah.
But despite the fact that Noah’sstory of the great flood may be one of the most famous and well know flood stories, it isn’t the oldest one out there, and it certainly isn’t the only one.
There are several other—perhaps less famous—versions such as stories of Matsya in the HinduPuranas, Deucalion in Greekmythology. The oldest and ‘original’ account of the great flood is, according to scholars, that of Utnapishtim in the EpicofGilgamesh.
By Diego Duran (Madrid Biblioteca) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This historic fact is clear evidence how many of the world’s oldest cultures have stories describing a Great Flood that devastated earlier civilizations on Earth.
Curiously, a great deal of similarity exists between several of the flood myths, something that has led many authors and scholars to believe that these have evolved from or influenced each other.
And despite the fact, three stories of a great flood exist in nearly all ancient cultures on Earth; mainstream scholars are divided in opinion whether or not such an event took place on Earth. However, scientists do recognize that in the distant past, thousands of years ago, a catastrophic flood did take place on Earth, but most scientists deny that there was a massive Flood—the Great Flood—that occurred in the last 6,000 years that covered major parts of the planet.
The ancient SumerianNippurtablet is believed to describe the oldest account of the Great Flood and the creation of both humans and animals on Earth. It also records the names of Antediluvian cities on earth and their respective rulers.
The Eridu Genesis is believed to have been composed circa 2,300BCE is considered as the earliest known account of the great flood and predates more popular Great Flood described in the biblical book of Genesis.
Many authors and scholars believe that the Sumerian accounts of a great flood eventually gave birth to more popular Flood myths like the one described in the Bible.
However, if that is true, how did the story of a great deluge make its way all the way to Mesoamerica, thousands of years ago?
The Aztec Flood Stories
There are several accounts of AztecFlood stories, but authors argue that the most famous of them all is that of Nota, the Aztec version of Noah.
When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day, all was lost. But before the Flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, ‘Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.’ They entered, and when Titlachahuan had shut them in he said to the man, ‘Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also.’ And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil. (source)
— Ancient Aztec document Codex Chimalpopoca, translated by Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg.
IF we take a look at the Five Suns, the doctrine of the Aztec and other Nahua peoples we will find the following eras, creations, and destructions:
Nahui-Ocelotl(Jaguar Sun) – Inhabitants were giants who were devoured by jaguars. The world was destroyed.
Nahui-Ehécatl(Wind Sun) – Inhabitants were transformed into monkeys. This world was destroyed by hurricanes.
Nahui-Quiahuitl(Rain Sun) – Inhabitants were destroyed by a rain of fire. Only birds survived (or inhabitants survived by becoming birds).
Nahui-Atl(Water Sun) – This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.
Nahui-Ollin(Earthquake Sun) – We are the inhabitants of this world. This world will be destroyed by earthquakes (or one large earthquake).
The fourth one, Nahui-Atl describes what many believe is a great flood: This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.
“The fourth sun, Nahui-Atl, “Four-Water,” ended in a gigantic floodthat lasted for 52 years. Only one man and one woman are said to have survived, sheltered in a huge cypress. But they were turned into dogs by Tezcatlipoca, whose orders they had disobeyed,”—Britannica.
After the Nahui-Atl comes the Nahui-Ollin, the world we live in today, which, according to Aztec mythology, will be destroyed by one large earthquake.
Different versions of Mesoamerican floods, especially those by the Aztec people tell that after the great flood, there were no survivors, and creation had to start from the beginning, while other accounts describe how current humans are descended from a small number of survivors.
Before the great Flood which occurred around 4,800 years after the creation of our world, the country of Anahuac was inhabited by giants, all of whom either perished in the inundation or were transformed into fishes, save seven who fled into caverns.
When the waters receded, one of the giants, Xelhua, surnamed the ‘Architect,’ traveled to Cholula, where, as a memorial of the Tlaloc which had served for asylum to himself and his six brethren, he built an artificial hill in the form of a pyramid.
He ordered bricks to be made in the province of Tlalmanalco, at the foot of the Sierra of Cecotl, and in order to convey them to Cholula, he placed a file of men who passed them from hand to hand.
The gods beheld, with wrath, an edifice the top of which was to reach the clouds. Irritated at the daring attempt of Xelhua, they hurled fire on the pyramid.
Numbers of the workmen perished.
The work was discontinued, and the monument was afterward dedicated to Quetzalcoatl.
Giants lived on Earth before the flood, and Xelhua was one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula.
A Dominican monk wrote this account:
Xelhua was a giant of the “time of the universal deluge.” He was one of the seven giants in the Aztec culture. Before the pyramid in Mesoamerica was complete, “fire fell upon it, causing the death of its builders and the abandonment of the work.”
The Quinametzin Giants Of Aztec Mythology—Builders of The Pyramid Of Cholula And Teotihuacan
The Quinametzin Giants Of Aztec Mythology—Builders of The Pyramid Of Cholula And Teotihuacan
One of the most fascinating histories in Mesoamerica belongs without a doubt, to the ancient Aztec people.
The Aztecs (also called Mexica Culture) were a pre-Columbian civilization of the Mesoamerican region, which flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries AD, in the corresponding territory of Mexico.
The Aztec spoke Nahuatl, and their culture developed in the cultural region of Mesoamerica from 1325 to 1521 AD, date of the conquest of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadores, commanded by Hernán Cortés, who defeated the Aztecs and destroyed their civilization.
The Aztecs reached a high degree of technological and cultural sophistication and were governed by an elective monarchy, organized into different social classes, such as nobles, priests, warriors, merchants, farmers, and slaves.
In addition to their incredible agricultural, astronomical, and economic development, the ancient Aztecs are known for having a pictographic script and two calendars (astronomical and liturgical).
The center of the Aztec empire was the city of Tenochtitlan located Mexico City.
The functioning of the Aztec State was based on a wide bureaucratic network formed by professional officials, such as priests, trade inspectors, and tax collectors—the Tecuhtli.
Like many other ancient cultures during the time, the ancient Aztecs too were polytheists (they worshiped several gods) and believed that if human blood was not offered to the Sun God, it would stop shinning and would go out plunging the world into darkness.
Human sacrifices were offered to:
Huitzilopochtli or Tezcatlipoca: The sacrificed was placed on a stone by four priests and a fifth priest extracted, with a knife, the warrior’s heart alive to feed it to the gods.
Tlaloc: Children were sacrificed annually on the mountaintops. It was believed that when more creatures cried, more rain the God would provide.
In the Aztec pantheon, there were many gods.
The main ones were linked to the solar cycle and the agricultural activity.
The most revered god was Quetzalcoatl, represented as a feathered serpent.
According to the Spanish chroniclers, the bloodshed was offered from the hearts of animals and human beings in essential rites to satisfy their Gods.
In addition to having been extensively developed in a number of scientific and social fields, Aztec Mythology is one of the richest folklore of the American Continent.
Curiously, two of the most amazing structures built in Mesoamerica where the ancient City of Teotihuacan, and the Great Pyramid of Cholula.
Model of the city and Great Pyramid of Cholula. Cholula Museum, Puebla, Mexico.
( CC BY SA 4.0 )
The Great Pyramid of Cholula for example, happens to be the largest pyramid of the world.
In size, this Pyramid is compared to NINE Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Researchers have no idea who built this massive structure, but legends say it was erected by Giants. Specifically, the Quinametzin Giants.
According to Aztec Mythology, the Quinametzin Giants not only built the Great Pyramid of Cholula, but they also erected one of the most amazing ancient cities in Central America, the Great City of Teotihuacan.
If we take a look at In Aztec mythology, we will find that the Quinametzin Giants are believed to have populated the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain (Nahui-Quiahuitl).
As written in the book El Mundo Mágico de los Dioses del Anáhuac authored by Otilia Meza, a Quinametzin Giant stood more than 10 feet tall with a weight of around 600 pounds.
As many other mythologies around the globe that mention the existence of giants, the Quinametzin too were by the gods because they did not venerate them, and their peak-civilization came to an end as a result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed.
The Quinametzin Giants:
Cuauhtemoc, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.
Izcoalt, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.
Izcaqlli, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.
Tenexuche, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.
Xelhua, a giant founder of Cuauquechollan, Itzocan, Epatlan, Teopantlan, Tehuacan, Cuzcatlan and Teotitlan, this giant built the Great Pyramid of Cholula.
Tenoch, a giant founder of Tenochtitlan.
Ulmecatl, a giant founder of Cuetlachcoapan, Tontonihuacan, Huitzilapan.
Mixtecatl, a giant founder of Mixteca.
Xicalancatl, a giant founder of Xicallancatl.
Otomitl, a giant founder of Xilotepec, Tollan, Otompan.
6 Amazing ‘Pieces Of Evidence’ That Hint Giants Existed On Earth
6 Amazing ‘Pieces Of Evidence’ That Hint Giants Existed On Earth
Countless ancient texts—including the Bible—mention a time when Giants walked on Earth.
But we all know Giants aren’t real, right?
Countless ancient civilizations around the globe mention in their folklore and mythologies creatures of immense stature. Giants. Massive humanoids, that once walked the Earth.
They are spoken of both in the Bible and in the Mahabharata, and similar stories can be found in the sacred Thai texts of Ceylon, in Greek mythology, as well as in the Aztec, Egyptian, Irish or Basque traditions.
The Ancient Aztecs mention in their mythology the so-called Quinametzin.
In Aztec mythology, the Quinametzin Giants populated the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain
(Nahui-Quiahuitl).
A Quinametzin stands more than 10 feet tall and weighs about 600 pounds. They were punished by the gods because they did not venerate them, and their peak-civilization came to an end as a result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed.
The construction of the pyramid of Cholula and the City of Teotihuacan (The Place Where Men Become Gods) was attributed to the Quinametzin Giants.
In Odyssey, Homer mentions giants who were a race of large and wild beings ruled by Eurimedon, who lived in the far west, on the island of Thrinacia. These beings were exterminated by Eurimedon himself because of their insolence towards the gods.
Notice how both in Greek Mythology and in Aztec mythology, Giants were punished by the Gods?
1—The Book of Giants
A small piece of the Book Of Giants and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Discovered more than half a decade ago, the so-called Book of Giants is considered one of the most fascinating, yet controversial discoveries ever made on Earth.
Discovered together with thousands of ancient scrolls, the Book of Giants describes the demise of the ancient Nephilim.
The ancient manuscript speaks about the creatures that inhabited our planet in the distant past and how they were destroyed.
2—The Nephilim of the Bible
According to Genesis 6:1-4, The Nephilim were the offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” before the Deluge.
When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.— Genesis 6:1–4, New Revised Standard Version.
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” -Genesis 6:4
Numbers 13:33 ESV: “And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
3—QuinametzinGiants
According to Aztec Mythology, the so-called Quinametzin Giants, populated this world during the previous era of the Sun Rain. These mighty creatures are mentioned in the Codex Rios, also called the Vatican A codex. According to the Italian translation of the ancient manuscript written during the Spanish Conquest, Giants lived in Mesoamerica.
According to the depictions of the codex, Aztec warriors even fought against giant beings.
Dominican Fray Diego Duran tells us a lot about Aztec history and culture. His writings offer some of the oldest texts about the ancient Aztecs, their life, religion, customs, and mythology.
“It cannot be denied that there have been giants in this country. I can affirm this as an eyewitness, for I have met men of monstrous stature here. I believe that there are many in Mexico who will remember, as I do, a giant Indian who appeared in a procession of the feast of Corpus Christi. He appeared dressed in yellow silk and a halberd at his shoulder and a helmet on his head. And he was all of three feet taller than the others.” ‑Fray Diego Duran, The Aztecs (New York: Orion Press, 1964), pp. 5-6.
4—Newspaper reports detailing the discovery of Giant humanoid fossils
Countless newspaper reports dating back more than 100 years detail the discovery of massive bones of what many people believe to have belonged to real Giants.
In this article, we have compiledover 15 reports where newspapers write about giant skeletons that could alter the course of history.
5—A Giant Finger, the ultimate evidence of Giants?
A finger of what is believed to have belonged to a creature of immense height was found in Egypt around 50 years ago. The finger—believed to be authentic—has 28 centimeters in length. Some reports suggest that the being it belonged to was at least 5 meters in height.
The images here displayed were taken in 1988 and were published by one of Europe’s leading newspaper, BILD.de
6—Kap-Dwa—a two-headed giant?
Said to have originally been captured by Spanish sailors in the 1600’s, a Giant being called Kap-Dwa was a two-headed, 3.5-meter tall massive humanoid that is believed to have lived on Earth hundreds of years ago.
Here’s The UFO Footage NASA Doesn’t Want You To See
Here’s The UFO Footage NASA Doesn’t Want You To See
During a live stream event from the Progress spacecraft, two unidentified objects appear out of nowhere and are clearly visible in NASA’s Live Stream. The two ‘unidentified objects’ quickly disappear in a way that many conspiracy theorists say, makes the footage look edited, giving UFO hunters plenty to think about.
Most importantly, it isn’t the first live stream that NASA has tried editing, say UFO hunters.
We’ve come across plenty of videos on YouTube showing what many believe is the ultimate evidence our plant is beings monitored and constantly visited by beings, not from Earth.
And while some of these videos are easily explained as reflections or camera glitches, other videos make you wonder whether or not there really is something out there we are not being told about.
One extremely controversial video was filmed by NASA’s cameras on board the international space station on July 9.
What do you think this object is? It was photographed by the Gemini X mission.
As the Space Station was orbiting Earth, a mysterious whiteish object appears to move towards our planet’s atmosphere.
Just as the object approaches the planet’s atmosphere, it comes to an abrupt stop, and NASA’s live stream is cut off.
This isn’t the first time NASA has cut off the live stream warn UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists.
On numerous occasions has NASA abruptly cut off its live stream from space, every time a mysterious UFO appears near the space station.
This strange behavior has prompted conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters to call NASA out for trying to cover-up evidence of alien visitations on Earth.
But is NASA really trying to hide evidence of alien spaceships entering and leaving Earth’s atmosphere? Or are UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists just being paranoid about it, and what if the mysterious objects are only space junk and debris floating around?
But if the alleged UFOs filmed in space are nothing more than just space junk or satellites, how come these objects have the ability to change directions or stop and move abruptly?
And If they are only space debris and satellites, why does NASA turn off their cameras nearly every single time such an object enters the cameras field of view?
Coincidence?
These ae some of the questions UFO skeptics have been unwilling to answer when asked about NASA, the International Space Station, and the countless UFO’s seen leaving and entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Enjoy the video:
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”
– Major Gordon Cooper, astronaut, testifying under oath to the United Nations.
And one of our favorite quotes comes from Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA Astronaut, and Princeton Physics Professor:
“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, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”
UFOs have reportedly been caught on camera by a man from Bristol who is convinced he saw ships “bouncing off the moon”.
Bright lights in the sky were captured by the man from his flat in Easton in the early hours of Good Friday.
The 35-year-old man, who asked not to be named, said he saw a “mothership” as well as several other smaller aircraft moving across the sky at speed.
“I witnessed it from my flat in Easton,” he said. “The main UFO was some distance away – it looked like it was bouncing off the moon.
The man believes he captured a UFO on camera (note: the man is referring to the small dot of light below the moon)
“I saw spheres and balls and I saw a mothership. I have seen UFOs before but this is the first time I have had the opportunity to record it.
“I reckon the mothership was the size of two to three football fields, at least. There were two or three altogether but the mothership was the focus – it was so big, even from a distance.”
His excited reaction to seeing he what he believes was a UFO can be heard in the video above.
Although intriguing, the man’s footage is not the first time mysterious lights have been spotted in the skies over Bristol.
In August last year, a man from Kingdown captured what appeared to be three lights hovering over the BS15 area of the city.
Were UFOs really captured over Bristol? (Pictured: stock image of a UFO)
The sightings prompted some conspiracy theorists to suggest Bristol is a hotbed for extra-terrestrial activity – with one Bristol Post reader even suggesting Purdown BT Tower was a UFO refuelling station.
Een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde. Reactie Steven Greer op onderzoek naar ‘buitenaardse’ mummie
Een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde. Reactie Steven Greer op onderzoek naar ‘buitenaardse’ mummie
In 2003 werd een kleine mummie gevonden in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili. Het lichaampje was slechts 15 centimeter lang en misvormd.
De schedel was uitgerekt, de oogkassen stonden schuin en het lijfje had maar 10 ribben. Mensen geloofden dat Ata, zoals het wezen werd genoemd, buitenaards was.
Een DNA-studie van de Stanford-universiteit zou nu uitgewezen hebben dat het om een foetus van een misvormd meisje gaat.
Schandaal
De wetenschappers vermoeden dat het misvormde lijkje na een miskraam of vroeggeboorte in de woestijn is achtergelaten.
De mummie was te zien in de film Sirius van dr. Steven Greer. In een nieuwe video reageert hij op het onderzoek, waar zo’n beetje alle grote media over berichtten.
Greer vertelt dat hij na de publicatie van de studie werd gebeld door een topgeneticus waar hij mee samenwerkt.
De geneticus, die anoniem wil blijven omdat hij zijn baan niet wil verliezen, zou gezegd hebben dat we hier te maken hebben met een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde.
Slecht uitgevoerd
Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde blad Genome Research, maar volgens de topgeneticus is de collegiale toetsing ronduit slecht uitgevoerd.
Willekeurige mutaties zouden zeven genen van de mummie tegelijkertijd hebben beïnvloed. Als zulke mutaties echt willekeurig waren, zouden ook andere genen moeten zijn beïnvloed, merkte de geneticus op.
Epidemische vormen
Op basis van dit slecht uitgevoerde onderzoek wordt nu gesteld dat de zaak gesloten is, aldus Greer.
Hij voegde toe dat de corruptie binnen de wetenschap en de verspreiding van dit soort wetenschappelijke onzin epidemische vormen begint aan te nemen.
WAAROM SPLITST AFRIKA ZICH JUIST NU IN TWEE DELEN?
WAAROM SPLITST AFRIKA ZICH JUIST NU IN TWEE DELEN?
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een enorme scheur in Kenia die door wetenschappers wordt verklaard als het begin van een breuk die Afrika in twee delen zal splitsen.
Iedereen slaapt rustig verder, want, zo zeggen ze, dit proces zal nog zeker enkele miljoenen jaren in beslag nemen.
Het is eigenlijk best verbazingwekkend hoe gemakkelijk de bevolking weer in slaap wordt gesust nadat er weer eens iets heel heftigs met onze aarde is gebeurd.
Wetenschappers denken dat Afrika weleens in tweeën kan gaan splitsen. Het oostelijke deel zal een nieuw continent gaan vormen. De verschuiving is al begonnen; de breuk ontstond begin vorige week in Kenia.
De drukke Keniaanse weg Mai Mahiu-Narok stortte hierdoor deels in. De breuk is daar op sommige plekken twintig meter breed en vijftien meter diep. En de breuk zal sneller verbreden dan verwacht.
Wetenschapper Lucia Perez Diaz, verbonden aan de Royal Holloway universiteit van London, ziet hierin het bewijs dat het oostelijk deel van Afrika een nieuw continent zal vormen. Kenia, Tanzania, Somalië en een deel van Ethiopië zullen uiteindelijk worden afgescheiden, schrijft The Mirror naar aanleiding van haar publicatie in het blad Conversation.
In het artikel beschrijft ze hoe dit geologisch proces zich voltrekt diep in de aarde. Afrika bestaat nu nog uit één tektonische plaat: de zogeheten Afrikaanse plaat. Alleen, die wordt in het oosten geleidelijk uit elkaar gespleten, ter hoogte van Somalië.
Daardoor zullen er op termijn twee platen ontstaan: de Somalische plaat (de oostelijke plaat) én de Nubische plaat (de westelijke plaat).
Waar met geen woord over wordt gerept, is dat dit een verschijnsel is dat zich op veel meer plekken op aarde voor doet. Het is niet alleen in Kenia dat er scheuren in de aarde verschijnen.
Enkele voorbeelden uit dit jaar.
Eind februari wordt een enorme scheur ontdekt in de woestijn van Saoedi Arabië:
Begin maart verschijnen er scheuren in de aarde in Peru:
In januari verschijnt er een enorme scheur in de Amerikaanse staat Washington:
Begin maart een enorme scheur in de grond in Macedonië:
Zoals we vaker schrijven; het is niet één bepaald voorval, het is een optelsom van alle vreemde en ongewone dingen die er wereldwijd plaatsvinden. En niemand schijnt zich af te vragen waarom dit alles juist nu gebeurt.
En met het tempo waarmee dit nu allemaal gebeurt, gaat het echt niet over miljoenen jaren, maar over een veel korter tijdsbestek.
Homeowners should know that even a small crack in the ceiling, wall or floor is a sign that something bad is happening and shouldn’t be ignored. Residents of Kenya and African countries in the same longitude should have felt the same way when a crack formed across the Mai Mahiu-Narok road near Nairobi, but they didn’t seem too concerned … until geologists pointed out that the crack formed in the aptly-named Rift Valley where two active tectonic plates meet and scrape against each other for 3,000 km (1864 miles). Talk about a bad sign! How much plaster do you need to fill a 3,000 km crack?
The Kenyan news source Standard Digital reported that the first crack appeared on March 14th as rain washed away a one kilometer stretch of the road and flash floods killed at least one person. While rain and floods are common in the area, this relatively little crack was not. It was a sign that something was happening underneath it in Suswa, a shield volcano made by lava that flows in a river out of a volcano rather than from an eruption. By March 20th, the crack was 50 feet (15.5 km) wide, 50 feet deep and a number of miles long … and getting longer and wider by the day.
Worried yet? This is obviously more than a road problem that can be fixed by the local pothole crews working overtime. Geologists are looking closely at the movements of the African plate, which covers most of the continent, and the Somali plate, a minor plate which covers about half of the East coast of Africa, from the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen, south to Durban, South Africa. Where the plates meet is called the East African Rift, and the Rift Valley where the crack opened is part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift known as the Gregory Rift (named for British geologist John Walter Gregory who explored the rift in 1892-93 and 1919).
