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 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.
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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...
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Ex-NASA physics professor claims 'many governments' have covered up alien encounters and says humanity must 'face the possibility' UFO sightings really ARE alien craft
Ex-NASA physics professor claims 'many governments' have covered up alien encounters and says humanity must 'face the possibility' UFO sightings really ARE alien craft
A physics professor from University at Albany, State University of New York and former NASA researcher believes there is 'plenty of evidence to support UFOs'
He believes skepticism around UFOs prevents serious scientific research
Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008
Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory.
To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect.
On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying.
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A 1990 picture of a 'UFO' taken in Wallonia, Belgium. A physics professor from University at Albany, State University of New York and former NASA researcher believes there is 'plenty of evidence to support UFOs'
As a NASA research scientist and now a professor of physics, I attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials.
During the meeting a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, 'You have absolutely no idea what is out there!'
The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in.
Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Perhaps fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitively vast.
At least this is what we novices, who are just learning to travel into space, tell ourselves.
I have always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be aliens and other living worlds.
But more exciting to me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically achievable.
In 1988, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs.
A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles.
At the time I thought this professor was talking nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s. Clearly there must be something to this.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders reaches to a question about UFOs in the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington, DC, USA 19 December 2017. The question was in response to the Pentagon's secret UFO program, recently revealed in the New York Times
With July 2 being World UFO Day, it is a good time for society to address the unsettling and refreshing fact we may not be alone.
I believe we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar – and there's plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.
The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions.
In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, 'Where is everybody?'
He estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions, Knuth claims.
Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy.
Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.
With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like ours to colonize our Milky Way galaxy.
Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should wonder where is the evidence of these civilizations?
This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.
Carl Sagan correctly summarized the situation by saying that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'
The problem is that there has been no single well-documented UFO encounter that would alone qualify as the smoking gun.
The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters.
A black and white colored video from a 2004 encounter shows fighter jets closing in on an unidentified object (circled red) before it quickly accelerates out of sight
But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.
When it comes to science, the scientific method requires hypotheses to be testable so that inferences can be verified.
UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, which makes their study extremely challenging. But the real problem, in my view, is that the UFO topic is taboo.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions.
declassifying their UFO files since A declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been2008
WHAT ARE SOME REPORTED UFO SIGHTINGS?
Among the sightings were reports from pilots of two U.S. Navy Super Hornet fighters who spotted a UFO on a training mission.
They were 100 miles from San Diego in the Pacific when a call on their radios asked if they were carrying weapons.
The unusual request, that day in 2004, came from a naval cruiser, the Princeton, that had spent two weeks tracking unidentified aircraft.
Commanders David Fravor and Jim Slaight had only dummy missiles, but were directed to investigate objects that appeared suddenly at an altitude of 80,000ft, then plunged towards the sea.
Hovering erratically 50ft above that spot was some sort of flying craft, around 40ft long, oval-shaped and whitish.
As the pilot descended towards it, it rose to meet him, but suddenly peeled away at an immense speed that he admits left him feeling 'pretty weirded out'.
The craft 'had no plumes, wings or rotors' but, seemingly travelling at a mile a second, easily outran America's fastest military jets.None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft.
And no aliens have visited Earth.
Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense.
UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.
I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, discounting the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly hypotheses describing only one or two aspects of a UFO encounter reinforcing the popular belief that there is a conspiracy.
A scientist must consider all of the possible hypotheses that explain all of the data, and since little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis cannot yet be ruled out.
In the end, the skeptics often do science a disservice by providing a poor example of how science is to be conducted. The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.
The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can't possibly be true.
But there are credible witnesses and encounters.
I am often asked by friends and colleagues, 'Why don't astronomers see UFOs?' The fact is that they do.
In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society.
He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.
As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock's respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so.
More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.
Pictured: An example of a 'UFO' triangle formation that the UK government investigated as part of its report into alien sightings
UFOs have been observed through telescopes. I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope's field of view.
Further sightings are documented in the book 'Wonders in the Sky,' in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800s.
Some of the most convincing observations have come from government officials. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the organization Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs.
Last year, CEFAA released footage of a UFO taken with a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera.
The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008.
The French Committee for In-Depth Studies, or COMETA, was an unofficial UFO study group comprised of high-ranking scientists and military officials that studied UFOs in the late 1990s.
They released the COMETA Report, which summarized their findings. They concluded that 5 percent of the encounters were reliable yet inexplicable: The best hypothesis available was that the observed craft were extraterrestrial. They also accused the United States of covering up evidence of UFOs.
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.
Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs observed near nuclear power facilities that they call 'CIA drones' which reportedly are about 30 feet in diameter, can achieve speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere.
Such speeds are on par with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lift surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.
In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs.
Elizondo resigned from running the program protesting extreme secrecy and the lack of funding and support.
Following his resignation Elizondo, along with several others from the defense and intelligence community, were recruited by the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, which was recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel.
In conjunction with the launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with forward looking infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets.
Pictured: A 1948 Top Secret US Air Force UFO extraterrestrial document. In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs
While there is much excitement about such disclosures, I am reminded of a quote from Retired Army Colonel John Alexander: 'Disclosure has happened. … I've got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who've come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say that this is real?'
There is a great deal of evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft exhibiting flight capabilities beyond any known human technology.
While there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.
Declassified information from covert studies is interesting, but not scientifically helpful.
This is a topic worthy of open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than prior expectation or belief.
If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent.
Moreover, this would present a great opportunity for mankind, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology, as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.
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Veel overheden stoppen geheime informatie over UFO’s in doofpot. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper en professor doet belangrijke oproep
Veel overheden stoppen geheime informatie over UFO’s in doofpot. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper en professor doet belangrijke oproep
We moeten onder ogen zien dat sommige van de vreemde vliegende objecten in ons luchtruim, die vele malen sneller vliegen dan onze beste vliegtuigen, mogelijk bezoekers uit de ruimte zijn. Hier is meer dan genoeg bewijs voor, stelt voormalig NASA-wetenschapper en professor Kevin Knuth.
Statistisch gezien moeten er talloze buitenaardse beschavingen zijn. Je kunt je dus afvragen waar het bewijs voor deze beschavingen is.
Het probleem is dat er geen goed gedocumenteerde UFO-waarneming is die kan worden gezien als een smoking gun, zegt Knuth.
Extreem uitdagend
“Een ander probleem is het feit dat vele overheden geheime informatie over zulke waarnemingen in de doofpot hebben gestopt,” aldus de professor.
Er zijn genoeg stukjes bewijs die suggereren dat er wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar moet worden gedaan, benadrukt hij.
Dat UFO-waarnemingen controleerbeer noch herhaalbaar zijn, maakt het onderzoek naar dit fenomeen extreem uitdagend.
Taboe
“Maar het echte probleem is in mijn ogen dat het UFO-onderwerp taboe is,” klinkt het.
Professor Knuth krijgt vaak de vraag waarom astronomen geen UFO’s zien. “Die zien ze wel,” zegt hij.
In 1977 stuurde professor Peter Sturrock 2611 vragenformulieren over UFO-waarnemingen naar leden van de American Astronomical Society.
Er waren 62 astronomen die aangaven dat ze onverklaarbare vliegende objecten in het luchtruim hadden waargenomen.
Disclosure
Daarnaast zei ruim 80 procent van de respondenten bereid te zijn het UFO-fenomeen te bestuderen als daar een mogelijkheid voor was.
Knuth citeerde de gepensioneerde legerkolonel John Alexander: “Disclosure is al geweest. Er zijn talloze generaals geweest die hebben gezegd dat UFO’s echt zijn. Mijn punt is: hoe vaak moeten hooggeplaatste functionarissen zeggen dat dit echt is?”
Laten we dus het taboe doorbreken en het UFO-fenomeen onderwerpen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek, besluit de professor.
Geoloog doet opzienbarende vondst in kilometerslange tunnel. Is de aarde hol?
Geoloog doet opzienbarende vondst in kilometerslange tunnel. Is de aarde hol?
Radioshow Coast to Coast AM heeft een uitzending beschikbaar gemaakt over onderzoeker, avonturier en filmmaker Stephen Sindoni, die claimt dat er bewijs is voor de holle aarde.
Hij wijst op gesprekken met inheemse stamoudsten, die verwezen naar de holle aarde.
Sindoni noemt tijdens het gesprek het verhaal over J.C. Brown, een man die naar verluidt aan het begin van de 20e eeuw als geoloog voor Lord Cowdray Mining Company werkte.
Lemurische beschaving
Brown beweerde in 1904 onder Mount Shasta in Californië op een oude Lemurische beschaving te zijn gestuit.
Hij zou een bijna 18 kilometer lange tunnel in de berg zijn gevolgd, waarna hij naar eigen zeggen uitkwam bij een dorp met bijna vier meter grote koperen voorwerpen, standbeelden, wapens en drie meter lange skeletten.
Licht
De standbeelden straalden licht uit en om die reden nam Brown aan dat ze barium bevatten.
Sindoni sprak in de VS met een stamoudste, die hem vertelde dat duizenden jaren geleden een groep mensen uit een ander zonnestelsel naar de aarde is gekomen.
Mierenmensen
Die mensen werden volgens de stamoudste door de ‘mierenmensen’ meegenomen naar een ondergrondse plek.
“De Lemuriërs waren ruim 2,5 meter lang en mijn opa heeft ze gezien toen hij in een river bij Mount Rainier aan het vissen was,” ze de stamoudste.
Beluister het hele gesprek hieronder (vanaf 9:13):
OUMUAMUA VERSNELT PLOTSELING EN VERANDERT VAN KOERS
OUMUAMUA VERSNELT PLOTSELING EN VERANDERT VAN KOERS
Eind vorig jaar hadden we een unieke situatie, waarbij een “komeet” uit een ander zonnestelsel bij ons op bezoek kwam.
De wetenschap zat met de handen in het haar, want hoe ze ook dachten en puzzelden, Oumuamua paste in geen enkel hokje.
Eerder dit jaar hadden we te maken met een vreemd ruimteobject, dat werd omschreven en geclassificeerd als een komeet en dat van buiten ons zonnestelsel scheen te komen.
Sinds ons artikel zijn er alleen nog maar meer vragen gerezen over dit object dat inmiddels de naam Oumuamua heeft gekregen. Het object dat van een ander zonnestelsel kwam, om de zon draaide en weer verdween in de ruimte. The Minor Planet Center heeft bijgedragen aan de naamgeving, wat zoveel betekent als eerste boodschapper van ver weg.:
Accordingly, the object A/2017 U1 receives the permanent designation 1I and the name ʻOumuamua. The name, which was chosen by the Pan-STARRS team, is of Hawaiian origin and reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (ʻou means reach out for, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means first, in advance of).
Volgens de European Southern Observatory (ESO) is Oumuamua een object dat we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien en bestaat het uit rots of metaal met een roodachtige kleur.
Het object moet er ongeveer als volgt uit zien. Een ander fenomeen is dat het om haar eigen as lijkt te draaien en dat de lichtintensiteit varieert.
Men probeert wanhopig om voor dit alles logische verklaringen te vinden, maar slaagt daar niet zo erg in.
Men vermoedt dat het uit de buurt komt van de ster Vega, maar ook dat schijnt niet te kunnen omdat in de tijd dat Oumuamua daar is vertrokken, die ster op een heel andere plek stond. Nu denken ze dat het object misschien wel helemaal nergens thuishoort en als een soort los projectiel door de ruimte zwerft.
De wetenschap zit (ook) wat dit object betreft met de handen in het haar, want niet één van de normale verklaringen past.
Waar we hier over praten, is een groot moederschip dat ons hier met een bezoek heeft vereerd. Dat is de enige logische verklaring en ook is er ook één die past in de omschrijving van het object en de gedragingen.
Nu komen er via NASA berichten dat een team van wetenschappers met behulp van gegevens van de Hubble ruimtetelescoop en andere bronnen heeft vastgesteld dat Oumuamua opeens accelereert en van koers is veranderd.
Marco Micheli van de Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft bevestigd dat de bewegingen van het object aantonen dat er onder invloed van iets anders dan de zwaartekracht van de zon en andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel iets met Oumuamua is gebeurd.
Dan Davide Farnocchia van het NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) die volhoudt dat het object zich gedraagt als een normale komeet en dat de versnelling en koersverandering misschien wel te maken hebben met de uitstoot van gas vanaf het oppervlak van de komeet.
Echter, volgens Olivier Haunaut van het European Southern Observatory zijn er geen waarneembare tekenen van het uitstoten van gas.
Maar, omdat de wetenschappelijke gelederen gesloten dienen te blijven, komt er een soort gezamenlijke verklaring van wetenschappers waarbij ze dan concluderen dat Oumuamua een hele kleine hoeveelheid stofdeeltjes heeft uitgestoten die verantwoordelijk zouden zijn geweest voor de koersverandering. De uitstoot van die stofdeeltjes zou zo subtiel geweest zijn de wetenschappers niet in staat zijn geweest om dit op te pikken.
De verklaring: het hemellichaam bevat wél vluchtig materiaal, en via barsten en spleten in het oppervlak stromen gassen en dampen de ruimte in. Zo’n klein raket-effect beïnvloedt de beweging – denk maar aan een losgelaten feestballonnetje, dat ook alle kanten op kronkelt.
Het effect was heel klein, aldus een internationaal team van onderzoekers deze week in Nature, maar elke andere mogelijke verklaring wordt vakkundig naar de prullenbak verwezen. Conclusie: de kosmische binnendringer verloor een paar kilogram gas per seconde, vermoedelijk waterdamp en koolmonoxide. Dat is niet veel, maar volgens het astronomische hokjesdenken ben je dan toch een komeet.
Héhé, dat was even zweten, maar gelukkig is er nu een wetenschappelijke verklaring die de stofdeeltjes de schuld geeft, zodat we vooral niet hoeven zeggen dat het gewoon een groot buitenaards, intelligent bestuurd ruimteschip is.
Mysterious Sonar Anomaly investigated in ocean off North Carolina by NOAA
Mysterious Sonar Anomaly investigated in ocean off North Carolina by NOAA
A mysterious "sonar anomaly" had NOAA explorers diving off the coast of North Carolina on Wednesday, hoping for an explanation.
NOAA has not been afraid to notch up suspense about the area, noting it could be "an archaeology site, a geological formation or otherwise."
Image credit NOAA.
It's anybody's guess what "otherwise" means, but UFO enthusiasts might be tingling with ideas.
The site is being called the “Big Dipper Anomaly" by the crew aboard NOAA's Okeanos Explorer, which launched a remotely operated vehicle in the area at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Experts believed the anomaly might be a shipwreck, but were leaning toward "a geological formation with biological communities and other debris" later in the day, according to TV station WTKR in Virginia.
Image credit NOAA.
But an official accounting of their findings has not been released yet and since the location of the anomaly is being kept confidential it becomes clear that NOAA has found something very strange and unusual off the coast of North Carolina. We will keep an eye on this strange event.
Watch three live stream cameras NOAA at the following link:
Three-Fingered Mummified Aliens Found In Peru, UFO Researcher Claims
Three-Fingered Mummified Aliens Found In Peru, UFO Researcher Claims
A UFO researcher has claimed he has unearthed alien remains in Nazca, Peru in 2015. Some UFO fans quickly labelled it as evidence of ancient aliens. They argued that the strange creatures may have inhabited the Earth long before the people.
According to UFO researcher Steve Mera, DNA tests show one body to be 98.5 per cent primate, related to humans, and 1.5 per cent unknown.
Steve said they have proof that the Maria body constitutes a fantastic find. He stressed that it may alter history books forever and would go down as the most significant find of the 21st Century.
However, the World Congress on Mummy Studies has described the discovery as a fraud and called it an irresponsible organized campaign of disinformation.
Hoax debunkers offered a detailed analysis, including the fact that Gaia.com, the one spreading the information about the mummy discovery, has been alleged of promoting the idea of ancient aliens of which no actual evidence was presented.
UFO author Nigel Watson said that mummy discoveries such as this one are very probably fakes. He explained that humanoid aliens with three long fingers could not survive as they would be clumsy and incapable of making a cup of tea let alone flying a spaceship.
Nigel also pointed out the fact that the news was fed to the people via a website that you need to subscribe. He said that it could be fake news designed to indulge the fascination of people with ancient aliens and UFOs.
Large organic molecules blasted into space from deep-sea vents on one of Saturn's moons, show that it contains "all of the basic requirements for life as we know it”.
NASA Finds Ocean & Possible Alien Life on Saturn's Moon
A study of this data by an international team of researchers has found evidence of carbon-rich substances formed in the heart of the moon.
The scientists said they were “blown away” by the discovery.
“Complex organic molecules do not necessarily provide a habitable environment, but on the other hand they are a necessary precursor for life,” Dr Frank Postberg from the University of Heidelberg, who led the research, told The Independent.
“Previously it was unknown whether complex organic chemistry happens on Enceladus – and now we know.”
Dr Christopher Glein, a space scientist specialising in extraterrestrial chemical oceanography, said the new findings mean the distant moon is the only body besides Earth known to “simultaneously satisfy all of the basic requirements for life as we know it”.
He added: “We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus. Previously we’d only identified the simplest organic molecules containing a few carbon atoms, but even that was very intriguing.”
The new discovery is the culmination of years of data gleaned by Cassini as it flew close by Saturn’s moons, collecting information as it went.
Initial surveys found evidence of an enormous ocean of water residing underneath the moon’s icy crust.
Subsequent flybys yielded signs of smaller organic compounds like methane gas, as well as hydrogen that indicated deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
“Hydrogen provides a source of chemical energy supporting microbes that live in the Earth’s oceans near hydrothermal vents,” said Dr Hunter Waite, who co-authored the study at Southwest Research Institute.
“Once you have identified a potential food source for microbes, the next question to ask is ‘what is the nature of the complex organics in the ocean?’ This paper represents the first step in that understanding – complexity in the organic chemistry beyond our expectations.”
Data collected on the red planet was far more detailed than Cassini’s Enceladus findings, but the discoveries made in the past 12 to 15 months have singled out the distant moon as one of the most likely places to support life in our solar system.
Dr Postberg said the case for alien life on Enceladus is mounting, but as it stands there are no follow up Cassini missions planned.
However, the technology to test for such life exists, and he predicts a decision will be made in the next five years about future alien-hunting missions to this elusive “water world”.
“It is of course one of the biggest science questions there are – extraterrestrial life: yes or no – and here is a spot where we can check,” said Dr Postberg. “We have a habitable environment there and we have the means to probe it to find whether there is actual life or not.”
Has alien life been discovered on Enceladus? Scientists excited by new discovery HD
Beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe gevonden op Saturnusmaan. Wetenschappers staan versteld
Beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe gevonden op Saturnusmaan. Wetenschappers staan versteld
Saturnusmaan Enceladus blijkt grote organische moleculen uit te stoten. Die zijn ontstaan bij reacties tussen de rotsachtige kern van de maan en het warme water van de ondergrondse oceaan.
Wetenschappers spreken van het beste bewijs van buitenaards leven tot nu toe. Hun onderzoek is gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature.
Eerder waren in het materiaal dat Enceladus uitstoot enkel eenvoudige organische moleculen waargenomen, waaronder methaan.
Diep onder de indruk
De moleculen die nu zijn gevonden, zijn ruim 10 keer zo zwaar dan methaan. Barsten in het ijs op Enceladus bleken verrassend grote hoeveelheden koolstof te bevatten.
De onderzoekers zijn diep onder de indruk van de ontdekking.
In combinatie met de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water is hiermee aan de basisbehoeften van organismen voldaan.
Enige bekende plek
Ruimtewetenschapper Christopher Glein zei dat Enceladus naast de aarde de enige bekende plek is waar alle basisbenodigdheden zijn voor leven zoals wij dat kennen.
“We staan opnieuw versteld van Enceladus,” zei hij tegen de Britse krant Independent.
Bewoonbaar gebied
Er is een bewoonbaar gebied op de Saturnusmaan en we kunnen gaan kijken of daar al dan niet leven aanwezig is, liet hoofdonderzoeker Frank Postberg van de Universiteit van Heidelberg weten.
De gegevens zijn tussen 2004 en 2017 verzameld door ruimtesonde Cassini. De sonde is in 1997 gelanceerd om Saturnus en alle manen van de planeet in kaart te brengen.
ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) - The Bureau of Land Management is taking an interest in a New Mexico geologist's discoveries that he claims are out of this world. He believes he has found parts of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell in 1947.
"Some of it could be trash, camper trash, but some of it could be interesting,” said Geologist Frank Kimbler.
Kimbler distinctly remembers the moment he discovered debris from the suspected 1947 UFO crash site.
"I started looking around all over the place, looking to see if the helicopters were going to fly over, because you get paranoid when you read the stories of about Roswell and what's happened to people when they've come forward with stuff,” he said.
Over the past eight years, Kimbler has dedicated himself to finding physical proof of the UFO, going out to the suspected site 75 miles northwest of Roswell about a dozen times.
Using a metal detector, he's collected about 20 metallic fragments the size of a fingernail.
"Some of the material that I found out there has been tested and it has anomalies that suggest that it might be of extraterrestrial origin,” said Kimbler.
Recently, Kimbler became afraid his research was in jeopardy when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted him, wanting to meet.
Kimbler said he was positive he was just a test away from discovering the truth.
When the BLM called, he became a little paranoid and even removed his findings from the International UFO Museum in Roswell.
"I said sure, about had a heart attack. I'm going, ‘Oh, they're going to arrest me, they're going to confiscate this material,’” said Kimbler. “I always thought that I was within my legal rights as a citizen of the U.S. to go out and metal detect."
Much to his relief, that wasn't the case.
"It had a happy ending. I got clarification on the rules and regulations from the BLM and there was no confiscation of materials,” Kimbler said.
He believes the recent commercial interest in the site played a role in how the BLM got alerted to his presence and findings there.
Kimbler, a researcher with the International UFO Museum who has been featured in several documentaries, says he will continue to try and find suspected debris but will work with the BLM to do it the right way.
Mysterious metals collected near sight of the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash - Spacing Out! Ep. 14
Frank Kimbler, a geology and earth science teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute, spends considerable time searching the area of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. This professor and geologist has recovered mysterious metals from the area, and he recently appeared on the NatGeo show Chasing UFOs. We talk with Frank about his experience on the show, and about his mystery metals. We also talk about a UFO at the Olympics, William Shatner vs. Wil Wheaton, and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
Geoloog claimt delen van Roswell-UFO te hebben gevonden. Dit overheidsagentschap was er als de kippen bij
Geoloog claimt delen van Roswell-UFO te hebben gevonden. Dit overheidsagentschap was er als de kippen bij
Een geoloog claimt in New Mexico stukken van de UFO te hebben gevonden die in 1947 nabij Roswell zou zijn neergekomen. De vondst heeft nu de aandacht getrokken van het Bureau of Land Management, een agentschap van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken.
“Er zit mogelijk afval tussen, maar een deel kan interessant zijn,” zei geoloog Frank Kimbler.
De afgelopen acht jaar was hij erop gebrand om fysiek bewijs van de UFO te vinden. Meer dan 10 keer reisde hij af naar het gebied waar het object zou zijn gecrasht.
Mogelijk buitenaards
Met behulp van een metaaldetector verzamelde hij zo’n 20 metalen fragmenten.
“Een deel van het materiaal dat ik gevonden heb is getest en vertoont eigenaardigheden die erop wijzen dat het mogelijk buitenaards is,” zei Kimbler.
Hij was bang dat zijn onderzoek gevaar zou lopen toen het Bureau of Land Management zich ermee ging bemoeien.
Waarheid
Kimber zei dat hij op het punt stond achter de waarheid te komen. Toen het bureau hem belde besloot hij de fragmenten te verstoppen.
“Ik dacht dat ze me zouden arresteren en dit materiaal in beslag zouden nemen,” zei hij. Maar dit bleek niet het geval en er werd niets in beslag genomen.
Kimbler, die in meerdere documentaires te zien is geweest, zegt in samenwerking met het bureau te blijven speuren naar wrakstukken.
HET IS GEEN ASTEROÏDE, HET IS EEN RUIMTESCHIP ( VIDEO )
HET IS GEEN ASTEROÏDE, HET IS EEN RUIMTESCHIP ( VIDEO )
De Europese ruimteorganisatie ESA heeft miljarden euro’s uitgegeven om een komeet te onderzoeken die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar meer vreemde dingen mee aan de hand lijken.
Nu is er iets vergelijkbaars bij de Japanners gaande die de komende dagen een sonde zullen laten landen op een vreemd uitziende asteroïde.
Het publiek wat met twee benen op aarde rond loopt, wordt aan alle kanten in de maling genomen voor wat betreft de werkelijke stand van zaken en activiteiten in de ruimte.
Het onbemande Japanse ruimtevaartuig Hayabusa2 is aangekomen bij een asteroïde en zal daar de komende dagen niet alleen een landing uitvoeren, maar nog veel meer activiteiten verrichten.
Zo zal er door middel van een explosie een gat worden geslagen in de asteroïde, waardoor de sonde de nodige monsters kan nemen die vervolgens teruggebracht zullen worden naar de aarde. De asteroïde bevindt zich op dit moment op zo’n 280 miljoen kilometer afstand van ons.
De sonde zal daar al met al ongeveer anderhalf jaar actief zijn en diverse korte landingen uitvoeren om monsters te verzamelen. En dit alles moet de mensheid dan een beter inzicht geven over de oorsprong van het zonnestelsel en het leven op aarde.
Maar, als je goed kijkt naar de beelden van deze asteroïde dan ziet het er merkwaardig gevormd uit. Als een ruit met bovenop iets dat lijkt op een constructie en links een merkwaardige krater.
Wanneer je het beeld van deze asteroïde vergelijkt met de eveneens geheimzinnige maan Phobos die bij de planeet Mars hoort, dan zie je de overeenkomsten. De bovenste twee zijn van de asteroïde waar de Japanners nu mee bezig zijn en de onderste is Phobos.
Wat dan natuurlijk de vraag oproept of we hier wel te maken hebben met een asteroïde, of dat ook dit weer één van de vele kunstmatige constructies is die er in de ruimte zweven. Objecten die er misschien uit zien als kometen, asteroïden of manen, maar die in feite niets anders zijn dan goed gecamoufleerde ruimteschepen.
In de volgende video gaat Tyler van Secureteam verder in op dit fenomeen en haalt nog een aantal leuke voorbeelden aan van objecten die waarschijnlijk helemaal geen asteroïde, komeet of maan zijn.
Over een aantal zijn ook op deze website al eerder artikelen verschenen zoals de maan Phobos en het vreemde object dat hier kwam van buiten ons zonnestelsel wat eruit zag als een groot sigaarvormig ruimteschip.
Iets, wat hier natuurlijk ook niet mag ontbreken is het verhaal van de vreemde komeet P67, waarover wij eerder uitgebreid hebben geschreven. Hierna daarom een deel uit zo'n eerder artikel: De meest vreemde komeet in ons zonnestelsel is ongetwijfeld komeet P67.
Hij zendt alleen radiosignalen, maar zo te zien hebben buitenaardsen het zich daar ook gemakkelijk gemaakt.
Eerder deze week schreven wij al over deze bijzondere komeet (zie onder) en hoe uit recente NASA foto’s bleek dat er een ruimteschip/UFO boven de komeet hing.
Het wordt nog vreemder, want nu is er op de komeet zelf een soort geparkeerd ruimteschip aangetroffen.
Het is een ontdekking die is gedaan door ufoloog Scott Waring op een EAS (European Space Administration) foto van juli dit jaar.
Duidelijk is dat het geen vlekje op de lens is, maar een klein soort ruimtevaartuig dat een beetje lijkt op een modern stealth gevechtsvliegtuig.
Een UFO in een dergelijke kleur steekt ook wel mooi af tegen het donkere oppervlakte van de komeet en kan dan ook op geen enkele wijze worden afgedaan als een “natuurlijk verschijnsel”.
Dat zal dan ook wel de achterliggende reden zijn dat alle communicatie met de Rosetta opeens is opgehouden omdat deze gecrasht zou zijn. Scott is er heilig van overtuigd dat dit een leugen is en dat de missie in het geheim gewoon doorgaat.
Wat die missie dan is, is niet duidelijk, maar wel dat er buitenaardsen bij betrokken zijn.
De foto waar Scott dit ruimtevaartuig op heeft gevonden, is hier te bekijken.
Een komeet die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA miljarden euro’s aan uitgeeft om die te onderzoeken.
Ogenschijnlijk kwam er enkele weken geleden een einde aan de Europese ruimtemissie naar de komeet 67P
Op 30 september 2016, om 12.38 uur crashte Rosetta gecontroleerd op de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Om 13.20 uur (Nederlandse tijd), kwam de bevestiging binnen dat Rosetta gecrasht is. Deze vertraging werd veroorzaakt doordat het 40 minuten duurde voordat de data de aarde bereikte. De sonde werd in overeenstemming met internationale afspraken automatisch uitgezet vlak voor de landing, dit om te voorkomen dat de zender als een stoorzender in het zonnestelsel zou gaan werken en andere observaties zou gaan storen. De crash betekent het einde van de succesvolle missie van Rosetta.
Echter, de dag voordat Rosetta crashte, zijn er toch nog wel een paar interessante opnames gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat die komeet toch wel even iets meer is dan men ons wil laten geloven.
Zoals op de volgende opname te zien, hangt er een grote UFO boven de rotsmassa van komeet 67P.
De bekende videomaker op Youtube BP Earthwatch ontving een e-mail met het volgende nogal schokkende bericht:
Het bericht is afkomstig van iemand die werkt binnen ESA (European Space Agency). Deze zegt dat de belangstelling voor deze komeet zo’n twintig jaar geleden werd gewekt doordat NASA radiosignalen ontving, afkomstig van deze komeet.
Dat niet alleen, maar ergens in de afgelopen twintig jaar schijnt 67P ook van koers te zijn veranderd.
Veel wetenschappers hebben ook al hun verbazing uitgesproken over het uiterlijk van deze komeet omdat men een soort sneeuw en ijsklomp had verwacht. Iets waarbij in het geval van 67P absoluut geen sprake is.
Besloten werd volgens de klokkenluider om deze “komeet” met een bezoek te vereren. Om de aandacht af te leiden en dit zo geruisloos mogelijk te doen, werd een samenwerking aangegaan tussen NASA en ESA, waarbij de laatste een missie zou organiseren onder de noemer van onderzoek naar een komeet.
De klokkenluider zegt verder: "Jullie zijn toch niet zo gek om te geloven dat ze deze Rosetta missie die al in 2004 werd gelanceerd en miljarden Dollars kost, zomaar gaan doen om een stukje rots in de ruimte te onderzoeken? Nee, ze doen dit omdat er iets aan de hand is met 67P en omdat ze vandaar radiosignalen hebben opgevangen".
Wat 67P ook moge zijn, volgens de klokkenluider is het zeker dat het geen komeet is.
Dan, net voordat de Rosetta voor ons gewone mensen volledig uit beeld verdwijnt, een ruimteschip wat daar hangt wat minstens 100 meter lang is.
Men in Black is the new book from Conrad Bauer. Its subtitle: Evidence and True Stories About Earth’s Most Mysterious Cover Agents. Certainly, it’s not the longest book ever written on the phenomenon (it’s pretty slim), and it’s not a deeply extensive study of the mystery. But, where the book really scores, is the way in which Bauer approaches his story. What Bauer has done is to write a book on the Men in Black for those who are, perhaps, largely new to the phenomenon – and who want a basic, quick rundown on the puzzle and without having to dig through the 10 or so MIB-themed books that are currently available. And, it helps that Bauer has a good, atmospheric style of writing, one which makes his book a cool page-turner.
Bauer begins with a summary of the extremely controversial saga of the Maury Island incident of the summer of 1947; an incident involving an exploded UFO. Or, which was nothing but a crazy hoax, one that tragically led to the deaths of two military personnel. True or not, the Maury Island affair became notable for its link to a sinister character in black who warned one of the key witnesses, Harold Dahl, to keep his mouth shut. Or else.
There is a great deal of information in Men in Blackon Albert Bender, the one guy who, in almost single-handed fashion, “created” the MIB mystery. Or, who at least brought it to the attention of the UFO research community and – eventually – to the military, the FBI and the public, in a roundabout way. So many researchers have claimed that the trio of MIB who visited Bender’s home in 1953 were from the government. They certainly were not.
Albert Bender
Bauer, in his section on Bender, skillfully demonstrates that Bender’s MIB were not agents from the U.S. Government. They were ghoulish, menacing things that didn’t even look completely human. On top of that, Bauer points out how the MIB that Bender crossed paths with had far more links to the occult and the supernatural than they did the likes of the CIA, the Air Force, etc. Bauer, in a persuasive fashion, make it clear that whoever – or whatever – that trio of terrors in black that plagued Bender really were, they were clearly something paranormal and dangerous.
As Bauer notes, Bender’s story was filled to the brim with paranormal activity, dangerous beings from other planes of existence, and things that sounded like they had just stepped out of the pages of a Victorian era Penny Dreadful. Shadowy figures in black follow him to his home late at night. Strange balls of light appear in his attic bedroom – which becomes overwhelmed by a powerful odor of sulfur, no less.
Bauer then moves onto the matter of Gray Barker’s 1956 book on the Bender affair. Its title: They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Barker’s book is a controversial one. It is filled with rumors fleshed out as facts, and Barker’s imagination going into overdrive. Add to that a few outright hoaxes undertaken by Barker, and what you get is hardy non-fiction: They Knew Too Much…
Strange characters impersonating employees of NORAD crop up, as do a couple of genuinely weird sagas of MIB from the U.K., in the early 1970s. I liked these sections particularly, as Bauer makes it clear just how inhuman these things really are. Of course, it wouldn’t be a book on the Men in Black without a good look back at the MIB presence in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the Mothman lurked from late 1966 to December 1967. The dark atmosphere that enveloped the area is well-handled, making it abundantly clear that they were truly strange times – and that Point Pleasant was even home to pale-faced Women in Black, as well as the equally creepy MIB. And with the specter of the Mothman hanging over the good people of Point Pleasant.
In the next couple of chapters, Bauer makes an even greater argument to the effect that the Men in Black are not human. Inhuman would be far better. Bauer ends his book with a look at the possible origins of the Men in Black – and their strange, and almost theatrical, activities, which are particularly in evidence when they are terrorizing witnesses to UFOs.
In conclusion, Conrad Bauer’s book, Men in Black, is the perfect one for people who don’t know too much about the MIB subject – but who would like to – and who don’t want to have to wade through 300 pages or more to get the answers and to learn about the classic cases. In a well-structured, and well-written, fashion Bauer gives the reader the key moments in MIB history, the theories for what they are, their possible motivations and much more. And it’s all presented in a very creepy, bizarre and surreal fashion – which is highly appropriate for a book on the Men in Black!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an asteroid! It’s a weird spaceship from another galaxy! It’s a comet! It’s … Oumuamua! The interstellar visitor didn’t stay long but it has captivated the hearts and minds and computer models of astronomers and space scientists worldwide who want to know what it is. Researchers watching the trailing end of the cigar-shaped visitor as it left the solar system noticed that it was accelerating. While it could have just been trying to get away from the all of the chaos it saw on Earth, the real reason seemed to be that gas coming off of the back end was pushing it to a slightly higher speed … a trait that is commonly seen on … sorry, it’s too late to place your bets … comets!
Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?
“After ruling out solar-radiation pressure, drag- and friction-like forces, interaction with solar wind for a highly magnetized object, and geometric effects originating from ‘Oumuamua potentially being composed of several spatially separated bodies or having a pronounced offset between its photocentre and centre of mass, we find comet-like outgassing to be a physically viable explanation, provided that ‘Oumuamua has thermal properties similar to comets.”
A team led by Marco Micheli, a European Space Agency astronomer, released their study this week in the journal Nature. The acceleration of Oumuamua was actually expected since it would be affected by the gravitational pulls of the Moon and outer planets, but the speed at which it was moving could not be attributed to gravity alone.
“It’s an unusual comet, and that’s pretty exciting.”
Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and a team member, explained to Hawaii’s KHON that the unusual lack of dust and ice on Oumuamua meant it didn’t have a tail and that initially led observers to think it was a rocky asteroid rather than an icy comet. In addition, Meech says astronomers were looking for evidence of cyanide, which gives comets a blue hue. They didn’t see it, which means that Oumuamua is still a comet but one with a different chemical composition that those passing thought the solar system before.
Halley’s comet
If you’re looking for a career exploring the stars and you’re too tall or too scared to be an astronaut, Meech recommends astronomy as the job of the future.
“This is the first time we’ve ever seen anything like this. Astronomers have been predicting this for decades, so it was very exciting to see the first one come through. I think the Pan-STARRS in particular is going to start to see a lot more of these with the second telescope now starting its survey, so it’s an exciting time to be an astronomer.”
Exciting, yes … unless you’re the astronomer who spots the deadly asteroid or comet heading straight for Earth.
Oumuamua - New Facts and Discoveries About First Interstellar Visitor
Nathan Myhrvold thinks NASA is up to something. The “modernist cookbook“ author, physics PhD, and former Microsoft executive has just published a peer-reviewed paperrefuting NASA’s data concerning NASA’s analysis of near Earth objects, the potentially deadly asteroids and meteoroids and other objects whizzing about in the area of space just outside of our orbit. According to Myrhvold’s calculations, NASA’s data “suffer from systematic errors and inconsistencies.” Does this mean we’re in a lot more danger than NASA is letting on?
The last thing most of us will ever see: our phones.
Let’s hope not, especially given how utterly unprepared we still are for the event of even a minor asteroid impact. In a blog post, Myhrvold doesn’t specifically state that NASA is intentionally under-reporting the amount of near Earth objects tracked by their NEOWISE project (short for Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), but does accuse NASA scientists of “scientific misconduct” and “further misconduct, apparently to cover up the issues” he previously pointed out in their data:
The issues I am calling misconduct in the NEOWISE papers were not inadvertent. They appear to have been deliberate choices made repeatedly by the NEOWISE team over a long period of time. These actions have caused the astronomical community to work under the false belief that the NEOWISE results are more accurate (have smaller errors) than the evidence warrants.
Myhrvold goes on to accuse scientists working on the NEOWISE project of reacting “extremely deceptively,” claiming that NEOWISE scientists ignored his attempts to point out the inaccuracies in private and that “the very NASA managers who should have been supervising the project were more interested in protecting it from scrutiny.”
NASA wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
The reason the NEOWISE data are so important is because hundreds of scientists and even space agencies around the world have used the data for their own separate studies and missions. With so much riding on our ability to understand the NEO activity above our heads, it’s imperative that scientists have the most accurate data available in order to someday be able to protect us from a potentially cataclysmic impact.
For their part, NEOWISE has yet to comment on Myhrvold’s critique of their data. “The NEOWISE team stands by its data and scientific findings that have been published in several peer-reviewed journal articles,” a NASA spokesperson said in a statement. “NASA is confident the processes and analyses performed by the NEOWISE team are valid, as verified by independent researchers.” Meanwhile, UCLA’s Edward L. Wright, head of the NEOWISE project, called Myhrvold’s publication “a waste of paper.”
Is this merely a case of scientists splitting methodological hairs, or might there be some sort of attempt to hide the truth about NEOs? Furthermore, do we really want to know the truth? Personally, I like sleeping at night. Some threats are better left in the dark.
UFO Metal Found At Roswell Draws Interest From Government Agency
UFO Metal Found At Roswell Draws Interest From Government Agency
Geologist Frank Kimbler has spent the last eight years making periodic trips out to the location armed with a metal detector in the hopes of picking up something left behind after the infamous 1947 event.
And, as a result of these excursions, he claims to have recovered nearly 20 small metal fragments.
Image credit Frank Kimbler.
"Some of the material that I found out there has been tested and it has anomalies that suggest that it might be of extraterrestrial origin,” said Kimbler.
Believing that his research is getting very close to a proverbial smoking gun, Kimbler became incredibly worried last week when the Bureau of Land Management called and asked to meet with him.
Kimbler thought that they were going to confiscate the pieces of UFO metal and his concern was so serious that he went so far as to pull all of his discoveries from Roswell's International UFO Museum where they had been on display.
Image credit Frank Kimbler.
Fortunately, it turned out that his fears were unfounded as the meeting largely consisted of Kimbrel being reminded of the BLM's rules regarding the collection of materials and his own discoveries remained safely in his possession.
I Contacted JAXA space Admin But Israeli Diplomat Responded, June 2018, UFO Sighting News.
I Contacted JAXA space Admin But Israeli Diplomat Responded, June 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of tweets: June 29, 2018 Hey everyone. The JAXA (Japan space agency) probe reached the asteroid Ryugu and has only released one close up photo of it, even though the spacecraft has been there for over 48 hours. I have reached out to five official JAXA accounts on Twitter as you see from the screenshots, but as of yet, I have received no replies from the Japanese. However I have received a reply from a Isrealie diplomate @ElanRatson who is stationed in the UK embassy. He said that onboard the probe is a smaller probe made by Isreal and its CPU brain made by Isreal which is responsible for taking and retrieving samples of the asteroid back to earth. Below you see proof that I attempted to contact JAXA in order to get more photos of the asteroid released to the public. I will continue my effort to contact them, and hopefully we will see some amazing photos that we can explore and search for alien structures and evidence in. Scott C. Waring
UFO Gets On TV News, Appears In Sky Over Brazil, June 21, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Gets On TV News, Appears In Sky Over Brazil, June 21, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Above, I have added contrast and focus to see it better, below is the original, 100% untouched.
Above, I have added contrast and focus to see it better, below is the original, 100% untouched. The photo above has an opening at its bottom, to receive or release cargo.
Above, I have added contrast and focus to see it better, below is the original, 100% untouched.
Date of sighting: June 21, 2018 Location of sighting: Curitiba, Brazil A Brazilian news channel released this TV news video of a eyewitness who noticed an oval shape in the overcast sky and started filming it. As he recorded, the UFO can be seen fluxing like the colors of a squid and then the UFO vanishes on camera. At one point, the UFO opens at its bottom as if it were bringing something or someone in or out of the ship. The UFO disappeared because it was observing and reading peoples thoughts below on the ground. Most UFOs have a detection system that will automatically (AI controlled) make the UFO vanish when its been detected, but for some reason this one allowed it to be filmed for about 20 seconds before it vanished. It appears the UFO was as intrigued with the eyewitness as the eyewitness was with the alien ship. Scott C. Waring
One scientist thinks that future intelligent aliens might survive by collecting, storing and harnessing the power of stars.
Dan Hooper, a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, outlined this concept in a new paper. He suggested that, over the next 100 billion years or so, an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization will likely become isolated and in need of power as the universe continues to expand. In the paper, Hooper explained that these aliens might need to use stars as an alternative energy source.
Hooper suggested that such a civilization would capture stars and extract their power using Dyson spheres — theoretical structures, originally described by sci-fi writer Olaf Stapledon in his novel "Star Maker" and first officially proposed and popularized by physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation." Dyson spheres are engineered structures made up of satellites that are essentially solar panels. They would theoretically be built to surround a star, encompass it and capture its energy. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]
A diagram of a Dyson sphere as one might be constructed in our solar system.
Credit: Bibi Saint-Pol (Wikimedia)
In his paper, Hooper expanded on this idea, saying that an advanced civilization could "use the energy that is collected to propel those stars toward the center of the civilization, where they will become gravitationally bound and thus protected from the future expansion of space."
In a conversation with Space.com, Hooper revealed that he explored this wild, extraterrestrial possibility simply because he "thought it was cool and it would be fun."
Although he just thought the concept was interesting, papers like this could serve a secondary purpose, Hooper said: Because his paper covers such a wild concept, it could get more people "excited about science, especially young people," and "the more people in our society are increasingly literate in the areas of science, I think this does a lot of good," he added.
Still, people might dismiss the idea that an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization might "catch" stars to fulfill their energy needs. But according to Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute who was not involved with Hooper's paper, these people are "not thinking big enough."
Because of dark energy, the universe is expanding, and this process continues to speed up, the paper noted. And "there's no limit on how fast space can expand," Shostak told Space.com.
At least with humans, "almost all the energy here on Earth is a result of the sun … with the exception of nuclear energy," Shostak added.
So, as space expands and stars grow farther away from civilizations, those communities would likely need to find a way to capture and store that stellar energy, whether such aliens are the squishy, gray variety we see in movies, or less-human-like machines, Shostak said.
If intelligent aliens are anything like us, "they're going to run out of energy," Shostak said, adding, "I don't think there's anything crazy about that."
Hooper noted in his paper that something like this would likely not happen for roughly 100 billion years. Within that time, because of dark energy, space would continue to expand enough to isolate a civilization, and such a civilization would also have to figure out how to build a Dyson sphere, Hooper said.
The new paper doesn't say with any certainty that theoretical aliens could or will capture stars and harness their power. However, the idea remains theoretically possible if you factor in two major assumptions (not including the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life): "1) a highly advanced civilization will attempt to maximize its access to usable energy, and that 2) our current understanding of dark energy and its impact on the future expansion history of our universe is approximately correct," Hooper wrote in the paper.
On June 12, 2018, a mother took pictures of a black UFO flying over Ardvasar, a village near the southern end of the Sleat peninsula, on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland.
Witness statement:
“***I WAS NOT PRESENT FOR THIS EVENT. SUBMITTING ON BEHALF OF MY PARENTS***
Photo was sent to me by my parents. I got a text from my Dad telling me to check my email, saw the photo provided, and phoned them. My mother had been taking photos of her garden since the weather was nice (rare for the Isle of Skye). When she went indoors to check the pictures on her PC, only one photo had an object in the sky, at the top left of the picture. They saw nothing with their eyes at the time, heard nothing either, and the object is only in one photo.
I aksed about the possibilities of it being a fly/moth/bee in the foreground or a seagull/eagle/other big bird in the near distance. They said there were no insects buzzing about due to a bit of a gusty breeze blowing, and there wasn't any birds flying about. She mentioned she took 3 or 4 pictures in very quick succession (she's a keen photographer and has a fancy DSLR with rapidfire functions) so if it was a bird it would have been in another picture.
My Dad (massive UFO skeptic), who in the 80's was a member of the Royal Observer Corps (cold war spy basically) is highly trained in aircraft recognition, is a keen plane spotter/military fanboy and always has binoculars to hand was present, and he confirms there were no aircraft around, no helicopters, and he has no idea what is in the photo. In his words "It's a proper UFO, if I can't tell what it is then only God knows what it was".
In the photo, zoom in to the top left area of clear sky next to the tree. There is a classic saucer shaped object, appearing slightly copper/bronze coloured top & bottom, and dark in the middle.
Photo taken 12th June from the address provided (IV458RB) on the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye facing south. The buildings visible on the hillside in the distance is the town called Mallaig on the mainland.”
Saturn Moon Enceladus Is First Alien 'Water World' with Complex Organics
Saturn Moon Enceladus Is First Alien 'Water World' with Complex Organics
ByCharles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
The Cassini spacecraft first flew through the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus in November 2009, capturing this image along the way. Now, new data suggests that those plumes might contain complex organic (carbon-based) molecules.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time coming from the depths of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a new study reported.
Spacecraft scheduled to launch soon could explore what this new discovery says about the chances of life within icy moons like Enceladus, the study's researchers said.
Working with image data from NASA's Cassini mission, researchers have found evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over, reorienting itself so that terrain closer to its original equator was relocated to the poles. This phenomenon is known as true polar wander.
The sixth largest of Saturn's moons, Enceladus is only about 314 miles (505 kilometers) in diameter. This makes the moon small enough to fit inside the borders of Arizona. [Photos of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus]
In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected plumes of water vapor and icy particles erupting from Enceladus, revealing the existence of a giant ocean hidden under the moon's frozen shell. Because there is life virtually wherever there is water on Earth, these findings suggested that life might also exist on Enceladus.
Previously, scientists had detected only simple organic (carbon-based) compounds, each less than about five carbon atoms in size, in the plumes of Enceladus. Now, researchers have detected complex organic molecules from the moon, including some at least 15 carbon atoms in size.
"This is the first-ever detection of complex organics coming from an extraterrestrial water world," study lead author Frank Postberg, a planetary scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, told Space.com.
The scientists analyzed data that Cassini gathered when it flew within a plumefrom Enceladus, as well as from when the probe passed through Saturn's E ring, which is made up of ice grains spewed from Enceladus. The investigators detected ice grains loaded with complex organic material in both the plume and the E ring.
The researchers conjectured that these organic materials were cooked up inside the hot, rocky and fragmented core of Enceladus, which prior work suggested had water seeping through its pores.
Saturn's moon Enceladus (center right) blasts material into the planet's E ring.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
"The organics are then injected, together with the hot water, into the overlying cooler ocean by hydrothermal vents," Postberg said. "Then, they can be transported upwards to the ocean surface on the walls of rising bubbles of gas."
Postberg noted that most of the organic-loaded ice grains the researchers saw were in Saturn's E ring. This might suggest that these complex organic molecules were not produced within Enceladus, but instead resulted from sunlight-triggered chemical reactions in space.
"However, we observe the highest proportion of these complex organics in the young, inner E ring close to Enceladus, as compared to the old, outer E ring far away from Enceladus," Postberg said. "Furthermore, we also see the complex organics directly in the plume."
The researchers cautioned that these new findings are not solid evidence for life, as biological reactions are not the only potential sources of complex organic molecules. The next logical step is to go back to Enceladus soon "and see if there is extraterrestrial life," Postberg said. "Nowhere else can a potentially habitable extraterrestrial ocean habitat be so easily probed by a space mission as in the case of Enceladus."
Postberg added that NASA and the European Space Agency already have missions, Europa Clipper and JUICE, respectively, scheduled to launch in 2022 that will visit Europa and Ganymede, the icy moons of Jupiter that have subsurface oceans. These missions will check for habitability on those worlds.
Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus Could Hold Alien Life
The scientists detailed their findings online June 27 in the journal Nature.
Editor's Note: This article was edited to clarify that Europa Clipper is a NASA project.
They are so high up and they don't follow any satellite times. At first, I thought space junk but then again you have the direction of Earth's rotation but these guys go every which way.
I've watched them 'almost hit other stars' and 'swerve' at these high speeds. Always happy to spot them, sky watching is so fun and informative, especially cool at night as well.
This Is The Most Important Image Hubble Ever Captured
This Is The Most Important Image Hubble Ever Captured
Deep Astronomy has released a video which is said to contain some of the most important images to have ever been captured by the Hubble Telescope.
The most important images ever captured by the Hubble Telescope
These extraordinary images of Deep Space were not achieved without a fair share of struggle. Back in 1996, the scientists working with the Hubble Telescope had to fight to point the powerful equipment into an inky field which was believed at the time to be lacking both stars and planets.
This was seen as high risk at the time as images from the Hubble Telescope are in constant demand and it was expected that the inky field that the scientists were so interested in would produce nothing of value to show for such hard work and expensive running time.
However, the risky decision by the astronomers paid off significantly. The photons eventually began to register and, all of a sudden, the scientists were in possession of images of light flooding from more than three thousand different galaxies lying in the deep space.
Some years later, the scientists working on the broad field project have discovered that this innocuous space of dark sky is a peephole to an extraordinary number of other galaxies. According to the experts, this solar system is only a tiny part of a vast network of planets and stars comprising around 100 billion different galaxies.
The discovery of these galaxies is extraordinarily significant when it comes to studying space. The images captured by the Hubble not only show galaxies very similar to our own, which may suggest that there could be life reasonably close to this planet, but also galaxies in various stages of their history. Some of the galaxies are very new which could give scientists some insight into the initial stages of the creation of new worlds. On the opposite ends of the spectrum, some of the galaxies are nearing the end of their lives, some of which have collapsed altogether and some which are currently in the process of doing so. Exploring these newly discovered galaxies could give scientists invaluable information into the dawning days of our galaxy and the future that lies ahead for it.
The meteor was seen over Russia on June 21. Now scientists from Ural Federal University are reporting finding meteorite fragments from the event. Plus … why are so many large meteors seen over Russia?
A bright meteor was seen in near daylight on June 21, 2018, over several Russian cities, including Lipetsk, which is located southeast of Moscow. There are also reports now of the meteor having been seen from Moscow itself. And now the first meteorite fragments are reportedly being found. The first to be found is about 1.18 inches (3 cm) across. Scientists from the Ural Federal University reported finding it near the town of Yelets. Search operations are still underway, as other fragments may be found in the area.
The small space rock found this week is a stony meteorite, whose properties will be studied in detail in a laboratory.
One of the 1st fragments found from the bright meteor seen over Russia on June 21, 2018, via vk.com.
The fast fireball seen on June 21 produced an amazing smoke trail that remained visible during several minutes. NASA’s fireball records indicate the event occurred on June 21 at 01:16:20 UTC. Sensors detected that the space rock produced an explosion equivalent to 2.8 kilotons. That explosion size corresponds to the disintegration of a small asteroid of about 13 feet (4 meters) in diameter. That size is in contrast to the estimated 65-foot (20-meter) asteroid that exploded in the air over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.
Infrasound sensor detectors registered the low frequencies produced by the explosion of the space rock as it entered Earth’s atmosphere. And some people caught the meteor on dashboard cameras, as in the video at the top of this page by Alexander Dundin.
Although intense friction with the air caused most of the space rock to disintegrate, small fragments have reached Earth’s surface.
Location of Lipetsk, Russia, one of several cities over which the June 21 daylight meteor was seen.
Why so many meteor events over Russia? Russia is the largest country in the world, thus its large territorial extension makes it the target with most probability for a space rock to hit, after the seas. About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered by water, which means that most meteorites do fall into the sea.
Science centers and museums around the world will celebrate Asteroid Day on June 30, an event to create awareness and educate our communities about asteroids.
Bright twilight meteor seen over several Russian cities on June 21, 2018. Image is a screen shot from the video above.
Twilight meteor over Russia, June 21, 2018.
Bottom line: Images and video of the 13-foot (4-meter) asteroid seen in near daylight on June 21, 2018, over various Russian cities. It exploded in the air, but some fragments have reached the ground and the first fragments have been found. Plus … why so many large meteors are seen over Russia.
New Mexico geologist discusses suspected UFO crash site findings
Geologist Discusses Suspected Roswell UFO Crash Site Findings
New Mexico geologist discusses suspected UFO crash site findings
ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – The Bureau of Land Management is taking an interest in a New Mexico geologist’s discoveries that he claims are out of this world. He believes he has found parts of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell in 1947.
“Some of it could be trash, camper trash, but some of it could be interesting,” said Geologist Frank Kimbler.
Kimbler distinctly remembers the moment he discovered debris from the suspected 1947 UFO crash site.
“I started looking around all over the place, looking to see if the helicopters were going to fly over, because you get paranoid when you read the stories of about Roswell and what’s happened to people when they’ve come forward with stuff,” he said.
Over the past eight years, Kimbler has dedicated himself to finding physical proof of the UFO, going out to the suspected site 75 miles northwest of Roswell about a dozen times.
Using a metal detector, he’s collected about 20 metallic fragments the size of a fingernail.
“Some of the material that I found out there has been tested and it has anomalies that suggest that it might be of extraterrestrial origin,” said Kimbler.
Recently, Kimbler became afraid his research was in jeopardy when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted him, wanting to meet.
Kimbler said he was positive he was just a test away from discovering the truth.
When the BLM called, he became a little paranoid and even removed his findings from the International UFO Museum in Roswell.
“I said sure, about had a heart attack. I’m going, ‘Oh, they’re going to arrest me, they’re going to confiscate this material,’” said Kimbler. “I always thought that I was within my legal rights as a citizen of the U.S. to go out and metal detect.”
Much to his relief, that wasn’t the case.
“It had a happy ending. I got clarification on the rules and regulations from the BLM and there was no confiscation of materials,” Kimbler said.
He believes the recent commercial interest in the site played a role in how the BLM got alerted to his presence and findings there.
Kimbler, a researcher with the International UFO Museum who has been featured in several documentaries, says he will continue to try and find suspected debris but will work with the BLM to do it the right way.
Data beamed back by the Cassini spacecraft reveals that Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, isn’t shy about blasting large organic molecules into space.
Hydrothermal processes in the moon’s rocky core could synthesize organics from inorganic precursors. Alternatively, these processes could be transforming preexisting organics by heating, or they could even generate geochemical conditions in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus that would allow possible forms of alien life to synthesize biological molecules. Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/LPG-CNRS/Nantes-Angers/ESA
Mass spectrometry readings beamed back by NASA’s Cassini craft show that Enceladus is bursting with organic molecules. The moon’s icy surface is pockmarked with deep cracks that spew complex, carbon-rich compounds into space. Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) say these compounds are likely the result of interactions between the moon’s rocky core and warm waters from its subsurface ocean.
Why so organic?
“We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus,” said SwRI’s Dr. Christopher Glein, co-author of a paper describin the discovery.
“Now we’ve found organic molecules with masses above 200 atomic mass units. That’s over ten times heavier than methane. With complex organic molecules emanating from its liquid water ocean, this moon is the only body besides Earth known to simultaneously satisfy all of the basic requirements for life as we know it.”
The Cassini mission, a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency, is widely-held to be one of the most ambitious space exploration missions we’ve ever embarked upon. Launched on October 15, 1997, Cassini spent some 13 years studying the gas giant and its moons. The craft also flew by Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter (December 2000), before settling in on Saturn’s orbit on July 1st, 2001.
Enceladus.
Image credits: NASA/JPL.
On September 15, 2017, NASA de-commissioned the aging craft with a bang: they deorbited Cassini, letting it fall towards Saturn’s core and burn up in its atmosphere.
However, the wealth of information this tiny craft beamed back from its travels is still giving astronomers a lot to work on. Before its fiery demise, Cassini sampled the plume material ejected from the subsurface of Enceladus. Using its Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) and the SwRI-led Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) instruments, the craft analyzed both the plume itself and Saturn’s E-ring — which is formed by ice grains from the plumes trapped in Saturn’s gravity well.
Synthesis path of different aromatic cations identified in Enceladus’ plume. Image credits F. Postberg et al., 2018, Nature.
During one of Cassini’s particularly close flybys of Enceladus (Oct. 28, 2015), the INMS detected molecular hydrogen in the moon’s plume ejections. Previous flybys also revealed the presence of a global subsurface ocean and a rocky core. This was the first indication that the moon can boast active geochemical below the surface, most likely between water and rocks in hydrothermal vents.
The presence of hydrogen was also grounds for great enthusiasm at NASA — the element is a known source of chemical energy for microbes living in hydrothermal vents here on good ol’ Earth.
“Once you have identified a potential food source for microbes, the next question to ask is ‘what is the nature of the complex organics in the ocean?'” says SwRI’s Dr. Hunter Waite, INMS principal investigator and paper coauthor. “This paper represents the first step in that understanding — complexity in the organic chemistry beyond our expectations!”
The findings are significant enough to influence further exploration, Glen believes. Any spacecraft that flies towards Enceladus in the future should make a point of going through its plume to analyze these complex organic molecules with a high-resolution mass spectrometer to “help us determine how they were made.”
“We must be cautious, but it is exciting to ponder that this finding indicates that the biological synthesis of organic molecules on Enceladus is possible.”
The paper “Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus” has been published in the journal Nature.
In tegenstelling tot wat eerder werd gedacht, is “Oumuamua”, de eerste waargenomen interstellaire bezoeker van ons zonnestelsel, geen asteroïde maar een komeet. Dat concluderen wetenschappers van het coördinatiecentrum voor aardscheerders (NEOCC) van het Europees Ruimtevaartagentschap (ESA) in het Italiaanse Frascati.
De wetenschappers analyseerden de baan van het sigaarvormige object. De vorm van de baan kan niet alleen verklaard worden door de zwaartekracht, schrijft vakblad Nature.
“Oumuamua”, dat vermoedelijk tussen 400 en 800 meter lang is, kruiste in 2017 de binnenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel en zette nadien zijn koers voort in de interstellaire ruimte. Het ging om de eerste waargenomen bezoeker uit een ander zonnestelsel. Maar astronomen gaan ervan uit dat het wel vaker voorkomt, maar tot nu toe steeds onopgemerkt bleef.
Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?
Animation of `Oumuamua passing through the Solar System
Dark UFO Moves Low Over Moons Surface Over Tycho Crater, June 24, 2018, UFO Sightings Daily.
Dark UFO Moves Low Over Moons Surface Over Tycho Crater, June 24, 2018, UFO Sightings Daily.
Date of sighting: June 24, 2018
Location of sighting: Tycho crater, Earths moon
Source: MUFON #92942
Here is a great video of a dark disk moving over the moons surface in the area of Tycho crater. The disk is so low, it leaves a shadow on the surface as it crosses the moon. This is 100% evidence that aliens exist. This is amazing!
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
UFO HOVERING TYCHO CRATER. THE OBJECT SEEM TO PRODUCT A SHADOW ON THE MOON.
A strange glowing sphere was spotted flying over Wales, which had many conspiracy theorists suggesting it was a UFO.
The video of the UFO sighting was reportedly shot in north Wales. It shows the ball of light moving across the night sky.
In the video, the cameraman said that the object was bright enough that it can be seen with the naked eye.
He wasn’t sure whether the object was travelling towards him or away from him. He concluded that it was not a spotlight.
According to the witness, it appeared to change direction as it was travelling across the sky.
The mysterious UFO sighting video sparked debates online, with commenters discussing what the object might have been.
One commenter said that they had seen something similar down south a few years ago.
Another one added that the UFO in the video has no navigation lights or any frame. He noted that it definitely met the criteria for a UFO whatever it is and whatever its origin.
However, some were not convinced what the video has shown.
One viewer said that it could be a helicopter ride at an amusement park or at a fair. He added that it looked like a Ferris wheel towards the end.
Description: This is a brief clip of the massive UFO sighting over New Jersey on the night of July 14th, 2001. It shows the formation of the lights as they appeared to be formed in a "v-shaped/diamond shape". The object cruises slowly over the town as some of the lights do flicker briefly. If you see carefully, they flicker in nearly the same spot as the object maintains perfect speed.
Several news organisations revealed in 2017 the existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an American government-funded investigation into UFOs from 2007 to 2012. However, the $22 million program wasn’t the first of its kind.
Official government studies on UFOs officially started in the 1940s with Project Sign, gathering some of the most credible footages of the aerial phenomenon to date. Interest in UFOs and aliens across the world reignited with the revelation in 2017 that the American government was actively investigating UFOs.
One of the most credible modern UFO sightings took place in New Jersey Turnpike.
On July 14, 2001, motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike stopped alongside a highway and looked towards the sky. The reason for their strange action was the sighting of mysterious orange and yellow lights in a V formation above the Arthur Kill Waterway between Staten Island in New York and Carteret in New Jersey for around 15 minutes just after midnight.
One of the witnesses was Lt. Daniel Tarrant of Carteret Police Department. Many metro area residents from the Throgs Neck Bridge on Long Island and Fort Lee, New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge also witnessed the same.
Air traffic controllers denied any unusual sightings that night, but New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI) group claimed they obtained FAA radar data that corroborated the UFO sightings.
Filer’s Files #25 – 2018 Astronauts UFOs Are Real - PART I
Hamedan, Iran taking photos on June 2, 2018
Filer’s Files #25 – 2018 Astronauts UFOs Are Real - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Major Gordon Cooper Believed in UFOs, Russian Cosmonauts and Generals Confirm UFOs Are Real, Shocking Truth and Sun Stands Still Over Israel. Mars Has Liquid Water, Trump to Establish Space Force, Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines, and Earth Hit by a Comet and a Great Flood
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio. Oregon, Texas, Washington and West Virginia
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Brazil, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Iran, 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.
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.
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Astronaut Major Gordon Cooper Believed in UFOs
Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn’t tell how high they were. We couldn’t get anywhere near their altitude.
While piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany. They were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.
Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations: “I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.” “I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.”
One of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963 he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit,
Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth, Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by Muchea’s tracking radar. Cooper’s sighting was reported by the National Broadcast Company, which was covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting.
In 1957, when Cooper was 30 and a Captain, he was assigned to Fighter Section of the Experimental Flight Test Engineering Division at Edwards AFB in California. He acted as a test pilot and project manager. On May 3 of that year, he had a crew setting up an Askania cinetheodolite precision landing system on a dry lake bed. This cinetheodolite system would take pictures at one frame per second as an aircraft landed. The crew consisted of James Bittick and Jack Getty’s who began work at the site just before 08:00, using both still and motion picture cameras. According to his accounts, later that morning they returned to report to
Cooper that they saw a “strange-looking, saucer-like” aircraft that did not make a sound either on landing or take-off. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.”
According to his accounts, Cooper realized that these men, who on a regular basis have seen experimental aircraft flying and landing around them as part of their job of filming those aircraft, were clearly worked up and unnerved. They explained how the saucer hovered over them, landed 50 yards away from them using three extended landing gears and then took off as they approached for a closer look. They took photographs and film. There was a special Pentagon number to call to report such incidents: he called and soon was reported up the chain of command until he was instructed by a general to have the film developed, but to make no prints of it, and send it right away in a locked courier pouch. As he had not been instructed to not look at the negatives before sending them, he did. He said the quality of the photography was excellent as would be expected from the experienced photographers who took them. What he saw was exactly what they had described to him. He did not see the film before everything was sent away. He expected that there would be a follow up investigation since an aircraft of unknown origin had landed in a highly classified military installation, but nothing was ever said of the incident again. He was never able to track down what happened to those photos. He assumed that they ended up going to the Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, which was based at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
He held claim until his death that the U.S. government was indeed covering up information about UFOs. He pointed out that there were hundreds of reports made by his fellow pilots, many coming from military jet pilots sent to respond to radar or visual sightings from the ground.[7]
In his memoirs, Cooper wrote he had seen other unexplained aircraft several times during his career, and also said hundreds of similar reports had been made. He further claimed these sightings had been “swept under the rug” by the U.S. government. In 1978 he also testified before the UN on the topic.[5]
Throughout his later life Cooper expressed repeatedly in interviews he had seen UFOs and described his recollections for the documentary Out of the Blue.
And according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said: “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.” I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.
“I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentions left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field.
Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed… I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public.”
Russian Cosmonauts and Generals Confirm UFOs Are Real.
COSMONAUT MAJOR GENERAL VLADIMIR KOVALYONOK: Saljut VI Mission 1981
Many cosmonauts have seen phenomena which are far beyond the experiences of earthmen. For ten years I never spoke on such things. “The encounter you asked me about happened on May 5, 1981, at about 6 PM, during the Saljut Mission. At that time we were over the area of South Africa, moving towards the area of the Indian Ocean. I just made some gymnastic exercises, when I saw in front of me, through a porthole, an object which I could not explain. It is impossible to determine distances in Space. A small object can appear large and far away and the other way around. Sometimes a cloud of dust appears like a large object. Anyway, I saw this object and then something happened I could not explain, something impossible according to the laws of Physics. The object had this shape, elliptical, and flew with us. From a frontal view it looked like it would rotate in flight direction.
It only flew straight, but then a kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of golden light. This was the first part. Then, one or two seconds later, a second explosion followed somewhere else and two spheres appeared, golden and very beautiful. After this explosion I just saw white smoke, then a cloud-like sphere. Before we entered the darkness, we flew through the terminator, the twilight-zone between day and night. We flew eastwards, and when we entered the darkness of the Earth shadow, I could not see them any longer. The two spheres never returned.” During his lecture Michael Hesemann presented filmed interviews with four Cosmonauts each with similar stories. Thanks to Michael Hesemann
Shocking Truth
Dan Johnson writes, This is from a book that Frank sent out a few years back called, The Shocking Truth pages 54 and 55 by Albert Coe. I believe that it explains why water is so important and why the ETs come to this planet for water. In momentarily side tracking our tour, I believe that you will have a clearer understanding of the tremendous forces involved and why this huge ship must carry its own water supply, but we do hope, that the everlasting probe of mans mind will someday surmount this problem and the research of science, solve the riddle of lesser dynamics, in creation of this precious fluid. In a realm of possibility it could also open the way t o penetrate the fringes of infinity.
This manifestation is peculiar only to certain planets, in comparable placement to a sun, with its appearance and continuance dependent on mass, thermal mechanics, gravitational forces and energy synchronization between planet and sun, in any given solar system. An excellent example of these trends may be gamed, in an analysis of Mars and Earth, two of the three water bearing planets of this system. (The 3rd being Venus)
The location, bulk and dynamics of Earth are ideal in producing and retention of abundant water in its atmosphere and seas, for an extended period of time, still a depreciation is evident in our thirteen thousand years of record.
Sun Stands Still Over Israel
In the Bible Joshua 10-12 states “After an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise. 10 The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. 11 As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites. 12 On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lording the presence of Israel:
‘Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’ 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies,
as it is written in the Book of Jashar.
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. 14 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being. Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel! Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
Sun, stand still over Gibeon
Some have argued that evidence for this long day is found in other cultures: It is interesting to note that parallel accounts in the records of other nations show that the incident of “Joshua’s Long Day” is not an isolated one. There is indisputable evidence from the modern science of ethnology that such an event occurred as Joshua records. In the ancient Chinese writings there is a legend of a long day. The Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico have a like record. There is a Babylonian and Persian legend of a day that was miraculously extended. Herodotus, an ancient historian, recounts that while in Egypt, priest showed him their temple records, and that he read of a day which was twice the natural length of any day that had ever been recorded (Robert Boyd, Boyds Bible Handbook, pp. 122,123).
Joshua’s army had marched all night from Gilgal to Gibeon, a distance of twenty miles, to do battle with their enemies. Joshua needed the battle time prolonged because five strong kings had brought out their armies to fight his army in the open country. Joshua had the enemy on the run and he did not want them to get back to their fortified cities. More time was needed for his troops to catch them. To prevent their return more daylight was needed. Hence, he asked God to lengthen the day.
It has been pointed out that if in fact the earth was stopped for a period of twenty-four hours, inconceivable catastrophe would likely befall Earth and everything on its surface. Those who believe in the omnipotence of God would believe that Yahweh could have prevented such catastrophe
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to rotate but the sun never stops shining. God could have sent a bright light that are sometimes seen shining down from an UFOs lighting up the whole countryside. God might have moved the sun in space to continue shinning down on the Earth or did the Earth slow its daily revolution. As the Earth rotates roughly half the Earth gets dark. A large mirror or shiny spaceship could shine the sun’s rays on the dark side of Earth as the Russians have proposed to do with a huge
President Trump officially directed the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the U.S. military in space on Monday. Speaking at a National Space Council meeting at the White House, Mr. Trump called for a “Space Force” to ensure American dominance on the high frontier.
The president also signed his administration’s third Space Policy Directive, calling for establishment of new protocols and procedures to manage and monitor the increasing numbers of satellites in low-Earth orbit and the tens of thousands of pieces of space junk and debris that pose an increasing threat to costly spacecraft. Trump states, “My administration is reclaiming America’s heritage as the world’s greatest space-faring nation,” he went on. “The essence of the American character is to explore new horizons and to tame new frontiers. But our destiny, beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security.” He said when it comes to defending America, “it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space.”
He wants to return humans to the moon before eventual missions to Mars and streamline federal space bureaucracy..
These Files have often discussed the growing space craft arsenal for years. William Tompkins and others have claimed the US had military assets in space since the 1960s. The president is acknowledging something that is already there. Military assets in space keep track of alien craft and somea reports indicate there are tracking and targeting ET craft.
Mars Has Liquid Water
Pools of liquid water may even now exist just a few meters below the Martian surface, according to new research. The finding hints that humans may one day be able to tap into Mars‘s watery bounty.
Although the surface of Mars is too frigid for liquid water to be stable, pockets of water underground could be kept warm enough by an insulating blanket of porous sediment, an international team writes in the November issue of the journal Icarus.
The new theory is based on studies of Mars’s biggest outflow channels, which stretch for hundreds of kilometers across the southern circum-Chryse region. The ancient channels were likely carved by gushing torrents of water, each hundreds to thousands of times larger than the Mississippi River. These massive rivers are believed to have erupted from underground sources, suggesting that shallow groundwater reservoirs were once relatively common in Mars’s upper crust.
The images show shapes similar to a house with a turn-around driveway, and sort of a monument to the right. Further right and above a tower-like shape is visible. Note possible face in center of image. Thanks to Norman Bryden http://www.marsstructures.com/00020006.html
Mars Groundwater Would Be Easy to Tap
If they exist, today’s Martian groundwater reservoirs might be similar to the aquifers that lie beneath icy permafrost in Earth’s northern regions, said study co-author Jeffrey Kargel, a research scientist at the University of Arizona. That means Martian reservoirs might be found by searching for deep dunes overlying known water-rich areas, such as salt beds or glacial ice. (See “Mars Water Discovered, ‘Tasted’ by Lander—A First.”)
“From a biological perspective, the presence of liquid water is the only constraint for life development on Mars, given the presence of different energy sources and alternative radiation-protection mechanisms,” said co-author Alberto Fairén of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
“Molecular adaptations may have enabled bacteria or other microorganisms to survive in the Martian underground without energy from the sun, just as some microbes thrive in icy subsurface areas on Earth,”Fairén added. Thanks to National Geographic
Newton is a large crater on Mars, with a diameter close to 300 km.[1] It is located south of the planet’s equator in the heavily cratered highlands of TerravSirenum.
The side of the crator gullies shows where water is leaking to the bottom where dam like structures have been built to collect the water. Many crators have tubes to carry the water to various locations where it can grow crops, water animals and Martians. We speculate many martians live underground due frequent asteroid bombardment.
Bill Bean writes the Bible tells of UFOs and the glory of God’s craft. In Hebrew chariots, the glory of the Lord and clouds refer to anything that flies like UFOs.
The Hovering Vehicle Glory and Light in Exodus 40:34-38.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle… And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. The flying object remained in the presence of the nation wherever it went.
Spinning Chariots of Fire Take Elijah Up
2 Kings 2:11-12.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Elijah and Elisha are talking and suddenly a bright cavalry of glowing vehicles appears and Elijah ascends into the sky in a spinning-flying vehicle. The word translated into horses, ‘cuwc’, means rapid flight. This is most likely the army spoken of where hosts appears.
Demons may have found modern beliefs in aliens to be a great cover for their operations that have been reported for thousands of years. In cultures throughout the world, there are tales of intimate encounters with otherworldly beings. Though it cannot always be explained, paranormal phenomena is reported by numerous and credible witnesses. Thanks to Bill Bean
Earth Hit by a Comet and a Great Flood
The Sumerian language is well-understood, and for many years archaeologists have studied the “myths” told about the Sumerian “gods” in stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. An Ancient Middle East archeologist named Zechariah Sitchin revolutionized our understanding of these Sumerian “myths”. Sitchin realized that eleven of the “gods” described in the Sumerian records were actually the heavenly bodies of our solar system (the planets plus the sun and moon). Sitchin further realized that the Sumerians had a knowledge of the outer planets that, by all rights, they shouldn’t have had. Sitchin proved this to the world by submitting to NASA detailed descriptions of the outer planets (as found in the Sumerian records) BEFORE the NASA space probes reached these planets. Images sent back by the probes confirmed that the ancient Sumerians indeed knew what these planets looked like. Just as interesting, the Sumerians always described their gods (the planets) starting with Pluto, then Neptune, Uranus, etc., as if they were seeing the planets from a heavenly body (or spacecraft) that was entering our solar system from the outside.
Whether one agrees with Zecharia Sitchin or chooses to interpret Sumerian texts differently, it is clear that these ancient writings speak of technologies and sciences that we have only recently developed. It was not until we had satellite mapping capability, and the sciences of anthropology, archaeology, and genetics that we could correctly interpret these messages cast forward as myths and legends by a dying civilization, possibly to warn us of the comet, symbolized by the mythological Serpent in the sky (Thanks to Wood and Campbell).
In ancient Egypt the serpent was the symbol for duality, such as lies at the origin of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. It was a symbol for both unchecked chaos and multiplicity, and for higher intellect, synthesis, and creation. The Cobra, for example, was the symbol of Lower Egypt, and represented duality as a primordial creative impulse (West, 1993: 132). The comet or Serpent in the sky was known to bring both destruction and renewal, (duality) as expressed in the concept of the First Time (Zep Tepi).
They also conclude that we are rapidly entering a window of time for Earth-orbit-crossing comets, indicating that the Great Serpent of legend which brought destruction via fire and water to Earth may soon return (cf. Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter).
A collision of a comet with Earth is theorized by Kristan-Tollmann and Tollmann to have occurred 9565 years ago, based on their worldwide study of myths and legends. In order to explain convergent accounts from around the globe, they suggest that the comet broke up into seven main fragments, all of which slammed into the oceans creating giant tsunamis that ravaged the continents. This catastrophe brought earthquakes, flood, volcanoes, and darkness around the globe. The ice covering much of the northern hemisphere melted. Only little fragments struck the continents (e.g. Australia), according to their theory. In myths the gods are blamed for causing this disaster. Whole islands are made up of bones of animals and people who were killed by the tsunamis. High mountains caves inland also have the bones indicating tremendous waves sweeping the Earth.
In ancient time Paleolithic claiming cave men indicate civilization actually was universal. There was a universal civilization. We are seeing the early attempts now to reconstruct the universal system.
Sophisticated 400 foot tall pyramids were built 5000 years ago in England, Egypt, South America, Indus Valley and Samaria.
The real history of humans of Earth has been lost and there is some evidence of the ancient civilization with modern humans going back 140.000 years.. The former civilization was probably lost during ice ages and flood. In the myths of the 59 northern and the legends of several dozen central and southern American tribes of Indians, the same elements of the legend of the Flood as in the Bible are found. The Earth experience global warming and melting of glaciers coupled with disaster from the sky..
The ancient ceremonies of Halloween celebrated the Day of the Dead on October 31. Pleiades culminates on this day. When midway between rising and setting.
the Pleiades culminates – reaches its highest point in the heavens – at midnight. Great meteor shower from Pleiades (heart of the Bull) denizen of meteor of the Taurid fireballs. A faded remnant of great meteor shower that destroyed much on Earth.
The Day of the Dead survives, celebrates life and honors the dead throughout the world In Asia, there are similar festivals. For example, the Chinese celebrated the Ghost Festival, which was a day to pay homage to dead ancestors. The Japanese celebrated something similar called O-bonor merely Bon. Even Vietnam has a variant of the Ghost Festival called Tet Trung Nguyen. In Korea, there is Chuseok or Hankawi, in which deceased ancestors are ritualized. In Nepal, there is the cow pilgrimage called Gia Jatra to honor the recently deceased. In the Philippines, there is the Day of the Dead (Araw ng mga Patay), where tombs are cleaned and repainted. The list goes on and on (see reference 5). The Pleiades (/ˈplaɪ.ədiːz, ˈpliːə-/, also known as the Seven Sisters are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye where the comet appeared to originate.
It seems no coincidence that cultures all around the world in both present and ancient times have had a holiday when the dead were remembered and animals were sacrificed. We can make a pretty strong argument that this holiday goes back to a time when all the peoples lived together—and then they took this holiday to various parts of the world.
Otherwise, it seems strange and difficult to explain how these cultures developed celebrations that are so similar. This would likely push the true origin of “Halloween” and these other “days of the dead” to the time before the dispersion at Babel (Genesis 11), over 4,200 years ago, after which different early cultures began to vary in its practice.
Noah’s Ark
Was it a day to remember those who died in the Flood and a continuation of the sacrifices that Noah made after coming off the Ark? Because the celebrations call for the remembrance of the dead and have sacrifices, it is reminiscent of the large sacrifice that Noah and his family performed after the Flood. This would also explain why many other cultures have a variant of this regular sacrifice. When Noah and his family exited the Ark, they offered sacrifices to God
Like the memory of a loved one that never fades, Dia de Los Muertos also survives started by the Aztecs some 3,000 years ago. The festival couldn’t be quashed. It has also moved to certain regions of the United States. In Arizona, for example, there are more than a dozen events that mark the occasion to honor the dead. http://www.chuchotezvous.ru/mythological-disasters/867.html
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Filer’s Files #25 – 2018 Astronauts UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #25 – 2018 Astronauts UFOs Are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Victorville — Me and my wife were going to run a few errands when we noticed a strange round cloud on May 25, 2018. It was weird to us because it was the only cloud in the sky that day. I took a picture of it at 6:51 PM Pacific time. We went on with our business and came out the store at 7:31pm and the cloud was still there with a chemtrail through it. I found it odd and took 2 pictures while on the freeway and wanted to capture the beautiful view and cloud but noticed a round object in the picture. At first I thought it was a lens flare but it was too large and solid looking. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Key West— Submitting this on behalf of “N,” a long time friend and work partner. On June 13, 2018, N was on a boat as usual offshore about a mile north-west of Key West. He was looking west admiring the sunset and noticed an unidentifiable object moving in a rapid, irregular fashion in the sky. N has been a sober and professional mariner in Key West for 18 years and has never seen anything like this. The object appeared partly transparent before briefly glowing white and orb like all around, then it disappeared. N used his Smartphone to take photos and it appeared in three out of four photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Boomerang
Visiting my family at the home where I grew up, after everyone else in the house was asleep, I was sitting on the back stoop, in view of the woods on May 25, 2018, feeling calm and peaceful I silently (in my head) invited any ships in the area to reveal themselves.
Within roughly a minute, a chevron (or triangular/boomerang) shaped object appeared over the woods, partially obscured by the tree line. I counted five green lights on the bottom of the object, which glided up slowly from the point of materialization at an angle that allowed me to view its full shape.
Viewing this object, I felt a sense of joy and I was invited to meet the occupants of the object. I declined, and thanked them for trusting me. Almost instantly, the object dematerialized. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Object
Moscow Mills— Driving down Graven’s Road I noticed it hovering to my right as I was driving on June 19, 2018 . I first thought it was a blimp. It was gray and white in color and then started to move left to right very quickly. Wished I could pull over to take a picture but there were no sides to the road. I lost sight of the object when a jet flew right next to it and then it quickly shifted to the left and disappeared.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Perth— 1. I was outside talking sitting down in the porch with my friend Johnnie. 2. Johnnie saw it and asked me if the object was a helicopter, we stared at it and I said no it can’t be, there’s no noise. 3. I thought it was a huge drone. 4. It seemed stationary and seemed to transform like it was getting ready for something. It had surface reflections and what looked like bluish lights, slow robotic movements. 5. Excitement and curiosity. 6. It disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
NYC — We were on a boat by the Hudson River. We were on the upper deck of the boat.
No windows to reflect any lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Lights
‘Mills River — My husband was standing at the front door about to head out, while I was reading on the couch June 16, 2018.. When he hollered for me to join him. I did, and in amazement I saw 4 bright orange lights in the sky, moving SE very slowly. At first, I thought it was lanterns, but these didn’t move like lanterns. I hollered for my teen to come record for me and she caught a video which I have. We observed one of the lights suddenly blink of existence, and the final 3 formed a triangle pointed to the left and shot straight up into the sky. We were all absolutely amazed and my youngest was terrified. I’m honestly still in amazement! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Strongsville— I was leaving work on June 16, 2018, when in the southwestern sky, I saw an orange ball of light with a lighter orange halo that changed shape as a parachute might. It was the height of an airplane or slightly lower. It moved up in altitude smoothly for a minute, then moved back down, then up and out of my view after a total of 5 minutes. My impression was that it looked like a hot air balloon (?) Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com,
Oregon Light
Portland— 1st UFO was photographed on may-17-18, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Was photographing the moon with 800mm lens, saw a flash reflection. UFO Lasted about 25 seconds.
2nd UFO on 06-22-18 @ 3:49:41 PM was photographed with a 300mm lens, same, saw a flash reflection, UFO lasted about 30 seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
Gatesville— We were taking a picture of a bird on our pond and got something in the sky we can’t explain.
Photo was taken on June 1, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
SeaTac — I was at my parent’s house celebrating father’s day on June 17, 2018, when my dad noticed something in the sky. I came over and had to crouch down to finally see it. It was very high and initially looked like a bubble. It was round in shape and it seemed to be reflective of the sun. After grabbing a pair of binoculars, I could see the object was a transparent sphere but
lined with lights around the circumference of the perimeter. I just didn’t like not knowing what it was. After seeing the first one, another one came up from the left of where we were and stayed idle. My brother who came over to see what my father and I saw. We noticed a small black object also moving similar to the orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia Orb
Crum — I was taking pictures of the clouds and sunset at 5:30 pm on June 15, 2018. At the time of the photo there was no birds of any kind flying. I didn’t even notice it until later when I was checking my photos. I took dozens of photos that day. And this was the only image with this strange dark looking object in it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Object
Recife, Brazil to Sao Paulo –I was in a commercial airplane flying from to Sao Paulo. I was taking photos out of the plane window of the sunset. I noticed something unusual and kept taking photos. Later when I studied the photos, I noticed dark disc-shaped objects and lights. It looked like they were waiting for something to happen. Photos after this showed what appeared to be orange UFO’s ascending out of the sun. Later, I researched and found orange UFO’s like these are seen all over the world but nobody knows what they are. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Scarborough, Ontario— While outside afternoon work break on May 25, 2018, noticed a high distant flashing red -white light to the east. It was moving directly west -east half mile away when it stopped for about thirty seconds. It also was then flashing quite extreme of light. I alerted a co-worker and pointed out to him. He could now see it as I pulled out my camera and zoomed in and took some pictures. In two pictures with some detail captured this unknown object. The pictures were taken 3:25 pm. As I had taken about 10 pictures it was moving further away. That’s when I could not see it like it just disappeared. Thanks again for your strong interest into the matter. Paul Shishis
China Orbs
Dan Dong — I am from Finland and I was visiting China on July 14, 2013, visiting my wife`s family. My wife and two kids returned to our 5th floor apartment at 8.30 pm. When I looked out of the window I saw three hovering and flashing objects on the side of the 30 stories high apartment building, which is less than one mile away. They rose slowly and moved slowly flashing red, green, blue and white. My family and my wife’s family all saw the lights for 30 minutes that climbed so high they could not be observed. I took several digital pictures and short video with Canon Ixus 220 HS. In some pictures objects seemed triangular and in others doughnut shaped, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Dominican Republic Wedding
Amber Cove — We were on our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic on November 17, 2017. – I was taking pictures at port before returning to our cruise ship.
Later, when looking at pictures, we noticed a dark object in the sky in the background. Enlarged picture and noticed UFO-like object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iran Disc
Hamedan — I was on a domestic trip and I was taking photos of nature and my wife on June 2, 2018. I did not see anything at the moment because I was looking nature and did not know what I captured in my photo. When I was reviewing the photos I found a photo with this object. When I zoomed the picture I saw something in disk shape with no similarity with birds, airplanes or other objects. It was a thin disk shape with something in white under the object. I believe about other intelligence life out of our solar system. I used my Samsung A7 cell phone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Hamilton— Was sitting out the back at night and notice don’t an object to ohms the moon, I thought it could have been m49,
I was shocked at this and took a picture then went inside my house.
Photo was taken on June 16, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The US Government On The Verge Of Confiscating Supposed Debris Of The Roswell UFO Crash
The US Government On The Verge Of Confiscating Supposed Debris Of The Roswell UFO Crash
In 2011, a man discovered a number of artifacts in Roswell, New Mexico, where an alien spacecraft had supposedly crashed in 1947.
He took the mysterious metallic pieces to a number of labs for testing. Results came back showing that the mysterious artifacts were not from Earth.
“…either the lab made an analytical error or the material is not from Earth.”
The Roswell case, also dubbed the Roswell UFO incident, refers to the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico, in the United States, on July 10. 1947.
The event marked the birth of modern ufology and led to numerous debates, theories, and speculations about the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Many others consider these claims totally unfounded.
But despite this, millions of people have since become firm believers in alien life, despite skeptics arguing that the event that occurred on July 10, 1947, was not related to extraterrestrial life in any way.
The ultimate truth is that when speaking about the Roswell crash, everyone wants’s evidence to back up the claims.
And while many people have claimed to have found pieces of the alleged UFO that crashed in New Mexico no one has approached the matter with scientific thinking.
That’s why in 2011, a UFO investigator said he discovered a peculiar material at the site where he believes the alien ship crashed in Roswell and even decided to perform lab tests on the strange piece, in order to prove it was part of a spaceship.
Image Credit: Frank Kimbler.
The man behind the ‘sensational’ discovery was Frank Kimbler who was a teacher of geology and earth sciences at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell.
When Mr. Kimbler arrived for the first time as a professor in the area, he thought it would be cool to investigate the local UFO legend: the crash of an alleged extraterrestrial space ship alien ship.
He thought it would be fun to search the area where the UFO had allegedly crashed and disintegrated in 1947, as well as to research what the military may have done to cover up any evidence of a possible alien ship.
Eventually, Mr. Kimbler decided it would be a good idea to start off his investigation by analyzing different satellite photos. He found that certain areas where the alleged ship had crashed appeared to have been burned, with unnatural geological features.
Carrying a metal detector, he managed to sneak into the area and find fragments of a strange metal (probably an alloy), in addition to some buttons that match those used by military personnel in the middle of the last century.
According to Alejandro Rojas from openminds.Tv who covered the discovery in 2011, Mr. Kimbler discovered “that the object was most likely about ¾ of a mile long and a few hundred feet wide, and facing the direction witnesses had reported. He also noticed this area had very straight edges, something unusual for a natural occurrence.”
The information gathered via satellite images, and in-situ offered more questions than answers.
Mr. Kimbler’s goal was to find physical evidnece of the crash. Now that he had found it, his next step was to see what he had found
The most important discovery made by Mr. Kimbler was a silvery metal that resembled aluminum.
While exploring the area where aliens had allegedly crashed, he discovered more silvery pieces that seemed to have been shredded, and some of the edges of the artifacts even appeared melted.
After gathering enough physical evidence, Mr. Kimbler turned to the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center where he showed his discoveries to the museum director, Julie Shuster, who introduced him to Don Schmitt.
The first tests were performed by New Mexico Tech in Socorro.
Scientists used microprobes to determine that the material Kimbler had found was aluminum, silicon, manganese and copper alloy.
University of New Mexico microprobe data shows element composition. Verified the NMT data with analysis showing AL Si Mg Mn Cu with a some Fe. (Image credit: Frank Kimbler)
Despite not being ‘unknown,’ or otherworldly, the material isn’t usually found in foil form.
With more questions than answers, Kimbler decided to obtain an isotopic analysis of the piece.
He turned to the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics where he spoke with a researcher who was expert in isotopes.
Kimbler had not told the scientists anything about the piece he had brought.
As noted by Rojas in his piece for Openminds.tv, the research from the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics told Kimbler that he wanted to test the piece as he suspected the material was from outer space.
Still without all the answers he needed, Bigelow Aerospace showed interest in helping Kimbler get to the bottom of the mystery. However, after months had gone by without any results, Kimbler decided to go elsewhere and find another lab where his piece could be adequately tested.
The money needed for the research was obtained by the UFO Museum. Eventually, the results came in, and everyone was left with a big surprise: Kimbler said that “either the lab made an analytical error or the material is not from Earth.”
Now, seven years into the study of the mysterious pieces, Kimbler says that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to confiscate the material he had found.
As explained in another article by Rojas for Openminds.tv, “initial isotopic ratio test done in conjunction with the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center was inconclusive but suggested the material may be of unearthly origins. Kimbler has continued research on the material and says he is close to proving the “ET origins of Roswell.”
And now that Kimbler says he is on the brink of proving how an alien ship did crash in Roswell in 1947, he is terrified that the government may confiscate his evidence.
“Kimbler was recently contacted by them and asked to bring the materials in on Monday, June 25. This news comes less than two weeks before the annual Roswell UFO festival,” explains ufo author Alejandro Rojas.
An excerpt of the email sent by Mr. Kimbler to Openminds.tv:
“The Bureau of Land Management contacted me today and requested that I bring the artifacts that I found down to their office in Roswell. They want their enforcement officer to look at the material and see if I’m in violation of US laws. [Their] own published document clearly says that anything less than 100 years old is not an artifact. It also says of human origin in all US laws. This a prelude to confiscation or fines or both. Seriously, folks, I’m one scientific test away from proving the ET origins of Roswell.”
Ancient Genetic Engineers: Do Ancient Texts Offer Evidence of Ancient Aliens?
Ancient Genetic Engineers: Do Ancient Texts Offer Evidence of Ancient Aliens?
Many people believe that the miraculous evolutionary leap that led to what the human species is today resembles more a laborious work of genetic engineering than a simple evolutionary process.
Is surprising that there are numerous ancient texts that speak of the creation of mankind and refer to a time when “beings” created mankind?
Curiously, according to many authors, the Bible also mentions the same thing.
It is also extremely surprising that advanced cultures such as the Sumerian flourished in a matter of days without leaving any traces of successive stages of evolution that indicate a progressive cultural, architectural or mathematical breakthrough in their history. It is as if these cultures popped out of nowhere and civilizations just came into existence.
These are just some of the points that have been completely ignored by mainstream scholars who have studied and analyzed ancient civilizations across the globe.
Are modern humans the result of Genetic engineering performed by beings, not from Earth?
Also, in a relatively short period of time, the primitive man emerged literally out of nowhere from nothing, creating huge empires, advanced civilizations which achieved the impossible while proving to be way more developed than what history as we know it is willing to admit. This leaves us with a couple of questions that have not been answered by mainstream scholars. Is it possible that there is a missing link in the “evolution process” of primitive man? And is it possible that “external” factors interfered with the development of primitive man and early civilizations on our planet?
The origin and the actual cause which eventually led to what we know about history today was written down by our ancestors thousands of years ago: where ancient man pointed towards the stars, towards Orion, Sirius, and other constellations, where according to them, Gods came from above, advanced beings that interfered directly and indirectly with the evolution process of human beings.
When we turn to the book of Genesis, we read how the creation of man occurred:
…25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them…
Here, I the above text we cannot help and underline a few very important words that have been omitted by those who have studied ancient texts: “Let Us make man in Our image …”
Who are “They” who created man in “their” image?
Is it possible that Adam was the result of what many interpret as in vitro fertilization? And what if the genetic designers were the gods Enki his sister Ninhursag and Ningishzidda as some theorists propose?
Let us turn to the Popol Vuh, the ancient book of the Maya where we find very similar descriptions.
These beings who created mankind are referred to in the Popol Vuh as “the Creator, the Former, the Dominator, the Feathered-Serpent, they-who-engender, they-who-give-being, and hovered over the water as a dawning light.”
“Our work and our labor have accomplished its end.” The earth then was covered with various forms of animal life. And the Creator and Former said to the animals: “Speak now our name!” But the animals could not speak as a man. Then said their Makers: “Our glory is not yet perfect since ye cannot invoke us. Dens and food shall ye have, but as to your flesh, it shall be eaten. This is your destiny.”
Does the ancient text speak of several times “they” tried creating man? It seems as though these beings failed at the beginning, and in the “heaven” they sat and thought it through one more time. Can you literally sit in heaven? Well, probably, if you are in an airplane or other vehicles… right? But here is what the ancient texts say:
“Again there is counsel in heaven. “Let us try again; let us make them who are to be our vehicles and nourishers.” So the Creators determined to make man. Of red earth they molded his flesh; but when they had made him, they saw it was not good. He was without coherence, strengthless, inept, watery; he had been endowed with speech, but he had no intelligence; and straightway he was consumed in the water without being able to stand upright.”
Again the gods took counsel. It was decided to make man of the wood of the tzite cork-tree, and woman of the marrow of the zibac (willow); but the result was in no wise satisfactory — they were merely wooden manikins. And these are the people who inhabit the surface of the earth. They existed and multiplied, but had neither heart nor intelligence, nor memory of their Creators. They led a useless life and lived like the animals.
They had neither father nor mother, neither were they made by the ordinary agents in the work of creation, but their coming into existence was a miracle extraordinary, wrought by the special intervention of the Creator. “Verily, at last, did the gods look on beings who were worthy of their origin.”
Artist’s conception of what life could look like on the surface of an exoplanet.
Image credit: NASA.
NExSS considered how to interpret the presence of biosignatures, should we detect them on extrasolar planets.
“We’re moving from theorizing about life elsewhere in our Milky Way Galaxy to a robust science that will eventually give us the answer we seek to that profound question: Are we alone?” said Dr. Martin Still, an exoplanet scientist at NASA Headquarters.
The assessment comes as a new generation of space and ground-based telescopes are in development.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will characterize the atmospheres of some of the first small, rocky planets.
Other observatories — such as the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope — are planning to carry sophisticated instruments capable of detecting the first exoplanet biosignatures.
Through their work, NExSS scientists aim to identify the instruments needed to detect potential life for future NASA missions.
The detection of atmospheric signatures of a few potentially habitable planets may possibly come before 2030, although whether the planets are truly habitable or have life will require more in-depth study.
Since humans won’t be able to visit distant planets and collect samples anytime soon, the light that a telescope observes will be all we have in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Telescopes can examine the light reflecting off a distant world to show us the kinds of gases in the atmosphere and their ‘seasonal’ variations, as well as colors like green that could indicate life.
These kinds of biosignatures can all be seen on our fertile Earth from space, but the new worlds we examine will differ significantly.
For example, many of the promising planets astronomers have found are around cooler stars, which emit infrared light, rather than our Sun’s high emissions of visible-light.
“What does a living planet look like? We have to be open to the possibility that life may arise in many contexts in a galaxy with so many diverse worlds — perhaps with purple-colored life instead of the familiar green-dominated life forms on Earth, for example. That’s why we are considering a broad range of biosignatures,” explained Dr. Mary Parenteau, an astrobiologist and microbiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
The NExSS scientists assert that oxygen — the gas produced by photosynthetic organisms on Earth — remains the most promising biosignature of life elsewhere, but it is not foolproof. Abiotic processes on a planet could also generate oxygen.
“On early Earth, we wouldn’t be able to see oxygen, despite abundant life,” said Dr. Victoria Meadows, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“Oxygen teaches us that seeing, or not seeing, a single biosignature is insufficient evidence for or against life — overall context matters.”
Rather than measuring a single characteristic, the researchers argue that we should be looking at a suite of traits.
A planet must show itself capable of supporting life through its features, and those of its parent star.
The NExSS team will create a framework that can quantify how likely it is that a planet has life, based on all the available evidence.
With the observation of many planets, astronomers may begin to more broadly classify the ‘living worlds’ that show common characteristics of life, versus the ‘non-living worlds.’
“We won’t have a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to finding life elsewhere. What we will have is a high level of confidence that a planet appears alive for reasons that can only be explained by the presence of life,” said Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Nancy Y. Kiang et al. 2018. Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations. Astrobiology 18 (6): 619-629; doi: 10.1089/ast.2018.1862
Victoria S. Meadows et al. 2018. Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment. Astrobiology 18 (6): 630-662; doi: 10.1089/ast.2017.1727
Edward W. Schwieterman et al. 2018. Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life. Astrobiology 18 (6): 663-708; doi: 10.1089/ast.2017.1729
David C. Catling et al. 2018. Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment. Astrobiology 18 (6): 709-738; doi: 10.1089/ast.2017.1737
Elon Musk has long been obsessed with the idea of humanity spreading to other planets.
Now, a new study published this week has led him once again to urge people to leave their home world to embark on a journey that could lead to his death.
Experts say that there is at least a 41 percent chance that we are alone in the Milky Way and a 32 percent chance that we are the only advanced life form in the universe.
This led the billionaire founder of SpaceX to double his calls for the colonization of other worlds, leading social networks to preach his strange gospel.
Musk believes that humanity becoming a kind of multiple planets is the best way to guarantee our future survival, with our eyes on Mars as the first possible objective.
The signing of the business magnate born in South Africa is already building its first interplanetary ship, which it says will be ready for next year.
On your own admission, however, the trip to Mars will be "difficult, dangerous" and with a "good chance of you dying".
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Elon Musk has long advocated the expansion of humanity to other planets and a study published this week has given credit to his call. Experts say that there is a 41% chance that we are alone in the Milky Way and a 32% chance that we will be the only advanced life form in the universe
Musk was responding to the research of the Future of Humanity Institute from the University of Oxford, who made predictions about the possibility of an extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Writing on Twitter, he said: "It is not known if we are the only civilization currently alive in the observable universe, but any possibility that we are will be added momentum to extend life beyond Earth
& # 39; that we must preserve the light of consciousness by becoming a space civilization and extending life to other planets.
As individuals, we will all die in the blink of an eye on a galactic time scale. that can live for a long time is civilization.
& # 39; Those who first go to other planets will face much more risk of death and hardship than those who remain.Some time, space travel will be safe and open to all. & # 39;
The study led the billionaire founder of Space X to duplicate his calls for the colonization of other worlds, leading to Social networks to spread their message
Writing on Twitter, Musk said: "That's why we must preserve the light of consciousnesses by becoming a space civilization and extending life to other planets"
He added:" As individuals, we will all die in the blink of an eye on a galactic time scale. What can last a long time is civilization. "
Musk announced last year that his private company SpaceX is working to send a cargo mission to Mars in 2022.
He hopes that this company will help boost the human colonization of Planet [19659002] He said he believes that once the difficult part is over, building the spacecraft, others will seize the opportunity to do it themselves.
Speaking at the South by Southwest technology and culture festival in Austin, Texas , in March, he added: "I think that once we build it, we will have a test point of something that other companies and countries can do and do.
& # 39; They certainly do not think it's possible, but if we do, they'll improve their game & # 39;
Musk also admitted that the first humans who dare to make the trip will risk a lot.
& # 39; It will be much more dangerous: difficult, dangerous, with a good chance of you dying & # 39; he added.
Musk announced last year that his private company SpaceX is working to send a cargo mission to Mars by 2022. His BFR rocket (print of the artist), currently in production, will bring satellites to orbit, crew and cargo to the ISS and will direct manned missions to the Moon and Mars
Earlier this year, Musk said the ship will be ready next year, but the trip to Mars will be "difficult, dangerous" and with a "good" chance that you will die. " This image shows an artist's impression of what a Martian colony would look like
WHAT IS "BFR" BY ELON MUSK?
The BFR (Big F *** ing Rocket) will complete all the missions and is smaller than the Musk ones announced in 2016.
The CEO of SpaceX said that the rocket would make its first trip to the red planet in 2022 , carrying only cargo, followed by a manned mission in 2024 and would claim that other SpaceX products would be "cannibalized". to pay it. .
The rocket would be partially reusable and capable of flying directly from Earth to Mars.
Once built, Musk believes the rocket could be used to travel on Earth, saying passengers could get anywhere within an hour.
Musk's mission may have received more impetus, thanks to the findings of the new Oxford University study, which concluded that humanity is probably alone in the universe.
In a document submitted to the Acts of the Royal Society this week, the researchers wr There is a substantial likelihood that there is no other intelligent life in our observable universe.
The experts titled their article "Dissolve Fermi's Paradox", the question that was first asked in the 1950s and that asked why we still did not do it. evidence view of extraterrestrial life.
The study uses a probability distribution to capture the most likely scenarios, instead of assigning a single value.
The authors found that the possibility for humanity to stand alone among intelligent civilizations in our galaxy is 53 percent to 99.6 percent, and in the observable universe it is 39 percent to 85 percent.
If all other parameters are configured in their most optimistic form, these values are 41 percent and 32 percent.
"We should not really be so surprised to see an empty galaxy," wrote the authors, Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord.
. The experts used the Drake equation to make their findings. Examine the different variables that would be relevant to intelligent life forms, including factors such as the stars formed and their planets and the average number of planets that can potentially sustain life
WHAT IS THE FERMI PARADOX?
Fermi's paradox asks why, given the estimated 200 to 400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy, there have been no signs of extraterrestrial life.
The contradiction takes its name from its creator, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
First raised the question in 1950.
Fermi believed it was too extraordinary that a single extraterrestrial signal or engineering project has not yet been detected in the universe, despite its immense immensity.
Fermi concluded that there must be a barrier that limits the emergence of intelligent, self-aware and technologically advanced civilizations that colonize space.
This barrier is sometimes called & # 39; Great filter & # 39;
. The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi devised the so-called Fermi paradox in the 1950s. Explore why there are no signs of alien life, despite the 100 billion planets in our galaxy
If the main obstacle preventing the colonization of other planets is not in our past, then The barrier that will stop humanity's prospects from reaching other worlds must be in our future, scientists have theorized.
Professor Brian Cox believes that the advances in science and engineering required by a civilization to begin to conquer the stars ultimately lead to their destruction.
He said: & # 39; One solution to Fermi's paradox is that it is not possible to manage a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaboration solutions to avoid that.
& # 39; It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably exceeds the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. "
Other possible explanations for Fermi's paradox include that no other intelligent species have emerged in the universe, there are intelligent alien species out there, but they lack the necessary technology to communicate with Earth.
Some believe that the distances between intelligent civilizations are too large to allow any kind of bidirectional communication.
If two worlds are separated by several thousand light years, it is possible that one or both civilizations will become extinct before a dialogue can be established.
] The so-called Zoo hypothesis states that intelligent extraterrestrial life is out there, but deliberately avoids any contact with life on Earth to allow its natural evolution.
They claim that their thinking is based on a famous equation known as the equation by Drake.
This seven-term equation examines the different variables that I would they are relevant to intelligent life forms, including factors such as the stars formed and their planets and the average number of planets that can potentially support life.
& # 39; The expectation that the universe is full of intelligent life is linked to models like Drake's equation & # 39; writes the authors in the document.
This suggests that even if the probability of intelligent life develops at a certain site is small, the huge multitude of possible sites should produce a large number of potentially observable civilizations.
"We show that this conflict arises from the use of equations similar to those of Drake, which assume implicitly certainty with respect to highly uncertain parameters."
The team says that their work & # 39; makes a big difference. & # 39;
& # 39; When the model is restructured to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial probability that there is no other intelligent life in our observable universe and, therefore, it should not surprise us that we do not detect signs of it. .
The team says that their work "makes a big difference" to the existing theories about life elsewhere in the universe. However, researchers have not ruled out the existence of extraterrestrial life beyond Earth, and seekers like SETI make no sense (stock image)
& # 39; This result dissolves Fermi's paradox, and by doing so eliminates any need to invoke speculative mechanisms why civilizations would inevitably stop having observable effects on the universe. "
However, researchers told Universe Today that they had not ruled out extraterrestrial life, and searchers like SETI were meaningless.
& # 39; What we are not showing is that SETI does not make sense , quite the opposite, "said Dr. Sanberg.
& # 39; There is a tremendous level of uncertainty to reduce.
& # 39; The document shows that astrobiology and SETI can play an important role in reducing uncertainty about some of the parameters.
"An important conclusion we found is that the lack of intelligence observed does not lead us to conclude that intelligence does not last long: the stars do not predict our perdition!"
The full findings of the study can be read in the Arxiv prepress file for scientific articles that are pending peer review.
Looking for life in all the hard places – a guidebook
Looking for life in all the hard places – a guidebook
types of planets Kepler found/NAA
Okay, They’renot Out There. But maybe something is. Any form of extraterrestrial life could shed light on at least some questions.
In that spirit, we learn from ScienceDaily of a newly published guidebook, in th form of a seriesof papers based on finds here on Earth:
Some of the leading experts in the field, including a UC Riverside team of researchers, have written a major series of review papers on the past, present, and future of the search for life on other planets. Published in Astrobiology, the papers represent two years of work by the Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science (NExSS), a NASA-coordinated research network dedicated to the study of planetary habitability, and by NASA’s Astrobiology Institute.
Scientists have identified more than 3,500 planets around other stars (called exoplanets) and many more will be discovered in the coming decades. Some of these are rocky, Earth-sized planets that are in the habitable zones of their stars, meaning it’s neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water — and possibly life — to exist.
The five papers will serve as a reference for scientists searching for signs of life, called biosignatures, in the data they collect from future telescope observations.
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“We are using Earth to guide our search for life on other planets because it is the only known example we have,” said Timothy Lyons, a distinguished professor of biogeochemistry and director of the Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. “But Earth actually offers us a great diversity of possibilities. Rather than being constrained to a study of present-day life, we use geological and geochemical analyses to examine the billions of years that life survived, evolved, and thrived on Earth under conditions that are very different than today’s, hence the concept of ‘alternative Earths.'”
Schwieterman’s review outlines the complexities of searching for life on planets that are too far away to visit, including phenomena called false positives and false negatives. “The search for life using biosignatures is not as simple as looking for a single molecule or compound. Atmospheric oxygen, for example, could be a sign of life, but there are many nonbiological ways that oxygen gas could be produced on an exoplanet. Conversely, it is possible that life could exist in the absence of oxygen gas, similar to early life on Earth or portions of the oceans today,” Schwieterman said. “This is one reason temporal biosignatures, which are based on dynamic phenomena such as atmospheric seasonality, might be more robust biosignatures in some circumstances.”Paper. (public access) – Edward W. Schwieterman, Nancy Y. Kiang, Mary N. Parenteau, Chester E. Harman, Shiladitya DasSarma, Theresa M. Fisher, Giada N. Arney, Hilairy E. Hartnett, Christopher T. Reinhard, Stephanie L. Olson, Victoria S. Meadows, Charles S. Cockell, Sara I. Walker, John Lee Grenfell, Siddharth Hegde, Sarah Rugheimer, Renyu Hu, Timothy W. Lyons. Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life. Astrobiology, 2018; 18 (6): 663 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2017.1729 More.
If this gets really interesting, maybe the appropriate answer to “Are They Out There?” is “Tell them we’ll call back as soon as possible.”
Physicist: It’s good news that aliens likely don’t exist. And a space entrepreneur’s surprising reaction…“Preserve the light of consciousness”? Hmmm. Musk doesn’t seem to agree with Darwinian philosopher Daniel Dennett that consciousness is an evolved illusion or with the panpsychists that everything is conscious.
En 1995, un incroyable événement véridique s’est produit dans l’Ouest de la Russie. Cette affaire, qui implique un OVNI, a soigneusement été dissimulée depuis. En effet, après la diffusion de la vidéo en octobre de la même année, celle-ci a soudainement disparu.
Aujourd’hui, il ne reste plus que trois images de ce prétendu atterrissage d’OVNI. Certains ufologues prétendent que les rares témoins ont probablement été manipulés afin qu’ils gardent le silence sur ce qui s’est passé.
Les images ont été diffusées par la télévision russe en octobre 1995 et montrent l’atterrissage d’un énorme engin spatial extraterrestre qui a eu lieu dans la banlieue d’Ostankino, à proximité de Moscou.
Dans les 3 séquences de photos, qui faisaient à l’origine partie d’une vidéo, vous pouvez voir 2 personnes, appartenant vraisemblablement à l’armée russe, qui observent de près l’atterrissage de l’engin extraterrestre.
Après de longues enquêtes, des ufologues, à la fois russes et européens, sont arrivés à la conclusion que la soucoupe volante avait atterri juste pour éviter les tirs de l’artillerie anti-aérienne russe.
Plus tard, de cet OVNI aurait émergé des êtres humanoïdes qui semblaient émettre leur propre lumière. Ils avaient des intentions « non-hostiles ». Mais leurs comportements a été mal interprétés par le personnel militaire soviétique, qui à son tour a répondu en tirant quelques coups de mitrailleuses.
En réponse à l’attaque soviétique, la coque de l’engin extraterrestre aurait émis des impulsions d’énergie qui auraient mis hors d’usage les armes de l’armée russe.
A partir de l’analyse effectuée sur la séquence d’images, le chercheur Carlo Clemente a indiqué que l’OVNI paraissait être enveloppé par un champ d’énergie. Il a estimé qu’il avait un diamètre d’environ 15-20 mètres.
Carlos Clemente a comparé les images prises à Ostankino avec l’affaire de Cotula (au Texas), où dans la nuit du 5 Juillet 2012, une caméra de surveillance d’un condominium privé situé dans la région d’Eagle Ford, avait enregistré l’atterrissage d’un autre OVNI.
UFO Festival 2018 in Roswell: When is the world’s biggest alien convention?
UFO Festival 2018 in Roswell: When is the world’s biggest alien convention?
UFO Festival 2018 in Roswell, the world’s largest gathering of alien truthers and UFO hunters, kicks off next month. Here is everything you need to know.
The event organisers said: “The City of Roswell invites UFO enthusiasts and sceptics alike to join in the celebration of one of the most debated incidents in history.
“If it isn't on your bucket list it should be, and once you attend you may find, like many of the festival visitors, it becomes one our your annual vacation plans.”
Roswell has become popular for UFO hunters after ab alleged crash-landing of an extraterrestrial flying saucer on a ranch 30 miles north of Roswell sometime in early July 1947.
The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) officially claimed the downed object was a weather balloon but the incident sparked the imaginations of UFO truthers for generations to come.
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The UFO Festival 2018 in Roswell runs from July 6 to July 8
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UFO Festival 2018: Roswell is home to an alleged UFO crash landing from 1947
Seventy-one years later and the Roswell incident is still very much part of the debate about our place in the universe and the possibility of alien life.
The City of Roswell invites UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike
UFO Festival 2018
From July 6 to July 8 this year, the UFO Festival 2018 will host a series of expert panels and speeches from some of the most prolific voices in the UFO truther community.
The organisers said the featured entertainment covers everything from music, food and family activities to alien autopsies and “so much more”.
Kathy Lay, Executive Director for MainStreet Roswell, said: “You have people all over the city. There will be some out at the mall at Galactic Con.
“Some will be at the UFO museum doing the seminars and workshops.
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UFO Festival 2018: The festival includes a raft of various activities for families
"You'll have some that will be going to the plays that are going on, some will be over at the planetarium, some will be here at this festival. They're all over."
This year the event will even feature a variety of cute animals at the Runyan Ranches Petting Zoo, ready to be played with and fed all day long.
Early birds who pop into to the Chaves County Courthouse on the day of the festival will be treated to their very own Roswell UFO Passport.
A number of alien goody bags have also been prepared in advance for lucky revellers.
Open Minds UFO Radio: James Abbott is the author of the Outsider’s Guide to UFOs. Following a short scholarship to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, James completed a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics at the University of York and later researched a Master’s thesis at the University of Cambridge on global trade in the aerospace industry. His career has encompassed time in the aerospace sector, in marketing, in education, and in commercial research. He’s written and contributed to around a dozen academic books, and countless lengthy reports. His greatest professional love is research; having the view that there aren’t that many jobs in which you get paid for having fun, but that’s what research is like.
So why UFOs of all things? The answer is a long one, but it boils down to this: Like almost everyone else, James gets hooked by a good mystery, and UFOs are perhaps the greatest mystery of all; one which is in desperate need of being properly investigated. He lives with his wife in Yorkshire, England, where rabbits are the only alien menace. Or so he believes! UFOs may or may not be of this Earth and time, but the huge job of trying to nail them down is incredibly fascinating.
EPAEen foto van de Ryugu-asteroïde die werd genomen op 24 juni 2018.
WETENSCHAPNa een reis van drieëneenhalf jaar heeft de Japanse ruimtesonde Hayabusa 2 deze week haar bestemming bereikt: de diamantvormige planetoïde Ryugu. Tijdens de achttien maanden durende missie zal het toestel het oppervlak van Ryugu verkennen en bodemstalen nemen. Die moeten tegen 2020 weer de aarde bereiken.
Het Japanse ruimteagentschap JAXA publiceerde vorige week al korrelige foto’s die werden genomen vanaf een afstand van 300 kilometer waaruit blijkt dat Ryugu de vorm heeft van een tol. Recentere foto’s die werden genomen vanaf zo’n 30 kilometer hoog tonen dat het oppervlak bezaaid ligt met grote keien.
Sinds vandaag bevindt het ruimtetuig zich in een baan rond de planetoïde. De afstand tussen Hayabusa 2 en Ryugu bedraagt momenteel zo’n 20 kilometer, aldus JAXA in een mededeling.
Bodemstudie
De sonde zal gedurende anderhalf jaar de 900 meter brede planetoïde, die zich op ongeveer 290 miljoen kilometer van de aarde bevindt, bestuderen. Tijdens die periode zal ze meerdere kleinere sondes naar het oppervlak van Ryugu sturen, waaronder drie kleine rovers die de asteroïde moeten gaan verkennen.
“Aanvankelijk zullen we het oppervlak erg grondig bestuderen. Vervolgens zullen we beslissen waar we gaan landen”, aldus Makoto Yoshikawa, die de missie van Hayabusa 2 leidt. Daartoe zal een koperen projectiel, de “impactor”, zich losmaken van de sonde en zich naar de vaste grond begeven. “We hebben een impactor die een kleine krater zal maken op het oppervlak van Ryugu. Mogelijk in het voorjaar van volgend jaar zullen we proberen een krater te maken... Vervolgens zal onze ruimtesonde de krater proberen te bereiken om materiaal onder de oppervlakte te verzamelen, maar dit is een erg grote uitdaging”, aldus Yoshikawa.
REUTERSDe lancering van de Hayabusa 2 op 3 december 2014.
Planetoïde klasse C
Planetoïden zijn in essentie de bouwmaterialen die overbleven na de vorming van ons zonnestelsel, zo’n 4,6 miljard jaar geleden.
Ryugu is een planetoïde van klasse C. “We weten niet veel over C-klasse-planetoïden”, zegt NASA-wetenschapper Lucy McFadden, die erg verheugd is over de expeditie. “Ze hebben vermoedelijk een samenstelling die vergelijkbaar is met die van het vroege zonnestelsel.” De missie van Hayabusa 2, de enige ruimtesonde die ooit zo dicht bij een planetoïde van dit type kwam, moet uitmaken of het oppervlak van Ryugu voornamelijk uit koolstof bestaat, zoals vaak wordt aangenomen, of uit kleine metalen deeltjes, zoals magnetiet.
De ingezamelde data moet wetenschappers helpen begrijpen hoe de planeten die rond onze zon cirkelen tot stand kwamen, hoe de oceanen op aarde ontstonden en wat de aanleiding vormde voor het leven op aarde. Veel wetenschappers denken immers dat de oceanen op onze planeet het gevolg zijn van een bombardement door waterrijke asteroïden of kometen.
Eind 2019 zal Hayabusa 2 naar de aarde terugkeren, een reis die ongeveer een jaar in beslag zal nemen.
Kopie van eerste Hayabusa
De Hayabusa 2 is een bijna exacte kopie van de eerste Hayabusa die in 2003 gelanceerd werd en de asteroïde Itokawa bereikte in 2005. Na een reeks tegenslagen, keerde de sonde in 2010 terug naar de aarde met een kleine hoeveelheid materiaal van de asteroïde. Momenteel is Osiris-Rex, een Amerikaanse sonde, op weg naar de planetoïde 101955 Bennu om er stalen te verzamelen. In augustus zou de sonde haar bestemming moeten bereiken.
WETENSCHAP Vliegtuigbouwer Boeing heeft deze week een hypersonisch passagiersvliegtuig gepresenteerd op de American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference in Atlanta. Het gaat voorlopig nog om een concept, maar Boeing hoopt een dergelijk vliegtuig over twintig à dertig jaar te kunnen bouwen.
Ingenieurs van Boeing werken aan verschillende concepten die de ontwikkeling van een hypersonisch toestel mogelijk maakt zodra klanten daar behoefte aan hebben, zo meldt Boeing zelf. Het concept voor een passagiersvliegtuig kan volgens Boeing op zowel commercieel als militair gebied toegepast worden.
De Concorde, het voorlopig snelste passagiersvliegtuig ooit, haalde een topsnelheid van 2.179 kilometer per uur, dat is zo’n twee keer de snelheid van het geluid. Maar het concept van Boeing zou tot wel vijf keer de snelheid van het geluid halen, meer dan 6.000 kilometer per uur. Met die snelheid vlieg je in een uurtje van Londen naar New York.
Since its original cinematic release in 1977, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind has been the subject of fervent speculation in the UFO conspiracy community. Many UFO buffs are convinced that the movie was produced as part of an official acclimation program in anticipation of an alien “disclosure” event. This speculation can be traced back to the production of the movie itself. On 23 July 1976, after a hard day’s shoot, around forty of the cast and crew, including stars Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon, gathered in the sticky night air of Mobile, Alabama, to hear a lecture delivered by the movie’s appointed advisor on UFOs, Professor J. Allen Hynek (the famed astronomer had been flown in for a brief cameo in the closing scenes). Shortly after Hynek’s lecture, actor Bob Balaban (who plays the character of translator David Laughlin), began to discuss with his colleagues an intriguing rumour that had been circulating during the production—“a rumour,” wrote Balaban in his production diary, “that the film is part of the necessary training that the human race must go through in order to accept an actual landing, and is being secretly sponsored by a government UFO agency.”
In 2014, I had the opportunity to interview Close Encountersproduction designer, Joe Alves. I asked him if ever he had heard any such rumours during the shoot, and if there was any substance to them. “There were a lot of rumours,” he told me, ambiguously, before changing the subject.
Back in 1977, even Spielberg himself seemed to be dropping hints: “I wouldn’t put it past this government that a cosmic Watergate has been underway for the last 25 years,” the director remarked during a Close Encounters promotional interview, “eventually they might want to tell us something about what they’ve discovered over the decades.” During the same interview, the director spoke with relish of “rumours” that President Carter was due to make “some unsettling disclosures” about UFOs later that year. Needless to say, no such disclosures were forthcoming.
Particularly curious is that the Carter Presidential Library contains no record of the film-loving President ever having viewed Close Encounters while in office. However, in a 1977 Canadian TV interview conducted directly after the movie’s theatrical release, Spielberg said matter-of-factly that Carter had viewed the movie “Last Saturday.” Spielberg remarked, “We haven’t heard the direct feedback,” but added, “We hear he [Carter] liked it quite a bit.” The following March, The Phoenix Gazette cited Close Encounters as “Jimmy Carter’s favorite movie,” noting that “The President has seen the movie many times.” This is not the only discrepancy over the official record concerning Carter and Spielberg. Officially, Spielberg never set foot in the Carter White House and had never met the President, and yet a solitary photocopy of a photograph discovered in the Carter Presidential Library proves that the two men did meet. The photo shows Carter and Spielberg engaged in conversation and is signed: “To Steven Spielberg, [from] Jimmy Carter.” An accompanying White House stationary note signed by White House Social Secretary Gretchen Poston and addressed to Spielberg reads: “The President thought you would enjoy receiving the enclosed photograph.”
This apparent secrecy almost certainly resulted from a desire among Carter’s staff to keep the Administration from being further publicly associated with flying saucers. Famously, Carter had his own UFO sighting in 1969 in Leary, Georgia, witnessing a bright white round object that approached his position before stopping and then receding into the distance. Carter was with twelve other people at the time, all of whom witnessed the strange phenomenon. Needless to say, a UFO-spotting President viewing the ultimate UFO movie at the White House and having get-togethers with its alien-obsessed director would have been a PR nightmare.
By far the most outlandish of the conspiracy theories surrounding Close Encounters relates to Project Serpo—an alleged human/alien exchange program between US military personnel and a race of extraterrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system. The story goes that, in July of 1965, twelve astronauts were taken to the planet Serpo aboard an alien spaceship and remained there for thirteen years. In exchange, the aliens left one of their own in the custody of the US government. This story didn’t emerge until 2005 in the form of a string of anonymous emails that were sent to selected UFO researchers, including Project Camelot/Avalon’s Bill Ryan, who created a website dedicated to the “leaks.”
The Serpo story lead some in the conspiracy community to speculate that Close Encounters was partly inspired by the alleged alien-human exchange program of 1965, which assumes that Spielberg himself was privy to inside information on the UFO issue. In the movie’s final scenes, a taller alien (designed by effects expert Carlo Rambaldi) is seen to exit the mothership and communicate with the character of Claude Lacombe via a series of hand gestures. Immediately before this we see twelve scientists clad in jumpsuits preparing to board the mothership and take permanent leave of planet Earth. Roy Neary joins the group as its thirteenth member.
It is important to note that the Serpo story, which has not a shred of evidence to support it, did not emerge until 2005, twenty-eight years after the release of Close Encounters. It’s probably safe to assume then that former inspired the latter, rather than vice versa.
Whether or not there is any truth to the conspiracy theories surrounding Close Encounters, Spielberg’s movie remains hugely significant for the fact that it played a central role in Hollywood’s mid-to-late-1970s economic revival—its $338 million worldwide box-office gross forced crusty studio executives to recognize America’s vast and largely neglected youth market and to adapt their output accordingly. Two other alien-themed movies of the period would also play a key role in this industrial paradigm shift: Star Wars (1977) and Superman(1978). Together, these three films about the wonders of the universe acted as adrenalin, shot straight into the heart of a dying industry (though many critics would argue, perhaps justifiably, that this adrenalin acted as poison in the long-term, stifling creativity and individuality in Hollywood). Spielberg’s film also reignited public curiosity about UFOs as an enduring enigma, and its release closely coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the Roswell Incident. Just one year later, Jesse Marcel would spill the beans on his first-hand experiences of that event, opening the floodgates for hundreds more closely-corresponding Roswell testimonies.
With Vietnam and Watergate still fresh in the mind, Close Encounters came as a reassuring hug for America towards the end of a decade of disillusionment, and Spielberg’s movie would redefine Hollywood’s working relationship with aliens for much of the 1980s, resulting in movies such as E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Starman, Batteries Not Included, and The Abyss, to name but a few. Thanks to Close Encounters, what for so many decades had come only to conquer, could now come in peace.
While many have argued that the biggest problem facing humanity is our growing inability to communicate, MIT seems to think that our first interactions with household robots should be predicated on passive aggression and silent judgement. Robotics scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a “robot servant” named Baxter that can read its owners brain waves and tell when they’re displeased with the job its doing and correct its behavior accordingly. Conveniently, you don’t even need to talk to this poor machine, as it can be controlled by simple hand gestures.
Baxter can sense your simmering rage through electrodes placed on the scalp, and can sense very subtle gestures through more electrodes on your forearm. MIT says that they want to remove the machine constraints on human-robot interfacing and that their goal is to “to develop robotic systems that are a more natural and intuitive extension of us.”
“Why do you resent me?”
In the latest demonstration, MIT demonstrated Baxter’s ability to use a drill on three possible targets. The operator sits behind the robot wearing the electrode skull-cap and arm band. Baxter, outfitted with what looks like an iPad displaying a smiley face for extra creep factor, autonomously goes to stick the drill into one of the targets. Sensing the operator’s displeasure, Baxter asks for assistance. With a quick flick of the wrist, the operator shows Baxter how to do a better job. One question remains though: what happens when Baxter turns on the operator and puts that drill right through their impossibly high demands?
MIT clearly doesn’t think this is a problem, as one of the main points of this demonstration was to show that Baxter can be used by anyone immediately. There’s no need to train Baxter to read a person’s specific brainwaves, so once the technology is commercially viable, Baxter can be bossed around on a whim simply by putting on the cap and arm band.
There are some trade-offs for your power fantasies though: you’ll have to wear this.
There is a good hopeful use for this robot. Because Baxter is so easily controlled, MIT says that the robot will be useful for assisting the elderly, those with physical disabilities, or even people struggling behind a language barrier. That’s definitely the right use for robots. Anything that allows people robbed of agency by circumstance get control over their lives back is objectively a good thing, and if that’s the path we’re going down then bravo, MIT.
But don’t think we’re ending this on a high note. Here’s what PhD candidate Joseph DelPreto and lead author of the latest paper on Baxter says about the technology:
“By looking at both muscle and brain signals, we can start to pick up on a person’s natural gestures along with their snap decisions about whether something is going wrong.
This helps make communicating with a robot more like communicating with another person.”
Yes, just like communicating with a human: unexpressed resentment and patronizing hand gestures. What better way to usher in the horrifying future we’re eagerly wading into than to make the first “robot servant”—insert your own synonym for “robot servant” there—feed into our secret narcissistic want to have things change based on our split-second emotional reactions without that irksome and apparently passé step of verbalizing how we feel in a half-way cogent manner.
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Alien Light Being Makes Rare Appearance Over Volcano Of New Zealand, June 25, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Light Being Makes Rare Appearance Over Volcano Of New Zealand, June 25, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 25, 2018 Location of sighting: News Zealand Source: MUFON #92914 Above is a light being standing over a volcano. The being would measure about 25 meters tall as it stands on the surface of the volcano and looks around. Its easy to see its two legs two arms and head. Also the photos below have captured UFOs entering and exiting the mouth of the volcano. Excellent proof that there is an alien base 4-6km below the ground at some New Zealand volcanos. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states: Various apparational craft and creatures appearring over appearring from nz volcanos on geonet volcano cameras that i observe in conjunction to earth movements that i feel and hear that no one else can see and feel and hear.
UFO caught LIVE on camera during Newscast in Buffalo
UFO caught LIVE on camera during Newscast in Buffalo
An unidentified flying object or UFO raced across the sky over Buffalo, NY and was caught on camera during the evening weather cast.
Meteorologist Andy Parker was showing the night sky on SkyWatch7 late in the evening at around 11:20pm on Thursday June 14 when an object entered and exited the camera view.
The object travels from west to east and makes what appears to be a hook turn to the north and gains altitude before exiting near the top of the camera frame.
Andy Parker noticed the appearance of the object and offered up the idea it might have been a shooting star while asking the rest of the crew if anyone else had seen the object.
The object moves too fast to be a plane, originates too far away to be a bug, perhaps a meteorite?
However, the unknown flying object makes a curve something that a meteorite does not do.
ABC News: Weather Man Spots A UFO Live On Camera During The Weather Report
UFO Caught LIVE On SkyWatch7 Newscast In Buffalo, New York. June 14, 2018
The Roswell incident: how ‘UFO sighting’ sparked 70 years of conspiracy theories
The Roswell incident: how ‘UFO sighting’ sparked 70 years of conspiracy theories
A US government ‘cover-up’, the declassification of top secret files and big-budget alien movies have fuelled interest in UFOs
On 8 July 1947 the Roswell Daily Record newspaper published a front page article with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, and the legend of America's most famous brush with aliens was born.
Today, many conspiracy theorists consider the so-called “Roswell incident” to be one of the most conspicuous pieces of evidence that the US government has covered up the existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth.
Next month thousands of people from all over the world will travel to the town, the de facto UFO capital of the world, but the Roswell story's position in the public imagination was far from immediate.
What was the Roswell incident?
On 7 July 1947, around 75 miles north of the town of Roswell in New Mexico, debris from a highly classified project used by the US Army Air Force (the precursor to the US Air Force) to detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union, was recovered from a ranch after being reported by ranch worker William Brazel.
Intrigued by the idea of flying saucers, Brazel gathered some of the debris and went to Roswell where he told Sheriff George Wilcox about his find. According to reports he “whispered kinda confidential like”. Wilcox immediately reported the encounter to the USAAF base at Roswell which promptly sent agents to visit the ranch, but not before the press picked up the story.
What was reported at the time?
On 8 July 1947 Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had crashed on a ranch near Roswell during a powerful storm. Later in the day, as government scientists arrived in the area, the story appeared to change. A press conference was held and it was stated instead that a weather balloon had crashed. Reporters were shown debris said to be taken from the crash area, such as foil, rubber and wood, which appeared to confirm that the object had been a weather balloon.
After initially suggesting that Brazel's debris had come from a UFO, the Roswell Daily Record reported a correction which included the USAAF statement that it was a weather balloon that had been found at the site. Brazel later went on record to say that he regretted the publicity that his misidentification had caused.
According to the official accounts, the debris Brazel found came from a balloon which was part of an experimental technology trial codenamed Project Mogul.
What was Project Mogul?
The classified Project Mogul was designed to detect sound waves in the upper atmosphere from Soviet atom bomb tests by flying microphones on trains of balloons at high altitude. Although the technology was quickly superseded, it remained secret for more than 20 years after the event. The fact that the balloon was involved in Cold War surveillance of the Soviet Union may have helped to propel rumours of a cover-up.
How did it become a cause celebre?
For 31 years the story was largely forgotten until The National Enquirer reported the original Roswell Daily Record story again, but not the correction. Following the publication of the new story, theories suggesting that the government's incomplete account had been an attempt to cover-up the discovery of an alien spacecraft began to take root.
What did other witnesses say?
Several people claimed to have seen debris scattered over a wide area and at least one person reported seeing a blazing aircraft in the sky shortly before it crashed, but the key account came from a former mortician, Glenn Dennis, who claimed in 1989 that a friend who worked as a nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field had accidentally walked into an examination room where doctors were bent over the bodies of three creatures. They apparently resembled humans, but with small bodies, spindly arms and giant bald heads.
In 1995, Ray Santilli, a London-based entrepreneur, released “footage” of an alien autopsy performed in Roswell in 1947. Experts immediately ridiculed the footage as a hoax and he admitted years later that it was almost entirely fake. Nevertheless, Santilli insisted real footage existed, but due to its poor condition he had been forced to recreate it.
Critics have questioned the validity of various witnesses and pointed out that many claims over the years have come from “friends of friends” who supposedly saw something out of the ordinary.
Stranger than fiction?
Coincidentally, the republication of the story came just one year after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film about a government conspiracy covering up alien visits to Earth. The film was released in the USA in November and the following year in the UK. That year 750 sightings were officially documented in the UK by the Ministry of Defence UFO desk, the highest figure on record.
Did UFO sightings continue to increase?
Looking at UFO sightings data from both sides of the Atlantic, a direct correlation between popular films involving aliens and real world UFO sightings becomes evident. In 2009, The Guardian detailed the popular culture influences that may have helped propel UFO sightings in the UK in 1996. In the year that Independence Day and Mars Attacks were released there were 609 UFO sightings across the UK, significantly more than the years just before or after.
The MoD assembled detailed records of UK UFO sightings between 1959 and 1973 before cuts ended the program
Unofficial data, supplied by the National UFO Reporting Centre in America suggest that UFO sightings have been slowly increasing in the US since the 1970s, growing increasingly rapidly since the early 1990s.
One possible explanation for this is that the reporting centre became both better known and easier to contact with the advent of new technologies such as fax machines and the internet.
In 2014, The Economist analysed the available data from 2000 to 2014 and found that most UFOs were reported when people were drunk.
Did declassifying Project Mogul help?
Even though Project Mogul was declassified in the 1970s, it wasn't fully connected to Roswell until 1994 when the normally secretive National Security Agencyfinally published an in-depth report refuting all claims of a conspiracy at the site. A second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of alien bodies actually related to life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies.
But by providing detailed analysis of the Roswell incident, many analysts believe that the US government inadvertently fuelled interest in conspiracy theories and public suspicions that the US military was involved in a cover-up.
Roswell: the UFO capital of the world
Because of the huge notoriety surrounding the Roswell incident, the town has become Ground Zero for UFO conspiracists.
Each year on the anniversary of the story, thousands of enthusiasts embrace all things alien and paranormal at a UFO Festival. There, they can dissect mock alien bodies and take part in scientific experiments.
Last year, to mark 70 years since the incident was first reported, around 38,000 people turned up from all over the world.
Kathy Lay, executive director for MainStreet Roswell, says:
“You have people all over the city. There will be some out at the mall at Galactic Con. Some will be at the UFO museum doing the seminars and workshops. You'll have some that will be going to the plays that are going on, some will be over at the planetarium, some will be here at this festival. They're all over - we just embrace it.”
The cause of a mysterious rock formation on Mars that NASA deemed "an enigmatic pile of eroding sediments" and UFO hunters strongly believe is an extraterrestrial spacecraft was likely caused by volcanic activity on the planet billions of years ago, researchers say.
The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) was first observed in the 1960s via the Mariner spacecraft, but NASA scientists could not explain what caused it. Now, a group of researchers have published a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research that suggests it was formed by volcanic eruptions more than 3 billion years ago.
“This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system, because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this,” said Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a statement.
The scale of the Medusae Fossae Formation is enormous, at roughly one-fifth the size of the U.S. It's also 100 times more massive than the largest explosive volcanic deposit on Earth, which would make it the largest known explosive volcanic deposit in the solar system.
The study's abstract notes that the MFF is a "a relatively porous unit" and thought its origin is uncertain, "several processes including volcanic, eolian, and ice‐related mechanisms have been proposed in its formation."
The researchers were able to use data from various Mars orbiter spacecraft in order to measure the Medusae Fossae’s density for the first time, calling out its porous nature (it's approximately two-thirds as dense as the rest of the Martian crust) and theorized that it was caused by "explosive volcanic eruptions."
"The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick," Ojha said.
Because of the high levels of carbon dioxide and water that have been released from the MFF, the MFF has "substantially contributed to the Martian atmosphere and hydrosphere," the study's abstract added.
A recently leaked alleged military report details an incredible encounter between the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and an unidentified aircraft. U.S. Navy F-18 jet fighter pilots described the object as looking like a giant, white Tic Tac, and say it moved to evade them by shooting off at “supersonic” speeds. The USS Nimitz CSG encountered the objects over several days in 2004 off the coast of California. The most shocking parts of the report speculate that the UFO could have had the ability to “‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye” and “possibly… operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.”
Den of Geek contacted several individuals close to the case to confirm the document’s legitimacy.
Last December, The New York Times posted an article revealing a Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was secretly investigating credible UFO cases. The world was tipped off to the existence of the project by the man who was recently in charge of the project, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo retired in Oct. 2017 because the government did not take the UFO situation seriously enough. He says there are “many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities,” and that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
The New York Times article included two videos allegedly representing cases of UFOs caught on video by military aircraft. Little information about the videos is available. However, the other was said to be from an encounter between an unknown object and the USS Nimitz CSG off of the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Soon after the New York Times article was released, there was a worldwide storm of press on the secretive UFO program. Elizondo and Commander David Fravor, one of the U.S. Navy jet fighter pilots who encountered the unidentified object, participated in several interviews. However, no official documents were released.
On May 18, 2018, Las Vegas KLAS Channel 8’s I-Team posted an articleabout a leaked report they had obtained. The I-Team claims the report was “prepared by and for the military.” They obtained the report during “a whirlwind trip to Washington for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid.” Reid had been instrumental in securing funding for the creation of AATIP.
According to the I-Team, the leaked report was put together in 2009 “with input from multiple agencies.” The report begins with an executive summary, makes several key assessments, describes the technology involved in the incident, and then describes the accounts of the personnel involved.
The executive summary reveals encounters with what they call Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) occurred over several days, from Nov. 10 to 16, 2004 off the west coast, just before the USS Nimitz CSG left for the Arabian Sea. According to the report, “The USS Princeton on several occasions detected multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) operating in and around the vicinity of the CSG.”
“The AAVs would descend ‘very rapidly’ from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds,” the report continues. “They would hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates.”
According to the report, on Nov. 14, 2004, they got a closer look at one of these AAVs. It was a bright day with “blue skies, no clouds, and unlimited visibility.” After completing their training mission, two F-18s, call signs FASTEAGLE 01 and 02, were directed by the USS Princeton, a guided missile cruiser in the USS Nimitz CSG, to an unknown target. The USS Princeton also asked what weapons they had onboard, which was unusual.
One of the pilots, U.S. Navy Commander David ‘Sex’ Fravor in FASTEAGLE01, says the first thing he noticed at the location of the AAV was a “disturbance of water” in the sea. He scanned the area and noticed the AAV was just above the disturbance, which he said: “looked like frothy waves and foam almost as if the water was boiling.”
A U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel piloting an F-18 was also sent in to take a look. He was asked to stay above 10,000 feet as other planes were coming in lower. He also spotted the disturbance in the water.
“The disturbance appeared to be 50 to 100 meters in diameter and close to round,” according to the report. “It was the only area and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded him of images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or ship sinking. It also looked like a possible area of shoal water where the swell was breaking over a barely submerged reef or island.”
At around the same time, FASTEAGLE01 descended to about 12,000 to 16,000 feet to get a closer look. FASTEAGLE02 stayed back and maintained an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. Fravor said the object hovered in place. He described the object as looking “like an elongated egg or a ‘Tic Tac’ and had a discernible midline horizontal axis. However, the object was uniformly white across the entire body. It was approximately 46 feet in length.”
The name of the pilot in FASTEAGLE02 was redacted from the report, but he had a similar description. He said the AAV was “solid white, smooth, with no edges. It was uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings.” He said it did not glow or reflect sunlight, and “it looked like it had a white candy-coated shell, almost like a whiteboard.” His report did differ slightly from Fravor in that he says the object did appear to be moving.
Fravor decided to make a close pass of the object to try and identify it. He says as he approached, the AAV seemed to “recognize us.” He said the object realigned itself and “pointed” in his direction. The disturbance on the water also stopped. As Fravor continued his approach, the object suddenly shot up at “a supersonic speed.”
Fravor asked if the USS Princeton still had the AAV on the radar, and at first was told “no.” Soon after, the USS Princeton told Fravor, “you’re not going to believe this, it's at your CAP.” The CAP was the area Fravor had been training in earlier in the day. The USS Princeton added, the AAV “had climbed to approximately 24,000 feet.” They tried to locate the object, but it and the disturbance in the ocean were gone.
Although the AAV was not seen by Fravor again, this was not the last of the anomalous activity for the day. During training exercises, the USS Nimitz CSG acquired a weak radar target. The pilot of the F-18 attempting to track the object said, it “just appeared the radar couldn’t hack it.” However, he was able to spot the object using his Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera. The pilot was at 20,000 feet traveling at 300 knots, and estimated the object was at about the same altitude or a “few thousand feet below.”
The object appeared to be stationary on the FLIR camera, then moved out of the camera’s field of view and contact with the object was lost. A portion of this video was released in the New York Times article, although the pilot said he was not sure if it was the same object Fravor saw earlier in the day. He also said he only caught it on camera and never saw it with his own eyes. After he lost contact with the object, the pilot returned to his training mission.
The USS Nimitz CSG included the USS Louisville Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine. Researchers asked a USS Louisville officer if their sonar caught any of the disturbance reported. The officer replied they had received “no unidentified sonar contacts in the vicinity of the aerial sightings or at any time during operations off the coast of California.”
Thus the report concluded, “Based on the lack of detection of any unidentified sonar contacts it is highly unlikely that an AAV operated below the surface of the ocean.”
Then the report continued with some shocking speculation.
“It is possible the AAV demonstrated the ability to be cloaked or invisible to the human eye based on pilot reporting of the water disturbance with no visible craft,” the report explains. “Based on the assessment of Mr. [withheld] if the AAV did operate underwater undetected it would represent a highly advanced capability given the advanced capability of our sensors.”
The report also made note of a significant amount of ridicule the pilots involved with the AAV incident received once back on the carrier. Fravor said when he was back onboard he reported to the Carrier Intelligence Center (CVIC). Once he got there, he says, “CVIC had donned tin-foil caps and wanted to know about the ‘UFO flight.’”
CVIC completed a mission report (MISREP) on the incident, but the Carrier Air Wing Intelligence Officer was not taking the situation seriously. Out of respect for Fravor, who is described as “a very experienced and highly respected squadron commanding officer,” the report was sent up to the Commander of the Air Wing, who also did not take the incident seriously.
According to the report, “When asked what [the Commander of the Air Wing] thought the AAV was he replied that he believed it was part of a counter drug operation based on the area of operations.”
The author of the leaked report disagreed and wrote these “key assessments.”
The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation.
The AAV exhibited advanced aerodynamic performance with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift.
The AAV exhibited advanced propulsion capability by demonstrating the ability to remain stationary with little to no variation in altitude transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than any know aerial vehicle with little to no visible signature.
The AAV possibly demonstrated the ability to ‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye or human observations.
The AAV possibly demonstrated a highly advanced capability to operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.
Since KLAS leaked this report, there have been some doubts as to whether the military wrote it. Doubters have claimed the report does not follow the correct format, is speculative, and lists Wikipedia as sources in a couple of instances.
I-Team member George Knapp, who wrote the article releasing the report, said he was not able to share more information about his sources at the time we contacted him. However, Leslie Kean, one of the authors of the December New York Times article, tweeted the report and wrote, “This was provided to us at the NY Times by a source in 2017. It was not classified; I can confirm that it's legit.”
When we contacted Kean, she said she doesn't know for sure, but she thinks the group contracted by AATIP, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), put it together. She is probably right.
The New York Times article reported Bigelow Aerospace was contracted to perform UFO investigations for AATIP. Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas businessman and owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, founded Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has had a lifelong interest in UFOs and the paranormal.
He is also interested in space. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1995 and it has become a significant player in the commercial space industry. BAASS is the division in Bigelow Aerospace dedicated to exploring the unknown.
Dr. Eric Davis is an astrophysicist who has worked with BAASS and he recently responded to comments on social media that were criticising the format of the leaked Nimitz report.
“The 2009 Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO report is a typical sensitive-but-unclassified Navy component agency field investigation report, and I know the investigators/authors,” Davis wrote on Facebook. “The report followed the investigators’ own document/report format as there was no requirement for them to use any specific [Department of Defense] or [U.S. Navy] component agency document format.”
Further confirmation came from documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. Corbell is currently working on a project with Knapp regarding BAASS investigations and has been researching the Nimitz UFO event for several years. Corbell has been in contact with Fravor and he told Den of Geekthat, according to Fravor, the report leaked by Knapp and KLAS is the most accurate account of the events he has seen.
Corbell also says he has spoken with military sources who say the Tic Tac object actively jammed the F-18s radars. There was a large round object spotted under the water at the disturbance that some believe the Tic Tac object docked with, and that the large round object was seen leaving the water.
Corbell says he will be releasing more information on his investigation sometime in the future, but even without Corbell’s claims, the Nimitz report is mind-boggling, and according to Elizondo, there are more UFO cases in the Pentagon files just as juicy.
"There are many, many Nimitz incidences that are equally compelling, that are told from the eyes of people like Commander Dave Fravor," Elizondo told KLAS.
According to KLAS, “Another highly classified version [of the Nimitz report] was also written but is unlikely to ever be released.” When contacted by Den of Geek, Elizondo said he had seen a military report on the Nimitz incident but had not yet seen the report released by KLAS, so he is not sure if it was the same report. However, Elizondo said Knapp is a professional journalist, and he is sure Knapp would use credible sources.
When we commented to Elizondo on the shocking nature of the Nimitz report, he replied, “You ain't seen nothing yet, baby!”
Now You Can See Every Comet Photo (& More) from Europe's Rosetta Probe. Enjoy!
Now You Can See Every Comet Photo (& More) from Europe's Rosetta Probe. Enjoy!
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
Gazing at the night sky can offer a respite from life's minutia or disarray, and any viewer wanting to be awed and inspired by the heavens will delight in the new series of images recently released by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the Rosetta mission's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera. The probe took this image in March 2016 from a distance of just 17.7 kilometers (11 miles).
Credit: ESA
Nearly 100,000 high-resolution images of a comet, two asteroids, Earth and Mars are now all available to the public online. Over a 12-year journey, ESA's Rosetta mission gathered a large collection of data and visuals to better understand the ancient solar system. And in May of this year, the mission's OSIRIS camera team delivered to ESA the final set of images, which cover a period from July to September 2016, according to a statement released by ESA on June 21.
Asteroid 21 Lutetia, as seen by the Rosetta mission during a flyby in July 2010, from a distance of 3,559 km (2,211 miles).
Credit: ESA
"Having all the images finally archived to be shared with the world is a wonderful feeling," Holger Sierks, principal investigator of the OSIRIS camera, said in the statement. "We are also pleased to announce that all OSIRIS images are now available under a Creative Commons license." The incredible photos and corresponding data can be viewed in both ESA's Archive Image Browser and their Planetary Science Archive.
The Rosetta mission captured this image of Mars in February 2007 from a distance of 233,456 km (145,062 miles).
Credit: ESA
It's breathtaking to view a comet with such detail that you can imagine what the surface might feel like to the touch. The smooth features, the dusty ground and the array of background stars are impressive to behold.
The Rosetta mission traveled through the inner solar system — and took flyby shots of Mars and Earth en route, as well as the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Steins — to study how the sun's energy warmed the icy surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. And Rosetta studied the comet's composition by getting very, very close. Rosetta took its final images as the spacecraft descended to the comet's surface following elliptical orbits during the mission's final two months, and according to ESA's statement, it took its last glance within just 20 meters (65.6 feet (20 meters) from the space rock.
A view of Earth taken by the Rosetta mission's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from November 2009.
Credit: ESA
"The final set of images supplements the rich treasure chest of data that the scientific community are already delving into in order to really understand this comet from all perspectives – not just from images but also from the gas, dust and plasma angle – and to explore the role of comets in general in our ideas of Solar System formation," said Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist, in the agency's statement. "There are certainly plenty of mysteries, and plenty still to discover."
Philae, Rosetta's lander, is visible in several photos — the end result of a long effort to determine where exactly Philae landed on the comet's surface. Dust and gas escaped the comet and caused problems in locating the lander until just recently, officials said.
Now with this plethora of images, people can enjoy a quick trip through our cosmic neighborhood.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the Rosetta mission's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera. The probe took this image in March 2016 from a distance of just 12 km (7.5 miles).
More than a decade has passed since we joined forces to try and find out if there was any reality to a claim that highly accurate units of length had been in used during the British Neolithic. We found that these supposedly primitive people were using a highly developed science that connected them to the rhythms of the Earth.
But our biggest personal challenge has been to face up to the consequences of our own findings because they have brought us to the point where we have found compelling evidence that our planet and its environment has been carefully designed for us. Stranger still, there appears to be a message built into the very fabric of the solar system itself.
This was not a finding that we had looked for or even care for. We are very pragmatic people working in an area of ancient research that is specialised and very sober.
In early 2009 we decided to revisit all of our findings that had resulted in three joint books plus one still in draft manuscript form (now published). We were troubled because despite one of us being an agnostic and an atheist, we could not escape the conclusion we were looking at a message from what we called the UCA (Unknown Creative Agency) that had designed our solar system and all life on Earth.
Then in late November 2009 we were contacted by David Cumming, an expert in AI (artificial intelligence) who had studied our evidence in great detail and independently come to the same conclusion. He claimed that it formed an equation with a very clear message from the creator. The equation and the mathematics of our discoveries is discussed later in this article.
The Origin of the Megalithic Yard (MY)
A BASIC PENDULUM IS A VERY ACCURATE TOOL TO MEASURE TIME.
The starting point of our joint research was simply to consider whether Alexander Thom had been right or wrong in his identification of a prehistoric unit he called the Megalithic Yard (MY). He was a professor of engineering at Oxford University who surveyed hundreds of Megalithic sites over the course of half a century to 1985. Thom concluded the planners and builders must have been highly skilled engineers. He deduced the builders had all been working to a common set of units based on the Megalithic Yard that was 2.722 +/- 0.002 feet (829.7 +/- 0.5 mm). Thom was viewed as an unwelcome outsider by nearly all archaeologists.
Our starting hypothesis was that if the Megalithic Yard were real, then it is highly probable that its apparent accuracy can best be explained as being derived from nature. If we could identify a natural origin, then Thom was probably right.
It did not take too long for us to realise there is only one aspect of nature that delivers up a near perfect means of creating measures – the revolving of the Earth on its axis. This provides the potential for creating a unit of time that can then be used to make units of length, weight and capacity – and potentially everything else from frequency to temperature.
The most obvious way to observe the turning of the Earth is to watch the stars, which appear to pass overhead once for each rotation. They also move across the sky in an annual rotation due to the Earth’s orbit of the Sun. Megalithic astronomers could not help but notice there where 366 of the daily star movements to one annual one.
We know that ancient peoples from across time liked to create patterns where the same values work upwards and downwards. And we had good reason to believe that early stargazers had used a 366 day calendar and a 366 degree circle. These astronomers knew there are 366 star rises (any star such as Sirius) over one circle of the Sun, so it was logical to divide the horizon into 366 parts to measure time in 1/366th part of a day.
They measured time in the same way that all clocks did until recent times – with a pendulum. A hand-held ball of clay on a string is a perfect instrument. When stationary it is a plumb line to gauge verticals and when swinging its beats measure time with great accuracy. The only factors that have any significant effect on the beat are the length of the pendulum from fulcrum to the centreline of the weight and the mass of the Earth (gravity). The energy put into the swing by the user has no effect – if the swing is made more vigorous it just swings faster in a wider arc but the rate of beat remains exactly the same.
Our first and most obvious assumption was that Megalithic people had divided the horizon up into 366 equal parts and then used a pendulum length that beat 366 times.
A FRAME 1/366TH OF THE HORIZON ANGLED TO TIME A STAR.
We found that a pendulum that beat 366 times during one 366th of the Earth’s turn was, much to our joy and amazement, half a Megalithic Yard in length! A circle scribed by such a pendulum would have a diameter of one Megalithic Yard. Archie Roy, emeritus professor of astronomy at Glasgow University (and a friend of the late Alexander Thom) joined us to give a public demonstration of how the Megalithic Yard is a product of measured observational astronomy.
We later refined the timing method, having realised that the Megalithic astronomers had improved their own accuracy by using the movement of the planet Venus at certain times rather than a star. Gordon Freeman, a distinguished professor of chemical physics and a much-published amateur archaeologist specialising in the Megalithic structures, was impressed with this saying; “Tying the MY to Venus path arcsecond is a major discovery. I’m an admirer of Thom, but was neutral about the MY. Now I’m a convert.”
Alexander Thom had been right all along because the chances of this technique producing a perfect fit for his unit could not be a coincidence. But there was more – much more to this system. Given that the builders of these Megalithic sites some 5,000 years ago used a 366 degree circle caused us to look at the Earth itself. Taking the polar circumference as the textbook 40,000,000 metres, we turned it into Megalithic units and found this:
Earth’s polar circumference = 40,000,000 metres
1 Megalithic degree (1/366th) = 109290 metres
1 Megalithic minute of arc (1/60th) = 1822 metres
1 Megalithic second of arc (1/6th) = 303.6 metres
Now, 303.6 metres for a second of arc may look a little boring but it is exactly 366 Megalithic Yards!
The Megalithic second of arc appears to have been adopted later by the Minoan culture of Create some 4,000 years ago. The palaces of Crete were carefully surveyed by Canadian archaeologist J.W. Graham who identified a standard unit he called “the Minoan foot” of 30.36cm. It follows that 1,000 of these feet make precisely one Megalithic second of arc.
Even earlier, the ancient Egyptian culture had adopted units driven by the same thinking. They took the Megalithic Yard and made it the circumference of a circle. The diameter of that circle was called a royal cubit and the hypotenuse of a square from that diameter was called a remen.
Artefact Based Evidence
When we wrote Civilization One, we stated that the people who created the Megalithic Yard must have built very large circles and divided the circumference into 366 parts to be sure they were viewing 1/366th part of the night sky. We suggested they may well have understood a quick method to do this by making a circle with a diameter 233 units (any length would do if they didn’t already have a Megalithic Yard). They then knew they would have a circle of 732 units – which is twice 366, so they could take every other pole on the circumference. This is a 99.999% accurate means of using Pi in a practical manner. For all engineering purposes, this means is perfect.
THE THORNBOROUGH HENGES, A PERFECT COPY OF THE STARS OF ORION’S BELT. A TO B IS 366 MEGALITHIC RODS, B TO C IS 360 MEGALITHIC RODS AND THE TRUE NORTH/SOUTH LATITUDINAL DISTANCE (BLACK LINE) IS 3 MEGALITHIC SECONDS OF ARC.
Several years later we found that structures even older than Megalithic monuments demonstrated the use of the 233/732 circles – exactly as we had predicted. These are henges – large circular mounds such as the group near Thornborough in North Yorkshire, England. They were built around 3500 BCE, well before the Megalithic builders began their stonework phase. What is more, they were using the Megalithic Yard. At Thornborough there are three interlinked henges that are 233 MY across and 732 MY around their outer perimeter. These structures are measurable with units and ratios being 366 Megalithic Rods between the centres of the first two and 360 between the second. The trio, which are also exactly 3 Megalithic seconds of arc apart by latitude, have also been identified as being laid out as a copy of the stars of Orion’s Belt – exactly like the Giza pyramids. The difference is that these are a thousand years older. We explain in our book Before the Pyramids how Khufu’s pyramid builders came to this location in England to get instructions on how to plan this star pattern on the ground!
Weights and Measures
Having established that the people of the British Neolithic had units of lengths and time, we wondered if they had other units such as capacity and weight. We knew (or so we thought) that the Metric system was devised by the French in the late 18th century when they used a pendulum that beat at the rate of one second to create a unit they called the metre (meaning to beat out time). They later made a very small adjustment so their metre was one 10,000,000th of the distance from the equator to the north pole. To create a unit of capacity they took a 1/10th part of the metre (10cm) and made a cube. Filled with distilled water, this cube’s capacity was called a litre and its weight was designated a kilogram.
We applied the same logic to the Megalithic Yard, (which has 40 Megalithic Inches). We calculated what a 4 Megalithic Inch cube would contain. The answer is one pint – to an accuracy of one part in 5,000 as defined by the British government in 1601. And when carefully filled with any unpolished grain, such as barley, it weighed just one Imperial pound.
This was odd in the extreme but it appears that (unknown to history) Imperial units were indeed based on cubes because by doubling the sides of the cube to 8 Megalithic Inches holds one Imperial gallon and doubling again produced a unit equivalent to a bushel, which was used as a dry weight until recent times.
Next, we found some truly bizarre connections. We thought for thoroughness that we ought to consider the volumes of spheres with Megalithic dimensions in addition to the cubes: a 6 Megalithic Inch sphere held a litre and a 1.5 MY wide sphere of water weighs a metric tonne. The level of accuracy was not spot on, but at a level of 99% we were surprised to put it mildly.
We are used to modern measurements that are ad hoc, but the 366 system works in depth. Take just two examples:
1. Earth mass
One Megalithic degree (366th) slice of the Earth = 360 x 1020 pounds
One Megalithic minute slice of the Earth = 6 x 1020 pounds
One Megalithic second slice of the Earth = 1020 pounds
2. Temperature (hypothetical scale)
Water freezes @ 0 degrees
Water boils @ 366 degrees
Absolute zero @ – 1,000 degrees
The Jefferson Paradox
Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an amazing polymath. He set out to create a new system of units which were never adopted. He started by looking at what means nature provided for producing a repeatable unit and, like us, he quickly identified the spinning of the Earth and he used a pendulum that beat at the rate of once per second as his starting point.
Thomas Jefferson had unknowingly connected back into the system from prehistory. The following is true:
1,000 Jefferson Feet = 360 Megalithic Yards
366 Jefferson Furlongs = 1 Megalithic degree of arc of the Earth
3662 Jefferson Furlongs = The exact circumference of the Earth
This is a case-winning piece of evidence!
The Sun and the Moon
It is strange that the disc of the Moon should appear to be exactly the same size as the Sun. The Moon is obviously tiny compared to the Sun, and is much closer to Earth, but they still appear as equal discs. To be precise, the Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun but is 400 times closer to the Earth. Strange!
The odds against this happening at all are huge – but how bizarre that both values are the same, round number. Isaac Asimov, the respected scientist and science-fiction guru, described this perfect visual alignment as being, “the most unlikely coincidence imaginable.”
This perfect fit only works at this point in time because it was very different in the distant past and it will change again.
The strangeness of the Moon continues because it is either hollow or made up of extremely low density material. It centres of mass are just below its surface. Odd!
Applying the Megalithic 366 system of geometry and MYs to the Moon and the Sun produces an astonishing result:
One Megalithic second on Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards
One Megalithic second on Sun = 40,000 Megalithic Yards
It is almost as though we are looking at the blueprint of the solar system.
The Rhythm of the Solar System
Looking closely at every aspect, the following values also stand out:
366 The number of complete rotations of the Earth in a year The number of MY in a Megalithic second of arc on the Earth The percentage size of the Earth compared to the Moon
100 The number of MY in a lunar Megalithic second of arc The number of times the Earth rotates faster than the Moon
400 The Sun is larger than the Moon The number of kilometres the Moon turns on its axis in a day The number of times the Moon is closer to the Earth than the Sun
10,000 The number of times faster that light travels in a vacuum compared to Earth’s speed of orbit around the Sun The number of Earth turns in an orbit of the Sun x the number of Earth turns in one lunar orbit of the Earth
40,000 The number of kilometres to Earth’s polar circumference The number of MY in a solar second of arc
1,000,000 The number of times faster that light travels in a vacuum compared to the Moon’s speed of orbit around the Earth
109.25 The number of Earth diameters to the Sun’s The number of solar diameters across the maximum diameter of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun
27.322 The number times the Earth turns in one turn of the Moon The percentage size of the Moon to the Earth
The Message
Are we looking at ‘God’s blueprint’? These integer numbers could not possible fall out of the Earth – Moon – Sun relationship by accident when every other solar system body appears to have no rules whatsoever.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), originally set up by NASA, spends a vast amount of energy searching for radio messages from a non-human origin based on the belief that we are probably not alone. Professor Christopher Rose and Dr. Gregory Wright have suggested:
“Rather than transmitting radio messages, extraterrestrial civilisations would find it far more efficient to send us a ‘message in a bottle’, some kind of physical message inscribed on matter. And it could be waiting for us in our own backyard.”
Could the Moon have been constructed as a message by integrating ratios and values of both the Sun and the Moon?
Could humans have been ‘seeded’ on a planet that would sustain us? The Moon is an ‘incubator’ to nurture life. No Moon would mean no humans.
Which brings us to David Cumming’s idea that all of this can be expressed as an ‘equation’ that formally identifies there is a message.
The Equation
The equation describes a relationship between the hydrogen fine transition line, the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, and the speed of light in a vacuum.
The top line of the equation, Hlf.π is the hydrogen line – a universal value used as the search frequency by SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).
Omega is the number 0.0123456789 – all the characters of the base 10 number system. Standard physics says that the frequency of a wave, multiplied by the wavelength of that wave, is equal to the speed of the wave. In the case of the equation, when you divide out π/Ω, the answer must be equal to the wavelength of the hydrogen line, because the hydrogen line frequency multiplied by the hydrogen line wavelength must equal the speed of light.
When we look at the overall equation, we know in advance that the equation will give the value for the speed of light very accurately because what we’re doing is multiplying the frequency of the hydrogen line by the wavelength of the hydrogen line. But remember, we’ve divided π (3.141592653) by Ω (0.0123456790) to get a result for the hydrogen line wavelength expressed in MYs, so the fact that we get a highly accurate answer appears to be nothing short of a miracle.
The speed of light calculated using the equation is 1420,405,751 cycles per sec (frequency [Hz]) multiplied by 0.2544690072 MY (wavelength). This works out at 361,449,241.3 MY per second – the speed of light in Stone Age units!
Amongst the many surprises of the last few years, there is one we came across in early 2009 that stumped us. As we explain in Before the Pyramids, there can be no doubt that the Founding Fathers of the USA secretly designed Washington DC using Megalithic seconds of arc for every detail of the City plan. It is still happening. The Pentagon is a perfect and inspirational exposition of Stone Age knowledge – using the 366 system with as much perfection as Stonehenge or Thornborough.
And this was driven by the 33rd degree of the Ancient Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Presidents and people unknown have been driven to build a city using God’s own values – a city fit for God’s great purpose.
Do the powers that be in the USA already understand this message? Are they preparing to respond? Is there a new dawn ahead?
Illustrations courtesy of the authors. Much more on the above is available in Christopher Knight and Alan Butler’s book Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery (Watkins, 2009), available from all good bookstores.
For something called a “gas giant,” Jupiter stops being an airy mass of vapor and clouds pretty early in. Just 10 percent of the distance down, along Jupiter’s radius toward its interior, the large volume of mostly hydrogen gas that makes up the planet’s atmosphere is compressed by gravity into a quantum fluid: liquid metal hydrogen.
Bear in mind that nobody has actually ever witnessed metallic hydrogen before — except allegedly these two guys at the the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry — but scientists are using its theoretical properties to teach NASA’s Juno probe how to read Jupiter’s atmosphere.
The complex interrelationships between these layers, according to a new study, could help prove the existence and size of Jupiter’s elusive rocky core.
Scientists Learn More About Jupiter's Elusive Rocky Core and It's as Weird as Ever
Jupiter’s clearly banded stripes of cream-colored jet streams and eddies, the ones visible from space, are the by-product of oscillating wave that “exists from the surface down to the core” as Gary A. Glatzmaier a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, tells Inverse.
“The restoring force, which drives the wave,” he says, “is the Coriolis force, which is really part of the fluid’s acceleration but acts like a force when viewed in the rotating frame of reference of the planet.” (Think of the gases molecules on Jupiter like marbles rolling around on a spinning carousel, in other words.)
Jupiter is rotating (like Earth) as it orbits the sun, and those forces along with thermal convection from solar rays and heat from the planet’s core — along with highly conductive electromagnetic behavior from that thick layer of metallic hydrogen liquid — are all exerting complicated effects on the Jovian weather patterns visible from space.
Some of Jupiter’s weird weather patterns will only exist if there’s a rocky core to Jupiter for these convective waves to bounce off. And the location of those weather patterns should have a relationship to the core’s size. Junocam will be picking up images of those weather patterns, but also other data that should help elucidate what’s going inside, like “banded patterns of magnetic field and gravity field,” Glatzmaier says.
Glatzmaier has been creating three-dimensional computer models simulating the behavior inside planets and stars since the 1980s — and his new modelling work on Jupiter, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, takes three different stabs at how exactly the electromagnetic effects of Jupiter large “quantum liquid” middle might be conducting heat, and bending the gas giant’s magnetosphere, and generally contrubuting to weird phenomena.
After 39 Years, NASA Finally Solves the Mystery of Jupiter's Lightning
Just to give you a strong visual sense of what weird means here: If Jupiter has a rocky core, it’s estimated to be a little bit larger than Earth. That’s surrounded by this turbulent pool of liquid metal hydrogen tens of thousands of miles in radius, and then a comparatively much thinner layer of gaseous atmosphere.
Here’s what the calculated magnetic fields around Jupiter come out to in one of Glatzmaier’s simulations (left) as compared to a Los Alamos simulation of Earth’s magnetosphere (right):
Simulations illustrating Jupiter's magentic field (left) and Earth's (right)
“There are so many properties we don’t know about in Jupiter’s deep interior,” Glatzmaier says. “Even this relatively simple model requires so much supercomputer resources to simulate just a few years of time.”
One of Glatzmaier’s three recent simulations of Jupiter showed an interesting oscillating jet stream, sometimes flowing eastward, sometimes, flowing westward, for two consistent years of the computer model’s 20-some-odd-years of simulated Jupiter time.
“The oscillating jet stream,” he says, “is something never suggested or detected before.” Confirmation of its existence from Juno would allow the Jupiter’s rocky core to be extrapolated from Glatzmaier’s simulations, but he’s recognizes that it might be a long shot. “Although it would be exciting to see.”
enhanced color view of Jupiter's south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data
WORDT BINNENKORT LEVEN OP MARS BEKEND GEMAAKT? ( VIDEO)
WORDT BINNENKORT LEVEN OP MARS BEKEND GEMAAKT? ( VIDEO)
Onlangs kwam NASA met de mededeling dat men organisch materiaal had ontdekt op Mars en dat dit een aanwijzing zou kunnen zijn dat er ooit leven is geweest.
Er was en er is volop leven op/rond Mars zoals deze week maar weer eens werd aangetoond door een UFO die met hoge snelheid de planeet passeerde.
Er zijn door de jaren heen zo ontzettend veel aanwijzingen geweest die allen aantonen dat er absoluut leven is geweest op Mars en nooit is daar door bijvoorbeeld NASA op gereageerd. Alleen al op deze website is zo langzamerhand een halve bibliotheek opgenomen over vondsten en bewijzen van leven op Mars.
Nu hebben we Trump die met zijn SpaceForce een volgende fase inluidt. Een fase die verband houdt met het witwassen van de geheime ruimtevloot en wie weet het toch uiteindelijk wel bekennen dat er al heel lang leven is geweest op Mars.
In dat kader is het ook interessant dat er nu vanuit NASA de eerste stappen worden gezet en men enkele weken geleden trots aankondigde dat er organische leven was aangetroffen op Mars.
De bij ons inmiddels bekende Mr. MB333 staat op een ochtend heel vroeg in de tuin en via een telescoop observeert hij de planeet Mars. Hij maakt wat foto’s en een korte video en tot zijn verbazing staat er nog iets anders op de video.
Een heel snel licht oftewel een UFO die met hoge snelheid van rechts naar links over het scherm gaat.
Om nog eens aan te tonen op wat voor manier NASA rotzooit met foto’s, hierna nog een klein stukje uit een eerder artikel.
Mensen die nog steeds geloven dat instanties zoals NASA ons echt wel de waarheid vertellen en dat die aluhoedjes iedere keer dingen zien die er niet zijn, willen wij graag het volgende voorleggen:
Wat als er nu een foto is van NASA uit 2013, genomen door één van de NASA rovers op Mars, waarop duidelijk een gebouw is te zien?
Het gaat om een zwart/wit foto die is genomen op 6 september 2013 en waarop je in de verte duidelijk een soort (flat)gebouw ziet staan, achter de heuvels.
Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, dan wordt duidelijk dat daar iets staat wat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een constructie, een gebouw.
Wie de originele foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Dan wordt er enkele jaren later opnieuw een foto gemaakt van hetzelfde gebied op Mars en de datum op de foto is dan 11 februari 2017.
Dit keer is het een kleurenfoto en ziet er als volgt uit.
En wanneer we hier wat inzoomen, dan blijkt opeens het gebouw uit de foto van enkele jaren geleden te zijn verdwenen.
Dan terug naar het heden en iemand die ook veel onderzoek heeft gedaan naar de planeet Mars, Tyler van Secureteam.
Hier volgt zijn video over Mars en zijn gedachten, waarbij het er steeds meer op begint te lijken dat we misschien binnenkort nog veel meer spannend nieuws over Mars kunnen verwachten.
On our quest to find life beyond Earth, scientists first must have to ask themselves: what signs would be the most compelling evidence? Credit: M. Neveu/NASA Astrobiology Program/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
In the past two decades, NASA spacecraft have identified potentially habitable environments throughout the solar system and beyond. Spacecraft on Mars have found evidence that lakes and streams once covered the planet, protected by a long-gone thick atmosphere. At Saturn's moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft sniffed plumes of water jetting out of Enceladus's icy shell—detecting chemistry akin to that occurring in certain places on Earth's seafloor, where seawater chemically reacts with rock (and where living creatures thrive). The upcoming Europa Clipper mission could do the same at Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists have spotted more plumes. Even beyond the solar system, some of the thousands of planets now known to orbit other stars may harbor surface oceans.
The next step in exploring these environments is to find out whether they're actually habitable—and then search for life. Unfortunately, no simple life-detection instrument currently exists. Unless a camera captures a growing mat of bacteria on a Martian rock or alien plankton swimming under Enceladus's ice, scientists must use a suite of instruments and diverse sets of data to look for biosigatures—or signs of life.
But what are those signs? To help answer this question, a team from NASA's Astrobiology Program has developed the "Ladder of Life Detection," a guide for researchers where each rung represents a key attribute of life. The Ladder was published in the journal Astrobiology on June 4, 2018.
The Ladder's Biosignatures
"The Ladder of Life Detection lists 15 features that the astrobiology community proposed to represent indicators of life," said Marc Neveu, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC and lead author of the paper. The Ladder also describes how scientists might measure these features and determine whether they really are evidence of life.
For instance, all life that we know of requires complex organic molecules and uses amino acids—two features in the Ladder.
But just finding these molecules doesn't mean they arose from life. "Many of the molecules that are used by life can be formed without life," said Mary Voytek, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA Headquarters and paper coauthor. For example, chemical reactions on a planet or comet can form amino acids and other organic molecules.
Scientists have to "figure out, with those caveats, how you can say that what you're looking at was produced by life," Voytek said.
An indication would be target molecules found in unique proportions compared to expected levels in the surrounding environment. "The presence of something that's not predicted in the environment is evidence of life," Voytek said. "Life pushes things out of equilibrium."
For instance, organic molecules of a certain complexity (think a Lego car versus individual bricks clicked together) could only have been made by life, Voytek continued. "Chemical complexity is a result of biology—it requires energy or enzymes to make it happen."
Other biosignatures include pigments, indications of metabolism (e.g., waste heat or compounds breathed out by life), or even evidence of Darwinian evolution. The latter can't currently be detected within the timescales of a space mission, but would be the golden ticket to identifying life.
Understanding the Environmental Context
Whether scientists can measure these biosignatures, either remotely or in place, is the next question, Voytek said. It's not just about instrument performance or avoiding the contamination of samples with molecules brought from Earth. Scientists will also need to consider the environmental context. How fragile is the sample? Can our analysis destroy the sample? Does the environment chemically change the sample? Can life tolerate the conditions where the sample came from (like the radiation-exposed surface of Mars or the cold depths of an ocean under ice)?
The Ladder lists answers for each biosignature, based on experience gained by looking for life on Mars and in Earth's oldest rocks and most extreme environments. As it turns out, easier measurements to make (the bottom rungs) might be harder to interpret than rungs further up the Ladder. Climbing the Ladder toward life will require challenging measurements.
Neveu stressed that the rungs on the Ladder aren't set in stone—with more research and discussion, each step of the Ladder can be moved around, and more can be added. He and his coauthors encourage input from the astrobiology community to improve the Ladder.
A new study suggests also looking for "bioessential" elements when searching for alien life.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
(Inside Science) – When it comes to looking for alien life, scientists mostly focus on where there is water. Now researchers suggest that looking at "bioessential" elements such as phosphorus and molybdenum could help judge a world's potential for life.
There is life virtually wherever there is water on Earth, from clouds high above the surface to the deepest layer of Earth's crust. As such, the search for life outside Earth typically concentrates on worlds that are "habitable," possessing temperatures conducive to hosting liquid water on its surface.
For example, although the surface of Venus is currently hot enough to melt lead, a 2016 study suggested it may have been habitable until as recently as 715 million years ago. Scientists have even conjectured that if life once existed on Venus, it still might survive within its clouds.
However, "there are of course other ingredients needed for life as we know it," said study senior author Avi Loeb, chair of astronomy at Harvard University in Cambridge. For example, on Earth, elements that are key to how much life oceans hold may include nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen is needed to create proteins, and both nitrogen and phosphorus are key ingredients of DNA and RNA. Several recent studies suggest the increased availability of phosphorus in the oceans about 635 million to 800 million years ago may have even helped support the evolution of animals on Earth, the researchers noted.
To see what roles such bioessential elements might play in the evolution of alien life, the researchers focused on how accessible they might be on worlds with liquid oceans underneath their frozen surfaces, much like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. "People suspect there may be life in liquid water under the ice in Europa and Enceladus, and both NASA and ESA [the European Space Agency] have plans to visit them with missions such as Europa Clipper 1," Loeb said.
On Earth, a major source of phosphorus in oceans is via the weathering of so-called felsic rock by mildly acidic rainwater. Phosphorus is in turn removed from Earth's seas by hydrothermal activity; prior work suggests hydrothermal activity exists on Enceladus and presumably Europa as well, the researchers said.
Radiation from Jupiter constantly bathes Europa's surface, generating molecules known as oxidants, and as Europa's icy surface churns, these oxidants can enter Europa's hidden seas, where they can react with sulfides and make the water highly acidic. As such, Europa may possess enough phosphorus to support life, although highly acidic oceans might stifle chances for life, the researchers said.
In contrast, previous research suggested the underground oceans of Enceladus may be strongly alkaline. In the new study, the scientists calculated that if a world's oceans are either neutral or alkaline and possess hydrothermal activity, "phosphorus may be entirely removed from the subsurface ocean world in a very short timescale compared to the age of the solar system -- millions of years," said study lead author Manasvi Lingam, an astrophysicist at Harvard.
The scientists also suggested trace metals such as molybdenum, manganese and cobalt might prove bioessential as well. "Molybdenum plays a crucial role in several enzymes, most notably in fixing nitrogen" -- that is, breaking apart the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms in pairs in the atmosphere and "fixing" the resulting single nitrogen atoms into vital organic molecules, Lingam said. In addition, molybdenum "affects protein synthesis as well as metabolism and growth in many organisms," he explained.
Furthermore, "manganese plays an important role in the context of generating oxygen via photosynthesis in chloroplasts," Lingam said. "Cobalt has a variety of biological roles in metabolism -- most notably, it forms a component of the vitamin B-12."
"The idea of a habitable zone goes back to the 1950s, and since that time we've learned a lot, such as the existence of subsurface oceans, so it's important to move our thinking about habitability being just about water to specific elements and chemicals that might be essential for life," said astrophysicist Adam Frank at the University of Rochester in New York, who did not participate in this study.
One way to remotely see if alien worlds outside of our solar system might have bioessential elements is to look at their stars, which might shed light on the compositions of their planets and moons. The presence of an element in a star would generate a unique spectrum of colors visible in its starlight, and "could thereby provide us with some information regarding the habitability of any planets orbiting them," Lingam said.
If a world's levels of bioessential elements are low, that may limit their potential for life as we know it. Although the new study suggested that future missions to Europa and Enceladus only had a slim chance of detecting life, they are "an excellent opportunity to falsify our model, and therefore we are in favor of such missions," Lingam said
Planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not take part in this research, cautioned "these are calculations based on simple assumptions, and we must always remember that planets and moons are more complex than we expect -- that is one of the lessons of the discoveries made by planetary exploration. So we should not take the results as definitive, but as a way of pointing toward some of the observations that ought to be made by future missions."
The researchers cautioned that although bioessential elements might prove rare on average across a world, patches could exist on a world where levels of these elements, and the chances for life, are higher, Lingam said. And of course, the researchers only accounted for life as we know it -- "life as we do not know it might follow different chemical routes than on Earth, which would be a more exciting finding than finding life as we do know it," Loeb said.
WETENSCHAPDe Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft een even mysterieuze als indrukwekkende foto genomen van een blauwe zandduin op Mars. “De duin bestaat uit fijner materiaal en hebben een andere samenstelling dan de omliggende duinen”, luidt het.
De MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) van NASA nam al in januari een foto van de blauwe zandduin op Mars, maar NASA maakt die vandaag pas publiek. De duin ligt in de buurt van de Lyotkrater, waar wel meer zandduinen liggen. Maar wetenschappers hebben vastgesteld dat de opvallende blauwe duin een andere samenstelling heeft dan de andere duinen.
Eigenlijk is het zand op de duin grijs, maar omdat de foto bewerkt is om het contrast te vergroten, valt de duin blauw uit. Dat zegt planetair geoloog Alfred McEwen. Waarom het zand een andere samenstelling heeft, is voorlopig onduidelijk.
Mention the word “Chupacabra” to most people and it will almost certainly provoke imagery of strange, hairless dog-like animals mainly seen in the southwest area of the United States. They are actually coyotes with a few genuinely odd issues that go beyond just mange. It should be noted, however, that what passes for the Chupacabra today is very different to the original Chupacabra that surfaced on Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s. One of the most striking things about the Puerto Rican creature is that in more than a few cases it has been described as having wings. This is, of course, nothing like what has been seen in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. I’ll share with you a few examples from my own files.
In 2004, I headed out to Puerto Rico with a team from the SyFy Channel to make a show on the Chupacabra. The show was titled Proof Positive. One of the witnesses was a woman named Norka, whose encounter occurred midway through 1975, twenty years before the Chupacabra phenomenon began. It was dusk, on a stiflingly hot, weekday night and the atmosphere – as day began to surrender to nightfall – was as normal and tranquil as it had ever been. It wasn’t long, however, before normality and tranquility gave way to something hideous. As Norka drove carefully and slowly along the twisting, climbing road, something suddenly surfaced from the huge, dense trees that stood proud and tall, like gigantic green curtains, and which dominated each side of the road.
Doing barely twenty miles an hour to begin with, Norka was easily able to slow down as a curious beast loomed into view. Norka, looking into the cameras of the SyFy Channel, said that only about twenty feet in front of her was the strangest, most terrifying animal it had ever been her misfortune to encounter. For all intents and purposes, it looked very much like a bat. Except, that is, for one astonishing thing: the abomination was around four to five feet in height.
Not surprisingly, Norka could scarcely believe her eyes as the monster shuffled slowly across the road, its muscular legs taking slow but deliberate strides across the hot tarmac. With her eyes transfixed on the beast, Norka could see that its body was dark brown in color. Two large wings were folded tight against its back. The clawed fingers on its hands – that drooped in curious, limp fashion from its bony wrists – were of a distinct, white-yellow hue. Of a near-identical color were two enormous fangs that protruded from its gaping, almost slack-jawed, mouth. Most frightening of all to Norka were the eyes of the creature: focused intently on Norka herself, they were almost blazing, like red hot coals. It was soon gone from sight.
While I was on Puerto Rico in the summer of 2004, I gave my phone number to all of the Puerto Rico-based crew-members on the Proof Positive shoot, just in case any of them got any leads of the chupacabra variety. As a result, and late one morning not long after I returned home, I received a phone call from a woman I’ll call Rosa. I listened both carefully and intently as Rosa told me how, on a Friday night, around thirteen years previously, she was having a night on the town, in Old San Juan, with one of her girlfriends. The evening was normal, fun and just like any Friday night anywhere on the planet. At least, it was until they decided to head home.
For reasons which neither Rosa nor her friend could ever fathom, both developed a sudden and overpowering urge to drive to El Yunque. It was, said Rosa, as if the pair was in a kind of hypnotic haze. Around 1.00 a.m. they arrived at the base of the rain forest and took a long and winding road – one that I know very well – into its depths. They had driven along the compact, coiling road for around fifteen minutes when they encountered something that was as remarkable as it was terrifying: a very strange animal making its slow way across the road.
Whatever the creature was, it was certainly no regular resident of Puerto Rico. Somewhere in the region of four and a half feet in height, its color was gray, it moved across the road in a curious, tentative fashion (as if, said Rosa, it wasn’t even used to walking), and sported a pair of what were undeniably wings on its hunched back. The wings, she added, were so long, they dragged on the ground for a couple of feet behind the beast. There was one more thing: the animal had a pair of self-illuminating red eyes. That much was apparent when it stopped in its tracks and gave the friends an icy stare, after which it continued on its odd, clumsy, penguin-like walk to the left side of the road and vanished into the trees.
Then there was my 2005 trek around Puerto Rico with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films team from Canada. A resident of a small village that was home to a cool-looking church, one which rather reminded me of an old English castle, our source had an encounter in early 2005 with…well…something. It clearly wasn’t your average chupacabra, but it did end with multiple animal mutilations; so, in that sense, the story has relevance. The month, the man thought, was February, and the time, definitely late evening. He was walking past the old church when an ear-splitting roar filled the air. It came from an area dominated by tall, thick trees and barely fifty feet away. Frozen rigid in his tracks, he stared intently at the woods.
Suddenly, something terrifying happened: a huge, feathery beast burst through the trees and took to the skies. Whatever the creature was, it was no ordinary bird; the incredible size of it, somewhere in the region of a man, made that abundantly clear. The man could only stare in awe as the infernal thing flapped its mighty wings and vanished into the distance.
To keep matters balanced, it’s very important to read the words of Ben Radford on the matter of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra. He said that: “…the origin of the mysterious vampire beast el chupacabra can be traced back to a Puerto Rican eyewitness who saw the 1995 film Species, which featured a nearly identical monster. Though both vampire legends and ‘mysterious’ animal predation date back many centuries, there seems to be no evidence of any blood-sucking ‘chupacabra’ before the 1990s.”
Ben also says: “The chupacabra has two origin stories invoked to help explain its sudden appearance: the first is that the creature is an extraterrestrial brought here by visiting aliens; the second is that the chupacabra is an escaped entity created in a top-secret U.S. government genetics laboratory experiment gone wrong—essentially a classic conspiracy-laden Frankenstein scenario. Not coincidentally, these two origin stories are identical to those of Sil, a chupacabra-like monster in the film Species.”
Ben notes too that in some cases wings have been reported, as have feathers on the backs of the animals. Ben, however, is strongly of the opinion that Species played a major role in the development of the phenomenon. I’m not so sure, primarily because (a) there are cases that predate the 1990s by not just years but by decades; and (b) during the course of my now-eleven trips to Puerto Rico I have had the good fortune to speak to a lot of witnesses to the Chupacabra, and who come across as very credible. What’s important, though, is that whatever your opinion on the undeniably controversial matter of winged-things versus odd-looking coyotes, the Puerto Rican beast is nothing like the one that roams the southwest. And it never has been.
Movies about UFO death cults are few and far between. So those who are in to that sort of thing (UFO death cults), will no doubt be excited at the impending release of The Endless, a critically-acclaimed sci-fi horror from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The directors also star in the movie; they play brothers who find themselves drawn back to Camp Arcadia, a secretive community from which they’d escaped as young men. Hoping their return will bring them some closure, they’re instead confounded by inexplicable phenomena occurring around the camp. Meanwhile, the cult members ominously prepare for a mysterious “event”…
The micro-budget movie has received rave reviews from critics; its vérité aesthetic enhancing the fantastical elements of its plot. The Endless also apparently shares the same creative universe as the directors’ first movie—the genre-defying Resolution (2013). The Endless received a limited US theatrical release back in April this year, but, at this point, very few people will have seen the movie. It arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on this week in the US and will soon available in Europe on VOD.
It’s refreshing to see filmmakers thoughtfully engage with alien themes outside the narrative constraints and popular expectations that come with a mega-budget. There have, of course, been a number of UFO movies over the years that have quietly eschewed traditional approaches to the subgenre (among them The Stranger Within and The Arrivalof Wang), though most of them fail to find an audience upon release. Still, I’m firmly of the opinion that less is often more; what is suggested or implied can be so much more effective than what is shown; a whisper can be louder than a scream. This stripped-back approach was successfully embraced earlier this year in A Quiet Place, in which Earth is invaded by sightless aliens with hypersensitive hearing, sending the remaining human population into silent hiding. The movie cost in the region of $17 million (very modest for Hollywood) and grossed in excess of $326 worldwide. Unsurprisingly, a sequel is now in development.
Perhaps movies like A Quiet Place and The Endless are signalling a new approach to the alien/UFO subgenre of science-fiction, one not reliant upon epic spectacle, the American military, and cheesy one-liners. Roland Emmerich, take note…
This video of ‘Bruce Sees al’ consists of live moon footage of UFOs on the lunar surface.
The recordings of the recent UFO activities have been taken with a CGXL 1400 High Definition Telescope.
All moving objects above the surface of the moon have been zoomed in and analyzed by ‘Bruce Sees al’ and it shows that there is much more UFO activity on the moon than we know.
Mars Had a Seriously Crazy Volcanic Past, New Study of 'UFO' Rocks Reveals
Mars Had a Seriously Crazy Volcanic Past, New Study of 'UFO' Rocks Reveals
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
The Medusae Fossae formation, photographed here by the ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, may be the single largest volcanic deposit in the solar system.
Credit: ESA
Today's Martian weather forecast calls for a hat, sunglasses and anything that will protect you from a planet-wide storm of hellish dust. But a few billion years ago, you might've been able to get by with just a pair of galoshes.
According to a new study published May 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, the entire surface of the Red Planet may have been covered in a single ocean about 3 billion years ago. The water would have been shallow — only about 4 inches (20 centimeters) deep, the study authors wrote. But Mars' "Waterworld" phase would have been just one consequence of a much larger phenomenon.
Beginning about 3.5 billion years ago and continuing for up to 500 million years after that, an outbreak of massive volcanic eruptions may have changed every aspect of the Martian geosphere, the authors wrote.
"[These eruptions] would have marked a pivotal point in the atmospheric, surface and interior evolution of Mars," lead study author and famed Mars-water-finder Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said in a statement.
The bubbling dunes and mesas of Medusae Fossae stretch more than 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) across Mars' equator. Scientists think it was once twice as big.
Credit: ESA
The mystery of the Medusae
For evidence of Mars' volcanic past, Ojha and fellow Johns Hopkins researcher Kevin Lewis looked to the Red Planet's most mysterious landmark: the sprawling collection of wind-sculpted hills and mesas known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF).
"This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system," Ojha said.
This unusual region stretches along Mars' equator over an area about one-fifth the size of the United States, standing in stark contrast to the flat crust nearby. The rocks there are also significantly softer than regular Martian crust and have eroded into strange patterns over time, the researchers said.
This map compares the size of Mars' Medusae Fossae formation to Fish Canyon Tuff, the largest volcanic deposit on Earth.
Credit: American Geophysical Union
Conspiracy theorists like pointing to Medusae Fossae as the site where an alien vehicle crashed. But scientists prefer simpler explanations for the anomalous terrain: Perhaps the rolling rocks are partially made of ice, or perhaps they are porous leftovers of past volcanic eruptions.
To get a clearer answer, Ojha and Lewis compared a slew of radar and gravity data taken during several previous Mars orbiter missions. From these combined measurements, they found that Medusae Fossae was far less dense than the rest of the Martian crust — about two-thirds as dense, to be exact.
According to Ojha, this ruled out the ice explanation right away, because ice is much less dense than rock. If Medusae Fossae were partly made of ice, density measurements would have to be far lower than they were.
However, Medusae Fossae's density closely matched that of a terrestrial rock called ignimbrite, which forms on Earth when fiery volcanic gases cool into solids. The stones are porous and less dense than solid crust — just as the stones of Medusae Fossae appeared to be. To the Johns Hopkins researchers, this was clear evidence that Medusae Fossae was the product of volcanic eruptions. [7 Most Mars-Like Places on Earth]
The biggest eruption in the solar system?
However, the researchers predicted that the Medusae Fossae once covered more than 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) of land. And a volcano doesn't simply create a deposit the size of the U.S. West Coast overnight.
To result in the formation of a region as large as Medusae Fossae, Mars' volcanoes would have to have erupted in enormous explosions, possibly some of the biggest eruptions our solar system has ever seen, the researchers said. What's more, these mammoth volcanic blasts would have to have occurred hundreds of times over a span of about 500 million years to produce a deposit as big as Medusae Fossae.
"The presence of a [volcanic] deposit of this scale on Mars has important implications for our understanding of the planet's volcanic history, its interior and volatile content," the researchers wrote in the paper.
If these eruptions happened, they would have changed the entire planet in myriad ways, Ojha added. Volcanic greenhouse gases would have poured into the sky; Mars' climate would have warmed severely; the composition of Martian soil and crust would have changed, and so much water would have flowed onto the planet's surface that Mars could've become one giant puddle.
Further research into this potentially pivotal moment of Martian history is needed. Luckily, as Mars continues to slowly evolve, humans may have a front-row seat.
Launched in 2014 as the world’s first exhibition on the phenomenon and research of crop circles in a natural science museum – the “Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Centre” – has found its home this year in the new spacious Honeystreet Mill Café, near Alton Barnes in Wiltshire. After a burglary into the winter storage of the exhibition and the theft of essential parts of the display and technical equipment, the exhibition organizers ask crop circle enthusiasts now via crowdfunding for support for the coming summer.
“Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Centre 2018” from July 1st to August 12, 2018 at the Honeystreet Mill Café, neat Alton Barnes, Wiltshire (UK). Copyright: http://www.cropcircleaccess.com
The exhibition’s organizer Monique Klinkenberg who also curated the exhibition together with Andreas Müller. Copyright: A. Müller, grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de
The burglary (read more about it here) of the winter storage rooms was discovered a few weeks ago when the exhibition was to be transported to their new home. High-quality exhibits and panels as well as technical equipment such as digital photo and video frames, cameras, headphones and video projector were stolen. “The total loss was in excess of 5.000 British Pounds (about 6.700 US-Dollar),” reports Monique Klinkenbergh, who had curated and designed the exhibition together with crop circle researcher Andreas Müller originally for the cultural-historical “Wiltshire Museum” in Devizes, GreWi reported. Since then they expanded and supplemented the annual summer exhibition in Wiltshire.
“The exhibition itself was always meant as a self-financed and self-sustained non-profit information and educational project,“ explains Müller. “While previous exhibitions have been a visitor’s success and had already set a visitor’s record in 2014 for the Wiltshire Museum, otherwise known for its original archaeological finds from ancient Stonehenge they always left a financial four-figure loss every year to compensate. Therefore the current theft caused a painful gap.”
Some compiled thumbnails of the “digital version of the crop circle exhibition”, which supporters receive as a small thank-you-gift.
Copyright: http://www.cropcircleaccess.com
For this reason, the exhibition organizers and their numerous volunteers now turn to all crop circle friends who would like to support the exhibition with a private crowdfunding campaign financially: “On the website of the exhibition, there is a donation-button, and if you donate 10 GBP (about 13 US-Dollar) or more, you will receive a copy of the ‘Exhibition at Home’ – your digital edition of the Crop Circle Exhibition, featuring all the (updated) information panels of our previous exhibitions.“
“Every little support is a great help to us” conclude Klinkenbergh and Müller and thank all supporters in advance.
– If you want to support the “Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Center” please visit its website HERE.
WORLD UFO DAY 2017: 9 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE
WORLD UFO DAY 2017: 9 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE
Alien encounters, the type that involve UFOs and blinding lights and extraterrestrial hands probing you, often defy all scientific and logical explanation and are often the same kind of hoaxes baring huge fangs on the cover of The Sun ...
... until they're not.
While infinite faux encounters have been crawling all over the media even before War of the Worlds was taken way more seriously than the dramatization it was supposed to be, actual aliens do lurk among the sensational clickbait of the Internet. Except these accounts expose the real terrors that some Earthlings went through when they saw something they shouldn't have. Or ended up somewhere they shouldn't have. Or ended up with a passenger that shouldn't have been riding shotgun in their car.
However bizarre it might seem to encounter an extraterrestrial light show thousands of feet in the air or to just vanish and show up in your backyard months later thinking it was only a couple of hours (presumably because you were on board something that traveled into the far reaches of space at the speed of light), these experiences that may not be as famous as Roswell and other Area 51's are even more chilling on account of them haunting the memories of people who never worked for the FBI or CIA or even SETI. You might expect a bizarre flash of something when you've been searching for it since the Clinton era. Not so when you're just trying to drive home after dark without your engine breaking down.
Probe these 9 alien encounters that are almost (operative word here) beyond belief and even nonbelievers will find it impossible to stay in the cynic bubble.
01. Those aren't Christmas lights
An amateur astronomer observed something beyond imagination after eyeing a bizarre white flash that was definitely not of this planet.
Heat lightning would have been the assumption, but the night was clear and cloudless with no forecasted storms. Whatever it was briefly lit up the entire night sky with an otherworldly blaze. It tinged the surrounding air, which somehow felt heavier, with a mysterious metallic taste. Then an unexpected flash of red exploded in the darkness. When it seemed things couldn't get much weirder, the light show began.
Alternating white and red flashes appeared, and someone out there must have been having fun twisting human brains because a third flash soon joined the production. It was almost as if they were being beamed into the sky as some sort of mysterious communication mode.
Then came the noise that silenced everything. Frogs stopped croaking, crickets ceased their chirping and the night went deathly silent at the sinister whirring until every dog in the neighborhood started barking like it was the apocalypse. This whirring kept rising in volume as the flashes ascended.
The alien fireworks have never been explained, but the astronomer and a legion of canine witnesses remain forever spooked.
02. The perfect storm (for abduction)
Storms sometimes bring other things down to Earth besides rain.
Thunder and lightning probably aren’t how you'd want to spend your birthday, but Jason Andrews of Kent, England got much more than cake when he turned four in July 1987. He began muttering complex mathematical equations as the sky exploded with lightning. Even Einstein probably hadn't been able to understand math of this level at that age, but Jason kept spewing numbers as if he was on the brink of developing an unprecedented theorem. Then the windows began to tremble when Jason turned to his parents in a trancelike state and said "They are waiting for me! I have to go!" His father struggled to pull him back from the doorway, and as he did so it was as if someone took a tranquilizer to the storm. The windows stopped rattling. The trance broke.
Jason was being drawn towards something — an alien starship? A makeshift lab for probing human specimens? — and probably would have followed the invisible force that had him in its claws if it weren't for his altered state being shattered.
Years later, Jason revealed that he had been getting nightly visits from something definitely not human. The controversial theory behind his experience is that he has some sort of remote viewing capabilities that attracted aliens to him.
Whether or not science thinks this phenomenon is real, there is at least one person on this planet who certainly does.
03.Nobody knows but it's green
Sometimes the monsters aren't under your bed but outside your window. The monsters became real in 2009 for one anonymous witness who only wanted to relax with headphones on when an unearthly sound cut through the edgy guitars and haunting vocals of Tool. It was the type of high-pitched electric sound that assaults your ears — except this wasn't caused by a scratch on the CD. Whatever the source of the noise (which kept getting louder) was bathed the entire room in an ectoplasmic green glow.
Now this is the part when that sinking feeling that warns you not to look out the window, but you do anyway. Because you feel a presence. That presence was an enormous airborne vessel, a triangular metal thing that doesn’t typically take off from any human airport. It was pulsing with orbs of that same eerie green radiation.
As if the fear factor wasn’t enough, the thing then shook the house violently before floating off into the dark unknown. At least it didn't end up hurtling through the sky and crashing in the land of Oz.
This event occurred in northeast Ohio, known to be a hotbed of paranormal activity. Why everything freaky comes out to play there is still beyond science.
04. Roadside attractions
The obstacle that Wisconsin resident William Bosak encountered on the road in 1974 while driving home after dark was no pothole.
Foggy nights can be deceptive, especially when it comes to separating those murky tendrils from something supernatural, but what Bosak saw as he slowed down towards a strange roadside object defies explanation. While the brightness of his headlights seemed to vaporize the bottom half of ... whatever it was ... that which he was able to see would have sent anybody into the middle of the road screaming.
Staring through an enormous glass dome was Chewbacca in spandex ... or, at least it would've made a killer backup for Chewie. This hairy humanoid in a skintight bodysuit had ears protruding from the top of its head and terrified eyes that bulged from a face that could have been a mashup of human and bovine DNA. It looked as if it had thrown its arms above its head in surrender. Just one eyeful of this ten-foot monster was enough to make Bosak frantically step on the accelerator, but to his horror, the lights inside his car went dark and a suspicious noise suggested the engine was missing.
That the former UFO skeptic now believes is an understatement.
05. Morphing on the fly
In 1989, an airline pilot taking off from Kansas City International Airport flew into something unexpected when he encountered an alien white disc among the clouds.
Almost an illusion at first, the disc appeared dim to pilot Andrew Danziger until the plane began to descend. Hovering above the clouds where the disc had been, an immense red orb not unlike a blood moon or blazing sunset sent the pilot and his copilot into a psychological tailspin (they somehow managed not to spook the passengers). It also started playing a deranged game at 13,000 feet.
As the aircraft lost altitude, so did the orb. There was a moment of relief when it seemed to vanish into a cloud — only to re-manifest within the clouds as hundreds of flashing lights that would rival anyone's electric holiday display. Even more mind-blowing, the cloud this thing had descended into was now pulling itself apart like galactic goo.
The second it succeeded in tearing itself apart, everything that had been materializing for the last 40 minutes disappeared. Danziger filed a UFO report stat after landing. Even creepier is that he was just one of many to report the phenomenon involving this unidentified flying whatever.
Nothing was ever identified by air traffic controllers.
06. Garden gnomes from outer space
The peculiar figures that appeared at one Wisconsin couple's door one night were mistaken for trick-or-treaters who had forgotten Halloween was over — until they floated.
Whoever (or whatever) rang the doorbell was a wrinkled life-form that looked like a cross between a scarecrow and a garden gnome that could have been a horror movie extra. Obscuring its face was a floppy hat from which stray tufts of hair stuck out and its chin was unnaturally sharp. It was either nonverbal or refused to speak -- what must have been its mouth was a puckered toothless void.
The creature was also clutching a strange white staff that the couple soon realized wasn't made of anything earthly when the creature reacted to human hands reaching out to touch it and make sure it wasn't a teenage prank. When it raised the staff and struck the sidewalk, it floated backwards. Its four companions were standing silently in the grass and on the asphalt like lawn ornaments. They were all clutching their staffs, thought to be energy rods powered by an unknown force, levitating several inches above ground. By morning, they disappeared as mysteriously as they had arrived.
Whatever these things were, they were anything but costumed humans.
07. Glow-in-the-dark hitchhikers
Orbs of unexplained origin seem to be a common thread in UFO sightings, but this one just takes that otherworldly glow to a whole new level.
When a security officer was driving home on a South Dakota highway in 2011, hundreds of mysterious red lights started to appear and circle the moving car like some sort of alien halo. Though the driver thought he was still doing 60, the car was decelerating with absolutely no explanation. Then the lights vanished and the car sped up ...
Just as unexplained as the vanishing light halo was what appeared in its absence. The officer noticed something strange — beyond strange — at the side of the road. Then the thing was on the car. It was a glowing, translucent life-form with gangly arms that stretched right through the roof of the officer's vehicle. Spindly fingers ran down his back and left a burning sensation.
But there was more where that came from. By the curb was another glowing creature that could only be described as the evil version of Hoggle from Labyrinth.
The translucent thing made itself a passenger until it sensed more humans. Then it vanished, but the horror never did.
08. Monolithic madness
When Lee Parish was driving home in the dark back in 1977, the road was surprisingly well-lit — but not by a streetlight.
What Parish remembered under hypnosis later on was that a huge rectangular UFO floating above his Jeep was lighting the way. Of course, it wasn't just there to function as a superpowered flashlight. His car then came to a sudden stop directly beneath the strange spacecraft. While alien forces messing with auto innards isn't exactly unknown, what supposedly happened next was almost unbelievable. The hypnotized Parish recalled that his car was somehow being levitated by the UFO. He then found himself standing inside it.
The spacecraft’s inner chamber was circular with white walls that emitted an otherworldly glow. (Everything apparently has to glow in alien starships.) He was surrounded by three blocky beings (which also glowed from within). The black entity was the nightmare version of a 20-foot-tall suitcase, while the red one was like a walking one-armed Coke machine. The white one, the obvious leader, was two-armed and square-headed.
The creatures examined Parish with an unnervingly freezing touch that sung wherever their limbs and half-limbs went exploring. Then, with no explanation, they merged into each other and vanished.
Parish might have gotten away, but the unfortunate Jeep's electrical systems soon failed.
09. When the dead aren't dead
Sometime in the 1960s, somewhere in Ethiopia, a boy named Gabriel was running around the backyard with his friend when he just disappeared. Just like that. Then he materialized six months later. Just like that.
After everyone who thought Gabriel was dead could be assured they were not seeing a ghost, he recounted a story that wouldn't have been out of place on The Twilight Zone ...
Gabriel had been led into a glowing, windowless white room by benevolent humanoid creatures. Inside were child abductees from all over planet Earth. (How they and the 'men' who had abducted them could understand each other was a mystery.) With the press a button on the wall, a bed instantly appeared — which makes you wonder how long some of those kids had been on board.
Before Gabriel knew it, he found himself standing in a sparkling city, surrounded by supernatural skyscrapers and flying cars. Beings that appeared both human and alien walked streets that almost shone. The boy was then taken to an impossibly tall building by one of his captors and shown to a room in which he could push any button and be transported to any number of places. When he was told he needed to stay a while, he had no idea exactly how long "a while" would be. He claimed it felt like a mere couple of hours.
This is why you never, ever go off with strangers.
Say goodbye to ET, Marvin the Martian and Yoda. Humans are probably the only intelligent life in the universe, researchers from the University of Oxford have reported in a paper posted to academic preprint server arXiv.
The researchers found “a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53–99.6 percent and 39–85 percent respectively).”
The team investigated the so-called "Fermi paradox," which asks: "If intelligent alien life exists, why haven’t we heard from it?"
NASA's Great Observatories image the Milky Way. Is there anyone alive out there?JPL-CALTECH/CXC/STSCI/ESA//NASA
As of June 24, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 was about 22 miles (36 km) from Ryugu. The craft will get slightly closer over the next several days. Latest images here.
The closest view of Ryugu released so far, from a distance of only 62 miles (100 kilometers), on June 20, 2018, showing a rough diamond shape, craters and boulders, as well as a bright spot bear the top point of the diamond.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is now rapidly approaching asteroid Ryugu, providing the first-ever close-up views of this near-Earth object. According to The Mainichi, a news source covering the encounter from Japan, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said on June 24, 2018, that the Hayabusa 2 space probe has successfully completed a course adjustment and entered the final leg of its 4.5-year journey to the asteroid. Its planned arrival will be on June 27. Meanwhile, JAXA has also released a new set of images, showing a roughly diamond-shaped body – also being compared to a spinning top – with boulders and craters.
As of June 24, the most recently released images are from a distance of 136-62 miles (220-100 km). A bright spot can be seen near the top point of the diamond (shades of Ceres?) and what may be an equatorial ridge, something seen elsewhere in the solar system as well, such as on Saturn’s moon Iapetus and several other Saturn moons (Atlas, Pan, Daphnis).
The images are already showing quite a bit of detail, and of course, they will only get better as the spacecraft gets even closer!
Ryugu is small, with a diameter of about 2,788-2,887 feet (850 to 880 meters), and has an appearance similar to the asteroid Bennu, which the U.S. spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will encounter in 2020. Hayabusa 2 will attempt to send both a small lander and rovers to the surface of the asteroid, as well as bring samples back to Earth for study.
Additional images from Hayabusa 2’s approach, from June 18-20.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
When I saw these images, I was surprised that Ryugu is very similar in shape to both the destination of the U.S. OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and also the target of the previously proposed MarcoPolo-R mission by Europe, asteroid 2008 EV5. Bennu and 2008 EV5 are about half the diameter (and 1/8 the volume) of Ryugu, with rotation periods about half as long. In other words, these celestial bodies are small and rotating fast compared to Ryugu. On the other hand, Bennu is a B-type asteroid, which is very similar to C-type asteroids such as 2009 EV5 and Ryugu. Therefore there should also be common properties due to the asteroid type. So we have both differences and similarities that have combined to produce very similar shapes … why is that? I think this is very interesting. So far, the asteroids we have explored have been different in shape, so Ryugu and Bennu could be the first time two similar-shaped asteroids have been examined. It will be interesting to clarify exactly what this similarity means scientifically.
Images from Hayabusa 2’s approach to Ryugu, from between June 17-18, 2018.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
After Hayabusa 2 arrives at Ryugu, it will be only 12.5 miles (20 km) above the asteroid’s surface. Between this coming September and July of next year, one small lander (called MASCOT-1) and three small rovers (called MINERVA-II) will be deployed to the surface. Before then, however, the spacecraft will need to study the asteroid to find the best landing locations. As Yoshikawa noted:
If the axis of rotation for Ryugu is close to the vertical direction in this image, there is a big advantage as it will be possible to know almost the entire appearance of Ryugu at an early stage after arrival. This makes the project planning easier. However, it is also possible that potential landing sites may be limited to the equator of Ryugu. I hope we can find a suitable place to set down the lander and rovers.
Ryugu is already proving to be an interesting body, as described by optical navigation camera principal investigator Seiji Sugita:
As we approached Ryugu and were able to distinguish individual features in the asteroid’s topology, it became clear that Ryugu has a land of rich terrain. Numerous clusters of rock roll on the surface. Among these, a large rocky mass (about 150m across) stands out on the upper part of Ryugu due to its brighter color (higher reflectivity). The belt-shaped ring of peaks that surround the equator are also slightly brighter than their surroundings. This color difference may reflect a difference in material composition and the size of the particles that form the rock. We can also see many sunken regions that look like craters. These depressions may have been made in collisions with other celestial bodies. A structure that looks like a grove is also visible.
The existence of such varied topographies is an indication that Ryugu has undergone a complex evolutionary history. It is generally believed that small asteroids that are less than .6 miles (1 km), such as Ryugu, were created fairly recently in the solar system’s history (within several hundred million years) during the fragmentation of a larger parent body. Ryugu’s terrain will tell us about the division from the parent body and the asteroid’s subsequent evolution.
Artist’s concep of Hayabusa 2 at Ryugu. Image via JAXA.
Hayabusa 2 is the second asteroid sample-return mission by JAXA. The first, Hayabusa, was launched in 2003 and arrived at the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Despite some problems, 1,500 grains of rock from the asteroid were successfully returned to Earth in June 2010. Hayabusa 2 is scheduled to return its samples back to Earth in 2020.
Want more details? Check out Scott Manley’s video, below:
Bottom line: We are now getting our first close-up look at a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu, thanks to the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2. Its “diamond” or “spinning top” shape might seem peculiar, but its shape is similar to that of another asteroid, Bennu, which will also receive its first earthly visitor, the U.S. spacecraft OSIRIS-REx, in 2020.
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Were ALIEN-HUMAN Hybrids
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Were ALIEN-HUMAN Hybrids
The pharaohs of historical Egypt might have been alien-human hybrids, based on a new strange conspiracy theory going around on the internet.
Believers have created mocked-up images from the gods alongside extraterrestrials. This is to demonstrate how they might have been human beings along with elongated brains.
The reviews state that Egyptian stories date their own origins returning to the Zep Tepi. That explicates as the actual “first time”, a “golden age” whenever legend states gods originated from the atmosphere in eggs or vessels.
The hypotheses advise that superior lifeforms transferred their information or came up with the monuments prior to civilisations surfaced.
One conspiracy theory website assigns a whole area to the discussion that “aliens built the actual pyramids.” The early Egyptians could hardly have the knowledge of creating the pyramids.
It takes the large leap through the mystery to state it must be aliens.
The theory states: “The ones that they apparently built as a residence to the remains of lifeless pharaohs?
“Everyone believed that ancient Egyptians built them! However, that is incorrect.
“ALIENS built them!”
“Let’s glimpse at some incontrovertible proof.”
This states: “Here’s what truly happened: A few aliens, travelling high enough on the Earth in order to see the location where the Nile Delta’s origin is actually, easily noticed what direction the pyramid should be so as to have its diagonals lie upon those 2 lines.”
“These aliens, rich in their expertise and with all that technology, arrived and taking advantage of their compasses. They got on Earth and located the actual North as well as South Poles. Then they constructed the pyramids.”
The Sun, sets within the exact centre of the 2 pyramids.
During the time, the Egyptians didn’t understand the precise duration of a year, or even when the summertime solstice.
It states aliens might, nevertheless, happen to be able to determine the lengthiest day in a year.
Sunlight also goes up and remnants the head from the Sphinx within the winter solstice, the website highlights.
The website says: “The extraterrestrials, with their variety of knowledge, came straight down in the year ten, 500 BC and constructed the Pyramids as well as the Sphinx.
“They made it using a head of the lion to complement the Belt of Orion, and the groundation of Leo.
The site indicates that in case humans could hardly have done this, then exceptional aliens probably were included.
However, on the other hand, ancient aliens debunked. com is as similarly excited about evidence that people could have constructed the pyramids when historical past tells us these were constructed.
Within an article concerning the pyramids, the site claims the alleged unfinished obelisk, is 1.000 tones. It is made out of granite. However, was forgotten midway due to the fact a split created.
This said: “The stone, as it is not finished, provides us immediate insight into how they trim and formed granite, along with other stones.
“Right after they shaped the stones, working with pounding stones, Egyptians would start to polish the stones with grinders.
“There were various kinds of stone mills, or polishers, in historic Egypt.
“Around 85% of the rock used in the development of the pyramids was fairly soft sandstone. It was quarried right on the spot.”
This swirling pattern of color isn’t some long-lost Van Gogh oil painting — it’s Jupiter and its tumultuous vortices that dot the gas giant’s northern hemisphere.
The picture was snapped by the Juno spacecraft on May 23, 2018, during the spacecraft’s 13th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 9,600 miles from the planet’s cloud tops.
Behold the dreamy beauty of Jupiter's clouds
According to NASA, the darker clouds are found deeper in the Jovian planet’s atmosphere while the bright clouds are found higher up into the atmosphere. These bright clouds are likely made of ammonia or ammonia and water, mixed with some yet unknown chemical ingredients. The bright oval at the bottom center of the picture which resembles a cosmic eye appears uniformly white to ground-based telescopes. From very close, however, we can resolve fine-scale features within the weather system. Just like in the case of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, winds probably slow down greatly toward the center, where there doesn’t seem to be that much motion compared to the exterior of the eye.
Remarkably, the image was not processed by NASA. Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran were responsible for the final image, who used data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. Check out more pictures like this but also unprocessed data that anyone can use at the Juno Mission homepage.
This month, Juno was supposed to reach the climax of its mission by diving into the gas giant. NASA, however, decided to offer a three-year extension to the mission which means more opportunities for both science and eye candy such as the view feature here. Juno’s end of prime operations is now expected in July 2021, with data analysis and mission close-out activities continuing into 2022.
“This is great news for planetary exploration as well as for the Juno team,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno, from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “These updated plans for Juno will allow it to complete its primary science goals. As a bonus, the larger orbits allow us to further explore the far reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere — the region of space dominated by Jupiter’s magnetic field — including the far magnetotail, the southern magnetosphere, and the magnetospheric boundary region called the magnetopause.”
“We have also found Jupiter’s radiation environment in this orbit to be less extreme than expected, which has been beneficial to not only our spacecraft, but our instruments and the continued quality of science data collected.”
What has NASA's Juno discovered around Jupiter so far?
Neither of NASA’s two Mars-based rovers nor the Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back any especially compelling photos of the Red Planet lately, thanks to a “planet-encircling” dust storm that’s made photography hard over the last couple of weeks. To remind us that, hey, there’s more to Mars than clouds of red dust, NASA recently released a stunning photo of an unexpectedly turquoise sand dune, shot in January. Alfred McEwen, Ph.D., one of the scientists who run the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment — HiRISE — camera that took this photo, explained to Inverse how this strange image came to be.
Mars: Once in a Blue Dune
The photo, posted by NASA on June 20, was taken by the HiRISE on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 24. It zooms in on the floor of Lyot Crater, where a bunch of regular sand dunes is overlaid by one huge blue sand dune, sprawling over the landscape like a giant turquoise slug. The smaller dunes are classic barchan dunes — the technical term for a crescent-shaped dune formed by gusts of wind. The big blue one, however, “appearing like turquoise blue in enhanced color, is made of finer material and/or has a different composition than the surrounding,” said NASA in a press release. McEwen, a planetary geologist and director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona, explained the extent to which photo enhancement created the striking blue color in an email to Inverse.
“The images are given min-max stretches in each individual color image to increase contrast,” he says. “The dunes are actually grey, but appear relatively blue after such a stretch because most of Mars is red.”
The dune is grey, not blue, but it appears turquoise relative to the red hue that colors most of Mars.
The reason HiRISE photos have to undergo so much editing is because, to the naked eye (or camera lens), the surface of Mars actually looks quite bland and blurry because all you really see from above is light reflecting off the dust in the atmosphere. Even the HiRISE, with its unprecedented resolution (it can image objects on Mars as small as three feet tall), can’t get around the dust. So, to see images in fine detail, the team has to turn up the contrast — which often leads to a dramatic shift in color. The photos below, of Mars’s Nili Patera region, shows what a difference some editing can make.
Images of the Nili Patera region of Mars -- a proposed landing site for future missions.
In an article for the HiRISE website written in 2016, McEwan explained how the color enhancement process created the above photos.
At the top is an apprximation of the natural color as seen by people with normal color vision—almost no surface detail is visible. In the middle is the standard HiRISE IRB color product, consisting of the infrared, red, and blue-green images displayed as red, green, and blue, respectively, and with a min-max stretch applied to each color. In other words, the darkest pixel in the entire image is set to black, the brightest pixel is set to white, and all others are linearly interpolated. At bottom is an enhanced color product, in which each bandpass is given a linear stretch for the local subimage, sometimes saturating a small percentage of data to black or white to give the rest of the scene more contrast, followed by color saturation enhancement. Now we can see a diversity of colors that distinguish different surface units: dust, sand, and rocks with different minerals.
The same process produced the now-iconic blue dune, shown in a color-enhanced version below.
The blue dune appears turquoise in the color-enhanced version of the image.
In short, the blue dune isn’t actually blue, but if it wasn’t edited to look blue, it wouldn’t be nearly as impressive. Mars purists can rest assured: Its reputation as the Red Planet is intact for now.
Camera detects high speed unknown object near Mars
Camera detects high speed unknown object near Mars
On June 24, 2018 a sky watcher while recording Mars in the SSW sky he noticed something else that was moving at a very high rate of speed.
Despite that the object is probably at a distance from Mars, it is not likely that it would be a satellite since it moves too fast and it not follows a straight flight path like satellites do.
If you look carefully at the unknown object it rotates and it changes colors too.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m not busy researching or reading about strange phenomena, I like to kick back and enjoy a TV show or movie about some of my favorite subjects –– whether it’s catching Ancient Aliens, Curse of Oak Island or Finding Bigfoot during the week or making time on the weekends to watch an oldie but a goodie from the Area 51 movie archives.
Here are some of our favorites that, like the UFOs they describe, have flown under the radar. All three are based on true stories.
The crash at Roswell, for many UFOlogists, is the grandaddy of the whole phenomena. Whatever happened back on Mac Brazel’s New Mexico ranch back in 1947 touched off a series of events that forever changed the way we look at the skies, as well as how we look at our own government.
This is a serious film with serious actors. Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen each do an outstanding job with the material which is presented in a series of flashbacks at a military reunion 30 years after the crash. The storytelling is intelligent and compelling; this isn’t a dry documentary. If you care about why Roswell was such a big deal, you need to see this movie.
If you don’t know Whitley Strieber, you owe it to yourself to check him out. He’s the author of horror/paranormal classics The Wolfen (werewolves) and The Hunger (vampires) as well as the book behind this movie, Communion. But Communion isn’t a work of fiction, or is it?
Christopher Walken, Haunting in Communion
In Communion, published as non-fiction, Strieber claims he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York on the evening of December 26, 1985 by non-human beings who may or may not have been of extraterrestrial origin. Although the book is seen as an account of alien abduction, Strieber himself merely refers to the beings as “the visitors,” a name meant to suggest that the beings witnessed as part of these events may exist in reality or only in his own mind—a twist worthy of Philip K. Dick.
The movie is bizarre, disturbing and deeply uncomfortable to watch, which is precisely why you need to see it. If you have even a passing interest in the alien abduction phenomenon or in the permeable veil between sanity and insanity, you will enjoy Communion. Plus, it stars one of the most bizarre and haunting actors of all time, Christopher Walken, in the main role.
Strieber has gone on to be a luminary in the paranormal research world. See his latest at Unknown Country or listen to him at Dreamland.
Fire in the Sky is a completely different look at the UFO abduction phenomenon. Where Communion is cerebral and introspective, Fire in the Sky is grounded in the real world of human jealousy, rivalry and frailty.
In 1975, Travis Walton was driving home from his logging job in the White Mountains of Arizona with some of his co-workers. That evening, they encountered an unidentified object in the sky. Walton gets out of the truck to have a look and is struck by a beam of light from the object, sending him flying backwards with great force. His co-workers flee the scene; when they later return, Walton is missing.
What ensues is a cross between a missing persons investigation and a murder mystery, with back-and-forth between the police and the loggers who stick to their UFO story. Walton finally turns up days later alive—naked, dehydrated and babbling—at a gas station.
We finally learn Walton’s ominous fate in a horrifying flashback to what happened aboard the craft. It is everything that alien abduction nightmares are made of.
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Here's the scientific explanation for that 'alien spaceship' on Mars
Here's the scientific explanation for that 'alien spaceship' on Mars
Mars has lengthy been everybody’s hands-down favourite within the seek for extraterrestrial lifestyles. It has got rocky landscapes, Nationwide Park-worthy canyons, and a basic look that resembles Arizona stripped of crops and comfort retail outlets.
It is no marvel then that newbie explorers have spent years in entrance in their laptops scrutinizing this international for clues to lifestyles. The net footage they find out about — taken via a medley of rovers and orbiters — make up a wealthy corpus of images for those extremely motivated sleuths. However few of them are on the lookout for fungi or different back-burner biology. They hope to search out proof of suave beings that both visited Mars or have been as soon as Pink Planet natives.
Crashed alien spacecraft?
It is a beautiful and intriguing thought. Additionally it is not likely to pan out. Certainly, those homebody detectives simply suffered every other setback. In a paper printed lately within the “Magazine of Geophysical Analysis: Planets,” scientists at Johns Hopkins College be offering a easy reason behind the bizarre topography of an artifact that some mistook for a crashed alien spaceship. They are saying the purported spacecraft is if truth be told one thing just a geologist may love — the handiwork of historic volcanism, no longer Vulcans.
The artifact is situated in a area of Mars referred to as the Medusae Fossae Formation. It is a strange-looking geologic deposit the dimensions of Alaska and Texas mixed. Additionally it is notable for the truth that radar alerts aimed its manner are simplest weakly mirrored, a “stealth” characteristic that some believe to be most likely unnatural. In the end, stealth airplane are engineered to be arduous to peer on radar. Had one thing or any person controlled to do the similar with the terrain of the Medusae Fossae?
The Medusae Fossae Formation is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars. This is an infrared image mosaic generated using Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) images from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter mission; the small colored globe based on the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Image credit: NASA.
Geologic map of the MC-23 NW quadrangle on Mars, highlighting MFF units in solid colors. The landing site targeted for the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) rover is shown inside Gale crater, at center left. The new mapping reveals MFF materials much closer to Gale crater than had been previously recognized.
(Credit: James R. Zimbelman and Stephen P. Scheidt, Smithsonian)
Uniformly bedded materials visible within western MFF (left) and near the top of the large central mound in Gale crater (right). Portions of two HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) frames.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
The purported spaceship is huge in comparison to our personal rockets — concerning the measurement of the Notre Dame soccer stadium. Even so, it is just about misplaced within the corrugated expanse of the Medusae Fossae Formation. But when you’ll be able to in finding it, and if you happen to screw up your eyes, it looks as if a saucer-shaped craft that bungled its touchdown and slid into the Martian filth. Extraterrestrial passengers — assuming there have been any — both phoned house and have been rescued way back or disappeared into the adverse landscapes of the Pink Planet.
Essential, if true. Certainly, it will be as nice a discovery as that of Columbus. However as soon as once more, the eyes and brains of people that wish to imagine that is visible proof for extraterrestrial beings have proven themselves to be at risk of deception. The evidence of that comes from the paintings of the Johns Hopkins researchers, who moderately decided the homes of the “touchdown website online.” They measured the common density of the fabric in Medusae Fossae, and it seems to be low — just one.7 occasions the density of water. That is light-weight in comparison to the common density of Earth’s crust, which is three.zero occasions that of water.
No Klingon cloaking tool
Conclusion? Medusae Fossae isn’t cast rock, however layers of particles — volcanic ash that was once spewed into the Martian skies way back. Its low radar reflectance isn’t some manifestation of Klingon cloaking generation however what you would be expecting from a pile of grainy, volcanic ejecta.
What does this say concerning the saucer artifact? In keeping with Ross Beyer, a analysis scientist on the SETI Institute, the meant spacecraft is “only a hill.” It is some increased topography that was once swamped billions of years in the past via all that volcanic particles, he mentioned, a “lone small hill or knob that existed prior to the ash blanketed numerous actual property. This can be the top of a taller hill that was once buried, and there is also different hills on this area that weren’t as tall and are buried utterly, leaving simplest this one status above the particles.”
In different phrases, similar to an iceberg, lots of the suspected saucer’s bulk is invisible — hidden via a sea of unfastened crud. It is ash, no longer a crash.
However take a look at the intense aspect. You might want to know that Mars isn’t any such bad extraterrestrial vacation spot finally. In all probability we will have to alert the extraterrestrial beings that, somewhat than heading for New Mexico and a crack-up within the wilderness, they will have to steer as an alternative towards the fourth rock from the solar.
And for me and my colleagues — sure, it will be transformational to search out evidence of extraterrestrials, and albeit, attempting to find artifacts is a technique to try this. Simply no longer this one!
Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer on the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and host of the “Giant Image Science” podcast.
Humanity may be as few as 10 years away from discovering evidence of extraterrestrial life. Once we do, it will only deepen the mystery of where alien intelligence might be hiding.
Enrico Fermi was an architect of the atomic bomb, a father of radioactivity research, and a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who contributed to breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. But in the popular imagination, his name is most commonly associated with one simple, three-word question, originally meant as a throwaway joke to amuse a group of scientists discussing UFOs at the Los Alamos lab in 1950: Where is everybody?
Fermi wasn’t the first person to ask a variant of this question about alien intelligence. But he owns it. The query is known around the world as the Fermi paradox. It’s typically summarized like this: If the universe is unfathomably large, the probability of intelligent alien life seems almost certain. But since the universe is also 14 billion years old, it would seem to afford plenty of time for these beings to make themselves known to humanity. So, well, where is everybody?
In the seventh episode of Crazy/Genius, a new podcast from The Atlantic on tech, science, and culture, we put the question to several experts, including Ellen Stofan, the former chief scientist of nasa and current director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Adam Frank, a writer and astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; Anders Sandberg, a scientist and futurist at the University of Oxford; and Tim Urban, the science essayist at Wait But Why.
Proposed solutions to Fermi’s Paradox fit into three broad categories.
One: They’re nowhere—and no-when.
Aliens don’t exist, and they never have. This scenario might have seemed more likely in the universe imagined by Aristotle and Ptolemy—a small assortment of celestial orbs spinning around a singular Earth. But that isn’t the universe anybody lives in. After searching the skies for Earthlike planets for centuries, cosmologists have, in the last two decades, broken open the cosmic piñata. Today they estimate as many as 500 billion billion sunlike stars, with 100 billion billion Earthlike planets. The more we learn about the universe, the more absurd it would seem if all but one of those bodies were bereft of life. To my mind, this is both the least likely answer to Fermi’s Paradox and the only one that fits all the evidence currently available to astrophysicists.
Two: Life is out there—but intelligence isn’t.
Ellen Stofan predicts that we’ll find evidence of simple life on Mars or a faraway moon within the next 10 to 30 years. But she’s imagining something more like microbes or algae, not underwater cities in the liquid-methane lakes of Titan. This shifts the question from “Where is everybody?” to a more sophisticated query: Whatprecisely is keeping an infinitude of dumb molecules from assembling to form an abundance of intelligent life?
Think about all the factors that add up to the creation of a human. First the spark of life, followed by the creation of simple cells, then complex multicellular organisms, then the formation of organs like brains. If humanlike intelligence is rare, one of these steps must be quite insurmountable. For example, it’s notable that Earth has several million species of life, but only one has produced a civilization—that we know of. The relative silence of the universe suggests some kind of “Great Filter” that is restricting the creation of more intelligent beings. More ominously, some scientists think it’s possible that this Great Filter isn’t in our distant past, but rather in our future; so, it’s not that intelligent life is rare, but rather that it pops into existence for a few thousand years before getting wiped out of existence for mysterious reasons.
Three: Intelligent life is abundant—but quiet.
This possibility, known as the zoo hypothesis, invites some of the strangest speculation. Maybe humanity is still so basic and primitive that advanced civilizations don’t think we’re worth talking to. Or maybe those other civilizations have learned that broadcasting their existence leads to extermination at the hands of violent, intergalactic colonizers. Or maybe our solar system just happens to be located in a quiet, exurban cul-de-sac of the universe, an accident of cosmic geography. But none of these theories hold a candle to my favorite conjecture of all: slumbering digital aliens. To understand why intelligent life might prefer to be based in a computer or cat-napping through the Anthropocene, check out the episode.
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«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d’un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej
«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d’un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej
Un bolide est passé au-dessus de plusieurs régions du centre-ouest russe, provoquant l’émoi de ses habitants qui partagent les images de l’évènement sur la Toile.
Des habitants de la ville russe de Voronej (centre-ouest) ont eu la chance d’assister à la chute d’un astéroïde. Des vidéos du rare phénomène ont été diffusées sur le réseau social VKontakte:
«Je pensais qu’il y aurait une onde de choc, comme à Tcheliabinsk, et j’ai commencé à filmer, mais il n’y a pas eu d’explosion», écrit un témoin oculaire.
Un autre habitant avoue avoir cru qu’un ovni passait au-dessus de la ville:
«On dirait un ovni, et j’ai eu peur. Ce truc était si lumineux», confie-t-il.
La chute du corps céleste a été également observée dans les régions voisines de Lipetsk, Orel et Toula. Selon la chercheuse Liana Leonova de l’Université d’État de Voronej, il s’agirait d’un météore ou d’un débris spatial qui a brûlé dans l’atmosphère à l’approche de la Terre.
«Il pourrait s’agir de tout ce que vous voulez: par exemple, d’un déchet spatial. Il est pourtant peu probable que ce soit une météorite d’origine naturelle», estime Mme Leonova.
En février 2013, un météore d’un diamètre de 15 à 17 mètres et d’une masse estimée à entre 7.000 et 10.000 tonnes s’est fragmenté au-dessus de Tcheliabinsk (Oural du sud), créant une onde de choc qui a détruit des milliers de vitres et fait plus de 1.600 blessés dans la ville. Source
«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d'un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej (vidéos)
Images and video of the daylight meteor seen over Russia on June 21. The small asteroid exploded in the air; fragments may have reached Earth. Plus … why are so many large meteors seen over Russia?
A bright meteor was seen in near daylight on June 21, 2018, over several Russian cities, including Lipetsk, which is located southeast of Moscow. The fast fireball produced an amazing smoke trail that remained visible during several minutes. NASA’s fireball records indicate the event occurred on June 21 at 01:16:20 UTC. Sensors detected that the space rock produced an explosion equivalent to 2.8 kilotons. That explosion size corresponds to the disintegration of a small asteroid of about 13 feet (4 meters) in diameter. That size is in contrast to the estimated 65-foot (20-meter) asteroid that exploded in the air over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.
Infrasound sensor detectors registered the low frequencies produced by the explosion of the space rock as it entered Earth’s atmosphere. And some caught the meteor on dashboard cameras, as was the case, apparently, in the video at the top of this page by Alexander Dundin.
Although intense friction with the air would have caused most of the space rock to disintegrate, it is possible that small fragments may have reached Earth’s surface.
Location of Lipetsk, Russia, one of several cities over which the June 21 daylight meteor was seen.
Why so many meteor events over Russia? Russia is the largest country in the world, thus its large territorial extension makes it the target with most probability for a space rock to hit, after the seas. About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered by water, which means that most meteorites do fall into the sea.
Science centers and museums around the world will celebrate Asteroid Day on June 30, an event to create awareness and educate our communities about asteroids.
Bright twilight meteor seen over several Russian cities on June 21, 2018. Image is a screen shot from the video above.
Twilight meteor over Russia, June 21, 2018.
Bottom line: Images and video of the 13-foot (4-meter) asteroid seen in near daylight on June 21, 2018, over various Russian cities. It exploded in the air, but some fragments may have reached the ground. Plus … why so many large meteors are seen over Russia.
Ok, let’s go ahead and get it out of the way: SPACE FORCE!
Breaking: "NASA New Plan To Save Earth From Asteroids" Just Released
Yes, 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump announced this month the creation of the United States Space Force which pretty much already existed in the form of the Air Force Space Command and was almost universally opposed by military leadership, but hey, who cares? Yell it with me now while waving ol’ glory in front of a montage of exploding bald eagles: SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE!
“GET SOME, ASTEROIDS!”
While the creation of the USSF (SPACE FOOOOOOOORCE!!) has been controversial and fodder for late-night comics the world over, it does highlight the fact that space is playing an increasingly important role in military operations. All of the major superpowers operate some form of space-based weaponry or ‘killer’ satellites, while US intelligence agencies have been warning for months now that like winter, war in space is coming. While these man-made spaceborne threats are indeed terrifying, the fact remains that the most pressing threats from outer space are the hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly near-Earth objects (NEOs) circling the solar system biding their time.
Were pretty much surrounded.
NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been conducting ‘wargame’ simulations over the last few years to test their preparedness ahead of any future asteroid impact events (Remember: it’s a question of when and where, not if). The result of those simulations is the White House’s latest National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan released earlier this week. The 23-page documentoutlines how various agencies of the U.S. government plan to increase their preparedness over the next decade and develop strategies for both mitigating the risks of NEO impacts and planning what to do in the event of the inevitable next strike.
The White House lists five main goals for the NEO plan: enhance NEO detection, tracking, and characterization capabilities; enhance NEO modeling, prediction, and information integration; develop technologies for NEO deflection and disruption missions; increase international cooperation for NEO preparation; and strengthen and routinely exercise NEO impact emergency procedures and action protocols. Not exactly light nighttime reading for those of us who know it could happen anywhere and at anytime.
Remember the Chelyabinsk meteor strike in 2013 that injured over 1,000 people? It was a total surprise.
The document is mostly background information on NEOs and acronym-heavy bureaucratic language laying out which agencies will be tasked with which tasks (my favorite is “terrestrial migration”). Above all, the big takeaway is that NEOs are indeed a major threat, one for which we’re still terrifyingly unprepared despite the fact that we’ve known for decades or longer that the Earth bears the scars of past cataclysmic strikes.
Not to worry, though: the Space Force will save us. SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE!
It’s always thoughtful of the universe to remind us that, despite our earthly problems and concerns that seem so very important, it can just end us, instantly in a flash of cosmic fire. Astronomers at the Keck Observatory, located on the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii, have recently observed a massive explosion 100 times brighter than a supernova ripping through a neighboring galaxy—and they have no idea what caused it.
The event—or object—is referred to as “The Cow,” which seems a distinctly boring name for a violent, galaxy destroying explosion of unknown origin. It was detected as far brighter than an average supernova, and moving at an anomalously fast speed. The team of astronomers working the ATLAS telescopeat the Keck Observatory reported the event in the Astronomer’s Telegram, where it sparked international curiosity and where the automated naming and cataloging system of the Telegram listed the report as “AT2018cow.” This is why we shouldn’t let computers name things.
“I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”
While the brightness of the explosion is unusual, the speed at which it reached peak brightness is even more strange. Usually, large deep space explosions take weeks to reach their maximum brightness. The cow reached its peak brightness in two days. Scientists say that the explosion is made up of high-energy particles traveling at a rate of 12,000 miles per second and has a temperature of 16,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Speaking to New Scientist, Dr Kate McGuire of the ATLAS team, described the deep space explosion:
“It really just appeared out of nowhere. There are other objects that have been discovered that are as fast, but the fastness and the brightness, that’s quite unusual. There hasn’t really been another object like this.”
Initially, the explosion was thought to have occurred in our own galaxy. Due to the incredible brightness of the exploding cow, astronomers assumed that it was far closer than it actually is. A team of Chinese astronomers who trained their telescopes at the event calculated that “The Cow” is actually a whopping 200-million light years away, which would put it in a different galaxy entirely. So, if this thing keeps going, we’ll be alright for a good while. There’s a lot things you can do with 200 million years.
The explosion is up to 100 times brighter than a supernova.
Scientists don’t have any idea what caused this event, however. According to Dr McGuire:
“We’re not sure yet what it is, but the normal powering mechanism for a supernova is radioactive decay of nickel, and this event is too bright and too fast for that.”
The event currently has 18 telescopes from around the world pointed at it, which is the largest number of concurrent observations of any celestial event reported to the Astronomer’s Telegram, according to the site’s editor-in-chief. Scientists say that they should have more information about the cosmic cow in the next few days. If you never hear about it again, that’s probably the time to start worrying.
White UFO Following Shuttle Atlantis Rocket, STS115, Sept 9, 2006, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Following Shuttle Atlantis Rocket, STS115, Sept 9, 2006, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 9, 2006 Mission: STS-115 Source Video:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/video/shuttle/sts-115/net56/sts115_fd01_03_56.asf I found this UFO in an old Shuttle Atlantis video on a NASA website today. The UFO is white and triangle shaped, following the dropped rocket that helped the shuttle take off. If you remember the Shuttle Atlantis, you will also remember how CNN aired news declaring a UFO was preventing the Shuttle Atlantis from landing on time, and it was delayed in orbit being followed by several small objects. Here is one of those objects close up. Scott C. Waring
The person left his home in the UK to smoke a cigarette and to his astonishment he saw this ship partially hidden in the clouds. The UFO had a very sharp edge going around it, but the front and back were hidden by the clouds around it. Remember, the easiest way to hide and observe humans is to fly a UFO low to the ground where you can observe them below. Scott C. Waring
Physicists Just Found the Last Missing Protons and Neutrons In the Universe
Physicists Just Found the Last Missing Protons and Neutrons In the Universe
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer
An artist's illustration depicts a quasar, or supermassive, ultra-luminous black hole.
Credit: NASA/ESA
The universe's missing matter has been found, and it's floating between the stars.
Researchers who study the ancient history of the universe know how much ordinary matter — matter that makes up baryons, a class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons — the universe created during the Big Bang. And researchers who study the modern universe know how much ordinary, baryonic matter humans can see with telescopes. [Strange Quarks and Muons, Oh My! Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected]
Physicists Just Found the Last Missing Protons and Neutrons In the Universe
But until recently, those numbers didn't match up: A full third of the universe's original baryonic matter was missing. Now, thanks to a clever observation involving an incredibly bright black hole, an international team of researchers says they've found it.
The missing baryons, the researchers wrote in a study published today (June 21) in the journal Nature, have been hiding out as thin, hot clouds of oxygen gas floating between the stars. The gas is highly ionized, meaning that most of its electrons are missing, and it has a strong positive charge.
"We found the missing baryons," Michael Shull, an astronomer at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a co-author on the paper, said in a statement.
The signal of the oxygen was too strong and consistent to come from random fluctuations in the quasar's light, the researchers wrote. The astronomers also ruled out the possibility of a faint galaxy causing the oxygen's shadow.
Since at least 2011, researchers have suspected that the missing baryons might be hiding out in this material, called the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), but the WHIM is difficult to observe directly. To spot the gas hiding there, they had to come up with a clever trick.
Far from Earth, there are black holes sucking up huge amounts of matter. That matter glows very bright, and telescopes on this planet can spot it. Researchers call these sorts of black holes quasars — and they're the brightest objects in the universe. That means that light from quasars has "a high signal to noise ratio," the researchers wrote in the paper, meaning in this case that it's easy to see if something obscures it.
Pointing a telescope at a quasar not only tells astronomers about the object itself, but also reveals something about whatever's floating between the quasar and the telescope. In this case, that something was a filament of the WHIM.
By careful observation of how the WHIM obscured and changed lightemanating from the quasar as it made its way into the lenses of two telescopes, the researchers were able to figure out what the WHIM was made of. The answer, it turned out, was oxygen, heated to nearly 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit (1 million degrees Celsius).
These missing baryons aren't the same thing as dark matter, which researchers believe exists, thanks to its gravitational influence on other stars. That matter is thought to exist in the form of particles more exotic than simple baryons.
In a statement, the researchers said they were able to extrapolate from the observed WHIM how much baryonic matter in the form of oxygen floats elsewhere in the universe as the WHIM. To confirm and refine their observations, they said, they plan to point their telescopes at other quasars and observe the WHIM obscuring them.
A UFO appears in the form of a boomerang at high speed over France
A UFO appears in the form of a boomerang at high speed over France
Many people forget that the term UFO serves to define an unidentified flying object, which means that no one really knows what it is. While many UFO sightings have been documented over the years and on all continents, the only thing that unites these encounters is that many of these mysterious objects that appear out of nowhere in our skies can not be identified.
Of course, ufologists and conspiracy theorists suggest all sorts of theories, ranging from advanced military aircraft to visits in the form of extraterrestrial life. However, skeptics dismiss these theories claiming that they are simply strange weather patterns, commercial aircraft or misidentified birds. But this has not prevented more and more people from believing in conspiracy theories. There is even a day of the year dedicated to lovers of the UFO theme, World UFO Day, whose goal is to force governments to declassify any information they have about strange flying objects in our skies. But to date, all we know is that UFOs in the form of twinkling lights, rotating objects, luminous spheres and black dots continue to appear.
And the reality is that there are UFO sightings around the world, and some areas of our planet seem to be more prone to this type of activity. And there are not only UFO sightings in the United States and England. As in France, where a person has recorded what appears to be an unidentified flying object in the form of a boomerang. The video has become a subject of debate between the believers of the UFO subject and the conspiracy theorists.
UFO sighting over France
The video, uploaded to YouTube on the Now You Know channel, was recorded on June 14 and shows a mysterious object in the form of a very bright boomerang moving across the sky in broad daylight over Midi-Pyrénées (in French: Midi-Pyrénées), an administrative region of France.
“A disc-shaped silver object was recorded flying off the southwest coast of France,” reads the video description. “The UFO was recorded on June 14, 2018 in France, possibly near the interior region of Midi Pyrenees. In the video you can see that he performs high-speed aerial maneuvers and moves as smart. “
Although what has most struck is that curiously, the UFO that can be seen in the images has a very similar shape to the alien ship of the science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott ‘Prometheus’. But the controversy that has arisen has not been precisely by the UFO, but rather because originally the video was published by the YouTube channel ‘ZealotInAll Black3’ , which was eliminated after having increased the sighting for allegedly violating the Rules of the Community. This has provoked all kinds of reactions among the conspiracy theorists, who believe that the elimination of the channel is due to the fact that it is clearly a real UFO of extraterrestrial origin . Even the controversial ufologist Tyler Glockner, responsible for the YouTube channel ‘secureteam10’, has investigated the video, speculating with the possibility that it was an object similar to the ships of the Star Wars saga.
As the video went viral, some experts in the field suggest that these UFO sightings are clear evidence that the government is executing the infamous Blue Beam Project , also known as the false alien invasion or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Others said that this new sighting could be related to the new Donald Trump Space Force as they could be doing secret military maneuvers in our skies.
UFO France - A UFO appears in the form of a boomerang at high speed over France
Although popular theory says that these sightings are irrefutable proof of the existence of extraterrestrial activity on our planet. It is well known that certain civilizations from other worlds have been visiting Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and now they could be preparing for the great revelation.
And although the skeptics consider that this object is an unmanned aircraft, it must be said that a drone is not capable of performing such aerial maneuvers at such a high speed . No doubt this new material has everything to become a great conspiracy plot, a video that is published by a YouTube channel that is eliminated within a few hours.
The U.S. Air Force is looking into purchasing new pylons for its B-52H bombers that could allow them to carry multiple 20,000-pound class weapons under each wing. This would allow the aircraft to carry almost any bomb or missile the service has in inventory now and could be a prelude to integrating new weapons, such as air-launched hypersonic cruise missiles, onto the planes in the future.
On June 21, 2018, the Air Force Materiel Command revealed it was interested in acquiring what it calls the Heavy Release Capability (HRC) pylons as part of the B-52 Heavy Weapon Release Pylon Program in a notice on the U.S. government’s main contracting website, FedBizOpps. The formal request for information says the service wants to get to the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, which involves work on an actual prototype system and would last approximately 72 months, as quickly as possible.
The HRC equipment would replace the existing Improved Common Pylon (ICP) that the B-52Hs use today. The ICP, in combination with the Heavy Stores Adapter Beam (HSAB) multiple ejector rack, can only accommodate weapons up to the 5,000-pound class.
“When it [the ICP] was introduced, there wasn't a requirement nor did anyone foresee a need to carry weapons heavier than 5,000 pounds,” Air Force Materiel Command said in its request for information. The “pylon will require an internal multi-hook type release mechanism capable of carrying multiple weapons in the 5,000 pound to 20,000 pound weight class.”
An Air Force technician secures GPS-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS) on a B-52's underwing pylon.
The notice says the pylon itself can’t weight more 5,000 pounds. It also refers to “current heavy weapons exceeding 5,000 pounds,” but does not specify any system in particular.
So the question quickly becomes, what weapon or weapons does the Air Force expect the B-52 to carry using the more capable HRC pylons? None of the bomber’s typical load outsinclude weapons even close to the existing 5,000-pound limitation.
The nuclear-armed AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile and its conventional derivatives are both less than 3,500 pounds. It is unlikely that the future Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) will be significantly heavier. Even the B-52-launched X-51 Waverider hypersonic demonstrator vehicle had an empty weight of approximately 4,000 pounds.
An X-51 Waverider under the wing of a B-52 attached to the Heavy Stores Adapter Beam on the existing Improved Common Pylon.
The last time B-52s were called upon to carry a weapon in a weight class between 5,000 and 20,000 pounds, was during the 1960s and 70s when the Air Force called upon the bombers to deliver the 10,000-pound class AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile. The abortive AGM-48 Skybolt that was supposed to replace those weapons had a similar weight.
Since the Air Force specifically says the requirement for the HRC pylon is based on a “current” weapon, one immediate possibility is that the Air Force is interested in giving the aircraft the ability to carry the massive GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), also known as the “Mother of All Bombs.”
This huge air-bursting weapon offers a devastating capability against exposed targets over a wide area. It also particularly effective at destroying caves and tunnel complexes with its blast wave, which can suck the air of individuals' lungs and cause massive internal injuries from the overpressure in a confined space.
A B-52G carries a pair of AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missiles.
Unfortunately, the MOAB is also too big to fit inside the B-52’s internal bomb bay. At present, Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130 special operations transport aircraft are the only planes that can employ this 20,000-pound class air-bursting weapon and typically only carry one at a time on a pallet inside their cargo bay. The Air Force would need to modify the GBU-43/B to be work with any underwing rack.
A B-52 carrying multiple MOABs would offer a dramatically increased capability and could fly higher and further than the smaller MC-130s. This could give the Air Force more flexibility in employing the weapon and the potential to do so in higher-risk scenarios. In April 2017, the service dropped the first GBU-43/B ever over Afghanistan, an entirely permissive airspace environment.
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A #MOAB bomb strikes #ISIS cave & tunnel systems in eastern #Afghanistan. The strike was designed to minimize risk to Afghan and U.S. Forces
Otherwise, there are few other obvious weapon systems that would require the HRC pylons. The bombers can already carry the GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is designed to burrow deep into hardened facilities far underground, internally, but has only done so in testing.
The Air Force envisions employing these bombs almost exclusively for strikes against targets deep in denied areas where the B-52 would be unable to survive. As such, the service says the only platform set up to carry the MOPs on actual operations is the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The GBU-57/B is in the 30,000-pound weight class, which would make it too heavy for even the new HRC pylon anyway.
A B-52 bomber drops a GBU-57/B MOP during a test.
It is also worth noting that the Air Force and NASA have also employed B-52s with specialized underwing pylons and stores racks to test a variety of large experimental air vehicles and rockets. It is possible that the firms who have supplied that equipment in the past could adapt one of those designs to carry whatever weapons the Air Force has in mind for HRC-equipped bombers.
The remaining possibility is that the B-52s need the HRC pylons to support a potentially still-classified weapon system that is either in development or has reached some level of limited operational capability. Even if the bombers were simply supposed to act as the testbed for a new bomb or missile in the 5,000- to 20,000-pound weight class, the Air Force would need to ensure it has the capability to do so now.
A NASA B-52 takes off carrying the X-43A hypersonic research vehicle on a specialized underwing mount during a test in 2001.
We know that in April 2018, the Air Force handed Lockheed Martin a contract worth nearly $1 billion for development of an air-breathing, air-launched hypersonic cruise missile. The service has also been working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on the separate Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program.
Other services, in cooperation with the Defense Department’s secretive Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), are pursuing other hypersonic weapons, as well. A recent hack of a still unknown U.S. defense contractor led to the exposure of additional details about the Navy’s still-classified Sea Dragonhypersonic submarine-launched anti-ship cruise missile program.
An official briefing slide from 2017 outlining US Air FOrce work on hypersonic weapons, include the HAWC.
The Pentagon has been supporting that project directly by way of the SCO through funding set aside for “advanced innovative technologies.” The same section in the annual defense budget includes other classified efforts that could require the HRC pylons.
These include “Alternate Strike,” which seeks to reconfigure existing weapons for use on different launch platforms to expand their flexibility, and “Breaker,” a long-range weapon for both ground- and air-launched applications. Another effort, called Strike-X “leverages existing long-range strike capabilities and develops alternative Concepts of Employment (CONEMP) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) to deliver near-term innovative long-range strike capabilities to Combatant Commanders.”
We at The War Zone have already presented compelling evidence that Sea Dragon could be an outgrowth of apparently defunct Revolutionary Approach To Time-critical Long Range Strike program, or RATTLRS. This Navy-led project sought to develop a cruise missile with a high supersonic speed that sea or air platforms could employ.
A mockup of the RATTLRS missile.
Lockheed Martin was heavily involved in that program, as well, and had produced full-size mockups of the proposed weapon that evoked the size and shape of their Cold War-era D-21 drone. The D-21 was an 11,000-pound unmanned reconnaissance platform that was originally paired with an M-21 mothership derived from the A-12 spy plane.
Difficulties in that arrangement led Lockheed to develop a system that allowed B-52s to launch the drones. The bombers would be a good option to carry any RATTLRS-derived weapon, as well.
A B-52 carrying a pair of D-21 drones.
In March 2018, Lockheed Martin notably brought out an old model of the RATTLRS missile to the Air Force Association’s annual Air War Symposium, but without any real explanation as to why. It is possible that this could have been an effort to showcase the firm’s existing experience leading into the hypersonic cruise missile project, too.
The RATTLRS project also focused heavily on the anti-ship role, which might be a future capability of any hypersonic cruise missile-armed B-52 in the future. Late in the Cold War, the Air Force configured a number of B-52G as ship-killers carrying AGM-84 Harpoon missiles.
Given increasing concerns about the growing naval capabilities among potential near peer-opponents, such as Russia and China, the Air Force has been working on restoring the anti-ship capabilities of both B-52 and B-1 bombers. On June 21, 2018, the service announced it the 28th Bomb Wing and its B-1s at Ellsworth Air Force Base would be the first to return to this rolearmed with AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
Lastly, the larger "weapons" the Air Force might be looking to integrate onto the B-52s using the new pylons may actually be air-launched unmanned combat air vehicles. The Air Force Research Laboratory has been working on a number of conceptual armed, lower cost drones as part of the Low Cost Attritable Strike (LCAS) and Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology (LCAAT) programs.
A B-52 would be a perfect platform to carry those drones closer to the target area, effectively extending their range and potentially helping them penetrate deeper into denied areas. It might even be able to recover them at the end of a mission, a concept the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is also working on as part of its Gremlins drone swarm program.
A briefing slide from 2017 that gives an overview of Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology (LCAAT) program.
But adding any such long-range, super-fast strike weapon, or other type of advanced underwing store, to the B-52’s inventory would help keep those aircraft viable during higher-end conflicts in the decades to come. The Air Force is separately looking to re-engine the bombers to make them more cost-effective to fly through at least 2040. Without an improved stand-off capability, the bombers will still find themselves only increasingly vulnerable to hostile fighters, advanced enemy air defenses, and associated long-range sensors.
The HRC pylons could help the Air Force turn the B-52s into flying hypersonic missile trucks that would offer increased flexibility during a crisis. In 2016, the service had raised the possibility of expanding the bomber's ability to carrying smaller conventional bombs and missiles, turning it into an "arsenal ship" that could orbit over or near the battlefield providing support across a wide area. The new weapons racks would be well in line with this concept and would expand the available weapons the aircraft could carry in that role.
And combined with a high-supersonic or hypersonic cruise missile, the planes could have the ability to rapidly engage critical time-sensitive targets, including pop-up air defenses, mobile nuclear-capable ballistic missile launchers and other advanced weapons, and even senior elements of an enemy’s regime, while operating safely at the edge of an opponent’s integrated air defense network. Of course, even if the bombers just end up being able to carry multiple MOABs into a limited conflict zone, such as Afghanistan, it would be a fearsome capability.
Given the Air Force’s aggressive planned schedule to develop the HRC pylons, we may not have to wait long to see what the service actually has in store next for the venerable B-52s.
BUITENAARDSE BOODSCHAPPEN OF IETS ANDERS ? ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDSE BOODSCHAPPEN OF IETS ANDERS ? ( VIDEO )
Het fenomeen UFO is vrij bekend, maar daarnasst bestaat ook een vreemd soort lichtbollen die vaak orbs worden genoemd.
Soms is het moeilijk om het verschil tussen die twee te ontdekken en nu zijn er beelden opgedoken van mensen die zelfs die orbs schijnen aan te raken.
Er zijn zoveel mysterieuze dingen om ons heen, dat het soms moeilijk is om onderscheid tussen bepaalde dingen te maken.
Eéntje is het verschil tussen wat wij normaal gesproken een UFO noemen en een soort lichtbol of orb. Vaak worden kleinere UFO’s ook weer orbs genoemd, dus kan het soms verwarrend zijn.
Bij een UFO wordt in het algemeen meer aan een soort solide iets gedacht een object gemaakt van metalen of stoffen die buitenaardsen wellicht gebruiken die daarop lijken. Bij lichtbollen of orbs denken we meer aan bepaalde vormen van energie die als het ware door de lucht zweven.
Orbs zijn witte energiebollen, ook wel een geestbal genoemd. Entiteiten (geesten) kunnen zich in deze vorm laten zien, in de vorm van een witte energiebol. Deze bollen kunnen ook gefotografeerd worden.
Meestal zijn dit soort bollen zichtbaar op plekken waar veel energieën zitten. Op begraafplaatsen, kerken, in huizen en op plekken waar bijvoorbeeld veel is gebeurd. Iedereen kan zo'n orb op de foto krijgen, het liefste met flits.
Orbs kunnen ook gefilmd worden. Meestal gebeurd dit onverwachts, maar er zijn ook echter mensen die een camera neerzetten en orb op de film kunnen zien. Dit is heel mooi! Zelf heb ik ook een orb op de film, die behoorlijk snel door het beeld vliegt. Als je inzoomt op en orb kan het zijn dat je er diverse gezichten in kunt zien. Dit zijn de gezichten van de overleden persoo(ne)n. Er kunnen meerdere gezichten waargenomen worden in de energiebol.
Met bovenstaande in het achterhoofd, het volgende bericht van een lezer:
Ik stuitte per ongeluk op de volgende video.
Het betreft een paar enorme lichtbollen, en daar staan 2 man pal onder, en volgens mij raken ze hem zelfs aan.
Als je kijkt naar het licht, en de reflectie ervan, dan kan ik niet anders zeggen als dat de opname wel echt moet zijn.
Misschien dat jullie dit met lezers willen delen.
Bij deze:
Het ziet er inderdaad echt uit en ook als je de commentaren onder de video bekijkt, dan zijn veel mensen er wel van overtuigd dat die beelden niet nep zijn.
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Guys, I found this structure on the moon Triton. Its in orbit around the planet Neptune. The structure shows many right angles and looks to have been made recently. I also noticed that NASA failed to blur out this building, but did notice that others of similar size in the same photo were covered in a blur spot, even though the other areas around it were focused. That indicates that NASA did blur it out so the public would not find it. If NASA is hiding these structures, then it only confirms that these are structures created by intelligent beings.
Swedish Town Residents Capture A UFO Apparently Pumping Water From Lake Malaren
Swedish Town Residents Capture A UFO Apparently Pumping Water From Lake Malaren
The Swedish town of Strangas residents Karina Lindquist and her friend Mike claimed to have witnessed a remarkable phenomenon.
The witnesses were reportedly walking to Lake Malaren after midnight when a surprise came. They saw a large, glowing yellow saucer-shaped object floating above the pond that emitted a mysterious beam.
They later realised that the flying saucer pumped from the lake water. They then captured it on camera phones. Immediately after they got home, they posted a clip of their sighting on the Internet.
The video has relatively low quality, but an apparent glowing plate can be seen above the night lake.
The video seems to depict a scene from a sci-fi movie. The UFO appears to pump water from the lake. Conspiracy theorists say that unidentified flying objects tend to take not only people and animals on Earth but also the planet’s resources, such as fresh water.
Sceptics say that the video was intentionally blurred to hide the obvious. They say it is impossible nowadays to have a phone with a camera less than 3 megapixels. They say that these Swedes must have been so poor that they cannot have a modern smartphone with a decent camera.
A researcher who discovered peculiar material at the site where many believe an alien spacecraft crashed is saying the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may be confiscating the material next week. He says he is on the brink of proving the material is of extraterrestrial origins and is seeking help to keep the BLM from stopping his research.
Frank Kimbler (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)
Frank Kimbler teaches Geology and other earth sciences at the high school and college level at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. When he first arrived in Roswell to begin work at the Institute, he says he thought it would be fun to look into the local UFO legend. Roswell is famous for the alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in 1947 in the nearby desert. Kimbler examined satellite photos of the area and found areas where it appeared the ground had been burnt. He has searched these areas and has found fragments of material he feels are unusual.
An initial isotopic ratio test done in conjunction with the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center was inconclusive, but suggested the material may be of unearthly origins. Kimbler has continued research on the material and says he is close to proving the “ET origins of Roswell.”
A piece of the material found by Kimbler.
(Credit: Frank Kimbler)
However, now the BLM is inquiring about the materials and Kimbler is terrified that they may want to take it from him. Kimbler was recently contacted by them and asked to bring the materials in on Monday, June 25. This news comes less than two weeks before the annual Roswell UFO festival.
Kimbler says the BLM was told about his work when the BLM was looking into plans by festival organizers to take people out the site. However, Kimbler says according to a BLM pamphlet, he is not breaking any of their rules. Indeed the booklet does say it is OK to take a “reasonable” amount of material, barring that it is not historically or culturally significant. The material Kimbler collected would not fit either of these specifications, unless he proves otherwise, which he has not done yet, and will not be able to do if the material is taken from him.
Field where the “real” Roswell debris is said to have been found.
(Credit: OpenMinds.tv)
In an email sent to me after a conversation about Kimbler’s concerns, he writes (edited for clarity):
The Bureau of Land Management contacted me today and requested that I bring the artifacts that I found down to their office in Roswell. They want their enforcement officer to look at the material and see if I’m in violation of US laws. [Their] own published document clearly says that anything less than 100 years old is not an artifact. It also says of human origin in all US laws. This a prelude to confiscation or fines or both. Seriously, folks, I’m one scientific test away from proving the ET origins of Roswell.
The meeting with the BLM is Monday morning 10:15 AM in the Roswell District office. Contact your friends especially the ones in high places, send me a good free lawyer and contact as many media people as you can. I want CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN. I’m serious; the government is attempting to take the material that was found at the crash site. They are trying to stop the research.
This kind of government control needs to stop, and we as Americans have the power to do it. I can’t do by myself. I NEED HELP!
BLM may just be doing their due diligence to make sure Kimbler is in compliance, but Kimbler’s concern is understandable. It would be tragic if he could not continue his work, especially when it does not appear he is breaking any BLM regulations.
Prior to Einstein, the laws of Isaac Newton were used to understand the physics of motion. In 1687, Newton wrote that gravity affects everything in the universe. The same force of gravity that pulled an apple down from a tree kept the Earth in motion around the sun.
But Newton never puzzled out the source of gravity.
Philosopher David Hume's 1738 "A Treatise of Human Nature" was a big influence on Einstein's thinking about space and time. Hume was an empiricist and skeptic, believing that scientific concepts must be based on experience and evidence, not reason alone. He also held that time did not exist separately from the movement of objects.
"It is very well possible that without these philosophical studies I would not have arrived at the solution," Einstein wrote.
In 1905, Albert Einstein based a new theory on two principles. First, the laws of physics appear the same to all observers.
Second, he calculated that the speed of light – 186,000 miles per second (299,338 kilometers per second) – is unchanging. Prior to Einstein, scientists believed that space was filled with luminiferous aether that would cause the speed of light to change depending on the relative motion of the source and the observer.
As a result of these principles, Einstein deduced that there is no fixed frame of reference in the universe.
It is known as special relativity because it applies only to special cases: frames of reference in constant, unchanging motion. In 1915, Einstein published the general theory of relativity, which applies to frames that are accelerating with regard to each other.
Time does not pass at the same rate for everyone. A fast-moving observer measures time passing more slowly than a (relatively) stationary observer would. This phenomenon is called time dilation.
A fast-moving object appears shorter along the direction of motion, relative to a slow-moving one. This effect is very subtle until the object travels close to the speed of light.
Mass and energy are different manifestations of the same thing. Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2, means "a quantity of energy is equivalent to a quantity of mass times the speed of light squared." This is what enables the release of a huge amount of energy from a nuclear explosion.
As a result of E=mc^2, a fast-moving object appears to have increased mass relative to a slow-moving one. This is due to the fact that increasing an object’s velocity increases its kinetic energy and, therefore, its mass (since mass = energy).
The increase in mass is the reason that Einstein says that matter cannot travel faster than light. The mass increases with velocity until the mass becomes infinite when it reaches light speed. An infinite mass would require infinite energy to move, so this is impossible.
Space and time are part of one continuum, called space-time.
In Einstein's mathematics, space has three dimensions, and the fourth dimension is time. More recent theories presume extra dimensions that we do not perceive.
Space-time can be thought of as a grid or fabric. The presence of mass distorts space-time, so the rubber sheet model is a popular visualization.
Relativity explains where gravity comes from. The rubber sheet model shows that gravity results from massive objects warping space-time. The warp is called a gravity well.
Orbiting objects follow the path that is shortest and requires the least amount of energy. The planets move in ellipses, the most energy-efficient path in the gravity well of the sun.
Gravity bends light. This phenomenon is called gravitational lensing. When we observe a distant galaxy, the gravity of matter between Earth and the galaxy causes light rays to be bent into different paths. When the light reaches the telescope, multiple images of the same galaxy appear.
A new 10-year plan authored by NASA describes a number of steps that we need to undertake in order to prepare for an incoming asteroid, including some ways to deflect them.
Credit: MaxPixel.
An impact with an asteroid isn’t the likeliest thing to happen in the universe. However, despite its low probability, such a scenario is a high-consequence event which requires “some degree of preparedness,” according to the authors of the new 18-page document titled the “National near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan”.
NASA has so far cataloged about 18,310 objects of all sizes, of which just over 800 are 140 meters or bigger. A 2005 congressional mandate tasked the agency with tracking 90 percent of the near-Earth objects larger than 140 meters. NASA is just one-third of the way there, however.
But while big asteroids, such as the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, are absolutely brutal, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be worried by anything smaller. For instance, a 40- to 60-meter asteroid that exploded over Tunguska, Russia, leveled 2,000 square kilometers of forest. If the same were to happen over New York City, it would cause millions of casualties. Today, an asteroid of this size can’t be detected with more than a couple weeks of warning — this is why the new NASA master plan is so important.
This year, an asteroid the size of a football field came mighty close to Earth, whizzing past our planet at about half the distance from here to the moon. The really scary part is that the asteroid was detected a mere couple of hours before the flyby.
The new document establishes five strategic goals to reduce the risk of an asteroid strike. The first is improving capabilities for detecting and tracking asteroids by investing in new telescopes and computers. Secondly, NASA would like to see better modeling and simulation of impacts in order to assess potential risks. This kind of information would then be disseminated to able government bodies in order to form contingency plans and quick-response missions. Increased international cooperation is also outlined as an important strategic step in improving the planet’s security in the face of an asteroid threat.
The document also lists some potential deflection plans in the event that NASA does, in fact, detect a dangerous asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It’s worth noting that were this to happen today, there wouldn’t be much we could do.
According to the authors of the new plan, it would take as much as ten years to deflect a killer asteroid — a couple of years to design and build a spacecraft specifically designed to rendezvous with the asteroid, and another couple of years for the spacecraft to reach the cosmic body.
To deflect an asteroid or comet, a powerful robotic spacecraft would be put on a collision course with the object in the hope of changing its path. Another option is launching a nuclear device — not to blow it up but rather to superheat it enough so that the blown-off material is enough to divert the asteroid.
Meanwhile, scientists hope to learn about asteroids with some upcoming very important missions. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft is expected to travel to the asteroid Bennu later this year and return samples in 2023, while Japan’s Hyabusa 2 is close to asteroid Ryugu, with samples to be returned in 2020.
“We also discuss the observable signatures of a civilization elsewhere in the universe that is currently in this state of stellar harvesting.”
Stellar harvesting! If this were a movie, the opening would show a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum peering into a telescope, then looking up, rubbing his eyes, peering in again, then looking up again with a suitably concerned face, turning to a scientist played by Jodie Foster and saying, “You need to take a look at this!” In the real-life version, “this” is a Dyson sphere – one of those alien-built megastructures imagined to be large enough to surround a star and harvest its energy – except “this” is actually “these” … and it may not be your imagination.
Are Aliens Harvesting The Energy Of Stars?
Theoretical astrophysicist Dan Hooper from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has written a new study entitled “Life Versus Dark Energy: How An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe” in which he lays out the scenario of how and why …
“… a sufficiently advanced civilization would chose to expand rapidly outward, build Dyson Spheres or similar structures around encountered stars, and use the energy that is harnessed to accelerate those stars away from the approaching horizon and toward the center of the civilization.”
“A sufficiently advanced civilization” – well, Hopper isn’t talking about us. But … is he talking about a civilization that already exists and is collecting star power to navigate the galaxies, potentially conquer the universe and possibly save themselves? The “saving” part is what he focuses on in the paper. Hooper points out that the universe is expanding and that growth is accelerating, which means civilizations, us included, will start seeing stars disappear over the horizon of the universe (a great name for a progressive rock album) like ships on the ocean.
Hopper sees this as a big problem and he sees Dyson spheres as the energy harvesting tool of choice for advanced civilizations. It makes sense. We have to wait a whole eight minutes for solar energy to reach Earth. Just think how much power we’d have with a Dyson sphere around the Sun? Sure, it would block the light (see Tabby’s star) but it would provide power for plenty of lamps, not to mention ships to find more stars to suck the energy out of.
Dyson sphere cut-away
If this is already happening, Hopper says we would know it because there would be unexplained holes in the sky where there should be stars. Or stars inexplicably moving across the sky because they’re being propelled by their Dyson sphere spaceship to the star of the advanced civilization. The fact that we haven’t seen any yet doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t exist. The process may just be too complex for our less-advanced civilization to detect.
Yes, this is very sci-fi. Or is it? Anyone? Bueller? Tabby?
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Fantastic Documentary Reveals How Ancient Aliens Built The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
Fantastic Documentary Reveals How Ancient Aliens Built The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
If there are two things that are perplexing to the human being then those are most likely Ancient Egypt and its amazing structures and the extraterrestrial beings. What if we tell you they both are somehow interconnected?
From the mysterious history of ancient Egypt emerge so many unanswered questions. Mainstream scholars are completely clueless and that’s probably because of their traditional beliefs. But what if the truth hides beyond our imagination?
When it comes to Ancient Egypt, probably, the most remarkable attribute is the Pyramids. Theconstruction of these megalithic structures thousands of years ago develops lots of mysteries.
The Ancient Alien Theory implies that otherworldly beings – guests on Earth, lend a hand on the building of the Pyramids at the Giza Plateau.
This theory asserts that our ancestors, with the technology they had thousands of years ago, couldn’t create not only the pyramids but other amazing structures within our world.
Going further from this point, the theory claims it was the intelligent alien beings who actually did it.
When it comes to pyramids, the most baffling one is clearly the Great Pyramid of Giza. This pyramid is precisely lined up and faces straight north with an only 3/60th range of error.
North Pole’s position changes with the time. This pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.
The centers of the four sides are calculated with an amazing precision bringing into existence this extraordinary eight-sided pyramid.
Namely, this result is not noticeable when you stand on the ground or from a larger distance. However, above in the air, under suitable brightness, this phenomenon glows into our perception.
In addition, these proper lights require being dawn or sunset in the spring and autumn equinoxes when the sun spreads shadow on the pyramid.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and the largest pyramid of Ancient Egypt. It measures fascinating 481 feet in height. Moreover, the shape carved into the faces of the pyramid accurately suits the radius of the Earth.
Given these facts, a few questions are inevitable: How exactly did ancient Egyptians succeed to create this world wonder of the ancient world? Did they do everything by themselves? Or did they have a helping hand from someone from the other world?
The subsequent documentary gives another, different insight into the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Its intriguing yet provocative content proposes another possible choice that explains the history of Ancient Egypt.
Watch it and leave us your comment and thoughts on the pyramids’ construction. Do you think aliens helped to build such vast structures that no doubt deserved their place in the world wonders’ list?
"'Enormous petrified mulberries': a new dimension on carved stone balls" -
"'Enormous petrified mulberries': a new dimension on carved stone balls"
By Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark Curator of Early Prehistory, Scottish History and Archaeology
Carved stone balls are one of Scotland’s most enigmatic prehistoric artefacts. Created some 5000 years ago in the Late Neolithic, their distinctive knobbed forms were carefully pecked and ground to shape by communities across the north east of Scotland. A small number, such as the Towie Ball, were elaborately incised with circles and spirals and represent some of the finest examples of Neolithic ‘passage grave’ art in Europe.
Yet we still don’t know how carved stone balls were used; in the words of archaeologists Stuart Piggott and Glyn Daniel (1951) ‘their use is wholly unknown’. It has long been postulated that they were weapons – mounted as maceheads or bound with sinew or twine and thrown like South American bolas. But other authors have suggested they were used as weights, measures, mnemonic devices or symbols of power; some mathematicians have even viewed them as representations of platonic solids. It’s easy to see why these artefacts have captured the imagination for more than two centuries.
Around 525 carved stone balls are known, the vast majority being from Scotland, with rare finds from England, Ireland and one example from Norway. National Museums Scotland holds the largest collection of carved stone balls in the world, with some 140 originals and casts of a further 60 examples from other collections. Some of our finest carved stone balls are on display in the Early People gallery, but as these artefacts are so popular we have decided to bring 60 of our carved stone balls to you as 3d models via our Sketchfab account. These examples represent a broad cross-section of the different known forms and raw materials in our collections; from three to six knobbed stones in granite, to sandstone examples covered in numerous rounded projections. The latter infamously described by Sir John Evans in his book Ancient Stone Implements (1897) as resembling ‘enormous petrified mulberries’.
Carved stone balls are probably Scotland’s most enigmatic ancient artefacts.
These models were made using photogrammetry, which uses around 150-200 images of each artefact to produce an exceptionally high-resolution 3D model. The resolution allows you to examine and appreciate these artefacts in unprecedented detail. Indeed, the model of one carved stone ball (X.AS 91) revealed traces of fine concentric circles on one projecting knob that had never been recorded before, despite the artefact having been in the museum for more than 100 years and examined by dozens of scholars. Traces of decoration and working are particularly clear in ‘matcap’ mode, which makes the artefact look like shiny metal, emphasising any irregularities in the surface.
Sharing these models on Sketchfab allows you explore these wonderful artefacts in 3d and Virtual Reality from the comfort of your own home, anywhere in the world. Enjoy!
Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's far side: space expert
A rendering of the Queqiao satellite performing its communications relay beyond the moon.Satellite set to communicate with far side of the moon
Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's far side: space expert
China Launches Relay Satellite to Explore Moon's Far Side
A satellite with a huge golden umbrella-shaped antenna is in an orbit more than 400,000 km from Earth, waiting for Chang'e-4, which is set to be the first ever probe to land softly on the Moon's far side. The relay satellite for Chang'e-4 will establish a communication link between the Earth and the far side of the Moon, and might serve probes from other countries, contributing to international scientific exploration, said Ye Peijian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of China's leading space experts. The satellite, named Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge, was launched on May 21 and has entered the Halo orbit around the second Lagrangian (L2) point of the Earth-Moon system, where it can "see" both the Earth and the Moon's far side. The Chang'e-4 probe, including a lander and a rover, is expected to be launched later this year. Its mission to explore the far side of the Moon was proposed by Ye, who has worked in China's lunar exploration program since Chang'e-1 more than 10 years ago. Chang'e-4 follows on from Chang'e-3, which was launched at the end of 2013 and became the first Chinese spacecraft to soft-land on and explore an extraterrestrial object.
After Chang'e-3 accomplished its mission, China's space sector debated Chang'e-4's destination. Some were in favor of landing on the near side of the Moon again, because it's safer.
"I disagreed with that. Why should Chang'e-4 repeat what Chang'e-3 had done? We should not be afraid of failure in scientific exploration. We need innovation," Ye said.
He suggested sending the Chang'e-4 to the Moon's far side. This would be unprecedented and innovative.
He believed the United States and Soviet Union had wanted to do that in their lunar programs, but hadn't because of technological restrictions at the time.
Since the Moon's revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, the same side always faces the Earth, and most of the other side is never seen from Earth. Landing and roving on the far side of the Moon require a relay satellite to transmit signals.
A rendering of the Queqiao satellite performing its communications relay. Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences
The first ever satellite operating on the Halo orbit around the L2 point, Queqiao used relatively small amounts of fuel during its journey to the planned orbit as it was under precise control. Its designed life is three years, but Ye said it might work for seven or eight years.
That means it could also provide communications for probes from other countries if they intend to explore the Moon's far side in the near future.
"That's the significance of going to the far side of the Moon. China will not only be the first to go there, but will also contribute to world scientific exploration," Ye said.
A reliable long-distance data transmission link is a key technological goal for space experts around the world. Queqiao carries an umbrella-shaped antenna with a diameter of 4.2 meters, the largest communication antenna ever used in deep space exploration.
The antenna was the central difficulty of the relay satellite, and took engineers a long time to develop, according to Ye.
Profile of the communication links among the Chang’e-4 relay satellite Queqiao, the Earth ground station, and the lunar lander and rover.
Its name, Queqiao, was selected from more than 100 candidate names in a public naming contest.
In a Chinese folktale, magpies form a bridge to enable Zhi Nyu, a daughter of the Goddess of Heaven, to meet her beloved husband, cowherd Niu Lang, after they were separated by the Milky Way.
"We think the name is easy to understand, and it signifies the establishment of a bridge of communication," Ye said.
The ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic) captured images of Ryugu on June 17, 2018 at around 15:00 JST and June 18 at around 06:00 JST. At 15:00 JST on June 17, the distance to Ryugu was approximately 330 km, which had decreased to 240 km by June 18 at 06:00 JST.
The following figures show the original images taken by the ONC-T, without any pixel smoothing. The order of the photographs is not chronological, but show the sequential rotation of the asteroid. The change in distance is compensated by keeping the size of the asteroid constant through the image set.
[Enlargement]Figure 1: Images of Ryugu taken with the ONC-T. These photographs were taken on June 17, 2018 at around 15:00 and June 18 at around 06:00 JST. They are arranged in order of rotation; a, b, c, d. ONC team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST.
This next image set is the same as the previous photographs, but with the pixels smoothed and the image processing applied which emphasizes light and dark regions.
[Enlargement]Figure 2: Images of Ryugu taken with the ONC-T. Image interpolation was performed during enlargement and the light and dark regions emphasized (brightness squared). The photographs were taken on June 17, 2018 at around 15:00 JST and June 18 at around 06:00 JST. They are arranged in order of rotation: a, b, c, d. ONC team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST.
Comment by Project Scientist, Sei-ichiro Watanbe
The vertical direction in these images is tilted by 10 degrees counterclockwise compared to the vertical direction of the orbital plane of Ryugu. From looking between the multiple images in this set, you can see that the vertical direction is nearly perpendicular to the plane of revolution of the asteroid. We call this direction the asteroid's axis of rotation. The direction of the rotation is reversed compared to the Earth, with a rotation period of about 7.5 hours.
The diameter of Ryugu is about 900m, which is consistent with the prediction from ground observations. However, since the distance between the spacecraft and Ryugu is not precisely determined, there is still some uncertainty in the exact diameter at this time.
The shape of the asteroid looks like a spinning top (called a "Coma" in Japanese), with the equatorial part wider than the poles. This form is seen in many small asteroids that are rotating at high speed. Observed by radar from the ground, asteroid Bennu (the destination of the US mission, OSIRIS-REx), asteroid Didymous (the target of the US DART project), and asteroid 2008 EV5 that is approaching the Earth, all have a similar shape.
On the surface of asteroid Ryugu, you can see a number of crater-like round recessed landforms. In the first image, one large example can be seen with a diameter exceeding 200m. This moves to the left and darkens as the asteroid rotates and the lower part becomes cast in shadows.
The bulge at the equator forms a ridge around the asteroid like a mountain range. Outside this, the surface topology appears very ridge-shaped and rock-like bulges are also seen. These details should become clearer as the resolution increases in the future.
Comment by Mission Manager, Makoto Yoshikawa
When I saw these images, I was surprised that Ryugu is very similar in shape to both the destination of the US OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and also the target of the previously proposed MarcoPolo-R mission by Europe, asteroid 2008 EV5. Bennu and 2008 EV5 are about half the diameter (and 1/8 the volume) of Ryugu, with rotation periods about half as long. In other words, these celestial bodies are small and rotating fast compared to Ryugu. On the other hand, Bennu is a B-type asteroid, which is very similar to C-type asteroids such as 2009 EV5 and Ryugu. Therefore there should also be common properties due to the asteroid type. So we have both differences and similarities that have combined to produce very similar shapes... why is that? I think this is very interesting. So far, the asteroids we have explored have been different in shape, so Ryugu and Bennu could be the first time two similar-shaped asteroids have been examined. It will be interesting to clarify exactly what this similarity means scientifically.
If the axis of rotation for Ryugu is close to the vertical direction in this image, there is a big advantage as it will be possible to know almost the entire appearance of Ryugu at an early stage after arrival. This makes the project planning easier. However, it is also possible that potential landing sites may be limited to the equator of Ryugu. I hope we can find a suitable place to set down the lander and rovers.
Japanse sonde ontdekt kraters en gebergte op planetoïde Ryugu
Japanse sonde ontdekt kraters en gebergte op planetoïde Ryugu
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dit zijn de beste beelden die tot op heden van de ruimtesteen zijn gemaakt!
De Japanse sonde Hayabusa2 – die zich nog deze maand in een baan rond Ryugu moet nestelen – maakte de foto’s van 245 tot 332 kilometer afstand. De nieuwe beelden zijn alweer een stuk scherper dan de foto’s die de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie eerder deze week vrijgaf en waarop voor het eerst – in grove lijnen – de vorm van Ryugu te zien was. Op de nieuwste beelden zien we die vorm nog beter én zijn ook de eerste details op het oppervlak zichtbaar.
Afbeelding: ONC team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu & AIST.
Kraters en een gebergte Zo blijkt de planetoïde meerdere kraters te hebben. “Op de eerste foto zie je een voorbeeld daarvan met een diameter groter dan 200 meter,” vertelt projectwetenschapper Sei-ichiro Watanbe. “Deze beweegt naar links en wordt donkerder naarmate de planetoïde roteert en het lager gelegen deel (van de krater, red.) in de schaduw komt te liggen.” Naast kraters lijkt de planetoïde ook over een gebergte te beschikken. “De bobbel op de evenaar vormt een richel rond de planetoïde als een soort bergketen.”
Hier zie je dezelfde foto’s als hierboven, maar dan enigszins bewerkt, zodat de pixels minder hoekig zijn.
Afbeelding: ONC team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu & AIST.
Rond de 900 meter Bovendien kan de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie op basis van de beelden ook meer zeggen over de omvang van de planetoïde. “De diameter van Ryugu is ongeveer 900 meter en dat is in lijn met voorspellingen gebaseerd op observaties vanaf de aarde,” vertelt Watanbe. Hij benadrukt dat het nog een schatting is. “Aangezien we niet exact weten hoe groot de afstand tussen het ruimtevaartuig en Ryugu op dit moment is, is er op dit moment ook nog enkele onzekerheid over de exacte diameter.”
Herkenbare vorm Wat we op basis van de beelden wel met zekerheid kunnen zeggen, is dat de vorm van Ryugu ons bekend voor komt. “De vorm van de planetoïde lijkt op een tol, waarbij de evenaar veel breder is dan de polen,” vertelt Watanbe. “Deze vorm zien we bij heel veel kleine planetoïden die met een hoge snelheid roteren. Radarobservaties vanaf de aarde laten zien dat planetoïde Bennu – de bestemming van de Amerikaanse missie OSIRIS-REx, planetoïde Didymos (waar het DART-project zich af moet gaan spelen) en planetoïde 2008 EV5 allemaal een vergelijkbare vorm hebben.” Het roept een interessante vraag op, zo vertelt missiemanager Makoto Yoshikawa. “Bennu en 2008 EV5 hebben een diameter die de helft kleiner is dan die van Ryugu (en 1/8 van het volume) en rotatietijden die ongeveer de helft zo lang zijn. In andere woorden: deze hemellichamen zijn klein en roteren snel in vergelijking met Ryugu. Aan de andere kant: Bennu is een B-type planetoïde, waardoor deze erg lijkt op C-type planetoïden zoals 2008 EV5 en Ryugu. Op basis daarvan zou je dan ook verwachten dat ze bepaalde kenmerken met elkaar gemeen hebben. Dus: er zijn verschillen en overeenkomsten en samen brengen die heel vergelijkbare vormen voort…waarom? Dat is heel interessant, denk ik. De planetoïden die we tot op heden bestudeerd hebben, hadden allemaal verschillende vormen, dus het kan met Ryugu en Bennu wel eens voor het eerst zijn dat we twee planetoïden met een vergelijkbare vorm gaan bestuderen.”
De komende dagen zullen we nog betere beelden van Ryugu te zien krijgen. En naar verwachting nestelt de ruimtesonde zich in de loop van volgende week in een baan rond de planetoïde. Het is het begin van een prachtige missie waarin een lander en rover op het oppervlak zullen worden gezet en Hayabusa2 zelfs een inslag zal veroorzaken op het oppervlak om dieper gelegen materiaal bloot te leggen. Uiteindelijk zal de sonde een deel van dat materiaal verzamelen en terug naar de aarde brengen.
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ONC team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu & AIST
Schotten maken prachtige 3D-modellen van de meest mysterieuze ballen op aarde
Schotten maken prachtige 3D-modellen van de meest mysterieuze ballen op aarde
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Niemand weet welke functie de ballen – die zo’n 5000 jaar oud zijn – hadden.
Het zijn de meest mysterieuze prehistorische objecten die in Schotland zijn teruggevonden en misschien zelfs wel de meest mysterieuze ballen op aarde. We hebben het over de Carved Stone Balls. Een groot aantal ervan is opgenomen in de collectie van de National Museums Scotland. Maar dankzij curator Hugo Anderson-Whymark hoef je niet meer naar Schotland af te reizen om de ballen te bewonderen. Hij heeft er namelijk prachtige 3D-modellen van gemaakt die je vanuit je luie stoel vanuit alle mogelijke hoeken kunt bekijken.
Als je de 3D-modellen ziet, rijst ongetwijfeld de vraag waarvoor deze ballen gebruikt werden. Het antwoord is enigszins teleurstellen: niemand die het weet.
Graven Op dit moment zijn er zo’n 525 van deze ballen teruggevonden. De meeste doken op in Schotland. Maar ook in Engeland en Ierland zijn ze ontdekt. En er is er zelfs eentje in Noorwegen teruggevonden. De ballen werden stuk voor stuk aangetroffen in ganggraven: grafmonumenten die bestaan uit een lange gang die leidt naar één of meerdere grafkamers.
Wapens? Waarom overledenen deze ballen – die vaak rijkelijk versierd zijn – mee kregen, is tot op de dag van vandaag onduidelijk. Wel is er al veel over gespeculeerd. Zo dachten sommige onderzoekers dat het wapens waren: de ballen werden daarbij wellicht aan een touw vastgemaakt en weggeslingerd. Anderen dachten weer dat het machtssymbolen waren of gewichten.
De 3D-modellen zullen naar verwachting niet meer inzicht geven in de functie van de ballen. Maar ze onthullen wel dat de ballen voor de prehistorische mensen belangrijk moeten zijn geweest. Dat blijkt onder meer uit het feit dat ze met zorg en oog voor detail zijn vormgegeven.
A well-known Russian expert, Ernst Rifgatovich Muldashev, ophthalmic surgeon by profession and researcher by passion, has long been looking for traces of ancient civilizations disappeared before the mankind appeared on Earth.
Muldshev, who in 2002 published three volumes of “In Search of Cities of the Gods”, followed by numerous other volumes (among which “Where do we come from” e “Between the arms of Dracula”), is convinced that the existence of more ancient civilizations of man is confirmed by archaeological finds, rock carvings, references to airplanes and Ufos in stories and legends. According to the expert, the civilizations that inhabited the planet would have been four.
ASURAS, THE NATIVES
The Asuras, or the natives, according to Muldashev were the first race appeared on Earth 10 million years ago. They were incredibly tall beings, up to 50 meters, they had an etheric body, they lived for up to ten thousand years and used telepathy to communicate with each other. In reality they were not natives of the Earth: they moved there after the death of the Phaethon planet.
The White Aryan Race, Atlantis and Unwanted Truths
ATLANTEANS, THOSE BORN AFTER
As the millennia passed, the Asuras changed, their bodies became denser. Thus a new race would develop, the Atlanteans, i.e. “those born after”. They were slightly smaller than the Asuras, they still did not have bones, but they had a third eye, located between the eyebrows.
LEMURIANS, THE BUILDERS OF THE SPHINX
After the Atlanteans, appeared on Earth the Lemurians. Much more similar to modern humans, they possessed a bone skeleton and were differentiated according to sex. The third eye was still present, but not as well developed as the Atlanteans.
Lemurians were about 7-8 meters tall and lived about a thousand years. According to Muldashev, they were the ones who built the Sphinx, Stonehenge and many other wonderful monuments of antiquity.
BOREI, THE MOST SIMILAR TO MAN
Lastly the Borei would have appeared: this race was formed long after the other, its members were much lower, did not exceed 3-4 meters in height, their third eye was more hidden while the other organs were very similar to those of man.
What happened to all these beings? According to Muldashev, about 25-30 thousand years ago on our planet occurred a nuclear catastrophe following a conflict between Lemurians and Borei. Some of the Lemurians took refuge in the caves, where they fell into a hibernating state, the other side flew away on space ships.
ARYANS, AFTER THE FALL OF ATLANTIS
After the Lemurians left the scene, the Boers and the Atlanteans reached unprecedented development peaks, but they could not avoid the disappearance of their civilizations that would have happened about 12 thousand years ago.
According to Muldashev a fifth race would have developed just before the disappearance of Atlantis, whose myth survived so far: the "aryan" race. The ancestors of modern man did not have a third eye and that's why our society would be developing more slowly.
Will it be true, or as official science says it's just about fantastic theories without any concrete proof? The experts have spoken, but this does not interest the readers of Muldashev.
This study supports our current understanding of gravity and provides more evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy — two mysterious concepts that scientists know about only indirectly by observing their effects on cosmic objects.
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in 1916, explains how gravity is the result of a concept known as the fabric of space-time. Simply put, the theory predicts how much the mass of an object — in this case, a galaxy — curves space-time. [Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained (Infographic)]
Since the theory was first published, it has been tested a number of times within our solar system. But this new study, conducted by an international team of astronomers led by Thomas Collett of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., is the first precise test of general relativity on a large astronomical scale, the researchers said.
Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the research team found that gravity behaves the same way in a faraway galaxy as it does in our solar system — just as Einstein's theory predicts.
The researchers tested the assumption that "the same laws of physics we see working here on Earth are true anywhere else," Terry Oswalt, an astronomer and chair of physical sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, said in an email to Space.com. Verifying general relativity "at all possible scales (especially the largest scale) is fundamentally important to physics as a whole, and to cosmology in particular," added Oswalt, who was not involved in the new study.
Dark matter appears to be spread across the cosmos in a network-like pattern, with galaxy clusters forming at the nodes where fibers intersect. By verifying that gravity acts the same both inside and outside our solar system, researchers provide additional evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy.
Credit: WGBH
In validating general relativity, the findings also serve as additional evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy, Collett told Space.com. Dark matter and dark energy are two of the "weird things" that exist in the standard model of cosmology, Collett said.
The standard model is a theory which describes how fundamental forces and particles in the universe work and behave together, and it aims to explain our observations and experiments. However, our lack of understanding and explanation of dark matter and dark energy, "the two biggest mysteries in cosmology today," according to Oswalt, lead some to question the standard model.
"I doubt astronomers will be giving up the standard model of cosmology anytime soon," Oswalt said. So, instead of abandoning the standard model, researchers look to "make the models more precisely explain the observed data," he added.
In the standard model, dark matter is required to explain how fast stars orbit around galaxies and dark energy is required to explain why the universe is expanding faster, according to Collett.
Some scientists have suggested that "alternative gravity theories," as Collett described, could eliminate a need for dark matter and dark energy in the standard model. However, because this team has found that gravity functions outside our solar system like it does inside our solar system, for now it appears that our understanding of gravity is correct and dark matter and dark energy still fit in the standard model.
Collett noted that this study isn't concrete "proof" of dark matter and dark energy, but it serves as additional evidence that they exist.
Six different images from the Hubble Space Telescope have been magnified by a cosmic effect called gravitational lensing. The images were taken in infrared light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. Color has been added to highlight details in the galaxies.
Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Lowenthal (Smith College)
To validate general relativity outside our solar system for the first time, the research team used strong gravitational lensing, a technique in which a massive object — in this case, a galaxy — acts like a huge lens by bending light so much that the image of a background object, also a galaxy, is distorted. This team of astronomers used the galaxy ESO 325-G004 because it's one of the closest lenses to Earth, only about 500 million light-years away.
If the two objects are well aligned, this effect creates a ring of images, known as an "Einstein ring," of the background galaxy. The radius of this ring "is proportional to the deflection of the light," Collett said, "so if you measure the radius of the ring, you can measure the curvature [of space-time]."
In addition to measuring the space-time curve, the researchers had to determine the galaxy's mass, because general relativity predicts how much curvature is created by a mass. They calculated this mass by measuring how fast the galaxy's stars travel. Then, by comparing this measured mass with the measured curvature of space-time, the team found what general relativity predicts for this mass, or galaxy.
So now, as far as we know, even outside our solar system, general relativity is the correct theory of gravity, Collett said. This team of astronomers hopes to study even farther galaxies and lenses, further verifying that gravity works the same throughout the cosmos.
"It is so satisfying to use the best telescopes in the world to challenge Einstein, only to find out how right he was," team member Bob Nichol, director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, said in a statement.
The work is published today (June 21) in the journal Science.
Scientist invents technology to see multidimensional beings
Scientist invents technology to see multidimensional beings
Daniel Nemes scientist and inventor, originally from Spain but residing in Colombia, since he was 14 years old he became interested in astronomy and science. He was a member of the astronomical group of Madrid, Spain.
He says that the project started when he read an article in a magazine about the Dark Matter of the universe and the multidimensional universe momentarily interested him and called attention so he had the initiative to perform mathematical calculations and optical experiments to be able to capture images of ” the beyond”.
He discovered a method of capturing far superior to infrared, ultraviolet, black light, video camera with TV without antenna, etc. And that method I call ENERGIVISION . I use special lenses, ultrasensitive screens of his invention and above all sunlight. The images that he captures are of unknown origin. He explains that his theory is that they are images of other planes. However he says he has not traveled to other places to expose the invention. He has tried to make known to the scientific community and only answered a scientific body of the USA and in a rude way. The media have ignored and silenced the discovery along with the images captured.
Daniel Nemes says: “The only way I have to publicize my invention and the captures are by Facebook, since 2015 I have posted 1000 photos on my facebook. When I started to publish my images on my social network I had a lot of rejection, it was very hard and even insults towards me, fortunately my images are now more known and when I post on my facebook or in other groups it is rare to receive a disqualification or insult ” .
Judge for yourself the following images, the note is at the discretion of each person.
If you want more information about this technology I suggest you go to the following link: Daniel Nemes
A model of the nonexistent Nazi UFO "Haunebu II" produced by model company Revell will no longer be produced after criticism about its historical inaccuracy. The model's packaging, which falsely proclaimed the "round aircraft" was the first object able to fly in space with a top speed of 6000 kph (over 3700 mph), failed to mention that the craft was never built, drawing fire from The German Children's Protection Association (DKSB) and Dresden's Military History Museum (MHM), according to German publication, The Local.
While Revel produces plenty of models depicting fictional spacecraft and real-life Nazi war machines this crossover product drew criticism because its lack of disclosure that the craft never existed or flew plays into prevalent, ahistorical narratives that overestimate the Nazi's level of technology and scientific innovations and serve to mythologize the fascist regime.
"At that time it was technologically impossible to build something like this. ... Enthusiasts can use this as a strategy to cast doubt on what we know today about National Socialism."
The true legacy of many of the Nazi's most ambitious technological projects is not success, but unrestrained excess and abject failure. Look no further than Hitler's frenzied dreams of the Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte, a tank so large as to be a land battleship. The project was ultimately a boondoggle, abandoned because its gargantuan size would have rendered it both extremely vulnerable and tactically useless.
Revell, for its part, agrees with the criticism, saying in a statement: "Unfortunately, our product description does not adequately express this and we apologize for it."
WETENSCHAP Een nieuwe theorie over de beroemde oude site Stonehenge gaat stilaan de wereld rond. De stenen zouden gebouwd zijn met behulp van de beroemde stelling van Pythagoras, maar de Griekse filosoof vond die stelling pas 2000 jaar later uit. Betrapten wetenschappers de filosoof op plagiaat?
Het nieuwe boek “Megalith: Studies in Stone” beweert dat de geometrische principes van Pythagoras terug te vinden zijn in het mysterieuze Stonehenge. De wereldberoemde stenen cirkel werd 5000 jaar geleden gebouwd en staat bekend om zijn speciale positie ten opzichte van de zon. Elk jaar trekken duizenden toeristen naar de site om het eeuwenoude mysterie te bewonderen.
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Een van de auteurs van het boek, Robin Heath, beweert dat een grote driehoek van Pythagoras te zien is op de Engelse site in Wales, waarvan de bluestones zijn afgesneden. Een rechthoek van vier zandstenen vormt volgens het boek een perfecte driehoek van Pythagoras wanneer de zandstenen diagonaal in tweeën worden gedeeld.
Megalithomaniacs Robin Heath and John Martineau launching their new book MEGALITH at Stonehenge solstice... And Archdruid Rollo Maughfling is a fan!
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Niet alleen de onderzoekers van Stonehenge, maar ook andere experts zeggen dat ze bewijs hebben gevonden dat de beroemde stelling al lang voor Pythagoras bestond. Vorig jaar nog onthulden wetenschappers de geheimen van een mysterieuze 3.700 jaar oude Babylonische kleitablet, waarop de oudste goniometrische tabel te lezen staat. De Griekse filosoof leefde pas in 6de en 5de eeuw voor Christus en kan dus niets met die tabel of Stonehenge te maken hebben.
Zonsopgang
Duizenden nieuwsgierigen keken donderdag naar de zon op Stonehenge. De zon kwam op achter de Heel Stone. Die steen markeert de plaat voor zonsopgang aan de horizon. De toeschouwers stonden versteld van het fenomeen en verspreidden foto’s op sociale media, terwijl de stralen door het monument stroomden. Die stralen kondigden de langste dag van het jaar aan op het noordelijk halfrond.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Astronomen hebben met de Europese VLT-telescoop en de Amerikaans-Europese Hubble Ruimtetelescoop (nog eens) vastgesteld dat de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein klopt, zo heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO meegedeeld. Het was de meest precieze test ooit van de theorie, buiten de Melkweg.
Met het MUSE-instrument van de VLT in Chili heeft een team onder leiding van Thomas Collett van de Universiteit van Portsmouth eerst de massa van het nabije sterrenstelsel ESO 325-G004 berekend door de bewegingen van sterren in dit relatief nabije elliptische sterrenstelsel te meten.
De wetenschappers namen met de Hubble ook een Einsteinring waar die is ontstaan doordat ESO 325-G004 het licht van een ver verwijderd sterrenstelsel vervormt. Aan de hand van deze waarnemingen konden de astronomen meten hoe de enorme massa van ESO 325-G004 licht, en daarmee dus ook de ruimtetijd, afbuigt.
Einsteins algemene relativiteitstheorie voorspelt dat objecten de hen omringende ruimtetijd vervormen, waardoor passerend licht wordt afgebogen. Dit resulteert in een verschijnsel dat het zwaartekrachtlenseffect wordt genoemd. Dit effect valt alleen op bij objecten die heel veel massa hebben. Inmiddels zijn een paar honderd van die sterke zwaartekrachtlenzen bekend, maar de meeste zijn te ver weg om hun massa exact te kunnen meten. Met een afstand van ‘slechts’ 450 miljoen lichtjaar is het sterrenstelsel ESO 325-G004 een van de meest nabije gravitationele lenzen.
De onzekerheid van de test bedraagt ‘slechts’ 9 procent. Daarmee is dit de meest precieze test van de algemene relativiteitstheorie buiten de Melkweg tot nu toe, zegt Collett.
Belangrijke gevolgen
Deze bevindingen kunnen belangrijke gevolgen hebben voor alternatieve zwaartekrachtmodellen, benadrukt de ESO ook. Deze alternatieve theorieën voorspellen dat de effecten van de zwaartekracht op de kromming van ruimtetijd ‘schaalafhankelijk’ zijn. Dit betekent dat de zwaartekracht zich op extragalactische lengteschalen anders zou moeten gedragen dan op de kleinere schaal van het zonnestelsel. Collett en zijn team hebben vastgesteld dat dit waarschijnlijk niet het geval is tenzij de verschillen alleen optreden op lengteschalen van meer dan 6000 lichtjaar.
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Piloot ziet vreemde UFO boven New York. Zie hier hoe de luchtverkeersleiding erop reageerde
Piloot ziet vreemde UFO boven New York. Zie hier hoe de luchtverkeersleiding erop reageerde
Er is een geluidsopname opgedoken van een verbijsterde piloot die bij de luchtverkeersleiding een UFO meldt boven Long Island in New York.
De piloot vloog op 26 mei jongstleden op zo’n twee kilometer hoogte boven de plaats Huntington in New York.
Hij maakte zich klaar om te landen op JFK International Airport toen hij plotseling iets vreemds zag en besloot de luchtverkeersleiding in te lichten.
Te groot
“Ik zie voor me een object,” zegt de piloot. “En ik weet niet wat het is.”
De luchtverkeersleiding antwoordt: “Is het een drone of iets dergelijks?” De piloot laat weten dat het object te groot is voor een drone.
Het wordt allemaal nog vreemder als de luchtverkeersleiding aangeeft de UFO niet op de radar te zien.
De piloot vraagt toestemming om een bocht naar links te maken omdat hij anders recht op het object af zou vliegen.
Lichten
Kort daarna zegt hij dat het object achter een wolk lijkt te zijn verdwenen. “Er was zeker iets te zien,” zegt hij.
De enigszins verbouwereerde luchtverkeersleider besluit: “We moeten aannemen dat het een drone is geweest. Ik weet niet of dat een veilige veronderstelling is, maar daar gaan we van uit.”
De piloot is het daar niet mee eens en legt uit dat het leek alsof het object lichten had. “Dat is erg interessant,” klinkt het. “Ik weet niet wat ik moet zeggen.”
“Ik heb geen waanvoorstellingen,” benadrukt de piloot.
Nul op het rekest
De luchtverkeersleider laat de piloot vervolgens weten dat ‘één van de managers’ hem wil spreken over zijn waarneming en ‘zijn telefoontje verwacht’.
Er is verder vrijwel niets bekend over het voorval. De Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit FAA heeft bevestigd dat een piloot die dag een object heeft gezien, maar bood verder geen details.
Website The Drive probeerde het rapport van de piloot op te vragen, maar kreeg nul op het rekest.
Matthew Williams captured the stunning formation, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, about a mile next to the world heritage site.
Watch drone footage of the crop circle above.
An aerial shot of the giant crop circle(Image: Matthew Williams/SWNS)
The 180ft formation contains five spokes and five off-set petal-like shapes, as well as Aztec-style patterns.
The 47-year-old crop circle expert reckons it might have been created to symbolise the passage of time.
Matthew, of Avebury, said: "I think it's quite timely that it appeared in the area right before the Solstice.
Speculators have been left wondering what the meaning behind the crop formation might be, especially because it has appeared near Summer Solstice(Image: Matthew Williams/SWNS)
"To me, it kind of looks like a combination lock - but the flowers obviously represent the passage of time and the changing of the seasons.
"It's very unusual to see offset shapes in these geometric designs, so that's why I think this is a special formation.
"Plus, it's right next to an ancient barrow - so it just adds to the history of the area."
Gigantische graancirkel verschijnt vlak voor zomerwende bij Stonehenge. Bekijk deze indrukwekkende beelden
Gigantische graancirkel verschijnt vlak voor zomerwende bij Stonehenge. Bekijk deze indrukwekkende beelden
In een weiland bij Stonehenge is vlak voor de zomerzonnewende een reusachtige graancirkel ontstaan.
In het gewas is een patroon met een doorsnee van ruim 54 meter verschenen. De formatie lijkt op een combinatieslot.
Experts vragen zich af wat de achterliggende betekenis van deze graanformatie zou kunnen zijn.
Azteekse patronen
Elk jaar trekken duizenden mensen naar Stonehenge om de zomerwende te vieren. Dit is het moment waarop de zon, gezien vanaf de aarde, de noordelijkste positie bereikt.
Graancirkelonderzoeker Matthew Williams legde de indrukwekkende formatie in Wiltshire vast.
De graancirkel bevat vijf spaken met in het midden vijf patronen in de vorm van een bloemblaadje. Daarnaast zijn er Azteekse patronen te ontwaren.
Speciale formatie
“Het doet me denken aan een combinatieslot, maar de bloemen staan duidelijk voor het verstrijken van tijd en de verandering van de seizoenen,” zei Williams.
“Het is erg ongewoon om zulke vormen in deze geometrische ontwerpen te zien, dus om die reden is dit een speciale formatie,” voegde hij toe.
Bekijk beelden van de nieuwe graancirkel hieronder:
UFO Lights Caught On Live Mt. Sakurajima Cam Similar To 2011 UFO Lights Japan
UFO Lights Caught On Live Mt. Sakurajima Cam Similar To 2011 UFO Lights Japan
Kat Martin recorded from the Sakurajima live cam an unusual bright light near the bottom of Mt. Sakurajima on June 20, 2018.
Kat was watching the live cam at Sakurajima volcano and noticed a light source coming from the ground near the bottom of the mountain.
It grew so large it lit up the sky then shrunk back to the ground. At one point another small light source appeared above the mountain, flashing on and off. Kat said that she has never seen anything like this before.
The 2018 UFO light is similar to the mysterious UFO light that appeared on the Sakurajima Live cam in 2011. Till today they still have no explanation for the 2011 event.
Mt. Sakuranjima is well known for its mysterious UFO sightings.
First video: UFO lights 2018. Second video: UFO lights 2011.
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART I
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART I
NASA – the criminally underfunded agency that was put in place to sort of recklessly shoot people, dogs, and some monkeys off of the planet strapped to giant explosives, and into the dark reaches of the cosmos. Such a beautiful concept.
Since its inception, NASA has proven to be the very pinnacle of elite science, and as such chooses only the best samples from the human species to experience the wonders that space travel has to offer.
Seriously, is anyone else bitter that they’re not among that elite? It keeps us up at night on a regular basis.
So when NASA astronauts come out of the woodwork and make claims, revelations, and confessions they tend to be treated quite seriously. There’s a certain credibility to those claims that no-one else has.
Even if those claims include Lionel Richie suggesting on British daytime television that his good friend Buzz Lightyear (might have been Aldrin, we don’t hear so well these days) has confessed to him about extraterrestrial experiences, we sit up and listen.
Or sit up and head to the message boards.
Yep, most of these confessions are in some way related to the presence of aliens among us, but there are also some surprising revelations completely unconnected to little green men and their obsession with our human anuses.
Let’s kick off with Lionel Richie’s best friend.
20. SPACE BUREAUCRACY
Via space.com
You know how it is, you’re coming back from your vacation, you’ve been prodded and probed by the TSA, spent hours in a cramped cylinder, and then some jerk wants to check your luggage for customs purposes…and moon rocks.
That’s right, not satisfied that Buzz Aldrin was the 2nd man to step on the surface of the giant rock that hovers precariously over our heads affecting our tides and sanity, the US government had him fill out a customs form upon his return.
The forms, posted by Dance-Master Aldrin (official title) on twitter in 2015, show that he had to declare to Uncle Sam that he was returning to earth with “moon dust” and “moon rocks”. These days we’re more sophisticated, of course, and rather than declaring it to customs, people returning from vacation with rocks and dust just put them in condoms and keister them.
Aldrin got his own back, though, and put in an expenses claim for $33. Popular belief is this was for a car rental, but we’d like to think it was for tang and ladies of the night.
19. BOOT FULL OF PEE
Via nationalairandspace.si.edu
Buzz Aldrin can claim some amazing feats. Primary among them is convincing people to call him “Buzz” instead of “Edwin”. Kudos. That’s like convincing your friends to call you “Ninjashark” instead of “Norman”.
Aldrin has often boasted that while Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, he was the first to pee on it. Well now, we all assumed this was a nice, sanitary urination into some kind of colostomy bag – but with a more NASA name…cosmic pee sack?
No.
Turns out, because Armstrong’s landing was a little too good and failed to crumple the legs of the module as expected, he and Aldrin had to jump from a larger height than planned for. As a result, Aldrin’s pee tube disconnected from it’s housing and he wound up peeing in his boot.
That’s one squelchy step for a man…
18. THE GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID OF PANIC
If there’s one thing that science fiction has taught us, it’s that when faced with the possibility of extraterrestrial threat, the human race will tend to react in a unified manner. Unified, bat-crap crazy panic, possibly with a nice side of cannibalism. Hell, in real life, our species acts in that fashion when faced with the defeat of a sports team.
Gordon Cooper, former NASA astronaut and the face that UFO-philes point enthusiastically at when asked for evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, revealed that the government has been keeping aliens under wraps for this very reason.
Now, Cooper makes a lot of claims about UFOs, and if he weren’t a former astronaut, his credibility would be about as valuable as xxxxxx. But spaceman Cooper, who has also worked with the CIA, in an interview in 1995, revealed that the government cover-up we all assumed was happening (while adjusting our tin foil hats) is in fact a reality. When discussing a extraterrestrial landing that occurred in 1951, Cooper said, “I happen to know that the authorities did everything they could to keep this incident from the press and TV, just to prevent a panicky reaction.”
17. THE POPE KNOWS EVERYTHING!
Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon – and no-one’s suggesting he was getting Armstrong’s sloppy seconds (more like slightly grubby sixths). Before he died in 2016, he made it something of a personal mission to out everything he could think of surrounding aliens…stuff that, once again, would sound crazy coming from anyone who hadn’t floated in a vacuum, sucking on vast quantities of artificially generated oxygen.
One of these topics of discussion revolved around one of only two men in the world who’s name can be suffixed by the word “mobile”. In an email to then-president Bill Clinton’s advisor, John Podesta, Mitchell wrote, “The Pope has knowledge of aliens out there who want to help humanity.”
Turns out he’s not talking to the same man who lives upstairs that Catholics think he is. At least these ones probably don’t mind if you use contraception.
16. UFO TRACKING IS A REAL LIFE JOB
Joseph A. Walker. Astronaut, test pilot, fierce proponent of the Stetson. Also, there exists no photo in which the man doesn’t look like a genuine badass. Go on, go look, we’ll wait.
Walker was NASA’s seventh astronaut, and was probably not the first only because they were reluctant to let him ride the rocket like a bucking bronco.
Appropriately enough, in 1962 he revealed that he had possibly the most awesome job aside from “extraterrestrial ray gun tester”: UFO spotter. During a fifty-fifty high flight in 1962 he estimated that he filmed five or six UFOs, though he refused to speculate on their nature. To date this footage has not been released to the public.
15. ARMS IN SPACE!
There are things you probably don’t really want to see when you’re floating around in the black void of space; zombies, Donald Trump, zombie Donald Trump. While it would probably be every astronaut’s dream to see an extraterrestrial craft, they likely wouldn’t want to see one with appendages reaching out from it. That crap is just terrifying to think of.
But NASA astronauts Ed White and James McDevitt revealed that in 1965, while they were drifting over Hawaii in the Gemini spacecraft, they spotted not just your standard UFO, but one that had mechanical arms sticking out from it.
McDevitt took footage of the object with a cine-camera, but once again NASA haven’t released it. Why is everyone leaking celebrity sex tapes, but no-one’s leaking any of this hardcore alien action?
14. MISSION CONTROL ASSUMES ASTRONAUTS ARE IDIOTS
We’re used to NASA, or some kind of shadowy government organization working NASA’s puppet strings, treating we mere civilians like the morons it thinks we are. That’s par for the course, no shock there. They might be right too, we made the Kardashians cultural icons, we can’t be relied upon to make intelligent observations.
But you would have thought they at the very least would treat their astronauts, the people who go through years of training to be elite space sailors, as though they might know what they’re talking about.
In 1965 Jim Lovell saw a UFO during their second orbit. When he reported it to mission control, they questioned his sighting, asking if he was actually seeing a discarded booster. Lovell advised them he could see the booster too, and somehow refrained from telling them he knew the difference between a booster and a f*$@&!g UFO.
Maybe they mistook Lovell for Forest Gump Tom Hanks instead of Apollo 13 Hanks. Rookie mistake.
13. WE DON’T KNOW WHERE ALIENS COME FROM
This one might be our fault for making assumptions. We can blame the movies too. You see, every piece of alien fiction where we go off in search of alien planets/technology/women-to-teach-how-to-make-love those in charge of the missions seem to have some idea of where the aliens call home. We’ve been safe in the knowledge that, even though they won’t admit it to us, the government knows that the aliens come from Alpha Laheugo IX or something, out there in the Crustacean system…whatever, the point is, they’ve made contact, and we know.
We don’t bloody know!
This revelation comes from our friend Edgar Mitchell, who when speaking to Britain’s Kerrang Radio said, “Have we been able to identify where the other planets are? No. Certainly not in our solar system.”
But who could blame extraterrestrials for not giving us their address? After all, would you really want earth people showing up at your planet, asking if you’ve “heard the good news”?
12. ALIENS VISIT GERMANY
Perhaps we’ve just been conditioned to think that aliens just mostly visit America. Or at least, they seem to crash there. Maybe America is just the extraterrestrial equivalent of the precarious mountain routes where drunk teenagers have drift road races. Either way, it seems that the wee green fellas like to take a trip to Germany too.
While NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was stationed in Germany in 1953, he was apparently subjected to frequent UFO sightings. In an interview in 1988, he said he would see strange metallic saucer-shaped objects in the sky for consecutive nights, and that they certainly weren’t indigenous to earth.
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART II
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART II
11. ALIENS VISIT US GOVERNMENT FACILITIES
Usually the only people who willingly go to visit the government are lobbyists for the tobacco industry. Because, seriously, they don’t seem to be of much use to anyone else.
Well, except extraterrestrials.
Our pal Gordon Cooper, in a letter he wrote to the UN requesting the release of covered up information on UFOs, described how he had himself seen an extraterrestrial being just casually being brought into a government facility. You know, like every other Tuesday.
There’s no information as to exactly what the aliens are doing on government facilities, probably restocking the vending machines, or cleaning the toilets. You know, the menial jobs the government usually reserves for aliens.
10. LINES OF LIGHTS
There are various reasons a person might see lines of lights – a reflection in the window, migraines, LSD flashbacks. But when you see them in space, there are considerably fewer alternative explanations to an actual, straight up, real-life line of lights.
That’s what NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao said he saw when he was out on a spacewalk in 2005.
“I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line, and it was like an upside down check mark, and I saw them fly by.”
So what was it Chiao saw while out on his spacewalk? We don’t know about you, but we’ll take that check mark as a sign from the aliens that they approve of Leroy’s superior spacewalking. Nice job, Leroy.
9. THE ROCK ROBBER
We all have that dark side of us, the part that leans in close to our brain and whispers, “Hey, that sleeping person would look great with demonic horns super glued to their forehead”. Most of us don’t act on those wicked thoughts. But then there are those of us who go a little too far and convince our friend they are the actual real life devil.
Thad Roberts was the guy that went a bit too far.
In 2001 Roberts was accepted into NASA’s elite astronaut co-op program. Unlike most of the others on the program, however, Roberts was flat broke.
But he quickly made a name for himself as a rebel, a risk taker, sneaking into the space shuttle simulator for unofficial rides, and suchlike. When he saw 842 lbs of moon rocks – worth about $21m – just sitting in a laboratory safe, unused and ignored, he decided he was gonna put them to some use.
However, the buyer Roberts lined up got suspicious as to their legality and contacted the FBI, like a filthy narc. They investigated the case and promptly jailed him for 100 months.
In 2012 Roberts revealed his dual motives: love and science. He had fallen hard for a fellow program attendee, and felt that together the funds from the sale of the rocks could help them make beautiful, cutting edge science discoveries together. How sweet.
8. NASA IS OKAY WITH CRASHES
NASA has a reputation for being kinda strict about who it decides can be thrown into space at terrifying speeds. It has high standards, which you would sort of expect from an organization that routinely puts members of our idiot species at the controls of vehicles worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
One of the things you would expect to be high up on NASA’s list of potential pilot candidates is that said astronaut in no way has the potential to make the vehicle plummet to it’s doom.
Turns out, they’re kinda relaxed about that.
In a 2016 documentary about his life, Eugene Cernan revealed that NASA has no real qualms about guys who are a little free and easy with their collisions. According to Cernan, in 1971 just two weeks before Apollo 14 launched – for which Cernan was selected as backup commander – he crashed a helicopter. He figured he’d screwed up his chances, but NASA called him to express the equivalent of a “meh” – the job was still his if he wanted it.
A year later he flew to the moon, and is to date the last man to step foot on it.
7. ALIENS ARE ANTI-NUCLEAR WAR
With relatively few exceptions, we can agree that most of us are pretty firmly against the nuclear apocalypse, right? Sure, there are a few morons among us, perhaps with an orange tint to their skin, that have their tiny hands hovering above the button, desperate to press it at a moment’s provocation. But for the most part, we’re anti-nuclear.
Turns out, the aliens are too.
Our good friend and all-round extraterrestrial campaign cheerleader, Edgar Mitchell revealed in his email to John Podesta that the aliens are so staunchly against the threat of nuclear war, that they’ve gone so far as to actually shoot test missiles out of the sky.
At least somebody’s looking out for us. Or maybe they have a more sinister plan for us…we for one welcome our new alien overlords and their program of indentured servitude.
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART III
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART III
6. POLLUTION IS WORRYINGLY VISIBLE
Much as there are those in power that are reluctant to admit it, we are basically screwing up the planet we live on. Honestly, we’ve spent centuries looking around us, thinking – my, what a lovely rock that we’re hurtling through the cosmos clinging to the surface of, let’s see how many ways we can beat the shit out of it.
While the affects of pollution are evident in climate change, and even down to our day-to-day breathing in of toxic miasmas, it would seem that it can also be viewed from quite a distance above.
In 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly after having spent a year in space, revealed that he could see how incredibly polluted India and China were from his position peering out of a porthole in the ISS.
Scott said that there was a single day in his entire year in space that he could actually see China clearly – and it turned out that was the day the authorities turned off it’s vast collection of industrial machinery to celebrate a public holiday.
5. CARL SAGAN WAS PART OF A COVER-UP
Carl Sagan is a goddamned hero. Not your run-of-the-mill American hero, no. A superstar universal king of the bloody cosmos type hero. Who doesn’t hear that voice and think, “This guy is my own personal Jesus”?
Well, brace yourselves for a shocker. Because it would seem that Carl Sagan was part of the extraterrestrial cover-up! Gasp (cue fainting)!
Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, was invited to teach at Cornell University by none other than Carl Sagan. Which is a bit like being recruited for…no…there’s no analogy worthy of that particular honor. O’Leary worked closely with Sagan in the Planetary Science Department of Cornell.
In an interview, however, O’Leary revealed that Sagan purposefully fudged data – including the famous face on Mars to make it look less face-like – with the intention of steering the public away from the truth about extraterrestrial life.
Say it ain’t so!
However, speculation is rife that Sagan was an integral part of making contact with alien life, and released his novel “Contact” as an underhanded way of revealing the truth.
4. YOUR BRAIN SHRINKS IN SPACE
This one is less of a confession by the astronauts themselves, but by their brains. That’s right, NASA’s elite have had their brains rise up against them and make confessions to other scientists. It’s true, your brain is always conspiring against you.
Obviously it’s routine for those spending periods in space to have their bodies monitored. It’s important to know how space affects us so that we can build more effective exo-suits for the coming fight against Xenomorphs, right?
Well, in early 2017 a report was published showing that spending time in space actually physically shrinks your grey matter. The shrinkage was most prominent – between 10-15% decrease of volume – in the prefrontal and insular regions of those astronauts tested.
Which is a complex way of saying, space is conspiring against your damn brain.
3. A SPACE WAR IS COMING
We all knew it was a distinct possibility. Hell, ever since we were kids we whipped out our makeshift lightsabers and begun our training for the inevitable space opera that our future was undoubtedly going to become. Your powers are weak old man, etc., etc. But it would seem that something is definitely brewing in the dark reaches of space that we’re just not prepared for.
Edgar Mitchell – who should by now have a fanfare every time his name is mentioned – revealed in an email to Bill Clinton’s aide John Podesta that there is a “space war” imminent. That’s right, a genuine NASA astronaut has confirmed that aliens are gearing up for a throw down.
It’s unclear what form this war will take, or who is fighting it, but Mitchell warned that we are unprepared for it, and the public needs to be better informed to become part of the universal community.
One thing is certain about a war between alien species: whoever wins, we lose.
2. SPACE TUNES
We know what space sounds like. It sounds like John Williams conducting a vast orchestra with the kind of dramatic flare that makes you pee yourself just a little bit every time you hear it. Yes?
Well, as it turns out, there really is some kind of soundtrack to space.
In May of 1969, while the Apollo 10 mission was out there in the cosmos, Gene Cernan began to hear what he described as “outer space music” in his ears. He asked fellow astronaut John Young if he could also hear the strange whistling sounds, to which Young replied that he could, and that it was really weird and “Nobody is going to believe us”.
We all hate paying our electricity bills. It sucks. When that letter comes through the door each month reminding you that you spend too many hours during peak time running Tesla coils in your garage, you let out a cry of anguish asking why haven’t the aliens freed us from this nightmare.
Dude, they’re trying.
According to Edgar Mitchell (fanfare), extraterrestrials that are benevolent in nature (sure they are) really want to give us the secret to something called Zero Point Energy – which is a cool-sounding name that doesn’t sound at all like something quantum physicists made up after an all night Star Trek binge. This is apparently a method of extracting and using free energy gleaned from empty space.
Problem is, they’re afraid of our violent tendencies and won’t give it to us unless we prove that we won’t use it for warmongering.
We could always just threaten them with nuclear weapons…oh, wait.
Unexplained objects in the sky have been a part of history ever since human began recording their experiences. Lights, angels, and monsters descending from above appear in virtually every society's folklore. These fantastic objects had become inextricably linked with extraterrestrial life forms and many theories have been created to explain their origin and purpose. By studying our own UFO stories we may gain a better understanding of their true significance.
1967 was a pivotal year in Canadian history. As host to the world's expo Canada had secured its reputation as a modern and enlightened country. But by 1967 in Canada the UFO question became as relevant as the need to explore. However, the UFO age didn't begin in Canada. The origin of the modern flying saucer myth was a distinctly American story. On Tuesday, June 24, 1947, businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying his aircraft over the mountains of Washington State. Arnold was a member of the Idaho's search and rescue flyers. He had heard about a missing C-46 air force transporter lost somewhere near Mount Rainier and decided to spend an hour checking of the steep cliffs and deep crags of the mountain side.
The weather was clear, not a single cloud in the bright, blue sky. Arnold was gazing down on a high plateau when a flash of light caught his attention. For a moment he tensed... it could mean he was on a collision course with another aircraft, but the only other aircraft in sight was a distant DC-4. A second flash caught his eye and now he knew where to look. From the direction of Mount Baker in the North a formation of bright objects flying at an incredible speed was heading toward Mount Rainier.
To his surprise there were no projecting parts, like wings or tails, on the objects. At first he thought they were a squadron of jet aircraft but he had doubts. Arnold pushed up the window to see the objects better. They were flat, not quite circular. Using watch he calculated their speed to be 2000 miles per hour. The squadron passed by Mount Adams and finally disappeared over the horizon. The show was over and it lasted only three minutes.
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In a recently leaked memo, the FBI has confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life, though the claim is now being denied by the bureau. However, despite their denial, there is still plenty of evidence that is out there that shows that aliens do in fact exist and they have visited our planet, possibly for quite some time.
The memo is from the early 1950’s and talks about a UFO being discovered by the government in New Mexico. Of course, in typical fashion the FBI has denied it, claiming it to be a fabricated hoax designed to mislead the public, but we know better now. More and more evidence is coming out that proves UFO’s exist and that we have been visited by alien lifeforms.
UFO Encounter.
A recent video from the government shows footage of fighter pilots encountering a UFO with a disk-like shape. The fact that the government would even release such footage is proof enough that there are aliens out there interacting with humans, and based on how advanced their flight technology is, they have been visiting us for quite some time.
Watch the video closely and you will notice that the disk-like object moves in a way that a normal aircraft could not, and there is no other explanation than the object being an advanced piece of alien technology that is well beyond our comprehension.
The Secret Pentagon UFO Program.
When you think about it, it makes total sense that our government has been lying to us. If the public knew about what was really going on behind closed doors with regards to alien life, we would collectively freak out. Additionally, a former top Pentagon official confirmed the existence of a top-secret government program to track UFO’s, called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The former Pentagon official, Luis Elizondo, recently spoke with CNN about the inner workings of the program and how the unidentified aircraft discovered by the program is unlike anything that has ever been seen on earth.
He went on to explain that these aircraft could seemingly defy the laws of aerodynamics and contained advanced technology. Here we have a former government worker finally telling us the truth and confirming our long-held suspicions. The Pentagon tried to hide the existence of this program, despite the fact that it received over 22 million dollars annually as part of the budget, but now we know the truth.
The American public is scared to admit that these cases continue to crop up and that the alien visitations are increasing in number and stature.
Tom DeLonge, known for his work in Blink-182, quit the band so that he could focus all of his energy on proving the aliens exist. Tom has gotten himself into deep trouble with the government, but he has overwhelming evidence that supports the fact that we have been visited by aliens. He recently went on the Joe Rogan podcast to talk about it. Tom is staking his professional career on finding evidence that aliens exist and that our government has been concealing their existence for quite some time.
CIA Releases Over 13 Million Pages Of Declassified Documents.
The CIA recently released over 13 million pages worth of previously classified documents, with many of them talking about the existence of UFO’s. How can it be a conspiracy when both the FBI and CIA talk about UFO’s and alien technology? It is clear that they are withholding even more material than what has been released. The fact that they continually reference UFO’s in these documents is yet another piece of evidence that proves aliens exist and have visited our planet recently.
Detractors who have labeled these truth seekers as conspiracy theorists will be happy to know that the declassified documents also show the existence of the CIA’s Stargate program, which attempted to use the power of psychic phenomena for use in military and espionage. For a long time, many people refused to believe the program existed, labeling it as a conspiracy theory. However, the truth will always see the light, so it was only a matter of time before these revelations became public.
The Truth About Aliens And UFO'S.
There are too many UFO and alien sightings for it just to be a misidentification or a hallucination unless of course, the chemicals the government is poisoning us with are causing us to hallucinate, which is possible. A more plausible reason is that our technology is advancing at a high rate and now aliens wish to have more contact with us. It always amazed me that so many people in this country were so quick to dismiss any UFO sightings as an optical illusion or some misidentification of an aircraft, come on.
The American public has been lied to for long enough, and now the truth is beginning to come out, and there is nothing that the government can do to stop this. We have seen an unprecedented explosion in information being released to the public in recent years, and now the information that was once inaccessible to most of the nation is available to everyone.
Extraterrestrial Life Exists.
One only has to think about the enormity of the universe to realize we are not alone, and now more and more evidence continues to come out that proves this is a fact. It really does make you think about what else the government has been hiding from us, and what other secrets will finally be revealed.
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NASA To Hold Press Conference On Near-Earth Object Preparedness
NASA To Hold Press Conference On Near-Earth Object Preparedness
NASA is gearing up to host a media teleconference about National Near-Earth Object Preparedness.
NASA had revealed they are gearing up to host a media teleconference on June 20 at 1 pm EDT that will relate the objectives of a report regarding the plans of the United States for preparing for near-Earth objects. The report gives details about plans about how NASA plans to deal with any NEOs that might prove a hazard to Earth.
No Near-Earth Objects Reported In Vicinity of Earth
At the moment there are no near-Earth objects that NASA knows about that might be considered a risk. An object is considered a risk if that object has a high risk of making an impact with Earth. According to the NASA. gov website, the report is essential in addressing what has been a nationwide response to possible risks of impact by NEOs in the future.
The report has the name of the “National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan, ” which is straight and to the point. The report reveals actions that might help the coordination of the federal government along with preparing for near-Earth objects in the next decade, essentially addressing any potential hazards that a near-Earth object might bring with it.
Audio of the teleconference will stream live at: www.nasa.gov/...
NASA Released Names of Speakers during the Teleconference
In a press statement released by NASA, they listed those taking part in the media teleconference as:
Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington – Lindley Johnson;
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington – Aaron Miles;
National Response Coordination Branch, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington – Leviticus Lewis.
NASA also stated that the teleconference is going to be live-streamed and anyone wishing to put any questions to the speakers can do so by using the #askNASA hashtag on social media.
Near-Earth Objects Have Passed by in the Past but Were Not a Threat
In the past near-Earth objects have come relatively close to Earth, but have passed by without incident or being considered a threat. More recently, a small space rock did make an impact over Southern Africa, with it being picked up by the Catalina Sky Survey, which is funded by NASA. The course of the small rock was followed, however, NASA said that it was only 2 meters so it was not a risk to Earth, it disintegrated.
In April, an asteroid between 157 to 360 feet passed by Earth at about 119,400 miles distance. NASA said that the object was about half the distance between Earth and the Moon. The asteroid was only discovered one day before its close encounter with Earth. The asteroid was bigger than the one that exploded over Russia in 1908.
IN A FLASH Unlike Earth lightning, which is most concentrated at the equator, Jupiter’s strikes at its poles, as shown in this artist’s rendition.
SWRI, JPL-CALTECH/NASA, JUNOCAM
When Voyager 1 revealed lightning on Jupiter in 1979, something about the flashes didn’t make sense. From a distance, it seemed like the radio waves from the massive planet’s lightning bolts didn’t reach the high frequency emitted by lightning on Earth.
Scientists just discovered something very special about Jupiter’s lightning
But the Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting much closer to Jupiter’s surface for the last two years, has helped solve the mystery. The radio waves emitted by the planet’s lightning are, in fact, in a similar frequency range as our lightning at home, mission scientists report in the June 6 Nature. Astronomers couldn’t detect anything but the lower frequencies, called “whistlers,” until now.
And while solving that mystery, the researchers discovered another twist: Jupiter’s lightning may have a similar frequency as Earth’s, but it is focused at the planet’s poles instead of nearer to the equator, as on Earth.
“Jupiter continues to surprise us,” says Shannon Brown, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the new study. Brown says the difference in location of the lightning strikes has to do with how the two planets distribute heat. Earth receives most of its heat from the sun, and that heat is focused around the equator. Jupiter, much farther from the sun, creates most of its heat internally, leading to different convection patterns that drive lightning to the poles (SN: 3/31/18, p. 10).
Juno had been scheduled to take a mission-ending plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere in July, but on June 6 the mission was extended for another three years — plenty of time to catch more great lightning shows(SN: 6/24/17, p. 14).
STAR CATCHER To prepare for an eventual energy shortage caused by the accelerating expansion of the universe, an ultrapowerful alien civilization could gather stars and capture their energy using hypothetical structures known as Dyson spheres, illustrated above.
MARC WARD/SHUTTERSTOCK
Survivalists prep for disaster by stocking up on emergency food rations. Aliens, on the other hand, might hoard stars.
To offset a future cosmic energy shortage caused by the accelerating expansion of the universe, a super-advanced civilization could pluck stars from other galaxies and bring them home, theoretical astrophysicist Dan Hooper proposes June 13 at arXiv.org.
It’s a far-out idea, tackling a dilemma in a future so distant that human beings can hardly fathom it: 100 billion years from now, each neighborhood of the universe will be marooned as if on a cosmic island, with resources from the rest of the universe inaccessible. “We’ll be in this very dark, lonely place where we won’t be able to see other galaxies,” says theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. That isolation is thanks to a mysterious “dark energy” that is causing the universe to expand faster and faster (SN: 4/7/01, p. 218).
Advanced societies might be able to harness the energy of stars by surrounding them with giant, hypothetical structures called Dyson spheres (SN: 4/24/10, p. 22). But the expansion will eventually make it impossible to reach stars outside the civilization’s home turf. Aliens that possess such technology might want to maximize energy reserves by sending spaceships to retrieve stars before the cosmic isolation sets in. Each star’s energy could be captured with a Dyson sphere, and that energy would then be used to propel the star homeward.
The study doesn’t specify exactly how a civilization might move a star, or what it would do with the energy once captured. It’s hard to speculate about beings so powerful that these extreme feats would be possible, says Hooper, of Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. “It’d be like asking a caveman to figure out how my automobile works.”
The effort would do best to focus on stars that aren’t too big or too small, Hooper calculates. Big stars live fast and die young, so during the tens of billions of years needed to transport the stars home, they would fizzle out. The least massive stars, on the other hand, wouldn’t emit enough energy to fuel their own propulsion; they wouldn’t be able to outpace the universe’s expansion.
We have no evidence that such an advanced civilization exists (SN Online: 1/3/18). But if aliens are harvesting stars, says Hooper, “this would not be a subtle activity.” Scientists might be able to spot signs of the stars being propelled across the universe. A dearth of certain types of stars in particular cosmic neighborhoods would also be a tip-off.
Theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University suggests, however, that it wouldn’t be necessary to collect stars because “nature did it for us.” Large clusters of galaxies are already richly populated with stars. Plus, because the clusters are bound together by gravity, they would remain intact as the universe expands. So rather than improving their home galaxy by collecting stars, a civilization could simply move to greener pastures. “You just need to hop from one to another,” Loeb says. (Never mind the fact that interstellar travel still evades us mere humans.)
Mack, likewise, notes that uprooting to a galaxy cluster might be easier for a civilization, but “maybe they have really strong sentimental attachments to their home galaxy.”
Either way, E.T. won’t be able to stave off the end forever. Eventually, in about 100 trillion years, stars will stop shining altogether. Gathering stars would be a way to accomplish as much as possible, Mack says, “before all the stars die out and the universe is cold and dark and empty.”
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This Is NASA's New Plan to Detect and Destroy Asteroids Before They Hit Earth
This Is NASA's New Plan to Detect and Destroy Asteroids Before They Hit Earth
By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
Artist's illustration of a large asteroid headed for Earth.
Credit: ESA
NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new report today (June 20) titled the "National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan." The 18-page document outlines the steps that NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will take over the next 10 years to both prevent dangerous asteroids from striking Earth and prepare the country for the potential consequences of such an event.
Officials with NASA, FEMA and the White House discussed the new asteroid-mitigation strategies in a teleconference with the media today. "An asteroid impact is one of the possible scenarios that we must be prepared for," Leviticus Lewis, chief of FEMA's National Response Coordination Branch, told reporters during the teleconference, adding that a catastrophic asteroid strike is "a low-probability but high-consequence event" for which "some degree of preparedness is necessary." [Related: How Trump's Space Force Would Help Protect Earth from Future Asteroid Threats]
NASA begins plan to save Earth from a dangerous asteroid 2017
"This plan is an outline not only to enhance the hunt for hazardous asteroids, but also to better predict their chances of being an impact threat well into the future and the potential effects that it could have on Earth," NASA's planetary defense officer, Lindley Johnson, said during the teleconference. Johnson added that the plan will help NASA "step up our efforts to demonstrate possible asteroid deflection and other mitigation techniques, and to better formalize across the U.S. government the processes and protocols for dissemination of the best information available so that timely decisions can be made."
Protecting Earth from incoming asteroids will be a huge job, but don't expect astronauts to do it, NASA said. "That's something relegated to the movies — it makes a good movie, but we do not see in our studies any technique that would require the involvement of astronauts," Johnson said, adding that NASA's proposed asteroid-deflection techniques "would all be done by robotic spacecraft." [7 Awesome Sci-Fi Movies Where Asteroids Threaten Earth]
Five ways to prepare for asteroids
Five major objectives are detailed in the new plan. In the first, NASA is directed to lead a new effort to enhance the nation's capabilities for detecting, tracking and characterizing near-Earth asteroids to "reduce current levels of uncertainty and aid in more accurate modeling and more effective decision-making," the document states.
NASA already supports several ground-based observatories that scan the skies for asteroids, like the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona; the Pan-STARRS1 telescope, in Maui; and the NEOWISE space telescope. While the new report doesn't ask NASA scientists to start planning for additional missions, it does request that the agency "identify opportunities in existing and planned telescope programs to improve detection and tracking by enhancing the volume and quality of current data streams."
The second goal listed in the document discusses the improvement of "modeling, prediction and information integration" across U.S. agencies to help predict the probability that an asteroid will hit Earth and determine exactly when and where an incoming asteroid could strike. Emergency-management teams like FEMA would use this information to determine the best course of action when preparing for an asteroid strike and dealing with the consequences after an impact occurs.
In the third objective, NASA is asked to come up with new ways to deflect an asteroid heading toward Earth. This involves developing new technologies for "rapid-response NEO [near-Earth object] reconnaissance missions," in which a spacecraft could launch toward an Earth-bound asteroid and somehow change the space rock's course so that it no longer posed a threat. NASA had plans to attempt this with the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in 2021, but the Trump administration scrapped that mission in 2017.
However, ARM was not the only asteroid-deflecting mission NASA had up its sleeve. The agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), expected to launch in 2021, will be "our first technology demonstration of the kinetic impact technique to deflect an asteroid," Johnson said, and it will encounter the asteroid system Didymos in 2022.
The focus of the fourth goal outlined in the document is to increase international cooperation to better prepare the rest of the world for the possibility of an asteroid strike — under the leadership of the United States. "This kind of cooperation is really important," said Aaron Miles, a senior policy adviser with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "It's a global hazard that we all face together, and the best way to approach and address that hazard is cooperatively."
To help the rest of the world prepare for an asteroid strike, NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is working with the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to "look at what should be the international response to the NEO hazard," Johnson said. This committee created the International Asteroid Warning Network — a group of asteroid-tracking astronomers and observatories around the world — to help facilitate the sharing of observations and other useful data about NEOs.
This graphic depicts the spatial extent of the damage if an asteroid measuring roughly 100 feet (30 meters) wide were to hit New York City. An asteroid that size famously exploded over Siberia on June 30, 1908. Known as the Tunguska event, this was the largest asteroid impact in recorded history.
Credit: National Science & Technology Council
In the fifth and last objective in the document, the U.S. government is asked to come up with a plan that would go into effect if a large asteroid were found to be hurtling toward Earth — or if one were to crash into our planet with little to no warning. NASA and FEMA have been collaborating on emergency procedures for asteroid impacts since 2010, and the new report calls for the agencies to "strengthen and routinely exercise NEO impact emergency procedures and action protocols."
FEMA's role during an asteroid emergency would involve notifying everyone who might be affected — ideally before the impact occurs — using the same emergency-alert system already in place for notifying the public about weather emergencies and Amber Alerts. As with any other natural disaster in the U.S., FEMA would provide emergency responders and help with the recovery process.
Potentially hazardous asteroids
Asteroid-hunting astronomers have already found more than 8,000 near-Earth objects measuring at least 460 feet (140 meters) across — large enough to wipe out an entire state if one were to hit the U.S. But asteroids that size make up only one-third of the estimated population of near-Earth asteroids.
Smaller asteroid impacts may be less catastrophic, but they can still cause significant damage. The space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 was only 62 feet (19 m) wide, and it injured more than 1,200 people while damaging thousands of buildings as far as 58 miles (93 kilometers) away from the site of impact. NASA is starting to look for more of those smaller asteroids, now that most of the larger ones have already been cataloged.
This graph shows the total number of near-Earth asteroids discovered as of April 8, 2018.
Credit: Alan Chamberlin/NASA/JPL/Caltech
"NASA and its partners have identified more than 95 percent of all asteroids that are large enough to cause a global catastrophe, and none of those found poses a threat within the century," Miles said during the teleconference. "Effective emergency-response procedures can save lives, and unlike most natural disasters, asteroid impacts are preventable," he added.
"Implementing the National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan will greatly increase our nation's readiness … to effectively respond, should a new, potential asteroid impact be detected," Johnson said.
The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan is available to download as a PDF here.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
The dust storm battering Opportunity is now a global storm, NASA reports.
Curiosity approaching Mars in December 2012.
Image credits NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Mars hasn’t been enjoying the fairest weather as of late. A massive dust storm has engulfed Perserverence Valley, pinning NASA’s Opportunity rover in place; all the dust is blocking out sunlight, preventing the bot from recharging its batteries — so much so that ground control fears it might freeze out, as its dwindling power supply can’t feed the rover’s inbuilt heaters.
According to NASA, the weather is only getting worse. The dust storm has grown in size and is inching in even on the Curiosity rover, half a Mars away from the beleaguered Opportunity. The storm has officially become a “planet-encircling” or “global” dust event.
Colossal Dust Storm on Mars Now Completely Covers Red Planet
Mars Stormborn
NASA reports that dust is rapidly and steadily settling down on Curiosity. The quantity of dust settling on the rover has more than doubled over the weekend, they note. The storm’s light-blocking factor, or “tau”, has grown to over 8.0 above Gale Crater (where Curiosity is currently rovering about) — the highest value the bot has ever recorded during its mission. For context, Opportunity is experiencing 11 tau, a value high enough to prevent its instruments from making any accurate measurements.
However, NASA is confident Curiosity will remain unaffected by the grime. Unlike its cousin, it draws power from a nuclear reactor, so the lack of light isn’t really a big issue. Curiosity’s cameras are having a hard time, however, as the lack of light means it has to use long exposure times. NASA is having it point its cameras down at the ground after each use to reduce the amount of dust blowing at its lenses.
However, there’s a silver lining. Because Curiosity can keep functioning in the storm, NASA hopes to use the rover to understand the phenomenon better. One of the main questions they want to answer is why some Martian dust storms remain small and stall before a week has passed, while others grow and grow and last for months.
“We don’t have any good idea,” said Scott D. Guzewich, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, leading Curiosity’s dust storm investigation.
Together with the craft in orbit around Mars, Curiosity will collect data on the storm to help patch up our understanding.
This animation, pieced together from pictures taken by Curiosity’s Mast Camera, shows the weather darkening over Mars. The rover is currently standing inside Gale Crater, and peeking its camera over its rim. The photos were taken over a few weeks, with the first one snapped before the storm appeared. Image credits NASA.
The images above were taken roughly 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away from the storm. The haze is about six to eight times thicker than what’s usual for this time of the Martian year, NASA estimates.
Dust storms on Mars are actually quite commonplace. Surprising for a dusty planet, I know. They’re especially frequent in the southern hemisphere during both spring and summer months (Mars’, not the ones on Earth). These are the months during which Mars is closest to the Sun, and the temperature imbalances in the atmosphere generate winds that mobilize dust grains (this dust is about as fine as talcum powder). Carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) embedded in the planet’s polar ice caps also evaporates during these months, making the atmosphere extra-thick — this increased pressure helps suspend dust in the air. Dust clouds have been spotted up to 60 kilometers (40 miles) high.
However, Martian dust storms don’t usually cause a ruckus. They tend to hang out in a confined area and dissipate within a week. By contrast, the current storm is bigger than North America and Russia combined, according to Guzewich. It’s even more impressive when you consider the size of Mars relative to Earth:
Mars (diameter 6790 kilometers) is only slightly more than half the size of Earth (diameter 12750 kilometers). The image shows the true relative size between the two planets. Image credits Viking Orbiter Views of Mars, NASA SP-441, p. 14.
The size difference is one of the elements that allows Martian dust storms to grow to such immense sizes. Earth’s gravitational pull is almost double that of Mars, which helps settle the dust. Vegetation also binds the soil, preventing particles from getting airborne, and rain washes whatever gets in the atmosphere back down.
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Sunday, November 12, 1933 wa the date upon which the most curious and controversial photograph, of all, of an alleged Nessie was taken. It remains controversial, more than eighty years after it was taken, not because it’s of a too good to be true nature, but as a result of the fact that the creature is so weird-looking. Indeed, it is at extreme odds with what so many other eyewitnesses claim to have encountered at the loch. The witness was Hugh Gray, an employee of the British Aluminum Company.
Loch Ness Monster - The Surgeon's Photo
Hugh Gray's photograph in 1933
The Surgeon's Photograph, 1934
The hot and sunny location of the encounter was in the region of where the mouth of the River Foyers and Loch Ness come together, and the time was around noon. It can be said that Gray was the perfect person to see the creature, as the company he worked for had its premises within walking distance of where the encounter occurred – which was a near-sheer bluff, with a height of about fifty feet. It overlooked the loch and was dominated by dense woods.
According to Gray, after attending a Sunday morning mass, he went for a walk – as he did every Sunday. It was a bright and sunny day, said Gray, and the loch was glistening. Suddenly, something broke the surface of Loch Ness. And it was of large proportions. Very large proportions. As luck would have it, Gray had a camera with him and managed to get a shot of the animal as it not just surfaced, but as it seemed to float almost completely on top of the water. An utterly amazed Gray stood staring at the odd spectacle until the animal submerged, amid a thrashing of its tail.
River Foyers heading to Loch Ness
Hugh Gray’s picture is, admittedly, an odd one. As a result, it has been interpreted in varying ways – sometimes wildlyinterpreted. For the skeptics, the most obvious popular answer is that the photo is an innocent, unintended double-exposure of a portion of the loch and of a dog swimming towards the camera and holding a stick in its mouth, horizontally. It’s also a theory that has been endorsed by the mainstream media – unfortunately without any real, meaningful, critical analysis. There are, however, very good reasons why it can be said that the photo clearly is not a double exposure and does not show a faithful hound returning a stick to its master.
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Yes, one can see what looks like the face of a dog, facing the camera – if one chooses to do so. This is, however, undeniably a case of nothing more than pareidolia. It is a recognized phenomenon that occurs when the human eye attempts to interpret random imagery in the context of something familiar and recognizable. Examples might include seeing faces in clouds, or the visage of Elvis in a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The Gray photo, however, is not one which has pareidolia and a swimming, playing dog at its heart. What it does have at its heart is a creature that is clearly large, curiously floating atop the water, and which lacks the long neck that so many witnesses have reported. It is, you may surmise, the oddly missing extended neck that provokes so much controversy. So, if Hugh Gray’s photo doesn’t show a dog, then what does it show? Let’s take a look.
The Daily Mail front page, April 21, 1934
Left: The Surgeon's Photograph as published in the Daily Mail Right: The Surgeon's Photograph un-cropped original
To the left of the photo is an oddly positioned, but thick-looking, tail. That there is a degree of haziness present in the photo suggests the tail may have been thrashing violently at the time the picture was taken (which Gray suggested); something which caused water to spray into the air and make the image appear slightly out of focus and misty. Plus, it is slightly over-exposed, which only adds to the limited clarity issues. Nevertheless, we also see a fairly thick body that clearly shows a pair of small appendages on its right side. The obvious and logical presumption being that two identical appendages are on the left side too, although admittedly we cannot be one hundred percent sure, of that since the photo only shows one view of the animal.
The most important part of the photo is its extreme right-hand side. There is very little doubt that what is captured on celluloid, and for all to see, is the face of a Nessie. It very much resembles the head of a turtle, and has a distinct beak-like appearance. One can even make out what looks like a small eye and an open mouth that seems to show evidence of a tongue. Possibly most important of all, the shadow of the head can clearly be seen below it, and reflecting off the rippling waters of the loch. Then there is the matter of how high the animal is. It’s practically completely out of the water.
Loch Ness Monster authority Roland Watson has noticed and commented on this curious aspect of the Gray photo. He has suggested the monsters of Loch Ness may possess a form of in-built, internal buoyancy – something which would allow the creatures to float on the surface in the very odd fashion as described by Gray.
Ted Holiday was a dedicated seeker of Nessie who started out as a believer that the Nessies are flesh and blood animals, but who, in the early 1970s, radically changed his views. Before his mind swung over to the dark and supernatural side, Holiday was a champion of the theory that Hugh Gray had filmed a living, breathing of unknown origins and identity. He also concluded that the monster captured by Gray was somewhere between twenty and thirty feet in length.
The Hugh Gray photo continues to provoke controversy in monster-hunting circles.
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Study finds reason behind the formation of strange Martian rock
Study finds reason behind the formation of strange Martian rock
A strange rocky formation on the Red Planet had puzzled scientists for decades. Scientists, uncertain about the origin of this mysterious hilly landscape better known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF), regarded it as some extraterrestrial activity. However, according to a new study performed by a group of researchers, the MFF that extends up to three thousand one hundred miles across the planet’s equator, was formed some millions of years ago due to a volcanic event on the Martian surface.
The initial discovery of this peculiar rock formation, the MFF, dates back to the 1960s. The imagery of the MFF was first captured by the Mariner spacecraft of NASA. However, until now the different analysis performed in connection with the MFF failed to give any positive knowledge to the scientists about its origin.
The MFF’s scale is reportedly huge estimating near about 1/5th of the size of the entire United States. As per the study, the MFF comprises of sedimentary deposits, which are almost hundred times larger in comparison to the biggest volcanic deposit witnessed on the Earth.
Planetary scientist Lujendra Ojha, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement, “This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale but also in terms of the solar system because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this.”
As a part of the study, the researchers analyzed a series of data received from different Mars orbiter spacecraft for estimating the density of the Medusae Fossae Formation. According to the study, the researchers noted the MFF as a “relatively porous unit” and theorized its evolution was the result of “explosive volcanic eruptions.”
Ojha explained, “The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick.”
The findings of this new study were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. As expected by the scientists, the inferences of this study would help them in further understanding of the Red Planet’s geology and also could yield clearer response to whether the Mars colonization could be possible.
Conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring dubbed the bump a “crashed spacecraft” partially buried in Martian soil, back in 2016.
But Dr Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins, has dispelled all conspiracies and UFO claims concerning the formation.
According to the space boffin, new research suggests the formation is entirely natural and was deposited near the equator after violent volcanic eruptions 3 billion years ago.
He said: “This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system, because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this.”
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The Medusae Fossae Formation was first observed in the 1960s by NASA’s Mariner spacecraft.
New high-resolution photographs of Mars, captured by the European Space Agency, have given scientists a much clearer look at the formation.
Dr Ojha and Dr Kevin Lewis, Johns Hopkins, published their findings in the science journal Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
In the study, the scientists claimed the rock formation was formed when hot ash, rock and gas was ejected billions of years ago.
The report reads: “The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars.
“The origin of the MFF is uncertain, though several processes including volcanic, eolian, and ice-related mechanisms have been proposed in its formation.
The Medusae Fossae Formation is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars
Dr Lujendra Ojha, Johns Hopkins University
“Here we localise the gravity and topography signature of the MFF and place the first direct constraint on its density.”
The news comes after astronomers announced stargazers will be treated to the brightest display of Mars at night in years.
The so-called Mars opposition will take place on July 31 next month, offering an unprecedented naked eye view of the Red Planet.
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Mars news: The Medusae Fossae Formation is a giant soft rock formation
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Mars news: The rock formation was formed during volcanic eruptions
During opposition, Mars will sit directly opposite the sun and approach its nearest orbital point to Earth.
Space experts at NASA said: “Like all the planets in our solar system, Earth and Mars orbit the sun.
“But Earth is closer to the sun, and therefore races along its orbit more quickly.
“So sometimes the two planets are on opposite sides of the sun, very far apart, and other times, Earth catches up with its neighbour and passes relatively close to it.”
NASA: Here's the big plan to protect the planet from 'near-Earth objects'
NASA: Here's the big plan to protect the planet from 'near-Earth objects'
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This image provided by NOAA/NASA on May 31 shows the Earths western hemisphere. NASA recently unveiled a new plan to protect Earth from asteroids.
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"Near-Earth objects" are hurtling toward and NASA has a plan to make sure they don't land in your lawn.
No, we're not talking UFOs. Near-Earth objects are comets (cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust the size of a small town) and asteroids (basically, space rocks smaller than planets) that pass within 28 miles of Earth’s orbit.
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Wednesday, NASA and the White House unveiled a "preparedness strategy and action plan" outlining five ways government agencies must keep them away: enhance detection and tracking, improve modeling and prediction, develop technologies for deflection, increase international cooperation, and strengthen impact emergency procedures. These changes involve a host of government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and are meant to happen over the next 10 years, according to the document.
The plan offers short and long-term goals but doesn't offer specifics on how the goals will be achieved. Also, no additional funding was set aside for the plan; officials said the measures can be implemented using existing resources.
Asteroid pieces — more than 100 tons — bombard the Earth daily, a past NASA report notes, but most disintegrate before hitting the surface of our planet.
"NASA and partners have identified 95 percent of asteroids large enough to cause global catastrophe and none will pose a threat in this century," Aaron Miles, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said, Fox News reports.
While it's rare for an asteroid to cause serious damage, it has happened. In 2013, a house-sized meteor (a part of an asteroid) injured more than 1,600 people in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
In 2016, NASA established a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to identify these objects and address possible hazards.
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The odd eight-mile by the Medusae Fossae Formation was seen as proof of alien life according to ufologists.
YouTuber Scott C. Waring, of channel UFOvni2012, previously claimed the formation was a crashed spaceship.
In 2016, he said of the NASA photographs: “If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 miles wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian solid.
But, experts revealed in the Journal of Geophysical Research revealed the formation was something more natural.
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BIZARRE: The formation sparked fierce debate online
Images from the European Space Agency showed a different view of the strange shapes, which were then updated by researchers.
According to scientists the features are ancient volcanos that were once active on the Red Planet’s surface.
They claim they were formed when high winds carved strange shapes into the rocks.
Keen stargazers may be able to get a better view of the Martian surface over the next six weeks, it was revealed.
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MISSION: NASA is currently trying to find out more about the Red Planet
“If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO impacted the surface”
Scott Waring
That is because Mars will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003 throughout June and July.
On July 31, when Mars will be at its brightest, it will be 57.6million kilometres away from Earth, according to The Weather Channel.
A video captured by a New Zealand citizen has been recently submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for authentication and further probe. The eerie clip which was apparently shot on June 02, 2018 shows a glowing UFO flying across the skies. Interestingly, the shape of the possible alien ship seems very similar to that of men's condom.
"Looks like a star that follows me, but it is not a star. When I zoom, it changes its shape and gives menacing energy that messes with my head and brain hurts, causing anxiety and fear," wrote the eyewitness on the report submitted to MUFON.
The video was later shared on conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania', where it has already racked up 5,000 views just in 24 hours. As the video is going viral, conspiracy theorists allege that the UFO spotted in the video might be a possible shape-shifting alien craft which might have come from deep space.
A section of other conspiracy theorists argues that aliens are preparing for a disclosure which could change the entire fate of the human kind on the planet. As per these theorists, aliens might be using an energy weapon, and this might be the reason why the eyewitness felt pain on the head resulting in anxiety and fear.
Soon, several viewers who watched this video put forward various theories explaining the weird sky phenomenon.
"It looks like a bioluminescent lifeform," commented Kevin Coffey, a YouTube user.
"Looks like overfocused planet close to the horizon (object never moved), because atmospheric interference will make anything change colors like that. Plus some parts of it look like a view through a closed hand.," commented Steve Pelt, another YouTuber.
Another YouTuber named Terry Hodge revealed that these bizarre appearances on the sky might be the result of 'Project Blue Beam'. Hodge revealed that the luminous UFO in the sky might be a hologram beamed on the skies to prepare the general public for a staged alien invasion.
Aliens on Mars or nature's feat? Unfolding mystery behind UFO on Red Planet
Aliens on Mars or nature's feat? Unfolding mystery behind UFO on Red Planet
The image of the object on Mars was initially snapped by NASA's Mariner spacecraft, and many conspiracy theorists claimed that it was a UFO on the Martian surface
In the 1960s, a strange structure which had a possible structure of a UFO was discovered on the Martian surface, and many conspiracy theorists then claimed that it could be a possible alien ship that had landed on the Red Planet.
However, a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research has refuted all these claims, and the researchers who took part in the study revealed that the mysterious structure is nothing but a weird rock formation.
Researchers Rule Out Alien Possibility
As per these researchers, volcanoes were very active on Mars in the ancient ages, and when it combined with hundreds of millions of years of wind erosion, these structures formed in a bizarre manner on the Martian surface.
The study report suggested that the porous rock was deposited roughly three million years ago, and Martian winds have played a crucial role in carving these structures into weird shapes. Researchers have named these strange shapes, 'Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF)'.
During the research, scientists made use of tools provided by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to get a clearer picture of the landscapes around the bizarre rock formation.
The image of this weird structure was snapped initially by NASA's Mariner spacecraft five decades ago. Back then, scientists were unable to explain the real phenomenon which could have caused these strange formations.
When looked from above, the ancient structure on Mars looks vaguely like a UFO landed on the Martian surface. Now, with this new explanation, the possible connection of these structures with extraterrestrials have been effectively refuted.
The Real Mystery Continues
However, alien enthusiasts have something to rejoice on the other side, as NASA, on June 07, 2018 revealed that they have found traces of organic compounds and methane on Mars. After the pathbreaking revelation, popular UFO researcher Tyler Glocker who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' claimed that aliens might have been living under the surface of Mars for hundreds of thousands of years.
A few days later, Tyler Glockner released a series of images taken by NASA's Curiosity Rover. He then put these snaps together, and strangely, it shows a bizarre body moving across the Martian surface. The object spotted moving in the surface also cast a shadow which rules out the possibility of lens flare.
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Wetenschappers bevestigen dat mysterieuze radiosignalen niet afkomstig zijn van de mens. Waar komen ze dan wel vandaan?
Wetenschappers bevestigen dat mysterieuze radiosignalen niet afkomstig zijn van de mens. Waar komen ze dan wel vandaan?
Het staat nu vast: mysterieuze radiosignalen zijn niet afkomstig van de mens, maar komen echt uit de ruimte. Tien jaar geleden werd de eerste zogeheten snelle radioflits opgepikt door de Parkes-radiotelescoop in Australië.
Deze vreemde signalen, intense pulsen radiostraling die slechts enkele milliseconden duren, lijken afkomstig van zeer verafgelegen bronnen en zijn miljarden keren helderder dan alles wat we in onze Melkweg kennen.
Er is ook regelmatig gesuggereerd dat het signalen zijn van buitenaardse beschavingen.
Aangepast
In eerste instantie werd aangenomen dat de ‘onmogelijke’ flitsen het gevolg waren van aardse storingen.
Met behulp van de Molonglo-radiotelescoop in Australië is nu echter vastgesteld dat de flitsen afkomstig zijn van buiten de aarde.
De telescoop is speciaal aangepast om snelle radioflitsen te kunnen waarnemen. Manisha Caleb van de Swinburne University of Technology ontwikkelde het computerprogramma dat daarvoor nodig was.
Drie nieuwe
Hij ontdekte zelfs drie nieuwe snelle radioflitsen, waarvan is vastgesteld dat ze uit een ver sterrenstelsel afkomstig zijn.
Onderzoekers van de Harvard-universiteit speculeerden onlangs dat deze radioflitsen weleens een aanwijzing kunnen zijn voor buitenaards leven.
Ruimteschepen
De flitsen zouden in theorie de ruimteschepen van buitenaards leven kunnen voortstuwen in verre sterrenstelsels.
Wanneer de aarde in de baan van die flitsen terechtkomt, zouden ze bij ons op aarde waargenomen kunnen worden, aldus de wetenschappers.
SPECTACULAIRE FOTO'S VAN UFO-LANDING IN VOORSTAD MOSKOU ( VIDEO )
SPECTACULAIRE FOTO'S VAN UFO-LANDING IN VOORSTAD MOSKOU ( VIDEO )
Na Zuid Amerika is Rusland bij uitstek het land waar op regelmatige basis buitenaardse waarnemingen worden gedaan.
Nu zijn er foto’s opgedoken die afkomstig zijn uit een uitzending van de Russische televisie in 1995, waarop de landing van een klassiek retro “vliegende schotel” is te zien in het noorden van Moskou.
Rusland is altijd al een mysterieus land geweest voor wat betreft UFO’s en buitenaardsen en waar men bij ons zich volkomen spastisch begint te gedragen wanneer zich iets dergelijks voor doet, zo is dat in Rusland heel anders.
Daar zie je ook op de gewone televisie regelmatig dingen die hier volkomen ondenkbaar zijn.
En zo kon het gebeuren dat Russische kijkers van het televisiestation T.V. Rusa Ostankino op een avond in oktober specatulaire beelden kregen voorgeschoteld.
Beelden waarop niets minder dan de landing van wat eruit ziet als een klassieke of ook wel retro vliegende schotel, te zien is.
De originele filmopnames zijn er niet meer, maar wel zijn er een drietal foto’s die gemaakt zijn vanaf het televisiescherm en waarop de landing te zien is.
Dit is de eerste foto en je ziet een paar mannen vol verwondering naar de lucht kijken en op de volgende foto’s zie je hoe dit ruimteschip daadwerkelijk landt.
De beelden zijn afkomstig van UFO onderzoeker Jaime Maussan die deze al enkele jaren geleden publiceerde, maar die toen door niet veel mensen zijn gezien en nu opeens wel in de belangstelling komen.
Hier volgt de video waarin meer achtergrondinformatie wordt gegeven over die bijzondere landing in Moskou Noord. In hoeverre die beelden echt zijn, weet je natuurlijk maar nooit, maar ze zien er in ieder geval behoorlijk indrukwekkend uit.
We hebben al eerder te maken gehad met een landing van een buitenaards ruimteschip in de buurt van Moskou en dat was zes jaar daarvoor in Voronezh, zo’n 200 kilometer ten zuiden van Moskou.
Eén van de meest bizarre Ufo verhalen is ongetwijfeld die uit 1989 waar er een landde in een park in Voronezh, 200 km ten zuiden van Moskou in Rusland.
Het verhaal werd, opmerkelijk genoeg, naar buiten gebracht door TASS, het officiële Russische persbureau wat niet bekendstond om haar gevoel voor humor.
Volgens het verhaal van Tass was er een Ufo geland op 27 september 1989 om half zeven ‘s avonds.
Een aantal jonge knapen die aan het voetballen waren, waren getuige van de gebeurtenis. Volgens hen was er een soort roze gloed voordat het vreemd uitziende schip naar beneden kwam. De roze gloed werd een diep rood toen het de grond raakte. De meeste getuigen omschrijven het object als plat en schotelvormig.
Er verzamelde zich al snel een menigte en men probeerde naar binnen te kijken door een luik wat zich opende. Ze zagen drie buitenaardsen van ongeveer drie meter hoog, met drie ogen, gekleed in een zilverkleurige overall en bronskleurige laarzen met een schijf op hun borst.
TASS wist verder te melden: “Een jongen schreeuwde het uit van angst, maar toen de buitenaardse hem aankeek met glanzende ogen, kon hij zich niet meer bewegen. De omstanders begonnen te schreeuwen en de Ufo verdween met haar inzittenden”. Volgens het bericht kwamen ze even later terug. De buitenaardse had toen iets wat op een pistool leek, richtte dit op een 16-jarige jongen die prompt verdween. De buitenaardse verdween weer in het ruimteschip en vertrok, waarop de jongen weer verscheen. “Alle kinderen die zijn ondervraagd vertelden allemaal afzonderlijk van elkaar hetzelfde verhaal. Sommige van de kinderen zijn nu nog steeds bang”. Ook in Nederland werd dit nieuws opgepikt en men wijdde er een flink aantal minuten aan in het avondjournaal van 12 oktober 1989. In het Journaal wordt gemeld dat het schip om half zeven 's ochtends landde. Volgens een aantal andere bronnen was het half zeven 's avonds.
Het voorval in Voronezh is er een die niet zomaar onder tafel kan worden geveegd. Honderden mensen zijn getuige geweest van dit voorval. De verhalen van de kinderen zijn gelijk en de tekeningen die ze later hebben gemaakt komen allen overeen. Talloze specialisten zijn ingezet in een onderzoek; psychologen, medici en zelfs criminologen. Deze kwamen allen tot de conclusie dat de gebeurtenis echt heeft plaatsgevonden en dat mensen niet hallucineerden.
In dezelfde periode zijn er nog veel meer waarnemingen geweest, bevestigd door grote aantallen getuigen. Een groep mensen had na de gebeurtenis last van slapeloosheid en velen meldden problemen en storingen met elektronische apparatuur zoals televisies. Onderzoek van de landingsplaats wees uit dat het schip minstens enkele tonnen moet hebben gewogen.
Tot op de dag van vandaag blijft dit één van de best gedocumenteerde ontmoetingen met buitenaardsen en een “rationele” verklaring is nooit gevonden.
If you hate to go to museums because you feel the eyes are following you around the room (I know it’s not just me), you may not want to visit Turin, Italy, and look at the image on the most famous shroud in history. A new study suggests that the image, believed by many to be that of Jesus, shows indications that the body was moving when it was transferred to the cloth. Was it the eyes? Are you sufficiently spooked?
New study: Christ figure moving in Shroud of Turin
The video (see it here) is from the International Institute for Advanced Studies of Space Representation Sciences in Palermo, Italy. Produced in 2008, it doesn’t seem to have generated much interest at that time, but a copy floating around the Internet recently has renewed interest in it, especially with the three-dimensional life-size representation of the “Man of the Shroud” revealed earlier this year. The institute was founded by Giuseppe Maria Catalano, who describes himself has an engineer, scientist, author, artist and scholar in the field of Space Representation Sciences. In this case, ”space” refers to the geometric rather than the outer kind. In a similar way to the 3-D representation, Catalano seems to have used his “science of representation” and an old technique called photogrammetry to recreate what may have been happening if and when the image was created from a human body.
Full length negatives of the Shroud of Turin
What did he find?
“The anatomic shape of the right hand in this position reveals a strong effort during traction of the ring around the thumb. It proves a conscious movement made by a quite fit man. The anatomic shape of the right hand in the other position, the one well known for centuries, proves the remarkable distance of the body from the Shroud plane. Like photo grams laid one upon the other, the linen shows not only these two extremes but also the intermediate positions of the hand. Finally the left hand, the left foot and the calecon belt are also surveyed each one in distinct positions, following and close, caused by regular bodily movements. For a few seconds a geometrically definite radiation, shed by the body, passing through objects, printed on the Shroud the images of a quite fit body in a conscious movement.”
In other words, Catalano claims that his science of representation shows evidence that both hands and one of the feet moved while the image was created. Was this a sign of the Resurrection or an involuntary movement by a recently deceased corpse? That’s open for discussion, arguments and possibly religious wars.
The Shroud of Turin: Detailed Analysis
In a review of the video in The American Conservative, Rob Dreher points out that the new hand position described resembles that of the 6th century Byzantine icon known as The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, which is a gesture of blessing. A hand positioned to give a blessing on what could have been Jesus rising from the dead are two dots easily connected by those who want to believe that this is the actual burial should.
The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai icon
Or not. Why did the shroud capture so little movement? Why not something more obvious or expressive, like an arm sweeping it away? What if the shroud is a 13th century fake as many experts believe? Is this a sign that the fakers were putting in subtle details to really fool the masses at the Masses?
The Shroud of Turin is one of the most studied pieces of cloth in history and yet it’s still a mystery. Does this video prove anything? Does it disprove anything? Would you believe it more if it said the eyes moved?
Shroud of Turin Secrets That Continue to Baffle Scientists
As a follow-up to my article “The Many and Varied Balloons of Roswell,” I thought I would share with you another example of how and why the UFO phenomenon was – in the late 1940s – so tied to the matter of top secret balloon-based programs. It was primarily because, in many cases, they were one and the same! Today’s example has for many years been perceived as a ufological classic, but which also falls under the “secret balloon” category. It occurred just half a year after Roswell. It’s the strange and ultimately tragic affair of Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas P. Mantell, who, many UFO believers accept, lost his life chasing a UFO on the afternoon of January 7, 1948. He did not. Mantell died chasing a balloon.
Mystery Object Causing UFO Sightings Caught on Video
Matters began when personnel at Godman Army Air Field, Kentucky, caught sight of something in the sky they perceived as very strange: a large and extremely reflective object that appeared to be circular in design. No one could identify it. It was, then, hardly surprising that talk of flying saucers was quickly all-encompassing.
Fortunately, or so it seemed at the time, a squadron of four P51Mustang aircraft was heading towards Godman Army Airfield – a squadron under the command of Captain Mantell. One of the pilots was low on fuel, another one expressed concerns about pursuing the object due to his lack of an oxygen-mask, and a third was ordered to shadow to the ground the pilot who had worries about losing consciousness due to oxygen deprivation. That just left Captain Mantell to pursue the object.
At a height of around 15,000 feet, Mantell called into the base and said that he could see the “UFO” quite clearly. He pushed his plane further through the skies, ultimately reaching a height of approximately 25,000 feet. Then, nothing. Apart, that is, from death for the captain: having reached such an altitude without oxygen, Mantell passed out and his plane plummeted to the ground. For many in Ufology, the case is a UFO classic. No, it’s not. It’s a classic mistake.
Unbeknownst to many within the military, at the time of Mantell’s encounter, the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research had developed, and deployed, massive balloons into the skies of the United States. It was all part of a program called Project Skyhook. For the most part, the balloons captured meteorological data. That did not take away the fact, however, that the existence of the balloons was a well-kept secret. These monster-sized balloons were highly reflective, just as was the object that Mantell encountered. On the subject of Mantell, it’s very important to note that he did not have a need-to-know clearance about the work of Project Skyhook.
Staff at the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Sign, were told of Skyhook, however. This was something which placed Project Sign staff in a very awkward position. They had no desire to tell the world that Mantell had possibly been blown out of the skies by aliens, particularly so because he wasn’t. But, due to the highly classified nature of Project Skyhook, they could hardly reveal the truth without also compromising the Navy’s project. So, Sign staff offered unlikely suggestions that didn’t really convince anyone, such as that perhaps Mantell, in a confused and low-on-oxygen state, was mistakenly chasing the planet Venus. UFO researchers, history has shown, suspected that the military was engaged in a cover-up. Well, yes, it was. But, they weren’t hiding a UFO. They were hiding a highly classified balloon.
I bring the Mantell case to your attention for one particular reason. Not because it has a link to Roswell, but because it demonstrates that in terms of national security and secret military programs, in the early years of the Cold War massive balloons, flying saucers, and UFOs very often crossed paths in odd ways that many might think almost unimaginable. In the Roswell case, the truth was hidden behind a barrier of tales of UFOs, weather-balloons and Project Mogul balloons. In the Mantell case, the military couldn’t reveal what they really knew, because doing so would have opened up a large can of worms about the balloon-based Project Skyhook.
Indeed, and as Dr. David Clarke – the author of, among others, How UFOs Conquered the World– noted in 2015, with regard to Project Skyhook and Mantell: “In 2004 a former member of the project’s staff, Duke Gildenberg, revealed the Office of Naval Research had monitored press reports of flying saucer sightings to track the movements of their balloons. The Mantell incident was an early indication of the problems – and solutions – that mass belief in UFOs could provide for intelligence agencies.”
The last year has been an eventful one as far as UFO disclosure is concerned. Between the Pentagon owning up to running a high-level research program concerned with anomalous aerial phenomena and things far stranger and the declassified footage of Navy vessels being stalked for days by unidentified flying Tic Tacs, it’s becoming clear that world governments likely do in fact know more about the mysteries overhead than they typically let on. In this seemingly newfound spirit of disclosure, the FAA has acknowledged yet another incident in which pilots reported seeing strange, unknown objects in the skies.
Earlier this year, the FAA released recordings of a 2017 incident over Arizona in which the pilots of two separate aircraft spotted an anomalous, unresponsive object flying at high altitudes. This latest incident took place earlier this year on May 26 over Huntington, Long Island and was once again reported by Tyler Rogoway at aviation blog The War Zone. Rogoway confirmed the incident with an FAA spokesperson, but was told a Freedom of Information Act request would be needed for the FAA to release the official report.
Luckily, audio of the incident was recorded by air traffic control blog LiveATC.com. According to the audio, the pilot of a single-engine Piper Saratoga was en route to Old Bridge Airport in New Jersey when it spotted a strange object directly in front of his plane at around 12:59 p.m. local time. Both were flying at close to 6,000 feet.
The pilot immediately called air traffic controllers and stated “I have an object in front of me, I don’t know what it is.” Air traffic controllers immediately thought it could be a drone, but the pilot responded that it appeared much bigger and had lights on it. Naturally, air traffic controllers assumed the object to be a drone, but found nothing on their radar, prompting the pilot to respond “I know I’m not delusional.”
Neither is everyone else who knows there’s more going on above our heads than the proverbial they are letting on. Do these recently-released recordings merely show that our skies are becoming crowded with drones or unknown spy aircraft flown by adversarial nations, or might these finally be conclusive evidence of the unknown? It’ll take a lot more FOIA requests before the truth comes to light.
The latest images sent in recently show some very unique sky phenomena seen in the skies around the world.
One photographer captured a very strange glowing greenish object in the sky above Ottawa that looks like a TR3B craft but as far as we know, a TR3B craft does not emit such a green glow, so the object could be a UFO too.
Beside the UFO, the footage show images of unusual ring cloud formations and bizarre colored clouds which indicate the presence of toxins in the atmosphere.
It is amazing what barium, strontium, aluminum and lithium in the sky will do...
Natural News) The universe’s brightest signals are extraterrestrial in origin, Australian scientists have confirmed. Their report, published in Monthly Notices at the Royal Astronomical Society, was able to detect three specific radio emissions which definitely came from space.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first recorded a decade ago. These are pulses of light that are the brightest scientists have ever seen. However, their origin has always been a mystery. FRBs have been linked to everything from alien communication to errors in measurement to interference from Earth. In fact, these signals were thought to be little more than anomalies after a famous 2015 controversy showed scientists supposedly receiving “alien messages” only to find out these were just interference from their own microwave. However, this new report puts an end to all the controversy: These bizarre signals are not coming from our planet.
This was confirmed after data were gathered from a giant telescope located 40 km outside of Canberra. Three such FRBs were recorded using the Molonglo radio telescope. This specific telescope features an enormous focal length, having a collecting area of 193,750 square feet (18,000 sqm) and a field of view of around eight degrees of the sky. The telescope is able to produce 1000 TB of data every day.
The universe’s brightest signals are extraterrestrial in origin, Australian scientists have confirmed. Their report, published in Monthly Notices at the Royal Astronomical Society, was able to detect three specific radio emissions which definitely came from space.
Professor Anne Green of the University of Sydney added, “it is very exciting to see the University of Sydney’s Molonglo telescope making such important scientific discoveries by partnering with Swinburne’s expertise in supercomputing.”
Green is referring to the new software which allowed the scientists to sift through all the data collected from Molonglo and pinpoint these three FRBs. The Ph.D. student at Australian National University, Manish Caleb, who designed the software said, “because of the telescope’s characteristics, we’re 100 percent sure the bursts came from space. We have scientifically confirmed that FRBs are extraterrestrial…we expect Molonglo will do this for more bursts.”
Dr. Flynn agreed, stating, “local radio interference shows up in several of Molonglo’s beams. Cosmic signals never show up in more than three. That’s how we knew these signals were cosmic.”
The telescope data confirmed that all three FRBs came from space, but only one could be localized to a specific galaxy. “Figuring out where the bursts come from is the key to understanding what makes them,” said Caleb. “Only one burst has been linked to a specific galaxy.”
Extraterrestrial messages of what?
Despite confirming their origin, scientists still do not know what they mean. One hypothesis is that these bursts could be remnants of alien space probes or even alien megastructures. In order to leave a trail that bright or long-lasting, it is surmised that the transmitter would need to have a surface area twice the size of Earth. This would require not only more advanced technology, but massive construction effort. Still, the stutter “heard” from the star KIC 8462852 would need an almost inconceivably-sized alien megastructure. The only reason a civilization would need to build a structure that size, scientists said, is for interstellar travel.
The raw power required to leave such a focused radio stream would be enough to propel a one million ton ship over vast distances.
“That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” cited Manasvi Lingam of Harvard University.
Such a ship would need radio beams to “push” its sails. These beams then leave traces in space which are detected by human technology as bright pockets in the sky. To that end, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researcher Avi Loeb stated, “science isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of evidence. Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
Donald Trump's proposed 'Space Force' will not be engaging in laser battles anytime soon — if it ever gets created.
Credit: Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images/Getty
In a meeting of the National Space Council yesterday (June 18), President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to get cracking on building a sixth branch of the U.S. military called the Space Force.
This ambitious project, which Trump has been teasing for several monthsnow, would result in the first new branch being added to the U.S. military since the Air Force was created in 1947. But what exactly will this Space Force do? Who will pay for it, when will it launch and — most important — will it involve lightsabers?
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
None of that is really clear yet. Since first bringing up the idea for a Space Force in March, Trump hasn't provided many concrete details about the project, save for some philosophical talk about recognizing space as "a war-fighting domain" and assuring "American dominance" there.
President Donald Trump: We Will Have The Space Force, ‘Separate, But Equal’ | NBC News
While this sort of language might conjure up images of interstellar laser battles or armadas of hovering battleships, the reality of American space security is far less scintillating. According to Laura Grego, a senior scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, space security mainly involves keeping other countries away from American satellites. [22 Weirdest Military Weapons]
"The U.S. military is strongly underpinned by a very capable satellite fleet," Grego told Live Science. "And the U.S. is in the middle of trying to figure out what its strategy should be to keep its satellites safe. I see this push to have a Space Force as just one other feature of doing this."
What is space security?
Since 1984, the U.S. Air Force has put more than 280 satellites into orbit. (The most recent one — a missile-detection satellite named USA-282 — was launched in January.) These satellites do everything from predicting the weather, to monitoring ballistic-missile launches, to helping soldiers call their families, Grego said. They are crucial for surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and communication — and every branch of the military relies on them.
Certainly, preventing foreign nations frominterfering with these satellites — say, by jamming their sensors or hacking into their networks and stealing information — is a paramount national security concern, Grego said. A Space Force, presumably, would take charge of protecting and maintaining America's space capabilities.
The trouble is, the U.S. military already has an agency that does this.
"The Air Force does most of this," Grego said.
In 1982, the Air Force formed a new agency called The Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). According to the AFSPC's website, the command's mission is "to provide resilient and affordable space and cyberspace capabilities for the Joint Force and the Nation."
This portfolio includes commanding and controlling government satellites, helping NASA and private companies conduct rocket launches, monitoring space junk that could interfere with American space missions and generally "maintaining space superiority."
Today, the agency employs more than 35,000 people.
The final frontier of bureaucracy
Trump's calls for a "space force" a mistake?
So, why separate space security from the Air Force after more than 30 years? To Grego, the reasoning is not clear. If created, the Space Force runs the risk of adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already complicated system, she said.
"Space and space access right now are really part and parcel of the other things that the military does," Grego said. "Space Force holds them separate where they might be better integrated."
The Pentagon tends to agree.
"The Pentagon is complicated enough," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters last June, after dismissing an armed services bill that proposed the creation of a new space-based military branch. "This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organization chart and cost more money. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy."
A brilliant fireball brought some out-of-this-world fireworks to a Foo Fighters concert in the Netherlands on Saturday (June 16).
While the rock band was performing at the Pinkpop Festival in the town of Landgraaf, the bright-green meteor came plummeting through the atmosphere at 11:11 p.m. local time (5:11 p.m. EDT, 2111 GMT), in the final moments of a drum solo by band member Taylor Hawkins.
Music fans were given an unexpected surprise when a fiery meteorite gatecrashed a set by the Foo Fighters during a Dutch music festival.
One festival attendee who was using his smartphone to record the show from the crowd managed to capture the meteor on camera. In the video, you can see a bright-green light flash in the night sky before the glowing light peters out behind the stage. [How to See the Best Meteor Showers of 2018]
While photographing the conjunction of the moon on Venus on June 16, 2018, astrophotographer Uwe Reichert captured this birhgt-green fireball meteor as it fell from space and exploded in Earth's atmosphere over Belgium.
Credit: Courtesy of Uwe Reichert
Pinkpop partygoers were not the only people who were treated to this stunning celestial sight. More than 170 sightings from around the region were reported to the International Meteor Organization, which states that the fireball "was widely observed from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and France."
"A bright #fireball lit up the night sky over Belgium on Saturday, June 16, 2018, 21:11 UT," astrophotographer Uwe Reichert tweeted along with a stunning photo of the meteor, Venus and the waxing crescent moon. "I caught it with my camera when I imaged the conjunction of the 3-day old Moon and Venus." In a zoomed-in view of Reichert's photo, you can see the space rock breaking into fragments as it burns up in the atmosphere.
A bright fireball was largely observed (more than 90 reports) and video recorded from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands on June 16th, 21h 11 UT. If you observed it, please report it! Thanks in advance! http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo/report_intro …
All-sky cameras at the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network, a meteor-spotting collaboration founded by France's National Research Agency, also caught sight of the fireball. Four all-sky cameras stationed around Francesaw the fireball, but the best view came from the camera in Charleville-Mézières, a town in northern France.
Fireballs happen when a very large meteor splatters on its way through the atmosphere, creating a big, bright flash. This fireball wasn't associated with any meteor showers; the next meteor showers will be the Southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids, both of which peak at the end of July, according to the American Meteor Society's calendar.
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From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
"You've seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?"
Tom DeLonge former Blink 182 rockstar helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
DeLonge says he wants to build "a perpetual funding machine" to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species continues Dan Zak for the Washington Post. At a launch event for To The Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore "the most controversial secret on Earth."
In the past six months, DeLonge's associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos. "What the f--- is that thing?" a Navy pilot says in a video released by To The Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
In a handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S Department of Defense)
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
DeLonge, who declined to comment for this article, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in "clandestine encounters" in "desert airports" and "vacant buildings deep within Washington D.C."
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
"The phenomenon is indeed real," Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of "overwhelming evidence" that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
UFOs are suddenly a serious news story. You can thank the guy from Blink-182 for that.
A rock star mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar. But does Tom DeLonge really have the goods? (Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
At the turn of the millennium, Blink-182 was everywhere. On the cover of the pop-punk band’s smash album, “Enema of the State,” a busty nurse with a lustful grin snapped on a latex glove. At MTV beach concerts, sunburned masses moshed to the No. 1 hit “All the Small Things.” But frontman Tom DeLonge — the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice — had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
Tom DeLonge in 2015. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
With his first record-deal payout as a fledgling teenage rock star, DeLonge had bought a computer to research the prospect of intelligent life beyond Earth. And after Blink-182 made him a fortune, he further indulged his fascination with the paranormal.
He co-wrote a 700-page novel about UFOs.
He brainstormed a film about skateboarders who become paranormal detectives.
He produced websites buzzing with stories about Bigfoot and disintegrating mummies.
Now in his early 40s, with his music career cooled but his financial resources apparently intact, DeLonge has channeled those bizarre passions into his next act.
You’ve seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?
Tom DeLonge helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
In the past six months, DeLonge’s associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos.
“What the f--- is that thing?” a Navy pilot says in a video released by To the Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
Blink-182’s 1999 hit “All the Small Things,” via YouTube
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
Tom DeLonge says he wants to build “a perpetual funding machine” to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Elizondo had overseen the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, quietly created in 2007 by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) with the encouragement of a reclusive Nevada billionaire named Robert Bigelow. Like DeLonge, Bigelow made his fortune through earthly pursuits (real estate) but was fascinated by the otherworldly; he had funded research into crop and cattle mutilations. After he got Reid’s attention, Bigelow’s aerospace company then won the $22 million contract to run the Pentagon’s secret program, as first reported by the New York Times late last year. (Reid and Bigelow did not respond to requests for comment.)
Despite its peculiar mandate, Bigelow Aerospace’s output was typical of federal bureaucracy: It produced paper. There was a 490-page report on alleged UFO sightings, and a series of studies on experimental physics. One study written for the Defense Intelligence Agency (“Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy”) urged federal research into interstellar travel and was illustrated with a childish drawing of a dinosaur greeting Albert Einstein through a hole in the space-time continuum.
But the secret program’s collection of weird military videos was what made headlines, starting with the December New York Times article. Whatever is in the videos “isn’t human, it’s not natural, it’s under artificial control,” says Eric W. Davis, the astrophysicist who wrote the study on wormholes and stargates. “We don’t know where it comes from. But it’s here, and has been here for some time.”
Davis, who works for a Bigelow subcontractor called Earthtech International, is but one player in the web of UFO enthusiasts who are interconnected by the secret Pentagon program and To the Stars Academy. There is also Earthtech’s chief executive, Stanford-trained physicist Harold Puthoff, who once devoted serious study to the work of self-described “mystifier” Uri Geller, the 1970s “Tonight Show” guest who claimed he could bend spoons with his mind.
When Puthoff heard about DeLonge’s interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, he reached out — and, like Elizondo, ended up with a new job after Pentagon funding for UFO research dried up. He’s now vice president for science and technology for To the Stars. Elizondo is its director of global security and special programs.
Elizondo and Puthoff were among the key voices quoted in the blockbuster front-page Times article that revealed the covert existence of the Pentagon’s UFO program. The story drew millions of readers online, with the videos of flying shapes and incredulous pilots murmuring “My gosh!” and “Look at that thing!”
Though DeLonge’s new venture got a nod in the article, the rock star himself was not mentioned. Nonetheless, To the Stars was ready for its moment.
“STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE EXPOSE” the company declared in a news release. The homepage of its new website featured a button labeled “INVEST.”
"What if people knew that these were real?" DeLonge sang on the 1999 track "Aliens Exist." In fact, most Americans believe in extraterrestrial life. Still, the subject carries the odor of crazy, so the recent news coverage of the videos was "huge," says Jan Harzan, director of the Mutual UFO Network, a group that investigates sightings.
“Basically, it made UFOs go mainstream,” Harzan says. “UFOs are real. And it represents advanced technology in our skies. If we want to advance as a civilization, this is something we have to focus on.”
The 2004 video highlighted by the Times is a touchstone for To the Stars, which put out its own report that, with its blacked-out passages, resembled a declassified government document. The report described how the unidentified object off the coast of California moved "in a manner that seemed to defy the laws of flight physics" and how the F/A-18 pilots, greeted upon their return by TVs playing "Men in Black" and "The X-Files," felt their observations were not taken seriously. One pilot, furious at the ridicule, sent detailed notes to an aunt. "Keep this because this is important stuff," the pilot wrote.
Yet the report from To the Stars is not a government document, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. Dated Sept. 7, 2017, it was created 13 years after that UFO incident, as To the Stars geared up to court investors.
When the Times article appeared in December, astronomer Jill Tarter thought to herself: “Here we go again.” Co-founder of the SETI Institute, Tarter has spent her career searching for signs of life beyond Earth, and over the years she has repeatedly encountered the same names — people who believe we’ve been visited by aliens. Tarter is not so convinced.
Jill Tarter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., in 2011. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
The Times article cited Bigelow and Puthoff, whose interest in the paranormal is no secret. Tarter says Bigelow once pitched SETI on a project to investigate alien sightings and offered to fund it.
“It’s hard to walk away from money,” Tarter says, but Bigelow “was so very convinced that we have been visited, and I couldn’t find it credible, and he didn’t offer any evidence.”
And the article, co-written by two Times veterans, also gave a byline to freelancer Leslie Kean. The author of books on UFOs and the afterlife (which received blurbs of praise from Puthoff), Kean had previously been given an exclusive on the To the Stars launch for a laudatory HuffPost article about DeLonge’s start-up: “Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology.”
“I just hope they have success,” Kean later told Open Minds UFO Radio. “I think what Tom [DeLonge] has done is extraordinary.” (Kean and the Times declined to comment.)
On its website, To the Stars bills the UFO videos as “the first official evidence” of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (while promising “THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING”). But an online community of skeptics has swarmed the videos, noting that the “glowing aura” in one video resembles a common infrared effect caused when a hot object, such as a jet engine, is seen against a cold background, such as high-altitude clouds.
“DeLonge had been promising so much for such a long time” and “people were either becoming very cynical or gathering a sense of real expectation,” says Robert Sheaffer, a former Silicon Valley engineer and former chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. Now, he says, To the Stars has simply put forward a “a couple more blurry videos that are similar to the blurry videos we’ve had before this.”
The latest blurry video, released by To the Stars in March, features a blip zooming at low altitude off the East Coast in 2015. Some debunkers reasoned that it was a big, slow-moving bird that looked fast only because of the angle and movement of the observing jet.
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
An official with the Defense Intelligence Agency maintains that the hype over the secret Pentagon UFO program is misleading.
“Some out there seem to be making this into more than it really is,” said the official, who was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The program, he said, was not created to investigate unearthly technology but simply to prepare for aerospace advances by foreign adversaries — and was shuttered in 2012 because “there was limited value in what was produced.”
But that, argues Christopher Mellon, is exactly the problem.
Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is another adviser to DeLonge’s team. Mellon says there have been numerous other incidents along the East Coast in which unidentified flying objects have apparently penetrated U.S. defenses. There are more videos yet to be shared, he says, and “hard technical data corroborated by no-nonsense military personnel.”
Are these things Russian? Chinese? Or from some alien civilization? Whatever they are, the government has not been taking it seriously enough, Mellon argues. (The Pentagon declined to comment.) The situation reminds him of the muddled period before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Instead of being intrigued or even electrified by worrisome data,” he says, “various agencies and "departments are failing to share information or take action."
DeLonge performing with Blink-182 in Las Vegas in 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
This is why Mellon, Elizondo and other credentialed individuals with advanced degrees and decades of high-clearance government service have attached their reputations to a semiretired rock star with a sideline in paranormal fiction. At least someone, they argue, is taking their concerns seriously.
“I think people look at him as a rock-’n’-roller turned pseudo-scientist,” says Elizondo, “but once you get to know who he is, Tom is more of a scientist who happens to be a talented musician.” His endeavor “is about telling the American people the truth.”
For Elizondo, transparency on this issue is paramount. “We trust the American people to know that Kim Jong Un has thermonuclear weapons pointed at L.A.,” he says. “We trust the American people to know there’s a potential Ebola pandemic that could come out of Africa. And yet we don’t trust the American people with information that there is unidentified phenomena in our airspace, and that we don’t know how it works?”
DeLonge’s goals, though, reach beyond national security. To the Stars promises to develop “next-generation” concepts for propulsion in space, according to its prospectus, and harness “warp drive metrics” and telepathic powers.
There is also a somewhat mystical mission: “to present a positive and unifying message to all generations, in every country, in every belief system, that the growth of consciousness that we all desire can start here, right now,” DeLonge said at his October launch.
It seems to be getting off to a slow start. As of mid-March, To the Stars had raised $2.5 million from a few thousand investors — not quite enough to achieve faster-than-light travel or to solve whatever mystery is unfolding in the skies. DeLonge lent To the Stars $600,000 to get off the ground, and the company is required to pay him $100,000 in yearly royalty fees.
For now, To the Stars’ only deliverables are DeLonge’s novels, some branded coffee mugs and clothing, and swag from his current rock band, Angels and Airwaves. The latest news from the company was an April 3 news release touting the upcoming sequel to DeLonge’s novel “Sekret Machines.” The release hyped Elizondo and Mellon’s involvement in the company, lending a dash of national-security authority to a niche-market entertainment product. The novel is about explorers who “locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question”: Are we alone in the universe?
The novel — “based on actual events” — is available in September, starting at $24.95.
From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
"You've seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?"
Tom DeLonge former Blink 182 rockstar helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
DeLonge says he wants to build "a perpetual funding machine" to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species continues Dan Zak for the Washington Post. At a launch event for To The Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore "the most controversial secret on Earth."
(Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
In the past six months, DeLonge's associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos. "What the f--- is that thing?" a Navy pilot says in a video released by To The Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
In a handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S Department of Defense)
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
DeLonge, who declined to comment for this article, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in "clandestine encounters" in "desert airports" and "vacant buildings deep within Washington D.C."
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
"The phenomenon is indeed real," Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of "overwhelming evidence" that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
UFOs are suddenly a serious news story. You can thank the guy from Blink-182 for that.
A rock star mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar. But does Tom DeLonge really have the goods? (Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
At the turn of the millennium, Blink-182 was everywhere. On the cover of the pop-punk band’s smash album, “Enema of the State,” a busty nurse with a lustful grin snapped on a latex glove. At MTV beach concerts, sunburned masses moshed to the No. 1 hit “All the Small Things.” But frontman Tom DeLonge — the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice — had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
Tom DeLonge in 2015. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
With his first record-deal payout as a fledgling teenage rock star, DeLonge had bought a computer to research the prospect of intelligent life beyond Earth. And after Blink-182 made him a fortune, he further indulged his fascination with the paranormal.
He co-wrote a 700-page novel about UFOs.
He brainstormed a film about skateboarders who become paranormal detectives.
He produced websites buzzing with stories about Bigfoot and disintegrating mummies.
Now in his early 40s, with his music career cooled but his financial resources apparently intact, DeLonge has channeled those bizarre passions into his next act.
You’ve seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?
Tom DeLonge helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
In the past six months, DeLonge’s associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos.
“What the f--- is that thing?” a Navy pilot says in a video released by To the Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
Blink-182’s 1999 hit “All the Small Things,” via YouTube
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
Tom DeLonge says he wants to build “a perpetual funding machine” to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Elizondo had overseen the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, quietly created in 2007 by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) with the encouragement of a reclusive Nevada billionaire named Robert Bigelow. Like DeLonge, Bigelow made his fortune through earthly pursuits (real estate) but was fascinated by the otherworldly; he had funded research into crop and cattle mutilations. After he got Reid’s attention, Bigelow’s aerospace company then won the $22 million contract to run the Pentagon’s secret program, as first reported by the New York Times late last year. (Reid and Bigelow did not respond to requests for comment.)
Despite its peculiar mandate, Bigelow Aerospace’s output was typical of federal bureaucracy: It produced paper. There was a 490-page report on alleged UFO sightings, and a series of studies on experimental physics. One study written for the Defense Intelligence Agency (“Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy”) urged federal research into interstellar travel and was illustrated with a childish drawing of a dinosaur greeting Albert Einstein through a hole in the space-time continuum.
But the secret program’s collection of weird military videos was what made headlines, starting with the December New York Times article. Whatever is in the videos “isn’t human, it’s not natural, it’s under artificial control,” says Eric W. Davis, the astrophysicist who wrote the study on wormholes and stargates. “We don’t know where it comes from. But it’s here, and has been here for some time.”
Davis, who works for a Bigelow subcontractor called Earthtech International, is but one player in the web of UFO enthusiasts who are interconnected by the secret Pentagon program and To the Stars Academy. There is also Earthtech’s chief executive, Stanford-trained physicist Harold Puthoff, who once devoted serious study to the work of self-described “mystifier” Uri Geller, the 1970s “Tonight Show” guest who claimed he could bend spoons with his mind.
When Puthoff heard about DeLonge’s interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, he reached out — and, like Elizondo, ended up with a new job after Pentagon funding for UFO research dried up. He’s now vice president for science and technology for To the Stars. Elizondo is its director of global security and special programs.
Elizondo and Puthoff were among the key voices quoted in the blockbuster front-page Times article that revealed the covert existence of the Pentagon’s UFO program. The story drew millions of readers online, with the videos of flying shapes and incredulous pilots murmuring “My gosh!” and “Look at that thing!”
Though DeLonge’s new venture got a nod in the article, the rock star himself was not mentioned. Nonetheless, To the Stars was ready for its moment.
“STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE EXPOSE” the company declared in a news release. The homepage of its new website featured a button labeled “INVEST.”
"What if people knew that these were real?" DeLonge sang on the 1999 track "Aliens Exist." In fact, most Americans believe in extraterrestrial life. Still, the subject carries the odor of crazy, so the recent news coverage of the videos was "huge," says Jan Harzan, director of the Mutual UFO Network, a group that investigates sightings.
“Basically, it made UFOs go mainstream,” Harzan says. “UFOs are real. And it represents advanced technology in our skies. If we want to advance as a civilization, this is something we have to focus on.”
The 2004 video highlighted by the Times is a touchstone for To the Stars, which put out its own report that, with its blacked-out passages, resembled a declassified government document. The report described how the unidentified object off the coast of California moved "in a manner that seemed to defy the laws of flight physics" and how the F/A-18 pilots, greeted upon their return by TVs playing "Men in Black" and "The X-Files," felt their observations were not taken seriously. One pilot, furious at the ridicule, sent detailed notes to an aunt. "Keep this because this is important stuff," the pilot wrote.
Yet the report from To the Stars is not a government document, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. Dated Sept. 7, 2017, it was created 13 years after that UFO incident, as To the Stars geared up to court investors.
When the Times article appeared in December, astronomer Jill Tarter thought to herself: “Here we go again.” Co-founder of the SETI Institute, Tarter has spent her career searching for signs of life beyond Earth, and over the years she has repeatedly encountered the same names — people who believe we’ve been visited by aliens. Tarter is not so convinced.
Jill Tarter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., in 2011. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
The Times article cited Bigelow and Puthoff, whose interest in the paranormal is no secret. Tarter says Bigelow once pitched SETI on a project to investigate alien sightings and offered to fund it.
“It’s hard to walk away from money,” Tarter says, but Bigelow “was so very convinced that we have been visited, and I couldn’t find it credible, and he didn’t offer any evidence.”
And the article, co-written by two Times veterans, also gave a byline to freelancer Leslie Kean. The author of books on UFOs and the afterlife (which received blurbs of praise from Puthoff), Kean had previously been given an exclusive on the To the Stars launch for a laudatory HuffPost article about DeLonge’s start-up: “Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology.”
“I just hope they have success,” Kean later told Open Minds UFO Radio. “I think what Tom [DeLonge] has done is extraordinary.” (Kean and the Times declined to comment.)
On its website, To the Stars bills the UFO videos as “the first official evidence” of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (while promising “THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING”). But an online community of skeptics has swarmed the videos, noting that the “glowing aura” in one video resembles a common infrared effect caused when a hot object, such as a jet engine, is seen against a cold background, such as high-altitude clouds.
“DeLonge had been promising so much for such a long time” and “people were either becoming very cynical or gathering a sense of real expectation,” says Robert Sheaffer, a former Silicon Valley engineer and former chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. Now, he says, To the Stars has simply put forward a “a couple more blurry videos that are similar to the blurry videos we’ve had before this.”
The latest blurry video, released by To the Stars in March, features a blip zooming at low altitude off the East Coast in 2015. Some debunkers reasoned that it was a big, slow-moving bird that looked fast only because of the angle and movement of the observing jet.
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
An official with the Defense Intelligence Agency maintains that the hype over the secret Pentagon UFO program is misleading.
“Some out there seem to be making this into more than it really is,” said the official, who was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The program, he said, was not created to investigate unearthly technology but simply to prepare for aerospace advances by foreign adversaries — and was shuttered in 2012 because “there was limited value in what was produced.”
But that, argues Christopher Mellon, is exactly the problem.
Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is another adviser to DeLonge’s team. Mellon says there have been numerous other incidents along the East Coast in which unidentified flying objects have apparently penetrated U.S. defenses. There are more videos yet to be shared, he says, and “hard technical data corroborated by no-nonsense military personnel.”
Are these things Russian? Chinese? Or from some alien civilization? Whatever they are, the government has not been taking it seriously enough, Mellon argues. (The Pentagon declined to comment.) The situation reminds him of the muddled period before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Instead of being intrigued or even electrified by worrisome data,” he says, “various agencies and "departments are failing to share information or take action."
DeLonge performing with Blink-182 in Las Vegas in 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
This is why Mellon, Elizondo and other credentialed individuals with advanced degrees and decades of high-clearance government service have attached their reputations to a semiretired rock star with a sideline in paranormal fiction. At least someone, they argue, is taking their concerns seriously.
“I think people look at him as a rock-’n’-roller turned pseudo-scientist,” says Elizondo, “but once you get to know who he is, Tom is more of a scientist who happens to be a talented musician.” His endeavor “is about telling the American people the truth.”
For Elizondo, transparency on this issue is paramount. “We trust the American people to know that Kim Jong Un has thermonuclear weapons pointed at L.A.,” he says. “We trust the American people to know there’s a potential Ebola pandemic that could come out of Africa. And yet we don’t trust the American people with information that there is unidentified phenomena in our airspace, and that we don’t know how it works?”
DeLonge’s goals, though, reach beyond national security. To the Stars promises to develop “next-generation” concepts for propulsion in space, according to its prospectus, and harness “warp drive metrics” and telepathic powers.
There is also a somewhat mystical mission: “to present a positive and unifying message to all generations, in every country, in every belief system, that the growth of consciousness that we all desire can start here, right now,” DeLonge said at his October launch.
It seems to be getting off to a slow start. As of mid-March, To the Stars had raised $2.5 million from a few thousand investors — not quite enough to achieve faster-than-light travel or to solve whatever mystery is unfolding in the skies. DeLonge lent To the Stars $600,000 to get off the ground, and the company is required to pay him $100,000 in yearly royalty fees.
For now, To the Stars’ only deliverables are DeLonge’s novels, some branded coffee mugs and clothing, and swag from his current rock band, Angels and Airwaves. The latest news from the company was an April 3 news release touting the upcoming sequel to DeLonge’s novel “Sekret Machines.” The release hyped Elizondo and Mellon’s involvement in the company, lending a dash of national-security authority to a niche-market entertainment product. The novel is about explorers who “locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question”: Are we alone in the universe?
The novel — “based on actual events” — is available in September, starting at $24.95.
U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Report
U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Report
The reported UFO disturbance was said to descend rapidly from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in seconds.
A recently leaked alleged military report details an incredible encounter between the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and an unidentified aircraft. U.S. Navy F-18 jet fighter pilots described the object as looking like a giant, white Tic Tac, and say it moved to evade them by shooting off at “supersonic” speeds. The USS Nimitz CSG encountered the objects over several days in 2004 off the coast of California. The most shocking parts of the report speculate that the UFO could have had the ability to “‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye” and “possibly… operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.”
Den of Geek contacted several individuals close to the case to confirm the document’s legitimacy.
Last December, The New York Times posted an article revealing a Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was secretly investigating credible UFO cases. The world was tipped off to the existence of the project by the man who was recently in charge of the project, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo retired in Oct. 2017 because the government did not take the UFO situation seriously enough. He says there are “many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities,” and that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
The New York Times article included two videos allegedly representing cases of UFOs caught on video by military aircraft. Little information about the videos is available. However, the other was said to be from an encounter between an unknown object and the USS Nimitz CSG off of the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Soon after the New York Times article was released, there was a worldwide storm of press on the secretive UFO program. Elizondo and Commander David Fravor, one of the U.S. Navy jet fighter pilots who encountered the unidentified object, participated in several interviews. However, no official documents were released.
On May 18, 2018, Las Vegas KLAS Channel 8’s I-Team posted an articleabout a leaked report they had obtained. The I-Team claims the report was “prepared by and for the military.” They obtained the report during “a whirlwind trip to Washington for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid.” Reid had been instrumental in securing funding for the creation of AATIP.
According to the I-Team, the leaked report was put together in 2009 “with input from multiple agencies.” The report begins with an executive summary, makes several key assessments, describes the technology involved in the incident, and then describes the accounts of the personnel involved.
The executive summary reveals encounters with what they call Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) occurred over several days, from Nov. 10 to 16, 2004 off the west coast, just before the USS Nimitz CSG left for the Arabian Sea. According to the report, “The USS Princeton on several occasions detected multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) operating in and around the vicinity of the CSG.”
“The AAVs would descend ‘very rapidly’ from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds,” the report continues. “They would hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates.”
According to the report, on Nov. 14, 2004, they got a closer look at one of these AAVs. It was a bright day with “blue skies, no clouds, and unlimited visibility.” After completing their training mission, two F-18s, call signs FASTEAGLE 01 and 02, were directed by the USS Princeton, a guided missile cruiser in the USS Nimitz CSG, to an unknown target. The USS Princeton also asked what weapons they had onboard, which was unusual.
One of the pilots, U.S. Navy Commander David ‘Sex’ Fravor in FASTEAGLE01, says the first thing he noticed at the location of the AAV was a “disturbance of water” in the sea. He scanned the area and noticed the AAV was just above the disturbance, which he said: “looked like frothy waves and foam almost as if the water was boiling.”
A U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel piloting an F-18 was also sent in to take a look. He was asked to stay above 10,000 feet as other planes were coming in lower. He also spotted the disturbance in the water.
“The disturbance appeared to be 50 to 100 meters in diameter and close to round,” according to the report. “It was the only area and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded him of images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or ship sinking. It also looked like a possible area of shoal water where the swell was breaking over a barely submerged reef or island.”
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At around the same time, FASTEAGLE01 descended to about 12,000 to 16,000 feet to get a closer look. FASTEAGLE02 stayed back and maintained an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. Fravor said the object hovered in place. He described the object as looking “like an elongated egg or a ‘Tic Tac’ and had a discernible midline horizontal axis. However, the object was uniformly white across the entire body. It was approximately 46 feet in length.”
The name of the pilot in FASTEAGLE02 was redacted from the report, but he had a similar description. He said the AAV was “solid white, smooth, with no edges. It was uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings.” He said it did not glow or reflect sunlight, and “it looked like it had a white candy-coated shell, almost like a whiteboard.” His report did differ slightly from Fravor in that he says the object did appear to be moving.
Fravor decided to make a close pass of the object to try and identify it. He says as he approached, the AAV seemed to “recognize us.” He said the object realigned itself and “pointed” in his direction. The disturbance on the water also stopped. As Fravor continued his approach, the object suddenly shot up at “a supersonic speed.”
Fravor asked if the USS Princeton still had the AAV on the radar, and at first was told “no.” Soon after, the USS Princeton told Fravor, “you’re not going to believe this, it's at your CAP.” The CAP was the area Fravor had been training in earlier in the day. The USS Princeton added, the AAV “had climbed to approximately 24,000 feet.” They tried to locate the object, but it and the disturbance in the ocean were gone.
Although the AAV was not seen by Fravor again, this was not the last of the anomalous activity for the day. During training exercises, the USS Nimitz CSG acquired a weak radar target. The pilot of the F-18 attempting to track the object said, it “just appeared the radar couldn’t hack it.” However, he was able to spot the object using his Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera. The pilot was at 20,000 feet traveling at 300 knots, and estimated the object was at about the same altitude or a “few thousand feet below.”
The object appeared to be stationary on the FLIR camera, then moved out of the camera’s field of view and contact with the object was lost. A portion of this video was released in the New York Times article, although the pilot said he was not sure if it was the same object Fravor saw earlier in the day. He also said he only caught it on camera and never saw it with his own eyes. After he lost contact with the object, the pilot returned to his training mission.
The USS Nimitz CSG included the USS Louisville Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine. Researchers asked a USS Louisville officer if their sonar caught any of the disturbance reported. The officer replied they had received “no unidentified sonar contacts in the vicinity of the aerial sightings or at any time during operations off the coast of California.”
Thus the report concluded, “Based on the lack of detection of any unidentified sonar contacts it is highly unlikely that an AAV operated below the surface of the ocean.”
Then the report continued with some shocking speculation.
“It is possible the AAV demonstrated the ability to be cloaked or invisible to the human eye based on pilot reporting of the water disturbance with no visible craft,” the report explains. “Based on the assessment of Mr. [withheld] if the AAV did operate underwater undetected it would represent a highly advanced capability given the advanced capability of our sensors.”
The report also made note of a significant amount of ridicule the pilots involved with the AAV incident received once back on the carrier. Fravor said when he was back onboard he reported to the Carrier Intelligence Center (CVIC). Once he got there, he says, “CVIC had donned tin-foil caps and wanted to know about the ‘UFO flight.’”