Fossils of early hominins have been discovered in the Gregory Rift, but what concerns geologists at the moment is that the rift is on the Kenyan Dome, a geographic uprising formed by the interactions of the African, Somalian and Arabian plates – the Arabian covers the Arabian peninsula and has been moving northward to mash into the Eurasian Plate. That pulling-away is also impacting the East African Rift. The entire collection of rifts are considered to be active and moving because the magma plume beneath them is hotter than the average plume.
Now are you worried? The Kenyan media source Daily Nationinterviewed geologist David Ahede, who said the Somali plate is moving away from the African plate at a rate of 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) per year – a big gap in geological terms. He blames it all on the Suswa volcano, which is also active. All of that movement of plates away from each other causes earthquakes, which is what ultimately caused the Mai Mahiu-Narok road crack and its continual spreading north and south. This is the second time in five years that a crack has opened up at the same location in the Rift Valley.
Is the east coast of Africa going to break off into the Indian Ocean? Yes … eventually. Residents of Rift Valley have time to sell their homes before the property values – like their countries – plummet. The split is expected to be complete around 50 million years from now. However, the seismic and plate tectonic activity is expected to increase on a smaller scale, causing major cracks that can cause major accidents, landslides, flooding and other natural disasters.
For what it will look like when all of the plates break, think giant bull in continent-sized china cabinet.
Earth’s closest neighbor is about as close to a planetary evil twin as you can get. While very similar to Earth in terms of size, weight, and gravity, Venus—ironically named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty—is a blasted hellscape of extreme temperatures, crushing atmospheric pressure, and swirling clouds of sulfuric acid. Temperatures at the Venusian surface can be as high as 860 degrees Fahrenheit and the weight of that acid choked atmosphere is 90 times heavier than Earth. That’s the equivalent pressure of being 2970 feet under the ocean. Despite these unfortunate characteristics, a paper published in the journal Astrobiologyon March 30, 2018 by a team of NASA scientists says this deadly nightmare planet might be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life—and we may have found it already.
While the idea of life on Venus is not new by any means, the recently published paper lays out a new argument based on new discoveries both on Venus and here on Earth. Sanjay Limaye, the lead author of the paper and, noticed that bacteria on earth can form light-absorbing colonies that share properties with unexplained “dark patches” in the clouds of Venus. These dark patches have been shown, through spectroscopic observation, to be composed of sulfuric acid and some “unknown particles.”
Life on Venus might resemble algae blooms like the one shown here.
Limaye and the other authors of the paper argue that these mysterious and unidentified particles could be bacterial life akin to an algae bloom that can survive the punishing atmosphere of the solar system’s hottest planet. Limaye explains:
Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30–40 percent in the ultraviolet, and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent.
Strangely, the changing dark patches in Venus’ atmosphere share the same dimensions as some bacteria on Earth. The problem is the instruments examining Venus aren’t capable of distinguishing between organic and inorganic materials.
As far as chances for finding extraterrestrial life go, this one isn’t bad. Some models of Venus’ history suggest that Venus could have held a large amount of liquid water for as long as one billion years, which would have been a superb jumping off point for life to evolve and adapt to the changing environment. Recently, scientists have discovered a whole slew of bacteria and viruses on Earth that can survive at extreme temperatures and pressures, including some that make their homes in sulfuric acid.
Venus and earth share many similarities, and Venus may have even had liquid water long ago.
To test this idea, however, we would need to actually send a craft to the Venus surface. Limaye hopes that NASA will send a VAMP (Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform), a plane-blimp hybrid that could study the middle atmosphere of Venus for up to a year to study the planet’s atmosphere and hopefully confirm his suspicions.
Currently, NASA is discussion possible collaboration in the Russian Venera-D mission, which will send an orbiter, lander, surface station and maneuverable aerial platform to Venus sometime next decade.
Strange greenish UFO hovers in the sky over Lar Mirada, California
Strange greenish UFO hovers in the sky over Lar Mirada, California
A strange greenish disk-like object has been spotted while hovering in the sky over Mirada, California on March 30, 2018.
The footage shows a fascinating object that moves slowly from the right to the left.
Since it clearly flies behind certain objects, like a street light; we may assume that it is not a reflection of the camera but is it a UFO or is it something that can be explained.
In the mid-80s, off southern Yonaguni, in Japan, some divers found amazing underwater stone structures which looked like stairs or balconies. Scientist like marine geologist Masaaki Kimura think these “pyramids” are man-made and that date back to thousand of years ago.
YONAGUMI PYRAMIDS ON TV
Story has been enhanced by History Channel (in the episode “Lost cities of the deep” of Ancient Discoveries series), by Bbc and by Discovery Channel, but the question remains: are they wildlife structures or were they created over the surface by a vanished civilization and then were flooded by ocean beacause of a volcanic eruption or an earthquake?
Yonaguni pyramids consist of a series of stone structures, comprising massive layers, as well as various pillars. They lie at a depth between 5 to 40 meters above the surface. The most remarkable structure was named “turtle” because of its similarity with such an animal.
THE CIRCULATION OF MARINE CURRENTS
Because of very strong marine currents, and a large population of hammerhead sharks, diving in these waters isn't fully safe, but this didn't prevent the area to become the most famous for diving in Japan.
Some scientists think that exactly the strong maring currents, jointly to the natural process of erosion, turned for millenia the ocean floor.
TOO MANY CORNERS AND STRAIGHT EDGES
Yonagumi pyramids would therefore be just part of a rock formation. Other experts continue to believe they were man-made, as would seem to indicate the huge number of corners and straight edges, as witness many photos taken over the years.
Whether this view proved to be correct, would arise louder a second question: why, fromwho and for what purpose were built Yonaguni pyramids. Before even gets the the mythical Atlantis, were they and ancient fortified complex, temples, or a mausoleum?
A soft robot developed by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is seen to the left of a coin. |Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsROBOTICS
Take two robots and call me in the morning.
That may well be a legitimate prescription for future medical patients, thanks to a new kind of radically miniaturized soft robot that can be swallowed, injected, or inserted under the skin. The robot can then move around inside the body to target specific tissues or deliver precise doses of medicine.
Researchers with Germany's Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems unveiled last week details of the tiny robot in a paper published in the journal Nature. Unofficially dubbed the millirobot, it's a flexible, fabric-like robot that can walk, swim, and even carry cargo, despite having no mechanical elements or batteries.
The secret is magnetism. The millirobot, which resembles a very small rectangle of paper about four millimeters in length, is made of an elastic polymer threaded through with magnetic particles. Using existing magnetic-resonance technology, such as an ultrasound machine, doctors can control the movement of the bot inside the human body.
That means the robot can potentially be deployed anywhere that physicians need to deliver a particular drug or other medical material — in the digestive tract, say, or even within the blood stream.
The soft millirobot climbs on the water meniscus by changing its body curvature and lands on the solid surface. Next, it encounters a large obstacle and traverses it fast and easily by jumping over it, and walks on the surface after landing. The dashed line shows the direction of the robot motion. |Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
“In the case of digestive or urinary systems, where the current robot could get in with its current size, the robot would be swallowed,” Sitti told Seeker. “For internal organ applications, we would deploy the robot through a small incision, like in the case of laparoscopy. In vascular system applications, we could inject it omto the blood vessels.”
While other ingestible robots have been developed, the millirobot has several advantages over other techniques, according to the research team. Most importantly, the robot is very versatile in its modes of locomotion. Thanks to its biologically inspired design, the millirobot can easily transition from swimming in a liquid to scooting over a solid surface.
“We looked at the physical mechanism of locomotion of soft-bodied caterpillars and jellyfishes and took inspiration from them,” Sitti said. “The result is that our millirobot is a mix of small-scale soft-bodied animals, such as a beetle larva, a caterpillar, a spermatozoid, and a jellyfish.”
Thanks to its biomimetic design, the millirobot has multiple ways to get around, Sitti said. In a video released with the research publication the millirobot is shown inching along like a worm, swimming like a manta ray, and carrying cargo by encircling small objects then rolling them into place.
“After the robot is deployed inside the body, it can be navigated using seven different locomotion methods to reach to the taret disease area,” Sitti said. “Then, the robot can deliver drug locally in a controlled dose by using its shape-change control. This can remove possible side effects that some drugs could have and can also improve the drug delivery efficiency and amount control.”
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Sitti and his research team have further plans for the millirobot, including possible cancer treatment options and a novel cauterization technique.
“As another medical use very soon, we could heat the robot in the target location remotely — using electromagnetic waves — and the heated robot could stop bleeding in a wound or kill cancer cells locally,” Sitti said.
The researchers hope that their soft robot will some day become a standard option for health care providers, offering a space-age option for non-invasive access to hard-to-reach places.
“Currently it is not possible to access many small regions inside the human body without surgery,” Sitti said. “But our target is to reach such regions non-invasively and conduct diagnostic and therapeutic operations with our soft robots.”
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Newgrange: An 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years
Newgrange: An 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years
A thousand years older than Stonehenge, and 500 years older than the Pyramids of Giza, Newgrange is an ancient monument that consists of approximately 200,000 tons of rock and other materials. It is 85 meters (279 ft) wide at its widest point.
One of the most famous ancient sites in Ireland is Newgrange, a monument built between 3,300-2,900 BC according to carbon 14 tests (Grogan 1991).
This makes it 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza of Egypt, and 1,000 years older than Stonehenge (although the first stages of Stonehenge are approximately about the same time as Newgrange). This ancient monument also predates the Mycenaean culture of ancient Greece.
It remained lost during more than 4,000 years due to a decrease of the mound until it was discovered in the XVII century by people who looked construction stones and described it as a cave.
Newgrange was excavated and restored between 1962 and 1975 under the supervision of Professor Michael J O’Kelly, of the Department of Archeology at the University College Cork (O’Kelly 1986).
The intricately carved monument predates the Pyramids of Giza by around 500 years.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Most of the stones (200,000 tons of rock) come from the vicinity of the construction, although the granite and quartz stones of the façade were transported from more distant places, probably from Wicklow and Dundalk Bay, respectively.
The true purpose of this ancient monument remains a mystery, although experts believe it was a religious center of some sort.
The Celtic triple spiral or triskele symbol is sometimes called the spiral of life and was found in the Newgrange site from the Bronze Age in Ireland. The triple spiral is an ancient symbol of Celtic beliefs, and was used consistently in Celtic art for 3 millennia.
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Interestingly, Newgrange appears to be astronomically oriented: every year, on the morning of the winter solstice, sunlight penetrates the passage and illuminates the floor of the chamber for 17 minutes.
Newgrange features numerous examples of abstract Neolithic rock art.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Some have speculated that the Sun would have had great importance in the religious beliefs of the people who built it, and others have taken the finding as a reference for archaeoastronomic studies in other similar monuments although Newgrange’s alignment is the only one that has been reliably demonstrated and it could be the result of chance.
The entire monument was intricately carved.
The Megalithic stone at the entrance of Newgrange.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Newgrange contains numerous examples of abstract Neolithic rock art carved onto it which provide decoration, although some authors have speculated that their design is more than just art, for researchers have demonstrate a close connection between the ancient site and the sun, specifically the Winter Solstice; the rising sun shines directly along the long passage, illuminating the inner chamber and revealing the carvings inside, notably the triple spiral on the front wall of the chamber.
The carvings at Newgrange fit into ten categories, five of which are curvilinear (circles, spirals, arcs, serpentiform and dot-in-circles) and the other five of which are rectilinear (chevrons, lozenges, radials, parallel lines, and offsets).
They are also marked by wide differences in style, the skill-level that would have been needed to produce them, and on how deeply carved they are.
Newgrange Co.Meath on the Winter Solstice 2017
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As for the exact purpose of the monument, several authors believe Newgrange may have been centered on astronomy, engineering, geometry, and mythology associated with the Boyne monuments.
Prehistoric rock art on one of the kerb-stones surrounding the great Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange, Co. Meath
Photo: Regan Buker (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Researchers speculate that the monument was an important astronomical center and that the sun formed a crucial part of the religious beliefs of the Neolithic people who built it.
Pururauca—When Andean God Viracocha Turned Stones Into Soldiers
Pururauca—When Andean God Viracocha Turned Stones Into Soldiers
The legend of the Pururaucas soldiers or stone soldiers is an Inca legend that mystifies the victory of the Inca army over the Chanca army in 1438.
Mainstream scholars see the event an attempt to magnify the feat of the surprise Inca victory of the battle of Yahuarpampa.
The Andean legend speaks of a massive battle where the Incas saw themselves outnumbered against a terrifying enemy, but invoked their greatest deity, asking for help.
The god Viracocha responded to their call by turning rocks into soldiers, helping the Inca defend their city causing the enemy to retreat in fear.
But, is this a mere legend or is there more to this story than initially thought?
Let’s start from scratch.
The conflict of the Incas with the Chanca is perhaps the most known and decisive episode in Andean history.
It was in 1438 when Hanan Chanca Anccu Hualloc gathered more than 40,000 soldiers and undertook the conquest of Cusco, destroying everything in its path, eventually surrounding the city.
Legend has it that the Inca ruler Hatun Tópac (Huiracocha Inca) and his son, the Crown Prince Urco, cowardly fled the capital leaving the Cusco people to defend themselves upon the imminent arrival of the powerful Chanca army.
Anarchy reigned until the young Prince Cusi Yupanqui (Pachacutec Inca), who happens to be Urco’s younger brother and second in succession, courageously led a resistance. The young prince recruited a small army to defend the city from the enemy army, but nobody wanted to join them more than the ethnic group of the Canas.
Before this adversity, the prince turned to the gods. The young prince called for Viracocha, the mighty Andean god who eventually responded.
Was Viracocha an ancient alien God?
The Andean creator god Viracocha, appeared in a dream and told Prince Cusi Yupanqui that he will send soldiers to assist in the unequal fight, promising an overwhelming victory for the Inca.
After having dreamt what Prince Cusi Yupanqui saw as a powerful message from the Gods, the battle came.
The powerful Chanca army thought that an easy battle was upon them, waiting for an easy conquest. As the Chanca Army advanced, Prince Pachacutec’s dream comes true; the surrounding stones all of a sudden are transformed into warriors that attack the Chanca causing them retreat.
Just as the god Viracocha had promised the prince in the dream, the Incas—motivated by this “divine act”—win the battle and, once the Chanca Army retreated, the mysterious lithic soldiers returned to their original form.
But what really happened that day?
Mainstream scholars believe that the stone soldiers, called Pururaucas, were only part of a clever strategy put together by the young prince, and consisted of disguising mounds of rocks as soldiers and positioning them in such a way that the Chanca thought that the Incas had a much larger army.
Other historical sources suggest that many of the local ethnic groups that initially refused to participate in the conflict, audaciously waited to see which side would gain an advantage on the battlefield and then join it, thus, say some historians, giving off the impression as having come out of nowhere, and perhaps even from the rocks themselves.
But, the Chanca were bloodthirsty and extremely violent. They were great fearless soldiers and for this reason, it is hard to believe that they would have retreated from the battlefield thanks to stones dressed up as soldiers.
Something much more powerful must have occurred for the powerful Chanca army to retreat.
Another version of this legend is that the Chanca army fled when they saw the large number of soldiers that the Inca army had, but it was not mounds of stone but llamas which Pachacutec had disguised after seeing the numerical disadvantage.
However, many say a much more incredible event occurred that day, pointing towards an otherworldly influence.
Is it possible that Viracocha, who is often referred to as an ancient alien god by numerous authors, did, in fact, create a ‘miraculous’ army thousands of years ago, that helped defend the Inca against the powerful Chanca army?
Gone are the days when we could count on the Arctic landscape to be painted in shades of white. The permafrost beneath the snow and ice is no longer permanently frosty, and as it melts, write researchers in a new study, it’s muddying up the once-pristine terrain — quite literally. In a startling photo accompanying the study, an array of Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes seem to spew filth from within, making the landscape look like the surface of an alien world.
The paper, published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters on Friday, describes the visible effects the thawing permafrost has on the surface of the neighboring terrain, many feet above it. As climate change warms the Earth and coaxes the permafrost out of its continually frozen state, a process called “browning” occurs, the researchers write. During this process, organic carbon once trapped deep in the permafrost seeps upward into the region’s lakes and ponds, suffusing them with a filthy brown hue. Meanwhile, the way the permafrost cracks the landscape above it creates fissures that divide the surface into eerie polygonal shapes.
In the image below, supplied in a release by Quebec, Canada’s INRS (*Institut national de la recherche scientifique), the muddiness of the browning lakes sharply contrasts with the clear blue of the larger body of water alongside them, though even it too shows sinister brown tendrils curling up along its edges.
Here’s an aerial photo of Bylot Island, which lies off the northern side of Baffin Island in the Nunavut territory of Canada, southwest of Greenland:
Carbon seeping up from the thawing permafrost turns lakes and ponds brown.
Browning doesn’t just make the collection of lakes look like the sickly cells of an alien organism’s skin. The biggest downside of all that organic carbon seeping to the surface, INRS biologist Isabelle Laurion, Ph.D. and her co-authors write, is that this carbon is really good at absorbing sunlight, which drives up the temperature — and thus the rate of permafrost melt — even faster.
Laurion and colleagues determined this by analyzing the different types of dissolved organic matter in 253 ponds around the North Pole, which showed them that the waters affected by thawing permafrost contained much more terrestrial carbon and less algae (a key element to the food chain in these waters).
“Our results demonstrate a strong terrestrial imprint on freshwater ecosystems in degrading ice-rich permafrost catchments, and the likely shift toward increasing dominance of land-derived organic carbon in waters with ongoing permafrost thaw,” they write.
In a paper published in Scientific Reports in 2015, researchers outlined the ecological effects of browning. In the lake they studied, over the course of 27 years, surface water temperatures increased by 2–3 degrees Celcius, the lakes became five times more transparent to UV light, and levels of zooplankton (near the bottom of the food chain) decreased.
Polygonal lakes created by melting permafrost on Alaska's North Slope.
But perhaps the worst effect of browning is that it creates conditions even more conducive to releasing even more carbon into the air — particularly in the form of the greenhouse gas methane — which will in turn speed up the climate change process by which the permafrost melts in the first place.
“Land-derived organic carbon is having a growing influence on Arctic and subarctic ponds, which carries over into the food web,” the authors said in a statement. “The browning of these systems leads to oxygen depletion and cooler water at the bottom of the ponds, which can have a major impact on the microbial activity responsible for the production and consumption of greenhouse gases, particularly the production of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.”
Stan Michalak describes the scene where he believes his father, Stefan, was eating lunch when he encountered a UFO in 1967.
Stefan Michalak had a close encounter with a flying saucer in Whiteshell Provincial Park more than 50 years ago, but you could soon have one even closer — in your pocket.
That’s because Michalak and the Falcon Lake Incident are being immortalized in silver with a special limited-edition $20 coin being released by the Royal Canadian Mint today.
Sketch made by Stefan Michalak after witnessing an unidentified flying object in 1967. It's now widely known as the Falcon Lake Incident.
Michalak’s son, Stan, calls the coin "a super honour."
"I feel very privileged they are doing it... and if my dad was still around, he would be floored. He would be pleasantly surprised. And if my mother was still here, she would say everything has a reason. Everything is connected. You do something here and there will be repercussions," he said.
On one side of the coin is the standard engraving of the Queen, but on the other is a full-colour depiction of Stefan Michalak falling onto the ground, with forest and a lake behind him, while a flying saucer hovers above him.
Erica Maga, the mint’s product manager, said only 4,000 of the one-ounce silver coins are being produced. They will retail for $129.95.
"Part of our job is to discover these really interesting stories," Maga said, noting that during the research for the coin, they read last year’s Winnipeg Free Press feature on the 50th anniversary of the incident, headlined "Close encounter of the Manitoba kind."
The coin has two things to make it extra special, she said.
"This one has a very special technology to enhance the storytelling component," Maga said. "The reverse with Stefan and the UFO, if you use the black light flashlight sold with it, will make an otherworldly glow."
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Steve Michalak of 314 Lindsay who claims to have been burned by un unidentified flying object last May, has been bedridden because of the return of the burns he then suffered. The marks, now fading, can be seen on his stomach.January 17, 1968
The coin is also not round. Special dies needed to be cast to allow for the creation of the specially ovoid-shaped blanks the coin is shaped in, so more time was needed to produce these compared to the ones in people’s pockets.
"We can only make a couple of hundred coins per shift. A lot of hands go into something like this," Maga said.
Although Winnipeg is home to the country’s main mint, which produces regular circulation coins, the Falcon Lake Incident coin was produced at the one in Ottawa, which creates special commemorative pieces, she said.
But if you’re thinking of buying the coin because you want to sell it when it goes up in value, that’s not necessarily going to happen, cautions Jasmine Allen, manager of Gatewest Coin on Corydon Avenue.
"The new stuff the mint produces is really hit or miss," Allen said. "When people are buying mint products, we recommend you have it because you enjoy it and not as an investment."
The younger Michalak, who last year co-wrote a book with Chris Rutkowski about the incident and his family’s experiences with the unwanted attention from authorities and the media, said he never would have thought someday a coin would commemorate the event.
"Who knows? Maybe the postal service will call me up. It wouldn’t surprise me now."
Sometimes the best scientific discoveries happen by accident, and even though there aren’t any test tubes to spill in an astronomical observatory, the field of space science is no exception. Most recently, an incident of cosmic happenstance has led scientists to discover a star that’s farther away from Earth than any star that’s ever been observed by humans — 9 billion light-years away. The best part? They weren’t even looking for it. Here’s what happened.
While observing a galaxy cluster designated MACS J1149+2223 with the Hubble Telescope, a team led by Patrick Kelly, Ph.D. noticed a distant star. Through an effect called gravitational lensing, a result of the massive cluster’s gravity distorting space-time, objects beyond it appear magnified. This allowed astronomers to observe the otherwise very dim star they’ve named “Icarus,” a blue supergiant star that’s bigger and hotter than our sun. Kelly, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Minnesota, and his colleagues published their findings in a paper Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, in which they give the star the much less exciting name: MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1.
Galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223 (left) distorted space-time, allowing astronomers to see Icarus 4 billion light-years beyond it. In 2011, (top right) Icarus wasn't visible, but in 2016 (bottom right) it was.