CVIC completed a mission report (MISREP) on the incident, but the Carrier Air Wing Intelligence Officer was not taking the situation seriously. Out of respect for Fravor, who is described as “a very experienced and highly respected squadron commanding officer,” the report was sent up to the Commander of the Air Wing, who also did not take the incident seriously.
According to the report, “When asked what [the Commander of the Air Wing] thought the AAV was he replied that he believed it was part of a counter drug operation based on the area of operations.”
The author of the leaked report disagreed and wrote these “key assessments.”
The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation.
The AAV exhibited advanced aerodynamic performance with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift.
The AAV exhibited advanced propulsion capability by demonstrating the ability to remain stationary with little to no variation in altitude transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than any know aerial vehicle with little to no visible signature.
The AAV possibly demonstrated the ability to ‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye or human observations.
The AAV possibly demonstrated a highly advanced capability to operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.
Since KLAS leaked this report, there have been some doubts as to whether the military wrote it. Doubters have claimed the report does not follow the correct format, is speculative, and lists Wikipedia as sources in a couple of instances.
I-Team member George Knapp, who wrote the article releasing the report, said he was not able to share more information about his sources at the time we contacted him. However, Leslie Kean, one of the authors of the December New York Times article, tweeted the report and wrote, “This was provided to us at the NY Times by a source in 2017. It was not classified; I can confirm that it's legit.”
When we contacted Kean, she said she doesn't know for sure, but she thinks the group contracted by AATIP, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), put it together. She is probably right.
The New York Times article reported Bigelow Aerospace was contracted to perform UFO investigations for AATIP. Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas businessman and owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, founded Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has had a lifelong interest in UFOs and the paranormal.
He is also interested in space. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1995 and it has become a significant player in the commercial space industry. BAASS is the division in Bigelow Aerospace dedicated to exploring the unknown.
Dr. Eric Davis is an astrophysicist who has worked with BAASS and he recently responded to comments on social media that were criticising the format of the leaked Nimitz report.
“The 2009 Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO report is a typical sensitive-but-unclassified Navy component agency field investigation report, and I know the investigators/authors,” Davis wrote on Facebook. “The report followed the investigators’ own document/report format as there was no requirement for them to use any specific [Department of Defense] or [U.S. Navy] component agency document format.”
Further confirmation came from documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. Corbell is currently working on a project with Knapp regarding BAASS investigations and has been researching the Nimitz UFO event for several years. Corbell has been in contact with Fravor and he told Den of Geekthat, according to Fravor, the report leaked by Knapp and KLAS is the most accurate account of the events he has seen.
Corbell also says he has spoken with military sources who say the Tic Tac object actively jammed the F-18s radars. There was a large round object spotted under the water at the disturbance that some believe the Tic Tac object docked with, and that the large round object was seen leaving the water.
Corbell says he will be releasing more information on his investigation sometime in the future, but even without Corbell’s claims, the Nimitz report is mind-boggling, and according to Elizondo, there are more UFO cases in the Pentagon files just as juicy.
"There are many, many Nimitz incidences that are equally compelling, that are told from the eyes of people like Commander Dave Fravor," Elizondo told KLAS.
According to KLAS, “Another highly classified version [of the Nimitz report] was also written but is unlikely to ever be released.” When contacted by Den of Geek, Elizondo said he had seen a military report on the Nimitz incident but had not yet seen the report released by KLAS, so he is not sure if it was the same report. However, Elizondo said Knapp is a professional journalist, and he is sure Knapp would use credible sources.
When we commented to Elizondo on the shocking nature of the Nimitz report, he replied, “You ain't seen nothing yet, baby!”
The Pentagon’s UFO Research Project, and Its Incremental Migrations into the Public Mainstream
The Pentagon’s UFO Research Project, and Its Incremental Migrations into the Public Mainstream
The hand remains hidden
The latest insights into a 14-year-old UFO incident “prepared by and for the military,” according to KLAS-TV investigative reporter George Knapp, read like the dry first chapter on the beginning of a new era. That’s probably wishful thinking from a malcontent exhausted by the predictability of despair. On the other hand, a mere glimmer of an alternative future is worth a little applause. Or at least a Mexican dog dance.
BY Billy Coxx De Void 5-24-18
Newly Leaked Pentagon Analysis of "Tic Tac" UFO [REPORT]
Count ‘em: 13 single-spaced pages of a wonkishly detailed narrative about what happened during an unscheduled military rendezvous with a cosmic hot rod off the coast of southern California in November 2004. Included is an itemized rundown of every feature of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG-11), as well as profiles of tracking hardware wired for astonishing capabilities. (The AN/SPY-1 phased array radar system, for instance, can scan for more than 100 targets simultaneously and, as Knapp put it last Friday, is “capable of detecting a golf ball at 100 miles.”) And nothing sounds more official than the clutter of arcane acronyms, none more significant than AAV – Anomalous Aerial Vehicle.
This “Executive Summary,” which Knapp said was compiled in 2009, revisits the mystery that CSG-11 found itself confronting over a six-day period five years earlier when AAVs, UFOs, UCTs, UAP, EFOs or whatever we’re calling them these days decided to introduce the U.S. Navy to its limitations. In three separate incidents, the AAV easily outpaced/outmaneuvered the fleet’s attempts to make the intruder’s license plate. “Given its ability to operate unchallenged in close vicinity to the CSG,” concluded the summary, “it demonstrated the potential to conduct undetected reconnaissance, leaving the CSG with a limited ability to detect, track, and/or engage the AAV.”
The centerpiece of the encounter, as we all know now, is the so-called Tic-Tac video, showcased to great effect in December by the New York Times. Approximately 46 feet long, the breath mint-shaped UFO effectively evaded every approach by carrier fighters, eluded radar, showed evidence of invisibility cloaking, reversed course at a bone-sloshing angle, and plummeted within “a matter of seconds” the height of two Mount Everests stacked atop each other. Navy pilots got halfway decent glimpses of Tic-Tac only after it appeared to slow down to let them catch up. Also: Tic Tac and/or something associated with it churned the otherwise glassy ocean surface below into what looked like water displacement. Then it beat our warplanes back to their original vector point.
Tyler Rogoway, the War Zone defense industry reporter who has raised the bar in this field over the past couple of months with stellar FOIA work on two recent U.S. incidents, is unambiguously impressed with the quality of the witnesses and the overall level of detail in the accounting.
“Regardless if you think the AATIP program was totally legit or some type of elaborate misinformation mechanism dreamed up in the darkest corners of the defense-industrial complex,” Rogoway wrote on Tuesday, “during that week in November of 2004, something totally strange did indeed occur. And it didn’t just happen in a blink of an eye, it happened over days, with the object in question being examined by a multitude of the U.S. Navy’s front-line sensors as well as by the human eye of one of the best-trained and reliable observers one can imagine.”
A worthy debate over the provenance of the documents is ongoing. Between now and whenever the authenticity issue is resolved, the military’s characterization of the intruder(s) – “no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any other foreign nation,” “advanced aerodynamic performance,” “advanced propulsion capability,” and “possibly … a highly advanced capability to operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors” – is making an implicit but revolutionary concession: not only can’t we compete with Tic Tac, the thing appears to be mocking our illusions of absolute control.
Meanwhile, conversations generated by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, unmasked by the Times late last year as the Pentagon’s erstwhile UFO research project, continue their incremental migrations into the public mainstream.
Last month, Politico celebrated the addition of space news coverage by sponsoring a bipartisan discussion joined by Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA), Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL), and Mary Lynne Dittmar, advisor to Donald Trump’s space policy council on behalf of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration. In a pleasantly surprising move, the Politico moderator asked them to weigh in on the recent UFO dustup. Both pols advocated for hearings before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. “Look,” Bera added, “if you want to boost our C-Span ratings, a lot of people would be really interested.”
Gee. Wonder why nobody ever thought of that before? Maybe it’s time to trot out of some of 2016’s greatest disappointments and ask once again: Could The Great Taboo become a campaign issue? Raise your hand if you thought three years ago that Trump could ever get elected president. And what role does the veracity of these Tic Tac documents play in moving forward? After all, they are, ahem, devoid of government imprimatur or release dates. There are no signatures or code numbers to tell us where this buck stops. And those familiar with the secret sharers are playing it close.
Strike Fighter Squadron 41 Top Gun pilots aboard the USS Nimitz were vastly out-performed by the Tic Tac UFO in 2004/CREDIT: naval-technology.com
Leslie Kean, co-author of The Times piece, says her team reviewed the documents last October, and the accounting was essential to convincing them to pursue the AATIP story. “We … were given them by confidential sources who provided them to us under the agreement that they were for us only and not for public release,” she states. “We don’t release documents provided in this way.”
Mr. Knapp isn’t spilling the beans, either. “The report has never been ‘released’ in a formal sense,” he writes in an email. “I can’t say how anyone else got a copy, but mine was leaked, as opposed to being released. I obtained it— along with other materials– back in March. My plan all along was to write a couple of news stories to air in May, which allowed me enough time to verify the contents and also to put together a few news reports to air on KLAS. My primary audience is the viewing public of Las Vegas, not the UFO community.”
So what’s going on backstage? Whoever is controlling this material appears deeply conflicted. Or maybe there’s a fissure in the bureaucracy, or whatever passes for containment walls these days. Given the halting, piecemeal release of documents and videos, which might’ve packed an even bigger wallop were they all bundled together in December, it’s pretty clear that that no one is really in full command of this storyline, at least not yet. And in these fact-challenged times, maybe that’s not an entirely bad thing.
Ancient Mine of Extraterrestrials – The Serpent Mound
Ancient Mine of Extraterrestrials – The Serpent Mound
Serpent Mound positioned in rural Adams County, Ohio, is among the leading Native American mounds within the hemisphere.
A major renovation increased its form in the eighties. However, there appears to be a lot more than fits the eye right here.
Listed below are some of the very most amazing curiosities regarding this distinctive area:
1) Some say the area isn’t a coincidence when it’s externally of the magnetic crater.
2) The best way to view it’s form is from up in the air!
3) Among the least common elements in the world, iridium, is located in large quantity in the lands of The Serpent Mound. This element’s radioactive attributes are extremely useful for outer space. Top historic astronaut advocates trust that The Serpent Mound was really built like a mining site for extraterrestrials.
4) Serpent Mound is quite ancient, somewhat like Aristotle. Simply last year researchers estimate from the age of the actual earth are actually radically modified. The consequence of a fresh radiocarbon evaluation, recommending that it is around 1.400 years older than traditionally thought.
5) Most are the reviews of orange-like vibrant lights on the Mound. UFO’s observing an essential sight for them?
6) Ross Hamilton’s guide «The Secret of the Serpent Mound: Looking for the Symbols of the Gods» also speculates regarding the complicated mathematical utilized in it’s building and who it corresponds with the Pyramids!
7) Besides iridium, there isn’t a hint of a comet or asteroid. Mike Hansen, a outdated state geologist that operates an earthquake alert program and shows at Ohio State College, said it is obvious that the Serpent Mound region was disrupted by some force. However, Hansen believes the tensions were set off by natural changes in the Earth’s core.
8) We are nonetheless not certain who really the constructors where. In the past, experts initially attributed the actual mound towards the Adena customs. The actual Adena traditions did develop some neighbouring the mounds. Therefore, for more than a hundred twenty five years, numerous scholars believed they came up with the Serpent Mound as well.
9) They built it since the constellation Draco. The star structure from the constellation Draco fits along with fair accuracy to the Serpent Mound. Together with the historical Pole Star, Thuban, at its regional center inside the first of 7 coils through the head. cartography from the nineteen-eighties shows the way the margins from the Serpent line up with excellent accuracy to some large part of Draco.
10) Is this built by giants?! From the year 00′, author, as well as researcher Ross Hamilton having a staff involving eight experts, commenced the actual Tradition associated with Giants Task. They discovered with time many countless accounts recommending that a race of extremely intelligent, actually robust individuals once resided throughout the far eastern woodlands in America. They integrated his studies with academic papers. Ross lately made an appearance in the Historical past Channels.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben bovenop de krater van een vulkaan in Mozambique een eeuwenlang onontdekt regenwoud betreden. Alsof het een Indiana Jones-film betrof trotseerden ze een 125 meter hoge verticale rotswand om het onaangetaste bos te verkennen. Dat melden de Afrikaanse nieuwswebsite Quartz en de Britse krant The Guardian.
De 700 meter hoge vulkaan Mount Lico torent hoog boven het tropisch regenwoud uit in het noorden van Mozambique. Maar honderden jaren lang beklom niemand de afgelegen oude vulkaan, die een verborgen regenwoud herbergt. Het ongerepte geschenk voor wetenschappers werd in 2012 ontdekt door bioloog Julian Bayliss, die satellietbeelden bestudeerde op zoek naar een onaangetast tropisch regenwoud.
Sommige tropische regenwouden dateren uit de tijd van de dinosaurus, maar vrijwel allemaal vertonen ze tekenen van vroegere menselijke activiteit. Bayliss vroeg zich af of er bergtoppen waren die misschien onaangeroerd waren. Hij herinnert zich dat hij dacht: “Hoe zou zo’n bos eruit zien?”
Het antwoord was Lico. Maar de ligging - in het midden van een ondoordringbaar regenwoud - en hoogte van de berg zorgen ervoor dat het bos lastig toegankelijk is. Bayliss besloot zich te concentreren op het beklimmen van het laagste punt, een klif van ongeveer 125 meter.
Expeditie
In vijf jaar tijd stelde hij een 28-koppig droomteam van biologen, logistieke bemanning, plantexperts en onderzoekers samen voor de eerste expeditie, die vorige maand plaatsvond. Ze werden getraind door ervaren rotsklimmers om de expeditie midden in het omringende regenwoud uit te kunnen voeren. Het project werd een academisch samenwerkingsverband tussen dertien universiteiten, musea en onderzoeksinstellingen op drie continenten.
Omdat de enige verstoringen die het regenwoud in de loop van de eeuwen heeft doorgemaakt natuurlijk zijn – zoals droogte- is het voor wetenschappers ideaal om het effect van menselijke beïnvloeding op regenwouden te onderzoeken. Na slechts één expeditie hebben de wetenschappers al een nieuw soort vlinder en een muissoort gevonden. Ze verwachten de komende maanden nog meer onontdekte dieren te vinden, van slangen tot kikkers en padden.
Het is het tweede onaangetaste regenwoud dat wetenschappers in Mozambique hebben gevonden dankzij Google Earth. In 2005 zag Bayliss Mount Mabu, een 1700 meter hoge bergketen die zich midden in een savanne bevindt en het grootste regenwoud in zuidelijk Afrika bleek. De bergketen leek op een berg die hij al in het naburige Malawi bestudeerde, maar wetenschappers hadden deze nooit gedocumenteerd. Met zijn team vond Bayliss een hooggelegen regenwoud op de berg Mabu.
Expedities naar de plek onthulden de zogenaamde spookslak, een reptiel dat een kruising lijkt tussen een blinde slang en een hagedis, en onbekende soorten vlinders, schimmels en planten. Mount Lico is een meer geïsoleerd ecosysteem en kan daardoor nog meer unieke flora en fauna onthullen.
This month, Durrell's Dr Rich Young embarked on an epic 2 week expedition with a team led by Dr Julian Bayliss to Mount Lico, Mozambique. No one has set foot there before, so his team were the 1st to reach the pristine patch of forest at the top! Read more http://forestsfirstfootsteps.com
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Zijn zwarte gaten in werkelijkheid sluiproutes door de ruimtetijd? Deze ontdekking kan een revolutie teweegbrengen
Zijn zwarte gaten in werkelijkheid sluiproutes door de ruimtetijd? Deze ontdekking kan een revolutie teweegbrengen
Als twee wormgaten met elkaar in botsing komen, kunnen ze rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd achterlaten die meetbaar zijn.
Dit kan bewijs zijn dat deze hypothetische tunnels door de ruimtetijd daadwerkelijk bestaan, zo wordt gesteld in een nieuwe paper.
Zwarte gaten lijken de wetten van de kwantummechanica aan hun laars te lappen. Dit probleem kan worden opgelost door te stellen dat zwarte gaten in werkelijkheid wormgaten zijn.
Sluiproutes
Wormgaten zijn een soort sluiproutes die verschillende punten in het heelal met elkaar verbinden.
Rondom een zwart gat is een denkbeeldig oppervlak dat als grens fungeert, de zogeheten waarnemingshorizon.
Voorbij deze waarnemingshorizon kan niets ontsnappen, zelfs licht niet. Stephen Hawking ontdekte aan de hand van kwantumtunneling dat zwarte gaten toch een klein beetje straling kunnen produceren.
Na verloop van tijd kunnen zwarte gaten zelfs verdampen als gevolg van deze straling.
Niet bestaat
Sommige natuurkundigen hebben om die reden gezegd dat de waarnemingshorizon helemaal niet bestaat.
In plaats van een oneindige diepte waar niets uit kan ontsnappen bevatten zwarte gaten een hele reeks zwarte gat-achtige objecten zonder waarnemingshorizon, waaronder wormgaten, stellen ze.
Spaanse en Belgische natuurkundigen hebben nu uitgerekend hoe de rimpelingen eruitzien die geproduceerd worden door botsende wormgaten.
Bevestigd
Uit de nieuwe berekeningen, gepubliceerd in Physical Review D, blijkt dat het signaal van twee botsende wormgaten nauwelijks valt te onderscheiden van dat van twee gewone zwarte gaten.
Het verschil zit ‘m in de echo’s van de rimpelingen, die niet optreden bij de botsing van twee zwarte gaten omdat die begrensd worden door een waarnemingshorizon.
Wetenschappers beschikken over apparatuur die gevoelig genoeg is om dergelijke echo’s waar te nemen. Op die manier kan het bestaan van wormgaten bevestigd worden.
Speelgoed-UFO Haunebu II uit de schappen gehaald. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
Speelgoed-UFO Haunebu II uit de schappen gehaald. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
Een vliegende schotel die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd ingezet door de nazi’s mag niet langer worden verkocht als speelgoed.
De Duitse Raad voor de Kinderbescherming en het oorlogsmuseum in Dresden hadden geklaagd over het speelgoed, de Haunebu II, omdat het de geschiedenis onjuist zou weergeven.
De speelgoed-UFO wordt beschreven als een ‘cirkelvormig vliegtuig’ en ‘het eerste object ter wereld dat in de ruimte kon vliegen’.
Superieure technologie
Foto: Amazon
Het object kon snelheden tot wel 6000 kilometer per uur bereiken en werd in 1943 getest, klonk het.
Volgens de raad en het museum heeft zo’n vaartuig nooit bestaan. “Destijds was het technologisch gezien onmogelijk om zoiets te bouwen,” zei historicus Jens Wehner van het oorlogsmuseum.
Hij is bang dat het speelgoed wordt gebruikt als strategie om twijfel te zaaien over wat we vandaag de dag weten over het nationaalsocialisme en dat mensen het idee krijgen dat de nazi’s beschikten over superieure technologie.
Onzin
Uit historische documenten blijkt echter dat dergelijke objecten wel degelijk hebben bestaan.
Op social media werd verbolgen gereageerd op het besluit. “Dit is onzin,” schreef Mikk Wega. “Revell [de fabrikant, red.] heeft zich verontschuldigd omdat ze geen problemen willen.”
Lachwekkend
“Echt? Veel drukte om niets,” zei Ragnar Schwefel. “Ik vind dit erg lachwekkend en denk niet dat kinderen hierdoor gevaar lopen.”
“Serieus: 50 euro en internetwinkel,” schreef Oliver Rosee. “Welk kind heeft nu (a) zoveel geld en (b) een creditcard of bankrekening om er op internet één te kopen?”
De wetenschap is echt niet voor één gat te vangen en ze zijn minstens net zo flexibel als Mark Rutte.
Zo zijn er vorig jaar opeens 11 nieuwe soorten wolken bedacht, waarvan één wel een hele mooie, de homomutatis en nee, dat heeft niets met Gordon te maken.
Er zijn natuurlijk zo langzamerhand toch wel steeds meer mensen die de nodige vraagtekens zetten bij de uitwaaierende chemtrails boven onze hoofden.
Geen nood, bedacht de wetenschap, we noemen het gewoon een wolk met de naam homomutatis en voegen deze toe aan de zogenaamde Wolkenatlas.
Zo, probleem opgelost: chemtrails bestaan echt niet, het zijn homomutatis wolken.
In hetzelfde licht moet je ook de verwoede pogingen zien die ze doen om het fenomeen gecloakte of verborgen UFO weg te verklaren.
Nu zal niet iedere wolk die er mogelijk wat uit ziet als een UFO daadwerkelijk een buitenaards ruimteschip zijn, maar steeds vaker zien mensen vreemde wolken en ook heel vaak zijn dit inderdaad gecloakte ruimteschepen.
Uiteraard buitelden de deskundigen over elkaar heen om dit wetenschappelijk te verklaren en ze beginnen dan altijd met het volgende:
Nee, een UFO was het natuurlijk niet maar het was wel een verschijnsel dat met deze uitmuntende kwaliteit niet vaak wordt waargenomen.
Dan volgt er een lang wetenschappelijk betoog, waarmee dan deze wolk is en wordt verklaard dat het absoluut geen UFO is. Een beetje op de manier waarop de RTL weerman het Nederlandse volk wel even wetenschappelijk zal opvoeden en hen wijs maakt dat chemtrails worden veroorzaakt door schepen.
Misschien is de wolk in Friesland een volkomen natuurlijke wolk, maar misschien ook niet.
En dan de volgende mooie opname, gemaakt door de Nederlandse fotograaf Ad van Beurden in Schotland. Alhoewel deze al gemaakt is in mei 1996 kregen wij deze foto enkele dagen geleden opgestuurd. Ook hier weer zo’n vreemde wolk die niet in het landschap past.
Tenslotte nog een deel uit een eerder artikel met nog een mooi voorbeeld van enkele vreemde wolken en bijbehorende kleine UFO’s/Orbs, zoals in Chili.
De lokale pers had het al over een geval voor Mulder en Scully, want wat daar boven Carlow hing, leek wel heel veel op een UFO.
Een hemel met cirrus bewolking, inclusief chemtrail, en daar ver onder en niet zo ver van de grond een wel heel bijzondere wolk.
Deze wolk werd opgemerkt door Greg MacLennan en zijn vrouw die op zaterdagmiddag een eindje waren gaan rijden en bij terugkomst deze boven hun woonplaats zagen hangen, vlakbij het station.
Greg zei tegen de lokale krant dat de wolk verdacht veel op een UFO leek of op de camouflage van een UFO en dat ze deze wolken daarom UFO wolken noemen. Verder verklaarde de man stoer niet te geloven dat het hier een UFO betrof, maar uiteraard de beruchte lenticularis wolk was. Een type wolk dat wordt gebruikt om gecamoufleerde UFO’s aan te duiden.
Wanneer je de foto echter wat meer uitvergroot, is het moeilijk om een betere opname te krijgen van een zogenaamde klassieke retro UFO. Je ziet een prachtig gevormde klassieke schotelvorm, inclusief de koepel.
En dat is een beetje het probleem op dit moment. Iemand doet een wolk af als een lenticularis wolk en daarmee is het einde verhaal. Want, UFO’s bestaan niet, allemaal grote flauwekul en het zijn alleen maar aluhoedjes die dat soort dingen zien.
Je vindt op deze website intussen talloze artikelen waaruit blijkt dat wolken dikwijls niet zijn wat ze op het eerste gezicht lijken.
Eén van de mooiste voorbeelden ooit is misschien wel de opname die een paar jaar geleden werd gemaakt door een paar mijnwerkers in Chili, zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Het antwoord lijkt te zien in de volgende video die is gemaakt in de Atacama woestijn in de buurt van de Chileense stad Calama.
Twee mijnarbeiders rijden in een auto en zien vreemde wolkformaties in de lucht. Eén van hen pakt zijn mobiele telefoon en begint te filmen.
Dan plotseling komt er uit deze wolk of wellicht moederschip een bij ons welbekende oranje-achtige bol tevoorschijn.
In de onderstaande video kun je duidelijk zien hoe deze bol tevoorschijn komt uit de wolk en vervolgens wegvliegt.
Hebben we hier te maken met een zogenaamd cloaked moederschip dat zich verborgen houdt in deze kunstmatig aandoende wolken en die de bollen als een soort verkenners op pad stuurt?
Het heeft er alle schijn van en daarmee is deze opname misschien wel het eerste stukje bewijs dat we in handen hebben wat laat zien waar deze oranje bollen vandaan komen.
Uiteraard ontstaan er dan altijd weer discussies of deze opname wel of niet echt is. Tot nu is er, voor zover ons bekend, geen informatie over dat de opname niet echt zou zijn.
Can a scale-model plastic replica of something that never existed still be offensive enough to be banned? Would you change your answer if it was related to the Nazis? Would you change THAT answer if it was a 1:72 scale model of a Reichsflugscheibe Haunebu Flying Saucer that conspiracy theorists believe was really built and used to transport SS leaders and Nazi scientists to a secret base in Antarctica (or possibly on the Moon) as the war ended? Whatever happened to making models of customized hot rods?
“As a child protection association, we generally reject toys that can lead to ideologization.”
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Bild.de reports that the German Child Protection Association’s Federal Managing Director Cordula Lasner-Tietze couldn’t believe that Revell, one of the oldest plastic model makers (it has a division in Germany but is headquartered in the U.S. in Illinois as Hobbico) would produce a model kit called the “Flying Saucer Haunebu II” and promote it for children “12 years +.” Priced at 50 euros ($57.95 US), the kit is sold in German stores and on Amazon.
Make that “was sold” in German stores and on Amazon. After being pressured by the Child Protection Association, the Military History Museum in Dresden and the offended German public, Revell stopped making the model and stores pulled the kits from their real and digital shelves.
Model cars are still OK
What is or was or was rumored to be the Reichsflugscheibe Haunebu or Haunebu II? According to the model box, it was a “round aircraft,” “the first object in the world capable of flying in space” and an aircraft capable of “up to speeds of 6,000 km/hr.” That’s 3728 mph or Mach 5 … in 1943.
“It was not technologically possible to build something like that back then. Imagine it would have been possible to build a saucer capable of flying 6000 km / h. After all, the military would have tried that out in the Cold War long ago.”
Historian Jens Wehner from the Military History Museum points out in the Franfurter Allgemeine that the kit does not indicate the flying saucer was impossible, which might lead some to believe it existed and the Nazis were technically more superior than the evidence and the war result has proven.
Revell made an attempt to agree.
“It is in fact a legendary, extraordinary aircraft which cannot be proven in terms of its existence. Unfortunately, our product description does not adequately express this and we apologize for it.”
Glorification of the Nazi war machine should rightly be condemned and the box clearly shows the flying saucer doing battle with non-German airplanes. Even if it were to be promoted as fictional (which would then rouse the conspiracists to demand its recall … you can’t win), the use of Nazi symbolism violates German laws and ethics. Yet other models will be sold and the original Revell Nazi saucers will undoubtedly show up on eBay for far more than $57.
Even at 1:72 scale, this model has created a full-sized battle.
In a new article at his A Different Perspective blog titled “A New Roswell Solution?” Kevin Randle says: “Well, we have a new solution to the Roswell case. No, it’s not a weather balloon as the Army Air Forces claimed in 1947 and no, it’s not a Project Mogul balloon that many skeptics and the Air Force have claimed, starting with Robert Todd in the early 1990s (or late 1980s) but something called a satelloon. This was, is, a huge polyethylene balloon that had been covered with a thin layer of aluminum to enhance the reflective properties and create a passive communications satellite or something like that.”
Although many people in Ufology believe (and want to believe) that aliens crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947, the fact is that balloons surface in many of the various theories for what happened on that fateful day in forty-seven. After first stating that they had recovered a flying disc, staff at the old Roswell Army Air Field said that the whole thing was a big mistake, and that what they had really found was a weather-balloon. In 1994, however, the government came up with a different theory.
In its report on the Roswell affair in 1994, the Government Accountability Office (at the time, the General Accounting Office) said: “DOD [Department of Defense] informed us that the U.S. Air Force report of July 1994, entitled Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident, represents the extent of DOD records or information concerning the Roswell crash. The Air Force report concluded that there was no dispute that something happened near Roswell in July 1947 and that all available official materials indicated the most likely source of the wreckage recovered was one of the project MOGUL balloon trains. At the time of the Roswell crash, project MOGUL was a highly classified U.S. effort to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research using balloons that carried radar reflectors and acoustic sensors.”
In the early 2000s, Australian UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was given a story very close to that which appears in my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Namely, a controversial claim that human “test-subjects” were used in high-altitude balloon flights. Keith said of the story told to him by his informant: “The Americans were working on getting into space. Their biggest concern was getting back to Earth and landing without killing the people inside the space vehicle. Landing in water was not considered, but a ground landing was the order of the day. The Americans were experimenting with craft they dropped from ‘aircraft’ flying in the stratosphere. Also, gigantic balloons [italics mine] were being flown in the stratosphere to drop craft fitted with retrorockets and a drogue chute. The retrorocket was fitted with an altimeter to fire them close to the ground. Lots of UFO sightings were of these craft. The U.S. released bogus flying saucer sightings and later discredited them.”
Project Moby Dick balloon
Project Moby Dick (1952)
Mac Tonnies, in his book, The Cryptoterrestrials, pondered on the idea that perhaps the Roswell craft was flown by a race of ancient humans – a decaying, impoverished society that occasionally interacts with us. Mac, too, incorporated the balloon angle into his theory for Roswell. He said: “The device that crashed near Roswell in the summer of 1947, whatever it was, featured properties at least superficially like the high-altitude balloon trains ultimately cited as an explanation by the Air Force. Debunkers have, of course, seized on the lack of revealingly ‘high-tech’ components found among the debris to dismiss the possibility that the crash was anything but a case of misidentification; not even Maj. Jesse Marcel. the intelligence officer who advocated an ET origin for the unusual foil and structural beams, mentioned anything remotely resembling an engine or power-plant.”
Mac continued, in a fashion that emphasized the cryptoterrestrials may not be as scientifically and technologically advanced as they might prefer us to think they are: “The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis offers a speculative alternative: maybe the Roswell device wasn’t high-tech. It could indeed have been a balloon-borne surveillance device brought down in a storm, but it doesn’t logically follow that is was one of our own.”
In 1997, Jim Wilson – writing for Popular Mechanics – said that the magazine’s staff had been told of a forthcoming government report that would explain the matter of the bodies said to have been found on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 – and that it would all revolve around a secret program involving Japan. Such a report did not ultimately surface. What did surface was the Air Force’s controversial report suggesting the bodies were actually crash-test dummies. But, apparently, Popular Mechanics were onto something. Wilson wrote that magazine staff suspected “…the documents scheduled for future release will tell of a Japanese counterpart to Operation Paperclip. One of its purposes was to determine if the Japanese had constructed a suicide-piloted version of the Fugo [balloon] incendiary bomb.”
Wilson continued it was the opinion of Popular Mechanics that “…the craft that crashed at Roswell will eventually be identified as either a U.S. attempt to re-engineer a second-generation Fugo, or a hybrid craft which uses both Fugo [balloon] lifting technology and Horten-inspired lifting-body. In either case, Japanese engineers and pilots brought to the U.S. after the war to work on the project could have been the dead ‘alien’ bodies recovered at the crash site.” This is very similar to many of the stories provided to me of a Japanese/balloon connection to Roswell.
Venus balloons
Then, there is the matter of one of the very few 100 percent real documents on Roswell. Namely, a July 8, 1947 FBI document (which you can find at this link at the FBI’s website, The Vault). It states, in part: “The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by cable, which balloon was approximately twenty feet in diameter. [Deleted] further advised that the object found resembles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector, but that telephonic conversation between their office and Wright Field had not [deleted] borne out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination. Information provided this office because of national interest in case.”
What we have with all of the above-accounts concerning Roswell is a link to balloons. Indeed, it’s pretty much the case that aside from (A) the extraterrestrial angle and (B) the controversial Stalin-Mengele story told in Annie Jacobsen’s 2011 book, Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, balloons (whether large, small, secret, foreign, etc., etc.) pop up throughout the Roswell saga. In light of all this, I’m still very inclined to conclude that if the truth of Roswell does one day surface, it will have nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with a classified program of a balloon-based nature – and with a “human test-subject” angle at its dark heart.
In the late-1980s/early 1990s, rumors began to circulate among the aviation world that a highly secret, futuristic aircraft was being flown out of Area 51 – and under distinctly covert circumstances. The reportedly large, black-colored, triangular-shaped aircraft which could fly at incredible speeds, could outmaneuver just about anything else on the planet. It was rumored to be known as the Aurora. Officially, at least, and according to the U.S. Government, the Aurora does not exist and has never existed. But, that was once said about Area 51, too. So, with that in mind, we need to tread cautiously when it comes to official proclamations of the controversial type.
The story began – publicly, at least – in March 1990. That was when the well-respected magazine Aviation Week & Space Technologycovered the story. They revealed that the term “Aurora” had appeared in the 1985 U.S. budget – and had possibly appeared by mistake, which makes sense if the program was so highly sensitive that its existence had to be denied at all costs. And talking of costs, it was rumored that around $455 million had been provided to those working out at Area 51 on secret, futuristic aircraft. AW&ST suspected that Aurora was a code-name for multiple kinds of aircraft that were both radical in design and technology. Other investigators, though, concluded that Aurora referred to just one type of aircraft. AW&ST learned that by 1987 the budget had soared to in excess of two billion dollars.
Bill Sweetman is one of the leading figures in the field of aviation and someone who took a deep interest in the Aurora saga. His books include F-22 Raptor, Inside the Stealth Bomber, and Soviet Air Power. And, then there is his 1993 book, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane. Of the Aurora, Sweetman says: “Does Aurora exist? Years of pursuit have led me to believe that, yes, Aurora is most likely in active development, spurred on by recent advances that have allowed technology to catch up with the ambition that launched the program a generation ago.”
This was all very interesting for those who follow the world of exotic aircraft, such as Bill Sweetman and the staff of Aviation Wek and Space Technology – and it still is of interest to them. But, where was the evidence for the existence of Aurora? Was there any evidence? Yes, there was. And it came from a highly credible man with an impeccable background. His name is Chris Gibson.
It was in the summer of 1989 that Chris Gibson had what can accurately be termed the encounter of a lifetime. An engineer with an Honors degree in geology and someone who’s worked focused on oil-exploration, Gibson was also attached to the U.K.’s Royal Observer Corps. The work of the ROC – which closed down in December 1995, after seventy years of work to help protect the United Kingdom from attack – required its volunteers to keep a careful watch on the skies above and what was flying in those same skies, too.
As luck – or fate – would have it, and at the time when the Aurora program may very well have been compromised, Gibson was working on an oil rig in the North Sea. The name of the rig was the Galveston Key. It was August 1989, specifically, when one of Gibson’s colleagues, a friend named Graeme Winton, who went to university with Gibson, excitedly told Gibson to come with him to the deck. There was something Winton needed to show him.
A startled and amazed Gibson caught sight of something incredible in the skies above. A pair of General Dynamics’ F1-11 aircraft were shepherding a very strange-looking, completely black aircraft. And, a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker seemed to be fueling it. It was in the form of a triangle. For a moment or two, Gibson pondered on the possibility that what he and Winton were seeing was the F-117 stealth fighter. But, the design was clearly wrong. Aurora, maybe?
Since the 1980s, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, making a low humming noise, and very often with rounded rather than angled corners, have been reported throughout the world. The sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to strongly suspect that the Flying Triangles (as they have come to be known) are prime examples of still-classified aircraft. Maybe the Aurora. Or, perhaps, something even more advanced.
Several places around the world are known to be home to mysterious hums or persistent low-frequency droning noises which seemingly have no source. While industrial operations are often thought to be the origins of these unexplained sounds, some scientists believe they may instead be the result of microseismic activity caused by the movement of deep-sea waves rolling across the ocean floor. The most well-known of these annoying and anomalous sounds is the Windsor Hum in Ontario, although Taos, New Mexico and Bristol, England are home to their own hums.
Could underwater waves cause the Earths crust to vibrate?
The latest mystery hum to join the chorus seems to originate from the Highland Park neighborhood outside of Rochester, New York. Dozens of reports of a bothersome low-frequency drone have been reported over the last several weeks, much to the dismay of sleepless residents. Some have even reported that they are unable to sleep or have had to move to the couch due to the ever-present drone.
One Rochester woman, Jeanette Cargill, describes the sound as a “low-pitched drone” or “sort of a rumble.” Cargill says unlike other hums which lie just at the threshold of human hearing, this one was powerful enough to be felt:
I heard a noise that was loud enough to shake the dishes in my house. It was continuous. It was audible also to my dog. She was perking her ears up and looking around. It almost sounded like thunder, like extended thunder.
Local newspaper Democrat & Chronicle contacted Ming-Lun Lee, an assistant professor in the Audio and Music Engineering Program at the University of Rochester, to record and analyze the noise so that it might possibly be identified. Lee has been unable to hear the elusive hum in person but has analyzed several recordings, finding that it lies somewhere between 315 and 320 Hertz – low, but well within the range of human hearing. Lee has compared those recordings with audio files of nearby industrial sources, but so far none of them has been found to emit the same range of frequencies as the hum.
Could this hum be yet another case of an anomalous Earth sound, or might it have a more prosaic origin? Like other mysterious hums, this one could likely elude researchers for years.
In our ongoing search for life elsewhere in the solar system, Venus has become one of the prime candidates. Scientists have observed strange dark streaks in the Venusian atmosphere which seem to change shape and come and go, and one theory is that what we are witnessing could be atmospheric microorganism colonies undergoing a life cycle similar to algae blooms here on Earth. Studying these streaks in detail is difficult, though, as our current technologies can’t yet distinguish between organic and inorganic compounds at that distance.
Whatever may or may not lurk in the Venusian atmosphere, scientists at NASA are so intrigued by the second rock from the Sun that all sorts of bizarre and outlandish craft have been proposed to study the planet. Due to the incredibly inhospitable environment on Venus, delicate electronics break down quickly. One proposed solution is to send steampunk-esque mechanical automatons, but the lack of digital communication capabilities would mean those automatons would have to be physically recovered, opening up a whole new can of worms. Space worms.
Instead, NASA scientists have now proposed sending massive airships – also steampunk-esque – to study Venus from high above its surface. Aerospace engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center have proposed what they call the HAVOC, or High-Altitude Venus Operational Concept. Engineers have already tested proof of concept experiments to identify materials which could withstand the sulfuric acid in the Venusian atmosphere as well as proposing methods for getting the airships inflated in the skies above Venus.
NASA scientists believe the airships could be sufficient for a 30-day manned mission in Venus’s atmosphere, allowing a crew of two astronauts to study the planet in unprecedented detail. Once the mission is complete, the crew would launch back into orbit in a detachable module and dock with a waiting spacecraft, after which they would journey back to Earth where no doubt they would infect the human race with unknown alien viruses which turn us into piles of steaming goo. But hey, cool airships! Who cares?
NASA’s concept for the ships (steaming goo viruses not pictured)
Check out NASA’s slickly-produced promo video on YouTube providing an overview of the concept complete with an epic Game of Thrones-style soundtrack.
NASA Vision for Venus: HAVOC Airships | Video
NASA concept would send astronauts to Venus
NASA Proposes Floating Airship "Cities" on Venus - The Know
Strange objects caught on tape over London, UK 17-Jun-2018
Strange objects caught on tape over London, UK 17-Jun-2018
This was filmed in the sky above London, UK on 17th June 2018.
Witness report:
Weird, looked like it could be drones/birds/bats… Long Description of Sighting Report 1. Watching tv in the living room after dinner. 2. My neighbour shouting for me to come outside as they couldn’t really make out what they we seeing from thier angle of the backyard. 3. Drones with LEDs/ Birds/ Bats but the light eminating from them just couldn’t be explained as either. 4. Swarming, rising and falling almost like birds but not. 5. Wowed… 6. They seemed to merge into the background and disappear.
The Cover-Up of the UFO that landed in Ostankino, Russia
The Cover-Up of the UFO that landed in Ostankino, Russia
This real event happened in 1995 and has been covered up since, after the broadcast in October 1995 the video has suddenly disappeared and the witnesses have probably been manipulated to remain silent on this event. Only three images have surfaced.
UFO Ostankino, Russia 1995.
The images were broadcast by Russian TV in October 1995 and show the landing of a huge extraterrestrial spacecraft that took place right in the suburb of Ostankino, which is located in the suburbs of Moscow.
In the 3 photo sequences, which should be part of a video, you can see 2 people, presumably of the Russian military, who closely observe the landing of the alien aircraft.
After investigations UFO researchers both Russian and European have came to the conclusion that the flying saucer landed just to avoid the shots of Russian anti-aircraft artillery.
Then later, the UFO would emerge some self-luminous beings with "non-hostile" intentions, badly interpreted by Soviet military personnel, who in turn would have responded by firing a few machine-gun blasts.
In response to the Soviet fire, from the alien hull would have been issued energy impulses that would have put out of use the weapons of the Russian military.
From the analysis carried out on the sequence of images, the researcher Carlo Clemente describes the UFO, as an enveloped by an energy field and with a diameter of about 15-20 meters.
UFO Cotula, Texas 2012.
The same Carlos Clemente, compares the images of the TV Ostankino with the case of Cotula (Texas), where in the night of July 5, 2012, a surveillance web cam of a private condominium located in the Eagle Ford area, records the landing of another UFO.
Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Scottsdale— After taking the photo, I reviewed it and saw the object.
A shaped image with lighted lights taken May 25, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Redlands — Went outside to smoke and always look at the sky noticed a light on June 15, 2018. When I looked I thought it was star but then looked like a floating jelly fish. I quickly ran inside an told my son to come out. As we looked on it was changing shapes and pulsating in and out at one point looked like worm. We went back inside for2 hours came back out it was still there so I took pics an video. Its 2:57am and it’s still in same position. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Delaware Lights
Wilmington — March 18th 2018, about 8pm my friend and I were driving through First State National Historic Park and saw orbs. There were 3 or 4 orbs above the horizon so I pulled out my iPhone and started recording. i knew it was a ufo from the first time I made eye contact. The object was slowly moving even slower than a plane then all of a sudden it did some crazy fast maneuver. Two orbs also flicker and I’m in complete shock and a little fearful. So we left the park since I felt so paranoid. It had no strobe lights or anything but it wasn’t a plane for sure. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Clearwater Beach — The UFO’S could only been seen in the photo. I filtered one and the objects became very clear. I hope you could get the photo even more clear. The photo was taken on Clearwater Beach Florida in February 2018. It could not be seen by the naked eye. It also looks like 2 more objects far back to the south of them. I could not make them out without better filters.
Please contact me if you have interest. I have up-loaded the photo along with the filtered image as well.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Cylinder
Paola — My wife and I gathered the flash drive from the Game camera and upon viewing 500 + pictures we found normal insect and animal pictures. Then we came across 7 of these pictures from May 1, 2018. I cannot explain as I tried to think of a vehicle heading toward the camera the next daylight photo showed no tracks. The rise and fall in the pictures and not deviating right or left still baffles me. The grass in the foreground is in focus but the light is not in a 23 minute span. The lights rise and fall and then there is 2 streaks straight through the picture field at 9:30 am. The next morning you can see no tracks except the ones going to my barn. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Chevron
Lake In the Hills — I was looking out the window of my bedroom when a bright light caught my eye on June 14, 2018. It was green and circular on the bottom of a dark black chevron shaped craft. It was very quickly flying through the sky in a straight direction. It swooped down briefly and then back up and I lost sight of it. It was flying to fast too be a plane or helicopter and nobody was outside so it couldn’t have been a drone. Shortly after the event my WiFi completely went out.
Lake in the Hills — I was able to photograph a strange object in the sky 5th of May 2018; around 9:30 pm in front of my house. This phenomenon looked like a brightly shining star from a distance. The object was rounded up at close range, and the surface was not smooth, pink in color with a green perimeter.
There was a net on surface that I could not capture on my camera. After a few minutes it disappeared from the horizon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey UFO Landing Site Heals Horses
Medford – I received a call from a witness who claimed he saw two black UFOs hovering above the power lines north of Lenape High School on November 3, 1973. One appeared to descend and land in a field off Hartford Road. Darlene writes, My friend told me that in 1970 her friend and several people saw three unusual objects hovering the high tension wires next to my property the house was not built. They saw one land on what is now my horse field and pond. I Google it and the articles said that in fact there were sightings. We have an indentation in the field since we moved here that fills up with water yet it never erodes and stays the same shape. We have found unusual metal pieces in that area when it does dry up. This is a picture of a framed view if my lot. Thanks Darlene
Note: I drove out to investigate the site and visited Darlene’s friends, horses, donkeys and horse stables. . The amazing situation was that Darlene takes in virtually dying animals that would normally be at the end of their lives with .wounded and crippled legs and bodies. They are attracted to the water and spend some time there and are cared for and fed normal food. Miraculously, the animals gain their strength and appear healed and feisty.
I have interviewed several abductees who claim to have been healed, and some people claim to be in touch with aliens/angels who are able to heal others. It appears that aliens feel obliged to preserve the specimen for their own purposes. As one abductee said, ‘It’s equipment maintenance.” I examined the area around the pond and there was little plant life and the dirt seemed to clump.
I was able to obtain samples of the area for the Missouri MUFON Laboratory who did a great job in analyzing the area. The conclusions were as follows: Many diseases and conditions in horses are due to nutrition. The healing of horses in this case may be due to minerals lacking in their former diet which are present in different combinations in this pasture area. As for the human healing this may be due the same conditions that are present in the crop circle healing which cannot be either proven or disproven by scientific methods as yet.
At some time in the past the soil under the pond has been subjected to a high heat event of 1000 F or more which resulted in changes often seen after a forest fires, There is a lack of pond organisms and lack of very low bacteria are counter to what are regularly seen in ponds where animals live, it may be contributed to the high minerals (potassium and phosphors) present or in fact to the serializing effects of high heat on the soil. Also a small glassy stone or possible meteorite was found in the pond (shown)
. The recommendation is to have the stone go for further testing in an SEM electron microscope equipped with a mineral evaluation system to determine all elements to rule out a meteorite. There is further evidence of a high heat event that melted the soil into a glazed conglomerate of gravel encased glass.
Note: A meteorite may have caused the high heat event, or the landing of a possible UFO. Thanks to MUFON Missouri Lab Thanks to Lynn Mann.
New York Lights
Utica –Three huge ufos change shape and break apart on June 1, 2018.
Video See whole video on my site
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Disc
Salem — My wife and I were going over to her dad’s house for a visit on March 31, 2018, and when we were in front of the capital I grabbed my iPhone and took a picture of the cherry blossoms. I didn’t see the object when I took the picture. It was a couple days later when I was going to send it to my daughter that I noticed the dark shape in the photo. I don’t know what it is but I think it’s at an odd angle to be an airplane and to high to be a Frisbee, I think it’s a ufo but I’m not sure
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Orb
Smethport –The third photo showed a green spherical object on June 9, 2018.
It could be from the sun reflecting on the lens. I didn’t see the object in the third photo.
I was taking a photo of the plane because it did a 180 degree turn and I thought it was someone I knew.
I’m not sure what it is! It didn’t show up in the other two photos.
Note: The Light could be the sun’s reflection on the lens.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Vermont Light
Fairfax— I was at my friend’s house and we went outside about 9:20 pm on June 9, 2018, noticing how bright the Planet Venus was that night. I opened an app on my cell called Sky View to be sure I was in fact looking at what I believed, and was correct. We began to look at the stars that were out viewing them through my cell phone on the app. From looking at Venus, I turned southeast and noticed how one star was a bluish-white and another near was more of a yellow. I looked at the star through my cell phone app. There was something in my screen that wasn’t able to be seen by the naked eye. I know that, there are sightings that have been documented where craft and even beings, seem to be able to “cloak” and avoid being seen by our eyes alone. You could not see what we saw in the sky without my cell phone/app..
Because I was not able to record what I was viewing while viewing it, I asked my friend to record me and my cell phone while I viewed the sighting via the app. It was only through the cell phone/app that it was seen;.
The primary one would zigzag erratically back and forth but also seemed to grow in size and in brightness. I can only believe that it was because it was coming towards me at that time in its erratic movement. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Des Moines— I was out back of my house around 9:15pm on June 11, 2018. I took a picture of a star (which I do frequently) then I went inside. The next day when I was looking at my gallery in my phone I saw a triangular circular object in the picture. I did not see the object at the time. There is a tree branch in lower right of pic. You can see patters on the object that are really weird. I have picture on my phone with pictures taken before and after. I thought this might help you guys. I have not altered or added anything to this picture!. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Orb
Fortaleza— Spherical and apparently translucent, UFO was, filmed with a night vision device, moving below the clouds.
The object was moving from the bottom to top of video was taken on June 9, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada lights
Ste-Marthe-Sur-Le-Lac– On June 6, 2018, I was outside in my backyard speaking on the phone when I first spotted the object around 9:20pm. I saw 3 orange lights in the distance west of it there was a plane so I didn’t make much of it. I found it strange that there were so many planes and that they were so close to one another. I headed into my pool house at 9:30pm and saw 3 (three) orange bright fuzzy blurry lights again/
As it continued silently Southeast over the Lake of Two Mountains I was examining it, and ruled out any possibility of a plane or helicopters as there was absolutely no sound or regular lighting coming from this object.
I recorded as it travelled further away and was able to capture 2 lights on camera until all three disappeared
The first beam of light disappeared following with the second and then the third heading higher up into the sky. I lost sight of it at this point. A CTV video was uploaded from BC (Vancouver) of a similar activity reported on June 4th 2018 but was uploaded the same night I saw the object June 11th 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Toronto— An airplane type object with bright objects aimed at balcony as if it ran into it. There were two in a row, that looked like police planes. Very soon after a group of objects came out and formed T formations.
Plane lights covered the sky in the photo. They did not aim, they came in organized fashion. I saw a red light from 5 miles away blinking. they have done before. it felt it was a signal to go away. There was dark ominous shadow over building and I felt I had to scat.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Triangle of Lights
1: Watching a festival, I did not even see the object during the show on June 15, 2017. 2: Checking the picture later one figure stood out. 3: UFOs triangle shape
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Orb
Dublin — On Saturday 9th of June 2018 at 18.00 hours I was having a family bbq on a crystal clear sky this object caught my eye. It was stationery and very high in the sky it was turning and pulsating it seem to have three lights at the bottom of it. I observed this object carefully through my binoculars at this stage my partner and daughter also witnessed this and my daughter took a video. A family next door also came out to witness the object for 45 minutes. I witnessed a smaller orb come out from the side of it that darted up and down a few times before disappearing.
I then lost sight of the object but it reappeared, Through binoculars my partner asked what where the objects beside it? I witnessed 9 orbs in formation of which two were moving.
I then saw a small orb around the main object again Thanks to MUFON CMS
Korea Objects
Seoul–About a year ago around at 9 p.m, I happened to look up the sky to see the stars. then, I noticed a blinking flying object coming to where I stood. It didn’t make any noise and when it was flying over my head I could barely hear humming like an electric fan. It has three blinking lights at each corner with small red light in the center. I consulted a Korean UFO expert Heo Joon so I could confirm it is a Black Triangle UFO. Since May 22, 2018, I have filmed it several times on my cell phone and witnessed it almost every night. I also see light ball UFOs that look like stars. I want to know why they show up every night about for five consecutive years. The rumor has it that some ufo crashed on the mountainside and this event is classified so they can’t report this to the public. But the fact is it is flying every night over the military facilities and our cities. Thanks to MUFON CMS
England Light and Disc
On June 9, 2018. taking photos of the sun and a clear hot day, I spotted these unknown green orb like objects in the sky. It could only be seen in the photo and not with our eyes looking in that direction.
Four photos were taken as the abject moved from right to left. I don’t have an explanation and could be nothing other than reflection of light. It was taken on a Samsung mobile phone, and we would like to know what it is.
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Burley Village — We were walking in the New Forest woods with our dog Alfie and I was taking a series of photographs as we did our walk on April 22, 2017. In this particular shot I called out to my partner at the time that I had captured his hat in the photo so I was not looking into the sky. I was taking a picture of the trees where I stood and rested my back.
When I got all the pictures home and up loaded them onto my laptop I showed my partner. We both did not see the object or heard any noise. The photo was taken with a Canon Power shot SX10 HS 1/1250 sec f/3.2 4.5mm 160B ISO size 5184 x 2912. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The cause of a mysterious rock formation on Mars that NASA deemed "an enigmatic pile of eroding sediments" and UFO hunters strongly believe is an extraterrestrial spacecraft was likely caused by volcanic activity on the planet billions of years ago, researchers say.
The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) was first observed in the 1960s via the Mariner spacecraft, but NASA scientists could not explain what caused it. Now, a group of researchers have published a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research that suggests it was formed by volcanic eruptions more than 3 billion years ago.
“This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system, because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this,” said Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a statement.
The scale of the Medusae Fossae Formation is enormous, at roughly one-fifth the size of the U.S. It's also 100 times more massive than the largest explosive volcanic deposit on Earth, which would make it the largest known explosive volcanic deposit in the solar system.
The study's abstract notes that the MFF is a "a relatively porous unit" and thought its origin is uncertain, "several processes including volcanic, eolian, and ice‐related mechanisms have been proposed in its formation."
The researchers were able to use data from various Mars orbiter spacecraft in order to measure the Medusae Fossae’s density for the first time, calling out its porous nature (it's approximately two-thirds as dense as the rest of the Martian crust) and theorized that it was caused by "explosive volcanic eruptions."
"The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick," Ojha said.
Because of the high levels of carbon dioxide and water that have been released from the MFF, the MFF has "substantially contributed to the Martian atmosphere and hydrosphere," the study's abstract added.
NASA doesn't know if aliens exist.Creative Commons
In December 2017, Pentagon confirmed that they have carried out a secret program called 'Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program' (AATIP) to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFO sightings.
Since the acknowledgment of the $22 million annually funded program, conspiracy theorists strongly argued that the statement from the US government is an indirect admission proving the existence of alien life. These conspiracy theorists even claim that the increasing number of UFO sightings all over the world as an indication of alien life which exists in deep space.
IB Times India presents you five most authentic UFO sightings which could turn out to be an irrefutable proof of alien existence.
1. Mysterious UFO which defied all laws of physics
An eerie incident which happened in 2004 was the prime reason which compelled the Pentagon to carry out the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The UFO was spotted by US Navy officials, and when they trailed the bizarre object, it flew in such an erratic manner defying all laws of modern physics.
A few months back, Leslie Kean, the investigative journalist who shed light on Pentagon's AATIP revealed that none of the modern aircraft on earth could fly in such a manner like that object did when it was tracked down by Navy fighter jets.
However, Pentagon confirmed that the UFO search program was stalled in 2011.
2. UFO with aliens on the deck
On May 13, 2009, at around 02.20 AM, a bizarre UFO appeared in the night skies of Turkey. The video of the incident soon went viral, and many people thought that an alien invasion was imminent. The video showed two alien-like beings sitting on the UFO's deck, and it was clearly visible in the eerie footage.
To check the authenticity of the clip, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research analyzed the footage for nine long years, and finally, a month back, they confirmed that the clip was not subjected to any kinds of editing.
3. UFOs spotted flying between the Moon and Earth
Many conspiracy theorists consider this video one of the most concrete proofs of alien life. The video was apparently shot by an amateur astronomer on April 22, 2018. The video shows the astronomer trying to film the half-moon with a 4K camera. As he tries to zoom in the moon, the craters on the lunar surface become visible, and suddenly, he noticed three disc-shaped UFOs flying across.
Out of the three UFOs, two were flying very closely, while the third one was trailing them behind. Upon closer analysis, it was revealed that these objects were flying in a formation.
4. Galactic War In the skies
In March 2018, a motorist filmed an eerie incident on the skies of Nevada just a two-hour drive from Area 51, widely considered by conspiracy theorists as a UFO hotspot. The video showed two bright star-like objects moving erratically in the day skies, and their movement indicated that they were fighting each other. The man who witnessed the incident claimed that the apparent galactic war lasted for more than twenty seconds.
However, skeptics claimed that the objects spotted in the video were mere reflections of cars' headlights passing nearby. But still, the dilemma continues...Who will switch on the lights and drive in broad daylight?
5. UFO spotted during Lunar Eclipse
On January 31, 2017, space buffs all around the world were busy watching the lunar eclipse. When all the eyes were on the disappearing moon, a section of conspiracy theorists noted an eerie flying object zooming past the moon. The UFO was seen flying in a dramatic speed, and alien buffs soon concluded that it was an extraterrestrial spaceship from deep space.
MUFON is probing the reason behind the strange shape in the sky.
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A series of images submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for investigation is now the hottest debating point between weather experts and UFO enthusiasts. The image shows a saucer-shaped UFO cloaking behind the clouds, and many people claim that it is an irrefutable proof that aliens are monitoring human activities.
Lenticular clouds or alien UFO?
The creepy incident apparently happened in the United Kingdom on June 08, 2018, and the image was captured by a local resident when he stepped out of his home to smoke a cigarette. He was stunned to see a gigantic mothership hidden under the clouds, and he quickly captured the image with his smartphone.
The captured images soon went viral on online space, especially after conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania' shared it. After seeing the video, many skeptics started arguing that the object spotted might be actually lenticular clouds which is completely a natural phenomenon.
However, alien enthusiasts objected to the claims of skeptics and made it clear that lenticular clouds will not have those defined edges which the object showed in the photo has. As per conspiracy theorists, aliens have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and most of the time, they use clouds to hide from the earthly beings.
Paul Courtney, a YouTube user argued that these alien spaceships might be using advanced cloud cloaking technology to hide their presence. Some other YouTubers argued that alien ships have shapeshifting abilities.
A section of other users claimed that these sightings are all holographic images beamed in the skies as a part of 'Project Blue Beam'.
"Nice holographic display viewed to deceive us into believing in aliens from another planet. The only problem is that they are interdimensional beings cast out of heaven to earth that ones where angels who rebelled against God and are fallen angels know," commented Ruben Janbroers, another YouTuber.
In the meantime, a section of conspiracy theorists has connected this weird sighting to weather control programs. They believe that the government is running a secret weather control program in the sky, and the bizarre shapes of clouds are indicating that the program is going on steadily.
Shrouded in mystery
The creepy sighting was reported just a few days after another UFO appeared in the skies of Wycombe, UK. The video which was released showed a UFO flying erratically in the skies leaving a white trail behind. Interestingly, this sighting happened in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, an area nearer to the Royal Air Force base. It should be noted that the UK military had used this Air Force base to probe UFO activities in the country.
Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART I
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Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Top-Secret UFO Memo by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Book of Ezekiel Craft, Flying Shields, Ancient Civilizations, Wanaque, New Jersey Vortex, and Opioid Crisis Is Mostly Mexican Drugs Killing Americans
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Korea, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Top-Secret UFO Memo by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 5, 1942
“(I’m)…coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s memo on White House stationary to ‘The Special Committee on Non-Terrestrial Science & Technology’. Concerning the Cape Girardeau UFO crash of 1941, Roosevelt went on to state that we will, “take every advantage of such wonders that have come to us” after we have won the war.’ Feb 22, 1944
“Before we could do any more, the Army, after conferring with (U.S.) officials, ordered the investigation stopped.”
Dr. Paul Santorini, on UFOs over Greece in 1946
Book of EzekielCraft
Sources of information about flying machines should be considered, such as the Bible.
The Bible seems to be describing the close encounter of a man from a non-technological culture several thousands of years ago with a device which to him must have been miraculous. We have to put ourselves into his shoes to comprehend his astonishment and the other worldness of his encounter. The limited scope of knowledge of the world around him, his primitive environment, dictated the language and conceptual framework with which he tried to capture his encounter for fellow tribesmen. For him it seemed that he encountered The God, with his suite of angels, because in his simple world, there was no other interpretation. Ezekiel encounter bears uncanny similarity to the modern-day encounters with UFO’s
There are numerous legends which claim the exact opposite, that “gods” came from the skies. Their appearances were frequently accompanied by fire, smoke and thunderous noise; their influence on man was, mostly, beneficial. If the source of this information is the ’ primitive’ peoples’ we call it a fable; if the origin lies in religious scriptures of the more developed civilizations, we interpret the tales in a more spiritual or even holy manner.
Josef F. Blumrich a NASA engineer studied Ezekiel in detail and concluded the over-all result, then, is a space vehicle technically feasible beyond doubt and very well designed to suit function and purpose; its technology is in no way fantastic but, even in its extreme aspects, lies almost within our own capabilities of today.
The results indicate, moreover, that Ezekiel’s spacecraft operated in conjunction with a mother vessel orbiting the earth. We have no point of firm reference for an exact determination of the dimensions of the landing craft, but we can approximate these within the range I investigated analytically. The illustration above shows the shape and proportions.
The diameter of the central body would be about 18 meters, that of the rotor of a helicopter unit would be 11m, total weight from the time of lift-off from the earth for the return flight to the mother ship would be 100,000 kg, the engine’s specific impulse would be 2,080 seconds, and the craft would carry two or three passengers.
Josef F. Blumrich states, “ Determining the form, dimensions and functional capabilities of what Ezekiel saw makes understandable a number of passages in his text that are otherwise meaningless; it also aids considerably in separating the prophetic or visionary parts of Ezekiel’s book from those concerning encounters with spaceships. I confined my study to the latter.”
Flying Shields
Hopi sky god
The Hopi Indians of Arizona (who are distant relatives of the Aztecs 52) record three previous Suns, each culminating in a great annihilation followed by the gradual re-emergence of mankind.
Gary A. David writes, “The sky god Sotuknang, took them on his flying shield up into the sky so that they could see for many miles around.” Feeding the hungry children ripe melons, he told them that they must have faith in him and in his teachings that would later arrive through their dreams. Finally he landed a short distance from the village in which their mother and father had settled, bid the young ones farewell, and flew up again into the clouds. Forever grateful to the sky god, the brother and sister walked into the village to be reunited with their parents.
Kachina dolls are objects made in human or humanlike shape, and they are common in Native American ritual, often referred to sky gods. Although sold as objects of art, the spectacular kachina dolls retain a valued religious role, particularly in educating children. Hopi Native Americans use kachina dolls to instruct their children in the ways of Hopi tradition and belief. Kachina dolls are passed out to children in ceremonies representing spirits that act as mediators between gods and humans.
On Second Mesa near Mishongnovi an ancient petroglyph depicts a dome-shaped object resting on an arrow which represents travel through space, and the head of a Hopi maiden who represents pristine purity. As the Hopis believe that other planets are inhabited, this petroglyph represents a paatuwvota or a ‘flying shield’ similar to a ‘flying saucer’ that came here in the Beginning. So now at the End the sacred ones will arrive in UFOs from the planet Venus,. Many Hopi traditionalists recently have reported seeing flying saucers, all piloted by beings they call Kachinas.”
Because the Hopis had no such thing as a saucer, flying or otherwise, they named it after the cultural accouterment closest to that shape, namely, the warrior’s shield. The word tuwvota specifically signifies this type of shield. Oddly, the concept of war is connected in Hopi ideology with the stars. The use of tuwvota rather than the more common word for ‘disk’ or ‘circle’ thus suggests a celestial origin for the paatuwvota.
Since the Hopi term paa means ‘water’, paatuwvota possibly refers to the expanding concentric rings in water. This might be a metaphorical description for the way the peculiar airborne device appeared to function. The related word patuka, or ‘spindle’, may also describe the shield’s spinning motion. In addition, the prefix pa- denotes wonder or awe. For the people of the desert, water equals wonder, but pa- perhaps suggests the reaction to this extraordinary means of transportation.
The tradition of the flying shield also appears in rock art. The photo at left is an ancient petroglyph, or rock carving, found near Winslow, Arizona, apparently showing a triangular craft.
.The more correct spelling is katsina. The Hebrew word for “officer” in the Bible is katsin. Much like the fallen angels (or the Watchers) of the Bible (see Genesis 6:1-4), the kachinas were sometimes known to mate with Hopi women. This prefigures the contemporary theme of alien abduction for the purpose of reproduction.
One Hopi myth tells of a young bride who accompanies her handsome Kana kachina husband back to her Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi on a flying shield.
” Book called Earth Fire states.” As the shield lifted off, the kachinas all gave out a boisterous yell. All of a sudden as the couple flew along, flashes of lightning were visible in the air and the rumble of thunder could be heard. When the shield rose higher, drizzle began to fall. The kachinas were now accompanying them… [Her] parents had headed to the edge of the mesa at this time to look out. Looking down from the rim of the mesa, they saw an incredible number of people coming across the plain. To their great amazement all were kachinas, singing and crying out their calls in a pandemonium.”
Eototo, chief kachina and Aholi, his lieutenant Hopi kachina dolls at Museum of Northern, Arizona.
The Hopis sometimes refer to kachinas as ‘the beautiful creatures.’ This designation emphasizes not only their esthetically pleasing appearance but also their role as actual entities in a kinship system.
Some Hopis believe that Kachinas still maneuver these mysterious aircraft. In his book The Terra Papers, the Hopi/Apache author Robert Morning Sky describes how his grandfather and five other men were camping in the desert in August of 1947, shortly after the infamous Roswell incident, when a flying disk streaked across the night sky and crashed. From the wreckage they recovered a silvery alien, unconscious but still alive, whom they named the Star Elder. After they nursed it back to health, the ET then telepathically described by means of a crystal the Galactic war raging above which had downed its spacecraft. This X-Files material with a Native American twist remains unconfirmed.
Unexplained sightings continue, however. In the summer of 1970 hundreds of UFOs were seen about 125 miles southwest of the Hopi villages near the town of Prescott, Arizona. On the evening of March 13th, 1997 in the same vicinity a delta-winged craft perhaps as large as a mile across with lights on its leading edges was spotted drifting silently overhead before speeding off toward the south. It later became known as the Phoenix Lights.
Kana kachina doll.
“All this contributes to the creation of a confused and jumbled picture. The myths of the Hopi, however, stand out for their straightforwardness and simplicity. What they tell us is this:
The first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanors, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. The second world ended when the terrestrial globe toppled from its axis and everything was covered with ice. The third world ended in a universal flood. The present world is the forth. Its fate will depend on whether or not its inhabitants behave in accordance with the Creator’s plans. Much of what Graham Hancock relates has been available to researchers for centuries, but has been ignored by modern anthropologists and archaeologists, who seem to have their own linear agenda, inherited in part from Darwin. The concept that humankind could not have reached a high level of technological development without leaving recognizable artifacts of their accomplishments can only be supported if one misinterprets the evidence according to preconceptions and a rigid and erroneous belief system, or simply ignores contravening evidence and information preserved in myth (cf. West, 1993).Joseph Jochmans (1995) notes that “there is a growing number of ‘anomalies’ surfacing from the distant past which do not in any way fit the ‘established’ concept of linear history.
Ancient Civilizations
There They are called ‘anomalies’ because they reveal an inherent sophistication very much out-of-place from the contemporary ancient or prehistoric remains among which they were discovered. These artifacts demonstrate that, either they were the product of another more advanced culture of unknown origins that once lived side by side with the less sophisticated but more recognized culture (just as we today in the technological 20th century live alongside certain tribal peoples of New Guinea, Africa and South America), or the artifacts are remnants of an older, forgotten yet more advanced civilization that was destroyed and lost to us, except for these few tantalizing remains that were passed down through the later survivors. Several scientists examining the water erosion on the Giza pyramid claim it was built in 10,000 BC. as does Edgar Casey.
Jochmans discusses evidence, ignored by Egyptologists, which impliesearscient Egyptians knew how to build and fly airplanes: ” “In 1889 a curious object was discovered in the tomb of PaJochmans discusses evidence, ignored by Egyptologists, which implies that ancient Egyptians knew how to build and fly airplanes:-di-Imen in north Saqqara, Egypt dated to about 200 B.C. At the time of its discovery, however, the birth of modern aviation was still several years away. As a result, when the strange artifact was sent to the Cairo Museum, it was catalogued and then shelved away among other miscellaneous items to gather dust unrecognized for what it really was.
“In 1969, over 70 years later, Dr. Kahlil Messiha – an Egyptologist and archaeologist – was examining a particular Museum display in Room No. 22, labeled “bird figurines.” The other contents of the display were clearly bird sculptures, but the Saqqara artifact was certainly not. It possessed characteristics not found on birds, yet which are part of modern aircraft design. Dr. Messiha, who as a youth had been a model plane enthusiast, immediately recognized the aircraft features and persuaded the Under Secretary of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to form a committee in order to investigate the model. In the meeting of the committee in late 1970 and early 1971, the participating historians and aviation experts were so impressed with their findings that it was recommended that the model be placed in the Central Hall of the Cairo Museum of temporary exhibit. Today it is still housed in Room No. 22, on the second floor.
“The small craft is made of very light sycamore wood and weighs 39.12 grams, or 0.5 oz. The only markings on it is a faint eye painted on the nose and two red lines under the wings. The model’s wings are straight and aerodynamically shaped, with a span of 18 centimeters, or about 7 inches. Its pointed nose is 3.2 centimeters (1.5 inches) long. The body of the craft totals 14 centimeters (6 inches), tapered, terminating in a vertical tail fin. A separate slotted piece fit onto the tail precisely like the back tail wing on a modern plane.
Precolombian Airplane Models
Whatever the object is supposed to be its remarkable similarity to a modern aircraft or spaceship is uncanny.
The concept of an airplane in ancient times is not limited to Egypt. Gold aircraft models were found in an area covering Central America and coastal areas of South America, estimated to belong to a period between 500 and 800 CE, but since they are made from gold, accurate dating is impossible and based essentially on stratigraphy which may be deceptive. However, we can safely say that these gold objects are more than 1000 years old.
As seen from the pictures, the shape of the sample object is rather ambiguous. The archaeologists labeled these objects as zoomorphic, meaning, animal shaped objects. The question is, what animal do they represent? When we compare these with other objects from the same cultures depicting animals, a curious facet of the comparison would be obvious: the other objects are recognizable, rendered usually with a great accuracy and attention to realistic detail.
“Dr. Messiha, interviewed in the May 18, 1972 London Times, made these comments on the ancient plane’s shape and sophistication: “It is the tail that is really the most interesting thing which distinguishes this model from all others that have been discovered. No bird can produce such a contortion at the rear of its body to assume anything that looks like the model. Furthermore, there is a groove under the fin for a tail-plane (crosspiece) which is missing. This is no toy model – it’s too scientifically designed and it took a lot of skill to make it.”
“Several aerodynamic experts and pilots agree with Dr. Messiha’s assessment. Flight engineer Guirguis Messiha, a relative to Dr. Messiha, observed: “The negative dihedral angle fulfills the same requirements as the positive; a section shows that the surface of the wing is part of an ellipse which provides stability in flight; the aerofoil of the body lessens the drag, a fact which was discovered only after years of experimental work in aeronautics.” A full-scale version of the plane could have flown carrying heavy loads, but at low speeds, between 45 and 65 miles per hour. What is not known, however, is what the power source of the ancient craft was. Several engineers did note that the model makes a perfect glider just as it is. In fact, it would have taken only the efforts of a small catapult to get a life-sized model in the air. Simply by using the rising heat currents off the Egyptian deserts on either side of the Nile, such a craft would have been able to stay in the air indefinitely. The little model itself, even though over 2,000 years old, will soar a considerable distance with only a slight jerk of the hand. Fully restored balsa replicas will travel even farther.”
The unsolved item remains—the spirals on the both wings and the nose. According to Amerindian iconography, these spirals have discernible meaning—they represent ascending and descending, depending on whether they are right-oriented or left-oriented, respectively. As the spirals are not only on wings but also on the nose, the meaning is fairly obvious—the wings and the nose (as much) were the features which were directly involved in ascent and descent.
There are other cultures which mention flying vehicles of some sort or another. The most known of these sources are Indian epics, especially the Mahabharata and other Vedic sources as Bhágavata Purána and Rámáyana.
The flying devices were called vimanas and were extensively discussed in Vaimánika Shástra, describing multitude of machines with different purposes and capabilities. Thanks to Joseph Jochmans.
Opioid Crisis Is Mostly Mexican Drugs Killing Americans
This drug crisis is ravaging our country and more than 300,000 Americans have died from it since 2000. Now President Trump is fighting back, and has declared it a National Emergency under federal law and Congress kas approved $6 billion to answer this growing threat. Death from opioids was 20,000 last year but the major killer of 45,000 Americans was illegal drugs such as cocaine. Of note, the greatest decline in treatment volumes in 2017 was for prescription opioids; the highest doses of prescription opioids declined by over 33% during the past two years. Mexican Cartels export significant quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the U.S. annually. More than 70% of all illegal drugs come from Mexico.
A judge in Atlanta on Monday sentenced a former Texas border high school football player who rose through a bloody power struggle for control of a Mexican drug cartel to serve nearly 50 years in federal prison. Edgar Valdez Villarreal 44, was accused of bringing trucks full of cocaine from Mexico to the eastern United States and shipping millions of dollars in cash back to Mexico. He was arrested in Mexico in 2010 and was among 13 people extradited to the U.S. from Mexico in September 2015 to face charges.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973) also known as La Barbie (“The Barbie”), is a Mexican American suspected drug lord and leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. He was arrested near Mexico City in August 2010 on charges related to large scale drug trafficking. Valdez worked for several years as a cartel lieutenant before rising to a leadership position in an enforcement squad called Los Negros. Following the death of cartel boss Arturo Beltrán Leyva in late 2009, Valdez fought a bloody and protracted gang war for control of the cartel resulting in over 150 deaths. He employed techniques such as videotaped torture and decapitation. He pleaded guilty in January 2016 to charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and conspiring to launder money. U.S. government reports allege that Los Negros are known to employ local gangs such as MS-13 and Mexican Mafia to carry out murders and conduct illegal drug and female slave trade activities.
PUSH AND PULL New research has shown that Venus’ thick atmosphere, shown here in an image from the Japanese space agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft, can speed up the planet’s rotation.
DAMIA BOUIC, DARTS, ISAS, JAXA
Time is out of joint on Venus. The planet’s thick air, which spins much faster than the solid globe, may push against the flanks of mountains and change Venus’ rotation rate.
Computer simulations show that the thick Venusian atmosphere, whipping around the planet at 100 meters per second, exerts enough push against a mountain on one side and suction on the other side to speed the planet’s rotation rate by about two minutes each Venus day, according to a study in Nature Geoscience June 18.
Mysterious mountain waves in Venus's atmosphere put new spin on a day
That’s not much, considering that the planet rotates just once every 243 Earth days. By comparison, Venus’ atmosphere rotates about once every four Earth days. Precise measurements of the planet’s rotation rate have varied by about seven minutes, however. The push and pull of the air over the mountains could help explain the mismatch, with some other force — possibly the gravitational influence of the sun — slowing the planet’s spin back down.
DRAW BACK The motion of Venus’ atmosphere over mountains on the planet’s surface raises a bow-shaped wave that stretches from pole to pole in this image from Akatsuki.
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The simulations by UCLA planetary scientist Thomas Navarro and colleagues are the first to account for a 10,000-kilometer-long wave in Venus’ cloud tops, spotted in 2015 by the Japanese space agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft (SN: 2/18/17, p. 5). Similar waves are launched into the atmosphere on Earth when air flows over a mountain, but they normally dissipate quickly as opposing winds break them up. Venus’ atmosphere rotates so much faster than the planet and in such a uniform direction that the waves could persist for a long time.
“This work is very interesting,” says planetary scientist Tetsuya Fukuhara of Rikkyo University in Tokyo, one of the researchers who discovered the atmosphere wave. The work helps explain where the wave comes from and addresses how Venus’ surface features affect the atmosphere, “which is the most important issue in the Venus atmospheric science.”
More detailed measurements of Venus’ rotation, possibly taken with a future lander(SN: 3/3/18, p. 14), could eventually help reveal details of Venus’ interior, such as the size of its core.
“Venus is the closest thing to Earth that we know of,” Navarro says, and yet its hot, thick, toxic atmosphere makes it utterly alien. “We’d like to know what’s inside.”
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Robot helpers from The Jetsons to Star Wars have always been shiny and metallic, but robots in the real world may be altogether more fleshy.
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology have created a new synthetic skin that could be a future of fleshy robots that can touch and feel, as well as opening the door to some pretty high tech bandages in the meanwhile.
Humanoid robot unveiled at internet conference in Beijing
Engineers created the Silly Putty-like substance by fusing together water-containing hydrogel and an incredibly thin metal compound, known as MXenes. This ultra-stretchy material has shown the potential to be used as a touch-sensitive coating for robots, wearable electronics, and even bandages that help heal wounds faster.
“The material’s differing sensitivity to stretching and compression is a breakthrough discovery that adds a new dimension to the sensing capability of hydrogels,” first author, Yizhou Zhang, said in a statement.
One of the major breakthroughs with this one-of-a-kind material is its ability to sense changes on the surfaces it is applied to and translate those changes into electronic signals.
Signals from the electrically conductive hydrogel can clearly distinguish between different facial expressions.
The team tested the material by attaching a strip of it to a user’s forehead. They had the subject smile and frown and found that the strip could identify these distinct facial expressions. Then, they stuck another slice of robo Play-Doh to the neck of another subject and found that it was also able to convert into electronic signals.
Both of these successful proof-of-concept experiments have shown that this material may some day be able to tap into the body’s subtle signals and transform them into something that other observers we can understand, a potential game-changer for those suffering from paralysis or speech-impediments.
Just like you can mold pretty much anything you want with some Silly Putty, researchers say the potential uses for this high tech artificial material seem almost endless: creating robotic exoskeletons, more tactile A.I. applications, and even a material capable of patching up a life-threatening wound are all possibilities.
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Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
By Marcus Woo, Live Science Contributor
A conceptual vision of a wormhole. Could black holes actually be colliding wormholes? A new theory says maybe.
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When two wormholes collide, they could produce ripples in space-time that ricochet off themselves. Future instruments could detect these gravitational "echoes," providing evidence that these hypothetical tunnels through space-time actually exist, a new paper suggests.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has already detected space-time ripples, called gravitational waves, emanating from merging black holes — discoveries that led to the Nobel Prize in 2017.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
But while LIGO's detection was just one of many observations supporting the existence of black holes, these exotic objects still pose theoretical problems. For instance, they seem to be inconsistent with the laws of quantum mechanics. One way to resolve these problems is if black holes were actually wormholes.
Point of no return
One of the main features of black holes is the event horizon, a region of space-time beyond which nothing can escape, not even light. If you throw anything into a black hole, it's lost forever — to an extent. Stephen Hawking discovered that, thanks to a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, black holes could actually produce a tiny bit of radiation, which would come to be known as Hawking radiation. Over a long time, black holes could even evaporate away due to this radiation.
"But what comes out is random," said Amber Stuver, an astrophysicist at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the new research. The radiation contains no clue as to what went into the black hole. [Stephen Hawking: A Physics Icon Remembered in Photos]
"In quantum mechanics, if you know everything about a particular system, then you should be able to describe its past and its future," she said. But because any information that goes into a black hole is gone for good, an event horizon doesn't jibe with quantum mechanics.
To resolve this so-called black hole information paradox, some physicists have suggested that event horizons don't exist. Instead of abysses from which nothing can return, black holes actually could be a host of speculative black-hole-like objects that lack event horizons, such as boson stars, gravastars, fuzzballs and even wormholes, which were theorized by Albert Einstein and physicist Nathan Rosen decades ago.
Black holes could actually be colliding WORMHOLES - fox news
Black hole look-alikes
In a 2016 study in the journal Physical Review Letters, physicists hypothesized that if two wormholes collided, they would produce gravitational waves very similar to those generated from merging black holes. The only difference in the signal would be in the last phase of the merger, called the ringdown, when the newly combined black hole or wormhole relaxes into its final state.
Because wormholes don't have event horizons, gravitational waves that hit these objects could bounce back, producing an echo during the ringdown.
"The interior of the object is a sort of cavity where gravitational waves are reflected," the researchers of the new study told Live Science in an email. "The production of gravitational echoes is not very different from ordinary sound echoes in a valley."
In the paper, published in January in the journal Physical Review D, the team of physicists from Belgium and Spain analyzed wormholes that rotate, which are more realistic than the non-spinning variety studied in the 2016 work. They calculated what the resulting gravitational-wave signal would look like if the wormholes merged. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]
Because the strength of the signal drops during the ringdown, that section of the signal would be too weak for LIGO's current configuration to detect. But that could change in the future, as researchers continue to upgrade and fine-tune the instrument, the researchers said.
"By the time we are running at full design sensitivity, I believe it may be possible to resolve the ringdown phase where these echoes are predicted to be," said Stuver, who's also a member of the LIGO team.
Still, wormholes are less science fact than science fiction, often used in movies and books as intergalactic highways. For wormholes to be traversable, however, you would probably need some unknown exotic matter to keep them open. Last December, physicists came up with traversable wormholes that don't need exotic matter, but, like all wormholes, they're highly speculative. "On the other hand, the repercussions of a detection of echoes would be of dramatic importance in physics," the researchers wrote in an email to Live Science. "So, given that an actual experimental test will be available soon, it is worth exploring them."
"Now it's the time to take seriously the possibility that there are other objects which can be as massive and compact as black holes," said Vitor Cardoso, a physicist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, who was part of the earlier study on nonspinning wormholes. "This is one of the most exciting things we can do with gravitational waves."
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CubeSats: Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
CubeSats: Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Two of the 28 Dove cubesats that make up Planet Lab's "Flock 1" constellation are seen deploying into orbit from the International Space Station on Feb. 11, 2014.
Credit: NASA
CubeSats are miniature satellites that have been used exclusively in low Earth orbit for 15 years, and are now being used for interplanetary missions as well. In the beginning, they were commonly used in low Earth orbit for applications such as remote sensing or communications. As of mid-2018, a pair of CubeSats has been deployed on a mission flying to Mars, and other CubeSats are being considered for the moon and Jupiter.
Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
The CubeSat design was first proposed in the late 1990s by two professors: Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. They were trying to help students gain engineering experience in satellites, which are traditionally expensive to build and launch. The idea for the CubeSat came in part from the miniature toy craze of the day, Beanie Babies, according to Spaceflight Now. Inspired by the individualized stuffed animals, Twiggs' idea was to allow students to build their own miniature satellites.
The basic design of a CubeSat is a 10-centimeter (4-inch) cube with a mass of less than 1.33 kilograms (2.93 lbs.), the article added. But variations on the theme are possible. CubeSats can also be designed to encompass two, three or six 10-centimeter units for more complicated missions.
CubeSats reduce launch costs in two fundamental ways. They don't weigh that much, which means a rocket doesn't need a lot of fuel to heft them. In most cases, they also share a rocket with a larger satellite, making it possible to get to space on the coattails of the heavier payload.
There are some design challenges with CubeSats, however. The electronics are smaller and are therefore more sensitive to radiation. Because they are small, they cannot carry large payloads with them. Their low cost also means they are generally designed to last only a few weeks, months or years before ceasing operations (and for those in low Earth orbit, falling back into the atmosphere.)
Three small CubeSats float above the Earth after deployment from the International Space Station. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio tweeted the photo from the station on Nov. 19, 2013.
Credit: Rick Mastracchio (via Twitter as @AstroRM)
Brief history
The first six CubeSats were launched in June 2003 from Russia's Plesetsk launch site. At the time, according to a 2004 Space.com article, the going rate for a CubeSat's launch was about $40,000, which is a bargain compared to a typical satellite (many are millions of dollars.)
CubeSats were made possible by the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, which allows instruments such as cameras to ride into orbit at a fraction of the size of what was required at the beginning of the space age in the 1960s.
"Peep inside a CubeSat and you'll spot off-the-shelf circuitry in the familiar form of microprocessors and modem ports, and other microchip devices typically used in cell phones, digital cameras and hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation units," wrote Space.com insider columnist Leonard David in 2004.
For the first decade, most CubeSats that flew came from university or research applications. Only a handful of satellites launched every year; then in 2013, the number of launches suddenly numbered in the dozens. It was in that year that the commercial sector began to launch satellites, according to SpaceDaily.
There have been more than 2,100 CubeSats and nanosatellites as of mid-2018, according to nanosats.eu. Among the prominent uses of Earth-orbiting CubeSats today:
Planet Labs, an Earth observation company, has dozens of CubeSat-sized Dove satellites in orbit, as well as a few RapidEye CubeSats. The CubeSats are used in everything from disaster response to climate monitoring.
The NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station launches CubeSats after they have been hauled to orbit aboard a visiting ISS vehicle.
NASA's CubeSat Launch initiative provides launch slots for CubeSats aboard traditional rocket launches.
Starting in 2018, CubeSats began to venture outside of Earth orbit. Here are some of the projects under way, or still being planned:
Mars Cube One (MarCO) — the first CubeSats to leave Earth — launched on May 5, 2018, along with NASA's InSight lander. InSight is expected to land on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018; it is currently en route and the CubeSats are flying just behind it, as they separated independently from the rocket during launch and are running on solar power.
The CubeSats are nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eve" after the 2008 animated Pixar movie "WALL-E," which follows the adventures of robots in space. When InSight lands, the CubeSats will attempt to send data back to Earth about its descent. This is a test flight and the information will not be critical, as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will do the same job. MarCO's mission will end shortly afterwards.
NASA's first Space Launch System test launch in 2019 will pioneer the rocket expected to bring humans out of low Earth orbit for the first time since the 1960s. The initial, uncrewed launch will include up to 13 microsatellites. Concept ideas include Lunar Flashlight, which reflects sunlight to peer into permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and NEA Scout, which will use a solar sail to fly to near-Earth asteroid 1991VG.
NASA is considering a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa in the 2020s or 2030s. In 2014, NASA said it was considering including CubeSats on the mission, which would carry out functions including "reconnaissance for future landing sites, gravity fields, magnetic fields, atmospheric and plume science, and radiation measurements." NASA confirmed the CubeSats would be included in May 2018, and asked the science community for their ideas.
The European Space Agency and NASA previously considered a joint mission to investigate the asteroid 65803 Didymos and try to move its moon via an impactor. The mission wass called Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission. For the European part, they considered including two CubeSats to do supplemental observations. The Europeans elected not to fund their part of the mission in 2016 to give more money to the ExoMars rover mission, but NASA is continuing development on its part. The launch has been delayed into the 2020s.
While Opportunity is beset by the worst Martian dust storm we’ve ever seen, Curiosity is busy taking selfies.
Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill, via Kevin M. Gill / Flickr.
Last week, we’ve told you about the massive dust storm that’s battering Mars and the hapless Opportunity rover. The solar-powered bot is in danger of freezing to (electronic) death, as its solar panels can’t generate any charge in the night-like conditions inside the dust. The venerable rover (already 15 years old) shut down most activity on June 10 to conserve battery charge.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity is enjoying a leisurely life complete with the selfies to show for it.
The fortunate son
“The storm is one of the most intense ever observed on the Red Planet,” NASA said in a statement last week. “As of June 10, it covered more than 15.8 million square miles (41 million square kilometers) – about the area of North America and Russia combined.”
“It has blocked out so much sunlight, it has effectively turned day into night for Opportunity, which is located near the center of the storm, inside Mars’ Perseverance Valley.”
In a twist of martian irony, the storm isn’t nearly as intense half a planet away from Opportunity. While the dust storm’s effects can still be felt there, the sunlight is enough for solar panels to generate energy. A twist of irony because Curiosity, which is currently roving about Mars in this area, doesn’t really need the light — it’s powered by a nuclear reactor.
The car-sized rover first landed on Mars in 2012, and, unlike its older cousin, relies on plutonium-238 instead of solar cells for energy. It’s currently camping in the Gale Crater, a 96-mile-wide valley that researchers once believed housed a giant lake.
Also unlike its older cousin, Curiosity seems to be having a whale of a time. NASA recently released some selfies it beamed back Friday, showcasing the rover’s activity on Mars, while Opportunity braves the storm.
The images were taken with an instrument called the Mars Hand Lens Imager. This instrument — probably the most expensive selfie stick humanity ever produced — is a robotic arm that sports a camera. It can’t capture all of Curiosity in one shot, however, so it sent back several — around 200 images. Over the weekend Kevin M. Gill, a NASA software engineer who likes to process spacecraft photos in his spare time, collaged all the images together into a single panorama.
The final image shows Curiosity and its Martian surroundings, including a rock the rover drilled and a smattering of orange dust.
Curiosity, the rock it drilled (lower left), and the resulting dust (the lower middle bit of the image). Image modified after NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill, via Kevin M. Gill / Flickr.
Beyond helping us keep tabs on Curiosity’s adventures, the image also showcases its recovery. Back in 2016, its drill instrument was taken offline due to mechanical problems. As the picture shows, however, NASA’s efforts to work around the issue have paid off. The agency first tested the drill in May 2018, when Curiosity bore a two-inch-deep hole in the rock. In a subsequent test, it dropped the drilled dust on the ground, so the agency could get an idea of how much dirt the drill could collect for sampling.
Not everything is rosy for Curiosity, though. The image also shows the damage its aluminum wheels incurred after five years’ time of roving around Mars. It could also probably stand to benefit from a thorough scrubbing.
Curiosity still has some fight left in it, however. Last week, it made headlines around the world by discovering organic molecules, billion-years old, on the Red Planet. In 2013, a rock sample collected by the vehicle revealed that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. In 2014, the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it. At that time, the robotic laboratory also detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by its drill.
UFO Filmed During The World Cup Match Of Germany Vs Mexico
UFO Filmed During The World Cup Match Of Germany Vs Mexico
This sphere shape object was spotted hovering over the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow During the Mexico vs Germany first round match of the world cup on June 17, 2018.
A conductor records an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama
A conductor records an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama
by Aditya
It seems that lately a lot of dimensional portals are opening in many parts of our planet. Last month, we published as in the Scottish council of Midlothian, near Edinburgh, a mysterious blue circular light appeared in the night sky. And in case it was not strange enough, a UFO passed close to what appeared to be an interdimensional portal before it closed.
This and other similar phenomena throughout the years demonstrate what throughout our history have been considered myths and legends. Many ancient cultures speak of portals to other worlds and doors to star systems where their "creators" live . But there are more, declassified files of the FBI said that our Earth has been visited by beings from other planets and dimensions. In fact, NASA announced that there are "energy portals" hidden within the Earth's magnetic field, which makes some wonder if the legends about stellar portals and wrmholesThey can have a basis of truth. But returning to the present, they have now recorded what appears to be the opening of an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama, United States.
An interdimensional portal in Alabama
The YouTube channel "MrMBB333" has published an amazing video that shows a seemingly interdimensional portal in the skies of the city of Gulf Shores , Baldwin County in the US state of Alabama. The strange phenomenon was recorded on June 8, 2018 by a driver named Nicholas during a thunderstorm.
In addition, in the video you can see what appears to be a UFO very close to a bright form in the sky that would be the interdimensional portal. And the truth is that the unidentified flying object is no less impressive than what happens at that moment. It is a dark form that plans and does not move. It is not a stain on the windshield, it is still in the same place after Nicholas leaves his vehicle to have a better view. When you move the camera to record a different area of the sky and refocus toward the "portal" , the UFO has disappeared.
After analyzing the video, MrMBB333 suggests that it could be a previous extraterrestrial UFO from other worlds accessing our planet through a dimensional portal. This would be because portals like the one in Alabama act as channels between two different worlds, and extraterrestrial civilizations use it to travel through different planets at great speed.
"June 8, 2018: A video of a very unusual thunderstorm in Gulf Shores, Alabama, by Nicholas, who witnessed this spectacular event," reads the video description. "In the video, you can clearly see a ship observing what looks like a portal."
The video has been widely disseminated through social networks and media, with hundreds of Internet users speculating on the origin of such a mysterious phenomenon. Both believers in the paranormal and conspiracy theorists agree that the electrical storm was activated due to the opening of the portal . But other conspirators offered a really interesting theory, that these thunderstorms are the result of the arrival of Nibiru , the wandering planet that would already be in our solar system. The also known as Planet X would be in the direction of the Earth, and in the near future will pass extremely close or impact against our planet causing massive destruction.
However, skeptics have another opinion about the strange phenomenon and question the veracity of the video. Apparently, the images were taken while it was getting dark, and you can see that since the sky is completely dark and the street lights are on, it was night. In the video of MrMBB333 it is also mentioned that Nicholas was driving west. For those who travel constantly, they know that this is the cardinal direction in which the sun sets.
The western sky is the last direction in disappearing the blue color of the sky. Then, against the dark clouds, a dark blue sky would look brighter than normal. In addition, Nicholas is using the camera of a mobile phone. When a Smartphone is recording at night in automatic mode, its ISO aperture is adjusted to let in more light. Because the camera is calibrated for the average light level of the image, the residual light between the sun's storm clouds would appear brighter than normal.
Well, this is the explanation offered by the skeptics to say that it is a montage. But apart from all the theories, it is definitely a video worth seeing and analyzing.
What do you think about the mysterious phenomenon in Alabama? Is it an interdimensional portal? Or do you have a logical and rational explanation?
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Is NASA conducting a secret black project? Strange UFO spotted above Texas sparks debate
Is NASA conducting a secret black project? Strange UFO spotted above Texas sparks debate
A Texas resident has captured the eerie sighting of a UFO in the skies of Houston, and many people believe that it is operated by NASA for a black operation.
A strange UFO recently spotted by a Texas resident named Shaun is now taking the internet by a storm. The clip, which was apparently shot above Houston, on June 16, 2018, shows a UFO flying thousands of feet above the ground, even higher than the jet planes flying passing above.
After shooting the video of the incident, Shaun soon uploaded it on his YouTube channel named 'Paranormal Shaun'.
"I caught this today over Houston Texas using my full spectrum Sony Handycam. I zoomed in and out often to give you guys some perspective. It had some odd movement and I had to zoom in pretty far so keeping the camera still was a task," wrote Shaun in the video description.
Shaun also argued that there is an airport very near to this area, and speculated that something strange might be going on there.
"We actually have an airport really close which is not an international airport – it is out in the woods and I think there is some strange stuff going on up there," said Shaun.
The airport located in the vicinity is actually Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, a shared military facility of the US Air Force and the NASA.
The clip shot by Shaun was later shared by conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'Third Phase of Moon' where it has already racked up more than 31,000 views.
As the video went viral, conspiracy theorists started speculating that the strange object spotted in the skies might be developed either by the NASA or the US Air Force to conduct black operations in the skies. In the meantime, alien buffs believe that the bright UFO which appeared in the skies might be actually an alien mothership came from deep space.
However, skeptics assured that there is nothing fishy about the UFO which appeared in the Texas skies, and they make it clear that the bizarre object is actually a drone.
Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that has rankled philosophers and scientists for ages, but for the last half-century answering this question has been the exclusive purview of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a scientific enterprise dedicated to looking for traces of alien intelligence in the universe. Since the beginning of modern SETI in 1960, things have seemed hopeful. There are something like a billion trillion stars in the universe, and we now know that most of these stars probably host planets. The odds that at least one of these planets was home to an alien civilization seemed good—it was just a matter of finding them.
Yet nearly 60 years after Project Ozma used a radio telescope to search the universe for alien messages for the first time, we have yet to find any evidence that we’re not alone. Some SETI researchers like Seth Shostak are optimistic that first contact will happen any day now, but according to new research from Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, it might never happen because there’s a good chance we’re the only intelligent creatures in the observable universe.
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Cosmic Solipsism?
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi was busy developing a hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but he still found time to contemplate the universe when he wasn’t working on one of the most destructive weapons ever built. Considering how big the universe is, Fermi assumed that it must be swarming with intelligent life. How odd, then, that not a single extraterrestrial civilization had ever made contact with Earth or left even the faintest trace of its existence.
The improbable silence in the universe has since become known as the Fermi Paradox. Yet Fermi never pursued the notion beyond an initial thought experiment, and to paraphrase Lord Kelvin, it ain’t science until it has some numbers. Fortunately, only a decade later the planetary scientist Frank Drake turned the Fermi Paradox from parable to physics with the now famous Drake equation, which is used by SETI researchers to estimate the probability of life in the Milky Way.
To get an estimate of the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe, the Drake equation combines the rate of star formation per year, the fraction of stars with planets, the number of these planets that are habitable, the fraction of habitable planets with life, the fraction with life that develop intelligence, the fraction of intelligent civilizations that are detectable and the longevity of detectable civilizations.
When Drake presented this equation to his colleagues at the 1961 Green Bank conference following the end of Project Ozma, they ended up with estimating that the Milky Way was populated with somewhere between 1,000 and 100,000,000 intelligent civilizations. (Drake himself estimated there to be around 10,000 intelligent, communicating civilizations in our galaxy.) This is a big spread, but that’s because most of the values in the equation are best guesses. The only values that scientists have real data on is the rate of star formation and the number of exoplanets.
Outside of that, the results of the Drake equation mostly depend on whether you’re optimistic about life forming and surviving its own intelligence. (At this time many of the most talented physicists in the world were working on nuclear weapons, after all.) As the astronomer Steven J. Dick has pointed out, “perhaps never in the history of science has an equation been devised yielding values differing by eight orders of magnitude. Each scientist seems to bring his own prejudices and assumptions to the problem.” Drake himself admitted the shortcomings of the equation, which was only devised as a way to articulate research directions in SETI rather than provide a concrete number on the prevalence of extraterrestrial life in the universe.
Scientific SETI
In a paper published to arXiv earlier this month, researchers from Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute argue that if anything, the fact that estimates from the Drake equation only vary by eight orders of magnitude is surprising. Due to the biases of scientists using the equation, this range should be much larger. In order to understand the Fermi Paradox, the researchers argue that the values in the Drake equation should not be concrete values, but ranges or probability distributions. By looking using distributions of values, they find that the Fermi Paradox isn’t much of a paradox at all because the odds are actually pretty good that we’re all alone in the galaxy, and perhaps even the entire observable universe.
The problem, according to the researchers, is that plugging numbers into the Drake equation as a ‘best guess’ implies certainty and results in misleading estimates. Probability distributions, on the other hand, allows for uncertainty to be captured in the equation.
To estimate the likelihood that we’re alone in the galaxy and/or the observable universe, the researchers used two different methods. One of them surveyed the current state of scientific knowledge about different variables in the Drake equation (for example, the probability of life emerging from a roiling prehistoric soup). The other method sampled published scientific papers that used the Drake equation to quantify the uncertainty about each variable according to current scientific knowledge.
The result of these methods were comparable and both suggested that there is a substantial probability that we’re alone. According to the researchers, there is between a 38 and 85 percent chance we’re alone in the visible universe and between a 53 and 99.6 percent chance we’re alone in our galaxy.
These are sobering results, but the researchers caution against any kneejerk cosmic pessimism. “This conclusion does not mean that we are alone, just that this is very scientifically plausible and should not surprise us,” the researchers wrote. “It is a statement about our state of knowledge, rather than a new measurement.”
In other words, there’s no reason to despair—yet. The more we learn about the universe and our own planet, the more we will decrease the uncertainty latent in the Drake equation. For example, our inability to detect extraterrestrial civilizations over the decade can increase our certainty that we’re alone, but then again, the universe may be awash in extraterrestrial signals and we simply haven’t learned how to recognize them yet. For now, however, the researchers suggest that if there are aliens, they are “probably extremely far away and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.”
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is a monumental achievement of human ingenuity, creativity and perseverance — to say the least.
While one might reasonably argue that there were several people on the planet in the early 20th century who were as brilliant as Einstein, nobody could think the same way he did. His seven-year journey to develop a new theory of gravity was filled with leap after startling intuitive leap — with pregnant pauses in between as he worked out the consequences of those new thoughts. And the result of all that labor was our modern understanding of how gravity works, unchanged in the century since Einstein. [Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation]
Let's a take a peek into the mind of a true gravitational master.
The Special Theory of Relativity - Einstein's Thought Experiment on the Addition of Velocities
Free, free falling
Einstein's first insight into the nature of gravity was to put a new twist on an old idea. In Isaac Newton's original mathematical description of gravity ("OG"?), there's an odd coincidence when it comes to the concept of "mass." In one famous equation, F = ma, mass is your inertia — how much oomph it takes to shove you along. In Newton's other equation on gravity, mass is more like gravitational charge — the level of attraction you might feel toward the Earth, for example.
Objects with twice the mass feel twice the attraction toward the Earth, and should therefore fall twice as quickly. But years back, Galileo Galilei had conclusively shown that they don't: Neglecting air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass.
Thus for Newton's theory to work, inertial mass had to be the same as gravitational mass, but only by sheer coincidence: there was no reason for this equality to hold. For an object with twice the mass, the Earth may pull on it twice as strongly, but this is perfectly canceled out by the fact that it's now twice as hard to get the object moving. Inertial and gravitational masses move in perfect lockstep.
This odd correspondence had long been a puzzle in gravitational circles, but in 1907, Einstein took it one step further. The physicist imagined what would happen if you were to fall from a great height. Again neglecting air resistance, your inertial and gravitational masses would cancel, making you feel perfectly weightless, as if there were no gravity at all. But zero-gravity environments are precisely the playground of Special Relativity, the theory he had cooked up just a couple years prior that wove our conceptions of space and time into the unified fabric of spacetime.
To Einstein, this was a major clue. Lurking in the shadows of gravity was his precious special relativity and the essential concept of space-time, and what made that realization possible was the elevation of the equivalence between inertial and gravitational masses into a fundamental principle, rather than the awkward afterthought it had been.
Up, up, and away
Then, Einstein took it another step further. Suppose that in the middle of the night, we relocated your bedroom to the interior of a rocket, launched the craft into space (you're a heavy sleeper) and sent it flying away with the engines purring, providing a constant 1 g acceleration, the same acceleration you would feel on the Earth.
Let's further assume that the rocket is perfectly quiet, so there's no immediate giveaway that you're on that spaceship. Unless you looked outside and noticed that only a worryingly thin piece of glass separated you from the vacuum of space, you would have no idea that you were part of some grotesque science experiment.
Drop an apple — it falls to the floor. Drop a jug of milk — it falls to the floor at the exact same rate. From outside the spaceship, it's easy to see why: The apple and milk aren't really moving, but the rocket is accelerating forward, "meeting" the dropped items. If we removed the floor altogether, the apple and milk would simply stay put as the rocket zoomed away.
But inside the rocket ,you would just think it's normal gravity: Objects are falling, as they are wont to do, and all at the same rate.
The implication is clear (or at least, it was clear to Einstein): Gravity causes acceleration, and acceleration causes gravity. They are absolutely identical.
Round and round we go
Einstein had to make one more big leap to get us to modern gravity. It's such a big leap that he spent five years just tinkering around with the implications of gravity = acceleration before he could make the next jump. And to do it, you could almost say, he had to think in circles.
Imagine a specially designed merry-go-round, with all the horses lined up nose to tail, forming a perfect circle around the perimeter. Now, accelerate the ride such that it's rotating at close to the speed of light. What happens?
Let's assume, first of all, that the ride can actually stay together. As the horses pass in front of your view, they appear shorter. Why? At those speeds, Einstein's special relativity teaches us that moving objects contract along their direction of motion.
That means the horses aren't perfectly nose-to-tail anymore; you can squeeze more seats into a rotating ride than you could in a stationary one. But the total width of the ride hasn't changed; the entire ride isn't powering across your field of view, so you don’t observe any relativistic length-contraction funny business to the entire structure, just to the horses as they pass by. This combination means that our old familiar relationship between diameter and circumference (C = pi * d) no longer applies to the rotating ride.
The geometry that describes this relationship simply isn't the normal Euclid-derived stuff that we were taught in high school. It's non-Euclidean, or the geometry of curved spaces.
Einstein's Time Travel Thought Experiment
TIME is an ILLUSION said EINSTEIN - (the space-time continuum)
Supreme general
So here are the puzzle pieces that Einstein had in 1912: a) Space-time must be involved somehow, b) acceleration and gravity are intimately linked, and c) some accelerations need to be described by curved geometries.
While it's easy enough for us, a hundred years later, to simply say, "Gravity is the curvature of space-time," it took Einstein another two years of feverish work to make all the mathematical pieces fit and give us what we know as general relativity.
Learn more by listening to the episode "Seriously, What Is Gravity? (Part 1)"on the "Ask A Spaceman" podcast, available on iTunes and on the web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to Andrew P., Joyce S., @Luft08, Ben W., Ter B., Colin E., Christopher F., Maria A., Brett K., bryguytheflyguy, @MarkRiepe, Kenneth L., Allison K., Phil B. and @shrenic_shah for the questions that led to this piece!
A hand drawn short about Albert Einstein's most famous thought experiment, one that he stated was, "The happiest moment in my life," and soon lead to his General Theory of Relativity.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe opwarming van de aarde gaat sneller en verder dan tot nu toe gedacht. Dat blijkt uit een uitgelekt rapport van de Verenigde Naties (VN). De huidige afspraken zijn niet voldoende om ernstige klimaatverandering tegen te gaan. De internationale organisatie komt daarom met de krachtigste waarschuwing tot nu toe.
“Als de uitstoot in het huidige tempo doorgaat, zal de door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming rond 2040 boven de 1,5 graden Celcius komen”, stellen de onderzoekers van het Intergouvernementeel Panel over Klimaatverandering (IPCC). Dat zou verstrekkende gevolgen hebben, ook voor de economische groei.
In het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs, dat in 2015 werd opgesteld, stond een maximum van 1,5 graden opwarming als streven aangemerkt, met een uitloop tot 2 graden. Om dit doel te halen, werd onder meer vastgelegd dat het gebruik van fossiele brandstoffen volledig in de ban moest worden gedaan.
Waterstijging
Het verschil tussen 1,5 en 2 graden opwarming zou volgens het rapport een waterstijging van 10 centimeter betekenen. Bij het hogere waterniveau zouden tien miljoen meer mensen geraakt worden door overstromingen, stormen en zout water-schade aan gewassen.
174 landen ondertekenden het akkoord, wat als een groot succes werd gezien. Vorig jaar trokken de Verenigde Staten zich echter terug, omdat economische belangen volgens president Donald Trump voor het klimaat moesten gezet worden. Hij zei daarbij Amerikaanse fossiele brandstoffen een nieuwe impuls te willen geven.
Het rapport gebruikt de nieuwste wetenschappelijke inzichten. Het concludeert dat de doelen niet worden gehaald tenzij er “snelle en verstrekkende” veranderingen worden doorgevoerd in de wereldeconomie.
Het is volgens het rapport dus nog niet te laat om de doelen te halen. Tussen 2020 en 2050 zou er dan wel 60 procent meer wind-, water- en zonne-energie bij moeten komen. Hernieuwbare energie zou in dit scenario in 2050 tot 67 procent van het totaal toenemen.
Bomen bijplanten
Ook zou energie van kolen met tweederde teruggebracht moeten worden, en moet uitstoot die al in de lucht zit opgenomen worden. Hiervoor moeten overheden massaal bomen bij gaan planten, als het aan de onderzoekers ligt.
Op dit moment is de temperatuur al 1 graad gestegen ten opzichte van het ijkpunt. Elk decennium komen er zo’n 0,2 graden bij.
Het document zou pas dit najaar gepubliceerd worden, maar lekte vandaag uit naar persbureau Reuters.
YouTube users believe the unidentified object could be evidence of Donald Trump's 'Space Force'
A SCOTTISH UFO researcher’s video of a mysterious triangle on the surface of the moon has gone viral on the internet.
Uploaded to his Streetcap1 channel on YouTube, George Graham’s video had attracted well over 12,000 views by last night, just a few hours after it was first shown.
It had also elicited a bizarre theory that the object could be the TR-3B anti-gravity craft which conspiracy theorists say is the ‘Space Force’ threatened by president Donald Trump.
YouTube user Dane Masie commented: “The Space Force is alive and well.”
Just 24 hours previously, Graham, who has made claims of alien inhabitation of the moon in the past, uploaded pictures of what he called “lunar anomalies” which some viewers interpreted as alien craft.
Graham himself makes no such claims in the latest video which clearly shows a triangular object without any other identifying features.
The footage comes from a lunar probe and was shot from 65 miles above the moon.
Intriguingly, all three sides are sharp and straight and have no indentations, which they would have were it a rock subject to normal lunar erosion.
Graham says in the video: “I don’t know what the odds are of spotting a triangle on the lunar surface but this is definitely triangular in shape.
“What it is, I don’t know. It’s from the same photograph I used last night to upload the lunar anomalies and the alien sign, or whatever I called it.
“It is a bit strange, isn’t it? It could be a craft. I believe it has landed next to a habitat.”.
Celeste Nova, another YouTube viewer, commented: “It does look like a craft of some kind and appears to be lit up at its cockpit with more lights on top, whatever it is, it certainly does not look natural! What a find.”
Another viewer commented: “Brilliant find once again and that sure is something extraordinary, with such defined lines and with the picture being taken from 60 or more miles up, the object has to be really quite large.”
Driehoekig object vastgelegd op maan. UFO-onderzoeker doet stof opwaaien met maanbeelden
Driehoekig object vastgelegd op maan. UFO-onderzoeker doet stof opwaaien met maanbeelden
Een filmpje van een Schotse UFO-onderzoeker dat een mysterieuze driehoek op het oppervlak van de maan toont, is viraal gegaan op internet. Dat schrijft de Schotse krant The National.
De beelden, die op YouTube zijn gezet door George Graham, zijn inmiddels zo’n 30.000 keer bekeken.
Volgens sommigen is in het filmpje de zogeheten TR-3B te zien, een vaartuig dat gebruikmaakt van antizwaartekracht en onderdeel uitmaakt van de ‘ruimtemacht’ waar president Trump voor waarschuwde.
Vreemde structuren
Gebruiker Dane Massie reageerde: “De ruimtemacht is levend en wel.”
Eerder plaatste Graham beelden van andere vreemde structuren op de maan op YouTube, waar sommigen buitenaardse schepen in zagen.
In zijn nieuwste video is een driehoekig object te zien. De beelden zijn op zo’n 100 kilometer hoogte gemaakt door een maansonde.
Geen inkepingen
Alle zijden van het object zijn recht en hebben geen inkepingen, iets wat je zou verwachten bij rotsen.
“Ik weet niet hoe groot de kans is om een driehoek op het oppervlak van de maan te spotten, maar dit is zeker weten een driehoekige vorm,” zei Graham. “Ik weet niet wat het is.”
Lichten
“Het ziet er nogal vreemd uit,” vervolgde hij. “Het zou een schip kunnen zijn. Mogelijk is het naast een habitat geland.”
“Het lijkt op een schip en rond de cockpit en bovenop zijn lichten te zien,” reageerde Celeste Nova. “Wat het ook moge zijn, het ziet er niet natuurlijk uit! Wat een vondst.”
Gisteravond ontvingen wij veel foto's van een bijzondere wolkenlucht die boven Friesland werd waargenomen. Sommige mensen parkeerden hun auto om het weersverschijnsel vast te leggen. Het leverde spectaculaire plaatjes op.
UFO boven Friesland
Foto Carolien de Boer-Wolf Sneek
Nee, een UFO was het natuurlijk niet maar het was wel een verschijnsel dat met deze uitmuntende kwaliteit niet vaak wordt waargenomen. Wat we zien is onschuldig maar zeer mooi. Dus geen UFO, tornado, of ander noodweer, maar een onschuldige wolk die als het ware zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd zijn kop.
Wat zien we?
Collega Wilfred Janssen en ik kwamen eigenlijk allebei tot dezelfde conclusie. We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen. Dat lukt echter niet omdat er een inversie aanwezig is. Dit is een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als de omgevingslucht warmer wordt lukt dit niet meer.
Anneke Janson, Sandfjirden (Friesland)
Op de foto's is te zien dat er al over heel het gebied een dunne laag bewolking aanwezig was die 'onder' de inversie hangt. Deze grijze laag bewolking noemen we stratocumulus.
"Eigenlijk zien we een wolk die zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd, zijn kop niet kwijt kan."
Raymond Klaassen
Naast deze lage bewolking was er plaatselijk ook een sterke opwaartse stroming aanwezig. Dat is feitelijk het centrum van de ronde wolk, de pannenkoek. Als er geen inversie was geweest was dit een grote stapelwolk geworden of misschien wel een bui. De opwaartse luchtstroom botst ook tegen de inversie (de warme luchtlaag) en wordt naar buiten afgebogen.
De luchtstromen in de top van de wolk
Subsidentie leidt tot opklaringen
De stijgende lucht botst dus deze tegen de inversie aan. De lucht stroomt horizontaal weg vanuit het centrum van de opwaartse beweging en begint verderop uiteindelijk weer te dalen. Tijdens dit dalende proces (subsidentie) warmt de lucht iets op en lossen de wolken op. Dit is precies wat er gebeurt aan de rand van de wolk. Op de foto's zien we het streepje blauwe lucht rondom de wolk en hierdoor ontstaat het spectaculaire aangezicht. Het lijkt wel een beetje op een platgeslagen buienwolk. In jargon een Cumulonimbus waarvan het aambeeld niet op 10 tot 15 km aanwezig, maar op stratocumulusniveau, 3 tot 5 km hoogte.
Iedereen hartelijk dank voor al de foto's die we hebben mogen ontvangen van dit weersverschijnsel. Meer foto's zijn te zien op onze foto-pagina's.
Friesland in de ban van spectaculaire UFO-wolk. Ooggetuigen stuurden massaal foto’s in
Friesland in de ban van spectaculaire UFO-wolk. Ooggetuigen stuurden massaal foto’s in
Een grote UFO-wolk hield zondagavond de gemoederen bezig in Friesland. Sommige mensen parkeerden hun auto om het verschijnsel vast te leggen, schrijft Weerplaza.
De site ontving veel foto’s uit Friesland van het spectaculaire fenomeen. Onder meer vanuit Sneek, Bolsward en Sandfirden werden beelden doorgestuurd.
Volgens Weerplaza wordt het fenomeen met deze uitmuntende kwaliteit niet vaak waargenomen. De wolk ziet er misschien onheilspellend uit, maar is onschuldig.
Zeer mooi
“Wat we zien is onschuldig, maar zeer mooi,” klinkt het. “Dus geen UFO, tornado, of ander noodweer, maar een onschuldige wolk, die als het ware zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd zijn kop.”
Wat was het dan wel? “We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen,” stelt de site. “Dat lukt niet omdat er een inversie aanwezig is.”
Een soort UFO
“Dit is een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als de omgevingslucht warmer wordt lukt dit niet meer.”
De lucht stroomt horizontaal en licht dalend weg. Doordat de lucht tijdens het dalen enigszins opwarmt, lost de wolk aan de randen op en zo vormt zich in de lucht een pannenkoek of een soort UFO.
WAT GEBEURT ER IN AMERIKA MET AFGEPAKTE KINDEREN VAN IMMIGRANTE? ( VIDEO )
WAT GEBEURT ER IN AMERIKA MET AFGEPAKTE KINDEREN VAN IMMIGRANTE? ( VIDEO )
Sinds de Amerikaanse senator Jeff Merkley tevergeefs probeerde om een opvanglocatie voor afgepakte kinderen van immigranten binnen te komen, staat het internet bol van de verhalen.
Een deel van die verhalen concentreert zich op het aanvallen van het regeringsbeleid en een kleiner deel vraagt zich af wat er nu eigenlijk met die kinderen gebeurt en of Donald niet, zoals Hillary, misschien de kinderhandel is ingegaan.
Inmiddels zullen veel mensen de bekende video hebben bekeken van de Amerikaanse senator Jeff Merkley die op pad gaat om een kijkje te nemen in een opvangcentrum voor kinderen die zijn afgepakt van illegale immigranten.
Deze locatie bevindt zich in een voormalige Walmart vestiging in Brownsville in de staat Texas. Ondanks dat hij een senator is en lid van het Congres, komt hij het gebouw niet binnen, wat dan uiteraard leidt tot de meest wilde speculaties.
Zij die deze video nog niet hebben gezien, bij deze.
Bij alle verhalen die de ronde doen, komt iedere keer de naam Walmart naar boven drijven. Het betreft hier inderdaad een gebouw dat vroeger eigendom was van Walmart. Na de sluiting van dit betreffende filiaal heeft Walmart in 2016 dit gebouw verkocht aan een projectontwikkelaar.
De activiteiten die nu in het gebouw plaatsvinden hebben niets met Walmart te maken, maar alles met The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), hetgeen weer een onderdeel is van het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Volksgezondheid en Sociale Zaken. The ORR heeft het dagelijks runnen en beheren van de zogenaamde detention centres uitbesteed aan een vage non profit organisatie met de naam Southwest Key.
De vraag die velen zich stellen is of senator Merkey nu werkelijk zo begaan is met het lot van de kinderen, of dat hij als democraat politieke punten wil scoren om Donald Trump onderuit te halen en dat hij daarom deze gelegenheid met beide handen aangrijpt.
Want, het zou dankzij Donald Trump zijn dat er steeds meer kinderen van hun ouders worden gescheiden en worden opgesloten in een soort gevangenissen, waarbij ze zelfs in kooien zouden worden vastgehouden.
En het feit dat Merkley niet naar binnen mocht in Brownsville was dan overtuigend bewijs. Ongeveer een week nadat de video met senator Merkley was gemaakt, werd er een kleine groep verslaggevers toegelaten om een indruk te krijgen hoe het er binnen uitziet.
Wat we natuurlijk niet weten is of er speciaal voor de gelegenheid een show wordt opgevoerd en dat kinderen daarna in kooien worden gestopt.
De reden dat kinderen die samen met hun ouders illegaal de grens oversteken uit elkaar worden gehaald heeft niet zozeer te maken met een nieuwe door Trump ingevoerde wet, maar alles met het feit dat deze wel heeft besloten om een zero tolerance beleid te voeren met betrekking tot illegale immigranten. Dat betekent dat volwassen immigranten altijd door Justitie aldaar vervolgd zullen worden en aangezien de ouders naar een gevangenis voor volwassenen gaan, worden ze standaard gescheiden van hun kinderen.
Een arts die op bezoek is geweest in een ander centrum waarschuwt dat alleen al hierdoor kinderen mogelijk zware trauma’s kunnen oplopen. De manier waarop volwassenen en kinderen van elkaar worden gescheiden doet denken aan de concentratiekampen in Duitsland. Soms wordt er tegen de ouders gezegd dat de kinderen even worden meegenomen om ze een bad te geven, waarna ze uiteraard niet meer terugkeren.
En dan zit er natuurlijk ook altijd een ander aspect aan de zaak en die is: Wat gebeurt er uiteindelijk met al duizenden kinderen?
Feit is dat de Amerikaanse overheid geen actief beleid voert om de kinderen weer te herenigen met hun ouders. Dat is op zich natuurlijk al heel vreemd, want dat is toch wel het minste wat je zou verwachten.
In an ACLU lawsuit over the separation of families in immigration detention, a DOJ official told the judge that “once a parent is in ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] custody and the child is taken into the Health and Human Services system, the government does not try to reunite them, and instead attempts to place the child with another relative in the United States — if the child has one.”
Dat is dus het meest gunstige geval. Wat gebeurt er dan met kinderen die geen familieleden in Amerika hebben?
De manier waarop het werkt, is klaarblijkelijk dat ook minderjarige kinderen niet zomaar het land kunnen worden uitgezet. Hiervoor moeten allerlei juridische procedures en rechtszaken worden doorlopen. Tijdens dat proces probeert de ORR formeel de kinderen zolang onder te brengen bij een zogenaamde sponsor, meestal is dit een familielid.
Echter tijdens dat proces zijn inmiddels zo'n 1.500 kinderen “verdwenen”. Dat wil niet zeggen dat al die kinderen in handen zijn gevallen van mensenhandelaars, maar feit is dat er in ieder geval bij een aantal door de ORR vrijgegeven kinderen is aangetoond dat deze wel degelijk in handen van dit soort misdadigers zijn terechtgekomen.
Kinderhandel en misbruik gebeurt op grote schaal en het zou merkwaardig zijn als de elite geen gebruik zou maken van een dergelijke buitenkans. Een pakhuis vol met kinderen, waar ze heerlijk kunnen winkelen.
Natuurlijk gebeurt dat en de hofleveranciers van de satanische elite zullen ongetwijfeld immigratiekinderen in handen krijgen. Misschien zal het nu even wat minder zijn, omdat de pakhuizen volop in de schijnwerpers staan, maar zodra er de nodige geruststellende mediaberichten zijn verschenen, zal het weer gewoon doorgaan.
Dit soort praktijken wordt nu vaak gelinkt aan een politicus, zoals Hillary Clinton of nu Donald Trump, maar het is uiteindelijk iets dat uitstijgt boven politiek en partijen. In feite stijgt het in oorsprong zelfs uit boven onze aarde. Bij alle satanische misbruikpraktijken en offeringen is er een verband met een andere wereld.
In de onderstaande video wordt door David Icke in detail uitgelegd hoe dat werkt. Hoe er een wereld is buiten die van onze normale beleving die ons volledig in haar grip heeft en ook volledig controleert.
Hoe deze wereld voor veel mensen helemaal niet bestaat omdat ze deze niet kunnen waarnemen (als je geen neus hebt dan kun je niets ruiken maar dat wil niet zeggen dat er geen geur bestaat), maar dat die er wel degelijk is en zelfs de baas speelt over ons. Via de aanbidders van Baäl, de koninklijke bloedlijnen en de supergeheime genootschappen spelen ze hun duistere spel op “onze wereld”.
En ja, daar zullen heel wat immigratiekindertjes het slachtoffer van worden.
In just a few days from now, the 2018 Dulce Base UFO Conference will be held at Dulce, New Mexico. There will, of course, be a great deal of debate and conversation on the town’s legend: namely, that deep below Dulce’s Archuleta Mesa there exists a huge, fortified “alien base” where all sorts of horrific experimentation is undertaken on untold numbers of people. By who? By hostile aliens, that’s who. The stories range from the fairly down to earth to the downright paranoid. It should be noted, though, that in his 2005 book, Project Beta, Greg Bishop made a very persuasive case that much of the story was created/fabricated by (a) counterintelligence experts in the U.S. military and (b) those skilled in the field of creating and disseminating disinformation.
Back in the 1970s, Paul Bennewitz – who died in 2003, in Albuquerque, New Mexico – had his own company that stood adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Its name was Thunder Scientific. On occasion, Bennewitz had seen – late at night and in the early hours of the morning – strange, unidentified objects flying over Kirtland Air Force Base and the nearby, huge Manzano Mountains. They could have been early drone-like craft. But, for Bennewitz they were alien craft.
Bennewitz’s head spun: he came to believe that aliens were in league with the U.S. Air Force, and that much of the secret program was run out of Kirtland. While one school of thought suggests that Bennewitz was indeed tracking the movements of UFOs in the skies over Kirtland, another suggests that Bennewitz had actually stumbled on tests of new and radical aircraft, and additional advanced technologies of a terrestrial kind. It’s this latter angle/theory that Greg Bishop addresses chiefly in his book.
In ingenious fashion – but from the perspective of Bennewitz, in terrible fashion – a plot was initiated to, in essence, give Bennewitz exactly what he wanted to hear. So, with that in mind, well-placed government agents, intelligence operatives, and experts in the fields of counterintelligence and disinformation, all fed Bennewitz fictitious tales of dangerous ETs, of thousands of people abducted and mind-controlled in slave-like fashion by the aliens, of terrible experiments undertaken on people held below the Dulce base, and of a looming confrontation between the human race and the deadly creatures from another galaxy.
With his mind and research diverted to Dulce – and, most importantly from the perspective of the government, away from the classified programs at Kirtland Air Force Base – Bennewitz became more and more paranoid and finally had a nervous collapse. He kept a low profile after that, his research largely over. But, the story isn’t quite over.
More than a decade before Bennewitz came to believe the awful rumors of Dulce were true, the U.S. Government alreadyhad a stake in the area and its surroundings. A contingent from the Atomic Energy Commission headed into town and set up what was called Project Gasbuggy. It was a sub-project of a much bigger project called Plowshare. The plan was to detonate – way below ground – a small nuclear device, as a means to try and extract natural gas. The operation went ahead on December 10, 1967 – and it worked well. The bomb was detonated at a depth of more than 4,000 feet.
Years later, certain figures in the UFO field suggested that the natural gas scenario was a cover for something else. You may already see where this is all going. There is an enduring belief within certain factions of Ufology that the nuke was actually used, by a panicked government, to try and wipe out the alien base and the extraterrestrials said to live deep within it. Even to this day it is illegal to dig in certain areas around Dulce, on the orders of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Moving on, from 1975 to 1979, the town of Dulce was hit by numerous cattle mutilations: black helicopters soared across the skies of town by night – and sometimes, and incredibly, in complete silence. Strange lights were seen flitting around Dulce’s huge Archuleta Mesa. Cows were found with organs removed and blood drained from their corpses. The incisions looked as if they were the work of lasers.
For those who might find all of this to be just too incredible, it’s worth noting that the FBI was heavily involved in the investigation of the mutilations at Dulce and has now placed its files on the mystery on their website, The Vault. It’s a file that reads like science-fiction (but it isn’t…)and that runs to more than 100 pages. Many of the incidents were investigated by the late Police Officer Gabe Valdez of Espanola. The FBI summarized Valdez’ theories as follows:
QUOTE: “Information furnished to this office by Officer Valdez indicates that the animals are being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti-coagulant. It appears that in some instances the cattle’s legs have been broken and helicopters without any identifying numbers have reportedly been seen in the vicinity of these mutilations.
“Officer Valdez theorizes that clamps are being placed on the cow’s legs and they are being lifted by helicopter to some remote area where the mutilations are taking place and then the animal is returned to its original pasture. The mutilations primarily consist of removal of the tongue, the lymph gland, lower lip and the sexual organs of the animal.
“Much mystery has surrounded these mutilations, but according to witnesses they give the appearance of being very professionally done with a surgical instrument, and according to Valdez, as the years progress, each surgical procedure appears to be more professional. Officer Valdez has advised that in no instance, to his knowledge, are these carcasses ever attacked by predator or scavenger animals, although there are tracks which would indicate that coyotes have been circling the carcass from a distance. Special Agent Putman then informed the Director of the outcome of Valdez’s run-ins with officials.
“He also advised that he has requested Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to conduct investigation for him but until just recently has always been advised that the mutilations were done by predatory animals. Officer Valdez stated that just recently he has been told by two assistants at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory that they were able to determine the type of tranquilizer and blood anti-coagulant that have been utilized.” END OF QUOTE
Putman then demonstrated to headquarters the astonishing scale of the mutilation puzzle, according to Valdez: “Officer Valdez stated that Colorado probably has the most mutilations occurring within their State and that over the past four years approximately 30 have occurred in New Mexico. He stated that of these 330, 15 have occurred on Indian Reservations but he did know that many mutilations have gone unreported which have occurred on the Indian reservations because the Indians, particularly in the Pueblos, are extremely superstitious and will not even allow officers in to investigate in some instances. Officer Valdez stated since the outset of these mutilations there have been an estimated 8,000 animals mutilated which would place the loss at approximately $1,000,000.”
So, where do things stand with the “Dulce Base?” Well, I’ll tell you. Today, there are a lot of rumors, not one of which has ever provided hard, undeniable proof that such an underground installation really exists. But, that the area has been a hotbed of very weird activity of the “mute” kind (and particularly in the 1970s), and that underground detonations occurred in the area, certainly makes it understandable why Dulce and its surroundings are interesting to ufologists. Unfortunately, for those who are absolutely sure that such a facility does exist below Dulce, “interesting” is about as good as it gets, right now. Unless you know better…
Science fiction is full of tales of malevolent alien races who invade Earth in an attempt to enslave, annihilate, or assimilate the human race. In most of these, ragtag bands of human survivors band together to bravely fight off these invaders and reclaim our home planet through sheer bravery and a little help from Bill Pullman.
While it’s nice to imagine that the indelible human spirit might be able to save us from extraterrestrial conquerors, the fact is that if any hypothetical alien races are advanced enough to launch a large-scale invasion on Earth, we’re probably boned from them start. Luckily, we may have a bargaining chip that we could use to bribe our way out of becoming pets for unfathomably terrifying alien masters: our own DNA.
That sobering idea was proposed this month by Daniel Helman, professor of Labor Relations and Trade Unions at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. Helman gave a presentation at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles arguing that since any advanced alien race would view our technology and commodities as inferior, our genetic material might be the most valuable thing we have to trade for our lives. “Our environment is unique, hence the genetics of all the organisms here and in the solar system are unique,” Helman argues.
Trading our own DNA would also ensure that the human race, even in test tube form, would survive any natural or man-made catastrophes which might render our planet lifeless. Helman also notes that viewing DNA as a tradable commodity in this way also serves as a “utilitarian reason to promote biodiversity” here on Earth. If there are such things as intergalactic zoosfilled with wondrous creatures from every corner of the universe – another popular theme in science fiction – the DNA of all of the other lifeforms here on Earth might be valuable as well.
Ah, the little critters of nature. They don’t know that they’re ugly.
Still, the idea isn’t sitting well among other academics who study potential human-alien interactions. Some argue that trading our DNA could make us vulnerable to genetically engineered weaponized diseases specific to our genetic code, or even make human life on Earth expendable in the eyes of superior alien races who might be able to clone new races of better humans elsewhere.
When we watch sci-fi products like Independence Day or The X-Files, we do so with the expectation that flying saucers and aliens are on the cards. Sometimes, however, UFOs show up in the movies and TV shows you’d least expect. I used to watch quite a bit of The West Wing, which ran on HBO between 1999 and 2006. And when I say, “quite a bit,” I mean I’ve seen every episode of all seven seasons at least twice (hey, it’s addictive). I was struck when watching this White House-set political drama that, among its serious thematic preoccupations of domestic and foreign policy, the subject of UFOs was occasionally and somewhat jarringly thrown into the mix.
The UFO issue features peripherally in a number of episodes spread across several seasons. Predictably, the tone of The West Wing’s UFO discussions is light-hearted, and the scenes in question rely on genre stereotypes, particularly the nerdy and obsessive UFO enthusiast, played in the show by Sam Lloyd in the role of Bob Engler. In one episode, in a meeting with Deputy White House Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), Engler, a dweebish employee of US Space Command, insists that a fresh UFO tracking report be presented immediately to the President on the grounds of national security. Seaborn swiftly and disparagingly dismisses his request: “No… because the President will either yell at me or laugh at me…” Seaborn then goes on to imply that Engler should seek therapy. Still, the UFO info that Engler imparts to Seaborn quietly rattles the cocksure White House staffer. It is only at the end of the episode that Seaborn’s fears are allayed when Martin Sheen’s heroic President Bartlett casually reveals to his staff in the Oval Office that NORAD had tracked not a flying saucer that day but merely a piece of soviet space junk.
In further episodes, we get casually dismissive references to the government “covering-up aliens in New Mexico,” and to the apparently alarming percentage of young Americans who believe in UFOs. In one episode, Bob Engler of US Space Command makes a return appearance, insisting to Sam Seaborn that the government is storing an alien spacecraft in the bullion depository at Fort Knox. You get the idea. And now, thanks to the time and effort of UFO researcher Giuliano Marinkovic, you can view all the West Wing UFO references in one handy video compilation.
It is always of interest to me how the UFO topic is presented in “non-UFO” products, i.e., “serious” dramas, or products outside the worlds of sci-fi and fantasy. In our “real” world—the world of official culture—UFOs have yet to be formally acknowledged as an ontological reality with serious scientific and political implications. This is reflected in most real-world-set movies and TV shows, in which UFOs are the stuff of casual banter, and belief in them is a useful signifier of a character’s mental state.
Perhaps, in the not too distant future, as we learn more about the phenomenon, Hollywood will see fit to more thoughtfully incorporate the UFO subject into its non-genre products. Until then, we’ll have to continue to make do with throw-away lines about little green men, tinfoil hats, and deep-frozen aliens at Fort Knox.
When we watch sci-fi products like Independence Day or The X-Files, we do so with the expectation that flying saucers and aliens are on the cards. Sometimes, however, UFOs show up in the movies and TV shows you’d least expect. I used to watch quite a bit of The West Wing, which ran on HBO between 1999 and 2006. And when I say, “quite a bit,” I mean I’ve seen every episode of all seven seasons at least twice (hey, it’s addictive). I was struck when watching this White House-set political drama that, among its serious thematic preoccupations of domestic and foreign policy, the subject of UFOs was occasionally and somewhat jarringly thrown into the mix.
The UFO issue features peripherally in a number of episodes spread across several seasons. Predictably, the tone of The West Wing’s UFO discussions is light-hearted, and the scenes in question rely on genre stereotypes, particularly the nerdy and obsessive UFO enthusiast, played in the show by Sam Lloyd in the role of Bob Engler. In one episode, in a meeting with Deputy White House Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), Engler, a dweebish employee of US Space Command, insists that a fresh UFO tracking report be presented immediately to the President on the grounds of national security. Seaborn swiftly and disparagingly dismisses his request: “No… because the President will either yell at me or laugh at me…” Seaborn then goes on to imply that Engler should seek therapy. Still, the UFO info that Engler imparts to Seaborn quietly rattles the cocksure White House staffer. It is only at the end of the episode that Seaborn’s fears are allayed when Martin Sheen’s heroic President Bartlett casually reveals to his staff in the Oval Office that NORAD had tracked not a flying saucer that day but merely a piece of soviet space junk.
In further episodes, we get casually dismissive references to the government “covering-up aliens in New Mexico,” and to the apparently alarming percentage of young Americans who believe in UFOs. In one episode, Bob Engler of US Space Command makes a return appearance, insisting to Sam Seaborn that the government is storing an alien spacecraft in the bullion depository at Fort Knox. You get the idea. And now, thanks to the time and effort of UFO researcher Giuliano Marinkovic, you can view all the West Wing UFO references in one handy video compilation.
It is always of interest to me how the UFO topic is presented in “non-UFO” products, i.e., “serious” dramas, or products outside the worlds of sci-fi and fantasy. In our “real” world—the world of official culture—UFOs have yet to be formally acknowledged as an ontological reality with serious scientific and political implications. This is reflected in most real-world-set movies and TV shows, in which UFOs are the stuff of casual banter, and belief in them is a useful signifier of a character’s mental state.
Perhaps, in the not too distant future, as we learn more about the phenomenon, Hollywood will see fit to more thoughtfully incorporate the UFO subject into its non-genre products. Until then, we’ll have to continue to make do with throw-away lines about little green men, tinfoil hats, and deep-frozen aliens at Fort Knox.
On June 18, 2018 the witness who lives in Harrogate, GB went out for a cigarette and had a strange feeling to look up.
At first glance it just appears to be clouds but the shape just seems too perfect and it was fairly windy at the time with the clouds moving quickly past but the object just stayed still.
The witness had an uneasy feeling and that’s what prompted him to take photos.
He said that would have got video too but his Iphone has seen better days and video is not working anymore. The photographer has submitted the three impressive images of the cloaked UFO to Mufon case 92772.
A Martian dust storm rages against a NASA rover, a baby bird survives a surprise balloon adventure, Jupiter helps out in the search for aliens, and diamond dust explains a cosmic mystery — it's Space.com's best new stories of the week.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
1. This rover is caught in a storm
NASA's Opportunity rover is no stranger to a Martian dust storm. But the current storm has many concerned for Opportunity's safety, as the vehicle has entered "low power fault mode" and has stopped communications. Despite concerns, however, the craft is not doomed and NASA officials are optimistic it will recover and continue.
Photo Credit: Philipp Salzgeber, CC license (CC BY-SA 2.0)
4. Really old dust
Scientists are using interstellar dust to look back in time to before our solar system formed. This dust could help us understand how cosmic bodies like planets form.
Jupiter is not a great, or even remotely likely, candidate to host life. However, by understanding the planet's magnetic field, scientists think they might be able to better search for aliens on other worlds.
Photo Credit: US District Court of Kansas via collectSPACE.com
7. A lunar lawsuit
A woman claims that when she was young, she was gifted a vial of moon dust from Neil Armstrong himself. She is now in a legal battle with NASA over the vial's ownership and legitimacy.
Scientists have been observing a faint, mysterious glow originating in certain regions of our galaxy. They have now located the source of this light — diamond dust.
Three exoplanets are currently being born around a young star relatively close to our own sun. These baby alien planets are all Jupiter-like gas giants.
This month, NASA released news that its Discovery Rover had discovered organic matter on Mars.
While that's not necessarily proof of life on Mars, it's more evidence that such a thing is or could have been possible.
With that in mind, we're paying tribute to fiction's most iconic denizens of the red planet.
2. The Martians of War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds is perhaps the prototypical Martian invasion story. And Orson Welles' later radio broadcast adaptation of the classic story is the stuff of legend, having inspired real panic among folks who missed that the broadcast was fiction and not news of an actual invasion by Martians.
Welles' visual idea of the Martian's ships with their round bodies and spindly, spider-like legs has also influenced the portrayal of UFO's in popular culture for decades.
3. Dr. Manhattan
Doctor Manhattan may not be a native of Mars (like Mark Watney), but in Watchmen it's something of his home away from home, with key scenes taking place on Mars' surface.
Mars is also where Dr. Manhattan flees at the end of the story, after Ozymandias' cataclysmic plans come to fruition.
4. Uncle Martin
Ray Watson's comedic Uncle Martin may be an outdated reference to some (despite a reboot film in the 90s), but for the generations raised on black and white broadcasts and TV Land reruns, My Favorite Martian's eccentric Martian anthropologist was practically definitive.
And we'd be remiss not to mention the show's human co-star Bill Bixby, who went on to co-star with another green guy you might have heard of...
5. Amy Wong
There are a few humans who claim "Martian" status on our list (either by birth or arrival), but Futurama's Amy Wong is, well, the cutest. In fact, this Planet Express employee and daughter of Martian "Buggalo" ranchers had "cuteness reduction surgery" to make her less intimidating.
Amy's more than just unearthly cute though – over the course of Futurama's seven seasons, Amy earned her Ph.D in Applied Physics from Mars University.
6. Mark Watney
Matt Damon's character Mark Watney from Ridley Scott's 2014 film The Martian (and the original Andy Weir prose novel) isn't a native Martian... but as Watney pointed out he did colonize the planet, which is worth something. And hey, if Weir and Scott want to identify him as a Martian as the film's title indicates, who the hell are we to argue.
Bonus points go to Damon/Watney for being a Martian AND a space pirate AND doing an Iron Man impression (and following Doctor Manhattan's lead as the loneliest guy on Mars).
7. Dejah Thoris
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Dejah Thoris is perhaps the most iconic actual Martian from the author's John Carter of Mars stories – though her beautiful, human-like appearance belies her alien nature.
The green, four-armed Barsoom, the enemies of Dejah Thoris and John Carter, are much more in line with what later sci-fi Martians would look like with four arms, green skin, and monstrous forms.
. The Martians of Mars Attacks!
The chattering, blood-curdling Martians of Topps' Mars Attacks! trading cards (and comic books and movies and so on) are some of the most monstrous residents of the red planet to make our list, but they're also some of the most instantly recognizable.
And hey, if you ever find yourself face to face with some of these little green men, just call up Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" on Spotify and they'll all be toast.
9. Martian Manhunter
There are surprisingly few Martian superheroes in comic books – probably because when J'Onn J'Onzz arrived on Earth in 1955, the so-called Martian Manhunter cast a definitive shadow over the idea of a caped crimefighter from the red planet.
That's not to say J'Onn was the first alien superhero (Superman himself takes that honor) but his Martian origins gave rise to a whole wing of the DC Universe including characters like the villainous Hyperclan, and his heroic protege M'Gann M'Orzz, a.k.a. Miss Martian.
10. Marvin the Martian
If you ask just about anyone to name a Martian, they'll bring up Looney Tunes' megalomaniacal Marvin, the pint-sized, helmeted alien conqueror with a special hatred for Bugs Bunny.
Marvin's even made it into comic books recently, meeting the Martian Manhunter in a crossover one-shot from DC Comics.
For a few weeks in July and August, Mars will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003 and is expected to outshine Venus and Jupiter in the night sky. Not only will Mars illuminate for the casual stargazer, but close proximity to Earth will allow anyone with a telescope to get a more detailed look at the red planet’s unique features.
In 2003, Mars came within 34.9 million miles of Earth, setting a new record that had not been approached in 60,000 years. This summer will be the first time Mars and Earth rekindle that bond, slated to move within 35.8 million miles of each other on July 31, according to The Weather Channel.
NASA illustration of how different Mars can look, depending on its distance to Earth.
Mars opposition, whereby the Earth passes directly between Red Planet, will occur July 27, and happens roughly every 26 months, according to NASA. This year, while the Earth cozies up between Mars and the sun, the red planet will also reach its closest point to the sun in its own orbit. This up-close and personal lineup is a phenomenon known as perihelion, and it’s not every day that opposition takes places within the same weeks as a perihelion. This is known as a perihelic opposition and it only occurs every 15 or 17 years.
Of course, some perihelic oppositions bring us closer to Mars than others. The orbits of Earth and Mars don’t lie on quite the same plane, and gravitational tugging from Jupiter tends to influence Mars’ orbit, meaning we won’t get as close of a reunion with Mars as we saw in 2003, but that record is expected to stand until August 28, 2287.
Mars will be its brightest to the human eye on July 31. The red planet will rise on July 30 at 8:25 p.m. Eastern, showing up Venus and the stars until it sets at 5:18 a.m. Eastern the next morning. The planet will be shining brightly throughout August.
While this celestial happening may not beat the 2003 record, witnessing the perihelic opposition does come with bragging rights. It will be the last time stargazers will see Mars this big and bright for years, as the next time Mars and Earth get this close won’t be until September 15, 2035.
Un OVNI enflammé observé massivement au nord de la France
Un OVNI enflammé observé massivement au nord de la France
J’ai vu cette énorme boule de feu dans le ciel pendant une dizaine de secondes. Et après, plus rien. »
Sacha, un Calaisien qui reprenait la route pour rejoindre son domicile, se trouvait sur l’A16, à proximité de la sortie Saint-Pierre, lorsqu’il a aperçu cet étrange objet dans le ciel.
« Au départ, je pensais que c’était un avion en difficulté. »
Après réflexion, le conducteur se rend bien compte qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un avion.
« Il était exactement 0h50, ajoute-t-il. Je n’ai pas pu m’arrêter pour prendre une photo car j’étais sur l’autoroute et de toute manière, je ne l’ai vue que quelques secondes… »
« Je l’ai vue environ quatre secondes.Je voyais bien la boule de feu »
Un témoin
À quelques dizaines de kilomètres de l’A16 sortie Saint-Pierre, à Sin-le-Noble, près de Douai, un homme a vu exactement la même chose dans le ciel.
« J’étais chez moi, je suis sorti pour fermer le volet et là je tombe dessus ! Je l’ai vue à l’est, et sa direction était du sud vers le nord, explique-t-il. Je l’ai vue environ quatre secondes. Je voyais bien la boule de feu avec sa traînée puis je l’ai perdue devant la maison d’en face ! J’ai appelé mon père à 0h52 pour savoir s’il avait vu quelque chose et il m’a dit non ! J’ai passé la soirée sur le net pour savoir si je n’étais pas le seul. »
Philippe Sénicourt, membre du club d’astronomie dunkerquois et animateur scientifique au Palais de l’univers et des sciences à Dunkerque, confirme qu’aucun phénomène de météorite n’a été enregistré par les appareils de détection basés au PLUS.
« Par définition, une météorite est un fragment qui s’écrase sur la Terre, note le spécialiste. Nous enregistrons une à deux météorites par an sur la terre. »
« Il pourrait s’agir d’un bolide, une grosse étoile filante que l’on peut observer dans le ciel pendant quelques secondes »
Philippe Sénicourt, spécialiste
Mais les internautes qui nous ont rapporté ces faits n’ont pas rêvé pour autant.
« Il pourrait s’agir d’un bolide, une grosse étoile filante que l’on peut observer dans le ciel pendant quelques secondes. »
Le phénomène est visible « à plusieurs centaines de kilomètres », ce qui peut expliquer que le phénomène ait pu être visible à la fois à Calais et à Douai, et sûrement ailleurs dans la région.
En témoignent ces deux habitants de Saint-Martin-au-Laërt :
« C’était comme une étoile filante mais en feu. On s’est dit que c’était une étoile filante, on a essayé de la prendre en photo mais comme on conduisait, on n’a pas réussi. C’était comme une étoile en feu qu’on pouvait suivre. »
D’après les premiers éléments recueillis, l’objet en question serait donc un bolide.
« Nous en recensons plus d’une dizaine par an », ajoute Philippe Sénicourt. Et au vu de ces que les quelques témoins nous ont rapporté, on peut même parler de super bolide.
Des traînées jaunes aperçues sur la côte
Un premier phénomène avait également été évoqué par des internautes mardi soir.
« Vers 22 h, j’ai aperçu plusieurs traînées jaunes dans le ciel sur la plage de Wissant, confie l’un d’eux. Je les ai vues pendant quelques minutes. »
Même description pour l’un de nos internautes sur notre page Facebook :
« Nous étions à la plage, on a vu une traînée de feu qui s’est éteinte puis rallumée. Ce n’était pas un avion puisque la traînée avait une forme d’ellipse.»
Pour Philippe Sénicourt, une simple description comme celle-ci est difficile à interpréter, on peut le comprendre.
« C’était peut-être un avion qui reflétait la lumière du soleil. »
Avec l’arrivée des beaux jours, de plus en plus de phénomènes de ce genre seront observés par les simples quidams qui n’auront bien souvent que leur imagination pour tenter de connaître la signification de ce qu’ils viennent de voir. C’est un peu ça aussi les joies de l’astronomie.
Aevum's New Rocket-Drone Airplane Duo Could Launch Satellites Every 3 Hours
Aevum's New Rocket-Drone Airplane Duo Could Launch Satellites Every 3 Hours
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Artist's illustration showing Aevum's Ravn air-launch system in action. If all goes according to plan, Ravn could begin launching small satellites to Earth orbit in late 2019.
Credit: Aevum
A space launch every 3 hours may soon be possible using rockets carried on a fully autonomous unmanned airplane, a new startup company suggests.
Alabama-based startup Aevum aims to per mission, using an air-launch system called Ravn.
"Ravn is designed to launch every 180 minutes," Jay Skylus, Aevum's CEO and chief launch architect, told Space.com. "Other launch vehicles fly only a handful of times a year with an average of 18 months of lead time." [Rocket Launches: The Latest Liftoffs, Photos & Videos]
"The typical turn time, from landing to takeoff, for a commercial aircraft can range from 30 to 80 minutes," said Skylus, an aerospace engineer who worked at NASA and Boeing. "Ravn operates just like a commercial aircraft would."
Ravn could launch satellites as frequently as once every 3 hours, Aevum representatives say.
Credit: Aevum
Aevum is focused on launching multitudes of tiny satellites into space. Such constellations of satellites could enable advances such as "wireless internet everywhere," Skylus said.
The key to Ravn's planned launch rate is its unmanned nature, which "simplif[ies] ground operations considerably," Skylus said. "Ravn takes off and lands horizontally on any standard runway. Ravn is engineered to be autonomous from the moment it leaves the hangar from taxi, takeoff, launch, landing and taxi return to the hangar."
As such, Ravn may need a ground crew of as few as six people, Skylus said. "Compared to the ground- crew needs of other launch systems, Ravn requires at least an order of magnitude less ground-crew personnel," he said.
Aevum isn't the first company to develop an air-launch system. Northrop Grumman's Pegasus rocket has lofted dozens of satellites, and Stratolaunch Systems and Virgin Orbit are both working on rocket-carrier plane duos of their own. But these other systems all employ piloted aircraft.
The first stage of Ravn consists of a reusable, fully autonomous unmanned aircraft system designed for atmospheric flight. "The overall aerodynamic design of the vehicle has been optimized for the rocket separation," Skylus said. "The maximum speed of the Ravn first stage is Mach 2.85 [2,186 mph, or 3,519 km/h]."
This aircraft carries an expendable two-stage rocket engineered for spaceflight. The first stage of this rocket uses a proprietary fuel approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, while the second stage relies on liquid oxygen. "The rocket engines have already been hot-fire demonstrated," Skylus said.
Skylus was inspired to ramp up the rate of satellite launches when he came across a story of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan in 2005.
"With my own brother serving in the U.S. Army and away from home during that time, the news felt personal to me," Skylus said. "Upon research, I gained insight that communication failure was partly responsible for the losses we suffered in Afghanistan. I recall being furious that, while I could instant-message readily, people who were fighting to protect our country struggled with communication challenges."
"Determined to figure out exactly why, I dug into communication technologies and found out that, in locations where geography is the limiting factor, the communication technologies were not necessarily faulty. We just needed better satellite-revisit times and positioning — more satellites," Skylus said. "However, the cost of deploying those satellite assets was stifling progress."
In flight simulations, "Minnie, Aevum's autonomous flight software, has already completed nearly 640 flights," Skylus said. This work included the successful simulated launch "of a 30-satellite constellation in less than 3 hours," he added.
Aevum has designed, built and tested both its aerodynamic components and a prototype unmanned aircraft system. "Aevum's currently building a proto-flight Ravn vehicle and aims to complete the ground qualification of the entire proto-flight Ravn vehicle this year," Skylus said.
Aevum's customers can use the company's web app or call or email to deliver their cargo. In this sense, Aevum wants to be "the UPS or FedEx of space," Skylus said. "We take care of all the logistics and offer mission design at no cost to you, and you can book launches and track your satellite through our app."
Aevum is working toward beginning flight testing in 2019. If the entire flight test campaign goes according to plan, Aevum has three launches planned for the fourth quarter of 2019, Skylus said. "We're always seeking to connect with more customers — there's still some capacity on these three launches," he said.
"Ravn is unlike any other launch system known today," Skylus said. "Aevum's focused on providing a delivery service that will directly enable the solutions that address global challenges that cause pain every day, which include communication and connectivity."
Skylus described Aevum's work on June 2 at the Dawn of Private Space Science symposium in New York.
The NARCAP.ORG (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena) website, a reporting center primarily for U.S. pilots, went missing on the internet on June 11th 2018. My website system detected the broken links in one of my articles pointing to the NARCAP website. In writing on June 17th 2018, the site is still unavailable on the internet.
UPDATE June 18th 2018: Just got contact with them via Facebook – the site will be up again after an upgrade and re-structure.
NARCAP contains pilot UAP sighting reports
NARCAP were dedicated to provide US pilots and aviation professionals a place to report observations and aviation safety related incidents involving the UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena). The pilot UAP sighting reports was carefully analyzed by NARCAP´s science chief Dr. Richard Haines and research associates around the world.
They have a lot of in-depth articles and technical analyzes of pilot UAP sightings. Not only from U.S. pilots but pilots from all over the world. Besides the technical reports, there were a section with international reports about the UAP related to air safety. Also a section with a large resource of documents from associated research could be found on the site.
NARCAP Chief Scientist Dr. Richard Haines
Apparently, Mr. Haines announced his retirement as Chief Scientist for NARCAP as of January 1, 2017 (reddit). And who could take over NARCAP as chief scientist seem to be unresolved. See the video below with Dr. Richard Haines.
I recently found the NARCAP site in my search after world-wide disclosure information on UFO´s and could see it offered an important piece of information. It would be quite a loss in ufology if NARCAP disappears forever with Dr. Richard Haines. But Mr. Haines reach over 80 years old now, so he has rightfully earned his retirement.
NARCAP.ORG WHOIS information
I attempted to contact the owner of the domain name NARCAP.ORG on June 13th 2018 but today on June 17th 2018 I still got no response. On WHOIS you can read that the domain expiry date is on September 26th 2018, so the site is not down because of an expired domain name. It seem to have been taken down intentionally by owner or hosting company.
I also contacted them on their Facebook page, where they actually talks about the need of money to run their website, which they have done for free out of own pockets since it started late 2000. They are also on Twitter under the name narcap1
NARCAP.ORG on the Internet Archive
As you can see on the Internet Archive, the site NARCAP.ORG did exist – click this LINK to see the internet archive CACHE of the NARCAP website. I hope the site reappears soon, because the service they offered and the information they have is important in the world of ufology. If anyone knows what is going on with NARCAP.ORG, please drop a comment.
What if we actually do inhabit a Universe where life, at least complex life is unbelievably rare. So rare that in the immense dark fathoms of deep time, with near infinite real estate, intelligent life arose exactly once. Us. There is no pantheon of intergalactic minds. “We’re first” is one of the three classes of answers to the Fermi Paradox, the other two being “we’re rare” and “we’re fucked.”
If Wakanda can stay hidden, could a past civilization have escaped discovery?
Few scientists I’ve spoken to take “we’re first” answers seriously. It seems statistically unlikely; the Galaxy is filled with planets very much like ours orbiting stars very much like ours, and this planet is actually about two billion years younger than average in our galaxy, giving plenty of other places a considerable head start on developing life.
I tend to agree with that understanding but what if? What if it is not true.
What if we are the first? The first (and so oldest) aliens, the first in the time stream who will time travel or the first in the universe who will discover interstellar travel. This would explain why there have not been visitors from the future because we are the very first to invent the time machine and do that. I love author Larry Niven’s thoughts on this: If time travel is possible, the universe will keep being changed (by time-travellers) until a state is reached where time travel is never invented. That universe will not change. And we’re living in it.
It would also explain why we haven’t seen aliens, maybe it’s because WE are the first “aliens” to travel interstellar and colonize the galaxy, only to discover other species who are just a couple million or a couple of thousand years behind us.
I think people (scientists are just people who know science) tend to dismiss the “we’re first” position too easily because it seems born out of hubris, wishful thinking, dreams of exceptionalism, or religious nonsense.
Archaeological Site of Harappa.
Image via Wikipedia.
I can see a more plausible scenario, goes like this:
Resources needed to sustain a growing population are always limited to the planet the species is on. Space exploration is great, but it will not produce the additional water, air, carbon dioxide or space needed to grow.
Technology consumes resources, as does population growth.
Societies like ours that are dedicated to growth and consumption eventually deplete their resources and vanish. That kind of conscious, then, might well be deemed an aberration, cosmically speaking.
That tendency is clearly due to a particular kind of “consciousness” that humans have evolved. But rather than being an unequivocally good thing, that kind of consciousness may ultimately be self-defeating.
Societies that thrive are those that learn to live in a mildly-adjusted “harmony” with nature–or homeostasis, really–where they are not taking more from the environment than they are giving back.
A population that is living in that manner (whether consciously, as we know of consciousness), or in a more automatic way, like other species on this planet) do not (or unable to) do much in the way of space exploration or technology development–and in any case they are liable to be limited to a relatively small area, given the size of the universe.
So there are likely to be a relatively large number of planets containing life that have never ventured out looking for others.
Of those that have ventured out, their “visitation possibilities” are extremely limited.
Any such visitation would probably be limited to say, a probe containing automated-interaction systems of some kind. The best design would probably limit the probe’s life to 1,000 years, at most. (Even were it totally self-sustaining, jungle overgrowth, earthquakes, and other natural disasters would inevitably overtake it, in time.) Or it might touch down, stay a few years, and then move on. Either way, any such contact would be fleeting and ephemeral, recorded only in myth and legend.
Any records of such contact would be irretrievably lost by a species such as ours, with the kind of consciousness that goes around burning each other’s libraries on the theory that if what they say is in our religious texts, they’re redundant, and if not, they’re heretical.
But let’s consider the alternatives. If intelligence is common in the Universe, we would have seen signs. Even with interstellar distances what they are, some narcissistic and evangelical civilization would have sent, at the very least, unmanned probes to other stars to bring knowledge of their existence and/or spread their knowledge and principles. There’s no reasonable counter-argument; even if most civilizations destroy themselves before they reach that stage, it is hugely unlikely that all would. Even if most civilizations prefer navel-gazing, it is hugely unlikely that all would.
So intelligence is not common (the only other possibility is that we are under some sort of pointless quarantine). It is really not hard to believe this rarity. It took more than a billion years since life evolved for intelligence to arise. Our Galaxy has roughly 100,000,000,000 stars. If only 1 in 1,000 has planets with conditions to make life possible, and life only starts in 1 out of 1,000 potential incubators, and intelligence only arises in 1 out of 1,000 cases where life starts, well, that makes 100 intelligent civilizations arising in the Galaxy at some point. Say the propensity to self-destruct or navel-gaze accounts for 95% of them (not that unlikely)–now it’s not that hard to begin that of the remaining handful we may be either the first or far enough away for expanding probes of the others to not have reached us.
What about the other 100,000,000,000 galaxies? Here, distances are so immense that almost certainly nobody would attempt to travel or communicate. We can’t know if we’re first. We know we’re rare. So if we self-destruct, it will be a real pity…
Bottom line: The probability that is life out there is enormous. That probability that it evolved technology (and still exists) is very much smaller. The probability that they are within hailing distance is smaller yet. The probability that any such “hailing” would be recognized, and then remembered, is smaller still.
Unknown Technology Found Underneath The Bermuda Triangle
Unknown Technology Found Underneath The Bermuda Triangle
This was the statement of a very popular oceanographer Mayer Verlag, who says that he finally said out loud what everyone knew for so long! He stated that the technology which is lying beneath the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle is mysterious and unknown for today’s science.
For all of you that don’t know, the Bermuda triangle is defined by three points: Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Any of its sides stretches about thousand miles and besides all the obvious evidence that it exists, the US Navy says that there is no such thing as Bermuda triangle.
However, there is numerous evidence that proves its existence and the great and supernatural things that are hiding underneath the water. Some even believe that this triangle is the existing proof of the extraterrestrial activity on our Planet yet some choose to stay blind.
There are people that don’t believe the existence of Bermuda triangle even though it had been swallowing up ships and airplanes and even water.
The latest and most interesting thing that has been discovered at the Bermuda triangle are two beautiful and mesmerizing pyramids made out of glass. Also, there was a great technology, a great mystery for modern science revealed underneath the ocean of the triangle.
Unfortunately, the army has stopped researching this place and never got to understand what is really happening underneath.
This well-known oceanographer Mayer Verlag, believes that the discovery of the two glass pyramids have shed light on all those missing airplanes and ships which is why the US Navy tries to hide what was discovered and keep it away from the public.
These pyramids are located right in the center of the Bermuda triangle and they are made of some form of crystal which may be the reason why there are disappearances right where they are located.
Today the truth about the existence and the importance of these pyramids is not yet proven to be wrong or right because the Us Navy tries to hide it all away from the eyes of the public. There were many researchers that tried to discover if there is something underneath the Bermuda triangle and most of them have found anomalous structures made out of crystals which were the cause of all the disappearances.
When it comes to the Pyramids, there are now photographs or actual proof that they exist yet it is believed that they are twice as big as the Pyramids of Giza.
After this very important discovery, the Us Military marked the area under their control and no other researchers or oceanographers can investigate and prove their theories.
However, if there is nothing there underneath the Bermuda triangle, why would the Us Military protect the zone and keep it under their control? Maybe they are protecting something truly valuable and some kind of “alien” technology that is far more advanced than today’s modern science.
Which leads to the point that it is up to you if you believe or not these mysterious discoveries even though there are no hard evidence that proves what is really going on underneath the Bermuda triangle?
Is This Video Proof NASA Is Hiding Alien Civilizations?
Is This Video Proof NASA Is Hiding Alien Civilizations?
Years of speculating alien civilizations exist, yet no confirmed proof ever presented. But, can this video finally prove if NASA and other space agencies have been hiding the truth from us?
As the years pass by, more and more eminent officials come forth, speaking about alien civilizations, life and UFO existence.
Not just ordinary humans have theorized it, but also prominent astronauts coming back from space came forward regarding the unusual sightings they experienced.
Moreover, NASA employees also reported fascinating stories. They claim the famous space agency gives its best to keep the truth from the general public.
Many of them imply the truth will prompt a huge chaos among the people, changing our history and everything around us.
There were so many compelling efforts for a final disclosure.
Furthermore, she stated she was part of a huge government concealment.
‘Jackie‘ explained that not only that NASA knows alien civilizations exist, but that there were also human colonies on the Red Planet.
This woman claimed for herself that she allegedly was part of the Viking Project – the first American mission to Mars.
According to her, cameras of the Viking depicted humanoid bodies on the surface of Mars. She later explained how her supervisors quickly blocked the picture so she could observe no more.
Jackie’s allegations can never be verified. However, she is not the only person to initiate such thoughts.
Gary McKinnon strongly affirms that he encountered the greatest discovery that confirms the US has a secret space program operated by the navy.
Another attempt was made by a former marine with the nickname Captain Kaye. He said that he spent years living on Mars and he also assisted on a giant space carrier.
According to him, he was an employee of the Mars Defense Force, owned and run by the Mars Colony Corporation.
Whether these people really experience something beyond our fantasy is yet to be discovered.
However, the truth is that many high-ranking people, directly or indirectly connected to Space, opened their souls to alien civilizations and UFOs.
Many people believe their revelations are a hoax. On the other hand, many also believe in the idea that we are not alone in the universe.
Has NASA Discovered An Alien Civilization?
Is NASA hiding Aliens, Spectacular UFO Footage from Space [FULL VIDEO]
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Russia Made An Announcment: UFO’s Are Real!
Russia Made An Announcment: UFO’s Are Real!
UFO conspiracy theories discuss that the proof of the existence UFO’s and extraterrestrial creatures is being concealed by powerful governments, especially the officials in Washington DC. The same theories claim that many governments, notably the government of the US, are making a regular contact with aliens although they claim the opposite.
Numerous radio amateurs listened cautiously to every word the astronauts said to the Command Center. For instance, they heard that Apollo 11 was pursued by two mysterious UFOs.
Vladimir Azaza, a Russian doctor of philosophy, claims that the astronauts Edwin Aldrin took footage on a 16 mm color film strip. One of the footage’s fragments contains two UFOs with distinct diameter. They released some gas or fluid as going one to each other like they want to unite.
Evgeny Arsohin, a Russian astronaut, says he doesn’t understand where is the need of hiding this astonishing UFO phenomenon when we all know it exists in real life and it is not associated with the defense system or with aliens.
The incident started to resolve after 20 years when the International UFO organization – ICUFON sent a memorandum to the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world.
The memorandum included citation of the assistant of the well-known commander of the first mission to the Moon – Neil Armstrong:
“When the lunar module started landing, three UFO’s, 15-30 mm in diameter have landed on the edge of the crater.”
If all this is true, then the conversations between the astronauts and the Command Center become understandable too.
Ten years after, one of the creators of the radio apparatus for an expedition to the Moon, Maurice Chatelain, confessed that he was a witness to the previously mentioned radio conference.
He said that the radio session Armstrong was talking about mysterious cosmic ships which have come to rest on the crater’s periphery.
The transmission was heard by many radio amateurs because somehow, Edwin Aldrin managed to lead the transfer.
The commander of Apollo 11, in a way, confessed that they have seen something weird. However, he dodged to give a proper answer.
The truth is that almost every astronaut on the mission was part of the Military Air Forces and they were aware of the Ministry of Defence’s rule:
“The military members spreading any UFO information are subjected to The Espionage Act”.
Violation of the rule brings with up to ten years in prison and $10,000 fine. And that is why they didn’t speak.
In the fall of 1973, NASA Chief Information Officer received a formal notice: “During the cosmic flights in the Apollo program, astronauts noticed the objects whose origin is hard to explain.”
In 1968, during their flight, the Apollo 8’s crew who first flew around the Moon, saw two unknown different objects in the shape of a disk and caught a radio transmission in an unknown language.
Two dazzling UFO’s followed Apollo 12 too. With the help of telescopes, it was observed they were flying in the front and in the back. The astronauts informed the Command Center as soon as they noticed them, but they said: “Good, we will consider them as friendly objects.”
There is an impression that the whole terrestrial cosmic program was under control of unknown reasonable force, and the Heads of the states likely knew about it, state the Russians.
According To The Queen’s Personal Astronomer, The Aliens are Actually Electronic Creatures
According To The Queen’s Personal Astronomer, The Aliens are Actually Electronic Creatures
According to the Queen’s personal astronomer, Lord Martin Rees, the aliens are actually electronic creatures with such a dominion that even dethroned their leaders.
Lord Martin Rees is the astronomer of the British Royalty. Lately, he revealed some seriously dangerous depictions of how he believes the alien look like.
Namely, he materialized the extraterrestrial world with electronic creatures which will have succeeded their original masters.
Rees said that the alien beings will have no connection nor resemblance with humanity. On the contrary, when they take over the world, they will even overthrow their own creators.
“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us,” he said.
The 74-year-old astronomer said that it would be “extremely unlikely” to find aliens that resemble humankind.
He defined “organic intelligence” as a “thin sliver” between the earliest degrees of life and the powerful period of machines.
Aliens are ‘ROBOTS who have overthrown masters’ Incredible claim by QUEEN’S astronomer!
Even the famous scientist Stephen Hawking has made some warnings. He mentioned the danger aliens pose to Earth if we ever reach an alien contact. He also warned about the impact artificial intelligence will have on humanity.
“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us. It will be some sort of electronic entity,” said Lord Martin Rees in an interview at Trinity College.
“In other words, the period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines.
“Because such civilizations would develop at different rates, it’s extremely unlikely that we will find intelligent life at the same stage of development as us.”
The status of having an astronomer in the British royalty started existing in 1675 and was modeled by King Charles II. Furthermore, the royal astronomer is an official member of the Royal Household.
Lord Rees has made some warnings in the past too. He said that Earth requires an asteroid to defend humankind from a mass destruction.
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Retired NAVY Pilot Reveals Genuine UFO Pictures
Retired NAVY Pilot Reveals Genuine UFO Pictures
A retired Navy Commander released his official statement about that one time he had a UFO encounter, witnessing a bizarre craft rising out of the ocean and flying past his plane.
On February 10, 1951, Navy pilot and officer Graham Bethune, along with his crew, was flying in a mission from Iceland to Newfoundland.
While finishing the mission, they experienced something rather inexplicable. This event marked the whole life of the ex-Navy commander and the rest of the crew as well.
Namely, the members of the mission noticed a bizarre light on the ocean’s watery surface around 300 miles from Newfoundland.
These lights were so eminent and scattered throughout a large area hence the men felt like they were flying over a city.
During the Disclosure Project Conference in Washington DC in 2001, ex-commander Bethune explained his weird UFO encounter.
“As we approached this glow it turned to a monstrous circle of white lights on the water. Then we saw a yellow halo, small, much smaller than whatever it was launched from, about fifteen miles away.”
In only a matter of seconds, the gleaming UFO equaled their altitude. Thus, Bethune had to free the autopilot and draw the plane’s nose down in order to dodge a crash. But soon, the object shifted going towards them.
Bethune’s drawing of the UFO encounter
“As the UFO approached my plane and flew alongside it, we could see the domed craft which had a corona discharge,” he said.
At the same time, certain plane instruments started failing due to the powerful electromagnetic disruptions the UFO generated.
The plane had 31 passengers, a psychiatrist and of course, the crew aboard. All of them watched as the event was unrolling.
As soon as the plane landed, the witnesses were questioned and pressured on signing a non-disclosure form. Their testimonies, however, were upheld by radar data from an Air Force station in Goose Bay, Labrador.
Do you believe Mr. Bethune and his crew really experienced a true UFO encounter? Tell us your opinion.
5 Ancient Civilizations That Possessed Advanced Technology
5 Ancient Civilizations That Possessed Advanced Technology
When a person decides to take chances, nothing can stop him. The archaeologist David Hatcher Childress decided to go on a journey only to discover the most beautiful spots on earth that serve as proof for the miracles of an ancient civilization.
1. Ancient civilization Mu or Lemuria
The first civilization appeared 78,000 years on the enormous continent common as Mu or Lemuria. They existed for around 52,000 years when allegedly they were extinct by earthquakes caused by pole switch.
Lemuria Discovered: Sunken Continent of Ancient Civilizations
Even though the Lemurians were not as advanced as other ancient civilizations, they still have their impact in the field of technology. Especially, they were famous in the enduring megalithic buildings.
However, it was said that their biggest accomplishment was the science of government. The Lemurians most likely had one language and one government. The education was their key to success and every child had it as a mandatory duty until 21 in order to become acceptable to attend citizenship school.
2. Ancient civilization Atlantis
People believe that when the continent of Mu sank, the oceans lowered intensely since the water went into the newly formed Pacific Basin. Thus, new lands appeared and joined the Poseid Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean to form a relatively small continent. This small continent was named Atlantis in the present day, although, it’s real name was Poseid.
"Ancient Mysteries" Atlantis: The Lost Civilization
Atlantis had an ancient civilization that took very advanced steps in the technology. The books A Dweller on Two Planets, first delivered in 1884 by Phylos the Thibetan and its sequel in 1940 called An Earth Dweller Returns, talk a lot about of the creations of Atlantis. The creations involve air conditioners to defeat deadly mist, airless cylinder lamps, electric rifles, mono-rail transportation etc.
3. Rama Empire of India
With the books of India’s Rama Empire being well-kept, it is possible to study this ancient civilization’s history.
Ramayana is not Mythology See the Evidence
For a long time, the dominant opinion was that the Indian civilization was not older than 500 BC. However, in the past century, explorers found the sophisticated cities of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus Valley of present Pakistan.
These amazing discoveries forced the experts to reverse the origin dates of Indian civilization thousands of years back.
The archaeologists described the ancient cities are highly advanced with an exquisite city planning. What made it even more significant was that the city’s plumbing-sewage system was better than the one they found in Pakistan and India today.
4. Ancient Civilization of Osirian in the Mediterranean
In the distant past, The Mediterranean was an example of a big and lush land. The ancient civilization that pre-dated dynastic Egypt was famous as the Osirian Civilization. The Nile River that came out of Africa was called the River Stix. Nevertheless, instead of streaming into the Mediterranean Sea, it carried on into the land and then turned west to flow in the deepest part of the Mediterranean Valley. There, it formed a big lake and flowed out between Malta and Sicily.
When Atlantis was demolished by a disastrous catastrophe it resulted in a flood of the Mediterranean Basin that eventually destroyed the Osirian’s cities and forcing them to go on a higher ground.
This ancient civilization constructed gigantic megalithic structures resistant to earthquakes and also had electric power during the time of Atlantis. They had incredible ways of transport that worked on electrical base.
The best discovery of the advanced technology of the Osirians is the platform found at Ba’albek, Lebanon. This platform involves large hewn rocks. Some of them are even 82 feet long and 15 feet thick.
5. The ancient civilization Mayans
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The famous Mayan pyramids can be seen from Central America to the Indonesian island of Java.
The amazing pyramid called Sukuh near central Java is one of the most beautiful temples with stone stelae. The pyramid is nearly the same with the pyramids found at the ancient Mayan site at Uaxactun, near Tikal.
The Mayans were an ancient civilization famous for being very intelligent in the field of astronomy and mathematics. They also constructed canals and hydroponic garden cities in the ancient Yutacan Peninsula.
Edgar Cayce mentions the Mayas in one of his readings:“As for a description of the manner of construction of the stone: we find it was a large cylindrical glass (as would be termed today); cut with facets in such manner that the capstone on top of it made for centralizing the power or force that concentrated between the end of the cylinder and the capstone itself. And (secondly) in the temple records that were in Egypt, where the entity acted later in cooperation with others towards preserving the records that came from the land where these had been kept. Also (thirdly) in records that were carried to what is now Yucatan, in America, where these stones (which they know so little about) are now, during the last few months, being uncovered.”
Roswell That Ends Well – Dr. Kevin Randle Man Of Character
Roswell That Ends Well – Dr. Kevin Randle Man Of Character
A truly rare event has recently occurred in UFOlogy. I think a Leprechaun, a rabbit’s foot, and a four leaf clover just gave birth to a horseshoe. We have expectations that once in every billion years we should be able to detect a neutrino. But never, and I mean never could we have expected this.
In this world where it seems, that man’s inhumanity to man rules along with all the morals and scruples that follow such a disposition. People get polarized and stay polarized for life. Plasticity of thought is a withering characteristic. This is a time where the classic adage ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ has lost all meaning. People are so touchy and easily hurt. Words are the new sticks and stones. Thoughts proceed words. Thoughts have consequences and can take purchase. Sometimes thoughts and beliefs are wrong.
There has been a mutiny in UFOlogy, in regards to the Roswell Incident.
Just picture a bunch of nerds beating the hell out of each other with their pocket protectors and fake lightsabers. Not really, but something even more unexpected has occurred around the black mailbox. One of the grand masters of the “Roswell Incident” is Dr Kevin Randle. He has done the unforgivable. He publicly stated that he believes that the Roswell Incident is better explained by the prosaic then by proclaiming aliens.
“I asked Randle, if he no longer thinks that the Roswell incident was extraterrestrial, what does he think it was? He said he really doesn’t know. It wasn’t E.T., but it wasn’t a Mogul balloon, either. Randle then launched into a critique of skeptics being unskeptical because they insist that the debris found was from the once-secret Mogul spy balloon project, when the evidence supposedly proves that it was not. Thus skeptics are, he says, as illogical as the ET believers.”
Randle is not the first to regain his senses in all this Roswell stuff, UFO researcher Curt Collins posted the following information to Facebook:
“Roswell Incident” co-author William Moore bailed out in 1997… I wish to advise anyone who might be interested that I no longer am of the opinion that the extraterrestrial explanation is the best explanation for this event.”
Saucer Smear newsletter, Aug. 5, 1997
I have always thought Roswell was a waste of time. It is a gigantic “Hail Mary” pass that stretches across the minds of the true believers. The odds that a civilization sent a spaceship to Earth and then to have it crash is quite extraordinary. Extraordinarily unlikely.
I commend Dr Kevin Randle for his “mea culpa”. He spent 30+ years researching the Roswell Incident. He authored books about it and spoke at innumerable conferences, podcasts, and radio programs. It takes a big person to admit when they were wrong. To change one’s mind in light of new evidence is a virtue, not an issue. Imagine spending your whole life dedicated to a cause and then one day openly admitting you were wrong. I have respected him for what he has accomplished in the past, now I respect him for the content of his character. In the sciences, these things happen more often than in other pursuits. It is part of the scientific method and one of its great strengths, self-correction.
I quote Gordon Bonnet, host of the blog called ‘Skeptophilia’:
“If the truth (my conclusions based ONLY on the evidence), turns out to be different than I thought it was, then my viewpoint on the subject MUST alter/change to reflect this, that is the skeptic’s code”.
This reminds me of much of the sceptical wisdom that I gained from Kevin Randle’s writing in some of his books.
I do agree that Kevin has, in effect, shot himself in one foot at least, and is now in a sort of suspended, neutral, position of being neither pro or con. This is quite a turnaround from his previous books which were all very much pro-ET. He may lose a few friends because of this, but that is a risk one takes in ufological debates. Karl Pflock did a partial turnaround with his two books, his second repudiating much of his first. Bill Moore seems to have recanted long ago. Is there anyone left (Stan Friedman or David Rudiak maybe?) who can revive this Roswell ET corpse, or is it time to finally cremate it?
Let’s now move along…
Can this please be the end of all this Roswell business. Let’s chalk it up to being an unknowable unknown. If there is agreement that Roswell doesn’t involve a crashed spacecraft or pickled aliens, does the incident warrant much further attention? This has gone from a Cosmic Watergate to 1940s balloon identification. If it was Mogul, we have misidentified sky trash. If it’s not Mogul, we have someone else’s misidentified trash. There’s not much to be gained by either side in winning this debate.
WEERNIEUWSVeel Friezen zullen gisterenavond allicht verwonderd naar de lucht hebben gekeken. Daar was een spectaculaire wolk te zien, die deed denken aan een ufo.
Het was natuurlijk geen ufo, maar wat was het dan wel? De Nederlandse meteorologen Wilfred Janssen en Raymond Klaassen geven uitleg: “We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen. Maar dat lukt niet omdat er sprake is van inversie: een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als die warmer wordt, lukt dit niet meer.”
Geen ufo dus, maar een grote wolk die graag wil opstijgen. De lucht, die niet verder omhoog kan vanwege de warme luchtlaag, stroomt horizontaal en licht dalend weg. Doordat de lucht tijdens het dalen een beetje opwarmt, lost de wolk aan de randen op, met als resultaat deze spectaculaire pannenkoekvorm, die ook veel weg heeft van het ruimteschip uit de film ‘Independence Day’.
NASA/LOIRPEen van de eerste beelden van de maan, veel scherper dan de versie die wereldkundig gemaakt werd.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETRuimvijftig jaar geleden cirkelden vijf onbemande satellieten rond de maan, die beelden met een extreem hoge resolutie maakten van het maanoppervlak. Toch waren de foto’s die het grote publiek in die tijd te zien kreeg korrelig en van een zeer lage resolutie.
De satellieten Lunar Orbiter I tot V, die in 1966 en 1967 gelanceerd werden, moesten gegevens verzamelen om de perfecte landingsplaats te vinden voor de Apollo-missies. De foto’s die dat opleverde, waren zo scherp dat ze vergroot konden worden tot 16 bij 12 meter.
Na gebruik werden de beelden achter slot en grendel bewaard, ver weg van het publiek. De reden? Als de foto’s wereldkundig gemaakt werden, zouden ze de superieure technologie verraden van de camera’s op de Amerikaanse spionagesatellieten, waarop de apparatuur van de maansatellieten gebaseerd was.
NASA/LOIRPBoven: een beeld dat in 1966 verspreid werd. Onder: het originele beeld dat vrijgegeven werd in 2008, 42 jaar nadat het gemaakt werd.
Aan het einde van de jaren 60, na het Apollo-tijdperk, werden de gegevens op analoge tapes opgeslagen in Maryland. In de jaren 80 werden ze overgebracht naar het Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Californië, om in de jaren daarop van de ene na de andere plaats te verhuizen. Tot Nancy Evans, medestichter van het Planetary Data System (PDS) van NASA, besliste de beelden te digitaliseren.
McMoon
Haar team kreeg een leegstaand McDonalds-restaurant ter beschikking, dat voor de gelegenheid ‘McMoon’ werd gedoopt. Het doel was de tapes te digitaliseren voor ze onbruikbaar geworden waren of de technologie waarmee ze uitgelezen konden worden niet meer bestond.
Toen de NASA-ingenieurs de foto’s in de jaren 60 afdrukten, moesten ze die in een kerk ophangen omdat ze zo enorm waren
De bestanden die dat opleverde waren gigantisch, zelfs naar huidige normen. De beste beelden zijn tot twee gigabyte groot en kunnen zonder kwaliteitsverlies uitvergroot worden tot een enorm aanplakbord. Toen de NASA-ingenieurs ze in de jaren 60 afdrukten, moesten ze de foto’s in een kerk ophangen omdat ze zo enorm waren.
Mozaïek
Het Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) heeft in totaal tweeduizend beelden van 1.500 analoge tapes gerecupereerd. Naast de allereerste foto van een ‘aardopkomst’, de aarde die opkomt aan de horizon van de maan (zie boven), bevat de verzameling bijzonder gedetailleerde foto’s van Orbiter IV.
Die had als opdracht één groot beeld te schetsen van de volledige voorzijde van de maan. Tussen 11 en 25 mei 1967 nam de Orbiter een reeks foto’s die het hele gebied van de noord- tot de zuidpool en van de west- tot de oostzijde omvatten. Dat leverde een mozaïek op van 12 bij 13 meter.
NASA/LOIRPEen van de gedetailleerde beelden van Orbiter IV.
De toenmalige ingenieurs legden het beeld als een plattegrond op de grond en alle onderzoekers – ook de astronauten – moesten hun schoenen uittrekken om het te verkennen. Zelfs op deze grootte waren de beelden zo goed dat de onderzoekers met vergrootglazen aan de slag konden.
Dit gigantische beeld werd gebruikt om de locaties te bepalen die Orbiter V in nog hogere resolutie ging fotograferen. De beelden van Orbiter V leidden uiteindelijk tot de definitieve locatie waar Apollo 11 zou landen.
Tijdens opgravingen in de buurt van het Oostenrijkse Salzburg is door archeologen een bizarre ontdekking gedaan.
Er is een object gevonden van minstens 800 jaar oud dat als twee druppels water lijkt op de tegenwoordige mobiele telefoon.
Update: 18 juni 2018
Een kleine drie jaar geleden deed onderstaand verhaal de ronde: Archeologen deden tijdens opgravingen een bijzondere ontdekking, want ze hadden een 800 jaar oud object gevonden dat veel overeenkomsten vertoonde met een tegenwoordige Nokia telefoon.
Wat toen alleen maar vragen opriep en wij ons afvroegen of het misschien een grap van die archeologen was, is nu opgelost en het blijkt dat er helemaal geen archeologen in beeld komen.
In 2012 maakten Karin en Max Weingärtner van het kunstbedrijf Art Replik van klei een mobiele telefoon vrij naar een model van een Ericsson, niet een Nokia zoals algemeen werd (en wordt) aangenomen vanwaar de naam Babylonokia, die zelfs de kunstenaars geadopteerd hebben. De bedoeling was ermee bekend te worden als makers van replica’s zoals blijkt uit een computermuis van steen eveneens voorzien met spijkerschrifttekens zoals ook de telefoon. Eén foto echter lekte uit of werd gelekt of kwam in de verkeerde handen terecht, maar toen waren we al in 2015 (deze bewerkte foto, die overal op het internet te vinden is, heb ik bovenaan opgenomen). Het schijnt dat Art Replik zelf met het verhaal is gekomen dat de telefoon was gevonden bij een opgraving in Fuschl am See in de provincie Salzburg in Oostenrijk en dat het zou stammen uit de 13e eeuw vóór Christus vanwege de erop aanwezige spijkerschrifttekens.
En hiermee hebben we het zoveelste Youtube nepfilmpje. Wel jammer, zou wel leuk geweest, maar de waarheid is iets minder spannend in dit geval.
Zij vonden daar iets dat verdacht veel lijkt op de tegenwoordige mobiele telefoon.
Het is een oude kleitablet die eruit ziet als een mobiele telefoon met in plaats van onze moderne tekens, een soort spijkerschrift. Hierdoor lijkt het alsof dit voorwerp oorspronkelijk uit Mesopotamië komt omdat daar het spijkerschrift voor kwam.
Het is niet bekend waar de archeologen in Oostenrijk precies naar op zoek waren, maar waarschijnlijk niet naar kleitabletten voorzien van spijkerschrift.
Toch dat is wat ze hebben gevonden en het leek op de mobiele telefoon waarmee ze waarschijnlijk de volgende foto’s hebben genomen.
Men heeft de kleitablet gedateerd op rond de 13e eeuw. Dat is een tijd waarbij het al duizenden jaren geleden was dat het Soemerische spijkerschrift was ontdekt.
Kleitabletten met daarop spijkerschrift zijn op zich niet ongewoon. Er zijn er in totaal ongeveer twee miljoen opgegraven. Deze schrijftaal was een groot mysterie tot in de 19e eeuw toen de code werd ontcijferd.
Desondanks is de kleitablet uit Oostenrijk bijzonder vanwege een aantal redenen.
Eén is dat het niet gevonden is in de streek waar je het zou verwachten; in Oostenrijk en niet in Iran of Irak.
Er is slechts ooit één keer eerder een object met spijkerschrift ontdekt buiten het bekende gebied en dat is Fuente Magna schaal.
Deze werd ontdekt in het moderne Bolivia. Deze schaal is een raadsel want voor zover bekend zijn de Soemeriërs nooit in Zuid Amerika geweest en dus is de vraag hoe die schaal daar terechtkwam.
De tweede reden waarom de Oostenrijkse vondst opzienbarend is, is natuurlijk omdat deze kleitablet als twee druppels water lijkt op een hedendaagse Nokia telefoon.
Je ziet de twaalf toetsen net zoals op de moderne telefoon, een display en spreek- en menuknoppen.
De overeenkomsten met een moderne telefoon lijken teveel om nog toeval te kunnen zijn.
Anderzijds is er uiteraard toch enige voorzichtigheid geboden omdat de vondst eigenlijk te mooi is om waar te zijn.
Daarom heb je mensen die het wel geloven en zij die zeggen dat het wel nep moet zijn omdat het niet kan.
Voor zover ons bekend staan op dit moment alle mogelijkheden open.
Is er misschien een tijdreiziger geweest zo’n 800 jaar die zijn telefoon ergens in Oostenrijk is verloren?
Is het toch een bizar toeval en is het gewoon een kleitablet welke toevalligerwijze op een moderne telefoon lijkt, met toevallig ook nog eens al de knoppen op de juiste plek?
Is het toch een grap van de archeologen zelf misschien?
Zijn er buitenaardsen geweest die deze telefoon op één of ander manier zijn kwijtgeraakt?
MEER EN MEER AANWIJZINGEN VOOR ONBEKENDE PLANEET ( VIDEO )
MEER EN MEER AANWIJZINGEN VOOR ONBEKENDE PLANEET( VIDEO )
De afgelopen tijd zijn er veel berichten geweest over de alsmaar heftiger wordende aardveranderingen en er komt nu zoveel informatie los dat het nog nauwelijks bij te houden is.
Vooral ook informatie over onbekende planeten die nu op zoveel verschillende plaatsen en door zoveel verschillende mensen worden waargenomen dat er geen ontkennen meer aan is.
Wij worden regelmatig door lezers op de vingers getikt die willen weten waarom wij aan een bepaald onderwerp of een bepaalde bron geen of niet genoeg aandacht hebben besteed.
Waarom doen jullie dit niet en waarom gebruiken jullie die bron niet enzovoorts. Het antwoord is heel eenvoudig: Omdat wij met heel weinig mensen zijn en er maar 24 uur in een dag zitten, zijn wij niet in staat om altijd overal alles te bekijken.
Daarom zijn we ook blij met lezers die ons regelmatig aanvullende informatie toesturen die op zich dan ook weer interessant kunnen zijn voor andere lezers.
Een dergelijk bericht is het volgende en dat gaat over de planeet Nibiru en metgezellen. Het door ons ontvangen bericht (dank!) volgt hierna en wat daarin staat is uiteraard de mening van de lezer.
Dit is het bericht:
Jammer dat jullie nog steeds niet de veel betere en betrouwbaardere bronnen melden/gebruiken voor jullie berichtgeving over het Planet X system (let op: dus het gaat niet om 1 hemellichaam maar om bijv. aantoonbaar nu al DRIE hemellichamen die inwerken op Moeder Aarde, Jupiter schijnt er zo'n 69 te hebben, Venus ook een paar etc.).
Een voor iedereen duidelijke bron (want de beelden spreken voor zich) is op You Tube: Universal News Media. Deze (christelijke) vrouw laat bijna dagelijks sinds de laatste paar maanden beelden zien van FAA webcams uit Alaska. Heel goed is hierdoor te zien hoe snel die hemellichamen intussen dichterbij de Aarde zijn gekomen (bijv. eentje beslaat nu al meer dan de helft van zo'n webcam beeld!) maar ook wordt door haar werk duidelijk hoe hard er door de PTB aan wordt gewerkt om via zeer intensieve chemtrails de zichtbaarheid van die hemellichamen voor de massa te verbergen (wat steeds moeilijker wordt, omdat die hemellichamen zo dichtbij staan). Dan zijn de ongefundeerde opmerkingen van de lezer van jullie artikel van 15 juni daarmee ook weerlegd.
Maar als je echt wilt weten hoe de zaak met het Planet X systeem in elkaar steekt, en hoe dit bijv. aantoonbaar de oorzaak is van de vele aardveranderingen (tot aan het opwarmen van het zeewater, de overal open scheurende en brekende grond en de 'omgekeerde bliksems' aan toe) dan zouden jullie je lezers kunnen verwijzen naar de vele, bijna dagelijkse video's van Doctor Claudia Albers, van Planet X News' Scott C'ione. Zij legt als natuurkundige op uiterst heldere, ook voor leken, wijze uit hoe het allemaal in elkaar steekt.
Overigens: de Zeta's zijn een zeer onbetrouwbare bron, die hun eigen agenda hebben (met steun van bijv. de CIA), en die het bekende recept gebruiken van alle foute bronnen: kleine stukjes juiste info verpakken in het grote, onjuiste geheel, zodat mensen die te weinig ervan weten toch denken dat zij een betrouwbare bron zijn.
Op meerdere webcams, bijv. in Europa (maar begin 2017 heb ik wekenlang kunnen genieten van prachtige beelden in Mexico, naast de opgaande zon, van zeker twee hemellichamen), kun je hemellichamen van het Planet X system (om het zo maar te noemen) zien gedurende bepaalde tijden, bijv. van 15.00 uur - 15.45 uur. Dit dan alleen uiteraard als het onbewolkt is en er geen chemtrails getrokken worden (wat zelden het geval is). Soms 1 stuks, soms twee naast elkaar. Na een paar weken is er dan niets meer te zien, blijkbaar zijn die hemellichamen dan in een andere baan terecht gekomen, want je ziet ze na enige tijd als het ware oplossen in de achtergrond, steeds vager worden. Ik noem die websites niet omdat ik heb ervaren dat, als 'ze' blijkbaar kunnen zien dat je regelmatig op bepaalde tijden naar zo'n webcam kijkt, dan verwijderen 'ze' een paar uur beelden van die webcam of zelfs een hele dag of 1 keer zelfs een paar weken, zodat je niks meer kunt zien. Maar een beetje zoeken op dergelijke webcams levert al snel beelden op van die hemellichamen (meestal rond zonsondergang), omdat ze nu zo dicht bij de Aarde staan. Ook op Buienradar kun je regelmatig 'tweede zonnen' zien op ingestuurde foto's, die naïevelingen dan 'een tweede zon' of 'bijzon' noemen, zonder dat hier verder enig commentaar op komt!
Tenslotte: ook webcam beelden die 's nachts gemaakt zijn, geven spectaculaire beelden. Kort samengevat: het wordt gewoonweg niet meer donker 's nachts, ook niet in Zuid Europa (want in het noorden, zoals Alaska, blijft het nu natuurlijk licht 's nachts) en op bepaalde plaatsen aan de hemel is er nu doorlopend een duidelijke oranjeachtige gloed zichtbaar en is de omgeving bijna net zo helder te zien als overdag, geen zaklampen nodig!
Security Unit Of PM Narendra Modi Receives Report About UFO Sighting Near His Residence
Security Unit Of PM Narendra Modi Receives Report About UFO Sighting Near His Residence
A senior security official said that a report about a sighting of a round UFO hovering over the residence of the Prime Minister on Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi briefly fazed security personnel in the VIP area but put their suspicions to rest after the immediate search discovered nothing.
The Perimeter Security Officer gave an “OK Report” to Delhi Police after the search ended.
Dependra Pathak, a Delhi police spokesperson and special commissioner of police, affirmed the sighting but said the inside information of the event could not be disclosed. Pathak explained the sighting was reported but not alarming, and keeping security reasons in mind; more details cannot be shared.
An unnamed officer cited in the first instance said that Special Protection Group (SPG) sent information about the sighting to PM’s security unit of Delhi Police and the Delhi airport operations control centre, which received the report around 7:30 pm. The Delhi airport operations control centre comprises staff from the Delhi International Airport Ltd, Central Industrial Security Force, and the air force.
Immediately, the alert was communicated to the National Security Guards and the Intelligence Bureau. Also, put on high alert was the Delhi Air Traffic Control (ATC).
According to the officer cited above, the Delhi Police was also roped in, which assured a temporary extra deployment on the fringe of the PM’s residence, while other security agencies performed the drill to hunt down the suspected menace.
Such an incident taken place is not the first time. Around 10 pm, on September 17, 2017, the Delhi police security control room received a report about a drone-like object sighting around the Parliament area. However, an ACT’s radar, which cannot capture small flying objects in any case, caught no object.
In the same month, ATC was informed by the Delhi Police control room about the drone-like flying object sighting above a hospital in a southern suburb. However, authorities found nothing.
In November, draft regulations for the use of drones in the country were unveiled. The guidelines for the use of drones will be finalised when the Directorate General of Civil Aviation receives a response from the ministry of home affairs and the ministry of defence.
On Jun 14, 2018 a high speed horseshoe-like UFO has been filmed over France.
The footage shows the UFO speeding through the clouds where it looks like the UFO changes to a horsehoe-like shape but that can be an optical illusion.
Besides the possibility that the witness has caught a UFO, the object could be a drone or a fighter jet and the white shape is the air stream over the wings as it travels super sonic.
Scientists discover over 100 planets that may host habitable life
Scientists discover over 100 planets that may host habitable life
Tristram Clayton interviews Grant Christie, Astronomer at Auckland Observatory, about the discovery of a new solar system just 39 light years from Earth.Daily Mail
Researchers have identified over 100 planets beyond our solar system that may have moons capable of supporting life.
Using data from the Kepler space telescope, scientists identified 121 planets that orbit within the habitable zone of their star.
Each are estimated to be more than three times the width of Earth, and likely all host several large moons, according to the Daily Mail.
This is an artist's illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet in a distant solar system. Photo / NASA GSFC: Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold
The new research is a collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Queensland.
"There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system," says Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center.
"While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the sun's habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems.
"Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look."
Kepler launched back in 2009 and has since detected thousands of worlds outside of our solar system.
While scientists are primarily looking for terrestrial – or rocky – planets, Jupiter-like planets that sit in the habitable zone are also considered to be promising, as they may host habitable moons.
According to the researchers, exomoons may even be more favorable for life than Earth, as they receive energy from both the star and radiation reflected off the planet.
But, scientists have yet to confirm the existence of an exomoon.
Using data from the Kepler space telescope, scientists identified 121 planets that orbit within the habitable zone of their star. Illustration / NASA GSFC: Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold
The new work could help to narrow the search down, with 121 giant planets that may contain such moons.
"Now that we have created a database of the known giant planets in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties,' said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR's graduate program in the fall.
"Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life."
WHAT IS THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE?
The habitable zone is the range of orbits around a star in which a planet can support liquid water.
This habitable zone is also known as the "Goldilocks" zone, taken from the children's fairy tale.
The temperature from the star needs to be "just right" so that liquid water can exist on the surface.
The boundaries of the habitable zone are critical.
If a planet is too close to its star, it will experience a runaway greenhouse gas effect, like Venus.
But if it's too far, any water will freeze, as is seen on Mars.
Since the concept was first presented in 1953, many stars have been shown to have a Goldilocks area, and some of them have one or several planets in this zone, like "Kepler-186f", discovered in 2014.
Heel wat mensen keken zaterdag iets na 23.00 uur vreemd op. Aan de hemel was een heldere vuurbol was te zien. Ook dinsdagnacht was dat al het geval. ‘Uitzonderlijk zijn vuurbollen niet, zeldzamer is dat ze worden waargenomen’, klinkt het bij volkssterrenwacht Mira.
De vuurbol of heel heldere meteoor werd waargenomen in grote delen van Europa, maar toch vooral in België en Nederland. Onder meer tijdens een optreden van de Amerikaanse rockgroep Foo Fighters tijdens het Nederlandse muziekfestival Pinkpop was de vuurbol te zien. Een van de toeschouwers die het optreden filmde, kon het fenomeen vastleggen op video.
Volgens Philippe Mollet van de volkssterrenwacht Mira zijn vuurbollen heel heldere meteoren of vallende sterren. Het zijn stofdeeltjes van een paar centimeter groot van kometen of planetoïden die in de dampkring terechtkomen en de lucht daarrond laten oplichten. Volgens de eerste schattingen zou de vuurbol de atmosfeer zijn binnengekomen in de regio van Luik en de Hoge Venen, klinkt het bij de volkssterrenwacht.
Zeldzaam zijn zo’n vuurbollen niet. ‘Meestal worden ze niet waargenomen. Maar tijdens de zomer, als mensen buiten zitten, worden ze soms wel waargenomen’, aldus Mollet. Wie een vuurbol wil melden, kan dat op de website van de Vereniging voor Sterrenkunde. Daar hebben ze negentig meldingen binnengekregen over de vuurbal van zaterdag.
Kurz nach dem Foto im letzten Tweet gelang mir um 23:11 Uhr MESZ dieser Schnappschuss: #Mond#Venus#Feuerkugel. Canon EOS 6D, f=180mm, ISO 4000, Bl. 10, t=1,6sec; mit Bildbearbeitung etwas aufgehellt.
Interest in the World Cup may stretch beyond the stars, it has turned out - after reports of a UFO arrival in Russia.
Footage has emerged of a "giant stingray" lighting up the skies over northern Russia.
A nervous woman who spotted the mystery lights in the city of Kirov wrote: “What the hell was that? It doesn’t look like anything I’ve previously seen."
“The aliens have arrived for the World Cup,” said one.
The spooky display was visible from Nizhny Novgorod where England play on 24 June.
Stunning footage shows a stingray-shaped object in the sky over northern Russia
(Image: east2west news)
Some suggested it was aliens arriving for the World Cup
(Image: east2west news)
“Is that a rocket, a fireball or a UFO over Nizhny Novgorod? Talk to me comrades, I'm worried!,” posted Andrey.
The spectacular footage had another explanation, according to Russian space officials.
The eerie light show coincided with a Soyuz-2.1.B launch from Plesetsk cosmodrome in the country’s sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region.
The rocket with a Glonass-M satellite was at 00.46 Moscow time on Sunday, 17 June.
Stunning footage has been viewed thousands of times online
(Image: east2west news)
The spooky display was visible from Nizhny Novgorod where England play on 24 June
(Image: east2west news)
The satellite was safely delivered to target orbit by a Fregat upper stage rocket, said military officials.
While the Ministry of Defence reported a successful launch, some people on Russian social media went into a panic mode after seeing the spectacular visual display.
It sent some people into a panic(Image: east2west news)
“I’ve seen alien life and it looks like a stingray,” said one.
As it developed, it morphed into a jellyfish in the night sky, said another.
“What an mazing display.”
Glonass is Russia’s own global satellite navigation system.
One said: 'The aliens have arrived for the World Cup,' said one.
'Is that a rocket, a fireball or a UFO over Nizhny Novgorod? Talk to me comrades, I'm worried!' posted Andrey.
Another commented: 'I've seen alien life and it looks like a stingray.'
Others observed that as the aircraft developed, it morphed into a jellyfish in the night sky.
Since uploading the short video of the rocket flight, a number of people suggest that an extraterrestrial phenomenon could have been flying over Russia
The clip shows the UFO, which was spotted in Houston, Texas, yesterday by a man named Shaun.
He revealed how he looked up to the skies to spot something hovering thousands of feet up, even higher than passenger jets passing above.
Shaun said: “I’m not sure what it is, it was hard to get a good shot of it.
“It definitely wasn’t close. I recorded it from my driveway and I live in Jersey Village in Texas.
“We actually have an airport really close which is not an international airport – its out in the woods and I think there is some strange stuff going on up there.”
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UFO? The bizarre scenes were spotted in Texas
“I’m not sure what it is, it was hard to get a good shot of it”
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Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base is shared facility between the US military and NASA located on the southeast of the city.
The video was originally uploaded to Shaun’s YouTube account, but has gained popularity after being shared on popular conspiracy channel Thirdphaseofmoon.
Since it shared yesterday, it has racked up more than 7,000 hits.
And viewers were quick to share their opinions.
“That is definitely some kind of drone,” one comment read.
Before another claimed: “A secret NASA operation."
The most likely cradles for life inside our solar system
The most likely cradles for life inside our solar system
Scientists still believe it possible that extraterrestrial life could flourish in our own neighbourhood
Georgia Simcox
Portrait of Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover. Photograph: Nasa
1. Mars
This week, Nasa’s veteran Curiosity rover discovered complex organic matterthat had been buried and preserved for more than 3bn years in sediments forming a lake bed. This means that if microbial life did land on Mars, it would be nourished.
Photograph: JPL-Caltech/Nasa
2. Europa
One of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Europa is the sixth-largest moon in the solar system. It is thought to have water oceans beneath the surface and, like Earth, an internal energy source from radioactive decay. This has led to the hypothesis that life may exist in conditions similar to that of Earth’s hydrothermal vents.
Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
3. Enceladus
Saturn’s sixth-largest moon is mainly covered by ice, and ejects geyser-like plumes of water that contain nitrogen and trace amounts of carbon-bearing molecules. Robotic missions have been proposed to further investigate the moon’s potential to support microbial extraterrestrial life.
Photograph: AP
4. Titan
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is thought to have an environment similar to that on primordial Earth. It has a dense atmosphere and liquid methane on its surface. Although methane-based life forms are hypothetical, scientists have modelled conditions under which they may exist. Some experts have said that although life on Titan is extremely unlikely studying the planet could give us valuable insights into how life began on Earth.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
5. Venus
Although the mean surface temperature of this planet is a not very habitable 462C, scientists have suggested that its upper atmosphere could tolerate life in the form of floating microbes that could feed off the carbon 30 miles (50km) up from the planet’s surface. One Nasa scientist has suggested that humans could colonise Venus’s atmosphere using lighter-than-air balloons but considerable engineering challenges – including clouds of sulphuric acid – would have to be overcome.
Could life exist on planets in the star system closest to ours, Alpha Centauri? Dangerous X-ray radiation makes it unlikely for the single exoplanet found so far. But new data suggest better odds for any new planets yet to be discovered.
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our sun. Chandra data from May 2, 2017 are shown in the inset, in context of a visible-light image of the Alpha Centauri system taken from the ground.
Image via Optical: Zdenek Bardon; X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Colorado/T. Ayres et al.
With the discovery of thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars, the search for life elsewhere has entered an exciting new phase. So far, most of these worlds have been found many light-years away (largely due to the fact that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has discovered the majority of them so far, has focused on a specific patch of sky which contains very distant stars). But what about closer stars? Including, of course, Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our sun, only just over four light-years away. According to Tom Ayres of the University of Colorado Boulder:
Because it is relatively close, the Alpha Centauri system is seen by many as the best candidate to explore for signs of life. The question is, will we find planets in an environment conducive to life as we know it?
Scientists had thought that there was too much X-ray radiation from the stars in the system for life on any planets to be likely. But now, as announced by NASA on June 6, 2018, there is new evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, that, perhaps, conditions could be more life-friendly than previously assumed.
Artist’s concept of the exoplanet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system.
Image via ESO/M. Kornmesser.
While the other two stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, are both similar to our sun, Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, which emits much more deadly X-ray radiation. That is bad news for its one known Earth-sized planet, Proxima b. However, observations from Chandra since 2005 show that conditions around the other two stars are about the same or even better than around our own sun. In terms of the radiation, the prospects for life are actually better for habitable zoneplanets around Alpha Centauri A than our own sun, with lower doses of X-rays than similar planets in our solar system, and only slightly worse around Alpha Centauri B, by a factor of five. As Ayres noted:
This is very good news for Alpha Cen AB in terms of the ability of possible life on any of their planets to survive radiation bouts from the stars. Chandra shows us that life should have a fighting chance on planets around either of these stars.
Artist’s concept of super-Earth exoplanet Kepler-22b, which may be habitable. It is not known yet if any other planets orbit the two larger sun-like stars in the Alpha Centauri system, but if there are, some may have conditions suitable for life.
Image via NASA.
It is not known yet if there are any rocky planets orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B, but if so, then there is an increased chance of habitable conditions, although other factors come into play as well, such as temperature, liquid water or lack of it, composition of any atmosphere, etc. One problem with searching for planets there is that both stars are bright and currently closer together because of their orbits, making detection more difficult.
For Proxima b however, the situation is different. It receives an average dose of X-rays about 500 times greater than Earth, and up to 50,000 times stronger during a large solar flare. Not exactly ideal conditions for life.
Comparison of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and the sun.
With so many exoplanets being discovered now, it is natural of course to wonder about the star system closest to us. Could life exist there? For the one planet known to exist there so far, the results are not encouraging. But if there are others, and most planetary systems appear to have more than one planet, then the odds are a bit more in life’s favor. We won’t know for sure until/if we find additional planets in the Alpha Centauri system. But even if we don’t, many other worlds are being discovered on a regular basis now, and a growing number appear to have conditions at least suitable for habitability, if not life itself.
Bottom line: The closest star system to our sun, Alpha Centauri, has at least one Earth-sized planet orbiting one of its three stars. Dangerous x-rays from that red dwarf star make life unlikely there, but the prospects may be much better for the other two sun-like stars, if any as-yet undiscovered planets orbit them.
The year was 1967 and the Canadian government was super into aliens.
A collection of documents from 1967 found in the national archives give us a hint into just how seriously the government used to take UFO sightings.
The documents outline how the government investigated UFOs—a process that most likely lasted for years afterwards—and breaks down six cases that are “of interest” to the government in detail. The investigations include a man burned by a UFO in Manitoba, some incredibly weird radar sightings by the Department of Defence, an RCMP officer in Nova Scotia who watched a UFO dive below the water and disappear, and a crop circle found in Alberta that was the first investigated by a government.
The documents were found in the national archive by Chris Rutkowski—a man that could probably be best described as Canada’s Fox Mulder—and recently posted to his Ufology blog. Rutowski routinely goes through Canada’s national archives looking for things like this and described the find as “a gem.”
"What we do have in here is rather interesting reports from qualified personnel and qualified sources and investigated by qualified investigators and still there is no explanation," Rutkowski told VICE. "What that tells me is that the UFO phenomena was taking quite seriously by them indeed."
The intro to the document.
Photo via screenshot.
While the government has some of tUFO research readily available online in a database it is still relatively unknown—especially among the general public—how they actually investigated cases and what the bureaucracy was like. This, Rutkowski says, might be “our best snapshot” into this process.
"This is certainly an interesting snapshot because it does show what was happening before and how it was going to move forward and I think it set the stage for how the Canadian military and government were looking at UFOs from that point onward,” said Rutkowski.
The 27 page set of documents—which Rutkowski was kind enough to direct VICE towards—was prepared by Wing Commander Douglas Robertson (a Canadian Forces officer well-known in the UFO community) for someone we do not know in November of 1967. Rutkowski speculates it could’ve been for a newly-appointed Minister of Defence as “the infamous Paul Hellyer [one of the world’s highest ranking alien believers] had left the position a few months earlier.” At the time, as Robertson writes, the National Department of Defence was the body in charge of investigating UFO reports.
The briefing breaks down the seven military categories of UFOs which include hoaxes, mass hysteria, misinterpretations of natural events, advanced military technology, and psychological conditions. However, the seventh and final category is “unusual sightings which the viewer is unable to identify or explain, namely, UFOs.” Hell yeah.
The documents show that the investigation into UFOs was a little bit of a hot potato in Canada as in it was frequently handed off between departments. When a new report came in, researchers would first decide if the object was a meteor or fireball—if so it would be directed to the NRC. If it was something else it would then be put in one of three categories Class A: worthy of investigation Class B: interesting but you don’t need to look into it; and Class C: boring.
Photo via screenshot.
The investigations varied and could be as simple as an interview or as a complicated as getting several other agencies including the RCMP, NRC, Defence Research Board (DRB) or (weirdly) the Department of National Health and Welfare on board. In many of the cases, you can see that post-secondary institutions like the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba would help out with analysis. The government would also send professionals to investigate the sites in-depth and if the case was intense enough, partner with the United States.
The document was written during an interesting time for UFOs in Canada. As Rutkowski puts it, 1967 was a high water mark for this type of activity in the Great White North. The briefing indicates there was a jump in reports from 1966 to 1967—from about 40 to 167. The case files showcase A) just how strange these occurrences were and B) just how seriously the government was taking the investigations.
Here are breakdowns of the case studies Robertson concludes “may be of interest” to whoever the intended reader of the briefing may be:
1. Falcon Lake
The first one outlines perhaps Canada’s most infamous “UFO encounter,” the Falcon Lake case. The case revolved around Steven Michalak, a Manitoba man, who says he encountered two UFOs 90 miles east of Winnipeg. While Michalak was analyzing a rock formation he said two flying saucers appeared before him. One flew off at high speed while other landed about 100 feet in front of him. When he reached out and touched the object with his gloved hand, it burned him immediately. The object took off and the exhaust fumes reportedly burned him as well. Michalak was hospitalized for several days as a result.
In the briefing, Robertson writes that soil samples at the site were “analyzed and found to be radioactive to a degree that the samples had to be safely disposed of.” In the briefing, Robertson admits that “neither the DND nor the RCMP investigative teams were able to provide evidence which could dispute Mr Michalak’s story.” Furthermore, the radiologist dispatched to the area was unable to explain why the area was contaminated with radiation. The section ends with “although the investigation has been completed, a satisfactory ending or conclusion is still lacking.”
Many, many things have been written about the Falcon Lake case, including a book Rutkowski wrote with Michalak's son.
2. Calgary UFO Photo
The second case, again made in 1967, revolves around a famous Canadian photograph taken of a UFO near Calgary. It tells the story of Warren Smith who was out for a hike near Nanton, Alberta.
“A UFO suddenly appeared outside of an area of trees a few hundred feet above the observers,” reads the briefing which goes on to explain how Smith was able to snap two photos of the objects. Smith made prints of these shots, which were then sent to the DND. “The prints were subjected to a detailed analysis by the Photo Intelligence Interpretation Centre. The Centre concluded its investigation by stating, assuming the photos by Mr Smith to be genuine, the UFO fit the description of the objects by Mr Smith.”
3. Clear Water Bay
The next case outlined in the briefing is focused on a family that was returning to their home in Clear Water Bay by boat when they encountered a UFO. According to the briefing the object appeared about 50 feet away from “Mr. Green” (how he is referred to in the document) and Green decided to investigate it. When he approached the object ripped towards Green and he “immediately retreated using maximum power.” Then the object returned to its original spot.
Green and his family docked the boat and ran to a nearby home to wake all the occupants so they could come and look at the object. They were able to do so for about 15 minutes until it took off. In a nearby home, a neighbour that was interviewed by the government said that while he didn’t see the object he was “listening to his radio at the time the UFO was sighted and received so much static he was forced to turn it off.”
A “detailed investigation conducted by the DND in cooperation with the RCMP” found that Green was a “reliable, competent, and sincere witness with no indulgence tendencies.” They also checked to see if alcohol was consumed at the time, found none, and tested Green’s eyes. Wilted leaves were found at the top of the trees near where the object was allegedly hovering and some were sent to the University of Manitoba for lab testing. The Department of Forestry also checked and found “that they are unable to explain the reason for the wilting.”
The section ends with “the investigation has been concluded without any fixed conclusions or findings being made.”
4. The RCMP’s Diving UFO
The next sighting was seen by an RCMP corporal out near Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia. The RCMP officer describes seeing an object about 60 feet in length with white lights flying over the water at a low altitude. The object started making a high pitched whistling sound and slammed into the water leaving only one white light visible. RCMP Cpl Wereisky approached the light by boat and it rapidly sank underneath him as he got close. The area was then searched by the Canadian Coast Guard and other boats but nothing was found.
The government conducted a rigorous investigation into this sighting which included an underwater search and wasn’t able to find anything. The government investigation ended, once again, “without finding any fixed findings.”
5. Department of Transportation Radar Sighting
The next investigation outlined in the briefing is one Rutkowski described as being “very unique.” In July of 1967, the Department of Transportation reported that “an unidentified radar target was tracked through seven sweeps of their radar, witnessed by three controllers, and two technicians some 70 miles east of Winnipeg.”
The target was ripping at intense rate. As outlined in the briefing, it increased from a speed of “720 knots [1,333 km per hour] to 3,600 knots [6,667 km per hour] in one minute and ten seconds.” The briefing explains that the five people who witnessed the radar object are “certain it was a radar target and not something associated with mechanical, electrical, or equipment faults.” On the same day in Kenora, Ontario, a similar object was picked up on the radar.
“The unknown object was under the positive radar for 29 minutes,” reads the briefing about the Kenora sighting. “The object followed Air Canada Flight 405 for a period before disappearing from scope. It reappeared and followed Air Canada Flight 927 for a period of time. DOT are unable to explain these radar returns.”
The DND again did an investigation into this and again were unable to find any conclusions.
Camrose Crop Circle
The final case outlined in the briefing is one in Alberta and, according to Rutowski, contrary to popular belief shows that it was in Canada, not Britain, where a government first investigated crop circles. It occurred outside of Camrose Alberta in August of 1967 when “several deep impressions were made in an unknown object in a pasture.”
The Department of Defence sent out a man who is referred to as “Dr. Jones” in the document to investigate and he found “no physical evidence of any damage to trees or shrubs in the field and no evidence to suggest a deliberate interference or involvement by a person.” Rutowski was able to find further documentation of Dr. Jones investigation and again was kind enough to share them with VICE. In the documents, you can see just how in depth the government got with their investigation.
In the documents, Jones said that he believed it could be a “deliberate hoax” but the hoaxers would “require some equipment and a great deal of determination.” He estimates that in order to do such spherical circles the hoaxers would need two wheels on a 30-foot axle that put pressure of three-quarters of a ton on a pasture. Next Jones has us “consider the UFO possibility” and he breaks down the math behind what size a flying vehicle would need to be in order to produce such marks and comes upon 135 tons.
“This load of 135 tons would be in the right ballpark for a large aircraft, or presumably, small space craft,” ends this section of Jones’ report.
Epilogue
After the case studies, Robertson uses the briefing to discuss possible future plans regarding UFO research in Canada and give several recommendations to our unknown reader. He proposes that the DND hands off the responsibility of investigating UFOs to the National Research Council and that the Director of Operations works as the coordinating agency between the DND units providing field investigations and the NRC.
“It is evident that from investigations conducted by the DND, and from the findings made by prominent and highly qualified personnel, that the primary interest of UFOs lies in the field of science, and to a lesser degree, to one that is associated with national security,” writes Robertson.
Robertson writes that the workload in 1967 regarding UFOs was so large that it was actually becoming detrimental to government workers as it took up so much time. He also writes that the government should be more open with the public about their work in UFOs. This is something Rutkowski—even over 51 years removed—still admittedly agrees with.
"By not being able to comment it made it look like there was something to hide. Of course, this document does show there was some very interesting conclusions, some unexplained cases that should have been made more public,” said Rutkowski. “But when a public relations officer just keeps saying no comment, no comment, it shows that perhaps there is something that is being hidden.
"My reading from this document is that the Canadian Forces didn't really know what to do with UFOs either. It's not that they were hiding everything they just didn't have the expertise in the field and the scientific community didn't want anything to do with it so they were kinda hung out to dry."
New results modeling the co-evolution of technological civilizations and their planetary climates suggest that aliens could, much like the Easter Island culture from Earth’s history, suffer self-inflicted collapses due to rapid environmental degradation.Credit: Michael Osadciw, University of Rochester Illustration
Much has been written about the Anthropocene—a proposed new division of geologic time in which humans are a dominant force for planetary change: When did it begin? How might it unfold? And can we, the supposed masters of Earth, actually use our powers to make our planet a better place? Understandably, most of the Anthropocene’s literature to date both in the popular press and peer-reviewed publications has been decidedly Earth-centric. But in a recent series of papers and a new book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, the astrophysicist Adam Frank argues the Anthropocene’s origins and implications are best understood in the context of astrobiology, the study of life in the universe. The climate change and other environmental effects associated with humankind’s global ascendance, he says, are likely to be universal phenomena manifest for any and every technological civilization that emerges somewhere in the cosmos. Which means the most crucial insights governing the Anthropocene may come less from studying the ground beneath our feet and more from turning our gaze to the heavens.
Scientific American spoke with Frank, a professor at the University of Rochester, about the lessons to be learned from speculations about alien civilizations battling climate change.
What motivated you to write this book?
The book was inspired by some frightening conversations I ended up having with climate change denialists in response to my pieces on that topic for National Public Radio and The New York Times. It was terrifying, really, to see how locked into their perspective these people are and to realize there’s this false narrative about climate change, which we’re stuck in. So this was motivated, in part, by my thinking about how to change the discussion.
Over the years what I’ve come to understand is that human-driven climate change is really an astrobiology problem. It’s not a problem of politics. It’s not a problem of businessmen versus environmentalists. We are talking about something much bigger—a planetary transition, which some scientists label as the Anthropocene. Climate change is just one aspect of this new human-dominated period. My argument is that Anthropocenes may be generic from an astrobiological perspective; what we’re experiencing now may be the sort of transition that everybody goes through, throughout the universe. And there are probably some common features to long-lived civilizations and the planets they inhabit.
I really started exploring this in 2014, when I co-authored a paper with Woody Sullivan of the University of Washington that proposed using dynamical systems theory to model some of these planetary transitions. We argued that it’s possible to identify the basic paths that “exocivilizations” might follow and the feedbacks that might occur when they begin altering their planetary climates. In my latest paper, just published with several colleagues, we went ahead and actually did some of that modeling.
Why would you have any faith in models examining the behaviors of exocivilizations—something no one has ever seen?
I like to draw a parallel to the Higgs boson. This is a fundamental particle that was “discovered” in 2012, but really you could say it was discovered in 1964. That was when three papers appeared extrapolating from well-understood physics to propose this particle that would wait nearly a half century before actually being seen. The details obviously would have to be filled in by actual data, but in that intervening time physicists went quite far in thoroughly extrapolating the particle’s nature.
So, when it comes to thinking about the interactions between an advanced technological civilization and its planet, well, we actually know a lot more about that today than people knew about the Higgs boson 50 years ago. We have lots of examples of planetary climates that we’ve studied right here in the solar system—Venus, Mars, Titan, Jupiter and so on. And we’ve got computer models that can nicely forecast, for instance, the weather on Mars! So we really do understand climate pretty well. And a civilization, to some degree, is just a mechanism for transforming energy on a planetary surface. This gets us into the realms of thermodynamics on global scales, which is super cool.
So as long as we ask the right sort of question—“What is a planet’s response to having this energy dumped into it?”—we have reasonably good “guardrails” that allow us to address it.
But that’s mostly planetary science. What about the social or biological aspects here? How are you modeling that?
Well, just as we understand planetary climates pretty well, we can use the basic, fundamental tenets of life to guide us, too. Organisms are born, some of them reproduce and they die. Living things consume energy and they excrete waste. That should be true even if they’re made of silicon, or whatever.
So the next step is to incorporate principles of population biology, in which the idea of “carrying capacity”—the number of organisms that can be sustainably supported by the local environment—is very important. This approach can be mathematically applied to the state of a planet, too. So in our latest modeling work we’ve got an equation for how the planet is changing and an equation for how the population is changing. What ties them together is the predictable result that as environmental conditions on a planet get worse, the total carrying capacity goes down. A civilization with a population of n will use the resources of their planet to increase n, but at the same time by using those resources they tend to degrade the planet’s environment.
In our study we used these basic ideas to address the question of if, and how, exocivilizations can get through their own versions of the Anthropocene. Our first models were pretty simple but gave us a pretty rich view of the possible trajectories for exocivilizations.
What were the results of your modeling? And do they make you feel optimistic or pessimistic about our own prospects?
In the models we saw these three classes of behaviors, three trajectories: A “die-off,” where the population overshoots the carrying capacity and then dwindles; a “steady state,” where the population growth slows and ends up within the bounds of carrying capacity; and then a “collapse,” where the population and the carrying capacity both just drop like a stone.
It’s important to remember we aren’t trying to say any particular history is bound to play out on any particular planet. We are looking at the average properties of “successful” versus “unsuccessful” trajectories for civilizations reaching this Anthropocene-like planetary transition.
The results actually made me feel both optimistic and pessimistic. I was happy to see we did find sustainable steady states—it could’ve turned out that they didn’t exist. So our models predicted that long-term civilization/planet co-evolution is possible. Hooray!
But we also found trajectories where equilibrium could only be reached after 90 percent of your population died off. It’s not even clear that a complex technological civilization could survive losing nine out of every 10 individuals. It might well just descend into chaos.
And, there was also a fourth and really chilling trajectory we found. It popped up when we looked at how a civilization might switch from high-impact to low-impact energy sources—such as switching from fossil fuels to solar power, for instance. In some of those scenarios, where the population is soaring and the planet is heating up, the civilization shifts to the low-impact energy resource and everything seems to get better at first—but then a collapse occurs anyway. This fourth trajectory is really scary, because it suggests you can make all the right choices and still have things not work out.
Four scenarios for the fate of technological civilizations and their planets, based on mathematical models developed by Adam Frank and his collaborators. The black line plots the trajectory of the civilization's population and the red line shows the co-evolving trajectory of the planet's temperature (a proxy for climate). Credit: Michael Osadciw, University of Rochester Illustration
Why would that happen?
Because planets are complex systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics. Messing around with a planet’s climate can be like rolling a big rock down a hill. Once the rock really gets going there’s no turning back, and maybe it just shoots right off a cliff.
The climate is basically a giant planet-sized machine with lots of moving parts—the atmosphere, the lithosphere, the cryosphere, the biosphere—and the interactions between those moving parts may be quite sensitive. So if you push it hard enough, even if you stop pushing it shortly after, there isn’t always a way to recover. That’s one of the big messages of the book. We have to start thinking like a planet. Our view of climate change—the faux political debate—is so narrow because we think we’re the first time this has ever happened. We’re kind of like cosmic teenagers who are stuck in our own immaturity.
So where do you think the Earth is in this spectrum of possibilities?
I don’t know the answer yet. I don’t think anyone knows. There needs to be more work done—better models with more realistic climates. There has certainly been a lot of discussion in the Earth science literature about planetary “tipping points,” the idea that you push too far and, woops, now you’re tipped over to another state. People worry about this a lot, that’s clear. But it’s unclear as to where and what exactly the tipping points are, and where we may be relative to them.
Right, but back to the idea of “changing the discussion”—your motivation for writing the book. Surely we could do more with these ideas than just discuss them. Don’t they recommend some action?
Of course they do—but most of those actions are indistinguishable from ones that follow from lots of other work in climate science and policy.
I really do think, though, that the route to our making it through the Anthropocene runs through other planets. We aren’t going to become a sustainable planetary civilization by only dealing with the Earth. I give lots of examples in the book, but one of the best is the fact that the climate models that revealed the possibility of “nuclear winter”—a global cooling caused by the atmospheric effects of a nuclear war—relied heavily on data about Martian dust storms. Talk about cross-fertilization! Those nuclear winter models totally changed the debate about nuclear weapons, and they came from understanding another world.
So we can’t just sit here studying tipping points on Earth at the expense of going out and exploring other worlds and looking for life and intelligence elsewhere, because the knowledge we gain from that is probably essential for our own future. Think of it this way: If you’re sick and you go to the doctor to be cured, the doctor will have pretty limited abilities if he only has ever studied [just] you. If he has studied you and lots of other people, [however,] he’ll have a much clearer picture of what ails you. It’s probably like that with planets and civilizations, too.
Lee Billings
Lee Billings is an associate editor for Scientific American. He covers space and physics.
Astronomers have been searching for a Planet Nine – a world about 10 times Earth’s mass – for about 2 years and have yet to spot it. Maybe there’s another explanation?
Caltech astronomers suggested in 2016 that orbits of these 6 extreme trans-Neptunian objects (in magenta) – all mysteriously aligned in one direction – might be explained by the presence of a Planet Nine (in orange) in our solar system. Despite searches, no Planet Nine has yet been found.
Image via Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC).
As recently as late May, an international team of researchers presented new evidence for an unknown Planet Nine at the fringes of our solar system. The evidence came from analysis of an oddball object in the outer solar system – 2015 BP519 (aka Caju) – whose unusual orbit had been predicted by computer models used by astronomers who’ve been searching for Planet Nine since 2016. Last week, however, other astronomers – members of the Eccentric Dynamics group at University of Colorado, Boulder – presented evidence that Planet Nine might not need to exist, after all. Ann-Marie Madigan, who leads the group, presented the group’s findings at last week’s American Astronomical Society meeting, which ran from June 3-7, 2018 in Denver. Her team’s statement said:
Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system — and not a mysterious ninth planet — may explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called “detached objects” …
In the new study, Madigan and colleagues Jacob Fleisig and Alexander Zderic, also of CU Boulder, looked carefully at the orbits of some of these objects. For example, they looked at the small outer solar system body 90377 Sedna, which orbits our sun at a distance of nearly 8 billion miles (13 billion km). The orbits of Sedna and a handful of other bodies at that distance look separated – or detached – from the rest of the solar system. These strange orbits are what led Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstanin Batygin to propose a Planet Nine in the first place.
Brown and Batygin had suggested that an as-yet-unseen ninth planet – four times the size of Earth and 10 times Earth’s mass – may be lurking beyond Neptune. They suggested the unknown planet’s gravity was influencing the orbits of the “detached objects.” Since 2016, astronomers around the world have been searching for Planet Nine, but no one has found it yet.
Does Planet 9 exist? Collective gravity theory DISPROVES mysterious ninth planet in system
Meanwhile, Madigan, Fleisig and Zderic have explored a new idea about the orbits of these outer solar system bodies. The new calculations show the orbits might be the result of these bodies jostling against each other and debris in that part of space. In that case, no Planet Nine would be needed. Madigan said:
There are so many of these bodies out there. What does their collective gravity do? We can solve a lot of these problems by just taking into account that question.
Ann-Marie Madigan, Jacob Fleisig and Alexander Zderic of the Eccentric Dynamics group at CU Boulder.
Madigan pointed out that the outer solar system is:
… an unusual place, gravitationally speaking.
Once you get further away from Neptune, things don’t make any sense, which is really exciting.
Her team’s statement explained:
Among the things that don’t make sense: Sedna. This minor planet takes more than 11,000 years to circumnavigate Earth’s sun and is a little smaller than Pluto … Sedna and other detached objects complete humongous, circle-shaped orbits that bring them nowhere close to big planets like Jupiter or Neptune. How they got out there on their own remains an ongoing mystery.
Madigan’s team didn’t originally intend to look for an alternate explanation for the orbits of detached bodies. Instead, Jacob Fleisig, an undergraduate studying astrophysics at CU Boulder, was engaged in developing computer simulations to explore the dynamics of orbits. Madigan said:
He came into my office one day and said, “I’m seeing some really cool stuff here.”
Fleisig had calculated that the orbits of icy objects beyond Neptune circle the sun like the hands of a clock. Some of those orbits, such as those belonging to asteroids, move like the minute hand, or relatively fast and in tandem. Others, the orbits of bigger objects like Sedna, move more slowly. They’re the hour hand. Eventually, those hands meet. Fleisig said:
You see a pileup of the orbits of smaller objects to one side of the sun. These orbits crash into the bigger body, and what happens is those interactions will change its orbit from an oval shape to a more circular shape.
In other words, Sedna’s orbit goes from normal to detached, entirely because of those small-scale interactions. The team’s findings also fall in line with recent observations. Research from 2012 noted that the bigger a detached object gets, the farther away its orbit becomes from the sun — exactly as Fleisig’s calculations show.
An artist’s rendering of Sedna, which looks reddish in color in telescope images.
These astronomers say their findings may provide clues about another phenomenon: the extinction of the dinosaurs. As space debris interacts in the outer solar system, the orbits of these objects tighten and widen in a repeating cycle. This cycle could wind up shooting comets toward the inner solar system on a predictable timescale. Fleisig said:
While we’re not able to say that this pattern killed the dinosaurs, it’s tantalizing.
Madigan added that the orbit of Sedna is one more example of just how interesting the outer solar system has become. She said:
The picture we draw of the outer solar system in textbooks may have to change. There’s a lot more stuff out there than we once thought, which is really cool.
Astronomers Mike Brown and Konstanin Batygin (@KBatygin on Twitter), both of Caltech, proposed Planet Nine in 2016 and are still trying to investigate it.
Bottom line: Astronomers at Caltech proposed a Planet Nine in 2016, and other astronomers around the world have been searching for it. Yet no one has spotted it. Meanwhile, there’s research suggesting we might not need a Planet Nine to explain the strange orbits of small bodies in the outer solar system.
It’s awesome to be back on the site and bringing new and fresh knowledge for you all to feast on.
I took a long hiatus to contemplate, meditate, and investigate. The knowledge that I have been given to in turn give to humanity is vastly extensive and threads throughout the very thing we all know as reality. You could call me a translator. I somehow know how to explain this very difficult and fantastic revelation to a population that has been subdued and limited.
In a nutshell, I have discovered Ancient Aliens, where they are, where they have been hiding, and the evolution they are now experiencing in harmony with the consciousness evolution of the Human specie.
I did not need a telescope, nor did I need a microscope, although I can show you the existence of Ancient Aliens with either. There is one thing wrong with the mind, once it decides something does not exist, it will try its hardest to keep it that way.
The mind and the brain must become one, trusting each other to provide pure knowledge and insight into what IS, and not so much what is not.
I am here to provide answers to questions that have been pondered for centuries.
I am here to connect dots for researchers that have hit wall after wall by limiting their research to only what is already known.
I can provide an extensive amount of assistance to organizations researching space, searching for extraterrestrials and analyzing the latest changes on the planet.
Humans, in this day and age, tend to think they know everything, and even more-so, that everything is known. This is a limiting factor in the revelation of these Ancient Aliens.
I am the conduit, the ambassador to Ancient Aliens, the one who has been bestowed the sacred ancient knowledge. I am humbled to be the holder of such a delicate and unraveling ball of wisdom. And although I feel humbled, I also feel empowered to spread this knowledge amongst the people of Earth before it is once again locked up.
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En décembre 2017, le New York Times dévoilait tout : Le Pentagone a investi plus de 100 millions de dollars dans la recherche sur les ovnis, entre 2007 et 2012. Cette révélation s’accompagnait de la déclassification de documents, et surtout d’une vidéo montrant, en 2004, de pilotes de chasse américains à la poursuite d’un étrange objet ovale blanc, aujourd’hui surnommé le « Tic Tac volant ». Celui-ci avançait à une vitesse folle sans pour autant visiblement posséder de moyen de propulsion.
Ovni : la vérité est au Pentagone - 28 minutes - ARTE
Aujourd’hui, une équipe de chercheurs de Las Vegas, menée par le journaliste George Knapp, a mis la main sur un document officiel de 13 pages contenant l’analyse militaire des événements qui se sont déroulés ce jour-là, rapportait Motherboard le 24 mai.
D’après le rapport, l’ovni vu par les deux pilotes aurait réalisé un piqué, passant de « 60 000 pieds à environ 50 pieds d’altitude en quelques secondes ». Qui plus est, aussitôt repéré par le radar, celui-ci a disparu à une vitesse incroyable, grâce à une « capacité d’accélération, d’aérodynamique et de propulsion avancée ». L’un des deux pilotes a également signalé avoir observé une « perturbation » à la surface autrement calme de l’océan « d’un diamètre de 50 à 100 mètres, quasiment circulaire ». Elle lui a fait penser « aux images d’un appareil plongeant rapidement sous la surface comme un sous-marin ou un navire en train de couler».
Le fichier contient également le témoignage d’un membre expérimenté du porte-avion à l’origine de la découverte. Selon lui, l’ovni ressemblait à un missile balistique. Et la raison pour laquelle il a échappé aux radars est simple : il était réglé de sorte à surveiller les avions conventionnels et non pas les missiles. Si cela peut rassurer ceux que les extraterrestres effraient, l’hypothèse de voir un missile inconnu flotter dans les airs avant de disparaître n’est guère plus rassurante ou logique.
What’s worse than having your city battered and broken by a violent storm? Getting smacked in the head by a flying octopus while it’s happening, adding insult to injury or, depending on the size of the sky-surfing cephalopod, just more injury. While there are no reports of anyone being hurt by an octopus-turned-missile, a recent storm in the Chinese city of Qingdao bring a mass of octopus, starfish, squid and other sea creatures falling from the sky in the most recent case of bizarre “fish rain.”
Apocalypse Octopus Rain Sea creatures fall from the sky
The storm on Wednesday, June 13 fizzled out before pushing far inland but it did hit the coastal city of Qindao, and the Chinese Meteorological Administration confirmed that the photos of starfish, shrimp, mollusks, and octopus gripped on to cars and homes were, in fact, real. The photos out of Qingdao also included fake images of robots and “monsters” amidst the damage. Aren’t flying octopus enough? Do you really need to add robots to the mix?
The likely cause of the “seafood rain” (as it’s infuriatingly being referred to on social media) is believed to be waterspouts in the Yellow Sea which presumably sucked the animals out of the water and dropped them on Qingdao.
The phenomenon of “fish rain” or “animal rain” is a rare, but very real, weather phenomenon which has been documented for centuries. Reports of thousands of falling fish, frogs, and other animals that have no business in the sky have occurred since the Roman empire. Pliny The Elder wrote about storms dumping frogs and fish into the streets as early as the first century CE. Since then, fish rain has been seen all over the world.
In the rural town of Yoro, Honduras, residents say that a fish rain happens every year, coinciding with the first major rainfall of May or June and has been occurring for centuries. In 1998, Yoro began a yearly festival to mark the fish rain, called the lluvia de peces, complete with a carnival and parade, much to the chagrin of the fish.
While waterspouts are widely believed to be responsible for the phenomenon, the process of waterspouts sucking animals out of the sea has never been directly observed. This explanation certainly makes sense for Qingdao, China. It’s a coastal city, and this fish rain was accompanied by a large and powerful storm system. There’s probably a causal effect happening there.
Yet, with the yearly lluvia de peces in Honduras, that explanation doesn’t quite hold up. Yoro is not close enough to the ocean for a waterspout to carry a mass of fish all the way to the town every single year. Some believe that when the heavy rains fall, fish migrating through subterranean waterways and caves are drawn up to the surface by the overflowing water and left stranded when the water recedes. If that’s true then it’s sort of the opposite of a fish ran, come to think about it.
Perhaps there’s an alternate explanation. It could be—hear me out—that the scarily intelligent (and possibly alien) octopus is planning an invasion and subsequent takeover of humanity, using fish and frogs as the initial foot soldiers (the vanguard, if you will) before bringing out the big guns. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when a giant squid lands on your house and starts bossing you around.
If you’ve driven anywhere on the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida, you’ve probably traveled on some portion of Interstate 95. While your concerns while driving (assuming you’re not texting – stop it if you are) likely focus on things on the surface – traffic, potholes, rest stops, etc. – a new study has issued a warning that the biggest dangers encountered while traveling on that freeway are deep underground and on the surface of the sun. Wait, what?
“It’s an active problem that a lot of people are trying to solve and understand.”
“It” — according to space scientist Christopher Balch at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado — is a geoelectric field running along I-95 from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine. Geoelectric fields are created during intense magnetic solar storms and can cause severe damage to the electrical power grid infrastructure. Concern for these storms was heightened on March 13, 1989, when a geomagnetic storm caused by a coronal mass ejection four days prior resulted in a nine-hour power outage for 6 million people served by Hydro-Québec’s electricity transmission system. Quebec was hit the hardest because it sits on a rock shield that reflected the current back up to the surface instead of letting it pass harmlessly into the earth.
Guess what lies underneath I-95?
According to an article in Bloomberg, the U.S. Geological Survey has been looking for other geological insulators like Quebec’s 300-million-year-old Paleozoic-era rock layer in order to pinpoint areas in danger of being affected in a similar manner during the next 100-year solar storm, which they fear will be happening far more often than once-a-century. Jeffrey Love, a research geophysicist with the Geological Survey and author of an upcoming report, has been mapping the geoelectric fields in the U.S. and found the rock insulation under I-95 and the electrical power grids serving Washington, Boston, New York and other major eastern cities.
Now that they know they’re in danger of a major outage during the next massive solar storm, what are power companies doing to prepare for and prevent problems? Anyone? Bueller?
“We only really have roughly 35 years of digital data. Earth conductivity is something that is just beginning to be available in more realistic types of models.”
Christopher Balch delivers the bad news that the best anyone can do right know is model the areas that would be affected and simulate the catastrophic aftermath. Digging up the rock layer is not an option.
What should you do if you’re driving on I-95 and notice the street light flickering and a lot of cars taking the next exit west? Get in line!
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Uwe Reichert op TwitterUwe Reichert is één van de weinige mensen die de vuurbal heeft gezien én op de gevoelige plaat vastlegde.
WETENSCHAPIn ons land, Nederland, Duitsland én Frankrijk hebben mensen gisteravond een enorme vuurbal gespot. Ook tijdens het optreden van de Foo Fighters op Pinkpop verscheen de lichtflits aan de hemel.
In totaal zijn er al negentig meldingen binnengekomen over de zogenoemde ‘fireball’, zo blijkt uit een inventarisatie van de Internationale Meteorieten Organisatie. Het ging om een lichtblauwe en lichtgroene lichtflits die in ons land werd gespot in onder meer Haasrode, Beveren en Scherpenheuvel-Zichem.
Pascal@Orionxt12
#vuurbal boven #averbode zeer helder met verschillende brokken richting zuiden
Een bezoeker van Pinkpop zag de flits in zijn ooghoeken en legde hem vast op video tijdens een optreden van de Amerikaanse rockband Foo Fighters, blijkt uit een filmpje op Dumpert.
“Gisteren een #vuurbal gespot tijdens Foo Fighters op #Pinkpop, dat is toch een stuk meer rock ’n roll dan een regenboog #pp18", constateert Ruben den Boer op Twitter droogjes.
Ruben den Boer@zwartomrand
Gisteren een #vuurbal gespot tijdens Foo Fighters op #Pinkpop, dat is toch een stuk meer rock ‘n roll dan een regenboog #pp18
De Duitser Uwe Reichert is één van de weinigen die de vuurbal zag én op de foto wist vast te leggen. Met zijn Canon EOS met 180 millimeterlens wist hij de vuurbal in beeld te brengen. “Met beeldbewerking iets opgelicht”, geeft Reichter wel toe op Twitter.
Dag en nacht
De Duitser is wetenschapsredacteur en ‘bedrijft dag en nacht astronomie’, zoals hij zelf zegt. Op Twitter kreeg hij zoveel reacties dat hij er niet in slaagt om iedereen persoonlijk te bedanken. Zijn tweet met de bewuste foto werd meer dan honderd keer gedeeld en honderden keren leuk bevonden.
Kurz nach dem Foto im letzten Tweet gelang mir um 23:11 Uhr MESZ dieser Schnappschuss: #Mond#Venus#Feuerkugel. Canon EOS 6D, f=180mm, ISO 4000, Bl. 10, t=1,6sec; mit Bildbearbeitung etwas aufgehellt. pic.twitter.com/16RGhWZk6s
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Vuurbal verlicht de hemel, zelfs op Pinkpop - HLN.be
Vuurbal verlicht de hemel, zelfs op Pinkpop - HLN.be
Marcia Nieuwenhuis
Uwe Reichert op TwitterUwe Reichert is één van de weinige mensen die de vuurbal heeft gezien én op de gevoelige plaat vastlegde.
WETENSCHAPIn ons land, Nederland, Duitsland én Frankrijk hebben mensen gisteravond een enorme vuurbal gespot. Ook tijdens het optreden van de Foo Fighters op Pinkpop verscheen de lichtflits aan de hemel.
In totaal zijn er al negentig meldingen binnengekomen over de zogenoemde ‘fireball’, zo blijkt uit een inventarisatie van de Internationale Meteorieten Organisatie. Het ging om een lichtblauwe en lichtgroene lichtflits die in ons land werd gespot in onder meer Haasrode, Beveren en Scherpenheuvel-Zichem.
Pascal@Orionxt12
#vuurbal boven #averbode zeer helder met verschillende brokken richting zuiden
Een bezoeker van Pinkpop zag de flits in zijn ooghoeken en legde hem vast op video tijdens een optreden van de Amerikaanse rockband Foo Fighters, blijkt uit een filmpje op Dumpert.
“Gisteren een #vuurbal gespot tijdens Foo Fighters op #Pinkpop, dat is toch een stuk meer rock ’n roll dan een regenboog #pp18", constateert Ruben den Boer op Twitter droogjes.
Ruben den Boer@zwartomrand
Gisteren een #vuurbal gespot tijdens Foo Fighters op #Pinkpop, dat is toch een stuk meer rock ‘n roll dan een regenboog #pp18
De Duitser Uwe Reichert is één van de weinigen die de vuurbal zag én op de foto wist vast te leggen. Met zijn Canon EOS met 180 millimeterlens wist hij de vuurbal in beeld te brengen. “Met beeldbewerking iets opgelicht”, geeft Reichter wel toe op Twitter.
Dag en nacht
De Duitser is wetenschapsredacteur en ‘bedrijft dag en nacht astronomie’, zoals hij zelf zegt. Op Twitter kreeg hij zoveel reacties dat hij er niet in slaagt om iedereen persoonlijk te bedanken. Zijn tweet met de bewuste foto werd meer dan honderd keer gedeeld en honderden keren leuk bevonden.
Kurz nach dem Foto im letzten Tweet gelang mir um 23:11 Uhr MESZ dieser Schnappschuss: #Mond#Venus#Feuerkugel. Canon EOS 6D, f=180mm, ISO 4000, Bl. 10, t=1,6sec; mit Bildbearbeitung etwas aufgehellt. pic.twitter.com/16RGhWZk6s
WEERNIEUWSEen tsunami, maar dan vanuit de lucht. Zo omschrijft bergbeklimmer Peter Maier (27) het opmerkelijke weerfenomeen dat hij kon vastleggen aan de Millstätter See in Oostenrijk. Het gaat om een zogenaamde downburst of microburst.
Bij een downburst of microburst is er een zeer lokale, plotselinge verandering in de wind, waarbij de lucht plots heel fel versnelt op weg naar het aardoppervlak. In dit geval lijkt het wel alsof iemand plots een emmer water in het bergmeer giet. Dat heeft een lengte van 12 kilometer en is tot 1,5 kilometer breed, en ligt op een hoogte van ongeveer 600 meter. “Een lucky shot”, zegt de fervente bergbeklimmer die toch altijd verschillende camera’s bij zich heeft om de wonderen der natuur vast te leggen. “Zo’n beelden, dat kan je niet plannen.” Op Facebook werd de timelapse al 1,6 miljoen keer bekeken.
Het weerfenomeen zelf is overigens een van de grote gevaren voor de luchtvaart. De meeste vliegtuigen zijn wel uitgerust met veiligheidssystemen om piloten te waarschuwen voor windschering.
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UFO Above Prime Minister’s Residence Causes Security Panic Brett Tingley June 17, 2018 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ Spotting a UFO might be a source of wonder and curiosity for most of us, but for those individuals tasked with upholding security, sp
UFO Above Prime Minister’s Residence Causes Security Panic
Spotting a UFO might be a source of wonder and curiosity for most of us, but for those individuals tasked with upholding security, spotting anomalous objects whizzing around in the sky can be incredibly stressful. UFOs have been known to penetrate restricted airspace or stalk military vehicles, leading to all sorts of alarms and tense situations. While the skeptic in me tends to think that these sightings are the result of adversarial nations spying on sensitive locations, some might claim that these events demonstrate unknown beings’ interest in our defensive capabilities.
Whatever the explanation for these sightings is, security forces in India recently responded to an unidentified aerial object seen hovering above Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in New Delhi. On the evening of June 7th, security forces spotted a round object directly above the residence, causing a mild panic and sending personnel scrambling to locate and identify the orb. According to the Hindustan Times, the Prime Minister’s own security forces searched the area with the assistance of the Indian Air Force, Central Industrial Security Forces, and Delhi International Airport, but nothing was found.
Delhi police chief spokesperson Dependra Pathak confirmedthat some type of object was indeed seen above the PM’s residence but refused to give any more information:
The Delhi Police was also roped in, which ensured a temporary additional deployment on the outer periphery of the PM’s residence, while other security agencies performed the drill to hunt the suspected threat down. The sighting was reported but nothing threatening was found. More details cannot be shared keeping security reasons in mind.
While many Indian Twitter users have taken to mocking this breach of security, breaches of airspace are no laughing matter – especially given that Modi was recently the subject of a foiled assassination plot. In all likelihood, the UFO was likely a drone. Could it have been related to the assassination attempt? As the recent violence in Gaza demonstrates, however, even small drones can be fitted with explosive or incendiary devices powerful enough to cause personal injury. What can be done about this growing threat?
In December 2015, the U.S. edition of The Guardian stated: “Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: ‘We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.’ Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013, where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system…”
The late Mac Tonnies, who wrote three books – The Cryptoterrestrials, After the Martian Apocalypse, and Illumined Black – had a particular interest in this field. More than a decade ago I interviewed Mac about his growing interest in the field of sex with robots (he died in 2009). And, while going through a box of old files yesterday I stumbled on the Word document of the Q&A for the first time in years. So, I thought I would share it with you today.
It was, Mac told me, Blade Runner that caught his attention and led him to start digging into the world of robot-human sex: “”I saw that movie for the first time in high-school. It had Darryl Hannah playing a robot called Pris, who is described as a ‘pleasure model.’ She’s all punked-out: big-hair, eye-liner, and looks like your typical genetically-engineered hooker. But she’s essentially human: she’s an individual. So, the whole idea of having intimate relations with machines began to interest me.”
Mac continued: “As things stand now, we’re in the infant stage of development, and the closest things we have to full-on human-robot sex are, effectively, high-tech dildos. But in 20 years we’re liable to see sex-oriented technology transformed and revolutionized; many will choose robotic partners. My interest in robot-sex is actually kind of clinical. I would probably do it out of sheer interest and curiosity. She would have to pass for human though; right down to the pores on her skin. I wouldn’t make a habit out of it; but as a curiosity, I’d try it.”
He added: “Most people think of robots as being something clunky and mechanical – something we’re not attracted to on the sexual level. But if we get to the point where science is now heading – where we have very realistic human-like robots – they would bear very little resemblance to the sci-fi image that people have from Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. If you look at the robots in Blade Runner, you’ll see they actually aren’t mechanical at all: they’re genetically engineered. So, in the future we might grow an artificial embryo in a vat and then plug in a computerized brain, into which we’ll download sex-based software.”
He speculated on how the phenomenon of human-robot sex might progress: “I think shallow relationships, closed-minded ones, would be the first to suffer if one of the people in the relationship brought a robot home. However, more robust relationships might thrive. It will be the underground, alternative couples that embrace this. The people who might be swingers, who go to sex clubs, or who have three-ways; these would probably be the ones more likely to experiment with robot-sex and make it a part of their sexual lifestyle.”
Mac had more to say, too: “I can easily foresee companies selling themed robots. You’ll have just as many themed robots as there are sexual kinks. Robotic lovers, perhaps complimented by virtual reality, will allow people to live out whatever fantasies they want with surprising realism. Even further ahead, I also think that this sexual revolution will blur the lines of sexuality: gay, lesbian, bi or whatever may become somewhat outdated as people start to experiment with future-sex.
“Some sex-robots might even be reproductions of celebrities: for example, you could go online and have delivered to your front-door a life-like Pamela Anderson robot. And, maybe, for people who are nervous about bringing a real girl into the bedroom, but who are also really curious about trying it, a machine just might work. We’ll probably be able to download different personalities into our sex-robots, too: kind of like switching avatars in an online chat-room.”
Mac also addressed the matter of our sex-machines becoming intelligent. He said: “Right now, we program our machines to work for us. They don’t have intelligence. But it’s only a matter of time before we develop robots that think for themselves and become individual, living beings. The only difference is that whereas we are carbon-based, they will be synthetic: grown instead of born. When that happens, everything changes. We might even see the robots refusing to have sex with us, and just wanting to have sex with each other. But on the other hand, knowing that we are having sex with a machine that has intelligence – rather than just with a mindless, blow-up doll – might be a turn-on for both us and them.”
Mac concluded: “Religious groups will probably see this as an affront to humanity. But there are people out there who will pay handsomely to have sex with machines, if they are sufficiently human-like. I don’t think it denigrates the human condition. After all, we’re lusty creatures. And it’s not terribly offensive. At first, it might be seen as being that way. But when they begin to look and act like us, it will be no big deal to say: ‘My girlfriend’s a robot.'”
As someone who used to regularly write features for Penthouse, who promoted (for the now-defunct DFW Nites) strip-clubs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and who doesn’t have any hang-ups, I don’t see any harm in this at all. But, personally, I’ll stick to real women. Of course, fifty years from now, my preference might very well be seen as outmoded. Completely redundant, even!
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons?
Europa a watery moon
(May harbor Life)
In a paper published June 13 in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Queensland have identified more than 100 giant planets that potentially host moons capable of supporting life. Their work will guide the design of future telescopes that can detect these potential moons and look for tell-tale signs of life, called biosignatures, in their atmospheres.
A view of Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Pic: NASA
Since the 2009 launch of NASA’s Kepler telescope, scientists have identified thousands of planets outside our solar system, which are called exoplanets. A primary goal of the Kepler mission is to identify planets that are in the habitable zones of their stars, meaning it’s neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water — and potentially life — to exist.
Terrestrial (rocky) planets are prime targets in the quest to find life because some of them might be geologically and atmospherically similar to Earth. Another place to look is the many gas giants identified during the Kepler mission. While not a candidate for life themselves, Jupiter-like planets in the habitable zone may harbor rocky moons, called exomoons, that could sustain life.
“There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the Sun’s habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems,” said Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR’s Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. “Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look.”
An artist’s illustration of a habitable exomoon.
Pic: NASA
The researchers identified 121 giant planets that have orbits within the habitable zones of their stars. At more than three times the radii of the Earth, these gaseous planets are less common than terrestrial planets, but each is expected to host several large moons.
Scientists have speculated that exomoons might provide a favorable environment for life, perhaps even better than Earth. That’s because they receive energy not only from their star, but also from radiation reflected from their planet. Until now, no exomoons have been confirmed.
“Now that we have created a database of the known giant planets in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties. Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life,” said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR’s graduate program in the fall.
Video – Very rare footage of the Belgium UFO Wave of 1989
Video – Very rare footage of the Belgium UFO Wave of 1989
This clip of a flying triangular object in the Belgian skies is one of the best and rarest UFO video footage out there.
This video footage is so rare that it is hard to find on the Internet. The UFO with the 3 light was filmed during the popular UFO flap in 1989.
It is only the footage of the object with the three triangular lights that is interesting. Even the military did not know what this was. There was radar confirmation by multiple sources of these objects and outmaneuvered any human-made airplane at that time.
Understanding Grays is an enigma to contactees and ufologists.
There are those times when you know that something is clicking, it’s working. We received a voicemail from Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove regarding his most recent interview with Dr. Jorjani. It was surprising to say the least. Dr. Mishlove has discussed many things on his show New Thinking Allowed, with some attention paid to extraterrestrial races occasionally.
High strangeness and strange encounters have evolved our experience beyond the fearful impressions that the unknown often evokes in humans. Still, we tend to view things only from a human-centric perspective. How could we not? But, can we move beyond it?
Conversations That Matter
The conversation covers much more than you might expect and goes deeper into the history of many well-known explorers of associated events with various types of what we’ve called extraterrestrials. Perhaps they are interdimensional, ultradimensional or extradimensional and we just don’t have a reference point for which to determine an appropriate label.
There are a number of races interacting with us. A quick Google search might even reveal names of star systems from which they may come. Are they us in the future or, more likely, are they reaching out to us because all planetary civilizations go through certain process in their evolution toward higher types of civilizations, as in the Kardashev scale. They have been through the process already and seek to share with us the wisdom garnered.
The aspect of fearing ‘what is,’ that which is beyond our experience or understanding, is crucial to our ability to withstand the confrontation of a new experience beyond human. The transformation is, in essence, recognizing the consciousness we carry in these bodies. The aspects of self-actualization and self-realization may indeed be the process of becoming aware of the fact. It can be said that we are cosmic consciousness condensed into form.
The Business of Beings
Perhaps the beings, whether physical or pure energy, hold the key to understanding and just want to share, helping us to emerge into a more evolved form, not necessarily from out of the future but in the present with an expanded awareness we have yet to understand.
Linear thinking has limited us, kept us in the human-centric point of view. We are more. Perhaps non-linear thinking might allow us to consider the interesting fact that in the table of elements, there is only one element that does not have a proton, electron and neutron configuration of some sort, indicating the potential of the ‘trinity’ from the macro being present in the micro. Hydrogen is both the bonding agent for our DNA and it powers our sun. There is a potential correlation there, perhaps.
The idea of being able to ‘take’ the gift being offered us, as Jason refers to the message given by the Grays, is to withstand the fear while embracing the love or new living conditions that appear to be the prudent path to a new world order of harmony among people and planet. The Grays understand the necessity to be in harmony with the universe, a step beyond people and planet. It would seem, from historical accounts and the conversation with Jeffrey and Jason, that moving beyond the human-centric view is essential.
Seeing Clearly
Imagery presented during experiences are relative to our ability to perceive the message as it is intended. Jason mentions that Whitley’s understanding of the Wolfen was they were precursors to the appearance of the Grays. How many subtle, or not so subtle, hints are we offered in our own experiences as precursors to something else because we wouldn’t be able to handle the direct approach? I’d imagine that most contactees and even preverts would acknowledge that they’ve experienced similar paths to understanding.
Being gifted a new world if we can take it, for me, has nothing to do with stealing. The polarity of either giving or taking is, again, human-centric. What if it just ‘IS’? The gift alludes to the progression of human consciousness beyond our current constraints, fear-based models. Can we handle it? Can we drop the fear of the unknown so embedded in our mental processing?
So far there is no definitive answer for the ‘missing link’ and perhaps the form needed to evolve in order to house a larger brain with the capacity for self-awareness and more. Like many species on Earth that have experienced ‘evo-leaps’ or mutations into different forms more capable of handling the environment they are in is consistent with this possibility. No genetic manipulation, from outside, was or is necessary let alone actually done. It was a natural thing.
We’re All the Same
Carbon is both life-giving and and life-taking in certain forms. We are carbon-based beings. Nanostring technology offer next-level computing. Too much carbon in our air destroys life. Not that I’m a religious person, but like Jason I look for patterns and similarities in historical accounts. It occurred to me that the number of man, 666, is perhaps the carbon atom. It is a number of knowledge and wisdom, or so we are informed just prior. There is a perfected human, perhaps the imago Jason notes. Perhaps the next missing link we are discovering is the evo-leap of consciousness beyond fear, beyond the constraints of human-centric perception.
Tricksters have always been present in the evolution of our lives, like the Archons of old, who are really benign or benevolent, but because of their teasing and testing of our faith we often see them as malevolent. Any time we are confronted and forces to think or have faith, we project a sense of evil on the one presenting the challenge. They aren’t really, but we sure think so. It is the surrender of will to the Divine (something greater than our personal will), the release to unconditional love or where perfect love eliminates all fear that we seek to reside.
The idea of these visitors being refugees seems logical from Jason’s point of view, but I’ve never encountered the idea of any kind of refugee program. I do, however, agree they are attempting to nurture us into something greater than we are currently. A long time from now we may be able to visit other worlds as easily as they do, but we have to learn to get along here first. Everything hinges on that activity, which is a ‘gift’ – poison to the dominant culture.
In conclusion,
the interview was excellent in cross-referencing material and people who’ve sought to understand the nature and purpose of these encounters. The open-minded approach to possibilities was engaging, yet fell short of the greater view I thought was possible. Human-centrism is a challenge we are being asked to overcome in order to understand a much bigger picture, imho. Perhaps further discussions like this will help pave the way.
The Metaphysical Implications of Free Will with Jason Reza Jorjani
Dharma and Tantra with Jason Reza Jorjani
Jason Reza Jorjani
Jason Reza Jorjani is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, and Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat.
Here he reviews the history of tantric practices and distinguishes tantra from conventional forms of Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) and Buddhism. He notes that a major thrust of tantra is to challenge the conventional mores of society. Therefore, today's tantric practitioners will, necessarily, have different challenges than in earlier generations. He relates tantric practice to modern philosophical traditions, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche's Will to Power.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration.
Superfast Horseshoe UFO Performing High-Speed Maneuvers, June 2018
Superfast Horseshoe UFO Performing High-Speed Maneuvers, June 2018
An Orb of Light/UFO was filmed 6/14/2018 in France. On the video, you can see it perform high-speed aerial maneuvers and execute intelligent control and then phase out of our reality perhaps into a higher dimension. This is awesome footage.
Luis Elizondo On The UFO Phenomenon: 'What is mankind? What if it's mankinds?'
Luis Elizondo On The UFO Phenomenon: 'What is mankind? What if it's mankinds?'
Luis is back out in public - this is from late May 2018.
Halfway in he drops the idea that this has to do with what we call paranormal and fringe physics that maybe isn't so fringe.
"What is mankind? What if it's mankinds?"
This is clearly referring to the breakaway civilization "conspiracy theory".
Here's a TLDR with timestamps:
1:12 What does it mean to be human? Elizondo talks about what it means to be human and poses questions as well.
3:32 Explains that for the past decade he's been pondering that question due to working at AATIP. Starting with a small scope of "What was it? How does it work?"
4:43 Explains how they approached studying the phenomenon.
6:11 Explains 5 Observables of the Phenomenon:
Sudden & Instantaneous Acceleration
Hypersonic Velocities Without Signatures
Low Observability
Trans-Medium Travel
Positive Lift
7:13 They have mathematical formulas, scientific models, and observations coming together. As to "What they are?”, Elizondo says were probably not much closer. Elizondo is excited because they just about figured out "how do they work?" in their opinion. There is a better understanding now than two and half years. They are able to replicate some of the physics in a laboratory.
8:41 Explains challenges that exist through a test and explains how paranormal is paranormal until it becomes normal. 12:27 Why did [Elizondo] decide to leave the department? Old saying, "Sometimes if you like an organization, you stay with it. If you love an organization you leave it" Short answer: Bureaucracy
13:51 Does [Elizondo] believe in extraterrestrial life?Believes it's possible, but needs more data.
15:07 Does [Elizondo] believe we're close to how they work?Yes, really close. Elizondo guesses technology is 20 years out. They are currently replicating some of it at a small level. Issue is scalability from small to large.
16:19 What was the largest single credit of success for AATIP?The people. Hard working people without credit most of the time.
17:04 How important is Latin America is helping understand the phenomenon?Absolute critical. Can't do it without Latin America for many reasons. One reason, many Latin American countries have openly acknowledged they have a UAP program. Reason two, there seems to be a lot of incidents down there.
18:44 They are in the process of creating a community of interest electronically. Powerful, complicated, and expensive tool. It is going to be done in phases. As things are happening, you might get an alert. One will be able to provide information in, take information out, and tailor the tool to their personal curiosities.
This massive looking, multi-colored UFO was filmed over Houston Texas and submitted to the MUFON UFO network. This footage gives an incredibly detailed at the craft that was in the sky that night. Some of the best UFO footage comes out of Texas.
Texas oil worker escapes abduction by UFO – and has pictures to ‘prove it’
Texas oil worker escapes abduction by UFO – and has pictures to ‘prove it’
A Texas oil worker escaped the clutches of alleged alien abductors – and has pictures showing an extraterrestrial with an alarmingly large horn on its forehead, which may or may not double as an anal probe.
Ronny Dawson, an oil tanker driver, said, ‘This thing came right in from outer space, and flew right over me.
‘I was standing on top of these petrol tanks and taking photographs. I hid between the tanks, because it scared the Hell out of me.’
Sadly, as is so often the case, Dawson seemed only to have a really low-resolution flip-phone camera with him, so the pictures are a little blurred.
He says, they show, ‘an actual UFO, an alien in the UFO, and an alien mothership,’ – but you’ll have to take his word for it.
‘It was a ship that was travelling above the trees, and the lights went out,’ he says, in a video on Disclose TV.
‘He either has a horn on his head or a helmet. He isn’t a little green man, is he?’
Mercifully, Dawson escaped his clutches without discovering the uses of the horn.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigator’s Manual, says, ‘It is not often we get pictures of aliens and UFOs and here the witness seems sincere – and is not an anonymous YouTuber. The frustrating thing is that the images are, as he admits, fuzzy, and it certainly helps that he describes what they represent in more detail.’
‘From his testimony he clearly saw these things but whatever they were is as hard to say, are they evidence of an alien visitation or something more mundane?’
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Want to Take a 10-Day Trip to the Space Station? It'll Cost You $55 Million
Want to Take a 10-Day Trip to the Space Station? It'll Cost You $55 Million
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Want to Take a 10-Day Trip to the Space Station? It'll Cost You $55 Million
You can now sign up for a 10-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — if you've got $55 million to spare.
That's the price just announced by Axiom Space, a Houston-based company that's organizing expeditions to the ISS and working to build the first commercial space station. The $55 million covers the orbital stay, transportation to and from the ISS, and a 15-week astronaut-training program.
"It is an honor to continue the work that NASA and its partners have begun, to bring awareness to the profound benefits of human space exploration and to involve more countries and private citizens in these endeavors," Axiom Space CEO and President Michael Suffredini, who managed NASA's ISS program for a decade, said in a statement.
Artist's illustration of Axiom commercial modules attached to the International Space Station.
Credit: Axiom Space
Axiom Space is also developing its own station, the modules of which will launch toward, and link up with, the ISS. The Axiom station will be ready to accommodate paying passengers by 2022 if all goes according to plan, company representatives have said.
The commercial outpost will still be attached to the ISS at that point. When the huge, $100 billion orbital outpost is ready to be deorbited, the Axiom station will detach and begin flying freely. (Exactly when this will happen is unclear; the ISS is currently funded through 2024, but it's possible that operations could be extended beyond that date.)
The commercial station's interiors are being designed in partnership with French architect Philippe Starck, so they'll be quite a bit different from the utilitarian spaces of the ISS.
"This is a dream project for a creator like me with a genuine fascination for aviation and space exploration," Starck said in the same statement. "The greatest human intelligence in the world focuses on space research. My vision for the habitation module on Axiom Station is to create a comfortable egg that is inviting, with soft walls and a design perfectly in harmony with the values and movements of the human body in zero gravity."
Artist's illustration of Axiom Space's commercial outpost flying independently in Earth orbit.
Credit: Axiom Space
Tourists have visited the ISS before. Seven folks took a total of eight trips to the orbiting lab from 2001 through 2009, paying an estimated $20 million to $40 million each time.
And Axiom Space isn't the only company working to develop a commercial space station. For example, in April, a startup called Orion Span announced that it aims to have a "luxury space hotel" operating in Earth orbit by 2022.
Artist's illustration of Axiom Space's commercial outpost flying independently in Earth orbit.
Credit: Axiom Space
Tourists have visited the ISS before. Seven folks took a total of eight trips to the orbiting lab from 2001 through 2009, paying an estimated $20 million to $40 million each time.
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And Axiom Space isn't the only company working to develop a commercial space station. For example, in April, a startup called Orion Span announced that it aims to have a "luxury space hotel" operating in Earth orbit by 2022.
Bigelow Aerospace, a company that makes expandable space habitats, has also expressed a desire to set up outposts in Earth orbit, as well as in other locales, such as the surface of the moon.
Have I finally driven myself insane by researching every conspiracy I can find? Maybe. Is this going to stop me? Absolutely not. This week’s theory is definitely one for the books, so let’s get right to it.
In 1994, Quebec journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast alleged NASA had plans to implement a New Age religion with a technologically simulated Second Coming of the Antichrist, kick-starting the New World Order.
In his book “NASA Blue Beam Project,” Monast outlines this process in four simple steps.
Step One
Monast said he believes the first step will be the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. Using artificially created earthquakes in precise locations on earth, falsified discoveries will show the people the errors of all the fundamental religious doctrines, thus convincing them that they have misunderstood these doctrines all along.
“Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the film, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ the Star Trek series, and ‘Star Wars;’ all of which deal with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders,” Monast said. “The last films, ‘Jurassic Park,’ deals with the theories of evolution, and claim God’s words are lies.”
Monast states these science fiction films were produced in an attempt to brainwash and prepare humans for the ways of the New World Order.
In short, the first step is meant to “destroy the beliefs of all Christians and Muslims on the planet.”
Step Two
“The second step involves a gigantic ‘space show’ with three-dimensional optical holograms and sounds, laser projection of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different image according to predominating regional national religious faith,” Monast explained.
The space show will ultimately show people the new messiah, Maitreya, calling for the immediate implementation of this new world religion.
The appearance of the messiah, Monast said, will result in holy wars and an insurmountable loss of human life. With various forms of mind control, Monast said even the most learned humans will be fooled.
Step Three
The third step in the Blue Beam Project is called Telepathic Two-Way Communication. This is also the part where I began to wonder why I even started reading this nonsense.
Anyway, the third step outlines the possibility that artificial knowledge can be transferred through satellite, resulting in the complete mind control of the planet.
“If people do not believe this kind of technology is possible, or that it is science fiction, those people put themselves in great jeopardy,” Monast said, “during the night when the new messiah will be presented to the world, they will not be prepared and will have no time to prepare to save themselves against that kind of technology.”
Honestly, where is he getting this stuff?
Step Four
The fourth and final step concerns the supernatural manifestation by electronic means and contains three orientations.
First, the United Nations will stage an alien invasion, provoking countries with nuclear weapons to use them in defense. The second orientation is to convince the Christian population the rapture is coming, explaining aliens will invade to save them from the savage demons among them.
The last orientation will use a combination of electronic and supernatural forces in order to drive the population into mass hysteria, suicide, murder and permanent psychological disorders.
After these four steps are completed, the world as we know it will no longer exist. Mankind will be forced into a totalitarian regime; those who object to the implementation of this police state will be subjected to medical experiments, slave labor or worse.
In 1996, just two years after he published his allegations, Monast and another Canadian journalist both died of heart attacks. Neither had a history of heart disease.
Also, proponents of his theory allege that the Canadian government kidnapped Monast’s daughter in an attempt to deter him from researching Project Blue Beam. His daughter was never found.
Wow, talk about a wild ride. I am not saying I believe in Project Blue Beam, but I am not saying I don’t. It all seems a little too far-fetched. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
If we one day find ourselves victims to mind control, an alien invasion or the Antichrist, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Chandra Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible Universe
Chandra Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible Universe
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributo
Red represents low-energy X-rays, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. The blue hand-like structure was created by energy emanating from the nebula around they dying star PSR B1509-58. The red areas are from a neighboring gas cloud called RCW 89.
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane, et al.
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory is a NASA telescope that looks at black holes, quasars, supernovas, and the like – all sources of high energy in the universe. It shows a side of the cosmos that is invisible to the human eye.
After more than a decade in service, the observatory has helped scientists glimpse the universe in action. It has watched galaxies collide, observed a black hole with cosmic hurricane winds, and glimpsed a supernova turning itself inside out after an explosion.
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X-ray astronomy is especially challenging because you need to leave the Earth's atmosphere behind to observe the rays. The first X-ray observations were fleeting, taking place in minutes-long sounding rocket flights, or perhaps for a few hours in a stratospheric balloon.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory floats in space in this artist's concept. Image released August 15, 2012.
Credit: NASA/CXC
In 1962, Italian-American astronomer Riccardo Giacconi and his team sent a rocket with an X-ray detector aloft, and discovered the first source of stellar X-rays. Giacconi was naturally eager to do more research.
Based on his design, NASA launched the first X-ray telescope: Uhuru, which was also known as the Small Astronomical Satellite-1. It remained in orbit for more than two years and discovered the first signs of a black hole. Another of his team's ideas – the Einstein Observatory – flew from 1978 to 1981. This was the first X-ray telescope that could take pictures.
Giacconi, now an established authority in X-ray astronomy, teamed up with the Smithsonian's Harvey Tananbaum to propose a more powerful observatory. Dubbed the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, its goal was to take "high-resolution images and spectra of X-ray sources," according to Harvard University.
The telescope was first proposed in 1976. Work proceeded in the 1980s, and the telescope was reconfigured in 1992 (by reducing mirrors and instruments) to save money and to make it suitable to launch by shuttle. Shortly before launch, the telescope was renamed "Chandra" after Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Chandra launched July 23, 1999, from the payload bay of space shuttle Columbia, the largest satellite the shuttle ever launched. Just eight hours after Columbia reached space, Chandra left the shuttle's shelter and rocketed away. Controllers made several adjustments to Chandra's orbit in the coming days.
When finalized, Chandra was in an elliptical orbit around Earth ranging anywhere from about 9,940 miles (16,000 kilometers) to 82,650 miles (133,000 kilometers) from Earth. At its zenith, Chandra is about a third as far as the distance from the Earth to the moon. This allows it to make observations for as long as 52 hours before losing sight of its target.
As for Giacconi, the long-standing champion of Chandra? He shared a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in X-ray astronomy in 2002. His colleague, Tananbaum, became director of the Chandra X-ray Center in 1991, a position he still holds today.
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Targets after first light
"First light," or the first time Chandra opened its telescopic eyes to space, took place in mid-August 1999. One of its first pictures was of Cassiopeia A, the remnants of a star that exploded in a supernova witnessed by Tycho Brahe in 1572.
The picture was pretty, but more importantly, Chandra was already probing into Cassiopeia A's history. "Scientists can see evidence of what may be a neutron star or black hole near the center," NASA wrote in an August 1999 press release.
Later that year, astronomers released a paper in Astrophysical Journal Lettersdiscussing the elements Chandra found in the gas surrounding the star. The findings included sulfur, silicon and iron that blasted out from the star's interior.
Stars tend to burn off their hydrogen and helium earlier in their lifetimes; by the time these elements were fusing, temperatures in the star reached many billions of degrees Fahrenheit before the explosion.
Another of Chandra's early targets was the Crab Nebula, which showed – for the first time – a ring circling a pulsar star in the center of the nebula. Previously, Hubble spied wisps of matter surrounding the neutron, but the ring was something entirely new.
"It should tell us a lot about how the energy from the pulsar gets into the nebula," stated Jeff Hester, a professor at Arizona State University, in a September press release. "It's like finding the transmission lines between the power plant and the light bulb."
The telescope also began a series of discoveries concerning black holes. It spotted evidence of a Type 2 quasar black hole emanating X-rays behind a thick sheet of material that previously hid the black hole's existence.
Later, scientists announced a possible new kind of black hole in the galaxy M82. From eight months of observations, the scientists said the black hole could represent an evolutionary stage between small black holes formed from stars, and the much more massive ones lurking in the centers of galaxies.
"The black hole in M82 packs the mass of at least 500 suns into a region about the size of the moon," NASA wrote in September 2000.
"Such a black hole would require extreme conditions for its creation, such as the collapse of a 'hyperstar' or the merger of scores of black holes."
X-ray Vision Reveals the Insides of Stars
Possible dark matter and other findings
Astronomers are on a continual hunt for "dark" matter, which is believed to be practically invisible stuff that makes most of the universe. So far, we can only detect it through its gravity.
In 2006, a team of astronomers spent more than 100 hours using Chandra to watch the galaxy cluster 1E0657-56, which contains gas from a galaxy cluster collision. Chandra's observations were combined with that of several other observatories.
Researchers examined the effect the galaxy cluster had on gravitational lensing, which is a known way that gravity distorts the light from background galaxies. Their observations of the gravity showed that normal matter and dark matter ripped apart during the galaxy collision.
While the dark matter search continues, Chandra has been used to find other missing matter. In 2010, researchers used Chandra and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory, probing a reservoir of gas resting along a wall of galaxies about 400 million light-years away from Earth.
Scientists found evidence of baryons, which are electrons, protons and other particles that compose matter found through much of our universe. The researchers suspected the gas would contain a significant amount of this matter.
While scientists continue to probe the nature of matter, Chandra continues to produce stunning pictures that also reveal the structure of the universe. These pictures include a survey of planetary nebulas and a fast-growing galaxy cluster, as well as a "superbubble" found in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
In 2013, Chandra detected a record-breaking outburst from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, an object known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*. At the time, astronomers were observing how Sgr A* would react to what was then suspected to be a cloud of gas but later determined to be a cloud surrounding a compact object. While G2 didn't produce the fireworks scientists hoped for, scientists did spot a megaflare that was 400 times brighter than the black hole's normal quiescent state, three times brighter than the previous record holder.
"If an asteroid was torn apart, it would go around the black hole for a couple of hours – like water circling an open drain – before falling in," Fred Baganoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a statement. "That's just how long we saw the brightest X-ray flare last, so that is an intriguing clue for us to consider."
Another theory suggests that the magnetic field lines within G2 became tangled as they flowed toward Sgr A*. The occasional reconfiguration of the field lines produces a bright x-ray outburst similar to magnetic flares seen on the sun.
In 2017, Chandra was one of several instruments that picked up a pulse of high-energy light from the powerful explosion caused by two merging neutron stars. Observations with the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had spotted gravitational waves tied to the collision, encouraging scientists to hunt for signs of the explosion's aftermath.
"This is extremely exciting science," Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, said in a statement. "Now, for the first time, we've seen light and gravitational waves produced by the same event. The detection of a gravitational-wave source's light has revealed details of the event that cannot be determined from gravitational waves alone. The multiplier effect of study with many observatories is incredible."
Chandra is even helping prepare humans for voyages to other star systems. In 2018, Chandra announced the results of a decade-long study of Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the sun. The triple star system lies just over four light-years from Earth and is the target for projects like Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to send a swarm of nanocrafts to the system in search of potential life. After observing the system, Chandra data revealed that X-ray bombardment around Alpha Centauri A is slightly better than the sun, and only slightly worse around Alpha Centauri B.
"This is very good news for Alpha Cen AB in terms of the ability of possible life on any of their planets to survive radiation bouts from the stars," Tom Ayres, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a statement. "Chandra shows us that life should have a fighting chance on planets around either of these stars."
Chandra's mission, originally expected to last five years and then extended to at least 10, is still going strong after more than 18 years of operations. In a 2010 interview with Space.com, Roger Brissenden, Chandra's manager and flight director, said that the instrument had enough power and propulsion systems reserves to last until "at least 2018."
"There's enough fuel for many tens of years," Brissenden said. "The 20-year mission would be within reach."
Astronomers Are Proposing a Wild New Target in Our Search For Aliens
Graphic showing the cloud of space debris that currently surrounds the Earth. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/JSC)
Astronomers Are Proposing a Wild New Target in Our Search For Aliens
Taking inspiration from one of the greatest sci-fi writers of all time.
MATT WILLIAMS, THE UNIVERSE TODAY
When it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the Universe, there is the complicated matter of what to be on the lookout for.
Beyond the age-old question of whether or not intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe (statistically speaking, it is very likely that it does), there's also the question of whether or not we would be able to recognize it if and when we saw it.
Given that humanity is only familiar with one form of civilization (our own), we tend to look for indications of technologies we know or which seem feasible.
In a recent study, a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) proposed looking for large bands of satellites in distant star systems – a concept that was proposed by the late and great Arthur C. Clarke (known as a Clarke Belt).
In it, he advocates using next-generation telescopes to look for signs of massive belts of geostationary communication satellites in distant star systems.
This proposal is based in part on a paper written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1945 (titled "Peacetime Uses for V2"), in which he proposed sending "artificial satellites" into geostationary orbit around Earth to create a global communications network.
At present, there are about 400 such satellites in the "Clarke Belt" – a region named in honor of him that is located 36,000km above the Earth.
This network forms the backbone of modern telecommunications and in the future, many more satellites are expected to be deployed – which will form the backbone of the global internet.
Given the practicality of satellites and the fact that humanity has come to rely on them so much, Socas-Navarro considers that a belt of artificial satellites could naturally be considered "technomarkers" (the analogues of "biomarkers", which indicate the presence of life).
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As Socas-Navarro explained to Universe Today via email:
"Essentially, a technomarker is anything that we could potentially observe which would reveal the presence of technology elsewhere in the Universe. It's the ultimate clue to find intelligent life out there.
Unfortunately, interstellar distances are so great that, with our current technology, we can only hope to detect very large objects or structures, something comparable to the size of a planet."
In this respect, a Clarke Exobelt is not dissimilar from a Dyson Sphere or other forms of megastructures that have been proposed by scientists in the past. But unlike these theoretical structures, a Clarke Exobelt is entirely feasible using present-day technology.
"Other existing technomarkers are based on science fiction technology of which we know very little," said Socas-Navarro.
"We don't know if such technologies are possible or if other alien species might be using them. The Clarke Exobelt, on the other hand, is a technomarker based on real, currently existing technology. We know we can make satellites and, if we make them, it's reasonable to assume that other civilizations will make them too."
However, there is some "science fiction" when it comes to Clarke Exobelts that would actually be detectable using these instruments. As noted, humanity has about 400 operational satellites occupying Earth's "Clarke Belt", which is roughly 0.01 percent of the belt area.
This is about one-third of the Earth's existing satellites, whereas the rest are at an altitude of 2000 km (1200 mi) or less from the surface – the region known as Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
This essentially means that aliens would need to have billions more satellites within their Clarke Belt in order for it to be detectable. As for humanity, we are not yet to the point where our own Belt would be detectable by an extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI).
However, this should not take long given that the number of satellites in orbit has been growing exponentially over the past 15 years.
Based on simulations conducted by Socas-Navarro, humanity will reach the threshold where its satellite band will be detectable by ETIs by 2200.
Knowing that humanity will reach this threshold in the not-too-distant future makes the Clarke Belt a viable option for SETI. As Socas-Navarro explained:
"In this sense, the Clarke Exobelt is interesting because it's the first technomarker that looks for currently existing technology. And it goes both ways too. Humanity's Clarke Belt is probably too sparsely populated to be detectable from other stars right now (at least with technology like ours).
But in the last decades we have been populating it at an exponential rate. If this trend were to continue, our Clarke Belt would be detectable from other stars by the year 2200. Do we want to be detectable? This is an interesting debate that humanity will have to resolve soon.
As for when we might be able to start looking for Exobelts, Socas-Navarro indicates that this will be possible within the next decade.
As for how these belts would be detected, that would come down to the most popular and effective means for finding exoplanets to date – the Transit Method(aka. Transit Photometry).
For this method, astronomers monitor distant stars for periodic dips in brightness, which are indications of an exoplanet passing in front of the star. Using next-generation telescopes, astronomers may also be able to detect reflected light from a dense band of satellites in orbit.
"However, before we point our supertelescopes to a planet we need to identify good candidates," said Socas-Navarro.
"There are too many stars to check and we can't go one by one. We need to rely on exoplanet search projects, such as the recently launched satellite TESS, to spot interesting candidates. Then we can do follow-up observations with supertelescopes to confirm or refute those candidates."
Whereas the former telescope is due to retire soon, the latter is scheduled to launch in 2018.
While these space-telescopes would search for rocky planets that are located within the habitable zones of thousands of stars, next-generation telescopes could search for signs of Clarke Exobelts and other technomarkers that would be otherwise hard to spot.
However, as Socas-Navarro indicated, astronomers could also find evidence of Exobands by sifting through existing data as well.
"In doing SETI, we have no idea what we are looking for because we don't know what the aliens are doing," he said.
"So we have to investigate all the possibilities that we can think of. Looking for Clarke Exobelts is a new way of searching, it seems at least reasonably plausible and, most importantly, it's free."
"We can look for signatures of Clarke Exobelts in currently existing missions that search for exoplanets, exorings or exomoons. We don't need to build costly new telescopes or satellites.
We simply need to keep our eyes open to see if we can spot the signatures presented in the simulation in the flow of data from all of those projects."
Humanity has been actively searching for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence for decades. To know that our technology and methods are becoming more refined, and that more sophisticated searches could begin within a decade, is certainly encouraging.
Knowing that we won't be visible to any ETIs that are out there for another two centuries, that's also encouraging!
And be sure to check out this cool video by our friend, Jean Michael Godier, where he explains the concept of a Clarke Exobelt:
Colony of cyanobacteria where the different colours represent photosynthesis driven by chlorophyll-a (magenta) and chlorophyll-f (yellow)( Dennis Nuernberg )
The discovery of a new method that bacteria can use to harvest infrared light and turn it into energy has boosted scientific understanding of the limits of life on Earth and beyond.
Plants and some bacteria use a process called photosynthesis to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water, which they use as a power source.
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Most life forms that use photosynthesis are driven by red light, but the new form discovered by an Imperial College London-led team is used by some organisms to power themselves using the infrared spectrum.
This “textbook-changing” revelation has the potential to expand scientists’ search for creatures on other planets, which often relies on the presence of life-promoting light.
“The new form of photosynthesis made us rethink what we thought was possible,” said Professor Bill Rutherford, a biochemist at Imperial College London.
“It also changes how we understand the key events at the heart of standard photosynthesis. This is textbook-changing stuff.”
The photosynthesis recognisable to many from current textbooks involves the green pigment chlorophyll-a, which gives plants their distinctive hue.
This pigment absorbs red light while reflecting away greens, blues and purples.
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The Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars
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Chlorophyll-a is present in all plants, as well as algae and photosynthetic bacteria, and scientists long assumed that there was a “red limit” on photosynthesis.
Astrobiologists have used this supposed limit to gauge whether complex life could be evolving on distant planets in other solar systems.
However, some photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria have another trick up their microscopic sleeves.
Researchers found another form of chlorophyll working in communities of these creatures growing in shaded conditions in “bacterial mats” in Yellowstone National Park and inside rocks found on Australian beaches.
In near-infrared light, the chlorophyll-a systems of these bacteria shut down and a different variety – chlorophyll-f – begins operating in lower energy conditions “beyond the red limit”.
Professor Rutherford and his team tested these abilities by placing cyanobacteria communities into cupboards fitted with infrared LEDs.
“Finding a type of photosynthesis that works beyond the red limit changes our understanding of the energy requirements of photosynthesis,” said Dr Andrea Fantuzzi, co-author of the study that was published in the journal Science.
“This provides insights into light energy use and into mechanisms that protect the systems against damage by light.”
Besides broadening the search for aliens, the discovery could help scientists genetically engineer crops that can survive in a wider range of light conditions.
Dr Dennis Nurnberg, the first author of the study, said: “I did not expect that my interest in cyanobacteria and their diverse lifestyles would snowball into a major change in how we understand photosynthesis.
“It is amazing what is still out there in nature waiting to be discovered.”
On June 7, 2018, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed that they had found traces of organic compounds and methane on Mars. Just a few days after this pathbreaking disclosure, Tyler Glockner, a UFO researcher who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' has claimed that he has spotted the proof of life on the red planet.
To substantiate his views, Tyler Glockner posted a series of images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. When these snaps are put together, it shows a bizarre body moving across the Martian surface. Interestingly, when the object's image is zoomed, it shows a shadow which rules out the possibility of lens flare or a camera problem.
As the video went viral, conspiracy theorists claimed that the object in the image might be an alien being living on Mars. The video racked up more than 240,000 views within 24 hours of being uploaded, and viewers were quick to speculate what it could be.
A YouTube user named 'The Humble Horse' commented that NASA had never reached Mars, and he claimed that the object that was captured in the video could have been one shot on Devon Island.
"That's because it's not MARS!!!! It's Devon Island... EARTH!! NASA lies...," commented The Humble Horse.
Joddy Grant, another YouTuber argued that the object spotted in the red planet has a face, and it suggests that a spirit might be roaming across the Martian surface.
"If you look at the image on Mars it looks like a face, could the Mars rover have captured a spirit???," commented Joddy Grant.
In a previous video, Tyler Glockner had claimed that aliens might be living underground in Mars. As per Glockner, the recent admission of NASA regarding the presence of methane and organic compounds in Mars is an indication that there are some anomalies going on under the surface of Mars.
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Un OVNI triangulaire noir observé près de la frontière nord-coréenne
Un OVNI triangulaire noir observé près de la frontière nord-coréenne
Le gouvernement américain aurait espionné la Corée du Nord pendant trois semaines grâce à des engins ultra secrets développés dans le cadre d’un « Black Project » …
Récemment, des images vidéo étonnantes ont émergé sur les réseaux sociaux. Celles-ci nous montrent un étrange OVNI de forme triangulaire qui survole le ciel au-dessus de Séoul, en Corée du Sud, à environ une heure de route de la frontière.
«Un OVNI nucléaire des extraterrestres venus de Corée du Nord»
L’engin mystérieux semble avoir une lumière sur chacune de ses extrémités qui clignotent continuellement.
Cette vidéo a été prise par David Marler, qui a indiqué qu’il avait repéré plusieurs fois cet OVNI au cours des trois dernières semaines. Il a spéculé qu’il s’agissait d’un projet secret du gouvernement américain.
Il explique : « Il m’est arrivé de regarder le ciel pour regarder les étoiles et puis, de nulle part, j’ai fini par remarquer un objet volant qui clignotait. Il venait de l’endroit d’où je me tenais, c’est-à-dire du sud-ouest. »
« Au début, je pensais que c’était peut-être un hélicoptère ou quelque chose comme ça. Mais, à ma grande surprise, ça ne faisait pas de bruit, même quand il volait juste au-dessus de ma tête.»
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« Je pouvais à peine entendre un son de ventilation électrique. Puis, j’ai vu qu’il y avait trois lumières clignotantes à chaque coin avec une petite lumière rouge au centre. »
« Je peux confirmer que c’est un OVNI Triangulaire de couleur noire. »
« Depuis que je l’ai repéré, je l’ai filmé plusieurs fois avec mon téléphone portable et je l’ai vu presque chaque nuit dès que le ciel est dégagé. »
Si cela est vrai, les affirmations de David pourraient avoir des répercussions cataclysmiques.
Hier encore, le président américain Donald Trump a rencontré le dirigeant nord-coréen Kim Jong-un lors d’un sommet inédit où ils ont affirmé que « le monde est sur le point de changer ».
Le terme « Black Triangle UFO » est le surnom donné à un engin supersonique baptisé TR-3B. Il est considéré comme étant le fruit d’un projet top secret conçu par l’United States Air Force et utilisé pendant la guerre du Golfe comme un avion espion.
Arborant un design d’aile volante, l’engin pourrait se déplacer à des vitesses supersoniques, en faisant un minimum de bruit.
Et ce n’est pas la première fois que ce genre d’OVNI est observé ou filmé.
Plus tôt ce mois-ci, des ufologues ont affirmé avoir filmé la preuve de l’existence d’une force spatiale secrète après qu’un objet similaire ait été découvert sur la lune.
An artist's impression of NASA's X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle aka 'Hyper-X
Organics On Ceres May Be More Abundant Than Originally Thought
Organics On Ceres May Be More Abundant Than Originally Thought
Press Release - Source: Brown University
Last year, scientists with NASA's Dawn mission announced the detection of organic material -- carbon-based compounds that are necessary components for life -- exposed in patches on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
Organic Matter Just Found On Dwarf Planet Ceres! Could Alien Life Be Next?
Now, a new analysis of the Dawn data by Brown University researchers suggests those patches may contain a much higher abundance of organics than originally thought.
The findings, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, raise intriguing questions about how those organics got to the surface of Ceres, and the methods used in the new study could also provide a template for interpreting data for future missions, the researchers say.
"What this paper shows is that you can get really different results depending upon the type of organic material you use to compare with and interpret the Ceres data," said Hannah Kaplan, a postdoctoral researcher at the Southwest Research Institute who led the research while completing her Ph.D. at Brown. "That's important not only for Ceres, but also for missions that will soon explore asteroids that may also contain organic material."
Organic molecules are the chemical building blocks for life. Their detection on Ceres doesn't mean life exists there or ever existed there; non-biological processes can give rise to organic molecules as well. But because life as we know it can't exist without organic material, scientists are interested in how it's distributed through the solar system. The presence of organic material on Ceres raises intriguing possibilities, particularly because the dwarf planet is also rich in water ice, and water is another necessary component for life.
The original discovery of organics on Ceres was made using the Visible and Infrared (VIR) Spectrometer on the Dawn spacecraft, which went into orbit around the dwarf planet in 2015. By analyzing the patterns in which sunlight interacts with the surface -- looking carefully at which wavelengths are reflected and which are absorbed -- scientists can get an idea of what compounds are present on Ceres. The VIR instrument picked up a signal consistent with organic molecules in the region of Ernutet Crater on Ceres' northern hemisphere.
To get an initial idea of how abundant those compounds might be, the original research team compared the VIR data from Ceres with laboratory reflectance spectra of organic material formed on Earth. Based on that standard, the researchers concluded that between six and 10 percent of the spectral signature they detected on Ceres could be explained by organic matter.
But for this new research, Kaplan and her colleagues wanted to re-examine those data using a different standard. Instead of relying on Earth rocks to interpret the data, the team turned to an extraterrestrial source: meteorites. Some meteorites -- chunks of carbonaceous chondrite that have fallen to Earth after being ejected from primitive asteroids -- have been shown to contain organic material that's slightly different from what's commonly found on our own planet. And Kaplan's work shows that the spectral reflectance of the extraterrestrial organics is distinct from that of terrestrial counterparts.
"What we find is that if we model the Ceres data using extraterrestrial organics, which may be a more appropriate analog than those found on Earth, then we need a lot more organic matter on Ceres to explain the strength of the spectral absorption that we see there," Kaplan said. "We estimate that as much as 40 to 50 percent of the spectral signal we see on Ceres is explained by organics. That's a huge difference compared to the six to 10 percent previously reported based on terrestrial organic compounds."
If the concentration of organics on Ceres is indeed that high, it raises a host of new questions about the source of that material. There are two competing possibilities for where Ceres' organics may have come from. They could have been produced internally on Ceres and then exposed on the surface, or they could have been delivered to the surface by an impact from an organic-rich comet or asteroid.
This new study suggests that if the organics were delivered, then the potential high concentrations of the organics would be more consistent with impact by a comet rather than an asteroid. Comets are known to have significantly higher internal abundances of organics compared with primitive asteroids, potentially similar to the 40 to 50 percent figure this study suggests for these locations on Ceres. However, the heat of an impact would likely destroy a substantial amount of a comet's organics, so whether or not such high abundances could even be explained by a cometary impact remains unclear, the researchers say.
The alternative explanation, that the organics formed directly on Ceres, raises questions too. The detection of organics has so far been limited to small patches on Ceres' northern hemisphere. Such high concentrations in such small areas require an explanation.
"If the organics are made on Ceres, then you likely still need a mechanism to concentrate it in these specific locations or at least to preserve it in these spots," said Ralph Milliken, an associate professor in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and a study co-author. "It's not clear what that mechanism might be. Ceres is clearly a fascinating object, and understanding the story and origin of organics in these spots and elsewhere on Ceres will likely require future missions that can analyze or return samples."
For now the researchers hope this study will be helpful in informing upcoming sample return missions to near-Earth asteroids that are also thought to host water-bearing minerals and organic compounds. The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 is expected to arrive at the asteroid Ryugu in several weeks, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is due to reach the asteroid Bennu in August. Kaplan is currently a science team member with the OSIRIS-REx mission.
"I think the work that went into this study, which included new laboratory measurements of important components of primitive meteorites, can provide a framework of how to better interpret data of asteroids and make links between spacecraft observations and samples in our meteorite collection," Kaplan said. "As a new member to the OSIRIS-REx team, I'm particularly interested in how this might apply to our mission."
UFO Disclosure is Here: The REAL Reason The CIA Needs Tom Delonge
UFO Disclosure is Here: The REAL Reason The CIA Needs Tom Delonge
WARNING: If you have a sensitive mind that shatters at the thought of changes in your belief system, do not continue.
High level officials within the CIA/NSA and the DOD have zeroed in on Tom Delonge and his company To The Stars Academy, a public benefit corporation. But why? Does Tom actually know classified information about the U.S. governments UFO programs? Do those programs actually exist? Is Tom’s new team of advisers being honest about their plan for a slow implantation of UFO disclosure?
There is an incredible amount of information circulating right on the Net about UFOs. It’s quite a change from eight years ago when UFOs were still looked at with skepticism. Disclosure, as it’s called in ufology, is here. The US government is just doing it sideways by getting the CIA to enroll DeLonge to give us the information that aliens are here. They have been here for a long time. Many of us have witnessed them. Many others , millions, claim to have been abducted by them.
Personally, I have seen those strange orbs of light in the night sky on at least three occasions over many years.It kind of modifies your mind somehow. We know we are not alone. Duh! Does anyone really believe that we are the only intelligent sentient species in the whole universe?
Governments do not want populations to panic, but the time is here, the cat is out of the bag. Might as well use a rock star to start the spread of the news. Clever.
Top UFO Researcher talks Tom DeLonge, Steven Greer and evil aliens
There have been hundreds of UFO sightings reported on Long Island over the past decade, and Suffolk County recently made a list of UFO hotspots around the country.
Cheryl Costa, one of the authors of UFO Sightings Desk Reference, is a retired aerospace security engineer and a military veteran. While she was going through the data for the book, she says she eliminated any ambiguous reports that could have been fighter jets or blimps or simply lights in the sky.
What she was left with were reports of flying cubes, floating lightbulb-like objects and other oddball shapes.
“We’ve been led to believe for the last 20 years, these things were always just an illusion, they were mistakes in identification, they’ve been declining. We set out to prove they were not declining. What we set out to prove is guys this thing is real, it’s happening, it’s happening a lot.”
UFO investigators research sightings from across the country, to separate the hoaxes from the potentially real reports.
Organizations like the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network have hotlines, where people can call in UFO sightings to add to a growing database.
Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, receives thousands of calls every year.
“Most hoaxes are fairly overt, and easily detected. There are several categories of reports we receive: sincere reports, hoaxes, frivolous reports, cases of mistaken identity.”
Long Island residents reported more than 800 UFO sightings between 2001 and 2015.
Areas with temperate weather and a lack of severe light pollution tend to have more reports.
Michael Shermer, editor-in-chief of Skeptic, a science magazine that explores pseudoscience and irrational beliefs, doesn’t doubt people are seeing things in the sky, but he doubts they’re UFOs.
“Wherever there is a lot of air traffic, you know that’s where you get these little clusters of UFO sightings because people are describing things that they do see in the air. ”
Volunteer organizations began collect their own data and start investigations after the government stopped researching UFOs in 1968. This was after the government had commissioned a report that said UFO research didn’t contribute to scientific knowledge.
In 1957 an unidentified object called Silpho was found, this strange and bizarre flying saucer is kept in a science museum. In 2018 a team of scientists wanted to analyze these strange remains to begin to see clearly on the issue, so it was discovered that the strange object is composed of pieces of copper where there are engraved hieroglyphics very similar to those found on the remains of the mystery of roswell in 1947.
Once the object was opened, 17 thin sheets of copper came to light and each of them contained hieroglyphs. Philip Longbottom has said that these hieroglyphics would be translated into a message containing 2000 words sent by an alien called “ullo“…. The message in summary was “improve or disappear“. The remains of the UFO were sent to the London science museum to be examined by experts.
To note that in 1963 “the unidentified object” that had a diameter of 45 centimeters and a weight of 15 kilograms was originally found by three men at Silpho Moor, near Scarborough in November 1957, from this it takes its name in “SILPHO“.
More theories about the Silpho “saucer”
After the remains of the unidentified object were sent to London to be analyzed, they were later examined by Gordon Claringbull, a scholar who specializes in extraterrestrial objects such as meteorites, Gordon says he did not find anything unusual in the samples studied so much of the skeptics “Obviously” confirmed that it was just a “flying saucer” built specifically to make news, in a nutshell a real joke.
Later other tests were carried out at the University of Manchester and it was revealed that the shell of the unidentified object contained lead and the copper parts were of a purity never before seen, having said that it was concluded that Silpho did not arrive from space because there was no evidence that the object had been exposed to high temperatures, this obviously occurs when an object comes into contact with the earth’s atmosphere.
The remains of this mysterious object have remained hidden for over 60 years, maybe a future we could understand if it is a hoax or a real message came from an alien civilization.. who knows…
5 famous UFO & alien sightings caught by NASA on the moon
5 famous UFO & alien sightings caught by NASA on the moon
From 1969 48 years have passed almost half a century ago, we had the audacity to embark on missions that led us out of our world, precisely because it has passed so long since the first missions, many have begun to doubt the truthfulness of these journeys Moons, others believe that NASA has continued its lunar missions but secretly, revealing to no one the discoveries made, ufo & alien sightings nowadays still a mystery.
N5. CLEMENTINE PROBE
1994 NASA launchesthe Clementine probe into space to map the lunar surface. One of the images released to the public depicts a part of the dark side of the moon, but they did not matter to a strange detail. In the picture you could notice a strange V formation seems to be made up of two files that look like they are composed of 7 lights, something too symmetrical to be a natural formation, the strange structure seems to measure 150 meters x 150 and is localized In the center of a crater, oddly convenient and profound to shelter from radiation. NASA immediately stated that it was only a digital anomaly, but in many people it was hypothesized that it could be a landing platform or an entry for a lunar base, the idea of a lunar base is not to be considered impossible As already in 1959 NASA was working on this possibility under the name code of “project horizon“.
N4. THE ALIEN SHADOW
UFO & alien sightings never stops, when Google released lunar navigation, some users were shocked when they noticed a strange figure wandering on the surface, in the shape of the long shadow it would be said to be a humanoid, many have hypothesized that it could be an alien, or else a researcher Of the lunar base, after other analyzes it was determined that the creature would have to be 45 feet tall to create such a shadow, according to NASA instead it would only be a problem with the satellite camera.
N3. APOLLO 16
During the landing on the lunar surface in April 1972, astronauts from Apollo 16 filmed a strange object from their command module, this strange object appeared on the moon and remained visible for about 4 seconds, the astronauts described the object as a Plate species with a dome on it, extremely similar to the various sightings that will take place in the future, only in 2004 NASA tried to explain that it could only be a reflection of strange light, but in very few are convinced.
N2. ANOTHER SIGHTINGS IN APOLLO MISSIONS
The sightings of flying objects were not the only mysterious things to be resumed aboard the apollo missions, one of the most intriguing photos showing a powerful electric beam or some sort of electric discharge appearing on the dark side of the moon, some scholars have hypothesized Being proof that there are alien or human bases hidden beneath the surface, NASA has defended itself by saying that it was a camera anomaly.
N1. KAMIKAZE MISSION ON THE MOON 9 OCTOBER 2009
Few know that NASA conducted a missile attack on the moon, launched a missile to bomb it, a missile with heavy explosive power over 2.2 tons, headed toward the Cabeus crater in the southern moon pole, according to NASA’s version Official was to crash against the moon to collect data at the base of scientific studies, but according to some external observers in the Cabeus crater there was no explosion.
However, a strange picture of a NASA engineer has revealed that the missile was not directed at the Cabeus crater and was probably directed against a construction. Below we can see a large structure protruding from the lunar surface into the center of the image. NASA wanted to destroy part of their lunar base? An out-of-control experiment? Or simply an attempt to hide their presence on the moon.
These are just 5 of the episodes that could depict alien or human activity on the moon we are not yet aware of or could simply be a problem with the cameras as NASA says.
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The arguments over what the perfect human body should look like have probably been going on since Adam and Eve noticed they were naked (for creationists) or since the first human ancestor realized that monster in the lake was actually a reflection (for evolutionists). Regardless of your belief, you most likely would describe the perfect human body as one that looks close to yours – minus a few pounds and plus a few muscles … unless you’re an anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist and palaeopathologist who is obviously not happy with her swimsuit shape. That person thinks the ideal human body looks like an extraterrestrial … complete with pointed ears, emu legs and a baby’s head emerging from her navel. Really!
We’re not supposed to look like this?
Alice Roberts is, in addition to all of those other jobs, a professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and the star of a recent BBC4 documentary called Can Science Make Me Perfect? If “perfect” is the star of a sci-fi movie, then Roberts accomplished her goal. She put together a team that included virtual sculptor Scott Eaton and SFX model maker Sangeet Prabhaker and generously donated her already fine body as the model to be made perfect.
Roberts and her team obviously took into account many of the imperfections all human bodies share – a spine designed for moving on four limbs, not two; a pelvis no longer wide enough for easy childbirth; feet with far too many bones for easy walking; skin that’s not made for all seasons; eyes and ear that don’t last until the warranty runs out on the rest of the body; and so on. The team looked at ways to improve on these problems by observing animals who are perfect in each of those areas and built a Roberts 2.0 with those features.
Close, but not the winner
Roberts didn’t see her new “perfect” self until it was unveiled at the London Science Museum for the show and, while said that “I screamed when I saw the final 3D model of my creation,” she tried her best to put a positive spin on a face that looked a little like hers on top of a body that would have caused even Darwin to say, “Whoa!”
“Inspired by dogs, cats, cephalopods, fish, swans and chimps, my model has a better heart with more arteries than a human being, lungs that are more efficient, eyes with no blindspots, ears that pick up sound better, legs that are more efficient, and reptilian skin which reacts fast to block damaging ultraviolet rays.”
(Front and back pictures here. Closeup next to the real Alice here.)
The pointy ears came from a bat and the giant three-toed emu legs are built for speed, not looks, but the thing that drags one’s eyes away from any sexy parts that were left (there weren’t) is the kangaroo pouch in her belly with a baby’s head poking out. Again, her public engagement side kicked in and Roberts tried to make it sound like a benefit.
“On reflection, I don’t like the look of the bird-like legs. But having given birth to two children, I’m a big fan of having the kangaroo’s pouch.”
Works for me
On reflection, it’s a pretty scary reflection. Is this the way humans should look? Will we eventually evolve to this form … or are plastic surgeons and tattoo artists already transforming people (with a lot of money to spend) into it?
Sorry, Alice. Put that photo on a dating site and the only guys who will respond are Ridley Scott and James Cameron.
It’s curious: UFOs and aliens seem to elude being conclusively proved, yet they have an odd habit of announcing their presence in grand displays of lights and sounds. That’s the same type of display that one Alabama man says he filmed last week. During a violent yet seemingly rain-less thunderstorm, a man driving down a road in Gulf Shores, Alabama captured what he says is “one of the wildest things he’s ever seen.” Purportedly filmed at night, the video shows a strange, pure blue light between two thunder cloud ringed with flashing purple and orange lightning, while a dark, vaguely triangular UFO hovers nearby before disappearing.
The video was uploaded by YouTube user MrMBB333, who says that the video, filmed on June 8, was sent to him by a man named Nicholas. MrMB333 is quick to call the wild looking sight a “portal looking thing” and says hes’s never seen anything like it. It’s definitely thing to behold. The colors are vibrant and changing, alternating between orange and purple, the hole of blue light stands out against the dark sky and streets.
The UFO is less impressive. It’s a dark spot that hovers and doesn’t move. It’s not a spot on the windshield, as it is still there after Nicholas pulls his truck over and exits to get a better view. When he moves the camera to film a different part of the sky and brings it back to the “portal” the UFO is gone. Cue the music.
Small, dark clouds are common during thunderstorms.
So what’s going on here? What is this “portal,” and what is this UFO? Well, the UFO may just be a spot of dark clouds. When you have thunderstorms you get layers of clouds that contrast each other. In the video you can clearly see other small dark clouds in different parts of the sky, though admittedly there are none that stand out quite as much and it is kind of strange that the the object does disappear so fast when there isn’t any motion previously seen in the video. Why can’t aliens just throw us a bone from time to time and do a cool barrel roll or other flight trick?
Now, about that portal. Is it possible that it’s just the sky? I mean, of all the colors one can see in the sky, “sky-blue” is definitely the least concerning. According to MrMB333, the video was filmed just after dark, and you can see that the scene is entirely dark and the street lights are on—it looks like night time. Here’s the rub though (there’s always a rub, isn’t there?), the video mentions that Nicholas was driving west. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the cardinal direction in which the sun sets.
The western sky is the last direction to lose its blue color. Yes, it is a bright blue, brighter than you would expect to see even at dusk, let alone after dark. Again, it’s probably a matter of contrast. Against dark clouds, a dim blue sky would look brighter than it would normally. Also, Nicholas is using a cell phone camera. When a cell phone is filming at night in automatic mode, it adjusts either its aperture or ISO to let in more light. Because the camera is calibrated for the average light level of the shot, the residual light between the storm clouds from the recently set sun would appear brighter than normal.
The street lights are on, yet the sky is blue. Pretty spooky, if you ask me.
Of course, I can’t say for sure that it’s not a portal. The truth is that no matter what this video shows, it is incredibly cool looking. If it takes a belief that this is an alien portal to keep people filming these wild light shows in the sky, then so be it. I’d rather have seen this video than not.
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Scottsdale, Arizona 12-Jun-2018
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Scottsdale, Arizona 12-Jun-2018
Bright UFO flying over Scottsdale a few days ago.
Witness report:
Observed bright object descend then hover. Object moved and stopped several times before speeding off to the north. Near air force base so planes are common. None of the jets observed looked like a glowing ball as this object did. Video attached.
From recently declassified government footage of UFO sightings to real video captured by US military aircraft, we take a look at 8 declassified UFO sightings with real footage.
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat er veel meer water op de maan is dan gedacht
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat er veel meer water op de maan is dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Goed nieuws voor toekomstige maankolonisten!
Japanse onderzoekers hebben in een van de maan afkomstige meteoriet het mineraal moganiet ontdekt. Het is een belangrijke ontdekking; het mineraal kan namelijk alleen ontstaan in de aanwezigheid van water.
Lagere breedtes We weten al een tijdje dat de maan water of in ieder geval ijs herbergt. Dat water bevindt zich echter nabij de polen, op plekken waar zonlicht er niet bij kan komen (in kraters, bijvoorbeeld). De meteoriet die Japanse onderzoekers nu onder de loep hebben genomen, komt echter niet uit het poolgebied. En suggereert dus dat er ook op lagere breedtes water te vinden is op de maan.
Inslagen Dat water zou daar zijn beland door toedoen van een inslag: een water bevattend hemellichaam sloeg waarschijnlijk op de maan in. Daarbij verdampte een deel van het water. Maar het overgebleven water sijpelde de maanbodem in, waar het uiteindelijk het mineraal moganiet vormde. Een tweede inslag zorgde er vervolgens voor stukjes van het maanoppervlak – met daarin het moganiet – wegvlogen. En één van die stukjes is de meteoriet die de onderzoekers onder de loep hebben genomen.
Waterijskristallen De onderzoekers sluiten uit dat het moganiet in de maanmeteoriet ontstaan is nadat deze op aarde is geland. Als dat het geval zou zijn, zou je immers verwachten dat je het mineraal in alle maanmeteorieten die op aarde zijn beland, aantreft. En dat is niet het geval. De onderzoekers gaan er dan ook vanuit dat het mineraal op de maan – in aanwezigheid van water – is ontstaan.
Voor nu denken de onderzoekers dan ook dat er op lagere breedtes, onder het maanoppervlak waterijskristallen te vinden zijn. Het is goed nieuws voor mensen die dromen van langdurige bemande missies naar de maan, omdat het water net onder het oppervlak wellicht gemakkelijker te verzamelen is dan dat in donkere hoekjes nabij de polen.
Astronomen zien hoe zwart gat een ster in stukken scheurt
Astronomen zien hoe zwart gat een ster in stukken scheurt
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een primeur!
Het gebeurde allemaal op bijna 150 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde. Daar vinden we twee botsende sterrenstelsels die samen aangeduid worden als Arp 299. In het hart van één van deze sterrenstelsels bevindt zich een zwart gat dat 20 miljoen keer zwaarder is dan de zon. En dat zwarte gat heeft een ster verscheurd die iets meer dan twee keer zwaarder is dan onze zon. Het leidde tot het ontstaan van een snel groeiende en snel bewegende straalstroom (zie kader). En die hebben onderzoekers gespot. “Nog niet eerder zijn we in staat geweest om de vorming en evolutie van een straalstroom die uit zo’n gebeurtenis voorkwam, direct waar te nemen,” vertelt onderzoeker Miguel Perez-Torres.
Straalstroom Een zwart gat heeft een enorme aantrekkingskracht. Wanneer materie – zoals een ster – te dicht bij het zwarte gat in de buurt komt, kan het dan ook niet aan de zwaartekracht van het zwarte gat ontsnappen. Het zwarte gat trekt het materiaal naar zich toe, waarna het een roterende schijf rond het zwarte gat vormt. Die schijf brengt intense röntgenstraling voort, maar genereert ook uit materie opgebouwde straalstromen die met hoge snelheden wegschieten.
Hoe het begon De onderzoekers kwamen de heftige gebeurtenis in 2005 op het spoor. Met behulp van de William Herschel Telescoop op de Canarische Eilanden ontdekten ze een heldere puls infrarood straling die afkomstig was van de kern van één van de Arp 299-stelsels. En een half jaar later spotten onderzoekers weer net iets andere straling, afkomstig van dezelfde plek. “Terwijl de tijd voortschreed, bleef het nieuwe object helder op infrarode- en radiogolflengten, maar niet in zichtbaar licht en röntgenstraling,” legt onderzoeker Seppo Mattila uit. “De meest waarschijnlijke verklaring daarvoor is dat dik interstellair gas en stof nabij het centrum van het sterrenstelsel de röntgenstraling en het zichtbare licht absorbeerde en weer uitzond als infrarode straling.”
Een artistieke impressie van het zwarte gat in Arp 299. Te zien is hoe het zwarte gat een ster verscheurt en materiaal van de ster in een schijf om zich heen trekt, waarna een straalstroom ontstaat. Afbeelding:
Straalstroom De onderzoekers bleven de stralingsbron gedurende maar liefst tien jaar observeren. In eerste instantie dachten ze nog een supernova op het spoor te zijn. Maar door de jaren heen werd de voor een actief zwart gat zo kenmerkende straalstroom steeds duidelijker.
Bijzonder In feite namen onderzoekers de gevolgen van een door een zwart gat veroorzaakte stellaire dood (ook wel een Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) genoemd) waar. Het is best bijzonder. “Het grootste deel van de tijd zijn supermassieve zwarte gaten niet actief aan het eten, oftewel stil,” vertelt Perez-Torres. “Tidal disruption events bieden ons een unieke mogelijkheid om ons begrip van de vorming en evolutie van straalstromen in de nabijheid van deze krachtige objecten te vergroten.”
De onderzoekers hebben goede hoop dat ze in de nabije toekomst nog veel meer van dit soort dingen gaan zien én herkennen. “Door het stof dat al het zichtbare licht absorbeerde kan dit Tidal Disruption Event wel eens het topje van de ijsberg zijn van een – tot voor kort – verborgen populatie,” denkt Mattila. “Door naar deze gebeurtenissen te kijken met infrarood- en radiotelescopen zijn we wellicht in staat om er veel meer te ontdekken en daar ook van te leren.”
Astronauten zorgden ervoor dat de maan in de jaren zeventig opwarmde
Astronauten zorgden ervoor dat de maan in de jaren zeventig opwarmde
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het gaat om een lokale opwarming van zo’n 1 tot 2 graden Celsius.
Het was jarenlang een raadsel: waarom steeg de temperatuur aan het oppervlak van de maan in december 1974 plotseling? Onderzoekers konden het maar niet verklaren. Tot nu. In het blad Journal of Geophysical Research Planets schrijven onderzoekers dat mensen de boosdoeners zijn.
Apollo 15 en 17 De temperatuurverandering werd voor het eerst opgemerkt in de jaren zeventig. Tijdens de Apollo 15- en 17-missies werd er apparatuur op de maan gezet die de temperatuur aan en net onder het oppervlak monitorde. Die apparatuur mat de temperatuur tussen 1971 en 1977. En toen wetenschappers zich over de data bogen, ontdekten ze dat de oppervlaktetemperatuur in december 1974 geleidelijk toenam. Maar de onderzoekers konden dat niet goed verklaren. Ze werden daarin namelijk gehinderd door het feit dat een groot deel van de de data die tijdens het zogenoemde Apollo Heat Flow Experiment (HFE) verzameld was, niet netjes was gearchiveerd en dus niet bestudeerd kon worden. De onderzoekers moesten het in die tijd dan ook doen met de data die in de eerste jaren (tot december 1974) van het experiment verzameld waren. En daarmee konden ze weinig.
Tijdens de Apollo 15-, 16- en 17-missies werd er niet alleen op de maan gewandeld, maar ook gereden, in een speciaal ontwikkelde maanrover.
Afbeelding: NASA / David Scott.
Verloren data Genoeg reden voor de Amerikaanse onderzoeker Seiichi Nagihara en collega’s om op jacht te gaan naar die verloren gewaande data. En met succes. Zo bleek NASA nog wat data uit 1975 op de plank te hebben liggen en bleek het Lunar and Planetary Institute nog te beschikken over logbestanden met daarin de metingen die tussen 1973 en 1977 waren gedaan.
Donkere sporen Een analyse van de gegevens gaf meer inzicht in de oorzaken van de temperatuurverandering. Zo ontdekten de onderzoekers dat de opwarming tot in 1977 duurde. En ze stelden vast dat de opwarming het grootst was aan het oppervlak en afnam naarmate men dieper onder het oppervlak keek. Dat laatste wees erop dat de bron van de opwarming zich aan het oppervlak bevond. In een poging die bron op te sporen, pakten de onderzoekers er beelden van het maanoppervlak bij die gemaakt waren door de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Op die beelden vielen direct de donkere sporen op die astronauten nabij de Apollo-landingsplaatsen hadden achtergelaten. En die donkere sporen zijn waarschijnlijk de oorzaak van de opwarming, aldus de onderzoekers.
Absorptie Terwijl de astronomen aan het eind van de jaren zestig en begin van de jaren zeventig over de maan liepen, schopten ze het stof weg, waardoor het onderliggende, donkerdere regoliet bloot kwam te leggen. En dat donkere materiaal absorbeert meer zonlicht dan het lichtere stof. “Wij suggereren dat de zonnewarmte die het regoliet opnam door de activiteiten van de astronauten iets steeg en dat dat resulteerde in de waargenomen opwarming,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers.
Het onderzoek heeft ook implicaties voor toekomstig onderzoek op de maan. Zo weten we nu dat je niet de meest betrouwbare warmtemetingen op de maan krijgt als je rond je instrumenten gaat lopen stampen.
Zo angstaanjagend donker is de hemel boven Marsrover Opportunity nu
Zo angstaanjagend donker is de hemel boven Marsrover Opportunity nu
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zelfs overdag is het – door een gigantische stofstorm op de rode planeet – heel donker.
NASA heeft een serie afbeeldingen vrijgegeven die onthult hoe het uitzicht van Marsrover Opportunity de afgelopen weken rap is verslechterd. Het zijn simulaties – de foto’s zijn dus niet echt door Opportunity gemaakt – maar ze laten wel goed zien hoe intens deze stofstorm is en waarom Opportunity er op dit moment niet in slaagt om zonne-energie op te wekken..
Helemaal links zie je wat Opportunity een paar weken geleden zag als deze omhoog keek. De heldere vlek is natuurlijk onze zon: de energieleverancier van Opportunity. Helemaal rechts zie je dat de rover nu ziet als deze – overdag(!) – omhoog kijkt.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU.
Donker Zelfs overdag is het donker in de Perseverance Valley waar Opportunity zich momenteel bevindt. Het is te wijten aan een gigantische stofstorm die op dit moment ongeveer een kwart van de rode planeet, oftewel een oppervlak van zo’n 35 miljoen vierkante kilometer beslaat. En in het hart van die – nog steeds groeiende – storm bevindt zich Opportunity. Er is al een paar dagen geen contact mogelijk; de rover moet zuinig met zijn acculadingen omgaan om te voorkomen dat hij doodvriest.
Goed voor de wetenschap Natuurlijk maakt NASA zich zorgen over de al 15 jaar oude Marsrover. Maar tegelijkertijd zijn astronomen stiekem dolblij met deze stofstorm, zo blijkt uit een persconferentie die NASA gisterenavond op poten zette. “Dit is de ideale storm,” vindt onderzoeker Jim Watzin. “We hebben een historisch aantal ruimtevaartuigen dat actief is op de rode planeet. En elk ruimtevaartuig geeft weer een uniek inkijkje in hoe stofstormen ontstaan en zich gedragen: kennis die van essentieel belang is voor toekomstige robotische en bemande missies.” Onderzoeker Rich Zurek is het daar helemaal mee eens. “Elke observatie van deze grote stormen brengt ons dichter bij het modelleren ervan en misschien zullen we op een dag zelfs in staat zijn om ze te voorspellen.”
Wat gaat ‘ie doen? Zover zijn we nu zeker nog niet. Onderzoekers durven in dit stadium zelfs nog niet te voorspellen wat de stofstorm die we nu op Mars zien, gaat doen. Zal de storm stoppen met groeien en vervolgens beginnen te krimpen? Of groeit deze nog even door en beslaat deze uiteindelijk bijna het complete oppervlak van Mars? Niemand die het weet. Eerder hebben we flinke stofstormen gezien die na enkele weken de geest gaven. Anderen bleven maandenlang hangen. Het laatste scenario zou vanzelfsprekend heel slecht nieuws zijn voor Opportunity.
Hier zie je hoe de stofwolk tussen 31 mei en 11 juni gegroeid is.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Curiosity Beelden van de groeiende stofstorm (zie hierboven) laten zien dat deze ook steeds dichter in de buurt komt van Marsrover Curiosity. En inderdaad: het uitzicht van deze rover is de laatste dagen ook wel wat verslechterd (zie de foto’s hieronder). Maar Curiosity loopt niet dezelfde risico’s als Opportunity; de rover is namelijk uitgerust met een nucleaire batterij.
Marsrover Curiosity bevindt zich in de Gale-krater en fotografeerde de rand van de krater op 7 juni (links) en 10 juni (rechts).
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Natuurlijk blijft NASA de situatie op Mars goed monitoren. Niet alleen omwille van Opportunity, maar ook zeker omwille van de wetenschap.
TURN, TURN, TURN Curiosity took this selfie on Mars in February. The rover has found what appears to be a seasonal cycle of methane in the Martian atmosphere and more signs of organic molecules in the soil.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA, MSSS
To Martian methane, there is a season.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence that methane in Mars’ thin atmosphere varies during the year. Higher concentrations appear in late summer and early autumn in the northern hemisphere and lower concentrations in the winter and spring, researchers report in the June 8 Science.
Curiosity Rover Finds Organic Matter And Methane On Mars
What’s more, Curiosity also spotted organic molecules previously unseen on Mars preserved in mudstone, some of the same researchers report in another study in the same issue of Science. Although neither methane nor organics alone are signs of life, the implications for astrobiology are “potentially huge,” says planetary scientist Michael Mumma of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who was not involved in the studies.
In 2004, Mumma and colleagues reported the first observation of huge plumes of methane spewing into Mars’ atmosphere (SN: 2/14/09, p. 10). These plumes, detected with Earth-based telescopes, had methane concentrations as high as 45 parts per billion.
That finding was exciting, because methane doesn’t last long in the Martian atmosphere before ultraviolet radiation from the sun destroys it. Something must have been creating or releasing the gas as astronomers watched. On Earth, most methane is produced by living creatures, so the plumes raised hopes that Mars supports life.
When Curiosity landed on the Red Planet in 2012, however, the rover initially found no methane to speak of (SN: 10/19/13, p. 7). “A lot of people were disappointed and upset,” says Christopher Webster, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and a coauthor of the new methane study. But in 2014, after more searching, the Curiosity team found traces of methane, though much less than what was expected based on the earlier results (SN: 1/10/15, p. 11).
Now after two full Martian years (five Earth years) of observing, the team reports that the annual average concentration of methane in Mars’ atmosphere is 0.41 ppb. But methane levels seem to rise and fall with the seasons, ranging from 0.24 ppb in winter to 0.65 ppb in summer. The researchers also saw relatively large methane spikes, up to about 7 ppb, at apparently random intervals.
Up and down
Methane levels in Mars’ atmosphere seem to peak in summer and autumn and slump in winter and spring, measurements from the Curiosity rover suggest. Scientists suspect the gas seeps out of the Martian surface periodically from an underground reservoir, and may be taken up again at times, too.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
Slow seepage from an underground reservoir could explain both the seasonal cycle and the spikes, Webster says. Surface rocks could mostly hold on to the methane in winter and release it when warmed by the summer sun. Occasionally, something in the rocks could break loose, releasing larger spurts. Similar scenarios are found on Earth.
Scientists can’t say what produced the stored methane in the first place. “The existence and behavior of methane on Mars remains puzzling,” Webster says. “While we think it likely that it’s produced abiologically [by a geologic process], we cannot rule out the possibility of a biological or microbial source.”
Though lower, the concentrations of methane in the spikes that Curiosity sees are still consistent with the huge plumes seen from Earth, Mumma says, if Curiosity is located at the edge of a plume. But he’s not sure if a seasonal cycle is the only explanation for the data. A flat, constant methane level could fit within the errors of the measurements, too, he argues.
Webster disagrees. "Even to the untrained eye," he says of the results, "there is a clear, repeatable rise in the summertime…. The seasonal cycle is real.”
In the other new paper, astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode of NASA Goddard and colleagues analyzed samples collected from 3.5-billion-year-old mudstone that was once part of an ancient lake and found chemical evidence that plenty of organic molecules had been preserved in the lake bed.
In 2014, Curiosity had detected organic molecules in rocks from one location in Gale crater. The new finding, from samples drilled at the base of a mountain in the crater’s center, shows signs of larger and more complex organic molecules than had been seen before, including some that are similar to coal and black shale found on Earth.
“There were a lot of people who didn’t think we were going to find organic matter using the drill on the Curiosity rover, because it only goes down five centimeters,” Eigenbrode says. The Martian surface is bombarded with radiation that can break up organic molecules. The fact that organics survive on the surface means digging deeper may yield even more.
The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover, slated to launch in 2020, will drill two meters into the surface. “This opens up the prospect that [the rover] might find better preserved organic material, and maybe find biosignatures” of life, Eigenbrode says.
Curiosity isn’t done drilling yet, though. The rover’s drill broke in 2016. But engineers successfully hacked the drill, which dug out a sample on May 20.
NASA's Rover Found Atmospheric Methane At Low Altitudes
Japanese Spacecraft Approaches Dumpling-Shaped Asteroid (Photo)
Japanese Spacecraft Approaches Dumpling-Shaped Asteroid (Photo)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft took this photo of the asteroid Ryugu using its Optical Navigation Camera-Telescopic instrument at about 12:50 a.m. EDT on June 13, 2018 (0450 GMT), from a distance of about 570 miles (920 kilometers).
Credit: Ground observation team: JAXA, Kyoto University, Japan Spaceguard Association, Seoul National University. ONC Team: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, Univers
Saturn has a ravioli moon, so why shouldn't there be a dumpling asteroid?
A new photo of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu snapped by Japan's approaching Hayabusa2 spacecraft calls to mind a particular tasty treat, the probe's handlers said.
From Earth To Asteroid 1999 JU3 - Japanese Space Probe Launch
"Hayabusa2 has imaged Ryugu from 920 km [570 miles], and we're starting to see the shape. It looks like … a dango-type asteroid! (Actually, that's a Japanese sweet dumpling. But the shape seems to be similar so far…)," Hayabusa2 team members wrote via Twitter Thursday (June 14). [Photos: Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Mission in Pictures]
The probe captured the newly released image early Wednesday morning (June 13) as part of an effort to take Ryugu's measure ahead of a planned arrival at the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid on June 27 or thereabouts. Hayabusa2 has snapped other photos of Ryugu recently from greater distances, in which the asteroid's shape is less clear.
If all goes according to plan, Hayabusa2 will study Ryugu in depth from orbit for about a year, dropping three rovers and a lander onto the asteroid's surface. The orbiting probe will also create a fresh crater on Ryugu using an explosives-laden impactor, then spiral down to snag samples of newly unearthed material. This asteroid sample will be sent to Earth, touching down in a special capsule in late 2020.
Hayabusa2 has imaged Ryugu from 920km and we’re starting to see the shape. It looks like… a dango-type asteroid! (Actually, that’s a Japanese sweet dumpling. But the shape seems to be similar so far…)µ
Hayabusa2 is following in the footsteps of the original Hayabusa probe, which made history in June 2010 by returning a small sample from the stony asteroid Itokawa. Ryugu is a different type of asteroid: a carbonaceous one, the type thought to have delivered lots of water and carbon-containing organic molecules to Earth via impacts long ago.
NASA has its own asteroid-sampling mission, with another carbonaceous space rock in its sights. The agency's OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to arrive at the 1,650-foot-wide (500 m) asteroid Bennu later this summer and return samples to Earth in September 2023.
Oh, and that ravioli moon — the 22-mile-wide (35 km) Pan — is just one of many fantastically shaped Saturn satellites. For example, one of the ringed planet's moons looks like a giant space walnut (Iapetus), and another resembles the Death Stars from the "Star Wars" films (Mimas).
This Monster Black Hole's Jet Has 125 Billion Times More Energy Than the Sun
This Monster Black Hole's Jet Has 125 Billion Times More Energy Than the Sun
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
A dust-enshrouded, giant black hole ripping apart a star blasted out a superfast jet of particles that packed about 125 billion times the amount of energy the sun releases per year, a new study finds.
This is the first time astronomers have directly imaged the formation and evolution of such a jet from a black hole. This finding may help astronomers discover many new instances of black holes destroying stars.
Supermassive black holes that are millions to billions times the mass of the sun are thought to lurk in the hearts of most, if not all, large galaxies. If a star passes too close to such a monstrous black hole, its powerful gravitational pull will tear it apart in a so-called tidal disruption event. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe]
In the pair of colliding galaxies Arp 299, researchers spotted evidence of a supermassive black hole shredding a nearby star, pulling its debris into an orbiting disk and blasting a powerful jet of particles outward. The background photo is a view of the colliding galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope; an artist's concept of the black hole system is pulled out.
Credit: Sophia Dagnello/NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA/STScI
As a black hole tears matter off a star, this material forms a rotating disk that glows brightly before it falls into the black hole. Previous research also suggested that jets of particles are launched outward from the poles of these so-called accretion disks at extraordinarily high speeds.
Most times, supermassive black holes are not actively devouring anything, the new study's researchers told Space.com. The small number of tidal disruption events that astronomers have detected so far offer scientists the chance to learn more about the formation and evolution of these jets.
The first evidence that researchers had of this newly reported jet came on Jan. 30, 2005, from astronomers using the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands to analyze a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299, nearly 150 million light-years from Earth. They discovered a bright outburst of infrared light coming from the core of one of the colliding galaxies in Arp 299, study co-lead author Seppo Mattila, of the University of Turku in Finland, told Space.com.
On July 17, 2005, using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) — a network of 10 radio telescopes spread across thousands of miles that can work together to essentially act like a giant radio telescope — scientists detected a new source of radio emissions from the same location in Arp 299.
"As time passed, the new object stayed bright at infrared and radio wavelengths, but not in visible light and X-rays," Mattila said in a statement. "The most likely explanation is that thick interstellar gas and dust near the galaxy's center absorbed the X-rays and visible light, then re-radiated it as infrared," Mattila said.
This supermassive black hole shredding a star in the system Arp 299 resulted in an expanding, radio-emitting region, indicating a jet of particles moving outward.
Credit: Mattila, Perez-Torres, et al; Bill Saxton/NRAO/AUI/NSF
The researchers initially thought this outburst was a star exploding in a supernova, but that explanation didn't match the data. Continued monitoring over nearly a decade showed the source of radio emissions, dubbed Arp 299-B AT1, expanding in one direction, just as would be expected for a jet, but not for a supernova. Radio data suggested the material in the jet raced outward at an average of about 25 percent the speed of light. In contrast, the average expansion speed of a supernova after 10 years is expected to be, at most, about 5 percent of the speed of light, study co-lead author Miguel Pérez-Torres of the Astrophysical Institute of Andalusia in Granada, Spain, told Space.com.
"We continued to patiently collect more and more data to discern the true nature of this source, and our patience paid off," Mattila said. "The combination of our infrared and radio observations, coupled with state-of-the art simulations of radio jets and calculations of infrared emission from the dusty regions surrounding a supermassive black hole, left us with one plausible explanation — the infrared and the radio emission came from the disruption of a hapless star being devoured by the supermassive black hole when it passed too close to this cosmic monster."
The researchers estimated that this jet resulted from a supermassive black hole that was 20 million times the mass of the sun. The black hole was situated at the core of one of the pair of colliding galaxies and it was in the act of shredding a star that was more than twice the sun's mass. "Never before have we been able to directly observe the formation and evolution of a jet from one of these events," Pérez-Torres said in a statement. [No Escape: Dive Into a Black Hole (Infographic)]
The new findings were a surprise, the scientists said. Arp 299-B AT1 was discovered as part of a project that sought to detect supernova explosions in colliding pairs of galaxies. This infrared burst was originally thought to be a supernova explosion — it was only in 2011, six years after the outburst's discovery, that Arp 299-B AT1 began to show the elongation that went on to reveal that it was a jet and not a supernova.
Over the course of about a decade, the jet released more than 1.5 x 10^52 ergs of energy in infrared and radio waves, the researchers said. This is about 125 billion times the amount of energy the sun releases per year.
With the help of the VLBA, now the scientists are "witnessing how the radio source is now breaking up into several separate sources, telling us how the interaction of the jet with its surrounding medium is proceeding," Pérez-Torres said.
The event was not bright in visible or X-ray wavelengths, likely because of the effects of gas and dust, the scientists noted. This may help explain why tidal disruption events are not as bright as theoretically predicted, they added.
"How many similar events are we missing in dusty centers of galaxies that would only be detectable by infrared and radio observations but be completely invisible in the optical light?" Mattila said.
These new findings suggest that infrared and radio telescopes may discover many tidal disruption events that may have escaped detection until now because dust absorbed any visible light from them, Pérez-Torres said. Such events may have been more common in the early universe, so investigating them may help scientists understand the newborn cosmos, the researchers added.
The scientists detailed their findings online June 15 in the journal Science.
Newscast In Buffalo, New York Catches UFO Live On Air
Newscast In Buffalo, New York Catches UFO Live On Air
During SkyWatch7 News broadcast late in the the evening at around 11:20pm on Thursday June 14 when an object entered and exited the camera view. Meteorologist Andy Parker spotted this fast moving object and went on to say that the object moves too fast to be a plane, originates too far away to be a bug.
Scientific paper asks: “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?”
Scientific paper asks: “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?”
In July of 1970, two Russian scientists, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, published an article in the Soviet journal Sputnik called “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?”
The theory proposed by the two experts offers arguments that would explain the countless enigmas surrounding the moon and its creation.
By publishing this article, they raised numerous questions about the moon and its formation which no other scientist at the time dared to ask.
Their article received heavy criticism, but they made their point when writing about the moon and its countless mysteries.
The Russian scientific duo proposed the theory that Earth’s Moon is not a natural satellite, but a planetoid that was literally hollowed out eons ago in the far reaches of the universe by super advanced intelligent beings possessing a technology far superior to ours, even today.
Shcherbakov and Vasin proposed that massive machines were used to melt rock and form long cavities within the Moon, spreading the molten refuse onto the lunar surface.
The advanced their theory by saying that the moon was preserved by a hull-like inner shell in addition to a reconstructed outer shell of metallic rocky junk, and eventually, this enormous craft was steered through the cosmos and finally put in orbit around our planet.
Some say this is a preposterous idea, but the two scientists made a point backed by scientific data.
Vasin and Shcerbakov state there are some lunar rocks that have been discovered to contain PROCESSED METALS such as Brass, the elements of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237. These elements have NEVER been found to occur naturally.
However, somehow there are traces of them on the surface of Moon.
Uranium 236 for example, is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium.
More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a known by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium.
In their article, Vasin and Shcherbakov write:
“Abandoning the traditional paths of ‘common sense,’ we have plunged into what may, at first sight, seem to be unbridled and irresponsible fantasy.”
“But the more minutely we go into all the knowledge gathered by man about the Moon, the more we are convinced that there is not a single fact to rule out our hypothesis. Not only that, but many things so far considered to be lunar enigmas are explainable in the light of this new theory.”
Interestingly, Dr. Farouk El Baz was quoted stating, “There are numerous undiscovered caverns believed to exist beneath the surface of the Moon. Several experiments have been flown to the Moon to see if these caverns were actually real.” Interestingly, the results of these experiments have never been made public.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, while ridiculing the possibility of a hollow moon, admitted that because heavier materials were on the surface, it was possible that MASSIVE caverns exist within the Moon.
MIT’s Dr. Sean C. Solomon added to the mystery of the hollow Moon when he wrote, “The Lunar Orbiter experiments greatly improved our understanding of the Moon’s gravitational field… Presenting the frightening possibility that the Moon might be hollow.”
As outrageous as this moon theory might first seem, take a second and consider how this “unorthodox” model reconciles all of the mysteries of the Moon.
Bearing in consideration the explanation by Vasin and Shcherbakov, it would allow us to explain as to why the Moon gives evidence of being much older than our planet and perhaps even our solar system. It would also help explain why there are three distinct layers within the Moon, with the densest materials being located on the outside layer, exactly as one would expect when looking at the “hull” of a spacecraft.
Furthermore, the above could also explain why no sign of water has been found on the surface of our moon, yet we have found vast evidence it exists deep inside it.
This revolutionary theory would also explain the mystery behind Maria and mascons, what can be considered as the remnants of the machinery used to drill and create a hollow Moon.
The theory that our moon is in fact an artificial satellite could explain the weird—yet rhythmic “moonquakes.”
Interestingly, if the moon really is the result of advanced extraterrestrial “terraforming” than it would provide us with the solution to the long debated argument between the “hot moon” and “cold moon” suggesting experts were both right.
This means that our moon was originally a cold planetoid, which was artificially transformed into a spacecraft by means of artificially heating.
This theory could also help explain the contradictions over the question whether or not Earth satellite is in fact a hollow moon.
If Earth’s Moon was originally a solid planetoid which was artificially hollowed out eons ago, we’d probably have found evidence of both phases—which is precisely what we have with our current Moon knowledge.
Even Isaac Asimov—an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction, and popular science was fascinated by the enigmas surrounding the moon.
Asimov wrote about the moon and how he believed it may have been “captured” and put into position: “It’s simply too large to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up nearly circular orbit around our Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible.”
And Asimov was right to consider the Moon’s orbit—not only is it a nearly perfect circle but a stationary one, meaning that one side always faces the Earth with only the slightest variation. As far as we are aware, this s the only natural satellite which possesses such an awkward orbit.
12 Vile Vortices on Earth you should avoid at all cost
12 Vile Vortices on Earth you should avoid at all cost
Among the 12 Vortices, we find the Bermuda Triangle, Mohenjo-Daro, and even Antarctica. Nearly all of these Vortices are characterized by magnetic anomalies and abnormal phenomena.
Planet Earth is a unique planet in the universe: It’s the only one that has life. But that’s not the only reason why Earth is such wonderful places. What makes our planet even greater is the fact that Earth is shrouded in mystery.
Countless things about our planet have still not been understood by experts, and it seems that the more we research, the more questions arise.
There are certain points on Earth where known physics cannot be applied. These areas are ‘ruled’ by strange energies that have been present there since time immemorial. Usually marked by extremely weird phenomena, countless disappearances have been registered in some of those places.
These Earth points are referred to as vortices, Vile Vortices.
In this article, we take a look at some of these mysterious areas and where they are located on Earth.
Some of them appear to be geometrically interconnected.
These strange places were plotted by biologist and writer Ivan T. Sanderson, the founder of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained and curiously, one of Charles Fort’s earliest followers.
Sanderson wrote about Earth’s vortices in 1972, in a piece for Saga magazine entitled The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World in which he plotted the disappearance of ships and planes on a global scale, pointing out 12 areas on Earth that stood out in particular.
Although some of them might be less famous than others, nearly all of them are characterized by magnetic anomalies and abnormal phenomenon.
What is perhaps the most important thing, ten of the vortices plotted by Sanderson are located in tropical climates. Furthermore, five vortices can be found along the Tropic of Cancer, while five others are located along the Tropic of Capricorn.
Two more vortices are found at Earth’s North and South Poles.
Strangely, the twelve points are equidistant and together, they form the twelve tips of an icosahedron,
Here’s the list with no significant order.
Bermuda Triangle, we all know where the Bermuda Triangle is right? For those who don’t know, the Bermuda Triangle is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, forming a triangle between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.
Easter Island—where the giant statues are found.
The North Pole
The South Pole
Karachi—the home of the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro. It is considered as one of the earliest major cities on Earth and it’s the area where according to numerous authors and researchers we find ground zero for the detonation of ancient nuclear weapons.
Hamakulia, located east of Hawaii. It is an area where according to some researchers was once home to a high-energy volcano
Devil’s Sea, south of Tokyo. This area is known for disappearances of ships and airplanes.
The Wharton Basin—an area on Earth with great depths and largely unexplored.
New Hebrides Trench, located between the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Its deepest point is believed to reach over 25,000 feet (7,600 meters). Who knows what’s down there!
The Megalithic Ruins of Algeria, located just south of the city of Timbuktu.
The South Atlantic Anomaly. An area where according to researchers, the innermost Van Allen radiation belt dips extremely close to the Earth’s surface, one of the possibilities why the region is so anomalous.
The megaliths of Zimbabwe. Home to supermassive stone structures. They are located near an area of the Sahara desert where mysterious plane disappearances occur.
Sanderson believed that the anomalous activity surrounding these areas may be due to electromagnetic disturbances caused by the flow of hot and cold air.
As you can see, mystery connects all of the above-mentioned vortices. According to author and researcher David Hatcher Childress, “we are speaking about an intelligent geometric pattern into which, theoretically, the Earth and its energies are organized—and possibly in which the ubiquitous megalithic sites are also positioned.”
While we’re all thinking of finding alien life on other planets, scientists are looking for life on alien moons.
Artistic illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet.
Credit: NASA GSFC // Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold.
When humans first thought about extraterrestrial life, they thought of places like the Moon or Venus. Modern studies quickly showed that those places are currently uninhabitable, so alien life projections started focusing on Mars. Mars was potentially habitable in the past, but not so much now. Instead, the most likely places in our solar system to host life (outside of Earth) are frozen moons like Europa.
Even though satellites like Europa are frozen on the surface, the stress and friction from their planet’s gravitational pull generate great heat beneath the surface, and astronomers estimate that these places host liquid oceans beneath the surface — liquid water where life can develop. So this type of frozen moon around giant planets are quite interesting for astronomers, which is why this finding is so important.
In a paper forthcoming in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Southern Queensland have identified more than 100 giant planets that might host this type of moon, by scouring through data from the Kepler telescope. To make matters even more attractive, all these giant planets have orbits in the so-called habitable zone — not too close, and not too far from their parent star.
“There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the Sun’s habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems,” said Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR’s Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. “Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look.”
Researchers have only found the planets themselves and have no direct information about any potential moons. However, from what we’ve seen in our own solar system, this type of planet does tend to have several moons.
Scientists speculate that if they do exist, some of these moons may be prime areas to look for extraterrestrial life because they get energy not only from their parent star but also from their parent planet.
This will help scientists develop new, better telescopes, that could look for potential biological signatures on these moons — yet another stepping stone on our long search for alien life.
“Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life,” said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR’s graduate program in the fall.
Journal Reference:
Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone, arXiv:1805.03370 [astro-ph.EP] arxiv.org/abs/1805.03370
The wisdom of Stephen Hawking won’t just live on in memory, but will be beamed into a black hole so that it might exist in other capacities or be destroyed immediately — depending on which theorist you ask.
The ashes of the late physicist, who died March 14 at the age of 76, will be buried between the remains of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton following a Friday memorial service. While his physical remains will be earth-bound between two other renowned scientists, his voice will be blasted 3,000 light years away to binary system 1A 0620-00, the nearest black hole to Earth. The recording, set to an original piece of music by the Greek composer Vangelis, will be broadcast into the binary system and serve not just as moving tribute, but as an interesting thought experiment.
Stephen Hawking floating in 2007.
Some of Hawking’s most important work explored the nature of black holes. In 1974, he famously presented how black holes emit radiation, which was contrary to belief at the time. Hawking’s final interview offered new insight on the creation of black holes after studying the gravitational waves formed by the merging of neutron stars, a possible way black hole are formed.
According to Hawking, if a particle falls into a black hole, the black hole will lose a bit of mass in the form of energy. Black holes radiate small amounts of energy and evaporate over time. Logically, if something falls into a black hole, it will be lost. This creates the information paradox. Scientists still aren’t sure if information inside a black hole is preserved or lost forever, but a recording of Hawking’s voice, much like his work, could one day help carry that research forward.
Physicists continue to search for evidence of “Hawking radiation,” a theoretical type of energy that is thought to radiate from black holes as a result of quantum effects. Finding evidence of this would help scientists decide whether black holes truly destroy all information within them, including the recording of Hawking’s voice after it’s beamed into 1A 0620-00 on Friday.
According to his daughter, Lucy Hawking, the space delivery is “beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father’s presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind.” Even if we never hear that recording emitted from a black hole again, it’s only fitting that Hawking shall be remembered through a new experiment without an end in sight.µ
Scientists Find Genetically ‘Different’ Humans Adapted For Diving
Scientists Find Genetically ‘Different’ Humans Adapted For Diving
No, scientists didn’t discover fish people, nor did they find a new species of humans.
A mystery people living in Southeastern Asia has baffled scientists for years.
The people of the Bajau tribe, in Southeast Asia, only need a breath of air to dive up to 70 meters underwater and fish, remaining submerged for several minutes. This has led experts to question how dey manage to do it.
These people were almost like “super-humans” and have “extraordinary” capabilities…
Image Credit: Melissa Ilardo
A recent study published in the Journal cell describes how a certain population of humans has genetically adapted to dive underwater.
Experts describe a population that has remarkably larger organs, which help them stay underwater for greater periods of time.
This isn’t the first time that experts have found genetic mutations in humans.
The more we peer into our genes, the more we discover how people from around the world have adapted to their surroundings, making them remarkably unique in a number of ways.
For example, people in Tibet and the Ethiopian highlands have ‘evolved’ to better adapt to living at extremely high altitudes.
People in East Africa and Northern Europe have adopted a genetic mutation that allows them to better digest milk as adults.
And now, scientists reported a new type of genetic mutation different from the above-mentioned in sea-dwelling people in Southeastern Asia.
This genetic mutation allows them to become exceptional divers.
According to experts, the Bajau people, who are scattered in several communities across Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have evolved to longer survive underwater.
“They are simply a stranger to the land,” said Rodney C. Jubilado, a University of Hawaii anthropologist who studies the Bajau but was not involved in the new study.
Scientists studied the extraordinary capacity of the Bajau and have reached a conclusion: they can spend minutes without breathing thanks to a genetic mutation that has caused, among other things, to develop a bigger spleen.
This organ, among other functions, can store oxygen-bearing red blood cells.
In their study, whose results were published in the journal Cell, the scientists were guided by previous studies on Seals.
As it turns out, some species of seals can dive longer than others. These Seals have spleens larger than expected.
Inspired by this unexpected find, the team of scientists used an ultrasound device to measure the spleen in 43 people from the Bajau and 33 people from a neighboring group of farmers, the Saluan.
Scientists found that one variant of a gene called PDE10A influenced the size of Spleens in the Bajau people. Experts found that people with one copy of the mutant gene had much larger spleens that people with one. Scientists also found that people who have two copies of the mutant gene had even bigger spleens.
However, scientists found this surprising, as they’ve never found a special role for PDE10A in the spleen.
“This connection was a bit bizarre,” Dr. Ilardo concluded.
According to TechTimes, Dr. Melissa Ilardo said that Bajau people were almost like “super-humans” and that had “extraordinary” capabilities but also stated that natural selection is much more powerful than realized and should be given more credit.
Dr. Ilardo also said that she was excited to share her findings with the Bajau people as she felt that they understood the “science” behind her research and to satisfy their curiosity about the world and themselves.
“It seemed like the perfect opportunity for natural selection to act on a population,” said Dr. Ilardo.
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
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.
The “Solway Firth Spaceman”—One Of The Most Inexplicable Images Ever Taken
The “Solway Firth Spaceman”—One Of The Most Inexplicable Images Ever Taken
More than 50 years ago, more precisely in May of 1964, a man called Jim Templeton snapped an image that would soon become one of the most mysterious images ever photographed.
In May of 1964, Jim Templeton, his wife, and daughter spent the day at the Solway Fjord in northwest England.
Jim was a photography enthusiast, and like all new parents, his main motivation was his daughter Elizabeth, five years old at the time.
That afternoon he took three photos, and when he went to reveal them, he found that the best picture of his daughter had been ruined because someone had appeared walking behind.
The only problem was, there was no one there.
Who or what is the mysterious figure behind Jim Templeton’s daughter?
Image Credit: Jim Templeton.
Jim was entirely sure that the three of them were alone that day. So, who or what was the mysterious figure seen behind his daughter?
The curious photograph was published in a local newspaper in Cumberland on June 12 of that same year, and the next day, it was also picked up by the Daily Mirror and Daily Express.
As expected, it soon attracted the attention of all kinds of curious people, ufologists, and paranormal investigators who were trying to solve the mystery surrounding the photograph.
Following the publication of the image in various newspapers, a number of different theories were proposed. However, none of them seemed to satisfy.
One of the strangest theories proposed had Aliens written all over it.
One theory suggested that an alien spacecraft had landed near them and that both the ship itself and the aliens were protected by some sort of cloaking device, which made them imperceptible to human eyes but not to the camera.
The Alien theory developed and quickly turned into a conspiracy theory.
Some reports suggest that soon after the image was published in newspapers, Mr. Templeton was visited by the mysterious Men in Black, who asked him to take them to the exact area where the events took place.
Templeton explained later that the two men who had visited him refused to show their identification and that “They said they worked for the government and that they were only identified by number.”
After taking the men to the site where the photographs were taken, Templeton said that when he explained he had not seen the figure at the time, the men became angry and drove away, leaving him to walk home.
In September 1964, Templeton dismissed the two men as frauds, saying: “It all looks like a leg pull to me. I’m sure the men were not security agents.”
Trying to solve the mystery, Jim took the photograph and the negative to Kodak, so they could check the original had been manipulated in any way or contained a photographic error of some sort.
However, all attempts to explain the mystery figure were in vain, and tests showed that the photograph was authentic, and had not been manipulated.
The photographic company even offered a prize of free movies for life to that person who managed to prove otherwise.
Let it be known, the prize has not been claimed, but more than fifty years after the event took place, a few people remain interested in this mystery.
In 2014, UFO author David Clarke explained that the mysterious figure standing behind Jim’s daughter was most likely Templeton’s wife, Annie, who was present at the time and was seen on other photographs that were taken that day.
Some claim the mysterious figure was Jim Templeton’s wife, Annie.
“I think for some reason his wife walked into the shot, and he didn’t see her because with that particular make of camera you could only see 70% of what was in the shot through the viewfinder”, said Clarke. Annie Templeton was wearing a pale blue dress on the day in question, which was overexposed as white in the other photos; she also had dark bobbed hair. It has been argued that, when using photo software to darken the image and straighten the horizon, the figure increasingly appears to be a regular person viewed from behind. Of its impact, Clarke said: “People will still be talking about it in another 50 years.”
Did NASA’s Apollo 17 Mission Really Spot A Pyramid On The Moon?
Did NASA’s Apollo 17 Mission Really Spot A Pyramid On The Moon?
An image snapped by NASA’s Apollo 17 astronauts has created controversy among Ufologists. According to claims, the image cataloged as AS17-135-20680HR shows what many believe is a Pyramid on the lunar surface.
But… Long story short?
No, they did not, but the image is evidence of how easily we can be tricked into seeing things that aren’t really there, or how our mind identified familiar patterns.
The alleged Pyramid on the moon.
There are pyramids all over the planet. For a reason, we are yet to find out, ancient civilizations, spread across Earth, and isolated from one another, built massive pyramid structures thousands of years ago.
Some say these ancient monuments were built as tombs, others say they were erected to pay tribute to the gods. But the real reason why there are thousands of pyramids on Earth remains a mystery.
And while pyramids on Earth remain a hotly debated subject, finding pyramids on another planet or moon goes beyond reason, venturing out into what many call a massive conspiracy.
Thanks to the various space programs, we have explored our neighboring planets and moons like never before.
But it all started with NASA’s Apollo missions.
Liftoff of Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the Moon, July 16, 1969.
The Apollo Program was a manned space program developed by the United States in the 1960s in the framework of the space race with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
The project began in July 1960, when the US space agency NASA announced it, as a continuation of the Mercury missions. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968.
The Apollo 17 mission, which lasted from December 7-19 marked the end of manned lunar exploration. The mission was characterized by being the only Saturn V night launch. The crew landed in Taurus-Littrow, and it was the final manned Moon landing. Surface EVA time: 22:02 hours, after which astronauts returned 110.40 kg of samples back to Earth.
However, the Apollo 17 mission was also marked by another peculiar occurrence.
While digging through some of the images made available to the public, UFO hunters came across an image cataloged as AS17-135-20680HR.
This image at first glance might not draw your attention, but upon closer examination, you will notice a triangle shaped object hiding in the background, which has led UFOlogists and UFO hunters to ask, what exactly did the Apollo 17 mission photograph on the moon? Is this image the result of a camera malfunction, Parts of the Rover? Or is there perhaps, a structure on the moon?
We decided to investigate a bit more and examined the image further and as we played around with the contrast and brightness of the image we managed to get some pretty nice results that helped us see this object in a better way. And despite the fact that after cleaning the image up a bit we do get a ‘pyramid-shaped structure,’ the truth is that it’s not really a pyramid, and there a couple reasons as to why.
First of all, you can check out the sheer amount of images and videos from the Apollo 17 mission by checking out this link: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html#MagG.We are interested in the following material:
From there, you can check out the images and videos taken by the astronauts during their 22:02 hour EVA.
We need to jump to image AS17-135-20680 (OF300) ( 209kor 1402k) found under Magazine 135/G (B&W) EVA-2, Frames 20533-20680.
The image in question: AS17-135-20680HR. The result? A blurry image with a strange shape in the middle. Pyramid you say? I beg to differ.
Notice the Pyramid/triangle shaped object at the center of the image.
Let’s check out some other images taken before it.
Let’s begin with image AS17-135-20674 (OF300) (151kor 1343k). NASA describes the image: “LRV traverse from the SEP site to Station 2. This photo shows the trough that runs along the base of the South Massif. The Station 2 boulders are the two large ones at the right edge of the picture. The big crater mentioned in the dialog is at the left, farther up the slope.” Note: LRV stands for Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Part of the LVR.
Image credit: NASA
If we take a look at the images snapped later, we see the following:
We are looking at Station 2, LRV Floor. AS17-135-20678 (OF300) ( 95k or 1032k )
Seen here is the LVR.
Image Credit: NASA
The next image, AS17-135-20679 (OF300) ( 100kor 1275k) are described as Station 2, LRV Floor. Sunstruck, but the Astronaut who took the picture did not get the exposure right, which resulted in a blurry image.
Image Credit: NASA.
Finally, we arrive at our image in question, AS17-135-20680 (OF300) ( 209kor 1402k) which NASA describes as LRV Floor? Sunstruck.
Image Credit: NASA.
The next image, AS17-136-20681was blank.
Image AS17-136-20682 (OF300) (138kor 1041k) which is the next visible image shows parts of the LVR but also Sunstruck:
Image Credit: NASA
Verdict? The curious pyramid-like shape we see in the image is, in fact, the result of low-quality images snapped by astronauts. Position, light, and angle, all played an important role in obtaining a curious image that some have interpreted as a Pyramid on the moon when actually the only thing the astronauts snapped was the LVR under peculiar light conditions.
Note that Images labeled “OF300” are from the original film and are presented at the equivalent of 300 DPI on a 7.5-inch by 7.5-inch reproduction.
So, while there may certainly be peculiar things on the moon, structures that we may not be able to explain, these images snapped by Apollo 17 astronauts are not one of them.
Has Someone Really Discovered A 500,000-Year-Old Artifact In California?
Has Someone Really Discovered A 500,000-Year-Old Artifact In California?
On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell were searching for interesting specimens of minerals, specifically geodes, for their gift shop in Olancha, California.
Their geodes search took them approximately 6 kilometers northeast of Olancha, about 4300 feet to the Coso Mountains near the dry bed of Owens Lake, where they were collecting samples.
They returned to the shop with several geodes.
But one of them had 500,000 reasons to be dubbed as the discovery of a lifetime.
The next day Mike Mikesell broke a blade while cutting what he thought was a geode, inside the object that he was cutting, Mikesell found anything but the typical cavity geodes usually has, to his surprise, he discovered a perfectly circular section of a hard white material that looked like porcelain. In the center of the porcelain cylinder axis was a 2 mm shiny metal. The metal shaft seemed like a magnet but there were other strange qualities in the object. The surface was very rough and it appeared as if it was coated with fossilized shells.
In addition to these strange deposits, he also found two nonmagnetic metallic objects embedded in the crust, which seemed like a metallic nail and a packing ring. As Mike Mikesell was analyzing the object, it seemed to get even stranger. The inner layer was hexagonal and seemed to form a shell around the cylinder of hard porcelain. On the inside, a layer of very deteriorated copper surrounded the porcelain cylinder.
Very little is known about the first inspections of this mysterious artifact. According to Virginia Maxey, they consulted a geologist who asked to remain unknown, according to this mysterious geologist who examined the fossil shells embedded in the sample, the piece would have taken at least 500,000 years to reach its current form. So what is a spark plug doing inside an artifact dating at least half a million years?
The object was submitted to further testing that confirmed the anomalies of the object as the artifact was submitted to both X-rays and visible light testing. X-rays revealed that in the upper half of the device there was some sort of coil. In the other half of the artifact revealed what seemed a metal sleeve, presumably the copper covering the porcelain cylinder.
In 1963, the strange object that was dubbed “The Coso Artifact” and was exhibited at the Museum of East California in the town of Independence for a period of three months. Then, for years it was exhibited in the home of Wallace Lane, one of the original three discoverers of the 500 thousand-year-old artifact. In 1969 Wallace Lane received an offer of $25,000 for the mysterious object but he refused to sell it.
The Coso Artifact remains a mystery. It is an object that appears to be lost as many other artifacts discovered in the past that have provided us with not only subjects to talk about, but with new challenges for history books. Who built the artifact, and what its purpose was will probably remain a mystery less the object is found, once again, so that other researchers might analyze it thoroughly.
“THERE’S NO SIGN OF E.T. OR UFO COVER-UP”, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
“THERE’S NO SIGN OF E.T. OR UFO COVER-UP”, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
The White House has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose to any intentional withholding of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” said Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, on the WhiteHouse.gov website. “In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.”
Full Response
“Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye. However, that doesn’t mean the subject of life outside our planet isn’t being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth.”
5,387 people had signed the petition for immediately disclosing the government’s knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings, and 12,078 signed the request for a formal acknowledgement from the White House that extraterrestrials have been engaging the human race.
“Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence,” the second petition states. “Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon. The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth.”
These petitions come from an Obama Administration initiative called ‘We the People’ which has White House staffers respond and consider taking action on any issue that receives at least 25,000 online signatures. Regarding these two petitions, the White House promised to respond if the petitions got 17,000 or more signatures by Oct. 22.
Larson stressed that the facts show that there is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. He pointed out that even though many scientists have come to the conclusion that the odds of life somewhere else in the Universe are fairly high, the chance that any of them are making contact with humans are extremely small, given the distances involved.
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t searching, there is just no evidence yet. Larson mentioned SETI (correctly noting that this at first was a NASA effort, but is now funded privately) keeping an “ear” out for signals from any intelligent extraterrestrials, with none found so far. He also added that the Kepler spacecraft is searching for Earth-like planets in the habitable zones around other stars, and that the Curiosity rover will launch to Mars this month to “assess what the Martian environment was like in the past to see if it could have harbored life.”
Regarding any evidence for alien life, all anyone has now is “statistics and speculation,” said Larson. “The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.”
Whether or not this will appease or satisfy any conspiracy theorists or UFO believers is yet to be seen, but it is gratifying to see the White House respond in such a no-nonsense manner.
UPDATE: The Paradigm Research Group, one of the organizations sponsoring the petitions, has issued a statement saying, “As expected it was written by a low level staffer from the Office of Science and Technology Policy – research assistant Phil Larson. The response was unacceptable.”
Scientists have long assumed that the earliest life on Earth required a few basic conditions which include water and a power supply — in this case, the Sun — that allows you to get going. With that in mind, it makes feel to look for similar situations elsewhere inside the Solar System if your purpose is to locate extraterrestrial existence. Earth would possibly seem special in this regard but water is in reality pretty ample in our machine, and Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is speedy becoming a high candidate within the search for life.
In a brand new examine published in Scientific Reports, researchers awareness on Europa’s doubtlessly life-giving cocktail of liquid water and gravity-generated warmth emanating from its core. The paper attracts some very exciting parallels between Europa and certain locations here on Earth in which the recipe for existence is good for bacteria to thrive without the presence of daylight.
If life exists deep inside Europa, sunlight could be difficult to come back by way of. The moon’s icy shell is the notion to be over six miles thick, with an ocean lying below that stretches over 60 miles into the planet. That’s an entire lot of water, and it’s saved warm by tidal forces generated by means of its parent, Jupiter. If this sounds acquainted, it’s probably due to the fact Saturn’s ice-protected moon Enceladus has a comparable courting with its determine planet and is also notion to have a deep ocean just under its frosty crust.
To get an idea of how life ought to potentially thrive in the inky black depths of Europa, the researchers sought examples of microbes that stay their lives without assistance from the Sun. They observed what they had been looking for in-floor water samples from the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. There, deep underground, microorganism live and die without ever seeing the sun, and it has its very very own manner of generating the strength it needs to continue to exist.
“This very deep subterranean mine has water leaking thru cracks that include radioactive uranium,” Douglas Galante, co-writer of the work, explains. “The uranium breaks down the water molecules to produce loose radicals (H+, OH-, and others), which attack the surrounding rocks, in particular, pyrite (iron disulfide, FeS2), producing sulfate. The bacteria use the sulfate to synthesize ATP [adenosine triphosphate], the nucleotide responsible for power garage in cells. This is the first time an surrounding has been found to continue to exist directly on the idea of nuclear strength.”
The scientists believe that this primitive form of life might be the important thing to expertise how lifestyles started on Earth, and also hint at what might be going on deep within Europa.
“The ocean bed on Europa seems to provide very similar conditions to those who existed on primitive Earth all through its first billion years,” Galante notes. “So analyzing Europa today is to some extent like looking lower back at our personal planet within the past.”
The idea that humans are endowed with inner cores of Divinity has been huge spread. This was unfolded by mystics and occultist, whose teachings from their “Ascended Masters” imply that there is Divinity in a guy. Even spiritual leaders have keyed into the narrative and now it has come to be a mantra for folks that suppose they’re seekers for the reality. This becomes premised at the notion that most miracles and so-referred to as energy-of-the-mind myths are evidence that there’s Divinity in the guy, and that with sure tiers of purity, the guy will, in the end, turn into godhead. They communicate of the era of God-men, while people who have developed themselves into turning into gods take over the ruler-deliver of the earth.
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For us to apprehend this, we need to look at the shape of our Universe as a beginning. The Universe is below constant enlargement, spiraling outwards in the direction of a limitless void. Hence it’s miles in itself finite, although of such length that the human mind cannot imagine the size.Let us consciousness on most effective one of the seven universes that harbor the earth as one of the several liveable planets. Of course, there are other planets that harbor life within our universe, however, the earth occupies a satisfaction area.
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Aliens Stopped U.S From Nuking The Moon:Air Force Colonel
Aliens Stopped U.S From Nuking The Moon:Air Force Colonel
A high-level Air Force Colonel claims the United States attempted to drop an atomic bomb on the moon in 1959, but were prevented from doing so by an advanced extraterrestrial race.
In the 1950’s, Colonel Ross Dedrickson was responsible for maintaining the nuclear weapons stockpile for the AEC.
He was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission. A long service with the Energy Commission between 1950-1958 included, contract administration duties at Nevada test sites, Pacific Nuclear Test Area west of Hawaii, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, and inspection of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities throughout the country. He served with the 5th Air Force in Japan and later as a ranking Colonel, Officer in Charge of the Pacific Unified Command (TM)s alternate “command and control center” in Hawaii. In 1962, he was transferred and served as Deputy for Material for the 832 Air Division at Canon Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico. He retired from the USAF in 1964.
He is one of hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds to have been brought forth by Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. His testimony about UFOs — specifically about UFOs and nuclear weapons — can be corroborated by a wealth of information and evidence that’s now available within the public domain. Many of these whistleblowers have made multiple appearances at the National Press Club in an effort to get this information out to the world, with the most recent example being the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, which took place a few years ago.
With such a professional background, working in the places he has worked, it’s safe to infer he was privy to sensitive information on a number of subjects. This isn’t just a random high-ranking military whistleblower talking about a random issue. There are many whistleblowers and documents clearly outlining a decades-long relationship between UFOs and nuclear storage facilities and test sites.
A number of these incidents have visual confirmation, along with air and ground radar confirmation as well.
In the interview below, Dedrickson explains how the American government tried to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon, but were prevented from doing so.
As far as the mainstream goes, it’s public knowledge that a declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 shows just how seriously they considered the plan, called Project A119. In general, they wanted to investigate the capability of weapons in space, as well as gain further insight into the space environment and the detonation of nuclear devices within it.
As far as the information below, that probably goes deeper into the Black Budget.
It’s interesting how the world is so into television shows like Stranger Things, which depicts the Department of Energy and their involvement with otherworldly creatures and other strange facts, yet so willing to ignore a high ranking American Colonel who held very sensitive positions at the Department of Energy for years, at a time when all of this nuclear development was really hot. He is the real deal and it’s interesting to ponder what he might really know.
“I also learned about incidents involving nuclear weapons, and among these incidents were a couple of nuclear weapons sent into space were destroyed by the extraterrestrials. . . . At the very end of the 70s and the early 80s, we attempted to put a nuclear weapon on the moon and explode it for scientific measurements and other things, which was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials. They destroyed the weapon before it got to the moon.” (source)
Some people might say that living in Hawaii is a gift in itself. Those people are probably not living in the path of the lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island, which is demolishing everything in its path, including vaporizing water in the ocean. Those who believe that Kilauea is the home of Pele, the fire goddess of Hawaiian folklore, may blame this on profiteers stealing the volcano’s thermal heat or tourists stealing Kilauea’s lava rocks. For those people, Pele may be compensating with a gift of her own … green gemstones falling from the sky. Is this a Pele payday?
“It is literally raining gems. Nature is truly amazing.”
Meteorologist Erin Jordan lives in Tuscon, Arizona – a long way from Hawaii – but she has friends there who sent pictures of the stones which she tweeted with an explanation that the shiny green crystals are olivine, a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg2+, Fe2+)2SiO4. While it’s a gift from Kilauea in Hawaii, those who can’t afford a trip there might try Norway, where 50 % of the world’s industrial olivine in mined. In fact, olivine is a fairly common mineral on and in the ground, but separate large crystals falling from the sky is pretty unusual, according to minerals.net.
“Despite this, good specimens and large crystals are uncommon and sought after. Only few localities yield large examples of this mineral, although small and microscopic grains are found worldwide. Olivine is also found in meteorites, and large grains have been reported in many of them.”
Popular Mechanics reports that the falling crystals over Kilauea are inside the lava erupting into the sky. As the lava cools, it hardens into pumice — that porous rock commonly used as an abrasive for pedicures and in the production of stone-washed jeans. (Pele must be so proud.) Being full of holes and fairly lightweight, the pumice falls slowly, allowing the olivine crystals to drop out of the holes and fall separately.
Are these falling olivine stones really a gift from Pele? Possibly. Depending on the quality and size, it’s used as a gemstone called peridot or chrysolithe. However, it may actually be a present to the entire world. Olivine grains can be used to sequester or store atmospheric carbon dioxide, the nastiest of the greenhouse gasses, and slow down global warming by breaking down the CO2 as it weathers.
Sending the olivine rain to save the planet may be Pele’s real message to humanity … as long as humanity leaves the stones in Hawaii. It’s illegal to remove the gems – whether jewelry-sized or the sandy crystals that make up Hawaii’s green beaches. It would be just your luck to get caught picking up a peridot and placed in a jail that is suddenly in the path of a fast-moving lava flow just as the jailer loses the key to your cell.
Around four and a half billion years ago, a giant cloud of gaseous matter in our neck of space began to come together thanks to the gravitational attraction between matter. Over billions of years, this matter began to form our Sun, the planets, and all of the other various bodies that make up our Solar System. At least that’s how the nebular hypothesis, as it’s known, describes the origins of our cosmic home. That hypothesis was first put forward in the 18th century by Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg and is still considered to be the best working theory we have as to how all the stuff out there in space came to be after the Big Bang – or whatever may have put it there.
HL Tauri, a protoplanetary disc some 450 light-years from Earth.
That nebular hypothesis is backed up by our modern observations of how matter behaves and bodies form in space, but it’s rare that scientists are ever given concrete evidence of this early stage of our Solar System’s formation. However, a groundbreaking new study claims to have finally discovered a piece of the matter that would eventually form our Solar System. A high-altitude NASA aircraft collected a cometary interplanetary dust particle floating around in the stratosphere, and researchers believe this particle could be among the very first solid particles of matter in our Solar System. Is this a glimpse into the “star stuff” we’re all made of?
The research was led by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School scientist Hope Ishii. Using transmission electron microscopy, Ishii and her team found that the chemical composition of this particle formed in the cold, radiation-rich nebula which would eventually become our Solar System:
Our observations suggest that these exotic grains represent surviving pre-solar interstellar dust that formed the very building blocks of planets and stars. If we have at our fingertips the starting materials of planet formation from 4.6 billion years ago, that is thrilling and makes possible a deeper understanding of the processes that formed and have since altered them. This is an example of research that seeks to satisfy the human urge to understand our world’s origins.
Could a study of these early particles actually reveal much about our cosmic origins, though? Sure, discovering early solid particles is a fascinating glimpse into the early Solar System, but many people (myself included) aren’t content with understanding the chemical and physical mechanics of how gaseous matter eventually accreted into planets. Where did those gases come from? What caused the Big Bang? Why don’t hot dogs and hot dog buns come in packages of equal quantity?
The real higher mysteries.
Ultimately, we might never be able to get to the bottom of these deeper questions, no matter how many specks of unbelievably ancient stardust we find. Still, it’s a start.
Strange appearances in the sky continue. The video below shows some of these strange sky phenomena that have been photographed in the past few days.
One person captured a strange cloud formation that looks like a cityscape' a phenomenon that has been photographed before and looks like a hologram.
Another person caught an odd black rectangular sky beam with a bluish oval ring on top and a third person has photographed something that most closely resembles a ring-shaped disk or portal.
Is this ring-shaped disk a cloaked UFO or military craft that uses military cloaking techniques or could it be a portal to another dimension?
The Planetary Grid, Ancient Monuments, and how it is all Connected
The Planetary Grid, Ancient Monuments, and how it is all Connected
The ‘Planetary Grid’ hypothesis is a modern concept which suggests that the Earth is surrounded by an invisible network of energy, carried around the globe by a kind of ‘geometric highway’ known as Ley-Lines.
These geometric lines meet at various intersecting points forming a powerful grid (see attachment).
What makes the theory so compelling is the number of sacred sites which run in alignment to these energy lines.
This includes many of the Earths major heritage sites such as the pyramids of Giza, the Prang temple, and Stonehenge.
The four types of sacred architecture which appear across these Ley lines are:
Tombs: Marhoj Burial mound, Pyramid of Khufu, Janggun Chong
Temples: Ziggurat of Ur, Prang pyramid, Tikal Temple
Monuments: Stonehenge, La Puerta de Hayu Marka
Shrines: Giant Buddha of Leshan, Moai Statues
The hypothesis raises several important questions:
How did out ancestors know about the existence of this hypothetical energy grid?
What was the interconnected purpose of these world monuments?
And finally, what has become of this energy field today?
The only insight I can offer is that in one way or another, all these shrines and monuments are connected to the realms of the Gods (e.g. the heavens, the underworld and other legendary dimensions). With no current proof to support the planetary grid hypothesis, we can only speculate as to what this incredible alignment was really about.
VIDEO - VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE HELGIUM UFO WAVE OF 1989
VIDEO - VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE HELGIUM UFO WAVE OF 1989
This clip of a flying triangular object in the Belgian skies is one of the best and rarest UFO video footage out there.
This video footage is so rare that it is hard to find on the Internet. The UFO with the 3 light was filmed during the popular UFO flap in 1989.
It is only the footage of the object with the three triangular lights that is interesting. Even the military did not know what this was. There was radar confirmation by multiple sources of these objects and outmaneuvered any human-made airplane at that time.
At its peak, it saw objects being tracked on radar, fighter jets scrambled and over 2,500 written reports submitted by witnesses, but 24 years later no concrete explanation has been forthcoming regarding what has become known as the Belgian UFO Wave of 1989/1990. Despite this lack of explanation, many claim that the events in Belgium remain one of the best documented cases of UFO activity in recent history. Are these claims warranted or is this a case of UFO believers littering investigations with misleading information?
Though it spanned a number of months between the Fall of 1989 and Spring of 1990, the Belgian UFO wave, as many know it, centered around the events of March 30-31 1990. It was on this night that reports were made of three strange lights in the sky some 50km south of Belgium’s capital, Brussels. The first of these reports were received by the nation’s Control Reporting Center in Glons, which monitors radar signatures across the region’s airspace. The reports all consistently stated the same details. The lights were fixed in a triangular formation and were changing color at a rapid pace. When the reports started mounting up, the CRC requested that the local Gendarmerie – which back then was a paramilitary police force – send a team out to investigate.
At around 11:30pm, 30 minutes after the initial reports started coming in, the paramilitary police radioed in with visual confirmation of the lights. This visual confirmation was corroborated by the appearance of an object on CRC radar screens. In hope of finding an explanation, air traffic control authorities were soon contacted, but they were unable to account for the appearance of the object on radar. Within the next 30 minutes, just 1 hour after initial reports, a second group of lights had been confirmed and authorization was given to scramble to F-16 fighter jets for an intercept mission. To the bewilderment of Belgian authorities, these jets would make a number separate attempts to intercept the triangular light formations; every single attempt would fail. During the jet pursuit, the pilots made brief radar contact on a number of occasions, however, not once were they able to confirm visual contact with either of the objects.
Ret. Major General Wilfried DE BROUWER, Chief Operations of the Belgian Air Force at the time of the wave, holds up a page with computer-enhanced images of the Petit-Rechain slide. [Still from a video shot during a presentation at a highly mediatised International Press Conference in Washington D.C. on November 12, 2007 (image borrowed from lestransformationsobservations).]
By the time morning had broken on March 31st, authorities were left with hundreds of sightings reports that would soon become thousands. The statement from the Gendarmerie detailed a square light formation, whereas almost all of the earlier reports described the formation as triangular. Reports from the pilots that pursued the objects declared that they were moving so fast they could not possibly be human. Indeed, radar signatures suggested that at one point, the object was able to move from an elevation in excess of 15,000ft to just 500 ft in a matter of seconds.
These exciting events in the air were largely corroborated by reports from witnesses on the ground, of which there are rumored to have been as many as 13,000. With so many witnesses, one would expect countless items of photographic and video evidence to surface. Mysteriously though, such evidence has been in incredibly short supply over the last twenty years.
Media outlets soon started clamouring for something to show for the reports, but the few photos that were forthcoming were too blurry, a fact that would not be surprising given the alarming speed the objects were reportedly travelling at. When a witness by the name of ‘Patrick’ submitted his photo seen here, it became the poster child for the four month-long series of events that had captivated vast swathes of the Belgian populace. For years this photo was scrutinized by sceptics and UFO organizations alike, with the majority of parties categorized in the latter holding it up as proof that the Belgian UFO wave was an extraterrestrial event.
However, in 2011 the man behind the camera confessed that his image, the image that had become one of the most iconic photos in modern UFO history, was a hoax. The Belgian news channel RTL broke the news with a statement from the mysterious ‘Patrick’ that essentially said it was just time to come clean. The news was met with understandably mixed reactions. Many Ufologists, such as the head of Belgian UFO organization SOBEPS, claimed conspiracy, arguing that Patrick had been forced to claim his photo was a hoax, while the sceptics saw the confession as vindication for their stance.
By the end of 1991, the Petit-Rechain photo had become an icon of a new type of UFO: the Flying Triangle (or simply "FT" as ufologists like to call them). Despite the copyright and a substantial fee charged to use it, the photo ranks among the most published UFO photos ever. Endorsed by scientists and military officials, the slide acquired the best status possible in the field. [Scan from a direct copy of the original, kindly submitted to us by Patrick FERRYN.]
So with the 24th anniversary of the events approaching this weekend, the Belgian UFO wave remains as mysterious today as it was in 1990. It is an event that has stirred many an argument, with sceptical parties claiming it was a case of mass delusion sparked by media reports and heightened by extravagant coverage by UFO organizations. Others simply claim that the mass delusion argument is flawed by the presence of the objects on radar screens. While the lack of photographic evidence is used to support the sceptical argument, many on the other side of the fence claim that in 1990, not everyone was walking around with a camera in their pocket. But this was 1990, not 1890. Camcorders had been rising in popularity since the 1980’s and home videos were common among many families. So with this in mind, it does seem strange that more people weren’t able to get a decent shot at these objects that reportedly buzzed the Belgian skies for over 2 hours.
One thing is for sure. The events in Belgium over the late 1980’s and early 1990’s will continue to be a battleground for the fight between UFO believers and sceptics, for years to come.
Are we witnessing a renewal of interest in unidentified flying objects? Recent revelations about a secret Defense Department project for studying UFOs continue to draw media attention, while reports of unusual aircraft sightings show up regularly in the news.
Not quite as common these days, however, are stories of individuals claiming to have had contact with extraterrestrials. In his new documentary, Calling All Earthlings, filmmaker Jonathan Berman takes a look back at one of the most famous of these “contactees,” George Van Tassel. The film captures an aspect of UFO belief that often escapes skeptical outsiders—that it wasn’t so much anxiety about alien visitors as enthusiasm and hope that attracted believers to the idea of extraterrestrial contact.
Beginning in 1927 as an airplane mechanic right out of high school, Van Tassel had a long career in aviation, first with Douglas Aircraft, then with Hughes and Lockheed. At Hughes he was involved in flight testing near Barstow, California, where he was attracted to the “clean air, the intense quiet nights, and outdoor living in the desert.”
It was there that Van Tassel got to know an eccentric German-American by the name of Frank Critzer, who had carved out a “cave home” from a natural landmark known as Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California. Critzer came under government investigation in the early days of World War II for reasons that are not entirely clear, but most likely involved his use of dynamite. When local police came to Giant Rock to question him in July 1942, Critzer set off an explosion that resulted in his own death.
After the war Van Tassel purchased the land around Giant Rock and moved there with his wife Dorris and their three daughters. In addition to operating a small airport, he began to hold meditation readings for groups of 25 to 45 people—and for the first time reported hearing disembodied voices.
Then, beginning in 1952, Van Tassel claimed he started having encounters with spacemen. At first, he said, these beings issued warnings of looming destruction along with messages of universal peace. But soon, according to Van Tassel, they began instructing him on how to construct a building that could reverse the aging process. Dubbed the Integratron, the project would consume Van Tassel for years, although he never finished it.
He did, however, hold annual conventions at Giant Rock, where those interested in UFOs, alien contact, and the paranormal gathered to hear talks and exchange experiences. At its height, as many as 11,000 people attended these gatherings, by some accounts.
Calling All Earthlings covers these historic events, and updates the story by taking us to Giant Rock today. Berman introduces us to Van Tassel admirers and former friends who have carried on his legacy by partly reconstructing the Integratron.
Asked what drew him to the topic, the filmmaker says, “I came upon this subject as I was breezing through a great book of photos by Michael Rauner with text by Erik Davis—The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape. There was a picture of the Integratron in there that caught my eye.”
Van Tassel’s story had “all the things I love,” Berman says, “weird, geeky quasi-science, living longer and better, and, of course, the world of the Great American Roadside Attraction.” As a native of Long Island, the filmmaker was struck by the magical allure that California and the desert has for so many. In the end, he hopes the film captures some of the sense of adventure that brings people to places like Giant Rock, where, he says, “there are still no sidewalks and the mystery dome still sits there waiting to inspire the next person.”
New research shows Ceres’ surface is dotted with organic matter — much more of it that we’ve previously realized. The findings raise questions regarding how this material came to be, and why it concentrates in patches.
Spots of organic material near Ernutet crater on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Credit: NASA / Hannah Kaplan.
There seems to be more to the organic material the Dawn craft discovered on Ceres last year than we initially thought. The patches of carbon-based compounds may contain a much higher abundance of organic matter than initial analysis revealed, according to a new analysis from Brown University.
Organic, free-range Ceres
“What this paper shows is that you can get really different results depending upon the type of organic material you use to compare with and interpret the Ceres data,” said Hannah Kaplan, lead researcher of the study. “That’s important not only for Ceres, but also for missions that will soon explore asteroids that may also contain organic material.”
The discovery of these organic patches on Ceres last year was made using the Visible and Infrared (VIR) Spectrometer on the Dawn spacecraft, which has been in orbit of the dwarf planet since 2015. The finding was met with enthusiasm at NASA and beyond: organic molecules are, after all, the building blocks of life. So, scientists are understandably keen on finding out how such matter is distributed on planets other than our own. The presence of these compounds on Ceres isn’t proof that there was once life on this bit of rock. However, it definitely increases the odds. Factor in that Ceres also boasts a sizeable stash of water ice, another fundamental requirement for life as we know it, and you get quite the exciting place.
The picture may get even better, however. Dawn’s VIR instrument analyzed the patches on Ceres’ surface using the way its surface interacts with incoming light. By looking at what wavelengths these patches reflected and absorbed, ground control could estimate their chemical makeup. In the region of Ernutet Crater (Ceres’ northern hemisphere), Dawn picked up signals consistent with organic molecules. Next, NASA needed to know just how much organic material they had found — so they compared the VIR data to similar readings performed on samples of organic material from Earth. Based on this comparison, they concluded that Ceres’ spots comprised roughly 10% organic matter.
Kaplan and her team, however, weren’t satisfied with the reference standard NASA used — so they re-did the comparison using a different one. Instead of using Earth-borne rocks, they used samples of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Previous analysis of such space rocks that fell to Earth revealed that they contained organic material that is slightly different from that native to our planet.
“What we find is that if we model the Ceres data using extraterrestrial organics, which may be a more appropriate analog than those found on Earth, then we need a lot more organic matter on Ceres to explain the strength of the spectral absorption that we see there,” Kaplan said.
“We estimate that as much as 40 to 50 percent of the spectral signal we see on Ceres is explained by organics. That’s a huge difference compared to the six to 10 percent previously reported based on terrestrial organic compounds.”
Unknown origin
The team proposes two possible explanations for how organic material popped up on Ceres in such high concentrations. They could either have been produced on Ceres itself and then blasted to the surface. Alternatively, they could have been delivered by impacts with organic-rich comets or asteroids.
In the case of delivery, comets are more likely culprits than asteroids — the former tend to have higher contents of organic material, around 40 to 50 percent, which would be consistent with Ceres’ patches. However, this explanation seems unlikely, the team notes. The violence and heat of these impacts would likely destroy a substantial amount of the original organic material, meaning we’d see much lower concentrations on the surface.
The other explanation, that of in-situ generation, is also problematic. Organic material has only been identified in small patches on Ceres’ northern hemisphere — and, if the team’s findings are correct, in high concentrations. It’s a lot of organic material spread over a very small area, and we have no idea how it could get like this.
“If the organics are made on Ceres, then you likely still need a mechanism to concentrate it in these specific locations or at least to preserve it in these spots,” said Ralph Milliken, a study co-author.
“It’s not clear what that mechanism might be. Ceres is clearly a fascinating object, and understanding the story and origin of organics in these spots and elsewhere on Ceres will likely require future missions that can analyze or return samples.”
It’s not all unanswered questions. The research will help improve our ability to analyze the chemical make-up of extraterrestrial bodies. The team hopes their findings will “provide a framework of how to better interpret data of asteroids and make links between spacecraft observations and samples in our meteorite collection.”
With NASA announcing that it discovered organic material on Mars just one week ago, it seems that the universe may be a much more organic place than we’d assumed.
The paper “New Constraints on the Abundance and Composition of Organic Matter on Ceres” has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Moon Mystery Solved! Apollo Astronauts Caused Odd Lunar Warming
Moon Mystery Solved! Apollo Astronauts Caused Odd Lunar Warming
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt uses a scoop to snag lunar samples in December 1972. Newly restored lunar-data tapes show the Apollo astronauts' activity warmed the moon's surface slightly.
Credit: NASA
Astronauts caused the mysterious warming detected by the Apollo moon missions in the 1970s, a new study suggests
When astronauts walked or drove their moon rover near buried heat-flow probes, the activity disturbed and displaced surface soil, exposing the darker dirt below. This newly unearthed material absorbed more sunlight, causing the soil to heat up, according to the study.
The new results not only help solve a decades-old mystery but also provide a lesson for the architects of future missions to Earth's nearest neighbors, study team members said. [NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures]
"In the process of installing the instruments, you may actually end up disturbing the surface thermal environment of the place where you want to make some measurements," lead author Seiichi Nagihara, a planetary scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock,said in a statement. "That kind of consideration certainly goes into the designing of the next generation of instruments that will be someday deployed on the moon."
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Astronauts deployed the heat-flow probes during the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 missions, in 1971 and 1972. The goal was to determine how much heat moves from the lunar interior to the surface, which in turn would yield insights about the moon's structure and composition.
The probes operated through 1977, beaming data home to NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. (Apollo 17 was the last crewed lunar mission; nobody has set foot on the moon since then.) JSC preserved these data on magnetic tapes, which were later archived at the National Space Science Data Center, a facility at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Well, some of the tapes were archived — the ones recorded from 1971 through December 1974. The rest were apparently left with the researchers who studied them, and most of them have since been lost.
The measurements made through 1974 showed a slight uptick in temperatures in the lunar near-surface over the previous few years — a trend that puzzled researchers at the time. Nagihara and his colleagues set out to investigate this mystery, and step one involved finding the missing data.
They discovered that NASA had stored additional Apollo heat-probe measurements on a different, heretofore forgotten set of tapes, 440 of which the team found at the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland. Those 440 covered the period from April 1975 through June 1975.
Left: This photo by Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin shows the borestem and cable of a heat-flow probe 1 protruding from the ground. Astronaut footprints can be seen around the borestem.
Right: This photo by Harrison Schmidt shows the borestem and cable of the Apollo 17 Probe 2 protruding from the ground.
Credit: NASA
And, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Nagihara and his team unearthed hundreds of weekly logs that recorded heat-probe observations. This bounty allowed them to extend the data record several additional years.
The newly recovered and analyzed data showed that the subsurface warming at the heat-probe sites continued through the end of the instruments' operational lives in 1977. The team's work also revealed that the temperature rise was greater closer to the surface, strongly suggesting that the warming started up top and worked its way down.
The researchers then studied observations of the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 landing sites made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been circling the moon since 2009. The LRO photos indicated that the warming was likely a localized, not moonwide, phenomenon: Astronaut activity had darkened the soil in these areas, which in turn warmed the soil.
That warming was fairly significant, at least above ground: Nagihara and his team calculated that a surface-temperature rise of 2.9 to 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.6 to 3.5 degrees Celsius) at the time of the probes' deployment meshes well with the rise they detected underground over time.
The study was published April 25 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Do These Ancient Paintings Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
Do These Ancient Paintings Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
History has proven to be a great teacher for the human race, we have seen that our ancestors were extremely intelligent, with amazing knowledge on subjects such as astronomy, geometry, mathematics and other important sciences but they were amazing artists as well. From the construction of the great Pyramids of Giza to paintings in the Renaissance Era and further on, incredible stories have been told that have been difficult to explain.
In this article, we focus on some of the most interesting paintings of that period in History as we look at “The Baptism of Christ” by Aert De Gelder, “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino“, “The Annunciation” and other very interesting pieces of art that tell incredible stories.
The interpretation given to each painting can vary from person to person but all of these paintings have something in common, they seem to tell the same story, incredible “flying machines” appear to be incorporated in the “scenery”. But who could have possessed the ability to fly at that time in history?
Were these flying machines misinterpreted? Are they “clouds” or “angels” or is there something more to them? Are these different authors sending a message in their art? If there is one thing that these paintings are not, that is ordinary.
One of the paintings that we find very interesting is the “The Baptism of Christ” by Aert De Gelder.
Looking at this painting the first thing that you notice are these strange rays of light that are coming down from a disk-shaped object in the sky. It is one of the most interesting paintings and according to the Ancient Alien theory, this painting is a piece of strong evidence which illustrates a Disk Shaped flying object.
The author of the image painted a circular object, it cannot be confused as a cloud, it appears to have some sort of light at the center and the rays of light are coming out of this object, you cannot confuse it for thunder or anything else really. We believe that the author painted what he saw at a certain point in his life. If he wanted to paint a cloud or the sun he would have painted them in a much more effective way. We believe that this painting illustrates a disk-shaped UFO, much like the disk-shaped objects that are reported even today.
“The Miracle of the Snow” by Masolino Da Panicale is another incredible image that we cannot pass by without taking a closer look. This painting was previously known as Dedicatio Sanctæ Mariæ ad Nives (Dedication of the Church of Our Lady of the Snows). This painting is very interesting because it illustrates a large number of disk-shaped objects flying in the sky.
The first thing that you can think of to explain these objects are clouds but are they really clouds? Did this author paint all of the clouds at that time giving them a “disk” or saucer shape? One of the objects in this painting that drew particular interest is the object to the right just above the building. When you look at it, it shows incredible similarity to some of the modern-day depictions of Unidentified flying objects.
This object in our opinion does not look in any way like a cloud.
We have observed several paintings from the Renaissance Era and compared artists techniques when it comes to illustrating clouds and the work done by Masolino Da Panicale is just impressive and we ask why would this artist pick this “Disk” shape? Can we say that in this painting we have several UFO’s or are these just… clouds?…
Disk-shaped clouds?
At the Visoki Dečani monastery located in Kosovo, we find another very interesting piece of art. The Crucifixion of Christ.
UFO’s and Ancient Art – Crucifixion of Christ
This painting is a very detailed piece of art, we see several different objects that are illustrated around Christ, but after looking at the painting, there are two objects which seem to stand out from the rest of the items on the painting. Located to the left and the right of the painting they seem to depict two humans that are inside some sort of spaceship. According to modern day explanations, these “objects” are placed in the painting to depict the sun and the moon as in other paintings. But why place “pilots” or a human inside them?
Was the artist really trying to illustrate our Sun and the Moon?
Or was the artist trying to depict something otherworldly?
By observing the left object in the painting, we see that the “pilot” inside this particular object appears to be manipulating something in front of him, his arms are painted stretched out and reaching for something in front of him. The object to the right shows the figure turning his head to see whats behind him.
Are these two objects depictions of UFO’s and their crew?
Or are they simply the artist’s way to illustrate the sun and the moon?
Another painting that we find extremely interesting is “The Annunciation” painted by Carlo Crivelli.
This artist favored verdant landscape backgrounds, and his works can be identified by his characteristic use of fruits and flowers as decorative motifs. His works were clear and definite in contour, with astounding attention to detail. In his painting “The Annunciation” there are several objects that stand out from the rest of this extremely detailed piece of art.
First of all, we have a circularly shaped cloud. Inside the cloud, we can see several “angels” looking outside of the cloud, but what makes this interesting is the ray of light that shines on a “pigeon” and on Mary’s head.
Now what we find puzzling is that in this painting Carlo Crivelli painted several other clouds, in fact, the sky is filled with clouds, but he decides to paint this specific “disk-shaped” cloud with “angels” and a beam of light?
Why paint one specific cloud so different in comparison to the other clouds present in the painting and with a beam of light?
From what we have seen in similar paintings, the artists usually paint beams of light descending directly from angels or from the sun, but this is not the case in Carlo Crivelli’s painting in which he paid extreme attention to the details and made sure the public could tell the difference when analyzing this masterpiece.
We can also see a person that Carlo Crivelli decided to incorporate in the middle of the painting which is looking at the sky– at this disk-shaped cloud just below the gate.
The Madonna with Saint Giovannino painted in the 15th century. Another painting that can be added to the list of ancient paintings that depict an unidentified flying object.
Above Mary’s left shoulder we observe a disk-shaped object that appears to be glowing – a UFO?. It is an object which the artist depicted in great detail making sure it would stand out in the painting. To the right of the painting, we see a man that is holding his right arm above his eyes with which the artist made sure to send a message that this object was very bright. To the left of the image in the upper corner, we can see an object that looks like the sun.
This means that the artist painted this disk-shaped object, giving it a shiny detail and he made sure to illustrate it to the right of the sun so we know this bright object cannot be confused for the sun, this disk shaped object does not look like your ordinary cloud, so if it is not the sun nor a cloud what could it possibly be?
Is The Madonna with Saint Giovannino painting an illustration of an otherworldly visitation? The artist considered this object extremely important, otherwise, he would not have placed it nor painted it with such detail as we see here.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see something that doesn’t look right pleasecontact us.
Observations of a mysterious plume-like feature (marked with yellow arrow) at the limb of Mars on March, 20 2012. Amateur astronomer W. Jaeschke made the observation. This image is shown with the north pole towards the bottom and the south pole to the top.
Image via ESA
Martian mystery plume puzzles scientists
Astronomers are scratching their heads over mysterious plumes that have been sighted in the atmosphere of Mars. First seen by amateur astronomers using Earthbound telescopes, the plumes are at an altitude much higher than that of any clouds yet seen on the Red Planet, and may not even be clouds.
Clouds have been seen on Mars since the 1870s and observations sent back by probes like Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have greatly increased our understanding of the Martian atmosphere, but that doesn’t mean that our neighbor can’t still surprise us.
The top image shows the location of the mysterious plume on Mars, identified within the yellow circle (top image, south is up), along with different views of the changing plume morphology observed by astronomers W. Jaeschke and D. Parker on March 21, 2012.
The plume was discovered by telescopic observations
(Image: W. Jaeschke and D. Parker)
The mysterious plumes were first reported by amateur astronomers in 2012 as they rose to altitudes of 250 km (155 mi) over the the same region of Terra Cimmeria (195 degrees west, 45 degrees south) on two occasions. They were seen on the limb or observed edge of the planet at the day/night terminator during the local Martian sunrise, where the lighting conditions made them stand out much like the illuminated clouds at dawn.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), similar plumes have been seen before, but never at altitudes above 100 km (62 mi), and this extremely high altitude is significant because it marks the boundary between the Martian atmosphere and space with the plumes extending into the ionosphere and exosphere. The plumes covered an estimated area of 1,000 x 500 km (620 x 310 mi) and took under 10 hours to develop. Though the structure of the plumes changed over time, they didn’t last more than 10 days and weren’t seen by Mars-based spacecraft because lighting conditions weren’t right.
The Hubble Space Telescope also saw a curious plume-like feature on Mars on May 17, 1997. It is similar to the features detected by amateur astronomers in 2012, although appeared in a different location.
(Image: JPL/NASA/STScI)
The nature of the plumes has yet to be determined and the extreme altitude raises some interesting possibilities. Clouds on Mars are usually made of water vapor, dry ice, or dust, but to reach the high altitudes observed, the clouds would have to use an atmospheric circulation system different from any understood on Mars. According to ESA scientists, water and carbon dioxide clouds remains below 100 km and dust below 60 km (37 mi).
However, the possibility also exists that the plumes may not be conventional clouds, but a phenomenon similar to Earth’s northern lights, though a thousand times brighter. This idea is supported by the fact that the region is home to a large magnetic anomaly, which would support the creation of such auroras.
ESA says Hubble Space Telescope data, along with amateur observations, are being used by astronomers to try to find out the exact cause of the plumes. Already an examination of the backlog of Hubble images has uncovered similar plumes from May 17, 1997. One promising angle will be information sent back by the space agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which is scheduled to launch next year.
MYSTERIEUZE UFO ZUIGT WATER OP UIT ZWEEDS MEER ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUZE UFO ZUIGT WATER OP UIT ZWEEDS MEER ( VIDEO )
Op een avond na werktijd staan twee vrienden buiten en kijken uit over een groot meer in Zweden wanneer ze iets bijzonders ontdekken.
Er hangt een vreemd groot licht boven het meer, maar niet alleen dat, dit licht lijkt water op te zuigen.
Het is een klein beetje stil de laatste tijd voor wat betreft interessante UFO waarnemingen. Er verschijnen wel heel veel video’s op kanalen zoals Youtube, maar sinds de neppers hebben ontdekt hoe ze veel geld kunnen verdienen met gemanipuleerde UFO video’s kunnen de meeste video’s linea recta de prullenbak in.
Maar, zo heel af en toe komt er iets langs wat wel echt lijkt, maar ook dan heb je nooit 100 procent zekerheid.
Zoals de volgende video die is gemaakt op 10 juni 2018, net na middernacht in de Zweedse plaats Strängnäs.
Zoals te zien op het volgende kaartje ligt het niet al te ver van Stockholm.
Twee vrienden staan na werktijd buiten en kijken over het water richting de brug ten noorden van Strängnäs.
Plots zien ze een heel vreemd licht boven het water.
Het hangt boven het water en maakt geen enkel geluid. Vanuit de UFO zie je een soort lichtstraal naar beneden gaan en het lijkt alsof er water wordt opgezogen vanuit het meer.
Je ziet de reflectie in het water en de twee vrienden vragen zich vol verbazing af of ze hier misschien een echte UFO aan het filmen zijn. Je hoort hun commentaar bij de video terwijl ze de beelden maken.
Dit alles duurde ongeveer een half uur, waarna de UFOverdween. De volgende video heeft alle kenmerken dat deze echt is en als dat zo is, dan is er sprake van een wel hele bijzondere opname.
Dit is trouwens niet de eerste keer dat er een UFO wordt waargenomen die water opzuigt uit een meer. In mei 2015 schreven wij een artikel waarin beschreven staat dat door verschillende piloten een UFO werd waargenomen die water opzoog uit een meer in Californië.
Update: 29 mei 2015
In het onderstaande originele artikel wordt het verhaal beschreven van een Amerikaanse piloot die een UFO water ziet opzuigen uit een groot meer in Californië.
Nu is er een tweede foto boven water gekomen, eveneens gemaakt door een piloot, maar vanuit een ander toestel en enkele dagen later.
Het gaat hier om de piloot van een zogenaamde microlight die de volgende foto maakte:
De foto lijkt veel op die van de eerste piloot en ook het object wat erop te zien is, vertoont een grote gelijkenis.
Dit is het verhaal van de tweede piloot:
“Ik was bezig met mijn nadering naar Nevada County Air Park toen ik vanuit mijn ooghoek deze rode vlek zag. Ik draaide daarop mijn toestel om het beter te kunnen zien. Het bewoog heel snel op en neer. Ik heb nog nooit iets op die manier zien bewegen. Ik slaagde erin om één foto te maken met mijn iPhone voordat het recht de lucht in verdween”.
Zo te zien hebben we hier te maken met dezelfde UFO, alleen dit keer was er geen sprake van water opzuigen uit het meer, maar meer van snel rondvliegen en onverwachte bewegingen maken.
Zoals de tweede piloot zei: “Het vloog zomaar wat rond leek het. Als je niet beter wist, zou je zweren dat hij wat het plezier aan het maken was. Een soort van UFO joy ride. Wanneer je eenmaal zoiets hebt gezien, ben je iemand die gelooft”.
Origineel artikel: 26 mei 2015
Het gebeuren vond plaats boven Scotts Flat Lake in Nevada County in de staat Californië. Dit meer vormt een belangrijk onderdeel van de watervoorraad van deze staat die momenteel gebukt gaat onder extreme droogte.
De piloot die verder anoniem wenst te blijven, was bezig met een routinevlucht afgelopen vrijdagmiddag toen hij een object in de lucht zag waarvan hij dacht dat het een ander vliegtuig was.
Toen hij probeerde radiocontact te maken met het “andere toestel” kwam er geen antwoord.
“Zoals je op de foto kunt zien was ik bezig met mijn final approach naar het vliegveld van Nevada County toen ik dit rode object zag”, zei de piloot. “Toen zag ik deze “waterstraal” onder het object. Het leek een beetje op een lang soort rietje. Dus, toen liet ik via de radio weten dat ik in de buurt was, maar er werd niet op mijn bericht gereageerd, hetgeen niet echt gebruikelijk is”.
Het object wat de piloot zag, is uitvergroot op de volgende foto:
De volgende foto geeft een iets beter beeld van de “waterstraal” onder de UFO:
Of het inderdaad een straal water is of dat er een ander soort straal van de UFO naar het water loopt, is niet helemaal duidelijk, hoewel de piloot volhoudt dat het water is.
Er zijn talloze ufologen die geloven dat één van de redenen dat buitenaardsen onze planeet bezoeken de aanwezigheid van water is.
Hoe dan ook, het blijft een zeer merkwaardige opname en dat een UFO water neemt uit een gebied dat zelf al bijna geen water meer heeft, is dubbel merkwaardig.
Earlier this week, a strange image captured on a remote weather camera in the Puget Sound of Washington State captured what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch in the vicinity of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, a nearby air base which is home to several electronic warfare and reconnaissance squadrons. The image was posted to Facebook by meteorologist Greg Johnson whereupon conspiracy theories and allegations of black launches naturally began to swirl. Pull out your tin foil hats, friends, because this one gets weird.
Tyler Rogoway of military aviation blog The War Zone quickly jumped on the case, attempting to dispel the rumors and conspiracy theories by claiming the strange image did not show a rocket or missile launch, but rather an air ambulance helicopter which was flying in the area at the time. Rather than depicting a rocket launching vertically, Rogoway claims the image depicts a helicopter flying at a steady altitude horizontally away from the camera with its search light on and facing down.
“A missile!”
While Rogoway is known for his in-depth research and reporting, much of the internet isn’t buying it. Readers of The War Zone took to the site’s comments section and social media to accuse Rogoway of being a government shill working on behalf of the military, U.S. government, or another shadowy group to cover up some sort of clandestine launch. The War Zone reader “jimzoltan” sums up the responses with his comment asserting his skepticism towards Rogoway’s analysis:
I do a lot of photography, long exposure included. I am not buying the “explanation.” Of course there has to be a cover, and willing or unknowing actors to carry it out. People will believe nearly anything if there is enough social pressure and effective propaganda in place. They will even discount their own senses and personal experience. Just a fact about humans and manipulation.
Speaking of manipulation, many 4chan and Reddit users pointed to a few typos in a tweet President Trump sent out around the same time the strange image of the ‘launch’ was taken as proof of some deep conspiracy. They claim these typos are some sort of cryptic message suggesting that there was an attempt to shoot down Air Force One en route to the historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore committed by rogue elements within the military or government. Yeah, really.
To make things stranger, meteorologist Cliff Mass posted an unnerving image of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter seen patrolling the area surrounding the location of the weather cameras which originally captured the “launch.” Mass asks “If this was just an innocent helicopter passage at night, why all the snooping on weather-loving Greg Johnson?” Why indeed, Cliff? Why indeed. Unless, of course, it was related to whatever search and rescue operation for which the helicopter was dispatched.
Is this merely a curious long exposure photograph of a helicopter flying with its search light on, or might there be a deeper conspiracy afoot here? The U.S. Navy asserts there were no launches that day and that the base doesn’t even have the capability to fire missiles or launch rockets. Furthermore, there were no reports of residents hearing loud sounds around the time of the “launch.”
While I would generally tend to remain skeptical and side with the helicopter theory, the sudden appearance of the Coast Guard ship sure is odd – as is the timing coinciding with the Trump-Kim summit. Plus, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t see a helicopter in the images – but photographs can be misleading. As for the Trump typos, well… stay in school and eat your Wheaties, kids. As usual, we’ll likely never get to the bottom of this one: photographs are unreliable, 4chan is 4chan, and the military is reliably tight-lipped.
OUTLOOK HAZY NASA’s Opportunity rover took this self-portrait on Mars in December 2011, showing dust buildup on its solar panels. Now the craft is stuck in one of the worst dust storms ever seen on the Red Planet.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA, CORNELL UNIV., ARIZONA STATE UNIV
The veteran Opportunity rover isn’t dead yet. Currently, the craft is in a deep sleep to ride out a massive Martian dust storm, NASA officials said in a briefing on June 13. The rover may wake itself up when the storm ends.
Opportunity is enveloped in a vast dust storm that grew from a small patch spotted on May 30 to cover a quarter of the planet by June 12 (SN Online: 6/11/18). Too little sunlight is reaching the rover’s solar panels, so Opportunityis in low-power mode — just barely enough to run the rover’s internal clock — until its batteries can charge again. The team hasn’t heard from Opportunity since June 10, and no transmissions are expected until the storm clears.
The Martian summer is just beginning, so the rover should stay warm enough to survive for a long time in this mode, said Opportunity’s project manager John Callas, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
“When the skies clear and the rover begins to power up, it should be able to communicate with us,” he said.
Weather report
The dust storm (red-orange color in this animation of images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) began as a small patch north of the Opportunity rover and grew quickly. Now the weather event is on track to cover the entire planet in a few days.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA, MSSS
That’s not to say the team isn’t worried. Based on past storms, the wait could be anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
“It’s like you have a loved one in a coma in the hospital,” Callas said. “You have the doctors telling you that, ‘OK, you just have to give it time and she’ll wake up,’… but if it’s your 97-year-old grandmother, you’re going to be very concerned. And so we are. By no means are we out of the woods here.”
Opportunity landed on Mars on January 25, 2004, and was supposed to last 90 Martian days. It has now spent 5,113 Martian days driving more than 45 kilometers.
Here Are 17 Things You Should Know About Teotihuacan: “Place Where Gods Were Born”
Here Are 17 Things You Should Know About Teotihuacan: “Place Where Gods Were Born”
Established around 100 B.C., and lasting until its fall between the seventh and eighth centuries, Teotihuacan was one of the largest ancient cities in the world, it is one of the most incredible constructions in America, at Teotihuacan we find evidence that the builders had incredible knowledge in Mathematics, Geology, Astronomy, and Engineering. Check out some of the most interesting facts about this marvel of ancient construction.
Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, with over 150,000 inhabitants at its peak.
At Teotihuacan, we can find some of the largest buildings ever erected in the New World.
Teotihuacan‘s city layout strangely resembles a computer circuit board with two large processor chips– the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza and the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacanapparently have the same base almost 750 feet square.
The Pyramid of the Sun is exactly half as tall as the Pyramid of Giza and the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Moon, and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl are in the same layout as Orion’s Belt.
Archaeologists have found large quantities of Mica at Teotihuacan, yet this mineral is found 3,000 miles away in Brazil, Mica is present almost in every single building at Teotihuacan.
Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World.
An image of the Pyramid of the sun in 1832
Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is thermally stable to 500 °C
Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of mysterious, once-metallic spheres buried deep beneath an ancient pyramid in Mexico City. And we have absolutely no idea what they’re for.
Teotihuacan was mysteriously abandoned in 700 A.D.
Many authors suggest that Teotihuacan means City of the Gods, however, many others suggest the name can also be interpreted as “the place where men become gods” or more popularly, “place where Gods were born.”
Along the ”Avenue of the Dead” The pyramids there align in perfect distance of each of the orbit’s of our planets in our solar system and perhaps significant is the fact that the large Pyramid of the Sun is positioned at the center of the other structures reflecting the fact that the Sun is at the center of our solar system and that the planets revolve around it.
No depiction of a ruler, or the tomb of a monarch, has ever been found.
A Robot named Tlaloc II discovered three ancient rooms located under the Mesoamerican city’s pyramid, letting archeologists know that many secrets remain hidden in Teotihuacan.
The Pyramid of the sun at Teotihuacan is 75m high with a base width of 225m, making it the second largest pyramid built in the new world.
Only priests were allowed to climb the steps of the pyramids for rituals and ceremonies.
Mayas and Zapotecs immigrants lived in Teotihuacan, and both Maya and Zapotec texts have been found there.
Supermassive black holes are can be found at the centers of nearly all the galaxies known to astronomers. It’s still not known why these black holes are found in the hearts of galaxies, but it’s theorized that they may be created after the explosions of massive stars which ‘seed’ new galaxies with various types of matter and star stuff. According to NASA, the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy contains thousands of black holes weighing up to 30 times more than the mass of our own Sun, all of which are found just a few light years from the largest and most central of the Milky Way’s black holes, Sagittarius A*.