“This is the first time we’re seeing a magnified, individual star,” Kelly said in a statement. “You can see individual galaxies out there, but this star is at least 100 times farther away than the next individual star we can study, except for supernova explosions.” If not for the gravitational lensing, which the study’s authors write magnified Icarus more than 2,000 times, the star would have remained unnoticed.
Besides the fact that this star is much farther away than anything astronomers have ever directly observed, the discovery also has big implications for the study of dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the mass in the universe but which scientists have never directly observed. One of the major hypotheses explaining the source of dark matter is that it came from primordial black holes in the early universe. But the study’s authors’ observations provide evidence that counters this hypothesis. Observing the galaxy cluster and the background star over a number of years, researchers did not see the kind of light fluctuations that would come from these primordial black holes.
Astronomers hope to get more insight into the nature of dark matter when the James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2020. Until then, indirect observations like this one are the best we can hope for.
CHILLING CLAIM: 'Aliens in UFOs filmed observing the ISS are about to make CONTACT'
CHILLING CLAIM: 'Aliens in UFOs filmed observing the ISS are about to make CONTACT'
ALIENS allegedly monitoring the International Space Station (ISS) are about to make contact with us in an historic move that could change the world forever, it has extraordinarily been claimed. One skywatcher claims to have witnessed alien craft heading into the Earth’s atmosphere and observing us from the skies in livestreams from ISS cameras observing the planet.
The man behind YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot even believes the "extraterrestrial beings" he is convinced are inside them will soon reveal themselves to astronauts on the ISS and the wider world.
The conspiracy theorist who has only released his first name Graham, spoke as he revealed live stream footage that he claims shows seven UFOs.
He said: “Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.
“We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.
“After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I’m sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.
We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.
Graham
“And the fact we are still breathing on this beautiful planet means either they are here to help or observe.”
But, chillingly, Graham added that we could soon come face-to-face with aliens.
He revealed: “Eventually, they will make themselves known.
“There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.
“Imagine how this will impact the Earth, new technology, medicines and way of life, our whole civilisation could change to reflect one of unity and peace.
“Some people call them 'watchers' or 'observers' I think these quotes are correct.
"There may be other hostile races too which we are being protected from also which is very reassuring.”
Graham captured his "evidence" during a live feed from the ISS on March 31 and uploaded it to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
He revealed that he spotted several UFOs between 11.20 and 11.50pm.
However, Graham has no evidence to back up his claims of advanced aliens visiting Earth and the "contact deadline."
Sceptics have pounced on and attempted to rubbish his claims.
One viewer even pointed out that his footage was taken at the same tie that the Chinese satellite Tiangong-1 was plummeting towards the Earth.
Colin Hadley posted in response to the video: "Some if not all of those will be Tiangong-1 as it's falling to earth at the moment."
Scott Brando runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org.
He regularly comments on similar videos uploaded by conspiracy theorists like Graham which show what appear like faint and glowing objects on camera.
Mr Brando has shown several times through his own videos how the objects are not actually there and are reflections from the ISS or lens flares inside the cameras that appear on the recorded footage.
Alien abduction? Unsolved case of man ‘who disappeared after building UFO' re-opened
Alien abduction? Unsolved case of man ‘who disappeared after building UFO' re-opened
A SKILLED mechanic who built a replica UFO in his backyard was never seen again after disappearing following claims he was in constant contact with aliens. Granger Taylor vanished from his parents' home at Duncan, on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada, without a trace at the age of 32 in 1980.
His most memorable project was constructing a UFO-like shelter from two satellite dishes that he fitted with furniture, a TV and a stove.
But his fascination with the possibility of alien visitations became more serious when he alleged to experience constant contact from alien beings who promised to take him to their world.
The tale is often retold on alien conspiracy theory websites as alleged evidence of an alien abduction.
The reports all state that no trace of him was ever found.
But, the March 31 edition of the Montreal Gazette in 1986, five-and-a-half-years after the disappearance, said two pieces of bone that could have been Granger Taylor's, and parts of what was believed to be his truck, had been found in a dynamite blast site on Mount Prevost.
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Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific
Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's concept of China's Tiangong-1 space station prototype burning up in Earth's atmosphere during its fiery fall back to Earth overnight on April 1-2, 2018.
Credit: Alejandro Miranda/Alamy
Tiangong-1 is no more.
China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere today (April 1), breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about 8:16 p.m. EDT (0016 April 2 GMT), according to the U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC).
"The JFSCC used the Space Surveillance Network sensors and their orbital analysis system to confirm Tiangong-1's re-entry," U.S. Air Force officials wrote in a statement. [Tiangong-1: China's Falling Space Station in Pictures]
Some pieces of the school-bus-size Tiangong-1 almost certainly survived the fall, but the odds that they caused any damage or injury are extremely small: You had a less than 1-in-1-trillion chance of getting hit by a flaming chunk of the heavenly palace, according to experts with the Aerospace Corporation.
By the way, if you do manage to find such a chunk of Tiangong-1, don't pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it. The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel, experts have said.
Tiangong-1 was about 34 feet long by 11 feet wide (10.4 by 3.4 meters), and it weighed more than 9 tons (8 metric tons). The space lab consisted of two main parts: an "experimental module" that housed visiting astronauts and a "resource module" that accommodated Tiangong-1's solar-energy and propulsion systems.
The craft launched without anyone aboard on Sept. 29, 2011, to an orbit about 217 miles (350 kilometers) above Earth. That's slightly lower than the orbit of the much larger International Space Station, whose average altitude is 250 miles (400 km). Tiangong-1's main mission was to help China master the technologies required to assemble and operate a bona-fide space station in Earth orbit, a goal the nation aims to achieve by the early 2020s, the country has said.
On Nov. 2, 2011, the robotic Shenzhou-8 spacecraft visited Tiangong-1, executing China's first-ever orbital docking. Another big milestone came in June 2012, when a crew of three spaceflyers linked their Shenzhou-9 vehicle to the heavenly palace and came aboard for a spell.
Three more "taikonauts," or Chinese astronauts, visited in June 2013, traveling on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. Each of these crewed missions lasted about two weeks.
The docking of two robotic spacecraft, the Tiangong 1 space station and Shenzhou 8 capsule, provided a preview of larger Chinese space complexes planned for the future.
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Contributor
Tiangong-1's design lifetime was just two years, and the space lab's work was mostly done after Shenzhou-10 departed. The empty space lab continued to do some Earth-observation work, however, and researchers and engineers kept in touch with it until March 2016, when data transmission between Tiangong-1 and its handlers stopped, for reasons that China never explicitly specified. At that point, an uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry was apparently inevitable.
This is the view of outside researchers. But Chinese space officials dispute such terminology, said Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation who's an expert on China's space program. [The Biggest Spacecraft to Fall Uncontrolled From Space]
"The Chinese insist that it is controlled," Cheng told Space.com. "They're very, very unhappy when you use this term 'uncontrolled.'"
Chinese officials have said that they know where Tiangong-1 is and can provide location updates at any time, Cheng added. But for other spacefaring nations, a "controlled" re-entry is one performed under the guidance of a spacecraft's handlers — for example, the intentional de-orbiting of the Soviet/Russian Mir space station over the Pacific Ocean in March 2001.
"We should be diplomatically, and in the space-policy world, pushing China to accept a definition of 'control' that is comparable to that of the rest of the rules-based world. You don't get your own definition," Cheng said. "To support that, there need to be some sticks here," he added, referring to consequences.
The re-entry of Tiangong-1 was tracked by the JFSCC, the U.S.-based analysis group Aerospace Corp., the European Space Agency and scientists around the world with the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee.
"The JFSCC works alongside government, industry and international partners to track and report reentries, to include today’s Tinagong-1 reentry, because the space domain is vital to our shared international security interests," JFSCC deputy commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of the 14th Air Force, said in the JFSCC statement. "One of our missions, which we remain focused on, is to monitor space and the tens of thousands of pieces of debris that congest it, while at the same time working with allies and partners to enhance spaceflight safety and increase transparency in the space domain."
"All nations benefit from a safe, stable, sustainable, and secure space domain," Whiting said. "We're sharing information with space-faring nations to preserve the space domain for the future of mankind."
Tiangong-1's successor, Tiangong-2, launched to Earth orbit in September 2016 and hosted three visiting astrpnauts a month later. And a robotic vessel called Tianzhou-1 rendezvoused with Tiangong-2 a few months later, performing several automated docking and refueling operations from April 2017 to September 2017.
The success of these missions apparently has China poised to start building a permanent space station. The nation aims to begin construction and assembly operations next year, and the first crewed missions to the outpost could come in 2022, Chinese space officials have said.
Tiangong-1 is not the biggest spacecraft ever to fall from the sky. That distinction goes to the 140-ton (127 metric tons) Soviet/Russian space station Mir, which was guided to a controlled destruction over the Pacific Ocean in March 2001.
The largest craft ever to come down at least partially uncontrolled is NASA's 100-ton (91 metric tons) space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart as it was returning to Earth on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts aboard. An investigation later pinned the cause of the disaster on a piece of foam insulation from Columbia's external fuel tank, which broke off and punched a hole in the heat shield on the orbiter's left wing during launch, two weeks before the tragedy.
In the three years that Corey Goode has been revealing his stunning information about secret space programs, extraterrestrial civilizations, and diplomatic meetings, there has been a steady build up to some major revelations about humanity’s future. It appears that a critical threshold was reached in a December 2017 meeting near the planet Saturn where multiple delegations met to discuss humanity’s future in light of the ending of 22 genetic experiments run by multiple human-looking extraterrestrial civilizations.
In a prior article, I discussed Goode’s report about an earlier December 16 “Super Federation” meeting he attended near the planet Jupiter involving over 60 human-looking extraterrestrial delegations, where he played the role of spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance. This is a group of higher density beings (6th to 9th density consciousness) who have been acting as a kind of Galactic umpire over the last few years to encourage diplomatic solutions to Earth’s multiple conflicts involving dozens of competing extraterrestrial groups, Inner Earth civilizations, global elites and secret space programs.
At the Super Federation meeting, Goode said he was told to relay to the assembled extraterrestrial delegations that their long term genetic experiments involving humanity needed to come to an end, and that humanity would be left alone to determine its own future. Despite some initial protests, Goode revealed that this decision was accepted by the Super Federation, making it possible for another diplomatic meeting a few days later (December 19-21, 2017) where the process for creating a new Super Federation governing human affairs would begin.
To some, what has been written so far may sound delusional and many will demand evidence to prove at least part of it before even considering it possible. At the moment, however, there is no hard evidence to substantiate Goode’s claims. On the other hand, there is no hard evidence to disprove any of them either, despite determined attempts by some critics to discredit his testimony and credibilty.
In the three years that I have been researching and writing about Goode’s incredible assertions, I have found no evidence of deception. Instead, I have found multiple sources corroborating his information from many different perspectives, e.g., whistleblowers/insiders, documents, and contemporary events.
My research has been documented in three books so far, which detail, compare, and analyze his amazing claims. Comprising over 1200 written pages and 1500 references, the clear conclusion reached in the Secret Space Program Series is that Goode is very credible, honest and truthful about the events he has witnessed, and taken part in.
In addition, I have met and communicated with senior military intelligence officials who have likewise accepted Goode’s information as accurate, and have quietly assisted him with some very high level national security information. If Goode was perpetuating a hoax, as some of his critics contend, I doubt such high level officials would be helping him.
For those drawn to the Corey Goode information, keeping an open and discerning mind is required to fully understand what he is telling us, and how it is relevant to our lives. Goode’s revelations not only inform us about key historical events and political processes that have not been publicly disclosed, but also what the future holds for us.
It’s quite clear that Goode has been chosen to play a unique and special role as a witness to extraordinary galactic events and meetings occurring today. He has no other formal role except occasionally acting as a spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance when they choose to appear at off-world diplomatic meetings. Where Goode is used to relay information to participants even when the Sphere Being Alliance members are physically present.
This was spectacularly demonstrated at a meeting in March 2015, where afterward Goode described how he appeared on stage along with two members of the Sphere Being Alliance before roughly 120 VIPs and delegates drawn from multiple secret space programs, global elites and private civilian groups at a secret facility on the Moon called Lunar Operations Command. It was this March 2015 meeting that launched Goode into a series of meetings, abductions, and encounters, which subsequently led to the December 2017 meetings that have become the most significant to have occurred so far.
Corey Goode on Stage at Lunar Operations Command with Blue Avian and Golden Triangle Headed Being.
Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Steve Cefalo
It is Goode’s role as delegate for the Sphere Being Alliance, and the status this accords him from the perspective of other groups and forces both on and off-planet, that requires us to keep an open and discerning mind to what he is telling us. Goode is giving us all vital information about events that lie ahead, and we should not be distracted by the noise of competing voices wanting to distract us, intentionally or not, from important galactic developments.
This takes me to the most recent galactic meeting that Goode attended, only a few days after the December 16 Super Federation meeting near Jupiter. He discussed both of these meetings in a January 13 article and his March 27 Cosmic Disclosure interview.
Goode described being taken to a nearly identical temporal anomaly near Saturn by representatives of seven Inner Earth civilizations. The craft that transported him had a total of 40 Inner Earth participants comprising the seven groups.
Inner Earth Representatives boarding flying saucer taking them and Corey Goode to Saturn anomaly meeting.
Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Daniel Gish
Intriguingly, Goode says that these Inner Earth beings are descendants of humanity’s future selves, a small group of whom time traveled into the distant past to maintain an optimal timeline. They did this to ensure that Draconian Reptilians would not overtly take over the planet, thereby establishing a global tyranny.
Goode says that when he arrived at the Saturn facility, he was met with representatives of 52 civilized worlds from the local cluster of stars in our region of the Milky Way. In his March 27 interview, Goode described the physical appearance of these representatives:
They were all humans of different types, and most of them were not Caucasian. They were different types of olive skin, brown skin, and even a kind of a tan skin. But they were representatives of each of the local 52 stars. And they are all basically our cosmic cousins. They are human beings, just different types.
He pointed out that one of these groups, the famed Olmecs who had mysteriously helped develop human civilization, were in fact extraterrestrial refugees relocated to Earth due to the Draconian control of their home world.
Many, many, many times on Earth in our history, refugees have been brought from other planetary systems to stay here and live here. And they’ve lived here for many generations at times. That was the Mayans. But the Olmecs, when there was a major issue going on in their star system, many of them were brought here as refugees to survive here and wait out the issues there. Then they were brought back.
In past interviews, Goode has described his interactions with “Mica”, the representative of the Olmec group, who had previously played Goode’s role as the Sphere Being Alliance representative for his civilization.
According to Goode, neighboring star systems have experienced similar histories to our own in terms of corrupt global elites secretly allied with a group of extraterrestrials described as Draconian Reptilians. In these adjacent star systems, the Sphere Being Alliance appeared and choose a single individual to be their delegate/spokesperson in the subsequent negotiations and struggle to rid the planet of the corrupt elite control systems that plagued these worlds.
Each of them have either been in contact with the Blue Avians or the Triangle-Head being and gone through a similar thing that I have in their planetary system.
Apparently, in all these worlds, the function of the Sphere Being Alliance delegate/witness was to relay what was being observed to the rest of the population. This was a critical aspect in the awakening of each planetary population, and gaining freedom from their corrupt elites and Reptilian overlords.
Well, we were told that we were witnesses, that we were the conduits for each of our collective consciousnesses, that each of our groups was a collective consciousness on our planetary systems that we were on, like here on Earth. The information I was receiving, what I was witnessing, was on behalf of the collective consciousness here in this Solar System.
At this Saturn meeting, Goode says he was chosen once again to play the spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance members before the assembled delegates. The three Blue Avians and Golden Triangle beings that were present said they would be leaving our physical reality and would be replaced by another two members of the Sphere Being Alliance, as Goode had previously announced in 2017.
All present at the Saturn meeting were subsequently introduced by Goode to the new Sphere Being Alliance members who “began to give us some cosmic ground rules for going forward.”
They would be responsible for assisting humanity in an unprecedented era where it would not be dominated by competing extraterrestrial groups. Essentially, humanity would be fully informed about the truth of their global situation, and would then be able to determine its future free of corrupt elites and extraterrestrial interference.
Of particular interest was the appearance of a group of entities called the “Sentinels” at the Saturn meeting, who are custodians of still functional Ancient Builder Race technologies that are up to two billion years old. Up to approximately 500,000 years ago, according to Goode. Builder Race technologies were used to establish a very powerful protective grid around our local cluster of 53 solar systems (52 + Sol), to keep out aggressive extraterrestrial races until it was destroyed in an internal Solar System wide war.
The Sentinels communicated with the Sphere Being Alliance in a spectacular light show that all participants witnessed. This was very significant since it suggested that the Sentinels would continue their present role, thereby ensuring that Builder Race technologies that continue to operate would only be accessed by individuals whose ethical standards and behavior meet with the high expectations set by the Sphere Being Alliance.
Blue Avians, Golden Triangle Being, Sentinels, Inner Earth representatives and 52 local stellar representatives at Saturn meeting.
Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Daniel Gish
Goode has previously described how “Gonzales”, a U.S. Navy Lt Commander, had been turned away by the Sentinels when he approached one of the functional Builder Race installations. The Sentinel told Gonzales that he lacked humility, and a request was subsequently made for Goode to make the same trip later to learn about the installation.
Builder Race technology is particularly relevant to nations with military run secret space programs, such as the U.S. Navy’s Solar Warden, wishing to extend contemporary military concepts such as “full spectrum dominance” into outer space battlefields. It is doubtful that the Sentinels would allow Builder Race technologies to be used in this way for the military benefit of a single nation or planet.
Goode was told that a new, and more representative, Super Federation would be assembled. Then the newly liberated and now awakened humanity would interact on a more equal basis with the different extraterrestrial groups, and would be joined by representatives from the nearby 52 star systems.
Goode also said that at the December 16 Super Federation meeting had a representative from the “Council of 200” (a corrupt elite control group) seated as the head of the Earth delegation. Presumably, our newly awakened humanity will at some point choose a more representative individual as humanity’s spokesperson for Galactic affairs.
It will be very interesting to see what process is adopted by our planet’s seven billion inhabitants and/or their political representatives to choose one or more delegates to a newly reconstituted Super Federation. I highly doubt the global populace will accept major nations simply choosing a representative similar to how the United Nations Secretary General is appointed without any kind of grass roots participation.
In addition, the Inner Earth beings will be represented in this expanded Super Federation, presumably opening the door for them to further interact with surface humanity, and publicly reveal themselves in the near future.
As to when all these stunning changes are going to be publicly revealed, Goode has discussed an upcoming series of solar flash events that will act as the trigger for full disclosure and humanity’s awakening.
NASA’s next mission will provide InSight into the workings of Mars’ interior — and find out whether there is such a thing as a Marsquake.
Mars rendered in Autodesk Maya.
Image credits Kevin Gill / Flickr.
No, that’s not a typo — NASA’s InSight mission, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport, leaves little room for doubt as to what it will entail — except that it will do it on Mars. There’s a lot of interest among planetary scientists about what secrets the red planet’s interior hides, and the mission aims to bring many of those to light. As part of this mission, the eponymous lander will blast off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as early as May 5, according to a news release.
Red to the core?
The InSight mission will be the first in many regards: it’s the first launch to another planet from the West Coast — usually, that’s a role reserved for Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s also the first mission dedicated to studying Mars’ deep interior, the product of 25 years of planning and effort, says the mission’s lead investigator Bruce Banerdt.
Although the launch is scheduled for the 5th of May, it will still take the lander about six months to make the 301-million-mile treck to Mars, according to NASA estimates. Another 2-3 months will be needed to get the instruments all nicely calibrated and humming at peak accuracy; all in all, the mission should last about two Earth years, which is a little over one Martian year.
According to Banerdt, InSight will collect seismic data and chart heat flows beneath the planet’s crust, all while keeping a highly-accurate eye on Mars’ north pole. He’s confident that by the mission’s end, researchers will have enough data on hand to map out the interior structure of Mars — a feat that could finally tell us what turned the planet so barren. The craft will be beaming data back since day one, however, so maybe we’ll piece things together a bit faster.
InSight’s observations extend farther than Mars alone, though. Data gleaned from the lander will help scientists better understand how rocky bodies or planets form and evolve; Banerdt described the mission as a “scientific time machine that will bring back information about the early stages of Mars’ formation four-and-a-half-billion years ago”.
Having access to this story will even help scientists better understand how Earth and our moon came to be. Down here, because our planet is still keeping active (isn’t it making us all so proud?), the same clues InSight will be looking for just aren’t available anymore; they’ve been destroyed by millions of years of erosion, mantle convection, plate tectonics, and other geological processes. Mars, luckily for us, hasn’t been active enough to cover up the traces left by its formation and early processes, according to Banerdt.
“What InSight is going to do is, it is going to sort of fill in the last big hole in our understanding of Mars. We’ve sent orbiters to Mars which have studied the entire surface, [but e]verything more than just a few feet below the surface is completely unknown territory,” he explains.
“And InSight is going to fill in the gap in our knowledge of Mars and sort of finish the reconnaissance of the exploration of Mars.”
InSight’s launch is scheduled for May 5; if anything should interfere with that date and the mission needs to be delayed, its launch window is open until June 8.
An international team of researchers thinks Venus might hide life — floating around merrily in its atmosphere. To find out, they plan to send a half blimp, half plane robot to the scorching planet.
Venus transiting in front of the Sun.
Image credits NASA / JPL.
Here on good ole’ Earth, microorganisms — mostly in the shape of bacteria — can and often do get swept up into the atmosphere. They don’t even mind it that much; using specially-equipped ballons, researchers have detected these critters alive and well at altitudes as high as 41 kilometers (25 miles) above sea level. We also know of several different strains that can survive in ridiculously harsh environments, from the hot springs of Yellowstone and deep ocean hydrothermal vents to acid lakes or radioactive sludge.
These tidbits might seem unrelated at first, but a research team led by planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center believes that when you put the two together, they suggest life might exist on Earth’s closest neighbor — scorching Venus.