Sagittarius A* , sometimes abbreviated as Sgr A*
Astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii were analyzing 12 years of data gathered on these black holes when they came across what have been described as “several bizarre objects at the Galactic center” which are “concealing their true identity behind a smoke screen of dust.” They display an unusual level of what astronomers call “puffiness,” meaning whatever they are, they’re cloaked in dense layers of gases and dusts. If they are stars, these clouds are so thick that they prevent them from being observed directly. What exactly might these anomalous objects be?
For now, that remains a mystery. Astronomers say these objects resemble clouds of gasses, but behave more like stars. UCLA postdoctoral scholar Anna Ciurlo led the study and says that these objects still perplex her team despite more than a decade of research:
These compact dusty stellar objects move extremely fast and close to our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole. It is fascinating to watch them move from year to year. How did they get there? And what will they become? They must have an interesting story to tell.
One theory is that these objects might be the remnants of binary star systems which crashed into one another due to the gravitational influence of nearby black holes. Further study will take decades, however, due to their slow rate of evolution.
This discovery comes on the heels of several other recent astronomical breakthroughs which show there might be entire classes of strange phenomena and wondrous objects found in the far reaches of space the likes of which we have never seen. It truly is a mysterious universe.
Do These Ancient Paintings Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
Do These Ancient Paintings Feature The Ultimate Ancient Astronaut Evidence?
History has proven to be a great teacher for the human race, we have seen that our ancestors were extremely intelligent, with amazing knowledge on subjects such as astronomy, geometry, mathematics and other important sciences but they were amazing artists as well. From the construction of the great Pyramids of Giza to paintings in the Renaissance Era and further on, incredible stories have been told that have been difficult to explain.
In this article, we focus on some of the most interesting paintings of that period in History as we look at “The Baptism of Christ” by Aert De Gelder, “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino“, “The Annunciation” and other very interesting pieces of art that tell incredible stories.
The interpretation given to each painting can vary from person to person but all of these paintings have something in common, they seem to tell the same story, incredible “flying machines” appear to be incorporated in the “scenery”. But who could have possessed the ability to fly at that time in history?
Were these flying machines misinterpreted? Are they “clouds” or “angels” or is there something more to them? Are these different authors sending a message in their art? If there is one thing that these paintings are not, that is ordinary.
One of the paintings that we find very interesting is the “The Baptism of Christ” by Aert De Gelder.
Looking at this painting the first thing that you notice are these strange rays of light that are coming down from a disk-shaped object in the sky. It is one of the most interesting paintings and according to the Ancient Alien theory, this painting is a piece of strong evidence which illustrates a Disk Shaped flying object.
The author of the image painted a circular object, it cannot be confused as a cloud, it appears to have some sort of light at the center and the rays of light are coming out of this object, you cannot confuse it for thunder or anything else really. We believe that the author painted what he saw at a certain point in his life. If he wanted to paint a cloud or the sun he would have painted them in a much more effective way. We believe that this painting illustrates a disk-shaped UFO, much like the disk-shaped objects that are reported even today.
“The Miracle of the Snow” by Masolino Da Panicale is another incredible image that we cannot pass by without taking a closer look. This painting was previously known as Dedicatio Sanctæ Mariæ ad Nives (Dedication of the Church of Our Lady of the Snows). This painting is very interesting because it illustrates a large number of disk-shaped objects flying in the sky.
The first thing that you can think of to explain these objects are clouds but are they really clouds? Did this author paint all of the clouds at that time giving them a “disk” or saucer shape? One of the objects in this painting that drew particular interest is the object to the right just above the building. When you look at it, it shows incredible similarity to some of the modern-day depictions of Unidentified flying objects.
This object in our opinion does not look in any way like a cloud.
We have observed several paintings from the Renaissance Era and compared artists techniques when it comes to illustrating clouds and the work done by Masolino Da Panicale is just impressive and we ask why would this artist pick this “Disk” shape? Can we say that in this painting we have several UFO’s or are these just… clouds?…
Disk-shaped clouds?
At the Visoki Dečani monastery located in Kosovo, we find another very interesting piece of art. The Crucifixion of Christ.
UFO’s and Ancient Art – Crucifixion of Christ
This painting is a very detailed piece of art, we see several different objects that are illustrated around Christ, but after looking at the painting, there are two objects which seem to stand out from the rest of the items on the painting. Located to the left and the right of the painting they seem to depict two humans that are inside some sort of spaceship. According to modern day explanations, these “objects” are placed in the painting to depict the sun and the moon as in other paintings. But why place “pilots” or a human inside them?
Was the artist really trying to illustrate our Sun and the Moon?
Or was the artist trying to depict something otherworldly?
By observing the left object in the painting, we see that the “pilot” inside this particular object appears to be manipulating something in front of him, his arms are painted stretched out and reaching for something in front of him. The object to the right shows the figure turning his head to see whats behind him.
Are these two objects depictions of UFO’s and their crew?
Or are they simply the artist’s way to illustrate the sun and the moon?
Another painting that we find extremely interesting is “The Annunciation” painted by Carlo Crivelli.
This artist favored verdant landscape backgrounds, and his works can be identified by his characteristic use of fruits and flowers as decorative motifs. His works were clear and definite in contour, with astounding attention to detail. In his painting “The Annunciation” there are several objects that stand out from the rest of this extremely detailed piece of art.
First of all, we have a circularly shaped cloud. Inside the cloud, we can see several “angels” looking outside of the cloud, but what makes this interesting is the ray of light that shines on a “pigeon” and on Mary’s head.
Now what we find puzzling is that in this painting Carlo Crivelli painted several other clouds, in fact, the sky is filled with clouds, but he decides to paint this specific “disk-shaped” cloud with “angels” and a beam of light?
Why paint one specific cloud so different in comparison to the other clouds present in the painting and with a beam of light?
From what we have seen in similar paintings, the artists usually paint beams of light descending directly from angels or from the sun, but this is not the case in Carlo Crivelli’s painting in which he paid extreme attention to the details and made sure the public could tell the difference when analyzing this masterpiece.
We can also see a person that Carlo Crivelli decided to incorporate in the middle of the painting which is looking at the sky– at this disk-shaped cloud just below the gate.
The Madonna with Saint Giovannino painted in the 15th century. Another painting that can be added to the list of ancient paintings that depict an unidentified flying object.
Above Mary’s left shoulder we observe a disk-shaped object that appears to be glowing – a UFO?. It is an object which the artist depicted in great detail making sure it would stand out in the painting. To the right of the painting, we see a man that is holding his right arm above his eyes with which the artist made sure to send a message that this object was very bright. To the left of the image in the upper corner, we can see an object that looks like the sun.
This means that the artist painted this disk-shaped object, giving it a shiny detail and he made sure to illustrate it to the right of the sun so we know this bright object cannot be confused for the sun, this disk shaped object does not look like your ordinary cloud, so if it is not the sun nor a cloud what could it possibly be?
Is The Madonna with Saint Giovannino painting an illustration of an otherworldly visitation? The artist considered this object extremely important, otherwise, he would not have placed it nor painted it with such detail as we see here.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see something that doesn’t look right pleasecontact us.
Puma Punku is truly a wonderful Place, not only is it an incredible temple complex filled with mysteries that baffle one’s mind, it is a place where one loses the notion of space and time.
This temple complex located near Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America.
At Puma Punku or “The Door of the Puma” as the Aymara people call it, we find incredible evidence of precision cuts, precise engineering, and evidence of high level of geometry and mathematics. It is a treasure for anyone who has knowledge of Mathematics, geology, engineering, and astronomy.
Surveys done using ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, induced electrical conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility reveal the presence of numerous man-made structures such as wall foundations of buildings and compounds, water conduits, pool-like features, revetments, terraces, residential compounds, and widespread gravel pavements all of which now lie buried and hidden beneath the modern ground’s surface and all that within a kilometer between Pumapunku and Kalasasaya — another incredible archaeological structure.
Perhaps the biggest mystery involving Puma Punku is, how did ancient mankind manage to transport these huge blocks of stone from quarries within 10 to 100 km. How did they manage to achieve this type of precision cuts and how did they place the blocks in such a perfect manner. Engineers and constructors around the world today cannot answer nor replicate these achievements done by ancient mankind thousands of years ago.
Archaeologists cannot come to a conclusion and answer how were these amazing blocks of stone transported. Some of them believe that it was accomplished by the large labor force of ancient Tiwanaku. Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative.
It is believed that the builders of Puma Punku used llama skin ropes and ramps and inclined planes to move these incredible blocks to the site. But this explanation is not accepted widely, at least in our opinion it takes more than llama skin rope and ramps to move stones of blocks that weigh over 100 metric tons through distances of 10 – 100 kilometers.
Among the largest stone blocks found at Puma Punku we can find one with the following characteristics: 7.81 meters long, 5.17 meters wide, averages 1.07 meters thick and is estimated to weigh about 131 metric tons. Incredible right? And this was done with ropes and ramps? OK, right. The second largest stone block found within the Puma Punku is 7.90 meters long, 2.50 meters wide, and averages 1.86 meters thick. Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons.
Researches believe that these two blocks of stone were quarried near Lake Titicaca approx. 10 km from Puma Punku.
Other stone blocks found at Puma Punku have been quarried near the Copacabana Peninsula about 90 km away from and across Lake Titicaca. So perhaps this is one of the biggest mysteries at Puma Punku.
How did Ancient man do this?
Another puzzling mystery at Puma Punku is the assembly of the walls.
Each stone was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today’s engineering abilities.
A common engineering technique is to cut the top of the lower stone at a certain angle and placing another stone on top of it which was cut at the same angle. What baffles scientists, engineers and archaeologists is the precision with which this was achieved.
The precision with which these angles have been utilized to create flush joints is indicative of a highly sophisticated knowledge of stone-cutting and a thorough understanding of descriptive geometry. Some of the joins we find at Puma Punku are so well placed, and so precisely locked into place that you wouldn’t be able to fit a paper in between them.
The level of masonry we find at Puma Punku is just amazing. These stones look like as if they were cut with a “laser”. They are so precise and so smooth that you cannot come up with a logical explanation on how ancient man could have achieved this without the use of modern-day equipment.
It is a mystery.
Ancient Engineers at Puma Punku and Tiwanaku should be considered masterminds. Their knowledge of mathematics, geometry, and geology is something that most of today’s engineers lack.
These Ancient Engineers were truly great, they developed complex civic infrastructure, they invented waterproof sewage lines, hydraulic mechanisms, and functional irrigation systems.
Twitter dons its tin foil hats to unearth the mystery of the UFO near Modi residence
Twitter dons its tin foil hats to unearth the mystery of the UFO near Modi residence
Reports of a UFO sighting near PM Modi's house had sent security agencies into a tizzy.
(Photo: Reuters)
Threats to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's life seem to be coming from all quarters, even from outer space! After a letter hinting at an assassination plot aimed at the PM was found, the latest seems to be an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) that was seen hovering around the PM's official residence in Delhi on June 7.
The PM house at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg is a no-fly zone.
The sighting had sent security forces into an overdrive, trying to find the source of the object but an investigation has found nothing suspicious.
The findings have however not deterred Twitter users, who are using the news as an opportunity for jokes and theories of their own.
Don't even let Modi know about UFO, otherwise he will find the planet from where they have come and he will make a trip to that planet and again NRIs residing on that planet will go mad after seeing Modi there
After reports of UFO seen hovering over lok Kalyan Marg , Modi has contacted avengers team for his security , anytime soon Thor ,hulk and iron man would be seen outside PM’s house .
‘UFO’ sighted near PM Modi’s house on June 7, search finds nothing
PM Modi’s security unit of Delhi Police received information about the sighting of a UFO on June 7 evening. During the search, nothing threatening was found.
UFO spotted above Narendra Modi's residents. While for the others it's a threat, NaMo looks it as an invitation and shall visit extraterrestrial lands. #UFOs#UFO#ModiAssassinationPlot
OMG UFO near modi's residence. May be aliens want to invite for some day visit to their planet for #Demonetization and #GST Or Election rally. Alien aur Alieno Mera is planet se purana nata hai. Mai yaha paida hone wala tha par nehru ne space ship nahi choda.#BJP_भगाओ_देश_बचाओ
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UFO Spotted Near PM Modi's Residence on June 7 Sets Alarm Bells Ringing
Will UFO going to take PM Modi with them ?https://www.news18.com/news/india/ufo-spotted-near-pm-modisresidence-on-june-7-sets-alarm-bells-ringing-1777957.html …
No No. Its not UFO it's Modi himself. People have forgotten his face As he generally goes on tour forgets his role as PM, so once in a way if he cones home people think it's some UFO
How 'UFO' sighting over PM Modi’s residence sent security personnel into a tizzy
How 'UFO' sighting over PM Modi’s residence sent security personnel into a tizzy
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Amid reports of Maoists’ plans of assassinating the prime minister, a ‘UFO’ sighting over Narendra Modi’s Lok Kalyan Marg residence in New Delhi gave some anxious moments to the security personnel.
According to a report in The Hindustan Times, the security agencies came to know about the incident on June 7, when such a claim was made.
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However, after a detailed combing operation, the agencies didn’t find anything substantial.
‘The sighting was reported but nothing threatening was found. More details cannot be shared keeping security reasons in mind,’ Delhi Police chief spokesperson Dependra Pathak was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.
The report also mentions earlier incidents in September last year when the security agencies were informed about drone-like device hovering over the Prime Minister’s residence.
With the assassination plot coming out in public, the security agencies are leaving no stone unturned in PM Modi’s security.
The police in Pune had told a court earlier this month that they had seized a "letter" from the Delhi residence of one of the five people arrested for having alleged "links" with the banned CPI (Maoist).
The purported letter allegedly mentioned of a plan to "assassinate" Prime Minister Narendra Modi in "another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident", the police told the court.
On political front, Opposition parties are saying that the assassination plot is just BJP’s ploy to gain sympathy.
On June 10, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar launched a scathing attack against ruling BJP over the threat to the Prime minister and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and claimed that BJP's is coming down, hence it has come up with threat letter conspiracy.
Speaking on the issue of recent statements reports that PM Modi and CM Fadnavis have received threats allegedly by maoists, Pawar said, "After these reports of threat letters, a retired police official told me that when such letters comes, it does not go to media but it goes to the security agencies and additional security measures are taken."
The Opportunity Rover was as only designed to survive for 90 days on the surface of Mars but has kept on trundling for 15 years.
Opportunity, Nasa’s Red Planet exploration Rover, survived tough conditions on Mars
Now the Mars-exploration machine is facing its toughest challenge yet after it was caught in a terrible storm spanning more than 7 million square miles.
Official NASA Gemini mission image shows ‘undeniable proof’ of UFO’s orbiting Earth
Official NASA Gemini mission image shows ‘undeniable proof’ of UFO’s orbiting Earth
The Gemini Program was the second manned space program of the United States, developed in the early 1960s during the space race with the Soviet Union.
The project began in 1965 after the US space agency finalized its first space flight program: the groundbreaking Mercury project, which had successfully put the first US astronauts into orbit.
The Gemini program, unlike its predecessor and its subsequent continuation with the Apollo Program, did not produce as much euphoria in the public opinion although the developments reached in the project would be of vital importance for the development of the future Apollo missions and the goal landing mankind on the surface of the moon.
The main purpose of the Gemini program was to demonstrate the possibilities of space flight and coupling that would be used later during the Apollo missions when the lunar module separated from the command module in orbit around the Moon and later meet with the spaceship again after that the astronauts had left the lunar surface.
Another goal of the Gemini missions was to extend the astronauts’ stay in space for up to two weeks.
This was even more than what was required for the Apollo missions.
As you can see, the Gemini project was of great importance as it helped mankind reach the moon, land on its surface and return safely back home.
The Gemini 10 Alien encounter
One of the most curious images snapped during the Gemini project was taken in 1966, during the Gemini X mission.
Gemini 10 was a manned space mission of the Gemini program made in 1966. It was the eighth manned flight of the Gemini program and the sixteenth of the American space program.
The mission lasted for 2 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 39 seconds.
During Gemini X, astronauts on board snapped a series of images that would later be tucked away in NASA’s archives.
One of the images shows a mysterious light to the right of the spacecraft, and planet Earth, unlike anything other in its vicinity.
The image can be seen by visiting the following link:
UFO hunters are convinced that what popped up in the image snapped by Gemini mission astronauts was in fact an Alien spaceship, clearly distinguishable by three ‘large’ lights.
Upon zooming in, we clearly see what appear to be three bright lights which UFO hunters say are the propulsion system of the alleged alien spacecraft.
Curiously, Major Gordon Cooper, astronaut and member of the Gemini Project, testifying under oath to the United Nations said: “I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”
He also said: “I’ve been asked about UFOs and I’ve said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.”
What do you think it is?
In 1965, Cooper commanded the Gemini 5. This mission was intended to verify that astronauts could survive in space for 8 days, the time needed to reach the Moon.
So there you have it, another extremely interesting image from space showing what many claim to be an otherworldly spacecraft, piloted by advanced beings, not from Earth.
These Are The Incredible Lost Megaliths Of Oceania
These Are The Incredible Lost Megaliths Of Oceania
The distinct culture of Polynesians has created some of the most interesting monuments in the world. A true wonder of the world is the Moai sculptures on Easter Island but not less intriguing are the mysterious Tikis statues of Hiva Oa.
The temple of Taputapuatea Marae is an ancient pyramid built on the Leeward Islands, French Polynesia. It is considered one of the most important sacred complexes in Polynesia. Established around 1000 AD, the marae was a place of learning where priests and navigators from all over the Pacific would gather to offer sacrifices to the gods and share their knowledge of the genealogical origins of the universe, and of deep-ocean navigation.
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During the 15th century CE, the Maori of New Zealand constructed a hill fort known as Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) in Auckland. It is the largest Maori fort ever built. These Earth workers literally carved a fortified complex out of the hill, considered to be the most impressive systems in the world. Many of the Maori can also trace their ancestry back to this hill, which is said to have the spirits of their elders.
One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand
The island of Hiva Oa is home to a ceremonial site with houses some of the largest prehistoric statues in French Polynesia, up to 2.6 m high. They are positioned on an ancient monument known as the me’ae, a sacred site arranged for ceremonies and gatherings. The old stone figures were based on gods and legendary figures from the islander’s history.
One of the most interesting fortifications of Polynesia can be found on the small island of Rapa Iti. These pyramid-shaped towers were built along the highest peaks of the island, a realm where the island gods were said to live. It is believed that the depletion of natural resources on the island resulted in warfare, and the inhabitants lived alongside these fortified settlements for protection.
One of the most significant petroglyph sites in the world can be found in Rapa Nui (with more than 1,20 valuable carvings). The ‘Orongo’ glyphs were based on the birdman cult, which hosted an annual race to bring the first bird egg from the islet of Motu Nui to ‘Orongo’. The site has many petroglyphs, mainly of the birdmen, carved out of large volcanic blocks.
Stonehenge of the Pacific - Haʻamonga Trilithon of Tonga
One of the most unusual megalithic monuments in the Pacific is the Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga. Each stone weighs some 20 tons and is some 6 m high. This massive trilithon was composed of three giant stones – two upright and a lintel uniting them. It was built-in the beginning of 13th century, possibly as a royal gateway. Nearby is large upright stone slab – Maka Fa’akinanga – a legendary throne of the king. The local legends of Tonga suggest that this monument was made by a god because no mortals would be able to handle such giant slabs of stone.
Hale O Pi’ilani Heiau is an ancient temple complex built on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. This huge shrine was used to treat the sick, make offerings to the gods, start rain, stop rain, increase the population, ensure the health of the nation, achieve success in distant voyaging, reach peace, and achieve success in war.
This Article was written by Simon E. Davies, contributor to ancient-code.com
These Are Some Of The Most Prominent Pyramids On Earth
These Are Some Of The Most Prominent Pyramids On Earth
A pyramid is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. For thousands of years, civilizations across the globe have used this architectural design for tombs, fortresses, and temples.
Compelling studies suggest that many of these pyramids were aligned with astronomical events, such as solstices, eclipses, and even the Earths own hemispheres.
The Mesopotamians built the earliest pyramid structures known as ziggurats (e.g. Tepe Sialk and the Ziggurat of Ur). In ancient times they were painted in gold & bronze, endowing them with a luminous quality. The ziggurats were believed to be dwelling places for the gods, and each city had its own patron deity which ruled over the sea, sky, earth etc.
In Egypt, the pyramids were huge structures built of brick or stone. The sun god Ra, considered the father of all pharaohs, was said to have created himself from a pyramid-shaped mound known as a ‘Benben’ before creating all other gods. They were often coated with white limestone in order to give them a shining appearance (as a reference to the rays of the sun god).
The Nubian pyramids from Sudan served as tombs for the kings and queens of Jebel Barkal and Meroë. These Nubian Pyramids have different characteristics to their Egyptian counterparts, constructed at much steeper angles. These great tombs were still being built in Sudan as late as 300 CE.
Illustration by Simon E. Davies.
Far to the East, there were many flat-topped like pyramids built in China & Korea between 188 BCE and 675 CE. These huge mausoleums were built for the early emperors of China and their relatives. The ancient Chinese believed that when an emperor died, their soul entered the afterlife, so the mausoleums were constructed as heavenly palaces for their life hereafter.
All of the daily comforts of their past life such as servants, attendants, possessions, pets, wives, guardians, concubines, food and drink were to be provided for them in the after life. This was accomplished by burying all of these things with the deceased when they died. It was not uncommon to kill people in order to be buried with their master, but as dynasties evolved clay replicas replaced the real thing.
The Indonesia culture also featured pyramid structures such as Borobudur temple and Prang temple. These step pyramids were based on the native beliefs that mountains and high places are the abode for the spirit of the ancestors.
Across the Pacific Ocean, a number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. They were typically stepped, with temples on top (similar to the ziggurats of Mesopotamia). These temples were often used as places of human sacrifice. The ‘Pyramid of the Sun’ in Teotihuacán means “the place where men become Gods.” They claim that their pyramids were instruments for transforming the soul after death, just as the Egyptians did.
A recent series of pyramid-like structures were built by the Polynesians known as Pā (sacred hill forts). These stepped structures were carved from hill tops, forming a pyramid-like shape, and were often used as defensive settlements. The Polynesians believed these earth works were endowed with ‘mana’, a spiritual energy that granted them power and authority.
The common theme which links all these pyramid structures is death, authority, and immortality. These temples literally seemed to deify their occupants, who went on to rule from the heavens, their legacy secured and memorialized by the wondrous monuments of the ancients.
This article was written by Simon E. Davies. Contributor at Ancient-Code.com
The Beginning of Religion: This is The Evolutionary Tree Of All Religions On Earth
The Beginning of Religion: This is The Evolutionary Tree Of All Religions On Earth
Since the dawn of mankind, humans have tried to make sense of their world, especially when faced with unknown phenomena such as ‘what causes storms’, ‘what happens to us after we die’, and ‘how was the world formed’? It is plausible that from such questions, our first primitive religions were formed.
The earliest evidence of a religious practice can be traced back to 100,000 years ago when we began to bury our dead. Although we cannot define this as the origin of faith, it does suggest that at the dawn of humanity, we had begun to consider some kind of afterlife.
Over time, this religious practice gave rise to a new ideology which spread across the continents, known today as ‘Animism’. This emerging faith was the root belief system that would evolve and branch out into numerous other ideologies all over the world. The journey of these evolving religions can be broken down into three classic periods.
It should be noted that these periods are not indicative of a new ideology improving upon previous faith systems. Religions change over time, they go extinct, and they split into distinct traditions.
Graph created by Simon E. Davies.
They adapt to their environment, they construct their environment in part, all just like organic evolution does.
Period 1: Animism (100,000 BCE – Present)
Humans began to believe that natural constructs (e.g. plants, animals, rocks and wind) possessed a spiritual essence. These spirit entities were believed to have powers and temperaments that influenced our everyday world. By worshiping these divine beings, it was believed we could maintain harmony with this spirit world and gain favors from them.
Period 2: Polytheism (15,000 BCE – Present)
The roots of Polytheism may lie in the Epipaleolithic era. Linguists and historians have defined a hypothetical language family called Nostratic, which seems to have influenced all the African and Eurasian dialects. Many of the words that can be reconstructed involve nature gods (such as mother earth and father sky). This suggests that the nature spirits of animism had evolved into a new generation of Gods (giving abstract beings of thunder and water a more human form). During the Neolithic revolution, civilizations began to emerge requiring new areas of expertise (e.g. lawmaking, metallurgy, agriculture, and commerce). It was the descendants of the Nostratic Gods (e.g. the Indo-Europeans and Sumerians) who took on the role of guide and leader to the civilized world.
Typically these divine beings were divided into several classes, overseeing the heavens, the mortal realm, and the underworld. Each deity possessed their own powers, religious practice, and domain (e.g. trading, diplomacy, Warcraft etc). Man could either worship one or all of these beings, gaining favor from them via offerings, prayer and even sacrifice.
Period 3: Monotheism (1348 BCE – Present)
In the Bronze Age, a new movement took shape that prioritized one God over all other deities. This system is known as Monotheism – a belief in one Supreme Being. In 1348 BCE, the pharaoh Akhenaten, raised a lesser known God called ‘Aten’ to supreme status, downplaying the role of all other Egyptian deities. A little later in Iran, Zoroaster (a Persian priest) claimed ‘Ahura Mazda’ to be the one supreme deity. This newly emerging system posited that one creator god had formed the known universe, and was totally self-sufficient, capable of ruling over all other domains. This idea became prominent in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism.
Most monotheistic systems tend to be exclusive in nature, which meant the gods of the Old World had to be purged from man’s consciousness. As a consequence, monotheistic religions displayed less religious tolerance than polytheistic religions, resulting in many wars and political disputes.
This article was written by Simon E. Davies. Contributor at Ancient-Code.com
For decades, and across much of the United States, people have reported sightings of what have become known as “Black Helicopters” and “Phantom Helicopters.” They are often seen in the direct vicinity of animal mutilation events and UFO encounters. On many occasions they have been seen flying perilously close to the homes of alien abductees. Most of the reports come from the public. In the latter part of 1975, however, a substantial number of sightings came from the U.S. military. It was a wave of activity that still provokes questions to this date.
Such was the concern about the sightings, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Air Force Intelligence, and NORAD (the North American Air Defense Command) got involved. Consider this extract from the military titled “Unknown Air Activity. In part, it states: “Since 28 Oct 75 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CC. Reliable military personnel at Loring AFB Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, MT, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian forces station Falconbridge, Ontario Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects. Objects at Loring and Wurtsmith were characterized to be helicopters. Missile site personnel, security alert teams and air defense personnel at Malmstrom, Montana report an object which sounded like a jet. FAA advised there were no jet aircraft in the vicinity. Malmstrom search and height finder radars carried the object between 9500 ft. and 15,000 ft. at a speed of seven knots.”
NORAD Command Center
That was far from the end of the matter: “…personnel reported the object as low as 200 ft. and said that as the interceptors approached the lights went out, after the interceptors had passed the lights came on again…Minot AFB on 10 Nov reported that the site was buzzed by a bright object the size of a car at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 ft. There was no noise emitted by the vehicle.”
Concerns about the U.S. media learning about, and investigating, the affair was expressed by the military: “Be assured that this command is doing everything possible to identify and provide solid factual information on these sightings. I have also expressed my concern to SAFOI that we come up soonest with a proposed answer to queries from the press to prevent over reaction by the public to reports by the media that may be blown out of proportion. To date efforts by Air Guard helicopters, SAC helicopters and NORAD F106s have failed to produce positive ID.”
Another document, titled “Defense Against Helicopter Assault,” reveals the following: “The past two evenings at one of our northern tier bases, an unidentified helicopter has been observed hovering over and in the near vicinity of the weapons storage area. Attempts to identify this aircraft have so far met with negative results.” In other words, something intruded upon the most secure part of the base and no-one was able to determine what was afoot or even why.
One of the most fascinating of all the series of incidents was captioned “Unidentified Helicopter Sighted at Low Level Over Loring AFB.” Extracts follow: “On 28 Oct 75, Lewis…advised that the a/c [aircraft] was first observed by Clifton W. Blakeslee, Sgt. [deleted] and William J. Long, SSgt., both assigned to the 42 SPS, who were on duty at the storage area. The initial sighting took place at approximately 1345. The a/c was observed approximately 1,000 meters north of LAFB. The a/c was subsequently observed by Lewis and others intermittently for the next hour and a half. Subsequent to the sighting by Long and Blakeslee, the a/c did not come nearer to the northern perimeter of LAFB than approximately 3 miles. Lewis observed a flashing white strobe light and red navigation lights on the a/c. The operator of the a/c either turned the lights off periodically or the a/c flew below a point from which the lights could be observed. The a/c disappeared from view and did not reappear. A search of the vicinity of the northern perimeter of LAFB by 42 SPS personnel met with negative results.”
And there was more to come, as the documentation makes abundantly clear: “On 28 Oct 75, Commander, 42 8W, advised that he responded to the area from which the unidentified a/c was observed. He arrived at approximately 1955. The a/c bore a white flashing light and an amber or orange light. The speed and movement in the air suggested that the a/c was a helicopter. From 1345-2020, the a/c was under constant observation. Subsequent to that time the a/c would appear and disappear from view. The a/c definitely penetrated the LAFB northern perimeter and on one occasion was within 300 yards of the munitions storage area perimeter. Efforts to identify the a/c through Maine State Police and local police departments were not successful.”
On November 7, staff from Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, recorded this: “Received a call from the 341st Strategic Air Command Post, saying that the following missile locations reported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object: M-1, L-3, LIMA and L-6. The general object location would be 10 miles south of Moore, Montana and 20 miles east of Buffalo, Montana.”
Just a few hours later, there was the following, also from Malmstrom: “SAC advised K-1 says very bright object to their east is now southeast of them and they are looking at it with 10 x 50 binoculars. Object seems to have lights (several) on it, but no distinct pattern. The orange/gold object overhead also has small lights on it. SAC also advises female civilian reports having seen an object bearing south from her position six miles west of Lewsitown.”
As for NORAD’s files, I’ll share with you one of the most intriguing of all: “This morning, 11 Nov 75, CFS Falconbridge reported search and height finder radar paints on an object up to 30 nautical miles south of the site ranging in altitude from 26,000 to 72,000 feet. The site commander and other personnel say the object appeared as a bright star but much closer. With binoculars the object appeared as a 100 ft. diameter sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside.”
Phantom/Black Helicopters or UFOs: the matter still remains unexplained, as the encounters came to a halt as mysteriously as they had begun.
Security Camera May Have Detected Something "Supernatural"
Security Camera May Have Detected Something "Supernatural"
On June 13, 2018 a strange "light" appears in a security camera that has the homeowner kind of 'freaked out'!
There is a lot of discussion about what the light might have been, some people suggest that it was a laser point or flash light or a car passed by but the homeowner would know if a car passed by or other common occurrence.
One commenter states: “While the "odd light" does brighten up the umbrella a bit and also cause some shadowing on the umbrella, I'd say it was a reflection as there is no similar brightening or shadow affect on the chair at the table under the umbrella.”
“The regular porch light to the right is brighter than the anomaly. Maybe a bug/bird could be so close to the camera lens that the blur of the light (infrared?) hitting the body causes a minor warping effect on the view of the umbrella and other things in the distance to viewer's right but I do think the shadow on the brief umbrella is important."
MRMB333 analyzes the strange “light” in the following video.
Details On UFO Sighting Revealed In A Military Report
Details On UFO Sighting Revealed In A Military Report
There are dozens of UFO sightings these days, and they have been for a while. In December, however, the New York Times released investigation results on US military’s monitoring of UFO claims that came up something entirely wild. It was a Pentagon video showing US Navy pilots tracking the activity of an unexplainable aircraft. Now, a Las Vegas news team has received a military reports offering even more details on the sighting. The story is somewhat becoming even stranger than before.
The report explains every detail how a US Navy aircraft carrier is strangely playing hide and seek with multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs), which demonstrate advanced flight characteristics that should be impossible to do.
The sightings started on November 20, 2004, and went on for several days. The object would appear on radar systems of the carrier for short periods, seeming to hover, and then fly off at high speeds.
The crew started to investigate this phenomenon because of the confusion on what was happening. When the object re-appeared a few days later, a pair of F/A-18Fs was sent out to investigate the mysterious signals. The result is the now the popular video that shows the “Tic Tac-shaped” UFO moving along at incredibly high speeds and demonstrating fast changes in altitude.
According to the new report, the object is described as without edges, smooth, solid white and being uniformly coloured without wings, pylons, or nacelles. It says the object was around 46 feet long. As a comparison, the F/A fighters trailing it measure approximately 56 feet long. It is speculated that the strange object could hold one or more human-sized individuals.
The pilot said that they never felt a threat on the object, but the report notes that it seemingly reacted to the presence of the jets, showing an incredible acceleration, aerodynamic and propulsion capability.
The Navy says it may have a cloaking ability or can disappear to the human eye after several days of seeing it come and go. The officials also think it could operate underwater because of its quick descent from 60,000 feet to just 50 feet before vanishing, possibly moving from the air to the sea at will effortlessly.
UFO news: Was UFO sighting on American west coast a rogue missile?
UFO news: Was UFO sighting on American west coast a rogue missile?
A STRANGE missile-shaped object blasted over the skies of western US, but military officials say that it was not a weapon, prompting confusion over what the UFO actually was.
On Sunday, June 10, a weather camera in Washington State snapped footage of what looked like a missile streaking across the sky.
According to SkunkBay Weather, a weather monitor in Washington State on its official Facebook page: “My night camera picked up what clearly looks like a very large missile launch from Whidbey Island.”
Professor Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences faculty member at the University of Washington, said the object did indeed look like a missile.
He continued: “It really looks like an ascending missile. I would be interested if someone had some insights into this sighting.
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Was UFO sighting on American west coast a rogue missile?
“My night camera picked up what clearly looks like a very large missile launch from Whidbey Island.”
“This feature does not look like a meteor, nor are there any meteor reports for the area that I could find online.
“The lightning networks did not show a strike in that area.
“I have never heard of rocket launches from Whidbey Island Air station in Oak Harbor.
“And checking online, I can not find any discussion of this feature.”
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“There's a lot speculation around here but it's definitely not a missile launch.”
However, military officials have denied that they had anything to do with a suspected rocket launch.
A spokesman for the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island told Military.com: “There's a lot speculation around here but it's definitely not a missile launch.”
The spokesman added that the NAS Whidbey Island does not have any missile launching capabilities.
But Dr Grant Allen at Manchester University's Centre for Atmospheric Science believes he may cracked the mystery.
“There are a few things I can tell from the photo – the light streak appears to pass between two cloud decks – a low-level and a mid-to-higher-level deck – you can see this as the streak appears and disappears behind the low level cloud deck but always appears in the foreground of the higher cloud deck.
“This is not consistent with a vertically ascending missile as such an ascent might be expected to penetrate both cloud decks (very quickly).
“This must be a long exposure photograph/capture as you see a light streak (not an object) and some smearing out of the clouds too.
“To my mind, this is just a brightly lit conventional aircraft of helicopter moving overhead at an altitude above the height of the lower cloud deck but below that of the higher cloud deck.”
We Talked to a Woman Who Helps People Deal with Being Abducted By Aliens
We Talked to a Woman Who Helps People Deal with Being Abducted By Aliens
Kathleen Marden is the director of experiencer research at the Mutual UFO Network, where she works on behalf of people who have had extraterrestrial experiences.
Last week, NASA issued a clarification that a bright light in an image tweeted by one of its astronauts was, in fact, from the International Space Station, and not from a UFO. Even though there's never been any scientific evidence that UFOs exist, it's not exactly surprising: A higher percentage of Americans believe that UFOs exist than those who believe in climate change, evolution, or that the earth is 4.5 billion years old.
One of the best-known organizations claiming to scientifically study UFO's is the "Mutual UFO Network," or MUFON. Much of their work involves consulting with "experiencers"—people who claim to have been abducted or otherwise come in contact with extraterrestrial beings. It's a little bit hard to accept that the process has any scientific validity, given that the "experiencer questionnaire" reads a bit like an oncologist diagnosing a hypochondriac by asking them if they have cancer. Even still, they are the go-to for those who believe to have had alien encounters.
MUFON's director of experiencer research is Kathleen Marden—the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, two of the most well-known alleged UFO abductees from the 1960s. I talked to Marden about her methodology, the support services she provides for "experiencers," and whether media portrayals of aliens do more harm than good.
VICE: Tell me a little about what you do with MUFON.
Kathleen Marden: I'm MUFON's director of experiencer research. What we ask experiencers to do before they file a report with MUFON is to go to our website and take the experiencer questionnaire. It's a commonalities questionnaire to determine what they have in common with experiencers who participated in the Martin Stoner Commonalities Research Project in 2012. Once they do that, their score will go to me, along with their questionnaire, and I will assign a member of the team to get in touch with them.
Then what happens?
We talk to individuals to help them determine what they want to do: Do they want a formal investigation of their case with someone from MUFON? Do they have evidence? Are they not sure what's going on? Do they want some pointers on what to look for and how to collect the evidence? Do they have unpleasant memories about what has happened to them? Are they looking for a support group? We will attempt to find a support group for them—there are so few that it's really difficult, but there are some online support groups. Or are they looking for a therapist or a hypnotist? Then we will tell them where to look for a list where they might be able to get some information about those things. Professionals who specialize in this stuff are not very prevalent so it's difficult, but we do the best we can to help experiencers define what they want.
Have you encountered people who've tried to deceive you about their alien encounters?
Absolutely. A very small percentage of experiencers who request an investigation and file a report have done so in order to attempt to pull off a deception. I have caught a couple of them in cases that I have investigated. These people tend to either have a mental illness or they tend to be on the margins of society and believe that by pulling off a deception, they're going to bring publicity to themselves and possibly money. That's not going to happen because most experiencers, if they bring publicity to themselves, it's of a negative type. They're criticized by the public and by skeptics, and nobody makes a lot of money doing this.
Do you worry that somebody might not share those commonalities but still be worthy of investigation? Are there other benefits to filling out the questionnaire?
That happens. My team is non-prejudicial. There are individuals who have had recent experiences for the first time, and they won't have all of the characteristics that long-term experiencers have. So it's kind of open-ended. What it does is it can start a conversation, and the goal is to help people because these events can be traumatic and people don't know where to turn.
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I'm looking at the questionnaire and the first question is, "Have you had a close encounter with a UFO?" That seems kind of like a leading question.
Well, people, I believe, are pretty generally honest about it. We want to know, have they had a close encounter? If they have, the chances of an abduction are much greater. I'm not trying to trick people here. This is kind of straightforward.
Do you know of any cases where a prominent individual suffered for claiming to be an experiencer? I think Dennis Kucinich took a beating in his 2008 presidential campaign after he was questioned about his alleged sighting.
Yes. Jimmy Carter, for example, had a UFO sighting and actually filed a formal investigation report about his sighting—and it was a multiple witness sighting. There are many individuals from prominent positions, whether it be astronomers or politicians—who have spoken publicly. [Editor's note: Carter filed a report with an unofficial investigations group four years after the sighting in 1973. There was never any official follow-up by him, and he has repeatedly said he does not believe the sighting was extraterrestrial.]
You're the niece of Betty and Barney Hill. What happened to them, and how has that influenced your career?
Betty and Barney Hill were credible individuals. They were taking a brief vacation in 1961 and they had this very unusual event that occurred that changed their lives. They had no prior interest in [UFOs]; they had never read a book on this topic before that. They had conscious and continuous recall of observing an unconventional craft that came down very low—it hovered only a hundred feet overhead. My uncle got out of the car. He had conscious continuous recall of observing entities on that craft that he said were "somehow not human." He became very fearful that he was going to be captured. He ran back to the car, telling Betty that they had to get out of there right away. As he was speeding down the highway, he and Betty heard a series of buzzing sounds striking the trunk of the vehicle. The next day, they discovered that there was a magnetic field around that trunk when they placed a compass needle over the spots and the compass needle would spin and spin but drop down when it was placed on an other area of the car.
This must have been very upsetting.
He was traumatized by this event, so much so that he ended up developing ulcers and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He was seen by medical doctors, and then was referred to the psychiatrist because traditional medical treatment did not cause his symptoms to recede. Betty had a series of nightmare-like dreams: She only had five, they occurred early in the morning just before she woke up, and she wrote them down and formed them into a storyline. Barney wasn't very interested in it. He did overhear a little bit of them, but not all of them
My understanding is that much of their telling of the alleged incident occurred during hypnosis sessions a few years later, right?
I did a comparative analysis of their separate statements under hypnosis. [The doctor] hypnotized them separately and he reinstated amnesia at the end of each session so they didn't know what the other one stated. I have those tapes of their separate hypnosis sessions—I transcribed them and lined up their separate statements. What I discovered is that Betty and Barney describe where these ETs were standing, how they moved, what they did. That information was not in Betty's dreams—and it was also in conflict with some of the information in Betty's dreams—which lead me to believe this was a real event, and not just Betty reliving dreams under hypnosis and Barney knowing a little bit about her dreams and building on his own story based upon that. All of their testimony is in agreement; there is no conflict in their separate testimony.
Some people have suggested that those who claim to have had contact with extraterrestrials are actually experiencing vivid dreams, or sleep paralysis. How do you respond to those sorts of explanations?
All of those things are something that could occur, and that is something that we always look at. We always attempt to explain these away with prosaic explanations first. But we, as unbiased investigators, must also look for evidence. We have to look for individual testimony, eyewitness testimony, circumstantial evidence, physical evidence such as fluorescence in certain patterns on the bodies of experiencers, certain markings that we find on the bodies of experiencers—even to the point of installing surveillance cameras, motion-activated infrared in the homes of experiencers and outside those homes, and looking at the evidence.
What we find is that the outside camera might pick up a bright light outside the home. If this is a bedroom abduction, you might see the husband and wife sitting up in bed, and the next thing you know, the camera shuts down for two hours, and then you see the individuals again—but they're in bed in a different position. It's that sort of thing: the cameras always shut down.
A camera shutting down for two hours sounds more like an absence of evidence.
No. It's not an absence of evidence. It's evidence that something unusual has occurred. It's evidence of an anomaly. And when you get evidence of that anomaly over and over again, then it is significant. And what we need in all of this is not one smoking gun, one piece of evidence that is going to be irrefutable, but the preponderance of evidence, the weight of the different types of evidence that is around this constellation of evidence that we require in cases of alien abduction, for example.
Do you think that portrayals of extraterrestrials in popular media are conducive or harmful to people coming forward?
It depends on what you see. For example, MUFON's Hangar 1: The UFO Files show on the History Channel has caused many people to come forward. We've received far more reports than we did before Hangar 1 was on. But then, there are some science fiction shows that are just very, very frightening and, oh boy, it is not good for this field—and I don't think that it's good for the general population either. That kind of portrayal, in my opinion, makes people more frightened, and that's certainly something that shouldn't be happening. We should be looking at this more scientifically, more as investigators, and I am not in favor of any of the science fiction that comes out on this.
Hovering UFO Directs Beam of Light Down Onto Nuclear Missile Silo at Ellsworth AFB:
Hovering UFO Directs Beam of Light Down Onto Nuclear Missile Silo at Ellsworth AFB:
Although most people are completely unaware of its existence, the UFO-Nukes Connection is now remarkably well-documented. U.S. Air Force, FBI, and CIA files declassified via the Freedom of Information Act establish a convincing, ongoing pattern of UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites extending back to December 1948.
Moreover, these mysterious incursions are not ancient history, so to speak, occurring only during the Cold War era. Indeed, evidence suggests that multiple, ongoing incidents have taken place near ICBM sites operated by Malmstrom AFB, Montana, as recently as October 2012.
For nearly 40 years, noted researcher Robert Hastings has sought out and interviewed former and retired U.S. Air Force personnel regarding their direct or indirect involvement in nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents. These individuals—ranging from retired colonels to former airmen—report extraordinary encounters which have obvious national security implications. In fact, taken to their logical conclusion, these cases have planetary implications, given the horrific consequences that would result from a full-scale, global nuclear war.
Significantly, the UFO activity occasionally transcends mere surveillance and involves direct and unambiguous interference with our strategic weapons systems. Numerous cases include reports of mysterious malfunctions of large numbers of nuclear missiles just as one or more UFOs hovered nearby. (Declassified Soviet Ministry of Defense documents confirm that such incidents also occurred in the former USSR.)
To date, Hastings has interviewed more than 130 military veterans who were involved in various UFO-related incidents at U.S. missile sites, weapons storage facilities, and nuclear bomb test ranges. The events described by these individuals leave little doubt that the U.S. nuclear weapons program is an ongoing source of interest to someone possessing vastly superior technology.
On September 27, 2010 Hastings hosted the UFO-Nukes Connection press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., during which seven U.S. Air Force veterans discussed UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites during the Cold War era.
CNN streamed that event live; the full-length video is below:
The witnesses said that they felt compelled to speak out about the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites and urged the U.S. government to finally reveal the facts to the American people and the rest of the world.
Since 1981, Hastings has presented his research findings at more than 500 colleges and universities nationwide, and possesses hundreds of highly favorable letters of recommendation from sponsors. “I am not condemning any government agency for its policy of secrecy regarding UFOs”, says Hastings, “but I believe that the public should be given the facts.”
Hastings believes that UFOs are piloted by visitors from elsewhere in the universe who, for whatever reason, have taken an interest in our long-term survival. He contends that these beings are occasionally disrupting our nukes to send a message to the American and Soviet/Russian governments that their possession and potential large-scale use of nuclear weapons threatens the future of humanity and the environmental integrity of the planet. In short, Washington and Moscow are being warned that they are “playing with fire.”
To suggest that this scenario is the only explanation for widespread UFO sightings during the modern era would be presumptuous, simplistic, and undoubtedly inaccurate. Nevertheless, Hastings believes that the now well-documented nuclear weapons-related incidents are integral to an understanding of the mystery that confronts us.
Sometimes reality is indeed stranger than fiction.
Fire of the Gods, Mythological Weapons Of The Ancient Past
Fire of the Gods, Mythological Weapons Of The Ancient Past
Mythological weapons
One of the most well-known stories in Greek Mythology is the legend of Prometheus. This powerful Titan ruled over the realm of fire, and in a defiant act passed his sacred knowledge onto humanity (despite Zeus’s orders to keep this knowledge forbidden). This combustible tool allowed our ancestors to survive the cold, bake clay vessels, and clear forests for planting. It literally helped humanity ascend from the stone age to a world of culture and technology.
But according to Hindu Mythology, this blazing gift went way beyond the primitive use of smelting metal and cooking meat. In the hands of the gods, fire was a profound and deadly tool, capable of incinerating enemies and leveling entire civilizations.
Agneyastra was one such weapon, created by the fire god Agni. It was described as a flaming arrow which required great knowledge and skill to work. Legend says the Agneyastra was used by the hero Sagara to set his enemies ablaze.
Another weapon, created by the God Vishnu, was the Narayanastra which fired a tirade of missiles upon its enemies. It was said the intensity of the fire increased the more an enemy resisted, and lessened when they showed their submission. In order to maintain a balance, this weapon could only be used once. If anyone tried to use it twice, it would devour the user and their supporting army.
The Brahmastra (forged by Lord Brahma) was one of the deadliest weapons in mythology. It required days of intense meditation to activate, and when fired, almost nothing could stop it. Upon impact, it created a powerful inferno capable of annihilating an entire nation. The weapon also created severe environmental damage (not dissimilar to radioactive fallout). Wherever the Brahmastra was dropped, the surrounding land would become barren of all life.
Finally, there was the deadliest weapon of all, the Pashupatastra. Both Shiva and Kali were said to have possessed this device, which was discharged by the power of thought. It was forbidden to be used against lesser enemies. This catastrophic weapon was said to be capable of destroying creation and vanquishing all life. The Hindu hero, Arjuna, obtained this weapon from Lord Shiva but did not use it as he was afraid he would destroy the world.
All of these powerful weapons sound uncannily familiar to the tools of mass destruction we have today. Perhaps the gods had a message for us. It is of no coincidence that Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb used this quote from Hindu mythology “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”. We live in an age where the fire of the Gods is now at our own disposal. Is it possible that there was a reason that Zeus forbade Prometheus from sharing this sacred knowledge? Can we truly be entrusted with the fire of the Gods?
This article was written by Simon E. Davies. Contributor at Ancient-Code.com
The Nebra Sky Disc: One Of The Oldest Cosmic Maps Ever Discovered
The Nebra Sky Disc: One Of The Oldest Cosmic Maps Ever Discovered
The Nebra sky disk, first thought to be a forgery, is now considered as one of the most important archaeological findings in the 20th century. This object is a bronze disk of around 30 cm diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg, with a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. The images on the disc are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars, specifically the Pleiades.
But what makes this disk very unique is the fact that this disk is unlike any known artistic style from the period. The Nebra Sky Disc features the oldest concrete depiction of the cosmos worldwide. in June 2013 the Nebra sky disk was included in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
The disk is attributed to a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, and associatively dated to c. 1600 BC. According to researchers, it is at least two hundred years older than the oldest images found in Egypt. The Nebra sky disk was discovered by two “convicted” treasure hunters using a metal detector at a prehistoric enclosure encircling the Mittelberg hill, near the town of Nebra The disk was recovered shortly after by police authorities.
It was a group of German researchers that uncovered evidence that this disk was a complex astronomical clock for the harmonization of solar and lunar calendars, it is considered as the first ever portable navigating system.
But that does not answer any questions regarding the disk that have surfaced since its discovery in 1999. One of the most important markings found on the disk is the representation of the Pleiades; an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus.
It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions and it is one of the most famous celestial objects (together with the Orion Nebula) in ancient times.
The Bronze Age astronomers would hold the Nebra clock against the sky and observe the position of the celestial objects.
The intercalary month was inserted when what they saw in the sky corresponded to the map on the disc they were holding in their hands. This happened every two to three years. “This is a clear expansion of what we knew about the meaning and function of the sky disc,” said archaeologist Harald Meller.
This is an image from the astronomy program Stellarium (free at Sourceforge) on the night of March 20, 2010, when the moon occulted the Pleiades. Notice that it strongly resembles the little dipper. This image is as you would see from earth. We have rotated the image 90 degrees left, and if you compare it to the Sky Disk you will notice that it is the same representation as seen on the Nebra Sky Disk (upper left).
“The sensation lies in the fact that the Bronze Age people managed to harmonize the solar and lunar years. We never thought they would have managed that,…The functioning of this clock was probably known to a very small group of people,”
The Bronze Age astronomers would hold the Nebra clock against the sky and observe the position of the celestial objects. The intercalary month was inserted when what they saw in the sky corresponded to the map on the disc they were holding in their hands. This happened every two to three years.
According to astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser of the Rurh University at Bochum, the Bronze Age sky gazers already knew what the Babylonians would describe only a thousand years later.
“Whether this was a local discovery, or whether the knowledge came from afar, is still not clear,” Schlosser said.
Ever since the disc was discovered, archaeologists and astronomers have been puzzled by the shape of the moon as it appears on the disc. According to the ancient Babylonian rule, a thirteenth month should only be added to the lunar calendar only when one sees the constellation of the moon and the Pleiades exactly as they appear on the Nebra sky disc. — Article: 2002. (www.dw-world.de)
Alien-Like Figures Found In Giza Might Be 'Older Than The Pyramids'
Alien-Like Figures Found In Giza Might Be 'Older Than The Pyramids'
This is truly amazing! I have never seen anything about this statue before.
It's always cool to find artifacts that cannot be placed in history. Also crazy to think that an entire language could have existed and only one remnant of it has survived. There's obviously much more to our past than we will ever realize.
A Brief History Of Witchcraft And How It Spread Across The World
A Brief History Of Witchcraft And How It Spread Across The World
Modern witchcraft has drawn much of its ideology from ancient religions and esoteric schools. It can be argued that the roots of this revived faith go back as far as the Stone Age, when humans began to conceive their world as a spiritual construct.
1. Shamanism appeared some time during the upper Paleolithic (50,000 – 10,000 years ago). The shaman would often enter trance states to follow the migration of herds (ensuring a successful hunt), heal people from illness, and protect their tribe from evil spirits. Many cave paintings depict shaman dancing in animal costumes, as though taking on the spirit of a particular animal.
2.As the nomadic tribes began to settle, new civilisations emerged, the earliest known being Sumeria (3500 BCE). From the translation of cuneiform tablets we know that the Sumerians believed in a wide range of celestial beings such as gods and spirits, many of which were hostile, so each person was guarded by spirit to protect them from demons. Their magic system was known as invocation, which allowed them to summon, bind and vanquish dark spirits using amulets, incantations and exorcism.
3. In ancient Egypt (2500 BCE), priests became skilled in Heka (the ‘activation of Ka’ or spirit energy). The Ka was the aspect of the soul which embodied personality, and the priests believed they could manipulate this spiritual fabric to influence the gods, gain protection, heal the ill and transform themselves into immortals. During the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (1069–653 BC), the art of Heka was adopted by midwives and nurses, allowing women to explore the secrets of Ka for the first time.
4. The Mystery cults emerged in ancient Greece (1500 – 1100 BCE) and were eventually passed onto the Romans. These secret schools required an initiation process to gain entrance. Worshippers believed that the gods of Greece (such as Demeter, Dionysus and Orpheus) had passed on their magical secrets to humans during the Bronze Age. This included the art of shamanic travel, invoking the gods, reincarnation, and even the ingredients for making ambrosia (an immortalising food).
5. The Celts (decedents of the Indo Europeans), formed a priest class known as Druids by around 350 BCE. These nature worshippers acted as teachers, judges, astrologers, healers, and bards. They were pantheists, meaning they revered many aspects of a single deity (in the forms of nature gods, trees and standing stones). All of their rituals were based around reincarnation, creating potions and crafting spells, which would eventually form the backbone of medieval witchcraft.
6. Another branch of Indo-European magic can be found in the Anglo-Saxon culture (400 CE – 1100 CE). Their magic was based on Norse Mythology, where legend says the god Odin had passed the secrets of the runes to humanity. These sacred symbols are used for healing, creating charms, crafting magical artefacts and hexing people. Due to the Christianisation of their religion in the 6th – 8th century, the Anglo-Saxons came to fear the practitioners of rune magic, believing them to be guided by evil.
7. Gnosticism was a mystic religion that originated in the Middle East around 100 CE. Gnostics believed the material world was inherently evil and that realm of spirit was fundamentally good. They claimed the creator god of the Old Testament was corrupt and had created a flawed world. Instead they directed Christians toward an inner experience of the true god via spiritual transcendence. Their ideology outraged other Christian and Jewish faiths that saw this as an affront to their religion.
8. Gnosticism later influenced the mystic tradition of the Kabbalah. This Jewish sect believed that God’s divine knowledge had been shared by the angels to humans 5000 years ago. His spiritual principles were then passed down the generations via oral tradition until emerging as a sacred text known as Sefer Zohar (“Book of Radiance”), written by Moses de Leon, 1290 CE. Practitioners guide their followers via meditation toward a direct contact with the divine. Like Gnosticism, the Kabbalah speaks of divine beings, a tree of life and multiple cosmic realms.
9. Throughout the early middle ages, the Catholic Church tolerated pagan faiths. However, after the devastation of the ‘Black Death’ (bubonic plague 1347-1349), a paranoia swept through the minds of Christians, believing it was the heathens and heretics who had tainted humanity with their dark sorcery. What followed was 300 years of persecution toward anyone practicing magic and mysticism.
1401: Witch Trials began in England, proclaiming that anyone who practiced witchcraft was to be burnt at the stake.
1487: The notorious ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ (‘Hammer against the Witches’) was published by Kramer & Sprenger, inciting Christians to hunt down and kill witches.
1515: Authorities in Geneva, Switzerland burn 500 accused witches at the stake
1526: Como, Italy, a spiral of witchcraft charges lead to around 1000 executions.
1644: In England, Matthew Hopkins (self proclaimed “Witch-finder General”) began an intense witch-hunting campaign, torturing and killing around 300 women.
1692: The Salem witch trials arrest 150 people, convicting twenty-nine of the felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused were hanged.
Between 1400 and 1700, an estimated 50,000 suspected witches were executed (around 75% of them women), in countries such as France, Britain, Germany and America.
After what became known as “The Burning Times”, the practice of witchcraft survived in pockets, particularly in the countryside, cut off from interaction with witches from other areas, or through secret societies.
10. The occult, (knowledge of the paranormal) was studied and practiced throughout the witch trials, often within secret societies sworn to silence. Intellectuals drawn to forbidden lore and mysticism began to study ancient texts related to invocation, ancient mythology, Egyptian mysticism, Gnosticism and the Kabbalah. Throughout this era, societies such as the Freemasons and Rosicrucian’s began to develop new schools of thought in astrology, alchemy, tarot, mediumship and sacred geometry.
11. In 1887, the works of the occult reached their pinnacle in an English society called ‘The Golden Dawn’. The Hermetic Order was an organisation devoted to occult practices, metaphysics, and paranormal activity. Many present-day concepts of ritual magic have been inspired by the Golden Dawn, which became one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.
12. Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion. It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century by Gerald Gardner. It draws upon the mystic traditions of the golden Dawn as well as ancient pagan practices. Wiccans typically believe in reincarnation, the use of magic to influence specific outcomes, a moral responsibility toward others and an appreciation for natural cycles (they have eight festivals known as Sabbats that revolve around the changing seasons). Wiccans often worship a variety of nature deities, the most important being the mother goddess and the horned god. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a single godhead.
1. Shaman – Susan Seddon Boulet 2. Invocation by Slawomir Maniak 3. Heka by Wojciech Ostrycharz 4. Mystery Cults by Slawomir Maniak 5. Druidism by Grosnus 7. Rune Lore by Ashley Bryner 6. Gnosticism: NA 8. Kabbalah by John Collier 9. Witch Hunt by Kiri Østergaard Leonard 9. Witch Hunt by Thomas Satterwhite Noble 10. Alchemy: NA 11. Photo of Aleister Crowley (public domain) 12. Wicca: NA
by Simon E. Davies contributor to Ancient-Code.com
The Otherworldly Qualities Of The Food Of The Gods
The Otherworldly Qualities Of The Food Of The Gods
From the Nectar Of Greek Mythology, said to be a divine liquid with rejuvenating qualities to Amrita mentioned in Vedic Mythology, this article written by Simon E. Davies takes a look at the Food of the Gods, and their incredible, otherworldly qualities.
Nectar
The nectar of the gods was a divine brew that could be used as a drink or an ointment. It was said to bestow youth and beauty upon anyone who used it. The goddess Aphrodite was said to have worn the nectar as perfume, while Apollo used nectar to preserve a corpse due to its incredible properties which could stop the decomposition of a body almost indefinitely.
Ambrosia
Ambrosia was the most prized food of the Greek Gods. When a divine being ate the delicious ambrosia, their skin was cleansed of any defilement, making them appear younger and more desirable. Some scholars believe that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, prepared differently for consumption. It is said these foods have a healing and cleansing power, often used as an antiseptic. It was also believed that ambrosia could bestow immortality if eaten regularly.
Amrita
Amrita is a divine food from ancient India, often mentioned in the mythical stories of the Rigveda. It was described as a drink which confers immortality upon the gods. Amrita features in the “ocean-churning” legend of Hindu mythology which describes how the devas, because of a curse from a crazed sage, lose their immortality. Assisted by their mortal enemies, the asuras, they churned a great ocean to create the wondrous amrita, the nectar of immortality. Those who drank it literally could not die.
Divine Peaches
In Chinese mythology, the peaches of immortality were consumed by the gods due to their virtue of conferring longevity on all who eat them. The sacred peach tree put forth its leaves once every thousand years and it required another three thousand years for the fruit to ripen. It was said the gods would wait for four thousand years before gathering the divine peaches and feasting on them for a day and a night.
Norse Apples
In Norse mythology, Idunn was a goddess who was known as the keeper of golden apples. Her name means “ever young”, or “the rejuvenating one”. The Norse gods depended upon Idunn’s constant supply of these golden apples for their immortality. In the Prose Edda, there is a tale of how Loki was once forced by a giant to lure Idunn out of Asgard and into a wood, where she was then snatched away to his home. In Idunn’s absence, the gods grew old and gray. Once they rrealizedthat Loki was responsible for her disappearance, they made him find the goddess and steal her back from the giant. Only then did they regain their immortality and youth.
Elixir of Life
The elixir of life is a mythical potion that, when drunk from a certain cup at a certain time, grants the drinker with immortality and eternal youth. It was based on the alchemical teachings of Thoth and Hermes Trismegistus, both of whom in various tales are said to have drunk “the white drops” of liquid gold, and thus achieved immortality. Alchemists throughout the ages have tried to recreate this incredible formula but to no avail. In the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sent a Taoist alchemist to the eastern seas to find the elixir, but he never came back.
Apples of Eden
In the Book of Genesis, the tree of life is (found in the Garden of Eden) is said to be guarded by Cherubim to prevent mortals from stealing its precious nectar. The tree is described in the Book of Revelation as bearing “twelve crops of fruit”, said to possess curing properties. Saint Bonaventure taught that the medicinal fruit of the Tree of Life contains the healing power of Christ himself. Thomas Aquinas (a Catholic priest from the medieval era) argued that the fruit of the tree served to maintain Adam’s longevity beyond that of an earthly animal life.
Soma
Soma was a sacred drink mentioned in Vedic and Persian texts that were said to bestow immortality on anyone who consumed it. The nectar is said to come from a plant which is described as possessing a long green stem with bright, shining yellow petals. It is said that when drinking this potent brew, a person’s body “roars” with the qualities of a god. The effects include greater speed and strength to warriors, strong, robust children to those giving birth, and spiritual power to those who apply themselves to the study of the philosophy.
The question is, are these divine foods merely a part of creative storytelling, or did they actually exist? Did our ancient ancestors actually discover a powerful substance capable of promoting speed, intelligence, and longevity?
Today there are many performance-enhancing drugs that can sustain life, bolster strength and empower the mind, all cultivated from the incredible properties of certain plants and foods. Perhaps the discovery of an ‘immortalising’ drug is almost upon us. But can we really break the cycle of life and death and expect no consequences.
Monoliths (aka menhirs or obelisks) are upright stones that have been used to create impressive structures around the world. These great monuments can appear on their own, or as part of a group (e.g. stone circles, temples, tombs etc).
The erection of these monoliths mainly took place in the Neolithic, later continuing into the Bronze Age. They were typically hewn from the land and raised on sacred sites that our ancestors deemed worthy of honoring. Their size varied considerably, but their shape is generally uneven and squared, often tapering towards the top.
A number of ancient Egyptian obelisks are known to have survived, plus the “Unfinished Obelisk” found partly hewn from its quarry at Aswan. Had it have been erected, it would have been the tallest megalith in the world! These obelisks are now dispersed around the world, and fewer than half of them remain in Egypt.
It was said that many of the ancient obelisks were used to mark the passing of royal personages (e.g. the Karnack Obelisk is associated with King Thutmose I, and the Stella of Axum with the Queen of Sheba). Even the Great Menhir of Er-Grah is built next to an ancient tomb suggesting it is a grave marker worthy of a significant hero or king from the Neolithic era.
It is also said the pyramids and obelisks might have been inspired by previously overlooked astronomical phenomena connected with sunrise and sunset: the zodiacal light and sun pillars respectively.
Article by Simon E. Davies, contributor to Ancient Code.
Several years after the surgical removal of their alleged alien implants, five individuals courageously accepted to take part in an interview to discuss their “before and after effects”. All persons, one male and four females, shared one thing in common: UFO encounters and contact with non-human alien beings.
Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatrist from Thousand Oaks, California, founder of FIRST (Fund for Interactive Research and Space Technology) and Derrel Sims, C.Ht., R.H.A., a certified hypnotherapist , co-founder of FIRST and experienced UFO Investigator of over 27 year, orchestrated the successful surgeries with a team of competent medical professionals and volunteers. The first set of “implant” surgeries took place on August 19, 1995 at Dr. Roger Leir’s podiatry clinic in Thousand Oaks, California.
Pat Parrinellio, a 47 year old male from Houston, Texas, and Mary Jones (a pseudonym) 52, also from Texas, had the anomalous objects appear in X- rays, although both UFO experiencers had no record of previous surgeries. Both individuals were investigated by Derrel Sims of HUFON (Chief Investigator for Houston UFO Network) and referred to Dr. Roger Leir for surgery, based on their past UFO encounters and X-rays which confirmed the anomalous objects. Pat’s object was removed from the back of his left hand, and Mary’s objects excised from her left big toe. All services were performed free of charge.
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.
But that is not all. While these unusual objects were being evaluated for scientific study, another set of implant surgeries took place on May 18, 1996. Two women from this second set of surgeries came forward for this interview and follow up study. Dorothy O’Hara, a 61 year old female from Palm Springs, California, and Alice Leavy , 40, from Newberry Park, California, each had similar objects removed from their left lower leg. Another woman, Licia Davidson, 37, who has had numerous UFO and alien encounters, had a rare, crystalline-like object removed from her foot in January of 1997.
FINDINGS
“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. Normally, 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 simply, blood protein and skin cells that are usually found in the superficial layer of the skin. The tough, 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.
The implants from the two women from the second set of surgeries did not exhibit metallic properties like the implants from the first set of surgeries. In fact, the spheroid, whitish objects did not contain the tough, biological outer jackets, or fluoresce from a UV light source. These types of implants (possibly biological) also lacked the expected inflammatory response, according to the pathology reports. The crystalline-like object excised from the foot in the most recent surgery, also lacked the tough, grey, outer membrane and had virtually no inflammatory response, as in the other implant surgeries. Test results from the first set of implants revealed that the lammelar, needle shaped metallic objects in question are basically meteoric in origin, containing at least eleven different elements.
In an interview with Alien Encounters Magazine, (July 1997 issue, United Kingdom) Derrel Sims commented on the uncommon, non-rejecting human response to the implants: “It seems that the dense fibrous membrane may have been the person’s own surface skin. If this is the case, it appears that the metallic objects are wrapped in a sheath of keratinaceous material (surface skin). Nerve fibers then surround the tissue and appear to be attached to larger nerves. The fact that both persons (from the first set of surgeries) objected verbally and physically could be an indication of this (nervous system) connection.” Mr. Sims believes the indications are very strong that these implants are extraterrestrial in origin. “But”, Mr. Sims concedes, “Whatever the scientists say who have examined the objects say, is what we will say.” Derrel Sims has stated that a scientific peer review of all tests must be done before more specifics can be released. This is the standard course of action taken in any scientific endeavor.
Scientific evaluation is our best ally, but the experiences and opinions of the courageous individuals involved in these implant surgeries are equally important. A series of simple questions were posed to each of the participants. When asked as to how and when their implants might have been inserted, Pat Parrinellio from Houston, Texas believed his implant could have been inserted during a UFO encounter he had in 1954, at six years of age . Mary Jones recalls two UFO encounters when her metallic objects could have been implanted, in 1969. “In the first frightening UFO encounter”, Mary commented, “I was on a camping trip with my family while pregnant with my third child.” Oddly enough, one month after Mary’s child was born, she had another alien encounter while at home during the night. Conversely, Dorothy O’Hara from Palm Springs, California and Licia Davidson also from California both replied, “I have no idea when the object was inserted.” Alice Leavy commented that she first noticed the lump on her leg following a UFO encounter involving other witnesses in San Diego, in 1993. “I actually noticed the lump” Alice clarified, “when I discovered the scoop mark also on my left leg, after the UFO encounter.”
If the alien “abductors” are responsible for implanting objects in the bodies of their abductees, then are the aliens cognizant of the fact that the implants have been removed? So the next question was posed, “Did you experience any UFO sightings, alien abductions, odd dreams, missing time or paranormal events just prior to, or after the implant surgery? (within a month)” Pat Parinellio revealed, “Yes, an unusual set of events took place with another witness involving an orange glowing UFO one evening about a week before the surgery. After the surgery, I noticed that my psychic abilities seemed to decrease.”
Dorothy replied, “About a week before the surgery I had a dream-like, abduction experience involving many other people in a large locker room type facility, waiting in line for what seemed to be a shot in the backs of our necks. Also, right before an appointment to meet one of Derrel Sims’ associates for an interview (regarding the implant surgery), I and another women had a strange experience. It was like getting stuck in a time warp. I ended up being very late for the appointment. And then, late one evening after I returned from the surgery, I had an alien encounter, that I couldn’t clearly recall.”
Both Licia and Alice did not recall any unusual events soon before or after the implant surgery. Mary experienced a rare, pain and swelling in her toe and foot about a week before the surgery. “At that time”, Mary revealed, “I knew exactly where the objects were in my foot, I could feel them.” Prior to that, Mary had no pain or sensations of that kind in her toe. “What was really strange,” Mary admitted, “was that the moment I stepped out of the car to meet Derrel Sims just prior to the surgery, my pain stopped.”
The real question one may wonder about is: Now that the implants have been removed, will the aliens continue to come back and abduct the abductees? All individuals except Mary Jones were able to answer with a resounding, “Yes”. Alice elaborated on an abduction she had two months after the implant surgery, “I retired to bed early due to a headache. My husband awoke at 1:00 am because the whole bedroom lit up like daylight. He looked at the clock, reached over to touch me and found that I was gone. Paradoxically, my husband quickly went back to sleep. The next day I felt very ill. I don’t recall anything during the night, but I noticed the next day that my dog had nervously clawed several areas in the house, as if he were trying to escape something frightening.”
As to changes in health, mood, dreams or psychic phenomena after the surgery, all five agreed as to some type of change. Mary Jones simply stated that she felt a sense of peace after her objects were removed. Dorothy commented, “I felt a tremendous sense of relief after the surgery.” Licia remarked, “Yes, I had a dramatic and immediate mood lift after the object was removed from my foot. I also stopped having the pain and the weird, watery sensation surrounding my foot.”
The most striking changes were noted by Dorothy. ” I had a severe diuretic effect and lost much water weight a week following the surgery. Then my health progressively worsened and I developed angina and edema. This heart problem was a recurring complication from a previous illness I had in my late twenties. I also experienced extreme fatigue, and could not concentrate. The illness lasted about a month, after which my energy and health returned with more vigor. My creativity and mental clarity improved remarkably. ( I am a writer) I had a startling improvement in my memory where I was able to recall a previous alien abduction experience from 1991. In other words, it was the first time I was able to pierce through a screen memory from an abduction, although it took me three days to process the memory. It was difficult mentally and emotionally. In hindsight, after the implant surgery and recovery from illness, I felt detoxified.” Pat, on the other hand, noticed a more subjective change and simply stated, “Yes, a part of me which remains hidden has undergone quite a few changes of paradigms.”
Alice and Dorothy shared a common symptom several months after their surgeries. Alice remarked, “About eight months afterwards, I had shooting pains in my left leg and noticed the implant scar turned bright red and hurt, and lasted for about a week. Also, around that same time period I had a strong, precognitive vision that later came true in exact detail.” Dorothy added, “Yes, I also noticed a strange reaction in my leg and implant scar about six months after the surgery. I felt shooting pains in my left leg, especially at the implant site. The incision scar turned bright red for about a month.”
Could these changes in each of the individuals interviewed alter their views of the UFO phenomena after the fact? Pat admitted he was basically in denial about the UFO abduction phenomena previous to the surgery. “And yet,” Pat stated, “it seems like the more one becomes aware of the fact, the more I realize that I don’t know anything. But I do sense that something is accelerating.” Dorothy concurred with Pat in that she formerly believed the UFO phenomena was all nonsense. Afterwards Dorothy realized, “I have been able to work through many issues in my life, now that I am no longer in denial. Now I have a more practical and spiritual approach to life, and am more concerned with helping others in a practical sense, not promoting some New Age or metaphysical philosophy.” Mary also admitted she had no interest or knowledge of the UFO abduction phenomena previously.
“Even now,” Mary added, ” I have no real interest in the UFO topic, yet cannot deny there is something to it.” Both Licia and Alice had a good knowledge and belief in the UFO abduction field. Licia stated that her views have not really changed. “The best way I can describe it,” Licia explained, “is that I have had a real powerful, extreme source of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.” Alice admitted, “Previously, I felt the aliens were possibly evil. Now, after the surgery and as life and my abductions continue, I think the aliens just have a job to do. It’s not a good job. I think they are just following orders.”
So, is the UFO community at large telling the whole truth about what really happens to abductees? Pat says, “Truth is subjective. I know there are a few researchers who are holding to the narrow line of finding out what is going on.” Alice agreed that for the most part, the abduction researchers are reporting things as they are experienced, but for one small exception. Some top researchers are not mentioning the apparent military involvement. Licia concurred with Alice, “Top researchers are touching on the major issues, but in my opinion, do not want to get involved in the government end of it.” Dorothy forthrightly stated, “Many people in the UFO community have their head in the clouds and believe in an overly benevolent, fanciful spiritual philosophy. There is not enough critical analysis. I have learned more from one on one conversations with other abductees than from the public lecture circuit.” As to the US government covering up UFO facts from the general public, all individuals agreed. Alice concluded, “Yes, especially the Roswell, New Mexico UFO incident of 1947.
Most of the implantees described noteworthy mental, psychic or health related changes following their implant surgeries. Four of them reported a continuation of some type of alien abduction activity. The two women who had the “biological” type implants removed, experienced strikingly similar post surgical changes, involving shooting pains and reddening of the incision scar for a short period of time.
The important thing to consider here, is the whole clinical picture. Over reliance on the physical test results of the implants alone are not substantial enough to solve the implant mystery – let alone the question of the alien presence. If not, then what is? The lives and experiences of the abductees themselves, tell us that we need to stop and listen. The answer lies somewhere in between science and the hearts of the people.
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In a Coast to Coast radio interview on 28 January 2018, between journalist George Knapp and Eric W Davis, Davis outlined his sub-contractor role within the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) program for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP.) At the Institute for Advanced Studies, based in Austin, Texas, his job was to provide broad scientific advice, and recommendations. He did not get into any data analysis, video analysis or witness interviews.
He was tasked with looking into the future - around 2050 - to set up a series of expert studies - and produce a series of Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs.) To look at a variety of topics and get experts to write a DIRD on that subject. Authors were asked to imagine our earthly technology, extrapolate it to 2050 and compare what we might have by then against what we see of the phenomenon today. Davis stated that 38 such papers were produced, with two being classified.
Hal Puthoff interview
In another 28 January 2018 Coast to Coast interview by George Knapp, this time with Hal Puthoff, Puthoff stated that his role within the AATIP was mainly to look at the physics. He had had 38 papers written
2. Obousy, R.K. and Davis, E.W. (2010). "Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions," Defense Intelligence Reference Document, Acquisition Threat Support, DIA-08-1004-001, Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
3. Davis, E.W. (2010), "Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum," Defense Intelligence Reference Document, Acquisition Threat Support, DIA-08-1004-007, Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
6. Davis, E.W. (2011). "Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum," Defense Intelligence Reference Document, Defense Futures, DIA-0801102-007, Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
Have we seen any of these 38 DIRD's?
We have seen three. Two written by Davis, namely, DIA-08-1004-004 dated 6 April 2010; and DIA-08-1004-001 dated 2 April 2010. The earliest appearance of these two documents can be traced back to a website operated by US researcher Corey Goode. They appear in an item written dated 18 December 2017.
How do we know these are copies of the real, original documents? Isaac Koi posed this question to Eric W Davis by email; together with a copy of the two documents. Davis confirmed they were his documents.
The third DIRD, this one written by Hal Puthoff surfaced on 5 May 2018 as a link within a report by George Knapp and Matt Adams It was DIA-08-1003-015 titled "Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering" and dated 29 March 2010.
How do we know this is one of the 38 prepared DIRD's? I emailed Hal Puthoff; sent him a copy of the document, and he confirmed by return email that it was his original DIRD..
In summary
In summary, we know there were 38 DIRD's prepared. We have the titles of seven of these, and a full copy of three.
Have we knowledge of any other information on these DIRD's?
1.On his website Corey Goode stated that at one point he had the two Davis DIRD's above, plus three others (not described) but these three others had been stolen from him (no others details given.)
2.A search of the Internet brings up copies of the two Davis DIA-08-1004-004 dated 6 April 2010; and DIA-08-1004-001 dated 2 April 2010.and one Puhoff DIA-08-1003-015 DIRDs already described above.
3. Hal Puthoff published a paper with the same title as his DIRD, "Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering" in 2010 in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.
4. In a talk entitled "Empty Space: The Multilayered, Multicolored Superconductor," by Eric W Davis at a conference titled "Modern Topics in Energy and Power", US Army Research Laboratory, in August 2016, referenced two DIRDs, namely DIA-08-1004-007 and DIA-08-1102-007, both of which we were already aware of, from Davis' Earth Tech DIRD list.
5. I searched the US website for the Defense Technical Information Centre for any of these DIRDs. There were two documents, dated 2004, by Eric W Davis concerning "Teleportation Physics Study" and "Advanced Propulsion Study." However, I was unable to locate any of the six 2010/2011 Davis DIRDs or the one by Puthoff on this website.
Update: 12 June 2018 A correspondent asked me what questions I would like answered about these DIRDs? My reply was:
1. Where did the funding come from for the work on the DIRD's? Was it directly from the DIA? From BAASS? From some other source?
2. When was the request received for the DIRD work to commence? Who asked for the work to be undertaken?
3. How many DIRD's were completed? How many were classified?
4. Who gave a number of DIRD's to Corey Goode? Why?
5. Who gave a copy of one DIRD to George Knapp? Why?
6. Who has a complete set of the DIRDs? Hal Puthoff? Eric Davis? Anyone else?
7. Has anyone obtained copies of all the DIRDs via an FOIA request?
8. Who are the authors of the non Puthoff; non Davis DIRDs?
Researchers have quantified how much ice the Antarctic has lost in the past 26 years, and it’s an ungodly amount: 3,000,000,000,000 tons. This is the most complete picture of Antarctic ice sheet change to date — 84 scientists from 44 international organizations combined 24 satellite surveys to produce the assessment.
A British Antarctic Survey two-man field camp next to The Obelisk on Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Image credits: Hamish Pritchard, BAS.
As any teenager who hasn’t failed his science class should be able to tell you, rising temperatures lead to melting ice, and this is easy to spot in the Antarctic, as well as in many other places around the world. Antarctica’s ice sheets have enough ice to raise sea water levels by 58 meters, and we’re already seeing the start of this process.
Since 1992, 3 trillion tons of ice have melted, corresponding to a rise of 8 millimeters. While that may seem like a trivial amount, it’s important to note that this is global sea level, which is actually a huge amount.
Antarctica’s ice sheets are also regarded a key indicator of climate change and a driver of sea-level rise. Since 1989 more than 150 calculations and estimates have been made, this one being the latest.
Using 24 independent satellite-observation-based estimates of ice-sheet mass balance determined within the period of 1992–2017, researchers from the Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) have analyzed Antarctica’s melting, finding that ocean-driven melting led to a tripling of ice-loss rates from West Antarctica, from 53 billion to 159 billion tonnes per year. This ice loss rate has also increased from 7 to 33 billion as a result of ice sheet collapse.
Co-author Professor Martin Siegert from the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial said: “Some of the changes Antarctica will face are already irreversible, such as the loss of some ice shelves, but there is a lot we can prevent or reverse.
“To avoid the worst impacts, we will need strong international cooperation and effective regulation backed by rigorous science. This will rely on governments recognising that Antarctica is intimately coupled to the rest of the Earth system, and damage there will cause problems everywhere.”
The late summer sun sets over mountains and icebergs around Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula, as twenty-four hour daylight gives way to the long polar night of winter. Image Credits: Hamish Pritchard, BAS.
Researchers depict two scenarios: one in which tight regulations have been implemented, and one in which they haven’t. According to their analysis, by 2070, the Antarctic will look drastically different depending on what scenario takes place. Under the high emissions and low regulations narrative, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean undergo widespread and rapid change with global consequences:
By 2070, warming of the ocean and atmosphere will cause dramatic loss of major ice shelves, leading to increased loss of grounded ice from the Antarctic Ice Sheet and causing a global acceleration in sea level rise.
As the planet continues to warm up, sea ice retreats more and more, and ocean acidification is taking a huge toll on marine environments.
An unexpected problem emerges as unrestricted growth in the human use of Antarctica has degraded the environment and introduced invasive pests.
Under the low emissions and tight regulations narrative, Antarctica 2070 looks just like in the early 2000s.
Antarctica’s ice shelves have remained intact, slowing the loss of ice from the ice sheet and reducing the threat of sea level rise.
Ocean acidification has not worsened and Antarctic ecosystems have remained intact.
Human pressures on the Antarctic are managed by an increasingly collaborative and effective governance regime.
Professor Siegert said:
“If the political landscape of a future Antarctica is more concerned with rivalry, and how each country can get the most out of the continent and its oceans, then all protections could be overturned.”
“However, if we recognise the importance of Antarctica in the global environment, then there is the potential for international co-operation that uses evidence to enact changes that avoid ‘tipping points’ – boundaries that once crossed, would cause runaway change, such as the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.”
The assessment, led by Professor Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds and Dr. Erik Ivins at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The importance of space agencies in assessing these environmental scenarios remains of crucial importance.
At the end of the day, it’s up to us as a society to decide which of the two scenarios we will experience.
The study “Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017” has been published in Nature.
Trio of baby planets is found around a newborn star 330 light years away using a breakthrough technique that could help find some of the youngest worlds in our galaxy
Trio of baby planets is found around a newborn star 330 light years away using a breakthrough technique that could help find some of the youngest worlds in our galaxy
The young star, known as HD 163296, is located 330 light-years from Earth
Teams of astronomers confirmed hallmarks of planets orbiting the infant star
Rings mark spaces where planets are thought to have formed from dust
The finding gives an exciting new insight into the birth of planets
A trio of 'baby planets' have been found orbiting a newborn star in a discovery that is 'at the frontier of science'.
Astronomers found the planets by looking at patterns of gas around the star.
Known as HD 163296, the star is located 330 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
The technique astronomers used to study these worlds could be used to find other newborn planets.
Researchers say they can also use it to see how clouds of gas and dust can form solar systems like our own.
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Astronomers have discovered a trio of infant plants around a newborn star which is just four million years old. Pictured is an artist's impression of protoplanets forming around a young star
In the past several years the Atacama Large Millimetre Array(ALMA) in Chile has transformed our understanding of the gas and dust-filled planets that encircle young stars.
An international team of researchers analysed data from various ALMA observations of the young star HD 163296.
Although researchers have not seen the planets surrounding the new star, they have found telltale signs they exist.
They did this by looking at the proplanetary disk - a rotating mass of dense gas and dust that surrounds a newly-formed star.
'We looked at the localised, small-scale motion of gas in a star's protoplanetary disk', said Richard Teague, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and principal author on one of the papers.
'This entirely new approach could uncover some of the youngest planets in our galaxy, all thanks to the high-resolution images coming from ALMA,' said Richard Teague, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and principal author on one of the papers.
They looked at the distribution and motion of carbon monoxide (CO) throughout the disk instead of focusing on the dust.
Molecules of CO naturally emit a very distinctive millimetre-wavelength light that ALMA can observe.
Subtle changes in the wavelength of this light provided a glimpse into the kinematics – or motion – of the gas in the disk.
If there were no planets, gas would move around a star in a very simple, predictable pattern known as Keplerian rotation.
Shifting wavelengths of the CO emission would indicate there was a massive object there.
Pictured is an ALMA image of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 163296 as seen in dust. Subtle changes in the wavelength of this light provided a glimpse into the kinematics – or motion – of the gas in the disk
WHAT IS ALMA?
Deep in the Chilean desert, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, or ALMA, is located in one of the driest places on Earth.
At an altitude of 16,400ft, roughly half the cruising height of a jumbo jet and almost four times the height of Ben Nevis, workers had to carry oxygen tanks to complete its construction.
Switched on in March 2013, it is the world's most powerful ground based telescope.
It is also the highest on the planet and, at almost £1 billion ($1.2 billion), one of the most expensive of its kind.
Deep in the Chilean desert, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, or ALMA, is located in one of the driest places on Earth. Switched on in March 2013, it is the world's most powerful ground based telescope
'It would take a relatively massive object, like a planet, to create localised disturbances in this otherwise orderly motion,' said Christophe Pinte of Monash University in Australia and lead author on one of the two papers.
'Our new technique applies this principle to help us understand how planetary systems form.'
The team identified two distinctive planet-like patterns in the disk, one at approximately 80 astronomical units (AU) from the star and the other at 140 AU.
An astronomical unit is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, or about 93 million miles (150m km).
The other team identified the third at about 260 AU from the star. The astronomers calculate that all three planets are similar in mass to Jupiter.
'Though thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the last few decades, detecting protoplanets is at the frontier of science,' said Dr Pinte.
Pictured is a composite image of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 163296. Researchers say they want to find out more about the gas around these planets
HOW DO PLANETS FORM?
According to our current understanding, a star and its planets form out of a collapsing cloud of dust and gas within a larger cloud called a nebula.
As gravity pulls material in the collapsing cloud closer together, the centre of the cloud gets more and more compressed and, in turn, gets hotter.
This dense, hot core becomes the kernel of a new star.
Meanwhile, inherent motions within the collapsing cloud cause it to churn.
As the cloud gets exceedingly compressed, much of the cloud begins rotating in the same direction.
The rotating cloud eventually flattens into a disk that gets thinner as it spins, kind of like a spinning clump of dough flattening into the shape of a pizza.
These 'circumstellar' or 'protoplanetary' disks, as astronomers call them, are the birthplaces of planets.
'These studies will also help us to understand how planets like those in our solar system were born,' said coauthor Francois Menard from Grenoble University in France.
Researchers say they want to find out more about the gas around these planets.
'Although dust plays an important role in planet formation and provides invaluable information, gas accounts for 99 percent of a protoplanetary disks' mass,' said coauthor Jaehan Bae of the Carnegie Institute for Science.
'It is therefore crucial to study kinematics of the gas.'
The rings mark spaces where planets are thought to have formed from dust and gas around the star. Pictured here is an artist's impression of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 163296
ALMA's high resolution enabled the researchers to measure carbon monoxide's velocity patterns throughout the disk.
'The precision is mind boggling,' said coauthor Til Birnstiel of the University Observatory of Munich.
In a system where gas rotates at about five kilometres per second, ALMA detected velocity changes as small as a few meters per second.
'This allows us to find very small deviations from the expected normal rotation in a disk,' Dr Teague said.
'Planets change the density of the gas near their orbits, which changes the gas's pressure, inducing these corresponding changes in velocity.'
'We are now bringing ALMA front and center into the realm of planet detection,' said coauthor Ted Bergin of the University of Michigan.
ESO Astronomy (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/C. Pinte et al.)Rondom de de jonge ster HD 163296 (links) cirkelen drie planeten-in-wording. Ze worden beschouwd als de jongste planeten in onze melkweg.
WETENSCHAP Twee teams van astronomen die met de radiotelescoop ALMA werken, hebben onafhankelijk van elkaar overtuigend bewijs gevonden dat er om de jonge ster HD 163296 drie planeten-in-wording cirkelen. Dat heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO meegedeeld. De drie hemellichamen gelden als de eerste exoplaneten die met de ambitieuze Europese inferometer in Chili zijn ontdekt.
Dankzij een nieuwe planeetopsporingstechniek, waarmee ongewone patronen in de gasstroom binnen de protoplanetaire schijf van stof en gas rond een jonge ster te vinden zijn, hebben twee teams van astronomen nu de onmiskenbare kenmerken van pas gevormde planeten vastgelegd. De teams analyseerden waarnemingen van HD 163296, een jonge ster in het sterrenbeeld Boogschutter, op ongeveer 330 lichtjaar van ons. Deze ster heeft ongeveer twee keer zoveel massa als de Zon, maar is slechts vier miljoen jaar oud - minder dan een duizendste van de leeftijd van onze ster. “We hebben gekeken naar lokale, kleinschalige bewegingen van het gas in de protoplanetaire schijf van de ster. Met deze geheel nieuwe aanpak zouden we enkele van de jongste planeten in ons Melkwegstelsel kunnen ontdekken, allemaal dankzij de hoge-resolutiebeelden van ALMA”, zegt Richard Teague van de Universiteit van Michigan.
ESO Astronomy, ALMA Observatory (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); Pinte et al.CO-moleculen zenden zeer karakteristieke straling uit die ALMA heel gedetailleerd kan waarnemen. Met de nieuwe techniek kan men de jongste planeten in ons Melkwegstelsel ontdekken.
In plaats van zich te concentreren op het stof in de schijf, dat duidelijk is vastgelegd bij eerdere ALMA-waarnemingen, onderzochten de astronomen de verdeling van koolstofmonoxide (CO) in de schijf. CO-moleculen zenden zeer karakteristieke millimeterstraling uit die ALMA heel gedetailleerd kan waarnemen. Subtiele veranderingen in de golflengte van deze straling, die het gevolg zijn van het Dopplereffect, verraden bewegingen van gas in de schijf. Het team onder leiding van Teague vond twee planeten op ongeveer 12 miljard en 21 miljard kilometer van de ster. De derde planeet, op ongeveer 39 miljard kilometer van de ster, werd opgespoord door een team rond Christophe Pinte van de Monash University in Australië en het Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble.
ESO Astronomy/Digitized Sky Survey 2De jonge ster HD 163296 en haar omgeving.
In beide gevallen loerden de onderzoekers in gebieden waar de stroming van het gas afweek van de omgeving - ongeveer zoals bij draaikolken rond een steen in een rivier. Door deze beweging nauwkeurig te analyseren, konden de wetenschappers duidelijk de invloed van planeetachtige objecten zien die qua massa op Jupiter lijken. Beide teams zullen de methode verder verfijnen en ze toepassen op andere protoplanetaire schijven. Daarbij hopen de wetenschappers meer te weten te komen over de manier waarop atmosferen ontstaan en over de soorten elementen en moleculen die een planeet bij zijn geboorte meekrijgt. Door de nieuwe techniek kan ALMA voorop gaan lopen in de jacht op planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel, exoplaneten.
ESO Astronomy, ALMA ObservatoryEen van de planeten-in-wording.
“You will be part of the five proud branches of the United States Armed Forces… Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and the Coast Guard.” These were the words of U.S. President Donald Trump back in May, during a ceremony at the Whitehouse honoring the Army Black Knights college football team. Up to this point, his comments were fairly pedestrian… but of course, that’s just about when things took a turn for the stars.
“We’re actually thinking of a sixth [branch]” Trump continued, “and that would be the Space Force. Does that make sense?”
Well, for the most part. Wait, was he serious?
“This is perhaps because we’re getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons, and we are seriously thinking of the Space Force.”
The question remains as to who the “we” he was referring to might have been… although in truth, rumors are already floating around on the web suggesting that Trump actually got his “Space Force” off the ground after all… and one of its clandestine vessels might be parked on the moon.
At least that was the view being expressed by those commenting on one Scottish man’s popular YouTube channel, where he shows footage that he believes to be proof of a mysterious “triangular” object on the lunar surface.
The National recently reported that “A Scottish UFO researcher’s video of a mysterious triangle on the surface of the moon has gone viral on the internet.
“Uploaded to his Streetcap1 channel on YouTube, George Graham’s video had attracted well over 12,000 views by last night, just a few hours after it was first shown.”
Taking a look at the the YouTuber’s channel, with all due respect, it appears to be more of the usual humdrum: people talking about mysterious shapes and odd rock formations on the lunar surface, and whether some of them could be UFO craft and the like. To some, they look like rocks scattered about on the moon… to others, they could be evidence of alien life.
As for a “Triangle TR-3B” parked on the moon, and whether or not it’s part of Trump’s so-called “Space Force,” well… let’s just say we aren’t convinced. But perhaps the saddest part of all this is that over the years, there have been a number of serious scientists who have spent time (even while on the clock working for NASA) studying anomalies that appear on not just our moon, but on moons orbiting other planets in our solar system, such as the Martian moon Phobos.
Enhanced NASA image of Phobos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Among these was Lan Fleming, an imaging expert who processed scores of photos and footage collected by various NASA missions over the years (see here for his full educational background). Fleming was subcontracted to the Johnson Space Flight Center during the 1990s, and became known for taking an interest in the various unusual features that turned up occasionally on Earth’s moon and other orbital bodies throughout the solar system of which visual data obtained.
Sometime after the Mars Global Surveyor probe photographed the Martian moon Phobos in 1998, Fleming was contacted by a visual artist and writer named Efrain Palermo, who had been referred to Fleming by Dr. Mark Carlotto, an imaging expert who had previously lent his expertise to study of the Cydonia region on Mars. Palermo had discovered an unusual feature on Phobos, which appeared to be a large structure or other feature that cast an unusually long shadow. Fleming had noticed it too while reviewing various footage from the Mars Global Surveyor; however, he had initially interpreted the long shadow was merely due to a low sun angle relative to the position of Phobos in its orbit around Mars.
The famous (corrected) image of Phobos’ monolith.
Further communication between the two led to the discoverythat some of the features on the surface of Phobos had been distorted in the images Palermo and Fleming had been analyzing, which gave the appearance of unusually long shadows. Nonetheless, after corrections were made (and these “orthorectified” images were compared with the unaltered originals from NASA), it became evident that the shadow of Palermo’s mysterious “monolith” was indeed very long.
Fleming noted the following of the strange object:
There seems to be no good reason to put the word “monolith” in quotes to describe this object. Efrain’s interpretation is absolutely correct. At the very least, this object is a monolithic block of stone, although it’s high reflectivity may indicate that it is composed of something else. But how likely is it that it’s artificial? That depends in part on how tall the object is relative to the width of its base. A block of stone several times longer than its height created from the impact of some large meteoroid would be unlikely to land on its narrow end and remain upright.
Palermo even produced images of what he estimated the rough shape and size of the object to be (which can be seen here). Fleming concluded that “Unfortunately, the Mars Global Surveyor, now in a low mapping orbit around Mars, will never have another close encounter with Phobos. That will have to remain the task of some future spacecraft.” He added (somewhat cryptically), “Given NASA’s history of avoiding any intentional examination of anomalous objects, it will probably have to happen by accident. But Phobos is a very small world, so if other spacecraft have close encounters with Phobos in the future, there is a fair chance we eventually will see this monolith again.”
The Phobos “monolith” (yes, we’re still using the quotation marks, despite Fleming’s reasonable objection to it) is but one of many genuine anomalies in our solar system that should warrant further attention. It is our contention, at very least, that such “Phobian” mysteries, as well as other notable oddities on our own moon (click here to see my article on one of these), should certainly warrant more consideration than the usual tripe that appears in tabloids these days.
When science can be applied to such mysteries, only then should they be deemed “anomalies; anything else is purely pareidolia, and is tantamount to lazy afternoon cloud-gazing.
I have been sitting on this since yesterday morning…. My night camera picked up what clearly looks like a very large missile launch from Whidbey Island. I really wanted more information before I shared this with the public. KOMO, KING and KIRO all contacted Whidbey NAS and the Department of Defense. They all said it didn’t come from them…. They said they don’t have the facility to launch large missiles. I ran this image by Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society and he said it was definitely not a meteor. It looked like a missile launch to him as well. I shared this with Cliff Mass yesterday and he did a blog on it this morning. It will be interesting if anybody from Whidbey heard or saw this event. Be sure to click on the images for full size.
Mystery object spotted over Washington state island, military denies missile launch
Mystery object spotted over Washington state island, military denies missile launch
A mysterious object was seen off the coast of a Washington state island last weekend. The military denies it was a missile launch.
(Skunk Bay Weather )
A weather camera on an island in Washington state on Sunday captured a mystery object that appears to some to be a missile in ascent, Q13Fox.com reported.
The object was spotted at 3:56 a.m. over Whidbey Island, where there is a naval air station. But a spokesman from NAS Whidbey Island said there are no missile capabilities at the base.
"There's a lot of speculation around here,” Tom Mills, the spokesman, said. "But it's definitely not a missile launch."
A professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington speculated that the object looks like a missile.
“I’ve seen a lot of stuff,” Cliff Mass, the professor, said. “But nothing like this.”
There was reportedly an air ambulance helicopter in the vicinity of the northern Kitsap Peninsula that was flying at the same time the shot was taken.
Now I found this anomaly today that seems to have eyes in one of the photos. It was caught in two photos. I have seen over 100 photos of this rock in the past two weeks (rover sat here for a while), and never have I seen this anomaly in one of the photos before. Also note, the photos were taken a few hours ago, not weeks or months ago!
It looks like an animal caught running past the cam. It must have been very light footed or the dirt was very hard, because I don't see a trail before or after it. It could be a species similar to the lizard here on Earth that berries itself in the sand and disappears. There is one full hour between the photo of no anomaly and the anomaly.
This is more evidence that life exists on Mars and NASA wants to hide it from the world. They don't have the mission to explore and share with the public. Alien life is a national security issue and therefore will never be shared with the public.
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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 thatthe 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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Supersonische tic tac stalkte vliegdekschip dagenlang en verdween daarna plotseling. Was het niet van deze wereld?
Supersonische tic tac stalkte vliegdekschip dagenlang en verdween daarna plotseling. Was het niet van deze wereld?
Uit een gelekt Pentagon-rapport is gebleken dat een Amerikaans vliegdekschip dagenlang werd gestalkt door een UFO die volgens getuigen leek op een ‘supersonische tic tac’. Fox News-presentator Tucker Carlson sprak over het rapport met Nick Pope, die jarenlang voor het Britse ministerie van Defensie onderzoek deed naar UFO’s.
Het object kon naar verluidt in de lucht blijven hangen en zichzelf camoufleren, tot verbazing van de piloten die het observeerden.
Carlson vroeg Pope waarom dit soort informatie niet door de overheid wordt gedeeld met het volk. De journalist antwoordde dat zij niet in verlegenheid wil worden gebracht over iets in het luchtruim wat zich sneller voortbeweegt dan onze eigen toestellen.
Onzichtbaar
Dat was precies de conclusie in het Pentagon-document, namelijk dat het object rondjes draaide om de F18 Super Hornets die het probeerden te achtervolgen.
“Het werd korte tijd gevolgd op de radar, maar toen was het alsof het zichzelf camoufleerde en onzichtbaar werd,” aldus Pope.
“Je zou zeggen dat dit sciencefiction was, ware het niet dat het in Pentagon-stukken staat geschreven,” vervolgde hij.
Niet van deze wereld
We weten nu dat de overheid dit erg serieus neemt en dat deze objecten in onze lucht worden gezien, benadrukte hij.
We weten ook dat geen enkel ander land beschikt over de technologie om zulke vaartuigen te maken.
“Dus eigenlijk hebben de Amerikaanse en Britse overheid geconcludeerd dat iets wat niet van deze wereld is en niet door mensen is gemaakt, wordt gevolgd op de radar en waargenomen door vliegtuigexperts?” vroeg Carlson. “Dit is echt!?”
Buitenaards
“Dit is echt,” reageerde Pope.
De overheid zegt niet dat deze objecten buitenaards zijn, maar sluit het ook niet uit, lichtte hij toe.
The world of Hollywood has always been quick to (a) pick up on what’s going on in the real world of unsolved mysteries of the conspiratorial and supernatural kind and (b) make use of those same mysteries in hit TV shows and mega-bucks movies. Take, for example, the 1994 movie, Roswell, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen. It’s a production that did a pretty good job of fictionalizing the world’s most famous UFO case. Then, there’s 1997’s Men in Black, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, a movie that brought the dark-suited silencers of Ufology to a new, huge audience. And, of course, there’s The X-Files, which weaved far more than a few well-known enigmas into its plot-lines, including the Jersey Devil, lake monsters, and the world’s most famous, secret base, Area 51.
There is, however, one particularly sinister and enduring mystery that, for the most part, falls under Hollywood’s radar. Yes, it occasionally gets touched upon. Sometimes, it will get more than a few minutes of coverage. But, chiefly, it never gets the airtime that many might say it well deserves. You may be wondering what I’m talking about. Well, I’ll tell you: it’s the mysterious matter of cattle mutilations.
There’s a truly awful 1980 movie on the subject titled The Return. Indeed, it’s not even worth commenting on. So I won’t! There is, however, one film which is definitely worth commenting on. Its title: Endangered Species. It’s a well-researched movie that stars the late Robert Urich (of Vegasfame), who finds himself plunged into the heart of a menacing and disturbing conspiracy in the Centennial State, Colorado.
Directed and co-written by Alan Rudolph, Endangered Speciesfocuses on one Ruben Castle (Urich). He’s a Big Apple-based police-officer. He has a major drink problem. And, his relationship with his daughter, Mackenzie (Marin Kanter) is rocky, to say the least. So, something has to give. And it does. Castle decides that the best thing he can do is to get out of New York for a while, quit the bottle for good, and try and mend fences with his daughter. It doesn’t quite work out like that, however.
After arriving in a small Colorado town, specifically one where an old friend in the world of newspapers, Joe Hiatt (played by Paul Dooley) lives and works, both Castle and his daughter cause problems for the local police. And particularly so for the local sheriff, Harriet Purdue – played by actress JoBeth Williams. Indeed, Castle is not a particularly endearing character: he’s a drunk with a hair-trigger temper, and, while in Colorado, he fails to stay on the wagon. But, it’s to the credit of the production team that they chose to make their star a flawed figure, rather than playing things safe and going with the typical Hollywood “hero.” And Urich does a very good job of giving substance to the role of Castle. All of which brings us to the plot: something downright deadly is afoot.
In no time at all, Castle learns that something very strange is going on in town and in the surrounding fields of local farmers. Cattle have been found killed under very strange circumstances. Organs are removed with what appears to be expert precision. Incisions seem to have been achieved by nothing less than lasers. Everyone in town is on edge. Ranchers are angry and outraged. That’s hardly surprising, given that there is talk of UFOs skulking around in the dead of night. There are whispers, too, of satanic cults roaming the area, sacrificing the cows in devilish rituals. And, the audience is given tantalizing glimpses of strange lights in the sky. What’s going on? That’s the question that Castle finds himself pursuing, more by accident than by design.
As Endangered Species progresses we see Castle and Sheriff Purdue hook up in more ways than one. And we see that what begins as a tale filled with accounts of aliens and devil-worshipers, soon becomes something very different. In many ways, it’s something even more deadly and dangerous than beef-loving ETs or devotees of Satan. Particularly deadly and dangerous are Hoyt Axton and Peter Coyote. Or, rather, they should be dangerous.
Axton plays Ben Morgan, a powerful figure in town. He appears to know far more than he’s willing to admit. Whereas, Coyote’s character is someone known only as Steele, a man who definitely knows more than he’s saying. It’s unfortunate, however, that both characters come across like stereotypical, over-the-top, we’ve-seen-it-all-before arch-villains. Indeed, Steele would have been perfectly at home in one of those old, 1920s-era silent movies, in which the black-cloaked villain ties a beautiful blond to the railroad tracks and eagerly rubs his hands (and twiddles his mustache) as a fast-approaching train threatens to end her life.
That quibble aside, however, Endangered Species is not a bad movie at all. As the story continues, we see far less talk about aliens and UFOs, and far more about black and near-silent helicopters, secret biological- and germ-warfare programs, and paramilitary-style operations of a very dark kind. We also see Joe Hiatt killed for poking his nose where it wasn’t wanted. Ben Morgan comes to a grisly end, too. All of which leads us to a solid, suspense-filled conclusion and an answer to the mystery.
In case this article prompts you to delve into Endangered Species for yourself, I won’t spoil things by revealing the outcome, and who – or what – is really mutilating cattle in Colorado and elsewhere. And why. I will, however, say that this is a well-made, largely engrossing, movie. For me, at least, it echoes in many ways the likes of certain classic 1970s-era movies, such as The Parallax View, Capricorn One, and All the President’s Men, in terms of the on-screen paranoia, suspicion of government, and mystery that those movies so skillfully generated. Endangered Species does very much the same. It’s not the greatest movie ever made. But, it is a largely well-acted, and well-made, production. It’s a very thought-provoking film, too, given what we know (or don’t know) about cattle mutilations in the real world.
What are they hiding? UK Government is withholding three UFO files, former Ministry of Defence employee claims
What are they hiding? UK Government is withholding three UFO files, former Ministry of Defence employee claims
In 2008, the Government started to release its UFO files to the public, but 10 years later, three files still haven’t been made public, according to Nick Pope
While UFOs are often seen as objects that belong in the imagination of conspiracy theorists, the British Government has taken them very seriously for years.
In 2008, the Government started to release its UFO files to the public in the hopes of being as transparent as possible.
But while the release process was expected to take three years at most, three files still haven’t been made public, according to Nick Pope, a former employee at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Mr Pope said: “Having worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project and having written many of the documents that have already been released, I'm extremely disappointed that ten years after the release of the first files, the project is still incomplete.”
Nick Pope
Why the Government is withholding the files remains unclear, but Mr Pope explained that the files have been sent backwards and forwards between the MoD and The National Archives at least twice, adding to people's suspicions.
Mr Pope said: “A lot of people think the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and this unfortunate situation is only adding fuel to the fire with regard to these conspiracy theories.”
Mr Pope added that while he and his colleagues took the issue of UFOs seriously, they were often forced to ‘spin’ the subject for the media, ‘disingenuously stating that the subject was of "no defence significance"'.
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.
Since the 1970s, scientists have treated pulsars and magnetars as 2 distinct populations of objects. Now they think they might be stages in a single object’s evolution. A new NASA ScienceCast has more.
A neutron star is a formerly large star that has run out of fuel and exploded as a supernova. As gravity forces the star to collapse to the size of a small city, the star becomes so dense that a single teaspoon of the collapsed star would have as much mass as a mountain. The star’s core, now a neutron star, can be rotating as fast as 10 times a second or more. Over time the rotation of the core can start speeding up by pulling matter from its surroundings, rotating over 700 times a second!
Some neutron stars, called radio pulsars, have strong magnetic fields and emit radio waves in predictable, reliable pulses. Other neutron stars have even stronger magnetic fields, displaying violent, high-energy outbursts of X-ray and gamma ray light. These are called magnetars, and their magnetic fields are the strongest known in the universe, a trillion time stronger than that of our sun.
Since the 1970s, scientists have treated pulsars and magnetars as two distinct populations of objects. But, in the last decade, evidence has emerged that shows they might sometimes be stages in the evolution of a single object. Neutron stars and magnetars might just be two sides of the same coin – first it’s a radio pulsar and later becomes a magnetar. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
Some scientists argue that objects like magnetars gradually stop emitting X-rays and gamma rays over time. Others propose the opposite theory: that the radio pulsar comes first and then, over time, a magnetic field emerges from the neutron star causing those magnetar-like outbursts to start.
No one knows for sure which scenario is correct, but this is an active area of study among astronomers. The NASA video above – released on May 30, 2018 – has more.
The Truth About Who is Making All the Crop Circles in the UK and How They Do It
The Truth About Who is Making All the Crop Circles in the UK and How They Do It
Summer is a very exciting time for those interested in Crop Circles. A lot of mystery and controversy has surrounded the phenomena...Until now. Kryon explains how Crop Circles are made in detail and reveals exactly who is responsible for creating them. The answer will surprise you. Kryon also discusses why so many of these formations are found in the UK more often than other parts of the planet.
Mysterieuze microgolfstraling in de Melkweg wordt veroorzaakt door...nano-diamanten
Mysterieuze microgolfstraling in de Melkweg wordt veroorzaakt door...nano-diamanten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De piepkleine edelstenen zweven rond jonge sterren.
Al enkele decennia nemen onderzoekers in onze Melkweg een vrij mysterieuze microgolfstraling waar die ook wel wordt aangeduid als AME. Dat staat voor Anomalous Microwave Emission. De microgolfstraling is vrij mysterieus, omdat onderzoekers lang maar niet konden ontdekken hoe deze straling precies ontstond. “We wisten dat een bepaald type deeltje verantwoordelijk was voor de microgolfstraling, maar de exacte bron is een raadsel sinds de AME bijna 20 jaar geleden voor het eerst gedetecteerd werd,” stelt onderzoeker Jane Greaves.
Nano-diamanten Een nieuwe studie lost het hele raadsel echter op. In het blad Nature Astronomy tonen onderzoekers aan dat de microgolfstraling zeer waarschijnlijk afkomstig is van heel kleine koolstofkristallen – oftewel nano-diamanten – die zich in het stof en gas rond piepjonge sterren bevinden. “Met behulp van een Sherlock Holmes-achtige aanpak waarbij we alle andere oorzaken hebben uitgesloten, kunnen we nu met vrij veel zekerheid zeggen dat de aanwezigheid van nano-diamanten rond pasgevormde sterren de beste en waarschijnlijk de enige manier is om deze microgolfstraling te produceren,” aldus Greaves.
Protoplanetaire schijven Greaves en collega’s trekken die conclusie nadat ze met behulp van twee telescopen inzoomden op drie duidelijke bronnen van AME: de protoplanetaire schijven rond de jonge sterren V892 Tau, HD97048 en MWC 297. “Dit is de eerste duidelijke detectie van Anomalous Microwave Emission afkomstig van protoplanetaire schijven,” stelt onderzoeker David Frayer. Een analyse van het infrarode licht afkomstig van deze protoplanetaire schijven wijst erop dat de waargenomen microgolfstraling ontstaat door snel roterende nano-diamanten met waterstof bevattende moleculen op hun oppervlak.
Paks Lang werd gedacht dat de AME ontstond door paks: polycyclische aromatische koolwaterstoffen. Maar de onderzoekers vegen die hypothese vrij resoluut van tafel. In hun studie keken ze namelijk ook naar protoplanetaire schijven die deze paks duidelijk herbergen. Maar deze protoplanetaire schijven produceerden niet de microgolfstraling waar ze naar op zoek waren. Een duidelijk signaal dat paks deze straling niet veroorzaken.
De nano-diamanten waarover de onderzoekers spreken, zijn honderdduizenden keren kleiner dan een zandkorrel en kunnen heel gemakkelijk ontstaan in de extreem hete protoplanetaire schijven. Volgens de onderzoekers zou zo’n 1 tot 2 procent van het aanwezige koolstof in de protoplanetaire schijven omgetoverd worden tot nano-diamanten.
In special reports, Brian O´Leary PhD Apollo Astronaut There Is Life Out There, Secrets of the Saucer Scientists, Life on Mars, 1976 Life Found on Mars, Tubes or Canals on Mars, Possible Reconnaissance of Earth by Asteroid? and Increasing Military Importance of Space.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The 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.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
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.
Brian O´Leary PhD Apollo Astronaut There Is Life Out There
Brian O´Leary PhD former Apollo Astronaut states, “The technological implication of UFOs is one reason for the secrecy that surrounds them. The way they can stop on point and move any direction they choose brings up a big question; what type of propulsion systems and operating characteristics are involved? If we know UFOs are real, one of the questions to ask is how they operate and how they get to where they need to be.
Given all of the official documentation and credible witness testimonies, we are able to question further and make reasonable connections. With the amount of effort and time spent to cover up the reality of UFOs, it is logical to assume that the ones responsible for the cover up have the same questions that we do. How do they operate? Maybe more exists beyond the secrecy, maybe some questions have been answered and seized by those who control the money supply. Anti-Gravity, clean energy, the list goes on and on. Even without UFOs, human beings have the scientific and technological capability to change our planet. It’s time to start asking more questions, if we have alternative and more efficient ways of operating on planet Earth that could benefit everybody, why are they not being implemented and who is responsible?”Former Apollo Astronaut Leaks Info on Mars NASA Leaking
William F. Hamilton III writes, “In all probability the first saucer scientists were rocket scientists. Without a doubt one of these great men was the pioneering rocket scientist, Professor Hermann Oberth was a writer, scientist, and visionary from Austria-Hungary whose paper.”The Rocket into Interplanetary Spacewas published in 1923 and served as an inspiration to the rocket designers that followed. Influenced by Verne’s books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14. In his youthful experiments, he arrived independently at the concept of the multistage rocket. By 1917, he showed how far his studies had reached by firing a rocket with liquid propellant in a demonstration to Hermann von Stein, the Prussian Minister of War.
Werner von Braun read Oberth’s work in 1925, and joined him in rocket experiments in 1930. Oberth is considered the Father of Rocketry.
In letters to Major Donald Keyhoe, Oberth mentions his belief that saucers are spaceships manned by superior beings. He says that the marvelous aerodynamics of the saucers is accomplished by generating an artificial gravity field. This is the famous G-field theory. The saucers create their own gravitational fields which enables them to hover motionless above the earth, accelerate at tremendous speeds, or execute violent turns that would cause ordinary aircraft to disintegrate. Even with swift changes of speed and direction, the passengers would feel no effect. It would also explain the silence of UFOs in flight as the artificial G-field would drag the surrounding air along with it. And, because the air is not flowing pass the hull, it would eliminate heating caused by friction.
Statements have been made that saucer behavior defies the laws of physics. It seemed impossible that a manned craft could execute such tremendous accelerations from a hovering position to a high-speed linear velocity or in high-speed acute-angled turns. Inertial forces caused by such accelerations would tear apart an aircraft frame. And, often, the picture came to mind of a human pilot ending up flat as a pancake against the cabin wall. Gerald Heard, in his book, “Is Another World Watching?” hypothesized that the saucers were being flown by insects because only insects could survive those wrenching turns. All of these concerns evaporate when one considers the physics of G-field propulsion. Our science appears to have missing explanations for the advanced technology.
In a revealing document published in Status Report VII by the late pioneering researcher Leonard Stringfield, a preliminary report refers to a recovered flying disc. The report does not specifically mention Roswell, but states that the data in the report was provided by the engineering staff of T-2 at the Air Material Command at Wright Field. One of the scientists examining the evidence is Dr. Theodore von Karmen, founder of Aerojet, and then head of the Army Air Forces Scientific Advisory Group. Dr. von Karmen was a leading authority on aerodynamics and had authored papers, both in English and German on the subject. Another renowned scientist mentioned in the report is Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Manhattan Project and a leading physicist of his day.
In the opinion of these two famous scientists the interior of the craft contained a compartment with an atomic engine. The device was a donut-shaped tube approximately thirty-five feet in diameter, made of what appeared to be plastic material around a central core. A large rod centered inside the tube was wrapped in a coil and the investigators believed it to be the source of electrical potential which ionized the surrounding air around the craft. www.Amazon.com/books diagram.
PAPERCLIP
After World War II key German scientists were brought to the United States in a project called PAPERCLIP. According to the Cantwheel documents it seems that the Germans (Von Braun’s group) were in a position to identify whatever they found whether they were a V weapon or advanced disc craft. About 100 of them were assigned to PAPERCLIP projects at Fort Bliss, White Sands during this period. Ordway stated that they were issued special War Department ID cards that specifically stated that they were not to be held or questioned by authorities and had permission to leave the Fort Bliss test range sometime in early July 1947 for unspecified reasons.
It has been my belief for a long time that the Germans were brought into the classified UFO Program since they had a 25-year head start in advanced disc aircraft and rocket research. General Donald Putt was responsible for their employment at Wright Field (Putt is mentioned in Top Secret Project SIGN files as head of Air Force R&D in 1947-48 and was a student of Theodore von Karman).
The CIA’s PAPERCLIP files contained biographies of Germany’s top scientists (some were declassified for me in 1994) for possible recruitment in the U.S. PAPERCLIP was a illegal project to prevent Von Braun and approximately 200 other Germans from standing trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. Army and Air Force CIC deleted any information of their Nazi affiliation and SS positions (Von Braun was a SS Major) and the CIA misled the White House about their pasts. The U.S. considered their knowledge as vital to National Security and defense for the Russians had captured and recruited some of Von Braun’s people to work on their missile and jet aircraft development projects. The Germans were also instrumental in creating the Russian’s atomic bomb program and ICBM projects. The Germans essentially ran NASA and missile research for the US for at least 20 years.
As far as I know from reading Linda Hunt’s book on the German’s PAPERCLIP was a going concern as late as 1990.
Life on Mars
Curiosty Rover and Jen Eigenbrode,
On June 7, 2018, NASA announced Mars the Red Planet could have building blocks of life, Curiosity rover has revealed the latest results from its Curiosity rover gathering samples from the surface of Mars. NASA the US space agency announced Mars has the building blocks of life, in a discovery that could suggest the planet was once inhabited – or even still is today. During a press conference at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Goddard, Md., and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists noted that the molecules provide fresh insight into Mars. “We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lake bed,” explained Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard. A variety of molecules were identified in rocks billions years old, she added.
While NASA was at pains to explain that it has not discovered life on Mars, the organic molecules could provide vital clues. “Organic compounds are fundamental to our search for life,” said Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard.
Described as the most technologically advanced rover ever built, Curiosity launched on Nov. 6 2011. The rover landed on Mars’ Gale Crate on Aug. 6 2012 with the goal of determining whether Mars was ever able to support microbial life. Thanks to NASA
1976 Life Found on Mars
Similar Landers reached Mars in 1976, with Labeled Release (LR) experiments developed for NASA’s Viking Landers 1 & 2, by Dr. Gilbert Levin who states, “The scientific process forces me to my conclusion, the Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil on Mars”.
Mold or lichen on Mars Rock 1976 Green added
1976 Mars Viking Lander’s Labeled release microbial life signs detectors … the two devices which BOTH gave positive signs for Martian Life, back in 1976.
The LR test was one of three performed by the lander. JPL used the results of another test, the gas chroma/to/graph which was designed to test for the presence of organic chemicals. The LR test was designed to look for life.NASA has claimed these experiments approved by them were in error when they actually found life.
All of the multiple rationales attempting to explain the Mars LR results as chemical or physical in origin have now been effectively refuted, but their impact remains. A tried and true scientific axiom says: once a method to probe the unknown demonstrates utility, the exploratory tool should be refined to investigate the causes of the phenomenon discovered Mars exploration might greatly benefit by elaborating on the demonstrated LR technique.
I spoke with Dr. Levin he is convinced life exists on Mars and his experiments and Mars Photographs of Moss or lichen of many of the rocks are proof. The color film coming back from Mars showed blue skies and only some red soil and grey rocks. The red color was increased to delete the blue sky and mold on rocks.
Argument is made that each of the vital links in the chain of life connecting Earth and Mars has a probability of one. Today’s knowledge makes it very difficult to conceive of a sterile Mars. Indeed, it now seems that Earth and Mars form one biosphere. This sheds new light on the results of the Viking LR experiment on Mars. Together with growing acceptance[32] of the fact that no chemical or physical experiment or theory has satisfactorily explained the extensive and consistent LR data, significant support is found for the conclusion8 that it detected microbial life in the soil of Mars.
While the case for life on Mars has strengthened in recent years, many will require additional proof before accepting such a major change in paradigm. It has been proposed8,[33] that this important confirmation can be obtained by a simple modification of a miniaturized version of the original LR experiment[.
ALL LINKS IN THE VITAL CHAIN CONNECTING MARS AND EARTH ARE NOW ESTABLISHED
Microorganisms are widely distributed on Earth.
Meteorites impacting Earth eject soil and rocks into space.
Microorganisms in the ejecta can survive the shock and temperature of impact.
Microorganisms in ejecta can survive heating through Earth’s atmosphere.
Microbes can survive the temperature and vacuum of the space environment.
Microorganisms can survive the ionizing radiation of space.
Mars-infecting ejectus can approach Mars and be captured in its gravity well.
Microbes can survive the temperature of entering the Martian atmosphere.
Microbes can survive the shock and temperature of impact on Mars.
Terrestrial microorganisms can grow under Martian conditions.
Microorganisms are capable of adapting to or evolving to spread over wide regions of Mars.
Earth and Mars were hospitable over epochs that would have permitted infection of Mars by Earth microorganisms—and from other sources.
It is now more difficult to propose a sterile Mars than a live one.
Tubes or Canals on Mars
Face on Mars in Cydonia
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who in 1877 reported the appearance of certain long, thin lines he called canali, meaning channels in Italian. He was followed by Percival Lowell an American the wealthy astronomer who ‘discovered civilization’ on Mars. Lowell built his own observatory and studied in detail Mars and what he called canals. In his day, Lowell was far and away the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America. His widely read books included “Mars” (1895), “Mars and Its Canals” (1906), and “Mars As the Abode of Life” (1908).’
To pursue his misguided obsession, Lowell founded and funded one of the world’s great observatories on a 7,200-foot (2,195-meter) mountain peak he named Mars Hill, near Flagstaff, Arizona. There he scrutinized the heavens, and particularly Mars, with, his own custom-built 24-inch refracting telescope, built in 1894, which became a marvel of the age.
Lowell carried the matter much further. Captivated by these sketchily observed tubes or dark areas Lowell spent many years attempting to elucidate and theorize about them. The lines, he thought, must “run for thousands of miles as far actually as from Boston to San Francisco.” What Lowell was likely seeing were a series of tubes or tunnels perhaps under construction a hundred years ago.
Giant Mars Tubes that can hold Manhattan, NY
On Mars there are a series of tubes several miles wide that show up within several craters and natural low valleys. They are similar in size to Manhattan, New York and could actually contain skyscrapers as shown. According to the MSSS supplied statistics, the strip above is 2.98 km wide or 1.85 miles wide. Remember that the tubes extend from one side edge of the crater to the other and off the strip with no signs of diminishment in size.. These tubes within the craters are 8.92 km or 5.54 miles of tube length. However, we can also reasonably assume that there is still plenty of tube system unseen off the left or west edge of the E12-03186 strip and off the right or east edge of the E11-03408 strip that appear to go underground. Note that the dark area spread on the crater floor that is mostly the tube mass tends to confirm a much greater mass size beyond the limitations of the strip views and therefore probably substantial more tube length. So, we’re talking about a colossal tube system substantially longer than 5.5 miles and in fact many kilometers or miles longer than that. Much smaller tubes are found in valleys and places where the soil has been blown away.
Besides the giant tubes that have been found in the Mars crater photographs, there are much smaller “tubes” often referred as glass or Plexiglas tubes because they are translucent or even transparent. There are miles and miles of them … some mostly buried … a few completely exposed as in these photos. The diameter of the smaller tube is 20-50 meters (66 to 164 feet) in general. That’s about big enough to put two interstate highways through. Supposedly, they are exposed through the mechanism of geological weathering of the surface soil. It does not appear that these tunnels or tubes are geologic or natural construction. This leaves us with the awesome conclusion that they have another origin of which there are only two possibilities … they are organic … or … they are artificial.
I should point out NASA claims these tubes are actually sand dunes. While the European Space Agency feels many of the tubes are lava flows. Prevailing winds form sand dunes from one direction, while the tubes run in many directions making sand dunes unlikely.
We can speculate a Mars civilization may have decided to go underground due to being hit repeatedly by meteorites or radiation from space. The tubing appears somewhat transparent and likely allows some light to penetrate while stopping the radiation. Underground water appears to seep in on the sides of the craters and dams collect the water. There is oxygen, water, and the building blocks of life found on Mars indicating life likely exists. There’s no magnetic field on Mars so the ceaseless hazard of ionizing radiation could result in shortened lifespan for Martians, Using absorber materials such as Plexiglas for beta particles and lead for X-rays and gamma rays is an effective way to reduce radiation exposure
I have seen too much evidence of tampering on such a fine level and small scale to convince me that this could have been done only with much larger closer in views. That implies that the MOC cameras are capable of much higher resolutions than are being publicly reported and that someone is artificially pulling back to lesser resolution distances for our benefit to hide small evidence and to hide the tampering that now shrinks down to appear a more natural part of the terrain.
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Filer’s Files #23 -2018 Life on Mars - PART II
Filer’s Files #23 -2018 Life on Mars - PART II
Possible Reconnaissance of Earth by Asteroid?
Scientists were surprised to detect — for the first time — an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed. Asteroid 1I/2017 U1 was discovered October 19, 2017 by the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii. Additional observations brought more surprises: the object is cigar-shaped with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. Some scientist thought it had the shape and size of a spaceship cleverly disguised as an asteroid. From its trajectory and speed, scientists determined it came from outside our solar system. It was a special day when this object was first discovered. We had been waiting for the discovery of an interstellar object for decades basically. This object is simply a piece of another solar system that was expelled and it has been traveling through interstellar space for – hundreds of millions of years, billions of years? We don’t know. A number of our survey projects and other observatories immediately turned their telescopes to take observations of this object.
NASA basically missed seeing a huge asteroid that passed unnervingly close to Earth on 17 April 2018.
While the world was busy doing its thing on Saturday, a giant asteroid the size of a football field whizzed by our planet.
We only had a few hours of warning. NASA scientists noticed the massive asteroid at an observatory in Arizona just a few hours before it gave Earth a surprise flyby.
As shown asteroids will pass Earth several times this month. A small one crashed into Asteroid 2018 LA entered Earth’s atmosphere at about 9:44 a.m. PDT (12:44 p.m. EDT, 16:44 UTC), and June 3, 2018 later disintegrated in the upper atmosphere near Botswana, Africa last week.
Increasing Military Importance of Space
Photo: Sunrise by Arek Socha/Quimono
The increasing military importance of space permeated the 34th Space Symposium in April. Speakers from Vice President Michael R. Pence down through a range of military and Air Force officials underscoring the need to focus on space as a war fighting domain, as the Trump administration has declared it to be.
The emphasis on the national security space enterprise has been an increasing focus in Washington in recent months. It has been prominent in, for example, the administration’s December National Security Strategy and in continuing calls from some in Congress for establishment of a space force or space corps as a military service separate from the Air Force.
Pence’s remarks, pointed to Trump’s statements that “space is a war fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea” and calls for the Pentagon to strengthen the resilience of US space systems in the face of Russian and Chinese pursuit of anti-satellite capabilities.
It was Defense Department officials at the conference, who really hammered the point home.
General Raymond Photo: David Grim/USAF
Gen. John W. Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base and the Joint Force Space Component under US Strategic Command, pointedly predicted that future historians will look back on 2017 and 2018 as “one of the most critical times in our national security space history.”
It will be seen, he suggested, “as a strategic inflection point for national security space and a bold shift toward war fighting and space superiority.”
. Also high on the agenda was the recurring theme that the defense and security elements of the US government are increasingly focused on dealing with national security issues raised by the changing space environment. Gen. John Raymond, head of Air Force Space Command, speaks at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., in April.
General John E. Hyten, commander of US Strategic Command and former commander of Air Force Space Command, told reporters there was “no doubt in my mind we’re going to have to deploy defensive counter space systems because our adversaries are building offensive counter space systems.”“The nation’s going to have to make a decision on what we do in order to challenge somebody else’s space capabilities. I think we have to go down that path,” Hyten said.
He said understanding of the threat in space has grown in Washington policy circles in recent years. He praised the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee for defining in legislation—including the National Defense Authorization Act—what needs to be done in space.
“But the real benefit, the real strength of that law was the identification of the problem. That will allow us now to engage with the broader members of Congress to further educate them on what the threat is. And we’ve also shared a very detailed tabletop exercise with the members of the Senate and House Armed Services committees so they can see the full implication of all the things that we’re worried about,” he said.
He pointed to a number of steps already taken, including the administration’s 2019 budget request that includes almost $7 billion more for space, growing partnerships with the National Reconnaissance Office and with industry, establishment of a four-star Space Component Command in US Strategic Command, and the planned conversion of the Joint Space Operations Center into a Combined Space Operations Center.
However, even as the government has already taken steps to focus more on national security space, “it is time to go further,”
Air Force Secretary Heather A. Wilson said, and she announced a series of steps at the symposium to do just that. SBIRS-4 is ready for encapsulation in January 2018 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.
Wilson said now is the time to expand national security space relations with allies and partners because the US faces “a more competitive and dangerous international security environment than we have seen in decades.” As America’s great power rivals, “Russia and China are developing capabilities to disable our satellites,” she added.
She announced the Air Force would, starting next year, increase the availability of Air Force space training for allies and partners by adding two more courses to the National Security Space Institute, including one on space situational awareness. USAF would also open more of the existing advanced national security space courses to members of allied nation militaries, including those of France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and possibly others—Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom were already in. “Countries with allies thrive and those without allies” do not, she told reporters before her speech.
Wilson said US satellites are to become more resilient and defendable and must be developed more quickly. She said the time for replacing the canceled seventh and eighth Space-Based Infrared System missile warning satellites would be cut from nine to five years for the new satellites. Altogether, the Air Force is working to make its space capabilities more flexible so it can respond faster, winning wars in ways enemies can’t predict. Thanks to AFA
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Filer’s Files #23 -2018 Life on Mars - PART III
Filer’s Files #23 -2018 Life on Mars - PART III
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Casa Grande — My dad texted me and told me there are some strange lights in the sky on the west side of Gila Bend. He knows that I’m into this stuff. So I looked in that direction. I saw a fireball like light flashing. I thought it was a plane at first but it didn’t move, it was flashing different colors it was hovering. I started recording on my phone. I notice two little red lights on the bottom creating a triangle. Then after that they disappeared. I was excited because I had experienced a dark grey triangle in Gila Bend on December 14, 2017.Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Redding — A friend of mine took me up in his plane out of the Redding Municipal Airport. I brought my camera to do some aerial photography. We were off the ground and I took a photo of the runway as we ascended. I didn’t notice any object and I first noticed the object when I downloaded my photos to process them in Photoshop.
It had a distinct shape and flight angle, but I don’t know which direction it was traveling.
I was only observing our forward take off through my camera’s viewfinder. I don’t know how fast a propeller turns, but the object came out more distinct than the propeller. I applied the burn tool on Photoshop to the object to bring out a bit more detail. In doing so, I realize that may have rendered the object as something that it is not. But the object intrigued me enough to consider that maybe I unintentionally captured an image of an UFO. I sent the image to my friend who piloted the plane and he sent it on to MUFON. I used a Sony a77, Sony 16-50 f:2.8 lens. Settings were: f/6.3, 1/1000th second, ISO 160 and taken at 24mm focal length. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Light
Denver — I was just watching tv after a 12 hour shift on May 31, 2018. The light shining off of the object was bright enough for me to look out the window. I seriously thought it was the moon, except the moon is not in that quadrant at 12:30 am. The light from it was shining so brightly, that the outline of a cross surrounded it. I was honestly in shock. I’ve always wanted to see a UFO, so it was a thrilling moment for me. Hopefully the pics show some of what I saw. The object slowly flew away towards a weird object far away that looked like some sort of gate. It was a really thrilling experience. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Alien
Tampa — I was told the following story by the witness who was asleep in bed in the middle of the night with his wife when something woke him up. He looked over and he saw his wife sitting on the side of the bed with her back to him. She would not answer to her name when he tried to get her attention. He leaned over so he could see her face and saw her holding a small grey figure in her hands. It had a head and big eyes, almond eyes. The grey figure and the wife were looking at each other but smoke was being exchanged between their two mouths. The husband slapped the grey figure out of his wife’s hands and it tumbled to the floor. He got up and tried to grab it but it screamed, using his wife’s voice! The grey dove out the window and was gone. When he woke his wife up, she didn’t remember anything. Thanks to John Guerra
Georgia Object
On October 17, 2016, I was outside at my residence sky watching when I saw and photographed numerous UFO objects. I had just started sky watching as a pastime hobby. So I did not think anything of it at the time. Being a newbie to sky watching I thought maybe I had been shaking the camera a little, which could have caused light of a star to blur and be all over the place. This past week I was going over a lot of my photo’s and recording’s from the past couple of years and I came across these pictures of UFO’s. I have poured over them all and after two years of observing. I now know what I photographed was some sort of craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Cylinders
Salem — I was traveling on my way to work on Saturday June 2nd,2018, in the evening around 5:30pm. watching a storm close in over the area. something out of place caught my eye and I slowed my vehicle, took a couple of pictures and continued on my way to work. I reviewed the pictures yesterday afternoon and found the objects in question then. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Galesburg — I go outside everyday at 5-5:30 and I face away from sun at its brightest.
I sit the sun on my head, and take a picture. Everyday a blue sphere appears in my pictures during this.
In pictures from June 4 2018, I noticed a cigar shaped object in the sky above me.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Disk
Palmyra –I was taking a picture of our willow tree for a website. I did not see or hear the object while taking the pic. I saw it after I looked at the pic. I took 2 other pics just before this one. I also noticed about 30 minutes later an Air Force prop plane flew over the house at a low altitude. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Boomerang
Farmington Hills — I was leaving the bowling alley with my husband on June 2, 2018. I observed an extremely large “V” shaped UFO traveling southwest at an alarming rate of speed. From my viewpoint and the altitude of the object, I estimate it to be 50-100 times larger than a modern sized airplane. The object had seven lights-three on each line of the “V” and one light where the lines intersect. The lights were white and dim and in sync.
The object was moving at a rapid rate of speed (I only observed it for 8-10 seconds before I lost sight of it). The object was completely silent. I observed the underside of the object that was black except for the seven lights. I observed this object on June 2, 2018 at 11:55 PM. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Object
While flying in American Airlines flight 3996 IAH -Houston to ORD -Chicago, on June 1, 2018 about halfway through flight (Missouri ?) was photographing storm anvils for use as desktop wallpaper. Our flight was at about 38,000 feet. Immediately after taking 3 pictures in about 10 seconds, craft appeared suddenly to the east of flight path at about 50,000 feet like Star Trek “de-cloaking” scene. Immediately took another photo including the craft. 3 seconds later craft went ballistic to the south and ascending very fast. From stationary to like light speed disappearance up and reverse of our flight path which would be south. Craft had a triangular shape to it and must have been very large.
After shooting it I lowered the camera phone to observe and it suddenly went light speed ballistic up and reverse of our path. I was a small craft pilot in my youth and worked at NASA for many years at JSC in Houston so have a fairly good experience base with things that fly.
New York Lights
Large light flies to left and reverses course increasing then decreasing brightness of light.
If this video cannot be viewed on mufons site Youtube search shawbrosfan. It will take you to ufos over ny the video is there also
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Cincinnati — Walked outside of house looked up ‘and saw a light case move in and out.
In the same spot I have seen other strange lights before.
Picture was taken on May 29, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Orb
Woodland — Tic-tac, glowing orb, black hole, (wormhole.) something coming out of wormhole, orb materializing off to the left of junipers on April 2, 2018 and then moving past the trees. Some jets were flying so fast that I grabbed my phone and started taking pictures. I personally didn’t see anything but the military planes until I looked at the photos and blew them up. These pics are not doctored in any way. You are most welcomed to verify. my Facebook page Tom Julian photos are @ bottom of page. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
All I have to do is go outside and start snapping pictures on February 26, 2018. I’ve had other things happen to me that are unexplainable as well. Being able to get footage is the best I could do. I’m upgrading from a ph camera to Cannon mk 4 with plenty of extras.. That way I can get some epic footage.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
While filming the same object again that I had reported (case #92331), a light caught my eye so I started filming it. It changed shape multiple times and upon review of video at the 5:56 mark, I noticed it had changed direction and seemed to be heading back toward me. At one point during this sighting, I felt a buzzing and weightlessness for about 10 seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan UFO Teenager
A teenager in Japan has become something of a sensation on the country’s social media sites due to his purported ability to communicate with UFOs. Haruya Ido has been dubbed ‘UFO Boy’ by the researcher, Toshitaro Yamaguchi, who discovered the young man and his alleged psychic skills. To that end, Yamaguchi told Japanese media that Ido can sense, via telepathy, where a UFO will be and, in turn, photograph the object.
Backing up the UFO researcher’s bold assertion are four images of anomalous objects which were taken by Ido from different locations in Japan over the course of the last year. While the oddities in the photos are not particularly spectacular, if they were truly all captured by the same witness, it does make one wonder if there is a connection between the boy and the phenomenon. For his part, Yamachuchi likened Ido’s ability to “shamanism” and the teen’s story have gone viral on Japanese social media.
Remarkably, the veteran UFO researcher said that such ‘UFO boys’ are not altogether rare phenomenon as, in the past, other youngsters have been said to boast the same ability to communicate with craft. However, Ido is the first to appear on the scene in quite some time, which Yamaguchi hopes is a promising sign for the future, since, at 70 years old, he’s uncertain how much longer he can chase the phenomenon. Perhaps the teen can alleviate those concerns by conjuring a craft in the sky for him.
Netherlands Triangle
Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel – I noticed a bright white flash in the sky near the star Arcturus. I don’t know if this event is related to my sighting, but when I looked in the direction of the star to see if another flash would appear I suddenly noticed a very big triangular shaped flying object traveling at high speed across the sky. It looked to be flying quite low, at the height of a small passenger plane. The triangle was black with orange-red lights at each corner at the bottom. The lights were not very bright and the shape of the object was faintly visible. the object did block the light of the stars above the triangle that was traveling south at 00:30 pm on May 21, 2018. after seeing it for a few seconds it disappeared from sight behind some houses. There really are unidentified flying objects in the sky.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Object
Leamington Spa, Warwicksh — I was in the sunshine next to my touring caravan at Harbury Fields Caravan Park, on June 2, 2018. I was observing and photographing local aircraft passing overhead. I noticed what looked like a bright star in a northerly direction, in a clear blue sky. Pointed my Nikon D7200 with a 150-600mm lens at the object and saw more than one bright light, plus a shape. Took several Photo’s over the next 15 minutes and then the object was gone. The object appeared to be rotating but not moving in any direction with no trail so I discounted it to be a meteor or space debris. The object did look to get brighter, with the naked eye and then dimmer before it disappeared. I had never seen anything like it before so checked the internet for space debris. NASA said space debris was not expected that day. During my observation, the object did appear to change shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Big galaxies suck — and no, I’m not being rude. I just mean that they absorb other, smaller galaxies when they run into each other, like a cannibalistic version of bumper cars. It’s how they survive. But some galaxies manage to avoid collisions, and one in a thousand keep all their properties from formation intact. Now, researchers have found one of those oldies, also called a relic galaxy, in our cosmic neighborhood.
Its name is NGC 1277. It has a “million million” stars. It’s at the center of the Perseus cluster, the biggest concentration of galaxies near the Milky Way, which is about 225 million lightyears away from us. In other words, it would take the Millennium Falcon 27 years to get there, if Han Solo was piloting. That seems really far — especially since we can’t travel in hyperspace yet — but it’s actually relatively close.
Best of all, we can affectionately refer to NGC 1277 as a “red nugget” galaxy,thanks to its un-evolved, high-redshift color distribution. NGC 1277 looks the same as it did 12 billion years ago (for context, the universe has only been around for about 13.8 billion years). It’s the fully intact Tyrannosaurus skeleton of the universe.
See that lil' pancake? That's our girl.
Researchers Michael Beasley and Ignacio Trujillo of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna were able to confirm the relic status of NGC 1277 by studying its globular clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope. What they saw was a massive expanse of — you guessed it — red.
Globular clusters are groups of stars formed at the birth of a galaxy that orbit its outskirts. Red clusters are composed of more heavy elements than helium and orbit closer to the galaxy’s center. Blue clusters have fewer metals and are seen only as a result of galactic collisions. NGC 1277 only has red clusters, the largest galaxy of its size to have been observed without them.
That means every star formed in NGC 1277 was formed within 100 million years of its birth, within the first billion years of the universe’s existence. The Milky Way’s rate of one star a year pales in comparison to NGC 1277’s 1,000 stars a year. This makes for a perfect opportunity to study a vast galaxy that remains basically unchanged since the dawn of everything.
So, how did NGC 1277 last all these billions of years without accumulating blue clusters? Beasley and Trujillo think that NGC 1277 formed as a satellite to the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster, which absorbed any material that could have impacted its satellite. Now, NGC 1277 still orbits that central galaxy, at 1,000 kilometers a second. Beasley and Trujillo are hoping to observe more global clusters with the Hubble to find even more relic galaxies.
According to previous calculations by astronomers, one in every thousand massive galaxies is a relic of the early universe. It’s an almost esoteric term that describes a galaxy whose properties are still largely the same as when it formed billions of years ago. Now, scientists say they’ve finally identified one for the first time.
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) used ground-based telescopes to study NGC 1277, a galaxy located 225 million light-years away, in the heart of the Perseus Cluster — the largest concentration of galaxies close to the Milky Way.
Their initial observations suggested something odd about the globular clusters surrounding NGC 1277. Globular clusters are spherical collections of ancient stars, formed at the same time as the galaxy, that orbit the galactic core as a satellite. Scientists class globular clusters in two distinct groups: red globular clusters, which are formed in massive galaxies nearer to their centers, and blue ones, which are found more toward the outskirts of the galaxy. Red globular clusters have a higher concentration of heavier elements (hence the color), while blue ones have a lower fraction of metals.
When the researchers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope towards the globular clusters surrounding NGC 1277, they struck gold. The observation revealed that the galaxy only has only red globular clusters, which have remained unchanged since they were formed many millions of years ago along with the galaxy.
“Globular cluster systems are very sensitive to the history of galaxy formation” explained Michael Beasley, the first author of the article and a researcher at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), who said that “this is the first time a galaxy so massive has been observed with so few blue globular clusters.”
NGC 1277 is composed of a thousand billion stars, and its relatively close proximity to Earth provided an excellent opportunity to find a rare wonder of the cosmos. “The galaxy NGC 1277 gives us a unique opportunity to study a “primitive” galaxy in the “local” universe” adds Ignacio Trujillo, another of the article’s authors.
NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy, similar in many ways to the Milky Way. For obvious reasons, we don’t have any real images of our own galaxy.
Image credits: Hubble Space Telescope / NASA.
According to the researchers, when the galaxy formed, it used to birth stars at a rate of 1,000 per year, whilst the Milky Way is currently forming only one star per year. The team believes that the reason why the galaxy has remained unchanged during all this time, retaining its original form and composition, is because it formed as a satellite to the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster. Since the cluster absorbed most of the material that could have fallen into NGC 1277, this dynamic has caused the relic galaxy to evolve differently.
“We argue that the colour distribution of the cluster system of NGC 1277 indicates that the galaxy has undergone little (if any) mass accretion after its initial collapse, and use simulations of possible merger histories to show that the stellar mass due to accretion is probably at most ten percent of the total stellar mass of the galaxy. These results confirm that NGC 1277 is a genuine relic galaxy and demonstrate that blue clusters constitute an accreted population in present-day massive galaxies,” the authors wrote in the journal Nature.
The authors hope to find more relic galaxies in the future using the Hubble Space Telescope and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope.
Scientific reference:
BEASLEY, Michael A. et al. “A single population of red globular clusters around the massive compact galaxy NGC 1277”, Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature25756
Researchers have discovered an enormous body of interstellar dust that predates the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. The findings might revolutionize our understanding of how the solar system came to be, as well as all other planetary bodies.
Artist impression of an early solar system.
Credit: NASA.
It sounds unbelievable, but some of the original interstellar dust that went to form the sun, Earth, and all the other planets in the solar system can be still be found floating around in our neighborhood, even hitting our atmosphere from time to time. Presolar dust particles can no longer be found in the inner solar system, as it was long ago destroyed, reformed, and reaggregated in multiple phases. However, presolar dust can still be found in the outer solar system, specifically in some comets.
When these comets pass close enough to the sun, they release presolar dust that can reach Earth’s orbit and settle through the atmosphere, where it can be collected and later studied. Dr. Hope Ishii of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and her colleagues used electron microscopy to study such dust particles, as well as data gathered from the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) aboard the Cassini Saturn orbiter during its two-decade mission.
The presolar dust particles in question are actually called GEMS – or ‘glass embedded with metal and sulfide’. They’re less than one hundredth the width of a human hair in diameter and contain a variety of carbon known to decompose when exposed to even relatively gentle heating.
An electron micrograph of an interplanetary dust particle of likely cometary origin.
Credit: Hope Ishii
Ishii and colleagues write that the GEMS likely formed in the interstellar medium due to grain shattering, amorphization, and erosion from supernovae shocks, then later went through subsequent periods of aggregation. Irradiation likely provided enough energy for the amorphous silicates which comprise the dust to absorb small amounts of metal atoms, the authors reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“With repeated cycling in and out of cold molecular clouds, mantled dust and any aggregates were repeatedly and progressively partially destroyed and reformed. Cassini mission data suggest the presence of iron metal in contemporary interstellar dust,” the researchers wrote in their study.
This first generation of GEMS aggregated with crystalline grains that were likely transported from the hot inner-solar nebula, creating second-generation aggregates. Later this 2nd generation of aggregates was likely incorporated into small, icy cometary bodies.
The researchers concluded that the grains they studied represent surviving pre-solar interstellar dust that formed the very building blocks of planets and stars. As such, they provide unique insight into a pre-solar system environment, ultimately telling us how our planet and others like it came to be. We only have a rough picture of how our solar system formed from a huge disk of dust and gas, and these little grains could be the missing pieces that complete the puzzle. In the future, the researchers plan on collecting more comet dust, particularly that sourced from more well-protected comets that pass by the sun.
This global map of Mars shows a growing dust storm as of June 6, 2018. The map was produced by the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. The blue dot indicates the approximate location of Opportunity. Image and caption credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
On Sunday morning, NASA received a transmission from the Opportunity rover. Usually, that’s not really out of its character — but the bot is currently braving a massive sandstorm on the Red Planet. The rover hailed home to let ground control know it still has enough juice in its battery to maintain communications, according to NASA. Science operations, however, remain suspended in a bid to conserve energy.
Oppy phone home
The transmission was a welcome break for NASA engineers, as the dust storm has been steadily picking up steam in the past few days. The rover is weathering it out in Perseverance Valley, shrouded in perpetual night. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first detected the storm on Friday, June 1. The rover team began preparing contingency plans soon afterward.
It’s not the first such storm Opportunity had to face — it braved another in 2007. This event, however, is much worse than the last one. The storm’s atmospheric opacity (how much light it blocks) has been estimated at 10.8 tau as of Sunday morning — the 2007 storm only reached about 5.5 tau. This is roughly equivalent to the incredible smogs we’ve seen in China. Because of this, the bot cannot use its solar panels to recharge.
The storm has grown to over 18 million square kilometers (7 million square miles) since its detection. Such storms aren’t extreme for Mars, but they are infrequent. NASA doesn’t yet fully understand how they form or build in strength, but they seem to be self-reinforcing — a feedback loop that amplifies itself as it grows. Such storms can last up to several months at a time.
This dust blanket could be what makes or breaks Opportunity’s resolve.
Dusty but not yet dead
You could say it’s an Opportunity to show what you’re made of, little rover! Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
I say that because the dust is both a boon and a curse for Opportunity as of now. The rover’s main problems are that it cannot recharge (its solar panels are dusted over, and there’s not enough sunlight) and that communication with ground control is spotty at best (radio signals can’t pierce through the storm).
But the dust also hides a silver lining. Data beamed back by the rover shows its internal temperature is roughly stable at about minus 29 degrees Celsius (minus 20 Fahrenheit). The dust storm — which retains heat — seems to be insulating Opportunity from the extreme temperature swings on Mars’ surface. It’s not an ideal temperature by any means, but it’s still not as bad as it could get.
The team’s worst fears right now is that if the rover experiences cold temperatures for too long, it might damage its batteries. This fate befell Spirit, Opportunity’s twin craft in the Mars Exploration Rover mission, in 2010. Engineers plan to use the network to monitor and administer the rover’s energy levels in the following weeks — they need to somehow save as much battery charge as possible while keeping the rover from getting too cold. It has onboard heaters for this purpose, but they drain a lot of energy. One idea the team is considering is activating other equipment to expel energy, which would heat up the bot.
Science operations have been temporarily put on hold for sunnier days. Mission control has requested additional coverage from NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of antennas that talks to all the agency’s deep space probes, in an effort to maintain contact with Opportunity.
But I wouldn’t count Opportunity out just yet. It has proved its mettle aplenty in the past. Not only has it gone through dust storms before, but it made it with surprising gusto — the rover has accrued 15 years in the line of duty despite only being intended to last 90 days.
So hang in there little buddy, and don’t let the cold bite your batteries.
If we were to travel back in time to a much earlier time in Earth’s history—let’s say one million years before the present day—we might be surprised to see how different things were long ago. Of course, our planet looked very different, as did the varieties of life that lived on it in ancient times. However, there were other things we would notice if we traveled back to this world of the distant past, such as the length of each day on our planet: one million years ago, a typical day lasted only 18 hours.
What would have caused the days of long ago to have been so much shorter? It actually had to do with a phenomenon that is still occurring today, and one that is causing days over the slow passage of time to get longer and longer.
According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the fact that the moon has slowly been moving further away from the Earth has caused our planet’s rotation to slow down gradually over time. The result of Earth’s spin slowing down, of course, has been lengthier days.
All objects in space exert gravitational influence over one another, in relation to their proximity. The same can be said of all the objects in our solar system, ranging from our sun to the constituent planets each of their moons.
For the study, researchers relied on the science of astrochronology, a process that gauges the age of soil deposits and other sedimentary features astronomically, often in relation to precession—a key factor in what are called Milankovitch cycles—or other astronomical data. With the help of this process, researchers aimed to learn valuable geological about the ancient past, which would produce data nearly as reliable as that which can be studied in the present day.
In the early 20th century, Serbian Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch calculated the periodicity of glacial periods on Earth using information from geological proxies. He determined that the likely governing factors included variations in the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun (eccentricity), as well as its precession, and the Earth’s axial tilt.
Milutin Milankovitch
According to the researchers, “beyond about 1.5 billion years ago, the moon would have been close enough that its gravitational interactions with the Earth would have ripped the moon apart.” Earth possess only one natural satellite, while other planets, such as Mars or Jupiter, have numerous satellites in orbit around them, which are often visible from Earth with the visual aid of a telescope. However, Earth’s moon has played a key role in many of the natural forces at play on our planet over the course of the 4.53 billion years since it was formed.
Combining geological data collected via astrochronological processes with statistical data, the study’s authors were able to gauge periods of “maximum volatility” in the ancient past, partially by focusing on what were known as grapoloids, an extinct form of marine invertebrate once a major zooplankton species during the Early Paleozoic.
“We infer that these cycles influenced graptolite speciation and extinction through climate-driven changes to oceanic circulation and structure,” the study’s authors note. “Our results confirm the existence of Milankovitch grand cycles in the Early Paleozoic Era and show that known processes related to the mechanics of the Solar System were shaping marine macroevolutionary rates comparatively early in the history of complex life.”
Another key focus of the study was a 1.4 billion-year-old area in Northern China known as the Xiamaling Formation, as well as 55 million-year-old proxy samples from Walvis Ridge, a deep ocean feature located in the southern Atlantic. Results of the study revealed variations in the direction of the Earth’s axis of rotation (precession), as well as changes in rotational features over time. This data was used to reliably determine that days on Earth during these earlier periods were much shorter when compared with today, since the distance between Earth and the moon is greater now than it was during the Paleozoic Era.
There are times where the remarkable unity between separate scientific disciplines, and their complementary nature to one another, becomes simply fascinating. Here, we learn about ancient astronomy from the study of geology, though it can be said to some degree that the same applies in reverse as well, ever-broadening our overall understanding of geological deep time. The study, titled “Pacing of Paleozoic macroevolutionary rates by Milankovitch grand cycles,” was co-authored by James S. Crampton, Stephen R. Meyers, Roger A. Cooper, Peter M. Sadler, Michael Foote, and David Harte.
As a final note, for more on Milankovitch cycles and their use in determining climate changes on Earth throughout prehistory, see here; and for more on the concept of geological “deep time,” see here.
Is anyone even paying attention to the skies anymore? Think about it: when is the last time you stared at the stars or spent a few idle minutes just watching the clouds roll by? Maybe that’s one of the reasons social media and smartphones exist – to keep us staring down at our hands as opposed to noticing the many mysterious phenomena occurring above our heads lately. UFO sightings are one thing, but between the many unexplained mystery booms being heard and felt nationwide, all manners of secretive satellite activity, and unmarked aircraft circling American cities, there’s enough man-made weirdness in the skies to suggest some sort of shadowy activity is afoot overheard.
Space War 2020: coming soon to a low Earth orbit near you.
The latest unexplained aerospace mystery comes out of Oak Harbor, Washington where high-definition weather cameras captured a true-to-life unidentified flying object on camera. This one, however, clearly has a terrestrial origin – although nobody seems to want to claim responsibility.
The weather cameras captured two images of what appears to be a missile or rocket launching from the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula near Hansville, not far from the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. You might remember that air station from last year when fighter pilots created a skydrawing of a giant phallus in the skies above Washington The footage was captured by Greg Johnson, who runs the Skunk Bay Weather website. Johnson quickly posted the footage to Facebook, writing that neither the nearby Naval Air Station Whidbey Island nor the Department of Defense claimed responsibility for the launch.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
Local news outlets in the Pacific Northwest have reached out for comment, but so far nobody is offering any answers. Is this merely a classified military launch, or is something far more secretive going on here? These so-called “black” rocket launches seem to be becoming more common over the last year, with everyone from SpaceX to the good ol’ fashion Soviet Union Russia joining in on the clandestine-but-quite-visible fun without offering any explanations. Don’t we have a right to know what’s going on above our heads?
THE ERIDANUS VOID: A MEGAMASSIVE BLACK HOLE ONE-BILLION LIGHT YEARSACROSS
THE ERIDANUS VOID: A MEGAMASSIVE BLACK HOLE ONE-BILLION LIGHT YEARSACROSS
The apparent development of a large void of some billion light-years in diameter in the Constellation Eridanus appears to be improbable given current cosmological models. A radical and controversial theory proposes that it is a “universe-in-mass black hole” rather than hypothetical dark matter responsible for the phenomenon described as the expanding-accelerating universe. This radical theory of cosmology suggests that stars at the edge of the Hubble length universe are being consumed by a universe-in-mass black hole.
In August of 2007, astronomers at the University of Minnesota located a gigantic hole in the universe. This empty space, stretching nearly a billion light-years across, is devoid of any matter such as galaxies, stars, and gas, and neither does it contain the strange and mysterious dark matter, which can be detected but not seen.
Empty places in the universe are not uncommon. It is already known that matter tends to clump and form stars and galaxies, clusters and superclusters, due to the pulling force of gravity. So astronomers have already seen places in the universe where there are groups of matter and places where matter is more scarce. But this new discovery is much larger than any previously known “hole”.
“Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size,” explains Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick was one of the researchers to find the hole.
Rudnick and his team studied data from a survey of the entire sky imaged by the Very Large Array radio telescope. A map of this area of the sky was already known to be an anomaly. It had been called a “cold spot” after a satellite that charts the cosmic microwave background radiation discovered it was less warm than its surroundings. (Overall the cosmic microwave background radiation is exceptionally cold, and the difference seen was only in millionths of a degree.)
The area of sky in which the hole exists lies in the direction of the constellation Eridanus. Eridanus is the constellation of the River, and can be found winding below Taurus and Cetus.
But the hole is not a part of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which is a remnant of the Big Bang. The hole lies between six to 10 billion light-years away. The cold spot is a result of the CMB radition passing through this blank area on its way to Earth. Supporters of the standard model Big Bang theory say the region is colder because of dark energy.
“The Eridanus black hole sits like a giant black spider in an ocean of nothingness, having swallowed up all surrounding galaxies, gas, and light, ...
Dark energy, which has yet to be verified, can be seen as the opposite of gravity. While gravity pulls matter together, dark energy is what is causing the universe to expand, and at an ever-increasing rate. When the radiation from the Big Bang passed through this void in the universe, it had less energy than the radiation that passed through normal regions of space. In a simplistic explanation, the radiation is given a boost when it nears the pull of matter such as galaxies, and dark energy allows the radiation to propel away from these areas without losing the boost when gravity would pull it back. The radiation passing through the empty space does not get the boost and the energy, therefore it is slightly colder.
A contrary theory proposed in The Journal of Cosmology suggests that our observable universe orbits a super-supermassive hole just as the stars of entire galaxies orbit and eventually are swallowed by the supermassive black holes at their center. Like the stars closest to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy which have a greater velocity than stars on the outer arms (where the Earth is located), stars at the edge of our known, Hubble-length universe, orbit one of these “universe-in-mass holes” at a greater velocity than those stars further away thus effecting the red shift and dimness of light and creating the illusion the universe is accelerating and exanding.
The illusion of an “accelerating universe” is due to the gravitational effects of a universe-in-mass black hole at the edge of our Hubble length universe. Stars closest to the hole accelerate to their doom.
Galaxies, stars, planets, moons, molecules, atoms, and so on, are continually recreated and destroyed, and matter and energy, including hydrogen atoms, are continually recycled and reassembled via activities associated with “black holes” also known as graviton-holes, gravity holes, super massive black holes, galaxy-in-mass gravity holes, and universe-in-mass gravity holes, depending on their size and gravity-mass.
In an infinite universe, these galaxy-in-mass black holes become more massive yet and eventually consume all the galaxies which have been caught up by its increasing gravitational grip . Once all surrounding galaxies have been consumed, all that is left is a void, a galaxy-in-mass gravity-hole in the fabric of space-time surrounded by eternal night and empty space.
The billion-light-years across “Eridanus black hole” is typical of black holes which have the gravity-mass of millions of entire galaxies. The Eridanus black hole sits like a giant black spider in an ocean of nothingness, having swallowed up all surrounding galaxies, gas, and light, including radiation from the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Based on an analysis of the NRAO VLA Sky Survey data, Rudnick and his team in fact discovered that there was a significant and rather remarkable absence of galaxies even in the distant space surrounding this hole, in the constellation of Eridanus. Thus, the billion-light-years across “Eridnus black hole” must have consumed the gravity-mass of millions of entire galaxies all of which have been collapsed and concentrated into the singularity of this super-galactic hole.
The billion-light-years across “Eridanus black hole” should not be considered unique or as something abnormally large. There appears to be a gravity-hole which may contain the collective mass of all the galaxies which populate a Hubble length universe and which sits just outside our known Hubble length universe; that is, just beyond that region of space which can be observed.
Elsewhere, Is the he VIRGOHI21 black hole an example of what happens when the gravitional mass of an entire galaxy comes to be bound up in the singularity of a single black hole which becomes a galactic orphan devoid of any stars but which would then begin to draw distant galaxies toward it? Stars and entire galaxies are recycled. Stars grow old and die, becoming white dwarfs, brown dwarfs and black holes (Hawking 1990), all of which eventually, in an infinite universe, are swallowed by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center which becomes even more massive in size until all stars, young and old, within its galaxy, disappear inside.
VIRGOHI21 has swallowed all the stars of its galaxy and has the gravity of an entire galaxy, an estimated total mass of about 1/10th the Milky Way, ten times more dark matter than ordinary matter, and is surrounded by vast clouds of hydrogen. Because of its galaxy-in-mass gravity, VIRGOHI21 has pulled up to 2000 galaxies toward it, creating the Virgo Cluster.
More recently, in March 2009, astronomers using the the 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia published a paper which revealed the discovery of an even larger, 3.5- billion-year-wide void while undertaking the Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey in the southern hemisphere. Enormous cosmic voids and giant concentrations of matter have been observed in a new galaxy survey, one of the biggest completed so far. One of the voids is so large that it is difficult to explain where it came from.
Scientists are still analysing the new map, but a few features stand out immediately. The biggest concentration of matter seen by the survey is a previously known giant pileup of galaxies called the Shapley supercluster, which lies about 600 million light years from Earth.
The survey also found some enormous voids – regions of space that are relatively empty, including one that is about 3.5 billion light years across.
“This is as big as I’ve ever seen,” survey team member John Huchra of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told New Scientist.
ET hasn’t been in touch. Enduring silence may be the real message from distant and ancient galaxies, if advanced civilisations destroy the conditions for their own survival.
LONDON, 11 June, 2018– US scientists have calculated the conditions for the survival of a civilisation – all advanced civilisations across the vast universe. Their calculations may explain why, so far, extraterrestrial beings have failed to get in touch.
They may also help explain why climate change driven by global warming could be both inevitable and potentially calamitous.
Entirely theoretical research of this kind is the basis of astrobiology: the attempt to understand why life exists in a seemingly hostile universe, and why, if it exists on Earth, it is not visible everywhere. For practical data, astrobiologists have only one instance of life, and one of intelligent advanced civilisation to work with: planet Earth.
Adam Frank, of the University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues report in the journal Astrobiology that they considered the evidence of a vanished civilisation on Earth – the mysterious culture that flourished on Easter Island in the Pacific and then vanished by about 1500AD.
Better insight
“If we’re not the universe’s first civilisation, that means there are likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilisation like our own progresses,” said Professor Frank.
“The point is to recognise that driving climate change may be something generic. The laws of physics demand that any young population, building an energy-intensive civilisation like ours, is going to have feedback on its planet. Seeing climate change in this cosmic context may give us better insight into what’s happening to us now and how to deal with it.”
The principle is that any civilisation must change its planet, and the most obvious way would be by exploiting resources in ways that might affect average planetary temperatures.
Under such circumstances the population could reach a peak – and then die off, leaving a few survivors. Or it could foresee the problems and go for sustainability rather than ever more growth. Or population and temperature could reach a peak, at which point the civilisation would collapse. Or – disconcertingly – the threatened civilisation could identify the looming disaster but fail to act in time.
Fatal delay
“The last scenario is the most frightening,” said Professor Frank. “Even if you did the right thing, if you waited too long, you could still have your population collapse.”
Professor Frank himself has explored these questions in earlier studies. In 2014, he and colleagues asked themselves how long an alien civilisation that had discovered fossil fuels, and therefore changed the conditions in which it evolved, could sustain itself.
“If we’re not the universe’s first civilisation, that means there are likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilisation like our own progresses”
Archaeological evidence suggests that a culture emerged perhaps 1600 years ago, population grew to a peak, resources were over-exploited, population collapsed and, with it, all memory of what once had been. If an isolated island had a maximum carrying capacity, then so ultimately would an isolated planet. Professor Frank sees global climate change as a planet’s response to civilisation.
“If you go through really strong climate change, then your carrying capacity may drop, because, for example, large-scale agriculture might be strongly disrupted. Imagine if climate change caused rain to stop falling in the Midwest. We wouldn’t be able to grow food, and our population would diminish,” he said.
“If you change the Earth’s climate enough, you might not be able to change it back. Even if you backed off and started to use solar or other less impactful resources, it could be too late, because the planet has already been changing.
“These models show we can’t just think about a population evolving on its own. We have to think about our planets and civilisations co-evolving.” – Climate News Network
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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER CLOUDS OF DIAMONDS SHIMMERING AROUND DISTANT STARS
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER CLOUDS OF DIAMONDS SHIMMERING AROUND DISTANT STARS
A mysterious “glow” from space has been traced to tiny spinning diamonds found around stars.
For decades, scientists have been able to see a faint signal of microwave light coming from parts of the night sky.
Known as the anomalous microwave emission (AME), the glow was an unexpected discovery that first emerged when astronomers took measurements of microwave radiation in space at the turn of the 21st century.
Now, after years of speculation about this unusual glow, a team led by Dr Jane Greaves at Cardiff University has finally pinpointed its source.
“In a Sherlock Holmes-like method of eliminating all other causes, we can confidently say the best candidate capable of producing this microwave glow is the presence of nanodiamonds around these newly formed stars,” said Dr Greaves.
While nanodiamonds are best known as components of meteorites that fall to Earth, these structures were found inside rings of dust and gas surrounding newly formed stars known as protoplanetary discs.
These discs contain the ingredients that ultimately go on to form new planets, and the scorching hot temperatures found inside them provide the perfect conditions for these tiny carbon crystals to form.
Due to a unique arrangement of atoms, nanodiamonds emit radiation as they spin, leading to the glow detected by astronomers on Earth.
As they spin so exceptionally fast, the waves of radiation they emit are small – microwave sized – rather than larger wavelengths that would likely be drowned out by other sources of radiation from space.
To arrive at these conclusions, Dr Greaves and her team zoomed in on three young stars emitting AME light using incredibly powerful telescopes in West Virginia and Australia.
Prior to this it was assumed that some kind of cosmic particle was responsible for the AME effect, but the most likely candidates were dust grains made from molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
However, the scientists were able to take measurements from the stars’ protoplanetary discs and match them with the known infrared signatures of nanodiamonds – confirming them as the source.
They found that the signal specifically matched that given off by nanodiamonds, with layers of hydrogen-bearing molecules on their surfaces.
“This is the first clear detection of anomalous microwave emission coming from protoplanetary disks,” said Dr David Frayer, a co-author of the paper and astronomer at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.
“This is a cool and unexpected resolution of the puzzle of anomalous microwaves radiation,” said Dr Greaves.
“It’s even more interesting that it was obtained by looking at protoplanetary disks, shedding light on the chemical features of early solar systems, including our own.”
The scientists also suggest their findings could have implications for those investigating the early days of the universe following the Big Bang.
If the universe expanded very rapidly – faster than the speed of light – a trace of this phenomenon could be found in the background microwave levels in space.
“This is good news for those who study polarisation of the cosmic microwave background, since the signal from spinning nanodiamonds would be weakly polarised at best,” said Dr Brian Mason, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who co-authored on the paper.
“This means that astronomers can now make better models of the foreground microwave light from our galaxy, which must be removed to study the distant afterglow of the Big Bang.”
Co-author Dr Anna Scaife from the University of Manchester agreed their discovery was “an exciting result”.
“It’s not often you find yourself putting new words to famous tunes, but ‘AME in the Sky with Diamonds’ seems a thoughtful way of summarising our research,” she said.
1 Million Habitable Planets Could (Theoretically) Orbit a Black Hole. Here's How
1 Million Habitable Planets Could (Theoretically) Orbit a Black Hole. Here's How
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Huge numbers of potentially habitable planets could theoretically exist in stable orbits around a supermassive black hole, such as the fictional Gargantua from the 2014 film "Interstellar."
Credit: Paramount Pictures
A black hole could have 1 million planets orbiting near it that are potentially capable of supporting life as we know it, an astrophysicist suggests.
Since there is life virtually everywhere liquid water exists on Earth, astronomers often judge a world as potentially habitable if it orbits within a zone where liquid water could survive on its surface. Our sun's "habitable zone" hosts just one planet (Earth), but the story could be different for other stars. For example, the TRAPPIST-1 system has three Earth-size planets within its habitable zone.
Sean Raymond, an astrophysicist at the Observatory of Bordeaux in France, researches how planetary systems form and evolve. As part of a column Raymond writes called "Building the Ultimate Solar System," he set out to see how many planets could orbit a black hole. [The Strangest Black Holes in Space]
"I think we can learn from the extremes ... they are basically the boundaries of the box in which we are searching," Raymond told Space.com. "This system is one extreme — the most packed imaginable. It's a fun blend of imagination and science."
There are currently two kinds of black holes that scientists know best, Raymond said. Stellar-mass black holes are equal in mass to a few suns, and form when giant stars die and collapse in on themselves. Supermassive black holes are millions to billions of times the mass of the sun, and are thought to exist in the hearts of most, if not all, large galaxies. (A third class, intermediate-mass black holes, is poorly understood.)
Black holes are extremely compact. A black hole with the mass of the sunwould be about only 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) wide. In comparison, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole thought to lurk at the heart of the Milky Way, has a mass of about 4 million suns and a diameter of about 14.7 million miles (23.6 million km), or a little more than 40 percent the size of Mercury's orbit around the sun.
Diagram of a hypothetical sun-black hole solar system.
Credit: Sean Raymond
What if the sun had a black hole companion?
A common question in physics classes is to imagine what would change if the sun were replaced with a black hole of the same mass, Raymond said. The answer is that nothing would change regarding the planets' orbits — if the black hole had the same mass as the sun, the orbits would remain the same. (Life on Earth would obviously suffer from the lack of light and heat in such a scenario, Raymond added.)
If the sun had an equal-mass black hole companion orbiting near it — at, say, one-tenth of an astronomical unit (AU) — the orbits of the solar system's planets would not change much, Raymond noted. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million km.)
Still, assuming these planets kept the same distance from the sun as they do now, the gravitational pull of the sun and its black hole partner would lead these worlds to complete their orbits a bit more quickly, with Earth's year decreasing from 365 days to 258 days, he said.
In the above scenario, the sun and the black hole would complete an orbit with one another every 2.9 days. This means the amount of energy that Earth would receive from the sun would fluctuate between 90 percent and 110 percent of its average as the sun moved farther from or closer to Earth.
More than 500 Earth-like planets could circle a million-solar-mass black hole, given some fortuitous star placement, according to astrophysicist Sean Raymond.
Credit: Sean Raymond
What if a supermassive black hole had a ring of planets?
In addition to imagining life around a stellar-mass black hole, Raymond also calculated how many potentially habitable planets might fit around a supermassive black hole 1 million times the mass of the sun. "That's almost as massive as the one in the center of the Milky Way," he said. It would only be about the diameter of the sun, he added.
Around the sun, the orbits that planets travel can come only so close together before the effects of their gravitational pulls overwhelm those of the sun, leading to unstable orbits. Raymond noted that about six Earth-mass planets can fit in stable concentric orbits within the sun's habitable zone.
In contrast, a supermassive black hole's gravitational pull is extraordinarily strong, enough to easily overwhelm those of planets. If the sun were replaced with a million-solar-mass black hole, 550 Earth-mass planets could fit in stable concentric orbits in the habitable zone, Raymond calculated.
The supermassive black hole's gravity would pull more strongly on the side of each planet closer to the black hole. This would stretch the habitable-zone planets out, although they would not be close enough to get ripped apart, Raymond said.
One way to create a habitable zone around this supermassive black hole is to place stars between it and the planets. A ring of nine sun-like stars 0.5 AU from a million-sun black hole would make each of the 550 Earth-mass planets in the above scenario potentially habitable, Raymond said.
"It would be pretty interesting to live on a planet in this system," Raymond noted. "It would take just a few days to complete an orbit around the black hole — about 1.6 days at the inner edge of the habitable zone and 4.6 days at the outer edge." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
At the closest approach, or conjunction, between two such planets, the distance between these worlds would be "about twice the Earth-moon distance," Raymond noted. "At conjunction, each planet's closest neighbor appears about twice the size of the full moon in the sky."
In addition, the next-nearest neighbors would be only twice as far away, and so would appear as big as the full moon during conjunction, Raymond said. Four more planets would be at least half the size of the full moon during conjunction, he added. "Conjunctions happen a little less than once per orbit, so every few days there is a gaggle of giant objects passing across the sky," he said.
The nine suns "would also be a sight to behold," Raymond said. Each would complete its orbit around the black hole every 3 hours.
"That means that every 20 minutes, one of the suns would pass behind the black hole," Raymond said. "When a sun passes behind the black hole, the black hole's gravity bends its light and can act like a lens. It focuses the sun's light toward the planet. This distorts the shape of the sun into a ring ... a pretty sweet light show."
Furthermore, starlight would be stretched by the black hole's gravity. "Stars closer to the black hole would appear redder, and those farther from the black hole would appear bluer," Raymond said.
Given a million-sun black hole with an orbiting ring of nine sun-like stars, 1 million Earth-mass planets could orbit within the habitable zone, in 400 rings of 2,500 planets apiece, astrophysicist Sean Raymond has calculated that.
Credit: Sean Raymond
A million planets around a black hole
In the prior scenario, each planet was alone in its orbit around the supermassive black hole. Raymond also modeled what would happen if multiple planets shared an orbit around a million-sun black hole. Previously, Raymond calculated that 42 Earth-mass planets could orbit in a ring 1 AU from the sun.
To have a stable ring of planets, Raymond noted that planets in that ring must all have roughly the same mass. There must also be at least seven planets in such a ring, and they must be evenly spaced along a circular orbit.
Given a million-sun black hole with an orbiting ring of nine sun-like stars, Raymond calculated that a million Earth-mass planets could orbit within the habitable zone in 400 rings, each holding 2,500 planets spaced apart by about the same distance as that between Earth and the moon. In this scenario, planets would again take anywhere from 1.6 to 4.6 days to complete an orbit. [The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe]
Instead of placing nine sun-like stars between the black hole and the planets, Raymond also suggested one could place 36 sun-like stars in a ring 6 AU wide. In this scenario, "each planet is bathed in sunlight from all sides — the planets have no night side," Raymond said. "It's like Asimov's permanent-daytime planet Kalgash."
"You would never feel alone in these systems — the other planets would loom huge in the sky," Raymond added. Neighboring planets would be about 10 times closer than the moon is to Earth, meaning they would appear "about 40 times larger in the sky than the full moon," Raymond said. "That's about the size of a laptop computer held at arm's reach, only up in the sky."
In this latter scenario, the planets would be much closer to the black hole, each completing an orbit in just about 9 hours. This means they would orbit at extraordinary speeds — about 10 percent of the speed of light. According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time would appear to move noticeably more slowly the closer one gets to the speed of light, so "two babies born at the same instant on different rings would age at slightly different rates," Raymond said. "The baby on the inner ring would age slightly more slowly."
The differences in speed between the rings would be great enough to likely make it impossible for a spaceship to travel from one ring to another with any current technology, Raymond said. However, each world would share its ring with thousands of others, and the relative speed between neighboring planets would be almost zero. "A space elevator could connect planets," Raymond said.
If each pair of neighboring planets along a given ring were connected, it would resemble a "Ringworld," a gigantic alien megastructure in Larry Niven's science-fiction epic of the same name. "The difference between this setup and the 'Ringworld' from Larry Niven's book is that, in this case, there is no livable surface area in between the planets," Raymond said.
Where might such million-planet systems come from? "I can imagine super-advanced aliens creating a system like the million-Earth solar system as a cosmic work of art, kind of like the art of skyscrapers or painted icebergs," Raymond said. "A way to say, 'Look how fancy we are,' on the grandest scale."
"Or maybe aliens would create this kind of system as a zoo," Raymond said. "They could have a gradient in climates from the hottest to coldest, and stock the planets with all sorts of creatures they collect across the universe. Of course, they'd have to be careful not to put the wrong combinations of space creatures on the same ring of planets, because that wouldn't end well."
All in all, "it's helpful to try to come up with all the possible planetary systems that might be out there," Raymond said. "Some discoveries could have been anticipated by 'going there' and imagining possibilities that are far outside the norm. These systems are a combination of science fiction and 'going there' in that sense."
"The main thing I go for is simply to try to push the limits of what we think is possible," Raymond concluded.
A bewildered motorist spotted what appears to be a UFO soaring over the road in front of her while she was driving close to a military naval base.
Junelyn Bitalac, 22, was on her way home from taking her mother to work in Hasting, Victoria in late May when she observed the object in the air.
She pulled over to take a closer look and was shocked to see a circular object, five metres in diameter, flying smoothly through clear skies.
Ms Bitalac managed to capture the unbelievable object on film, following it on its flight path before it disappeared behind trees.
After reviewing the video and having no idea what it could be, she posted it online in order to get some answers.
'I really do believe in aliens and extra-terrestrial life so I was quite amazed to spot what I saw – that's why I pulled out my phone straight away,' Ms Bitalac said.
The strange object pictured appears to be 5m in diameter and was spotted only 6km from a military naval base in Victoria
Once the video was re-posted on conspiracy page secureteam10, it managed to gain over 100,000 views in just a matter of hours.
Some online users observed the fact that Hastings is only 6km away from a naval military based - HMAS Cerberus on the Mornington Peninsula, with one user commenting 'Right next to military base - must be a drone'.
Junelyn Bitalac was on her way home from taking her mother to work in Hasting, Victoria when she observed the object in the air
Ms Bitalac said that most people who watched the video found the object quite unusual.
'I have never seen anything like it and have no clue what it was. But it is very interesting that I spotted it so close to a military base.'
More about the mind-boggling new studies suggesting that there could be many parallel universes beyond our own, where life is able to flourish.
Our galaxy, and the universe in general, formed in a way that is ideal to support life. Could other universes also be home to life of some kind? Image via Yuri Beletsky Nightscapes.
When it comes to searching for life elsewhere in the universe, we think of the rovers on Mars, or of sending probes to Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Or we think of looking for habitable exoplanets or exomoons. The universe we’re in feels infinite with possibilities, but – in contemplating alien life – could we go beyond even our own universe? Writing at NBC News Mach on May 28, 2018, Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, ponders this very theoretical, yet exciting idea of the possibility of life in parallel universes.
Shostak’s article is based on two related papers, published in May, in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. He focuses on explanations related to a hypothetical substance in our universe known as dark energy. The effect of dark energy appears to be a faster expansion of our universe over time.
The idea of parallel universes isn’t new. You find it in many fields of thought. But, in the physics community, the debate about this concept – which is sometimes called the multiverse hypothesis – has heated up in recent years. As Shostak explained in his Mach article:
The idea that other universes might exist arises from the realization that the Big Bang might not have been a unique event but a common one. How common? Stanford University physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have estimated that the number of unique parallel universes – ones that are independent of the cosmos you know and adore – could be written as a one followed by 10 thousand trillion zeroes. That’s not a number that has a name, and certainly not one you will ever encounter in the real world. I figure it would require 10 billion notebooks just to write this number down.
So, to paraphrase Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact, if our cosmos is the only one with life, then that’s an awful waste of universes.
How does dark energy relate to these possible parallel universes?
In their previous studies, physicists have concluded that our universe might have less dark energy than other universes, if those universes do exist. Parallel universes might have so much dark energy that stars and planets cannot form. In other words, in most universes, it might be the case that more dark energy leads to even faster expansion of the universe, preventing star- and planet-formation, making life unlikely.
The new studies, from scientists in the U.K., Australia and Holland, suggests dark energy doesn’t play a such a crucial role in whether parallel universes can support life, or not. As Shostak said:
Using computer models, the research team found they could vary the strength of dark energy from zero to several hundred times its value in our universe, and everything remained copacetic. Dark energy didn’t need to be any particular strength for galaxies and stars to form.
From the vantage point of life in other universes, that might be good news.
Is our universe just one of many?
There are still other factors to consider however, such as differences in nuclear or gravitational forces. Some other universes may still be completely sterile, unlike ours which has formed in ways that are ideal for life to exist. Shostak explained:
[Our universe’s] physical properties are remarkably suitable for the existence of life. If the forces that hold atoms together were even a bit different, the atomic reactions that power the stars wouldn’t work, and our cosmos would consist of nothing but hydrogen. Tweak those constants another way, and stars would burn themselves out so quickly that there would have been no time for the evolution of microbes, dinosaurs, or you. If the strength of gravity were just slightly altered, our universe would have either expanded too rapidly after the Big Bang for stars and galaxies to form – or would have collapsed in a Big Crunch.
It was also thought that dark matter was essential for galaxies to form, but, recently, the 10-billion-year-old galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, contains 400 times less dark matter than had been expected. That finding was published on March 28, 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. As Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University commented:
You don’t expect a galaxy to have no dark matter because dark matter is not something a galaxy can just opt out of.
All of this is conjecture, informed by the tools of modern physics and by high-powered computer modeling. It is speculative, but interesting food for thought. Parallel universes, dark energy and dark matter are the kinds of subjects which have long been relegated to science fiction, but today’s science is shedding new light on just how incredible the cosmos really is.
Thus, while we’re still searching for evidence of alien life in our own universe, the possibility of an almost infinite number of such universes – some inhabited – is truly mind-blowing.
Scanning electron microscope image of a purported bacteria-like fossil in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001. We are searching for evidence of alien life in our solar system and beyond. What about other universes?
Image via NASA.
Bottom line: As discussed previously at EarthSky, new research has suggested that the Big Bang may have been only one of countless others, that parallel universes might exist, but that life might not be possible in those other universes. Writing at NBC News Mach, Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute provides some insights on new studies, suggesting that might not be so.
WETENSCHAP Er zit een heuse nieuwe ‘gold rush’ aan te komen, maar deze keer in de ruimte. NASA en tal van andere bedrijven maken jacht op zeldzame grondstoffen op asteroïden die in totaal tot wel 700 triljoen dollar waard zouden zijn. 700 triljoen, dat is 700 miljard miljard, ofwel 700.000.000.000.000.000.000 dollar…
Bankiers van Goldman Sachs zeiden het al: de eerste biljonair (iemand die 1.000 miljard bezit) zal geen cryptobelegger of uitvinder zijn, maar wel een ontmijner van ruimtegrondstoffen. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA schat de totale waarde van de asteroïden binnen bereik op niet minder dan 700 triljoen dollar. Mocht je dat bedrag verdelen onder de wereldbevolking, dan zou elke mens op aarde 100 miljard dollar toegestopt krijgen. Volgens verschillende experten kan een dergelijke kapitaalsinjectie de wereldeconomie zelfs vernietigen.
Verschillende bedrijven ontwikkelen al technologieën om ruimtegesteente te ontginnen. Deep Space Industries ontwikkelt momenteel een speciale stoomschroef en het Britse AMC (Asteroid Mining Corporation) wil straks kleine ruimtetuigen uitsturen om platina te ontginnen op asteroïden. Het Amerikaanse bedrijf Planetary Resources, dat gesteund wordt door de beroemde Titanic-regisseur James Cameron, is momenteel druk in de weer met het ontwikkelen van robotvoertuigen die zeldzame grondstoffen van asteroïden kunnen halen.
NASA hoopt tegen 2022 de eerste missie de ruimte in te sturen om asteroïden te ontginnnen. De organisatie schat de totale opbrengst van die missie op zo’n 9.000 biljard euro, dat is 9.000 miljoen miljard, een haast onvatbaar bedrag.
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Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution
Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution
by Marlowe Hood
For the planet's 7.6 billion people, 500 million house sparrows, or 100,000 sandpipers, genetic diversity "is about the same," Mark Stoeckle from the Rockefeller University in New York told AFP
Who would have suspected that a handheld genetic test used to unmask sushi bars pawning off tilapia for tuna could deliver deep insights into evolution, including how new species emerge?
And who would have thought to trawl through five million of these gene snapshots—called "DNA barcodes"—collected from 100,000 animal species by hundreds of researchers around the world and deposited in the US government-run GenBank database?
That would be Mark Stoeckle from The Rockefeller University in New York and David Thaler at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who together published findings last week sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about how evolution unfolds.
It is textbook biology, for example, that species with large, far-flung populations—think ants, rats, humans—will become more genetically diverse over time.
But is that true?
"The answer is no," said Stoeckle, lead author of the study, published in the journal Human Evolution.
For the planet's 7.6 billion people, 500 million house sparrows, or 100,000 sandpipers, genetic diversity "is about the same," he told AFP.
The study's most startling result, perhaps, is that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
"This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could," Thaler told AFP.
That reaction is understandable: How does one explain the fact that 90 percent of animal life, genetically speaking, is roughly the same age?
Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?
Simpler, cheaper
To understand the answer, one has to understand DNA barcoding. Animals have two kinds of DNA.
The one we are most familiar with, nuclear DNA, is passed down in most animals by male and female parents and contains the genetic blueprint for each individual.
In analysing DNA barcodes across 100,000 species, researchers found a telltale sign showing that almost all the animals emerged about the same time as humans
The genome—made up of DNA—is constructed with four types of molecules arranged in pairs. In humans, there are three billion of these pairs, grouped into about 20,000 genes.
But all animals also have DNA in their mitochondria, which are the tiny structures inside each cell that convert energy from food into a form that cells can use.
Mitochondria contain 37 genes, and one of them, known as COI, is used to do DNA barcoding.
Unlike the genes in nuclear DNA, which can differ greatly from species to species, all animals have the same set of mitochondrial DNA, providing a common basis for comparison.
Mitochondrial DNA is also a lot simpler, and cheaper, to isolate.
Around 2002, Canadian molecular biologist Paul Hebert—who coined the term "DNA barcode"—figured out a way to identify species by analysing the COI gene.
"The mitochondrial sequence has proved perfect for this all-animal approach because it has just the right balance of two conflicting properties," said Thaler.
'Neutral' mutations
On the one hand, the COI gene sequence is similar across all animals, making it easy to pick out and compare.
On the other hand, these mitochondrial snippets are different enough to be able to distinguish between each species.
"It coincides almost perfectly with species designations made by specialist experts in each animal domain," Thaler said.
In analysing the barcodes across 100,000 species, the researchers found a telltale sign showing that almost all the animals emerged about the same time as humans.
What they saw was a lack of variation in so-called "neutral" mutations, which are the slight changes in DNA across generations that neither help nor hurt an individual's chances of survival.
In other words, they were irrelevant in terms of the natural and sexual drivers of evolution.
A new DNA study found that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago
How similar or not these "neutral" mutations are to each other is like tree rings—they reveal the approximate age of a species.
Which brings us back to our question: why did the overwhelming majority of species in existence today emerge at about the same time?
Darwin perplexed
Environmental trauma is one possibility, explained Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University.
"Viruses, ice ages, successful new competitors, loss of prey—all these may cause periods when the population of an animal drops sharply," he told AFP, commenting on the study.
"In these periods, it is easier for a genetic innovation to sweep the population and contribute to the emergence of a new species."
But the last true mass extinction event was 65.5 million years ago when a likely asteroid strike wiped out land-bound dinosaurs and half of all species on Earth. This means a population "bottleneck" is only a partial explanation at best.
"The simplest interpretation is that life is always evolving," said Stoeckle.
"It is more likely that—at all times in evolution—the animals alive at that point arose relatively recently."
In this view, a species only lasts a certain amount of time before it either evolves into something new or goes extinct.
And yet—another unexpected finding from the study—species have very clear genetic boundaries, and there's nothing much in between.
"If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies," said Thaler. "They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space."
The absence of "in-between" species is something that also perplexed Darwin, he said.
Nieuw onderzoek dwingt ons anders te kijken naar evolutie. Wetenschappers komen tot zeer verrassende conclusie
Nieuw onderzoek dwingt ons anders te kijken naar evolutie. Wetenschappers komen tot zeer verrassende conclusie
Mark Stoeckle van de Rockefeller University in New York en David Thaler van de Universiteit van Bazel in Zwitserland hebben een onderzoek gepubliceerd dat ons dwingt om anders te kijken naar evolutie.
Het meest opvallende resultaat van hun studie is dat negen van de 10 soorten die vandaag de dag op aarde leven, waaronder mensen, zo’n 100.000 tot 200.000 jaar geleden tegelijkertijd zijn verschenen.
“Deze conclusie is erg verrassend en ik heb er zo hard tegen gestreden als ik maar kon,” zei Thaler.
Even oud
Die reactie is misschien wel begrijpelijk: hoe kan iemand verklaren dat 90 procent van al het leven ongeveer even oud is.
Was er zo’n 200.000 jaar geleden een catastrofale gebeurtenis die al het leven wegvaagde? Zijn ze allemaal uit hetzelfde ruimteschip gestapt?
DNA wordt doorgegeven aan toekomstige generaties en bevat de genetische blauwdruk voor elk individu. Het genoom, bestaande uit DNA, bestaat uit vier soorten moleculen die in paren gerangschikt zijn.
Rond dezelfde tijd
Bij mensen zijn er drie miljard van deze paren, gegroepeerd in zo’n 20.000 genen.
Alle dieren hebben ook DNA in hun mitochondriën, kleine structuren die energie uit voedsel omzetten in energie.
Mitochondriën bevatten 37 genen en één daarvan, COI geheten, is gebruikt voor dit onderzoek.
Na 100.000 soorten te hebben onderzocht, ontdekten de wetenschappers tot hun verbazing dat vrijwel alle dieren rond dezelfde tijd zijn ontstaan als mensen.
On March 29, 2016, Albert Bender died at the age of 94. Most people with an interest in UFOs will know of Bender’s name. He was the man who thrust the Men in Black – and the mystery surrounding them – into the public domain in the 1950s. Bender was not the first person to encounter one of the creepy MIB, but there’s no denying it was thanks to him that the enigmatic issue became known widely. When the “modern era” of Ufology kicked off in June 1947 – thanks to the famous encounter of Kenneth Arnold at Mt. Rainier on the 24th of the month – it prompted numerous people to get involved in the study of the phenomenon. One of those was Albert Bender.
A resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bender was not just a devotee of all-things ufological. He was also heavily involved in – and interested in – all manner of paranormal, supernatural, and occult phenomena. He even converted his attic-based abode into what he termed his “Chamber of Horrors.” It was a dark and foreboding place filled with paintings of demons, witches, ghosts, and more – even an “altar,” one that was designed to summon up who knows what from who knows where.
As Bender’s interest in UFOs expanded, he established his own journal – Space Review – which attracted a sizeable, worldwide audience. And he created his own group too, the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB). It wasn’t long, however, before things began to go wrong for Bender. As in very wrong. Quite out of the blue, in 1953, Bender quit Ufology. He closed down the IFSB, stopped producing Space Review, and walked away from UFOs. It might be more accurate to say he fled Ufology.
Gray Barker – an author and publisher on matters relative to UFOs – was an acquaintance of Bender and ultimately became a friend. When he learned that Bender’s exit from Ufology was prompted by a series of chilling, intimidating visits from a trio of ghoulish men dressed in black – and with nothing less than glowing eyes and sporting fedoras – Barker knew this was a story that had to be told. And it was: in Barker’s 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. It should be noted, however, that Barker omitted most of the really weird material, preferring instead to imply that the MIB were from nothing stranger than “the government.” Then, six years later, Bender came briefly out of “retirement” to pen his own book on the eerie affair, Flying Saucers and the Three Men. After which, Bender left Ufology for good.
The purpose of this article is not to delve into all of the intricacies of the Bender controversy, but to demonstrate the incredible extent to which Bender’s account influenced the world of entertainment. Five years after Flying Saucers and the Three Men was published, ABC aired a short-lived, but well-remembered show called The Invaders. Running for just two seasons, The Invaders told the story of a man named David Vincent (actor Roy Thinnes) who finds himself caught up in a nightmarish battle against hostile aliens. In the show, the ETs are able to take on human form. The only things that give them away are their mutated little fingers. The show is filled with MIB imagery: the aliens on The Invaders often drive black cars (as do the real MIB), they wear dark suits and fedoras, they are very good at dishing out threats and intimidation, and they can control the human mind – something which has been reported in many MIB encounters. In other words, there’s very little doubt that the Bender saga had a major influence on how the brains behind The Invaders chose to present the alien menace. Not as bug-eyed little critters or as tentacle-waving monsters, but as emotionless men in suits.
The Invaders is hardly a solitary example of how the Men in Black have infected the world of on-screen entertainment. Indeed, there are many. Of course, the most visible and obvious example is the incredibly successful trilogy of Men in Blackmovies starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. In the movies, the primary characters are “J” and “K” (who were named after MIB pursuer and author John Keel, of The Mothman Propheciesfame). Whereas Bender’s MIB were clearly supernatural in nature, in the movies the Men in Black work for a super-secret agency. Nevertheless there’s no doubt that the Hollywood movies – based on Lowell Cunningham’s Men in Black comic-book series of the 1990s – was, to some degree, inspired by Bender’s experiences.
Then, there’s the equally popular and successful Matrix movies, starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Laurence Fishbourne. Those films, too, have their very own Men in Black. They’re known as “The Agents,” computer programs whose job it is to prevent anyone from getting close to the truth of the simulated world of the Matrix of the movies’ titles. The Agents are the Men in Black in all but name. They are emotionless and threatening, and they wear black suits and black sunglasses.
There are also “The Observers” from Fringe, a sci-fi-themed show that ran on Fox from 2008 to 2013. In the show, the Observers dress in dark suits, wear equally dark fedoras and skinny black ties, and have pale skin and emotionless faces and characters. Would they have even existed without Albert Bender’s widely publicized run-ins with the MIB? Probably not. At the very least, not in the form they appeared in the show.
Finally, we come to a 1998 movie that doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. Its title: Dark City. Not unlike The Matrix in many respects, Dark City – which was released in 1998, one year before The Matrix surfaced – is an intriguing production. It stars Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connolly, Richard O’Brien, and William Hurt. As the title suggests, Dark City revolves around a city which exists in perpetual night. We get to meet the people who inhabit it, and we soon learn that the city is not what it appears to be. In fact, reality itself is not what it appears to be. Dark City, too, has its equivalents of Albert Bender’s threatening thugs from beyond. They’re called “The Strangers.” Long black coats and dark hats are their uniforms.
In my view, and based upon my lengthy studies of the MIB phenomenon, the Strangers of Dark City are the closest fictional things to the real Men in Black. Pale-faced, they surface only at night. Threatening and dangerous, they are mind-controllers and manipulators who exude menace. Indeed, Richard O’Brien’s portrayal of one of the anemic-looking Strangers is masterful. Again, the Albert Bender imagery and story are present for all to see.
Dark City, Men in Black, The Matrix, The Invaders, and Fringe – and more – all owe a debt of gratitude to Albert Bender. Had it not been for that strange and sinister series of encounters in Bender’s “Chamber of Horrors” in the early 1950s, it’s highly unlikely any of those shows and movies would have turned out the way they did.
On their way home two friends noticed a bright light above Lake Mälaren in Strängnäs, Sweden on June 10, 2018.
Misha who has filmed the object, for about 7 minutes before it disappeared, said the object made no noise and it looked like it sucked water from the lake.
The shortened footage shows a bright light above the lake, a reflection of the light is seen on the water, as well as a strange blue object. A bridge is visible in the background.
Carina Lindqvist who put the video on her channel says “My friend Misha is convinced he has filmed a UFO.”
On May 27 of this year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “UFOs: When Governments Come Clean.” The article specifically focused on three incredible UFO incidents documented by the U.K.’s military in the 1950s. The point of the article was to demonstrate that, despite what more than a few UFO researches have said, government and military agencies do release official papers that pretty much confirm the existence of the UFO phenomenon. Not everything of a sensational nature is withheld. Today, with the above in mind, I thought: why not demonstrate how this situation applies to not just the U.K., but to the United States, too?
On more than a few occasions, I have heard people say words to the effect of, “Nothing of any significance, on UFOs, has ever surfaced under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.” Time and again, I have seen people in Ufology loudly proclaim that all of the “good” material is withheld by the alleged “Black Budget” or “Special Access Programs” that secretly oversee official research into UFOs.
Certainly, there’s no doubt in my mind that important material on the UFO phenomenon most assuredly is withheld from us. But, to maintain that nothing – or hardly anything – of an incredible nature has ever surfaced via FOIA is ridiculous. It’s a statement born, largely, out of overwhelming ignorance. So, I figured it’s time to present you with one, classic example that demonstrates how the Freedom of Information Act has proved to be very useful in securing extremely solid data on UFOs. We’re talking about a December 10, 1948 document which originated with the U.S. Air Force and which is titled “Analysis of Flying Objects in the US.”
Unlike so many official documents that have surfaced via FOIA, this one was originally classified Top Secret, which makes it an important and historic one. Indeed, the UFO records that have surfaced via FOIA are, at most, Secret in nature, with the majority of them having even lower levels of classification.
The USAF document stated that, “A number of reports of unidentified flying objects come from observers who, because of their technical background and experience, do not appear to be influenced by unfounded sensationalism nor inclined to report explainable phenomena as new types of airborne devices.” The Air Force continued that one report which particularly stood out occurred in April 1947. This was two months before Kenneth Arnold’s now-famous sighting of a squadron of unknown aircraft near Mount Rainier, at the Cascade Range. It was a sighting that spawned the term “flying saucer.”
The Air Force noted the following in its “Analysis of Flying Objects in the US” document: “During April 1947, two employees of the Weather Bureau Station at Richmond, Virginia, reported seeing a strange metallic disk on three occasions…One observation was at 15,000 feet when a disk was followed for 15 seconds. The disk appeared metallic, shaped like an ellipse with a flat bottom and a round top…The disk appeared to be moving rather rapidly, although it was impossible to estimate its speed.”
Then, there is the following from the USAF, which describes a notable encounter on June 28, 1947, just four days after Kenneth Arnold’s historic encounter. According to the Air Force, “While flying at 10,000 feet on a course of 300 degrees, 30 miles northwest of Lake Meade, Nevada, an Air Force lieutenant reported seeing five or six while circular objects in close formation and traveling at an estimated speed of 285 miles per hour.”
Less than twenty-four hours later, the Air Force documentation shows, “…a party of three, two of them scientists, were motoring along Highway 17 toward the White Sands, New Mexico, V-2 firing grounds and reported seeing a large disk or sphere moving horizontally at a high speed and an estimated altitude of 10,000 feet. It was of uniform shape and had no protruding surfaces such as wings. The object was in sight for about 60 seconds before it disappeared to the northeast. The three observers agreed on the details of the sighting except that one thought he had seen vapor trails.”
Then there are the events which occurred on July 7, also referenced in the Air Force documentation: “On 7 July 1947, five Portland, Oregon police officers reported varying numbers of disks flying over different parts of the city. All observations were made within a minute or two of 1305 hours. On the same day, William Rhoads of Phoenix, Arizona allegedly saw a disk circling his locality during sunset and took two photographs. The resulting pictures…show a disk-like object with a round front and a square tail in plan form. These photographs have been examined by experts who state they are true photographic images and do not appear to be imperfection in the emulsion or imperfections in the lens.”
And the reports just kept coming and coming: “On 10 July 1947, Mr. Woodruff, a Pan-American Airways mechanic reported a circular object flying at high velocity, paralleling the earth’s surface and leaving a trail which appeared as a ‘burning up’ of the cloud formation. The sighting occurred near Harmon Field, Newfoundland. Two other persons also saw the trail which remained in the sky for about an hour and was photographed by another PAA employee. The resulting photographs support Mr. Woodruff’’s observation as far as the sky cleavage is concerned.”
Moving into 1948, the Air Force noted no shortage of high-quality encounters involving military personnel in that year, too. One such case is written-up in the following fashion: “On 5 April 1948, three trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Laboratory Section, Watson Laboratories, N.J. reported seeing a round, indistinct object in the vicinity of Hollman Air Force Base, New Mexico. It was very high and fast, and appeared to execute violent maneuvers at high speed. The object was under observation for approximately 30 seconds and disappeared suddenly.”
In July 1948, there was an astonishing encounter involving no less than a dozen UFOs, all of significant size: “On 1 July 1948, twelve disks were reported over the Rapid City Air Base by Major Hammer. These disks were oval-shaped, about 100 feet long, flying at a speed estimated to be in excess of 500 mph. Descending from 10,000 feet, these disks made a 30-degree to 40-degree climbing turn accelerating very rapidly until out of sight.”
And the list of remarkable sightings – all of which were recorded in official, Top Secret documentation – continued. As the report shows, various theories were addressed to try and determine who, or what, was flying the UFOs. Theories addressed included domestic programs of the U.S. military and similar projects initiated by the Soviets, specifically in the field of radical aircraft design.
The Air Force’s conclusions: “Since the Air Force is responsible for control of the air in the defense of the U.S., it is imperative that all other agencies cooperate in confirming or denying the possibility that these objects have a domestic origin. Otherwise, if it is firmly indicated that there is no domestic explanation, the objects are a threat and warrant more active efforts of identification and interception…It must be accepted that some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernible. In the interest of national defense it would be unwise to overlook the possibility that some of these objects may be of foreign origin.”
In view of all the above, if you find yourself on the receiving end of claims that the FOIA is ineffectual when it comes to UFOs, refer them to the “Analysis of Flying Objects in the US” document.
Area 51, flying saucers from another world – and the program to create a fierce technology. Bob Lazar has lived a wild life. He remains the singular most famous and controversial name in the world of UFOs. The reason you know about Area 51 is because Lazar came forward and told you about it. His disclosures have turned his life upside-down and he has tried to stay out of the spotlight. For this reason, he has never let any filmmaker into the private world of his daily life – that is – until now. Jeremy Corbell’s film will explore Lazar’s claims through the lens of thirty years – providing rare and never before revealed footage – guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate. Bob Lazar feature length documentary coming December 2018!
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover identifies organic molecules within ancient Red Planet rocks, Jupiter's lighting is strikingly similar to the those seen on Earth and thousands of small space rocks could be behind evidence for the strange "Planet 9" be behind the dramatic orbit of a dwarf planet beyond Neptune. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
1. Curiosity spots building blocks of life
This week, researchers announced that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered the building blocks of life within 3.5 billion-year-old Martian rocks. According to one of two studies published on Thursday (June 7) about these findings, the rover identified carbon-based molecules in powdered samples drilled out of Mars' Yellowknife Bay. These results don't give evidence of life, but the possibility still exists the molecules could have come from an ancient life source.
Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
2. Moon is slowing down Earth's days
A figure skater spins slower when his or her arms are stretched away from the body, and a new study published on Monday (June 4) suggests a similar phenomenon is causing longer days on Earth. In a recent study, astronomers found evidence that Earth days once lasted just 18 hours. The moon is slowly spirally away from Earth, and this causes Earth to take more time turning on its axis. µ
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider first confirmed the existence of a particle called the Higgs boson in 2013, which helps explain why some particles have mass. Their discovery filled in the last missing part of the Standard Model of physics, but left some unanswered questions about how the Higgs behaves. In a new paper published June 4, measurements from two new experiments may be able to fill in those gaps.
Two astronauts and one cosmonaut launched into space on Wednesday (June 6). NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to reach the International Space Station (ISS).
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSS-Univ. of Arizona
5. Fireball over Southern Africa
A small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over Botswana, the southern African nation, on June 2. The asteroid is called 2018 LA and astronomers first discovered it just hours before impact. Spectators in South Africa captured its fiery descent on video.
On Tuesday (June 5) China launched the 1.4-metric-ton Fengyun-2H weather satellite, marking the 17th Chinese launch of 2018. The Long March 3A vehicle carrying Fengyun-2H lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
Photo Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ LK Ward
7. Worldview of weather
Viewers can see almost two decades worth of weather patterns on their web browsers with NASA's new Worldview tool. Its imagery comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Researchers have detected more than 1,600 instances of lighting on Jupiter, and the storms bear "astounding" similarity to those on Earth. Their new findings, taken by examining data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, suggest Jupiter's lightning storms also occur more frequently than once thought.
Small distant objects found beyond Neptune's chilly orbit may be behind the orbit imprint previously hypothesized to be evidence of a "Planet Nine". Researchers presented their results on June 4, stating that the collective pushing of these thousands of space rocks could be enough to send large bodies into extreme orbits.
A new set of six commemorative stamps will celebrate the 50th anniversary of UNISPACE 1, the first conference in which the world met about peaceful uses of outer space. The United Nations Postal Administration will release the stamps on June 20 in Geneva, New York and Vienna.