Lovely goddess, dreadful planet
So first thing first — does life have a realistic chance of sprouting up on Venus, given the planet’s notoriously hostile conditions? According to the team, yes. They note that some climate models of the planet’s history suggest that Venus had what we’d consider a habitable climate, with liquid water and stable surface temperatures, for about 2 billion years. That would be “plenty of time” for life to evolve on its own on Venus, according to Limaye — adding that it’s “much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars”.
The second question is whether any indigenous life form could have survived the wanton climate change that turned Venus into the hellscape it currently is. According to paper co-author Rakesh Mogul, a professor of biological chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, life on Earth has already shown that biological systems can thrive in “very acidic conditions, can feed on carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid”. That is actually a very important piece of the puzzle since Venus’ atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, water droplets, and sulfuric acid.
Perhaps the most convincing argument in favor of life on Venus is the fact that a series of space probes launched to the planet between 1962 and 1978 showed that temperature and pressure levels in the lower and middle layers of its atmosphere (40 to 60 kilometers / 25 to 27 miles) could harbor microbial life as we know it. The surface, however, basking in a somewhat excessive average temperature of 450 degrees Celsius (860 degrees Fahrenheit), looks decidedly uninhabitable.
The idea to check for life in Venus’ atmosphere caught root by chance at a teachers’ workshop; it started with co-author Grzegorz Słowik from the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, who mentioned to Limaye that there are bacteria on Earth whose light-absorbing properties match those of unidentified particles that form dark patches in the iconic clouds of Venus.
“Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30-40 percent in the ultraviolet, and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent,” says Limaye.
Spectroscopic observations showed that the dark patches are composed of concentrated sulfuric acid and other unknown light-absorbing particles. The dimensions of the particles in these patches match some bacteria on Earth; however, none of the instruments we’ve so far sent to Venus could distinguish between organic and inorganic compounds, so beyond these observations, the particles remained a mystery.
Enter the VAMP
The VAMP.
Image credits Northrop Grumman Corp.
It would be quite easy to test for microorganisms in Venus’ atmosphere if we could get another robot to the planet. And, as luck would have it, one such craft is already in the works: Northrop Grumman’s Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform, VAMP for short. This part plane, part blimp vessel was designed to roam the Venusian atmosphere and gather data that would help scientists understand what went wrong in Venus’ past to send it down such a different path from Earth — Venus is often called our planet’s twin, due to striking similarities in mass, gravity, chemistry, and general evolution (with the key difference that Venus is a boiling acid bubble).
The VAMP is already designed to stay aloft in Venus’ cloud layer for up to a year at a time to gather data. It will carry instruments used for this task — Limaye says a Raman Lidar, meteorological and chemical sensors, and spectrometers are likely — but it could be easily adapted to also carry a microscope to let it test for living microorganisms.
“To really know, we need to go there and sample the clouds,” says Mogul. “Venus could be an exciting new chapter in astrobiology exploration.”
The team is also harboring hopes that NASA might secure some extra shuttle space in Russia’s upcoming Roscosmos Venera-D mission, now slated for the late 2020s, for the task. Current plans for Venera-D include an orbiter, a lander, and a NASA-contributed surface station and maneuverable aerial platform. We’ll have to wait and see if the current political climate and Russia’s unenviable position in the global diplomatic pecking order will get in the way of exciting science. It might.
Whether the team manages to pack and ship their microscope aboard the Venera-D or VAMP remains to be seen. No matter how it goes, however, the team has a chance of being the first to discover alien life — in one of the places we’d have considered most inhospitable.
Let’s hope that the goddess of love will surprise us where the god of war has shown himself stubbornly — if character-fittingly — devoid of life.
The paper “Venus’ Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds” has been published in the journal Astrobiology.
UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden
UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden
Soheila Nickros was looking outside 3 am yesterday, Mach 31, 2018, when she saw a very strange sky that appears to be orange/reddish but even more strange was an object with a beam of light that seemly stands motionless in the sky.
Soheila already surprised by the strange colored sky wonders whether the object is a UFO or not.
Besides the strange colored sky that is currently being observed around the world, especially in the US, is it possible that the UFO Beam is a reflection of a street light or a camera reflection?
But comparing the UFO Beam with the outlines of the street light it is not the same, maybe a lens flare but since the camera moves a slightly, the lens flare must follow the motion of the camera, in this case the UFO beam still stays at the same spot.
Did you know the country has its own Area 51? Even Mulder and Scully would have a hard time solving some of these mysteries.
1. Molyobka Triangle
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The Molyobka anomaly zone - aka Molybka Triangle - in Russia’s Perm Region has a long extraterrestrial history. As far back as the early 19th century local peasants saw flying objects in the sky here. During the Soviet period the Molybka Triangle became one of the first areas in the country where UFOs were seen. Eyewitnesses spoke of mysterious flying objects of different sizes and forms, red and blue glowing balls, and huge black humanoid figures. Some even said that they had telepathic contact with these visitors.
Ancient stones in the steppe, 120 km from Rostov-on-Don, are so reminiscent of the famous British landmark that they were named Don Stonehenge. Locals are sure the formation is some kind of spaceport for extraterrestrial ships. People claim UFOs regularly appear here in the night - but never during the day.
Apparently the inhabitants of Alat village in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan are used to UFOs. They say a yellow spot always appears in the sky after sunset. Colorful rays come out of it, hang around for a while, and then disappear in different directions. Unfortunately, there are no photos of this mystery. Cameras can’t catch it, they say.
4. Kyshtym
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In 1996, the small Ural’s city of Kyshtym made the headlines when the body of a small unknown creature was found. Alyoshenka - or the Kyshtym Dwarf - as it was called couldn’t be attributed to a known species. Unfortunately, local police transferred the mysterious body to some unknown ufologists, and nobody has seen it since.
5. Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal
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The breathtaking beauty of Lake Baikal hasn’t escaped extraterrestrial guests - so they say. In 1971, near Olkhon Island, a huge pyramid was seen silently moving over the water’s surface. The same pyramid was seen again in 1984, 1990, and 1998.
6. Dalnegorsk, Height 611
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On January 29, 1986 dozens of inhabitants of the Far Eastern town of Dalnegorsk breathlessly watched a UFO in the form of a red-orange ball crash into the local limestone hill known as Height 611, before burning up. People managed to find some tiny remains of the material the object was made of. According to scientists who studied the evidence, the technique used to alloy the metals is not known to humanity.
7. Sasovo village
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The appearance of a UFO in Sasovo village in the Ryazan Region on Cosmonautics Day (April 12, 1991) didn’t go unnoticed. A huge explosion shook houses and broke windows - people thought it was a nuclear blast. Yet the reasons behind the event are not known. Some said they saw big white balls cross the sky soon after. The blast happened again a year later, but it was much weaker.
8. Medveditsky Ridge
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UFO hunters say aliens often land their spaceships on Medveditsky Ridge in the Volgograd Region. Areas of scorched earth can sometimes be found, while grass nearby remains totally untouched. Broken down lawn mower or aliens?
Located near Yekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk Triangle is the place where most UFO sightings occurred in the USSR during the 1980s and 1990s. Ufologists say the area spanned the prefered flight paths of aliens. Nowadays, it seems the extraterrestrial highway isn’t so busy, but locals sometimes claim they see spaceships flying past from time to time.
10. Okunevo village
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Residents of the Siberian village Okunevo say that spaceships land on the lake located near their settlement before diving into its depths. The water then apparently emits a green light. Some people believe the ancient Khanumam temple is located on the lake’s bottom.
Find out how Dubai citizens once mistook a Russian rocket for a UFO.
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A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface
A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface
People around the world have been reporting sightings of UFOs and existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, Moon and in the universe. In rather mysterious photographs scanned and analyzed by George Graham, a Scottish UFOlogist pointed out few photos calling them aliens on the moon. From among the plethora of videos posted on his YouTube channel StreetCap1, there are two distinct videos which show anomalies. According to George, the images were taken by Chinese lunar probe Chang’e 3 where a humanoid structure and a hidden alien spaceship can be seen.
In the first video, the UFOlogist explains a bizarre image that shows a humanoid creature. Although this can be a case of pareidolia where human brain creates an image between unrelated patterns to create a recognizable image. He states that the humanoid creature, probably an alien is wearing a helmet and a visor which can be clearly recognized. Also, the body parts are in the right proportion with the distance between shoulders to the head similar to any humans which are quite shocking.
In another video, he shows a UFO being hidden by a rock. The photo was captured by Chang’e 3 which shows a flying saucer-like creation hidden behind a rock which can be clearly seen. George’s channel on YouTube has plenty of videos referencing to aliens on the lunar surface with more than 70,000 subscribers and more than 44 million hits on his channel.
In another instance, people living in the SW part of Bristol, United Kingdom got to see an unidentified object with the moon as the background which has sparked speculations among people who believe in UFOs and aliens. According to a witness present at the moment, the incident took place on March 30 in Bristol street when suddenly, a strange glow hue was seen across the moon which took a flight at high-speed along with few other smaller objects accompanying it.
On January 31, 2018, when the first Super Blood Moon took place, it was live broadcasted by various news channels and websites for the viewers across the globe. During the feed, a bright flashing dot can be seen flying from the left side of the moon from flying at a high-speed from top to the bottom of the screen. What’s more bizarre was a seemingly beaming flash accompanying the bright dot and it flashed at regular interval. This spark debates and discussions between alien buffs and Ufologists regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life which NASA is trying to hide. A similar object was seen during the last moon on November 14 when a David McCarty, a YouTuber spotted the object flying at a great speed across the moon.
UFOlogists have spotted bizarre objects of the moon such as two missiles in the military formation on the moon or when a video of a circular UFO passing over the Moon was discovered. Conspiracy theorists believe that moon is not our satellite but a base created by aliens to keep a watch on humans and spy on us etc. A study conducted by NASA and published in 1962 states that the density of moon is lower in the inner surface as opposed to its outer surface which is dense. According to a theory, since the inside of the moon is hollow, aliens use it as a base keeping an eye on the activities done by people on Earth.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben de verste ster ooit ontdekt. Die staat op maar liefst 9 miljard lichtjaar afstand van de Aarde. Tot nu toe waren er wel complete sterrenstelsels en supernova’s (ontploffende sterren) gezien op zulke afstanden, maar geen individuele, normaal schijnende sterren.
Individuele sterren zijn vanaf een afstand van ongeveer 100 miljoen lichtjaar niet meer van elkaar te onderscheiden. Het licht is daarvoor niet fel genoeg. Dat het nu wel kan, komt door de hulp van sterrenstelsels die tussen de ster en de aarde staan. Zij werkten als een soort loep en ‘vergrootten’ de ster meer dan tweeduizend keer. Dat licht werd opgevangen door de Amerikaans-Europese ruimtetelescoop Hubble.
De ster heeft de wetenschappelijke naam MACS J1149 LS1 gekregen, maar de ontdekkers noemen hem liever Icarus. Het is een zogeheten blauwe superreus. Zulke sterren zijn veel groter, zwaarder en heter dan onze zon, en ze kunnen een miljoen keer zo fel schijnen. De ontdekking staat in het wetenschapsblad Nature Astronomy.
According to experts, the African continent may have just started spitting apart.
A massive crack in Kenya, which caused the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse, is a dire warning of a worrying fact. Geologists claim that it is a manifestation of a phenomenon that is occurring slowly: Africa is splitting in two.
The massive rupture, stretching several kilometers found by experts in Kenya suggests that the African continent could soon split into two, changing Earth’s geology again.
Terrifying.
As noted by researchers, the massive crack which is still growing, caused parts of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was accompanied by seismic activity.
This process began to become evident in the year 2005 when, after the eruption of the Dabbahu volcano, in Ethiopia, a colossal crack of sixty meters in length was opened in the area of the horn of Africa.
The Topography of the Rift Valley. James Wood and Alex Guth, Michigan Technological University.
Basemap: Space Shuttle radar topography image by NASA
And scientists even know who is responsible behind all of this: The Great Rift Valley, a large geological fracture whose total extension is 4830 kilometers in a north-south direction.
It began to form in southeastern Africa about 30 million years ago and continues to grow today, both in width and in length, the expansion that will eventually become an ocean basin.
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A crack that opened up in Kenya’s Rift Valley, damaging a section of the Narok-Nairobi highway, is still growing...
In an article for the Conversation, Lucia Perez Diaz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fault Dynamics Research Group, London‘s Royal Holloway, explains how this could happen.
Our planet’s lithosphere, formed by the Earth’s crust and upper parts of the mantle, is in fact composed of a number of tectonic plates. The tectonic plates aren’t static, and move relative to each other at different speeds, causing them to ‘glide’ over a viscous asthenosphere.
A number of different forces move the plates around but also causes them to break apart, forming a ‘rift’ and leading to the creation of new plate boundaries.
The constant tremors of earth and emersions of lava contribute to this growth and, to continue at this rate, the bottom of the valley will be flooded by the marine waters within 10 million years.
With this, Africa will have broken into two different continents that will proceed to separate further to form a new ocean.
The continent will become smaller and on the other hand, there will be a large island in the Indian Ocean made up of parts of Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, including the Horn of Africa, and could look something like this:
Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again
Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again
Just when we thought the mystery behind Tabby’s star was finally solved, the ‘alien megastructure star’ has given experts a run for their money.
A team of astrophysicists studying the star called KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby’s star,has reportedthat the star recently dimmed again, and did so quite dramatically. As noted by experts, the star’s brightness dropped abruptly, recording the biggest change in KIC 8462852 since 2013.
Just a few days later, the light returned to normal.
The light curve recorded for Tabby’s Star.
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This star, better known as “the Tabby star” in honor of its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian, faded at least 5% last month, reported this week Boyajian, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University (USA), who has been studying the star KIC 8462852 for years now.
As noted by Universe Today, on March 19th, Tabetha and her team started reporting how the brightness of Tabby’s star started fading again.
Using data obtained by the Las Cumbras Observatory‘s Teide, McDonald and Haleakala Observatories (in Spain, Texas, and Hawaii, respectively), Tabetha and her colleagues began posting regular updates on its light curve. As they wrote on their blog at the time:
“On Friday (2018 March 16) we noted the last data taken were significantly down compared to normal. Due to poor weather conditions at all 3 sites, we weren’t able to observe the star again until last night… This is the deepest dip we have observed since the Kepler Mission in 2013! WOW!!”
Six days later, astronomers provided an update saying how the star was returning rapidly to its normal brightness.
They wrote: “The profile of the new dip having a slow decline with a more rapid increase is again reminiscent of that of a backward-comet.”
Confirmations of the star returning rapidly to normality were obtained on March 23rd, after observations by the Catalonia Institute for Space Studies‘ (IEEC) Montsec Astronomical Observatory.
Then, on March 26th, an update indicated how the star’s flux had dropped by a total of 5%, a discovery later confirmed by John Hall – an astronomer with the American Association of Variable Star Observers.
As noted by experts, this constituted the greatest dip since the 22% reported in 2015.
Its mysterious dimming patterns are considered atypical since it is a star that slightly exceeds the size of the Sun and should have a more or less constant brightness.
In Kepler’s observations of 2011, it decreased by up to 22%.
Throughout 2017 there were also important changes in its attenuation.
Among the theories about this strange dimming pattern, one suggests the existence of an alien megastructure orbiting the star.
However, a recent investigation led by Tabetha points out that the luminosity changes in KIC 8462852, which is more than 1,000 light years from Earth, would be due to dust particles blocking some wavelengths of light, and not as a result of blocking a giant object.
However, not everyone is convinced by the ‘dust’ explanations, and UFO hunters will certainly see the new dimming pattern as a hope that a mighty alien structure may still exist orbiting Tabby’s star.
Tiangong-1’s reentry has been confirmed as April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT). Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Tahiti.
China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, reentered Earth’s atmosphere on April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT; translate UTC to your time). The reentry was over the Pacific Ocean. Did any pieces of the space station survive reentry, and did any strike land? Some pieces almost certainly survived the fall, and, at this time, we’ve heard no reports of pieces striking land.
What were the chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike someone or something? Vanishingly small, according to experts, but not zero. Read Guy Ottewell’s blog for his thoughts on the statistical chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike you.
So, at present, it’s unknown if any pieces will be found on land, although it seems unlikely. Space experts warn that if you think you have found a chunk of Tiangong-1, you should not pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it. The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel.
Several organizations tracked predicted reentry times, including the U.S.-based analysis group Aerospace Corporation, the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC), the European Space Agency and scientists around the world with the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee. These experts tracked it carefully, quite accurately, until the end.
Tiangong-1 was school-bus-sized. Its main body was approximately 34 feet (10.4 meters) long.
China launched its space station in 2011, and, originally, it planned a controlled reentry. But, in March 2016, the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning. Ground teams lost control of the craft, and it could no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It was, therefore, expected to make an uncontrolled reentry.
Tiangong-1 was not designed to withstand reentry, as some spacecraft are. The extreme heat and friction generated by its high-speed passage through Earth’s atmosphere would have caused the spacecraft to burn up, at least mostly, over the Pacific.
Experienced amateur sky observers also caught video of Tiangong-1 last week as it sped across our sky on its way to a fiery demise this weekend. We know of at least two who succeeded in this demanding observation. See their videos below. Brian Ottum posted his view of the space station – from early in the day on Wednesday – on Instagram:
The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome and Tenagra Observatories in Arizona provided an exciting livestream of their successful attempt to view Tiangong-1, also earlier in the day on Wednesday. Check this out! It’s really fun to hear Gianluca Masi‘s commentary as he searches for – and finds – the space station.
Tiangong-1’s major goal was to test and master technologies related to orbital rendezvous and docking. One uncrewed and two crewed missions – executed by the Shenzhou (Divine Craft) spacecraft – took place during its operational lifetime. ESA explained:
Following launch in 2011, the Tiangong-1 orbit began steadily decaying due to the faint, yet not-zero, atmospheric drag present even at 300 or 400 km altitude [about 200 to 250 miles altitude]. This affects all satellites and spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station, for example.
Tiangong-1 potential reentry area. Map showing the area between 42.8 degrees north and 42.8 degrees south latitude (in green), over which Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter.
Lessons you should take away: 1) Science isn't about predicting things precisely. It's about knowing how big your uncertainty is. 2). The Pacific Ocean is big. Always bet on the Pacific.
Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly
Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly
According to a new study, the universe we reside in could be abruptly destroyed in a cataclysmic collision with a bubble of ‘negative energy’ say, Harvard scientists, warning that this process may have even already begun without us even noticing.
Scientists explain how a fundamental particle that gives mass to all mater held within the universe could one day cause its destruction.
Astrophysicists warn that our universe may be abruptly destroyed, as it started in a bubble of negative energy, thought to have been created by the Higgins Boson, aka the God Particle. The famous Higgs boson particle, discovered in 2012 after more than fifty years of scientific persecution, has the power to end the existence of the Universe in which we live.
Not only that, but the process could have already started without us even noticing it.
In fact, there is a possibility that this particle has collapsed on itself in a far corner of the cosmos, producing an expanding vacuum energy bubble that would end up swallowing us all.
This authentic cosmic apocalypse is described in a recently published article in Physical Review.
The end of space and time is not a concept alien to Physics.
The observable universe.
The Standard Model, in effect, the theory that describes all known forces and particles, predicts that, just as the Universe had a beginning, it will also have an ending.
As the dark energy continues to accelerate the expansion of the Universe, the matter in it will become increasingly dispersed and move further and further away, until the last star is extinguished and the entire cosmos is nothing more than an unfathomable, cold and black abyss bigger and scarier than ever, where nothing shines anymore.
The most accurate calculated estimate for the cosmic doomsday, based on the logical development of the four fundamental interactions of Nature, tells us that the end of the Universe will occur in around 10×139 years.
The new model of the “killer Higgs” developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University is much more unpredictable and dramatic.
In it, the Universe would end with a bang, and it would do so in a much shorter period of time.
“We wanted to correct all previous approaches and obtain a date as accurate as possible,” says Anders Andreassen, Harvard University and lead author of the study.
To achieve this, he and his colleagues used everything we know about the masses and interactions between particles, including the mass of the Higgs boson, the carrier of the force that confers its mass to all other particles, and which turned out to be 125 gigaelectronvolts.
And it is here, say researchers, in the mass of the Higgs boson, where the problem resides in.
The reason is that the mass recorded for the boson might not be the lowest possible for that particle, but simply a temporary value, which remains stable at present but could change one day.
The most careful calculations, in effect, suggest that our Universe could actually be a “false vacuum”, very different from the “true vacuum” that we would have in the lowest possible energy configuration.
To understand this concept, you can think of the Higgs as a ball that is trapped in the bottom of a shallow valley that represents its mass.
But on the other side of the hill, there is another much deeper valley that corresponds to a mass with less potential.
As the Higgs can not roll up the hill, it is “stuck” in its current configuration.
The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates the distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side.
Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein and the SDSS-III collaboration.
However, all subatomic particles, the Higgs boson among them, have the possibility of behaving like waves, and therefore do not have well-defined positions.
And there is always the possibility that the Higgs creates a “tunnel” through the hill and reaches the lower valley, which would result in a mass lower than what scientists have observed.
It would be precisely here where things would start to get really ugly, say experts.
In fact, due to the fact that the Higgs field provides mass to all other particles, a change in their properties would wreak havoc on the “building blocks” of our universe.
Chemistry, and therefore life, depends on these values, so that our current way of being would be completely nullified by this reorganization.
Since the universe we can observe from Earth is only a small portion of the total, the likelihood of extremely improbable things happening in places we cannot see increases considerably. And in such a large and hidden Universe, there exists the possibility of this “Higgs collapse” having happened in a place beyond our visibility, producing a bubble of negative energy that expands rapidly and in whose interior is a universe of crazed properties, according to our point of view.
This bubble can travel across the universe.
And one day, that bubble could reach us and also swallow our region of the cosmos.
According to Einstein’s theory of Relativity, information can not move faster than light, so it would be impossible for us to realize its arrival.
In the words of Andreassen “we would not even see it coming”.
As the physicist writes in his article, “it is very worrying to imagine this bubble, with its wall of negative energy, throwing itself at us at the speed of light”. For the researcher, instead of a slow stretch towards nothingness, our Universe could be on its way to an abrupt collision with one of these destructive bubbles.