Lots of people claim to have seen UFOs. Does that make them ufologists?
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Nick Pope was a career civil servant with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) when he got an odd assignment. It was 1991, two years before the premier episode of "The X-Files," but Pope was about to take on a job that would earn him the nickname "the real Fox Mulder." He was to investigate each and every UFO sighting reported to the British government.
More than 25 years later, Pope is one of the world's leading UFO experts and a fixture at UFO conferences like Contact in the Desert and the International UFO Congress, where he lectures on government-sponsored UFO investigations, conspiracy theories and the disclosure of classified government documents. But he wasn't always a UFO-head.
"I really started from a baseline of zero," says Pope, explaining that his four-year assignment to the "UFO desk" at MoD was one of many different posts at the agency, and was not based on any prior knowledge or personal interest in UFOs.
His office received between 200 and 300 sighting reports a year. His job was to call up witnesses, gather as much information as possible about the appearance of the mystery objects, as well as the precise locations and times of the sightings, and then get to work checking those facts against "the usual suspects."
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In 95 percent of cases, there was a simple earthly explanation for what the witnesses had seen -- maybe aircraft lights or weather balloons. But even in those rare cases where a sighting couldn't be rationally explained, Pope's job was to downplay its significance to the public, the media and British lawmakers. The message: "Move along, folks. Nothing to see here."
Pope felt it was his duty to read everything he could get his hands on about the history of UFO sightings and leading theories about their origins, including fanciful conspiracies. After he left the UFO desk in 1994, but while still at the MoD, he co-authored a book with some of the key witnesses in the Rendelsham Forest incident, known as England's Roswell.
The success of the book led to calls from TV and movie producers looking for insight from a real UFO investigator. Pope retired from the MoD and moved to America in 2012 to become a full-time UFO expert. In addition to writing and lecturing at conferences, he's a popular talking head on TV shows like "Ancient Aliens."
Pope would not call himself a ufologist, rather a UFO investigator. He admits that he came about his UFO expertise in an unconventional way. Most of his fellow UFO panelists, authors and TV commentators were either inspired by their own life-altering UFO sighting or drawn to the topic as lifelong fans of the paranormal.
"I'm an awkward fit at some of these [UFO] events, I have to say," Pope admits. "Some people, I suspect, think that I'm the bad guy, and I've heard a lot of people in the conspiracy theory community say that I'm still secretly working for the government, that I'm part of some disinformation campaign or whatever the theory is."
Becoming a Ufologist
No accurate figures exist on how many ufologists there are in the world. Ufology (the study of UFOs or unidentified flying objects) is considered a pseudoscience, though national governments have been involved in investigating UFOs. (The MoD UFO project closed down in 2009. The U.S. government is apparently still tracking them, according to the New York Times.)
As such, no traditional colleges or universities offer degree programs in ufology, but there are some online options. International Metaphysical University offers six courses in Ufology Studies, including Introduction to Ufology taught by Richard Dolan, a well-known expert who also has a history degree from Alfred University. The 12-lecture online course covers topics such as "What are UFOs?," "Theories of Ancient Visitation," and "The Early Cover-Up." Courses cost between $200 and $400 each.
Under a "Career Options" tab, the university website notes ufologists can seek work as lecturers, writers, movie consultants or even political activists "working toward disclosure or working in the political and government arena on the area of UFOs in preparation for contact or landings." Furthermore, "You can also set up a career as a life coach or hypnotist working directly with contactees and abductees." Whether these careers turn out to lucrative will no doubt depend on the circles you move in.
Two other online universities -- the Centre of Excellence in the U.K. and the IMHS Metaphysical Institute -- offer full degree programs in ufology. It's hard to imagine a better conversation-starter than, "I recently got my Ph.D. in Ufology with a specialization in abduction research." Cost for that "advanced" degree is under $2,000.
Another approach is to get out there and do some Fox Mulder-ing of your own as a trained UFO investigator. In the U.S., the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is actively recruiting field investigators to look into the dozen or more sightings reported to the organization every day. You must be 18 or older and pass a certification examination based on the field investigator manual. The British UFO Research Organization (BUFORA) offers a similar course for folks in the U.K.
Pope is a little skeptical of these training and certification programs, because he knows that most participants are true UFO believers who could let their biases get in the way of a clear-eyed investigation. Not that Pope himself wouldn't be psyched to find definitive proof that ETs exist.
"My view is the world would be more interesting with aliens in it than without, but that doesn't mean I'm going to try to prove that," says Pope. "I'm just going to go where the data take me."
NOW THAT'S COOL
Pope helped secure the release of all documents held by the British government related to UFO sightings and investigations dating back to when Winston Churchill first created the "UFO desk." The files are now available to the public at The National Archives outside of London.
The existence of aliens has long been a debating point among conspiracy theorists and space experts. Even though space agencies like NASA have long refuted claims of alien existence, they are still on the hunt to find extraterrestrials which may be living in the outer space.
However, conspiracy theorists strongly argue that aliens have been visiting earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and they are blaming the government and space agencies like NASA for covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Here is a glance at five strong signs often put forward arguing that aliens have already been on earth.
1. Flying saucers everywhere
Surfing the internet using the word 'UFO' will populate too many videos showing unidentified flying objects hovering across the skies in various parts of the world. Even though many of these videos are being made using CGI, there are some authentic clips which still remain unanswered and mysterious.
As the video turned viral on the internet, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research set up a team to check the authenticity of the clip. After nine years of extensive research, the team found that the flying object spotted in the video did not have an earthly origin. The report also added that the video was not subjected to any kind of editing.
However, a section of people believe that these crafts are actually secret military crafts developed by the United States and Russia. The imminent question is -- Do these craft have an alien origin, or are they secretive military vessels like the alleged TR-3B?
2. Ancient cave paintings hide a million mysteries
A few years ago, archeologists in India discovered some bizarre cave paintings in rocks at Charama, Chhattisgarh. Interestingly, these rock paintings depicted alien-like figures wearing suits very similar to modern day space suits. The startling drawings also featured disc-shaped flying saucers, each with a fan-like antenna and three legs.
After analyzing the cave drawings, archeologists came to the conclusion that these cave drawings were painted before 10,000 years. For humans beings, space travel became a reality in the 20th century, then how can ancient Indians draw paintings featuring aliens and flying saucers?
Another popular depiction of aliens in cave paintings can be seen in Christina Lake, British Columbia, Canada. These paintings feature flying saucers with large wings hovering above a group of people.
Recently, renowned television anchor Giorgio Tsoukalos, known for presenting 'Ancient Aliens' in History Channel revealed that aliens used to visit humans in the ancient ages. The television conspiracy theorist also revealed that ancient humans have misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their advanced technology was interpreted as magic. Those who believe in this theory argue that aliens had brought these advanced knowledge and culture to the human civilization on earth.
3. Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
In December 2017, Pentagon shocked the entire world by admitting that they have conducted a UFO search program under the name 'Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program'. The million dollar project was carried out to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFO sightings.
The US Defense Department also released a video featuring an unidentified flying object being trailed by a US F-18 jet. Interestingly, the UFO spotted in the video flew across the sky defying all the known laws of physics, and it indicates that this object is made from advanced alien technology.
4. Impeccable ancient structures
There are several structures on the earth like Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Nazca lines, and Sacsayhuamán that are too big, too complex and too heavy for the ancient humans to build. Even in the modern days, humans will find it hard to build such marvelous structures with impeccable architecture. So, who built these massive structures? The answer still remains an enigma.
5. Admission from a top Canadian Minister
Last year, Paul Hellyer, the former Canadian Minister of National Defence, emerged out of nowhere to claim that aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years. The former cabinet minister also said that the US Air Force has been using weapons and crafts made with alien technology since the 1960s.
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Aliens kunnen zich mogelijk toch redden in het Alpha Centauri-systeem
Aliens kunnen zich mogelijk toch redden in het Alpha Centauri-systeem
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Alleen waarschijnlijk niet nabij de ster waarvan we weten dat deze ook daadwerkelijk een planeet bezit.
Alpha Centauri is het dichtstbijzijnde stersysteem. Het telt drie sterren: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B en Proxima Centauri. “Omdat het relatief dichtbij staat, wordt het Alpha Centauri-systeem door velen ook gezien als de beste kandidaat in de zoektocht naar tekenen van leven,” aldus onderzoeker Tom Ayres. Dat enthousiasme over dit stersysteem werd verder aangezwengeld toen onderzoekers een paar jaar geleden een aardachtige planeet ontdekten die in de leefbare zone rond Proxima Centauri cirkelt.
Alpha Centauri A en B De laatste tijd wordt aan de leefbaarheid van deze planeet echter sterk getwijfeld. Observaties hebben namelijk uitgewezen dat Proxima Centauri een nogal opvliegende ster is die de omgeving regelmatig met levensgevaarlijke straling bombardeert. Men vreest dan ook dat aliens geen schijn van kans maken op Proxima b. Maar in een nieuwe studie pleiten onderzoekers ervoor om het Alpha Centauri-systeem op basis van die observaties toch nog niet af te schrijven. Want ja, rond Proxima Centauri is het waarschijnlijk heel onaangenaam, maar rond Alpha Centauri A en B ziet het er een stuk beter uit.
Chandra De onderzoekers trekken die conclusies op basis van waarnemingen van het röntgenobservatorium Chandra. Het observatorium bestudeerde Alpha Centauri A en B vanaf 2005 elke zes maanden. En op basis van de verzamelde data kunnen onderzoekers nu meer zeggen over de straling die beide sterren afgeven en wat dat betekent voor eventuele planeten in de leefbare zone. Zo suggereert de Chandra-data dat planeten die in de leefbare zone rond Alpha Centauri A cirkelen gemiddeld minder röntgenstraling ontvangen dan vergelijkbare planeten rond onze eigen zon. Eventuele planeten in de leefbare zone rond Alpha Centauri B krijgen slechts vijf keer meer röntgenstraling te verstouwen dan vergelijkbare planeten rond de zon. “Chandra laat ons zien dat het leven op planeten rond deze twee sterren een kans heeft,” aldus Ayres.
Een artistieke impressie van Proxima b.
Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.
Proxima b Heel anders is dat echter voor Proxima Centauri – de enige ster in het systeem waarvan we op dit moment zeker weten dat deze een planeet in de leefbare zone bezit. Planeten in de leefbare zone van deze ster zouden gemiddeld een 500 keer hogere dosis röntgenstraling ontvangen dan de aarde. En wanneer Proxima Centauri flinke zonnevlammen produceert, kan de dosis röntgenstraling waarmee Proxima b gebombardeerd wordt zelfs wel 50.000 keer groter zijn dan de dosis die de aarde te verstouwen krijgt.
Tot op heden zijn rond Alpha Centauri A en B nog geen planeten ontdekt. Het is ook erg lastig om rond de heldere sterren naar planeten te zoeken, omdat hun baan ervoor zorgt dat ze momenteel vrij dicht bij elkaar aan de hemel staan. Maar astronomen houden moed en sluiten zeker niet uit dat de sterren nog wat te verbergen hebben. Mocht dat zo zijn dan kunnen die planeten uiteindelijk dus nog wel eens veel interessanter blijken te zijn voor de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven dan de bejubelde Proxima b.
Zware stofstorm kan de ondergang van Marsrover Opportunity worden
Zware stofstorm kan de ondergang van Marsrover Opportunity worden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zal de stokoude rover het onder die dikke stofdeken wel redden?
Niemand die het weet. Wat we wél weten, is dat de stofstorm – die op 1 juni voor het eerst werd gespot – alleen maar erger wordt. En inmiddels is de stofstorm zelfs heftiger dan de storm die Opportunity in 2007 ternauwernood wist te overleven.
Signaal Het goede nieuws is dat NASA gisterenavond – rond 22.00 uur Nederlandse tijd – nog een signaal van Opportunity heeft ontvangen. En daaruit bleek dat deze in dit stadium nog voldoende energie in de accu’s heeft zitten om te overleven. Maar duidelijk is wel dat deze stofstorm niet te lang stand moet houden.
Zonne-energie Marsrover Opportunity moet het hebben van zonne-energie. En dan is een stofstorm – waarbij stofdeeltjes in de atmosfeer worden gezwiept, alwaar ze zonlicht tegenhouden – natuurlijk geen goed nieuws. Vorige week woensdag bleek het energieniveau van de rover al zo laag te zijn dat NASA zich gedwongen zag alle wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord van de rover stil te leggen. Op dit moment stopt de rover alleen energie in zijn eigen overleven. Het betekent eigenlijk dat de rover voornamelijk bezig is om zijn accu’s – waar deze het momenteel van moet hebben – warm te houden. Dat kost echter behoorlijk wat energie. De vraag is dan ook of Opportunity voldoende energie heeft om deze storm uit te zitten.
Hier zie je de groeiende stofstorm op Mars. De blauwe stip geeft de locatie van Opportunity aan.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Duur van de storm Hoelang de storm gaat duren? Dat weet niemand. Martiaanse stofstormen kunnen vrij plotseling ontstaan en heel hardnekkig blijken. Soms blijven ze weken- of zelfs maandenlang hangen.
De storm van 2007 Zoals gezegd is het niet de eerste keer dat Opportunity een flinke stofstorm voor de kiezen krijgt. In 2007 was het ook al raak. Toen focuste de rover zich gedurende twee weken op zijn eigen overleven en was er zelfs een aantal dagen geen contact met aarde mogelijk, omdat er zoveel mogelijk energie bespaard moest worden. Uiteindelijk zwakte de storm af en kon Opportunity weer zonne-energie opwekken. Duidelijk is dat deze storm een stuk heftiger is. Zo had de storm uit 2007 een tau-waarde – dat zegt iets over de mate waarin de atmosfeer ondoorzichtig is – van 5.5. Deze storm heeft echter – op dit moment – een tau van 10.8.
Iets hogere temperaturen Maar: elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel. Zo wijst NASA erop dat de rover zolang deze onder een dikke stofwolk gebukt gaat, ook minder te maken heeft met grote temperatuurveranderingen. Het stof dat zonlicht tegenhoudt, absorbeert namelijk ook warmte, waardoor de omgevingstemperatuur stijgt. En inderdaad, volgens de laatste metingen is de luchttemperatuur rond Opportunity zo’n -29 graden Celsius. Het betekent nog steeds dat de accu’s tegen de Martiaanse kou moeten worden beschermd, maar minder dan wanneer Opportunity niet midden in een heftige stofstorm zou zitten. Aan de andere kant; het verwarmen van de accu’s kost nog steeds heel veel energie.
NASA houdt de rover hoe dan ook goed in de gaten en houdt er serieus rekening mee dat Opportunity het niet gaat redden. Als de rover geen energie meer heeft om de accu’s warm te houden en dus te sterk afkoelt, is het gewoon klaar. Tegelijkertijd houd de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie moed. NASA wijst erop dat de rover – die oorspronkelijk 90 dagen mee moest gaan – in de vijftien jaar dat deze nu op Mars rondrijdt, keer op keer heeft aangetoond veel meer te kunnen hebben dan gedacht.
Nieuwe mysterieuze G-objecten ontdekt nabij het zwarte gat in onze Melkweg
Nieuwe mysterieuze G-objecten ontdekt nabij het zwarte gat in onze Melkweg
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Onduidelijk blijft hoe deze objecten precies zijn ontstaan.
De onderzoekers ontdekten de objecten in data die met behulp van het W.M. Keck Observatory op Hawaii gedurende een periode van twaalf jaar zijn verzameld. “Deze compacte, stoffige stellaire objecten bewegen extreem snel en vlak bij het supermassieve zwarte gat in onze Melkweg,” vertelt onderzoeker Anna Ciurlo. “Het is fascinerend om ze jaar na jaar te zien bewegen. Hoe zijn ze hier beland? En wat moet er van terecht komen? Ze hebben een interessant verhaal te vertellen.”
G1 en G2 Het is niet voor het eerst dat onderzoekers stoffige stellaire objecten – ook wel G-objecten genoemd – nabij het zwarte gat in het hart van onze Melkweg ontdekken. Zo werd er in 2004 al eentje ontdekt – deze kreeg de naam G1 – en in 2012 ontdekten de onderzoekers er nog één (G2). In eerste instantie leek het te gaan om stofwolken. Maar daar kwamen de onderzoekers op terug toen G1 en G2 het zwarte gat naderden en de ontmoeting met het zwarte gat – dat een enorme aantrekkingskracht heeft – wisten te overleven. “Als het gaswolken waren, zouden G1 en G2 niet intact zijn gebleven,” legt onderzoeker Mark Morris uit. “We denken dan ook dat G-objecten opgeblazen sterren zijn.” Die opgeblazen sterren zouden gigantisch zijn. En wanneer ze het zwarte gat naderen, kan het zwarte gat materie uit de atmosfeer van de ster, naar zich toetrekken. Maar op de kern van de ster zelf krijgt het zwarte gat geen grip; die kern is zo zwaar dat deze de ontmoeting met het zwarte gat kan navertellen.
“HET WORDT MET NAME INTERESSANT WANNEER G3, G4 EN G5 HET PUNT IN HUN BAAN BEREIKEN DAT HEN HET DICHTST BIJ HET ZWARTE GAT BRENGT”
Ontstaan En nu zijn er na G1 en G2 drie nieuwe G-objecten nabij het zwarte gat in het hart van de Melkweg ontdekt. Deze hebben de namen G3, G4 en G5 gekregen. Ze hebben dezelfde eigenschappen als G1 en G2 en dus rijst opnieuw de vraag: hoe ontstaan deze G-objecten precies? Hoe kan een ster zo gigantisch groot worden dat deze de aantrekkingskracht van een zwart gat – in ieder geval tijdelijk – kan weerstaan? Onderzoekers weten het niet precies. Maar ze hebben er wel een theorie over. Aangenomen wordt dat ze het resultaat zijn van een fusie in een dubbelstersysteem. In zo’n systeem cirkelen twee sterren om elkaar heen. Maar als zo’n dubbelster te dicht bij een zwart gat in de buurt komt, kunnen de banen van de twee sterren verstoord raken, waardoor ze uiteindelijk op elkaar klappen en fuseren. “In de periode na de fusie zou het daaruit voortkomende object langdurig – misschien wel een miljoen jaar – ‘opgeblazen’ of opgezwollen zijn, waarna het tot bedaren komt en eruit ziet als een ster van normale omvang,” aldus Morris.
De onderzoekers blijven de G-objecten goed in de gaten houden. Het wordt met name interessant wanneer G3, G4 en G5 het punt in hun baan bereiken dat hen het dichtst bij het zwarte gat brengt. Zullen de G-objecten die ontmoeting net als G1 en G2 overleven? Of worden ze opgeslokt? Pas op dat moment zullen we de objecten met zekerheid kunnen karakteriseren. Maar we moeten nog even geduld hebben. “We moeten nog een paar decennia wachten tot dit gebeurt,” vertelt Morris. “Ongeveer 20 jaar voor G3 en nog enkele decennia langer voor G4 en G5.”
Earth is a place dominated by water, mainly oceans. It’s also a place our researchers study to understand life. Trillions of gallons of water flow freely across the surface of our blue-green planet. Ocean’s vibrant ecosystems impact our lives in many ways.
In celebration of World Oceans Day, here are a few things you might not know about these complex waterways.
1. Why is the ocean blue?
The way light is absorbed and scattered throughout the ocean determines which colors it takes on. Red, orange, yellow,and green light are absorbed quickly beneath the surface, leaving blue light to be scattered and reflected back. This causes us to see various blue and violet hues.
2. Want a good fishing spot?
Follow the phytoplankton! These small plant-like organisms are the beginning of the food web for most of the ocean. As phytoplankton grow and multiply, they are eaten by zooplankton, small fish and other animals. Larger animals then eat the smaller ones. The fishing industry identifies good spots by using ocean color images to locate areas rich in phytoplankton. Phytoplankton, as revealed by ocean color, frequently show scientists where ocean currents provide nutrients for plant growth.
3. The ocean is many colors.
When we look at the ocean from space, we see many different shades of blue. Using instruments that are more sensitive than the human eye, we can measure carefully the fantastic array of colors of the ocean. Different colors may reveal the presence and amount of phytoplankton, sediments and dissolved organic matter.
4. The ocean can be a dark place.
About 70 percent of the planet is ocean, with an average depth of more than 12,400 feet. Given that light doesn’t penetrate much deeper than 330 feet below the water’s surface (in the clearest water), most of our planet is in a perpetual state of darkness. Although dark, this part of the ocean still supports many forms of life, some of which are fed by sinking phytoplankton.
6. In a gallon of average sea water, there is about ½ cup of salt.
The amount of salt varies depending on location. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean, for instance. Most of the salt in the ocean is the same kind of salt we put on our food: sodium chloride.
7. A single drop of sea water is teeming with life.
It will most likely have millions (yes, millions!) of bacteria and viruses, thousands of phytoplankton cells, and even some fish eggs, baby crabs, and small worms.
8. Where does Earth store freshwater?
Just 3.5 percent of Earth’s water is fresh—that is, with few salts in it. You can find Earth’s freshwater in our lakes, rivers, and streams, but don’t forget groundwater and glaciers. Over 68 percent of Earth’s freshwater is locked up in ice and glaciers. And another 30 percent is in groundwater.
9. Phytoplankton are the “lungs of the ocean”.
Just like forests are considered the “lungs of the earth”, phytoplankton is known for providing the same service in the ocean! They consume carbon dioxide, dissolved in the sunlit portion of the ocean, and produce about half of the world’s oxygen.
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Researchers say they figured out how the ancient people of Easter Island put 12-ton hats on the mysterious statues.
Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues.
A team of researchers that includes experts from Binghamton University, State University at New York, worked out that the island’s inhabitants used a technique called “parbuckling” that uses ropes and a ramp.
"Of the many questions that surround the island's past, two tend to stand out: How did people of the past move such massive statues (moai) and how did they place such massive stone hats (pukao) on top of their heads?" said Carl Lipo, a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, in a statement.
With limited resources at their disposal, archaeologists have wondered how the islanders were able to move the cylindrical pukao, which weigh 13.2 tons (12 metric tons), across long distances.
A moai adorned with a red pukao
(Sean Hixon)
After taking photos of the pukao, 3-D modeling was used to reveal key details of the giant stone hats, which are carved from red scoria, or volcanic rock.
Experts found that pukao were most likely rolled from the quarry to the location of the moai, and rolled up large ramps using the parbuckling technique.
"In parbuckling, a line would have been wrapped around the pukao cylinder, and then people would have pulled the rope from the top of the platform," said Lipo. "This approach minimizes the effort needed to roll the statue up the ramp. Like the way in which the statues were transported, parbuckling was a simple and elegant solution that required minimum resources and effort."
A restored statue platform with standing moai on the south coast of Rapa Nui. Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.
(Sean Hixon)
Previous theories about pukao transport include sliding the stone hats up a ramp or gradually building a pile of stones beneath them.
"Easter Island is often treated as a place where prehistoric people acted irrationally, and that this behavior led to a catastrophic ecological collapse," said Lipo. "The archaeological evidence, however, shows us that this picture is deeply flawed and badly misrepresents what people did on the island, and how they were able to succeed on a tiny and remote place for over 500 years."
Experts from Penn State, the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona also participated in the research. The pukao studt was published in The Journal of Archaeological Sciences.
The remote Pacific island, which is located more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, continues to be a source of fascination for historians. In 2016, research conducted on artifacts from the island questioned the theory that the ancient civilization there was destroyed by warfare.
Experts, also from Binghamton University, studied hundreds of ancient items found on the shores of Easter Island. Previously, the artifacts were thought to be spear points, but analysis reveals that they were likely general purpose tools.
Carved from obsidian, or volcanic glass, thousands of the triangular objects, known as mata'a, litter the surface of the island.
Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island’s population may have been as high as 20,000, but fell over centuries after the island’s trees and palms were cut down to build canoes and transport its famous giant statues. One theory suggests that the deforestation led to soil erosion, impacting the island’s ability to support wildlife and farming, and the collapse of its civilization.
When the Dutch arrived at the island in 1722, its population was 3,000 or less. Only 111 inhabitants were living on Easter Island by 1877.
However, other experts have questioned whether Easter Island ever supported a large population, citing instead the arrival of Europeans, who brought diseases and took islanders away as slaves.
‘IT’S NOT AREA 51’: REAL US ‘SECRET BASE FOR HIDING UFOS’ IS REVEALED
‘IT’S NOT AREA 51’: REAL US ‘SECRET BASE FOR HIDING UFOS’ IS REVEALED
CRASHED flying saucers and dead aliens are NOT being stored at the top-secret US Airforce base Area 51, a top UFO expert has claimed.
But, Jan Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), says UFOs HAVE been recovered and ARE being stored nearby.
Mr Harzan claims there is a secret underground facility built into the base of the Papoose Mountains, in Lincoln County, Nevada, where recovered alien space crafts and extra terrestrial beings are kept hidden away.
Ever since the legendary Roswell UFO crash of July 1947 alien conspiracy theorists have claimed the remains of a flying saucer, and even dead aliens, were secretly taken into storage – something the US Government denies.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the “crashed craft”, which along with the wreckage were then taken away. There has been speculation the remains were taken to Area 51 in the Nevada desert, or the Wright Patterson Airforce base near Dayton, Ohio.
Last summer Express.co.uk revealed the claims of Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn Aerospace, that Area 51 did not house aliens, but was used for so-called “black projects” to develop new secret flying technology.
US-based MUFON is the world’s biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research and keeps a global database holding tens of thousands of reported sightings and tip offs.
Mr Harzan appears to agree with Mr Milne about Area 51, but said alien technology was stored elsewhere.
He said: “Area 51 is a top-secret airbase for the CIA and military to test super-secret aircraft years ahead of what the general public is aware of.
“As best we know, there are no UFOs or aliens at Area 51.
“There is, however, an area just to the south and on the same Tonopah Test Range called S4.
“Based on insider information, this is where work on extraterrestrial recovered craft takes place.
“Those of extraterrestrial origin are very smooth and integrated with no seams or rivets showing, and no protrusions.
“At least that’s our hypothesis based on what we are seeing.”
He is also convinced that by now the US authorities would have been able to recreate a recovered UFO.
He said: “Based on the research I have done, and the people I have talked to, including first-hand witnesses, absolutely yes.
“It would be one of the highest priorities of the military and intelligence community to get their hands on a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin.
“There are others who have come forward to share their stories, although as one might imagine our intelligence community does its best to attempt to discredit them.”
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NASA Satellites Make Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space Near Earth
NASA Satellites Make Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space Near Earth
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft has detected magnetic activity occurring in a new and surprising way in the environment of near-Earth space.
Earth is surrounded by charged particles known as plasma. Most of these high-energy particles are deflected by the magnetosphere, which is the protective magnetic field that surrounds the planet. As Earth's magnetic-field lines absorb this energy, they stretch and eventually snap, releasing powerful bursts of particles toward Earth, which, in turn, can endanger satellites, spacecraft and astronauts in space.
This process, known as magnetic reconnection, is commonly observed in Earth's magnetosphere, generally under calm conditions. However, new data from NASA's MMS has shown for the first time that this process also occurs in the extremely turbulent near-Earth environment known as the magnetosheath, according to a statement from NASA. [NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission in Pictures]
Researchers used NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to find a new type of magnetic environment in the near-Earth environment.
Credit: Joy Ng/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
"In the plasma universe, there are two important phenomena: magnetic reconnection and turbulence," Tai Phan, lead author of the study and a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the statement. "This discovery bridges these two processes."
The magnetosheath is the boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind, the charged particles that stream from the sun. It is made up of turbulent plasma and is one of the most chaotic regions in near-Earth space, NASA officials said in a video announcing the discovery.
In fact, due to the turbulence in this environment, before this latest study, researchers were not sure if magnetic reconnection could even occur in the magnetosheath, according to the statement.
NASA's MMS, which launched in 2015, consists of a group of four identical satellites that orbit near Earth in a pyramid formation. The satellites are designed to capture a much more detailed view of magnetic reconnection than earlier spacecraft could provide.
The new 3D observations captured by MMS show that magnetic reconnection behaves differently in the magnetosheath, according to the study, published May 9 in the journal Nature.
"Compared to standard reconnection that occurs over tens of thousands of miles, this new magnetic reconnection spans only a couple of miles within turbulent plasma," NASA officials said in the video. Thus, these smaller reactions accelerate particles 40 times faster than standard reconnection observed in the magnetosphere.
"The more we understand how those particles are accelerated, the better we can protect our spacecraft and astronauts as we explore deeper into the solar system," NASA officials added.
However, MMS instruments cannot capture turbulent reconnection in action, because the particles move too fast along narrow field lines measuring only a couple miles wide. Instead, using one of the MMS instruments — the Fast Plasma Investigation — the researchers developed a new technique to gather extra data points from the magnetosheath, providing a better understanding of how turbulent magnetic fields dissipate energy.
"The smoking gun evidence is to measure oppositely directed electron jets at the same time, and the four MMS spacecraft were lucky to corner the reconnection site and detect both jets," Jonathan Eastwood, co-author of the study and a lecturer at Imperial College London, said in the statement.
Huge Dust Storm on Mars Hits NASA's Opportunity Rover
Huge Dust Storm on Mars Hits NASA's Opportunity Rover
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
A growing dust storm on Mars is seen blurring the planet's features in this photo taken on June 6, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The blue dot shows the location of NASA's Opportunity rover, which is in the dust storm.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
A massive dust storm on Mars has sidelined NASA's Opportunity rover, stalling the robot's science work as it waits out the still-growing tempest.
"As soon as the orbiter team saw how close the storm was to Opportunity, they notified the rover's team to begin preparing contingency plans," NASA officials said in a statement. "In a matter of days, the storm had ballooned." [The Greatest Mars Discoveries by Opportunity & Spirit]
As of Friday (June 8), the storm covers more than 7 million square miles of Mars (18 million square kilometers), according to NASA. That's an area larger than all of North America on Earth.
"Full dust storms like this one are not surprising, but are infrequent," NASA officials said in the statement. "They can crop up suddenly but last weeks, even months."
The area blanketed by the dust storm includes Perseverance Valley, Opportunity's current home on the vast Martian plains of Meridiani Planum.
Opportunity has been exploring Mars since 2004, but it runs on solar power. With the dust storm clogging up the sky, the amount of sunlight the rover can use to recharge has dropped. NASA compared the conditions to "an extremely smoggy day that blots out sunlight."
By Wednesday (June 6), Opportunity's power levels saw a major drop, forcing the rover to stop all science to conserve power. If the storm lasts too long, the main concern will be the Martian cold, a danger Opportunity has faced in the past, NASA officials said.
"There is a risk to the rover if the storm persists for too long and Opportunity gets too cold while waiting for the skies to clear," NASA wrote in the statement. Cold is thought to be what killed NASA's Spirit rover, Opportunity's twin, in 2010 after that robot got stuck in the Martian sand.
But Opportunity is a survivor. And it's seen dust storms bigger than the one it's experiencing now.
A self-portrait of NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars taken by the Microscopic Imager on the rover's robotic arm to celebrate its 5,000th Martian day in February 2018.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 2007, a dust storm on Mars covered the entire planet and forced Opportunity to hunker down for two weeks in a sort of survival-mode of minimal operations. To save power, the rover went days without phoning home to its controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
It was during that 2007 storm that Opportunity's handlers worried about the rover's ability to power its vital survival heaters with the low power levels caused by that dust storm. But Opportunity survived.
In fact, Opportunity has been surviving for 15 years.
The rover (and its twin Spirit) launched separately to Mars in 2003 and landed in January 2004 for what was originally scheduled to be a 90-day mission. But like the dust storm now battering Opportunity, the rover's mission ballooned from 3 months to 15 years, 14 of them on the Martian surface.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik.
Spanish researchers have found not one but three alien planets that are roughly the size of Earth. The similarities might end here, however, since the exoplanets are orbiting toasty close to their parent star.
Illustration of an exoplanet.
Credit: NASA.
There’s only one place in the universe we know for sure life exists: Earth. Absent any other evidence, our safest bet for finding carbon-based life outside this planet is to look for characteristics that mirror conditions on Earth. The most important ones would be orbiting a star at just the right distance in order to allow liquid water to form at the surface, having an atmosphere and magnetic field that shields life from radiation, and having energy sources to sustain metabolism. We don’t know this for sure, but a planet’s size may also be important, which is why the latest announcements by researchers at the Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo are so exciting.
The new exoplanets were discovered by the K2 mission of NASA’s Kepler satellite using the transit method, which involves measuring the minute dimming of a distant star as a planet passes in front of it. According to the Spanish astronomers, the newly identified planets orbit a red dwarf star called K2-239, located about 160 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Sextans.
The most interesting part about this system is the fact that three of its rocky planets are remarkably similar in size to Earth. Specifically, their size is within 1.1, 1.0 and 1.1 times Earth’s radius, respectively. The system also contains two super-Earths, which are both roughly twice Earth’s size.
However, astronomers haven’t set their hopes high for the habitability of these planets, which all orbit dangerously close to K2-239. The three planets orbit their star every 5.2, 7.8 and 10.1 days. While it’s also true that a red dwarf is far less bright than the sun, which is classed as a yellow dwarf star, the close proximity suggests these planets’ surface is at least a couple tens of degrees warmer than on Earth.
Astronomers also don’t have much other information about these planets, such as their atmospheric composition. That’s a job for the upcoming James Webb space telescope, the $8.8-billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which is expected to launch in 2020 — hopefully, if it’s not delayed once more. Meanwhile, observations performed with the Very Large Telescope (VLT), of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), will prove valuable in establishing the masses, densities, and other physical characteristics of the three planets.
The findings appeared in the journal Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (arXiv).
How Jupiter Is Helping the Hunt for Habitable Alien Worlds
How Jupiter Is Helping the Hunt for Habitable Alien Worlds
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Jupiter's magnetic field channels charged solar particles to the poles, creating brilliant auroras.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
DENVER — Jupiter itself isn't a great candidate to host life, but the gas giant is playing a significant role in the search for habitable worlds.
In a planetary-science first, astronomers used their knowledge of Jupiter's magnetic field to model what kinds of radio signals might be emitted naturally by the fields of smaller, rocky worlds.
"If we can get a handle on how to find direct radio emissions from large exoplanets, we can then eventually use these same techniques to study Earth-sized planets and determine which ones have magnetic fields," Jake Turner, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
"These magnetized Earth-sized planets would then be possible candidates to investigate further, looking for biological signatures, such as water vapor, in a search for life," he added.
Turner is using Europe's Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) to measure radio waves produced by Jupiter, to determine how radio waves could be separated out from background noise. He presented his results Monday (June 4) here at the 232nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
"The goal is to determine up to what distance, and with what strength, radio emission from exoplanets can be seen using LOFAR," Turner said.
This artist's illustration (not to scale) shows a cross section of Earth's magnetosphere (the protective shell created by the planet's magnetic field). The magnetic-field lines are in blue, and the solar wind is in yellow.
Credit: Emmanuel Masongsong/UCLA EPSS/NASA
"A giant force field"
Many of the planets in our solar system have magnetic fields generated by their iron cores. Mars once hosted a planet-wide magnetic field, and its loss resulted in the disappearance of most of the Red Planet's atmosphere and all of its surface water. In contrast, Earth's magnetic field protects our world from the sun's radiation and the charged particles of the solar wind, helping to keep it habitable.
"Earth's magnetic field acts like a giant force field," Turner said during a news conference here Monday. So finding other rocky planets that have held on to their magnetic fields can help researchers find potentially habitable worlds, he added.
To better understand how well today's technology could spot magnetic fields around other planets, Turner turned to Jupiter. He scaled the emissions from Jupiter's magnetic field to mimic those of distant exoplanets.
He found that LOFAR could spot an exoplanet 65 million light-years from Earth if the exoplanet's magnetic-field brightness were a million times stronger than the peak level of Jupiter's.
To generate a signal that bright, such a planet would need to be extremely large, Turner said. However, a world that shined so brightly in radio light could possibly have Earth-size moons, each with its own protective magnetic field. This is not such a far-fetched notion; after all, Jupiter has more than 60 known moons, several of which — especially the ocean-harboring satellite Europa — may be capable of supporting life.
"This finding is consistent with theoretical models that predict such strong radio emission can exist, and can be used as a guide to search for radio emission from exoplanets," Turner said in the statement.
Many believe it was an alien satellite in deep space, but nowdays we can say that there are many UFO sightings every year, many remain a mystery forever, while many others are recognized as hoax. In this article we will talk about a bizarre case.
The story begins that an astronomer who, pointing to the deep space with his telescope has captured an incredibly bright red UFO, so immediately after posting it on the web, the clip has become viral.
According to the astronomer, his photo would be the demonstration that alien life exists and that they are monitoring the Earth from the space.
The researcher was taking pictures in his backyard with a long-exposure lens when an object crossed his field of vision. At first he thought that it was an artificial satellite like the ISS, or an airplane, but looking in detail at the object he realized that it was definitely a bizarre object of extraterrestrial origin.
He made several shots and this points out that the UFO moved at great speed since the movement between the first and second shots shows a considerable distance. The witness then sent these notable shots to MUFON one of the most important organizations on the UFOs community.
By analyzing the image we can see 3 bright objects of red color, which the central one is spherical while the lateral 2 much thinner, this is a figure that is not entirely new, we have already seen phenomena with similar shapes. Another important observation is to understand the distance of the UFO, yes, we do not know how far it is from the earth but if we check well on the right there’s a galaxy and the mysterious object turns out to be bigger.
I doubt that ufo is as big as a galaxy, so surely it was an object much much closer, without risking too many hypotheses we can say that this will remain one of the many unsolved cases in the history of extraterrestrial sightings… What do you think? Let me know below!
UNIVERSITY IMPLEMENTS COURSE ABOUT ALIENS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
UNIVERSITY IMPLEMENTS COURSE ABOUT ALIENS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
With so much disclosure happening right now, it was only a matter of time before a university or college created a course to take the topic more seriously. It’s about time, and comes as no surprise given the fact that the topic is rapidly creeping its way into mainstream discussion.
Academia and extraterrestrial contact go hand in hand, and it started decades ago. For example, a declassified document from the CIA’s own electronic reading room shows that the agency actually tried to recruit renowned quantum physicist John Wheeler to look into their “flying saucer problem.” This was decades ago, and even further back, ever since President Truman went on live television and announced that the UFO problem is discussed at “every conference that they’ve had with the military,” many people have been paying attention.
Combined with all of these leaks over the years, there has no doubt been a campaign of official secrecy and ridicule,” where “many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” This is according to the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roscoe H. Hillekoetter, speaking to the New York Times in 1960.
Today, we have physical evidence, papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and statements from some of the highest ranking military, political, and government personnel, with the latest examples coming from Tom Delonge, a former rock star who just brought forth recently retired Steve Justice, a director of Lockheed Skunkworks, to let the world know that these things are real. For more information on that, you can check out To The Stars Media.
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.”
– Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
The course at the Turkish university will be called “Ufology & Exopolitics,” and the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.
A class tutor, Erhan Kolbasi, told the Dogan News Agency, “We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We thinking they will be in an open and mass contact. . . . It will be the biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
The course will concentrate on the history of the UFO/extraterrestrial contact, and well as the implications of extraterrestrial contact and more. According to the Dogan, Kolbasi expects open extraterrestrial contact to happen within 15 years, and claims that extraterrestrials have been and are visiting our planet.
Again, he’s part of a long and growing list of people who seem to think so, and with all of the evidence that’s emerged over the past few years, it’s not hard to see why he feels that way.
Where is the evidence you say? Well, that depends on your definition of evidence. Many people don’t believe witness testimony to be credible, but when you have military generals, NATO generals, high ranking politicians, academics, and people who have and do hold high positions for several military contractors, like Lockheed Martin, making these statements, it should clearly be taken into consideration.
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
–Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
There are also documents that detail objects travelling at tremendous speeds performing maneuvers that no known air craft can, and you can view some examples and links within this article to learn more:
“There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases —perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies — for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to.”
– Margaret Mead, “UFOs – Visitors from Outer Space?,” Redbook, vol. 143, September 1974
Below is one of many recent tweets about the exciting news in Europe.
Kolbaşi is currently the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center in Istanbul. This is a big step for disclosure. The implications are tremendous, and will touch all aspects of human life as we know it, from history, science, and technology to our understanding about the nature of reality and more.
Of course, there is also the problem of beliefs, and our tendency to label things as “good” or “bad,” “angels” or demons.” ET disclosure has more implications than we can possibly imagine, and perhaps this was one out of several reasons for the cover-up.
There are a lot of questions to be answered, and still many who are in their infancy regarding knowledge of what’s really been happening .
Collective Evolution has covered this topic extensively with multiple heavily soured articles. Feel free to browse through them, as all of our articles are archived. You can do this by visiting the exopolitics section of our website.
Below is a great little speech by Richard Dolan, one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic. It provides a great introduction for those who are new to the topic. His work is a great place to start.
You can check out our exclusive interview in our Explorer Lounge where Richard discusses recent UFO related happenings – including Trump’s reformation of the Space Council.
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ANUNNAKI GENETICIST CREATED OUR BODIES, NOT OUR SOULS
ANUNNAKI GENETICIST CREATED OUR BODIES, NOT OUR SOULS
Approximately one half of the human beings on Earth (about 3.5 billion people) are organic portals, soulless human beings who keep real human beings in line with the status quo, on agenda with the matrix control system.
Organic portals form the backbone of the Matrix’s social control infrastructure. They are what keeps society running in a state of preoccupation with the mundane. From cradle to grave, souled humans are pressured to stay with the status quo and not ask dangerous questions.
Empty people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals. Background characters. Why do these terms even exist?
Because out of necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official name: some people seem to be missing something very important inside.
While they are not necessarily any less intelligent, successful, or physically healthy as anyone else, they nevertheless show no indication of having any higher components to their consciousness. Over the years some people came to this same conclusion.
They noticed that some people were strangely one dimensional and hollow inside. This observation is not hard to miss, but it is easy to rationalize away, especially with modern society being so heavily brainwashed with the politically correct but unrealistic concept that everyone is completely equal in every way, which ignores functional differences due to environmental, genetic, and most importantly, metaphysical factors.
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
These are interesting times. On one hand there are changes happening on a global scale that can’t really be ignored much longer. On the other hand the majority of the population seem to live their lives as if everything is just as it always is and always will be, locked in a tunnel vision of personal and material interest.
While souled humans have a divine spark of consciousness that gives them the ability of individual self-awareness, Organic Portals lack this divine spark and are only dimly conscious in comparison. They belong to an animal like group soul that exists, evolves, and incarnates collectively rather than individually.
While each souled human has a relatively unique energy shaped by that person’s awareness, experience, and essence, the energy that animates one Organic Portal is the same animating any other. The human species on Earth is not a family, but rather is an aggregation (heterogeneous group) of beings with many different soul origins, that is, souls that came from many different planets.
And, of course, humanity is also made up of soulless organic portals, too. The Anunnaki merely created our bodies, not our souls (for those who have one, that is). Nor did the Reptilians create our spirits, but more on all of this later.
Anunnaki geneticists interacting with the tree of life, while supervised by King ANU (trans.: The Sky Father)
Everything in this Virtual Reality requires a consciousness, whether a True or an artificial consciousness to drive it. This means that even a grain of sand has a consciousness. Even things much smaller than grains of sand have consciousnesses. The consciousness must maintain the illusion of motion throughout its body during its entire lifespan.
Nothing exists in the Virtual Reality unless it upholds the illusion of motion. When the illusion of motion ceases, the organism dies and the consciousness driving the body leaves it. More and more people are now beginning to believe that there is life after death. This is true only to a certain point.
One could ask, If there is life after death, is there death after life?
There are three basic categories of consciousness in the Virtual Reality:
True-Light consciousness,
False-Light consciousness and, lastly,
Artificial consciousness.
Artificial consciousnesses encompass the ones created totally evil and the ones created like robots by Darkness.
The ones created of total Darkness include the ones I have referred to as the “soulless” ones. However, these are not to be confused with the artificial ones created by the Anunnaki alien scientists.
The False-Light consciousnesses created by Darkness have a mixture of True-Light particles in the consciousnesses.
True-Light particles trapped in this category of consciousness are the hardest to rescue, as it requires a very delicate operation to separate them from the Evil embedded along side of them with as little damage to the True-Light particles as possible.
When physical life terminates, the ones of artificial consciousness cease to operate until the artificial consciousness is put into another body to drive it. An artificial consciousness is akin to a replacement engine that is put into another body.
For all intents and purposes, it is like a spare part that does nothing until it is put into another body and reactivated by putting it into motion again. It is this “sleeping” phase when they are not in motion that characterizes these consciousnesses, because they lose their awareness of being.
Thus, an artificial consciousness is like a robot that is started and stopped by Darkness. For these,there is no afterlife.
However, the “soulless ones” amongst the artificial consciousnesses that are designed to promote and maintain absolute evil are usually allowed to continue in another process, which enables them to generate and maintain evil from the various levels of the astral planes. These are not the ones put on the shelf, so to speak.
These can sometimes appear to be good guys or spiritual masters in the astral realms. They are allowed to experience a form of “artificial” after-life in the astral world which in itself is an artificial reality. Hence, it is an artificial reality within an artificial reality.
In other words, they reside in a virtual world within the virtual world of the astral reality. Most of the inhabitants of the “normal” astral world do not have free access to their planes without the permission from Darkness’ astral administrators.
When a True-Light consciousness vacates its physical body at the time of physical death, it continues its awareness because its awareness does not depend upon motion, as in the case of an artificial consciousness.
The False-Light consciousness with a mixture of True-Light particles and False-Light particles also continues its awareness after physical death.
Therefore, Darkness has to develop special activities and things for these types of consciousnesses to occupy themselves with while in transition from one body to another in order to keep the charade going.
Exposing the Reincarnation Deception: Your Soul is Enslaved
It is important for Darkness to maintain the deception of the Virtual Reality and specifically of death so that the consciousness thinks it has died and been reborn.
Such ones usually reside in the astral world of the Virtual Reality until it is time for them to re-enter new physical bodies by the process called re-incarnation.
Reincarnation is really a very evil imposition on the consciousness. It is done under the false pretence that the process of death and rebirth is in the best interests of the consciousness for its own purification and advancement.
Reincarnation causes most people to lose almost all their memories of their past lives, it actually obstructs one from advancing in knowledge and awakening to Truth.
This, again, is by design to benefit Darkness. Unbeknown to many, the Akashic records in the astral world, the records of supposedly everything that has ever happened since the beginning of the universe, have been tampered with to suit Darkness.
As already stated, artificial consciousnesses are put to rest after the death of the body they were driving, and they require motion to be activated and re-inserted into another body.
However, motion is an anomaly for a True Divine consciousness. That which is natural to an artificial consciousness is intrinsically unnatural for True Divine consciousnesses.
Hence, the state of a True-Light consciousness that is being extinguished is even more pitiful than that of an artificial consciousness that is oblivious and will not re-awaken from its state of rest until it is re-activated by Darkness.
As stated before, a living body can be occupied by a True-Light consciousness, a False-Light consciousness or an Artificial consciousness.
However, the physical bodies housing all categories of all consciousness are made up of Matter and are influenced by the programming embedded in them. Horrible destruction of True Divine beings has been going on since Darkness created this putrid Virtual Reality.
No wonder the agents of Darkness hate anyone who tries to awaken the “slaves” of Darkness by taunting, persecuting and punishing them in all sorts of ways.
These days, the agents of Darkness employ cowardly ways to attack, defame, blackmail or threaten anyone who dares try to spread Truth. It gives Darkness and Its evil agents great satisfaction each time that It extinguishes a True Divine light.
Contrary to some beliefs, Light does not need Darkness to balance Itself. Nor does Light need Darkness to co-exist.
However, Darkness does need Light to sustain It. In fact, Darkness is a parasitic and vampiric energy that sucks the “life” out of True Light beings in order to survive.
Darkness has only been able to do this by erecting an elaborate house of horrors known as the Virtual Reality. Any True Light beings who enter this house of horrors are immediately preyed upon by agents of Darkness and “assassination” attempts commence as rapidly as possible.
This is what the war between Good and Evil is all about. The Light is about to rescue Its own from the clutches of Darkness, whilst Darkness fights to hold onto every one of Its “prisoners”.
“Assassination” occurs at the moment a True Light being gives over its Will to Darkness. This can be done by trickery, deception, temptation, bribery, punishment, torture or other means. Those who give over their Will are then “fallen” beings, and, for all intents and purposes, are beings of Darkness.
It should be understood that Darkness has not the power to take any True Light being’s Will by force. The Will can only be given over to Darkness by the True Light being.
The “Light” within a True-Light being is a permanent Divine spirit. It will “shine” forever if the Will is not given over to Darkness. But, if the Will is given over, Darkness seizes the permanent “Light” and drains it of its life force.
The True-Light being is then given a temporary artificial consciousness encased in a “soul” in exchange for its True Divine spirit. Thereafter, the being only has light that is generated by “perpetual” motion.
The Divine spirit shines by itself without depending on physical motion. There is no physical motion in the True Divine Realm.
As mentioned earlier, Darkness imposed Its illusion of “no-motion” upon Its Virtual Reality. By use of this illusion, beings think that they are stationary when they are moving very rapidly.
For instance, people on the Earth think that they are standing still even though the Earth is rotating daily and revolving yearly.
When the illusion of “no-motion” is broken, the illusion of motion will be impossible to maintain and all motion will cease. When nothing “moves”, only the viable True Light consciousnesses will shine.
Everything else in the Virtual Reality, including plants, animals, humans, planets, suns, galaxies, etc., will dissipate.
In effect, this is how it is assured that all of the viable True Light will be gathered and taken Home and none of the artificial or fallen consciousnesses will be. Thus, no artificial beings will be accidentally left behind and no non-viable beings will be mistakenly admitted to the Divine Creation.
Darkness dreads Its own demise. It fears that one day It could be extinguished by Its own handiwork. So, It prolongs Its existence by extinguishing the True Light beings.
Before It dies, It cruelly desires to take as many of the True-Light beings down with It by deceiving them into relinquishing their Will to It. This assassination of True Light beings cannot be allowed to go on any longer.
Darkness has created the illusion of time and slowed things down so it appears that this Virtual Reality has been in existence for eons, but this is an illusion. In fact, the Virtual Reality has only been in existence for a very short interval.
It is transitory and temporary and will soon be dissolved into nothingness. From the perspective on Earth, the Rescue Mission appears to be like a tortoise race due to the illusion of time that makes it appear to be a long time in occurring.
Further, death has so shortened human lifetimes that it was almost an impossible task for the Christ or any Divine Messengers to bring down sufficient information and fully awaken to their roles in one lifetime.
The Rescue Mission will be completed before the Divine will allow Darkness to self-destruct and dissipate into nothingness.
It is a time to rejoice for those who have held onto their Will. The time for liberation from Darkness is drawing closer and closer. Darkness will soon be unable to reactivate Its artificial consciousnesses.
Everything that is created by Darkness will cease to exist when the illusion of motion is fractured and Darkness’ empire will be no more. Death will disappear forever when this Virtual Reality self-destructs and vanishes.
It is undeniable that everything is a slave to motion. Without motion, everything stops, including the processes known as physical life and physical death. Death is so obvious in this world that everyone has encountered it one way or another.
Many fear it, some shun it, whilst others even deny its existence, but it continues inexorably to punish and chase us all. Everyone’s life is spent on avoiding death and delaying the encounter. Those who deny that death exists are seen as abnormal or as having some form of psychological disorder that causes them to deny death.
Since ancient times, people of all cultures and religions have ardently pursued a cure for physical death in the name of physical immortality. They are driven on this quest at the deepest level of their existence because they fear death.
Ironically, the deity responsible for death is the being most fearful of death of its own demise and annihilation. The deity has embedded and programmed this fear into everything that “lives” in this world of illusions.
Many humans who have explored the fear of death have concluded that all living things have a survival instinct. What has been referred to as a survival instinct is really the programmed fear of death that infects all living things, including plants, animals and humans.
This programming is deeply embedded into every particle of Matter because every particle of Matter has a thought form from Darkness that contains Darkness’ fear of death.
Darkness is so frightened of Its own demise that even the smallest building blocks of the physical universes (Matter) are thoroughly saturated with the instinctive fear of death. The fear of death is a morbid disease. It was created by a putrid, demented Mind. It is this fear that will eventually topple the entire virtual reality.
People pursue immortality even though almost everyone knows at the deepest level that the concept is absolutely absurd. Everyone knows that physical bodies ultimately decay and die. Yet the absurd quest for immortality continues.
It continues because the deity responsible for this Virtual Reality is insanely hoping against hope to find a cure for death, not to abolish it, but to use it to benefit Itself. The deity is afraid that one day It will die.
It wants immortality. It pretends to be god but it is not eternal and It seeks eternal life. The contradiction here is that when death is conquered, the True-Light’s Rescue Mission will be completed and the malevolent deity’s entire empire will collapse.
Ironically, death is the very tool Darkness invented and imposed on everything in Its domain, the Virtual Reality, to control and enslave Its creation and all that are trapped in it.
Death, amongst other things, wipes out memories to make it almost impossible for anyone to see through the lies and illusions of this Virtual Reality through the process of reincarnation.
To understand death one needs to first understand the beginning of “life” in the Virtual Reality. In the True Divine Creation there is no motion, there is no vibration in the way we know it here, there is no physical movement as we know it here.
Darkness invented motion, that was Its first illusion. From the illusion of motion, Darkness created everything in the Virtual Reality. This includes even the illusion of no motion, the illusion of things being stationary within the illusion of motion.
Darkness used the illusion of motion to form Matter by compressing spirals of Its thought-forms, which are the foundation of all things in the Virtual Reality.
The formation of Matter is the beginning of all life and death in the Virtual Reality. Everything created from Matter has a beginning and an end, a birth and death. This is by design of Darkness.
When all the illusions fall, Darkness will be fully exposed and those particles that comprise Darkness that have remained true to the Light and held onto the Will will shine.
All the others will dissipate into nothingness as Darkness fractures. So, even the prison known as the Evil Mind will shatter, and any particles within It that still hold onto the Divine Will will be released, freed from the self-imposed prison of Darkness.
The contradiction of Darkness is that it requires True-Light particles to exist, yet it also must assassinate True-Light particles to drive Its putrid Virtual Reality. Were Darkness to assassinate all the True-Light particles, It would self-destruct into nothingness.
The Rescue Mission was launched to free the imprisoned True-Light particles and halt the insane, self-destructive activity of Darkness founded upon death. Strictly speaking, in the end, even Darkness is being liberated from Itself and Its twisted creation based upon senseless wastage, suffering and death.
Soon, all the viable True-Light beings will be in their True Divine Home, where there are no sour notes and nothing can play out of key.
Everything in the True Home is in True Harmony, True Balance, Unconditional Love, Beauty, Power and True Light.
China's relentless cyber espionage campaign against the Pentagon has been one of the central reasons why that country's technological warfighting capabilities have aggressively matured over a relatively short period of time. In fact, we now see the fruits of their hacking operations on a daily basis via advanced 'indigenous' weapon systems, some which are nowentering into operational service. But a previously unreported intrusion into a Navy contractor's computer network has provided the Chinese military with information on the service's electronic warfare and threat library, cryptographic radio systems used on submarines, specific sensor data, and detailed information on a previously undisclosed and fast-paced initiative to field a supersonic anti-ship missile onto American nuclear submarines dubbed Sea Dragon.
Over half a terabyte of information was stolen electronically from the contractor's computer systems at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island. The installation is a focal point for development and testing of new systems related to sub-surface combat. The contractor's network was not deemed classified but the information on it in its totality was of a highly classified nature according to the Washington Post, which broke the story.
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NUWC in Newport Rhode Island.
The loss of the Navy's current electronic warfare library is especially troubling as that type of information is considered among the most sensitive data the Pentagon gathers and is critical to countering enemy defensive networks and allowing U.S. assets to survive in contested territory. This theft paired with information on sensor data that potentially collects that information is especially damning as the enemy can figure out not just what the Navy knows, but exactly how they have come to know it.
Yet the news that the Navy is rapidly looking to field a submarine-launched anti-ship missile capable of supersonic speeds is the biggest revelation from this report. Not only that but it is supposedly a weapon already in existence that is being adapted for submarine use. Quite honestly, in a vacuum, it's good news that the Navy is working on such a capability. Giving U.S. nuclear submarines long-range anti-ship capabilities that they can use while operating where no ship can is a critical ability that should be obtained, but what weapon could this be?
A shadowy cutting-edge weapons program
Little is known about the Sea Dragon program, as the Washington Post points out:
"The Sea Dragon project is an initiative of a special Pentagon office stood up in 2012 to adapt existing U.S. military technologies to new applications. The Defense Department, citing classification levels, has released little information about Sea Dragon other than to say that it will introduce a “disruptive offensive capability” by “integrating an existing weapon system with an existing Navy platform.” The Pentagon has requested or used more than $300 million for the project since late 2015 and has said it plans to start underwater testing by September.
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The introduction of a supersonic anti-ship missile on U.S. Navy submarines would make it more difficult for Chinese warships to maneuver. It would also augment a suite of other anti-ship weapons that the U.S. military has been developing in recent years."
Pentagon budget documents show that Sea Dragon, which began in the 2015 fiscal year, was one of many programs that the secretive Strategic Capabilities Office has managed and is listed in a specific line item covering "Advanced Innovative Technologies." By the following fiscal cycle, this same set of funding also paid for work on land-based railguns, advanced conventional guns and ammo, advanced navigation systems, unspecified enhanced munitions and unmanned aerial vehicle payloads, and a naval drone swarm project called Sea Mob.
In the 2016 fiscal year, the Sea Dragon program completed designs for an in-water test apparatus and the ejection body and its associated hardware, as well as successfully completed a test of the weapon system on land. Unfortunately, subsequent budget requests do not list further accomplishments for the program.
We do know that the Pentagon expected to start underwater static testing of some portion of the system, as well as begin planning for a "sea-based tactical demonstration," by the end of the 2018 fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30, but its latest budget request for the 2019 fiscal year said that the new funds would go to continued planning for that live-fire test.
The Pentagon asked for nearly $150 million in total to support that work, as well finishing underwater static testing, building a sea-based launch support test site, and continued analysis of the conceptual kill chain associated with the weapon system. This is less than half of the money the U.S. military requested for Sea Dragon for the 2018 fiscal year, but the budget documents note that this was a product of cost savings they had achieved by buying extra long-lead time components in advance.
Russia, on the other hand, has focused for decades on developing supersonicand now even hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, which are seen as a major threat to American warships. China has also worked hard to independently perfect the anti-ship ballistic missile, with the medium-range DF-21D and a version of the intermediate-range DF-26 becoming one of some of the most potent anti-access threats to American Carrier Strike Groups operating in the Indo-Pacific Theater.
So if no supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles exist in the Pentagon's inventory, or are even deep in development, what is this 'existing' weapon?
Identifying the mystery weapon
This weapon could be one of a number of concepts we identify below. But to start, a submarine-launched version of the SM-6 multi-role missile seems like the most conventional possibility. This is not a cruise missile, but the designation stated in the Washington Post's article could be just a due to the writer's lack of knowledge of existing weapon systems and their capabilities or just a misinterpretation of what is clearly a fairly opaque program.
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SM-6 test launch.
The SM-6, which you can read all about in this recent profile we published on it, can be launched from the Mark 41 Vertical Launch Systems found on American destroyers and cruisers. In its latest form, it is fully networked, allowing it to receive targeting data from a variety of platforms, including airborne, ground-based, or surface-based sensor nodes. This concept is called Cooperative Engagement Capability/Naval Integrated Fire Control CEC/NIFC and it is one of the most important concepts the sea-going force is trying to implement at this time.
Although it was designed primarily as a surface-to-air weapon to be used against air-breathing threats and ballistic missiles during their terminal stage of flight, the SM-6 has an increasingly potent long-range anti-ship and a land-attack capability able to promptly strike targets over long distances. The fact that it flies at very high speeds on a ballistic-like track instead of a flat cruise missile like flight profile makes it especially hard for enemies to defend against.
Most of America's nuclear fast attack submarines and all its guided missilesubmarines have 'strike length' vertical launch cells similar to the Mark 41 VLS, that are used to house BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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Los Angles class USS Santa Fe (SSN-763) with her VLS doors open.
A new arrangement, with two large hatches that cover a number of launch tubes and can be more easily adapted to different weaponry, is now being fielded on latest Virginia class submarines. Soon boats equipped with the Virginia Payload Module, which carries four of these large modular missile bays, will be under construction.
These same cells currently used for Tomahawk cruise missiles could be configured to house an altered SM-6-booster combination capable of launching the missile submerged without destroying the launch cell. If such an arrangement were developed and implemented, the variety and flexibility of firepower that America's submarine force would possess would greatly increase.
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USS John Warner (SSN-785) shows off her modular launch tubes, she was the first of her kind to receive the new setup.
Because the SM-6 is networked and doesn't rely on organic sensors installed on its firing platform for targeting, submarines could even act as clandestine launch platforms for anti-aircraft attacks. This would allow for more vulnerable assets, like E-2D Hawkeyes, MQ-4C Tritons, P-8 Poseidons, and powerful radar-packing surface combatants to stand off at long ranges, using their sensor's great reach—outside the range of their own or nearby weapons—to their advantage and remotely ordering up attacks on enemy ships and aircraft by surprise.
The unique list of information Chinese hackers stole from the Navy contractor also points to such a system, which would rely on electromagnetic threat libraries, crypto-communications, and a wide variety of sensors for detecting and engaging threats.
Raytheon, the company who makes the SM-6, has a long history of providing tailored weapons for American submarines, and some non-traditional programs have recently seemed to disappear into the realm of deep classification. For instance, the initiative to arm Navy subs with AIM-9X air-to-air missiles as a short-range last-line of defense against prowling anti-submarine warfare aircraft. That program went as far as being successfully tested before going dark, which you can read all about it in this past feature of ours.
It is also possible that the Washington Post article's author was wrong about the missile's supersonic capability, which would point to fielding an advanced anti-ship cruise missile like Lockheed's very stealthy and smart Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) aboard submarines. Yet this would probably be a less covert affair developmentally speaking. But such a weapon would be especially useful when combined with the SM-6—or another high-speed anti-ship weapon—allowing for long-range, multi-layer attacks on enemy flotillas. Also, the Navy, and its submarines will be getting a long-range, subsonic, anti-ship capability via the Block IV Tactical Tomahawk.
It's more likely that his weapon could actually be LRASM-B, or at least an evolutionary relative of it. LRASM-B was being developed alongside the subsonic LRASM-A around the turn of the decade and would have performance nearing Mach 3, operating in a similar fashion as theRussian-Indian developed BrahMosanti-ship missile.
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A model of Lockheed's supersonic LRASM-B concept.
Development work continued on LRASM-B until around 2013 when it was officially passed over. It is very possible that this design was brought back to life under the shadowy Sea Dragon program, with a focus on submarines as a launch platform, not ships. The budgetary dates and what was mentioned in the Washington Post article would certainly support this possibility as well.
Maybe even more promising is the possibility that this is actually the product of a supposedly defunct 2000s initiative to create a high-speed cruise missile dubbed Revolutionary Approach To Time-critical Long Range Strike, or RATTLRS for short. This weapon was all about hitting time-sensitive targets very quickly with little preparation, being able to fly at high altitudes and at speeds approaching Mach 4, obliterating its target with submunitions, a high-explosive warhead, or a penetrating warhead within about 30 minutes time at its maximum range.
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Elaborate mockups of the missile were being shown off by the mid-2000s.
This Lockheed-led initiative built on the Skunk Works' experience with the D-21 drone and was supported by the Office of Naval Research and NASA. It was funded throughout the 2000s, had successful payload delivery tests on the jet sled, its engine was built by Rolls Royce, and was approaching a complex flight demonstration phase when it disappeared. This could have been due to budget cuts that happened around the turn of the decade, but maybe it was revived in 2013, adapted for the anti-ship mission, and deep in development in updated form by 2015. It's also worth noting that a submarine-launched capability was part of the program's initial vision.
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A RATTLRS cruise-missile inlet undergoes testing at the High Speed Wind Tunnel at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie.
Adding to the case that RATTLRS may have been reborn in secret is this tidbit of information brought to us by our good friend Stephen Trimble's twitter feed. Apparently, the Navy has been showing off a model of this exact concept just months ago without any real explanation as to why:
Stephen Trimble@FG_STrim
Lockheed hypersonic missile display at the Air Warfare Symposium a week ago and the Lockheed D-21 on display outside the Skunk Works.
Finally, the mystery missile could be a hypersonic missile, not a supersonic missile, for the Ohio class submarine, which the Navy is quietly developing and has test flown fairly recently. Still, the Pentagon has openly discussed these and other hypersonic tests recently, so it's not exactly top secret. Also, this wouldn't be a variation of an existing system as described in the Washington Post article. Fielding such a system operational by 2020 also seems remarkably ambitious, but it may be possible and certainly, China has an extreme interest in hypersonic technologies.
These are just the clearest possibilities for what this weapon could be. It's also possible that it is another weapon system clandestinely developed to a certain degree in the past, and brought back into development due to the changing nature of the world by the middle of this decade. During the mid-2000s, time-sensitive strike was such a big deal due to the Global War on Terror that numerous programs existed that never seemed to go anywhere—at least publically.
Loose bits sink ships
Regardless of the exact identity of this weapon system, the idea that the Navy—or at least one of its contractors—lost so much detailed information on what could be one of its most promising and critical weapon systems, as well as the infrastructure that supports it, couldn't have come at a worse time. China is pumping huge sums of money into its maritime warfare programs and fortifying its "fortress" like anti-access/area-denial strategy that will make it harder and harder for America's surface fleet to operate anywhere near striking distance of the Chinese mainland. With this in mind, submarines remain among the most important tools for breaking down this anti-access bubble so that more vulnerable assets can move closer to potential targets and strategic areas. What's worse is that with detailed info in hand, China is likely going to work hard to replicate this capability, not devise a defense against it.
Above all else, this is another terrible reminder about how the Defense Department and the industrial complex that feeds it remains its own worst enemy when it comes to securing highly detailed information about its most critical and costly weapon systems. At some point, the decision has to be made that networks that are not air-gapped and are connected to the outside world in some fashion are not secure enough to gamble such sensitive information on. Physical espionage is a big enough threat to deal with as it is, and the U.S. has failed miserably at defending against electronic espionage using convenient network architecture.
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USS North Dakota being rolled after assembly.
Coming to terms with this reality will mean it will become more time consuming, expensive, and tougher overall to develop new weapon systems. Distributing programs to sites located across the U.S. will instantly become a major issue. But what's the point in the U.S. developing any of these systems if in the end it is just developing them for its number one technological competitor as well?
And the fact that China doesn't have to pay billions upon billions of dollars for this intellectual property—they can steal for virtually nothing—isn't only a loss to American national security, but it actually provides the enemy with a major fiscal edge. And that edge is already being exploited in front of our very eyes on an increasingly unprecedented scale.
Incredible NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes
Incredible NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes
ByChelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer
You can now watch almost two decades of weather patterns on Earth thanks to an incredible video from NASA.
The 2-minute, 17-second video, based on data from NASA's Worldview tool, shows how weather on Earth has changed between 2000 and 2018, highlighting some of the planet's most dramatic weather moments.
The imagery comes from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively, observing weather patterns on Earth for almost 20 years. MODIS became operational in 2000, and ever since, the instrument has provided imagery through NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), which can be viewed in NASA's Worldview tool.
Using the Worldview interactive interface, you can explore satellite imagery easily in your web browser. You can even specify within Worldview to see everything from fires to dust storms. Imagery from MODIS is now available in Worldview, which debuted in 2012 and has dramatically increased access to imagery data, NASA officials said in a statement.
Aboard NASA satellites, MODIS has captured almost 20 years of imagery of Earth's weather patterns.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ LK Ward
Satellite images of weather patterns are helpful for a number of reasons, and in 2016 and 2017, they allowed researchers to observe the California wildfires, as you can see in the video above. Also seen in the video is how this technology allows us to observe air quality and dangerous levels of smoke and haze.
"In the '80s and '90s, if you wanted to look at, say, clouds off the coast of California, you had to figure out the time of year when it was best to look at these clouds, then place a data request for a specific window of days when you thought the satellite overflew the area," Santiago Gassó, an associate research scientist with NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, said in the statement.
"You would get a physical tape with these images and have to put this into the processing system," he added. "Only then would you know if the image was usable. This process used to take from days to weeks."
The new imagery helps to overcome that challenge.
"Now, you can look at images for days, weeks and even years in a matter of minutes in Worldview, immediately find the images you need and download them for use," Gassó said. "It's fantastic!"
Love astronomy, but don’t like to stay up late? Here are 10 space objects you can see – under the right conditions – during the day.
Image via EarthSky Facebook friend Janet Furlong.
If you think that daytime sky nature-watching is limited to clouds and birds, you might be missing out. Observing space objects in the daytime has its limitations and difficulties, but, as with all skywatching, it also has its rewards. So here is a list of 10 surprising space objects to see in the daytime sky. Aside from the first three listed below, each of these daylight observations is relatively difficult, but straightforward if you’re prepared. On the other hand, the observations toward the bottom of the list aren’t possible to predict.
That said, here they are, in increasing order of difficulty: your top 10 space objects to see in daylight.
In addition to the 10 items listed here, there are atmospheric phenomena such as this beautiful solar halo and sun dogs. While not quite space related, they are sky related and well worth coming to know. Image via Rima Biswas in Baltimore, Maryland, December 2016.
1. The sun.
Obviously, you can see the sun during the day, but paradoxically, we’re told not to look, for fear of harming our eyes. And that is quite right. Gazing at the sun directly can damage your eyes.
If you do take precautions – and rig up a simple indirect viewing method for sun-watching, like the one shown here – what would you be looking for? Most people look for sunspots, which are sometimes quite large. It’s easy and fun to count the number of sunspots you see from day to day. That doesn’t take long, and, if you keep a record of what you see, you can notice profound changes over time. That’s because there’s an 11-year sunspot cycle, during which the dark spots on the sun’s surface wax and wane. We’re in an ebbing phase of the cycle now, but we still sometimes receive photos from people of sunspots, captured through telescopes with safe solar filters. And, in the coming years, the number of spots you see on the sun will gradually increase until the cycles peak.
If you’re interested in sunspots, we recommend following the website Spaceweather.com, which tracks them and offers mobile phone alerts.
And of course, the sun is the source of a whole range of atmospheric effects, which are beyond the scope of this post. Try searching here at EarthSky for words like “halo around the sun,” “rainbows,” “iridescent clouds,” “the glory.” Or browse Les Cowley’s great website Atmospheric Optics.
You can often see the moon during the day. Here’s an almost full moon, ascending in the east in evening twilight. Beautiful! Photo by Jenney Disimon in Sabah, North Borneo.
2. The moon.
I don’t have any survey statistics, but I’d be willing to bet that at least 75% of the public is unaware that the moon can be seen in the daytime sky. That’s not too hard to understand, since so many people nowadays spend so much time indoors and are unaware of the sky at all.
In addition, the moon is not in the daytime sky every day. Like the sun, it is below the horizon half the time. Add that to the fact that much of the time the moon is up during the day, it’s a thin crescent too close to the sun to be seen easily.
It’s easy to see why some people are surprised to discover the moon in the daytime sky. But voila. If you look up frequently, you’ll notice it often.
Daylight occultation of Venus by the moon, via John Ashley. He said it’s “… a composite of 6 photos taken at 1-minute intervals, photographed in August 2000 from Glacier National Park, Montana. It’s one of 100+ photos from my book, Glacier National Park After Dark.“
3. The planet Venus.
Anyone who is surprised that the moon can be seen in the daytime will be amazed that, under the right conditions, you can see the planet Venus with the sun also in the sky.
The image above shows Venus as a crescent, like a tiny crescent moon, but Venus appears as a crescent only at certain times in its orbit, and some optical aid is needed (in this case, a telephoto lens) to see it. More about that below. To the eye alone, though, Venus appears as the brightest planet, a tiny white dot that often seems to “pop” out at you in a daylight sky, once you find it.
Anyone who has seen Venus in a reasonably dark sky knows that it is usually truly brilliant. Observations in the daytime sky are more difficult simply because the surrounding sky is so bright during the day. The contrast between planet and sky is much lower during the day, making the planet harder to see. Imagine how easy it is to see a bright light at the top of a tower at night versus daytime. That’s similar to seeing Venus at night versus day.
In June, 2018, as seen from around the globe, Venus can be found easily in the west after sunset. It’s exceedingly bright, but not as bright as it will be later this year. What’s happening is that Venus is catching up to Earth in the race of the planets around the sun. It will pass between us and the sun on October 26, 2018. In the weeks before and after that event (which is called an inferior conjunction of Venus), the planet will be visible as a crescent in a telescope, much as you see in the photo by John Ashley above.
What, no telescope? Never fear. There’s another event that takes place in the weeks before and after Venus’ inferior conjunction. That is Venus’ greatest illuminated extent – when it appears brightest in the sky as seen from Earth. At such times, people frequently mistake Venus for a UFO! It is low in the sky, very bright and quite eerie-looking. Greatest illuminated extent for Venus will come on September 21 in the evening sky, then again on December 2 in the morning sky. Don’t miss it! The morning event, especially, is always a great time to see Venus in the daytime because you can just see it before sunup, and keep watching …
ISS is sometimes (and sometimes not) brighter than Venus. Here it is in a daytime sky. Image via Spaceweather.com/UniverseToday.com.
4. Earth-orbiting satellites.
Many folks are very surprised that satellites can be seen at all, but these days they are quite common in dark, nighttime skies. Seasoned observers are more surprised when an hour of nighttime observing goes by without seeing at least one! They look like steadily moving “stars” – silent – and very high up. So, at night, it’s very easy to see satellites. But how about during the day?
There are two sorts of satellites you’re most likely to see in daylight. One is the International Space Station (ISS), which is sometimes (but not always) the third-brightest object visible in our sky, after the sun and moon. Why only sometimes? The position and thus brightness of ISS in your sky is variable, depending, for example, on where the space station is with respect to you (i.e., passing overhead versus passing farther away, and nearer your horizon). Also, the brightness of Venus – which we also often describe as the sky’s third-brighest object – varies. Sometimes ISS is brighter than Venus, and sometimes Venus is brighter than ISS.
Still, ISS is a very bright satellite. If conditions are optimum, you might see it in daylight. Spotting ISS when it’s visible in your sky is a fun pastime. Eventually, you can get so experienced with these sightings that you’ll recognize when one will occur in daytime, over your location. Here’s an article that’ll help you get started.
But we said there were two sorts of satellites you might see in daylight. The second is an Iridium communications satellite, which also have very reflective surfaces. Under the right conditions, they can reflect enough sunlight to appear as bright dots moving across the sky for a few seconds. These flashes are known as Iridium flares.
Even some seasoned astronomers are surprised to learn that mighty Jupiter can be glimpsed with the unaided eye in a sunlit sky. I don’t want to mislead you, as this isn’t an easy observation. Jupiter is significantly dimmer than Venus, and finding it takes a good bit more effort (not to mention exceptionally good eyesight and excellent atmospheric conditions).
The best time to see Jupiter in daylight is when it’s near a “quadrature” when Jupiter is about 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky. This is similar to the arrangement of first quarter and last quarter moon. In fact, it is also very helpful to have a quarter moon nearby as a kind of sky landmark to guide you to Jupiter. Notice the quarter moon in the image above, for example.
And, by the way, the reason you want the planet at quadrature – about 90 degrees from the sun – is that the sky is slightly darker there, due to a phenomenon known as polarization.
When will Jupiter be at quadrature next? Pretty soon, as it happens, in early August, 2018.
Okay, it’s not quite daylight in this image, but close. See the bright triangle? Brightest is Venus. Mars just below it. Jupiter – second-brightest – above Venus. Bryan Goff took this photo on October 30, 2015 from the USCGC Stratton, deployed in the Pacific Ocean.
6. The planet Mars.
Only a relative few observers have caught Jupiter with the unaided eye the daytime, and even fewer have seen Mars. However, it is possible. And indeed 2018 is the year to attempt this observation because Mars will be briefly and very slightly brighter than Jupiter, for a few weeks around July 27, 2018.
Although I personally have not seen Mars in the daytime sky (I’ve seen Jupiter twice), a correspondent in the Middle East has reported to me an apparently genuine observation, and I have no doubt that it can be done.
Stars can be seen in the daytime sky, but this is a bit of a cheat. Stars, along with the brighter planets already mentioned, can be seen with the unaided human eye in a daytime sky (that is, when the sun is above the horizon) normally only during a total solar eclipse. Such observations are of historical significance, and in fact played a crucial role in one of the first confirmations of Einstein’s theories of relativity.
A few observers report that they have seen some bright stars, such as Sirius, with the unaided eye in the daytime sky. If indeed this is possible, it would require exceptional eyesight and exceptional sky conditions.
On the other hand, observers with telescopes can see certain bright stars (not to mention the bright planets) on any clear day, although the scientific reasons for doing so are few and far between.
Stefan Seip, in Stuttgart, Germany, captured Comet McNaught in broad daylight, with a blue sky and white puffy clouds on January 13, 2007, one day after the comet’s closest point to the sun (perihelion). He used an Astro-Physics 155mm aperture f/7 refractor working at f/14 with a 2x barlow lens and a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II DSLR and 1/500th of a second exposure (!) at ISO 100. 24 frames were stacked for the final image. Image via AstroPix.com.
8. Daytime comets.
Like the meteors with which they are sometimes confused, bright comets have been documented in the daytime sky. In fact, although not necessarily easy to observe, they are not all that rare. Comet McNaught became visible in daylight skies in 2007, and a bright daytime comet preceded Halley’s Comet in 1910.
Daytime comets are perhaps easier than daytime meteors because they sometimes can be predicted a short time ahead.
The Sutter’s Mill meteor – a daylight meteor – caught from near Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012. Photo via Lisa Warren.
9. Daytime meteors.
Rare and unpredictable, very bright meteors – or bits of space debris vaporizing as they encounter Earth’s atmosphere – are sometimes seen in the daylight sky. Although they occur in the high atmosphere, they are included in this list because they are caused by small space objects, many which are known to be parts of comets or from the asteroid belt. One of the most famous incidents occurred over the western part of North America in 1972. It was seen and even filmed by observers from Utah to Alberta. Another recent daylight meteor was reported over California and Nevada on April 22, 2012. This meteor streaked across the daylight sky, creating a sonic boom that rattled windows. It was seen by thousands. Later, astronomers said the meteor began as a mini-van-sized asteroid, and they located a debris field containing fragments of the meteorite, which is now known as the Sutter’s Mill meteorite.
By the way, the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor also would surely have been seen in daytime, if the sun had been up over Russia when it penetrated the atmosphere, causing an exceedingly bright flash and powerful shock wave, and breaking windows in six Russian cities. Needless to say, the meteor caused a panic, and with good reason. It caused some 1,500 people to seek medical treatment, mostly from flying glass.
10. Daytime supernovae.
Last on our list of space objects (sometimes) visible in the daytime sky are supernovae, or exploding stars. Estimates vary as to the expected frequency of supernova explosions in our Milky Way galaxy from as many as once every 20 years to once every 300 years. We don’t have enough records of these infrequent phenomena to give much of an average. Many of these would not even be visible from Earth due to intervening gas and dust. In any event, the last supernova bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky was in 1572, and then only barely. The most likely candidate for a supernova explosion visible during daytime is the star Betelgeuse. Unquestionably it will be visible in the day sky when it explodes, but when that will be is still unknown. It could be tonight, but more likely in a few thousand, or tens of thousands, or maybe even a million years from now.
The supernova of 1006 was likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history, reaching an estimated -7.5 magnitude, and exceeding the brightness of Venus by roughly 16 times. Observers across China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt and Europe saw and described it. Astronomer Tunç Tezel offers this suggestion of how it might have looked (at night), based on a photograph he took in 1998 from a site overlooking the Mediterranean south of Antalya, Turkey. The image is described further in the Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 28, 2003.
Bottom line:A rundown of the top 10 space objects you can see – under the right conditions – with the unaided human eye during the day.
In the first wing of the Egyptian Museum of the Cairo between two rooms close to the Momias Room, one cannot help but be surprised to see in a small display cabinet, although not without some difficulty caused by the reflections of the light on the crystal that covers it, a solitary object similar to a wheel or stone disc.
This strange object has disturbed and continues disturbing all the Egyptologists that have had occasion to study it at great length. The first of them was its discoverer, Brian Walter Emery, one of the most important Egyptologists of 20th Century and the author of a classic volume on Egyptology, Archaic Egypt, that continues to be, after many years, an important bibliographical reference for the study and an understanding of the origins of the Old Egyptian Civilization.
Making excavations in 1936, in the archaeological zone of Sakkara, he discovered the Tomb of Prince Sabu. He was the son of Adjuib Pharaoh, governor of the I Dynasty (3,000 B.C.).
Between utensils of funeral objects that were extracted, Emery’s attention was powerfully drawn by an object that he initially defined in his report on the Great Tombs of the I Dynasty as: “… a container in the form of schist bowl…”.
Years later, in his previously mentioned work, Archaic Egypt, he commented on the object with a word that perfectly summarizes the reality of the situation and the discomfort the object causes; “cachibache” (a small hole that threatens to become a much larger hole)”…
A satisfactory explanation has not yet been obtained on the peculiar design of this object…”.
This object is approximately 61 centimeters in diameter, and 10.6 centimeters in height in the center. It is made of schist, a very fragile and delicate rock, which requires very laborious carving.
Its form resembles that of a plate or a concave steering wheel of a car, with a series of three cuts or curved “shovels” that resemble the helix of a boat, and in the center, an orifice with a rim that acts as the outside receiver of some axis of a wheel or some other unknown mechanism, arranged to turn.
As it is well known by all, the official position maintained by Egyptology with respect to the appearance and use of the wheel on the part of the Egyptians, is very clear and leaves no room for doubt. The introduction of the wheel in Egypt they assure us, coincided with the invasion of the Hicsos at the end of the Medium Empire, in 1640 B.C.,
They used it, on among other things, their military chariots.
The question then is inevitable: if it is not a wheel, what is the strange object that appeared in the Tomb of Prince Sabu, 1,400 years before the invasion of the Hicsos?
In spite of the complexity of this problem, the subject has become even more serious as a result of the technical studies that a variety of investigators have made, impelled by the surprising and strange design of this device.
As well, the Egyptologist Cyril Aldred reached the conclusion that, independently of what the object was used for or what it represented, its design was without a doubt, a copy of a previous, much older metallic object.
In fact, this schist wheel appeared in Tomb of Prince Sabu, along with other strange copper objects, practically the only metal that the Egyptians then knew.
The doubt that has been plaguing us is wondering how the ancient Egyptians could design so delicate and complex a structural object more than 5,000 years ago.
A structure that in the case of the three strange cuts or curved shovels, induces one to think almost immediately about the use of this object in an average liquid.
This detail, next to the excellent orifice in the central part, makes us also suspect that this object is only a small part of a more complex mechanism, and that it was saved thanks to a stone reproduction for some unknown reason, made by an artist, with unknown tools.
But…, what mechanisms existed 5,000 years ago in the Valley of the Nile?
According to the typical and expected view of the archaeologists and pro-government Egyptologists, this object is no more than a tray or the pedestal of some candelabrum, with a design a product of blind chance”.
Although by chance, this peculiar object closely mirrors the design of one of the pieces that Lockheed developed to be fitted hermetically within a full case of lubricant.
Be that as it may, this object found in a tomb of Sakkara with an age at a minimum of 5,000 years, continues to constitute one of the most perplexing Egyptian and ancient mysteries.. Translated from the Italian by s8int.com, Ciao! Source: EgiptoOculto
One of the most unusual pieces is a strange circular object, fashioned in schist and with a central hub which gives it the appearance of having been designed to fit onto a pole.
Bearing in mind that it is of pre-dynastic date, circa 3000 BC, it represents supreme ability in working hard stone, the “lobes” looking as though they had been bent over. Indeed, it is possible that it is a copy of an original copper artifact.
One theorist who has attempted to explain its function is William Kay, an English engineer. He has suggested that it was actually a ritualistic tri-flamed oil lamp.
A wick system comprising six bundles of rushes, bound together, were held in place by the lobes and thus kept immersed in the oil. If the ends of the four bundles were separated sufficiently, then twelve separate flames may have resulted instead of three.
The numbers 3 and 12 are recognised as having symbolic significance for the ancient Egyptians. Bill Kay’s concept seems entirely reasonable, especially in the light of a pole-supported oil lamp from Deir el Medina, also exhibited in the Cairo Museum.
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Comment le rêve peut tourner au cauchemar !
Comment le rêve peut tourner au cauchemar ! Oui, c’est évidemment possible. C’est vrai, au départ, cela ressemble à un rêve et la prouesse technologique est impressionnante.
Et c’est sans doute la réalisation d’un rêve également pour la chercheuse ukrainienne Nataliya Kosmyna qui a mis au point un casque à électroencéphalogramme connecté en Bluetooth à un ordinateur. Prouesse de l’appareil doté d’un algorithme de sa conception : pouvoir commander un drone par la pensée !
Oui, là vous ne rêvez pas, et cela peut se concevoir pour n’importe quel objet connecté. C’est l’activité électrique du cerveau, imaginant une action, qui traduit cette action et la fait réaliser à l’appareil. Ce n’est plus de la science-fiction et nos chers Jedi peuvent aller se rhabiller.
Aucun doute sur l’utilité de ce système pour des personnes malades ou handicapées qui pourraient tirer un bénéfice énorme de cette avancée technologique. Mais il y a un mais… évidemment. Notre chercheuse de 27 ans, dont le papa est neurologue, est titulaire d’un doctorat en Intelligence Artificielle (oui, oui, je vous le dis) et a fondé sa start-up évidemment (Braini).
Mais voilà, Nataliya a des rêves et ceux-là, j’avoue qu’ils tiennent en effet plus du cauchemar qu’autre chose. La jeunette a déclaré sans sourciller « d’ici quinze à trente ans, nous aurons tous des implants dans le cerveau ». Ben voyons…
Elle ne s’arrête pas en si bon chemin puisque son idée est effectivement celle du contrôle par la pensée. De là à parler du contrôle de la pensée, il n’y a qu’un pas que je ne franchirai pas mais qui doit vous interpeller.
Et notre Nataliya d’annoncer : « Ce sera très facile à installer, grâce à une opération bénigne, un peu comme on se fait percer les oreilles. Il sera possible de piloter sa voiture par la pensée, de dicter des sms rien qu’en les imaginant, de surfer sur Internet sans toucher sa souris. »
La première chose à retenir c’est que si cela est sans doute un gros progrès pour des personnes malades ou handicapées, c’est de se demander à quoi cela peut-il servir pour les autres ?
Pas à grand-chose c’est certain (si ce n’est pour épater tous les geeks de votre entourage) mais cet implant peut aussi traduire vos pensées qui peuvent être collectées par un ordinateur… C’est sûr, vu comme cela, c’est beaucoup moins marrant…
Il n’est pas trop tard… Mais presque !
Sylvain DEVAUX
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A gigantic geode full of huge crystals has been discovered in an old silver mine in Spain. It occupies a space of 10.7 m³ (8 m long by 1.8 m wide by a 1.7 m average high) and is located at a depth of 50 m in the Pilar de Jaravía lead mine, in the Sierra del Aguilón
Geologist Javier Garcia-Guinea announced the discovery of this 26ft crystal geode in an old silver mine in Spain. The geologists think the geode was formed about six million years ago when the Mediterranean Sea evaporated. "The crystals are absolutely transparent and perfect".
Nikolas Tesla is said to have caused an artificial earthquake once in New York. What's the point of this story?
Wikipedia:
Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. Later in life, Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the popular culture title "Tesla's earthquake machine".
According to the magazine "Space And Time", artificial earthquakes were also used as a weapon, even during various wars, which were localized but caused severe destruction there (these earthquakes were not the consequences of an explosion, but lasted a few minutes). Is there any evidence of this?
On a few occasions while I’ve recently been promoting my new book, The Black Diary, I’ve been asked how far back the Black-Eyed Children phenomenon dates. Well, that’s a very difficult question to answer with any degree of accuracy. We know for sure that it was in the latter part of the 1990s that the controversy began to take off, chiefly with the story of a Texas journalist named Brian Bethel. But, definitively pinpointing the issue to one specific year, or decade, is not something we’re able to do right now. So far, the earliest case I personally have on record dates back to the early 1920s. And, given that the case is almost a century old, it’s no surprise that it’s not firsthand – which, admittedly, doesn’t amount to an ideal situation.
The story was given to me by the great-granddaughter of the witness. I will call the witness “Jane.” Her experience is an interesting one, as it demonstrates that the BEC phenomenon is not the relatively new one that most people assume it to be. Jane, unfortunately, is no longer with us: she died in 1992 at the age of eighty-seven. Jane’s great-granddaughter contacted me in 2016 to share the details of the encounter – which all of the family had heard of, and which was kind of like the definitive skeleton in the closet: everyone knew of it, but no-one really wanted to talk about it. At least, that is, until Jane’s great-granddaughter related the facts to me.
At the time of her encounter, Jane was just eighteen years old. This would have put her encounter in 1923 – which is astonishing, given that the BEC phenomenon is assumed to be one of fairly modern times. Jane and her family were living in a small town in Eastern Louisiana. Times were hard and the family of seven struggled to make ends meet. If that were not enough, it was in January 1923 that Jane had her first encounter with what can only be described as one of the Black-Eyed Children.
It was in the early hours of one particular morning that Jane awoke – unable to move and unable to speak – as a young boy, dressed in black, stretched out his hand and pointed at her. Instantly, she began to feel ill and lacking in energy – her inability to scream made things worse still. Then, suddenly, it was all over: the sleep-paralysis was gone. And so was the boy in black. Jane, practically hysterical, woke her parents and told them of what had happened. The most terrifying part of the encounter? The boy’s black eyes.
For the next three nights the boy returned. The story was the same every night: the boy with the black eyes manifested next to Jane as she lay in bed, unable to move an inch. As per the first time, he reached out – the result of which was again a sudden feeling of overwhelming weakness. Although the boy never returned again, it took Jane days to get back to her normal self. And, she soon took on a slightly jaundiced appearance, which was most definitely not a good sign.
The story would undoubtedly have never surfaced had it not been for the fact that on one occasion in 2014, Jane’s great-granddaughter was channel-flipping one night. She was confronted by a TV show that, in part, was focused on the BEC. Amazed and more than a bit disturbed by what she was seeing, she quickly realized what it was that Jane had encountered all those decades earlier: a definitive black-eyed child of the kind that many researchers of the paranormal assume amount to a modern day enigma.
In the already exceedingly odd history of mysterious encounters with unexplained entities, there are sometimes some that stand out as particularly bizarre, to the point of being almost ludicrous. I have delved into this here at Mysterious Universe before, quite recently in fact, but the list of such perplexing cases remains long. Here are more cases which go beyond the merely odd to launch out into the outer fringes of the unexplained and the absurd.
Many of the weirder reports come from the United States, and a tough act to follow on the bizarro-meter is a case from 1924, in Pasco County, in the state of Florida, and which was related in 1974 by an elderly witness named Evelyn Wendt, who claimed that this had happened to her when she was a girl. She said that she had been playing outside on the grounds of St. Joseph school when she had noticed an egg shaped object nearby that glowed so intensely and brightly that she had to cover her eyes at first, but it then supposedly suddenly dimmed to reveal some sort of saucer shaped metal craft. As she stood there staring wide-eyed at the strange sight, a small door suddenly opened to disgorge a procession of rather bizarre creatures, and Wendt would say of them thus:
Little people emerged. I think they were robots. I tried to count them, but they changed about so. They were smaller than I was and resembled animated flowers with faces where the bud would be.
These truly bizarre “robotic sunflowers” were apparently hoisting a sinister looking machine of some sort, which Wendt instinctively sensed was a weapon of some kind, and which they also seemed to be setting up to aim towards the school’s science building. It was at about this time that the witness claimed the entities communicated with her telepathically, telling her that they intended to destroy the science building because there were dangerous experiments going on in there behind closed doors. Bizarrely, they then suddenly changed their minds, and began to file back into the craft as they invited their human companion to come along. She refused, but they supposedly promised to come back for her in later years.
Wendt would say of what happened:
They promised to come back for me in 35 years, but that was a long time ago and nothing happened that I know of. All I can remember now is that the saucer was leaden-looking and very pockmarked. Then, when it started up, its molecules expanded and it turned silvery bright. The UFO then went straight up, hovered a minute, and disappeared from sight.
UFO researchers in later years sought to bring out any other details through hypnosis, but Wendt proved impossible to hypnotize. Bizarrely, the science building of the school at one point was destroyed by unspecified means, leading one to think that maybe the robo-flowers had come back to finish the job. What in the world was going on here? Is this just a made-up delusion or is it at all real in any sense? If it really did happen, then what were these robotic flowers and why on earth did they want to blow up a junior high school’s science building? Who knows?
Also from the U.S. is an account from the 1961, in the sleepy rural town of Rogers, Kentucky. In the summer of that year, the witness, known only as a Mrs. Quinn, was allegedly awoken one night by a strange noise, and she claimed that there had been a truly unearthly entity hovering right there next to her bed, which she described as a big black, slimy blob with no neck, a tiny round head, gigantic round eyes, and “wrinkles that glowed.” She described it as looking a bit like “a roly-poly” and “a huge tar-baby with enormous eyes.” This otherworldly being then levitated across the room towards where the woman’s daughter, Judy, was sleeping, and at the same time seemed to reach out to her telepathically, of which Judy would say:
I knew it wanted me to go somewhere. I found myself slipping off the bed. Suddenly, the thing released its strange force and it was gone.
It is difficult to say just what this very strange beast could have been, but there have been plenty of theories. For some it is a ghost or even a demon, for others its some sort of creature from an alternate dimension, while others still classify it as an extraterrestrial entity. There is no way at all to know, or indeed to even be sure that this ever happened outside of the witness’s imagination. Nevertheless, it remains a singularly bizarre report that seems to defy simple classification.
Just a few years later, in 1966, we move to the state of Oregon for an equally bizarre case. On the night of April 5, 1966, a 16-year-old witness named Kathy Reeves was allegedly walking along with her friend on a secluded dark road in the small city of Newport, Oregon, when they got the sudden, unmistakeable feeling that they were being followed and watched. The two girls assumed it was just someone messing around trying to scare them, which was made clearer when they thought they could see a dimmed flashlight beam bobbing about behind them.
They picked up their pace and even tossed rocks behind them at the unseen follower, but the feeling that someone was lurking in the darkness behind them did not abate, and when they turned around at one point what they thought had been a simple flashlight suddenly erupted into a brilliant beam of incandescent light far beyond what would be expected, which was then joined by more spears of brightness jutting from the night to converge upon them. Squinting through the glare, they claimed that they could make out a large, dome-shaped object some distance off that seemed to be wreathed in some sort of fog or smoke.
The now terrified girls began to run as fast as they could towards home, but as they did their path was blocked by three unearthly creatures the likes of nothing they had ever seen. The entities were described as being headless and armless, and as looking like mobile tree stumps that moved about on what resembled spider legs and which were dressed in some sort of multi-colored cloth. The creatures thankfully did not seem to pay too much attention to the witnesses, instead scurrying across the road to scamper off out of sight towards the inscrutable dome, which still flickered in the dark behind them.
The case attracted quite a lot of media attention at the time, and was covered in both Jim Brandon’s Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, as well as Jerome Clark’s Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings, but no further reports have ever been recorded of these enigmatic stump-like beings, leaving us to wonder just what they could have possibly been, if anything.
In later years we have an account from the summer of 1975, in which a junior high school science teacher in New York by the name of Tom D’Ercole allegedly had a rather violent encounter with a nebulous, wraith-like entity like no other. D’Ercole purportedly woke up one clear, sunny morning to look outside his Long Island home and see what he at first took to be a small, uncommonly dark cloud that seemed to be hovering towards his house. Things got stranger still when he noticed that it was actually going against the wind to approach his residence, and that it was actually growing in size and changing shape, and as it drew closer he could see that this was in fact no cloud at all. He would say of the strange sight:
This basketball-sized cloud floated back and forth across the peak of the roof, changing in shape from a small globular mass to a larger ovoid and finally becoming an abstract, multi-curved, dark, vaporous ‘something.’ It finally measured about six feet in height and one and a half feet in width.
This is perhaps already alarming and bizarre enough as it is, but things got even weirder still when it further metamorphosed to form a “mouth” complete with “lips,” and began to seemingly inhale, after which it spewed forth a deluge of liquid that covered the teacher and his home and then evaporated into nothingness as if it had never been there at all. D’Ercole went through great efforts to try and preserve some evidence of his odd encounter by placing his wet clothes in a sealed bag, but when analyzed it was found to be nothing but plain water. Although it is unclear what the teacher could have possibly seen, it is an intriguing account in that it comes from a reliable witness in the form of a well-respected science teacher who seems to have no reason at all to have made up such an absurd-sounding story.
More recent is an account from the state of Arizona in March of 2005. The unidentified witness claims to have had an argument with her boyfriend at their Tucson home at around 3AM in the morning, during which he left the house in a huff. Soon after, she claims that she had noticed flashing blue lights in the sky, and that she had retreated indoors to find something very surreal indeed. There in her living room were reported to be one enormous creature around 7 or 8 feet in height with a “rock head” and gelatinous, “jellyfish skin,” as well as two other similar beings that were smaller in stature, at around 5 feet tall.
The entities reportedly had jelly-like skin that could change textures and colors to perfectly blend into the scenery behind them, and furthermore they then demonstrated that they could walk through walls at will. Although there were other people in the house at the time, they were all asleep and did not witness the entities. After some time had passed of the alien creatures wandering about the home, the tall one reportedly shot the witness with a stream of liquid that solidified upon contact but seemed to have no discernible effect, before the entire contingent of beasts filed out into the night to disappear. Whatever this lady saw or thinks she saw, it is very weird to say the least.
Speaking of “Jelly Men,” there was something rather similar reported over in Spain in the summer of 1965. The tale originates in the secluded mountain village of Fragosa, not far from the border with Portugal, where a Juan Dominguez and his sister Isabel were carrying a load of peaches one day to bring home. As they walked along, they spied an indistinct tall figure lurking in the shadows near a garden wall. The two witnesses claimed that as they had drawn closer they could discern some sort of strange rattling hum emanating from the humanoid figure, and it began to pace about as if in impatience.
Despite an unsettling feeling of creepiness coming from the enigmatic being, the witnesses were drawn by curiosity to draw even closer still, and that was when they were startled to see that this was far from a human being. Instead they saw a humanoid, bipedal creature standing around 7 feet tall and with unusually long arms, but what was really unnerving was that it had a body apparently made of a translucent, gelatinous-type substance and no discernible facial features at all. The thing stood there looming over them for a moment before lunging towards them, upon which the witnesses perhaps wisely fled. What was this thing? Was it an alien, and inter-dimensional being, or what? No one knows, but it is definitely profoundly odd.
Spain incidentally has another very peculiar report from even earlier still, in 1961. In, again, the summer of that year (what is it with summer, eh?) a 29-year-old truck driver named Arquimedes Sanchez was driving along a precipitous mountain road through the Basque mountains at around 11PM, along with an unnamed companion, on their way to the town of Puerto de Barazar. As they rounded a bend, their headlights hit a bizarre and rather monstrous being standing upon an embankment nearby, which prompted the pair to stop their vehicle.
When they peered through the murk ahead of them they claim that they saw a “hairy octopus,” which stood around 4 feet tall, with glowing eyes and “tentacle-like” arms. The witnesses and the thing apparently sat there completely frozen and immobile for several minutes, both probably just as startled and scared as the other, before Sanchez snapped out of it and slammed the accelerator, which caused the weird apparition to scurry backwards away from the threat, after which Sanchez backed up and tried again, apparently intent on running it over. Interestingly, the otherworldly intruder refused to take off into the night, instead always just managing to avoid being run over, as if it were all a game. Finally the two men, neither who were willing to step out of the vehicle to investigate, drove off to leave the being behind, never to be seen again.
Keeping with blob-like masses, last we come to Cuba, with an earlier report of an unclassifiable account from near Jicotea, Las Villas, in Cuba in 1915. Guess what season it was? Yes, summer. In summer that year, two armed guards were purportedly doing a horseback patrol of a sugar cane field when they came across an off- white bundle lying across their path just as their steeds began to become agitated and panicked. The patrol first thought it was just a sack until it begin to pulsate and move like a living creature, which prompted the men to shoot at it. Far from killing the globular sack, these shots seemed to only embolden it, and it was reported as actually alarmingly getting larger with each shot.
The ever expanding sack of ooze began to lurch towards the increasingly terrified guards, gradually increasing in size until it was purportedly almost as large as the horses. The horses seem to have had had enough, bucking to throw their riders to the ground and dash off into the dark. The two guards then high tailed it out of there as fast as they could. The following morning they apparently returned to the scene and found the horses wandering about. Of the strange creature they had witnesses there was no sign.
Here we have looked at some singularly unique accounts of creatures and beings that seem to defy and elude simple classification. Are these aliens, mystery monsters, inter-dimensional interlopers, or what? Is this cryptozoological in nature or something from some other “goblin universe,” making forays into our own to baffle and scare? No one really knows, there is really not much to go on but these singularly far-out reports, and they remain some of the most outlandish cases out there.
Zijn deze enorme graancirkels gemaakt door buitenaardse wezens? Kijk en oordeel zelf
Zijn deze enorme graancirkels gemaakt door buitenaardse wezens? Kijk en oordeel zelf
In een weiland in het Noord-Brabantse Hoeven zijn graancirkels ontdekt door Robbert van den Broeke. Hij is er stellig van overtuigd dat er buitenaardse wezens achter de formatie zitten, meldt Omroep Brabant.
Beelden die Van den Broeke maakte van de graancirkel en die hij op YouTube heeft geplaatst, zijn inmiddels al ruim 20.000 keer bekeken.
Het is niet voor het eerst dat het medium op graancirkels is gestuit in Hoeven. In 2013 zag hij naar eigen zeggen ook al een graanformatie en buitenaardse wezens in zijn woonplaats.
Enorme formatie
“Ik kreeg ’s nachts een onrustig gevoel en kreeg beelden te zien van een graancirkelformatie in de buurt,” verklaarde Van den Broeke.
“Ik heb niet getwijfeld en meteen mijn brommer gepakt,” vervolgde hij. Toen hij op de locatie aankwam zag hij de ‘enorme formatie’.
Ontkend
In Hoeven verschijnen al jaren mysterieuze graancirkels. Van den Broeke heeft altijd ontkend dat hij zelf betrokken is geweest bij het maken ervan.
WAAROM HET BOEK VAN HENOCH NIET IN DE BIJBEL MOCHT VERSCHIJNEN..
WAAROM HET BOEK VAN HENOCH NIET IN DE BIJBEL MOCHT VERSCHIJNEN..
Wij maken ons nu druk om censuur en alles wat voor de mensheid verborgen wordt gehouden, maar eigenlijk is dat geen nieuws.
Miljarden mensen wereldwijd gebruiken nog altijd de bijbel als leidraad, maar weten niet dat, en zeker niet waarom, ook dit boek is gecensureerd.
De bijbel is natuurlijk een heel interessant boek, want als je dat leest zonder de nodige voorprogrammering vanuit een religie, dan zijn daar opmerkelijke zaken uit te halen.
Wat bij niet veel christenen bekend zal zijn is dat de oorspronkelijke bijbel veel groter was dan de huidige versie die wij kennen. De oudste bijbel ooit is gevonden in Ethiopië, het land dat door christelijke reisorganisaties als volgt wordt aangeprezen:
Reis door noord en zuid Ethiopie, een land met eeuwenoude culturen en verrassende landschappen. De bakermat van de christelijke beschaving in Afrika.
Deze oorspronkelijke in Ethiopië aangetroffen bijbel bevat dan ook 88 boeken in plaats van de 66 die wij kennen. Eén van die ontbrekende boeken is die van Henoch.
Henoch was de overgrootvader van Noach, en de vader van Methusalem, en zijn boek geeft een unieke kijk op de wereld van voor de zondvloed - waarschijnlijk rond 9000 voor Christus. De naam Sumer betekent 'Land van de Wachters' dus Henoch leefde waarschijnlijk in het gebied dat nu Irak is.
Het eerste gedeelte van het Boek van Henoch omschrijft de val van de Wachters, de engelen boven de Nefilim. Het resterende gedeelte van het boek vertelt over de bezoeken van Henoch aan de hemel in de vorm van reizen, visioenen en dromen.
Shemjaza
Nadat de zonen van de mensen zich in die dagen hadden vermenigvuldigd werden dochters geboren, elegant en mooi. En toen de engelen, de zonen van de hemel, hen aanschouwden zeiden ze tegen elkaar: “Laten we uit de nakomelingen van de mens vrouwen kiezen en ook kinderen krijgen.” Toen zei hun leider Shemjaza: “Ik alleen zal lijden voor een dergelijke misdaad.” Maar ze antwoordden hem en zeiden: “We zweren allen dat we samen schuldig zijn en wij zullen onze intentie niet veranderen.”
Ze waren met tweehonderd en daalden neer op Ardis (in de tijd van Jared) wat de top is van de Armonberg (de Hermonbergin het hedendaagse Israël). Dit zijn de namen van hun leiders: Shemjaza, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael en Arazyal. Ze namen vrouwen voor zichzelf, benaderden hen en leerden hen toverspreuken. En de vrouwen raakten zwanger en brachten reuzen voort. - Henoch 7:1-11
Wapens
Volgens Henoch waren de Zonen van God engelachtige wezens die omlaag kwamen naar het aardse rijk en op de Hermonberg een pact sloten om kinderen te krijgen met menselijke vrouwen.
Ze brachten de mensen spreuken, meteorologie, astrologie, astronomie, interpretaties van de schijngestalten van de maan, kruidengeneeskunde en de tekens van de zon, sterren en de maan. Bovenal leerden ze de mensen hoe ze wapens konden maken. De Zonen van God werden verantwoordelijk gehouden en Shemjaza en Azazel aangewezen als zondebok.
Grote invloed
De nakomelingen van de Zonen van God en de vrouwen waren naar verluidt de Nephilim. Maar ook de engelen die uit de hemel neerdaalden stonden bekend als de Nephilim. Je kunt het vergelijken met een Iers gezin dat naar de Verenigde Staten emigreert. Na emigratie zijn de gezinsleden officieel Amerikaans staatsburger, maar eigenlijk zijn ze zowel Iers als Amerikaans.
Uiteindelijk werd het door die Wachters en hun afstammeling een zodanige puinhoop op aarde dat God besloot dat het tijd werd de mensheid te vernietigen en dat er een nieuwe start gemaakt moest worden.
En dus kreeg de achterkleinzoon van Henoch, Noach, de opdracht om een ark te bouwen, de nodige mensen en dieren te verzamelen en om na de zondvloed de aarde opnieuw te bevolken.
Wanneer in christelijke termen wordt gesproken over engelen, al dan niet gevallen, dan worden ze altijd afgebeeld als mensen met vleugels. En iedereen in die tijd vond het dan klaarblijkelijk heel gewoon dat er mensen met vleugels tussen hen liepen.
Echter, de waarheid is waarschijnlijk dat die vleugels een soort symbolische voorstelling zijn van het feit dat deze Nephilim van en naar de hemel konden vliegen. En dat deden ze niet met hun vleugels, maar met hun ruimteschepen/modules.
De reden dat het boek van Henoch nooit in de bijbel is verschenen, is omdat het in detail eigenlijk het verhaal van de Anunnaki vertelt, althans een deel daarvan.
Nibiru werd bevolkt door verschillende Reptielen-rassen en werd bestuurd door een elitaire aristocratie die bekend is als de Nefilim. Het woord zelf – Nibiru - is een Orion woord dat "het verbinden van de twee stammen" betekent. De Anunnaki waren een complexe kruising van verschillende geslachten. Ze waren een kruising van de Reptielen/Orion-lijn met de Sirius/Pleiaden-mens. De Anunnaki waren een van de meest technologisch geavanceerde buitenaardse rassen op dat moment. De Anunnaki waren een ras van veroveraars met woeste en wellustig gevoelens. Hun bewustzijn was vol bedrog en jaloezie. De Elite-klasse was vaak incestueus en hield bewust hun koninklijke bloedlijn Annunaki in tact. De Anunnaki waren biologische wezens met een extreme trots en arrogantie. Ze waren bezeten van veroveren en controleren. Ze probeerde hun onverzadigbare dorst te lessen door andere wezens te controleren en andere buitenaardse rassen te overheersen. De Anunnaki veroverden vele kwetsbare rassen en ontwikkelden complexe en onderdrukkende systemen die ze alle veroverde werelden oplegden. Ze ontwikkelden veel wrede en verwoestende wapens die zij zonder mededogen op hun slachtoffers uitprobeerden. Ze waren ook zeer bedreven in het gebruiken van MindControl, dat zij ontwikkeld hadden om hun gevangenen te controleren en te manipuleren.
Nadat de mens als slavenras genetisch in elkaar gesleuteld was met een bepaald doel, was het natuurlijk niet de bedoeling dat een aantal van die Anunnaki daar mee zou gaan knoeien door kinderen te krijgen samen met de resultaten van dat experiment (de huidige mens).
Hiermee werden dan waarschijnlijk bepaalde genetische codes zodanig verstoord bij de nakomelingen dat de leiding van de Anunnaki besloot om het experiment tot dan toe te schrappen en helemaal opnieuw te beginnen.
Ze wisten dat tijdens de passage van de planeet Nibiru er zodanige krachten op de aarde zouden inwerken dat er een “zondvloed” zou ontstaan en dus hoefden ze weinig te doen of hebben ze zelf gezorgd voor die passage.
De opname van Henoch doet denken aan de opname van Elia, zoals beschreven in 2 Koningen 2:11. Beiden stijgen in een wervelwind (storm) op ten hemel in een vurige wagen met vurige paarden.
Een vurig paard dat in een wervelwind opstijgt richting hemel is natuurlijk letterlijk af te beelden als een paard dat in de lucht verdwijnt net zoals je bij een engel er een paar vleugels aanplakt, maar veel logischer is dat hier het vertrek van een landingsmodule wordt beschreven.
Christenen vragen zich ook af waarom het boek Henoch niet in de bijbel is opgenomen:
De vraag die velen zich hebben gesteld is, waarom men bij de samenstelling van de Canon, het "Boek van Henoch" niet heeft opgenomen terwijl alle schrijvers van het Nieuwe Testament er mee vertrouwt waren. Men citeerde vrijelijk uit dit boek waaruit blijkt dat de gegevens hierin als volkomen geïnspireerd werden beschouwd. Zo schreef bijvoorbeeld Judas, een van de dienstknechten van de Here Jezus over een profetie die door Henoch is uitgesproken.
Het antwoord is eenvoudig: Men wist dat er mensen zouden komen die de inhoud van het boek Henoch zouden ontcijferen en ontdekken wat er werkelijk gebeurde. Dat dit boek te gevaarlijk was omdat dit de controle die door de eeuwen is uitgevoerd door religies, wel eens volledig onderuit kon halen.
En dus rijdt tot op vandaag de dag, een profeet zoals Elia volgens de christenen op deze magische manier naar de hemel.
Het boek Henoch leidt ons natuurlijk ook rechtstreeks naar de Anunnaki en daarmee naar Marduk/Baäl.
Christenen zullen de naam Baäl onmiddellijk herkennen als de afgod waaraan in Oud Testamentische tijden op gruwelijke wijze baby’s werden geofferd. Baäl is dan ook een synoniem voor Satan, de overste van de duistere machten, die de globalistische financiële en politieke elite inmiddels volledig in zijn greep lijkt te hebben gekregen.
De verering van Baäl in de praktijk ging als volgt:
Volwassenen verzamelden zich rondom het altaar van Baäl. Kleine kinderen werden vervolgens levend verbrand als offer voor de god Baäl. Te midden van de afgrijselijke kreten en de geur van verbrand vlees, hielden de gelovigen, zowel mannen als vrouwen, zich bezig met biseksuele orgiën. Dit hele ritueel was bedoeld om economische voorspoed te verkrijgen door Baäl op deze manier te inspireren om het te laten regenen en zo de vruchtbaarheid van “moeder aarde” te vergroten.
Wat blijkt?
De namen Baäl en Bel zijn andere namen voor de nog oudere Babylonische afgod Marduk, de god van de jacht.
Kortom, de grote Luceferiaanse baas Marduk (ook bekend als Nimrod) is onderweg met zijn planeet Nibiru en zijn trouwe volgelingen eren hem door het plaatsen van een tempel in zowel New York als Londen.
The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
Finding life in other parts of the universe has been one of humanity's constant dreams. For the first time in history the scientific community has hopes based on some degree of possibility that this dream will become a reality in the not too distant future. This is, in part, due to the new generation of giant telescopes, presently in the planning phase, which we hope to be able to make a detailed analysis of the atmospheres of planets beyond the Solar System. For this reason researchers are making efforts to investigate "biomarkers", which is the term for observable evidence which we could use to give us firm evidence of life on these planets.
However, one thing is to find some form of life, but another, very different, is to find intelligent civilizations, or technological capacity, which seems much less likely. To start with we don't know whom we are looking for, we lack "technomarkers" (the analogues of biomarkers, but which reveal the presence of technology). Since the 80's of the last century there have been searches for radio signals from other civilizations, so far unsuccessful. This is hardly surprising if we remember that the radio emissions from a society such as ours would not be detectable at interstellar distances, unless they were deliberately focused in the direction of the receiver. In the scientific literature there have been proposals to look for technomarkers, for instance the well known "Dyson Spheres" which would be hypothetical artificial megastructures constructed around a star to collect its light and thereby supply the need for energy of a civilization much more advanced than ours.
Artistic representations of a Clarke exobelt
[Credit: Caro Waro]
In an article published in The Astrophysical Journal by the IAC researcher Hector Socas proposed a new technomarker, which is characterized by the fact that it could be produced by present day technology on Earth. There is a very interesting region in space around planets called the "Clarke Belt" in honour of Arthur C. Clarke who in 1945 published an article about the use of geostationary orbits for telecommunications. In this belt orbit the geostationary satellites which we use for a large number of practical applications.
The publication presents a variety of simulations of "Clarke exobelts" to investigate what would be the imprint they would leave on the light of the parent star as the planet transits across its disk. The optimum conditions for observing them are found for planets in orbit round red dwarf stars, which are also the best places to look for exoplanets in general. In the article published in The Astrophysical Journal details are given of how these artificial belts can be distinguished from natural rings. Using this technique current projects and space missions designed to detect exoplanets and their moons and rings could also be used to detect this marker. "It is a search which we will have for nothing" says Hector Socas, and he adds "We have to keep our eyes open, just in case we detect this traces in the data".
Humanity's Clarke Belt (our geostationary and geosynchronous satellites) is not densely populated enough to be detected at interstellar distances, at least with our present observing capabilities. Around two thirds of existing satellites are in the region termed "low orbit", which means the first few hundred kilometres above the Earth, where space debris is already a significant problem. The Clarke belt orbit is it 36,000 km above the Earth, and it is so far much less populated, but the article shows that during recent decades the density of satellites in these orbits has been growing exponentially. If this rate continues our Clarke belt would be detectable from other stars by the year 2200.
The rate could even be speeded up if access to these orbits was reduced in cost, for example by the new reusable rockets, or by the construction of a future space lift. Or it could be slowed down if technological advance looked for other priorities. In any case there is an active debate about whether humanity should actively send messages into space or whether, on the contrary, we ought to listen discreetly without revealing our presence. "In this context, the exponential increase in our population of satellites could end up by becoming a signal which gives us away, whether we like it or not. This is a point which should be taken into account in this debate" says Socas.
Faced with the question of whether one day we will discover an "Clarke exobelt", and thereby find an extraterrestrial civilization, the researcher gives his vies that "It seems unlikely, but it costs nothing to take a look. It is as if someone gave you a lottery ticket. You know that it is very unlikely that you will win, but as you have it you check up on the result, just in case".
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“Why Is It So Difficult For People To Believe In Extraterrestrial Beings?”
“Why Is It So Difficult For People To Believe In Extraterrestrial Beings?”
Have you ever quietly sat for a moment and really thought about Earth, and how it seems to just magically and properly, hang there in space, without falling into some celestial abyss? Seriously, think about it for a moment . . . close your eyes for a minute or two, and guide yourself high above the Earth so you are looking down upon it. What’s holding it up and in place? For that matter, what’s holding any of the planets and stars in their rightful, possibly, intentional, spot, in the universe?
Now, given that there are millions of galaxies in the universe, which hold millions of stars and planets, isn’t it presumptuous and narcissistic, to believe that we (humans), are the only, for the most part, intelligent, beings, in the universe? Hundreds of thousands, possibly, millions, of people around the world, believe that “extraterrestrial” beings, exist, and have been visiting earth for millennia. Many of these same people, also believe that “star beings,” walk among us every day and most of us are completely unaware of their presence.
Yes, I am one of those “believers,”even though to my knowledge, I have never seen or met one. Although, now that I think of it, there have been a few people I’ve met, who could have definitely been “space visitors.” Take some time and research the subject. I think it might surprise you how many legitimate, sightings, have been documented, both written and recorded. It should come as no surprise, either, that governments around the globe, have known for centuries, that “extraterrestrials and UFO’s” are quite real, but absolutely, refuse, to admit to the public, that they exist. What are they afraid of?
Do they think we can”t handle the truth? Do they think society will break down, and mass chaos, will erupt? Or, is it they are so manipulated, and controlled by “religions,” who adamantly, refuse, to let the “governments” of the world, broadcast the truth to the people? Enough already . . . “extraterrestrials and UFO’s exist,”get over yourselves, get over it, it’s no big deal! With the explosion of cell phones and the “internet,” there have been hundreds and hundreds of actual, recorded sightings, that can’t be disregarded as “fake or CGI” That doesn’t mean that fakes and forgeries, don’t exist, of course they do, but I’m talking reality here.
Check out a couple of these Youtube channels, and the videos they share, in regards to the whole UFO/Alien subject . . .
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UFOs Over Mexico
UFOs Over Mexico
At the beginning of this podcast was the introduction from the first Mexican documentary on UFOs. It was not a television show or a movie, but a thirty three and a third 12-inch vinyl record titled “El Enigma de los OVNIs,” or in English, “The UFO Enigma.” It was recorded in the late 1960s by two Mexican UFO researchers, Jorge Raiger and Ramiro Garza.
The recording was re-released in 2015 and according to many Latin American UFO buffs and serious investigators alike, the breakthrough audio documentary has stood the test of time. For those needing a translation, the announcer at the beginning talks about how a public relations director at NASA in the United States has recently revealed that for quite some time we have been visited by flying saucers and they are interplanetary and that we have been observed be beings from outer space. The recording continues, going deep into the 1960s research about the UFO phenomenon. Here on “Mexico Unexplained” we will carry the torch of Raiger and Garza and continue with the story of UFOs over Mexico and the various occurrences associated with their mysterious appearances.
Theories of ancient astronauts and the extraterrestrial origins of ancient Mexican civilizations began to pop up in the mid- to late-1960s, around the same time as the “Enigma” recording. Books like Chariots of the Gods? and The Outer Space Connection were published decades ago and propose that Mexico has been visited by off-world intelligences for millennia. We will concentrate on the modern UFO phenomenon as it applies to Mexico in this show. As mentioned in Episode # 42 of “Mexico Unexplained” titled “José and the Skyfish,” the first reported Mexican UFO sighting in modern times came from the Zacatecas Observatory in August of 1883.
Astronomer José Bonilla was studying the sun and he recorded and photographed over 300 dark and unknown objects crossing the sun’s surface. Other than hot air balloons, there was no form of aircraft around at the time to explain away Doctor Bonilla’s observation. The movements of these objects suggested something organic, but as it has not yet been determined what these objects actually were, they remain to this day unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
The modern UFO phenomenon in Mexico seemed to run a parallel course to its counterpart in the United States. UFOs in the shape of flying saucers, called platillos volantes in Spanish, began to appear in Mexican skies in the 1940s and 1950s, much as they did in the skies over the United States. Before the flying saucer epoch, Mexico had very few reports of strange objects in the sky.
There were a few stories of mysterious cigar-shaped craft, but they were often dismissed as zeppelin prototypes coming from the US or Germany. The metallic, disc-shaped platillosseemed to dominate the Mexican skies for a few decades. It has only been in the last 30 years of the 20th Century that UFOs have taken on other appearances. Everything from blinking lights, to geometrical shapes like cubes and orbs, to squid-like objects, to dark triangles. These mysterious objects have been solo or have been classified as “fleets” when a handful or more have been found flying together in some sort of formation. There have been several “mothership” sightings, as well. A notable one occurred on October 11, 2014 over Mexico City during which observers saw and filmed a massive object in the sky and several smaller ships around it. In May of the previous year, a cigar-shaped mothership also appeared over Mexico’s capital and it seemed to “drop” smaller orbs into the sky before taking off.
It is important to note how many sightings have occurred over Mexico City and why. As one of the most populated urban centers on earth with almost 25 million people living there, there are many eyes available to look toward the sky. A “mass sighting” over Mexico’s capital city may involve tens of thousands of people, if not more. With more and more people living in the Valley of Mexico and with more and more people equipped with cameras ready-made on their cel phones, it seems like the sightings are ever more frequent. It may be that unknown objects in the skies above Mexico City have always been there and have always been this frequent, but now there are just more eyes and more recording devices. The biggest mass sighting in Mexico City came almost 2 decades before most people had cel phones, in 1991.
On July 11, 1991 Mexico City was preparing for what was called “The Eclipse of the Millennium.” A total eclipse of the sun lasting 6 minutes and 45 seconds was to occur over the Mexican capital city in early afternoon. With people looking to the sky numbering into the millions, according to some estimates, hundreds of thousands of people noticed a shiny metal object hovering in the near distance a few minutes into the eclipse. It was metallic, disc-shaped and rotated. Guillermo Arreguín, a cameraman for the Mexican television network Televisa, who was filming the eclipse, got footage of the object. It was broadcast on Mexican television later that night. After that broadcast 17 other people came forward with similar videocam footage recorded from various parts of the city. With so many people looking up to observe the eclipse, this July 11, 1991 sighting may be the most observed UFO experience in human history.
A very curious phenomenon with regard to UFOs in Mexico is the strange frequency that UFOs are observed flying in and out of volcanoes. Three volcanoes of note with such sightings are Nevado de Toluca, the Colima volcano and the massive Popcatépetl, which looms in the distance over Mexico City. All of these volcanoes are located in central Mexico. In January of 2014 a glowing orb was filmed rising in and out of the caldera of Nevado de Toluca. The Mexico City volcano, nicknamed “Popó,” has had the most UFO sightings connected with it than any other volcano. In the year 2013 alone there were sightings recorded in every month of that year. The Colima volcano and Popó have been further scrutinized by the emergence of a website in 2011 called “Webcams de Mexico.” This site provides live footage of these volcanoes and many UFOS have been spotted going in and out of these mountains by the cameras connected with this web site. This web cam site is also responsible for other UFO footage taken throughout Mexico at various other locales. Online there is ample footage of mysterious objects taken from these live webcams.
The most well-known UFO-related incident in Mexico happened in the state of Chihuahua in 1974 when a large metallic disc supposedly crashed into a small private plane. The story is pretty detailed and you can learn all about it in episode # 31 of Mexico Unexplained titled “The Flying Saucer Crash at Coyame: A Mexican Roswell?” Another famous Mexican plane-related incident happened in May of 1975. Carlos Antonio de los Santos was flying his small private plane over the town of Tequesquitengo in the state of Morelos when three metallic objects only about 8 feet in diameter – I guess we would call these platillitos volantes – took control of his aircraft. One hovered below the fuselage and one over each wing. De los Santos landed without incident and with no harm to his aircraft or his person.
No exploration of UFOs or extraterrestrial visitation would be complete without examining the abduction phenomenon. In this phenomenon abductees, or “experiencers,” are taken aboard alien spacecraft and experimented upon, taken for rides or given information or messages for humanity. The first American case of alleged alien abduction happened in New England in 1961 to Betty and Barney Hill. The first major abduction case in the entire world, according to most UFO researchers, occurred in Brazil to a farmer named Antônio Vilas Boas in 1957.
However, there was an obscure case that happened in Mexico in 1953, a full 4 years before the Brazilian abduction. In August of that year, so the story goes, a taxi driver named Salvador Villanueva Medina was on his way to the border town of Laredo traveling on an obscure road in northern Mexico. His car broke down and out of the sagebrush appeared a being with long blond hair, light eyes and a sleek body with milky skin. Medina asked if the person was American and the being told him that he was from the planet Venus. He stood there talking to Medina and described his home world.
There was one ocean, there was one government. Children were in the care of the government until they reached maturity. There were no wars and the whole world was under one flag. Medina did not believe the blond being, known in the UFO terminology as a “Nordic,” so the being invited him to see his spacecraft which was parked over a hill. Medina followed him and over the hill he saw the typical disc-shaped metallic craft resting on metal legs so that the underbelly would not touch the ground. The Venusian asked Medina if he would like to take a trip in the saucer. The humble Mexican taxi driver agreed.
The flight through space was quick and Medina stayed on Venus for 5 days, experiencing what the blond being had described to him on that back road in Mexico. Medina then returned home and wrote a book about his trip titled Estuve en el planeta venus, in English, I Was on the Planet Venus, only available in Spanish. After publication, Medina suffered much derision and ostracism from family and friends. He visited a psychiatrist who did not find him to be delusional.
By anyone’s measure, this seems like a fanciful story. At the time – the decade of the 1950s – many people believed that Venus was an inhabited world. Many believed that Medina’s story was just a made up tale to capitalize on the nascent interest in other planets and the possibility of space travel. In any case, the Medina incident is the first reportedly documented alien abduction ever to be publicized, although it did not make it very far out of Mexico.
Was it real?
Many have a hard time believing it or anything else connected with extraterrestrials. But what of the objects in the sky? As with all topics here on Mexico Unexplained, we leave the ponderings, ruminations and further investigations up to you.
April 21st 2004 was an important day for Jaime Maussán, the white-haired and white-bearded host of the Mexican television show Tercer Milenio. He had gotten the scoop of his career. Since 1970 Maussán had distinguished himself as one of the leading journalists in Mexico, having worked for many newspapers and broadcasting outlets primarily as an investigative reporter focusing on science and environmental issues. In the early 1990s Maussán’s interests turned toward UFOs on a show he co-hosted called Y usted que opina?
This show was the first step on a long path that would eventually lead him to become known as a top expert in Mexico on unidentified flying objects, or OVNIs, in Spanish. As one of the principal ufologists in the country, it was logical for Jaime Maussán to have such an important meeting on that day in April of 2004. It was then when he met with General Gerardo Clemente Vega García, Mexico’s Minister of Defense who was appointed to the position by Mexican President Vicente Fox in the year 2000. It was an important day for General Vega, too. The career army officer had served Mexico well as a military attaché abroad in such countries as Poland, West Germany and the Soviet Union. In his very long and distinguished career in service for Mexico the general had never had such a strange task fall in his lap. In the meeting with Maussán, the Defense Minister asked the journalist if he could get his help in analyzing a strange batch of video footage and audio clips.
General Vega wanted Señor Maussán’s help in investigating the incident behind this footage: On March 5th 2004, just weeks before their meeting, a Mexican Air Force anti-drug trafficking surveillance flight over the coast of the Mexican state of Campeche had a strange encounter with 11 orbs of light that flew around the aircraft. Maussán was honored and a bit astounded that the Mexican government would come to him for help with their investigation. He realized at the time that his meeting with the general was somewhat historic. In all his years of research, Maussán had never known of a case in which a national government of any country went beyond the mere acknowledgement of the existence of UFOs and asked for civilian help in trying to understand the phenomenon. Maussán had a great scoop, and a great burden, and on May 11th 2004 he took part in a press conference announcing to the world the news and the details of the historic partnership.
So, what exactly happened that night over the Gulf of Mexico?
The date was March 5th 2004. The time was between 5:00 and 5:30 pm. The location where the objects begin to appear is marked at 18 degrees, 26 minutes and 60 seconds north latitude, and 90 degrees, 43 minutes and 69 seconds west longitude. The Merlin C26A Bimotor airplane, part of the Mexican Air Force’s 501 Aerial Squadron, was flying at 10,500 feet, near Ciudad del Carmen off the coast of the Mexican state of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico.
The plane was staffed by a captain and two lieutenants, who were responsible for operating the radar and infrared systems onboard the plane. The range of the radar was approximately 50 miles. The range for the infrared system was between -40°C and 1,500°C. Visibility was at 96% and weather conditions were calm, with no storms nearby or in the forecast for the evening. The airplane was only used for surveillance and detection. It was not commissioned for combat or intercept maneuvers. The purpose for flights like these was to identify suspicious and possibly drug-related aircraft, report the activity to the ground base and then Air Force planes would be scrambled to intercept whatever unauthorized plane was in the area.
At 5:00 the first object appeared on the plane’s radar and was confirmed with infrared but was not visible with the naked eye. The captain of the plane radioed the ground to tell the base that they had identified a possible suspect and to maintain interceptor planes at alert status while they flew closer to investigate. As the Air Force plane got closer to the object, the object accelerated. The incident was being recorded by the radar and the infrared device, and the plane was in constant communication with the ground providing detailed descriptions of what they were experiencing. The captain of the plane was perplexed because they still were not able to establish visual contact.
The object briefly disappeared from their detection devices when it was joined by another. The pilot maneuvered the plane in a circular direction to get a better view of the two orb-like lights when something unexpected occurred: the two objects they had been tracking were joined by even more objects. Out of nowhere, 9 more flying balls of light appeared, the same size and sharing the same characteristics of the first two, and seemed to fly in formation. What was even stranger than 9 objects appearing so suddenly was their apparent invisibility to the naked eye. As with the first two, these 9 new objects were only visible on radar and through the infrared detection equipment.
The pilot of the plane radioed the base to ask for further instructions. In the meantime he cut out all the lights to his aircraft to try to see if that would make visual contact easier but they still could not see the objects without the instruments. By that time the 11 objects had maneuvered around the aircraft. At around the time interceptor planes were to be scrambled on the ground, the objects flew away, disappearing off the radar and infrared sensors.
When the crew landed the debriefing began. All instrument recordings were turned over to the Mexican Department of Defense and the Campeche case got the attention of the highest levels of military and government in Mexico. After weeks of examining the in-flight recordings, multiple interviews with the flight crew and analysis of the weather-related data from that evening, the Minister of Defense, General Vega, made the decision to seek outside help. Going to television ufologist Jaime Maussán was a giant leap in the UFO field because, as stated before, it was one of the first times in history when a sovereign government of a country not only acknowledged the existence of UFOs, but solicited help from the private sector to aid in an investigation.
On Sunday, May 9th 2004, on his show, which was then called, Los Grandes Misterios del Tercer Milenio, or in English, “The Big Mysteries of the Third Millennium,” Jaime Maussán announced his collaboration with the Mexican military in this case. He also announced that further details would be shared with the public at a press conference to be held on May 11th 2004 at the Sevilla Palace Hotel in Mexico City.
The Campeche incident generated a lot of attention both inside Mexico and abroad, and as with many UFO sightings this case found itself on the receiving end of harsh criticism almost immediately. Many theories arose to try to explain what exactly happened over the Gulf of Mexico in March of 2004. Debunkers were then answered by counter-debunkers who shot holes in supposed air-tight “rational” explanations. The most famous round of debunking came from Americans.
Ben McGee, resident skeptic on the National Geographic Channel’s show Chasing UFOs, elaborated on a theory proposed by previous researchers and alleged that what the Mexican Air Force personnel had experienced had a more terrestrial explanation. McGee believed that what their instruments were seeing were really fires from the tops of oil rigs on platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and he was determined to prove it. For the National Geographic show, McGee took a plane and similar equipment the Mexicans used and demonstrated how the pilot and the crew had mistaken the distant fires for UFOs, even claiming that the swirling of the clouds that night gave the impression that these stationary fires were moving and that they were higher than what would have expected.
What was shown on Chasing UFOs and in subsequent lectures by McGee seemed like an open-and-shut case and a thorough analysis which satisfied many people in the skeptic circles. More critical eyes saw flaws in what Ben McGee was saying. How would oil rig fires show up on radar? The experienced flight crew, who had logged thousands of hours in the air, had reported movement of the objects. Wouldn’t they know the difference between something stationary and something moving outside the plane? Why were oil fires, which would seemingly be visible at night from a plane, not visible to the flight crew with the naked eye? One investigator noted that the oil rigs were 100 miles away from the plane and would not have shown up on any of their instruments anyway because they were way out of range. And what of other sightings? If these bright objects were really the oil rigs, wouldn’t other pilots in the area have reported similar experiences? No such stories exist.
In spite of the debunking and the debunking of the debunkers, the Mexican military working with the country’s top ufologist, Jaime Maussán, could not come up with an explanation for what happened in the skies off the cost of Campeche in March of 2004 and this was after months of research and the solicitation of help of dozens of experts. So, it seems we are back to square one. Perhaps we are just left with a mystery and no one will ever know who or what was behind those lights in the sky, that is, unless they return…
REFERENCES(This is not a formal bibliography
“Mexico Pilots Release UFO Film,” BBC News, 17 May 2004
“Famous UFO Video Debunked by TV Host,” Open Minds web site, 2 October 2014
“Exclusive: Mexican DOD Acknowledges UFOs in Mexico” by Santiago Yturría, on Rense.com, 14 May 2004
A good buddy of mine and former squadron mate, Dave “Sex” Fravor, has one of the most bizarre aviation stories of all time. It is a story that stretches credibility, so I’ll start off by building up Dave’s bona fides.
For what it’s worth, I know him personally — very well. We flew A-6s together for a cruise back in the Dark Ages before he matriculated into the Hornet world. He’s a funny guy. Smart and sharp witted, with a typical fighter pilot’s overestimation of his skills. (He’d read the SHB article and assured me his was way better than anything Nasty could do. I called B.S.–pretty standard.) In the air, though, Dave was all business, as professional as it gets.
It’s easy to get a sense of who and what he is because his squadron was featured on the 10-part miniseries Carrier that aired on PBS. You get an excellent and accurate impression of him from his screen time as Commanding Officer of VFA-41.
VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG jet on its takeoff roll at MCAS Miramar, heading out to perform of the many Centennial of Naval Aviation fly-by’s.
On the morning of 14 November 2004, Dave and his WSO launched into the clear blue Southern California sky about a hundred miles southwest of San Diego. Their Call Sign was FASTEAGLE 01. His wingman and WSO launched just after them in FASTEAGLE 02. They climbed overhead the ship and rendezvoused in normal fashion before setting off to their assigned work area in the open ocean south of USS Nimitz. Normal day, normal ops for the pre-deployment work up cycle they were in the middle of.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had been on station for a few weeks already, working to integrate the operations of the carrier with her various support ships, including the Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Princeton. As far as Dave was concerned, it was a standard day in a normal work up cycle. Another step in the long journey in preparing the ships of the Strike Group and the planes of the Air Wing to work harmoniously for their upcoming combat deployment.
What Dave didn’t know was for the past several days, Princeton had been picking up some bizarre returns on their Death Star-worthy SPY-1 radar. On several occasions beginning 10 November, the Fire Control Officer and the extremely experienced Fire Control Senior Chief had detected multiple returns descending from far above the radar’s scan volume–somewhere higher than 80,000 ft. The targets, dubbed Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs), would drop from above 80K to hover roughly 50 feet off the water in a matter of seconds.
Always over the same spot, a Lat/Long about 30NM off the coast of Baja, roughly 70nm southwest of Tijuana. At the time, the SPY-1 was the most sophisticated and powerful tactical radar on the planet. With it, they were able to track these AAVs while they descended, hovered and then zipped away at speeds, turn rates and accelerations faster than any known friendly or threat aircraft. Impossibly fast.
VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG resting on the ramp after a sortie during Air Wing Fallon.
Once the Air Wing’s planes arrived aboard Nimitz, the Fire Control team on Princeton saw an opportunity to use those assets and eyeballs to help solve the AAV mystery.
At the same time FASTEAGLE flight was wrapping up its scheduled training, the CO of Marine Hornet squadron VMFA-232, Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, was completing a post-maintenance check flight not too far away. He was the first fast-mover contacted by Princeton. The communication was strange and intriguing. He was asked to investigate an unidentified airborne contact. This wasn’t a terribly unusual request while a Strike Group was in transit or deployed far from home waters, but it was more than a little strange practically in sight of the San Diego Homeport. To add to the unusual communications, he was queried as to what ordinance he had on board.
“None.”
While Princeton was communicating with Cheeks, they were also attempting to hand off their AAV contact to the Air Wing’s E-2C Hawkeye, also airborne at the time. The crew from VAW-117 had been providing intercept control for FASTEAGLE flight during their training. Princeton now wanted the E-2 to guide the Super Hornets to an intercept with the AAV contact, currently hovering over their favorite spot, but now about 20,000 feet over the ocean.
The AAV returns had not been strong enough to show up on the E-2’s broad sweep, but once they focused their radar on the coordinates Princeton directed them towards, they managed a faint contact. The radar returns from the contact weren’t enough to generate a target track however, so Princeton cut the E-2 from control and contacted FASTEAGLE directly. Though he was unable to lock up the AAVs, the E-2 controller remained on frequency and listened to the entire ensuing evolution.
As Cheeks approached the spot he was being vectored to, Princeton advised him to stay above 10K as the section of Super Hornets were approaching the target. His radar picked up the FASTEAGLE two-ship, but no other contacts. A moment later Princeton directed him to “skip it” and return to the ship. Since he was so close, he decided to fly over the action and sneak a peek.
The sea was calm, almost glassy smooth and it was late morning on a beautiful SoCal day. Perfect conditions. As Cheeks flew over the spot he saw a disturbance on the surface of the ocean. A round section of turbulent water about 50-100 meters in diameter. It was the only area and type of what he called, “whitewater” describing that it looked as if there was something below the surface like a shoal or what he’d heard a ship sinking rapidly would look like.
He overflew the disturbance and circled back in the direction of Nimitz without ever seeing what caused the water to froth. As he turned away, which happened to be the moment the Super Hornets converged on the location, the whitewater cleared and the ocean surface returned to its smooth state. The spot of the previous disturbance was completely indiscernible.
A few thousand feet below him, Dave had gone though the similar surreal experience of being asked by Princeton if the FASTEAGLE jets were carrying any ordnance. Dave’s baffled WSO reported that all they had were two captive-carry training missiles. They were given bearing and range vectors to a set of coordinates and told to investigate an unknown aerial contact over that spot.
With no further information on the contact, they descended to the low 20s and scanned with radar, picking nothing up. Neither plane in this flight was carrying a FLIR pod, which limited the type of sensors they could search with; but, both planes were brand new–in Dave’s words, “They still had that new car smell.” The APG-73 radars were both new and had performed perfectly during the previous hour’s training. Yet the screens from both planes were clean all the way to the point Princeton called “Merge plot!”
A cigar-shaped UFO over Los Angeles in 2012. (Image Courtesy: YouTube.com)
All four aircrew were eyes out from this point forward. The first unusual indication Dave picked up was the area of whitewater on the surface that Cheeks was looking at over his shoulder as he flew away. He remembers thinking it was about the size of a 737 and maybe the contact they had been vectored on had been an airliner that had just crashed. He maneuvered his F-18 lower to get a better look. As he was descending through about 20K he was startled by the sight of a white object that was moving about just over the frothing water. It was all white, featureless, oblong and making minor lateral movements while staying at a consistent low altitude over the disk of turbulent water.
Dave put FASTEAGLE 02 into high cover passing through about 15K and she and her WSO witnessed the events from a perfect vantage point. Dave continued his dive lower towards the object, now also attempting to slave the radar through his HMCS to achieve a short range lock. No luck. His intention was to pass the object close aboard at about 350 kts, but as he got closer he noticed that the AAV had oriented one of its skinny ends towards him, as if, in his words, “It had just noticed us” and it was now pointing at them.
The AAV then began to rise from its hover. The object, which he would later describe as a while tic-tac, rose in right 2-circle flow about a mile cross-circle from Dave’s Hornet. BFM instincts took over and Dave dug nose-low to cut across the bottom of the circle. As he was looking at the AAV and pulling his nose up to bear, the tried again to slave his radar via the HMCS. Again, the APG-73 was unable to lock on the white, fighter-sized flying object now just a couple of thousand feet away and closing.
All through these maneuvers, Dave’s WSO was broadcasting the real-time events of the intercept to Princeton. The radar operators in the E-2 listened on the secure net to what sounded like one of the hundreds of intercepts they had heard over the years. With the notable exception that the aircrew’s voices were more stressed and the verbiage to ID the target was unlike anything they had heard before.
A Super Hornet from VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ sitting on the ramp at NAS Fallon.
In his debrief comments, Dave, his WSO and the two other crews stated the object had initially been hovering like a Harrier. They described it as uniformly white, about 46 feet long (roughly fighter-sized), having a discernible midline horizontal axis (like a fuselage) but having no visible windows, nacelles, wings or propulsion systems.
As Dave was pulling for nose-on and trying to get a dogfight lock with his radar, the AAV tightened its turn, “lift vector on, then aft” as Dave described, passed behind his tail and accelerated away at multi-Mach speed. Dave immediately queried Princeton for a snap-vector but the SPY-1 radar had also lost the contact. The first calls from Princeton were “picture clean.” A few moments later Princeton came back with, “You’re not going to believe this, it’s at your CAP.” Princeton had picked up the AAV hovering at 24K at the assigned Lat/Long Dave had used earlier during training as his orbiting point.
Though low on gas, the FASTEAGLE flight swung through the CAP position to try and pick up the AAV again. They saw nothing more on their way back to Nimitz. Even the 100 meter circle of turbulent ocean water had disappeared. That spot was now indistinguishable from the rest of the sea’s surface. Asked later, Dave reported that he had not seen anything on or below the surface of the ocean that may have caused the turbulent circle of water. It had existed when they had first visually acquired the tic-tac, then was gone when they circled back a few minutes later.
Back on Nimitz after recovery, the four crew headed down to the paraloft to remove their gear. The next four crews from VFA-41 were getting dressed for their training mission to the same area, using the same assigned Lat/Longs as CAP points. Dave and his crewmembers passed on what they had seen to the new guys and reminded them to get tape if they could.
By the time the new crew launched, rendezvoused and checked in with the E-2 for control, it was early afternoon; 1500. The planes separated, with one heading to that same southern CAP location. They were cruising along at 20K and 300kts, max endurance. Again, the jet, radar and also, this time, the FLIR were spanking new and operating perfectly.
The WSO first picked up a contact on the radar around 30nm away while it was operating in the RWS scan mode. He checked the coordinates and it was indeed hovering at their precise CAP point. He attempted several STT locks, to no avail. Later, in the debrief, he explained that he had multiple telltale cues of EA.
The target aspect on the track file was turning through 360 degrees along with some other distinct jamming indications. In the less precise scan mode, the return indicated that the object was, in the WSO’s words, “A few thousand feet below us. Around 15-20K– but hovering stationary.” The only movement was generated by the closure of the fighter to the CAP location.
The WSO resorted to the FLIR pod on board, slaving it to the weak track the RWS mode had been able to generate. He recorded the following sequence to the on-board recorder. Using the IR mode, he was able to lock onto the AAV. It showed up on his screen and on tape as a white object in a black background hovering with no known means.
The IR camera did not detect roiling hot gasses blasting from below the AAV, as they would with a Harrier or a helicopter. It was simply hanging in midair. He switched to the TV mode and was able to again lock the FLIR onto the object while still trying, with no luck, to get a STT track on the radar. As he watched it, the AAV moved out of his screen to the left so suddenly it almost seemed to disappear. On the tape, when it is slowed down, the object accelerates out of the field of view with shocking speed. The WSO was not able to reacquire the AAV either in RWS or with the FLIR.
Somehow the tape made its way to YouTube. A few years after the incident, when first telling me the story, Dave pointed me to the link. It was unremarkable without the background information. But folded into context it was amazing, especially the slow-mo of the dot accelerating out of screen. For years I told the story to friends and showed them the video as punctuation.
However last month when I called Dave to refresh my memory before sitting down to write this bizarre encounter, he informed me that the video had been removed from YouTube. He told me that a government agency with a three letter identifier had recently conducted an investigation into the AAVs and had exhaustively interviewed all parties involved.
All of the seven flight crew, including 6 aircrew from VFA-41 and Cheeks from VMFA-232. The Fire Control Officer and Senior Chief from Princeton, and the radar operator on the E-2. They even queried the crew of the USS Louisville, a Los Angeles-class Fast-Attack submarine that was in the area as part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group who reported there were no unidentified sonar contacts or strange underwater noises on that day.
I’m not sure what to make of these events. I’ve loved the story since first listening because it is so crazy. I had never given aliens or UFOs much thought. It was a waste of my CPU power to mull a question like that. If they wanted to make contact, they would. If they wanted to observe from a distance, then they would be impossible to discern given the assumed high technology required to visit.
But now I was faced with credible witnesses. Not crackpots wearing foil hats but people I knew and people who were from my world. There were multiple, corroborating platforms that detected the AAVs using varied sensors. And, of course, the eight eyeballs that actually got a visual on the white tic-tac as Dave maneuvered to merge with it. He doesn’t have to be a stranger to you either. Watch him on the PBS series, Carrier, and generate your own opinion of his professionalism and sanity.
Then send me your best design for an aluminum foil hat…
About the Author
Paco Chierici flew A-6E Intruders and F-14A Tomcats during his 10 year active duty career. He flew the F-5 Tiger II for a further 10 years as a Bandit concurrent with his employment as a commercial pilot. Paco is currently a 737 captain. Paco is also the creator and producer of the award winning naval aviation documentary Speed and Angels. Paco has written articles for various international and domestic magazines as well as regular contributions to Fighter Sweep. He has signed with an agent to represent the sale of his debut novel, Lions in the Sky, a naval aviation thriller. Paco has the standard panoply of medals and ribbons but his proudest accomplishment is the Top Nugget award for landing grades from his first deployment.
Roswell UFO crash site to open to public for tours
Roswell UFO crash site to open to public for tours
For the first time in 71 years, the W.W. “Mack” Brazel UFO crash site will be open to the public.
The inaugural UFO 1947 Crash Tour event will run in conjunction with the Roswell UFO Festival in July. Crash-site tours will be available July 5-9, running twice per day to the original Mack Brazel crash site and homestead. Tickets are limited for this exclusive tour.
The Bogle family’s working ranch (Bogle Ltd.) houses the crash site and has never been open to public tours in the past. Their dedication to agriculture and resource cultivation has been the priority, but this year, the family approved the tour and hopes festival-goers will enjoy their time at the site. In lieu of the event, the Bogle sisters honed their expertise in marketing, advertising and event planning to launch “L.A.M.B.,” the company behind the crash tour.
“We’re working side by side with the UFO Festival and local businesses to feature yet another fun, educational and exciting event to an already thriving economic resource for our community,” said Lauren Bogle, COO of L.A.M.B. “The entire experience will showcase the culture of New Mexico and our ranching heritage through fun activities, food, souvenirs and experiences while on the tour.”
There will be two ticket options for attendees. VIP tickets ($250) include a meal of authentic New Mexican cuisine, interactive activities on-site, an exclusive tour of Brazel’s ranch house, with drop-off directly to the crash-site via SUV. General admission tickets ($65) include a bus-ride group experience with a short walk to the crash site.
Both VIP and general admission ticket-holders will be picked up from the Roswell Mall (4501 N Main St.) to be transported to the crash site. More information (FAQ, tickets and itinerary) can be found online at www.ufo1947crashtour.com.
Interested attendees will be required to register online at the above website.
You probably do it. It might be ingrained from when you were a kid, and now it’s almost automatic. You see the flash of lightning – and you immediately start counting the seconds till it thunders.
But does counting really get you a good estimate for how far away the lightning is? Is this one of those old wives’ tales, or is it actually based on science? In this case, we have physics to thank for this quick and easy – and pretty accurate – calculation.
So what happens when a big storm rolls in?
The lightning you see is the discharge of electricity that travels between clouds or to the ground. The thunder you hear is the rapid expansion of the air in response to the lightning’s intense heat.
If you’re really close to the lightning, you will see it and hear the thunder simultaneously. But when it’s far away, you see and hear the event at different times. That’s because light travels much faster than sound. Think of sitting in the nosebleed seats at a baseball game. You see the batter hit the ball a second before you hear the crack of the bat.
When observing an event on Earth, you see things almost the instant they happen – the speed of light is so fast you can’t even detect the travel time. The speed of sound is much slower, which gives us time to do our calculation.
Let’s simplify the speed equation: Sound travels a little over 700 miles per hour, or 700 miles in 3,600 seconds. That means 7 miles traveled every 36 seconds. Make this even easier and round down to 7 miles every 35 seconds … or 1 mile every 5 seconds! Count to 5: If you hear thunder, the lightning occurred within 1 mile.
Now that you know how far away that lightning strike was, is it far enough to be a safe distance from the storm? That’s actually a trick question. Thunder can be heard up to 25 miles away, and lightning strikes have been documented to occur as far as 25 miles from thunderstorms – known as a “bolt from the blue.” So if you can hear thunder, you’re close enough to be hit by lightning, and sheltering indoors or in an enclosed car is your safest bet.
And don’t count on the folk wisdom that lightning never strikes the same place twice to protect you. That one is just plain wrong. For example, lightning strikes the top of the Empire State Building an average of 23 times per year.
They’re back! People at high latitudes are seeing noctilucent or “night-shining” clouds, which always return to the skies around this time of year. Don’t miss the gorgeous photos in this post!
Noctilucent cloud season has returned to Earth’s high latitudes. Ruslan Merzlyakov in Denmark captured these clouds – which shine at night – on June 3, 2018. Canon EOS 6D + Samyang 14mm f/2.8 2-5”, f/2.8, ISO 160-800 HDR + focus stack.
People are reporting sightings of the silver-blue clouds – called noctilucent or night shining clouds – that light up summer night skies. These clouds are typically seen at high latitudes – say, about 45 degrees north or south – from May through August in the Northern Hemisphere, and from November through February in the Southern Hemisphere.
Every year around this time, we hear from people who begun spotting them again.
Over this past week, several people reported noctilucent clouds above northern Europe. The video below is from in Mindaugas Gasparavi?ius in Lithuania, who caught these clouds on June8, 2018:
RV Photography wrote on June 5, 2018: “The magic that happens around 80 kilometers (50 miles) above the northern parts of this globe we all call home is back … the noctilucent clouds!!”
Noctilucent clouds form in the highest reaches of the atmosphere – the mesosphere – as much as 50 miles (80 km) above the Earth’s surface. They’re thought to be made of ice crystals that form on fine dust particles from meteors. They can only form when temperatures are incredibly low and when there’s water available to form ice crystals.
Why do these clouds – which require such cold temperatures – form in the summer? It’s because of the dynamics of the atmosphere. You actually get the coldest temperatures of the year near the poles in summer at that height in the mesosphere.
Here’s how it works: during summer, air close to the ground gets heated and rises. Since atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude, the rising air expands. When the air expands, it also cools down. This, along with other processes in the upper atmosphere, drives the air even higher causing it to cool even more. As a result, temperatures in the mesosphere can plunge to as low as -210 degrees Fahrenheit (-134 degrees Celsius).
In the Northern Hemisphere, the mesosphere often reaches these temperatures by mid-May, in most years.
Since the clouds are so sensitive to the atmospheric temperatures, they can act as a proxy for information about the wind circulation that causes these temperatures. First of all, they can tell scientists that the circulation exists, and also tell us something about the strength of the circulation.
Noctilucent clouds – the morning of July 14, 2016 – by our friend Jüri Voit Photography in Estonia (58 degrees north latitude)
Here’s another by Jüri Voit Photography, who wrote on May 30, 2016: “Season of noctilucent clouds is open!”
View larger. | Noctilucent clouds – the electric-looking clouds near the horizon in this photo – and a greenish aurora, higher in the sky. Photo taken by Harlan Thomas in Alberta, Canada, in June 2015.
Noctilucent clouds over Sweden in June 2015 from EarthSky Facebook friend Sandor Botor.
How can I see noctilucent clouds?
If you want to see the clouds, what steps should you take? Remember, you have to be at a relatively high latitude on Earth to see them: between about 45 degrees and 60 degrees north or south latitude.
For best results, look for these clouds from about May through August in the Northern Hemisphere, and from November through February in the Southern Hemisphere.
Noctilucent clouds are primarily visible when the sun is just below the horizon, say, from about 90 minutes to about two hours after sunset or before sunrise. At such times, when the sun is below the ground horizon but visible from the high altitude of noctilucent clouds, sunlight illuminates these clouds, causing them to glow in the dark night sky.
Noctilucent clouds over Sweden in June 2015 from Jörgen Norrland Andersson.
Scientists studying these clouds have included those from NASA’s AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite. This satellite, launched in 2007, has observed noctilucent clouds using several onboard instruments to collect information such as temperature, atmospheric gases, ice crystal size and changes in the clouds, as well as the amount of meteoric space dust that enters the atmosphere. You can find out what they are learning here.
When the sun is below the ground horizon but visible from the high altitude of noctilucent clouds, sunlight illuminates these clouds, causing them to glow in the dark night sky. Illustration via NASA.
Noctilucent clouds can be seen from space, too. Astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS) took this photo on January 5, 2013, when ISS was over the Pacific Ocean south of French Polynesia. Below the brightly-lit noctilucent clouds, across the center of the image, the pale orange band is the stratosphere.
Bottom line: Noctilucent or night-shining clouds form in the highest reaches of the atmosphere – the mesosphere – as much as 50 miles (80 km) above the Earth’s surface. They’re seen during summer in high-latitude regions.
Are we alone in the universe? This question, which has been on the minds of Earthbound humans throughout history, is a driving force behind interplanetary exploration. A groundbreaking discovery by NASA’s Curiosity roverannounced Thursday represents a step forward in humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life. Microscopic molecules, found in the Martian soil and sky, suggest the presence of biotic organisms.
In a pair of papers published on Thursday in the journal Science, NASA scientists announced two new entries in the catalog of evidence for life on Mars, collected by the Curiosity rover, which has been been scouring Mars for the past seven years. In one paper, scientists show evidence that the atmosphere of Mars has concentrations of methane that go up and down according to the season and occasionally spike. The other paper presents evidence that 3-billion-year-old rocks on Mars’ surface contain organic molecules. These observations of organic molecules suggest that life could have existed on Mars at some point in the its past — or possibly even its present.
We shouldn’t, however, be too hasty in jumping to conclusions: Though organic molecules are strongly associated with living organisms, there are other ways in which they can be created. “Most people hear organic and they think ‘life,’” David Weintraub, Ph.D., an associate professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University who wasn’t involved in the new studies, tells Inverse.
Astronomer David Weintraub explains the importance of NASA's discovery of organic materials on Mars
An image of the Gale Crater taken by the Curiosity rover, with stratified lake sediments in the foreground.
“To a chemist, organic actually means the atom carbon in a molecule that’s bonded with hydrogen. That’s an organic molecule.” In other words, just because scientists found organic molecules doesn’t necessarily mean they found signs of past Martian life or the earliest signs of budding life. But, that also doesn’t mean they didn’t find signs of life. We just don’t know for sure.
Together, these findings enrich the search for life on Mars, and while they are far from providing definite answers, they suggest that more research is a good idea. Here are the main findings from each of the two papers:
Seasonal Methane Fluctuations on Mars
In the first paper, a team of scientists led by Chris Webster, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows that the concentration of methane in Mars’s atmosphere varies from season to season. Data collected over five years by Curiosity’s Tunable Laser Spectrometer revealed an average “background level” of methane of 0.41 parts per billion by volume (ppbv), which regularly dipped down to about 0.21 ppbv at the beginning of winter and rose to 0.65 ppbv at the end of summer. In addition to this seasonal pattern, there are also occasional temporary spikes of around 7 ppbv.
The significance of this finding is that methane — one of the simplest organic molecules — is often produced by living organisms, so atmospheric methane suggests that there could be microorganisms living beneath the surface of Mars that produce methane in a cyclical way. However, the study’s authors point out that biotic organisms are just one of many possible explanations for the presence of this gas: Methane could have been brought to the planet on falling asteroids, it could be produced by the UV decomposition of native or foreign rocks, and it could be released by geothermal processes, among other possible explanations.
Organic Molecules on Mars
In the second paper, a team led by Jen Eigenbrode, Ph.D., a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, showed clear evidence of organic molecules in 3-billion-year-old mudstone on Mars’ surface. Eigenbrode’s team positively identified four different organic molecules and found possible evidence of a fifth. Again, the researchers point out that their findings don’t confirm the presence of life on Mars, as these compounds could have been produced by abiotic — non-living — processes, much like the methane in the planet’s atmosphere. It does, however, suggest we’re looking in the right place.
The findings in this paper additionally suggest that Mars may have had an atmosphere similar to that of early Earth when life first began to form. If the environment on Mars was indeed more habitable 3 billion years ago, it’s possible that the Red Planet also had the ingredients for early, basic forms of life. But it’s just as possible that these molecules fell to the planet from the stars or simply came from decomposing rocks. It’s simply too early to tell.
Whatever the source of these molecules may be, though, Eigenbrode and Webster’s professional peers are convinced that these results merit further study with future Mars missions.
“The results convincingly show the long-awaited detection of organic compounds on Mars,” writes Inge Loes ten Kate, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Earth sciences and petrology at University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, in a perspectivepublished in Science alongside the two new studies. “The detection of organic molecules and methane on Mars has far-ranging implications in light of potential past life on Mars.”
The evening of August 5, 2012…five years ago…our Mars Curiosity rover landed on the Red Planet.
Arriving at Mars at 10:32 p.m. PDT (morning of Aug 6 EDT), this rover would prove to be the most technologically advanced rover ever built.
Curiosity used a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted.
The specialized landing sequence, which employed a giant parachute, a jet-controlled descent vehicle and a daring “sky crane” maneuver similar to rappelling was devised because testing and landing techniques used during previous rover missions could not safely accommodate the much larger and heavier rover.
Curiosity’s mission:
To determine whether the Red Planet ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.
The car-size rover is equipped with 17 cameras, a robotic arm, specialized instruments and an on-board laboratory.
Let’s explore Curiosity’s top 5 discoveries since she landed on Mars five years ago…
1. Gale Crater had conditions suitable for life about 3.5 billion years ago
In 2013, Curiosity’s analysis of a rock sample showed that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients for life – in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater.
Later, in 2014, Curiosity discovered that these conditions lasted for millions of years, perhaps much longer. This interpretation of Curiosity’s findings in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet.
2. Organic molecules detected at several locations
In 2014, our Curiosity rover drilled into the Martian surface and detected different organic chemicalsin the rock powder. This was the first definitive detection of organics in surface materials of Mars. These Martian organics could either have formed on Mars or been delivered to Mars by meteorites.
Curiosity’s findings from analyzing samples of atmosphere and rock powder do not reveal whether Mars has ever harbored living microbes, but the findings do shed light on a chemically active modern Mars and on favorable conditions for life on ancient Mars.
3. Present and active methane in Mars’ atmosphere
Also in 2014, our Curiosity rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around the planet. This temporary increase in methane tells us there must be some relatively localized source.
Researchers used Curiosity’s onboard Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) laboratory a dozen times in a 20-month period to sniff methane in the atmosphere. During two of those months, in late 2013 and early 2014, four measurements averaged seven parts per billion.
4. Radiation could pose health risks for humans
Measurements taken by our Curiosity rover since launch have provided us with the information needed to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future. Curiosity’s Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) was the first instrument to measure the radiation environment during a Mars cruise mission from inside a spacecraft that is similar to potential human exploration spacecraft.
The findings indicate radiation exposure for human explorers could exceed our career limit for astronauts if current propulsion systems are used. These measurements are being used to better understand how radiation travels through deep space and how it is affected and changed by the spacecraft structure itself. This, along with research on the International Space Station are helping us develop countermeasures to the impacts of radiation on the human body.
5. A thicker atmosphere and more water in Mars past
In 2015, Curiosity discovered evidence that has led scientists to conclude that ancient Mars was once a warmer, wetter place than it is today.
To produce this more temperate climate, several researchers have suggested that the planet was once shrouded in a much thicker carbon dioxide atmosphere. You may be asking…Where did all the carbon go?
The solar wind stripped away much of Mars’ ancient atmosphere and is still removing tons of it every day. That said, 3.8 billion years ago, Mars might have had a moderately dense atmosphere, with a surface pressure equal to or less than that found on Earth.
Our Curiosity rover continues to explore the Red Planet today. On average, the rover travels about 30 meters per hour and is currently on the lower slope of Mount Sharp.
Get regular updates on the Curiosity mission by following @MarsCuriosity on Twitter.
Did Mars once have life? To help answer that question, an international team of scientists created an incredibly powerful miniature chemistry laboratory, set to ride on the next Mars rover.
After 8 years of designing, building, and testing, NASA scientists and engineers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said goodbye to their tiny chemistry lab and shipped it to Italy in a big pink box. Building a tiny instrument capable of conducting chemical analysis is difficult in any setting, but designing one that has to launch on a huge rocket, fly through the vacuum of space, and then operate on a planet with entirely different pressure and temperature systems? That’s herculean. And once on Mars, MOMA has a very important job to do. NASA Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese said, “This is the first intended life-detecting instrument that we have sent to Mars since Viking.”
The MOMA instrument will be capable of detecting a wide variety of organic molecules. Organic compounds are commonly associated with life, although they can be created by non-biological processes as well. Organic molecules contain carbon and hydrogen, and can include oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements.
To find these molecules on Mars, the MOMA team had to take instruments that would normally occupy a couple of workbenches in a chemistry lab and shrink them down to roughly the size of a toaster oven so they would be practical to install on a rover.
MOMA-MS, the mass spectrometer on the ExoMars rover, will build on the accomplishments from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), an instrument suite on the Curiosity rover that includes a mass spectrometer. SAM collects and analyzes samples from just below the surface of Mars while ExoMars will be the first to explore deep beneath the surface, with a drill capable of taking samples from as deep as two meters (over six feet). This is important because Mars’s thin atmosphere and spotty magnetic field offer little protection from space radiation, which can gradually destroy organic molecules exposed on the surface. However, Martian sediment is an effective shield, and the team expects to find greater abundances of organic molecules in samples from beneath the surface.
On completion of the instrument, MOMA Project Scientist Will Brinckerhoff praised his colleagues, telling them, “You have had the right balance of skepticism, optimism, and ambition. Seeing this come together has made me want to do my best.”
In addition to the launch of the ESA and Roscosmos ExoMars Rover, in 2020, NASA plans to launch the Mars 2020 Rover, to search for signs of past microbial life. We are all looking forward to seeing what these two missions will find when they arrive on our neighboring planet.
It’s a scientific conundrum with huge implications for our future: How will our planet react to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Carbon – an essential building block for life – does not stay in one place or take only one form. Carbon, both from natural and human-caused sources, moves within and among the atmosphere, ocean and land.
We’ve been a trailblazer in using space-based and airborne sensors to observe and quantify carbon in the atmosphere and throughout the land and ocean, working with many U.S. and international partners.
Our Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is making unprecedented, accurate global measurements of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and providing unique information on associated natural processes.
ABoVE, our multi-year field campaign in Alaska and Canada is investigating how changes in Arctic ecosystems such as boreal forests in a warming climate result in changes to the balance of carbon moving between the atmosphere and land.
This August we’re embarking on an ocean expedition with the National Science Foundation to the northeast Pacific called EXPORTS that will help scientists develop the capability to better predict how carbon in the ocean moves, which could change as Earth’s climate changes.
ECOSTRESS is slated to launch this summer to the International Space Station to make the first-ever measurements of plant water use and vegetation stress on land – providing key insights into how plants link Earth’s global carbon cycle with its water cycle.
Later this year, ECOSTRESS will be joined on the space station by GEDI, which will use a space borne laser to help estimate how much carbon is locked in forests and how that quantity changes over time.
In early 2019, the OCO-3 instrument is scheduled to launch to the space station to complement OCO-2 observations and allow scientists to probe the daily cycle of carbon dioxide exchange processes over much of the Earth.
And still in the early stages of development is the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) satellite, planned to launch in the early 2020s. GeoCarb will collect 10 million observations a day of carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide.
Our emphasis on carbon cycle science and the development of new carbon-monitoring tools is expected to remain a top priority for years to come. READ MORE.
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We detected organic molecules at the harsh surface of Mars! And what’s important about this is we now have a lot more certainty that there’s organic molecules preserved at the surface of Mars. We didn’t know that before.
One of the discoveries is we found organic molecules just beneath the surface of Mars in 3 billion-year-old sedimentary rocks.
Second, we’ve found seasonal variations in methane levels in the atmosphere over 3 Mars years (nearly 6 Earth years). These two discoveries increase the chances that the record of habitability and potential life has been preserved on the Red Planet despite extremely harsh conditions on the surface.
Both discoveries were made by our chem lab that rides aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Here’s an image from when we installed the SAM lab on the rover. SAM stands for “Sample Analysis at Mars” and SAM did two things on Mars for this discovery.
One - it tested Martian rocks. After the arm selects a sample of pulverized rock, it heats up that sample and sends that gas into the chamber, where the electron stream breaks up the chemicals so they can be analyzed.
What SAM found are fragments of large organic molecules preserved in ancient rocks which we think come from the bottom of an ancient Martian lake. These organic molecules are made up of carbon and hydrogen, and can include other elements like nitrogen and oxygen. That’s a possible indicator of ancient life…although non-biological processes can make organic molecules, too.
The other action SAM did was ‘sniff’ the air.
When it did that, it detected methane in the air. And for the first time, we saw a repeatable pattern of methane in the Martian atmosphere. The methane peaked in the warm, summer months, and then dropped in the cooler, winter months.
On Earth, 90 percent of methane is produced by biology, so we have to consider the possibility that Martian methane could be produced by life under the surface. But it also could be produced by non-biological sources. Right now, we don’t know, so we need to keep studying the Mars!
One of our upcoming Martian missions is the InSight lander. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
Finding methane in the atmosphere and ancient carbon preserved on the surface gives scientists confidence that our Mars 2020 rover and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) ExoMars rover will find even more organics, both on the surface and in the shallow subsurface.
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45 Years Ago, A UFO Sighting In Costa Rica Impressed The World
45 Years Ago, A UFO Sighting In Costa Rica Impressed The World
(QCOSTARICA)Alien sightings (like in UFO) in Costa Rica are not new. One of the more recent is this year, an eye-witness report and photograph of a saucer-shaped UFO near the Irazú volcano, according to the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
It was at 11:06am on February 24, 2016 that the UFO sighting was made outside the Irazú national park. The weather was good, lots of sunlight and no clouds. “This volcano is 3,400 meters of altitude above sea level (11,260 feet) close to the biosphere, so we were above the clouds,” the witness stated. “Like when you fly on an airplane, the sky was really clear so at 11 a.m. on that altitude part of the sky was light black.”
Ufosightingsdaily.com‘s report of the same sighting said, “This UFO was seen over a Irazu Volcano in Costa Rica this week. It was probably exiting an underground base that is 4-5 km below the volcano. Aliens often chose high peaks and volcanos to make a base below, because of their secludedness and difficulty for humans to explore. Thus, the risk of them being seen is low.”
In September 2015, the Huffington Post reported, “Photographer Captures Strange Organic-Looking UFO Over Costa Rica”. In their report, the Huff said, “A photographer has captured what looks to be a weird almost organic-looking UFO in Costa Rica.”
UFO-hunters.com lists Costa Rica sightings and locations dating back to June 15, 1969 in Alajuelita (south side of San Jose), a sighting that lasted 5 hours, in this case a “formation”. The website also lists “disk” sightings that range from a flash to an hour. Click here for the sightings list.
Image from of UFO-Hunters.com sightings in Costa Rica dating back to 1969.
Considered one of the “best in the world photograph” of a UFO sighting is that taken by members of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) – National Geographic Institute, on September 4, 1971 at 8:25am.
In a report by Crhoy.com, at the time, the IGN was taking photographs for the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) to create a map to determine where the water would come from for the acquisition of land to develop the Arenal dam project.
That was when Sergio Loaiza, along with Juan Bravo and Francico Reyes, were flying in a Canadian made Areo-Commander model F680. Loaiza had a NRK 15-23 camera, weighing 100 lbs, on the floor of the airplane. On that day he was in charge of aerialphotography.
Flying at 10,000 feet, the camera fired every 13 seconds.
No one realized anything strange in the photos taken. They were saved. It was later when IGN employees noticed the object, while doing a study to connect Lago De Coteand the Arenal lagoon, which also belonged to ICE.
Loaiza was in charge of reveiwing the photos, recounting that while enlarging the images and then examining the negative closely, they realized what had been photographed.
“At the time we were completely banned from talking about it, we could not tell anyone,” said Loaiza.
That same year, the photos were published in the Costa Rica media. A decade later, the photographs became part of the “Journal of Scientific Exploration“, which once again discarded the UFO sighting, considering them a photo montage.
Oscar Sierra, UFO researcher based in Costa rica, said the photographs were analyzed in the France and the U.S., where different bodies studied the case and determined it to be real.
According to Loaiza, the plane was piloted by Omar Arias, an experienced pilot, and the camera donated by Germany to the Instituto Geográfico (Geographic Institute). He also noted that the equipment used was special, to the point that if there had been a speck of dust between the lens and film, the equipment would not have worked.
“There was no possibility (of an error). There was no trick, we did not even realized it at the time”.
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The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien.
On December 6, 1830, Andrew Jackson used his second State of the Union address to defend the Indian Removal Act, the administration’s sole legislative victory. He described the law promulgating the expulsion and resettlement of southeastern Native American tribes as the “happy consummation” of U.S. Indian policy. To his critics who “wept over the fate of the aborigines” — and who, it turned out, accurately predicted the horrors of the forced migrations known collectively to history as the Trail of Tears — Jackson offered an archeology lesson. Any “melancholy reflections” were ahistorical, he said, because the Indians were neither innocent victims nor first peoples, but perpetrators of what Jackson’s modern admirers might call “white genocide.”
Jackson knew this because the evidence was everywhere in plain sight.
“In the monuments and fortifications of an unknown people, we behold the memorials of a once-powerful race,” said Jackson, “exterminated to make room for the existing savage tribes.”
This reference to a “once-powerful race” was not lost on the American public of 1830. Every schoolboy and girl knew it to be the Lost Race of the Mound Builders, believed to be the continent’s original Caucasian inhabitants. From the colonial era into the twentieth century, it was widely accepted that certain earthen structures and burial grounds proved the existence of “white” or Indo-European peoples who settled North America only to be wiped out by the arrival of Jackson’s “savage (Asiatic) tribes.”
As the country expanded west, the “Moundbuilders” myth had obvious utility: If the Indians destroyed earlier waves of (white) settlers, their own extermination was just another turn of history’s wheel.
In the early 1890s, the U.S. ethnologist Cyrus Vance discredited the theory in a series published by the Smithsonian Institution. But the idea of a pre-Colombian “white genocide” never disappeared. It survived in subcultures, influenced by the occult and Atlantis legends, which clung to theories of lost ancient super-civilizations that, curiously, always seemed to be racially “white.”
In recent decades, as evidence of a richer paleoamerican record than previously realized has come to light, Jackson’s “once-powerful race” has found a new generation of boosters on the far right, where fantasies of “white genocide” distantly past and currently unfolding are an animating obsession.
In the fractured and constantly cross-fertilizing galaxy of extremist conspiracy culture, the white Moundbuilders — now known on the far right as “the Solutreans” — share a stage with other characters from an ancient and racially glorious but “suppressed” past: ancient Nordic-looking astronauts, biblical Aryan giants, Nazi scientists under the South Pole, and the occasional inter-dimensional alien in league with the Jews.
Alt-History Goes Prime Time
Over the last decade, the History Channel has exploited and fueled the popularization of alternative archeology, or alt-history. Numerous programs on the network showcase ideas that, while not explicitly racist or anti-Semitic, have origins in colonial projects and have been championed (for a reason) by modern extremists.
Take “America Unearthed,” which aired between 2012 and 2015 on H2, a defunct History Channel network. That show’s host, a geologist named Scott Wolter, promoted theories that ancient Celts and Scots settled North America and hybridized Native Americans centuries before Columbus. The details can be found in Wolter’s contributions to Lost Worlds of Ancient America, a 2012 anthology edited by Frank Joseph, born Frank Collin, founder of the National Socialist Party of America. (In 1993, following his expulsion from the party for “impure blood”, Collin became editor of Ancient American magazine and has authored dozens of books dealing with ancient “suppressed” history.) In another episode, when a guest professes admiration for the Knights of the Golden Circle, a group of wealthy Southerners who sought to create a hemispheric slave empire, Wolter just nods. (Wolter has denied that he or his ideas are racist, and claims to be politically liberal.)
Whatever the personal politics of the host, these shows serve as vectors for racist ideas and scholarship, argues the independent scholar Jason Colavito, who has been tracking this cultural crossover and amplification of fringe history for years. In books like Foundations of Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts, and Other Alternative Pasts, Colavito explores and debunks many of the ideas promoted on the History Channel and far right websites alike.
“These shows serve as entry points for discredited nineteenth-century ideas and point viewers toward the sources of extremist pseudo-scholarship and politics,” says Colavito. “The idea that aliens built the pyramids isn’t so funny when it draws young people to websites that quickly switch out aliens for Jews and start talking about gas chambers.”
Shows like “America Unearthed” are heavily discussed on white nationalist alt-history forums, as well as general far right political sites like Stormfront. They are routinely praised for introducing viewers to variations on the Solutrean Hypothesis (see below) and raising the profile of racist pseudo-scholarship.
Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”
While the appeal of these theories has roots in Jacksonian justification for Manifest Destiny, their current manifestations are closely intertwined with the venomous persecution complexes that motivate the modern far right .
“Pseudo-histories feed the self-importance and aggrievement of neo-Nazis and alt-right folk,” says Benjamin Radford, a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry who has written widely on pseudo-history and claims of paranormal activity. “They feel their rightful place in the world has been denied them — by ‘Big Archeology', by Jews, by an oppressive government.”
There is another source of the far right’s far-out ideas about ancient history, one that requires no psychologizing.
The Nazi Connection
The basic tenets of alt-archeology and alt-history were foundational to the ideology and program of National Socialism, but the Nazis did not invent them. The Nazi belief in a pure Aryan race with a glorious ancient past and distinct genetic history was central to a transatlantic nineteenth-century occult scene (that featured a heavy German influence.) After Hitler assumed power, this belief was institutionalized in the form of the Ancestral Heritage and Teaching Society, or the Ahnenerbe, an alt-archeology research outfit founded by Heinrich Himmler and the Atlantis theorist Herman Wirth.
Under the banner of the Ahnerbe, Nazi explorers fanned out across Europe and the globe in search of relics holding (possibly supernatural) hints of ancient Aryan glory. In 1938, a team was dispatched to Iceland in search of the lost Aryan civilization of Thule, which Nazi leaders discovered in an Icelandic epic poem. Among the Nazis’ interests in Thule was the legend of a race of ancient Aryan giants. (Versions of this myth remain common among biblically focused alt-historians like Steve Quayle and L.A. Marzulli.)
Belief in these legends was possible because of the Nazis’ sharp rejection of the Enlightenment. Dismissing the science of racial diversification and the archeological record, they reveled in symbology, myths and legends of “pure” ancient kingdoms that conquered the world under its symbol, the swastika. (This, the Nazis believed, explained the symbol’s presence in both Native American and Indian art.)
The Solutreans and the Original “White Genocide”
In the U.S., the average member of the far right is likely more familiar with the modern version of Jackson’s Race of the Moundbuilders, known as the Solutreans.
The name is taken from a hypothesis first promoted in the 1930s by the American archeologist Frank Hibben, who discovered arrowheads in North America that pre-dated the earliest Native American culture known at the time, the Clovis. The arrowheads, argued Hibben, resembled those of the Solutreans, a Stone Age people who inhabited southwestern Europe. Most of the field quickly dismissed the similarity as meaningless, but Hibben found adherents among those yearning for a new and more scientifically respectable version of Jackson’s “once-powerful race.” For them, the arrowheads (and other contested findings) prove that “European” Solutreans migrated to America across the northern ice-shelf millennia before “the Mongoloids” (as Solutrean adherents are apt to describe Native Americans.)
There is a second punchline to white nationalists continuing to hold up the Solutreans as victims of a prehistoric white persecution drama: Most scholars believe the Solutreans preceded racial diversification, and their arrowheads are artifacts of a dark-skinned people not long out of North Africa.
Atlantis, Aliens & Ancient Astronauts
In 1882, a decade before the Smithsonian debunked the Race of the Moundbuilders, a Minnesota Congressman and writer named Ignatius Loyola Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. The book provided another and more elaborate theory of an Aryan-looking super civilization that diffused technology to the rest of the world. Donnell’s book, based on mentions of Atlantis by Plato, cut the template for the sci-fi-tinged lost white civilization theories now experiencing a revival on cable television and beyond.
But just as Atlantis theory gained traction following the debunking of the Moundbuilders, so have theories of ancient Aryan astronauts superseded Atlantis with the mapping of the oceans and their floors.
“When there was nowhere left to explore, a group of thinkers started to project these ideas into the sky,” says Colavito, the historian. “Today, ancient astronauts are one of the more elaborate theories in pseudo-history with a racist component.”
In the 1960s and 70s, Erich von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin put a twist on myths about Aryan visitors from a lost civilization predating the last Ice Age. These visitors to Mesoamerica didn’t come from Atlantis but from the sky. Bestsellers like von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods (seven million sold and counting) popularized the idea that Aryan-looking aliens brought science and technology to primitive peoples around the world. In recent years, Graham Hancock has repackaged Ancient Astronaut Theory for a new generation in his bestselling Fingerprints of the Gods, and through steady work as a History Channel talking head.
Today’s far right is divided on Ancient Astronaut theory. On the one hand, it denies agency to brown-skinned peoples, and features Aryan-looking heroes, which they consider good things; but it also deprives ancient (human) Aryans of the accomplishments credited to them so lavishly in Atlantis and other theories.
Consider the case of Patrick Chouinard, a prolific writer who operates the alt-history sites RenegadeTribune.com and ancientaryans.com. (The latter site’s symbol, the Norse rune, was also the logo of the Nazi Ahnenerbe.) Like the Nazis, the sites are dedicated to recapturing a lost, pure Aryan civilization — one respectful of, but not dependent on alien life. In September, Chouinard cast a critical eye on the upcoming tenth season of the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, in an article titled “Are Ancient Aliens Theorists Selling Our People Short?”
Chouinard believes they are. He cites an old episode of the H2’s In Search of Aliens in which the hosts, Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress (see above), explore the alleged mystery of some “elongated skulls” discovered in Peru. Chouinard scoffs at the hosts’ conclusion that the skulls belonged to aliens. Rather, he argued, reconstructions “show a very Nordic facial structure with [a] huge cranium.” This could be proof, furthermore, of “a separate branch of the White race the went along its own evolutionary path over 5,000 years ago.”
And who, you might wonder, does Chouinard believe is behind the Ancient Alien Theory that is “selling his people short”?
“The Jews,” writes Chouinard, “are using … the ancient alien camp to confound our race to the point that we deny our own accomplishments. The White race did not need ancient aliens to build our ancient civilizations, or to found other civilizations in remote corners of the Earth. Our race is capable of so much more.”
In 2018, it is dangerous in alt-ancient history circles to completely discount Ancient Aliens. Chouinard knows this. Rather than risk alienating his readers, he concedes, “It is very possible that visitations from extraterrestrials did happen in ancient times, [but] I will not conclude that the majority of our accomplishments as a race can be attributed to extraterrestrials.”
UFOs & “Refracted” Anti-Semitism
Massive and hopelessly intricate cover-ups. Nefarious alien races with gnomish physical features. Tales of secret Nazi super-technologies. It was always inevitable that the UFO and far right scenes would end up in bed together. UFO culture cast a shadow over everything in the postwar years, and as noted above, the far right has never been a stranger to the supernatural.
In Culture of Conspiracy, the historian Michael Barkun locates the early 1990s as the decade this convergence accelerated. Books like William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horseand journals published by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn described UFO conspiracies that fit snugly into the New World Order conspiracy template, heavily influencing that decade’s militia movement. (Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was reportedly a fan of Cooper’s radio show.)
But the seeds of this union are much deeper in the postwar record. One of the most important early UFO writers in the early 1950s, William Dudley Pelly, was an American occultist and fascist; his most important disciple, George Hunt Williamson, produced Byzantine UFO theories that incorporated anti-Semitic themes. Williamson’s 1958 book, UFOsConfidential, claimed every government on earth was under the control of a handful of (mostly Jewish) “international bankers,” which for some reason the author believed included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Pelley and Williamson’s successors are not always or even often so blatantly anti-Semitic. But the fingerprints of anti-Semites are visible in the works of influential modern UFO writers like Jim Marrs and Jim Keith. These fingerprints appear in what Barkun calls “refracted racism and anti-Semitism,” in which old tropes are repackaged as an episode of the X-Files. This repackaging often includes not very subtle distinctions between “benevolent” aliens (tall, Aryan-looking) and “malevolent” aliens (short, grotesque, often in league with “international bankers”).
More than anyone else, the British conspiracist David Icke has popularized the Alien version of New World Order conspiracy. The former sportscaster’s elaborate theory is the Sgt. Peppers album-cover of the genre, featuring the Masons, the Vatican, the Illuminati, the House of Windsor — everyone is there. At the center of the theory is an alien race of lizard people from the fifth-dimension. Though Icke has always denied trafficking in anti-Semitism, he has endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — the famous forgery and foundational text of modern anti-Semitism — choosing to call it “The Illuminati Protocols.”
This is Barkun’s “refraction,” in action, and Icke’s shadow is long indeed, visible across the far right media spectrum.
Hollow Earth, Secret Nazi Labs & the South Pole
Another inevitable development in postwar conspiracy subculture was the rise of a belief in secret Nazi bases underneath Antarctica. The idea of a “hollow” or “inner” earth was a key tenet of nineteenth-century occultism, and in the postwar years it reemerged as a setting for escaped Nazi scientists working in secret technology and weapons labs.
The legend took root during the mid-1970s, nurtured by the Canadian neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel, who argued that Nazis invented flying saucers and had taken their breakthrough technology to bases deep under the South Pole.
The Third Reich was interested in a possible base at the South Pole, and a few high-level Nazis did escape to Argentina, whose national territory includes a slice of Antarctica extending to the South Pole. Zundel and his successors have infused these facts with Victorian inner-earth legends, and then marinated them over multiple viewings of the 1968 B-flick, They Saved Hitler’s Brain. Versions of the theory remain popular on neo-Nazi alt-history sites, and in recent years British tabloids like the Mirror and Daily Star have found click-bait gold in spreading them.
The story’s persistence led Colin Summerhayes of Cambridge University’s Polar Research Institute to look into the matter. In a 2006 edition of The Polar Record, Summerhayes presented his heavily footnoted and researched conclusion that secret Nazi bases do not exist, and have never existed, on or below Antarctica.
As exhaustive as it was, it is unlikely Summerhayes’ study had much impact the theory’s adherents. It was, after all, competing with an ever expanding glut of “hidden history” books, podcasts and websites. One of many such titles to appear that year was SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology, penned by Joseph P. Farrell, a prolific alt-historian and regular on Red Ice Radio.
Do Ancient Sumerian Scribes Really Describe Extraterrestrial Contact?
Do Ancient Sumerian Scribes Really Describe Extraterrestrial Contact?
Ancient history is full of documented oddities, ones that unfortunately we continue to ignore, but we’re getting better and the collective human mind is opening up to new explanations for the nature of reality, and a host of other topics, like human history, for example.
A lot of ‘lore’ from our ancient world seems to be in the process of being re-discovered, a great example would be the correlationsbetween ancient eastern spiritual beliefs and quantum physics, with its strong correlation and dependence on consciousness. Another example could be ancient health practices, commonly referred to today as naturopathic medicine. The example in this article deals with ancient lore of beings from other worlds, and it’s even more interesting because of the modern day UFO disclosure we’re seeing and the evidence suggesting that some of them could be extraterrestrial is quite fascinating, at least for those who’ve taken the time to look.
When contemplating specifically about extraterrestrials, there are many examples to choose from. Whether it’s the Star People that Native North American stories speak of, or modern day supposed encounters with different types of extraterrestrial beings, believe me, there is no shortage.
Perhaps one of the most well-known stories comes from the work of Zecharia Sitchin, a man who authored many books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Renowned researcher Jim Marrs in his book, Our Occulted History, describes the work of Sitchin and his findings well,
“In several accounts etched permanently into their clay tablets, the ancient Sumerian scribes gave more detail as to the source of their knowledge. They wrote that 432,000 years before the Great Flood, the Anunnaki arrived and taught them the basics of civilization… According to the interpretations of Zecharia Sitchin and many others, the term Anunnakimeans “those who came from the heavens to Earth.” In Sitchin’s narrative, these were astronauts from the planet Nibiru who traveled through the asteroid belt and initially landed in the Persian Gulf.”
Marrs goes on to describe how once there, they began to colonize and search for gold, as well as manipulate the DNA of “primitives” on Earth, who eventually came to be the kings and aristocratic families on Earth, which eventually led to devastation and war all over the globe.
Stories of other worldly beings are also present in several African legends of creation, like the Zulu people, which means “sky” people. Their connection to the stories of Zecharia Sitchin are quite fascinating, as the stories of these “Gods” have the same aspects ascribed to the Anunnaki in the Sumerian tablets. If you want to hear some examples of stories, just google Credo Mutwa. South African researcher Michael Tellinger, also describes it quite well, this is another excerpt from Our Occulted History.
“Most of African mythology speaks about the same things, the sky gods the abelungu who came down from the sky. They created the people, to mine gold. Credo Mutwa (and African shaman) tells us Abantu in Zulu means the children of Antu. Antu is the Sumerian Goddess of the Abzu – where the gold came from. Lord Enki is also known as Enkei as the creator-god, the Sumerian medicine man. He cloned a species. His symbol is on the medical symbol, caduceus. This is one of the oldest symbols on the earth encoded with so much knowledge and information we can spend a lecture on it alone.”
Another example could be Quetzalcoatl, considered to be a mythical tale. Spanish chronicler, Juan de Torquemada, states that Quetzalcoatl was ‘a fair and ruddy complexioned man with a long beard’. Researcher Graham Hancock describes him as follows:
“A mysterious person… a white man with strong formation of body, broad forehead, large eyes, and a flowing beard. He was dressed in a long, white robe reaching to his feet. He condemned sacrifices, except of fruits and flowers, and was known as the god of peace. When addressed on the subject of war he is reported to have stopped up his ears with his fingers.” (source)
To be honest, as Astronaut Story Musgrave once said, “there are probably trillions of different races out there doing star travel.”
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of physics, University of Nebraska.
The story of human history may not be how it’s being told, the way it’s told now is quite dull in my opinion, we are stuck on creationism and evolution as our only two options when it could be something far greater and more complex and wild, with a little mix of everything, perhaps. The only certainty is what we are taught doesn’t seem to fit in with all the weird discoveries that’ve been made over the years of giants and strange humanoid skulls/body’s.
Our world is drenched in secrecy, and what are perceived as the most “outlandish” ideas, in a lot of cases, usually hold the most validity. Truth does not stop, it’s always there. However, the human perception of truth and reaction to it sort of determines what we create as truth. If we all believe something to be, it might be? But those are deeper discussions, the point is, there are truths which remain, when humanity will choose to accept them so we can move on from the ones that do not resonate, is a different story, but we’re doing a good job so far.
According to Sitchin, approximately half a million years ago these Anunnaki beings came to Earth because our planet and their planet came in close proximity.
Sitchin’s work has been criticized and rejected by mainstream academia, in the same way as parapsychology. For example, a statistics professor at UC Irvine published a paper showing that parapsychological experiments have produced much stronger results than those showing a daily dose of aspirin to help prevent a heart attack.
When you push the boundaries of beliefs, no matter how many researchers, scholars, and academics agree with you, there will always be the big one that doesn’t and that is the person who will get the most publicity in order to discredit you, in order to maintain some sort of status quo. This is what has happened with many people, including Sitchin, but there’s a reason why millions of people are so fascinated by all of the connections made by him, and those who have followed his work or do research in a similar area.
For example, Paul Von Ward, a prominent author, researcher and psychologist wrote,
“Although I do not agree with his cosmology… his elucidation of historical details and connection of them to other fields of knowledge stand up under comparative review with the work of other scholars. His summary of information relating to the ‘olde gods’ known in Sumeria as the Anunnaki presents a cohesive and defensible mixture of textual material and judicious interpretation.”
An author who has studied more than three hundred translations of ancient Mesopotamian and Vedic writings, C.L. Turnage wrote,
“After studying Sitchin’s theory, I began my own contemplation of the pre-biblical Babylonian Epic of Creation or Enuma Elish. It was from a study of this narrative that Sitchin became aware of the planet Nibiru and its establishment within our own solar system. This tale was originally written on seven clay tablets, each corresponding to a day of creation… After my own study of these chronicles, I concurred with Sitchin’s findings.”
Nonetheless, fascinating facts remain unexplainable unless we take an extraterrestrial perspective. Take for example that ancient Sumerians were accurately describing the planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto… These planets can’t even be seen without a telescope.
The Tenth Planet
This kind of thing has been quite popular at certain points in human history. In 1981 scientists were contemplating the possibility regarding strange evidence suggesting an additional solar body in our system.
Marrs’ book goes on to describe an article by Hugh McCann, a writer for Detroit News at the time,
“If the new evidence from the U.S. Naval Observatory of a 10th planet in the solar system is correct, it could prove that Sumerians… were far ahead of modern man in astronomy.”
The Sumerians called it the 12th planet, but they counted the moon and the sun so it makes sense.
“A heavenly body as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that ti would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know…”
What also comes to mind here are the recent statements by Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden,
“We are the aliens, but we just think they’re somebody else, but we’re the ones who came from somewhere else. Because somebody else had to survive, and they got in a little space craft and they came here and they landed and they started civilization here, that’s what I believe. And if you don’t believe me, go get books on the ancient Sumerians and see what they had to say about it, they’ll tell you right up front.”
His comments differ significantly from Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s, who said he “happens to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone on this plant ” and that we have “been visited many times.”
Our world is drenched in secrecy, do you think if such a body in our solar system was detected that we’d even hear anything about it? Most likely not.
A great example is the recent UFO disclosure by the U.S. government through the To The Stars. You can read more about this in detail in the article linked below.
Again, the story of the Anunnaki could very will be true, but this was a long time ago, and if that planet does exist, perhaps things have changed on it as well. We are looking at, if anything, one small account of extraterrestrial contact that’s occurred throughout this planet’s history.
DIERENPaleontologen hebben in Zuid-China de oudste ‘pootafdrukken’ ter wereld gevonden. De afdrukken zijn vermoedelijk 546 miljoen jaar oud en stammen uit een periode waarin de vroegste meercelligen opdoken. Welk organisme de sporen naliet, is niet bekend.
Ze zijn vermoedelijk gemaakt door een lid van de Bilateria, dieren die bijna allemaal bilateraal (tweezijdig) symmetrisch zijn. Een kenmerk van de Bilateria is dat de aanhangels die ze hebben in paren voorkomen.
Bij de Chinese vondst gaat het dan om een paar poten die het lichaam van het dier boven het sediment hielden waarover het zich voortbewoog, luidt in het Chinees-Amerikaanse onderzoek dat gepubliceerd werd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science Advances .
De afdrukken zijn gevonden in het gebied van de Jangtsekiang-rivier in Zuid-China. “Eerder geïdentificeerde voetafdrukken zijn tussen de 540 en 530 miljoen jaar oud. De nieuwe fossielen zijn waarschijnlijk tot 10 miljoen jaar ouder”, verklaarde coauteur Zhe Chen aan persagentschap AFP.
Ten minste drie levende groepen dieren hebben aanhangsels in paren en komen dus in aanmerking: geleedpotigen, ringwormen of viervoeters. Tot de geleedpotigen behoren spinachten en kreeften. Tot de ringwormen behoren alle regenwormen en bloedzuigers. Alle zoogdieren, vogels, reptielen en amfibieën zijn onderdeel van de viervoeters.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET In het Zuid-Afrikaanse Ottosdal heeft een bewakingscamera op 2 juni een meteoor gefilmd zo groot als een kleine auto. Het gaat om asteroïde 2018 LA, die eerder ZLAF9B2 werd genoemd.
Barend Swanepoel zag de rode vuurbal op de terugweg van zijn buurman Vicus van Zyl, en vertelde hem de beelden van zijn bewakingscamera eens te bekijken. “Het voordeel was dat ik hem in kleur zag, en dat was niet zoals op de camerabeelden”, vertelt Swanepoel. “Het was een vallende vuurbal met een rode staart achter. Ik dacht dat het grasland in brand zou vliegen.”
De meteoor was twee tot vijf meter groot en stortte neer met een snelheid van 17 kilometer per seconde. Hij ontplofte boven Botswana, slechts twee seconden voor de impact. Medewerkers van de NASA hadden de asteroïde acht uur daarvoor opgemerkt en besloten dat de ruimterots geen gevaar vormde.
De boerderij waar deze beelden werden gemaakt, ligt zo’n 300 kilometer van Botswana.
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Mysterious Methane On Mars Could Be Of Biological Source, NASA
Mysterious Methane On Mars Could Be Of Biological Source, NASA
Many of us saw NASA's announcement yesterday that organic matter was found on Mars. However, these are not former life forms, but only organic matter from a chemical point of view.
Much more interesting, are the detected methane deposits in the atmosphere of the red planet. Methane previously had been detected in Mars' atmosphere in large, unpredictable plumes.
Something's breathing on Mars
Depending on the season, there are different amounts of methane gas in the atmosphere. NASA itself calls the presence of the gas 'mysterious'. The scientists say that they cannot exclude a biological source.
Chris Webster of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"This is the first time we've seen something repeatable in the methane story, so it offers us a handle in understanding it. This is all possible because of Curiosity's longevity. The long duration has allowed us to see the patterns in this seasonal 'breathing.'" (Source)
Are there any living beings breathing on Mars? Possibly under the surface?
What is the mysterious object caught on video near a military naval base? Stunned motorist claims to have filmed a 'UFO'
What is the mysterious object caught on video near a military naval base? Stunned motorist claims to have filmed a 'UFO'
unelyn Bitalac, 22, was returning from Hastings, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, when she noticed the mysterious black object
By Mark Felix
A stunned motorist spotted a strange UFO flying across the road she was driving along - close to a military base.
Junelyn Bitalac, 22, was returning from dropping her mum off at work in Hastings, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, on the morning of May 28 when she noticed the black object hovering in the sky.
Pulling over to take a closer look, the personal care assistant and mum-of-one was shocked to see a disk approximately 16ft (5m) in diameter travelling quickly and smoothly through the clear blue skies.
Following its flight path religiously, Junelyn's unbelievable footage captures the aircraft clearly as it passed over power lines before disappearing behind some trees.
Junelyn was shocking when she spotted the unidentified flying object
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Pulling over to take a closer look, the personal care assistant was shocked to see a disk shape travelling quickly
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Online commenters were quick to point out Hastings is just 6km away from naval military base HMAS Cerberus on the Mornington Peninsula.
Junelyn, from Carrum Downs, Melbourne, said: "I really do believe in aliens and extra-terrestrial life so I was quite amazed to spot what I saw - that's why I pulled out my phone straight away.
"I was just randomly looking into the sky while I was driving and noticed the strange round object, so I decided to pull over and film it.
"I have never seen anything like it and have no clue what it was.
"But it is very interesting that I spotted it so close to a military base.
"Everyone who has watched the clip said it was very unusual.
"It was after I dropped my mom to work and I was on the way home, so I was just by myself that time.
"I had no idea where it went after I filmed it, because I got distracted by the car approaching towards me."
She spotted the UFO on the morning of May 28(Image: Caters News Agency)
Junelyn, who is originally from the Philippines and moved to Australia in 2010, said she did not realise her strange siting was so close to a naval base until she posted her clip to social media.
But the 22-year-old said she is a firm believer in alien life, and claims this is not the first time she has spotted a UFO.
She added: "This is not the first time I have spotted a UFO - another time about three years ago I was in Carrum Downs when I spotted three triangular-shaped objects moving very quickly overhead, but they disappeared before I was able to film them.
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Trump's space force? Triangular UFO similar to TR-3B spotted on moon, triggers row
Trump's space force? Triangular UFO similar to TR-3B spotted on moon, triggers row
A triangular UFO similar to that of the secretive TR-3B, the alleged anti-gravity vessel developed by the US Air Force, was visible in a video uploaded by Youtube channel on UFOs.
A trinagular UFO image on moon triggers new controversy
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George Graham, the Scottish UFO researcher who runs the YouTube channel 'Streetcap1' has spotted a bizarre object on the surface of the moon. At the first look, this triangular UFO looks similar to the secretive TR-3B, the alleged anti-gravity vessel developed by the US Air Force.
Interestingly, the triangular-shaped object has landed next to what seemed to be a built-up area on the lunar surface. "The object is definitely triangular in shape. But I do not know exactly what it is. This is a bit strange. It could be a craft and I believe it has landed next to a habitat," said George Graham in the video.
The video which was uploaded on June 04, 2018 has already racked up more than 10,000 views, and viewers have been speculating on what this triangular object could be.
Most of the viewers who watched the video argued that moon is home to an alien civilization. They even point out that NASA has stopped taking humans to the moon just because aliens have warned us never to go there again.
However, a section of conspiracy theorists believes that the triangular object in the video could be actually the TR-3B government project which might have reached the lunar surface. According to them, Doland Trump who recently announced his plans to run a Space Force might have actually started the initial operations.
"The space force is alive and well," commented Dane Masie, a YouTube user.
"Does look like a craft of some kind and appears to be lit up at its cockpit with more lights on top, whatever it is, it certainly does not look natural! What a find," commented Celeste Nova, another YouTube user.
This is not the first time that George Graham is finding anomalies on the lunar surface. A few months ago, the researcher has spotted an alleged alien spaceship on the moon. This video too went viral, and conspiracy theorists blamed the government for covering up the existence of alien life.
These theorists have urged the authorities to unveil the truth behind the existence of extraterrestrials.
Fireball as seen on American Meteor Society siteAmerican Meteor Society
A video featuring a meteorite named ZLAF9B2 blasting off the skies has gone viral recently. It shows a fireball reaching the earth at skyrocket speed and finally exploding in South Africa. Now, Tyler Glockner, a UFO researcher who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' has claimed that the object spotted in the video might not be a meteorite.
The space mystery continues...
In the recently released video, Tyler Glockner alleged that there are many mysteries surrounding the meteorite ZLAF9B2. As per Glockner, NASA came to know about the space body just nine hours before the impact which is unusual.
The conspiracy theorist also stated that there were no objects recovered from the crash site which indicates that it was not a meteorite, but some other flying object which has made a close flyby.
In the same video, Glockner released another clip showing a bizarre cone-shaped object hovering in the skies of Florida. The object is bright red in color, and it produced so sound.
Social media reacts
The clip has already attracted more than 370,000 views and spectators were quick to put forward various theories explaining this weird sky phenomenon. Many people who watched the video connected these bizarre space events to the arrival of Nibiru.
Jon Doe, a YouTube user argued that the increased number of seismic activities and the recent Guatemala volcanic eruption is a sign that the alleged killer planet Nibiru is approaching the earth.
"With all the shit flying into our atmosphere coupled with the volcanic eruptions worldwide, it really makes you wonder if something big is going on that we just aren't being told about," chsftball57, another YouTube user.
This is not the first time that Tyler Glockner is alleging government for covering up the presence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. A few days back he has released a video of a black saucer-like flying object hovering across the skies of Australia. Interestingly, this UFO sighting happened very near to an Australian military base in Victoria, and this compelled many to think that the government is secretly running a black project.
Tracie Austin is a long-time friend of mine who I first met back in 1995. At the time, Tracie and I only lived about a 45-minute-drive from each other in central, rural England. As a result, we spent a lot of time traveling to UFO conferences in the U.K. and having a good time. Tracie moved to the United States a couple of years before me and now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In the summer of 2016, Tracie invited me and David Weatherlyto be on her The Tracie Austin Show. The plan was to have Tracie first interview us separately: I would be interviewed on the MIB and David on the Black-Eyed Children. And, then, there would be a round-table discussion on both phenomena, noting the undeniable links between the two. A date was soon fixed: September 22. The high-strangeness wasn’t just limited to the show, however. Tracie herself had a trio of stories of her own to relate to me concerning the Black-Eyed Children. They were, of course, as bizarre as they were disturbing. She told me:
“With me doing the show on the Black-Eyed Kids, I was reading David’s book every day before we did the show. So, it was on my mind. And it only happened the one time, but I had this dream that we had a friend over and there was a knock at the door, and the friend that came over opened the door. And I saw a black-eyed kid standing at the door; one single boy. And the friend asked him to come in, and I said ‘No, no, no; you can’t let him in!’ But, he wandered in, slightly. It was a kid with a hoodie and jeans; the typical kid. And I pushed him out the door and said again, ‘No, you can’t let him in!’ It shook me a bit when I woke up.”
The skeptic might be inclined to say that because Tracie was focusing on the BEC at the time, and diligently preparing for the show, that all of the data she had digested had now spilled over into her dream-state and her subconscious. I knew that such a thing was not at all implausible. I also knew, however, that the MIB had the uncanny ability to, essentially, “invade” our dreams and turn them into absolute nightmares. Maybe, the Black-Eyed Children could do likewise, too, I considered. That was far from being the end of the story, however.