TIANGONG-1 FIRST REENTRY VIDEO | china chinese Space Station falling April 1st || LIVE 2018 || Tiang
It's almost crash time for China's falling space station Tiangong-1. As school bus-sized space station began what should be its last day in orbit today (April 1), experts weighed in on the possibilities of space debris – and whether this situation should have happened in the first place
China says space station burns up over South Pacific
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.The “vast majority” of the craft burnt up on re-entry, at around 8:15 a.m.(0015 GMT), the authority said in a brief statement on its website, without saying exactly where the remnants might have landed.Earlier, it had said the craft was expected to re-enter the atmosphere off the Brazilian coast in the South Atlantic near the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.The United States Air Force 18th Space Control Squadron, which tracks and detects all artificial objects in Earth’s orbit, said it had also tracked the Tiangong-1 in its re-entry over the South Pacific.
It said in a statement it had confirmed re-entry in coordination with counterparts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Britain.The remnants of Tiangong-1 appeared to have landed about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Tahiti, said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.“Small bits definitely will have made it to the surface,” he told Reuters, adding that while about 90 percent would have burnt up in the atmosphere and just 10 percent made it to the ground, that fraction still amounted to 700 kg (1,543 lb) to 800 kg (1,764 lb).“Most likely the debris is in the ocean, and even if people stumbled over it, it would just look like rubbish in the ocean and be spread over a huge area of thousands of square kilometers.”Beijing said on Friday it was unlikely any large pieces would reach the ground.
The 10.4-metre-long (34.1-foot) Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace 1”, was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China’s ambitious space program, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023.It was originally planned to be decommissioned in 2013 but its mission was repeatedly extended.China had said re-entry would happen in late 2017, but that process was delayed, leading some experts to suggest the space laboratory was out of control.Worldwide media hype about the re-entry reflected overseas “envy” of China’s space industry, the Chinese tabloid Global Times said on Monday.“It’s normal for spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere, yet Tiangong-1 received so much attention, partly because some Western countries are trying to hype and sling mud at China’s fast-growing aerospace industry,” it said.
Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South PacifiC
An artist's concept of China's Tiangong-1 space station prototype burning up in Earth's atmosphere during its fiery fall back to Earth overnight on April 1-2, 2018.Tiangong-1 is no more.China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere today (April 1), breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about 8:16 p.m.EDT (0016 April 2 GMT), according to the U.S.Strategic Command's Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC)."The JFSCC used the Space Surveillance Network sensors and their orbital analysis system to confirm Tiangong-1's re-entry," U.S.Air Force officials wrote in a statement.[Tiangong-1: China's Falling Space Station in Pictures] Some pieces of the school-bus-size Tiangong-1 almost certainly survived the fall, but the odds that they caused any damage or injury are extremely small: You had a less than 1-in-1-trillion chance of getting hit by a flaming chunk of the heavenly palace, according to experts with the Aerospace Corporation.By the way, if you do manage to find such a chunk of Tiangong-1, don't pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it.The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel, experts have said.Tiangong-1 was about 34 feet long by 11 feet wide (10.4by 3.4meters), and it weighed more than 9 tons (8 metric tons).
The space lab consisted of two main parts: an "experimental module" that housed visiting astronauts and a "resource module" that accommodated Tiangong-1's solar-energy and propulsion systems.The craft launched without anyone aboard on Sept.29, 2011, to an orbit about 217 miles (350 kilometers) above Earth.That's slightly lower than the orbit of the much larger International Space Station, whose average altitude is 250 miles (400 km).Tiangong-1's main mission was to help China master the technologies required to assemble and operate a bona-fide space station in Earth orbit, a goal the nation aims to achieve by the early 2020s, the country has said.On Nov.2, 2011, the robotic Shenzhou-8 spacecraft visited Tiangong-1, executing China's first-ever orbital docking.Another big milestone came in June 2012, when a crew of three spaceflyers linked their Shenzhou-9 vehicle to the heavenly palace and came aboard for a spell.Three more "taikonauts," or Chinese astronauts, visited in June 2013, traveling on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.Each of these crewed missions lasted about two weeks.Tiangong-1's design lifetime was just two years, and the space lab's work was mostly done after Shenzhou-10 departed.The empty space lab continued to do some Earth-observation work, however, and researchers and engineers kept in touch with it until March 2016, when data transmission between Tiangong-1 and its handlers stopped, for reasons that China never explicitly specified.At that point, an uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry was apparently inevitable.This is the view of outside researchers.But Chinese space official
NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus
NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus
As noted by a recent report, extraterrestrial could inhabit our solar system, and they could be living within the acid clouds of Venus, notes a NASA-funded study, recently published in the Journal Astrobiology.
The study backed by NASA indicates that Aliens (although not fully developed aliens, but bacteria) could call the hazardous clouds on Venus their home.
Scientists believe the sulfur dioxide-rich upper atmosphere of Venus may be where tiny Venusian aliens are hiding.
Exerpts came to this conlcusion after using space probes to detect dark areas around the rust-colored body, which resemble the light-absorbing properties of bacteria here on Earth.
As noted by experts, these mysterious dark spots on Venus could be blooms of alien bacterial, similar to those found on Earth in lakes and ponds.
Because the clouds of Venus are composed of sulfuric acid, they reflect around 75 percent of the sunlight that hits them, causing them to appear nearly entirely opaque.
Venus has been dubbed as Earth’s Evil twin by a number of astrophysics and astronomers because of the hazardous, and inhospitable conditions reigning on its surface, where it rains Acid, and the temperature is around 462 degrees Celsius.
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The research, suggesting tiny Venusian alien may inhabit the clouds of Venus, was recently published in the Journal Astrobiology, and it infers how alien microbes may survive by being blown around by extreme winds in the cooler cloud tops of Venus.
The researcher explains that the cloudy, highly reflective and acidic atmosphere of Venus is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and water droplets containing sulfuric acid.
However, this isn’t the first time someone has suggested there may be life on Venus.
In fact, the habitability of Venus’ clouds was first raised in 1967 by noted biophysicist Harold Morowitz and famed astronomer Carl Sagan. Following this theory, the idea that Venus’ clouds may bear alien life was expanded by planetary scientists David Grinspoon, Mark Bullock and their colleagues.
“Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30–40 percent in the ultraviolet and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent,” says Limaye.
I was recording the glitch, which is a 10-30 second cycle that varies in time, but was made by NASA to deliberately cause frustration to the public so the viewers would give up watching the space station. However, as I was recording, I was surprised to see a UFO come from behind the station. I forgot to turn on my mic, so I had to remake the video again. This looks like a round disk. The disk flips at one point in the video, which was cool to see. This does look like an alien craft to me.
Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018
Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018
The stills in this video were taken from a brief 30 minute recording from the ISS live stream. The objects show for a split second, appearing as a small flash of light but when zoomed in more details become visible.
Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’
Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’
A Chinese space station that is spiraling out of control is predicted to hit Earth in only half a day. It is also understood that Scientists tracking the space station are unsure of the landing spot once it hits Earth. This is in contradiction to previous analysis that claimed to understand of the landing spot of the out of control space station.
Burning Space Station Predicted to Hit Earth in Twelve Hours
The space station is known as Tiangong-1 and was put into orbit in 2011. Tiangong-1 was the first space station to be put into space by the Chinese. Tiangong-1 was originally put into space as a guide mission in preparation for Tiangong-2, which was to be a laboratory space for the Chinese. Problems with Tiangong-1 had delayed those plans since 2016 when Tiangong-1 started losing altitude due to malfunctions within the space station in 2016.
The deorbit of #Tiangong1 is expected to look something like this. First, the solar panels will rip off, then the body will break apart. Most will burn up in the atmosphere but some debris could make it to the ground. We'll know better about when and where tomorrow.
In November, European scientists believed that Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, and Greece were among countries that represented possible crash sites for Tiangong-1. This is assuming the space station does land indeed, as scientists have stated that it could burn up in the atmosphere before crashing into the Earth. However, updates on April first have confirmed less certainty concerning the site of the crash. The area of the crash is now predicted to encompass a much larger zone. Included in possible crash sites for Tiangong-1 are now the continents of Africa, Australia, South America, and the whole Indian subcontinent.
Space engineering entities for the Chinese seem certain that Tangong-1 will not cause severe damage. It is expected that the space station will disintegrate at an altitude of 80km. Aerospace Corporation has set up a tracking center for Tiangong-1. This tracking center currently reveals that Tiangong-1 has a current orbit above the South Atlantic Ocean. Authorities for the United States Air Force are making claims that a portion of Tiangong-1 will re-enter the Earth within the next twelve hours.
In the quest to answer whether we’re alone, scientists have found that the clouds of venus may help solve the mystery of whether life outside of Earth exists.
Published March 30 in the journal Astrobiology, a new paper says the clouds of Venus may host extraterrestrial microbial life. As the authors state in the paper, whether Venus’ clouds could support life has been discussed for decades, spurred by research indicating that its chemical and physical properties, moderate temperatures and pressure could make it possible for life to exist.
The team was intrigued by dark patches found on the planet's clouds that are made of sulfuric acid and light-absorbing particles similar to those found on Earth. In fact, they theorized the patches could be similar to algae blooms found in our lakes, noting that particles in the patches have similar dimensions to bacteria here on Earth.
The team believes this could make Venus vital in the search for other life forms, however, the planets’ clouds would need to be sampled and tested first.
WETENSCHAPOost-Afrika zal zich afsplitsen van de rest van het continent, voorspellen geologen. Hoewel het een proces is van miljoenen jaren, zijn de eerste tekenen zichtbaar. Zoals een breuklijn in Kenia, en die wordt steeds dieper.
Vorige week stortte in het zuidwesten van Kenia een deel van de drukke Mai Mahiu Road deels in nadat er een vulkanische breuklijn ontstond. Door de scheur zijn delen van de weg verzakt en ontstond een groot gat dat het water opslokte. Dat leidde vervolgens tot nog meer barsten. Op sommige plaatsen is de breuk inmiddels meer dan 50 meter diep en 20 meter breed.
Wetenschapper Lucia Perez Diaz, verbonden aan de Royal Holloway universiteit van London, ziet hierin het bewijs dat het oostelijk deel van Afrika een nieuw continent zal vormen. Kenia, Tanzania, Somalië en een deel van Ethiopië zullen uiteindelijk worden afgescheiden, schrijft The Mirror naar aanleiding van haar publicatie in het blad Conversation.
In het artikel beschrijft ze hoe dit geologisch proces zich voltrekt diep in de aarde. Afrika bestaat nu nog uit één tektonische plaat: de zogeheten Afrikaanse plaat. Alleen, die wordt in het oosten geleidelijk uit elkaar gespleten, ter hoogte van Somalië.
Daardoor zullen er op termijn twee platen ontstaan: de Somalische plaat (de oostelijke plaat) én de Nubische plaat (de westelijke plaat). Het uit elkaar schuiven van (nieuwe) tektonische platen wordt ook wel ‘riftvorming’ genoemd. Doordat breuken in ondergrondse platen in tegenovergestelde hellingsrichting bewegen, ontstaat een soort van vallei tussen twee hooglandgebieden of bergketens.
Die ‘vallei’, ook wel een slenk genoemd, wordt verder uitgediept door erosie én door hitte die gevormd wordt door vulkanische activiteit die uit de kern van de aarde naar de oppervlaktekorst komt. De breuk gaat heel langzaam: jaarlijks gaat het om een verschuiving van zo’n 45 millimeter.
Creative Commons 4.0, AlataristarionDe Somalische plaat omvat het oosten van Afrika.
Geschiedenis
Over zo’n 10 miljoen tot 50 miljoen jaar zal Oost-Afrika zich daardoor hebben afgescheiden van de rest van Afrika, zegt wetenschapper Diaz. In de geschiedenis van Afrika is zoiets overigens wel eerder gebeurd. Zo heeft Madagaskar zich zo’n 110 miljoen jaar geleden losgemaakt van Somalië door middel van een zeer brede slenk.
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This Week's Top Space Stories
This Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
Photo Credit: P. van Dokkum/R. Abraham/STScI, Space Telescope Science Institute
The Week's Top Space Stories
A "cannonball-like" exoplanet could shed light on Mercury's dramatic history, the last blue moon until the year 2020 will shine this weekend, researchers study a ghostly galaxy that has almost no dark matter and a space station will soon crash into Earth, mostly burning up in the atmosphere. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: The Aerospace Corporation/CORDS
1. Tiangong-1 satellite is tricky to track
The altitude of the now defunct Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is decreasing, and experts believe the craft will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in the next few days — possibly on April 1. The air resistance, or "aerodynamic drag," that will interact with the spacecraft is tricky to predict because Tiangong-1 is a complex shape. The density of the atmosphere can also change when the sun is at a certain point in its periodic cycle, which would also affect reentry. However it's worth noting that most of Tiangong-1 will burn up in the atmosphere and not make it to Earth's surface
Photo Credit: National Institute of Aerospace/Lunar and Planetary Institute
2. Apollo 17 leaders discuss Mars
Three figures of American spaceflight history — lunar module pilot Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Apollo 17 flight director Gerry Griffin and backroom scientist Jim Head — spoke at the 49th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The event commemorated the 45th anniversary of Apollo 17, which made the last crewed mission to the moon in December 1972. When speaking on the challenges of Mars exploration, the panelists emphasized the need for more research on the moon before attempting the cross-planetary trip, as well as highlighting the backroom science needed to handle communication delays.
The James Webb Space Telescope, often referred to as the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, will launch about a year later than previously planned. NASA announced on March 27 that the new space observatory, designed to peer deep into the universe to seek out new planets and study early stars, is now slated to launch no earlier than May 2020. The delay is necessary because of difficulty testing of some of the telescope's parts such as its tennis-court-size sun shield, which developed small tears when deployed.
NASA's acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, recently announced that he will retire from the space agency on April 30. If Congress does not appoint a permanent chief or deputy administrator before then, the leadership role will go to the third person in line: associate administrator Steve Jurczyk. Lightfoot's resignation comes at an interesting moment, because the NASA budget for the upcoming year is typically worked on over the summer; it's therefore likely that Lightfoot's successor will work on NASA's budget policy for 2019.
Photo Credit: P. van Dokkum/R. Abraham/STScI, Space Telescope Science Institute
5. See-through galaxy has little dark matter
Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 seems to have 400 times less dark matter than it should for its size. The lead author of a recent study suggests this means dark matter is not an essential ingredient to form galaxies, and this finding could also explain the odd nature of this galaxy: it lacks the signature spiral arms that many galaxies have, it is see-through and although it's about the size of the Milky Way, it has roughly 200 times fewer stars.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is tweaking the design of a mission from an environmentally friendly innovation program called e.Deorbit. Rather than going ahead with its mission to send a satellite into low Earth orbit in the year 2023 to retrieve a defunct satellite, ESA has chosen to study whether the mission should be modified to make the vehicle more flexible and capable of performing other space-junk services. E.Deorbit is part of ESA's Clean Space Initiative.
A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist took off aboard a self-made rocket on March 24 and survived the landing after two parachute deployments. The steam-powered rocket reached an altitude of 1,875 feet (572 meters) above the Mojave Desert. The launch comes after two failed attempts, one of which was brought to a halt by the Bureau of Land Management. There are several ground-based ways to tell that the Earth is a sphere, and not a "frisbee," but Mike Hughes' ultimate goal is to see the curvature of the planet for himself by attempting another launch in the future.
Make sure to catch the Blue Moon on Saturday (March 31) because the next one will not happen until Halloween night of the year 2020! One definition of a blue moon is the second full moon to land within a calendar month, and it has nothing to do with the color. But it is a unique treat since blue moon periods happen once every 2.7 years on average. The last blue moon occurred at the end of January this year.
9. Air-inhaling technology could provide almost indefinite spaceflight
An air-breathing electric thruster underewnt its first test by the European Space Agency. Designed to collect molecules in the atmosphere to later use as onboard propellant, this thruster could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost indefinitely. The thruster works by turning the air molecules it collects into plasma, and the technology could potentially be extended one day for use on Mars satellites as well.
10. Earth-size "Cannonball" exoplanet may share similarities with Mercury
Researchers spotted an alien world that could shed light on the history of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet. Mercury is mostly metallic, making it quite different from its rocky brethren in the solar system. Since the exoplanet, called K2-229 b, has a different composition than its parent star, it is possible that it went through drastic changes throughout its life that could help us understand Mercury's formation, too.
We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse
We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse
For many years, scientists have been very much baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8 billion light-years across. It is cooler than its surroundings by around 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit), a fact astronomers discovered by measuring background radiation throughout the universe.
Previously, astronomers believed that this space could be cooler simply because it had less matter in it than most sections of space. They dubbed it a massive supervoid and estimated that it had 10,000 galaxies fewer than other comparable sections of space.
But now, in a recently published survey of galaxies, astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) say they have discovered that this supervoide could not exist. They now believe that the galaxies in the cold spot are just clustered around smaller voids that populate the cold spot like bubbles. These small voids, however, cannot explain the temperature difference observed.
To link the temperature differences to the smaller voids, the researchers say a non-standard cosmological model would be required. “But our data place powerful constraints on any attempt to do that,” explained researcher Ruari Mackenzie in an RAS press release.
While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed just randomly.
“This means we can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations,” said researcher Tom Shanks in the press release. “Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”
If more detailed studies support the findings of this research, the Cold Spot might turn out to be the first evidence for the multiverse, though far more evidence would be needed to confirm our universe is indeed one of many.
Blenus Green, a retired B-1 pilot who now flies for American Airlines, sounded amazed and couldn't seem to help smiling as he described seeing a UFO last month over Arizona.
News coverage of the astonishing sight blew up this week, a few weeks after Phoenix New Times — following a TheDrive.com story — published an article and Federal Aviation Administration audio recordings on March 9.
On Wednesday, the first interview of the Abilene, Texas, pilot aired on his hometown TV station, KTAB/KRBC-TV, describing what he saw from his American Airlines cockpit. New Times also interviewed the vice president of Phoenix Air Group, whose Learjet pilot also saw the weird object.
As reported previously, the Learjet pilot reported to Albuquerque Center air traffic control on the afternoon of February 24 that he saw something bright and inexplicable fly over him, which would have put the object at about 40,000 feet.
Kassahun reported that Green has been flying for 20 years and displayed a photo of him in an Air Force uniform. On that day, American Airlines Flight 1095 was flying from San Diego to Dallas. Somewhere over the Sonoran Desert between Picacho and Mammoth, Green saw what the Learjet pilot had seen.
"So sure enough, I was looking out the windscreen to see if it was there, and yeah, I did. I saw it!" Green said in the interview. "It was very bright, but it wasn't so bright you couldn't look at it. You almost really wanted to look at it, to try to figure out what it was. It didn't look anything like an airplane."
In the FAA tape, an Albuquerque Center official asks Green to describe the object. He said it was flying several thousand feet above his Airbus and going "in the opposite direction."
Someone then asked the pilot if it was a "Google balloon."
Blenus Green, a pilot for American Airlines, describes the weird and bright object he saw over Arizona on February 24 in an interview with Texas TV news reporter Pheban Kassahun.
"What was weird about it, (is) normally if you have an object, you know, and if the sun's shining this way, the reflection would be on this side," he told Kassahun, using his hands to help him describe the object. "But this was bright all the way around. It was so bright, you couldn't make it out, what shape it was."
Earlier this week, American Airlines spokeswoman Katie Cody said she could add no further details about the incident.
However, Bob Tracey, vice president of Phoenix Air Group, Inc., which is based in Atlanta, said on Thursday that after receiving a "full debriefing" from the pilot of the Learjet, he's left wondering, "what the hell was it?"
Phoenix Air uses Learjets for a variety of contract work, including as air ambulances for the military's Air Mobility Command. That's what the Learjet pilot and his co-pilot were doing on February 24. Tracey couldn't say if a patient was on board at the time, but assumed it had no passengers because it was on its way back to Georgia from California.
The pilot realizes the public is interested in his story, but he and the company are worried he'll be overwhelmed by the publicity.
"I'm not naming him," Tracey said. "He's going to get buried with phone calls."
The pilot is a 15-year veteran with Phoenix Air, and is a "seasoned captain" with more than 14,000 hours of flying time.
At about the same time that afternoon, the pilot and his co-pilot noticed something flying outside and above them.
"What's that — what the hell is that?" the pilot remembered both of them saying.
Like Green, they mostly noticed the intense bright light of the object. The Learjet pilot described it as "like you woke up in the morning and stared at a bright light," Tracey said.
The brightness didn't fill the whole windshield, though — it was definitely a spot of light, and seemed to come from a source that was flying west at high speed, toward the eastbound Learjet but high above it.
The pilots put their fingers on the window to estimate how high in the sky it was. They concluded it might have been flying at nearly 50,000 feet, or more than 10,000 feet above them.
Then it raced past them. The pilot, knowing that another airplane likely would be coming near the area soon, put in his call to Albuquerque Center to alert air traffic controllers.
The pilot was concerned that "someone's going to whack into this thing."
When the pilot got back from the trip, he gave a casual briefing of the incident to the company's flight operations.
"He didn't think much of it," Tracey said. The pilot has seen many balloons in sky, he said. Sometimes they're sent up by amateurs with expendable GoPros. Like a balloon, it wasn't tracked by radar, and the Learjet's Traffic Collision Avoidance System didn't sound any alarms.
Yet in his full debriefing, he described something that didn't sound at all like a balloon, Tracey acknowledged.
"He said that it passed him at maybe a similar speed that an airliner would," Tracey said. That would be roughly 500 mph each, for a combined speed of "well over Mach 1," or the speed of sound.
Balloons, of course, may travel at high speeds on a vertical line, but not very fast horizontally.
China’s out-of-control, defunct space station is hurtling toward Earth and currently expected to enter the atmosphere sometime in the next 24 hours.
The 8.5-ton space lab, known as Tiangong-1, is likely to burn up upon re-entry, which is expected to happen about 37 miles above ground, so it only poses a small risk to people and property.
However, the exact timing of when the craft, which is about the size of a school bus, will fall back to Earth is uncertain due to how quiet the sun has been. The European Space Agency says it will happen between today and early Monday, while the Chinese Space Agency extends the potential landfall window to Wednesday.
A rogue Chinese space station that weighs 8.5 tons is hurtling toward Earth.
(European Space Agency)
According to Space.com, if the sun is active, its energy pushes more strongly against Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere then balloons and becomes denser at higher altitudes, and the density impacts the drag against Tiangong-1’s orbital speed.
Most of the U.S. appeared to be outside the likely landfall area, but a senior member of Aerospace Corp. told Space.com that all predictions are subject to change based on new information.
In this June 13, 2013, file image released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft is seen while conducting docking with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module.
(AP)
Although the Chinese station has received intense media coverage, each year around 1,000 large objects such as lost satellites and rocket stages fall back to Earth. These numbers are projected to increase over the coming years as more and more satellites are placed into orbit.
Experts say there is also an economic risk that Tiangong-1 could present to air traffic as it hurtles toward Earth.
This undated file photo shows researchers installing China's first space station module Tiangong-1 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province prior to its launch on Sept. 29, 2011. (AP)
“The problem here is less the probability for an aircraft to be directly hit by space debris (which is low, but not zero), but the difficulty to predict precisely the area of possible impacts and their exact time of occurrence, because of uncertainties resulting from variations of solar activity,” Dieter Isakeit, chair of the information and communication committee for the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, told Fox News in a statement.
Air traffic controllers could take a more conservative approach, Isakeit says, and “totally close” large areas to air traffic for several hours if they don’t have more reliable data about where the station is headed.
That type of closure has happened during other events, such as volcanic eruptions.
In this June 18, 2012, file image released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts, from left, Liu Wang, Liu Yang and Jing Haipeng wave while aboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 space station.
(Xinhua News Agency/AP)
The good news is that it’s very unlikely that anyone will be hit with debris from the rogue space station.
“When considering the worst-case location, the probability that a specific person will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot,” the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation told the Sun. “In the history of spaceflight, no known person has ever been harmed by re-entering space debris.”
Indeed, only one person is known to have been hit by falling space debris: American woman Lottie Williams, who was struck but not injured by a falling piece of a U.S. Delta II rocket while exercising in an Oklahoma park in 1997.
Most famously, America's 77-ton Skylab crashed through the atmosphere in 1979, spreading pieces of wreckage near the southwestern Australia city of Perth, which fined the U.S. $400 for littering.
WE COULD ALL BE PETS IN AN ELABORATE ALIEN ZOO, CLAIMS NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
WE COULD ALL BE PETS IN AN ELABORATE ALIEN ZOO, CLAIMS NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Planet Earth could be an elaborate zoo created by a hyper-intelligent alien civilisation, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has claimed. And such aliens, he added, might even be inflicting “weird politics” on us as a form of entertainment.
Tyson, who was among the guests at the Starmus conference in Tenerife, Spain, said he remained pessimistic about humanity making contact with intelligent alien life, arguing our relative lack of intelligence could either be bad news for discovery or allow us to exist in blissful ignorance.
“I fear the day we come upon a species such as that. Maybe I don’t fear it, I just hope that all they would do for us is create a zoo where we are happy. And maybe that is what they call Earth.”
Tyson was in part responding to statements made by Stephen Hawking in July last year. At the time Hawking said the discovery of alien life could destroy humanity but we should keep searching for it anyway.
But Tyson said the likelihood of that happening were low. “A sufficiently intelligent civilisation would have positively no interest in us at all,” he said. “In the same way as when you’re walking down a street and there’s a worm there.”. And even if you wanted to kill all the worms, he continued, you’d soon get bored and do something else.
“Maybe our biggest protection against being killed by alien civilisations is their conclusion there’s no intelligent civilisation on Earth,” Tyson continued. “Suppose in fact intelligence has come to the galaxy. Who are we to then decide that we are intelligent? We define our intelligence. Of course we’re intelligent because we define it.” he said.
“The microbes in our lower gut would think of humans as dark, anaerobic pockets of faecal matter in the service of their life. That’s the purpose of human life to them.”
Tyson also argued the tiny genetic difference between a human and a chimp made it likely alien intelligence, if it does exist, is already way beyond our on. “We would not be able to comprehend their simplest of thoughts any more than a chimp can understand ‘Let’s go have dinner at the buffet later I’m going to have some carbohydrates and protein because I’m on a low fat diet’. What would that sentence mean to a chimp?” he joked. To a hyper-intelligent alien race, Tyson continued, Stephen Hawking’s intelligence might be the equivalent of an alien toddler.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, cosmologist and author, is also well-known for his television work on shows such as Cosmos and StarTalk Katie Kramer/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
He also had a word of warning for those that would have humanity become an interplanetary species. “Yes, being a multi-planet species I think that looks good on paper. Put your eggs in more than one basket. If one basket gets smashed the species is preserved. In practice it is completely unrealistic. Let’s terraform Mars, turn Mars into an Earth-haven, ship four billion people there,” he said.
“Are we really going to do that?” It would be far cheaper and easier, he added, to work out how to deflect the asteroid or defeat the pandemic that could spell our early demise. “It plays well as a news headline,” he continued. “I want the solar system to be our backyard, but the motivation should not be to stop everyone dying from a cosmic event.”
Tyson isn’t the only one making bold claims about the reality of life on Earth. Earlier this month Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said there was only a “one in a billion” chance we weren’t living in a simulation. His proof? Advancements in gaming since Pong was released in 1972.
“Now, forty years later, we have photo-realistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. Soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality,” said Musk.
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'It's a space WAR' Alien ‘battle’ near Area 51 baffles UFO hunters
'It's a space WAR' Alien ‘battle’ near Area 51 baffles UFO hunters
ALIEN hunters were left in a frenzy when they spotted what they believed to be a UFO ‘battle’ in the skies above a city in Nevada which is just a two hour driver from Area 51 – an alleged extraterrestrial hotspot.
On February 19, a driver in Henderson, Nevada, just a short drive from Las Vegas, was waiting in his car when he saw bright lights in the sky.
The unnamed motorist says the bright star-like lights in the footage, which was taken during broad daylight, started moving towards each other at a rapid speed as if they were attacking each other.
The witness said: "I was waiting in the car while my buddy went into the store. I noticed about 9 to 10 brights dots in the sky that looked like stars.
“The dots were in a line on approx 45 degree angle. All of a sudden they started to move upward on that same angle and it looked like they were attacking each other.”
YOUTUBE • GETTY'It's a space WAR' Alien ‘battle’ near Area 51 baffles UFO hunters
The man says that there were many bursts of energy and it lasted for about 20 seconds
To add more fuel to the conspiracy, the location where the footage was taken is just a two hour drive from Lincoln County, where Area 51 is based.
Area 51 is a top secret US military base which has been the centre of countless UFO theories over the years, including the infamous Roswell crash.
Some comments left beneath the video shows that some people are convinced this is a genuine UFO battle.
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Alien ‘battle’ spotted near Area 51 by UFO hunters
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The incident took place near roswell
Rico Greem said: “Space war for the freedom of mankind.”
Corine Thomas said: “I believe this video, it's only a matter of time folks. The watchers are protecting us from the unruly greys.”
However, there were doubters of the authenticity, claiming that it was just reflection playing tricks on the mind.
Dan Aliyev wrote: “It’s reflections of cars turning.”
Carlos Urquides said: “It's the reflection of cars lights. If they were shooting lasers like that something would have clearly been destroyed. I believe in ufos but not this!”
Resource Scavengers: Theories on Why Aliens Would Visit Earth
Resource Scavengers: Theories on Why Aliens Would Visit Earth
Perry Jones
With UFO reports and sightings continuing to mount, one must wonder what reason Aliens would have to visit earth. There are plenty of theories out there, so I want to collect them all here as well as give my opinion on the subject. Read through all the theories and be sure to comment on which one you think makes the most sense. If you have something in mind not mentioned here be sure to let me know.
1. Simple Curiosity
The easiest to understand and most logical reason why aliens would visit earth is simple curiosity. We humans have spent countless hours out in the wild exploring our planet - observing, hunting, photographing, and cataloging its species. It’s not hard to imagine that alien visitors are doing the same. Curiosity seems to be innate to every living creature, the dog sniffing around wondering what’s in your hand, the deer scouting your back yard, etc. Perhaps these extraterrestrials are on a quest to explore the universe and catalog its inhabitants. Now there are good and bad sides to this proposition, just like some who go out in search of elephants and zebras are peaceful and simply want to carefully watch from a distance, others are hunters intent on bringing down the animal and mounting it as a trophy. The one positive we have as humans is that it seems we would be rather easy prey for a hunter, especially a race of aliens with such technological advancements as space travel. We would be equal to hunting ants, which doesn’t sound very appealing.
2. Claiming the Planet
Now there are a couple theories under the umbrella of what I will call “claiming the planet”. One is that it was their original home and they want it back. To me this one is a little far out there, but I have seen this theory online. Basically those who propose this idea tend to also believe the hollow earth theory, and that at the center of the earth lives all sorts of races. Included among them are the reptilians. In short, alien visitors are scoping us out for an upcoming battle to take back their rightful home land.
In the 2013 Superman movie Man of Steel, Kryptonian's have run out of resources and need to flee from their planet to ensure survival. Clark Kent, one of the last of an extinguished race disguised as an unremarkable human, is forced to reveal his identity when Earth is invaded by an army of survivors who threaten to bring the planet to the brink of destruction.
Another theory is that they need a new home. In this scenario our alien visitors are searching out a new place to live because their old planet just doesn’t cut it anymore. It may be a lack of resources (see below) or they have devastated their own planet and need a new one, which ties into the hippie theory that they want to prevent us from doing the same. Others have suggested that they are fighting with an enemy species that calls earth home.
The Hippie Theory: To save us from Ourselves. Some UFO researchers out there see aliens as benevolent creatures out to save the universe from harm. For Earth, as we race towards Nuclear Armageddon, space people hope to prevent us from reaching a catastrophic end. They seem to have a non-interventionist strategy apparently, since we have no concrete evidence of Alien visitation. This is a popular theme of movies like Arrival, and some books. To me this is nonsense. It’s the hippy spiritual outlook, from the same people who are sitting in the middle of a field chanting and trying to summon star beings. Yes, this really happens.
3. They Need Food
If other planets are dry, barren, and desert like, or cold and icy then chances are that very few animals or plants could survive those conditions, which would make food supply scarce. Perhaps that’s why aliens are so darn skinny. Now that is a bit of a joke, but seriously - evolution would no doubt adapt alien physiology to require a smaller caloric intake, but still any living being will still require sustenance. If Aliens really are in search of food, the question becomes does earth even offer the food that aliens would want? Assuming that their biology would process the same components that we do – protein, fats, and carbohydrates - the earth has plenty to offer. It’s doubtful that we are being hunted as food, but the possibility exists. As I mentioned earlier, humans hunt animals as they catalog species, so an alien race might do the same thing.
4. Water
There are plenty of UFO sightings near and around water. This makes it easy to guess that aliens want our water… and again it looks like a lot of those planets they may come from are pretty dry. I can’t imagine a scenario where a biological entity could completely evolve beyond the need for water, so if you are short on supply and NEED water, it makes sense that you are going to look for it. Obviously, Earth has a huge supply of it being made up of approximately 70% H2O. Remote viewer Ingo Swan, a member of the top secret Stargate Program, claimed to have witnessed a UFO near water. He described his sighting in his book Penetration:
Dawn arrived, and Swann saw a fog developing over the lake. This went on for five minutes, until the fog developed a luminous neon-blue color. Then, according to Swann, the color changed to an “angry purple” Axelrod and one of the twins each placed a hand firmly on Swann’s shoulders while “a network of purple, red, and yellow lightning bolts shot in all crazy directions through the ‘cloud.’ Swann said he would have jumped if the two had not held him down. He saw an object, almost transparent at first, but then “solidly visible over the lake.” It was triangular or diamond-shaped, growing in size.”
Swann, in terror and amazement, heard a strong wind moving past, rustling the pine trees so much that some cones and branches fell on them. The object then began to shoot out ‘ruby red laster-like beams’ as it continued to grow even more in size while maintaining its position on the lake. Very quietly, one of the twins said, ‘Shit! They’re enveloping the area. They’re going to spot us.”
As Swann later recalled the event, some of the red laser beams from the object were ‘blasting’ pine trees, and he could hear low frequency pulsations. Axelrod whispered to Swann that the beams were probably honing in on deer or other forest creatures, as they sense biological body heat. ‘They’re sure to hone in on us,’ he told Swann. Just then, one of the twins literally lifted and dragged Swann away, but not before Swann noticed the water of the lake surging upward, ‘like a waterfall going upward, as if being sucked into the ‘machine.'”
The four ran quickly and at great length, sustaining minor cuts and bruises. Eventually they stopped, breathing hard, and waited for more than thirty minutes, until one of the twins said all was clear.”
Now the skeptic is going to say if alien explorers have the technology to travel light years away, you would think they have an invention that can condense air into water. I mean we can do that here on planet Earth already. (For a little bit more on that kind of stuff read Magnus Marrissink’s article on Weather Control) I think it’s more likely our celestial visitors are being seen around water for another reason:
5. Toxic and Hazardous Waste Dumping
In economics, there is a term called rent seeking. It basically means to increase ones own wealth by limiting access to that which is lucrative. In college, I wrote a paper arguing that the developed world practiced a form of rent seeking by passing its problems onto the third world so that they are restrained from advancing. So an alien presence could do such a thing by waste dumping, or polluting, our planet as a way of forcing Earth to need the resources they have brought. So if this is the case, aliens may be a form of space pirates traveling the galaxy, dumping their toxic trash on foreign planets and preserving their own planet, while trading their interstellar goods for other useful items.
6. Biological Material: DNA Collection, Science Experiments, and Cross Breeding
Humans have truly pushed the boundaries in science, and we are capable of engineering humanity itself. The Nazis first delved into eugenics, and now today we do the same under other guises. We take fetal tissue and repurpose it, extract cartilage and all sort of other nutrients from one source and infuse it into our food supply and other places. Degenerative joints are treated with stem cells …. athletes receive platelet rich plasma injections. Eggs are plucked from ovaries and stored next to sperm for future use. So why wouldn’t that material hold value to an alien species? Is it all that difficult to imagine a scenario where aliens would attempt to cross breed with a human? We have done the same with lions and tigers in creating the liger. The problem with the liger is that it's parents, the lion and tiger, though closely related are far enough apart in terms of genetics that any offspring are sterile. From PBS:
Lions and tigers are two different species. They look different, they have different lifestyles, they vocalize differently, and they generally live on different continents. Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers.
Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are "interbreed successfully"; tigons and ligers generally are sterile and short-lived -- an evolutionary dead end.
If species exist, why? And what maintains them over time? Biologists are still wrestling with these questions, which some call the "species problem" or the "species crisis."
Biologist Ernst Mayr sees the species as a small gene pool protected from too much variability by a reproductive barrier. In other words, the species is a population adapted to a certain niche, and if the members of different species could interbreed with each other, too much genetic variability would occur, reducing the success of the adaptation. "The basic biological purpose of the species," says Mayr, "is the protection of a harmonious gene pool." To bolster his argument, he points out that hybrids between species are usually less successful and are often sterile.
This may be the case with a hybrid alien-human creature as well, thus necessitating the constant need for new biological material to produce "children". Humans may share some genetic similarity with our Alien Visitors, or may even have been engineered at some point if you believe the Ancient Alien theories or have studied topics such as bloodlines of the Annunaki.
Obviously we get into some dark subject matter here, but if you dare to search out the stories of alien abduction, babies implanted and then stolen from wombs, human experimentation in the deepest parts of the Dulce Base….the idea of aliens looking for biological material becomes a lot easier to believe, and a lot more scary. Perhaps such an experiment is taking place on a cosmic level, with a cross bred race serving as workers and slaves to a master race. Since they can’t reproduce, the need for biological material would never end. Are these sightings a search team looking for targets specimens?
7. Material Resources
This I find to be the most plausible reason we would be visited. We are exploring our solar system and excite over the possibility of harvesting minerals from other planets. A NASA supported scientist, chemical engineer Ken Debelak of Vanderbilt University, is learning how to use carbon dioxide (the main gas in Mars' atmosphere) to harvest rocket fuel and water from the red planet. Among the other resources present inside martian rocks and soil lies a bounty of useful elements: magnesium and hydrogen for rocket fuel, oxygen to breathe, water to drink.
8. Gold and Minerals
Perhaps there is something to the idea that UFO's were in search of gold in ancient times. Gold is inert and doesn't react with other substances, it is an excellent conductor of electricity, and reflects infrared energy. According to Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, "you can use gold blankets to protect spacecraft against the intense heat of a star or any sort of heat source." It helps that gold can be hammered into extremely thin sheets: one ounce of gold can be beaten out to 300 square feet. That would allow a space craft to receive its many benefits without the burden of significant weight.
We all know about ancient astronaut theory, the pyramids, and the connection to gold, but how about mercury?
Now on the flip side of things, minerals that are valuable here on earth may not serve any purpose on an alien planet. What ever the reason Aliens may be visiting us, it is a scary proposition. While some of the more far out theories like biological material theft may one day prove true, the skeptic in me says it has to be a simper answer: That's why I am sticking to the idea that UFO's, if real, are dumping their trash here and picking up some valuable mineral resources to take home.
Which of the theories above do you think makes the most sense?
Why do you think aliens are visiting earth?
Do you have your own theory or explanation? Let me know!
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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.
The photo of the strange structure was brought to light by Tyler Glockner, who runs
Researchers believe extraterrestrials left one vital clue in its design in Giza, Egypt – its co-ordinates.
The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second and the geographic co-ordinates for the Great Pyramid are 29.9792458°N.
However, humans could not measure the speed of light with this precision until 1950.
YouTube user Manu Seyfzadeh asks: “Is it possible that those who placed the great pyramid on the Giza plateau had an inkling of the speed of light to a degree of accuracy not possible without highly technical equipment?”
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CRAFTED: Researchers believe extraterrestrials left a huge hint in its design
Another truther writes: “The speed of light in the metric system appears in the design and location of the Great Pyramid, when the decimal point is slid along the value.
“Aliens chose this location for a reason. This striking similarity is difficult to accept as a coincidence.
“There can be no doubt that it is a mathematically intelligent design associated with the stellar belief of its builders.”
Conspiracy theorists are convinced the Pyramid was constructed by aliens dubbed “ancient astronauts”.
They supposedly visited Earth thousands of years ago, studied different tribes and were mistaken for Gods.
“Aliens chose this location for a reason”
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These “researchers” believe extraterrestrial beings bestowed the Egyptians with advanced scientific knowledge.
ANCIENT ALIENS, SUPERHEROES, AND THE DECLINE IN RELIGIOUS BELIEF
ANCIENT ALIENS, SUPERHEROES, AND THE DECLINE IN RELIGIOUS BELIEF
Co-author: Abby Moore (superhero theorist). Are myths of ancient astronauts filling the voids left behind in the exodus from the myths of religion? Perhaps the popularity of the Ancient Aliens television series parallels the decline of traditional religious belief in 21st-century America. After all, twice as many Americans believe in ancient aliens visiting humans on Earth (35%) than believe in the pure evolution of human life on Earth (19%). Maybe TV shows about ancient aliens and Hollywood movies about superheroes provide the big cosmic narratives that once belonged almost solely to theology. Think about it: ancient aliens and superheroes both have superpowers once reserved for Gods, prophets, and miracle makers.
For the record, I am an existentialist without the angst, influenced by Sartre, Sagan, and others. In a vast and ancient universe of two trillion galaxies and three sextillion stars stretching across 100 billion light years, I am not a cosmic narcissist who believes a Creator has a special plan for me or my species on a speck of a planet in a remote part of one galaxy. Yet, the cosmic vastness gives me hope that— to quote the astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes (1968)— there has “to be something better than man. Has to be.” As explained in my most read essay in Medium, these better-than-human extratrerrestrials have never visited Earth (though I wish they would). Instead, we are witnessing the electronic birth of a new religion based in the myths and imaginary legends of extraterrestrial reality-TV stars—the “ancient aliens” who star in every episode, but have yet to appear.
21st Century Non-Belief
Much has been written about the decline of religious belief in 21st-century America, as documented in various surveys by the Pew Research Center. Americans who have no religious belief and/or no religious affiliation rose to 22.8% in 2014, up from 2% in the 1950s. While religious writers blamed the decline on the usual suspects (the breakdown of society, the decay of traditional values, and so on), the atheists and humanists tweeted their cheers of hope, apparently overlooking the possibility that a decline in traditional religious belief does not automatically equate to a rise in reason, science, and enlightenment. Given the increasing paranormalism in America, it could be the opposite. Make no mistake, something will fill the void.
According to the United States Census, the current US population is an estimated 327 million people. If indeed 22.8% of Americans are non-believers, that total equals about 75 million people. Age is definitely a factor in non-belief. Over 33% of millennials claim no religious belief, while GenX non-believers are at 23%, Baby Boomers are 17%, and those born before 1945 are 11%.
TABLE 1. Source: Pew Research Center website (2014); accessed November 11, 2017.
According to Pew, about 50% of the unaffiliated are disenchanted with religion or don’t need religion because of their beliefs in “science” and the lack of evidence for a Creator. Another 20% have a beef against organized religion, while 18% are unsure of their beliefs and 10% are inactive.
What’s most interesting to me is not the increase in atheists and agnostics, but the 15.8% who believe “nothing in particular.” 15.8% equals just over 50 million people. Since I doubt all of these people are nihilists, I wonder what they believe about the origins and destiny of the human species.
Are they merely disinterested in religion? Have they outgrown religion, with no need to replace it with any other worldview or cosmology? Do they believe in evolution or that the observable universe is indeed 13.7 billion years old and contains two trillion galaxies? Do they believe in human-caused climate disruption or the Anthropocene? Do they believe we got here via the advice and interventions of ancient aliens? Or do mobile phones, cool threads, hipster restaurants, and Netflix subscriptions provide the needed daily dope—such that they do not need a cosmology for themselves or for our species?
GRAPH 1. Beginning in the late 1960s, we can see the post-Apollo rise of the nones. Source: Gallup and National Public Radio, 2013.