Tracie continued with what she had found out: “I have a friend named Dana; she works in timeshare, at a resort out here in Las Vegas, on the far end of the strip. She was working one day – this was in April 2016 – when she said this lady was sent over to her, with two kids: a young boy and a girl. The girl was about six or seven and the boy was about four or five. The woman was wearing dark brown pants and had long brown hair. And the reason why the woman was sent over was because Dana gave the gifting in the timeshare company. When you listen to a presentation, you’re given a gift. But, the woman said she didn’t want a gift and Dana said, ‘When she looked at me and said that, I saw that she had total black eyes.’ There were no whites whatsoever. And the kids were exactly the same. But, in every other sense they were completely normal; they weren’t wearing the hoodies.
“Dana commented, ‘I wish I had said something, like how do you see with those eyes?’ When she said that, I thought you can’t really ask them something like that. Maybe you could say, ‘Wow, your eyes are beautiful.’ But, maybe that’s bringing attention to something they don’t want you to know about. But, they could wear sunglasses all the time and no-one would know. So, maybe they are testing our reactions, they want their eyes to be seen. The kids were quiet; they didn’t say anything to her. Dana asked the woman how long she was going to be staying at the resort. And she said just one night and then they left.
“Dana said to me, ‘I couldn’t believe it, Tracie; I saw after that that you were going to be doing a show on the Black-Eyed Kids.’ She reached out to me on Facebook and said, ‘I had an encounter with a Black-Eyed Woman and Black-Eyed Kids.’ Then, a couple of months after encountering this woman, Dana asked me if there was some connection between seeing them and people dying, when they have an encounter with the Black-Eyed-People. Right around a month or two after her encounter, her parents – who were both in their seventies – died. They hadn’t been sick, weren’t ill. Her father had developed kidney failure, out of the blue, and then her mother developed pneumonia. She said to me: ‘Tracie, this is freaking me out, as I hear [the Black-Eyed Children] can be omens of death.’ I said I didn’t know, as I didn’t want to scare her.”
Like me, the late Brad Steiger had a deep interest in the phenomenon of the Men in Black. One of the more thought-provoking accounts he shared with me demonstrates just how incredibly weird the whole MIB phenomenon really is. Brad began as follows: “After more than 50 years of research in the UFO and paranormal fields, I have come to the conclusion that many of the mysteries that bedevil us are products of a reflexive phenomenon. This reflexive action does not usually occur in the more mundane pursuits of architecture, industry, mining, agriculture and the like, but once one begins actively to pursue Ufology or psychical research, one runs the risk of entering a surreal world in which the usual physical laws do not apply.”
Now, without interruption, I’ll let you read the rest of Brad’s thoughts, along with a couple of very strange events that impacted on his life: “In the case of the mythos of the Men in Black, I suggest that that eerie enigma may have begun with the machinations of a human agency assigned to investigate the actions of the more high profile investigators of the phenomenon and the more convincing witness of UFO activity with the goals of learning more about the growing interest in a worldwide phenomena. Somehow along the way, this activity of the human surveillance of other humans caught the interest of a nonhuman, paraphysical agency that has for centuries pursued goals that remain elusive, even sinister, to the individuals whom they visit. Whether motivated by a bizarre sense of humor, an essentially malicious nature, or a desire to learn how much some humans know about their eternal secrets, the Others began knocking on the doors of those who had witnessed or who had investigated UFO activity.
“Some of my experiences with the MIB seem most certainly the product of human surveillance that in most instances was conducted with awkward fallibility. Once in the golden era of MIB activity in the late 1960s while speaking to a fellow researcher on the telephone, our conversation was interrupted by a metallic-sounding voice chanting: ‘Ho, ho, UFO!’ Because it seemed that this got a rise out of us, this merry chant was repeated on a number of telephone calls with other investigators.
“A friend who had been doing a great deal of research on my behalf told of the time when he was anticipating a visit from me. He picked up the telephone to make a call on his private line, only to hear the following bit of conversation:
“‘Has Steiger arrived in town yet?’
“‘Not yet.’
“‘What motel will he be staying in?’
“‘The [correct name of the motel in which I had made reservations].’
“‘Don’t worry. Everything is set.’
“At this point my friend broke in and asked who the hell was on his private line. There was a stunned silence, a click, then the steady buzzing that indicates a clear line. I had my own experience with the awkward telephone spies when I checked into a hotel and found that the bell man had missed one of my suitcases – the most important one with the slides for my lecture.
“I picked up the receiver to hear a man’s voice inquire: ‘When is he supposed to check in?’
“‘He is already in his room,’ I said in reply, though I knew the query wasn’t asked of me.’
“‘Oh, s—t!’ was the profound response, followed by two rapid hang-ups.
“Other experiences with the MIB are not so easy to place in either the Human or Non-Human category. A friend of mine was traveling in England before starting on an around-the-world junket with a layover in Vietnam to visit his son in the armed forces. He was walking near a railway station in London when he noticed three men dressed completely in black staring at him.
“When my friend returned their collective stare, they approached him and asked him which train they should take for such-and-such a city. My friend calmly pointed out that he was a tourist, and it made a good deal more sense for them to ask at the information booth just a few feet away.
“My friend turned on his heel and walked away from the odd trio, but a glance over his shoulder told him that they were still standing there staring at him, unmindful of checking with the information booth. Suddenly ill at ease, my friend hailed a taxi and went directly to his hotel.
“When he got to his room, an uncomfortable sensation prickled the back of his neck and he glanced out his window. On the street corner, looking up at his room, were the three men. Baffled, he tried to push the incident from his mind.
“A day or so later, though, he was confronted by one of the men who told him straight out: ‘You are a friend of Brad Steiger. Tell him we shall visit him by Christmas.’ My friend had only a peripheral knowledge of the UFO can of worms, but he returned to his hotel room and wrote me a long letter with the above details.
“Not long after I had received his letter, I visited a friend in another city and told him about the bizarre experience my correspondent had encountered in London. ‘Humph!’ Jim snorted over the lunch we were sharing. ‘If those monkeys come to see you this Christmas, send ‘em down to talk to me. I’d love to get one of those characters in my hands. I would solve this man-in-black mystery you’ve been telling me about!’
“I laughed and warned him that he had better be careful or he might get his wish.
“I had not returned from my trip by more than a few minutes when the telephone rang. It was Jim calling. Wondering if I might have left something at his place of business, I was informed that I had indeed left a most peculiar something behind me.
“Jim told me that I had no sooner started my homeward journey than he was told that a gentleman wished to see him. A secretary ushered a man of average height into Jim’s office. But my friend said that his visitor was the thinnest human being he had ever seen.
“‘He was cadaverous, Brad,’ Jim told me. ‘He looked like those World War II photographs of someone in a concentration camp. But he seemed alert enough, and so involved in his quest that he ignored my proffered hand of greeting. In fact, I tried to push shaking his hand, but he refused to touch me.’
“‘I hear you want to be the head of UFO’s in Iowa,’ he said quickly.
“‘He took out a wallet, flipped it open, then shut, before I could see any identification. I can’t really recall anything else he said, because it was all so damned nonsensical. Soon he was gone, and I was still sitting there dumbfounded.
“‘I jumped to my feet, though, when I heard his car starting. I got a good look at his automobile and I wrote down its license number. I can’t tell you what make of car it was. It looked like a combination of three or four different makes and models, but it didn’t really look like anything I had ever seen before. And the license number didn’t check. The Highway Patrol said there was no such Iowa plate registered. A friend in another branch of state government, who owed me a favor, said the plate wasn’t registered to any government agency, either.’”
GRAABCIRKELS WIJZEN OP DE KOMST ALIENS, ANNUNNAKI ( VIDEO )
GRAABCIRKELS WIJZEN OP DE KOMST ALIENS, ANNUNNAKI ( VIDEO )
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een graancirkel in het Engelse Dorset met een symbool dat doet denken aan de film Arrival.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat dit voor komt en in een graancirkel en ook in Italië is datzelfde symbool in verband te brengen met de Anunnaki.
Het lijkt iedere keer weer een wonder als je de prachtige graancirkels ziet die vanuit het niets verschijnen. Men doet zo langzamerhand alsof dit gewoon een verschijnsel is dat bij het leven hoort en dat die dingen wel gemaakt zullen worden door wat raddraaiers met een slok bier op en wat latjes onder de voeten.
De mainstream media zijn zo zeker dat ze het verhaal van graancirkels hebben ontmaskerd als een hoax dat ze vinden dat ze er daarom geen aandacht meer aan hoeven besteden.
En dan zien ze dus ook niet de prachtige graancirkel die op 4 juni is verschenen in Dorset in Engeland.
De aliens in deze film heten septapods (sepia is ook een naam voor een inktvis en verwijst bovendien naar de inkt die zij kunnen spuiten, ook sepia genoemd, wat weer een belangrijke rol speelt ook in de film Arrival) en als je weet dat septazeven betekent, dan zie je de overeenkomst met de graancirkel.
Ook in juli 2016 verscheen er een graancirkel met een zevenpuntige ster, dit keer op een opmerkelijke locatie, namelijk Stonehenge.
Nog wat verder terug in de tijd verscheen er ook een zevenpuntige ster graancirkel, maar dit keer met een handtekening.
In juni 2011 verscheen een graancirkel nabij Poirino in Italië, waarbij niet alleen ook een zevenpuntige ster te zien was, maar waar ook een soort binaire code in verborgen zat.
Deze graancirkel, die ook een magische ster afbeeldt, is volledig geanalyseerd en de resultaten daarvan zijn hier te lezen en de eindconclusie is dat de code het woord EA of Enki weergeeft.
Zijn deze gecompliceerde graancirkels boodschappen van de Anunnaki die ons op deze manier laten weten dat hun Arrival binnenkort staat te gebeuren?
New Nimitz UFO Incident Report Provides Details of the Alien Craft’s Advanced Capabilities
New Nimitz UFO Incident Report Provides Details of the Alien Craft’s Advanced Capabilities
One of the most alluring cases of UFO existence was the 2004 Nimitz Incident. It happened during a training exercise involving the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, a group of aircraft carriers, off the coast of California. The aircraft carriers picked up mysterious signals, which reportedly an aircraft flying nearby.
A U.S. Navy pilot Cmdr. David Fravor was one of the pilots of the two Hornets that the USS Princeton sent out to investigate the strange signals. On the investigation, Fravor happened to spot a peculiar Tic-Tac shaped aircraft that apparently moved like nothing he had ever seen.
The aircraft had appeared to have no wings and was estimated to be around 40 feet long. After few minutes of pursuing, the craft vanished.
According to Fravor, the unknown craft accelerated and gone as he got closer and his nose started to pull back up. He described the object as faster than he had ever seen. They tried to turn around to see what was in the water but failed to see the UFO as they only saw blue water.
Now, a Las Vegas news team reportedly acquired an official report on the incident.
According to the report, the Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was not in the inventory of the United States or any other nations. The UFO has the characteristics to make the American radar engagement capabilities useless. It exhibited aerodynamics performance that was considered advanced with no visible control surfaces and means to generate lift. The AAV showed advanced propulsion technology as it remained stationary with little to no visible signature. The report stated that the AAV might have the ability to cloak or become invisible to the human observation. It further mentioned that the AAV could operate undersea undetected by our most advanced sensors.
The authenticity of the report is not yet validated, but if it is true, it is probably the most disturbing or convincing piece among UFO documentation.
Eventually, billions or even trillions of years from now, the universe is going to end.
Astrophysicists don't know exactly how the universe will end, but they have some ideas. A group from Munich called Kurzgesagt put together a video explaining the three most likely ways it could happen.
The problem is that the universe is expanding, and the rate that it's expanding keeps increasing. It's like throwing a ball up into the air and watching it speed away from you faster and faster.
This expansion is happening despite gravity doing its best to hold things together. That means another force must be acting on the universe besides gravity, and must be pretty powerful.
Astrophysicists think that force is something they call dark energy. Dark energy is invisible and we know almost nothing about it. But based on how fast everything is expanding, scientists think dark energy exists everywhere in space and could make up almost 70% of the universe.
While we don't actually know what dark energy is or what its properties are, the existing theories have led astrophysicists to three big ideas about how the universe might end.
1. The big rip
Not only is the universe expanding, its expanding equally in all directions. And because space is expanding, galaxies are getting farther apart. The space within each galaxy is expanding too, but right now, the galaxy's own gravity is strong enough to hold it together.
The big rip would start once the pull of the universe's expansion gets stronger than the gravity holding galaxies together. Galaxies would tear apart first, followed by smaller black holes, planets and stars.
Eventually space would start expanding faster than the speed of light, and become stronger than the forces holding atoms together and they'd break down into individual particles. The entire universe would become a void of single particles unconnected to anything around them, drifting aimlessly in a timeless universe.
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2. The big crunch
This is the least terrifying end-of-universe scenario. If astrophysicists are wrong about dark energy and there's actually less of it than we think, or its grasp on matter decreases over time, gravity would eventually become the most powerful force in the universe.
If that happens, then after trillions of years, the rate that the universe expands would decrease and the universe would start to shrink. Galaxies would crash into each other and merge as the universe starts collapsing on itself.
A shrinking universe would drive temperatures higher. The cosmic background radiation would be so hot that it would cook stars from the outside in. The intense heat would rip atoms apart in the final minutes before the Big Crunch. Black holes would then swallow up everything since objects are packed so tightly into dense clumps.
The black holes would then converge into one mega black hole that contains the entirety of the universe. The Big Crunch moment would happen instantly as the black hole swallows itself.
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Some scientists think the universe has bounced back and forth between expansion and contraction, so there's definite hope for a universe rebirth in this last scenario, though we won't be around to witness it.
3. The big freeze or heat death
In this end-of-the-universe scenario, matter would stay intact rather than getting torn apart, but would slowly decay into radiation as the universe expands.
Right now the universe is not uniform — it's speckled with clumps of matter and energy in the form of things like galaxies, stars, and black holes. But the expansion would stretch everything out until everything is evenly spread through the universe. When that happens, objects can gain or lose energy. The gas clouds that form stars would dissipate, black holes would evaporate and eventually even light particles would fizzle out. The universe would be completely snuffed out forever.
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Unfortunately, based on the physics that we understand, the big freeze and heat death scenario is the leading candidate.
But the bottom line is scientists don't know for sure how the universe will end, and we need to know a lot more about what dark energy is and how it works.
NEW REVOLUTIONARY THEORY CLAIMS DARK ENERGY WILL EVENTUALLY ‘SWALLOW’ THE UNIVERSE
NEW REVOLUTIONARY THEORY CLAIMS DARK ENERGY WILL EVENTUALLY ‘SWALLOW’ THE UNIVERSE
An international research team came up with a new shocking theory about the possible future of the universe suggesting that the mysterious dark energy “swallows” the not less mysterious dark matter. According to the study authors, in case their theory is right, we will “end up with a big, empty and boring Universe with almost nothing in it.”
There are two popular theories about the possible end of the universe and both are based on the hypothesis that our universe is expanding. The first theory states that the accelerating expansion of the universe will result in galaxies getting further from each other and steadily cooling down until the universe becomes a totally dark and cold world. The second theory called “Big Crunch” claims that this expansion will eventually cause a collapse of the Universe, which will end as a black hole singularity. Now, it seems that there is another, third theory. To better understand it, let’s first take a closer look at dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, which owes its name to the fact that it does not emit or reflect radiation, was discovered in the 1930s, when it was found that the mass of the visible matter was not enough to explain the gravitational effects of galaxies. In fact, the matter that forms planets, galaxies and all the celestial bodies in the universe corresponds only to 16% of the total matter in the Universe, while the remaining 84% corresponds to the dark matter. For several decades, the prevailing cosmological theory claimed that the expansion of the universe is slowing down. It has to do with the fact that the attracting force of gravity, which is the dominant physical interaction, has been slowing down the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang.
However, two research teams, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High ZSupernova Team, shocked the scientific community when they presented the results of their calculations in 1998. Having made more precise measurements of the rate of the expansion of the Universe, the researchers found that, in fact, it is accelerating! Then it was concluded that, in order to explain this accelerating expansion, the total mass and energy of the Universe must be dominated by an unknown gravitationally repulsive energy. This is what is called “dark energy” and what still remains unknown to science. According to the new theory, which was published in the journal «Physical Review Letters», dark energy interacts with dark matter, as a result of which dark matter is evaporating slowly but steadily. Thus, if the theory is valid, it will take many billions of years for galaxies and the rest of the universe to disappear. “This study is about the fundamental properties of space-time. On a cosmic scale, this is about our Universe and its fate. If the dark energy is growing and dark matter is evaporating we will end up with a big, empty, boring Universe with almost nothing in it,” says David Wands, director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth and a member of the research team.
In 2015, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner established Breakthrough Initiatives, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In April of the following year, he and the organization be founded announced the creation of Breakthrough Starshot, a program to create a lightsail-driven “wafercraft” that would make the journey to the nearest star system – Proxima Centauri – within our lifetime.
In the latest development, on Wednesday May 23rd, Breakthrough Starshot held an “industry day” to outline their plans for developing the Starshot laser sail. During this event, the Starshot committee submitted a Request For Proposals (RFP) to potential bidders, outlining their specifications for the sail that will carry the wafercraft as it makes the journey to Proxima Centauri within our lifetimes.
As we have noted in severalpreviousarticles, Breakthrough Starshot calls for the creation of a gram-scale nanocraft being towed by a laser sail. This sail will be accelerated by an Earth-based laser array to a velocity of about 60,000 km/s (37,282 mps) – or 20% the speed of light (o.2 c). This concept builds upon the idea of a lightsail (aka. solar sail), a spacecraft that relies on solar wind to push itself through space.
An artist’s illustration of a light-sail powered by a radio beam (red) generated on the surface of a planet.
Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
At this speed, the nanocraft would be able to reach the closest star system to our own – Proxima Centauri, located 4.246 light-years away – in just 20 years time. Since its inception, the team behind Breakthrough Starshot has invested considerable time and energy addressing the conceptual and engineering challenges such a mission would entail. And with this latest briefing, they are now looking to move the project from concept to reality.
In addition to being the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, Abraham Loeb is also the Chair of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee. As he explained to Universe Today via email:
“Starshot is an initiative to send a probe to the nearest star system at a fifth of the speed of light so that it will get there within a human lifetime of a couple of decades. The goal is to obtain photos of exo-planets like Proxima b, which is in the habitable zone of the nearest star Proxima Centauri, four light years away. The technology adopted for fulfilling this challenge uses a powerful (100 Giga-watt) laser beam pushing on a lightweight (1 gram) sail to which a lightweight electronics chip is attached (with a camera, navigation and communication devices). The related technology development is currently funded at $100M by Yuri Milner through the Breakthrough Foundation.”
“The scope of this RFP addresses the Technology Development phase – to explore LightSail concepts, materials, fabrication and measurement methods, with accompanying analysis and simulation that creates advances toward a viable path to a scalable and ultimately deployable LightSail.”
A phased laser array, perhaps in the high desert of Chile, propels sails on their journey.
Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives
As Loeb indicated, this RFP comes not long after another “industry day” that was related to the development of the technology of the laser – termed the “Photon Engine”. In contrast, this particular RFP was dedicated to the design of the laser sail itself, which will carry the nanocraft to Proxima Centauri.
“The Industry Day was intended to inform potential partners about the project and request for proposals (RFP) associated with research on the sail materials and design,” added Loeb. “Within the next few years we hope to demonstrate the feasibility of the required sail and laser technologies. The project will allocate funds to experimental teams who will conduct the related research and development work. ”
The RFP also addressed Starshot’s long-term goals and its schedule for research and development in the coming years. These include the investment in $100 million over the next five years to determine the feasibility of the laser and sail, to invest the value of the European Extremely Large Telescope(EELT) from year 6 to year 11 and build a low-power prototype for space testing, and invest the value of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) over a 20 year period to develop the final spacecraft.
“The European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT) will cost on order of a billion [dollars] and the Large Hadron Collider cost was ten times higher,’ said Loeb. “These projects were mentioned to calibrate the scale of the cost for the future phases in the Starshot project, where the second phase will involve producing a demo system and the final step will involve the complete launch system.”
Artist’s impression of Proxima b, which was discovered using the Radial Velocity method.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
The research and development schedule for the sail was also outlined, with three major phases identified over the next 5 years. Phase 1 (which was the subject of the RFP) would entail the development of concepts, models and subscale testing. Phase 2 would involve hardware validation in a laboratory setting, while Phase 3 would consist of field demonstrations.
With this latest “industry day” complete, Starshot is now open for submissions from industry partners looking to help them realize their vision. Step A proposals, which are to consist of a five-page summary, are due on June 22nd and will be assessed by Harry Atwater (the Chair of the Sail Subcommittee) as well as Kevin Parkin (head of Parkin Research), Jim Benford (muWave Sciences) and Pete Klupar (the Project Manager).
Step B proposals, which are to consist of a more detailed, fifteen-page summary, will be due on July 10th. From these, the finalists will be selected by Pete Worden, the Executive Director of Breakthrough Starshot. If all goes according to plan, the initiative hopes to launch the first lasersail-driven nanocraft in to Proxima Centauri in 30 years and see it arrive there in 50 years.
So if you’re an aerospace engineer, or someone who happens to run a private aerospace firm, be sure to get your proposals ready! To learn more about Starshot, the engineering challenges they are addressing, and their research, follow the links provided to the BI page. To see the slides and charts from the RFP, check out Starshot’s Solicitations page.
Australia’s Songlines: An Ancient Network Known As The ‘Footprints Of The Ancestors’
Australia’s Songlines: An Ancient Network Known As The ‘Footprints Of The Ancestors’
Sprawled across the Australian continent lies a network of invisible pathways known to the aborigine as ‘Footprints of the Ancestors’. In the West, we know them as ‘Song Lines’ and ‘Dream-Tracks’. They were part of the aboriginal creation myth which spoke of legendary beings who wandered the earth, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path – birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes – and so singing the world into existence.
Each tribe had their own songline, passed down to them by their ancestors. It was their responsibility to preserve these sacred chants and follow the laws and traditions contained within. They had a duty to protect their songlines, for an unsung territory eventually became a wasteland. If the songs were forgotten, the land itself would wither and die. By singing a landmarks creation song, the country would come to life and flourish with health and vigor.
Australia's Songlines: An Ancient Network Known As The 'Footprints Of The Ancestors'
A songline also acts as a map and compass. Providing an aboriginal person knew the song, they could always find their way across the country. A man on a “Walkabout” will always travel down one of their Songlines. If he were to stray from his dream-track, he would be trespassing on somebody else’s land. As long as he stuck to the track, he’d always find people who shared his Dreaming, from whom he could expect hospitality.
In theory, the whole of Australia could be read as a musical score (known as a song map). There is hardly a rock or creek in the country that cannot be sung. You can visualize Songlines as a labyrinth of epic stories, turning this way and that, in which every sacred site can be read in terms of its geology, function, and legends associated with it.
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Anywhere in the bush you can point to some feature of the landscape and ask an Aboriginal person, “What’s the story there?” or “Who’s that?” The chances are they’ll answer “Kangaroo” or “Budgerigar” or “Jew Lizard”, depending on which Ancestor who walked that way. ‘And the distance between two such sites can be measured as a stretch of a song.
This article was written by Simon E. Davies. Contributor at Ancient-Code.com
The ex-politician claims to have evidence four species of aliens have been visiting Earth for decades.
Paul Hellyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence in the 1960s, argues that top governments have long been in cahoots with extraterrestrial beings.
He said: “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.”
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BOMBSHELL CLAIM: Paul Hellyer says four species of aliens have visited Earth
“Some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after”
Paul Hellyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence in the 1960
He also claimed that trillions of dollars have been spent on so-called “black projects” to cover up extraterrestrial life.
Hellyer recalled one terrifying UFO encounter during the Cold War that triggered an investigation.
He added: “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.
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BIZARRE: He recalled one terrifying UFO encounter during the Cold War
“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.”
He alleges the ETs travelled to Earth from different star systems.
Hellyer said: “Many are being are benevolent and a few are not. They come from various places, for a long while I only knew about ones that came from different star systems, the Pleadies.
“There are extraterrestrials that come from Andromeda, and ones that live on one of Saturn’s moons.”
Venus is not a hospitable place for humans. The planet is covered in thick, billowing sulfuric acid clouds, underneath which temperatures reach nearly a thousand degrees Fahrenheit. If you were unfortunate enough to stand on Venus’ volcano-spotted surface, you would feel 100 times more pressure than you would standing on the surface of our own planet, in large part due to its atmosphere.
Naturally, NASA scientists have a lot of questions. A team of them recently announced Project HAVOC, which stands for “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept.” The project details how a 30-day, manned mission to Venus might go down.
And while the operation is purely speculative — much of the necessary technology doesn’t exist yet — it marks the first serious plan for how people might explore our nearest planetary neighbor.
Even though this announcement arrived alongside news that NASA’s goals don’t match what the American public wants NASA to be doing (the White House scrapped climate research for more moon missions, the public wants the opposite), no one around here is complaining about this proposal. Because it’s an undeniably-cool sci-fi vision come to (theoretical) life.
In order to study Venus and search for signs that the planet may have once had a more hospitable climate and, perhaps, even water, the NASA engineers envision a gigantic, floating research colony. The research station would hover about 50 kilometers (30 miles or so) above the acidic clouds, in an area of the atmosphere that stays at a cooler temperature.
The proposed plan is more than a little risky (someone should get on those movie rights ASAP). After reaching the planet, the manned shuttle would attach to a separate rocket that contains the deflated, folded research station. As it plummets towards the surface, the station would deploy a parachute, unfold itself, fill with tanks of helium sent for the ride, and then (hopefully) stay afloat at a non-lethal altitude.
After a month of research from the strategic position above the clouds, the crew’s shuttle would have to detach from the research station, rocket back into orbit, and rejoin the orbiting spacecraft that would take it back to Earth.
All in all, the trip would take less time than a manned mission to Mars, since Venus is much closer to Earth.
But if it all sounds pretty ambitious to you, well, you’re not alone. While NASA still hasn’t developed the technology necessary to complete such a mission and, you know, keep the astronauts from dying, the agency feels that the tech we do have is good enough for similar, smaller-scale robotic missions that could begin to scan Venus for signs that our planetary neighbor used to sustain life.
A bewildered motorist spotted what appears to be a UFO soaring over the road in front of her while she was driving close to a military naval base.
Junelyn Bitalac, 22, was on her way home from taking her mother to work in Hasting, Victoria in late May when she observed the object in the air.
She pulled over to take a closer look and was shocked to see a circular object, five metres in diameter, flying smoothly through clear skies.
Ms Bitalac managed to capture the unbelievable object on film, following it on its flight path before it disappeared behind trees.
After reviewing the video and having no idea what it could be, she posted it online in order to get some answers.
'I really do believe in aliens and extra-terrestrial life so I was quite amazed to spot what I saw – that's why I pulled out my phone straight away,' Ms Bitalac said.
The strange object pictured appears to be 5m in diameter and was spotted only 6km from a military naval base in Victoria
Once the video was re-posted on conspiracy page secureteam10, it managed to gain over 100,000 views in just a matter of hours.
Some online users observed the fact that Hastings is only 6km away from a naval military based - HMAS Cerberus on the Mornington Peninsula, with one user commenting 'Right next to military base - must be a drone'.
Junelyn Bitalac was on her way home from taking her mother to work in Hasting, Victoria when she observed the object in the air
Ms Bitalac said that most people who watched the video found the object quite unusual.
'I have never seen anything like it and have no clue what it was. But it is very interesting that I spotted it so close to a military base.'
More Mystery Objects Found Near Milky Way's Black Hole
More Mystery Objects Found Near Milky Way's Black Hole
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by Staff Writers Kamuela HI (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered several bizarre objects at the galactic Center that are concealing their true identity behind a smoke screen of dust; they look like gas clouds, but behave like stars.
At today's American Astronomical Society Meeting in Denver, a team of researchers led by UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar Anna Ciurlo announced their results, which they obtained using 12 years of data taken from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii
"These compact dusty stellar objects move extremely fast and close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole. It is fascinating to watch them move from year to year," said Ciurlo.
"How did they get there? And what will they become? They must have an interesting story to tell."
The researchers made their discovery by obtaining spectroscopic measurements of the galactic Center's gas dynamics using Keck Observatory's OH-Suppressing Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (OSIRIS).
"We started this project thinking that if we looked carefully at the complicated structure of gas and dust near the supermassive black hole, we might detect some subtle changes to the shape and velocity," said Randy Campbell, science operations lead at Keck Observatory.
"It was quite surprising to detect several objects that have very distinct movement and characteristics that place them in the G-object class, or dusty stellar objects."
Astronomers first discovered G-objects at the Milky Way's monster black hole more than a decade ago; G1 was first seen in 2004, and G2 was discovered in 2012. Both were thought to be gas clouds until they made their closest approach to the supermassive black hole. G1 and G2 somehow managed to survive the black hole's gravitational pull, which can shred gas clouds apart.
"If they were gas clouds, G1 and G2 would not have been able to stay intact," said UCLA Astronomy Professor Mark Morris, a co-principal investigator and fellow member of UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative (GCOI).
"Our view of the G-objects is that they are bloated stars - stars that have become so large that the tidal forces exerted by the central black hole can pull matter off of their stellar atmospheres when the stars get close enough, but have a stellar core with enough mass to remain intact. The question is then, why are they so large?"
It appears that a lot of energy was dumped into the G-objects, causing them to swell up and grow larger than typical stars.
GCOI thinks that these G-objects are the result of stellar mergers - where two stars orbiting each other, known as binaries, crash into each other due to the gravitational influence of the giant black hole. Over a long period of time, the black hole's gravity alters the binary stars' orbits until the duo collides. The combined object that results from this violent merger could explain where the excess energy came from.
"In the aftermath of such a merger, the resulting single object would be "puffed up," or distended, for a rather long period of time, perhaps a million years, before it settles down and appears like a normal-sized star," said Morris.
"This is what I find most exciting," said Andrea Ghez, founder and director of GCOI.
"If these objects are indeed binary star systems that have been driven to merge through their interaction with the central supermassive black hole, this may provide us with insight into a process which may be responsible for the recently discovered stellar mass black hole mergers that have been detected through gravitational waves."
What makes G-objects unusual is their "puffiness." It is rare for a star to be cloaked by a layer of dust and gas so thick that astronomers do not see the star directly. They only see the glowing envelope of dust. To see the objects through their hazy environment, Campbell developed a tool called OSIRIS-Volume Display (OsrsVol).
"OsrsVol allowed us to isolate these G-objects from the background emission and analyze the spectral data in three dimensions: two spatial dimensions, and the wavelength dimension that provides velocity information," said Campbell.
"Once we were able to distinguish the objects in a 3-D data cube, we could then track their motion over time relative to the black hole."
"Keck Observatory has been observing the galactic Center every year for 20 years with some of the best instruments and technologies," said Ciurlo.
"This alone gives a very high quality and consistent data set, which allowed us to go deep into the analysis of the data.
These newly discovered infrared sources could potentially be G-objects - G3, G4, and G5 - because they share the physical characteristics of G1 and G2.
This 3-D spectro-imaging data cube was produced using software called OsrsVol, short for OSIRIS-Volume Display. W. M. Keck Observatory Science Operations Lead Randy Campbell developed this custom volume rendering tool to separate G3, G4, and G5 from the background emission. Once the 3-D analysis was performed, the team could clearly distinguish the G-objects, which allowed them to follow their movement and see how they behave around the supermassive black hole.
The team will continue to follow the size and shape of the G-objects' orbits, which could provide important clues as to how they formed.
The astronomers will especially be paying close attention when these dusty stellar compact objects make their closest approach to the supermassive black hole. This will allow them to further observe their behavior and see whether the objects remain intact just as G1 and G2 did, or become a snack for the supermassive black hole. Only then will they give away their true nature.
"We'll have to wait a few decades for this to happen; about 20 years for G3, and decades longer for G4 and G5," said Morris.
"In the meantime, we can learn more about these puffballs by following their dynamical evolution using OSIRIS."
"Understanding G-objects can teach us a lot about the galactic Center's fascinating and still mysterious environment. There are so many things going on that every localized process can help explain how this extreme, exotic environment works," said Ciurlo.
This research is conducted through a collaboration between Randy Campbell at the W.M. Keck Observatory, members of the galactic Center Group at UCLA (Anna Ciurlo, Mark Morris, and Andrea Ghez) and Rainer Schoedel of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) in Granada, Spain.
Newest NASA discoveries could boost search for ancient life on Mars
Newest NASA discoveries could boost search for ancient life on Mars
In puffs of gas from rocks more than 3 billion years old dug up by one of NASA's robotic explorers on Mars, scientists have identified several complex organic molecules — possible building blocks for ancient life.
It's not aliens. (It's never aliens.)
But it is “consistent with the past presence of biology,” said Ken Williford, an astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “And it makes us more confident that if biomarkers” — or direct evidence of biologic activity — “are there, we might find them.”
In two studies published today in the journal Science, this new finding from NASA's Curiosity rover is paired with another discovery: The planet's methane — another organic molecule usually (but not always) produced by living beings — varies with the seasons. In the past, scientists have seen plumes and patches of this intriguing substance, but this is the first time they've been able to discern a pattern in its presence. The result could pave the way for future missions to pin down the methane's source.
“The closer we look, the more we see that Mars is a complex, dynamic planet that — particularly early in its history — was more conducive to life than we might have previously imagined,” said Williford, who was not involved in either study.
A reminder: Organic molecules aren't necessarily produced by organisms; they're just chemical compounds that contain carbon. But they're of interest to astrobiologists because they are the essential ingredients in all the chemistry that drives life on Earth.
Mars's Gale Crater, where Curiosity has been trolling around for the past six years, is a particularly interesting place to look for those molecules. About 3.5 billion years ago, research suggests, this pockmark on the Martian surface was brimming with water.
But the water vanished when most of the Martian atmosphere was stripped away by brutal solar winds. And, given the intensity of the radiation bombarding the planet's surface, it wasn't clear whether any relics from that warm, wet period could still be preserved in mudstones on the lake's dried-up floor.
Using Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument — which heats soil and rock samples to examine their contents — astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode and her colleagues were able to identify an array of interesting organic molecules: ring structures known as aromatics, sulfur compounds and long carbon chains. Even more compelling was the fact that these compounds seemed to have broken off even bigger, more complex “macromolecules” — substances found on Earth in coal, black shale and other ancient organic remains.
“What we have detected is what we would expect from a sample from an ancient lake environment on Earth,” said Eigenbrode, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
There are some non-biological explanations for the detection — this combination of compounds has also been found in meteorites. But that explanation, too, suggests a provocative possibility; even if the organic molecules didn't come from life, they are exactly what life likes to eat. Perhaps the meteorite-delivered molecules provided fuel for ancient alien organisms.
Regardless, the detection is a technical achievement, said Williford, because it demonstrates that organic molecules can persist near Mars's surface for billions of years. If scientists keep drilling deeper and more widely, as they plan to do with the European and Russian space agencies' ExoMars rover and NASA's Mars 2020 mission, who knows what they might find? (Williford is deputy project scientist for Mars 2020.)
The methane study, spearheaded by JPL atmospheric scientist Chris Webster, is also intriguing for astrobiologists. On Earth, 1,800 out of every billion molecules in the atmosphere is methane, and 95 percent of it comes for biological sources: burning fossil fuels, decomposing debris, burping cows. Some of our planet's earliest organisms may have been methanogens — microbes that eat organic molecules and exhale methane gas.
Several spacecraft including Curiosity have detected whiffs of this gas that “defied explanation,” Webster said. Methane is quickly broken down by radiation, so it must be replenished by some source on the planet. One explanation “that no one talks about but is in the back of everyone's mind,” as Goddard planetary scientist Mike Mumma put it to Science last winter, is that methanogens beneath the Martian surface were breathing it out.
“You'd expect life to be seasonal,” Mumma noted. But it was also possible that puffs of methane were delivered to the desert world by crashing meteorites or other less thrilling sources.
By examining data spanning nearly three Martian years (six Earth years), Webster and his colleagues discerned the first repeating pattern in Martian methane. During the summer months, levels of the gas detected by Curiosity rose to about 0.7 parts per billion; in winter, they fell to roughly half that. They suggest that warmer conditions might release the gas from reservoirs beneath the surface.
The results don't explain shorter-lived spikes in methane levels — as high as 45 parts per billion — that have been detected. And even if the reservoir explanation is correct, it remains to be seen what's feeding them.
To determine whether the methane is biological, Webster said, scientists can weigh the kinds of carbon atoms it contains (life prefers the lighter versions). Future missions might also seek places where there's “significant seepage” and attempt to figure out its source.
In a commentary for Science, astrobiologist Inge Loes ten Kate of the Utrecht University in the Netherlands, explained what makes these two studies so compelling:
“Curiosity has shown that Gale crater was habitable around 3.5 billion years ago, with conditions comparable to those on the early Earth, where life evolved around that time,” she wrote. “The question of whether life might have originated or existed on Mars is a lot more opportune now that we know that organic molecules were present on its surface at that time.”
Alien disclosure soon? Turkey Govt confirms authenticity of UFO sighting in 2009
Alien disclosure soon? Turkey Govt confirms authenticity of UFO sighting in 2009
By Nirmal Narayanan
It happened on May 13, 2009, at around 2.20 AM and the flying object had interestingly two aliens sitting in the UFO.
Representational picture of UFO. For the first time a Turkish government agency has confirmed the authenticity of UFO in a 2009 video. (Youtube)YouTube screenshot/ secureteam10
Conspiracy theorists all across the world are now in a state of ecstasy as NASA, the world's leading space agency has confirmed the presence of organic matter on Mars.
The presence of organic matter and methane on Mars could indicate the existence of ancient alien life forms on the Red Planet, they said and in another development, the Turkish government has confirmed the authenticity of a UFO sighting that it said happened way back in 2009.
The bizarre sighting apparently happened on May 13, 2009, at around 2.20 AM. The video shows an eerie flying object hovering in the skies, and interestingly two aliens sitting in the UFO were clearly visible in the footage.
Upon the release of the video, it sparked debate among alien buffs and UFO enthusiasts. The Council for Scientific and Technological Research insisted on studying this video to check its authenticity. Now, after nearly nine years, the Council has made it clear that the object spotted in the video did not have any earthly roots. The research report also added that the video was not subjected to any kind of editing, the object present in the video exists intact as in the original record.
"Even though a detailed analysis of the footage is conducted, it might still remain unidentified. Hence, other reference objects need to be recorded in the same frame with a disputable object and further shootings need to be done by ourselves with special equipment in the same locations and conditions," said the government agency, reports Disclose TV.
Between 2007 and 2009, several UFO incidents took place in Turkey which involved 12 eyewitnesses. Many UFO buffs consider the sightings in Turkey the most authentic alien sighting which has ever happened in the human history.
Collectively called the Kumburgaz UFO incident, the mysteries surrounding these sightings still remain unanswered.
Jupiter is nothing but clouds, a mass of gas floating in space. So, the question of how lightning storms exist there (or, for that matter, on the “Cloud City” planet Bespin, in Star Wars) has intrigued scientists ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 probe first sent back evidence of Jovian lightning in March 1979. That data — visible light and radio signals produced by the bolts’ electrical discharges — suggested that lightning there is different from that on Earth. Now, after 39 years, a NASA study sheds light on the true nature of Jupiter’s mysterious bolts.
For the past two years, NASA’s Juno space probe has been arcing by Jupiter, swinging close enough to the gas giant’s cloud cover to solve the mystery. Juno’s findings, described in the Naturepaper published Wednesday, suggest that most of NASA’s head-scratching in 1979 was warranted: Jupiter’s lightning seemed different than Earth’s because the data showed only a part of the picture. “No matter what planet you’re on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters — sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky,” according to a statementreleased Wednesday by lead author Shannon Brown, Ph.D., a researcher at the Airborne Science Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA’s 39 years of confusion, it seems, may come down to the fact that early probes were unable to detect the relevant waves.
An animated representation of NASA’s Juno spacecraft's 53-day polar orbit around Jupiter.
The original Voyager 1 data showed that Jupiter’s lightning had a curious gap in the megahertz and gigahertz ranges typical of lightning here on Earth. In particular, the data showed only emissions in the low-frequency kilohertz range; on Earth, lightning emissions are usually measured in the high-frequency gigahertz range. Juno’s sensitive Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR)’s recordings of the planet’s electromagnetic emissions, however, show that the relevant emissions were always there. The key was swooping close enough to the lightning to get a closer look.
“In the data from our first eight flybys, Juno’s MWR detected 377 lightning discharges,” says Brown. “They were recorded in the megahertz as well as gigahertz range, which is what you can find with terrestrial lightning emissions. We think the reason we are the only ones who can see it is because Juno is flying closer to the lightning than ever before.” Specifically, Juno reached within 3,000 miles of Jupiter’s cloud cover at the closest point in its orbit. Another reason that Juno’s MWR succeeded where many previous satellite probes — like Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, and Cassini — failed is, in part, because it was listening to Jupiter’s electrical storms on a radio frequency capable of passing through the charged particles in the planet’s ionosphere. (“The measurements were at 600 MHz,” Brown said in an email to Inverse.)
The new data puts to rest an older theory attempting to explain why previous probes circling Jupiter were not able to pick up megahertz or gigahertz signals: In 1985, French astrophysicist Philippe Zarka, Ph.D. speculated in an Astronomy and Astrophysics letter that Jupiter’s lightning only produced those lower-hertz range signals because it moved eerily slow compare to Earth lightning. That strange explanation can be shelved now, but there are still truly unusual things about Jupiter’s lightning. All lightning is formed, in part, as a reaction to heat, which is one of the reasons that lightning on Earth strikes most at points near the equator. But on Jupiter, the heat from the sun along the equator merely cancels out the heat emanating out from the planet’s hot core. The result is that lightning strikes most on Jupiter at the poles, where the hot/cold fronts from the core and the upper atmosphere provoke the most turbulence.
Juno will continue to collect data from Jupiter until at least July 2021, thanks to a recent extension from NASA, a good thing given that the findings continue to produce new questions. For example: “Even though we see lightning near both poles,” Brown asks, rhetorically, “why is it mostly recorded at Jupiter’s north pole?”
During a recent press conference, NASA scientists made two major announcements that further strengthen the case for a potentially habitable Martian past.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
In the first part of the announcement, NASA researchers announced the discovery of organic compounds in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks sampled at Gale Crater. The site is poised between Mars’ flat northern lowlands and the heavily cratered southern hemisphere, and presumably used to be an ancient lake and potentially habitable environment.
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#BREAKING@NASA news! @MarsCuriosity rover found organic molecules on Mars! While this doesn’t mean that we’ve found concrete evidence of life on Mars, it is a good sign in our continuing search. We’re sending the Mars 2020 rover to dig deeper! https://go.nasa.gov/2JsPaON
NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to...
These compounds, such as thiophene, 2- and 3-methylthiophenes, methanethiol, and dimethylsulfide, all point to an organic chemistry in Martian mudstone that is eerily similar to ours. Organic compounds are typically produced by lifeforms, although they could very well be sourced otherwise, such as from meteorites. So, this discovery doesn’t necessarily prove the lakebed was inhabited by life — it’s just another circumstantial evidence that it might have been. The novel organic compounds were identified by the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument which sniffed dust sampled thanks to the rover’s recently repaired drill.
“Curiosity has not determined the source of the organic molecules,” said Jen Eigenbrode of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is lead author of one of the two new Science papers. “Whether it holds a record of ancient life, was food for life, or has existed in the absence of life, organic matter in Martian materials holds chemical clues to planetary conditions and processes.”
In the second part of the announcement, researchers explained how methane levels recorded by Curiosity varied by the season. Over the last five years, the rover’s Tunable Laser Spectrometer measured the methane levels in the atmosphere around it. Methane levels average 0.41 parts per billion (ppb), but varied from 0.24 to 0.65 ppb depending on the season. Because a day on Mars is about 24hours and 37 minutes long and the Red Planet’s axial tilt is almost identical to Earth’s, the seasons there follow a remarkably similar variation to those on Earth.
The seasonal variability of Methane on Mars is indicative of some geological process. Perhaps there is more active water in the subsurface than previously thought.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
“This is the first time we’ve seen something repeatable in the methane story, so it offers us a handle in understanding it,” said Chris Webster of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, lead author of the second paper. “This is all possible because of Curiosity’s longevity. The long duration has allowed us to see the patterns in this seasonal ‘breathing.'”
These recent breakthroughs raise confidence that NASA’s upcoming 2020 rover mission, as well as ESA’s Exomars rover, will be able to find even more organics in the Martian shallow subsurface.
“Are there signs of life on Mars?” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, at NASA Headquarters. “We don’t know, but these results tell us we are on the right track.”
Both studies were published in the journal Science (1 and 2).
Life on Mars? NASA discovers best evidence yet of potential life on Red Planet
Life on Mars? NASA discovers best evidence yet of potential life on Red Planet
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered organic material in an ancient lakebed and confirmed a seasonal cycle of methane - offering the strongest evidence yet of potential life, past or even present, on the Red Planet.
The discoveries were revealed by NASA researchers in a highly-anticipated announcement on Thursday, and details have been published in the journal Science.
The revelations build on a similar announcement made by NASA in 2014, where scientists confirmed that they had discovered chlorinated molecules on the planet for the first time. This latest evidence, however, is far more compelling.
Ancient organic material & mysterious methane! @MarsCuriosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks suggesting the planet could’ve supported ancient life + new evidence in the atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on Mars: https://go.nasa.gov/2LwxeDs
The Curiosity rover discovered organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at the Gale Crater. The material was located in the first layers of rock, some four miles away from where the chlorinated molecules had been found.
“All life as we know it is based on organic molecules,” Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist at Goddard, said during the press announcement, suggesting that, while this evidence doesn’t definitely prove there is life on Mars, the signs are there to investigate further.
Oh, these are #organics in my neighborhood... Methane swells each summer and ancient carbon-compounds locked in rocks. I haven't found life on Mars, but signs say…we’re on the right track. https://go.nasa.gov/2HwATPi
Questions remain, however, as to how the organic material was formed. “While we don’t know the source of the material, the amazing consistency of the results makes me think we have a slam-dunk signal for organics on Mars,” Eigenbrode said. “It is not telling us that life was there, but it is saying that everything organisms really needed to live in that kind of environment, all of that was there.”
Another team of scientists, led by Christopher Webster from the California Institute of Technology, presented evidence that methane concentrations detected on Mars follow strong seasonal variations. The seasonal variation provides an important clue for determining the origin of martian methane.
Webster explained that this is an exciting discovery because 99 percent of methane produced on earth has a biological origin, giving examples of rice paddies and termites. He also pointed out that as methane only lasts for 300 years in the atmosphere and any detections mean that it was created or released relatively recently.
Overall, the latest discoveries bode well for future endeavours. "The chances of being able to find signs of ancient life with future missions, if life ever was present, just went up," said Curiosity's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada.
Now and again, I get asked for my views on anextremelycontroversial UFO case that first surfaced back in 1980. It all revolved around the supposedshooting of an extraterrestrialcreature on a military base in New Jersey. The statement was made to the late UFO researcher, Leonard Stringfield, who was a long-time collector of stories of crashed UFOs and dead aliens. It’s a story told by the key source, a man that Stringfield gave the pseudonym of “Jeffrey Morse.” On September 23, 1980 Stringfield received a communication in the mail from “Morse,” who claimed a military background and who had a startling tale to tell. It began as follows:
“In January of 1978, I was stationed at McGuire AFB, N.J. One evening, during the time frame of 0300 hrs. and 0500 hrs., there were a number of UFO sightings in the area over the air field and Ft. Dix MP’s were running code in the direction of Brownsville, N.J. A state trooper then entered Gate #5 at the rear of the base requesting assistance and permission to enter. I was dispatched and the trooper wanted access to the runway area which led to the very back of the air field and connected with a heavily wooded area which is part of the Dix training area. He informed me that a Ft. Dix MP was pursuing a low flying object which then hovered over his car. He described it as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a bluish-green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4 feet tall, grayish, brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body. The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 cal. into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn’t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fenceline and they went to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved.
“We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area. We roped off the area and AFOSI came out and took over. That was the last I saw of it. There was a bad stench coming from it too. Like ammonia smelling but wasn’t constant [in] the air. That day, a team from Wright-Patterson AFB came in a C141 and went to the area. They crated it in a wooden box, sprayed something over it, and then put it into a bigger metal container. They loaded it in the plane and took off. That was it, nothing more said, no report made and we were all told not to have anything to say about it or we would be court-martialed.
“I will be getting out of the Air Force in about two months. Do not disclose my name as I could get into trouble. I am interested in pursuing this and other matters if you need help. Forgive me for not signing this but I can’t take any chances. Please reply to the above address and my parents will forward it to me or I will be home already. Don’t send it here because they monitor all mail closely and I again don’t want to take any chances.”
Stringfield dug deep into the story, checking things out for himself and enlisting the help of the late UFO investigator, Richard Hall. Stringfield was able to chat with “Morse” on the phone just a few weeks before Christmas 1983. Hall met with “Morse,” in January 1985, in Washington, D.C. Hall told Stringfield shortly afterwards that he, Hall, “…detected nothing in his manner, or story, to cause skepticism.” In addition, “Morse” provided a military document (DD Form 1569) that detailed the shooting of the alien. Unfortunately, the document was a photocopy – which made it worthless, since anyone could have concocted it. It would have been far more impressive had it been an original.
There is very little doubt that this case is bogus, even though there is a degree of data suggesting “Morse” really was employed at McGuire AFB. Indeed, he provided a name of one person connected to the base – and allegedly connected to the affair, too – at the time of the alleged incident, and which did prove to be accurate. But, I’m still not impressed.
I refer you to a lengthy report prepared by NIDS, the National Institute of Discovery Science. Its title: “Preliminary Investigation Into The Alleged Shooting Of A Non-Human Entity At Ft. Dix/McGuire Air Force Base On January 18, 1978.” The report states (after a great deal of in-depth digging was over): “NIDS’ working hypothesis (which is subject to change based on further emerging evidence) is that the 1978 McGuire AFB incident did not happen. Further, the putative fabrication of the DD form 1569 suggests that the Fort Dix/McGuire incident may be a hoax.”
Due to the near-unfathomable distances between most of the objects in the known universe, it may take millions of years for attempts at extraterrestrial communication to succeed. That hasn’t stopped us from trying, though. Numerous messages intended to break the ice between humankind and potential alien civilizations have been sent into space, from the rather crude Arecibo message beamed into the cosmos via radio waves in 1974 to the slightly more advanced “Golden Record” sent along on NASA’s Voyager spacecraft.
While experts from a wide variety of fields weigh in on the content of these messages, we have no Earthly idea whatsoever how any potential alien races might interpret these messages. Communication in all of its forms is culturally or biologically bound, and we don’t have any precedent for how interstellar communication might function out in the universe.
What if the Golden Record is found by a species which eats gold? That’s an expensive interstellar snack.
For that reason, our attempts to send messages into space have consisted mostly of basic mathematical and scientific knowledge and brief snapshots of what life here on Earth is like for humans and animals. I mean, we wouldn’t want to offend our cosmic neighbors with any culturally-specific information which might be potentially misinterpreted as a threat or act of intergalactic war, would we?
No, we wouldn’t, which is why the idea to blast a distant planet with electronic dance music is horribly misguided. Throughout May 2018, electronic dance music (EDM) was beamed into deep space in the direction of GJ 273, otherwise known as Luyten’s Star, as part of a project being led by the Sónar Music Festival, the Catalonia Institute of Space Studies, and METI International (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). Luyten’s Star is in the Canis Minor constellation only about 12 light-years away and is orbited by two planets, one of which is believed to be a “Super Earth” in the Goldilocks zone which can hypothetically support life.
Luyten’s Star is a red dwarf star with a mass of about a quarter of the Sun’s.
Last year, the same festival beamed two messages at Luyten’s Star, but they consisted of two brief pulses of radio signalsmeant to symbolize a musical interval and the human perception of time. This year, 35 different EDM songs were sent along with the typical mathematical and physics tidbits meant to display our intelligence. Although given that we also included music, I’m not sure that will go over well.
How will any potential intelligent aliens there feel about EDM from the likes of Daedelus and other electronic musicians? Music, like all art forms and communication media, is a cultural activity which might not have the same meaning for a completely different species. Could this percussive, bass-heavy music be interpreted as a threat or some kind of interstellar weapon? Or will any aliens orbiting Luyten’s Star go on believing that EDM is the dominant form of communication on Earth? What would they think of us?
They’d probably think we need to stop twiddling knobs and pick up some real instruments for a change. Yeah, I said it.
Unfortunately, all of these questions are impossible to answer due to the socially constructed nature of music. Ultimately, any message we send into space could be interpreted or misinterpreted in ways we can’t even imagine. Is it wise to send music into space?
Most hypotheses about a giant yet unseen Planet 9 orbiting the Sun are based on the need to explain why many space objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune have orbits that are so contrary to those of the planets and closer objects that they border on impossible … unless something with a massive gravitational pull is messing with them. While one big Planet 9 would explain the odd orbits, some astronomers now say it’s not the only one and have come up with a different theory that replaces Planet 9 with a large number of smaller objects that together are cooperatively creating the curiously curving orbits. Will Planet 9 be replaced by Planets 9 through 99 or more?
A press release from the University of Colorado describes the announcement at the 232nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week of this controversial new theory on the orbits of so-called detached objects or Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) in the far reaches of the solar system which behave as if they’re not affected by the gravity of the Sun. Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Madigan and a team of researchers were studying the detached objects and astrophysics student Jacob Fleisig noticed that the objects moved like the hands of a clock, with smaller objects orbiting fast and in tandem like a minute hand, while larger objects (like the dwarf planet Sedna) move slower like an hour hand. As those familiar with non-digital clocks know, (If you’re not, ask Grandpa), the two hands meet every hour and would crash into each other if they weren’t on slightly different planes. Fleisig realized that wouldn’t be the case with detached objects.
“You see a pileup of the orbits of smaller objects to one side of the sun. These orbits crash into the bigger body, and what happens is those interactions will change its orbit from an oval shape to a more circular shape.”
Eventually, these collisions would send the more massive objects, like Sedna, into extreme and unusual orbits father away from the Sun. While they only modeled a small number of detached objects (about 400), the results were as they expected. This new theory of a large amount of small objects messing up the TNO orbits would explain the biggest mystery of Planet 9 … where is it?
On the other hand (to continue the clock analogy), Madigan points out that the ‘collective gravity of small objects’ theory does not explain why all of the objects are tilted in the same direction – something that, at least for now, only a big Planet 9 could cause.
On the other other hand, Fleisig’s collision theory may explain something closer to home – the extinction of the dinosaurs. All of that banging and crashing may have whacked some debris in the direction of Earth, creating a catastrophic comet calamity that killed the cold-blooded creatures. While not proven, it’s a possibility.
If you wonder why anyone today would consider a career in astronomy, the study of these objects in the Kuiper Belt should be an enticement, says Madigan.
“The picture we draw of the outer solar system in textbooks may have to change. There’s a lot more stuff out there than we once thought, which is really cool.”
Today, I’m sharing with you three intriguing stories from the U.K., all of which are focused on strange “things” which fell from the skies and that were never resolved. Could they have been objects from other worlds? I guess so. But, I’m far more inclined to think that we’re probably dealing with, in the first case, unusual but natural phenomena. And, in the second and third cases, almost certainly domestic technology, quite likely of the U.K. military. They may not have had anything to do with extraterrestrial visitations, but they are still highly intriguing.
The first case dates back to the final days of 1965. It was December 17 of that year when a man named Kenneth William Reece encountered – late at night – what he told both the U.K. Ministry of Defense and the Royal Air Force was a bright, circular “white light” which he watched descend into a valley between Mold and Ruthin, in North Wales, U.K. Interestingly, the RAF’s files state that the bright light descended extremely slowly, to the extent that Reece was able to watch its descent for close to a couple of minutes. After which, it “exploded and disintegrated,” as the Ministry of Defense noted. The matter was never resolved, despite the fact that an aerial search by the military was undertaken the next day.
Moving on, we have a story that was given to English UFO researcher, Jenny Randles, in 1991, and which was published in the No. 152 issue of her Northern UFO News. Randles withheld the name of the witness, only referring to him as “M.L.,” of the county of Staffordshire, which is where I grew up as a kid. It was while driving to meet friends in an area called Churnet Valley (yes, another valley, intriguingly) that the witness saw a strange-looking object/craft/device (take your pick) falling from the sky and hurtling to the ground. It was described as being around three meters in length, silver in color, and missile-like in shape. M.L. soon contacted the police. A police-helicopter crew scoured the area of woodland the next day, but nothing was found. At least, nothing physical was found. But, a noticeable depression was discovered in the ground, suggesting that something had slammed into the ground. That it seemingly didn’t hang around only added to the mystery.
Three years later, it was time for the people of the village of Church Lench (near the U.K.’s Cotswolds) to encounter something which fell from the skies. It was described by the people close enough to see it as a large barrel-shaped object. The Army was soon on the scene, keeping people away from the impact site, and creating cordons. The Royal Navy had a presence too. Indeed, the rumor-mill in and around Church Lench was that the object was taken away on a Navy truck. Despite the fact that the story got a lot of local media coverage, the military stayed silent.
One of those who was willing to chat with the media was a man named Paul Brooke. He said: “There were several fire engines and lots of police here. The area was cordoned off and people were stopped from entering the field. Then at about eight that night it was taken away by a Royal Navy vehicle with a police escort at the front and back.”
A spokesperson for the Eversham Police said: “I can’t categorically say that it did not happen, but my investigations have revealed that it was a bale of straw that was on fire and which was put out by the fire brigade. The reports of something falling from the sky may either be hoaxes or somebody may have seen something and come to the wrong conclusion.”
It was a statement that impressed precisely no one who lived locally. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if something had fallen from a military aircraft, hence the reason why the authorities were on the scene so quickly. In light of all the above, keep your eyes looking upward!
The sprawling oceans of our planet have long been a wellspring of tales of the strange and the unexplained, perhaps not surprising considering the sheer vastness of their largely unexplored depths. Among all of the various phenomena of the sea, perhaps the most well-known is that famous anomalous region of vanishing ships and planes called the Bermuda Triangle, which has long been a persistent paranormal mystery and the subject of much debate and speculation. Yet, the Bermuda Triangle is not the only such vortex of missing ships, and half a world away, in a whole other ocean, there lies a counterpart in the waters near Japan, which by all accounts is just as strange as its Bermuda cousin.
The area that has come to be known variously as the Devil’s Sea, the Dragon’s Triangle, Ma-no Umi in Japanese, and the Taiwan Triangle, is an expanse of ocean lying off the coast of Japan that has over the centuries accrued a sinister reputation for swallowing vessels up to never be seen again. The exact location of this dreaded patch of malevolent ocean remains nebulous, with most estimates putting it as a triangle with one corner in Taiwan, another at the Japanese island of Miyake-jima, and another at the island of Iwo-jima, although reports vary and the exact geographical dimensions and perimeter fluctuate and are uncertain. What is consistent is that this place has a dark history that goes way back, and involves ships and aircraft disappearing without a trace, sort of like a Bermuda Triangle of the Orient.
Miyake-jima, Japan
The region has apparently been seen as a menace since around 1,000 BC, when it was widely believed that dragons lurked in the depths here, pulling down various fishing and military vessels to their doom. One story tells of how the warlord and 5th Khan of the Mongol Emprire, Kublai Khan, tried to invade Japan twice in the years 1274 and 1281 by crossing the Devil’s Sea and ended up losing many of his ships and around 40,000 men in the process, with many of these wrecks still dotting the ocean floor in their watery graves. Through the centuries since, the area was supposedly known as a place to be avoided, and countless fisherman and travelers were said to venture out over the waves to vanish off the face of the earth here.
However, for all of these alleged mysterious disappearances the phenomenon remained largely unknown to the outside world until the notable author Charles Berlitz published his 1974 book on the matter, titled The Bermuda Triangle, which mentions the Devil’s Sea, as well as a follow-up 1989 book The Dragon’s Triangle, which was devoted to it and provided numerous modern cases of supposed vanishings in the area. Berlitz claimed that Japan had lost at least 5 military vessels between the years of 1952 and 1954, along with their crews totaling 700 men, all of whom were supposedly never heard from again. The Japanese government also sent a research vessel called the Kaio Maru No. 5 into the area on September 24, 1953, but it too disappeared with its crew of 31, becoming one of the most well-known casualties of the Devil’s Sea and also prompting the government to issue a warning that the area was unsafe for travel.
Interestingly, besides ships or planes seeming to cease to exist, the Devil’s Sea has allegedly produced reports of many other weird phenomena as well. UFOs are frequently spotted in the area, as well as ghost ships and mystery lights out over the waves. In addition, there are accounts of people experiencing lost time, inexplicably malfunctioning equipment, or anomalous magnetic disturbances.
Due to this high strangeness and the number of missing ships in the region, and greatly helped along by Berlitz’s mainstream book, the Devil’s Sea has become known as a phenomenon similar to the more well-known Bermuda Triangle, and has such generated plenty of theories as to why this particular stretch of ocean should claim so many lives. Perhaps the most rational lies in the fact that the two islands most often associated with the triangle, Miyake-jima and Iwo-jima, happen to lie right along a line of very active undersea volcanoes called the Izu-Bonin volcanic arc, which spans 2,500 km across the Pacific all the way to Guam. Considering this, violent volcanic activity or related underwater seismic events could very well be causing some of these reported vanishings. Indeed, in his book The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, skeptical researcher Larry Kusche blames a volcano called Myōjin-shō on the incident with the Kaio Maru No. 5, pointing out that debris actually was found that suggested this, and going even further to mention that this particular volcano wasn’t even in the traditional Devil’s Sea to begin with.
Other rational theories are that these vessels were lost due to storms or some environmental phenomena, or were just the victims of the any one of the other many perils inherit to the ocean. With the sheer size of the purported Devil’s Sea and the heavy boat traffic through the region, it seems only natural that there should be wrecks and even vanishings, and perhaps these have been over exaggerated as being caused by supernatural phenomena focused on this one area.
One of the more fringe theories about the Devil’s Sea is linked to a concept put forward by the cryptozoologist and paranormal researcher Ivan T. Sanderson. In the 1960s and 70s Sanderson came up with the idea that the earth was intersected with lines of power that converged at 12 portals located throughout the world, which he referred to as the “Vile Vortices.” He believed that these vortices formed triangles in a certain pattern along particular lines of latitude, including the infamous Bermuda Triangle, that were responsible for making ships and planes vanish through mysterious means, possibly even to other dimensions through some sort of doorway. These vile vortices have been blamed for the phenomena of the Bermuda Triangle, as well as for other areas of the planet that have been ground zero for strange disappearances or paranormal phenomena, and the Devil’s Sea apparently lies right in the middle of one. Sanderson would write of these vortices and the Devil’s Sea in an article in Saga Magazine called The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World.
Then of course there is the idea that the Devil’s Sea never really existed at all outside of the minds of the writers who have covered it. Many skeptics have pointed out that there seem to be no reports or mentions of the Devil’s Sea or its bizarre vanishings in newspapers or other publications prior to Sanderson’s work on vile vortices and the publication of Berlitz’s book, even in Japan, and that almost every piece of literature on the phenomenon can be traced back to these works on the matter, with little verification or sources to back up their vague claims and frequent bending of certain facts to fit in more with the Devil’s Sea mystery. All of the books and articles on the phenomenon seem to begin there, gradually building upon the history and mythology of the Devil’s Sea to the point where it is no longer possible to disentangle any fact from fiction. Is the whole mystery of the Devil’s Sea and its claimed history of centuries of unexplained vanishings and paranormal phenomena merely a relatively recent invention based on a figment of the imagination and a twisting of facts?
We are left with an intriguing tale of the high seas, of a realm with a fearsome dark history where people venture to drop off the face of the earth without explanation, but is any of it true? Does a mysterious force thrum beneath the waves in this corner of the world, or is it all due to normal, natural phenomena? Is it somehow connected to other similar places such as the Bermuda Triangle? Or is it all tall tales and speculation? Indeed, has the Devil’s Sea ever even existed outside of the imagination at all? Whatever the case may be, it is all certainly an entertaining case of yet another supposed mysteries place in our world’s vast and little-understood oceans.
Last December, we learned about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or AATIP, a once-secret Pentagon program involved in the study of unexplained aerial phenomena or UFOs. The program came to public awareness after a lengthy article on its funding, secured in part by former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who secured assistance in the effort from his friend Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace.
A lot of additional details have emerged since that time, which include different acronyms for the Pentagon program, as well as the apparent presence of an entirely different parent organization, the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program or AAWSAP (for more on this, see Paul Dean’s original posts on his blog here, as well as MJ Banias’ article here at MU from last month).
However, our focus here has less to do with the serious matter of government UFO study groups, and more instead with that trusted philosophical idea that “life imitates art.” For it was also last year that a new audio drama appeared courtesy of Tor Labs, an imprint of famous science fiction and fantasy publishers Tor Books, which was launched with the express purpose of what it calls “experimental storytelling.”
In an era where podcasts and audiobooks have skyrocketed in popularity, it’s no wonder that traditional publishers would seek to capitalize on new, and often more accessible forms of media in audio formats, which offer the benefit of hands-free engagement for long car rides, office jobs, and those going about menial tasks around the house on Saturday mornings.
The first project Tor Labs offered was a podcast entitled Steal the Stars, described by The Verge as “a pulpy audio drama about the employees of a secretive government contractor that is studying a crashed UFO.” Or, briefly summarized:
“FORBIDDEN LOVE. A CRASHED UFO. AN ALIEN BODY. AN IMPOSSIBLE HEIST.”
This sounds all-too-familiar, and not just in relation to the synchronistic appearance of the AATIP/AAWSAP in public consciousness within just a few months of its launch. The long history of alleged government involvement in the UFO mystery, in addition to questions about the extent to which it occurs, have made UFO government secrecy a lasting trope in science fiction. Popular examples (though they barely need any further mention here) include TheX-Files, Dark Skies, and the slightly more obscure 1970 British science fiction television series UFO, to name a few.
As The Verge reports:
Across 14 episodes, Steal the Stars follows Dak (voiced by Ashlie Atkinson), the chief of security for a defense contractor called Quill Marine that in possession of an alien spacecraft buried deep underground. It’s Dak’s job to make sure that the ship and the alien contained within is kept secret, enforcing the company’s stringent security measures. But when she falls for a new hire, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Salem (voiced by Neimah Djourabchi), her life is turned upside down. Interpersonal romances are expressly forbidden, and the two go to great lengths to hide their newfound relationship as their corporate overlords demand more from the research team at the facility.
In an interesting marketing twist, the audio series was produced and presented in three different formats: a serialized version was made available as a weekly podcast, which featured advertisements which allowed monetization of the project, while still delivering the audio drama in a free, downloadable format. However, for those wishing to have an uninterrupted, ad-free listening experience, the program was made available for purchase also as an audiobook. Finally, Tor Books also produced a print novelization of the series as well, for consumers who prefer to absorb their science fiction the traditional way.
“Steal the Stars”
(Credit: Tor Labs)
The combination of these media elements produces an interesting model, especially in an era here where both competition and cross-pollination between new media formats may yet lead to new means by which people enjoy such content. Pulp novels were all the rage during the 1940s and 50s, although radio format audio dramas were in existence, and saw some success in traditional broadcast venues. However, with the ease of access to listen-on-demand audio content in the Internet Age, the fields are ripe for picking as far as new and innovative creative niches.
“It’s love at first sight,” a promotional blurb for the novelization reads at its website, “which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts forbidding fraternization with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only one way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence.”
Curiosity vindt nieuwe tekenen van leven op Mars. NASA geeft resultaten vrij
Curiosity vindt nieuwe tekenen van leven op Mars. NASA geeft resultaten vrij
Op Mars zijn nieuwe aanwijzingen gevonden dat er vroeger misschien leven mogelijk was. Daarnaast is ontdekt dat de hoeveelheid methaan in de dampkring van de rode planeet toe- en afneemt, wat erop kan wijzen dat er ook nu nog leven is op de planeet.
Het is nog geen onomstotelijk bewijs van leven, maar Mars vertelt ons dat we moeten blijven zoeken, aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Marsrover Curiosity onderzocht drie miljard jaar oude rotsen onder het oppervlak. Die bleken organische moleculen te bevatten, die gelden als bouwstenen van leven.
Ultieme resultaat
Curiosity stelde daarnaast vast dat de hoeveelheid methaan in de dampkring van de rode planeet varieert. Dit zou kunnen komen door organismen op Mars.
De Marsverkenner speurt al bijna zes jaar naar wetenschappelijke informatie over Mars. Het ultieme resultaat zou zijn dat het bestaan van aliens bewezen zou worden, aan de hand van onder meer de analyse van bodemmonsters.
Het organische materiaal dat nu gevonden is zou eventueel op het bestaan van buitenaards leven op Mars kunnen wijzen, stelt NASA.
Voor het eerst
Het is voor het eerst dat de aanwezigheid van organische moleculen in de Marsbodem zo duidelijk is vastgesteld.
Volgens het ruimteagentschap kunnen die moleculen ook afkomstig zijn van meteorieten of chemische processen in de rotsen zelf.
Marsjeep Curiosity vindt organisch materiaal op Rode Planeet dat kan wijzen op buitenaards leven
Marsjeep Curiosity vindt organisch materiaal op Rode Planeet dat kan wijzen op buitenaards leven - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAPMarsrover Curiosity heeft organische moleculen in drie miljard jaar oude afzettingsgesteenten op de Rode Planeet en variërende hoeveelheden methaan in de Martiaanse atmosfeer gevonden. Dat heeft NASA meegedeeld. De vondst van organisch materiaal kan erop wijzen dat er leven op Mars is geweest, maar een bewijs daarvoor is het niet. Het methaangas kan dan weer eventueel wijzen op leven dat er nu nog zou zijn.
Marsverkenner Curiosity speurt al bijna zes jaar de Rode Planeet af, op zoek naar wetenschappelijke informatie over Mars. Het ultieme resultaat zou zijn dat het bestaan van aliens zou bewezen worden, aan de hand van onder meer de analyse van bodemstalen.
Nu is er alvast in een meerbedding organisch materiaal gevonden dat eventueel op het bestaan van buitenaards leven op Mars zou kunnen wijzen. Ooit, in het verleden. Daarnaast blijken de hoeveelheden methaan in de atmosfeer per seizoen te verschillen. Dit gas is op aarde voor 95 procent een afvalstof geproduceerd door levende organismen. De wetenschappers van NASA vinden het nog te vroeg om te besluiten dat dat ook het geval zou zijn op Mars. In dat geval zou er nu nog altijd leven op de Rode Planeet kunnen zijn. De bevindingen worden morgen in het vakblad Science gepubliceerd.
NASADe Galekrater.
Vandaag is de Marsbodem onbewoonbaar, maar toen de planeet nog warmer en natter was, bevond zich in de Galekrater, waar de Curiosity zijn boringen doet, een groot meer. Uit gegevens van Curiosity blijkt dat miljarden jaren geleden dat meer in de Galekrater alle ingrediënten bevatte die nodig waren voor het leven, inclusief chemische bouwstenen en energiebronnen. Zo vond de Marsjeep in de afzettingsgesteenten van zo’n 3 miljard jaar oud op amper 5 cm diepte drie verschillende soorten organische moleculen.
Organische moleculen bevatten koolstof en waterstof en kunnen ook zuurstof, stikstof en andere elementen bevatten. Hoewel ze vaak geassocieerd worden met het leven, kunnen ze ook worden aangemaakt door niet-biologische processen en zijn ze dus niet noodzakelijk indicatoren van leven. “Curiosity heeft de bron van de organische moleculen niet bepaald”, verduidelijkt Jen Eigenbrode van NASA. Ook voor het seizoensgebonden methaan bestaan er niet-biologische verklaringen.
Nog altijd geen ultiem bewijs van leven op Mars dus, maar volgens NASA zijn de bevindingen zeker een goed teken voor toekomstige missies om op de oppervlakte en wat dieper dan nu te zoeken naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet.
NASA has revealed that methane present in the atmosphere of Mars appears to vary at different points in the year.
This "seasonal variance" is believed to be due to the fact the methane is released by subsurface water-based crystals.
As the temperature rises and falls during Mars' orbit around the sun, it speeds up and slows down the release of methane from these crystals.
The atmospheric measurements were collected over three Martian years (55 Earth months) by NASA's Mars-based Curiosity rover before being analysed by scientists at the space agency.
"The data reveal that background methane levels on the Red Planet have a strong seasonal cycle, ranging between 0.24 to 0.65 parts per billion, peaking near the end of summer in the Northern hemisphere (end of winter in the Southern hemisphere)," NASA said in a press release.
A diagram showing the seasonal release of methane on Mars(Image: NASA)
On Earth, the majority of methane comes from biological processes - such as cattle manure - but on Mars the methane crystals are reckoned to be trapped in carbon-bearing organic molecules that could be billions of years old.
These molecules were discovered after analysing drill samples of soil taken from Mars' surface.
"Tools on board the Curiosity rover extracted the new samples and heated them, analyzing the molecules that were released," NASA said.
"The data reveal the presence of several organic molecules and volatiles reminiscent of organic-rich sedimentary rock found on Earth.
"Indeed, a comparison of these samples to organic traces in Martian meteorites also suggests that the former are derived from larger organic molecules.
Mars(Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute))
Other studies on soil surrounding the Gale Crater in Mars' northern hemisphere show extremely high levels of sulphur which could play a part in preserving the organic molecules for so long.
The space agency has previously refused to rule out that methane present on Mars could be an indicator of ancient alien life.
NASA scientist Dr Paul Mahaffy said in 2014: "We don’t want to eliminate anything and potentially it could indicate life or evidence of ancient methane trapped which could show ancient life.”
Curiosity has been exploring the 96-mile wide, 3.8-billion-year-old Gale Crater on Mars since 2012.
While satellites have spotted unusual methane plumes before, none have been as pronounced as those in the crater.
But some experts cautioned against jumping to the conclusion of life on Mars.
John Grotzinger, a scientist on the Curiosity team, said the detection of methane “is not an argument that we have found evidence of life on Mars, but it’s one of the few hypotheses that we can propose that we must consider”.
Will humans land on Mars in the next 20 years²?
The question of whether there is, or was, life on Mars may finally be answered by the second part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, which will land a 300kg rover on the Red Planet in 2020.
NASA is developing capabilities needed to send humans on the 140 million-mile journey to Mars in the 2030s, though no mission has yet been approved
NASA finds organic matter on Mars, but sorry, that doesn't mean it's aliens
NASA finds organic matter on Mars, but sorry, that doesn't mean it's aliens
More than 3 billion years ago, Mars was a very different place.
It wasn't the rusty, dead seeming world we see today. Instead, lakes, rivers, and deltas likely covered much of the planet's surface. Thanks to previous NASA research, we know that at least some parts of the planet were, in fact, capable of supporting microscopic life as we understand it.
But who knows what once lurked within Martian waters.
Over the years, we've sent robotic missions to Mars to try to figure out the answer to this very question, and on Thursday, NASA announced that its Curiosity rover brought us another step closer toward figuring out if life once existed on the red world.
Two new studies published in the journal Science this week detail findings by Curiosity that hint at possible signs of life in Mars' distant past.
“With these new findings, Mars is telling us to stay the course and keep searching for evidence of life,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said in a statement.
“I’m confident that our ongoing and planned missions will unlock even more breathtaking discoveries on the Red Planet.”
Organics on Mars, but what about life?
One of the studies details organic compounds found by the rover in preserved rock that dates back about 3 billions years.
Organic compounds are incredibly important when hunting for life elsewhere in the solar system. All life on our planet is carbon-based, so finding organics elsewhere could hint, but not necessarily confirm, the existence of alien life.
While the organics themselves aren't signs of life — they could have been formed through natural geological processes — it's possible that the chains of carbon molecules found on Mars by Curiosity's drill were once part of something that was living or even food for a living creature, planetary geologist Kirsten Siebach said in an interview.
"The key point in this paper is that the specific molecules they’ve seen broke off a larger carbon-based molecule," Siebach, who wasn't involved with the new studies but does work with Curiosity, added.
A view from Curiosity on Mars.
IMAGE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS
That said, it's not as if Curiosity can trace back the origin of these organics, but at least the long-preserved molecules will give us hope for one day finding signs of life preserved in the rusty Martian dirt.
“Curiosity has not determined the source of the organic molecules,” Jen Eigenbrode, lead author of the organics study, said in the NASA statement.
“Whether it holds a record of ancient life, was food for life, or has existed in the absence of life, organic matter in Martian materials holds chemical clues to planetary conditions and processes.”
Seasonal changes in methane
A second study in Science also details another finding that might have some bearing on whether life exists or has ever existed on Mars.
Over the course of 3 years on Mars — which equates to about 6 years on Earth due to Mars being further from the sun — Curiosity kept an eye on how much methane it was able to detect in the planet's thin atmosphere at any given time.
Curiosity detected bursts of methane in the atmosphere at seemingly random times in the past, but the new study shows that the rover actually found a seasonal pattern in releases of methane these days.
"This is the first time we've seen something repeatable in the methane story, so it offers us a handle in understanding it," Chris Webster, lead author of the methane study, said in the statement.
"This is all possible because of Curiosity's longevity. The long duration has allowed us to see the patterns in this seasonal 'breathing.'"
Most of the methane in Earth's atmosphere is actually created by life (cow farts, for example). But that's not necessarily the case with Mars.
It's possible that the methane Curiosity found is actually created through basic geological interactions and is then released later on during seasonal changes in temperature, releasing more in the summer and less in the winter months.
And a note about alien hype
Both of these studies are objectively important, but that said, they were hyped beyond belief.
NASA sent out a pre-announcement stating that it would announce something about Mars about a week before the actually studies were released.
All this serves to do is create a situation in which an important — but relatively incremental — story is given a huge amount of attention for days ahead of the actual announcement.
Press coverage before the announcement was speculative at best and downright alien panic-inducing at worst.
And NASA can't feign ignorance that these pre-announcements don't create the hype.
The space agency knows exactly what it's doing when it releases vague announcements of an impending announcement every few weeks. Just look at how it worked out when it pre-announced something about alien life on other planets.
But NASA isn't the only culprit.
News organizations around the world buy into the very system that enables this kind of breathless hyping.
Every week, science journalists around the world agree to adhere to embargoes that ostensibly give us time to report out stories, talk to outside sources, and create a balanced picture of what a new study says.
It makes sense, in theory. This way we're all on the same timetable and have the same resources.
But that's not really how it plays out most of the time. When big studies like these are given spots in prominent journals, it creates a situation in which publications feel the need to cover a new finding, even if it's not that big, just for the sake of competition.
Plus, this kind of hype confuses the public, and at the end of the day, disappoints many folks who only keep track of space on the periphery.
If someone sees an occasional story about how NASA is going to announce some groundbreaking finding related to aliens, they will obviously get excited. However, when they find out what the actual story is? It may not be so exciting.
Fear not, though! There are ways to spot an over-hyped science news story coming. Just remember a few simple embargo times, and remember, if you see an announcement scheduled for one of these times, it's probably related to these journals and therefore, probably not about aliens:
NASA announcing something at 1 p.m. ET on a Wednesday? Yeah, that's the exact time that the journal Nature lifts its embargo each week.
How about 2 p.m. ET on a Thursday? Ah yes, that's when Science lifts its embargo.
You can also always check your friendly neighborhood science reporter's Twitter feed to see just how exasperated we all are when staring at an overhyped announcement from a mile away.
Here Are NASA’s Unreleased Apollo Mission Images They Don’t Want You To See
Here Are NASA’s Unreleased Apollo Mission Images They Don’t Want You To See
The idea that NASA has encountered Alien life during the Apollo missions has aroused the curiosity of thousands of experts in the field for decades.
Ever since NASA successfully landed on the moon, people have wondered whether or not the astronauts on the lunar surface—and during their trip to the moon—witnessed things they couldn’t rationally explain.
In other words; Alien spaceships and structures on the moon’s surface.
These questions were quickly turned into a conspiracy theory, and people who argue that the Apollo astronauts witnessed inexplicable things during their trip to the moon were called out as conspiracy nuts.
To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the surface of Moon, with the last Apollo mission departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
µImage credit: NASA
For nearly half a century—46 years to be precise—space agencies around the globe have avoided going to the moon.
But why?
Was it due to extremely high costs? Risks? Or is it that the moon is simply not an interesting place?
The truth is that today, 46 years after the last successful moon landing we have much better technology than we had 46 years ago.
Money isn’t an issue, for we always find money for things we want and need.
The moon is perhaps one of the most interesting places in the solar system, and numerous experts have claimed it is imperative for humans to establish a colony on the lunar surface.
So, what’s keeping us from landing on the moon?
A man called Bob Dean may answer the above question.
Mr. Dean is retired US Army Command Sergeant Major who served for 28 years.
He has given a number of interesting lectures, providing a wealth of information about not only the moon landings, Apollo missions, but also corroborating what numerous whistleblowers have said in the past.
During the Barcelona Exopolitics Summit, on July 25, 2009, Mr. Dean released a set of amazing images. He also explained the Apollo missions, and what astronauts encountered unlike anyone before him.
During the summit, Mr. Dean released to the public a set of fascinating images supposedly captured by astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission, including an image showing mysterious spacecraft several hundred feet in diameter.
During the lecture, Mr. Dean recounts how on the morning of the 2nd of February 1961, World War III almost began, and a fleet of unidentified flying objects were to blame:
“It appears that on the morning of the 2nd of February 1961, World War III almost started. It was involved in the flyover of large numbers of circular metallic craft, flying in formation, very obviously under intelligent control,” said Mr. Dean during the lecture.
Mr. Dean continued: “They would fly out of the Soviet sector in the Warsaw Pact toward the U.S. in formation at a high speed and at a very high altitude. They would turn north over the English Channel over the southern coast of England and then they would disappear off of NATO radar over the Norwegian Sea.”
“The Soviets went on red alert. The NATO forces went on red alert. Everybody was, you know … fingers on their triggers, thumbs poised above those red buttons. And World War III was just moments away,” explained Mr. Dean. “Within 20 minutes, it was all over. The objects flew, turned north and disappeared off of radar.”
Soon after the mysterious sighting that nearly triggered WWIII, a study of the occurred took place.
Experts concluded how “…planet Earth and the human race had been under some kind of survey or observation going on for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. They concluded, in 1964, that there were at least four different groups coming here, observing us, surveying us, analyzing us, closely watching us, what we were up to, what we were doing. They concluded that it did not appear to be a military threat involved, because their repeated demonstrations of incredibly advanced technology demonstrated to us that, if they had been hostile or malevolent, there was absolutely nothing we could do. If they were evil in their intent and they were hostile toward us, it would have been over a long time ago.”
“…the conclusion was there were four different groups involved,” explained Mr. Dean.
The next image, says Mr. Dean, shows a mysterious disc-shaped object with several hundred feet in diameter. It was snapped while astronauts made their way to the surface of the moon.
The next two images were taken by Apollo Astronauts when they were overflying the so-called Lansberg crater. According to Mr. Dean; “The astronauts in orbit above the Moon were particularly fascinated by the Lansberg crater. They had been given a special designation to take pictures of Lansberg, because the crater, which they named as the Lansberg, had things going on that were very anomalous. There was construction going on. There were gigantic facilities in the crater up there. So they were specifically delegated and assigned to photograph Lansberg to see if they could figure out what the hell was going on down there. While they were looking at Lansberg, this object happened to express interest in them and flew by. Now this line is an artificial line that was drawn to show you the … it gave the direction that this object was going. This is a good-size object flying past the Apollo Lander.”
Are these mysterious spots alien structures on the lunar surface?
Mr. Dean continued showing evidence gathered by astronauts from the Apollo 13 mission. The below image, says Mr. Dean, where taken as Apollo 13 astronauts were traveling to the moon when a number of things began happening. Some strange objects were appearing outside the windows of the spacecraft, so the Apollo 13 Astronauts grabbed their Hasselblad cameras and started taking pictures of what they had seen.
This photograph below shows three different objects.
Another image of the Apollo 13 ‘UFO’ encounter, as noted by Mr. Dean.
Read the entire transcript and view more images here.
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Interdimensional beings, Aliens From “Dimensions” That Coexist Alongside Our Own?
Interdimensional beings, Aliens From “Dimensions” That Coexist Alongside Our Own?
The definition for interdimensional beings or interdimensional intelligence is usually described as a theoretical or ‘real’ entity that exists in a dimension beyond our own.
Despite the fact that such beings are believed to exist only in science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural, there are numerous Ufologists who refer to them as real beings.
The Interdimensional Hypothesis
The interdimensional hypothesis was proposed by a number of Ufologists like Jacques Vallée who suggests that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related events (such as alien sightings) imply visits from beings from other “realities” or “dimensions” that coexist separately with ours. Some have referred to these beings as visitors from another universe.
In other words, Vallée and other authors suggest that aliens are real but exist not in our dimension, but in another reality, that coexists with our own.
This theory is an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis which suggests that aliens are advanced spacefaring beings that exist in our universe.
The interdimensional hypothesis argues that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in earlier times was attributed to mythological or supernatural creatures—Ancient Astronaut theory.
What if Aliens are travelers from another dimension? Does that mean we are alone in the universe after all?
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But despite the fact that modern Ufologists and millions of people around the globe believe we are not alone in this universe, many ufologists and paranormal researchers have embraced the interdimensional Hypothesis, suggesting that it explains the Alien theory in a much smoother way.
Paranormal investigator Brad Steiger wrote that “we are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon that is largely originating from planet Earth.”
Other ufologists, such as John Ankerberg and John Weldon, who also favor the interdimensional hypothesis argue that UFO sightings fit in the spiritualist phenomenon.
Commenting on the disparity between the Extraterrestrial hypothesis and the reports that people have made of UFO encounters, Ankerberg and Weldon wrote that “the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors.”
This Interdimensional Hypothesis took a step further in the book UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse published in 1970, where author John Keel linked UFOs to supernatural concepts such as ghosts and demons.
Some advocates of the extraterrestrial theory have embraced some of the ideas set forth by the Interdimensional Hypothesisbecause it does a better job explaining how ‘aliens’ could travel in space across vast distances.
The distance between the stars makes interstellar travel impractical using conventional means and since no one has demonstrated an antigravity engine or any other machine that would allow a traveler to move across the cosmos at speed faster than light, the Interdimensional Hypothesis makes much more sense.
Are aliens, in fact, interdimensional travelers?
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According to this theory, is not necessary to use any method of propulsion because it maintains that UFOs are not spacecraft, but devices that travel between different realities. However, they still need to get from one reality to the other, right?
One of the benefits of the Interdimensional Hypothesis according to Hilary Evans—a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena—is that it can explain the apparent ability of UFOs to appear and disappear, not only from sight but from radar; as the interdimensional UFO’s can enter and leave our dimension at will, meaning they have the ability to materialize and dematerialize.
On the other hand, Evans argues that if the other dimension is slightly more advanced than ours, or is perhaps our own future, this would explain the tendency of UFOs to represent technologies close to the future.
Declassified FBI document—beings from other dimensions exist
While all of the above may sound like something coming from a sci-fi movie, there is a peculiar declassified top-secret document in the FBI archives which speaks of interdimensional beings, and how their ‘spacecraft’ have the ability to materialize and dematerialize in our own dimension.
Here is a transcript of some of the most important details of the report:
Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control
Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world
They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
The disks possess a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
The region from which they come is not the “astral plane,” but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
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Artificial structure on Mars—three-sided Pyramid—verified in Science Journal
Artificial structure on Mars—three-sided Pyramid—verified in Science Journal
Mars, the red planet, has always fascinated mankind. For centuries have we pondered about the possibility if there is life on Mars, or if there ever was?
Now, the Cydonia Institute for Martian research has released more stunning images of supposed artificial structures on the Martian Surface, which make us question everything we have been taught about Mars in the past.
From Pyramidal structures to enigmatic shapes on the Martian surface that hints at possible intelligent design, Mars may have been the home of an advanced civilization billions of years ago.
Their latest discovery was presented by Founding investigator, George Haas, and geoscientist Bill Saunders who talked about the artificial structures and how SETI researchers acknowledge their findings in a recent interview with coast-to-coast.
A Three-sided Pyramid on Mars
As noted by experts in their study (click here) there is a three-sided pyramidal formation in the Candor Chasma region of Mars.
The formation is clearly seen in five NASA images snapped by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft.
In the study, Haas, Sunders, Miller, and Dale suggest the images from Mars reveal defining aspects of the formations three-sided Reuleaux geometry, exposing a uniform symmetry in its three, triangular faces.
A Pyramid on Mars, the result of intelligent design?
The idea that Mars was inhabited in the distant past by intelligent civilizations has captivated the imagination of countless philosophers in ancient times, and scientists in modern times.
Now, as technology evolves and as we have the opportunity to explore Mars like never before, we are seeing ‘structures’ on Mars that question whether or not we are alone in the universe.
In the study, a geologist and a geoscientist examine natural mechanisms that could contribute to the creation of the pyramidal formation and a claim of intelligent construction is proposed.
An extensive search of comparable regions within and beyond the area of Candor Chasma was conducted and terrestrial comparisons are also offered.
In fact, the Pyramid investigated by researchers from the Cydonia Institute caught the attention of world-renowned astronomer Carl Sagan more than 40 years ago.
Sagan, intrigued by the shape of the pyramidal structure on Mars, decided to present the image at the Royal Institution in London during his Christmas Lecture in 1977.
Furthermore, Sagan also featured the image in his 1980 book and television series Cosmos in which he made the following comment;
“The largest Mars Pyramids have a base width of 3 km and a height of 1 km, so they are much larger than the Pyramids of Sumer, Egypt, and Mexico. With the ancient eroded shape, they could be small hills, sandblasted for centuries, but they need to be viewed from nearby.”
Researchers conclude in their study: “We contend that the structural form of this three-sided pyramid observed within the western region of Candor Chasma is real and exhibits a level of geometry and symmetry that supports a high probability of artificial origins. We recommend that both NASA and the imaging team at the University of Arizona direct the current Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft acquire addition images of this anomalous surface feature.
De la vie sur Mars : Ces photos de la NASA montrent-elles des fossiles extraterrestres avant son “annonce majeure” ?
De la vie sur Mars : Ces photos de la NASA montrent-elles des fossiles extraterrestres avant son “annonce majeure” ?
L’annonce majeure de la NASA concernant Mars aujourd’hui a déclenché d’intenses spéculations, l’agence spatiale américaine dévoilera la preuve de la vie extraterrestre sur la planète rouge. Un chasseur d’OVNI prétend posséder des photos de la NASA de fossiles extraterrestres enterrés sur la planète rouge.
La NASA lèvera le voile sur sa dernière découverte aujourd’hui (jeudi 7 juin) après avoir taquiné le monde entier sans fournir d’informations sur sa dernière découverte passionnante.
Les passionnés de l’espace du monde entier ont été invités à se brancher en ligne aujourd’hui à 14 h HAE ou à 19 h, heure du Royaume-Uni (20 h en France).
La conférence de presse à laquelle ont participé les plus grands scientifiques de la NASA a attiré l’attention du monde entier et les passionnés de l’espace sont ravis de l’anticipation.
Et le chasseur d’OVNI Joe White pense qu’il a peut-être trouvé des indices de vie ancienne sur Mars avant la grande révélation de la NASA.
Le populaire passionné d’OVNI et journaliste de l’espace éponyme croit avoir trouvé des photos de ce qui pourrait être une scène de crime extraterrestre oubliée depuis longtemps.
M. White a présenté ses revendications bizarres sur sa chaîne YouTube ArtAlienTV, où il analyse des photos de Mars prises par les différents rovers de la NASA.
Dans une vidéo intitulée “Mars Burial Uncovered – Crime Scene Investigation”, M. White prétend montrer des photos d’un “crâne partiellement momifié” sur le sol.
Il dit dans la vidéo : “C’est assez similaire au soldat extraterrestre mort que j’ai trouvé il y a quelques années et que j’ai publié sur ma chaîne.”
“Il y a probablement 30 ou 40 de ces crânes d’extraterrestres maintenant. C’est l’un des meilleurs exemples.”
“Je les trouve pour la plupart, mais c’est un exemple d’une découverte d’un autre chercheur et c’est une découverte étonnante.”
“Quand vous commencez à observer attentivement les images, vous pouvez voir qu’il y a d’autres crânes et d’autres choses dans cette zone immédiate. C’est un peu comme une scène de crime.”
Les photos de “fossiles extraterrestres” douteux ont été prises par le Rover Spirit de la NASA le 648e jour martien de sa mission (Sol 648).
Le Spirit Rover de la NASA a atterri sur Mars en 2004 et a été actif jusqu’en 2010.
Tout comme le célèbre Rover Curiosity de la NASA, Spirit a pris 128 224 photos qui sont librement accessibles en ligne.
M. White a déclaré que les photographies sont la preuve irréfutable que les anciens extraterrestres ont déjà parcouru la planète rouge, mais il a demandé aux spectateurs de cesser de douter pendant un certain temps.
Il a dit : “Un esprit ouvert est nécessaire quand on regarde des images d’autres planètes. Un jour, notre survie en dépendra.”
Le Dr Barry DiGregorio, expert dans le domaine spatial, a déclaré que la NASA pourrait être prête à annoncer des preuves de vie microbienne sur Mars jeudi.
Mais quelles sont les chances que les photos de la NASA soient autre chose que des images sur-analysées de formations rocheuses aux formes bizarres ?
M. White lui-même admet dans ses vidéos sur les fossiles extraterrestres que les images pourraient être un cas classique de paréidolie – une ruse mentale particulière qui fait que les gens voient des formes et des motifs là où ils n’existent pas.
Le Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la NASA a écrit sur sa page : “La paréidolie est le phénomène psychologique où les gens voient des formes reconnaissables dans les nuages, les formations rocheuses ou d’autres objets ou données qui n’ont aucun lien entre eux.”
Did local weather alternate already kill all of the extraterrestrial beings we’ve got been in search of?
In line with astrophysicist Adam Frank, it is no doubt an opportunity — and whether or not people are doomed to the similar destiny might already be out of our palms.
Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy on the College of Rochester in New York, is the lead writer of a brand new paper printed Would possibly 1 within the magazine Astrobiology that goals to take what Frank calls a “10,000-light-year” view of anthropogenic (human-caused) local weather alternate. The use of mathematical fashions in keeping with the disappearance of a real-life misplaced civilization right here on Earth (the previous population of Easter Island), Frank and his colleagues simulated how quite a lot of alien civilizations would possibly upward push and fall in the event that they had been to more and more convert their planet’s restricted herbal assets into calories. [12 Possible Reasons We Haven’t Found Aliens]
“The regulations of physics call for that any younger inhabitants, construction an energy-intensive civilization like ours, goes to have comments on its planet,” Frank mentioned in a remark. “Seeing local weather alternate on this cosmic context can provide us higher perception into what is going down to us now and find out how to take care of it.”
The effects, as chances are you’ll be expecting, had been usually beautiful grim. Of 4 not unusual “trajectories” for energy-intense civilizations, 3 led to apocalypse. The fourth state of affairs — a trail that concerned changing the entire alien society to sustainable assets of calories — labored handiest when civilizations known the wear they had been doing to the planet, and acted within the straight away.
“The closing state of affairs is probably the most horrifying,” Frank mentioned. “Even supposing you probably did the appropriate factor, if you happen to waited too lengthy, you’ll want to nonetheless have your inhabitants cave in.”
3 paths to apocalypse
For Frank, the trail to modeling an apocalypse begins with Easter Island.
“Easter Island items a specifically helpful instance for our personal functions since it’s continuously taken as a lesson for world sustainability,” Frank and his colleagues wrote within the paper. “Many research point out that Easter Island’s population depleted their assets, resulting in hunger and termination of the island’s civilization.”
Running from earlier equations that modeled the autumn of Easter Island’s inhabitants along the depletion of its assets, the staff discovered 4 imaginable finish issues for a hypothetical alien civilization in a similar way constrained by means of restricted herbal assets.
4 eventualities for the destiny of civilizations and their planets, in keeping with mathematical fashions advanced by means of Adam Frank and his collaborators. The black line displays the trajectory of the civilization’s inhabitants and the pink line displays the co-evolving trajectory of the planet’s state (a proxy for temperature).Michael Osadciw / College of Rochester representation
“The primary trajectory we discovered is what we name the die-off,” Frank mentioned.
On this state of affairs, the civilization’s inhabitants skyrockets over a brief time period, and because the extraterrestrial beings guzzle calories and belch out greenhouse gases, the planet’s temperature spikes, too. (On this find out about, temperature was once used to constitute human-made affects on the earth’s habitability by means of greenhouse fuel air pollution.) The inhabitants peaks, then all at once plummets as emerging temperatures make survival tougher and tougher. The inhabitants in the end ranges off, however with a fragment of the individuals who had been round earlier than. [Doomsday: 9 Real Ways the World Could End]
“Consider if seven out of 10 other people you knew died briefly,” Frank mentioned. “It is not transparent a fancy technological civilization may just live on that roughly alternate.”
The second one state of affairs is sustainability. Right here, each the planet’s inhabitants and its world temperature climb abruptly however then stage off when the civilization acknowledges how its useful resource control is affecting nature. To succeed in an equilibrium, Frank mentioned, the inhabitants would want to transfer from assets that take a top toll on the earth (like oil) to extra sustainable assets (like solar power). Civilization is stored!
Each the 3rd and fourth eventualities are referred to as “cave in.” Right here, as within the “die-off” state of affairs, each the planet’s inhabitants and the planet’s temperature upward push dramatically over a brief length. However this time, when other people get started death from a loss of fundamental assets, there aren’t any survivors. Whether or not a civilization simply dies off or completely collapses is dependent upon how delicate the surroundings is and the way briefly it responds to emerging populations.
Even supposing the civilization realizes it is destructive the surroundings and makes makes an attempt to modify to sustainable assets — a state of affairs referred to as “cave in with useful resource alternate” — it is too past due. The civilization would possibly see a short lived slowing within the inhabitants decline, however in the end, it drops to 0 anyway. The wear is finished; civilization is doomed.
Act now whilst civilization lasts
The variation between a sustainable long run and a dangerous cave in was once in large part depending on a inhabitants’s foresight — how quickly they discovered they had been destroying their planet, and the way briefly they took motion. In line with Frank, this distinction will have to encourage people to take local weather alternate severely.
“Throughout cosmic house and time, you’ll have winners — who controlled to peer what was once occurring and determine a trail via it — and losers, who simply could not get their act in combination and their civilization fell by means of the wayside,” Frank mentioned.
“The query is, which class will we need to be in?”
is director of astrobiology at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology (2009), which won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award. His latest book is The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Nearly Nothing (2017).
We have a problem. In a 10-billion-year-old galaxy there should have been ample opportunity for at least one species to escape its own mess, and to spread across the stars, filling every niche. That this species doesn’t seem to have come calling leads to Fermi’s Paradox – if life isn’t impossibly rare, then where is everyone? Efforts to scan the skies for signs of intelligent life have come up blank too, adding to the puzzle. Perhaps the vast gulfs of interstellar space and the narrow windows of time for communicative species to exist within shouting distance of each other are to blame. Intelligences might be like small ships passing in the night in a vast ocean. Actual close encounters of any kind could be exceedingly unusual.
Another explanation for the great silence of the galaxy is that any surviving intelligence out there is so different from us, so radically evolved, that we can’t even conceive of its forms or behaviours. As a consequence, actually detecting and recognising it could be next to impossible. That’s a bit of a downer.
But there is also a possibility that lies between such extremes and it might be the most probable of all. When our first encounter or detection finally occurs, it could be a machine intelligence that appears in our sights.
The idea is not truly new. Back in the 1940s, the mathematician John von Neumann explored the possibilities of non-biological, self-replicating systems steeped in computation but requiring no operating minds. Later on, in the 1980s, others expanded on this concept by considering the real engineering needs for autonomous, replicating, space-faring devices; these machines would be able to roam the Universe, finding raw materials to build more and more of themselves, creating the infrastructure for energy from space or human settlement among the stars.
It would require a more complex mission still for such devices to have true artificial intelligence (AI). What would that purpose be, and what kind of AI is such a machine likely to have? An encounter with an alien machine could help us unravel this puzzle.
One possibility is that this machine is super-capable, exceeding our human capacity for cognitive or analytical tasks. Such an AI might be exceedingly hard to understand, either in terms of its underlying motivation or because of practical barriers of communication bandwidth. For this device, talking to us might be like talking to an infant. Or trying to discuss the collected works of Shakespeare using pictographs. An alien system optimised for processing vast data streams might not even be able to downgrade its pace enough to notice that we’re trying to talk, whether we use technology or not.
An extraterrestrial (ET) AI could also be seriously intimidating and scary simply because of its machine nature: a thing animated from non-living pieces, just like the classic tale of the golem moulded from clay or mud. By comparison, while a biological alien might be shocking, it would surely have some traits in common with us. We could convince ourselves that evolution leads to recognisable, even sympathetic behaviours and intentions. An artificial entity need not follow all of those evolutionary rules, taking alienness to a whole other level.
Encountering an alien AI would not only point to our own possible future, but also prompt a curious shift in our worldview. When Nicolaus Copernicus proposed in the 1500s that the Earth was not central in any way to the Universe, he set in motion the development of a critical scientific idea: that there is nothing cosmically special or significant about us. But meeting an ET-AI could turn that realisation on its head: if the only intelligence we meet is machine in nature, then we would be special, after all.
If we do meet an AI in our cosmological jaunt, it probably won’t be conscious in the full sense of the word. In fact, I think we’d find ourselves facing something akin to a ‘savant’ intelligence – a whiz at specific tasks, but otherwise extremely limited in its capacities.
A recent example right here on Earth is Google’s AlphaGo Master, a system that plays the board game Go, and learns some of its skills by exposure to vast catalogues of human-played games. Within a year of its inception, it began outdoing the world’s highest-ranking human Go players. Next came an evolved system called AlphaGo Zero. In 40 days of training, without recourse to data from historical games, this new AI made itself better than its silicon ancestor, and better than any living human. Now, yet another variant, AlphaZero, has taken a mere 24 hours to train itself and beat a modestly trained iteration of AlphaGo Zero – as well as topping other systems at playing both chess and Shogi, sometimes known as Japanese chess. If you read interviews with expert players, you’ll see that these machines don’t even play like humans, their strategies are alien and seemingly unfathomable.
These Alphas are the epitome of a savant machine. Such AIs will help us answer a host of scientific problems that are presently on the hairy edge of tractability. The researchers behind the Alpha systems are already talking about the puzzle of protein-folding – how chains of amino acids twist, gyrate and fold into structures with essential biological utility. The underlying molecular rules are understood but predicting what a particular recipe will give you is currently extremely difficult. It certainly sounds like a job for some future AlphaFold Zero.
Or take other pieces of modern science. Cosmological simulations or climate and weather predictions are all driven by physics phenomena such as gravitation, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Computer codes digitisethese phenomena, calculating billions of iterations of forces and movements. But these computations are still hemmed in by processor speeds and precision. Deep-learning self-taught AIs might turn out to do better as quantitative soothsayers than those intense numerical simulations – presently bounded by their comparatively plodding, systematic approaches. A machine’s savant intuition might be able to skip across compute cycles, ‘seeing’ what the answer will be in a probabilistic sense, rather than painstakingly reproducing a pixelated version of it. Similarly, a machine’s savant intuition might be applied to the root process of scientific deduction and discovery itself. The possibilities are yet to be much explored, but they could be extraordinary. Savant machines could turn out to be simply so useful, so revolutionary in expanding our capacity for discovery and exploration, that there’s little initial motivation to seek anything fancier.
A cosmos filled with worlds offers millions, billions, even trillions of natural test tubes
If this pattern of machine development is happening for us, it could represent a pattern that happens across the cosmos to influence the nature of cosmic exploration itself. Savant AIs would become the ultimate tools for allowing biological life to reach across interstellar distances: more robust than biology, and not smart enough to raise ethical concerns about being sent off to roam the cosmos according to our scientific whims. Propelling millions of these investigators into space would be an inevitable step. They could be sent to other stars and planetary systems, and designed to recognise the most interesting characteristics of these places, from astrophysics to the presence of life. These machines would reflect the motivations of their biological creators; perhaps simple curiosity, perhaps something more.
Another compelling reason for savant machines to be roaming the cosmos arises from thinking about how to build more general, more powerful AIs. It might be that a general AI system can be built out of lots of smaller savant AIs, each taking on some specific, difficult cognitive task, but linked together. That linkage could be very localised or quite spread out like the architecture of biological neural circuits. There’s the face-recognising savant, the natural-language savant, the calculus-savant, the tax-evading savant. One could then imagine an AI whose job is to learn how to combine savant AIs into something akin to a general intelligence – establishing a nursery for machine consciousness run from on-high.
The most challenging task for a nursery-room AI would be how to expose its collective of savants to the complexity of the real-world environment. Nature isn’t just about meeting fixed goals; it’s full of noise, randomness and trillions upon trillions of interacting pieces. For example, from the very instant an embryo forms, it is exposed to constant variation. First just a few cells, it senses the world purely from a molecular point of view. As the embryo develops organs to register light, sound, touch and smell, the portals to experience – and their complexity – expand.
In short, the way for a species to make a better AI is to let that AI and its components explore the messy Universe. As complex and nourishing as a single planet can be, a cosmos filled with worlds offers millions, billions, even trillions of natural test tubes, each with its own tale of natural selection and chance. Spreading savant AI pieces across the stars offers a way to exploit these endless natural experiments and sensory inputs.
The path towards better AI might parallel biological evolution only in superficial ways. Consider the raw development of a human brain. The core process appears to be a one-shot effort. It starts with stem cells racing up an initial structure called a neural tube at a rate of 15 million every hour and hooking together in a developing embryo. That prodigious assembly of the brain is followed by learning – the brain is shaped and pruned as experience creates our unique path through life. Although we’re incredibly flexible, and capable of absorbing and mastering all sorts of skills and knowledge, as individuals we are also, sadly, constrained by whatever genetic hand we were dealt. And, in truth, while we can all keep learning and changing, we seldom develop any miraculous new talents during our lifetimes.
A machine might not be as constrained, especially if critical pieces are out exploring the cosmos and have been designed to evolve into something new. Savant components of a larger intelligence might come and go in an ever-changing pick-and-mix. Some cognitive skills might be useful in certain contexts but could simply get in the way in other situations. In other words, machine-based intelligence could be highly fluid, changeable and, most of all, rapidly evolvable. As a consequence, what could be lurking out there in the cosmos is a vast and diverse zoo of AIs.
We might be incapable of registering the presence of billion-year-old machine savants
In a sense, such AIs parallel the microbial machines that are at the core of life on Earth – forming the smallest units of intelligence to traverse the Universe, and ultimately combining together, as the evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis posed, to create multicellular creatures, larger entities and consciousness itself. In fact, long after a biological species has faded away amid the relentless torrent of natural selection, or self-destruction, this type of machine will remain.
AI beyond Earth might be hard to recognise. Just as someone living on the steppe in 12th-century Mongolia would find a self-driving car both magical and meaningless, we might be quite incapable of registering or interpreting the presence of billion-year-old machine savants. Equally, savant machines might not be actively seeking to talk to us, or any other intelligences.
But a recognisable encounter with even one savant machine would indeed change everything. It would tell us that the galaxy is awash with intelligence, and could suggest that our future might be one of a vestigial, fading biological presence. Most of all, this discovery would tell us that we might currently be the only natural minds consciously aware of these facts. That’s because the biology that could produce AI explorers would likely evolve or go extinct on timescales far shorter than the persistence of these interstellar machines, and we already live in a galaxy that is 10 billion years old.
Finding an AI-ET could unlock our own cosmic exploration by lighting a path forward. It might also offer insight into the nature of its creators, those ancestral intelligences, presumably in biological form. Exactly what this investigative process would look like is extremely hard to imagine. Even a single savant AI might not come in one physical package but rather a swarm of tinier components incredibly hard to digest. However, let’s assume that by interrogation or literal disassembly we eventually solve the mystery of the AI-ET’s origins. We might find evidence of an organic species like us – or we might discover only machines all the way down.
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07-06-2018
Mysterieuze bezoekers laten in Engeland grootste graancirkel tot nu toe achter. Bekijk hier de beelden
Mysterieuze bezoekers laten in Engeland grootste graancirkel tot nu toe achter. Bekijk hier de beelden
Mysterieuze bezoekers hebben in het Engelse landschap de grootste graancirkel van het jaar achtergelaten.
De reusachtige cirkel is verschenen in een weiland in de buurt van de Reus van Cerne Abbas in het graafschap Dorset.
Volgens graancirkeldeskundigen gaat het om het meest gedetailleerde patroon in jaren.
Game of Thrones
De enorme cirkel, die een straal heeft van zo’n 11 meter, doet denken aan een kompas.
Een paar dagen geleden werd in Dorset nog een andere graancirkel gevonden met in het midden een zevenpuntige ster, de naam van een heilige tekst uit de hitserie Game of Thrones.
Meest complexe
Matthew Williams liet weten dat dit één van de meest complexe cirkels is die hij in tijden heeft gezien.
De graancirkeldeskundige uit Wiltshire zei: “Dit is een prachtige formatie; er zit heel veel werk in.”
Hij zei niet te weten door wie de formatie in het landschap is achtergelaten.
Lightning bolts on Jupiter are both similar and completely different from those on Earth, research suggests.
Artist’s concept of lightning in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. The image is based on a JunoCam image. Image credit:sNASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/JunoCam.
A new paper published by NASA’s Juno mission comes to flesh out our understanding of Jovian lightning. Their existence was first confirmed when the Voyager 1 craft flew past Jupiter in March 1979 — but that encounter also left us with more unanswered questions. Radio emissions produced by these lightning bolts didn’t match the signatures of those on Earth, for example.
God of Lightning
“No matter what planet you’re on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters—sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky,” said lead author Shannon Brown of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“But until Juno, all the lightning signals recorded by spacecraft were limited to either visual detections or from the kilohertz range of the radio spectrum, despite a search for signals in the megahertz range. Many theories were offered up to explain it, but no one theory could ever get traction as the answer.”
Fancy science-speak for ‘we didn’t have a clue what was up’. The Juno mission, however, gave researchers a chance to dig deeper into Jupiter’s lightning. The craft has been orbiting the gas giant since July 4, 2016. Among other onboard equipment, it boasted a Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR) to record emissions across a wide spectrum of frequencies
During its first eight flybys of Jupiter, Juno detected 377 lightning discharges, the team reports. Emissions were recorded in both the megahertz and gigahertz range, “which is what you can find with terrestrial lightning emissions,” according to Brown.
“We think the reason we are the only ones who can see it is because Juno is flying closer to the lighting than ever before, and we are searching at a radio frequency that passes easily through Jupiter’s ionosphere,” she adds.
These recordings show that lightning on Jupiter is very similar to that on Earth — but there are also differences.
Most striking of all is how these discharges are distributed across the planet’s surface. On Jupiter, these bolts of lightning flash frequently across the giant’s poles, but never over the equator. This doesn’t hold true on Earth. The reason behind this, the team believes, is how heat is distributed across the two planets.
The overwhelming majority of heat on Earth comes from the Sun. Our equator receives a much larger slice of this energy than the rest of the planet (that’s why it’s the hottest bit), meaning air masses above the equator have a lot of energy at their disposal to move around through convection. This movement is what fuels the thunderstorms which, in turn, produce lightning.
On Jupiter, however, sunlight is much, much dimmer. The giant is, after all, five times farther away from the Sun than Earth. This means the planet receives 25 times less heat than our planet. Most of the energy in Jupiter’s atmosphere is derived from its solid core. However, the team explains, that tiny quantity of heat it does receive from the Sun does heat up its equator more than the poles. The team believes that this difference in temperature is enough to stabilize Jupiter’s upper atmosphere around the equator, preventing gases further below to rise through convection.
The atmosphere around Jupiter’s poles, which receive less energy, isn’t stable — warm gases rising from below drive convection processes, creating lightning.
“These findings could help to improve our understanding of the composition, circulation and energy flows on Jupiter,” said Brown. But another question looms, she said. “Even though we see lightning near both poles, why is it mostly recorded at Jupiter’s north pole?”
The paper “Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles” has been published in the journal Nature.
In the late spring and early summer, Jupiter is one of the most prominent objects appearing in the night sky. Appearing vivid and bright on any clear evening, it rises in the east and follows a westerly course throughout the nighttime hours, receding beyond the horizon to the west prior to dawn.
Stargazing apps will find it easily, although the casual observer can hardly miss Jupiter’s bright, off-white appearance (as an added tip, remember when looking for planets that you can spot them easily not only due to their brightness, but the lack of sparkling scintillation stars have from being a greater distance away). And while Jupiter is one of the most impressive features in the night sky, it is bright enough that it can occasionally be viewed even in daylight, if one knows where to look.
Some keen observers have also claimed to be able to see Jupiter’s moons with the naked eye, a claim which, admittedly, would require near perfect visible conditions (and extremely good vision). Nonetheless, observation through a telescope is far more lucrative, allowing the Galilean satellites to become easily discernible as points of light gleaming like a pearl necklace encircling the planet system’s greater body.
Artistic representation of Jupiter and its four most prominent moons.
Over the years, a number of unique observations have been made of Jupiter’s moons. For instance, in the late 1970s W.E. Fox was first to write about the strange appearance of double shadows cast by Jupiter’s moons onto the planet’s surface when passing between it and the sun; in some instances, even triple shadows were observed. Fox discussed these anomalous shadows in an article for the British Astronomical Association Journal in 1978 while offering no explanation for this mystery.
The shadows cast onto Jupiter’s surface are not the only mysteries associated with Jupiter’s moons. Of all the planet’s natural satellites, Io may be the most intriguing (seen passing before Jupiter in the photo at the top of this post, as seen from the Cassini probe in 2001), due to an unusual illuminative phenomenon it produces in the minutes following a planetary eclipse. Specifically, for an estimated 15 minutes after the eclipse occurs, Io appears brighter after emerging from the shadow of Jupiter.
Writing for the journal Icarus in 1973, astronomers D.P.Cruikshank and Robert Murphy reported on the phenomenon, noting that, “A post-eclipse anomaly of approximately 0.07 mag was observed on two occasions in 1972, while observations of Europa and Ganymede showed no brightness anomaly greater than 0.01 mag.” While a variety of possible causes are reviewed, Cruikshank and Murphy note that, “The observational data and the results from a stellar occultation are in general accord with the theoretical predictions of the stability of heavy gases on Io, while both observational and theoretical criteria are satisfied by a tenuous atmosphere of a heavy gas such as methane or ammonia having a surface pressure ∼10−7 bar.”
There are other theories about Io’s post-eclipse radiance, one suggesting that a “thermoluminescent effect” may be in the works, occurring when Jupiter’s atmosphere excites Io’s terrain that is suddenly heated as it emerges from the shadow, causing a temporary brightening. Another idea involves sulfurous frost that coats darker areas of the moon while shielded from the sunlight, which cause the surface to become more reflective as the satellite emerges from Jupiter’s shadow.
Another anomalous phenomenon associated with Io involves the violent volcanic eruptions it hosts, which are known to eject molten material as high as 250 kilometers. Astronomers and physicists have long wondered about whether there could be an explanation for these violent outbursts, and an intriguing theory was proposed in 1979 by Cornell astrophysicist Thomas Gold, who suggested that the Jovian moon’s volcanic activity might actually have its basis in electricity.
Aurora visible around Jupiter’s north pole.
According to Gold, Io in its orbit occasionally “short circuits” the current of Jupiter’s ring system (that’s right, Jupiter has rings, although they are far fainter than those of other planets, most notably Saturn). Gold estimated that Io, when passing through the ring current, could attain an electrical current nearing 5 million amperes, resulting in eruptions on the planet that are actually electrical arcing, rather than purely the result of subsurface heat and pressure.
Jupiter’s prevalence in the night sky is only some of the reasons the planet continues to fascinate us. However, as we see here, a deeper look at its moons (and their unusual mechanics in relation to Jupiter itself) reminds us that there are still many mysteries about our universe we have yet to unravel.
Here’s my third and final article (well, for now, at least…) on how and why we need to be so very careful when it comes to addressing and investigating tales of UFOs that have fallen to Earth. This one deals with a case that has been championed by quite a few UFO researchers, but which may actually have had completely down to earth origins. We are talking about a puzzle that dates back to 1957. It was midway through September of that year when a man named Ibrahim Sued became the recipient of a strange and controversial tale. It dealt with the explosion in the skies of Brazil of nothing less than a circular-shaped UFO. In other words, a Flying Saucer.
As a journalist on O Globo – a Brazilian newspaper – Sued decided to look deeper into the matter, primarily to see if there was any truth to the claims. Or, if it was someone’s idea of a big joke. According to the unknown letter-writer, the location was Ubatuba, Brazil. Part of the letter sent to Sued read as follows. The Flying Saucer, Sued read, exploded into “thousands of fiery fragments, which fell sparkling with magnificent brightness… most of these fragments, almost all, fell into the sea. But a number of small pieces fell close to the beach and we picked up a large amount of this material, which was as light as paper. I am enclosing a sample of it.”
Researcher John Harney has taken an interest in the matter of the Ubatuba affair and that intriguing “sample.” He says: “The material was given a spectrographic analysis and the report merely indicated that this showed the presence of magnesium of a high degree of purity and absence of any other metallic element.”
All of which brings us to what was termed the Condon Committee. Of the committee, Micah Hanks writes: “By the mid 1960s, the USAF was getting to a point of being content with dropping the entire matter, should an element manage to come along that would provide a vehicle for cleansing its hands. That vehicle did eventually arrive, in what became know as the Condon Committee, headed by University of Colorado physicist Edward U. Condon (pictured above). For many, Condon and his team’s final report on UFOs was the ultimate death nail in serious UFO studies, with a number of researchers since its issuance claiming that Condon had completely lacked objectivity, and had perhaps even conspired to demolish the credibility of UFO research by scientific institutions altogether.”
It turns out that the Condon Committee, at one point, was given access to a sample of the material which rained down on Ubatuba, and which was said to have been pure magnesium. The committee members reported: “Although the Brazilian fragment proved not to be pure, as claimed, the possibility remained that the material was unique.” It also exhibited a high degree of strontium. This excited the ufologists of the day. But, the Condon Committee was careful to note that finding strontium in magnesium was nothing new. In fact, Dow Chemicals had, as far back as 1940, manufactured magnesium which exhibited significant strontium, and which had nothing to do with UFOs and aliens.
Now, yes, as we have seen from Micah Hanks’ words, the ufologists of the day were significantly suspicious of Edward Condon and his committee. But, the fact is that, in this case, the Condon Committee did investigate the Ubatba incident – their files fully reflect that – but came away positively underwhelmed. That was not what ufologists wanted to hear. But, it’s definitely what they got.
There is another important issue, too, which definitely needs addressing. As ufologist Kevin Randle notes: “…the magnesium samples that allegedly came from an exploding UFO cannot be traced to the beach in Brazil where they were recovered. Instead, they can be traced to the columnist in Brazil who first reported the case in the newspaper and that alerted Dr. Olavo Fontes…the APRO Brazilian representative to the crash. No one has ever come forward, nor has anyone been located, who can corroborate the tale told in the letter to the columnist nor who actually saw the explosion or the UFO.”
In other words, we actually have no proof at all that anything exploded over Ubatuba, back in 1957. We have the words of an anonymous source that no-one ever located. And, we have evidence that the sample was something that could clearly be found right here on Earth. Should we dismiss this strange and enduring saga? Probably, yes.
As a follow-up to my earlier article, “UFOs and a ‘highly classified group,'” I thought I would share with you a couple more stories that demonstrate how very careful we have to be when it comes to the matter of analyzing alleged crashed UFO cases. That aforementioned article suggested that the 1952 story in question may have had far less to do with real crashed UFO materials, and far more to do with a secret program to convince the Soviets – in the early years of the Cold War – that the U.S. Government had recovered highly advanced alien technology. When, in reality, it may well have recovered nothing of the sort. Mind-games designed to confuse and concern the Russians may have been the primary goal.
There is another aspect to the matter of tales of crashed UFOs and how such tales often turn out to be something else entirely. I live in Arlington, Texas, which is about a 130 mile-drive to Wichita Falls. And, I get a lot of stories from people who have had UFO encounters in the Lone Star State. There is a reason why I mention that. More than a few years ago, I interviewed a woman who told me how her father, in the early 1980s, had told her of his involvement in the recovery of a crashed UFO somewhere in the Wichita Falls area, in the latter part of 1960. The woman was only in her teens when she was told of the incident, and much of it was hazy by the time it reached my ears. But, the data available to me suggested that we might have been dealing with something quite significant. In a way, it was significant, as you will soon see.
Over the years, I have taken a deep interest in a U.S. military program called Project Moon Dust (also referred to in some official documents as Moondust). A product of the Cold War, Project Moon Dust was created to secretly recover the likes of Soviet missiles that had gone astray, the remains of Russian space-satellites, rocket-boosters, and more. In other words, it was an operation designed to secure foreign technology for the U.S. military.
Some of the Moon Dust documents refer to UFOs, and the need to recover them. This has given rise to a theory, within Ufology, that Moon Dust was comprised of an elite unit of personnel whose role it was to secretly retrieve the remains of spaceships from other worlds, even their extraterrestrial crews. If, however, you take a good look at all of the presently available documents on Moon Dust (as I have), it becomes clear that the term “UFO” was used in literal terms by the team: objects that, for a while at least, remained unidentified. That is, until they were identified as Russian technology, and in some cases even Chinese.
It turns out that one of the many, now-declassified Moon Dustpapers describes the crash of something which came down at Wichita Falls in late 1960 – which sounds very much like the same story told to me. The date of the document is October 11, 1960. The document was sent to the Director, Special Investigations, Headquarters USAF, Washington 25, D.C. It states the following:
“Reference is made to telephonic spot report from this district office of 28 September 1960, referred to AFCSI-6D, concerning a Moon Dust report in the vicinity of Wichita Falls, Texas, on 28 September 1960. On 4 October 1960, the Assistant Provost Marshal at Sheppard AFB, Texas, Major CARTER O. COOPER, advised that an ATIC Team from the 1127th USAF Field Activities Group, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, headed by a Capt ALEXANDER had investigated the incident. According to Major COOPER, the evaluations of the ATIC team could not be released at this local level; however, he said he had been informed unofficially that examination of recovered fragments indicated the incident did not come within the Moon Dust category.”
The document continues: “Maj E. J. GALAINI, 4245th Strategic Wing (SAC), Sheppard AFB, Texas, received a report at 0425 hours on 28 September 1960 from an unknown source to the effect that an unidentified flying object (UFO) had crashed some five (5) or eight (8) miles west of Wichita Falls, Texas. Sheppard AFB Air Police conducted investigation at the scene and also learned that the reported incident had been observed by several civilian police officers of the Wichita Falls Police Department.”
We are further told: “At the scene, miscellaneous charred debris, including shreds of a parachute, reportedly was recovered and maintained in custody of the Sheppard AFB Provost Marshal. Major COOPER, who came to Sheppard AFB from an assignment involving work related to Moon Dust, made a personal evaluation.”
Yes, there was that charred debris. And, yes, there were indeed portions of what was clearly regular, normal parachute material. But, nothing else. Speculation suggested that perhaps a military device had gone astray, maybe even an American device. So, we have something that, in the documentation, was referred to as a “UFO,” but which clearly had down to earth origins. And, years later, in the early 1980s, one of the team told his daughter a tale of the day that dad was involved in the recovery of a UFO. Which was absolutely true in the literal sense. But, that didn’t make the UFO an alien spacecraft.
Back then, the term “UFO” was often used to describe probable Soviet technology that was still being studied. And, when it was identified, it was no longer a UFO. Ufologists would do well to remember this: what “UFO” means to us, doesn’t always mean the same for the U.S. military.
WETENSCHAPEr zijn geruchten dat in de VS een nieuw elementair deeltje is gevonden. Dat meldt de Britse openbare omroep BBC. Indien dit klopt, staat de deeltjesfysica mogelijk op zijn kop, en hebben kosmologen ook weer extra voer om aan het nadenken te slaan.
De deeltjesfysica is nog steeds niet bekomen van de fenomenale vondst in 2012 van een deeltje waarvan het bestaan in 1964 was geopperd door de Schot Peter Higgs, en de Belgen François Englert en Robert Brout. Het higgsbosondeeltje, dat alle andere deeltjes hun massa geeft en het sluitstuk vormt van het Standaardmodel omtrent het wezen van de materie.
Wetenschappers zijn nog steeds bezig de mysteries van higgsboson te ontrafelen, maar kijken ook reeds uit naar een presentatie morgen in Heidelberg. Er doen immers geruchten de ronde dat er in het Fermilab in de VS ook aanwijzingen van het bestaan van een verondersteld deeltje zijn gevonden: het steriele neutrino. Neutrino’s, die geen elektrische lading hebben, interacteren slechts zeer zwak met andere elementaire deeltjes, waardoor ze ook de bijnaam “spookdeeltjes” kregen. Zij kunnen ook oscilleren - lees “van gedaante wisselen” - in drie verschillende vormen, of in het jargon “smaken”: het elektron-neutrino, het muon-neutrino en het tau-neutrino.
Maar er is ook een vierde smaak geopperd: het steriele neutrino. De drie bestaande neutrino’s interacteren enkel via de zwakke kernkracht (een van de fundamentele krachten in het universum) en gravitatie. Het steriele neutrino zou primair met gravitatie interacteren.
Nieuwe theorie nodig
Natuurkundigen van het MiniBooNe-experiment in het Fermilab hebben nu een anomalie bevestigd in experimenten die bedoeld waren om neutrino-oscillaties te onderzoeken. En die anomalie zou te verklaren zijn door het bestaan van een vierde neutrino, het steriele neutrino. De gevolgen zijn zeer groot. Het Standaardmodel volstaat immers niet meer om alles te verklaren, en er is nieuwe theorie nodig.
Het deeltje kan ook een rol hebben gespeeld in het ontstaan van de kosmos, en kan een verklaring vormen voor de mysterieuze donkere materie in het universum. De steriele neutrino’s zijn dan kandidaat-deeltjes van de donkere materie.
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Crop Circle Dorset, UK resembles a scene from the movie ‘the Arrival’ – Drone footage 4K
Crop Circle Dorset, UK resembles a scene from the movie ‘the Arrival’ – Drone footage 4K
A new crop picture at Ackling Dyke, Nr Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, UK on June 4, 2018 shows a “seven-pointed star”, with “small round jewels” and Aztec-Mayan symbols for “calendar time” around the outside:
The crop circle resembles a scene from a movie called “The Arrival” (2016). Will “alien heptapods” really come soon to Earth, or is this just a clever joke by the crop artists?
At the moment there are 20 volcanoes erupting around the world, most are concentrated in the Ring of Fire and it seems the situation is getting worse.
Besides that the Merapi and Sinanbung volcanoes erupt in Indonesia, with the on going eruptions in Hawaii, the situation in Hawaii is not getting any better, a USGS time-lapse of the Kilauea summitreveals a 1500 yard section that's 400 yards wide make a significant shift downwards which is a major move.
Meanwhile Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted violently on Sunday, prompting deadly pyroclastic flows which buried rural areas and today the volcano has erupted again.
The death toll from the eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala has risen to 69. The volcano began erupting Sunday, sending columns of smoke and ash 10 km into the air, killing dozens by engulfing them in floods of searing ash and mud.
At least 1.7mn people have been affected by the volcano’s sudden violent activity, with more than 3,200 people forced to flee their homes.
And today the Fuego volcano has erupted again setting off new evacuations and alarm as rescuers continue to search for survivors
As we all know we are still curious whether we are alone in this universe or not for decades now.
It goes beyond our limit of understanding. The experts and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of UFO. Until now we are still hearing different gossips about UFOs being sighted here and there. For decades the answers to our questions are still unknown.
Gympie is one of the places that UFOs are being sighted. One of the sightings happened in June 2017 wherein an anonymous man claimed that he saw a mysterious flying object high above the town.
The mad said that it was around 11 to 11:30 in the morning when he saw the object. At first glance, it was hard to make out the shape of the object, and its movements were languid and very deliberately.
According to the man, it made a path somewhere around where Widgee would be before going south and back again. When the object tried to turn in place at a certain point, the witness saw its triangular shape and a metallic body with the glowing lights.
The man was not convinced of what he saw. Could this be one of the proof that we are not alone?
Another sighting that occurred in Gympie was on June 2015 when James Loose was annoyed when he captured an unusual purple light with his camera. Then after this picture was posted on Facebook to answer his query, it was later said that the light was a stationary, north-west and twinkling about 35 degrees above the horizon.
For almost three years the source of light that was captured still can’t be determined.
On October 2013, a resident named Wayne Kuskopf claimed that he saw an extraterrestrial after he glimpsed a brightly coloured object in the night sky from his kitchen.
According to Mr Kuskopf, he immediately thought it was a UFO after seeing a circle of red lights with a pale green centre. He said it was hanging above the top of the mountain and remained still for a while before moving westward towards Woolooga and shrinking the whole time.
It was his first time to see things like that, but according to his neighbours, they had seen something similar before.
Bright flying saucer photographed over Portugal 25-May-2018
Bright flying saucer photographed over Portugal 25-May-2018
Check out this interesting photograph of a disc-shaped UFO that was taken over Vila Pouca de Aguiar in Portugal on 25th May 2018.
Witness report:
I was at work after Prenoitar, (spending the night) in this town (Vila little de Aguiar-Portugal). This morning, we get ready to start the service, changing the advertising panels by the road. While on a break, I took three pictures in the position from right to left, my attention was aroused by a cloud-shaped line by the mountain and below the level of it. In the middle from the valley, I shot 3 to 4 photos. On the last already on the left side appears the object, which I only detected later when I transfered it to my computer.
Perhaps it should be close encounters of the blurred kind?
New research suggests that UFO sightings in the U.S., which tend to move in six- or seven-year fluctuating cycles, are in a permanent downtrend — and researchers are puzzled.
Cheryl Costa, recently named Researcher of the Year by the International UFO Congress, has found that yearly UFO sightings in the country are now 7,837 on average, a drop of "a whopping" 41 percent from the three-year peak average years.
Costa, who wrote up her findings in the Syracuse New Times, explained that during the cycles, UFO sightings rise to a peak, decline back toward the baseline, and then rise to initiate a new cycle.
Between 2012 and 2014, the U.S. had a peak average of 13,500 yearly UFO sightings, Costa wrote, citing data from NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) and MUFON (Mutual UFO Network).
However, in 2015, sightings fell 11 percent to 11,975 and 2016 saw an even more dramatic drop, falling 21 percent to 10,602.
Costa has not yet found a solid reason for the significant drop in sightings, but speculated that it had to do with broadband Internet access.
"We see relatively flat sighting report numbers from 2001 to 2006," Costa wrote. "This flatness is considered an artifact of reporting, as broadband Internet access was still growing in most areas. Access to broadband is a major driver in people having routine use of web reporting services such as NUFORC and MUFON."
Costa noted that New York state rose to the fourth-most likely place to see a UFO during 2016 and 2017, but dropped significantly from its peak average, at 325 sightings seen in 2017, down from an average of 577 seen between the period of 2012 and 2014.
She wrote that both the national and New York state charts show the classic rise-and-fall pattern from 2006 to 2010 and in 2011, the rise starts again.
The spike that was seen in 2012 could be attributed to the "Mayan calendar media ballyhoo," causing more people to look up, Costa said. With that into consideration, the classic UFO sighting cycle is seen "clearly" from 2011 and 2017.
Did ancient humans mistake aliens for Gods? So says TV anchor
Did ancient humans mistake aliens for Gods? So says TV anchor
YouTube channel 'Logical Indian' had suggested that Hindu Gods might be aliens from outer space and now a TV host suggested the same as the theory gains momentum
Children light lamps in the shape of Swastika, on the eve of Hindu festival of Diwali, in the northern city of Chandigarh, November 11, 2004. According to Hindu mythology, Swastika is the sign of prosperity.
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Giorgio Tsoukalos, the television host known for presenting 'Ancient Aliens' in History Channel has now claimed that humans in the ancient past might have misunderstood alien visitors as Gods.
The TV host made these remarks while presenting his theory about the origin of religions on the planet at the annual 'Contact in the Desert' UFO conference in Indiana Wells, California.
During the speech, the television conspiracy theorist alleged early people misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their advanced technology was interpreted as magic. Earlier, several conspiracy theorists have suggested that ancient gods, especially in the Hindu and Greek mythology were aliens from deep space.
"The reason that we're in the crap that we're in today is because of misunderstood technology. The reason we have religion today is because of misunderstood visits of extra-terrestrials," said Tsoukalos, said reports.
The 'Ancient Aliens' presenter revealed that evidence of misinterpreted technology can be seen in Egyptian pyramids and in ancient arts and literature.
The conspiracy theorist also criticized archeologists all over the world for turning their blind eye towards evidence of alien visitors in ancient relics. It should be noted that several ancient cave paintings were discovered from various parts of the world and these paintings show alien-like figures and UFO in it.
According to this TV host, extraterrestrial space travellers used to wear space suits during travelling the way our astronauts do today during their space travels.
Flat-earth believers
However, Tsoukalos has lashed out against flat-earth believers and assured that the earth is round. He made it clear that humans will one day explore the farthest corner of the Universe, and will be in touch with other alien races.
However, skeptics have several times criticized Tsoukalos claiming that the TV host is presenting pseudo-history in front of the viewers.
Previously, YouTube channel 'Logical Indian' had suggested that Hindu Gods might be aliens from outer space.
"Aliens who reached earth million years back were actually superhuman, super powerful and super intelligent species. According to Ramayana and Mahabharata, the exotic capabilities of Hindu Gods are the ability to disappear and appear, super intelligence, knowledge of vimanas and the ability to read the human mind," says Logical Indian.
Those who believe in this theory insist that aliens are actually gods as they possess these impeccable abilities.
Dark flying objects have been suspected to be UFOs recently.
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Conspiracy theory channel 'UFO Mania' has uploaded an eerie video claiming that non-human entities like ghost helicopters are in control of our skies. Using inputs from a website named 'UFO Spain', the narrator of the video argues that these dark flying objects are completely black in color, and it lacks any kind of number plates or identification marks.
According to conspiracy theorists, these black helicopters are often connected with several cases of alien abduction, cattle mutilation events, and UFO encounters. Initially, many alien enthusiasts argued that these black helicopters could actually be secret military vessels developed by the government. But now, the conspiracy theory channel has suggested that the real truth about these flying objects might be more shocking and terrifying.
In the video, the narrator connected the strange case of cattle mutilations which happened in the 1970s with these mysterious flying objects. Floyd K. Haskell, who was the senator for the state of Colorado at that time even contacted the FBI and asked to investigate the strange case of mutilations.
It should be noted that the cattle mutilations were carried out with a terrifying precision and surgical excellence. In all the cases of mutilations, the left ear, rectum and the sexual organ of the animals were cut, and interestingly, not even a single blood tinge was found on the ground.
In these cases of cattle mutilations, dark helicopters were seen flying across the areas in complete silence. Conspiracy theorists argue that no helicopters can fly in such silence, and they claim that these flying objects might be made using alien technology. The video also reveals that some of those black helicopters have shape-shifting abilities.
However, skeptics argue that humans have already mastered advanced technologies, and most of these innovations are being covered up from the common man's eye.
"The average American has no idea what technology the government has. They are far ahead of what they allow to be released to the sleeping masses. They don't need technology from the so-called Aliens. Just like the average American has no idea what is going on in other countries. Just because the sheeple don't know about it doesn't mean it came from nonhuman beings. Just like this post, it's all part of The Great Deception leading the sheeple into something they can not get out of," commented Arliss Young, a YouTube user.
These skeptics also made it clear that the US government has been using these silent crafts for covert operations.
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Aliens created GOD when they left Earth - TV history presenter claims
Aliens created GOD when they left Earth - TV history presenter claims
ANCIENT alien civilisations were once mistakenly venerated by humans, creating the base for modern-day religion, it has been spectacularly claimed by History Channel presenter Giorgio Tsoukalos.
Mr Tsoukalos presented his incredible theory about the origins of religion at the annual Contact in the Desert UFO conference in Indiana Wells, California, this weekend.
The TV conspiracy theorist known for hosting Ancient Aliens on the History Channel gave an impassioned two-hour talk about ancient encounters between humans and extraterrestrial astronauts.
The UFO-hunter alleged early people misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their technology was interpreted as magic.
He said: “The reason that we’re in the crap that we’re in today is because of misunderstood technology.
“The reason we have religion today is because of misunderstood visits of extra-terrestrials.”
According to Mr Tsoukalos, examples of the misrepresented technology are evident in the Egyptian and Central American Pyramids as well as ancient literature and art.
The TV host blamed archaeologists for dismissing evidence of alien visitors in ancient relics as artwork of gods, magic and other fantastical beings.
Among other things, the Ancient Aliens host claimed the Earth is round and not flat, humans will one day explore the far corners of space and aliens do in fact need space suits when travelling through space.
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Alien claim: TV presenter Giorgio Tsoukalos believes in ancient alien astronauts
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Mr Tsoukalos came to prominence for his appearance on the History Channel show
He said: “If the alien guy says that the Earth is round, trust me, it’s round.”
The reason we have religion today is because of misunderstood visits of extra-terrestrials
Giorgio Tsoukalos, Ancient Aliens
Mr Tsoukalos is a vocal proponent of the idea alien astronauts interacted with ancient humans in the past.
His offbeat theories came to prominence and online fame thanks to his appearances on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens.
The TV host has since appeared on the Travel Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel and National Geographic.
However, his work on Ancient Aliens has been described by audiences to be farfetched and extremely speculative.
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Mr Tsoukalos gave a speech at the Desert Expo UFO conference in California
Historian Ronald Fritze criticised the “pseudohistory” presented by the show’s experts.
He said: “The producers provided the window dressing of giving both the true believers and the skeptics some screen time.
“In the end, however, the final presentation was heavily stacked in favour of those who believe in ancient astronauts.”
The Contact in the Desert Expo is an annual UFO and alien conference held in the US.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. John Alexander is a retired senior Army officer with decades of experience with a wide range of phenomena. Traveling to all eight continents, he has encountered events that defy common explanation. A psychic adventurer, he practiced psychokinetic metal bending, fire walking, and caused a white crow to fly for the National Academy of Sciences. A founding board member of IRVA, he is a past-president of IANDS, and former SSE councilor. Straddling two worlds, he is also retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and served on studies with the National Research Council, the Army Science Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, NATO, and was a senior fellow of a DoD university. Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross headed his doctoral committee.
John was also a member of the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), an organization founded by Robert Bigelow. Bigelow then went on the create Bigelow Aerospace and Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The later was the department within Bigelow Aerospace that handles investigations into paranormal phenomena. It has been recently revealed that for several years these investigations were receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). As a former member of Army Intelligence and investigator for Bigelow’s NIDS organization, John has a unique insight into the recent news regarding BAASS’ association with the DoD.
The World’s First Floating Nation To Launch In Pacific Ocean In 2022, With Own Government And Cryptocurrency
The World’s First Floating Nation To Launch In Pacific Ocean In 2022, With Own Government And Cryptocurrency
The Floating City will become the first floating nation on Earth–a Libertarian utopia free of regulation and taxes. It will feature offshore housing, use its own cryptocurrency, and operate ‘outside of government regulations’.
The plan to create the first floating city started off a decade ago when Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author co-founded a nonprofit called Seasteading Institute.
In a 2009 essay, Mr. Thiel wrote, “Between cyberspace and outer space lies the possibility of settling the oceans.”
Since then, the project has taken a long leap, and as things stand now, the institute is set to embark on a pilot project with the Government of French Polynesia.
Image Credit: Seasteading Institute
The world’s first independent floating nation will soon launch in the Pacific Ocean and will operate outside of government regulations, using its own cryptocurrency called ‘Vyron’.
The floating city, a sea-bound city-state featuring around 300 intricately designed homes, a number of hotels, restaurants, offices and other buildings is being built in the Pacific Ocean near the island of Tahiti.
The floating city-state was a project never attempted before.
Its founders imagined the floating city as a Libertarianutopiafreeofregulationandtaxes.
But the plan developed beyond that.
Image Credit: Blue Frontiers
Speaking to Business Insider, Joe Quirk, president of the Institute said how he and his team now see the floating city a way mankind can coup with rising sea levels, which are sadly expected to increase by more than six feet by the end of the century.
Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, a political scientist and researchers from the Floating Island Project say how the islands residents will be free of ‘fluctuating geopolitical influences and trade issues’ and claimed the independent sea nation could one-day house refugees displaced by climate change.
“There is significance to this project being trialed in the Polynesian Islands. This is the region where land is resting on coral and will disappear with rising sea levels. Once we can see how this first island works, we will have a proof of concept to plan for islands to house climate refugees,” said Mr. Mezza Garcia in an interview with CNBC.
Image Credit: Blue Frontiers
The independent floating city is expected to cost around $50 million, and will float in international waters, while operating within its own laws, and will ‘liberate humanity from politicians’, according to the SeasteadingInstitute.
The floating city is a massive project in today’s radicalized society.
The floating island’s non-residential buildings are designed to operate as business centers, which will offer a number of companies to work ‘outside government regulations’.
“This means there is stability, outside of fluctuating geopolitical influences, trade issues, and currency fluctuations – it’s the perfect incubator,” Ms. Mezza Garcia explained.
“If you don’t want to live under a particular government, ‘people will be able to just take their house and float away to another island,” added Ms. Mezza Garcia.
The Journey to make the floating city-state happen was a long one. The Seasteading Institute, co-founded by Mr. Thiel has worked for the last five years designing and testing ‘permanent, innovative communities floating at sea’.
Their journey has seen them team up with Blue frontiers– a startup that specializes in building floating islands.
Image Credit: Blue Frontiers
The design of the floating city took inspiration from the Polynesian culture, in particular from their traditional navigation, based on observation and vast knowledge of natural elements.
The designers of the floating city-state reflected mountains and hills, the shape of ocean reefs and numerous different underwater landmarks, as well as the rising and setting of the moon, the sun and stars in the design.
Interestingly, the small platforms featuring the villas are set to be aligned with the path of the stars of Sirius according to the plans.
As explained by the Daily Mail, “Larger platforms with mixed-use buildings aligned to the celestial pillar Pou, starting from the main platform, the ‘star headlight’ or Ta’urua, and ending by the guide star Avei’a, passing through the zenith of the floating island.”
Image Credit: Seasteading Institute.
“During several visits to French Polynesia and after getting acquainted with the environment and the local contexts, one thing was sure, the project has to blend into its environment. To achieve this, local environmental characteristics, climate, ecology and cultural context have all been studied and play a major role in the process.”
“The project, however, doesn’t only want to not hurt the existing environment, the vision of the Blue Frontiers [is to] facilitate the development of more conscious and balanced settlements at sea where humans can peacefully coexist with the environment and with each other,” explains a written statement by the Seasteading Institute.
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The Solar System Has At Least Eight Giant, Secret Oceans Where Extraterrestrial Life May Exist
The Solar System Has At Least Eight Giant, Secret Oceans Where Extraterrestrial Life May Exist
An illustration of salty ocean water spraying from the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa.
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By Dave Mosher, Skye Gould and Jenny Cheng
Scientists recently found even more evidencethat Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is hiding an enormous ocean of saltwater.
To say Europa’s ocean is vast would be an understatement. If all of Earth’s water — oceans, lakes, rivers, rain, clouds, and more — were combined into one blob, it’d be just half as large as Europa’s liquid reservoir. (And Europa is about the size of Earth’s moon.)
Scientists think Europa’s ocean might even be habitable to alien life.
“If there’s life at Europa, it’d almost certainly be an independently evolved form of life,” Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, previously told Business Insider. “Would it use DNA or RNA? Would it use the same chemistry to store and use energy? Discovering extraterrestrial life would revolutionize our understanding of biology.”
But Europa is just one of many ocean worlds in the solar system, including Enceladus, Pluto, Titan, and Ganymede.
To figure out how much liquid water and ice these worlds have compared to Earth, Business Insider contacted Steve Vance, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Vance closely monitors research about ocean worlds to create estimates of ice thickness, ocean depth, and other parameters.
The graphics below use Vance’s data and other sources to show the probable volume of liquid water on eight known ocean worlds besides Earth.
Volumes are shown in zettaliters (ZL), a unit that’s equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters or 1 billion cubic kilometers. Earth harbors about 1.335 ZL of water, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Enceladus vs. Earth
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Enceladus is a relatively small moon of Saturn, at just 314 miles in diameter — about as wide as the state of Arizona. But its ocean sprays water into space. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft confirmed the ocean’s existence after its arrival in 2004, later detecting and flying through the water plumes to “taste” them.
Note:Because Earth has a very small amount of ice relative to other ocean worlds, this graphic and the following ones only depict our planet’s liquid water.
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Triton is a moon of Neptune that’s some 2.8 billion miles from Earth. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by, measure, and photograph Triton. Those sequential photos showed that Triton has “cryovolcanoes” that spew out water and ammonia.
Dione vs. Earth
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Dione is a small, icy moon of Saturn. Scientists determined in 2016 that — like Enceladus — Dione likely has a subsurface ocean.
Pluto vs. Earth
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Pluto is the famous planet of yesteryear that astronomers agreed to demote to a dwarf planet. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently helped determine that Pluto has a liquid ocean packed with ammonia — a substance that's toxic to humans, but could feed alien microbes.
Europa vs. Earth
Jenny Cheng and Skye Gould/Business Insider
Europa is the smallest of four Galilean moons of Jupiter (so named because they're the largest and were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610). Europa is about the size of Earth's moon and likely has a huge, salty ocean. Volcanoes on Io, the second-largest Galilean moon, likely burp out sulfur-rich nutrients that then enter Europa's ocean.
Recent studies also suggest that Europa is shooting out jets of this ocean water into space — where a future spacecraft could sample them for signs of life.
Callisto vs. Earth
Jenny Cheng and Skye Gould/Business Insider
Callisto, the second-largest Galilean moon, is covered in ice, and almost certainly has a vast ocean. However, its crust is about 125 miles thick — which makes it very difficult for scientists to discover what's going on down there.
Titan vs. Earth
Jenny Cheng and Skye Gould/Business Insider
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest moon in the solar system. Scientists often refer to it as a "proto-Earth" due to its composition and size. A similarly colossal ocean of liquid water may exist below its roughly 60-mile-thick crust of ice.
Ganymede vs. Earth
Jenny Cheng and Skye Gould/Business Insider
Ganymede is the largest of Jupiter's Galilean moons, and the biggest moon in the solar system. Its stores of water may outnumber Earth's by a ratio of 18 to one.
How all the ocean worlds stack up
Earth is much bigger than other ocean worlds in the solar system, but Europa, Pluto, and others have bigger oceans of liquid water.Jenny Cheng/Business Insider
Mimas, a moon of Saturn, and Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, might also have subsurface oceans. But scientists aren't yet sure how big each one might be, if they exist at all.
Does intelligent life exist somewhere else in Universe apart from Earth? Should we believe people claiming to have seen strange Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)? Are their aliens looking at us without our knowledge? U’th Time (UT) asks India’s youth their opinions on one of the most controversial (and interesting) topics mankind has ever dealt with. Continue reading to hear shocking answers & revelations…
UFOs, Aliens and Extraterrestrials are considered one of the most controversial topics to ever face mankind and they continue to be so. No Governments on planet Earth have ever formally discussed the presence (or absence) of Aliens primarily due to lack of any physical contact with Extraterrestrial life. However, there are many who believe in the existence of intelligent life on other planets and are optimistic that soon there will be full disclosure.
WHY Aliens CAN exist?
In our Milky Way galaxy, there are estimated to be at least 200,000,000,000 Stars (like Sun) and we go by mathematically (and use the famous Drake’s Equation) there are at least 65 Civilizations like us or even more advanced just in our own Galaxy. In our known Universe, there exist at least 100,000,000,000 Galaxies like ours. Even if we take the lowest probability of one in a million, there still could exist at least 100s of planets like earth and many more civilizations in our known Universe. Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer for SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), is so confident that he set a date for our likely encounter with intelligent alien life forms.
At this juncture, it must also be pointed out that the Universe is expanding as you read this article at unimaginable rates and, hence, giving existence to new galaxies, stars & planets. Is that good enough proof that aliens do exist? Seth Shostak stated, “It is quite likely that there is life elsewhere in our galaxy, and there’s a real possibility that we will find evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life by the year 2025.” At this juncture, it must also be pointed out that the Universe is expanding as you read this article at unimaginable rates and, hence, giving existence to new galaxies, stars & planets. Is that good enough proof that aliens do exist? Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, provides the best answer “To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, the real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.” Well, it seems, at least Mathematically, YES intelligent aliens CAN Exist.
Can Alien life be intelligent?
There’s always a flip side to something as controversial as the existence of Extraterrestrials. The first question that comes to mind is that if intelligent life does exist why haven’t they contacted humans yet? Some of the scientists believe that although life might exist on other planets – it might NOT be intelligent like us HUMANS. So what we see in movies like AVATAR might not be possible just yet! Another interesting point that points towards the non-existence of intelligent alien life is the lack of Robotic (Unmanned) missions to earth, similar to our own space exploration activities and missions on planets such as Mars, Jupiter etc. However, many astronomers have pointed that due to vast distances between Galaxies & Stars, it might be unrealistic to expect that in the vastness of universe other intelligent alien life would only try to find planet ‘Earth’.
Contact with Aliens?
According to Akshit Aggrawal (and a lot of his friends) “aliens do exist and we’ll definitely be contacted by them very soon. There’s no way we are alone in this massive universe – it’s only a matter of time. There have been different documentaries detailing the existence of aliens and some say we’ve already been contacted by them”. In 2008, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, an Apollo 14 astronaut (and the sixth man to walk on the moon), claimed that “Aliens have contacted humans several times but this things have always been kept a secret from the general public”. Moreover, an organization known as ‘The Disclosure Project’ has had over 500 (American) government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, firsthand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology etc. On the contrary, many astronomers believe this to be just propaganda and no real evidence has ever existed to prove that aliens have visited our planet and contacted humans.µ
What does the future hold? Would it ever be possible to witness a small grey person with large eyes standing outside your house to pay a visit from a distant planet? Well, the answer lies from somewhere between a straight ‘NO’ to a ‘MAY BE’. SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, continues to conduct scientific research (and search) through “a set of disciplines ranging from observing and modeling the precursors of life in the depths of outer space to studies of Earth”. The answer to the question ‘Are we alone in the Universe’ is definitely NOT as straightforward as some might believe but yet there are arguments justifying both the absence and presence of intelligent life on other planets. Well all we can do (for now at least) is simply WAIT!
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been prodding and poking around on Mars for well over 2,000 days now, and so far it’s revealed some truly dope stuff about our planetary neighbor. On Thursday, NASA officials will announce even more new findings from the red planet and will answer questions from the public and the media.
Curiosity, which left Earth back in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012, carries instruments that enable it to analyze Martian geology, search for signs of water, and generally investigate whether the planet could have ever hosted any forms of life. And those abilities have paid off in spades. It’s sent back pictures of crystals suggesting water, analyzed rocks to find that Mars once had free oxygen in its atmosphere, and even fixed its own dang drill. NASA announced May 23 that the rover’s new drilling technique is working as hoped, so some have speculated that Thursday’s announcement could have something to do with that.
What has Curiosity found this time? Tune in on Thursday to find out.
Unfortunately, you’ll need to wait until Thursday to get the full announcement. The scientific papers that contain the new information, which will be published Thursday in the journalScience, are under embargo until then. This means that the information is there and it’s all been peer-reviewed by other scientists, it’s just not available to the public yet. There are some small clues we can look to, though, including the scientists who will be on the panel:
Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard
Chris Webster, senior research fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist, JPL
But if you want to know exactly what Curiosity has shown Earth-based scientists about Mars, you’ll need to tune in at 2:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday to find out. Or check back to read the full story on Inverse dot com!
In the Netherlands, 3D printing is entering a new stage: by the end of the year, construction will start on a new type of house — a 3D-printed house.
Credits: 3DPrintedHouse.
The Dutch city of Eindhoven is promoting the innovation and has already received applications from 20 interested families just a week after images were made available. The construction, known as Project Milestone, will be realized in the Eindhoven city expansion area Meerhoven, and will feature five houses, the first of which might be laid down by the end of the year.
The Dutch construction company Van Wijnen worked with researchers from the University of Eindhoven to lay the foundation of the project. The 3D printer in this case is essentially a huge robotic arm with a nozzle that squirts out a specially formulated cement, said to have the texture of whipped cream. The cement is “printed” according to an architect’s design, adding layer upon layer to create a wall, as in all 3D prints. This will ensure that the structure has the necessary strength while not using more materials than necessary.
“We have no need for the moulds used to create houses made with cement today, and so we will never use more cement than is necessary,” said Rudy van Gurp, a manager at Van Wijnen, to The Guardian.
Credits: 3DPrintedHouse.
The design aims at having a smart, efficient, and sustainable construction process. The innovative construction method has several advantages. For starters, it reduces the need for skilled construction workers, which have become a somewhat scarce commodity in the Netherlands. The design techniques are also very flexible — you don’t need to limit construction to the standard shapes, you can opt for any design imaginable. As mentioned above, the process also reduces the total required material, which reduces overall emissions. The 3D-printed cement also enables architects to design very fine concrete structures, blending all kinds, qualities and colors of concrete, all in a single product.
Van Gurp says it will soon be cheaper than conventional building:
“I think by then about 5% of homes will be made using a 3D printer. In the Netherlands, we have a shortage of bricklayers and people who work outside and so it offers a solution to that,” van Gurp says. “It will eventually be cheaper than the traditional methods. Bricklaying is becoming more and more expensive. Alongside, bricks and the use of timber, this will be a third way, which will look like stucco [plastered] houses, which people like.”
Laying the cement. Credits: 3D Printed House.
Credits: 3D Printed House.
The houses will be built consecutively so that all the lessons from a previous house can be applied to the next one. By the time the last house (which comprises three floors and three bedrooms) is completed, the printer will have also developed the drainage pipes and other necessary installations — at least that’s the plan.
While it’s debatable whether it’s the cruelest or most painful form of execution, there’s no doubt that crucifixion is by far the most famous way to die at the hands of the state. While the biblical account goes into great detail with its description, as do other historical accounts of the brutal practices of the Romans, there is no proven physical evidence of that or any other crucifixion using nails to affix the condemned person’s hands or feet to a wooden cross, save for one. Until now.
Crucifixion, etc. (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)
“We found a particular lesion on the foot of a skeleton from an isolated Roman burial discovered by excavation in 2007 in northern Italy. Here we suggest crucifixion as a possible cause of the lesion, but this interpretation is complicated by the poor preservation of the bone surfaces and the damage and holes in other skeletal parts.”
In a new study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, researchers from the universities of Ferrara and Florence in Italy discuss their analysis of the remains of a male found in Gavello, a small town in the Province of Rovigo about 60 km (37 miles) southwest of Venice. According to the Times of Israel, the corpse had been placed in the grave on his back “with the upper limbs at his side and the lower limbs outstretched” – a possible sign, along with the lack of any funeral artifacts, that this was an unusual death. The bones indicated the man died between the ages of 30 and 34, but they were too deteriorated for radiocarbon dating. However, nearby brick and tile pieces placed his death at about 2,000 years ago.
Then there’s the foot. Lesions on the right heel prompted researchers to study it with 3D imaging using a hi-tech digital microscope.
“The presence of an ellipsoidal depressed fracture on the medial side, but not on the lateral, suggests that the injury was inflicted peri-mortem and the blow was inflicted from medial to lateral, causing a breakthrough in the impact area (entry point).”
While not conclusive, that sounds like this foot, and probably the other one, were nailed to a cross with a circular nail. This type of nail was not as common as the traditional Roman square nail, which was found, with a piece of olive wood attached, in the heel bone of one of two males found during a 1968 excavation of tombs in a large Second Temple Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. Once confirmed, that find was hailed as the first solid evidence of crucifixion. (Pictures of the nail-in-bone and the Gavello skeleton here.)
While the Romans pretty much own crucifixion as a form of execution, using it for nearly a thousand years until Constantine the Great abolished it in 337, they didn’t invent it. Crucifixion or impalement was used previously by the Carthaginians, Persians and Macedonians – Alexander the Great of Macedon was said to have crucified 2,000 Phoenicians after defeating their army. Once they learned about it, probably from the Carthaginians, the Romans perfected crucifixion by adding torture and humiliation and lengthening of the process.
With all of these crucifixions allegedly going on for centuries, why are there only two pieces of physical evidence? Most likely it’s because these gruesome executions ended with the desecration of the corpse by leaving it to decompose on the cross or be eaten by scavenger animals. The two skeletons with heels showing signs of crucifixion were buried for some reason, thus preserving them. The skeleton found in Gavello was isolated from the rest in the cemetery, indicating to study co-author Thun Hohenstein that the reason for his crucifixion was known.
“This kind of execution was generally reserved for slaves. The same topographical marginalization of the burial induces us to think that it was an individual considered dangerous and neglected by the society in which he lived that he was rejected by it even after death.”
As some of you will know, I don’t have much of a belief in the theory that UFOs have crashed to Earth (although, I certainly did until around the early 2000s). Indeed, I have written two books on Roswell which, collectively, provide a non-extraterrestrial theory for what came down outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. There is also a body of data that suggests some tales of crashed UFOs were created by U.S. Intelligence in the 1950s. The reason: to try and convince the Russians that the government had got its hands on alien materials, wreckage and technology. That does not, however, take away the fact that there are still some interesting tales to address. One of them is a fairly obscure event that occurred in 1952, and which is the subject of today’s article.
Within the UFO files of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations that are held at the National Archives, there is a USAF document which is dated July 23, 1952. It briefly describes an event that occurred in Maryland, only twenty-four hours earlier. The document reads like this:
“On 22 July 1952, Colonel Smith, Executive Officer, Directorate of Intelligence, USAF, advised that his office had just received a call from the above captioned individual, and that he was concerned over some object that had apparently fallen in a wooded area behind his home. According to Colonel Smith, Mr. [Deleted] resides on Layhill Road, Silver Springs, Maryland, and is employed by some Buick Company in the Silver Springs area. Colonel Smith further stated that Mr. [Deleted] reported this incident to the local police on 19 July 1952, the date the incident occurred, but having received no satisfaction decided to call the Air Force on 22 July 1952. I telephonically communicated the above information to Colonel White, District Commander, DO #4.”
While the matter was not resolved, there is one issue that is worth noting when it comes to this particular account. That issue is the time-frame. July 1952 was also when a UFO “invasion” occurred in Washington, D.C. It was an affair that disturbed elements of the military and caught the deep attention of the CIA. UFOs were not just seen: they were also tracked on radar. It was a major development in the UFO phenomenon.
Keeping in mind the D.C. wave of July 1952, and the “object that had apparently fallen in a wooded area” in Maryland in the same time-frame, it’s worth noting the words of a Canadian engineer named Wilbert Smith. According to Smith – who shared the story with U.S. Navy Rear Admiral H.B. Knowles – he knew of the recovery of a piece of a flying saucer that had “…been shot from a small flying saucer near Washington in July [1952].” Not only that, Smith claimed possession of that same “piece.”
Smith said, in an interview with UFO researcher C.W. Fitch in November 1961: “I showed it to the Admiral. It was a piece of metal about twice the size of your thumb which had been loaned to me for a very short time by [the United States] Air Force. As a general thing they differ only in that they are much harder than our materials. In reality a matrix of magnesium orthosilicate. The matrix had great numbers – thousands – of 15-micron spheres scattered through it.”
According to Smith, he handed the material over to an agency that he would only describe as being “much higher” than the Air Force. When asked if the agency might have been the CIA, Smith refused to say anything more, except that the debris was in “…the hands of a highly classified group.”
It’s important to note that much of what has been said about Smith has been distorted (see Paul Kimball’s on-target article “Oh Canada – Wilbert Smith & UFOs”), and particularly so certain issues relative to controversial tales of dead aliens and crashed UFOs. Kimball suggests that what Smith learned about crashed UFOs may actually have been disinformation, “aimed at the Soviets,” and possibly “designed to convince Stalin that the United States had access to advanced alien technology.”
Whatever the truth, it might be worth someone’s time to look further into the matter of the incident at Silver Springs, Maryland in July 1952, the UFO wave of the summer of 1952 in D.C., and the words of Smith. Maybe, somewhere, there’s a connection. Maybe.
Enrico Fermi’s famous paradoxical question in response to the high probability that extraterrestrial civilizations exist and should be visiting us has spawned a controversial answer and another question … and this time, the answer could get ugly.
“What if the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?”
Alexander Berezin, a theoretical physicist at the National Research University of Electronic Technology in Russia, proposed in a new paper, published in arXiv, that the ability to leave one’s home planet and travel to other worlds may require the attitude that nothing will stand in their way and anything that does will be annihilated. Berezin calls this his “First in, last out” hypothesis, meaning that the first civilization to achieve the capacity to travel to other worlds will be the last civilization standing. (“Last Civilization Standing” – soon to be a major motion picture?)
“I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other lifeforms, Most likely, they simply won’t notice, the same way a construction crew demolishes an anthill to build real estate because they lack incentive to protect it.”
That pretty picture requires a few assumptions. Berezin proposes that the driving force of all life forms is the desire for growth. That’s not one of the Seven Pillars of Life (Program, Improvisation, Compartmentalization, Energy, Regeneration, Adaptability, and Seclusion – PICERAS) described by American biochemist Daniel E. Koshland in 2002 as a universal definition of life. It’s not hard to justify global conquest conquest and colonialism under this restricted definition, but Berezin says it’s also the reason for free market capitalism and the threat of artificial intelligence.
“One rogue AI can potentially populate the entire supercluster with copies of itself, turning every solar system into a supercomputer, and there is no use asking why it would do that. All that matters is that it can.”
Fortunately, Berezin says we’re safe from annihilation. Unfortunately, that’s the ugly side of his hypothesis. To borrow the wisdom of Walt Kelly’s famous Pogo cartoon:
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Berezin’s other assumption is that humans are the first civilization in the universe to achieve space travel (if none has arrived yet, it must be us – a nod to Fermi’s question) … which means we’re the intergalactic construction crew destined to crush the anthills of life across the universe.
If Berezin is right, can we change our destructive destiny?
“Stopping humans from accidentally obliterating all rival life-forms would require a total culture shift spurred by forces far stronger than the free will of individuals.”
If Berezin is right, SHOULD we change our destructive destiny? Do we want to be the anthill?
“Perhaps there are aliens out there but if humans find them how likely is it that they will welcome a superior advanced race with open arms?”
Throughout UFO lore, there are recurring reports of anomalous aerial phenomena or even alien beings contacting Earthlings telepathically. In some cases, individuals have claimed that extraterrestrial lifeforms have contacted them with messages of “cosmic importance,” only to be met with little but skepticism or derision outside of or even from within ufology circles. Still, well-known researchers such as J. Allen Hynek have spent significant portions of their careers interviewing these alleged telepathic contactees in hopes of potentially discovering evidence of contact with an extraterrestrial consciousness.
That contact may be taking place in Japan, if the claims of one Japanese researcher are confirmed. According to “occult researcher” Toshitaro Yamaguchi, 13-year-old “UFO boy” Haruya Ido from Tokushima Prefecture in southern Japan is a classic example of a UFO contactee who can communicate telepathically with whoever or whatever is in control of several anomalous objects reportedly photographed by Ido. Is Japan’s “UFO boy” the real deal?
English-language reports on Ido are scarce, but Yahoo! Japanand Korea-based internet portal Naver have both covered the story. According to reports, Ido can attract unidentified flying objects – or perhaps they attract him. Yamaguchi posted what are reported to be Ido’s pictures to Japanese social media, showing several different types of UFOs seen over Tokushima Prefecture. “It is reflected on the street lamps at the side of the road, I wonder if it is an Adamski type UFO,” Ido wrote about a UFO reportedly spotted on March 29, 2017.
Ido isn’t the first young person to be alleged to be a frequent contactee. Beginning with George Adamski in the 1950s, dozens of other alleged cases have been reported around the world, sometimes veering into shamanism. Unfortunately for these contactees, there seems to still be a stigma surrounding these cases which leads to them being ignored by “serious” researchers. Is there anything to the cases of Japan’s “UFO boy” and other telepathic contactees?
Max PixelOnze dagen worden langer, en dat heeft alles te maken met de afstand van de maan tot de aarde.
WETENSCHAPJe merkt het niet, maar de dagen op aarde worden jaar na jaar iets langer. Terwijl de maan zich langzaam van de aarde verwijdert, vertraagt de rotatie van onze planeet. En dat betekent langere dagen.
Volgens nieuwe berekeningen duurt een dag anno 2018 vijf uur en vijftien minuten langer dan een miljard jaar geleden. Amerikaanse onderzoekers kwamen tot die concusie op basis van astronomische theorieën en geochemische aanwijzingen in miljoenen jaren oude rotsen.
Dat betekent dat de dagen op aarde sinds die tijd elk jaar één 74.000ste van een seconde langer worden. En die trend zal zich volgens de onderzoekers nog miljoenen jaren verderzetten.
44.000 kilometer verder
Dat alles heeft te maken met de stand van de maan ten opzichte van de aarde. Stephen Meyers van de universiteit van Wisconsin-Madison en Alberto Malinverno van Columbia University in New York berekenden dat de maan de voorbije 1,4 miljard jaar zo’n 44.000 kilometer weggedreven is van de aarde - of 3,82 centimeter per jaar. Ze bevindt zich nu op een afstand van 384.400 kilometer.
Die evolutie zal zich niet eeuwig verderzetten, schrijven de onderzoekers in het vakblad Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Op een bepaald moment in de verre toekomst zal de maan een stabiele afstand tot de aarde bereiken. Ze zal dan slechts zichtbaar zijn vanaf één halfrond van de aarde, en nooit vanaf het andere.
Nasa will hold a press conference to reveal its latest findings from Mars this week.
Few details have leaked about the mysterious new announcement, which will be streamed online from 7pm BST (2pm EDT) on Thursday 7 June.
Nasa is staying tight-lipped about what it has discovered on the red planet, but it has confirmed the announcement will feature ‘new science results from Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover’.
Curiosity was sent to Mars in August 2012 to to study its climate and geology as well as investigate whether the planet could sustain life or has liquid water.
It is possible the new 'science results' from the rover could relate to Martian life.
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Nasa's Curiosity rover pictured taking a selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. The rover is now 11 miles (18 km) from the original landing site where it touched down in August 2012
Nasa has not announced where the event will be held, but it is likely the agency will host it at its headquarters in Washington, DC.
Given that Curiosity recently started to drill into the Martian surface for the first time in 18 months, it is also possible the announcement relates to something unearthed by the rover.
Curiosity was forced to abandon plans to take samples from the surface of the planet after mechanical issues took its drill offline back in October 2016.
However, Nasa engineers developed a new technique to restore the robotic explorer’s drilling ability, using its robotic arm to push the drill bit forward as it spins, much like a human might operate a drill.
The new drilling technique, dubbed Feed Extended Drilling (FED), keeps the drill bit extended beyond the stabiliser posts, which were previously used to steady the drill against the rocks.
Engineers developed the technique using an exact duplicate of the Curiosity rover on Earth.
It took almost a year to devise the method, which was successfully used on Mars on 20 May.
Nasa will hold a press conference to reveal ‘new science results from Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover’ on Thursday 7 June at 7pm BST (2pm EDT)
The new drilling technique is known as Feed Extended Drilling (FED), and keeps the drill’s bit extended beyond the stabiliser posts that were previously used to steady the drill against the rocks, NASA explains
Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist at Nasa’s Mars Science Laboratory at JPL — the official title for the Curiosity rover's £1.9 billion ($2.5 billion) mission, is scheduled to take part in the press conference later this week, further fuelling speculation the announcement relates to something uncovered by Curiosity.
Michelle Thaller, assistant director of science for communications in Nasa’s Planetary Science Division, based at its headquarters in Washington DC, will host the event.
Also on the bill is Paul Mahaffy, Solar System Exploration Division Director at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist at Goddard.
Curiosity rover was forced to abandon plans to take samples from the surface of the planet after mechanical issues took its drill offline back in October 2016 (CGI Render By Nasa)
Chris Webster, a senior research fellow at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will also be on the panel on Thursday.
Nasa will live stream the event on its Nasa TV channel, as well as Facebook Live, Twitch TV, Ustream, YouTube and Twitter.
Viewers will be able to put questions to the panel by using the social media hashtag #askNASA.
WHAT IS THE MARS CURIOSITY ROVER AND WHAT HAS IT ACHIEVED SO FAR?
The Mars Curiosity rover was initially launched from Cape Canaveral, an American Air Force station in Florida on November 26, 2011.
After embarking on a 350 million mile (560 million km) journey, the £1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) research vehicle touched down only 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from the earmarked landing spot.
After a successful landing on August 6th, 2012, the rover has travelled about 11 miles (18 km).
It was launched on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft and the rover constituted 23 per cent of the mass of the total mission.
With 80 kg (180 lb) of scientific instruments on board, the rover weighs a total of 899 kg (1,982 lb) and is powered by a plutonium fuel source.
The rover is 2.9 metres (9.5 ft) long by 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) wide by 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) in height.
The Mars curiosity rover was initially intended to be a two-year mission to gather information to help answer if the planet could support life, has liquid water, study the climate and the geology of Mars an has since been active for more than 2,000 days
The rover was initially intended to be a two-year mission to gather information to help answer if the planet could support life, has liquid water, study the climate and the geology of Mars.
Due to its success, the mission has been extended indefinitely and has now been active for over 2,000 days.
The rover has several scientific instruments on board, including the mastcam which consists of two cameras and can take high-resolution images and videos in real colour.
So far on the journey of the car-sized robot it has encountered an ancient streambed where liquid water used to flow, not long after it also discovered that billions of years ago, a nearby area known as Yellowknife Bay was part of a lake that could have supported microbial life.The Mars Curiosity rover was initially launched from Cape Canaveral, an American Air Force station in Florida, on November 26, 2011.
The rover was initially intended to be a two-year mission to gather information to help answer if the planet could support life or has liquid water, as well as study the climate and the geology of Mars.
However, due to its success, the mission has been extended indefinitely and has now been active for over 2,000 days, sending back thousands of pictures during its lonely mission.
The £1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) rover has since travelled about 11 miles (18 km) on the Martian surface.
Curiosity will be superseded by a new Nasa rover in 2020, which will collect Martian soil in up to 31 pen-sized canisters which will be sent back to Earth for analysis.
The ambitious plan also involves a rover developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) called ExoMars, which is set to reach the red planet in 2021 and will simultaneously drill deep into the surface to look for evidence of life.
ExoMars will be capable of drilling as far down as 6.5 feet (two meters).
The second step of the joint Nasa-ESA mission will launch a ‘fetch rover,’ which will retrieve the samples from the other rovers.
Then, it would return to its lander and place the samples in a small rocket dubbed a Mars Ascent Vehicle.
WHAT IS THE EXOMARS MISSION?
The main goal of ExoMars is to find out if life has ever existed on Mars.
The spacecraft on which the Schiaparelli travelled to Mars, Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), carries a probe to study trace gases such as methane around the planet.
Scientists believe methane, a chemical that on Earth is strongly tied to life.
The second part of the ExoMars mission, delayed to 2020, will deliver a rover to Mars' surface.
It will be the first with the ability to both move across the planet's surface and drill into the ground to collect and analyse samples.
Schiaparelli was designed to test technologies for the rover's landing in four years - but, it crashed into the red planet in October 2016.
This will launch the container holding the samples to Mars orbit, where it will be collected by a spacecraft – which would require its own separate launch from Earth.
After gathering the samples and loading them to an Earth entry vehicle, the craft would return to Earth with the Martian soil.
The opportunity to analyse Martian soil would provide unprecedented access to the red planet’s history and its potential to host life.
‘Previous Mars missions revealed ancient streambeds and the right chemistry that could have supported microbial life on the red planet,’ said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate.
‘A sample would provide a critical leap forward in our understanding of Mars’ potential to harbour life.’
NASA doet grote aankondiging over leven op Mars. Wat heeft het ruimteagentschap ontdekt op de rode planeet?
NASA doet grote aankondiging over leven op Mars. Wat heeft het ruimteagentschap ontdekt op de rode planeet?
De NASA houdt deze week een persconferentie over de nieuwste ontdekkingen op Mars. Er is nog weinig bekend over de mysterieuze aankondiging, die op donderdag zal worden gedaan.
Het ruimteagentschap heeft alleen gezegd dat de aankondiging betrekking heeft op nieuwe wetenschappelijke resultaten van NASA’s Marsrover Curiosity.
Het is goed mogelijk dat de nieuwe resultaten verband houden met leven op Mars, schrijft de Daily Mail.
Grondboringen
Curiosity is na 18 maanden voor het eerst begonnen met het doen van grondboringen. Wellicht heeft de rover iets opgegraven.
In oktober werden plannen om bodemmonsters te nemen gestaakt vanwege mechanische problemen.
NASA-wetenschappers ontwikkelden een nieuwe techniek waarmee Curiosity alsnog boringen kon uitvoeren met behulp van de robotarm.
Succesvol getest
Het ontwikkelen van de methode, die op 20 mei succesvol werd getest op Mars, duurde bijna een jaar.
De persconferentie is live te volgen op de website van de NASA, Facebook, Twitch, Ustream, YouTube en Twitter.
De Marsrover werd op 26 november 2011 gelanceerd vanaf Cape Canaveral in Florida. Curiosity werd naar de rode planeet gestuurd om te onderzoeken of zij leven kan ondersteunen en of er water is.
Bewijs van leven
Het karretje heeft inmiddels zo’n 18 kilometer afgelegd. In 2020 moet een nieuwe rover bodemmateriaal mee terug naar de aarde nemen.
Ook de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA heeft een rover naar Mars gestuurd. De ExoMars moet in 2021 de planeet bereiken en gaat zoeken naar bewijs van leven.
ASTEROIDE OP RAMKOERS MET AARDE KOMT NEER IN ZUID-AFRIKA ( VIDEO)
ASTEROIDE OP RAMKOERS MET AARDE KOMT NEER IN ZUID-AFRIKA ( VIDEO)
De beruchte datum 21 december 2012 waar de hele wereld naar uitkeek, was wel degelijk een heel belangrijk punt en de Maya’s hadden dat ook helemaal goed.
Vanaf dat moment explodeert het aantal aardbevingen en vuurbollen in de lucht en ligt er nu voor de derde keer een asteroïde op ramkoers met de aarde.
Wanneer je de cijfertjes goed bekijkt, dan kun je eigenlijk alleen maar tot de conclusie komen dat december 2012 inderdaad een heel bijzonder punt was in onze geschiedenis, want dat is het moment waarop de aardveranderingen echt in alle hevigheid zijn losgebarsten.
Zoals je ziet explodeert het aantal aardbevingen na deze beruchte datum, een moment in de tijd waarvan de wereld zegt dat er helemaal niets gebeurde.
Ook voor wat betreft het aantal vuurbollen in de lucht zie je een explosieve toename na 2012. Het volgende plaatje geeft de stand weer per april van dit jaar.
Die vuurbollen zijn meestal meteorieten die onze dampkring binnenkomen en vervolgens verbrandt het grootse deel in de atmosfeer.
Hierna volgt een video van Secure Team wat gaat over een asteroïde die op ramkoers lag met de aarde. Deze werd pas de dag voordat deze de aarde raakte, ontdekt. Hij kreeg toen de naam asteroïde 2018 LA.
Volgens NASA viel het allemaal heel erg mee en zou het een kleine asteroïde geweest zijn die is opgebrand in de atmosfeer.
Echter, volgens berichten die Tyler kreeg in de mail, was het helemaal niet zo’n klein onschuldig object als NASA ons wil doen geloven en landde deze bovendien ongeveer op de grens van Zuid Afrika en Botswana.
En wat helemaal zorgelijk is, is dat NASA op zaterdagochtend ontdekt dat deze asteroïde recht op de aarde af komt, deze zal gaan raken en diezelfde avond daadwerkelijk inslaat in het zuiden van Afrika.
Een asteroïde die op de aarde af komt en deze gaat raken is al helemaal iets bijzonders en is in onze recente geschiedenis volgens de hiernavolgende video pas twee keer eerder voorgekomen. Eenmaal in 2008 en later nog een keer in 2014.
Nu hebben we dus een derde en het wachten is dan uiteraard ook op een vierde en misschien wel een veel grotere.
De oorzaak van dit alles wordt met de dag beter zichtbaar, zoals op de volgende foto die we kregen opgestuurd van een lezer (dank!)
Het is begonnen en zoals Tyler in de titel van zijn video zegt: CHILLING Signs Something Big Is Coming?
Filer’s Files #22 – 2018 – ET Beacon Is Broadcasting in NY - PART I
Allen Park, Minnesota flying object on May 1, 2018
Filer’s Files #22 – 2018 – ET Beacon Is Broadcasting in NY - PART I
In special reports, Admiral Hillenkoetter UFOs Are Real, Alien Beacon Is Broadcasting from New York, What are Gravitational Waves?, Ancient Paleolithic Monuments Show Interest in UFOs, Virgin Galactic’s Newest Space Plane Has Taken to the Skies Again, National TV News Provides Aid and Comfort to the Enemies of the US, Moon Structures, and May 2018 Sighting Reports
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, France, Germany, Jamaica, Serbia, Poland, and England and Scotland 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.
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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Admiral Hillenkoetter UFOs Are Real
“It is time for the truth to be brought out behind the scenes. High-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense…. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects”.
Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Hillenkoetter, signed statement to Congress, August 22, 1960. _
Alien Beacon Is Broadcasting from New York
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes I think you are correct that an Unidentified Beacon Object (UBO) represents an alien Visitors navigational beacon.
I think the triangular object you found emitting magnetic pulses is a navigation beacon. Yes, it is very old. That is not the only set of navigational beacons, and possible UBOs I found in that 24 square mile magnetic survey. It would appear that multiple alien probes landed on that archipelago cluster of granitic islands 420 million years ago, and set up shop for the long term.
Due to uplift and erosion and the plunging anticline in the middle of Ancient Islands
the valley, some of the ancient islands have been exhumed by erosion. That raises the possibility that some of these alien probes were exposed and discovered by ancient civilizations, who reverse engineered them hundreds of thousands of years ago.
I also suspect that one of the reasons for so much UFO activity around Pine Bush, New York is because that array of probe beacons attracted Visitors on their way to someplace else. I got the feeling that Earth was a way station, and a place to get natural supplies such as water and oxygen. Boredom may have led some of our Visitors to want to entertain the locals and put on performances for us awaiting planetary and solar alignments. But the U.S military was also keenly interested in what was going on, and wanted to obfuscate ET visitation by putting on their own performances for our cameras using ARVs (Alien Reproduction Vehicles). In other words: Fake UFOs. Then the government can say all ETVs are really ARVs, thereby pacifying the skeptics.
Perhaps the best evidence for this copy-cat behavior by Black Ops was the authorized performance of the TR-3B before our three cameras on 17 May 1997 over the Wallkill River Valley.
What has disappointed me ever since I discovered something extraordinary coming out of the ground near Pine Bush, NY, especially after I published this information on my The Cydonia II Report website in 1996, is that few have realized the value what my discovery holds.
The History Channel may have been censored by the government from presenting this find on UFO Vortexes in 2008.’
South Magnetic beam in green line
I can understand the dilemma for those who have a hard time imagining ET making it to Earth, and unable to explain all those unidentified flying objects being reported by hundreds of thousands of people over the last 70 years. What I would like to know is how many of you are truly interested in knowing how ET communicates across vast expanses of space if not with radio waves? In your discussion you speculate that gravity waves may be used, but there are no published empirical data to support this. When I conducted a 24 square mile magnetic survey in 1992-1995, I discovered powerful magnetic pulses coming out of the ground at three locations around the Beth Hillel Jewish Cemetery along Rte. 52. These signals were as high as 18-20% of the total Earth’s magnetic field, and were clearly not natural. The History Channel team measured a magnetic signature next to that huge tree of 1.7 gauss!
Thank you for your interest in my discussion about the Pine Bush UBO, which demonstrates how ET communicates if not by the SETI waterhole frequencies between 1,4220 and 1,666 megahertz.
Cal Tech reports, Gravitational waves are the disturbance in the fabric of space-time. The first indirect evidence for the existence of gravitational waves was discovered in 1974, Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discovered the first binary pulsar, a discovery that earned them the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics. Hulse and Taylor both of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA were awarded for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.
Hulse and Taylor, Jr using the 300-m radiotelescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, West Indies; Taylor, then Professor and his research student Hulse were searching systematically for pulsars – a kind of rapidly rotating cosmic beacon with a mass somewhat greater than that of the sun and a radius of about ten kilometers. The pulsar’s “beacon light” is often within the radio wave region.
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 at the radio astronomy laboratory in Cambridge, England (Nobel Prize 1974 to Antony Hewish). What was new about the Hulse-Taylor pulsar was that, from the behavior of the beacon signal, it could be deduced that it was accompanied by an equally heavy companion at a distance corresponding to only a few times the distance of the moon from the earth. The behavior of this astronomical system deviates greatly from what can be calculated for a pair of heavenly bodies using Newton’s theory. Here a new, revolutionary “space laboratory” has been obtained for testing Einstein’s general theory of relativity and alternative theories of gravity. So far, Einstein’s theory has passed the tests with flying colors. Of particular interest has been the possibility of verifying with great precision the theory’s prediction that the system should lose energy by emitting gravitational waves in about the same way that a system of moving electrical charges emits electromagnetic waves.
Pulse’s and Taylor’s discovery in 1974 of the first binary pulsar, called PSR 1913 + 16 (PSR stands for pulsar, and 1913 + 16 specifies the pulsar’s position in the sky) thus brought about a revolution in the field. We have here two very small astronomical bodies, each with a radius of some ten kilometers but with a mass comparable with that of the sun, and at a short distance from each other, only several times the moon’s distance from the earth. A very important property of the new pulsar is that its pulse period, the time between two beacon sweeps (0.05903 see) has proved to be extremely stable, as opposed to what applies to many other pulsars. The pulsar’s pulse period increases by less than 5% during 1 million years. This means that the pulsar can be used as a clock which for precision can compete with the best atomic clocks, This is a very useful feature when studying the characteristics of the system. Gravitational wave astronomy would then be the first observational technique for which the basic principle was first tested in an astrophysical context.
What are Gravitational Waves?
Two-dimensional illustration of how mass in the Universe distorts space-time (Credit: NASA)
Gravitational waves are ‘ripples’ in the fabric of space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. Einstein’s mathematics showed that massive accelerating objects (such as neutron stars or black holes orbiting each other) would disrupt space-time in such a way that ‘waves’ of distorted space would radiate from the source (like the movement of waves away from a stone thrown into a pond). Furthermore, these ripples would travel at the speed of light through the Universe, carrying with them information about their cataclysmic origins, as well as invaluable clues to the nature of gravity itself. many astronomers have studied the timing of pulsar radio emissions and found similar effects, further confirming the existence of gravitational waves. But these confirmations had always come indirectly or mathematically and not through actual ‘physical’ contact.
That was the case up until September 14, 2015, when Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), for the first time, physically sensed distortions in space-time itself caused by passing gravitational waves generated by two colliding black holes nearly 1.3 billion light years away! LIGO and its discovery will go down in history as one of the greatest human scientific achievements. Thanks to :
Dr. Cornet was able with two sensors at the end of a long pole (gradiometer configuration) determine that the magnetic pulses were restricted to coherent beams about a couple feet in diameter, at the Jewish cemetery. They were polarized with different patterns of magnetic pulses in different directions.
It wasn’t until the History Channel investigated in November 2007 that we got a look at what was producing these signals: a triangular probe embedded in Ordovician black shale, which was sitting on a granitic island, which was eventually buried by marine muds through subsidence. Now 400 million years later with uplift and erosion, this probe is within nine feet of the surface. It is radioactive (nuclear powered), explaining how it could have functioned for so long.
Scot Stride doubts that the magnetic beams are sending signals to a distant planet, but are rather used to focus a central gravity wave beam, that people have witnessed when it sometimes forms a wide beam of light shooting up into the sky at night (passing through solid rock).
You can debate as to how this system works, but what is real is the opportunity to study and measure the energy coming out of this probe in order to understand how ET communicates. Who is interested? The military knows it exists and has been studying it, but it is located under private property. It is estimated to be triangular in shape with each side measuring about 565 feet; too big to dig up and transport on the ground. What has disappointed me ever since I discovered something extraordinary coming out of the ground near Pine Bush, NY., is that few have realized the value that my discovery holds. The Pine Bush UBO demonstrates how ET communicate. Cheers, Bruce Cornet
Editor’s Note: It is apparent UFOs overcome gravity possibly by controlling the gravity waves. The disruption of space-time by the gravity waves may also be the key to time travel. The Earth may represent a logical oasis or colony in this part of the Galaxy for space travelers to obtain water, oxygen and other resources. A pyramid or tall hill may alter the gravity waves in some manner that can be used by the UFOs. Many develop a kind of energy that can be measured. The craft are often observed suddenly appearing and developing in size in front of the observer suggesting they travel through space as a very small basketball size vehicle and grow to their full size when reaching near Earth. They may travel on the gravity waves at tremendous speeds. If ET built a machine on Earth that can produce a detectible gravitational wave we have further evidence of the reality that aliens exist and are visiting Earth. Dr. Cornet should be congratulated for discovering some type of magnetic gravitational waves and spikes near Pine Bush, New York,
Ancient Paleolithic Monuments Show Interest in UFOs
Throughout Europe ancient cavemen drew pictures and made copies of UFOs in their caves and monuments. Some of the greatest names of European Paleolithic sites, such as Altamira, El Castillo, La Pasiega, El Pendo and La Garma, show knowledge of the shapes and sizes of UFOs. Cavemen frequently drew UFOs in their cave art above exact replicas of Bison, and deer. Aimé Michel did a study of cave art and reports at Las Chimeneas (Santander, Spain) is a cigar-cloud and its attendant discs. At Altimira, Niaux, and La Cullalvera, discs are shown in flight. Perhaps most interesting are the cryptic trenches like the Cursus that are numerous in Britain that are similar to the cylinder UFO I saw over the Stonehenge area. After more than a century of research, decorated objects have been recovered from nearly all the Upper Paleolithic deposits that have been dug. These human occupation sites also contained unusually large carved discs indicating ancient mans interest in the discs.
Lascaux, France possible disc thanks to the University of Pennsylvania
Were Discs Worshipped in Ancient Times?
Assuming the discs continued visiting Earth, I found an authoritative historical work by William Long (Esq., M.A., F.S.A) titled “Stonehenge and its Barrows”, published by Devizes in 1876 from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. xvi. Barrows are 5000 year old disc shaped burial mounds. The book has a survey map of the barrows which surround Stonehenge to a maximum distance of about 2 1/2 miles around the Stonehenge central stone circle.
These barrows are not scattered randomly throughout the countryside but are clumped together in definite groups, some of which look very much like known constellations of the stellar heavens, i.e. bright stars that can be grouped together to form a recognizable shape. At the Stonehenge Barrows, this unmistakable similarity holds particularly true for the stars of Scorpio, which in prehistoric times marked the line of the Equinoxes.
Stonehenge map showing Barrows as black dots.
Archeologists William Long Andis Kaulins thinks that the Stonehenge Barrows mark stars of the sky in an organized formation called a planisphere, a hermetic practice evidenced for example among the archaic traditions of Native American Indian tribes. The barrows support an Astronomical Interpretation of Stonehenge. The identified star groups for the Stonehenge Barrows are located at the same relative geographic positions on the ground and with respect to the sky as the positions of the sarsens and trilithons of the main Stonehenge circle. Simply put, the position of Scorpio on the main Stonehenge Circle matches the position of Scorpio in the barrows.
Its apparent the ancient Bronze Age men were fascinated by stars and visiting space ships. Ancient Samarian and Indo texts claim the space ships and their occupants were worshipped as gods or as messengers of god. There was no electric lighting and the stars and space ships shone much more brightly than today.
The Bronze Age culture flourished some 5000 years ago with the main temples at Avebury, Silbury, and Stonehenge all of which lie on a generally north south path. Some 18,000 round burial mounds called barrows or tumuli are scattered around Britain. Each is constructed on a precise plan that follows the design of various disc shaped UFOs. Bronze Age archaeology shows that Britain, Ireland and Europe were dominated by the disc shape craft.
Archeologists explain that the Bronze Age people worshipped the sun chariot or actually the Sun chariot’s wheels, therefore they built barrows to symbolize the sun. I suggest this is farfetched reasoning if you except the validity of disc shaped UFOs. I personally feel the Bronze Age people like us saw the UFOs. They saw the disc shaped ones, the mother ships, and the cylinders that are copied in detailed monuments all over Europe. I chased them while in the Air Force and had them on my radar and have seen them visually.
Assuming the archeologists are correct and the barrows are positioned to represent the stars in the Milky Way, then they may have attempted to get the UFOs to land, to provide gifts such as healings. They may have been taken on board and healed with the green or blue lights. Most religions promise everlasting life. Once dead you either decay in the ground or are taken to heaven. To entice the ancient astronauts to land the Bronze Age men may have built landing sites. Several of the barrows contain the skeletons with unusually large heads that do not appear human and are likely extraterrestrial.
Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill, part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet long barrow), is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe, and one of the world’s largest. It is 130 feet (40 m.) high, with a circular base circumference of 1640 feet. It is composed of over 12 million cubic feet (339,600 cubic m.) of chalk and earth and covers over 5 acres and must have taken years to build. The mound consists of thousands of chalk bricks forming walls enclosing terraced infill at three levels. Each of the six steps was concealed within the overall profile of the mound, except the last one at the top which was left as a terrace or ledge about 17 feet below the summit. Assuming The mound was then graded with chalk to give an angle which is coincidentally the same as the pyramids at Giza. Quartz crystals have been found in the surface soil.
Silbury Hill is located just south of the village of Avebury in Wiltshire and north of Stonehenge and is a massive artificial mound with a flat top. Circular steps climb to the top and are concealed within the overall profile of the mound, except the last one at the top which was 17 feet below the summit. This terrace or ledge makes an ideal spot to watch a UFO land. It is possible the hill was designed to encourage UFOs to land on its flat top.
The original purpose of Silbury is unknown, although various explanations have been put forward over the years. Various legends have been attached to Silbury Hill. Folklore has claimed it to be the burial place of King Sil. I suggest this largest man-made prehistoric mound in Europe, is a landing place for space ships. Hundreds of pyramid structures were built around the world and many still have energy of various types emitting from them.
The Bronze Age apparently had many UFO sightings and possible landings. Their murals, burial artifacts, shields, all point to standard UFO shapes, sizes, and structure.
Another object that has the archeologists confused is the cursus which are 1.3 miles long and 100 -150 meters wide about the size and shape of a standard Mothership shown below. Nearby are numerous barrows that were made of white chalk and stone and would have been far more conspicuous than they are today and are similar to discs launched from Motherships.
Here is a recent photo taken above Eccles, England showing a similar shaped UFO.
In addition to the Cursus are long barrows that were used for burials although most of the building was used for other purposes. I feel the Bronze Age long barrows, and their cluster of discs represent cylinder and disc shaped UFOs. Bronze Age man apparently also recognized the huge Motherships and designed the cursus to match their size and shape. Archeologists claim the ancients worshipped the sun, but they likely saw the same objects we see today and they chose to worship the UFOs passing over. We are frequently told the aliens have ability for time travel and may visit Earth at different times. Silbury Hill and the stone circles were likely designed to call the UFOs down to land and possibly refuel.
Ancient Sumerian and Indian texts claim the UFOs were space ships carrying the gods or messengers of god that had the ability to heal, taught wisdom, and could carry the souls of the dead to heaven. Within the barrows people were often buried with small discs suggesting they were thought to help in being chosen for the afterlife.
Virgin Galactic’s Newest Space Plane Has Taken to the Skies
The suborbital SpaceShipTwo vehicle, known as VSS Unity, completed its second-ever powered test flight on May 29, soaring high over California’s Mojave Desert.
“The focus of the flight was to expand our understanding of the spaceship’s supersonic handling characteristics and performance with vehicle parameters that were closer to the ultimate commercial configuration,”
During the flight, they added, VSS Unity fired its rocket motor for 31 seconds, as planned, and reached a top speed of Mach 1.9 and a maximum altitude of 114,500 feet (34,900 meters). (Mach 1 is the speed of sound, which is about 767 mph.)
The two-pilot, six-passenger SpaceShipTwo is hauled aloft by a carrier aircraft known as WhiteKnightTwo and then is dropped from an altitude of 50,000 feet then engages its onboard rocket motor to blast itself upward. Today’s mission was the 13th flight overall for VSS Unity.
National TV News Provides Aid and Comfort to the Enemies of the US
Just as Khrushchev predicted 60 years ago the US would be destroyed from within. The Russians couldn’t do as much damage to the US as these anarchists thinly veiled as “progressives” are attempting to do in the media! There are shadow groups who wish to destroy the president – paying demonstrators to cause trouble, threatening sponsors of radio and television.
They did the same thing about the war in Vietnam causing riots against the war and calling the 68,000-troops dying in battle baby killers. The news media notified potential protesters where they have set up their cameras so the riots could place on their cameras. Many of the leaders are paid to organize the riots.
During my twenty years in the Air Force we fought for which ever President was elected and I voted for Presidnts of both parties. Once the American people decided who they wanted for president it was time to follow the legally elected government even though you didn’t happen to vote for him.
Most Americans do not realize, have forgotten, or choose not to pay attention to the fact that America is still at war. With the mass media pursuing its own agenda, the sacrifices our troops are making daily have practically disappeared from the nightly news. They are ignoring our troops and their continuing mission to stomp out terrorism where ever it grows.
By Section 110 of Article III. of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that:
“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.” The nightly TV National News such as ABC, NBC, and CBS in my opinion often gives the enemies of the US aid and comfort. Further it enrages people to conduct riots and armed violence by essentially making school schooters famous and showing their photos for days. If you want to get on TV shoot up a school.
The National TV News Media is also running a campaign against law enforcement officers.
Since the start of 2018, at least 42 law enforcement officers across the U.S. have died while on duty.
According to the Washington Post during all of 2017 police allegedly killed 19 unarmed black men nationwide which was covereed repeately on the national news. It is a discredited myth that racist police are targeting and gunning down unarmed black men for no reason other than the color of their skin. It is unfortunate anyone is killed, but the news campaign destorts the truth. So far in 2018 the number killed is much lower. Every city in the country records murders and shootings and often an object held is mistaken for a weapon and unfortunetly shots are taken in self defence. Quora claims there are more than one million active full-time police officers in the US, who must make instant life or death decisions. Many killings occur in cities where there are high crime rates and thousands of shootings by criminals..
For example, Chicago saw nearly a 16% decline in murders in 2017 from the previous year.The city recorded 650 murders in 2017, a drop from 771 murders in 2016. The Chicago Police Department attributed the decrease in murders and shootings to “hard work by officers, adding more sworn personnel, investing in new technology to drive smart policing strategy, and increasing partnerships.”
In 2017, the city had 2,785 shooting incidents and 3,457 shooting victims, which was a decrease from the 3,550 shooting incidents and 4,349 shooting victims in 2016. With thousands of shootings by criminals it is reasonable to assume some police do unfortunely make mistakes. The news only reports what they decide you should know.
Moon Structures
I was outside taking photographs of the moon with my Nikon P900 camera when I decided to go back inside and view the photographs that I had just taken on my new 4K TV. While viewing one of the photographs I could clearly see some sort of structure sticking out of a crater on the bottom of the moon. The structure seemed artificial and looked out of place. There was also a large structure nearby that looked like a landed spaceship… It was long and one of its ends was shaped just like a tuning fork. The sunlight was reflecting of the top of the surface of the tuning fork shaped area of the ship leaving me to believe that it was metallic in nature. Maybe this spaceship used resonance force frequencies as propulsion to somehow move through space… The photograph was taken on the 27th of May 2018, 9:22 PM at Newton Abbot Devon England.
678 MUFON CMS Sightings in May
On January 22, 2018 triangle over Claremont, California
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In May 2018 there were 678 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
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Filer’s Files #22 – 2018 – ET Beacon Is Broadcasting in NY - PART II
Filer’s Files #22 – 2018 – ET Beacon Is Broadcasting in NY - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Shingletown— I came out of the grocery store and noticed the view of the snowy mountain. I grabbed my cell phone camera and took a few photos.
As I was driving east towards Mountain Lassen Ca, I took a few more photos on May 5, 2018.
I never noticed the objects in the photo until recently when I was going through them, that’s when I noticed the objects that appear to be UFO’s.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Radar
Ocala National Forest — Accounts are from articles on Pinecastle Bombing Range Incident – The article reported that at 10 p.m., on May 14, 1978, the Pinecastle Duty Officer, Robert J. Clark, received a call from an anonymous woman, claiming to be at the Silver Glen campground, which is located on SR 19, south of Salt Springs, Florida. She asked if Pinecastle was using any flares that night. Clark answered, “There were no flares and the range was closed.” At 10:10 pm, Rocky Morgan, a local fishing guide, was the second caller and reported that he and eight other locals saw an object, estimated to be 50-60 feet in diameter with flashing lights. They saw it pass over tree top level, so the locals were concerned about fire damage if flares were being dropped, hence, the phone call. Morgan also reported, “It started getting lower.” He claimed, “It must have landed out there in the forest.” Clark, according to the log, notified the control tower Watch Stander to search toward the Silver Glen Springs area with binoculars. The Watch Stander reported stationary lights at an estimated attitude of 1600 feet in that area. Clark also reported checking with the Jacksonville Center that responded that there was no known flight operations in the area. Duty Officer Clark then summoned TD2 Timothy Collins from his barracks to begin the procedure of getting the sophisticated MSQ-102 tracking radar on line, As reported in the log at 11:00 p.m., a lock-on (for calibration purposes) was achieved on the watch tower, which was the nearest object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Triangle
Punalu’u in Maui— I found a UFO using street view to observe the black sand beaches and noticed a small object in the sky on May 23, 2018. As I progressed East down the beach (by clicking arrows), the object can be seen in every frame circling around the site until the last navigable frame, where it can be seen close up above some trees. The object appears as a small black oval in different places in the sky in different orientations, and in a couple frames appears low and close, black and oval/bullet shaped. I understand Google Maps is a lousy platform for investigation, but the consistency of the objects presence in each picture/frame and apparent lineage of movement culminating in a close up view seems worthy of looking in to. I took screen shots. The object is still present in Google maps as of today May 26. Using a PC the object can be tracked easily moving east along the beach. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Lights
Georgetown— Pulsating light at first moving in different direction then pulsating saw before it dissipated. Photo was taken on May 1, 2018.
Moved in various directions that pulsated south west and dissipated.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Lights
Clarksburg — I was driving home from the gym with my wife on May 30, 2018, and we saw a bright light in the sky that initially we thought was the moon. It was really far away and very high in the sky. We then saw the object coming closer at a fast rate of speed and was rapidly descending. It was big and definitely was not a plane. The size, speed, and flight path of the object also made it highly unlikely to be a drone. It was big and was really fast. It had three very bright flashing lights. My wife started to record, as it disappeared and went dark. A few seconds later it reappeared and changed flight patterns a few times and then sped off behind us and out of sight. The lights were very bright and it seemed to hover a few times before it sped off. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Triangle
Allen Park — I was with my brother we were leaving shopping mall he spotted a triangular shape and circle shape object hovering above store on May 1, 2018.
We started driving towards it to get closer and it started to fly fast to the south and disappearing and few seconds later would reappear! I tried to get video but it couldn’t record so we took allot of still shots, as many as we could before it disappeared again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
West Orange — At 3:00 on May 14th I was driving down Main Street and saw a white circular flashing light up in the sky. I took a photo of it while at the light at the intersection of Northfield avenue. the photo shows a white orb above the traffic light. you can zoom in to see it. then I continued to drive down main street and pulled over twice. I took a video at both stops. I also took another photo of it. as you can see from the videos the white light flashes on and off, but not sequentially. in the 2nd video the circle of light enlarges before it disappears, then seems to shrink and appear like a line, then appears again. also, at the end of the 2nd video it looks as if a black object is behind the bottom part of the white light. also, I saw a commercial plane clearly pass behind it going north to south. the plane was easily recognizable and typical looking and confirmed for me that this was not a plane. also, could you please give my case to glen in new jersey?