The Apollo Effect
According to Gallup surveys and National Public Radio, the “nones” stayed below 5% until the Apollo program in the late 1960s. The rise of the nones began with the launch of rockets to the moon and continued long after the Apollo program was shut down. For readers who might not know, Apollo 8 orbited the moon in 1968 and took the famed Earthrise image, with Apollo 11 landing on the moon in 1969 and Apollo 17 marking the last journey to the moon in 1972.
GRAPH 2. The post-1990 rise of the internet and rise of nones. Source: MIT Technology Review (“How the Internet is Taking Away America’s Religion,” April 4, 2014) and Allen Downey (“ “Religious Affiliation, Education, and Internet Use,” March 21, 2014).
The Internet Effect
According to computer scientist Allen Downey, the rise of the internet correlates with the rise of non-belief from 1990 to 2010. During that period, the increase in non-believers jumped from 8% to 18% of Americans. In a study of four decades of survey data trends regarding demographics, socioeconomics, religious affiliation, and internet usage, Downey concluded that:
Religious upbringing increases the chance of religious affiliation as an adult. Decreases in religious upbringing between the 1980s and 2000s account for about 25% of the observed decrease in affiliation.
College education decreases the chance of religious affiliation. Increases in college graduation between the 1980s and 2000s account for about 5% of the observed decrease in affiliation.
Internet use decreases the chance of religious affiliation. Increases in Internet use since 1990, from 0 to nearly 80% of the general population, account for about 20% of the observed decrease in affiliation.
Please keep in mind that “correlation” does not equal “causation.” Correlations show patterns that we must connect to other knowledge, evidence, and observations.
What Accounts for the Other 45%?
Given there are 75 million non-believers, what other trends might account for the startling growth in numbers? If we follow Downey’s study and assume upbringing, education, and the internet can account for 55% of the increase, what else accounts for the other 45% (33.7 million people)?
Is it the growth of the scientific outlook? That’s possible, given that only 9% of Americans believed in pure evolution in 1982 and the total has more than doubled to 19% in 2014 (according to Gallup). However, it is likely a good chunk of that 19% is accounted for in the 55% of Downey’s study?
Could the increases be attributed to the various “New Atheist” books published in the past few years? Recent works include: Sam Harris’ The End of Faith (2004), Susan Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism(2004),Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion(2006), Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell (2006), Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great(2007), and Victor Stenger’s God: the Failed Hypothesis(2007). These books might have had marginal influence on creating more non-believers, but my guess is that most of the readers of these books were already atheists. Plus, the sales of these books are dwarfed by the audience size of Ancient Aliens.
As dramatized in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the monolith was the indisputable artifact left on Earth by advanced extraterrestrials. Ancient Aliens hijacked this concept and dumbed it down to the lowest possible level, while filling the intellectual void left by the death of philosophy long divorced from cosmology.
The Rise of Ancient Alien Theory: Hijacking the 2001 and Apollo Narratives
Published at the pinnacle of the space age in 1968, Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? hijacked the space narrative from Apollo and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 appeared in 1968, along with Planet of the Apes, Apollo 8 (the first journey to the moon), and Chariots of the Gods?. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 as von Daniken’s book was becoming popular around the world. Chariots of the Gods? did what few other works tried (outside of a few episodes of the original Star Trek): it connected human destiny on Earth to the stars we were beginning to explore with the Apollo program. As I wrote in my previous essay about ancient-alien theory:
“The ancient-astronaut theory draws upon two valid cosmological concepts: 1) the reality of the immensity of space and time; and 2) the possibility of advanced civilizations somewhere in the cosmos. Given that the scale of the observable universe is immense and that NASA’s Kepler telescope suggests there may be billions of planets in the Milky Way, there is almost certainly life elsewhere in the cosmos, perhaps including intelligent civilizations.”
“Given that the observable universe is 13.7 billion years old and it took 4 billion years for intelligent life to emerge on Earth, then it is possible the remaining 9 billion years produced civilizations that may have existed for millions or billions of years. If so, they may have developed space travel technologies that allow them to traverse the great distances with relative ease…Such a possibility is one reason why 2001 offers such a compelling vision of human origins and destinies. After all, it would be an epochal moment to find a black monolith somewhere on Earth or the moon, beaming out a radio signal to an alert and curious species.”
Such a possibility is attractive, at least in theory. If ancient aliens have visited our planet, they would have possessed highly advanced sciences and technologies. They would have been viewed as gods, angels, and miracle makers by premodern humans, who would have looked upon the beings and technologies with awe, wonder, and fear.
A 1970s-style Captain Kirk got in on the ancient alien narrative, too.
Since Chariots of the Gods? was a huge best-seller, it was made into a documentary film, Chariots of the Gods (1970). Creator of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling even narrated a one-hour TV version called In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973). A copycat version of the film, Mysteries of the Gods, was released in 1976—hosted by none other than William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain Kirk, looking rather hip in a green turtleneck and black velour blazer, while sporting a 1970s-style toupée. With films and TV shows as publicity, Chariots of the Gods? sold over 40 million copies during the 1970s.
Without a doubt, 2001, Planet of the Apes, and von Daniken’s book and films were trying to account for human origins and destiny at the pinnacle of the space age and the Apollo program. When I first encountered Chariots of the Gods? as a boy in the suburbs of Texas in the 1970s, it seemed like a plausible counter-narrative to the self-righteous evangelicals in my school and neighborhood. As explained here, I eventually began to question the validity of the assertions and realized the ancient-alien theory was bogus pseudoscience. To be frank, I was kinda bummed out. But, logic and evidence mattered more to me. Still do.
Of course, there were mainstream media efforts to debunk Chariots of the Gods? These included a 1976 Skeptical Inquirer article, a book entitled The Space Gods Revealed that featureda forward by Carl Sagan, and a BBC-PBS production of Nova (the episode “The Case of the Ancient Astronauts”). Nevertheless, the book’s pseudoscientific ideas continued to circulate around the world in the decades that featured the rise of non-belief in the wake of Apollo. Given that Chariots of the Gods? sold 40 million copies, can we assume it had zero impact on traditional religious beliefs?
In 2009, a two-part episode of Ancient Aliens appeared on the History Channel. So popular was the show that the History Channel programmed the Ancient Alien series, which began in 2010 and is still running every season—134 episodes and counting! As point of comparison for the atheist programs, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2014 Cosmos reboot only had 13 episodes and seems to appear on TV far less often than Ancient Aliens. I have seen both series listed in Netflix. Why would Ancient Aliens far outstrip Cosmos if the issue was merely a scientific outlook?
The prime-time episodes of Ancient Aliens draw well over one million viewers, plus there are endless repeats during days and evenings. These audiences are far larger than anything on the Science Channel. Who knows how many millions of viewers have seen the various episodes of Ancient Aliens? Among the 45% and 33 million non-believers unaccounted for in Downey’s study, how many millions might be fans of Ancient Aliens?I don’t know but it is a question worth considering. I bet the total is far from zero. After all, recent surveys show that 35% of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth in the ancient past (see the Chapman surveys below).
Still going strong almost 50 years after Chariots of the Gods?.
The Ancient Aliens series features fanciful storytelling, with many scenes shot at the various remote sites where “evidence” of ancient aliens supposedly exists. Still, it’s all pseudoscientific nonsense—simply because there are no proven artifacts of extraterrestrial origin. There is no academic conspiracy against the ancient-alien theorists as implied in the narration and comments of the talking heads. What’s needed is proven evidence, as cleverly suggested by the monolith in 2001. But we haven’t discovered a monolith or the “chariots.” I wish we had.
In Chariots of the Gods?, Mysteries of the Gods, and Ancient Aliens, virtually all of the so-called evidence and arguments provided by the theorists are myth, superstition, hearsay, anecdotal, or involve an inference or conclusion that is fallacious, implausible, or unknowable. The “evidence” and arguments also contain inaccuracies, mistaken assumptions, unrelated facts, and false similarities. The few remaining pieces of “evidence” — which are a tiny fragment of the absurd claims — are simply mysteries yet to be solved or mysteries that will never be solved. One might say this is also a key point in the cultural emergence of “alternative facts.”
Ancient Aliens: A New Cosmic Religion
But the pseudoscience, endless fallacies, and alternative facts have not prevented the multi-season programming of the television series. Even if the History Channel decided against renewing the series, it would run for decades in syndication and for eternity online, at least until real extraterrestrials arrived or we finishing wrecking the planet.
According to Chapman University, the belief in ancient aliens is growing rapidly: from 20% in 2015 to 35% in 2017.
Chariots of the Gods? and Ancient Aliens have given birth to new cosmic religion narrative, with von Daniken as the great prophet and his followers serving as the scribes—Giorgio Tsoukalos, Graham Hancock, David Childress, and others. Like God and his prophets, the unseen aliens have superpowers and have shaped our past and perhaps our destiny, especially if they return. The ancient alien narrative is like the standard Creator narratives, in that it assumes most everything humans have done follows from pre-ordained grand plans, with mysterious or hidden purposes, effected by an all-powerful force from the sky, a force that has yet to return to prove it exists. Like the Creator narrative, we humans must have been special beneficiaries. After all, the ancient aliens have taken the time to visit our tiny planet, thus caring enough to allegedly build stone structures, design ancient batteries, create cool statuettes, and paint pictographs before cruising to the next galaxy or star system.
Despite (or because of) the pseudoscience, the ancient alien theorists are doing a far better job of connecting humanity to the cosmos than Hollywood filmmakers and contemporary philosophers. The ancient-alien theorists have a fervant audience of followers who feel the theory connects our origins and destinies to the stars. Meanwhile, Hollywood merely sends us into space to wage Star Wars and battle Alien monsters.
All of the above is why I predict the ancient-alien narrative will continue to grow over time, precisely because it is filled with mystical and magical beliefs that mirror religious mythologies. Ancient Aliens makes us feel special—just like Jesus, ETs came to visit us and advise us. After hijacking the 2001narrative, von Daniken and his scribes have built the ancient-astronaut theory into a new religion, a new cosmic narrative filling the void left by contemporary philosophy as it shrinks before a massive and expanding universe. Meanwhile, secular society provides us with mobile phones and IMAX movies, and says we and our tribes are special—so super-special that superheroes will save us in case the aliens don’t make it back in time.
Superheroes: Our Secular Gods
Born of Nietzsche’s 19th century “Ubermensch,” the superhero emerged to counter horiffic “supermen” of the 20th century — the Marxist New Man and the Nazi Aryan man. By the early 20th century, the Soviet Union promised to create the Marxist New Man, the new human supposedly liberated from capitalism and united via communism and “scientific” materialism, supposedly destined to operate on an international scale. Countering the Marxist New Man, Nazi Germany concocted a racist Aryan Man, a mythical superman from the past supposedly destined to rule Europe and much of the world. Of course, both of these visions of a “new man” resulted in genocide and mass slaughter in totalitarian societies, culminating in World War II and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people before, during, and after the war.
In America’s land of a mythic “Democratic Man,” the only “superman” would be Superman, Batman, and subsequent legions of superheroes to save us in comics and movies. Though superheroes are fictional, their stories draw on real world events, such as nuclear weapons and environmental destruction. Superheroes function like secular gods providing stories about humanity’s survival and redemption in the face of apocalypse. In the end credits for The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), we see a giant sculpture of the Avenger superheroes, as if they are a pantheon of gods from Ancient Greece or Rome.
Pantheon of Secular Gods. Above: Statue of The Avengers from The Age of Ultron. Below: Justice League Superheroes
Superhero films have proven especially popular in the 21st century, with a trendline that mirrors the rise of non-belief in America.
Well into the 21st century, the superhero films just keep coming from Hollywood. Be it Superman, Batman, X-Men, Wonder Woman, or The Avengers, it seems almost all superhero films feature superheroes confronting a doomsday scenario for humanity. The superheroes must “save the world” because we can’t do it. Just as ancient-aliens fills the void left by philosophy divorced from science, superheroes fill the void left because industrial society has become divorced from nature, yet it is utterly reliant on the resources we are depleting. Oceans are acidifying, sea levels are rising, and nuclear war is still a possibility, while terrorism, exploitation, and endless tribal warfare plague secular society. Superheroes are needed to save us from ourselves because we know we have no answers, no real solutions for our problems, no leaders or institutions left to trust. It’s the same thing, over and over again, as illustrated in presidential elections.
In the 21st century, Americans expect their presidents to be superheroes battling the doomsday scenarios of the other party—thus we give the presidents ever-expanded political and legal powers, as if we are trying to give them superpowers and make them into superheroes with super solutions. Both major parties do it. Don’t deny it. When the dictator arrives in America, it will be in the guise of a presidential superhero with political superpowers. As Trump has shown, the superhero prez won’t even need to be rational or coherent or even sane. They just need to be superheroes who zap the bad guys. This is what happens when religion and nationalism merge with Hollywood and the 24/7 media spectacle.
In superhero movies and sequels, the superheroes must return to save us, again and again. Ancient-alien theorists claim extraterrestrial visitors shaped our past, present, and perhaps our future when they return. The return of aliens and superheroes echoes the promised return of Jesus and Nietzsche’s cycle of the eternal return, the superhero feedback loop. Ancient aliens and superheroes have superpowers beyond anything humans have, not unlike the Gods and prophets in religions. In the end, superheroes are our secular Gods and fulfill functions formerly reserved for religion, while ancient-alien theory claims to offer a secular narrative that connects us to the stars, yet ends up as another religion—a merger of the space age and new age.
Superhero stories and ancient-alien theory now stand in for contemporary philosophy, divorced from 21st century cosmology and declared “dead” by Stephen Hawking. In the absence of a science-based popular philosophy that offers us hope, meaning, and purpose (beyond tribalism, consumerism, and strip-mining other planets) amid the cosmic vastness, the ancient-alien theory provides hope and meaning by connecting our origins and destiny to a story that begins in the stars—even it is in a universe of alternative facts.
How much of the decline of traditional religious belief can be attributed to the rise of ancient alien theory? I don’t know, but given this analysis, I bet it is far from zero. This possibility is why the traditional religions will try to colonize the ancient-alien theory. Already, one prominent religious leader suggests we baptize extraterrestrials upon meeting them. If the ancient aliens do show up and don’t believe in a Creator, we might well need the superheroes to save us from a religious war in space!
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Barry Vacker is author of the new book, Specter of the Monolith (2017), which explores the meaning of Apollo and films like 2001 and Interstellar, while outlining a new and entirely original space philosophy for the human species. The book is available in Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble (here), and Amazon (here).
With the latest available orbital data and space-weather forecasts, the reentry prediction window has stabilised and shrunk further to a time frame running from midnight 1 April to the early morning of 2 April (in UTC time)
Reentry will take place anywhere between 43ºN and 43ºS. Areas above or below these latitudes can be excluded. At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible. This forecast was updated approximately weekly through to mid-March, and is now being updated every day.
Tiangong-1 (天宫一号, Heavenly Palace 1) is China’s first space station and an experimental space laboratory. Its major goal was to test and master technologies related to orbital rendezvous and docking. It is identified by its UN COSPAR ID 2011-053A. It was launched on 30 September 2011 at 03:16:03.507 UTC by a Long March 2F/G rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia, China. One uncrewed and two crewed missions, executed by the Shenzhou (神舟, Divine Craft) spacecraft, took place during its operational lifetime.
What’s happening?
The Tiangong-1 space station will reenter Earth’s atmosphere and substantially burn up in the March–April 2018 timeframe.
As of mid-January 2018, the spacecraft was at about 280 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay; it will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere (some spacecraft, like Soyuz capsules, are designed to withstand reentry).
Following launch in 2011, the Tiangong-1 orbit began steadily decaying due to the faint, yet not-zero, atmospheric drag present even at 300 or 400 km altitude. This affects all satellites and spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station (ISS), for example.
As a result, such craft must conduct regular ‘reboost manoeuvres’ to maintain their orbit – typically, ground controllers command the craft’s engines or thrusters to fire for a certain amount of time, speeding it up so that it gains altitude.
During its operational life from launch through to December 2015, regular orbital maintenance manoeuvres were executed by Tiangong-1 in order to maintain an operational altitude of between 330 and 390 km above the Earth’s surface.
What was the original disposal plan?
Initially, a ‘controlled reentry’ was planned for the spacecraft at the end of its life.
This means that ground controllers would have commanded the engines to fire, slowing the craft by a significant amount so that it would fall toward the surface. Firing the engines would have been done at a specific moment so that it would reenter the atmosphere and substantially burn up over a large, unpopulated region of the South Pacific ocean. Any surviving pieces would fall into the ocean, far from any populated areas. This is precisely what ESA did, for example, for the Agency’s series of five ATV cargo spacecraft between 2008 and 2015.
However, in March 2016 the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning but maintained its structural integrity. In so far as can be fully confirmed, ground teams lost control with the craft, and it can no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It is, therefore, expected to make an ‘uncontrolled reentry.’
Q: How big is Tiangong-1? What shape is it?
The spacecraft’s 10.4 m-long main body is made up of two cylinders of approximately equal length: a service module and an experiment module. The thinner service module provides power and orbit control capabilities for the station. It has two solar panels, each approximately 3 x 7 m in size. The thicker experimental module comprises an enclosed front conical section, which include a docking port, a cylindrical section, and a rear conical section. The experimental module is habitable.
The overall mass of the spacecraft was reported to have been approximately 8.5 tonnes including fuel at launch. Given that the space station exceeded its originally planned operational lifetime of two years and continued operating successfully for two more years after that, a considerable amount of fuel must have been consumed to sustain the orbit and the habitable environment conditions inside.
This means that a significantly lower mass on reentry is likely, comparable to the mass of defunct satellites that make uncontrolled reentries typically a couple times per month.
To date, who’s done or is doing what?
China notified the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) of the upcoming re-entry and committed to enhanced monitoring and forecasting of the orbital decay, including requesting an international joint monitoring and information dissemination campaign under the framework of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
IADC comprises space debris and other experts from 13 space agencies/organisations, including NASA, ESA, European national space agencies, JAXA, ISRO, KARI, Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration.
IADC members will use this event to conduct their annual reentry test campaign, during which participants will pool their predictions of the time window, as well as their respective tracking datasets obtained from radar and other sources. The aim is to cross-verify, cross-analyse and improve the prediction accuracy for all members.
ESA is acting as host and administrator for the campaign, as it has done for the twenty previous IADC test campaigns since 1998. A special case for ESA was the campaign in 2013 during the uncontrolled reentry of ESA’s own GOCE satellite.
Regular updates are being provided via the website of the China Manned Space Agency in both Chinese and English.
As of January 2018, the mean altitude of the space station is 280 km. The further decay, and hence re-entry, is assumed to be uncontrolled in the sense of orbit maintenance. This has, however, not been unambiguously confirmed by the Chinese authorities. It has however been reported that the attitude, i.e. the orientation, of Tiangong-1 is stabilised.
Over which parts of Earth will it burn up?
Due to the orbital inclination of the Tiangong-1, approximately 42.8 degrees, and the likely uncontrolled nature of the reentry, the final impact point can be anywhere on Earth between 42.8 degrees North and 42.8 degrees South in latitude.
As you can see in the chart at right in the map above, the re-entry location itself is not uniformly distributed. Due to the geometry of the craft’s circular orbit, the probability of reentry happening at the maximum (42.8 degrees N) and minimum (42.8 degrees S) latitude are higher than at the equator.
Why is this?
Because of the low eccentricity and non-polar inclination of the orbit (in other words, because the orbit of the space station around the Earth is circular and at an angle with respect to the equator), the space station spends more time near the edges of the band then it spends crossing the equatorial region of Earth. This leads to a higher likelihood of reentry occurring near the edges of the latitude band, i.e., the top and bottom of the band in the map above.
Will it completely burn up during reentry?
At launch, the total mass of the space station was about 8.5 tonnes (including fuel). Following its launch in September 2011, Tiangong-1 operated successfully for two full years on its scheduled operational mission plus an additional two years, and much of its fuel must have been consumed to maintain orbit altitude and maintain conditions inside the module. This means that the station’s mass is likely to be significantly lower on reentry, comparable to other end-of-life satellites, of which each month, typically, 3-4 uncontrollably reenter Earth’s atmosphere. Tiangong-1’s mass without fuel is estimated to be, therefore, about 7.5t.
Through comparisons with similar reentries, and simulations for objects of similar mass and size, we may not exclude that a (small) fraction of the Tiangong-1 mass may reach ground, in some fragments, distributed over a large footprint area. It is very difficult to estimate how much, precisely, without more knowledge of the spacecraft’s design and construction.
Will anyone know the precise location and time of reentry in advance?
Only from one day before the actual reentry will it become possible to roughly predict which ground tracks, and hence which regions on Earth, might witness the reentry.
But even then, an impact location prediction on the order kilometres is, for an uncontrolled reentry, beyond current technical capabilities due to complexities of modelling the atmosphere, the dynamics of the reentering object and limitations in observing the spacecraft.
In general, the uncertainty associated with an uncontrolled reentry prediction is on the order of 20% of the remaining orbital lifetime. Practically, this means that even 7 hours before the actual reentry, the uncertainty on the break-up location is a full orbital revolution – meaning plus or minus thousands of km!
If the spacecraft does have a functioning attitude control system now, this could stop working under the higher dynamic pressure loads (due to falling lower into the atmosphere) closer to reentry and the uncertainty in the final reentry time window could rise (this was the case, for example, with ESA’s GOCE reentry).
Once it reenters and breaks up, what is the risk that any pieces reach ground?
Tiangong-1 is a large spacecraft comparable in size and mass to other, frequently used space stations and cargo vessels such as ESA’s ATV, the Japanese HTV, Russian Progress and American Dragon or Cygnus.
From monitoring the controlled reentries of those types of spacecraft, it can be surmised that Tiangong-1 will break up during its atmospheric re-entry and that some parts will survive the process and reach the surface of Earth.
Video of ESA’s ATV 1 breaking up during its controlled reentry in September 2008
Given the uncontrolled nature of this reentry event, the zone over which fragments might fall stretches over a curved ellipsoid that is thousands of kilometres in length and tens of kilometres wide. While a wide area could be affected, it is important to point out that a large part of the Earth is covered by water or is uninhabited.
Hence the personal probability of being hit by a piece of debris from the Tiangong-1 is actually 10 million times smaller than the yearly chance of being hit by lightning.
In the history of spaceflight, no casualties due to falling space debris have ever been confirmed.
How does Tiangong-1 reentry compare to the reentries of similar-size craft in the past?
With its 8.5 metric tonnes of (initial) mass, Tiangong-1 is definitely not the largest uncontrolledreentry in spaceflight history. That would be Skylab with 74 metric tonnes.
Tiangong-1 falls within the category of modern space freighters (crewed and uncrewed) such as the already mentioned ATV (12 t), Japan’s HTV (10 t), Russia’s Progress (7 t) and Soyuz (7 t), the US Dragon (7 t) or Cygnus (5 t) and the Chinese Tianzhou (13 t). These masses are for the loaded craft; in the table below, they are shown at reentry.
Tiangong-1-class reentries Credit: ESA CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Note: Shuttle Colombia (STS-107), with a mass of 82 t, unexpectedly broke up during a controlled reentry on 1 Feb 2003, leading to the loss of vehicle and crew.
How will ESA share news or updates on the reentry?
In addition to news posted here in the blog, ESA will regularly update authorities in ESA Member States with detailed information on the reentry, as it does during all such events.
What is ESA doing to tackle the problem of space debris?
ESA is leading the effort to tackle the problems of space debris by:
Monitoring and tracking objects in space By the end of the 2009-2020 period, ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme will have overseen an investment of €200 million aiming to develop Europe-wide warning systems for space weather, near-Earth objects (such as asteroids) and debris objects left in orbit by human activities. Within SSA, ESA is developing and demonstrating the technologies needed to find and track debris and alert satellite operators – who control our vital weather, navigation, telecommunication and science research satellites – when evasive action may be necessary.
Developing technologies to mitigate and remediate space debris ESA’s Clean Space office launched the CleanSat project to support European Industry in developing technologies for spacecraft in low-Earth orbit that will then be fully compliant with debris-mitigation regulations. CleanSat covers four technology areas:1. Passivation: Explosions of satellites are a major source of debris. Passivation reduces the likelihood of a satellite exploding in the future by deactivating its power systems and batteries and venting any leftover propellant.2. Design for demise: Many spacecraft reenter the atmosphere. By using materials and designs that are likely to burn up entirely, the engineers are reducing the chances that pieces are left to hit the ground.3. Deorbiting systems: International debris guidelines require satellites to remove themselves from low-Earth orbit within 25 years of their end of life. ESA is carrying out studies to develop technologies that will ease the deorbiting at the end of life without affecting mission efficiency (examples include compact solid robot thrusters for deorbiting and ‘terminator sails’ that could be unfurled to increase air drag and hasten reentry).4. Design for servicing: This involves incorporating standard features onto future satellites, such as grips and handles, that will enable robotic servicing missions to capture satellites for removal, repair or refuelling.
While the first action to tackle the challenge of space debris is to stop producing further debris, it is also important to remove the largest items of debris currently in heavily-trafficked orbits, as a preventative measure to reduce the likelihood of future explosions or collisions.
ESA’s Clean Space office is working to prepare the first ‘active debris removal’ (ADR) mission, called e.Deorbit. The objective of the mission is to use a custom satellite – the chaser – to capture a heavy, ESA-owned derelict satellite and remove it from an altitude of 800-1000 km and a near-polar orbital trajectory. The mission will be also an opportunity to demonstrate technologies needed for target characterisation, disposal methods and capture mechanisms – three technology areas of high interest to ESA and European industry for future space servicing vehicles.
What specific technologies will help avoid future reentries such as this?
While not a specific technology, the main way for any spacecraft operator to avoid reentries such as this is to ensure that their missions are fully capable of conducting controlled, completely destructivereentries at the end of life. The specific technological approach taken depends on the mass of the spacecraft in question:
For satellites up to 1-2 tonnes: Technologies which will enhance ‘design for demise’ during reentry in the atmosphere. By using materials that are likely to burn up entirely during reentry and designs that will encourage complete breakup at an early point in the reentry process, already in the manufacturing phase engineers can reduce the chances that any pieces survive reentry to reach the surface.
For larger satellites: Efficient controlled deorbiting systems are needed. ESA is conducting studies to develop technologies that will ease deorbiting at the end of life without affecting overall mission efficiency, such as improved pressure gauges to maintain an accurate measure of the propellant remaining in a spacecraft’s fuel tank.
Vermoedelijke opvolger Pluto laat zich (nog) niet zien
Steven Stroeykens
rvEen vergelijking tussen de (vermoedelijke) grootte van planeet X (midden) met de aarde (links) en Neptunus (rechts). Die zou tot tien keer zo zwaar zijn als de aarde.
WETENSCHAPAstronomen beginnen steeds sterker te vermoeden dat er zich in ons zonnestelsel een onontdekte planeet schuilhoudt die de banen van andere hemellichamen beïnvloedt. Die zou veel groter en zwaarder zijn dan de vroegere negende planeet Pluto en verder weg staan van de zon dan alle andere planeten.
Er zijn bizarre dingen gaande in het buitenste stuk van het zonnestelsel voorbij Neptunus, de verste van de acht planeten. In die koude buitenwijk van het zonnestelsel draaien een heleboel kleine, ijzige hemellichamen, waaronder ook Pluto, dat in 2006 tot ‘dwergplaneet’ werd gedegradeerd. Astronomen noemen die kleine hemellichamen meestal nogal fantasieloos ‘trans-Neptunian objects’ of TNO’s (objecten voorbij Neptunus). Samen vormen ze de zogeheten ‘Kuipergordel’, een vele miljarden kilometers grote zwerm voorbij Neptunus.
Áls de planeet bestaat, is het een grote bol ijs die zich schuilhoudt in de ijskoude, donkere buitenste delen van ons zonnestelsel»
Het zijn de vreemde banen van sommige TNO’s in de Kuipergordel die astronomen nu aan het denken hebben gezet. Ze draaien immers niet rond de zon in nette cirkels die ongeveer in eenzelfde vlak liggen — zoals de acht planeten doen — maar beschrijven heel langgerekte ellipsvormige banen die schots en scheef georiënteerd staan in de ruimte. Sedna bijvoorbeeld — een duizend kilometer grote bal ijs en rots die er maar liefst 11.000 jaar over doet om één keer rond de zon te draaien — verwijdert zich één keer per omloop tot ruim 140 miljard kilometer van de zon. Da’s dertig keer zo ver als Neptunus en 940 keer zo ver als de aarde.
Kudde schapen
Maar de banen van die avontuurlijke TNO’s zijn niet helemaal willekeurig, integendeel. Er is een groepje bij met verdacht gelijkaardige banen, in een gelijkaardige hoek tegenover de rest van het zonnestelsel en reikend tot gelijkaardige afstanden. Dat moet een reden hebben, denken astronomen, en dan is een nog onbekende planeet de meest voor de hand liggende. Misschien trekt en sleurt zijn zwaartekracht aan de TNO’s en houdt hij die in het gareel als een herdershond bij een kudde schapen?
Als planeet nummer 9 echt bestaat, is het alleszins een behoorlijk fors exemplaar. Misschien zelfs tien keer zo zwaar als de aarde en érg ver weg: gemiddeld 60 à 75 miljard kilometer van de zon, volgens een schatting van Mike Brown en Konstantin Batygin van het California Institute of Technology. Op zijn verste punt zou hij nog een stuk verder kunnen komen dan Sedna. Ter vergelijking: de aarde staat op amper 0,15 miljard kilometer van de zon.
Grote bol ijs
Wat voor planeet het is, weten we niet, maar een grote bol ijs, mogelijk met wat gesteente en ander materiaal ertussen gemengd, is een goede gok. Hij houdt zich immers schuil in de ijskoude, donkere buitenste delen van ons zonnestelsel, ver weg van de zonnewarmte. Doordat hij zich zo ver weg van ons en de zon bevindt, moet planeet 9 – als hij al bestaat – erg lichtzwak zijn en moeilijk te vinden. Zelfs door de grootste telescopen zou hij niet meer zijn dan een onooglijk klein lichtpuntje, verloren tussen de miljarden verre sterren in onze Melkweg. Dat verklaart waarom hij nooit eerder is waargenomen door een telescoop. Het belet astronomen niet om te proberen. Onder meer het team van Brown is aan het speuren geslagen met de Subara, een grote telescoop op een bergtop in Hawaï.
Op basis van de banen van bekende TNO’s kunnen astronomen wel ruwweg de baan van planeet 9 schatten, maar nog niet op welk punt van die baan hij zich momenteel bevindt. Dat betekent dat hij op heel veel plaatsen aan de hemel zou kunnen staan. Om zeker te zijn moet die héle baan afgespeurd worden, met een ruime onzekerheidsmarge eromheen. De zoektocht zou dus weleens lang kunnen duren, maar de astronomen zouden natuurlijk ook geluk kunnen hebben en morgen al op de planeet stoten.
rvOmdat de planeet zich op liefst 60 à 75 miljard kilometer van de zon zou bevinden, moet het er ijskoud zijn en bestaan uit een grote bal ijs met eventueel wat ander materiaal ertussen.
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Algerian Sky suddenly turns into red – Sahara Sand or Iron Oxide?
Algerian Sky suddenly turns into red – Sahara Sand or Iron Oxide?
A rare weather event has happened this week in Algeria where the sky suddenly turned into red. The phenomenon in Algeria is just one example of extreme weather events taking place all over the world every week.
A completely red sky has been filmed in Algeria due to incoming Sahara sand according to weather specialists, but others are convinced that it is iron oxide coming from the Nibiru system similar to the strange red dust mist captured by the International Space Station live feed camera, a few days ago.
Two Cylinder UFOs Seen Over Iowa By Aircraft Pilot, Jan 29, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Two Cylinder UFOs Seen Over Iowa By Aircraft Pilot, Jan 29, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 29, 2018 Location of sighting: Burlington, Iowa, USA Source: MUFON #91139 These two UFOs are flying in military formation, meaning they are watching out for one another...a wingman of sorts. The pilot says that he saw two shiny cylinder UFOs leaving the earths atmosphere. Most UFOs have the ability to create clouds, contrails and aircraft light flashes, in order to camouflage themselves. Clearly these UFOs are doing the same to look like rockets. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
While Piloting aircraft at 10,000 ft observed two separate contrails emitted in pulses from 2 small blunt highly reflective cylindrical objects.
Vladimir Putin's quest for lucrative Arctic natural gas is behind bizarre exploding craters in the tundra, according to a top scientist.
The mysterious holes first appeared in 2014 and led to wild speculation that they were caused by Kremlin missile tests, aliens, or that they were manmade - as a prank.
Later scientists agreed they were formed by underground methane eruptions in thawing permafrost.
Now experts have found from satellite image analysis that the craters - which fill with water - are prone to explode more than once
And Russia's leading authority on the bizarre phenomenon claims that many explosions may have been triggered by the massive exploitation of natural gas for exports to Europe - including Britain - and China.
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Mysterious holes that first appeared in 2014 are formed by underground methane eruptions in thawing permafrost. Russia's leading authority on the bizarre phenomenon claims that many explosions may have been triggered by the massive exploitation of natural gas for exports to Europe - including Britain - and China
Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky said he suspected 'human activities' - namely interfering with nature by drilling for vast Yamal gas reserves, vital for the Russian economy - were to blame.
Leaks from gas wells lead to unstable pockets of methane accumulating under frozen soil, he said.
Initially these cause swelling pingos - or mounds - in the tundra which explode when the gas builds up under a thick cap of ice.
One famous crater which exploded in the middle of the Mordy-Yakha River has only natural causes, but it may not be typical, he said.
'We managed to take samples of gas, and analyse them,' he said.
'The gas is biogenic. There are no gas wells nearby.
'So there is no doubt that the appearance of this funnel is natural.
'But we cannot say this for sure about all the craters discovered in recent years — or be certain that human activities did not contribute to their emergence.'
He believes some to be 'technogenic' - caused by man's use of technology in the tundra.
Dr Bogoyavlensky, from the Russian Oil and Gas Research Institute in Moscow, also discovered that the eerie holes are prone to second explosions, reported The Siberian Times.
Leaks from gas wells lead to unstable pockets of methane accumulating under frozen soil, he said. Initially these cause swelling pingos - or mounds - in the tundra which explode when the gas builds up under a thick cap of ice and form deep craters (pictured)
Bulging bumps filled with methane in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas are believed to be caused by thawing permafrost. Scientists have identified the peculiar phenomenon on expeditions and from satellite images. The bubbled eventually erupt, forming large craters
Researchers discovered last year that some 7,000 'underground gas bubbles' are set to explode in the Russian Arctic in future and a dozen new craters have been identified in three years.
'We discovered from space that in one of the craters flooded with water a new pingo appeared - and exploded,' he revealed.
The hole with the second eruption was not identified and further details are to be published in a scientific journal.
But he said: 'We proved that the forming of craters is not a one-off phenomenon.'
He is concerned at the risk of ecological disasters if the explosions occur under gas pipelines or production facilities or residential areas.
The domes are created from thawing permafrost releasing methane into the ground above. This causes the ground to bulge and form unusual gas mounds (left). These are called pingos which are prone to exploding and this creates vast craters (right)
Pingos are dome-shaped mounds over a core of ice. Dr Bogoyavlensky, from the Russian Oil and Gas Research Institute in Moscow, also discovered that the eerie holes are prone to second explosions
'In a number of areas, pingos - as we see both from satellite data and with own eyes during helicopter inspections - literally prop up gas pipes,' he said last year.
'In some places they jack up the gas pipes... they seem to begin to slightly bend these pipes.'
The problem is extensive.
'Based on satellite data, we have marked 7,000 bulges (pingos) - or even more,' he said.
'It doesn't mean that every pingo carries danger - but it is still clear that we can draw certain conclusions.
A dozen new craters have been identified in three years.
He called for more seismic stations to monitor potential explosions close to gas pipelines or residential areas.
The changes of the famous Yamal crater from 2014 to 2016. The craters remain unpredictable and mysterious, despite understanding of them increasing markedly in recent years. Last year, Russia set up an early warning system of seismic sensors hoping to predict new permafrost explosions leads to the formation of bizarre 'Arctic domes'
WHAT ARE THE GIANT CRATERS IN RUSSIA?
Scientists believe the giant holes in north Siberia were originally a phenomenon known as apingo.
This is a subsurface accumulation of ice that has been covered by land.
Pingos are dome-shaped mounds over a core of ice.
At least ten are known to have exploded in Siberia in recent years forming craters.
The craters were only first discovered in 2014 and were shrouded in mystery.
When this happens it can leave behind a gaping hole.
The melting of the permafrost caused natural gas trapped in the soil to be released and accumulate in the void, causing the pressure to build and eventually erupt from the ground.
Rising temperatures in the soil would have increased the pressure, leading to an eruption.
Initially there was mystery over the sudden formation of the dramatic craters - first noticed in 2014 - with claims they could have been formed by missile tests from Vladimir Putin's military machine, or even by aliens
There has been significant activity in the region, with reports of underground methane bubbles about to explode in the region.
Bulging bumps filled with methane in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas are believed to be caused by thawing permafrost.
Yamal is Russia's main area for extracting natural gas, and there are fears that explosions could lead to damage to key energy facilities.
When the bubbles explode they release methane gas which is approximately 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
After they've exploded they leave gigantic funnels or craters.
The extent of the harmful greenhouse gases buried in this new phenomenon of jelly-like bubbles poses 'very serious alarm' concerning the impact of global warming, experts have warned.
Russia set up an early warning system of seismic sensors hoping to predict when these explosions would occur.
It's not the study's conclusions or science they take issue with, though. It's the study's subject: the body of a mummified Chilean girl.
Alien enthusiasts are pretty obsessed with Ata, a 6-inch-long skeleton that was discovered in 2003.
Oscar Munoz found the tiny mummy in a leather pouch in a Chilean ghost town near the Atacama Desert (hence its name), and soon after, rumors began swirling as to Ata's origin.
See, the Chilean mummy looked human-ish, but it also looked, well, kind of not.
Ata had a conical head shape and large eye sockets that looked straight out of a sci-fi film.
The mummy was barely the length of a 19-week-old human fetus, but had bones as mature as those of a six-year-old. It also had hard teeth and only 10 pairs of ribs while humans have 12.
Cue the alien hunter hype.
Eventually, the Chilean mummy landed in the private collection of a Spanish businessman.
In 2012, he gave Steven Greer, a doctor and founder of the Center for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), permission to analyze it.
Greer, in turn, gave Garry Nolan, an immunologist at Stanford University, samplesof Ata's bone marrow and other genetic material.
In 2013, Nolan dashed the hopes of alien hunters everywhere by concluding that Ata was fully human.
This week, Nolan and his team published new research about the Chilean mummy in the journal Genome Research. In it, the researchers provide an explanation for Ata's alien-like appearance: seven different genetic mutations.
"Once we understood that it was human, the next step was to understand how something could come to look like this," Nolan told National Geographic.
Chile strongly disagrees. The next step should have been returning Ata to her country of origin.
Once Nolan published his findings in 2013, Ata was no longer an "it" but a "she," and as such, the tiny mummy should have received all the protections given to the remains of any other human.
On March 25, Cristina Dorado, a biologist at Chile's University of Antofagasta, published a commentary in Etilmercurio citing a number of legal and ethical issues with Nolan's latest work.
She wrote that, while the study did have scientific value, it failed to consider the legal and ethical implications of studying a human body.
Furthermore, the researchers themselves concluded that Ata, whom Dorado calls "the girl from La Noria", was likely born just 40 years ago, meaning her parents could still be alive.
Dorado called upon Genome Research to retract the article, but that doesn't seem likely.
The journal's editor, Hilary Sussman, told The New York Times the publication "will return to [the issue of studying DNA from ancient human remains] in future issues of the journal".
In other words, it's not happening right now.
Still, as Dorado notes, this is far from the first example of the "plunder and sale of mummified bodies".
Genome Research might not retract the article on Ata, but perhaps the controversy surrounding the study will give other scientists pause before they move forward with research on human remains.
Could the clouds of Venus actually host extraterrestrial life? Researchers of a new study said that the dark patches in the clouds of the planet could be comparable to algae blooms.
( NASA/JPL/USGS )
As scientists continue with their hunt for extraterrestrial life, a new paper published in the journal Astrobiology proposes that alien microbial life could be present in the atmosphere of planet Venus.
The Potentially Habitable Clouds Of Venus
The idea that the clouds of Venus are potentially habitable was proposed decades ago by biophysicist Harold Morowitz and astronomer Carl Sagan.
The recent study, however, was inspired by the idea of Grzegorz Slowik of the University of Zielona Góra in Poland.
During a chance meeting, Slowik told study researcher Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about bacteria on Earth with light-absorbing properties that are similar to those of unidentified particles that compose dark patches in the clouds of Venus. These particles have nearly the same dimensions as some bacteria on Earth.
Limaye and colleagues now suggest the possibility these patches could be comparable to algae blooms that can be found on Earth's bodies of water.
Life Forms That Can Thrive In Extreme Environments
Researchers said that terrestrial microorganisms on Earth, particularly bacteria, can be swept into the atmosphere and have been found alive at altitudes as high as 25 miles.
There are also microbes that are known to live in incredibly harsh environments on Earth such as in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, acidic lakes and the hot springs of Yellowstone. These microorganisms can feed on carbon dioxide and produce sulfuric acid.
Study co-author Rakesh Mogul, from California State Polytechnic University, said that the cloudy, highly reflective and acidic atmosphere of Venus is mostly composed of carbon dioxide and water droplets that contain sulfuric acid.
Search For Extraterrestrial Life
Scientists have been studying Mars and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter as possible worlds that can support life. However, the new study calls for another look at the clouds of Venus for a possibility that they can host life.
Limaye noted that planet Venus has had plenty of time for life there to evolve on its own. The scientist cited models suggesting that Venus used to have a habitable climate and had liquid water on the surface for up to 2 billion years, which is much longer compared with what is believed to have occurred on Mars.
"Particles in Venus' lower clouds contain sufficient mass balance to harbor microorganisms, water, and solutes, and potentially sufficient biomass to be detected by optical methods," the researchers wrote in their study, which was published on March 30.
"The comparisons presented in this article warrant further investigations into the prospect of biosignatures in Venus' clouds."
According to a study backed by Nasa, aliens could be living in the acid clouds of Venus - the second planet from the Sun and thought to be among the most inhospitable.
Researchers have said they've spotted dark patches in Venus' clouds, which have been detected by space probes and appear to resemble the light-absorbing properties of the bacteria found on earth.
However, the alien life is likely to only be microbes.
"Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30-40 percent in the ultraviolet, and muted in longer wavelengths," says study leader, Sanjay Limaye, who is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center.
These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent."
The research was published earlier this week in a peer-reviewed journal called Astrobiology, and suggests that the extra-terrestrial microbes could survive by being blown around by winds in Venus' cooler clouds tops.
Professor Rakesh Mogul - paper co-author and biological chemist at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona -said: "On Earth, we know that life can thrive in very acidic conditions, can feed on carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid."
Co-author David J Smith, of Nasa's Ames Research Center, has also said that similar bacteria and other organisms on Earth have been found alive at altitudes of 25 miles.
While Venus is of a similar size to Earth, it has an incredibly inhospitable surface - with a temperature that's twice the maximum setting in a kitchen oven.
It also rains sulphuric acid, so, y'know', not ideal.
"Venus has had plenty of time to evolve life on its own," explains Limaye, noting that some models suggest Venus once had a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. "That's much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars."
In the paper, the authors explain: "Our comparative analyses support the blended hypotheses that terrestrial-type biology can survive within and contribute to the spectral signatures of Venus' clouds.
"To test the ideas presented here, we propose the need for an integrated chemical, biochemical, and microbiological study focusing on the survival and spectroscopy of terrestrial microorganisms under Venus' cloud conditions."
The scientists have also said that further research is needed to investigate.
They add: "Looking forward, investigations into the actual habitability of Venus' clouds would ideally benefit from a mixture of orbiter, lander, airplane/balloons, and sample return missions as proposed by Schulze-Makuch and Irwin (2002) and Grinspoon (1997)."
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