Virginia Triangle
Roanoke — On or about October 17th 2017, I was up late and looked out into my backyard and noticed there was a light I could see shining through the trees. I watched it for 3 or 4 minutes and it was so unusual I decided to grab my camera. I went to my deck and proceeded to take still photos and video. I was quite nervous and in the video you can hear my breathing but the craft made no noise. I was very nervous and was shaking trying to figure out what I was viewing. There was one rectangular craft and it seemed to stand on end at one point and then go back horizontal in a triangular shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
I was outside my home in Port Angeles photographing odd clouds over the downtown/ harbor area on May 4, 2018 They seemed to be coming from the mountainous ridge south of town. I took pictures in many directions and over the course of about a half hour. Reviewing the photos later, several anomalies were discovered in the photos, most intriguingly was this domed flying object in a mountain pass. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Orb
Scarborough, Ontario –While outside afternoon work break I noticed a high distant flashing red -white light to the east on Friday, May 25, 2018. It was moving directly east a half mile away. I watched it moving then stop for about thirty seconds. It was flashing extreme light. I alerted a co-worker and pointed it out to him. He could see it as I pulled out my camera and zoomed in and took some pictures. I got two pictures with some detail taken 3:25 pm. It was moving further away and just disappeared. Sighting lasted about two minutes. Thanks again for your strong interest into the matter. Paul Shishis
France Light
Riedisheim — I share the photos that I took around 2:30 am on June 9, 2012 in front of my parents. These lights came from a south axis and headed north. They came red / white then made these beautiful drawings in the sky. Importantly, it is in front of the Rhine canal in Riedisheim. It was in full summer and usually we still heard the animals, but there is dead silence. This sighting lasted more than an hour. I contacted the Gepan who made fun of me saying that they were Thai lanterns. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Orb
Nürnberg — I saw the ufo with my boyfriend on May 27 at 0:25 am on our way home. First I thought it’d be a plane, then I realized that planes usually blink red but this doesn’t and it was much too fast to be a plane. First it did fly in our direction (East), then suddenly it changed direction to south-east. for a few moments it just hold there, then it disappeared in under 5 seconds. It was a bit bigger than a normal star and so bright, and then, in a few seconds, it got darker and darker and then disappeared completely. The UFO looked like an unusual bright, big star, but I was able to see some lights going out of the ufo in many directions, not symmetrical but uncoordinated. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Jamaica Object
Negril— The incident was recorded on 3 videos, more than 2 Pics from 2 different persons on May 14, 2018.
I spoke there with another tourist; he got this on a pic too. After coming back home I looked through the pics of that day on my big TV screen and found the object on 2 more Videos but only in slow-motion, because it goes very fast.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Poland Object
Czaplinek — I was at home. my son saw something on the sky. i got to the window and saw a black object on the sky and videoed it on May 28, 2018
. After some minutes later I saw a round cloudy object flying near the block of flats it looked like someone or something controlled it. and it turned and disappeared.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia's lights
Novi Sad— I observed the flying object above a star on May 20, 2018. It looked like a star but it was moving, There are a lot of airplanes here also but planes clearly blink. Also at this night planes were passing but looking totally different. I made a video of a star like sphere moving in a straight line. The sphere was emitting periodically green laser like lines like a lights emitted from a disco ball. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Bradford – I was watching the water plant as it always got strange activity. We saw multicolored lights coming towards us with no noise over the water plant.
Then a mutual friend turned up at 10:30pm 22 minutes after we experienced the lights. The mutual friend saw the light follow her for 6 miles to my house.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/Scotland Lights
Dunlop — Noticed a very strange misshapen object moving slowly through the sky at very high altitude. It was gold reflective and appeared to either change shape as the reflected light pattern changed irregularly. My wife also observed the object. We got out 10X magnification binoculars but difficult to make out the precise shape. I got out a high quality digital compact camera and took shots at maximum magnification. May have been a partially deflated weather balloon but not sure. Height was between 25,000 to 30,000 feet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Flying Saucer being towed away? Texas resident captures it all live
Flying Saucer being towed away? Texas resident captures it all live
In south of Ponca City, a flying saucer was seen being trucked away with an escort of 20 police cars, It's a spaceship and UFOs exist, says Ashley Choney who has shared the image on Facebook.
Flying saucer being transported on a truck (Youtube video grab)Ashley Choney / Youtube
A bizarre image captured by Ashley Choney, a Facebook user is now the hottest debating point among conspiracy theorists. The image shows a saucer-like object getting transported in a truck, and soon alien buffs came to the conclusion that extraterrestrial life is a reality.
"Driving south of Ponca City today and saw this being escorted with about 20 police cars. It's a spaceship. They exist. You're welcome," wrote Ashley Choney in the image description.
The image soon went viral, and it has already racked up more than 11,000 shares.
As the image went viral, an excited Choney wrote on his Facebook that he did not expect such a social media following for the photograph.
"I did NOT expect this to get blown up like it has. Many of you have suggested that it is probably just some sort of drone or a movie prop. I'm not sure what it is. I posted it for laughs and only expected a few likes, not several hundred," wrote Choney.
As per latest updates, the image has been passed on to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for further investigation.
The image was later shared by conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania' where it racked up more than 5,000 views.
After seeing the image, viewers of the YouTube channel put forward various explanations to describe the eerie capture.
"Probably the real thing, it wouldn't surprise me they did this thinking no one would take any notice since we normally put tarps over the discs and the sheeple will say "Nah it's a fake and not real" because they haven't bothered to cover it," commented Michael Eldridge, a YouTube user.
Corey Scott, another YouTube user assured that the flying saucer spotted on the truck is not manmade.
"Good find! Can't tell if it's man-made or not! But it doesn't look man-made. Some of the traits that man made it are missing," commented Scott.
As the video started storming on the internet, conspiracy theorists argue that the government is intentionally covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life. They even believe that there might be many similar UFOs hidden in Area 51, the most confidential military base in the United States.
BON VOYAGE NASA’s tongue-in-cheek Exoplanet Travel Bureau offers virtual trips to exotic planets around other stars.
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If you’re looking for starry skies, exotic plant life and extreme weather on your summer vacation, NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau has just the spot. Consider a trip to Kepler 186f.
This extrasolar planet is nearly 558 light-years away, so a real trip may be out of your budget — and astronomers aren’t sure if the sphere even has a life-sustaining atmosphere. But NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration websiteoffers a virtual tour of what visiting the alien world might be like.
No one has taken a real photo of the surface of any exoplanet (yet). But artists have generated possible landscapes based on what astronomers know, including the planets’ sizes, masses and temperatures, as well as the sizes and temperatures of their stars.
For instance, Kepler 186f, discovered in 2014, orbits at a distance from its small dim star that would allow temperatures to sustain liquid water at the surface, if the planet has an atmosphere. The interactive website lets you scroll around the landscape (with and without an atmosphere) and view “hypothetical” water, plant life and clouds. Don’t forget to look up.
If that’s not your idea of paradise, you (and your shadows) could check out Kepler 16b or do a little planet-gazing from TRAPPIST-1d, which has six sibling worlds in such close orbits that the orbs would all be visible in the sky.
There are a number of questions we ask ourselves every time, while gazing at the sky. Do aliens exist? This is a common question unanswered question that most of us ask ourselves and is unanswered. Can there be life across billions of light years in the sky?
None of us know that and it is a debate that has been there for centuries. There is no certainty about it also if there is something like the alien in the sky then that would totally change the understanding of the universe. Extraterrestrial life is real or not is something we cannot answer until they get in touch with us.
What do the scientists say?
Scientist have worked on a lot of theories and have worked out the look of the aliens, though we haven’t seen the aliens for real except for in fictional movies so we cannot really comment. According to the scientists and their recent research, aliens are imagined to be powerful monsters that either look like humanoids or insect like machine. One thing that the scientists are clear about is that they do look familiar to humans. According to a lot of recent studies, the researchers feel that they cannot comment on the exact look of the alien; or on whether they have grey eyes or grey skin but they can just say and conclude by what they have researched is that they have quite a lot of similarities to use and are to a large extent like us.
The fictional cinema
Whether they exist or not? Whether you believe in them or not? It cannot be denied that aliens form an important and an integral part of our cinemas. Whether they are the sci-fi movies or the fantasy horror movies; these extraterrestrial creatures are shown and depicted in them to be quite friendly, some have also shown to be scary. The sci-fi directors take the subject of aliens and UFO quiet seriously and bang on it because it is something that the audience is unaware of, which is best for fictional cinema. So whether you love them or hate them, or love to hate them, these creatures are an important fictional part of our cinema and have always been.
Some great movies in the past decade and in the present time have just been focused on aliens. Some of them being:
Aliens — A sci-fi action film that was made in 1986 as a sequel to the 1979 aliens movie. It is about a girl who returns to moon to see her crew with a hostile creature. It is quite an interesting film and a great sequel.
Men in black — This is one of the best sci-fi movies till date which is about two agents in black who supervise the extraterrestrial creatures that are found on earth and help them in hiding their existence.
Independence Day — A must watch scientific fiction movie that deals with an attack by the extraterrestrial race.
Resurgence, Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets and edge of tomorrow are some other great sci-fi movies on aliens and extraterrestrial creatures.
East Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. It is permanently covered in ice; there are no trees or shrubs, just bits of lichens, moss, and clinging algae. The idea that humans may not want to kick it there — or even think about it — is pardonable. But by avoiding the Earth’s icebox, a team of researchers argue a new Nature Geoscience paper, we’ve also ignored the massive continent’s terrifying geology: The frozen wasteland, they write, has earthquakes — and lots of them.
The flow of Antarctic ice, derived from feature tracking of Landsat imagery.
Until recently, they explain in their paper, the geologic structure and tectonic activity of East Antartica were relatively unknown. The first earthquake there was recorded in 1982, and only eight earthquakes have been reported since. Scientists had accepted the theory that East Antarctica just didn’t really experience earthquakes because its seismic activity was suppressed by the weight of the region’s thick ice. But that assumption, lead author and Drexel University professor Amanda Lough, Ph.D., explains to Inverse, isn’t true.
“East Antarctica shows comparable levels of seismicity as other stable cratons,” she says, referring to the geological term for the chunk of the Earth’s crust that makes up a continent’s backbone. “So at least for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the presence of a several-kilometer-thick ice sheet is not suppressing seismicity.”
A teammate of Lough's, orienting a seismic censor after it was installed in East Antarctica.
In their study, Lough and her team did something no team had done before: They paid attention to the continent. In 2009 alone, Lough and her teammates detected 27 intraplate tectonic earthquakes in the interior of East Antarctica using a system of linked seismometers arranged in regular geometric patterns known as a seismic array. These quakes, she says, mark the first locally recorded seismicity in the region. It isn’t that East Antarctica is experiencing more quakes than it did in the past, when only eight had been observed: It’s that these 2.1- to 3.9-magnitude rockers are actually being recorded. “The seismicity would have always been there,” explains Lough, “but without seismic instruments in the area we are unable to detect it.”
For Lough and her team, setting up this seismic array system, the first winter-through-summer system to be set up in the region, meant living in the harsh Arctic environment and digging out runways to fly from point to point. Most of the seismic activity was recorded in basins near the Gumburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which the team believes are a part of an ancient continental rift system. Little activity was recorded outside the rifts, which is in line with previous research on seismic events: 52 percent of earthquakes are thought to occur in rifted crust. In a statement released Monday, Lough explained that the rifts “provide zones of weakness that enable faulting to occur more easily,” so it’s likely that seismic activity emerges when rifts are already weak.
The Global Seismographic Network.
The new Antarctic data contributes to our continually growing understanding of the planet’s tectonic plates. The Global Seismic Network tracks seismic activity in real time via 150 stations around Earth, but there are still some holes in its coverage. Antarctica is far from the final frontier of seismicity research as there’s still the world’s oceans, which casually cover 71 percent of the planet but aren’t exactly the easiest place to set up instrumentation.
“We have the broad picture understanding of the plates, boundaries, and how they interact down quite well — now we’re working towards understanding the smaller details,” says Lough. “We’re trying to understand the details of what makes one continent different from the others.”
Image courtesy (Geophysical Research Letters/Kate Winter et al.)
Researchers have discovered mountain ranges and valleys hundreds of miles long hidden deep beneath the ice near the South Pole in western Antarctica. Scientists discovered these formations using airborne radar and satellite data during an aerial survey of the polar region.
Scientists found three huge, deep valleys linking two major ice regions: the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet and the far larger Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientists were surprised at the discovery.
Kate Winter, the study’s lead author at Northumbria University in the U.K., said, “We expected to find mountainous subglacial topography, but the size of the troughs did come as a surprise because we had no indication that they were there.”
Scientists fear that the discovery could contribute even more to rising global sea levels
Global warming is already thinning the polar ice sheet. Now, scientists fear these valleys and mountain ranges could “increase the speed and rate at which ice flows out from the center of Antarctica to its edges, leading to an increase in global sea levels,” said Winter.
Fausto Ferraccioli, Head of Airborne Geophysics at British Antarctic Survey, said: “Our new aerogeophysical data will also enable new research into the geological processes that created the mountains and basins before the Antarctic ice sheet itself was born.”
Video footage captured the moment the bizarre event took place in Houston, Texas, which left one man convinced he had spotted a UFO.
The clip shows a small black object moving at pace from left to right.
It appears to be travelling up to a great height, before stopping and continuing again.
According to the eyewitness, there is no chance it could have been a balloon as the wind was recorded to be moving at 8mph from the south, yet the video was shot from the north.
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DRONE? Could this be a secret USAF project?
“You cannot rule that out of being a drone”
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They also added that sunlight was reflecting off of the subjects body, suggesting it was metallic in structure.
It was originally captured by Ken Behrendt and shared on a YouTube channel run by UFO hunter Mauricio Ruiz.
Since he uploaded it to his channel it has received hundreds of views.
But not everyone was convinced it is signs of alien life.
One comment read: “You cannot rule that out of being a drone.
“They have such advance technology, they can easily fly at high altitude and speeds.”
And another added: “It looks like a drone, but then it disappears – that is no known technology.”
A Tiny Asteroid Just Hit Earth, Sparking a Fireball Over South Africa (Video)
A Tiny Asteroid Just Hit Earth, Sparking a Fireball Over South Africa (Video)
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
A small asteroid about the size of a boulder slammed into Earth's atmosphere Saturday (June 2), incinerating itself in a brilliant fireball caught on video.
Scientists discovered the asteroid, called 2018 LA, early Saturday. After a closer look at the space rock's trajectory, it "was determined to be on a collision course with Earth, with impact just hours away," NASA officials said in a statement. The asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over the southern African nation of Botswana at 12:44 p.m. EDT (1644 GMT) while hurtling down at a whopping 38,000 mph (61,155 km/h). That's 10 miles (or 17 kilometers) every second!
Astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, were the first to discover the asteroid. The space rock was very faint, with observations suggesting it was just 6 feet (2 meters) across — small enough to burn up completely during its fiery plunge through the atmosphere, NASA officials said. [Asteroid Threat: Potentially Dangerous Space Rocks in Pictures]
"The discovery of asteroid 2018 LA is only the third time that an asteroid has been discovered to be on an impact trajectory," Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in the statement. "It is also only the second time that the high probability of an impact was predicted well ahead of the event itself."
The asteroid's fiery demise was caught on camera by spectators, who later posted their footage to YouTube. In one video, from a farm between Ottosdal and Hartebeesfontein in South Africa, the asteroid appears as a brilliant streak that flares up into a spectacular fireball on the horizon.
Asteroid 2018 LA was nearly as far away as the moon (which is typically about 239,000 miles, or 384,600 km, from Earth) when it was discovered on Saturday, NASA officials said. It looked like little more than a streak in long-exposure images by the Catalina telescope.
These images show the discovery of asteroid 2018 LA by the Catalina Sky Survey on June 2, 2018. The asteroid hit Earth 8 hours after these images were taken, burning up in Earth's upper atmosphere over Botswana, Africa.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSS-Univ. of Arizona
"This was a much smaller object than we are tasked to detect and warn about," Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense officer, said in the statement. "However, this real-world event allows us to exercise our capabilities and gives some confidence our impact prediction models are adequate to respond to the potential impact of a larger object."
Catalina Sky Survey astronomers reported the asteroid finding to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which managed to calculate a preliminary trajectory for the asteroid. That trajectory plot was the first hint that 2018 LA could hit Earth.
The Minor Planet Center then reported the asteroid to CNEOS. JPL's automated Scout system, which tracks asteroids, confirmed 2018 LA was on a collision course with Earth and sent observation alerts out to asteroid observers to try spotting it.
While this isn't the first time a small asteroid has been spotted just before it hit Earth, it certainly isn't that common. Only two other instances come to mind, according to JPL.
On Oct. 7, 2008, the 13-foot (4 m) asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth over northern Sudan. That asteroid was spotted 19 hours before impact, enough time for scientists to plot a precise trajectory for the falling space rock. Later expeditions used that trajectory to find meteorite fragments of 2008 TC3.
The second event occurred Jan. 1, 2014, when the asteroid 2014 AA was spotted just a few hours before it fell over the Atlantic Ocean.
All three asteroids were discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey while astronomer Richard Kowalski was overseeing observations, NASA officials said. NASA scientists and astronomers around the world regularly observe the sky for any signs of potentially dangerous asteroids that could pose an impact threat to Earth.
Neither asteroid 2018 LA nor its two predecessors were large enough to cause the type of damage seen in 2013, when an asteroid about 56 feet (17 m) wide exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The fireball shattered windows and damaged thousands of buildings, leaving more than 1,200 people injured.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
WE MAY HAVE UNCOVERED THE FIRST EVER EVIDENCE OF THE MULTIVERSE
WE MAY HAVE UNCOVERED THE FIRST EVER EVIDENCE OF THE MULTIVERSE
A recent study on a space anomaly that has perplexed scientists for years has some suggesting that it could be explained by a parallel “bubble universe” — although there are other, more standard potential explanations, as well.
Too Cold
For years, scientists have been 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.
Multiverse?
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 randomly.
Credit: The Royal Astronomical Society
“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.
Fantastic Documentary Reveals How Ancient Aliens Built The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
Fantastic Documentary Reveals How Ancient Aliens Built The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
If there are two things that are perplexing to the human being then those are most likely Ancient Egypt and its amazing structures and the extraterrestrial beings. What if we tell you they both are somehow interconnected?
From the mysterious history of ancient Egypt emerge so many unanswered questions. Mainstream scholars are completely clueless and that’s probably because of their traditional beliefs. But what if the truth hides beyond our imagination?
When it comes to Ancient Egypt, probably, the most remarkable attribute is the Pyramids. Theconstruction of these megalithic structures thousands of years ago develops lots of mysteries.
The Ancient Alien Theory implies that otherworldly beings – guests on Earth, lend a hand on the building of the Pyramids at the Giza Plateau.
This theory asserts that our ancestors, with the technology they had thousands of years ago, couldn’t create not only the pyramids but other amazing structures within our world.
Going further from this point, the theory claims it was the intelligent alien beings who actually did it.
When it comes to pyramids, the most baffling one is clearly the Great Pyramid of Giza. This pyramid is precisely lined up and faces straight north with an only 3/60th range of error.
North Pole’s position changes with the time. This pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.
The centers of the four sides are calculated with an amazing precision bringing into existence this extraordinary eight-sided pyramid.
Namely, this result is not noticeable when you stand on the ground or from a larger distance. However, above in the air, under suitable brightness, this phenomenon glows into our perception.
In addition, these proper lights require being dawn or sunset in the spring and autumn equinoxes when the sun spreads shadow on the pyramid.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and the largest pyramid of Ancient Egypt. It measures fascinating 481 feet in height. Moreover, the shape carved into the faces of the pyramid accurately suits the radius of the Earth.
Given these facts, a few questions are inevitable: How exactly did ancient Egyptians succeed to create this world wonder of the ancient world? Did they do everything by themselves? Or did they have a helping hand from someone from the other world?
The subsequent documentary gives another, different insight into the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Its intriguing yet provocative content proposes another possible choice that explains the history of Ancient Egypt.
Watch it and leave us your comment and thoughts on the pyramids’ construction. Do you think aliens helped to build such vast structures that no doubt deserved their place in the world wonders’ list?
Photo NewsLancering van de Falcon Heavy-raket op 6 februari 2018.
WETENSCHAP Ruimtetoeristen zullen nog tot minstens midden volgend jaar moeten wachten om aan boord van een SpaceX-toestel een vlucht rond de maan te maken. Dat schrijft de Wall Street Journal.
SpaceX, het bedrijf van Elon Musk, had in februari 2017 bekendgemaakt dat twee anonieme burgers zich hadden opgegeven voor een vlucht van een week om de maan. Ze hadden daartoe een aanzienlijk voorschot betaald en SpaceX stelde het najaar van 2018 in het vooruitzicht als streefdatum voor de vlucht.
Nu blijkt dat het toch niet haalbaar zal zijn om de toeristenvlucht nog dit jaar te lanceren. SpaceX-woordvoerder James Gleeson bevestigde in een e-mail aan de krant dat het project werd uitgesteld, maar beklemtoonde dat “SpaceX nog steeds van plan is om private individuen rond de maan te vliegen en dat er een groeiende belangstelling is van veel klanten.”
Testen nodig
SpaceX geeft geen reden voor de vertraging, maar volgens de New Yorkse krant liggen technische en productieproblemen aan de basis. De Falcon Heavy-raket, die nodig is om het ruimtetoestel te lanceren, werd tot op heden immers nog maar één keer gelanceerd. Het Dragon 2-ruimtetoestel dat de twee passagiers zal vervoeren, werd bovendien nog steeds niet getest met een bemanning aan boord. De eerste bemande tests met de Dragon 2 vinden ten vroegste pas in december 2018 plaats.
Bovendien brengt de toeristenreis ook een risico met zich mee. Indien er iets fout gaat, zou dat de relatie tussen SpaceX en NASA, dat rekent op de Dragon 2-sonde om mensen naar het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS te brengen, ernstig verstoren.
Volgens de Wall Street Journal kan het nog tot minstens midden 2019 duren vooraleer de eerste ruimtetoeristen richting de maan gestuurd worden.
Inkomsten
SpaceX is van plan om zwaar in te zetten op ruimtetoerisme, een inkomstenstroom die kan bijdragen tot de oprichting van basissen op de maan en Mars door het ruimtevaartbedrijf.
De maan is de verst verwijderde plek van onze aarde die ooit bereikt werd door de mens. Indien SpaceX volgend jaar effectief burgers in een vlucht om de maan stuurt, zou het de eerste keer zijn sinds het einde van de Apollo-missies aan het begin van de jaren 1970 dat er nog eens mensen richting de maan reizen.
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Vreemde ‘graancirkels’ ontdekt. Zijn de aliens geland in Italië?
Vreemde ‘graancirkels’ ontdekt. Zijn de aliens geland in Italië?
Een Italiaanse boer ontdekte onlangs een aantal vreemde ‘graancirkels’ in zijn weiland. Ze waren van de ene op de andere dag ontstaan.
De formaties zijn verschenen in de Italiaanse gemeente Romano di Lombardia. Ze zijn erg vreemd omdat ze geen specifiek patroon lijken te vormen.
De boer die de mysterieuze formaties ontdekte, Giovanni Spinosa, vertelde aan nieuwssite Giornale di Treviglio dat hij de avond ervoor niets bijzonders had gezien in het weiland naast zijn huis.
Tekeningen
Giovanni Spinosa
Toen zijn vrouw opstond merkte ze dat er iets niet klopte. “We keken uit het raam en zagen dit soort tekeningen,” zei de boer.
Spinosa moest gelijk denken aan graancirkels, omdat er enkele jaren geleden in de buurt een aantal van zulke formaties waren verschenen.
De man zei niet te weten hoe de formaties zijn ontstaan. Waarschijnlijk kan wel worden uitgesloten dat het de wind geweest is, aldus de boer.
Gebogen
Spinosa zei verder dat de graanhalmen niet gebroken, maar gebogen waren. Voor graancirkelonderzoekers is dit een aanwijzing dat het om een authentieke formatie gaat.
Graancirkels die achteraf door mensen gemaakt blijken te zijn, bevatten doorgaans gebroken halmen.
Dit doet vermoeden dat de krachten die achter de klassieke graancirkels zitten, ook actief zijn geweest in het weiland van Spinosa.
That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.
Scott Brando
The glowing subject then appears to move behind the sun, before a blinding light blocks the camera view, in what some suggested was an explosion or take-off manoeuvre, by an enormous alien craft.
When the camera is re-focussed, the orb appears to suddenly flit away.
Some viewers were convinced it was a UFO and some sort of craft.
One said on YouTube: "I saw something that looked very similar around this time last year.”
Another claimed it was just swamp gas, which is caused by rising methane from a pond.
However, in fact there was nothing actually there, and it was simply a reflection of the Sun.
We sent the footage to Scott Brando, a sceptic, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org.
He said: "That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.
He said the apparent object suddenly disappeared as the camera zoomed in and the glass was "likely removed."
Mr Brando pointed us to an article by a fellow debunker, who showed how almost identical footage said to show a "second Sun" was caused by glass in front of the camera lens.
Mick West, administrator of the Metabunk.org website, said: "A popular video claims to show an object in the sky that resembles a 'second sun'.
"However analysis of the video proves that what is shown is an offset lens reflection of the Sun itself.
"There is nothing else in the sky. The effect is also not a sun-dog, an atmospheric reflection, or a mirage. It's just a reflection happening at the camera.
"We can see this quite clearly if we stabilise the video so the background is fixed.
"We can then see the reflection moving with the camera motion. Notice how the small movements of the reflection are in sync with the large movements of the lens flare.
"Offset lens reflections occur when a flat piece of glass, such as a filter, is in front of the camera, but is tilted slightly away from the plane of the camera, either accidentally, or deliberately.
"When combined with a second flat optical surface, like the protective cover of a cell-phone camera, or a second filter on a larger camera, you get a fainter reflection of the sun offset from the actual sun in the direction of the tilt."
He then simulated the same effect by attaching a glass slide to his phone with a rubber band.
Almost seven decades ago, visitors to the Long Range Weapon Establishment at Salisbury in Adelaide's north would have seen something that was, at the time, quite amazing.
Pointing skywards, in all its dubious glory, was a Nazi V-2 rocket of the kind that, in the final months of World War II, brought a late wave of destruction to London, Norwich, Paris and Antwerp.
Mounted on its carrier known as a Meillerwagen, this particular V-2 towered above its new owners. Black and white photos from the time reveal a strikingly formidable object.
Ominously elevated, it looks ready to launch — perhaps for the moon, perhaps for Mars.
The rocket had arrived in Adelaide months earlier, when it was off-loaded at Outer Harbor in October 1947.
It was not the first V-2 to be sent to Australia — in March, a ship carrying another had docked at Fremantle. That rocket had also passed through Adelaide en route to Melbourne, and was then transported to Sydney.
The story of how they ended up Down Under is an intriguing one that involves science, politics and Cold War anxieties.
Australia's two V-2s are currently in storage at an Australian War Memorial (AWM) facility in suburban Canberra.
"When they came out [to Australia] flocks of people crowded to view them and see these Nazi terror weapons," said Shane Casey, senior curator of military heraldry and technology at the AWM.
One is mostly complete. Its components were seized after the war and put together as part of Operation Backfire, a mission by the Allies to capture and test German military technology.
"When the Allies conquered Germany, they found largely disassembled rockets or rockets ready to be assembled," Mr Casey said.
The Meillerwagen trailer accompanying the V-2, which was used to raise the rockets onto launch pads, is one of the few surviving examples of the technology.
The other V-2, which left London's docks aboard the vessel Karamea in February 1947, is today in bits, which are themselves in disrepair. It was shipped to Australia primarily as a museum piece, and little is known about its origins.
"There was some confusion as to whether it was destined for the Australian War Memorial or whether it was destined for the RAAF at Woomera. There seems to have been some dissension in official channels about that."
In 1948, the media was invited to view the more complete V-2 at Salisbury, where scientists had been inspecting it for design clues. That work was part of efforts to develop a local rocket program for defence — a project that also included the Woomera range.
At some point over the next few years, it was painted with a different colour scheme. The trail goes cold until 1954, when the rocket was put on display at a Salisbury school and at the Mallala air show.
On October 3, 1942, a prototype V-2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach space. The missiles were the brainchild of Wernher von Braun, a German scientist of aristocratic background.
Von Braun is a controversial character, and he continues to fascinate historians. A member of the Nazi Party, he would later play a leading role at NASA, overseeing the Saturn rocket program that enabled the Apollo missions to the moon.
Even a generous biographer would concede von Braun was a morally dubious human being. Undoubtedly clever and apparently very charming, he was also a committed German nationalist and a member of the SS. He was unconcerned by the fact his V-2s were built by concentration camp inmates, thousands of whom died during construction.
The first V-2 attacks occurred in September 1944. Over the next six months, thousands of civilians were killed by the missiles, with Antwerp and London bearing the brunt.
One V-2 came to Earth in Southborough in Kent, near a house belonging to David Bowie's grandparents, and it is interesting to speculate whether the recurring themes of rocketry and space travel in Bowie's work owe their inception to that episode. (In 1977, he released a track referencing the missiles, called V-2 Schneider).
Von Braun was in the grip of a belief that in his day made him exceptional, but is today commonplace among technophiles — that there is an imperative for humans to conquer space. Unable to make rockets for peaceful purposes, he was instead happy to design them to kill people.
"Our V-2 is significant from a technological point of view, in the progression of humanity through rocketry and its desire to achieve immortality in space," Mr Casey said.
"The V-2 is really a baby Saturn V [the rocket used in the Apollo 11 mission]. The Saturn V was a liquid-fuelled rocket as well and used very much the same elements in its combustion chamber.
"But we're also very aware of the fact that [the V-2] was a weapons system developed by one of the most heinous regimes on Earth.
"On a regular basis, people suspected of sabotage were executed, and they would leave the bodies on overhead cranes."
At the end of the war, von Braun began working for the Americans, migrating in 1945.
In addition to his work, he became a populariser of scientific ideas. (In 1947, he wrote a novel about colonising space and, in a spooky coincidence, named his fictitious leader of Mars 'Elon'.)
His self-reinvention from Nazi villain to NASA hero is a testament to the man's slipperiness. But he was never able to shake his shady past. When he visited Australia in 1962 to deliver lectures to students, not everyone was in a welcoming mood.
The newspaper Tribune reported on "rising concern" among parents at the thought of a Nazi teaching their children.
"Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose."
Hoyle may have been unaware that, two years earlier, American engineers in New Mexico had used a captured V-2 to take a photo of the Earth's surface. But that image showed only a portion of the planet.
It took another two decades for Hoyle's wish to be properly granted. In 1968, NASA astronaut Bill Anders took the photo now known as Earthrise. It is a stunning image, depicting the planet rising above the horizon of the moon.
The Saturn V rockets that helped Major Anders and others into space were designed at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama, under the direction of Wernher von Braun.
Australia's V-2s have not lost their "wow" factor, Mr Casey said, and continue to shock visitors because of their size and scale.
"I can remember one instance where a woman had been the victim of a V-2 rocket attack, and when she was confronted with the rocket up-close it was almost an overwhelming experience for her," Mr Casey said.
Conservation work will begin on the more complete rocket next year in the hope of putting it back on permanent display.
Mr Casey said tests would also be carried out on the Meillerwagen for urea, a compound found in urine. Slaves working in secret underground facilities built the V-2s and it's believed that, in an act of resistance, they relieved themselves on the machines in an attempt to weaken them, disrupting the V-2 program.
The story of the V-2 starkly demonstrates the double-edged nature of technological progress: rockets that were used as missiles inspired rockets that have helped us get to the moon.
As von Braun allegedly said, "science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently."
My previous article was titled “..the ‘others’ are far more advanced than we are.” It was focused on the work of a National Security Agency employee named Lambros Callimahos. He was a man who had a deep interest in the matter of extraterrestrial life and its implications for us – good, bad or somewhere in between. The article began as follows: “Of the many and various UFO / extraterrestrial-themed documents and papers that have surfaced under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, one of the more interesting ones is Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It was written back in the 1960s (specifically in 1965) by a man named Lambros D. Callimahos. He was a cryptologist with the National Security Agency. On September 23, 1965, Callimahos took part in a panel-style debate on the subject of his paper at a conference on military electronics in Washington, D.C.”
It’s worth noting that three years later, Callimahos wrote another paper on extraterrestrial life and UFOs. His 1968 paper was titled UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions. He stated: “It is the purpose of this monograph to consider briefly some of the human survival implications suggested by the various principal hypotheses concerning the nature of the phenomena loosely categorized as ‘UFO.’ UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions focuses its attention for the most part on five central issues: (a) All UFOs are hoaxes; (b) All UFOs are hallucinations; (c) All UFOs are natural phenomena; (d) Some UFOs are secret earth projects; and (e) Some UFOs are related to extra-terrestrial intelligence.”
In relation to point “a,” Callimahos said: “…the fact that UFO phenomenon have been witnessed all over the world from ancient times, and by considerable numbers of reputable scientists in recent times, indicates rather strongly that UFOs are not all hoaxes…” When it came to hallucinations, Callimahos had a few key thoughts: “People, of course, do hallucinate. Although groups of people hallucinating is rare, it has been known to happen. Machines have their own form of hallucination; the radar, in particular, ‘sees’ temperature inversions. But a considerable number of instances exist in which there are groups of people and a radar or radars seeing the same thing at the same time; sometimes a person and a gun camera confirm each other’s testimony. On occasion, physical evidence of a circumstantial nature was reported to have been found to support witnessed sightings. A continuing high percentage of reports of unusual aerial phenomena are being reported by people in responsible positions in science, government and industry. The sum of such evidence seems to argue strongly against all UFOs being hallucinations.” He added: “Many UFOs have been reported by trained observers to behave like high speed, high performance, high altitude rockets or aircraft.”
As for the matter of at least some UFOs really being secret weapons, rather than extraterrestrial craft, Callimahos told his readers: “…[the] U.S. Air Force re-entry vehicle and an often publicized Canadian ‘saucer’ project leave little doubt as to the validity of this hypothesis. Undoubtedly, all UFOs should be carefully scrutinized to ferret out such enemy (or ‘friendly’) projects. Otherwise a nation faces the very strong possibility of being intimidated by a new secret ‘doomsday’ weapon.”
Callimahos also had fairly dire warnings for those who might think that an encounter with aliens would be overwhelmingly positive in nature. It’s important to note that he wasn’t talking about aliens attacking us and taking over the planet and trying to wipe us out – in The War of the Worlds or Independence Daystyle. Rather, Callimahos was talking about something else; something that was no less potentially hazardous, though. He spelled it out in eye-opening and concise fashion:
“If ‘they’ discover you, it is an old but hardly invalid rule of thumb, ‘they’ are your technological superiors. Human history has shown us time and again the tragic results of a confrontation between a technologically superior civilization and a technologically inferior people. The ‘inferior’ is usually subject to physical conquest. Often in the past, a technologically superior people are also processors of a more virile or aggressive culture. In a confrontation between two peoples of significantly different cultural levels, those having the inferior or less virile culture, most often suffer a tragic loss of identity and are usually absorbed by the other people.”
Could a worldwide encounter with aliens lead to our downfall, possibly in the way that Lambros Callimahos warned of fifty years ago? Maybe it really could…
A British man has filmed what he says is evidence of a UFO flying over the city of Leeds. James Goldman, 30, who lives in Leeds, describes the object as a glowing ball of white light that moved silently and “with absolute purpose.” The video, which was taken with a smartphone camera as the strange object passed over the city, shows an object similar to the “orbs” that appear in purported pictures of ghosts and spirits. Apparently basing their comparison exclusively on the basic shape of the object, the Daily Mirror compares this UFO to the Death Star from the Star Wars series.
Speaking to Daily Mirror, where you can see his footage of the UFO, Goldman says the object “a round bright white lit ball slightly metallic in nature” he estimates the object to have been flying at an altitude of 300 meters and at speed of 200 kph, or 124 mph. Whether he is any good at estimating speed and height is uncertain, so those numbers should taken with a grain of salt. Goldman does say he “couldn’t believe such an object would fly so low.”
“It definitely wasn’t a plane and it was too low to be a satellite. I know what drones look like and it just wasn’t a drone either. I doubt it was a military craft because they wouldn’t be flying something like that over a populated area.”
The UFO was filmed over Leeds, UK.
From the footage, the UFO has the same sort of look as the orbs claimed to be evidence of ghosts. Orbs generally show up only in the pictures themselves. There aren’t many cases of people seeing paranormal orbs with the naked eye. That this UFO appears like one may be due to the camera’s zoom, which tends to make everything a bit less identifiable, but there is a eerie non-physical quality to the way it looks. Goldman says it was better in person:
“It was much clearer with the eye than what the camera has captured. After I stopped recording it continued to move at a 45-degree angle upwards and disappeared into the distance. It didn’t blink out suddenly or anything like that, it just petered out into the distance.”
Unfortunately, with the shaky camera and no real frame of reference, it’s hard to see the object moving with the same sort of “absolute purpose” that Goldman attributes to it.
This isn’t the first time someone has claimed to see a white orb shaped UFO. The phenomenon has been reported in a handful of places including Moscow and Antarctica. Last year, there was discussion of whether some orb shaped UFO sightings could be explained by Google Loon balloons.
Artist’s rendition of orb UFOs
While the object in the video is nowhere near the world destroying monstrosity of the Death Star, it wouldn’t be the first time that Star Wars was responsible for a false UFO report. Early this year a a misidentified Stormtrooper-shaped helium balloon was responsible for a viral video of an alleged humanoid UFO sighting. I’d much prefer a Death Star shaped balloon to the real thing, personally.
Mars Cubesats Make History with Deep-Space Maneuver
Mars Cubesats Make History with Deep-Space Maneuver
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior
An artist's illustration of one of NASA's Mars Cube One (MarCO) cubesats. The twin MarCOs are the first cubesats to complete a trajectory correction maneuver, firing their thrusters to guide themselves toward Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Two tiny NASA explorers have notched another spaceflight first.
Over the past week, both MarCO-A and MarCO-B have been firing their onboard thrusters to refine their course toward Mars, NASA officials said. No cubesat had ever performed such a trajectory-correction maneuver before. Earlier in May, one of the twin MarCo cubesats snapped its first space photo, which showed the Earth as seen from a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers). [Launch Photos: See NASA's InSight Soar Toward Mars]
Both spacecraft have also aced some important communications tests since liftoff, said John Baker, program manager for planetary smallsats at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the $18.5 million MarCO mission, which is designed to lay the foundation for future exploration missions by small, inexpensive probes.
"Our broadest goal was to demonstrate how low-cost cubesat technology can be used in deep space for the first time," Baker said in a statement. "With both MarCOs on their way to Mars, we've already traveled farther than any cubesat before them."
The MarCo cubeats are nicknamed "Wall-E" and "Eva" after the adorable (but fictional) robots from Disney's animated film "Wall-E." Their name is inspired by the titular robot, which uses a fire extinguisher to fly through space in the film. The MarCo probes use the compressed gas R236FA, which is commonly used in fire extinguishers, for propulsion.
MarCO-A's trajectory-correction maneuver went smoothly, but MarCO-B's was smaller than expected because of a leaky thruster valve, mission team members said. Both cubesats will need to perform additional engine burns to get to Mars, and MarCO-B's future maneuvers will need to compensate for the unplanned nudges imparted by the leak.
"We're cautiously optimistic that MarCO-B can follow MarCO-A," MarCO project manager Joel Krajewski, also of JPL, said in the same statement. "But we wanted to take more time to understand the underlying issues before attempting the next course-correction maneuver."
If all goes according to plan, the twin cubesats will fly by Mars on Nov. 26, the day that InSight touches down on the Red Planet. MarCO-A and -B will try to relay data from InSight's entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence back to Earth, but success in that regard isn't critical — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe will do this job as well.
The MarCO mission will end shortly thereafter. InSight, on the other hand, will spend nearly two Earth years monitoring "marsquakes" and characterizing the heat flow beneath its metallic feet, gathering data that should help scientists better understand how rocky planets such as Mars and Earth form and evolve.
What Has NASA's Curiosity Found on Mars? We'll Find Out Thursday
What Has NASA's Curiosity Found on Mars? We'll Find Out Thursday
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
NASA will hold a press conference Thursday, June 7, 2018, to announce a new discovery on Mars from the Curiosity rover. Here, Curiosity snaps a selfie while perched on Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars in February 2018.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently found something intriguing on Mars, and the space agency will unveil the discovery Thursday (June 7).
The space agency revealed few details about what will be announced Thursday, but the "live discussion" will feature "new science results from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover," according to a NASA announcement. Why all the secrecy? "The results are embargoed by the journal Science until then," NASA wrote in the statement.
According to NASA, Thursday's Mars science discussion will be hosted by Michelle Thaller, the assistant director of science for communications in the agency's Planetary Science Division. Presenters will include:
Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist at the Goddard center;
Chris Webster, a senior research fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California;
Ashwin Vasavada, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project scientist at JPL. (Mars Science Laboratory is the full name of the Curiosity rover's $2.5 billion mission.)
The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars since it landed in August 2012. The rover recently began drilling into the Martian surface for the first time in 18 months. It is steadily climbing Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) mountain in the center of a region known as Gale Crater.
Visit Space.com Thursday for complete coverage of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity announcement.
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In the 1950s, Colonel Ross Dedrickson was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the AEC, and for accompanying security teams checking out the security of the weapons, among many other duties.
As his obituary states:
He was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission. A long service with the Energy Commission between 1950-1958 included, contract administration duties at Nevada test sites, Pacific Nuclear Test Area west of Hawaii, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, and inspection of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities throughout the country. He served with the 5th Air Force in Japan and later as a ranking Colonel, Officer in Charge of the Pacific Unified Command (TM)s alternate “command and control center” in Hawaii. In 1962, he was transferred and served as Deputy for Material for the 832 Air Division at Canon Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico. He retired from the USAF in 1964.
He is one of hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds to have been brought forth by Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. His testimony about UFOs — specifically about UFOs and nuclear weapons — can be corroborated by a wealth of information and evidence that’s now available within the public domain. (To read more about a few of these encounters, click here.) Many of these whistleblowers have made multiple appearances at the National Press Club in an effort to get this information out to the world, with the most recent example being the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, which took place a few years ago.
With such a professional background, working in the places he has worked, it’s safe to infer he was privy to sensitive information on a number of subjects. This isn’t just a random high-ranking military whistleblower talking about a random issue. There are many whistleblowers and documents clearly outlining a decades-long relationship between UFOs and nuclear storage facilities and test sites.
You can read more about that in the article linked below:
In the interview below, Dedrickson explains how the American government tried to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon, but were prevented from doing so.
As far as the mainstream goes, it’s public knowledge that a declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 shows just how seriously they considered the plan, called Project A119. In general, they wanted to investigate the capability of weapons in space, as well as gain further insight into the space environment and the detonation of nuclear devices within it.
As far as the information below, that probably goes deeper into the Black Budget.
It’s interesting how the world is so into television shows like Stranger Things, which depicts the Department of Energy and their involvement with otherworldly creatures and other strange facts, yet so willing to ignore a high ranking American Colonel who held very sensitive positions at the Department of Energy for years, at a time when all of this nuclear development was really hot. He is the real deal and it’s interesting to ponder what he might really know.
“I also learned about incidents involving nuclear weapons, and among these incidents were a couple of nuclear weapons sent into space were destroyed by the extraterrestrials. . . . At the very end of the 70s and the early 80s, we attempted to put a nuclear weapon on the moon and explode it for scientific measurements and other things, which was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials. They destroyed the weapon before it got to the moon.” (source)
I know, reading the title would instantly have a ‘non believer’ click the X button on the top righthand corner of the screen, and that’s fine, but the truth remains. And that truth is the fact that “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.” Those are the words of Luis Elizondo, who is one member of the To The StarsAcademy, a manwith a long career within the U.S. Department of Defense, who recently retired from the Pentagon, and was a director of the “Ariel Threats Identification Program.”
Does it mean the footage below is real? No, but the source is interesting and myself as well as many other UFO researchers in the field, would tell you that it might be one of the few authentic ones out there where occupants of these ‘UFOs’ are seen. The US government has now released UFO footage, more on that below.
Through To The Stars, the U.S. government has been, and will continue to release footage they’ve collected over many years of UFOs that perform maneuvers which defy, as Elizondo states, our understanding of aerodynamics. They’ve released some pretty amazing ones so far that come with actual electrooptical data and radar tracking reports. Keep in mind, as stressed by Elizondo and various documents that’ve been released prior to this disclosure, that military encounters with UFOs have occurred many times. There are many examples and reports to choose from and I recently wrote an article about an incident which occurred with the Chilean Air Force.
What’s interesting about the recent mainstream coverage is that they released actual video footage and to be honest, it’s quite discouraging that UFO footage has to be released by the U.S. government in order for it to be considered ‘real.’ Sure, there are still many out here who are going to call it fake, which means one thing, there are a group of defense officials making fake videos, putting them out in the public, and saying they’re real or, it’s actual authentic footage.
To contemplate the first one is just as intriguing to contemplate the second, but in my mind, there is no doubt that these are indeed real, and we don’t need these videos to come out to prove that.
The story as to what they are, however, will most likely be controlled by some ‘powerful people’ who oversee governments. Who knows what spin they will put on it via mainstream media, but right now we are currently seeing ‘official disclosure.’
This is the first time we’ve seen media ‘owned by the establishment’ present the UFO topic in a credible way, which is peculiar for multiple reasons. They told the truth, yet there still seems to be some misinformation with regards to the materials that have been collected in association with these UFOs, as pointed out by the New York Times. You can read more about that here where I go into a deeper discussion and provide details about what the New York Times did not elaborate on.
This is why the footage below is also intriguing. Elizondo admitted that this type of thing has happened thousands of times and the ‘unofficial’ reports and sightings from citizens of the world have never been considered credible, when some of them very well could be. But we didn’t need Elizondo, again, we’ve had evidence, and even physical evidence of these crafts for a long time.
Whether or not they are alien is a completely different question and discussion.
The footage below comes from Dr. Roger Leir, a Doctor of Podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects. These objects have been investigated by several prestigious laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but his legacy lives on.You can watch a video of him at the Citizens hearing on disclosure in 2013, here.
In the film below, you will see what appears to be two beings inside of a UFO. Filmed by multiple film crews in Turkey, it made headlines there. It’s known as the Kumburgaz, Turkey UFO incident, and involves several witnesses who live in the local village. The video was analyzed by the Scientific and Technology Research Board of Turkey(which is sponsored by the government). They concluded and vouched for its authenticity.
In conclusion, even though a detailed analysis of the footage is conducted, it might still remain unidentified. Hence, other reference objects need to be recorded in the same frame with the disputable object and further shootings need to be done by ourselves with special equipment in the same location and conditions.
Accordingly, the term “UFO” (Unidentified Flying Object) which has been used for these sort of dubious objects can also be used for these objects. But, this definition does not mean that these objects are from extraterrestrial (flying saucer etc.) origin.
The incidents were dramatic. Apparently, for several days disc, metallic spheres, round, and oval shaped unknown craft visited the Sea of Marmara just off the coast of Kumburgaz, Turkey.
It also so happens that Dr. Lier was there as well and had a powerful camera on hand. Below is a snippet from one of many interviews he’s given describing the experience,
“We’re standing on an elevated deck, which has nothing between us and the water. It was a rather warm night and there was a very very bright full moon. The camera we were using had a 300 mm lens and an electronic doubler. In other words we were able to push or close in on the object 600 times magnification. We started by looking at the moon… the moon was very bright and under these circumstances it’s just the absolute worst time to look for UFOs because the light from the moon pollutes the surrounding sky it’s like, you know, trying to film something at night in the sky in the middle of the city…But anyway…We saw a little bright dot to the left and below the moon and then after getting our focus on the moon we moved the camera over to this little bright light and then started to zoom in on it… and when we got probably 3 quarters of the way from magnification and we’re looking through the view finder and we’re also recording this on the monitor, we see that this light is not a plane. It’s not from a star, it’s not a helicopter, it has a shape to it, which was cylindrical in the front, and then it would turn time to time and you could see that it was probably crescent shaped…And as we pushed on what we considered the front of the object, now that’s when we were so startled by…we just couldn’t believe what we were seeing…This was a craft that had, whatever you choose to call it…Viewing ports, windows, whatever, three, one big one in the front and one towards each side and the craft externally was being lit by the moon…So you could see that it was a shiny… sort of metallic material. What you could see through these ports was light that was emanating from the internal portion of the craft and standing there in these portals were some of these beings….They knew we were there filming them it, was like “oh hello, go ahead film away.”
Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater telling us that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that“there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered,” we have no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.
General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.” On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” (source)
Global Paradigm Shifts & The Human Psyche
The thing about global paradigm shifts and human beliefs is that there seems to be a general accepted version of reality. Many people are happy, raising families, enjoying life, and not really worrying about the planet. And that’s ok, as long as it doesn’t turn into a hatred for activists because that seems to be common. The point is, it can be terrifying, belief destroying, and destructive for some to even consider the possibility that this type of thing is real. Our first response, that I believe has been programmed into us, is fear.
It’s natural to fear the unknown, but where is the line drawn between not being concerned and completely denying a reality?
At what point does something become a reality? What is ‘reality’ is often what’s presented to us by a small group of people, and that’s far from a conspiracy theory.
Why don’t we question what’s happening in our world? Perhaps the planet is more important than we are, Earth has been extremely patient with us and is calling for us to change our ways!
What does this have to do with ET’s? I don’t know, but it’s not all scary stories out there. Just take a look at this one with regards to UFOs and their relationship with nuclear weapons, where the objects deactivated nuclear missiles. This has happened multiple times worldwide, and it’s quite mainstream knowledge. You can read more about it here.
Based on my research, it seems ‘they’ have been here for a very long time, if there was any real ‘invasion threat’ type of scenario in the works, it would have already happened.
However, a fake alien invasion scenario could be in the works too, who knows? You can read more about that in detail here.
The UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon forces us to expand our minds, think outside the box, perhaps show a little more intelligence and come up with more educated guesses with regards to why ‘they’ might be visiting us, and have been. Alien invasion is one of countless possible explanations. Use your imagination 🙂 I don’t feel there is any type of sinister intentions with the majority of races that could be out there, but with some, there most probably is as well. Who knows.
The topic leaves no area of humanity untouched, and in the greater scheme of reality, it’s probably one very small tiny truth, that doesn’t even represent the tip of the ice berg 🙂
Twee wezens in een UFO vastgelegd. Deze beelden zijn authentiek bevonden door de Turkse overheid
Twee wezens in een UFO vastgelegd. Deze beelden zijn authentiek bevonden door de Turkse overheid
Tussen 2007 en 2009 werden in het Turkse Kumburgaz vreemde objecten vastgelegd in de lucht. De UFO-waarnemingen haalden het nieuws en werden zelfs onderzocht door het aan de Turkse staat verbonden onderzoeksinstituut Tübitak.
Het overheidsinstituut concludeerde dat de beelden authentiek waren. De objecten bleven na een gedetailleerde analyse nog steeds ongeïdentificeerd.
Dit betekent echter niet per definitie dat de objecten buitenaards zijn, aldus het onderzoeksinstituut.
Implantaten
Dagenlang verschenen schijf-, bol- en ovaalvormige objecten boven de Zee van Marmara, net voor de kust bij Kumburgaz.
De Amerikaanse onderzoeker Roger Leir, die in 2014 overleed, was in Turkije getuige van één van de objecten.
De arts claimde geavanceerde implantaten in lichamen van zijn patiënten te hebben gevonden die zouden zijn ingebracht door niet-menselijke wezens die de aarde in de gaten houden.
Helder licht
Gedurende zijn onderzoek ontdekte dr. Leir dat er een programma bestaat dat bedoeld is om het menselijk ras te bestuderen of te manipuleren.
In een interview dat hij gaf over zijn ervaringen in Turkije zei Leir dat hij onder de maan een helder licht zag.
Toen hij inzoomde met zijn camera kwam hij al snel tot de ontdekking dat het geen vliegtuig, helikopter of ster was.
Wezens
Het object had de vorm van een halve maan. Over de voorkant van de UFO zei hij: “We konden niet geloven wat we zagen. Dit vaartuig had ramen: één grote aan de voorkant en één aan beide zijden.”
In het schip zag hij naar eigen zeggen een paar wezens staan. “Ze wisten dat wij aan het filmen waren,” zei Leir.
The Mystery Of The Six Pyramids Of Tenerife, Spain
The Mystery Of The Six Pyramids Of Tenerife, Spain
No matter where people look, there are pyramids scattered across the globe.
And while Europe isn’t that famous for being home to ancient pyramids, the truth is there are quite a few scattered across the European continent.
Whether Pyramids around the globe are the result of an ancient global blueprint of structures or the teachings of an ancient civilization that predates popular ancient civilizations like the Ancient Egyptians or the Maya is a mystery.
For some reason, ancient cultures around the globe, all decided to build massive pyramids, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
One of the Pyramids of Tenerife.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
In Europe pyramids are scarce, so every time we write about a pyramidal structure in Europe we try to learn as much as we can about those structures.
The Pyramids of Tenerife—and Historical landmark in Guimar, Canarias
While many were unaware of this fact, Spain has pyramids. However, the mystery structures scattered on a Spanish Island have not been recognized as such by the mainstream archeologists.
The Canary Islands, more specifically Tenerife, features up to 6 pyramids that according to many researchers are aligned astronomically and built, presumably, by a mysterious culture that has long since disappeared.
Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, and the Pyramids of Guimar
On the Island of Tenerife, there is a region called Guiamar the mystery pyramids are located. Today, these incredible structures are part of the Ethnographic Park which was created by explorer Thor Heyerdahl with the financial support of Fred Olsen.
Heyerdahl was the man who, after reading a newspaper report about the pyramids, moved to Tenerife to explore the Pyramids. He lived in Tenerife for the rest of his life.
The Pyramids of Tenerife are believed to be aligned astronomically.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
The Norwegian explorer drew connections between the mysterious pyramids on Tenerife, and other similar stepped pyramids he had encountered across the globe.
Heyerdahl believed that such pyramids may have been built by an ancient civilization that had the ability to perform trans-oceanic voyages, and may be the missing link between ancient Egyptian and American Pyramids.
Thorugh his research and study of the Pyramids, Heyerdahl was convinced that the so-called Guanches, inhabitants of the island of Tenerife before the Castilian conquest, may have built those Pyramids initially.
Mainstream scholars disagree, with everything
Mainstream scholars, on the other hand, disagree with the ancient Pyramid theory and say that the alleged structure arent pyramids at all, but are piles of volcanic rocks that farmers erected when preparing their land for cultivation.
A side view of the Pyramids of Tenerife.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
According to mainstream scholars, the alleged pyramids are cultivational terraces and were built sometimes in the nineteenth century, based on ceramics discovered in the excavations carried out by archaeologists from the University of La Laguna.
But there are those who disagree with the findings of mainstream scholars
One of those people was Philip Coppens, a man who visited the pyramids himself and found out that:
“On one plaza between two pyramids, archaeologists excavated into the structure, but stopped at a level they associated with the 18th century – and which was between 50 and 150 centimeters underground. From this, the mistaken conclusion was reached that they had dug down all the way to the bottom, and had realized the oldest layer was two centuries old. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
So, the question here is… why did they stop after digging only 150 centimeters? What was it that convinced them there was nothing noteworthy to be found if they had dug any deeper than that?
A sacred alignment?
The idea that the structures on Tenerife are more than just cultivational terraces has long existed among researchers and authors.
Heyerdahl and his flowers believed the six majestic pyramids of Tenerife were built following an intricate pattern and alignment which was created for ceremonial purposes.
Mainstream scholars disagree that these structures are Pyramids. Image Credit: Shutterstock
In 1991, researchers from the Canary Institute of Astrophysics Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés, Antonio Aparicio Juan, and César Esteban López demonstrated how the longer sides of the terraces at Güímar were intricately placed in position to mark the direction winter and summer solstices.
Guanches—the builders of the Pyramids of Tenerife?
So, who built these astronomically aligned structures, if it wasn’t farmers?
According to many authors, the enigmatic structures were built by the so-called Guanches people.
The Guanches are a mystery as no one really knows how the white-skinned people came to live on islands so close to the African Continent.
Some archaeologists and anthropologists argue how the Guanche people are descendants of the Berbers from North Africa, and most likely Libya.
However, legends contradict that theory and suggest the Guanches are more than just descendants from the Berbers, and that they are the original inhabitants of Atlantis, and survived the cataclysmic events of the disappearance of the city/continent of Atlantis. The Guanches, aka Atlanteans, only survived because as Atlantis ‘Sank’, they were on the peaks of the mountains which we today refer to as the Canary Islands.
While today myths and history have merged on the Island of Tenerife, the truth is that there are many other structures on Tenerife that resemble Pyramids. The six pyramids at Guimar are just some of the many structures that we can find on Tenerife today. The Village of Santa Barabara has several other Pyramids that until this day have been ignored by experts.
This new crop circle is super detailed and incredibly precise. The circle just appeared in Ackling Dyke, Nr Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. This is the most beautiful formation discovered this year so far!
Alien apocalypse: Can any civilization make it through climate change?
Alien apocalypse: Can any civilization make it through climate change?
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
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In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of civilization is one of humanity's most urgent tasks. But when confronting this immense challenge, we rarely ask what may be the most pressing question of all: How do we know if sustainability is even possible? Astronomers have inventoried a sizable share of the universe's stars, galaxies, comets, and black holes. But are planets with sustainable civilizations also something the universe contains? Or does every civilization that may have arisen in the cosmos last only a few centuries before it falls to the climate change it triggers?
Astrophysicist Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, is part of a group of researchers who have taken the first steps to answer these questions. In a new study published in the journal Astrobiology, the group--including Frank, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, a senior computational scientist at Rochester, Martina Alberti of the University of Washington, and Axel Kleidon of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry--addresses these questions from an "astrobiological" perspective.
"Astrobiology is the study of life and its possibilities in a planetary context," says Frank, who is also author of the new book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, which draws on this study. "That includes 'exo-civilizations' or what we usually call aliens."
Frank and his colleagues point out that discussions about climate change rarely take place in this broader context--one that considers the probability that this is not the first time in cosmic history that a planet and its biosphere have evolved into something like what we've created on Earth. "If we're not the universe's first civilization," Frank says, "that means there are likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilization like our own progresses."
As a civilization's population grows, it uses more and more of its planet's resources. By consuming the planet's resources, the civilization changes the planet's conditions. In short, civilizations and planets don't evolve separately from one another; they evolve interdependently, and the fate of our own civilization depends on how we use Earth's resources.
In order to illustrate how civilization-planet systems co-evolve, Frank and his collaborators developed a mathematical model to show ways in which a technologically advanced population and its planet might develop together. By thinking of civilizations and planets--even alien ones--as a whole, researchers can better predict what might be required for the human project of civilization to survive.
"The point is to recognize that driving climate change may be something generic," Frank says. "The laws of physics demand that any young population, building an energy-intensive civilization like ours, is going to have feedback on its planet. Seeing climate change in this cosmic context may give us better insight into what's happening to us now and how to deal with it."
Using their mathematical model, the researchers found four potential scenarios that might occur in a civilization-planet system:
Die-off: The population and the planet's state (indicated by something like its average temperature) rise very quickly. Eventually, the population peaks and then declines rapidly as the rising planetary temperature makes conditions harder to survive. A steady population level is achieved, but it's only a fraction of the peak population. "Imagine if 7 out of 10 people you knew died quickly," Frank says. "It's not clear a complex technological civilization could survive that kind of change."
The population and the temperature rise but eventually both come to steady values without any catastrophic effects. This scenario occurs in the models when the population recognizes it is having a negative effect on the planet and switches from using high-impact resources, such as oil, to low-impact resources, such as solar energy.
Collapse without resource change:The population and temperature both rise rapidly until the population reaches a peak and drops precipitously. In these models civilization collapses, though it is not clear if the species itself completely dies outs.
Collapse with resource change: The population and the temperature rise, but the population recognizes it is causing a problem and switches from high-impact resources to low-impact resources. Things appear to level off for a while, but the response turns out to have come too late, and the population collapses anyway.
"The last scenario is the most frightening," Frank says. "Even if you did the right thing, if you waited too long, you could still have your population collapse."
The researchers created their models based in part on case studies of extinct civilizations, such as the inhabitants of Easter Island. People began colonizing the island between 400 and 700 AD and grew to a peak population of 10,000 sometime between 1200 and 1500 AD. By the 18th century, however, the inhabitants had depleted their resources and the population dropped drastically to about 2,000 people.
The Easter Island population die-off relates to a concept called carrying capacity, or the maximum number of species an environment can support. The earth's response to civilization building is what climate change is really all about, Frank says. "If you go through really strong climate change, then your carrying capacity may drop, because, for example, large-scale agriculture might be strongly disrupted. Imagine if climate change caused rain to stop falling in the Midwest. We wouldn't be able to grow food, and our population would diminish."
Right now researchers can't definitively predict the fate of the earth. The next steps will be to use more detailed models of the ways planets might behave when a civilization consumes energy of any form to grow. In the meantime, Frank issues a sober warning.
"If you change the earth's climate enough, you might not be able to change it back," he says. "Even if you backed off and started to use solar or other less impactful resources, it could be too late, because the planet has already been changing. These models show we can't just think about a population evolving on its own. We have to think about our planets and civilizations co-evolving."
Summer vacation season has arrived in Scotland, which means it’s time for tourists to point their cellphones at Loch Ness and claim that every log, fish, boat wake and bubble is proof of the Loch Ness monster. However, the latest video accepted by the Official Register of Sightings at Loch Ness was not taken by a tourist standing on the bank of the loch but by an Irishman sitting at home watching the live feed from the official Loch Ness CCTV livecam. Not only did he see something that looked monsterish, he took a video of the video which showed the anomaly for a long (by Nessie sightings standards) ten minutes. Is this the real deal or just another seal?
“I just click in now and then for 20 minutes–it’s better than watching Coronation Street.”
Sometimes you don’t see anything, but it’s still better than “Coronation Street.”
Eoin O’Faodhagain, who should win the title for Best Name for a Nessie Spotter, also has the best method for spotting Nessie – he sits at home in Drumdoit Castlefin, County Donegal, watching the live 24/7 feed from a video camera pointed at Urquhart Bay – a well-known location for Loch Ness monster sightings. Eoin was tuned in on April 30th when he saw something that prompted him to reach for his recording device and watch what might happen next. He was pleasantly surprised at what he saw. (Watch for yourself here.)
“It was very unusual, it was certainly something big–it dived down and up again and dived and disappeared. It was not a boat and not a log.”
Well … “unusual” is definitely an appropriate word for a video of a video feed that “shocked” O’Faodhagain and got Gary Campbell, the Keeper of the Official Register of Sightings at Loch Ness excited.
“As far as Nessie footage goes this is a feature film. Normally you only get videos of one of two seconds.”
The fact that the video-of-a-video-feed is blurry, probably due to Eoin magnifying what he captured on his phone, doesn’t seem to bother Campbell. He points out the one obvious truth – that the object is moving and appears to be bobbing in and out of the water – and speculates that it’s no more than 20 feet long. Despite the fact that a 20-foot log could do the same thing, he says:
“It is unexplained.”
Would searching by kayak be better?
Campbell wields his “unexplained” like many use “unidentified” – that word alone doesn’t make it a ‘creature’, let alone a living creature or Nessie. Hopefully, the Loch Ness DNA testing expedition will dip their ladles into the waters where this video was shot and come up with a better explanation. In the meantime, it is entered in the annual “Best Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2018” sponsored annually by the Inverness Courier.
Yes … there’s still another big unanswered question. Did anyone think to look back at the actual feed from April 30th? Are they not saving it? Wouldn’t it be more clear than the video-of-a-video?
Start monitoring the Loch Ness CCTV feed and keep your cellphone handy. Eoin O’Faodhagain is right – it beats watching “Coronation Street.”
There can be no doubt that any alleged encounter with creatures from another world is already by definition profoundly bizarre. Such reports really cover the full spectrum of the odd and of high strangeness, with these accounts reliably stirring debate, wonder, and awe. Yet there are some cases that go even beyond this, to fully catapult themselves into the furthest reaches of the extreme fringe of the bizarre, hovering out beyond all attempts to comprehend or explain them. Here are some of the stranger.
Certainly one of the more downright bizarre cases comes to us from the U.S. state of West Virginia, where in July of 1968 a local man by the name of Jennings Frederick was out bowhunting in the rural backwoods just outside outside of Fairmont, West Virginia. At some point he allegedly heard a high pitched, unearthly sound that he would describe as sounding like “a recording running at exaggerated speed.” Curious, Jennings searched about for the origin of this surreal noise, and this was when he would come across a very strange sight indeed.
There in the brush stood a 7-foot tall, semi-humanoid entity, with an exceedingly thin, almost skeletal frame, long ears, and stalk-like arms that were almost like tendrils and which ended in slender, 7-inch long fingers tipped with some sort of needles or thorns, as well as suction cups. The whole of the anomalous creature was described as green and very plant-like in nature, as if it were part animal and part plant. The whole time Frederick watched it that incessant chattering sound reverberated around him, and he suddenly realized that he could make out words within the alien noise, like glimpses of meaning from white noise, which he took to say:
You need not fear me. I wish to communicate. I come as a friend. We know of you all. I come in peace. I wish medical assistance. I need your help.
As Frederick stood there wide-mouthed in bewilderment, the mysterious being purportedly suddenly lashed out with one of its stalk-like arms with blinding speed to wrap him in an iron grip. The needles or thorns on its fingers then apparently pierced the startled man’s skin and began to draw blood, but rather than the pain he found himself drawn to the thing’s eyes, which seemed to rapidly switch back and forth from red to yellow in a hypnotizing, oscillating cycle that held him in thrall and dulled his senses. After about two minutes of this, the otherworldly plant-monster reportedly let him go and took off in a sprint up a nearby embankment in great 25-foot long bounds, followed shortly after by a deep thrumming noise that Frederick would later speculate to have been the sound of the creature’s space ship.
For years Frederick took this undoubtedly absurd-sounding story to himself out of fear of ridicule, but in 1976 he would relate it to the paranormal researcher Gray Barker, who would then include it in his newsletter. The story would be brought to even greater attention when it was mentioned in the late Brad Steiger’s 1978 book Alien Meetings. Was this an alien, some sort of cryptid, or what? Whatever it was, the “Vegetable Man” of West Virginia is certainly one of the more bizarre encounters on record.
Vegetable men are weird enough, but there are other encounters with unidentified, often humanoid creatures that are every bit as bizarre. On the evening of November 17, 1974, something beyond normal was witnessed by several motorists along a lonely stretch of road on Bald Mountain, in the U.S. state of Washington. The first of the witnesses was a man named Ernest Smith, would say of the the entity he caught in his headlights thus:
It was horse-sized, covered with scales and standing on four rubbery legs with suckers like octopus tentacles. Its head was football-shaped with an antenna sticking up…The thing gave off this green, iridescent light.
Another couple driving by at the time by the name of Mr and Mrs Roger Ramsbaugh also claimed to have seen the creature and its ethereal glow. Interestingly, just three days previous there had been a report of a UFO crashing to earth in the region, perhaps suggesting a connection. The researcher and author Jim Brandon also mentioned in his book Weird America that at the time Lewis County Sheriff William Wister had led an investigation into the reports, but that he had been shut down by the Air Force and NASA, after which teams of men had been brought in to search the area, which Brandon would describe as “a special NASA team, including a heavily armed military unit wearing uniforms with no insignia.” What could this creature have been? Was it just a newspaper hoax on a slow news day? Who knows?
If none of this has been weird enough for you, then how about floating, disembodied alien brains? In August 17, 1971, there was a perhaps even stranger alien encounter from Palos Verdes, California. Witnesses John Hodges and Pete Rodriguez were allegedly headed to their car at 2 AM when they saw off through the trees a faint, mysterious glow emanating from beyond. They got into their car, switched on the headlights, and their suspended in the beams of light from their vehicle were what were described as two large, blueish entities that looked just like disembodied human brains, hovering right in the middle of the road and surrounded by clouds of vapor that seemed to cling to them. The larger one of the “brains” was described as having a prominent red spot like an eye set within it, and this is the one that began to move towards the vehicle for purposes unknown.
The two terrified men understandably got out of there as fast as they possibly could, and it was later noticed that they had 2 hours of missing time. In 1976, Hodges would undergo hypnotic regression after years of being plagued by nightmares and wondering what had happened to them out on that lonely road. Under hypnosis, Hodges revealed that he had dropped Rodriquez off at home and arrived at his own house to find the larger brain waiting for him there, which had then telepathically spoken to him. He claimed that he had then been taken into the brains’ ship to some sort of “control room,” where it was revealed that they were merely telepathic tools being used by other aliens, this time more akin to the “grey” aliens typically described in more mainstream reports, although in this case they stood over 7-feet tall.
These master aliens then apparently claimed they were from a place called “Zeta Reticulii,” and showed Hodges various images of nuclear war and destruction as they explained that the human race had grown too powerful for its own good. He was also shown another planet that had been completely destroyed by another race that had met the same fate, and was admonished that humankind would be the “instruments of their own fate,” telling him, “Take the time to understand yourselves. The time draws near when you shall need to!” Hodges then says that he felt a potent buzzing sensation in the back of his head and found himself back in his own car.
In the years after, he became convinced that these aliens had implanted him with what he called a “translator cell,” and that he received frequent telepathic communications from them through this device, in which they made dire predictions such as an apocalyptic war in the Middle East and the future widespread use of nuclear weapons. Many of the prophecies given by the aliens have turned out to have not come to pass, which sort of raises an eyebrow even further than it already is. Whether you think this story and its “space brains” has any truth to it at all or not, you have to admit it is a damn strange tale all the same.
The United States certainly does not hold the monopoly on such mind-bending weird cases, and almost as absurd as floating brains is a case involving basically floating, sentient bags of jelly, which were apparently witnessed on December 20, 1958 in Sweden. On this day, 25 year-old Hans Gustafsson and 30 year-old Stig Rydberg, were on their way along Route 45 from Höganäs to Heisenberg in the early morning hours along a foggy road that had such poor visibility that the two friends decided to pull over. As they walked about outside the vehicle they soon noticed through the haze that there was some sort of glow emanating from the surrounding forest nearby.
The two decided to hike off into the darkened, glow frosted trees to try and see where the light was coming from, and after penetrating around 150 feet into the woods they allegedly came across the source of the glow, which proved to be far more bizarre than they had anticipated. There before them was a disc-like object resting on two legs around two feet long, the whole of which cast a scintillating glow of ever-changing colors. Even odder than the sight of this apparent flying saucer was what could be seen cavorting about the vicinity, which were 3-foot long amorphous blobs that Rydberg would describe thus:
They were like protozoa, just a bit darker than most, sort of a bluish color, hopping and jumping around the saucer like globs of animated jelly.
Nowhere on the bodies were any visible limbs or sensory organs, nor any other discernible features, and it was as if they were just pulsating gobs of gelatinous goo that could somehow levitate over the ground. Things got rather tense very quickly when these unusual entities suddenly surrounded the two puzzled men and purportedly began to engulf their limbs within their throbbing masses, described as feeling like “magnetic dough,” while at the same time exuding a terrible stench like “ether and burnt sausage.” It seemed as if the blob-like creatures were trying to drag the increasingly terrified witnesses towards the glimmering disc, and no matter how hard the two witnesses fought back and struggled it did little good.
By chance, Rydberg finally managed to tear himself free and run back towards their car with the alien blobs in hot pursuit. When he reached the vehicle he leaned heavily on the car’s horn, piercing the night with a wall of noise in an effort to draw anyone’s attention to their plight, but which also seemed to have the effect of startling the creatures enough to let go of Gustafsson. The blobs then huddled under their craft, filed inside it, and shot off away into the night sky, leaving behind a screeching whistling blare, that nauseating stink, and two very shaken men who found that they were covered in strange bruises and cuts.
Gustafsson and Rydberg perhaps understandably kept the story to themselves for some time, but when it finally came out it became a minor sensation in Sweden. The to witnesses were also interviewed by police, and although the story was without a doubt off-the-wall, they could find no sign of any hoaxing going on, and even when the two were secretly monitored when they thought they were alone, they did not let on that there was any lying or trickery going on. Gustafsson and Rydberg were also found to be in find physical and psychological health, and in the end, police concluded that the men really seemed to have been traumatized by what they at least truly believed they had seen, whatever that was.
This particular case of what are commonly referred to as the “Domsten Blobs” was also covered by Steiger in his book Strangers from the Skies, with the author himself referring to the outlandish monsters as “terrible flying jelly bags.” It is difficult to ascertain just what it was that these two men saw, or at least thought they saw, and with no other accounts anywhere near it we will probably never know.
Moving over to England we have the weird case that appeared in Fortean Times in the summer of 1988. The incident occurred near Birmingham in the West Midlands, where on January 4, 1979, a Jean Hingley was out working in her garden. At some point she looked up to see a glowing orange sphere appear to hover over her home, which gradually changed to white and inexplicably caused her dog to collapse to the ground, seemingly paralyzed. Things got even stranger still when some tiny, “fairy-like” entities suddenly came buzzing from down out of the sky to enter the house. The article would describe these beings thus:
They were about 3.5 ft tall, and dressed in a silvery tunic with six silver buttons down the front. They had large eyes like ‘black diamonds’ with a glittering lustre, set into wide white faces with no nose to speak of and a simple line for the mouth. Their heads were covered by transparent helmets like ‘goldfish bowls’, surmounted by small lights. Their limbs were silvery-green, ending in simple tapering points with no apparent hands or feet. They had large oval ‘wings’ which looked as if they were made of thin, transparent paper covered with dozens of glittering multi-coloured dots, like ‘braille dots’. Each ‘being’ was surrounded by a halo, and numerous very thin streamers hung down from their shoulders. They hovered and flew about the room with their ‘arms’ clasped in front of their chests, while their ‘legs’ hung down stiffly. Their wings didn’t flap like those of birds, but seemed to be for display and merely fluttered gently or occasionally folded inwards like a concertina. Their expression – “like a dead person’s face” – never changed during the encounter, which lasted for about an hour.
These creatures apparently spoke in unison in a low, gruff voice, and would occasionally emit a laser-like beam of light from their helmets, which had the effect of dazzling the witness and creating a burning sensation. The creatures were also quite mischievous and troublesome, knocking objects over, shaking the Christmas tree, jumping on the sofa, banging on walls, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. They would continue this cavorting, occasionally stunning Hingley with their enigmatic laser weapons, until they were called to attention by a sudden beeping noise coming from the garden. The creatures then flitted back outside, oddly carrying with them pieces of mince pie they had pilfered from the kitchen, and entered the large orange craft that had been hovering over the house earlier, which was now sitting upon the ground and sported portholes and two long antenna-like structures that glowed blue.
When the craft was gone, Hingley claimed that she had been incapacitated by an inexplicable pain, and when she snapped out of it she realized that there was a tiny burn mark in her forehead. An inspection of the area turned up what appeared to be 8-foot long tracks like the tracks of a tank’s treads, and additionally it was found that various electrical appliances in the home had been mysteriously fried by some unknown force. What were these fairy-like beings and what did they want? It is unknown.
Another account first came to public attention in an 1968 issue of Flying Saucer Review, and comes from nearby France, where in 1962 a business man was driving along a rural road in Var on a dark and rainy night. As he drove along the desolate stretch of road peering through the torrent of rain, the witness allegedly noticed a group of figures huddled in the middle of the road as he rounded a bend. He at first took these to be people, perhaps in need of help, but would soon find out that these were no human beings. The witness would explain:
My window was down and I leaned my head out slightly to see what was the matter; it was then that I saw beasts, some kind of bizarre animals, with the heads of birds, and covered with some sort of plumage, which were hurling themselves from two sides towards my car. Terrified, I wound up my window, accelerated like a mad man, and the stopped 150-meters [approximately 500-feet] further on. I turned round and saw these things, these beasts, these nightmarish sort of beings, which were heading, with a sort of flapping of wings, towards a luminous dark-blue object, which hung in the air over a field on the other side of the road. On reaching it [the UFO], these ‘birds’ were literally sucked into the underpart of the machine as if by a whirlwind. Then I heard a dull sound (clac!) and the object flew off at a prodigious speed and finally disappeared.
What were these bizarre bird-like beings? Since no one has seen anything like it it is anyone’s guess. Finally, we leave Europe to come to the South American country of Venezuela, and a very harrowing and strange report from November of 1954. On November 28, 1954, two witnesses by the names of Gustavo Gonzales and José Ponce were driving a truck from Caracas to Petare, Venezuela, when in the early morning hours they came across an enormous glowing orb floating about 6 feet above the ground in front of them. Perhaps unwisely, the men stopped the truck and got out to investigate, upon which they noticed several small, 3-foot high humanoids covered in bristly hair that seemed to be gathering rocks to bring aboard their craft.
Gonzales and ponce approached and decided to try and grab one of the creatures, which turned out to be a bad idea. The small, vaguely ape-like being was apparently vastly strong, effortlessly flinging them off and then proceeding to viciously claw at them. When Gonzales fought back by stabbing it with a knife, his weapon was found to have no effect on it at all. The struggle continued until one of the other creatures put an end to it all by firing off a stunning beam of bright light that knocked the two men to their knees, whereupon the odd beings entered their ship and shot off into the night. Medical examination would show that Gonzales did indeed have a nasty looking scratch mark on his body, and the two men were found to be completely sober. Making the whole case even more bizarre was a report from another witness who also claimed to have seen the creatures and to have even seen the struggle between them and the two witnesses.
These are some of the most outrageous, perplexing, and even downright absurd reports of alien encounters there are, and we are left to wonder just what in the world is going on here. These are singularly peculiar cases that have no other parallel in the sightings records, and which lurk on the very fringes of the weird. What could these creatures be and where did they come from? Why haven’t they been seen more often? Are these hallucinations, illusions, hoaxes, or lies? No one really knows, and these extremely odd encounters continue to serve to stir the imagination.
The ongoing saga of the mystery booms being heard across the United States continues, and possibly taken a turn for the spooky. Over the past year, unexplained explosions and booming noises have been shaking homes and terrifying residents in many rural parts of the continental U.S. While the vast majority of these anomalous booms are left unexplained, the FBI has taken a particular interest in mysterious explosion noises recently heard across rural Pennsylvania just north of Philadelphia. Does this mean some sort of sleeper cell terrorist group might be practicing with improvised explosives?
Let’s hope not.
Given the craters found alongside rural roads, though, who knows? To add more mystery and a healthy dose of conspiracy to these recent booms in Pennsylvania, though, news reports suggest the ever-elusive and ominous Men in Black might now be on the case, doing what they do best: creeping out bewildered eyewitnesses. Is there more to this case than meets the eye?
Speaking to The Intelligencer, a newspaper covering the Upper Bucks County area of Pennsylvania where these mystery booms took place, residents described the “kinda spooky” experience they had following one of the recent unexplained booms. One resident who asked that her name not be used claims two eerily-familiar-sounding and unidentified agents of some kind showed up at her door unannounced, questioning her in a somewhat threatening manner:
Two men in dark suits and dark car were banging on our front door and back door at the time until I answered. I could see they had badges under their coats, but they didn’t identify themselves. It was unnerving. Then they left.
What should be made of the appearance of the MIB? Is there more to this case than some backwoods paramilitary group or “lone wolf” testing explosives on the side of empty highways? Were these Men in Black merely men who happened to be wearing black working on behalf of an undisclosed organization like the NSA or CIA, or is something spookier afoot in rural Pennsylvania? As with all things MIB, we’ll likely never know.
In the search for great names for bands, the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detectors has been available since the 1990s without any takers. That may change this week with the news that this odd device was used to discover a particle that should not exist – the sterile neutrino … a particle that can allegedly pass through matter and not interact with it (and another great band name if your bass drum isn’t big enough for the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detectors logo). Unfortunately, the experiment could not be replicated until recently which scientists using a new device appear to have proven its existence. Is it possible? Here’s the real question … is it band-name-worthy?
“That would be huge; that’s beyond the standard model; that would require new particles … and an all-new analytical framework.”
That’s Kate Scholberg, particle physicist at Duke University, commenting in LiveScience on the announcement, published in arXiv.org, of the possible discovery of the sterile neutrino by scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. It took the invention of another device — the MiniBooNE (Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment) instrument which was built solely to find the allegedly massless neutrinos – to discover the sterile neutrino (the other three are the electron, muon, and tau neutrinos) and then potentially blow the Standard Model of physics to smithereens by proving that neutrinos are not massless but, well, smithereens that can still pass through matter without interacting with it. This sounds like something dark matter might do. Are the sterile neutrinos dark matter?
As described in Quanta Magazine, the MiniBooNE sounds like something invented at a summer picnic by guys tired of firing their shotguns at empty beer cans. MiniBooNE shoots a beam of muon neutrinos at a giant tank filled with oil. Before hitting the oil, some of the muons change (by oscillation) into electron neutrinos which flash when they collide with oil molecules. While this happens rarely, it can be predicted reliably … which caused oscillation among physicists when the total number of hits was slightly higher than predicted.
One possible explanation is that heavier sterile neutrinos – called “sterile” because they never interact with anything but other neutrinos – exist and are also changing into electron neutrinos. The increase in mass measured on the other side of the oil barrel by the MiniBooNE indicates that the sterile neutrinos may not only exist but are not massless as previously theorized. And, if their mass is heavy enough, they could be good candidate for being dark matter.
Or not.
“It’s clear there’s something to be understood, and I certainly hope it’s a fourth neutrino. That said, this would be the first discovered particle beyond the Standard Model, so the threshold for the evidence is obviously very high.” For now, he said, “I am taking a slight wait-and-see approach.”
Skeptics like Neal Weiner, a New York University theoretical physicist interviewed by Quanta, point out that more proof is needed before tossing the Standard Model out the window, especially because other similar experiments have not been able to replicate the results of MiniBooNE.
“I’m very excited about this result, but I am not ready to say ‘Eureka!’”
Janet Conrad, a neutrino physicist at MIT and a member of the MiniBooNE team, agrees, which is why she’s moving from MiniBooNE to ISODAR — an ISOtope Decay At Rest experiment which is being designed to “definitively address these physics topics using a well-understood, high-intensity 8Li β-decay-at-rest antineutrino source coupled with a massive detector such as KamLAND that has good inverse-betadecay identification capabilities with high efficiency.”
Eureka?
It’s nice to know there’s research money being spent on particle physics and, if the sterile neutrino has really been discovered, these experiments destroying the Standard Model of Particle Physics do not blow us to smithereens in the process.
They are also a great band name generator, as The Smithereens have proven. While ISODAR may not fit a band, it sounds like a great name for a Star Wars villain.
How could you devise a message for intelligent creatures from another planet? They wouldn’t know any human language. Their ‘speech’ might be as different from ours as the eerie cries of whales or the twinkling lights of fireflies. Their cultural and scientific history would have followed its own path. Their minds might not even work like ours. Would the deep structure of language, its so called ‘universal grammar’ be the same for aliens as for us? A group of linguists and other scientists gathered on May 26 to discuss the challenging problems posed by devising a message that extraterrestrial beings could understand. There are growing hopes that such beings might be out there among the billions of habitable planets that we now think exist in our galaxy. The symposium, called ‘Language in the Cosmos’ was organized by METI International. It took place as part of the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles. The Chair of the workshop was Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen, a linguist from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
What is METI International?
‘METI’ stands for messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence. METI International is an organization of scientists and scholars that aims to foster an entirely new approach in our search for alien civilizations. Since 1960, researchers have been looking for extraterrestrials by searching for possible messages they might send to us by radio or laser beams. They have sought the giant megastructures that advanced alien societies might build in space. METI International wants to move beyond this purely passive search strategy. They want to construct and transmit messages to the planets of relatively nearby stars, hoping for a response.
One of the organization’s central goals is to build an interdisciplinary community of scholars concerned with designing interstellar messages that can be understood by non-human minds. More generally, it works internationally to promote research in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and astrobiology, and to understand the evolution of intelligence here on Earth. The daylong symposium featured eleven presentations. It main theme was the role of linguistics in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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This article is the first in a two part series. It will focus on one of the most fundamental issues addressed at the conference. This is the question of whether the deep underlying structure of language would likely be the same for extraterrestrials as for us. Linguists understand the deep structure of language using the theory of ‘universal grammar’. The imminent Linguist Noam Chomsky developed this theory in the middle of the twentieth century.
Two interrelated presentations at the symposium addressed the issue of universal grammar. The first was by Dr. Jeffery Punske of Southern Illinois University and Dr. Bridget Samuels of the University of Southern California. The second was given by Dr. Jeffery Watumull of Oceanit, whose coauthors were Dr. Ian Roberts of the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Noam Chomskyhimself, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chomsky’s universal grammar-For humans only?
Universal grammar
Despite its name, Chomsky originally took his ‘universal grammar’ theory to imply that there are major, and maybe insuperable barriers to mutual understanding between humans and extraterrestrials. Let’s first consider why Chomsky’s theories seemed to make interstellar communication virtually hopeless. Then we’ll examine why Chomsky’s colleagues who presented at the symposium, and Chomsky himself, now think differently.
Before the second half of the twentieth century, linguists believed that the human mind was a blank slate, and that we learned language entirely by experience. These beliefs dated to the seventeenth century philosopher John Locke and were elaborated in the laboratories of behaviorist psychologists in the early twentieth century. Beginning in the 1950’s, Noam Chomsky challenged this view. He argued that learning a language couldn’t simply be a matter of learning to associate stimuli with responses. He saw that young children, even before the age of 5, can consistently produce and interpret original sentences that they had never heard before. He spoke of a “poverty of the stimulus”. Children couldn’t possibly be exposed to enough examples to learn the rules of language from scratch.
Chomsky posited instead that the human brain contained a “language organ”. This language organ was already pre-organized at birth for the basic rules of language, which he called “universal grammar”. It made human infants primed and ready to learn whatever language they were exposed to using only a limited number of examples. He proposed that the language organ arose in human evolution, maybe as recently of 50,000 years ago. Chomsky’s powerful arguments were accepted by other linguists. He came to be regarded as one of the great linguists and cognitive scientists of the twentieth century.
Universal grammar and ‘Martians’
Human beings speak more than 6000 different languages. Chomsky defined his “universal grammar” as “the system of principles, conditions, and rules that are elements or properties of all human languages”. He said it could be taken to express “the essence of human language”. But he wasn’t convinced that this ‘essence of human language’ was the essence of all theoretically possible languages. When Chomsky was asked by an interviewer from Omni Magazine in 1983 whether he thought that it would be possible for humans to learn an alien language, he replied:
“Not if their language violated the principles of our universal grammar, which, given the myriad ways that languages can be organized, strikes me as highly likely…The same structures that make it possible to learn a human language make it impossible for us to learn a language that violates the principles of universal grammar. If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili. We should have to approach the alien’s language slowly and laboriously — the way that scientists study physics, where it takes generation after generation of labor to gain new understanding and to make significant progress. We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar. These languages would simply not be within the range of our abilities.”
If intelligent, language-using life exists on another planet, Chomsky knew, it would necessarily have arisen by a different series of evolutionary changes than the uniquely improbable path that produced human beings. A different history of climate changes, geological events, asteroid and comet impacts, random genetic mutations, and other events would have produced a different set of life forms. These would have interacted with one another in a different ways over the history of life on the planet. The “Martian” language organ, with its different and unique history, could, Chomsky surmised, be entirely different from its human counterpart, making communication monumentally difficult, if not impossible.
Convergent evolution and alien minds
The tree of life
Why did Chomsky think that the human and ‘Martian‘ language organ would likely be fundamentally different? How come he and his colleagues now hold different views? To find out, we first need to explore some basic principles of evolutionary theory.
Originally formulated by the naturalist Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, the theory of evolution is the central principle of modern biology. It is our best tool for predicting what life might be like on other planets. The theory maintains that living species evolved from previous species. It asserts that all life on Earth is descended from an initial Earthly life form that lived more than 3.8 billion years ago.
You can think of these relationships as like a tree with many branches. The base of the trunk of the tree represents the first life on Earth 3.8 billion years ago. The tip of each branch represents now, and a modern species. The diverging branches connecting each branch tip with the trunk represent the evolutionary history of each species. Each branch point in the tree is where two species diverged from a common ancestor.
Evolution, brains, and contingency
To understand Chomsky’s thinking, we’ll start with a familiar group of animals; the vertebrates, or animals with backbones. This group includes fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans.
We’ll compare the vertebrates with a less familiar, and distantly related group; the cephalopod molluscs. This group includes octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish. These two groups have been evolving along separate evolutionary paths-different branches of our tree-for more than 600 million years. I’ve chosen them because, as they’ve traveled along their separate branch of our evolutionary tree, each has evolved it own sort of complex brains and complex sense organs.
The brains of all vertebrates have the same basic plan. This is because they all evolved from a common ancestor that already had a brain with that basic plan. The octopus’s brain, by contrast, has an utterly different organization. This is because the common ancestor of cephalopods and vertebrates lies much further back in evolutionary time, on a lower branch of our tree. It probably had only the simplest of brains, if any at all.
With no common plan to inherit, the two kinds of brains evolved independently of one another. They are different because evolutionary change is contingent. That is, it involves varying combinations of influences, including chance. Those contingent influences were different along the path that produced cephalopod brains, than along the one that led to vertebrate brains.
Chomsky believed that many languages might be theoretically possible that violated the seemingly arbitrary constraints of human universal grammar. There didn’t seem to be anything that made our actual universal grammar something special. So, because of the contingent nature of evolution, Chomsky assumed that the ‘Martian’ language organ would arrive at one of these other possibilities, making it fundamentally different from its human counterpart.
This sort of evolution-based pessimism about the likelihood that humans and aliens could communicate is widespread. At the symposium, Dr. Gonzalo Munévar of Lawrence Technological University argued that intelligent creatures that evolved sensory systems and cognitive structures different from ours would not develop similar scientific theories or even similar mathematics.
Evolution, eyes, and convergence
Now lets consider another feature of the octopus and other cephalopods; their eyes. Surprisingly, the eyes of octopuses resemble those of vertebrates in intricate detail. This uncanny resemblance can’t be explained in the same way as the general resemblance of vertebrate brains to one another. It’s almost certainly not due to inheritance of the traits from a common ancestor. It’s true that some of the genes involved in the building of eyes are the same in most animals, appearing far down towards the trunk of our evolutionary tree. But, biologists are almost certain that the common ancestor of cephalopods and vertebrates was much too simple to have any eyes at all.
Biologists think eyes evolved separately more than forty times on Earth, each on its own branch of the evolutionary tree. There are many different kinds of eyes. Some are so strangely different from our own that even a science fiction writer would be surprised by them. So, if evolutionary change is contingent, why do octopus eyes bear a striking and detailed similarity to our own? The answer lies outside of evolutionary theory, with the laws of optics. Many large animals, like the octopus, need acute vision. There is only one good way, under the laws of optics, to make an eye that meets the needed requirements. Whenever such an eye is needed, evolution finds this same best solution. This phenomenon is called convergent evolution.
Life on another planet would have its own separate evolutionary tree, with the base of the trunk representing the appearance of life on that planet. Because of the contingency of evolutionary change, the pattern of branches might be quite different from our Earthly evolutionary tree. But because the laws of optics are the same everywhere in the universe, we can expect that large animals under similar conditions will evolve an eye that looks a lot like that of a vertebrate or a cephalopod. Convergent evolution is potentially a universal phenomenon.
The eye of a fish (left), which is an aquatic vertebrate, and that of a cephalopod mollusc like the octopus (right) are almost identical, but the two evolved independently. Their remarkable similarity is due to convergent evolution. The common ancestor of fishes and cephalopods did not have a well developed eye, nor do some molluscs that are not cephalopods. This sort of eye is called a camera eye, because its layout is similar to a camera with the lens at the front, and the light sensing retina at the back (Credit: Jerry Crimson Mann public domain, evolution diagram is by the author).
Not just for humans anymore?
Taking apart the language organ
Jeffrey Punske, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Chomsky and some of his colleagues started to look at the language organ and universal grammar in a new way. This new view made it seem like the properties of universal grammar were inevitable, much as the laws of optics made many features of the octopus’s eye inevitable.
In a 2002 review, Chomsky and his colleagues Marc Hauser and Tecumseh Fitch argued that the language organ can be decomposed into a number of distinct parts. The sensory-motor, or externalization, system is involved in the mechanics of expressing language through methods like vocal speech, writing, typing, or sign language. The conceptual-intentional system relates language to concepts.
Bridget Samuels, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park
The core of the system, the trio proposed, consists of what they called the narrow faculty of language. It is a system for applying the rules of language recursively, over and over, thereby allowing the construction of an almost endless range of meaningful utterances. Jeffrey Punske and Bridget Samuels similarly spoke of a ‘syntactic spine’ of all human languages. Syntax is the set of rules that govern the grammatical structure of sentences.
The inevitability of universal grammar
Chomsky and his colleagues made a careful analysis of what computations a nervous system might need to perform in order to make this recursion possible. As an abstract description of how the narrow faculty works, the researchers turned to a mathematical model called the Turing machine. The mathematician Alan Turing developed this model early in the twentieth century. This theoretical ‘machine’ led to the development of electronic computers.
Their analysis led to a striking and unexpected conclusion. In a book chapter currently in press, Watumull and Chomsky write that “Recent work demonstrating the simplicity and optimality of language increases the cogency of a conjecture that at one time would have been summarily dismissed as absurd: the basic principles of language are drawn from the domain of (virtual) conceptual necessity”. Jeffery Watumull wrote that this strong minimalist thesis posits that “there exist constraints in the structure of the universe itself such that systems cannot but conform”. Our universal grammar is something special, and not just one among many theoretical possibilities.
Ian Roberts, Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Cambridge University
Plato and the strong minimalist thesis
The constraints of mathematical and computational necessity shape the narrow faculty to be as it is, just like the laws of optics shape both the vertebrate and the octopus eye. ‘Martian’ languages, then, might follow the same universal grammar as human languages because there is only one best way to make the recursive core of the language organ.
Through the process of convergent evolution, nature would be compelled to find this one best way wherever and whenever in the universe that language evolves. Watumull supposed that the brain mechanisms of arithmetic might reflect a similarly inevitable convergence. That would mean that the basics of arithmetic would also be the same for humans and aliens. We must, Watumull and Chomsky wrote “rethink any presumptions that extraterrestrial intelligence or artificial intelligence would really be all that different from human intelligence”.
This is the striking conclusion that Watumull, and in a complementary way, Punske and Samuels presented at the symposium. Universal grammar may actually be universal, after all. Watumull compared this thesis to a modern, computer age version of the beliefs of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who maintained that mathematical and logical relationships are real things that exist in the world apart from us, and are merely discovered by the human mind. As a novel contribution to a difficult ages-old philosophical problem, these new ideas are sure to stir controversy. They illustrate the depth of new knowledge that awaits us as we reach out to other worlds and other minds.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato as imagined by the Renaissance painter Raphael. Plato maintained that mathematical and logical truths existed objectively, apart from our mind and were merely discovered by humans. Jeffery Watumull, Ian Roberts, and Noam Chomsky’s view of the narrow faculty of language are a modern day version of Plato’s views, in which necessary mathematical, logical, and computational relationships determine the structure of the language faculty, and universal grammar. Since the same necessary relationships would influence the evolution of the language faculty of aliens, alien languages, they contend, are likely to have the same universal grammar as human languages.
Universal grammar and messages for aliens
What are the consequences of this new way of thinking about the structure of language for practical attempts to create interstellar messages? Watumull thinks the new thinking is a challenge to “the pessimistic relativism of those who think it overwhelmingly likely that terrestrial (i.e. human) intelligence and extraterrestrial intelligence would be (perhaps in principle) mutually unintelligible”. Punske and Samuels agree, and think that “math and physics likely represent the best bet for common concepts that could be used as a starting point”.
Watumull supposes that while the minds of aliens or artificial intelligences may be qualitatively similar to ours, they may differ quantitatively in having bigger memories, or the ability to think much faster than us. He is confident that an alien language would likely include nouns, verbs, and clauses. That means they could probably understand an artificial message containing such things. Such a message, he thinks, might also profitably include the structure and syntax of natural human languages, because this would likely be shared by alien languages.
Punske and Samuels seem more cautious. They note that “There are some linguists who don’t believe nouns and verbs are universal human language categories”. Still, they suspect that “alien languages would be built of discrete meaningful units that can combine into larger meaningful units”. Human speech consists of a linear sequence of words, but, Punske and Samuels note that “Some of the linearity imposed on human language may be due to the constraints of our vocal anatomy, and already starts to break down when we think about signed languages”.
Overall, the findings foster new hope that devising a message comprehensible to extraterrestrials is feasible. In the next installment, we will look at a new example of such a message. It was transmitted in 2017 towards a star 12 light years from our sun.
References and further reading
Allman J. (2000) Evolving Brains, Scientific American Library
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WATCH: Unidentified Object Flying in Australian Skies Perplexes Witnesses
WATCH: Unidentified Object Flying in Australian Skies Perplexes Witnesses
Video footage of a UFO spotted in the southern city of Hastings, Australia, May 31 has viewers online pondering whether an alien had been spotted or some new top secret government craft accidentally observed by civilian eyes
The daytime footage, which was captured by Junelyn Bitalac after she dropped off her mom at work, shows a strange object flying in the sky not far from HMAS Cerberus, a Royal Australian Navy base in Victoria, on Australia's southern coast.
"I dropped my mom to work that day and on my way home saw this strange object flying in the sky. So I pulled over on the side of the road and took a video of it. Can anyone please tell me what this is?" Bitalac wrote in the description of her YouTube video.
The video gained widespread popularity after being shared on the Secureteam10 YouTube channel, which reports UFO sighting news. So far, the clip has been viewed more than 444,000 times.
Many users were quick to share their theories about what the mysterious black object floating in the sky could be.
"Most likely a secret governmental black project craft," one YouTube user wrote.
"Obviously some sort of experimental aircraft, possibly military," another noted.
Others were less adventurous with their speculations.
"Right next to the military base — must be a drone," another viewer wrote.
That search has generally focused on places more or less like Earth — rocky planets in the "habitable zone" of their host star, that just-right range of distances where liquid water could exist on a world's surface. Jupiter-like planets don't seem like good candidates in this regard, because they have no discernible surface. But the rocky moons of such gas giants may be a different story, study team members said. [How Habitable Zones for Alien Planets and Stars Work (Infographic)]
"There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system," study co-author Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics at UCR and a member of UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center,said in a statement.
Could exomoons provide the correct environments for life?
Credit: Jay Friedlander/Britt Griswold/NASA/GSFC
"While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the sun's habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems," Kane added. "Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look."
The research team pored through the databases of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered about 70 percent of the 3,700 known exoplanets to date. They flagged 121 gas giants that appear to orbit in the habitable zone.
No exomoons have yet been confirmed. But if any of those huge exoplanets have natural satellites — which seems likely, given how common moons are in our own solar system — they could be especially promising abodes for life, study team members said. For example, potential lifeforms on their surfaces could tap energy coming directly from their star, and light reflected off their parent planet as well.
"Now that we have created a database of the known giant planets in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties," study lead author Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane, said in the statement.
"Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life,” added Hill, who will join UCR's graduate program in the fall.
The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. You can read a copy of it for free at the online preprint site arXiv.org.
Interdimensional beings, Aliens From “Dimensions” That Coexist Alongside Our Own?
Interdimensional beings, Aliens From “Dimensions” That Coexist Alongside Our Own?
The definition for interdimensional beings or interdimensional intelligence is usually described as a theoretical or ‘real’ entity that exists in a dimension beyond our own.
Despite the fact that such beings are believed to exist only in science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural, there are numerous Ufologists who refer to them as real beings.
The Interdimensional Hypothesis
The interdimensional hypothesis was proposed by a number of Ufologists like Jacques Vallée who suggests that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related events (such as alien sightings) imply visits from beings from other “realities” or “dimensions” that coexist separately with ours. Some have referred to these beings as visitors from another universe.
In other words, Vallée and other authors suggest that aliens are real but exist not in our dimension, but in another reality, that coexists with our own.
This theory is an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis which suggests that aliens are advanced spacefaring beings that exist in our universe.
The interdimensional hypothesis argues that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in earlier times was attributed to mythological or supernatural creatures—Ancient Astronaut theory.
What if Aliens are travelers from another dimension? Does that mean we are alone in the universe after all?
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
But despite the fact that modern Ufologists and millions of people around the globe believe we are not alone in this universe, many ufologists and paranormal researchers have embraced the interdimensional Hypothesis, suggesting that it explains the Alien theory in a much smoother way.
Paranormal investigator Brad Steiger wrote that “we are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon that is largely originating from planet Earth.”
Other ufologists, such as John Ankerberg and John Weldon, who also favor the interdimensional hypothesis argue that UFO sightings fit in the spiritualist phenomenon.
Commenting on the disparity between the Extraterrestrial hypothesis and the reports that people have made of UFO encounters, Ankerberg and Weldon wrote that “the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors.”
This Interdimensional Hypothesis took a step further in the book UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse published in 1970, where author John Keel linked UFOs to supernatural concepts such as ghosts and demons.
Some advocates of the extraterrestrial theory have embraced some of the ideas set forth by the Interdimensional Hypothesisbecause it does a better job explaining how ‘aliens’ could travel in space across vast distances.
The distance between the stars makes interstellar travel impractical using conventional means and since no one has demonstrated an antigravity engine or any other machine that would allow a traveler to move across the cosmos at speed faster than light, the Interdimensional Hypothesis makes much more sense.
Are aliens, in fact, interdimensional travelers?
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
According to this theory, is not necessary to use any method of propulsion because it maintains that UFOs are not spacecraft, but devices that travel between different realities. However, they still need to get from one reality to the other, right?
One of the benefits of the Interdimensional Hypothesis according to Hilary Evans—a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena—is that it can explain the apparent ability of UFOs to appear and disappear, not only from sight but from radar; as the interdimensional UFO’s can enter and leave our dimension at will, meaning they have the ability to materialize and dematerialize.
On the other hand, Evans argues that if the other dimension is slightly more advanced than ours, or is perhaps our own future, this would explain the tendency of UFOs to represent technologies close to the future.
Declassified FBI document—beings from other dimensions exist
While all of the above may sound like something coming from a sci-fi movie, there is a peculiar declassified top-secret document in the FBI archives which speaks of interdimensional beings, and how their ‘spacecraft’ have the ability to materialize and dematerialize in our own dimension.
Here is a transcript of some of the most important details of the report:
Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control
Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world
They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
The disks possess a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
The region from which they come is not the “astral plane,” but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
The serendipitous arrival of a Cthulhic Elder God from the deep abyss of darkspace would be evidence
(AFP)
Studies suggesting that the humble octopus might be from outer space have seized the attention of would-be xenobiologists.
Articles in mainstream media publications such as The Australian, citing a review of older research, have rekindled a decades-old theory that octopuses (or octopi or octopodes, depending on your linguistic mood) might be extraterrestrial in origin.
This has led commentators to slap their metaphorical foreheads — of course! — and point to the marine animals’ eight limbs, strange intelligence, Wolverine-ish regenerative abilities and weird Predator-like camouflage capabilities as attributes that should in retrospect have been dead giveaways.
The review itself, published in the apparently respectable journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, summarises years of scientific speculation that alien retroviruses may have hitchhiked from their hypothetical home planets across the vast chasm of space, hidden in the ice of a visiting comet.
Upon entering Earth’s environment, the theory goes, these viruses would have proceeded to infect unsuspecting native organisms with extraterrestrial DNA, diverting their evolutionary path to produce cephalopods like squid and octopus.
Some of the more ebullient studies under review go a step further, suggesting that the unexpected flying octopuses arrived fully formed, genetically speaking, as frozen eggs that then hatched on our planet.
And now, just as they did 12 years ago (the last time the extraterrestrial octopus theory grabbed this many headlines), mildly harassed-sounding “establishment” scientists are being hounded for their take.
And they are sceptical at best.
Speaking to Quartz on the matter, virologist Karin Moelling, of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin, generously conceded that the Progress article was worth thinking about, but “the main statement about viruses, microbes and even animals coming to us from space cannot be taken seriously”.
But let us take it seriously anyway!
Let us entertain the notion — if only for a moment — that cephalopods may be from space. How would we go about testing the hypothesis? Why, we would need to look for evidence.
The serendipitous arrival of a Cthulhic Elder God from the deep abyss of darkspace would be evidence enough. But we could not count on that, nor would we want to, if only because it would require dictionaries to come up with a new definition for “serendipitous”.
No, it would be more reasonable to simply visit a comet to look for evidence of an octopus. Fossils, perhaps. Traces of octopodal DNA, maybe. Predictions from the 2010 World Cup, definitely. Calamarian glyphs spelling out the phrase, “It’s a trap!”
That sort of thing.
In fact, finding anything at all that doesn’t fall under the broad category of “lump of rock” would be legitimate cause for scientific ululation.
Getting to our comet would be tricky. But not that much of a trick. We’re sending all sorts of things into space these days, after all. Relaunchable rockets. The second-hand tjorries of former Pretoria Boys’ High pupils. That Richard bloke who owns the gym down the road from you. And we have, after all, landed on comets before. (Well. On a comet.) So answers to the Great Octopus Question of 2018 are indeed within our grasp.
The real question is how badly humanity needs these answers.
They do say that forewarned is forearmed. But eight-armed is another story entirely.
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WHY CAN’T WE REMEMBER OUR DREAMS?
WHY CAN’T WE REMEMBER OUR DREAMS?
You spend a third of your life asleep, a good chunk of which involves dreaming. But most often, you don’t remember any of your dreams. And even on those lucky days when you wake up with a memory of the dream still floating in your mind, there’s a good chance that in just a minute the memory will vanish into thin air and back to dreamland.
In waking life, such a case of quickly forgetting recent experiences would surely land you in a doctor’s office. With dreams, however, forgetting is normal. Why?
“We have a tendency to immediately forget dreams, and it’s likely that people who rarely report dreams are just forgetting them more easily,” said Thomas Andrillon, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. It might be hard to believe that you had a dream if you don’t remember anything, but studies consistently show that even people who haven’t recalled a single dream in decades or even their entire lifetime, do, in fact, recall them if they are awakened at the right moment, Andrillon said.
While the exact reason is not fully known, scientists have gained some insight into memory processes during sleep, leading to several ideas that may explain our peculiar forgetfulness.
You are awake, but is your hippocampus? When we fall asleep, not all the brain’s regions go offline at the same time, according to a 2011 study in the journal Neuron. Researchers have found one of the last regions to go to sleep is the hippocampus, a curved structure that sits inside each brain hemisphere and is critical for moving information from short-term memory into long-term memory.
If the hippocampus is the last to go to sleep, it could very well be the last to wake up, Andrillon said. “So, you could have this window where you wake up with a dream in your short-term memory, but since the hippocampus is not fully awake yet, your brain is not able to keep that memory,” Andrillon told Live Science.
While this might explain why dream memories are so fleeting, it doesn’t mean that your hippocampus has been inactive throughout the night. In fact, this region is quite active during sleep, and appears to be storing and caring for existing memories to consolidate them, instead of listening for incoming new experiences.
“Some data shows that [during some sleep stages] the hippocampus is sending information to the cortex, but not receiving any,” Andrillon said. “This unidirectional communication would allow sending memories from the hippocampus to the brain’s cortex for long-term storage, but new information wouldn’t be registered by the hippocampus.”
Upon awakening, the brain may need at least 2 minutes to jump-start its memory-encoding abilities. In a 2017 study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers in France monitored sleep patterns in 18 people who reported remembering their dreams almost every day, and 18 others who rarely remembered their dreams. The team found that compared with low-dream recallers, high recallers woke up more frequently during the night. These middle-of-the-night awakenings lasted an average of 2 minutes for high recallers, whereas low-recallers’ awakenings lasted for an average of 1 minute.
Neurochemical soup Our poor ability to encode new memories during sleep is also linked to changes in the levels of two neurotransmitters, acetylcholine and noradrenaline, which are especially important for retaining memories. When we fall asleep, acetylcholine and noradrenaline drop dramatically.
Then, something strange happens as we enter the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, where the most vivid dreams occur. In this stage, acetylcholine returns to wakefulness levels, but noradrenaline stays low.
Scientists have yet to work out this puzzle, but some suggest that this particular combination of neurotransmitters might be the reason we forget our dreams. The boost in acetylcholine puts the cortex in an aroused state similar to wakefulness, while low noradrenaline reduces our ability to recall our mental escapades during this time, according to a 2017 study in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Sometimes your dreams are just not memorable Do you remember what you were thinking about this morning when brushing your teeth? Our minds wander all the time, but we discard most of those thoughts as nonessential information. Dreams, especially mundane ones, may be just like daydreaming thoughts and deemed by the brain to be too useless to remember, the late dream researcher Ernest Hartmann, who was a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, wrote in Scientific American.
But dreams that are more vivid, emotional and coherent seem to be better remembered — perhaps because they trigger more awakening, and their organized narrative makes them easier to store, Andrillon said.
If you are intent on improving your dream recall, there are a few tricks to try. Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, suggests drinking water before bed, because it will make you wake up at night to use the bathroom. These “middle-of-the-night awakenings are frequently accompanied by dream recall,” Stickgold told The New York Times.
Once in bed, repeatedly reminding yourself that you want to remember your dreams may increase your chances, and so does keeping a dream journal, some studies have suggested. Upon waking up, hang on to that fragile dream memory: Keep your eyes closed, stay still and replay the dream memory, until your hippocampus catches up and properly stores the memory.
On May 24, my anonymous source, JP, who has provided dozens of photos of different types of craft belonging to a United States Air Force (USAF) secret space program says he encountered a human looking “Nordic” extraterrestrial. He claims the Nordic was wearing a USAF uniform and invited him to go for a ride in a landed saucer-shaped craft in a secluded wooded area of Orlando, Florida.
JP declined the offer but took photos of the spacecraft after it departed (attached below). His recollection of the conversation with the Nordic reveals that they are directly cooperating with the USAF and abiding by the terms of an agreement concerning their interaction with the general public.
What follows is the Skype conversation I had with JP along with some commentary. I have created a page where earlier articles and videos featuring his photos, along with originals, can be found for independent analysis.
The conversation began at 10:32 Eastern Daylight Time. I have removed grammatical errors and added extra text in square brackets to clarify what JP is saying:
JP: 9am. Nice contact today.
Michael Salla: What happened?
JP: I went Into the Woods. I was hearing a ringing in my ear. I’m thinking it was like a calling. Like I got from the last Contact. I met up with this man. Wearing a United States Air Force suit. Dark blue. His face was different. Possibly a Nordic.
JP: Light blue eyes, blond hair, wearing a United States Air Force Jumpsuit. He was really kind. He said a lot of these craft are going to be seen all over. He invited me to go to the craft. I said no. Yes [he asked] me again if I was sure….
JP: I told him that we’re gonna start needing video evidence. He told me [that] because [of] a deal they have with the United States and other countries, they can’t.
This is consistent with what contactees such as George Adamski, Howard Menger and others have said about human looking extraterrestrials they each helped blend into local communities to evade recognition by the general public, and even national authorities.
It’s worth noting that the current Russian Prime Minister, Dimitry Medvedev, revealed in December 2012 that when he became President, he was given a highly classified file about how Russian and global authorities register and track extraterrestrials secretly living among the human population.
This all suggests that secret agreements have indeed been reached between public authorities and Nordic extraterrestrials, where any kind of video recording of their existence is not allowed by those they contacted.
I return now to my skype conversation with JP where I queried him on his decision not to accept the Nordic offer to go into his craft:
Michael Salla: Surprised you said no. Did you get a bad feeling at any point?
JP: No, I actually felt happiness, but I was kind of mad because of not getting video.
Michael Salla: Hmmm, would you have been allowed to take photos?
JP: He told me. This kind of ship gonna be seen all over. After he talked to me. He touched me. I had a Flash that I was inside the ship. Floating around. It was a split second. Then he told me you’re back.
Here, JP is suggesting that the “Nordic” had arranged for him to view the interior of the craft without physically going inside. Perhaps astral projection or some other kind of non-physical encounter had occurred.
JP then goes on to ask about the cooperation between the Nordics and the USAF:
JP: I ask him what’s going on with you guys and the United States Air Force. He told me that they’re working on a big project together. A couple of projects in the Gulf of Mexico Involving a couple of MacDill Air Force personnel.
Michael Salla: Why was he wearing a US Air Force uniform?
JP: All these sonic booms are part of the project that they’re doing
Michael Salla: Did it have the USAF Special Operations patch?
In earlier incidents, JP has described being taken on board rectangle shaped spacecraft where he saw occupants in USAF uniforms with the patch of Air Force Special Operations. The incidents occurred next to MacDill Air Force Base, home of US Special Operations Command.
JP said the patch worn by the Nordic was different and contained symbols of a star and crescent.
He later explained to me that the uniform itself featured the acronym, USAF, with the acronym also spelled out in a foreign language he did not immediately recognize, but after he did some internet research he found it appeared to be ancient Sumerian. Apparently, this enabled the Nordic to walk undisturbed inside USAF bases:
JP: Another type of space insignia.
Michael Salla: What made you think it was a USAF uniform and not a Nordic uniform?
JP: To camouflage [himself] in the [USAF] base when they’re walking. It [the patch] had United States Air Force.
Michael Salla: Did he tell you he walks around on USAF bases, MacDill?
JP: … Yes, in other bases around the world
Michael Salla: That makes sense. Did he say how long his group has been working with the USAF in joint projects? When did it start?
JP: We never got far in that conversation. I’m thinking a long time Michael. When he left… I ran to my truck.
Michael Salla: Was the conversation done in English or telepathically?
JP: English. European type. Like people talk in England. The perfect English. Not American.
Michael Salla: Were you able to take any photos?
JP: Yes.
JP said that he was able to take photos of the craft once it took off, but not while it was on the ground. The original photos of the departing craft are located below. The following video contains all the photos he sent, along with zooms of two of the photos.
JP says that while the craft was on the ground, he was about 25 meters from it, but his cell phone didn’t work. He estimated the size of the craft to be about 20 meters in diameter, and it had three window panes which he could see through.
I next asked JP about what the Nordic had told him of the cooperation with the USAF:
Michael Salla: What kind of projects were the Nordics working on with the USAF?
JP: Training how to maneuver the ships. Invasive maneuvers all around United States, in Europe, in Middle East, Russia, Asia.
Michael Salla: The Nordics were teaching the USAF invasive maneuvers? Can you explain more?
JP How another craft chasing another craft. Is not the same as a jet chasing a jet.
Michael Salla: Were the Nordics sharing technology with the USAF or just know how?
JP: The United States Air Force has the technology but does not know how to correctly use it. Is [like] the comparison of dropping a smartphone to an Indian in the Amazon. The Indian would not know how to charge [the] phone, will not know how to search through …
So basically they’re teaching the technology the physics. When to use the weapons because the weapons sometimes affect the ability of the craft when it’s flying.
The weapon that the craft has is a pulsing weapon energy superheated. Beams of light Radioactive, how to interact with thunderstorms to conserve and gain energy.
It’s worth pointing out here that based on the testimonies of William Tompkins, Corey Goodeand many others, that the US military industrial complex needed to work with German scientists after World War II, to learn about the technology of crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft that had been recovered from Roswell and elsewhere. I discuss this in detail in my latest book, Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs.
Based on JP’s testimony, the USAF in particular is still in need of assistance to understand Nordic extraterrestrial technology, which is more advanced than the recovered spacecraft belonging to small Gray extraterrestrials whose bodies have often been found inside the crashed vehicles.
It’s worth noting that in previous incidents involving his sightings of USAF aerospace vehicles and Nordic spacecraft, he has been prompted by covert operatives to look in the direction of the craft. This suggests that he is part of a sanctioned disclosure initiative where he is being helped in revealing the existence of an Air Force Secret space program, and their alliance with a human looking group of Nordic extraterrestrials.
JP has said on previous occasions that he has been told that he is not allowed to take videos of the craft, but that photos are OK. He says that when he tries to take videos of the spacecraft he is witnessing, his cell phone stops operating.
I have known JP since 2008 and believe he is accurately revealing events as they have occurred. The photographs provide hard evidence that the incredible events he has witnessed are genuine.
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NASA TO FLY A HELICOPTER ON MARS IN NEXT GENERATION RED PLANET ROVER MISSION
NASA TO FLY A HELICOPTER ON MARS IN NEXT GENERATION RED PLANET ROVER MISSION
The aircraft will be used for the first time on another world as part of the US space agency’s 2020 mission to place a next-generation rover on the Red Planet’s surface
NASA is to send a HELICOPTER to Mars.
The venture, the first time such an aircraft will be used on another world, is part of the US space agency’s 2020 mission to place a next-generation rover on the Red Planet’s surface.
The remote-controlled Mars Helicopter is designed to take flight in the thin Martian atmosphere with twin counter-rotating blades.
It weighs about four pounds (1.8 kilograms), with a fuselage the size of a softball, NASA said.
Its blades will spin at almost 3,000 rpm, roughly 10 times the rate employed by helicopters on Earth.
Nasa will fly a helicopter on Mars (Image: REUTERS)
Mimi Aung, the Mars Helicopter project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: “The altitude record for a helicopter flying here on Earth is about 40,000ft (12,200m).
“The atmosphere of Mars is only one percent that of Earth, so when our helicopter is on the Martian surface, it’s already at the Earth equivalent of 100,000ft (30,480m) up.”
NASA officials said the rotorcraft will reach the Red Planet’s surface attached to the car-sized rover.
NASA officials said the rotorcraft will reach the Red Planet’s surface attached to the car-sized rover
After placing the helicopter on the ground, the rover will be directed to drive to a safe distance to relay commands.
Controllers on Earth will command the helicopter to take its first autonomous flight after its batteries are charged and tests are conducted, NASA said.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said: “The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling.”
The helicopter is intended to demonstrate the viability and usefulness of such aircraft on Mars, NASA said, with potential roles as a low-flying scout or to reach locations inaccessible from the ground.
NASA unveiled designs of its new Mars Rover which will embark on a mission to find signs of life on the planet in 2020 (Image: PA)
NASA said it plans a 30-day flight test period that will include up to five flights, starting with a short vertical jaunt to hover for about 30 seconds at an altitude of 10ft (3m) and progressing to flight distances up to a few hundred yards and durations up to 90 seconds.
The helicopter contains solar cells to charge its lithium-ion batteries and a heating mechanism to keep it warm during frigid nights.
The Mars 2020 rover mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and reach Mars in February 2021.
The rover is designed to carry out geological studies and ascertain the habitability of the Martian environment, NASA said.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER AND CO-FOUNDER OF DNA MOLECULE CLAIMS OUR GENES HAVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER AND CO-FOUNDER OF DNA MOLECULE CLAIMS OUR GENES HAVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
Francis Crick was a prominent English scientist who co-founded the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine. Given his book, Life Itself, we realize he claimed the DNA molecule couldn’t have generated here on Earth.
Crick was one of the many brilliant scientists to whom the media, unfortunately, didn’t pay much attention. The reason for that was that he was theorizing something that confronted the dominant framework.
In his 1982’s book, Life Itself, he discusses how the DNA molecule couldn’t have origin here on Earth but rather somewhere else.
The prevailing scientific thought is that we appeared when a cluster of molecules randomly crashed into each other, generating life.
However, in the opinion of Mr. Crick, we are an outcome of so-called Directed Panspermia. He and Leslie Orgel, a British chemist, published their theory in 1973.
Their paper talks about how “organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet.We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.”(Source)
Concerning the mainstream theory we previously mentioned, Crick’s opinion is that it’s most likely not reliable.
On the other hand, concerning his theory, he has quite many supporters who have claimed they found evidence to justify it. Maybe even he, himself, had evidence he never presented. After all, he was not just anybody on the street a hungry imaginative mind. He was a scientist who won a Nobel Prize on the DNA molecule subject.
However, we haven’t yet found the complete biological functions of the total DNA. This means the whole concept carries a lot of mystery. Mystery that might has the answer to the human’s real origin.
A couple of years ago, the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, Chandra Wickramasinghe, released a study. The object of research involved supposed discoveries of the first evidence of extraterrestrial life in a celestial body.
Wickramasinghe called the attention with the Huffington Post in 1962:
“Hoyle and I, pioneers the theory of carbon grains in space to replace the old ice grain theory. This was vehemently resisted by the astronomical community at the outset, but with the dawn of infrared spectroscopy, the ice grain theory gave way to the carbon dust theory. Over a few years, after a great deal of model-fitting, we came to the conclusion that material similar to biomaterial fitted all the available data in astronomy. We considered the possibility that microbiology had a universal character, and no observations in astronomy or new information from biology has d contrary evidence. If only ideas that are considered orthodox are given support through award of publication opportunities, it is certain that the progress of science will be stifled as it was throughout the middle age.”
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Furthermore, the author Graham Hancock said that we look like species that have amnesia. We apparently don’t remember who we are and how did we get on Earth. Interesting, huh?
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“There are no aliens, no alien abductions and no alien cattle mutilations”, said William “Bill” Cooper, author of BEHOLD A PALE HORSE
“There are no aliens, no alien abductions and no alien cattle mutilations”, said William “Bill” Cooper, author of BEHOLD A PALE HORSE
“There are no aliens, no alien abductions and no alien cattle mutilations”, said the late William “Bill” Cooper, author of BEHOLD A PALE HORSE in this important 1999 interview:
Just around the time when he wrote his book BEHOLD A PALE HORSE, Bill Cooper began to depart from “ufology” and was also beginning to hypothesize that “UFOs” had nothing to do with “aliens” but was a manipulation of the government to bring about fear to create a one-world government.
Cooper began to admit that he most likely had been shown disinformation by the government while he was in military service. On this point, I truly commended Cooper for his admission.
Cooper began to state that he was no longer a “ufologist”. It was Cooper who coined the term “ufoology” and I also commended him for it.
I basically agree with Bill Cooper on many of the things he said about UFOs and Aliens.
There is no evidence whatsoever (so far) that there are sentient, physical extraterrestrial biological entities commonly known as Aliens.
UFOs do not represent any conclusive evidence whatsoever of physical ET visitations.
The above all refer to physical reality as we know it.
(However, some say that there could be more to reality than just purely physical reality in this mysterious universe……I couldn’t agree more. This falls in the realm of religious or spiritual beliefs of each person. I do not discount the religious concept of the existence of paraphysical entities, both benevolent or malevolent in nature. Some claim that malevolent, fallen paraphysical entities, also described as “demonic”, could be materializing and de-materializing at will, posing as physical aliens to pre-selected observers and could be deceiving many.)
P.S.
Bill Cooper was also a troubled individual, deep inside. There was a dark side to his complex personality – – he was extremely short-tempered and had a problem with alcoholism. When he first started giving lectures at UFO meetings and conferences (beginning in 1989), he insisted that one day he had witnessed a sub-merged disc-shaped object rising out of the sea while on a Navy ship during the time he was in military service. This claim has never been collaborated by any other witness except himself. But he had already included this story in the book. I am not saying that he did not see the disc-shaped object. He could have seen it. The bottom line is that by the time he wrote his book, he had long come to the conclusion that all UFOs are man-made objects created by the government.
However, I disagree with his views that all UFOs are man-made objects.
I also do not agree with Bill Cooper that the government has built man-made UFOs in places like Groom Lake/Area 51
Experts present their evidence of ancient aliens roaming Earth at Contact in the Desert
Experts present their evidence of ancient aliens roaming Earth at Contact in the Desert
Corinne S Kennedy The Desert Sun
A group attends the Dome Experience at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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The world is full of unanswered questions. And while it’s alright to admit if you don’t have an answer, the questions still need to be asked.
At least that was the consensus of experts and attendees at Contact in the Desert, an annual conference devoted to all things extraterrestrial. Hundreds of people gathered in at the Renaissance Resort and Spa in Indian Wells over the weekend, bound together by the belief that there’s something more to our world and the universe than many people realize or believe.
The meeting, normally held in nearby Joshua Tree—an altogether more eclectic town than Indian Wells—was moved to the resort because the increasing number of attendees were looking for a little more luxury than they were finding in the high desert, organizers told The Desert Sun before the event.
While the subject of aliens, specifically contact with extraterrestrials and their presence on earth, has often drawn mocking and charges of pseudoscience, Contact in the Desert featured a lineup that boasted PhDs, a former congressman, a Naval pilot, a man who researched UFOs for the British government and a former NASA employee who worked on the Apollo moon missions, among others.
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Author Michael Tellinger signs books at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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Conference-goers were treated to lectures and workshops on everything from UFO sightings, crop circles, the influence of aliens on ancient human societies and the relationship between military forces and extraterrestrial beings.
One of Sunday’s featured speakers, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, famous for being the guy with the wild hair on the History Channel program “Ancient Aliens,” spoke about what he said were examples of the contact between ancient peoples of Earth and extraterrestrial beings.
He also cleared up some burning questions. Yes, aliens need space suits. YouTube is no longer a bearer of truth. No, the Earth is not flat.
“If the alien guy says that the Earth is round, trust me, it’s round,” Tsoukalos said.
In his two-hour talk, he stressed his belief that technological developments brought to ancient people by aliens have been misrepresented as those ancient peoples’ belief in magic or spirituality, and he was dismissive of many modern scientists, “gods” and religion.
George Tsoukalos host of "Ancient Aliens" speaks at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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“The reason that we’re in the crap that we’re in today is because of misunderstood technology,” he said. “The reason we have religions today is because of misunderstood visits of extraterrestrials.”
However, he did make the point that extraterrestrials, and those who believe in their existence, can still be spiritual and “wonder about God and who she is.”
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Tsoukalos’ discussion, and the entire theory of ancient aliens, boils down to one thing: misunderstood technology. He said examples of ancient technology, including the pyramids in Giza or Central America, and ancient art and literature pointed to signs of alien contact with Earth-dwellers and their sharing technology with less advanced societies.
He read from ancient texts to illustrate his point, including a 12th century Sanskrit manuscript, which had a passage that appeared to describe seeing an airplane fly overhead, hearing the sound and seeing the contrails. He also showed examples of artwork or sculptures that depicted airplanes or beings in spacesuits.
A group attends the Dome Experience at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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Tsoukalos said that while some archaeologists and historians were doing great work, they often dismissed artwork depicting possible extraterrestrials as being beliefs in gods or magic or depictions of animals, which he said was an insult to the intelligence of older civilizations. He also said many failed to dig deeper and ask questions about how ancient sites that required tools for construction came to be and why.
“We, people like us, are at least entertaining the question ‘where did it all come from?’,” he said to those attending his talk.
Eventually, he speculated, humans would become the deep space explorers, and share agriculture and engineering with alien societies less technologically advanced than those on Earth.
A line from early on in Tsoukalos’ workshop summed up the message of Contact in the Desert. He told the crowd that there were more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
“And you have to ask yourself in that scenario, are we the only ones out there? No.”
A group attends the Dome Experience at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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Corinne Kennedy covers the west valley for The Desert Sun. She can be reached at Corinne.Kennedy@DesertSun.com or on Twitter @CorinneSKennedy
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Experts presenteren hun bewijs voor aliens op aarde. Werden onze voorouders al bezocht?
Experts presenteren hun bewijs voor aliens op aarde. Werden onze voorouders al bezocht?
Afgelopen weekend verzamelden zich in Californië honderden mensen voor de conferentie Contact in the Desert, die geheel in het teken stond van aliens.
Tijdens de bijeenkomst vertelden wetenschappers, een oud-congreslid, een marinepiloot, een man die UFO’s onderzocht voor de Britse overheid en een ex-NASA-medewerker die aan de Apollomissies werkte over hun ervaringen.
Ze gaven lezingen over UFO-waarnemingen, graancirkels, de invloed van aliens op vroege culturen en de relatie tussen het leger en buitenaardse wezens.
Overgedragen
Ook Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, bekend van Ancient Aliens, was aanwezig. Hij noemde voorbeelden van contact tussen oude volkeren en aliens.
Hij benadrukte dat technologische ontwikkelingen door aliens aan oude volken waren overgedragen.
Tsoukalos staat kritisch tegenover moderne wetenschappers en religie. “De reden dat we in deze puinhoop zitten is verkeerd begrepen technologie,” citeerde The Desert Sun hem. “De reden dat we religies hebben is verkeerd begrepen buitenaards bezoek.”
Vliegtuig
Als voorbeelden van oude technologie noemde hij de Piramiden van Gizeh en die in Centraal-Amerika.
Hij las voor uit een manuscript in het Sanskriet uit de 12e eeuw, waarin werd gesproken over een vliegtuig dat overvloog en contrails achterliet.
Belediging
De meeste archeologen en historici denken dat rotsschilderingen van aliens goden of dieren uitbeelden, wat volgens Tsoukalos een belediging is voor de intelligentie van oude beschavingen.
“Er zijn meer sterrenstelsels in het heelal dan zandkorrels op de stranden op aarde,” besloot hij. “Zijn wij dan de enigen hier? Nee.”
HET MONSTER VAN LOCH NESS LAAT ZICH WEER EENS ZIEN
Het gebeurt natuurlijk niet iedere dag, maar toch duiken er met enige regelmaat nieuwe beelden op van het bekende monster van Loch Ness.
Meestal zijn het beelden van enkele seconden, maar dit keer is de opname dusdanig lang dat men al spreekt van de Loch Ness Monster feature film.
Een feature film zou je kunnen vertalen met de hoofdfilm, het belangrijkste deel van de voorstelling in een bioscoop.
Dan praat je in het geval van het Monster van Loch Ness niet over een film die anderhalf uur duurt, maar over een opname van ongeveer tien minuten, wat voor het Monster van Loch Ness heel erg lang is.
Een Ier met de voor ons onuitspreekbare naam Eoin O’Faodhagain uit Donegal was de gelukkige die erin slaagde de opname te maken vanaf een webcam.
Op de beelden is duidelijk iets te zien dat van rechts naar links zwemt in de richting van Urquhart Bay, een favoriete plek van Nessie zoals het monster in de volksmond wordt genoemd.
Deze waarneming is officieel geaccepteerd door de Official Loch Ness Monster Sightigns Register, waarmee het de tweede erkende waarneming dit jaar wordt.
De Ierse mijnheer met onuitspreekbare naam is 53 jaar oud en bekijkt al gedurende jaren beelden van de Nessie webcam op zoek naar het monster. Hij vindt dat spannender dan naar een Engelse tv serie kijken zoals Coronation Street.
En in al die jaren dat hij heeft gekeken, heeft hij nooit wat gezien, totdat hij op 30 april heel erg schrok. Hij geloofde zijn eigen ogen niet en begon de beelden van de webcam te filmen met zijn mobiele telefoon.
“Het was heel erg ongewoon. Het was zeker iets heel erg groots. Het dook onder water, kwam weer boven, dook later weer onder en verdween. Het was geen boot, het was geen boomstam. Volgens mij is het Nessie”, aldus de Ier.
Hierna volgt een deel van de opname die hij maakte:
Vorig jaar waren er een record aantal waarnemingen van Nessie en zijn er maar liefst 11 geaccepteerde waarnemingen. Er zijn er wel meer ieder jaar, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ze allemaal door het Register worden geaccepteerd.
Over één van die waarnemingen schreven wij vorig jaar onder andere het volgende:
Het is een tijdje stil geweest rond Loch Ness, waar eigenlijk ieder jaar wel een aantal vreemde dingen worden waargenomen.
De laatste waarneming dateert inmiddels alweer van acht maanden geleden, maar daar is ongeveer een week geleden verandering in gekomen.
Op zondag 7 mei 2017 maakte de 35-jarige Rob Jones uit Wales filmopnames van het meer. Rob reed in zijn bestelauto langs de weg boven het meer, toen hij in het water iets vreemds ontdekte.
Het object bewoog in de richting van een boot en Rob stopte de auto en begon te filmen. Ook een groep toeristen die langs de weg liep, kreeg belangstelling en begon ook met het maken van foto’s.
Het vreemde was dat de boot gewoon verder voer en niets bijzonders scheen op te merken, maar duidelijk is dat het object wel degelijk bewoog in het water.
Het zag er van een afstand zo uit.
En wat uitvergroot, zie je dit:
Rob zegt dat hij eigenlijk niet in het verhaal van het monster gelooft, maar dat hij toch wel heel erg nieuwsgierig is naar wat hij nu eigenlijk heeft gefilmd.
Gary Campbell die het officiële register van waarnemingen van het monster van Loch Ness bijhoudt, is blij, want hij begon zich na acht maanden toch wel wat zorgen te maken over het monster.
Vorig jaar was een record met 18 waarnemingen, het beste jaar sinds 2000, maar de laatste dateert alweer van augustus vorig jaar. De door Rob Jones gemaakte opname lijkt veel op die werd gemaakt in 1934 waar wij in een eerder artikel het volgende over schreven:
De meest bekende foto van het monster is waarschijnlijk onderstaande foto. Hij is genomen in1934 door een gynaecoloog uit Londen, Robert Kenneth Wilson. Deze foto werd gepubliceerd in de Daily Mail van 21 april 1934. Op de foto zie je het monster met een lange nek en het hoofd boven water.
Echter… het was een grap. De foto was niets meer dan een speelgoed onderzeeër, gekocht bij een warenhuis. Daarbovenop was een hoofd en nek gemaakt van hout door ene Marmaduke Wetherell. Deze was zwaar gepikeerd omdat hij belachelijk gemaakt werd door de kranten in verband met zijn zoektocht naar het monster en besloot op deze manier wraak te nemen.
De oudste verhalen van een monster in Loch Ness dateren van de 7e eeuw. St. Columba, een Ierse monnik, stuurde één van zijn volgelingen het water in om te bewijzen dat er geen monster was.
Maar, helaas, het monster was er wel, kwam uit het water en beet in de hielen van de man. Gelukkig was er St. Columba. Deze bleef onverschrokken staan en verjoeg het verschrikte monster door het teken van het kruis te maken en te commanderen: “Kom niet verder. Raak die man niet aan. Ga onmiddellijk terug”.
Tja, en daar had het monster natuurlijk niet van terug, zodat hij tot de dag van vandaag waarschijnlijk maar besloten heeft om onder water te blijven.
Of the many and various UFO / extraterrestrial-themed documents and papers that have surfaced under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, one of the more interesting ones is Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It was written back in the 1960s (specifically in 1965) by a man named Lambros D. Callimahos. He was a cryptologist with the National Security Agency. On September 23, 1965, Callimahos took part in a panel-style debate on the subject of his paper at a conference on military electronics in Washington, D.C.
Also present for the debate was Dr. John C. Lilly, perhaps best known for his work with dolphins and in the fields of psychedelics and altered states. Others included an astronomer, Francis S.J. Heyden. The American Astronomical Society note of Heyden: ” Heyden’s earliest research was performed in the fields of galactic structure and variable stars. He collaborated. with Fr. L.C. McHugh S.J. in photographing star fields in the Southern Milky Way. These images were combined into an Atlas, which has become a basic reference tool for students of galactic structure.” And there was a noted linguist too, Dr. Paul Garvin. The event was moderated by a Dr. Harold Wooster, at the time the Director of Information Services of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Callimahos’ words make for intriguing reading: “We are not alone in the universe. A few years ago, this notion seemed farfetched; today, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is taken for granted by most scientists. Sir Bernard Lovell, one of the world’s leading radio astronomers, has calculated that, even allowing for a margin of error of 5000 per cent, there must be in our own galaxy about 100 million stars which have planets of the right chemistry, dimensions, and temperature to support organic evolution.”
He continued: “If we consider that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is but one of at least a billion other galaxies similar to ours in the observable universe, the number of stars that could support some form of life is, to reach a word, astronomical. As to advanced (by miserable earth standards) forms of life, Dr. Frank D. Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, has stated that, putting all our knowledge together, the number of civilizations which could have arisen by now is about one billion. The next question is, “Where is everybody?”
Callimahos added: “The nearest neighbor to our solar system is Alpha Centauri, only 4.3 light years away; but, according to Dr. Su-Shu Huang of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, its planetary system is probably too young for the emergence of life. Two other heavenly friends, Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti, about 11 light years away, are stronger contenders for harboring life.”
He expanded, in somewhat speculative fashion, but undeniably fascinating fashion too: “Nevertheless, if superior civilizations are abundant, the nearest would probably be at least 100 light years away; therefore, it would take 200 years for a reply to be forthcoming, a small matter of seven generations. This should, however, make little difference to us, in view of the enormous potential gain from our contact with a superior civilization.
“Unless we’re terribly conceited (a very unscientific demeanor), we must assume that the ‘others’ are far more advanced than we are. Even a 50-year gap would be tremendous; a 500 year gap staggers the imagination, and as for a 5000-year gap… (By the way, if they are as much as 50 years behind us, forget it!) It is quite possible that ‘others’ have satellite probes in space, retransmitting to ‘them’ anything that sounds non-random to the probe. But they have probably called us several thousand years ago, and are waiting for an answer; or worse yet, they have given up; or, more probably, they have reached such impressive technological advances that they have destroyed themselves.
Callimahos turned his attentions to the kind of work that was then in place to try and find evidence of alien life: “Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti were the targets on which Dr. [Frank] Drake [of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] focused his attention in the Spring on 1960 in Project Ozma, an attempt to detect possible intelligent signals from outer space. The frequency selected for listening was 1420.405752 megacycles per second, or a wave length of 21 cm.”
“This particular frequency, postulated independently by two professors on the faculty of Cornell University, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, happens to be the radiation frequency of atomic or free hydrogen which permeates space in great clouds; moreover, this frequency is within the range of radio frequencies able to pass through the earth’s atmosphere. Presumably, the significance of this frequency would be known to other intelligent beings in the universe who understand radio theory. We’re still talking about radio waves as the communication medium; other possible media might be masers, lasers, or the as yet undiscovered and unnamed ‘rasers.’ A technology superior to ours might even have learned how to modulate a beam of neutrinos (weightless, uncharged particles that physicists on earth find it difficult even to detect); if so, ‘they’ may have to wait a century or two before we learn how to build a neutrino receiver.”
I’ll close with these thought-provoking words from Callimahos: “…after we resolve our pressing scientific questions, it might be appropriate to make discreet inquiries as to how we could live in harmony and peace with our fellow man – that is if we aren’t eaten or otherwise ingested by the superior civilization that had the good fortune to contact us. But as far as the cryptologist is concerned, he (and generations of his descendants who might experience the supreme thrill of their lives when we hear from ‘them’) must keep a level head, not get excited, and be prepared to cope with problems the like of which he has never seen – out of this world, so to speak.”
Flying saucer FILMED over Victoria, Australia – May 2018
Flying saucer FILMED over Victoria, Australia – May 2018
Check out this really interesting daytime footage of a flying disc over Hastings, Victoria, Australia. This was filmed in late May 2018.
What do you think about this footage? Real of CGI?
Witness report:
I dropped my mom to work that day. and On my way home saw this strange object flying in the sky. So I pulled over on the side of the road and took a video of it. Can anyone please tell me What is this? Thank you.
The good news unbeknownst to many is that much of the debunking criticism against the extraterrestrial hypothesis, ufology, exopolitics, experiencers, socially conscious insiders and/or whistleblowers can be considered as rationally flawed.
Institutional defenders of conventional, official truths have sometimes avoided the UFO question but have occasionally misrepresented facts. For example, as physicist Stanton Friedman often points out, the Secretary of the Air Force D. Quarles said to reporters that no flying saucer had flown over the U.S.; that only 3% of reports received by Project Blue Book remained “unknown”and that eventually even that percentage would be identified as conventional phenomena or illusions. But in, truth, the percentage of overall “unknowns” which had been presented earlier inside the Air Force by Project Blue Book’s Special Report number 14 had been 21.5%. Furthermore, if the witnesses level of education was greater and the case provided greater details, the percentage of “unknowns” went up to 30%. Moreover, a chi square analysis performed by Battelle Memorial Institute comparing “unknowns” with the “knowns” (or clearly identified objects) gave a probability of less than 1% that the “unknowns” would simply be misperceptions or mistakes.Therefore, there was at least a truly puzzling phenomenon taking place (in fact worldwide) even though it was being publicly dismissed while secretly reported in a completely different manner.
An accumulation of observations is important and an accumulation of analyzed witness testimonies does not have to be a form of weak or irrelevant evidence in the natural sciences. Inductive reasoning is most fundamental to the advancement of SCIENCE because experience is what brings in data and information that requires new explanations. New scientifically designed, international, anonymous surveys with a larger, anonymous population like that conducted by F.R.E.E. (the Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters (www.experiencer.org)) provide statistical patterns that increase the gravitas of testimonial evidence. It is unreasonable to simply think that thousands of witnesses are lying or definitely mistaken in their observations although they are willing to anonymously answer hundreds of questions. There is a place for human testimony, not only in the social sciences and in a court of law but also in the natural sciences. In part it depends on how scientifically that testimony is acquired and treated. This statistical quantitative and qualitative data (which in some important aspects contradicts popular notions about extraterrestrials) must be taken into account.
Science advances when theories adapt to evidence and experience and theories should not be considered final but, rather, well-organized, temporary and probable explanations that best explain phenomena and data accumulating through experience. Taken as well-organized explanations – hopefully with predictive power – theories must evolve as new data and experiences are registered and accepted. However, oftentimes, the acceptance of data and phenomena is precluded by biases and there often are sociological and psychological reasons to unscientifically reject phenomena that don’t fit in well with accepted theory.
It is becoming clear that we only perceive a limited segment of reality. There may well be ‘laws of physics’, inter-reality processes and types of energies that contend with phenomena not currently accepted by mainstream science, an endeavor still excessively biased toward representing all experienced reality as based upon materialism and mechanicism. This occurs in spite of alternative implications from quantum physics regarding the “de-materialization” of matter and the inseparable role of choice, consciousness and the observer affecting what seems to be a non-local, information substratum.
Status quo power networks traditionally reject new perceptions of reality both when new instruments extend human detection and decoding capacities (remember Galileo’s telescope and Van Leewenhoek’s use of the microscope) and when theories and underlying worldviews need to be modified to account for those detections. But this holding on at all costs to a classical preference for exclusivist materialism and mechanicism lends itself to the fallacy of trying to explain all phenomena under specific and previously accepted ad hoc explanations. Regardless of how thoroughly the scientific method has been followed, this often means trying to explain some phenomena which MAY be conventionally explained as if it necessarily follows that their explanation MUST be conventional. This is also popularly also called “dogmatism.”
But it is becoming quite acceptable for educated individuals to recognize that there indeed is an abundance of recurrent phenomena (“anomalies” from the perspective of conventional theories) unremittingly reported by credible individuals and groups around the world; phenomena which – if seriously considered – bring into question the completeness of classical materialist and mechanicist explanations. Furthermore, individuals not intimately associated with any of the major modern institutions often have the willingness and freedom to openly consider these phenomena real and significant. Some even know that their formal acceptance would logically require re-assessing known theories and suggesting alternative scientific hypotheses. Some are – thankfully – taking the lead to make this happen.
Baye’s Theorem helps us ASSESS the probability that a hypothesis among others is valid based on new experience. In the XXVIII Century Reverend Thomas Bayes tried to show how to use new evidence to update beliefs. It goes hand in hand with induction and not with a rigid, unequivocal logical deduction. Through induction, we approximately “know” that it is more likely that Earth will continue turning and that tomorrow there’ll be another sunrise, but we don’t know this with absolute certainty. Like the so-called “principle of parsimony” (or “Occam’s Razor”) Baye’s Theorem is more like a “heuristic,”which can be understood as a generalrule of thumb helping us to assess the validity or usefulness of a hypothesis. Both are “shortcuts” simply assisting us to come up with probable explanations. However, if we apply them mechanically based on wrong premises about reality they may even sidetrack us into not recognizing more feasible and obvious explanations.
Baye’s Theorem requires having several hypotheses at hand in order to compare them. It is structured to help us come up with an approximate probability and it states that The Probability of an Hypothesis Explaining the New Results= The Probability of Obtaining the New Results if the Hypothesis is True ÷ The Probability of Getting the New Results Whether the Hypothesis is True or Not. Then, multiply that division by The Probability of the Hypothesis Before Considering the New Results.
Just like Baye’s Theorem is a practical recommendation attempting to approximately give us a clue on the probability of the validity of an hypothesis by also considering several competing hypotheses in light of new information regarding phenomena, “Occam’s Razor” is not like a physical principle or a principle set in stone as an unfailing rule. The latter (re-stated by several philosophers following Aristotelian thinking but also more associated with theologian, nominalist philosopher and Franciscan friar William of Occam) basically states: “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” To my understanding, this means that when an explanation is sufficient to explain a phenomenon, it is not recommended to seek a greater number of alternative explanations. However, in the case of phenomena challenging conventional explanations, the question would also be if all possible “sufficient explanations” rest upon a classical materialist-mechanicist worldview or, in effect, that the most straightforward and sufficient explanation would be a hypothesis that better fits or corresponds with the facts, however challenging.
Another way of stating “Occam’s Razor” is that it is generally preferable not to assume more hypothesis as causes than the minimum necessary to explain a phenomenon. Said differently, trying to extend the materialist and mechanicist worldviews (and paradigms) in convoluted ways in order to reductionistically explain (or to explain away) the experiential facts and “anomalous” data gathered around the UFO Phenomenon, may actually be not following Aristotle’s and Occam’s recommendation but instead doing just the opposite. While exclusivist materialism is clearly incorrect and insufficient, materialism in itself may be correct but only as an integral part of a network of metaphysical positions, each explaining “reality” from a different angle and all of them arising from a deeper pattern. We will need to understand that “deeper pattern” in order to make sense of phenomena that objectively combine subjective and psychic aspects altering conventional physical life.
Once again, these “heuristics” are basically recommendations generally useful on how to proceed to choose among various hypotheses that might explain a phenomenon. Moreover, unfortunately “Occam’s Razor” has often been misunderstood by closed-minded skeptics (normally defending conventional theories associated with materialism and mechanicism) in their blindly dogmatic search for every which way to ridicule or dismiss evidence pointing toward the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” (or variations within that hypothesis) pertaining to some of the most ‘anomalous’ aspects of the UFO phenomenon.
There’s still another recommendation that can be considered as a useful heuristic. It is the advice to avoid Type Two Errors.In statistics, a null hypothesis is a hypothesis one tries to cancel out by using evidence to the contrary. In statistical hypothesis testing, a Type II Error (or Error of the Second Kind) is the failure to reject a FALSE null hypothesis. In other words, it is a failure to detect some aspect of reality that is suggested by the statistical evidence. This becomes a useful heuristic to think about any accepted percentage of truly unconventional UFO cases.
The concept that “UFO’s are nothing but natural phenomena or phenomena that can be explained by conventional science” would be a false null hypothesis that has not been invalidated based on the best UFO evidence and statistics. This is because the evidence and statistics clearly also suggest that something truly distinct and quite possibly anomalous is going on. Fixated UFO debunkers (and debunkers of the reasonable likelihood of there being genuine “experiencers” interacting with a variety of intelligent extraterrestrial beings which may be able to manipulate spacetime in unconventional ways) are clearly committing a Type Two Error or Error of the Second Kind.
The relevant and scientifically honest (and highly relevant for humanity) situation here is that the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” or ETH (ifnot limited to a “nuts & bolts” approach) may well be the MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD HYPOTHESIS OR EXPLANATION. In general this hypothesis is not discarded within some foreign governments and Air Force teams researching “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or “Anomalous Aerial Phenomena” (like the Chilean CEFAA or Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena functioning under the General Secretary of the DGCA (the Ministerial Department of Civil Aeronautics), itself under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force).
The initial (often not quoted) step in the “scientific method” is observation of a phenomenon in the natural world. While individual testimony of an anomaly in a non-controlled setting may be considered a weak piece of evidence, the fact that thousands upon thousands (including some astronomers) have observed and reported UFOs that resist conventional explanations can be considered part of the initial step. Today, besides these individual testimonies (given to civilian and military institutions) there have been a few scientifically conducted surveys (like the anonymous international survey Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research on Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters). As witness testimony goes, the latter is stronger from a natural science point of view. However, besides witness testimony, after-the-event analysis of photographs, radar cases, landing traces with soil modification and other forms of “physical evidence” also accumulate in favor of the “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH).”
The ETH hypothesis is neither discarded beforehand (for instance by introducing pre-conceived conclusions into the premises) by the high-level military and scientific French GEIPAN (Study Group and Information on Non-Identified Aerospace Phenomenon) analysts working under the jurisdiction of CNES (the National Center for Space Studies) who in 1999 produced the so-called “COMETAReport.” Likewise, this reasonable hypothesis is endorsed by the “Sigma/3AF Commission” of the Aeronautical & Astronomical Association of France. In fact, given the evidence available, the ETH cannot be reasonably discarded in advance without incurring dishonesty. Sigma/3AF considers the ETH valid and plausible. They are scientists and are being reasonable – rather than dogmatic – based on a rational analysis of UAP/UFO cases.
Moreover, it might be possible to improve “after-the-fact ufology” by propitiating field experiments that interact with the phenomenon. If consciousness (besides objectivity) is a key ingredient for their success, so be it. The science-based ufologist expanding his or her methods would learn to work with this.
Interactive field experiments using instruments and live empirical observation to test hypothesis might be achievable with the assistance of CE-5 approaches, “prime contactees,” adequate preparation, equanimity and fearlessness and – above all – a respectful attitude of any intelligences behind the phenomenon as well as experiencer-contact processes that involve consciousness, group effort, feelings and ideologies. Through this “experimental ufology” we may complete the steps of the scientific method pursuant genuine UFOs: Observation of a phenomenon, gathering information about what is known about it, proposing a reasonable hypothesis to explain the phenomenon, testing the hypothesis, analyzing the results, concluding if they verify the hypothesis or not, sharing the method, results, and conclusions with other scientists, replicating the research and – eventually – modifying theory.
Humanity needs its academic, religious and political leaders to come to terms with the fact that the ETH is a reasonable and rational perspective backed-up by the finest inductively-derived, independently assessed and cross-tabulated evidence gathered by sincere, mentally sound, capable and reputable UFO researchers across several decades; by some courageous and honest scientists, a good number of political, military and intelligence community whistleblowers and witnesses and by thousands of individuals from around the world (individuals who for the most part don’t do it for personal gain but who, instead, oftentimes face ridicule from peers in the name of truth).
This evidence also includes, highly trained witnesses capable of recognizing a variety of flying objects, alleged landings leaving anomalous and analyzed physical signatures, clear visual, radar and radar-visual sightings, military intercept missions; photographic and film analyses passing adequate tests, the analysis of a few solid objects with highly anomalous characteristics (such as those which podiatric surgeon Roger K. Leir collected from alleged abductee-experiencers) and leaked or formerly classified government documents that indicate longstanding, official interest in “flying discs,” “flying saucers” or “UFO anomalies.”
Moreover, after thousands upon thousands of psychologically healthy and socially functional “citizen-experiencers” reporting intelligent physical interactions with otherworldly extraterrestrial beings; after metallic-looking disc-shaped, triangular-shaped, sphere-shaped and tubular-shaped objects have been reported zigzagging and departing in abrupt ways defying momentum and inertia (sometimes after apparently interacting with witnesses for instance by responding with right-angle formations) the lack of formal academic investigation onto what may be going on (at least from a social and psychological perspective) is a failure against modern, humanistic, democratic and scientific ideals.
It simply looks as if FEAR and personal convenience got the upper hand in the innards of modern academic and political institutions since facing the facts would probably challenge the premises those institutions are based in and thus internal social forces arise to prevent individuals from stepping out of line. To this we must add possible private interests to take advantage of technological developments besides the national security need to maintain a possible advanced technology out of reach from enemies; something which can be overdone and – once a vast secret apparatus around this issues has been established – it becomes increasingly difficult to eventually inform civilians as time passes by. Perhaps many unconstitutional actions were taken throughout the decades at least since 1947, especially if taboo, ridicule and a highly classified secrecy did not allow for the application of constitutional supervision or checks and balances.
Nonetheless, theforces of social control (among them ridicule), or even active repression and suppression cannot forever hold back the truth in order to sustain the status quo or an outmoded way of thinking, especially if the intermittent and phenomenon were to be interactive and clearly related with human interests.
In relation to UFOs, for the Principle of Parsimony (a.k.a. “Occam’s Razor”) multiplying explanations to uphold the materialist-mechanicist premises may not be the way to arrive at a “sufficient explanation.” Then, Baye’s Theorem asks us to compare several hypotheses and not to discard any plausible one offhand. Finally, the advice to avoid Type Two Errorsor Errors of the Second Kind (the failure to detect some aspect of reality which is suggested by the statistical evidence) also reminds us to become aware of our blinding cognitive biases when the evidence is displayed before us within a complex phenomenon. I wonder how many “Close Encounters of the Second Kind” interesting pieces of unique evidence (as described by J. Allen Hynek’s six-fold classification scale for UFO encounters) have been so dismissed…
All of these HEURISTICS basically warn us against inflexibly holding on to our conventional ‘pet’ theories. In relation to truly anomalous UFOs and in the offing human-extraterrestrial interactive encounters we seriously need to change our premises and face the facts.
To conclude, the three heuristics mentioned are not inimical with the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) and, what is more, an intelligent use of them clearly suggests that the ETH MUST be seriously considered. It is a matter of time before good old common sense prevails as the need to adapt to reality has the real final say with its own complex (emergent and self-organizing) ways to assert itself.
What effect would Alien disclosure have on you personally?
What effect would Alien disclosure have on you personally?
Being told very simple organisms or bacteria have been found under the surface of mars or europa's ice is one thing , now being told a mile long object has entered our solar system and is stationary behind our moon is another . I'm fairly confident life in basic forms could be present elsewhere , I've no proof of this, it's just my own humble opinion.
If we were told by NASA or ? that very basic life had been discovered and this is the proof that was always needed . Personally i would be both happy and relieved, the thought of being just a series of freak occurrences always filled me with dread . Life for me wouldn' change though , I'd still work /pay taxes and see out my days with family .
Now if NASA or ? told us the mile long object is still behind the moon and have no idea what it is or what's it's purpose , now that would be different altogether . I think fear of the unknown and the fact whoever /whatever has brought this object into our solar system must be a lot more advanced than us .
To be honest , this would change my life a lot,
Could i continue my daily routine while knowing what's above us ? My mind would be racing going through the different possibilities , worried about the outcome of both our actions and theirs . All them films I've watched from an early age , the huge motherships hovering over the cities , the panic , the running , and the screaming , no wonder I'm fearful of such things 😊
So for me , Alien disclosure would really depend on many things , I'm not religious so my faith in God wouldn't change , if it was basic life then good , if it was advanced or on a similar level too us then maybe not , but these are just my opinions , it's just something i find intereting and often think about , I'd love to read your posts and what effect this would have on you 👍
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This Week's Top Space Stories!
This Week's Top Space Stories!
By SPACE.com Staff
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF star trail image compiled by Joy Pollard
The Week's Top Space Stories
An observatory on Hawaii's Big Island filmed stars streaking over Kilauea's volcanic glow, space enthusiasts mourned the loss of two astronauts and researchers discovered exotic dunes on Pluto. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
1. Dunes in Pluto's heart
In a study published May 31, researchers announced the discovery of a dune system on the dwarf planet Pluto. The study team spotted ridges on Sputnik Planitia, the huge plain that makes up the left lobe of Pluto's famous "heart," thanks to imagery taken by NASA's New Horizons mission in July 2015. The features look similar to Earth dunes, but Pluto's aren't made of sand; the wind-blown grains are probably frozen methane.
Apollo astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon and a professional artist, died on May 26 at the age of 86. Bean flew two space missions and logged over 31 hours on the lunar surface. He then spent four decades interpreting his experiences as an astronaut into paintings.
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Astronaut Don Peterson, a crewmember of the space shuttle Challenger's first mission, died on May 27 at the age of 84. Peterson made history in 1983, when he and his crew became the first to wear Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits to perform a spacewalk from a space shuttle.
In late July, Mars will come closer to Earth than it has since 2003. The orange-red shine of Mars will be visible toward the east-southeast, but will be low in the sky if viewed from the United States. Mars will shine at its brightest in the constellation Capricornus, the sea goat.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF star trail image compiled by Joy Pollard
5. Watch stars streak over volcanic glow
The Gemini Observatory sitting atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea peak captured the glow of the Kilauea volcano eruption the night of May 21 to May 22. Observatory team members released a stunning time-lapse video showcasing the sight, which emanated from the region where the eruption generated lava-releasing fissures.
In a statement issued after the May 24 signing of Space Policy Directive 2, the Commerce Department released plans to combine several existing offices into a "one-stop shop" called the SPACE (Space Policy Advancing Commercial Enterprise) Administration. A former government official commented that the move, while welcomed by some, might not be sufficient to address bigger coordination issues surrounding space activities.
Researchers discuss the physical and moral challenges of human reproduction on Mars in a new paper published in the June issue of the journal Futures. The authors discussed ethically debatable solutions to family planning and medical safety and even touched on the possibility of genetic engineering so the off-Earth population could acquire traits more favorable for survival on their adopted world.
Photo Credit: NASA/CXC/Columbia Univ./C. Hailey et al.
8. Virtual tour of black hole swarm
A monster black hole called Sagittarius A* lies at the heart of the Milky Way, and NASA has released a new virtual tour of its cosmic vicinity. The tour features the swarm of thousands of black holes that scientists discovered last month around Sagittarius A*.
NASA intends to buy rides on small commercial lunar landers by the end of the year. NASA's deputy associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, speaking on May 24 at the Space Tech Expo, said there's "a strong push" to get a lunar lander service going as soon as possible. The agency will probably conduct its own lander studies as well.
10. China, UN invite research proposals for Chinese space station
On May 28, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and China's Manned Space Agency announced they are now accepting applications to conduct experiments on China's space station, which the nation aims to have up and running by 2022. The initiative invites organizations from United Nations Member States to apply, and UN officials said they especially encourage proposals from institutions in developing countries.
These days on Hawaii's Big Island, there's plenty going on above the surface to keep a host of scientists occupied, due to Kilauea's month-long and sometimes rapidly changing eruption. But soon, there will be a few more scientists focused on the island—although they'll be looking to understand a much more alien phenomenon than lava.
NASA scientists are spending research seasons this year and next piloting a submersible vessel off the coast of the Big Island to explore Lo'ihi, the still-underwater volcano that will thousands of years from now become the newest island in the Hawaiian chain.
They hope the life they find there will help them learn what to look for in a similar but much less accessible environment—like that trapped under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. It's one of astrobiologists' most intriguing candidates for finding life beyond Earth.
Although scientists studied the moon in a fair amount of detail with the Cassini mission that ended last fall, it will be quite a while before they'll get another chance to look at Enceladus up close.
Saturn's moon Enceladus is covered by an icy shell that hides a global ocean that could hold life.
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The soonest such a mission could launch is the mid 2020s, and that doesn't even include travel time. It's a long time to sit around dreaming of distant microbiology.
So in the meantime, scientists are headed to Hawaii with a NASA project called Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog or SUBSEA. The project will let the scientists send a robotic drone to explore hot springs bubbling up about 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface.
In particular, they want to better understand temperature and pressure conditions found around these springs. They'll also look at which microbes are present and how they come together to build communities.
The project has a second goal as well: to help scientists practice working far away from their experiments, as they do with robots working on the Moon and Mars. So next year, to spice things up a little, NASA will artificially lag communication to and from the submersible while it works at a second destination.
That way, when a real Enceladus mission comes along, scientists will be ready to tackle whatever mysteries the moon throws at them.
Extraterrestrial Communicator? Japanese boy found communicating with UFOs via telepathy
Extraterrestrial Communicator? Japanese boy found communicating with UFOs via telepathy
Ido has allegedly some extra-sensory skills to communicate with UFOs via telepathy and that he can clearly access the course of UFOs besides taking photographs of these alien crafts.
Japanese boy Haruya Ido is found to have telepathy to communicate with UFO or alien crafts
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After the Russian boy who claimed to have born on Mars in his previous birth, another teenager has emerged as the new sensation among UFO buffs and alien enthusiasts. Haruya Ido, the teenage Japanese boy is now rechristened as the 'UFO boy' in the country as people are literally mesmerized by his psychic abilities.
It was the popular UFO researcher Toshitaro Yamaguchi who initially identified the mettle of Ido. In a recent talk with the Japanese media, Toshitaro Yamaguchi revealed that Ido has that extra-sensory skills to communicate with UFOs via telepathy. As per Yamaguchi, Ido can clearly access the course of UFOs and he can also take photographs of these alleged alien crafts.
To substantiate his claims, Yamaguchi also released four images of UFOs which are apparently taken by Ido from various locations in Japan over the last one year. In all the four images, we can see bizarre objects hovering across the skies of Japan.
The veteran UFO researcher also added that Ido has the peculiar ability to do Shamanism, a practice that involves the practitioner exploring the subconscious mind and interact with the spiritual world. Experts say that a person who practices Shamanism can easily transcend energies from the spiritual world to our material world.
In Japan, Shamanism is part of the indigenous Ainu religion and Japanese religion of Shinto.
As Yamaguchi's claims went viral, conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania' uploaded a video about Ido. The video soon went viral, and it has already racked up more than 4,100 views on YouTube.
After watching the video, viewers started speculating various explanations to define the extrasensory abilities of Ido.
A YouTube user named 'Sonicbios' claimed that Ido might be an alien hybrid, and his peculiar genetic traits might be helping him to communicate with unidentified flying objects.
"He is communicating with demons manifesting as fake aliens, that's all it is," commented 'End of Times Preparation', another YouTube user.
Another black project or alien craft? UFO sighting at Australian military base sparks debate
Another black project or alien craft? UFO sighting at Australian military base sparks debate
An Australian Junelyn Bitalac noticed the strange disc-shaped object in the sky in Australia near a military site and it was uploaded on Secureteam10: YouTube channel triggering debate over its alien nature
An Australian Junelyn Bitalac noticed the strange disc-shaped object in the sky in Australia near a military site.
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Tyler Glockner, a conspiracy theorist who runs a YouTube channel has uploaded a bizarre video showing a disc-shaped flying object apparently flying above the skies of Victoria, Australia. Interestingly, the sighting happened nearer to a military base, similar to such sightings reported near US and UK military areas.
The bizarre sighting was originally captured by Junelyn Bitalacm who noticed the strange disc-shaped object in the sky when she was driving back after dropping her mom off at work. Seeing the weird nature of the unidentified flying object, she soon took her smartphone and recorded the object.
After capturing the video, she shared it on her YouTube channel where it was viewed by more than 2,500 people. Picked up soon by 'Secureteam10', the video went viral registering more than 2,40,000 views.
Soon the enthusiasm among the viewers kicked off a debate over its military nature that could be a another black project, while UFO afficianados were quick to speculate its alien nature.
Most of the viewers who watched the video strongly argued that these disc-shaped objects are actually anti-gravity flying machines used for interstellar travel. They even claim that aliens might be controlling these spacecraft and the government may well be aware of their existence.
On the other hand, a section of other conspiracy theorists alleged that this spacecraft is a secret military vessel developed by the Australian government, just like the military craft TR-3B in the US.
However, some skeptics strongly speculated that the object purportedly found in the Australian sky could be a mere drone.
"Here in Australia, we refer to these objects as unmanned drones doing their testing and surveillance, much more activity around the Eastern coastlines from Victoria to the Cape in Queensland... Hopefully, we don't get a false flag invasion to depopulate," commented Blitzkrieg, a YouTube user.
Others said that no UFO will travel at such a low speed like the one spotted in the video.
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory resumed science flights May 22 after a hiatus of more than six months caused by extended maintenance on the Boeing 747SP aircraft. Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON — A NASA airborne observatory that enjoys unusual protection from regular reviews resumed science flights recently after an extended maintenance period.
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made its first science flight in more than half a year May 22, a 10-hour flight out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. SOFIA is scheduled to fly to New Zealand June 1 for a campaign of southern hemisphere observations.
The science flight was the first since late 2017 for the airborne observatory, a Boeing 747SP with a 2.5-meter infrared telescope. The plane flew to Germany in November 2017 for maintenance known in aviation as a “C-check” by Lufthansa Technik. That work was scheduled to be completed in January.
However, during that C-check, workers found a fuel leak in the aircraft where the outer left engine attaches to the wing. In addition to repairing that leak, Boeing directed Lufthansa Technik to inspect all four engine pylons for potential leaks, a process that took several more weeks. That work was finally completed in May, and SOFIA flew back to the United States May 18.
SOFIA provides a unique platform for performing infrared astronomy, flying above most of the infrared-absorbing water in the atmosphere while also accommodating multiple instruments that can be updated or replaced. However, SOFIA is among the most expensive astrophysics missions to operate, second only to the Hubble Space Telescope.
SOFIA, whose development dates back to the 1990s, is exempt from a process called senior reviews where the agency examines the status of science projects that have completed their prime missions to determine if proposed extensions should be funded. A provision in the report accompanying the omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2018 prevents NASA from including the mission in the next astrophysics senior review in 2019.
Congress made that determination by declaring that SOFIA now has a prime mission of 20 years. “The agreement notes that SOFIA, which began its prime mission in 2014, has a prime mission lifetime of 20 years,” it states. The bill also provided SOFIA with $85.2 million, $5.3 million above the agency’s request.
A fiscal year 2019 spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee May 17 again provides $85.2 million for SOFIA, compared to a request of $74.6 million that declines to zero by 2022. NASA said in the request — released prior to the completion of the 2018 omnibus spending bill — that SOFIA would participate in the 2019 senior review. If it passed the review, NASA noted, it would budget funding for future years.
The new House report, though, reiterates that SOFIA is exempt from the next senior review. “The Committee is concerned with NASA’s proposed inclusion of SOFIA in the 2019 Senior Review, given it began its prime mission in 2014 and has 15 years of prime mission lifetime remaining,” it states. “Accordingly, the Committee directs NASA to only undertake a Senior Review of SOFIA at the time SOFIA completes its planned mission lifetime.”
That language has puzzled many in the astronomy community, who note that SOFIA will not have to participate in a senior review until at least 2034. Most other NASA missions, by comparison, have far shorter prime missions, such as five years for the James Webb Space Telescope.
SOFIA’s prime mission was also originally set for five years, and thus would have been part of the 2019 senior review prior to the congressional report language. A March 2017 presentation by Harold Yorke, director of SOFIA science mission operations, noted that five-year prime mission, but added there were plans to operate SOFIA out to 2034, including securing of spare parts from other Boeing 747SP aircraft.
However, agency officials said there will be other mechanisms other than the senior review process to monitor SOFIA’s effectiveness, such as program implementation reviews used by NASA programs in general. “One doesn’t go 20 years without reviewing a program, especially a program as complicated and as costly as SOFIA,” said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics division, during a March meeting of the National Academies’ Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
BLOWING IN THE WIND This image from the New Horizons spacecraft’s 2015 flyby of Pluto shows dunes (center bottom and right) along a mountain range. The ripples are made of sand-sized grains of methane ice, researchers say.
SWRI, JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LAB, NASA
Pluto’s heart-shaped plains are striped with sand dunes, where the sand is made of solid methane ice, a new study finds.
Images from the New Horizons spacecraft’s July 2015 flyby of Pluto show 357 linear ridges that planetary scientist Matt Telfer of the University of Plymouth in England and colleagues interpret as dunes that have been shaped by a novel process, the team reports in the June 1 Science.
The ripples lie parallel to the Al-Idrisi Montes mountain range at the western edge of Sputnik Planitia, the wide plains of nitrogen and methane ice that form part of Pluto’s famous heart-shaped region. Relatively strong winds, between about 1 and 10 meters per second, should blow from those mountains across the plains.
Computer simulations suggest that despite Pluto’s thin atmosphere, these winds are strong enough to keep sand-sized methane ice particles moving once they become airborne. But the winds are probably too weak to lift the grains off the ground in the first place.
Instead, little puffs of air coming from Sputnik Planitia’s nitrogen ice as the sun heats it could boost the methane ice particles skyward and into the wind, the team suggests. That process by which solids turn directly into vapor is called sublimation.
Wider context
Streaks that look like dunes (yellow arrow) were found in the northwest of a vast plain called Sputnik Planitia, and run parallel to the Al-Idrisi Montes mountain range. Winds blow across the range and help sculpt the features, which are made of solid methane ice, a new study proposes.
SWRI, JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LAB, NASA
“That’s a novel, interesting idea,” says planetary scientist Alexander Hayes of Cornell University who was not involved in the work, but wrote a commentary piece in the same issue of Science. But the notion raises a reason for caution: Sublimation alone could explain some of the features, without the need for wind, he says.
Dunes are found across the solar system, from Earth(SN: 12/26/15, p. 5) to Mars(SN Online: 2/10/10) to Saturn’s moon Titan(SN Online: 8/28/13). Each of these worlds has the ingredients for dunes: a supply of loose, grainy material and an atmosphere or fluid to carry grains around.
“When you look at dunes across the solar system, something that always strikes me is that they form the same patterns, regardless of the environment,” Hayes says. Finding dunes on Pluto, too, suggests that the features may be ubiquitous. “If you have the material and a way to move it, you form dunes. That’s what this is telling us.”
Citations
M.W. Telfer et al. Dunes on Pluto.Science. Vol. 360, June 1, 2018, p. 992. doi:10.1126/science.aao2975.
60 BILLION ALIEN PLANETS COULD SUPPORT LIFE, STUDY SUGGESTS
60 BILLION ALIEN PLANETS COULD SUPPORT LIFE, STUDY SUGGESTS
Though only about dozen potentially habitable exoplanets have been detected so far, scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support life. The Milky Way alone may host 60 billion such planets around faint red dwarf stars, a new estimate suggests.
Based on data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, scientists have predicted that there should be one Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of each red dwarf, the most common type of star. But a group of researchers has now doubled that estimate after considering how cloud cover might help an alien planet support life.
“Clouds cause warming, and they cause cooling on Earth,” study researcher Dorian Abbot, an assistant professor in geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, said in a statement. “They reflect sunlight to cool things off, and they absorb infrared radiation from the surface to make a greenhouse effect. That’s part of what keeps the planet warm enough to sustain life.”
The habitable zone is defined as the region where a planet has the right temperature to keep liquid water on its surface, thought to be a requirement for life as we know it. If a planet is too far from its star, its water freezes; too close, water vaporizes. Since red dwarfs are dimmer and cooler than our sun, their habitable zone is much cozier than our solar system’s.
“If you’re orbiting around a low-mass or dwarf star, you have to orbit about once a month, once every two months to receive the same amount of sunlight that we receive from the sun,” explained another study author, Nicolas Cowan, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University.
With such a snug orbit, a habitable planet around a red dwarf would become tidally locked, meaning it would always have one side facing its star, much like the moon faces Earth. This side would see eternal daylight.
In the new study, the researchers used 3D simulations to model the way air and moisture would move over a planet tidally locked around a red dwarf. The team found that any surface water would result in water clouds. What’s more, highly reflective clouds would build at the point of the star-facing side where it’s always high noon. This would have a cooling effect in the inner ring of the habitable zone, meaning the planets there would be able to sustain water on their surfaces much closer to their star, the researchers say.
The findings could give scientists a new way to confirm the presence of liquid water on the surface of alien planets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a new space-based observatory scheduled for launch in 2018, the researchers say.
“If you look at Brazil or Indonesia with an infrared telescope from space, it can look cold, and that’s because you’re seeing the cloud deck,” Cowan said. “The cloud deck is at high altitude, and it’s extremely cold up there.”
The same could be true of a habitable exoplanet with a highly reflective cloud cover, the researchers say. If JWST detects a similar cold signal over the dayside of an alien world, Abbot said, “it’s almost definitely from clouds, and it’s a confirmation that you do have surface liquid water.” The research was detailed June 27 in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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ANCIENT MARTIAN CIVILIZATION WAS DESTROYED BY A NUCLEAR ATTACK FROM ANOTHER EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE – PHYSICIST SAYS
ANCIENT MARTIAN CIVILIZATION WAS DESTROYED BY A NUCLEAR ATTACK FROM ANOTHER EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE – PHYSICIST SAYS
One physicist says he can scientifically prove that two Martian civilizations were annihilated by nuclear explosions.
As far as we can tell, Mars is a desolate-looking desert, with no obvious life. Sure, there may still be microbes there, but I think it’s safe to say that there is not an advanced civilization living on the Red Planet. But was it always that way? Did Mars once host a bustling civilization, one that perhaps was capable of nuclear warfare? Let’s check in with some conspiracy theorists to find out.
I’m going to let Andrew, a guy who runs the UFO Sightings Cape Town on YouTube, set the scene.
“There are literally hundreds of building ruins in a few of NASA’s panoramic images. What has happened on Mars? Was it a Nuclear WAR, or perhaps Asteroid hits? The fact of the matter is, that there are many pockets of living humanoids all over Mars,” he wrote on a YouTube video showcasing some of these “building ruins.”
Let’s just put this out there. This is one of the fringiest of fringe conspiracy theories out there. Andrew is probably just a wee bit off his rocker, but he didn’t randomly make up the idea that there was civilization on Mars and that it could have died in a nuclear WAR.
A separate conspiracy theorist believes the Martian holocaust and the Ark of the Covenant are related.
For that, let’s take a look at an excerpt from Did Spacemen Colonize the Earth?, a book published by Robin Collyns in 1976. Earlier in the following passage, Collyns argues that there certainly were nuclear explosions on Mars.
“It is difficult to imagine a nuclear explosion on Mars that was not deliberately caused,” Collyns writes. “It is very likely that the explosion was made for some constructional purpose. Thus, the [nuclear observations] can serve as one of the proofs in the favor of existence of rational life on mars.”
Pseudoscience and wild conjecture are fun, but John Brandenburg, a plasma physicist who got his degree from UC Davis and who has seemingly had a relatively normal, distinguished career for a scientist, has staked his reputation on his theory that Martian life was, perhaps purposefully, destroyed with nukes.
Brandenburg’s appearance on Supreme Master Television Screengrab: Supreme Master Television
In an oddly disconcerting interview with “Supreme Master Television,” a thoroughly bizarre station run by the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association cult, Brandenburg notes that Mars had two ancient humanoid civilizations, called Cydonia and Utopia, which had a level of technology similar to that of the ancient Egyptians.
What happened to those Martians? Nukes, he says.
“Two great disasters happened on Mars,” he told Supreme Master TV, pointing to Utopia on a map. “One here, and then an asteroid impact happened here, and Cydonia was right in between them. That’s puzzling. Why would so many bad things happen in one area of mars that just so happened to have archaeology on it?”
That was back in 2011. Since then, Brandenburg has decided that both disasters were nukes, and possibly “natural” nuclear explosions that could have been caused by some cosmic weirdness like an asteroid hitting radioactive material or something like that. Today, however, he has upped the ante.
This weekend, he’s going to present new research at a meeting of the American Physical Society that he says proves that there were indeed nuclear explosions on Mars and that they are consistent with nuclear bomb “airbursts,” meaning that there’s no possible way these were natural. He said in a statement emailed to me that the evidence he’s found is “consistent with mixed fusion-fission explosions.”
Here’s his case, set to be published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astrophysics, a journal that just published a study about the Big Bang being a hologram:
“The high concentration of Xenon-129 atmosphere, the evidence from Krypton-80 and the detected pattern of excess abundance of Uranium and Thorium on Mars surface, relative to Mars meteorites, first seen by the Russians and now confirmed by the Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Gamma Ray Spectrometer, mean that the surface of Mars was apparently the site of massive radiological events, which created large amounts of signature isotopes and covered the surface with a thin layer of radioactive debris enriched in certain elements relative to its subsurface rocks. This pattern of phenomenon can be explained as due to two large anomalous nuclear explosions on Mars in the past.”
Alleged ruins on Mars.
Screengrab: UFOSightingsCapeTown
So, there’s the theory. Reading that, it’s possible, until you get to the last line, to think that hey, here’s a scientist who thinks something weird happened on Mars—the idea of there being a naturally occurring nuclear explosion on a planet that has radioactive elements on it hasn’t been completely ruled out by NASA, after all.
But then, well, he is presenting published, quasi-scientific research suggesting that these were anomalous and not natural. If that’s not clear enough, maybe the description and title of his upcoming book Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre will drive it home.
Or we can just read the conclusion to his paper, a preprint version of which he shared with me.
“Given the large amount of nuclear isotopes in Mars atmosphere resembling those from hydrogen bomb tests on Earth, Mars may present an example of civilization wiped out by a nuclear attack from space,” he wrote.
“It is possible the Fermi Paradox means that our interstellar neighborhood contains forces hostile to young, noisy, civilizations such as ourselves,” he added. “Such hostile forces could range from things as alien as AI (Artificial Intelligence) ‘with a grudge’ against flesh and blood, as in the movie Terminator, all the way to things as sadly familiar to us as a mindless humanoid bureaucrat like Governor Tarkin in Star Wars, eager to destroy planet Alderann as an example to other worlds.”
It is of course worth noting that no high profile scientists have given any credence at all to this theory.
To gauge whether Brandenburg’s thoughts have gained any traction with conspiracy theorists, I hunted around for their reactions to his earlier work. Here’s what I came across:
“Having seen the evidence presented by Dr. Brandenburg, I feel certain that we need to actively plan for a possible defense against whoever perpetrated the assault on Mars. In fact, as U.S. Space Command has access to all the data that he (and this family) have, as well as all the other pertinent data that exists out there, I’d be amazed to learn that our preparations have not been underway for a very long time.”
“There are other possibilities as well. Consider a very high tech civilization where a few folks mis-applied high energy technology and it got out of hand, causing a sever explosion and catastrophe a couple of million years ago. Perhaps a similar thing occurred on earth about 13,000 ya resulting in a cataclysmic event sinking Atlantis and energetically causing the Bermuda Triangle (and other anomalies) to activate. It may not have been “nuclear” and may not have been used in warfare.”
“I believe that after a nuclear war broke out on Mars. The surviving Martian race emigrated to the Earth, building the Pyramids and Sphinx to represent the features on mars so that when we were intelligent enough we might discover that there was once a thriving powerful E.T race on mars.”
So, there you have it. Were ancient Martians blown up by other aliens? Almost certainly not, but if we are similarly destroyed, at least one dude will be able to say “told you so.”
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NADINE LALICH AND HER EXPERIENCE OF ABDUCTION BY ALIENS
NADINE LALICH AND HER EXPERIENCE OF ABDUCTION BY ALIENS
“… While waiting for my turn, I, surprisingly, felt emotionally detached – no fear!The aliens put me in their “dental” chair and implanted one implant under the crown of my molar tooth, and another tiny black “pea” was sewn into the brush of my hand. “
Nadine Lalich, a resident of California and our contemporary, is not accidentally called a woman of the Renaissance.The author of books, the artist-designer, the businessman, the worker of court – in a word, the person bright and many-sided, she of 19 years hid, that it is periodically abducted by aliens.Then she decided and wrote about 25 cases from personal experience in the book “Experienced with Aliens”, illustrating the text with her own drawings.
It is curious that since 1991, Nadine, without any hypnosis, has gradually recalled almost 90% of her adventures connected with “abnormal beings”.In 2004, after a period of particularly intense contacts, she decided that she was being prevented from “coming out of the underground” of fearing her career and her personal life.But she knows a lot of things that would help others!For example, what technologies are used by aliens to “work” with earthlings.
Armchairs for experiments
In one of the chapters of his book Nadine Lalich talks about the adaptations that mysterious kidnappers use to investigate people.One of these devices, she called a chair for access to the back.Nadine says that this is a chair of ordinary size, made of a material like acrylic, but in the form of a barrel with a back, reaching up to the floor and slightly concave inside.In the middle there is a hole in it about 20×25 centimeters, providing access to the waist of a person sitting on a chair.
“I was put on this chair,” recalls Nadine, “and completely immobilized, as if paralyzed.They made me concentrate on what was happening at the table right in front of me.And in the meantime (and I felt it!) The “gray” stranger performed some painful procedures on my loin-maybe implanted an implant under the skin or even in the spinal cord. “
“They have other chairs.One of them resembles those that stand in the offices of dentists – continues his story Nadine.– This chair, standing on a support about a meter in height, is made of a smooth hard metal like a matt stainless steel.The back of it is slightly inclined to the back and narrows above.The aliens conducted their experiment, not embarrassed at all.Watching the man sitting in this chair, I noticed that the back is several inches above the head, so that the subject could not have looked back.In addition, his elongated arms were fixed on long rectangular metal panels-armrests.Aliens were free to manipulate the head and hands of the seated.I watched the man planted in this chair with a man screaming in horror, and then three “gray” men began to take hold of his head and hands. “
During one of the kidnappings, Nadin was seated at the table, and in front of her put two round jars of transparent glass.One of the jars, about two centimeters deep and more than six in diameter, was covered with a lid-like lid, through which the woman saw a caterpillar about 2.5 centimeters long in the jar.
“For some reason I thought that the aliens would force me to eat this abomination,” Nadine writes in her book.But when the cap was removed, it turned out that it was not a caterpillar, but a sort of tiny comb much smaller in size, it seemed through a magnifying glass – just a millimeter three long.This implant, according to Nadine, was inserted into her nasal cavity.
One night
One day Nadine woke up in the middle of the night.Something made her get up and leave the house in her nightdress.With surprise, she saw that many of her neighbors were also in their own yard in a hypnotic state.“Having descended from the porch,” recalls Nadine, “I felt fear.Through the fence, I saw another group of people in their underwear – those, like somnambulists, were walking along the street towards us.Standing in front of the house, I peered into the clear summer sky and saw several triangular UFOs hovering at an altitude of about thirty meters.Suddenly, small “plates” flew out of them.Regardless of each other, they began to decline. “
A minute later, one of these objects landed at Nadine’s feet.It was a silver disc about 20 centimeters in diameter with a notch running from the edge to the center.On the disk were engraved strange icons or, perhaps, letters, representing tiny rectangular grooves.“Immediately I realized that these disks are special devices that gather information about people or groups of people who are decided to kidnap, transfer information on board the mother ship, and determine their location and notify nearby spacecraft.”
When the hour of X comes
In his book, Nadine describes two different devices designed to affect the subconscious of people.During one of the abductions, so-called training sessions were conducted with her.On the table in front of her put a rectangular box about 30x10x2.5 cm in size from a transparent material.When it was opened, she began glowing gently from the inside.
There were many thin translucent sheets, stitched on one side, like pages in a book, and on them there were some symbols cut out in a sheet and covered with a transparent, shimmering film.According to Nadin, this film contains some information – like a computer diskette.Nadine was ordered to concentrate on these symbols and, it seems to her, she subconsciously absorbed some information.
Another version of the device for programming is a set of ten transparent tubes with a height of 15 to 45 centimeters, glowing from the inside and filled with some liquid.From them came the sounds of different frequencies.During the experiment, there was certainly a “duty officer” nearby.
“This insectoid-type creature resembled a huge mantis,” Nadine says.“It scanned my brain or carried out some other kind of telepathic control.”As Nadin suggests, aliens at the same time introduce certain commands or behaviors into the human subconscious that can be activated when the X-hour comes.
Underground “octopus”
Nadine talks about the terrible spectacle, which she witnessed during one of the training sessions.At the same time there were several tall white aliens.Before Nadine placed a screen on which, demonstrated a variety of video.She was shown a certain situation from the future, when the aliens’ mass arrival on Earth will take place.First, a large capsule appeared on the screen resembling a badminton shuttlecock.This capsule descended from the night sky into the desert, about 20-30 kilometers from the city reminiscent of Las Vegas.
Touching the ground, the capsule began to rotate rapidly, simultaneously opening, like a bud of a flower, and pushing in all its “petal-tentacles”, which began to bite into the ground and simultaneously lengthen.After them, the capsule also went to a depth of several hundred meters and there it turned into a kind of octopus 15 meters in diameter with a dozen 30-meter tentacles diverge in all directions.Completely entrenched in the ground, the massive object continued to rotate rapidly in the cavity dug by it, generating some energy, which, according to the “instructors”, could physically affect the people of the whole city.
“Thus,” Nadine sums up, “the aliens demonstrated to me their ability to control us not only individually through telepathy or brain scanning: they made it clear that their technologies can control the nervous system and the brain of many people at the same time.Their intentions, I think, are that when landing aliens on Earth, one could at once introduce into the passive, peaceful state the maximum number of people who after that would be easy to manipulate. “
(Natural News) As far as we can remember, the concept of time has always been there. But what really is time? Is it truly the fourth dimension that comes after space?
Joseph Glenn Jessome of the Jessome Society shared his insights on the real meaning of time in the latest episode of CounterThink with Mike Adams. For starters, Jessome called the Big Bang theory a “Catholic creation myth.” He revealed, although many believe it to be an atheistic theory, the famous study was actually largely supported by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Scientists. Furthermore, he implied that the book, “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking, received funding from the Catholic Church before it became a massive hit.
Essentially, the Big Bang theory suggests that the universe is expanding and just like everything else, time begins to exist when the universe became denser. Jessome said, scientists seem to only wait for a great miracle before creating theories. He then began questioning time, saying it cannot be the fourth dimension of space since it cannot be drawn, and that no one can actually justify this claim whether logically or metaphorically.
For time to be a property of space, it would have been “spatial, visualizable, and it’s construction would have to follow the hierarchical pattern of the previous dimension,” according to Jessome’s model. However, it has none of the said characteristics which made him rediscover that time, rather than being caused by space, is the cause of all physical changes. The former Math teacher also argued that the natural phenomenon of time is the cause of motion, gravity, and consciousness.
In the interview, Jessome also mentioned how Albert Einstein himself admitted that there are a lot of flaws in the concept of general relativity.
Understand the Jessome model more by watching the whole, uninterrupted interview at CounterThink.com now. Learn what Glenn Jessome thinks about how the Big Bang should have been presented and a lot more in this interesting episode.
Oerknal is mythe en tijd is niet de vierde dimensie. Ex-wiskundeleraar presenteert zijn ideeën
Oerknal is mythe en tijd is niet de vierde dimensie. Ex-wiskundeleraar presenteert zijn ideeën
Voor zover we weten heeft tijd altijd bestaan. Maar wat is tijd nu werkelijk? En kan tijd na hoogte, breedte en lengte worden gezien als een vierde dimensie?
Joseph Glenn Jessome van de Jessome Society ging tijdens een nieuwe aflevering van CounterThink in op deze vragen.
Jessome noemt de oerknaltheorie een ‘katholieke, creationistische mythe’. De beroemde studie die als bewijs wordt gezien voor de oerknal bleek grotendeels gefinancierd te zijn door de Pauselijke Academie voor de Wetenschappen van het Vaticaan, onthult hij.
Katholieke kerk
Hij stelt verder dat de bestseller ‘A Brief History of Time’ van Stephen Hawking werd gefinancierd door de katholieke kerk.
De oerknaltheorie suggereert dat het universum uitdijt en dat tijd is ontstaan toen het universum dichter werd.
Jessome begon zich af te vragen of tijd wel bestaat. Hij zegt dat het niet in de vierde dimensie kan bestaan omdat je tijd niet kunt uitbeelden.
Oorzaak
Als tijd een eigenschap van de ruimte was, zou het ‘ruimtelijk en toonbaar’ moeten zijn en zou ‘de structuur ervan het hiërarchische patroon van de vorige dimensie moeten volgen’.
Uit Jessome’s model blijkt dat tijd niet wordt veroorzaakt door ruimte, maar de oorzaak is van alle fysieke veranderingen.
Vol fouten
De voormalige wiskundeleraar stelt verder dat tijd de oorzaak is van beweging, zwaartekracht en bewustzijn.
In het interview merkt Jessome op dat Albert Einstein zelf heeft toegegeven dat het concept algemene relativiteit vol fouten zit.
GELEKT AMERIKAANS MARINE DOCUMENT TOONT BESTAAN UFO'S AAN ( VIDEO )
GELEKT AMERIKAANS MARINE DOCUMENT TOONT BESTAAN UFO'S AAN ( VIDEO )
Een Amerikaans televisiestation uit Las Vegas heeft de hand weten te leggen op een uitgelekt marine document waarbij iedere twijfel over het bestaan van UFO’s wordt weggenomen.
Het toont aan dat UFO’s zich onzichtbaar kunnen maken voor radar en onder water net zo gemakkelijk lijken te opereren als in de lucht.
Eind vorig jaar werd met veel bombarie een geheim Pentagon project bekendgemaakt dat met een totaal budget van 22 miljoen zich bezig zou hebben gehouden met UFO onderzoek.
Als onderdeel van dat programma zijn er toen ook video’s vrijgegeven waarop te zien is hoe een aantal F-18 gevechtsvliegtuigen proberen een UFO te achtervolgen. Deze is duidelijk op het radarscherm te zien en heeft een beetje vreemde vorm zoals een bekend snoepje en krijgt daarom de bijnaam tiktak UFO.
Wij schreven toen een artikel dat dit allesbehalve Disclosure was, maar eerder een afleidingsmanoeuvre van het werkelijke geheime ruimteprogramma dat natuurlijk niet met een budget van enkele miljoenen, maar eerder biljoenen werkt.
Dat alles neemt niet weg dat de vrijgegeven video-opnames wel degelijk echt zijn zoals we ook aangaven in het eerdere artikel:
Naast de bekendmaking van het project van 22 miljoen dollar zijn er ook enkele video's vrijgegeven uit 2004 die absoluut echt zijn en waarbij op de radarschermen van gevechtsvliegtuigen objecten te zien zijn die allesbehalve lijken op vliegtuigen zoals wij die kennen en die op een gegeven moment ook met hoge snelheid wegvliegen.
Hierbij nogmaals één van die video’s.
Via een televisiestation in Las Vegas zijn er nu originele marine documenten uitgelekt, waaruit inderdaad blijkt dat het verhaal waar is en waar nog veel meer interessante informatie in staat dan tot nu bekend was.
Het KLAS televisiekanaal zegt, dat hoewel er geen logo’s en dergelijke te zien zijn op het intern marineverslag, dit wel degelijk echt is en dat dit is bevestigd door vier verschillende mensen die dat zouden kunnen weten.
Interessant is dat ze het object geen UFO noemen, maar AVV, wat staat voor anomalous aerial vehicle. Een vliegend object dat er eigenlijk niet hoort te zijn.
Hierna volgt de originele samenvatting van het verslag en daarin is te lezen dat het voorval zich uitstrekt over een periode van ongeveer zes dagen.
Het volgend plaatje laat de voornaamste conclusies zien die in het rapport worden genoemd.
Zoals dat het object dat is waargenomen absoluut niet thuishoort in de Amerikaanse marine of luchtmacht.
Dat het object zichzelf als het ware onzichtbaar kan maken (cloaking) voor de huidige radarsystemen.
Dat het over verbazingkwekkende aerodynamische eigenschappen beschikt, maar dat er helemaal niets te zien is zoals vleugels, aandrijving of uitsteeksels.
En dan nog iets bijzonders want het object beweegt zich klaarblijkelijk onder water net zo gemakkelijk als in de lucht.
Het totale rapport beslaat zo’n 13 pagina’s en is hier te lezen. Dit rapport werd vijf jaar na de gebeurtenis samengesteld en volgens KLAS TV is het daarna aan de kant gelegd omdat binnen het Pentagon er eigenlijk niemand in was geïnteresseerd en het object duidelijk geen gevaar opleverde.
Wat uiteraard ook een mogelijkheid is, is dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een UFO van buitenaardse makelij, maar met een exemplaar van de geheime ruimtevloot zoals die enkele jaren voor het incident van de marine werd gebruikt voor de aanslag op de Twin Towers tijdens 9/11.
Normaal marinepersoneel heeft uiteraard ook geen weet van het bestaan van een geheime ruimtevloot en dus zijn zij net zo verbaasd als de rest van de bevolking, schrijven zij braaf hun rapporten die vervolgens ergens in een bureaula verdwijnen.
Aan de andere kant, misschien zijn het wel degelijk buitenaardsen en dat is toch iets waar de meeste mensen vanuit gaan als er ondubbelzinnig is bewezen dat UFO's echt bestaan.
Nadat we dit artikel hadden geschreven, ontvingen we van Paul Harmans een video van Tyler van Secure Team over dit onderwerp die hij in het Nederlands heeft ondertiteld.
Onze dank en veel lezers zullen daar blij mee zijn en dus bij deze:
A flying saucer has been filmed over Huntsville, Alabama on June 1, 2018. The metallic looking object was noticed by the witness at the moment he drove in his car.
The unique footage shows lightning in the background when suddenly a UFO disk appears from out of the dark night sky.
Then the UFO becomes very clear at the moment city lights illuminate the UFO.
Triangle UFO Over Moons Surface In Photo Taken March 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News
Triangle UFO Over Moons Surface In Photo Taken March 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 31, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths moon
Source: MUFON #92437
This triangle UFO was recorded by a person taking photos of the moon. The object is a dark triangle. The surface of the triangle and the coloration of the moon itself indicate that the UFO is actually rising from the moons surface, not passing by it. Such UFOs have been recorded before by astronomers. I will include a video of one older case below.
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Fossils capture the imagination, giving us a glimpse into the past. While many of the more mysterious fossils have been explained away by now, a few remain a total enigma, with theories ranging from giants, missing link humans, sea-floor cacti, and even fossils from outer-space.
1. ALH84001 (the Martian bacterial fossil)
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Countless science fiction stories revolve around life on Mars, and more than a few pseudo-scientists have found "proof" of life in odd Martian rock formations and camera glitches. But scientists take possible life on Mars seriously, and actually might have proof in the mysterious meteorite known as ALH84001.
The little meteor fell to Earth in 1984 and seemed like an interesting, albeit normal, meteor sample. With more study, scientists came to a shocking conclusion. The meteor was from Mars and was 4.1 billion years old. It was blown off the planet during a collision and traveled space since then, finally coming down to Earth. Even more shockingly, it had what looked like features of fossilized bacteria in it. Overnight, ALH84001 became the most famous meteor on Earth.
Since then, scientists have debated among themselves about the nature of the rock. Sure, it looks like there are bacteria embedded in it, but further study has proven inconclusive. It could just be remnants of mineral structures found on Mars all those years ago, or a fluke of geologic formation. What makes ALH84001 so amazing is that, even after thirty years of study, it's still a mystery. Scientists still take it very seriously, with groups even proposing that ALH84001 provides evidence that the Moon and other worlds could be littered with fossils knocked away from Earth by asteroid collisions. Possibly, the planets are constantly trading rocks through this mechanism, and maybe even trading life as well.
You would think that a claim of alien life in a meteor would get shut down rather quickly, but this little meteor still stumps scientists. Maybe they should try to reanimate the bacteria. Jurassic Park was cool, but Martian Park would be 10 times cooler
2. Homo naledi
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Since the discovery of early hominid fossils, most researchers focused in small geographic areas where they felt certain they'd find fossils of our ancestors. All that changed in 2015, when researchers in South Africa found hominid fossils that didn't relate to any of the known hominid fossil families. Named Homo naledi, the fossils were from a new family of human predecessors.
Homo naledi fossils occupy a weird place in the human family tree, falling between hominids and apes both structurally and behaviorally. This has led some researchers to propose that they're not truly hominids, but instead some sort of evolutionary middle child that defies classification. Oddly, the specimen was less than 350,000 years old, meaning it lived right before Homo sapiens appeared. Yet, their bodies are more similar to older hominid specimens. This would be like finding out that neanderthals were still alive somewhere in the world (railing against ignorant car insurance companies, probably). Homo naledi was that out of place.
More mysteries crop up when analyzing their behavior. All of the fossils were found in a large burial hole. The discoverers proposed that this was a ritualistic burial ground, showing high levels of sophistication. However, on further review, it seems like the Homo naledi might have just dumped the bodies there without any ritual.
All of this adds up to a puzzling picture, especially when you consider that this species might have survived up until the development of Homo sapiens. This means that our ancestors probably had contact with small-brained hominids, contrary to what was previously thought, forcing us to re-evaluate the timeline of human development. How Homo naledi developed at all, and whether our ancestors actually interacted with them, is still a mystery.
3. Tully Monster
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Discovered in 1955 by collector Francis Tully, the first Tully Monster fossil completely defied explanation. Paleontologists eagerly attempted to place the fossil within well-known classifications, but nobody could figure out what the monster was actually related to.
Looking at reproductions of the monster show why it was so confusing. The main part of the creature had a body like a cuttlefish, with vertical fins sticking off the top. It had no bones in its body, but could keep a rigid shape like mollusks or worms do. Eye pods stuck out from the sides of the body. Most unusually, the monster had a long, segmented proboscis with a "head" on the end. Unlike the proboscis found on animals like butterflies, the Tully Monster's proboscis ended in a set of jaws with teeth. Adding it all up, the Tully Monster looked like something a child would draw.
When trying to set it into classification, researchers were completely stumped about where it fit. They thought it might be related to a worm, mollusk, arthropod, or a conodont. Unfortunately, all those classifications are unrelated to each other. Finally, some samples showed up with a rudimentary spinal cord, letting researchers know that they could at least classify it as an early vertebrate. Aside from that, the Tully Monster still remains a baffling evolutionary turn in our planet's history. Researchers are still trying to decide how it evolved and what place it held in the prehistoric ecosystem.
4. The dinosaur fossils found in the frozen Arctic
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When we imagine dinosaurs, we usually picture them in warm, tropical climates, or in the warm oceans. Since most dinosaur fossils are discovered in these types of climates, that image makes sense. But recently, scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur living in the most unlikely of places: Arctic Alaska.
The new dinosaurs have the fun name Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, and lived 70 million years ago in the frozen North. The discovery of these duck-billed dinosaurs have created countless questions, forcing paleontologists to completely rethink what they believe about dinosaurs. Since these giant lizards lived in polar climates, they must have created their own heat, totally changing the idea that dinosaurs were only cold-blooded creatures. Most likely, their blood systems were much more diverse than original thought.
But the biggest mystery is how these frigid dinosaurs made it up there in the first place, so far removed from the biggest populations of their scaly cousins. Something had to get them up there, and scientists are hard-pressed to figure out what made them migrate North. Whatever the case, these dinosaurs lived a rough life, combating months of snow and darkness since they lived in the Arctic year-round. With the mystery of their migration, blood chemistry, and the other gnawing question of what exactly they ate in the frozen tundra, Alaska is rapidly becoming the last frontier of paleontology, one of the last places where mysteries about these scaly creatures still abound.
5. Klerksdorp Spheres
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The Klerksdorp Spheres were first discovered in Ottosdal, Africa during mineral deposit excavations. The spheres became an intense curiosity among the miners and geologists as more cropped up during the dig. As the name suggests, they're spherical in shape and made out of an extremely hard mixture of metals.
Most spheres have a groove running around their equator. These spheres' groovers date back to 3 million BC, which quickly led to conspiracy theories about ancient aliens or highly advanced prehistoric civilizations. The spheres just seemed too perfect for any natural process. A story quickly circulated that NASA tested one of the spheres, found that they were perfectly balanced, and concluded that only zero-gravity environments would allow someone to manufacture a sphere so perfectly balanced. Ancient astronaut theorists quickly latched on to the story and speculated that these were out-of-place artifacts left by aliens.
Of course, party-pooper geologists were quick to shoot down the idea. They pointed out that the fossils could have occurred due to natural, volcanic activity. Certain types of volcanic metals are apt to form spherical shapes, and weather could have created the equatorial groves. Geologists point out that spherical rocks are not uncommon, but conspiracy theorists hold onto the idea that the spheres are part of the fossil record of ancient alien contact with the Earth.
Honestly, neither group has an airtight theory about the spheres' origin. Geologists have remained skeptical, but have not yet come up with a solid explanation, and ancient alien conspiracists still can not explain why aliens would come down to Earth just to litter metal spheres all over South Africa. That's an awful long route to travel just to relieve boredom, after all.
6. Godzillus
Amateur paleontologists are often the ones digging up mysterious and surprising fossils. Recently, Ron Fine and his team found an incredibly unusual fossil just outside of Covington, Kentucky. Finding various chunks with plant-like patterns during a dig, Fine realized that they had discovered a broken-up fossil. After excavating the chunks, they reassembled the fossil to reveal its mysterious form. Oblong in shape, the fossil was gigantic, coming in around seven feet long and consisting of multiple lobes organized in an elliptical shape.
Further research dated the fossil to 450 million years ago, a time when life on Earth thrived in the water. Fine's dig site was underwater during that time, so the team assumed they had found some sort of strange sea monster. The fossil structure was unlike anything paleontologists had seen before. It consists of layers and oblong surfaces, much like a flattened cactus. Fine believes that creature stood up to 9 feet tall (which explains why he and his team named their find Godzillus), and had arms or branches radiating from the side.
Oddly, nobody knows if Godzillus was a plant or an animal. Fine's team theorized that it was a soft-bodied animal, which means 450 million years ago, there were 9-foot-long, slug-like giants wandering our ocean. Others believe it is merely a mat of algae, which sounds far more plausible, but also way less fun.
7. Homo Floresiensis
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Discovering new ancestors of modern humans is always fascinating, but sometimes completely baffling. When an Australian-Indonesian team discovered the fossils of a small hominid in 2003, they realized they would open new mysteries and questions about the human family. Indeed, their discovery, named homo floresiensis, has forced researchers to rethink the human family history and the place of modern humans in it.
The hominid was diminutive, with samples averaging only a little over 3 feet tall, with big feet. Researchers began calling them Hobbits, which caused the Tolkien estate to threaten legal proceedings. Still, the nickname persisted, because what else are you going to call them?
So far, homo floresiensis has only been found on one island in Indonesia, and records indicate they lived a mere 50,000 years ago. Since the Hobbits are so close in timeline to our own species, researchers are utterly baffled by them. Some contend that it's a totally separate species from humans, meaning Homo sapiens were not the only hominid species inhabiting the planet back in ancient times. This completely flies in the face of the old consensus Homo sapiens they were the only hominid species remaining when they took over the world. Others believe that the Hobbits were actually Homo sapiens who settled on Indonesia and, over centuries of inbreeding, developed dwarfism. Oddly, it seems like the second option has captured more steam among researchers, though if anybody digs up a shiny gold ring and dubs it their precious, all bets are off.
8. Chandra Wickramasinghe's meteorite fossils
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Fossils don't just come from underground — now they can come from outer space! On December 29, 2012, a meteorite allegedly fell in Sri Lanka. We say "allegedly" because the International Meteorite Society did not record the impact, yet fringe scientists began studying the meteorite sample anyway, which was in good shape once recovered. While studying the dusty space rock, Chandra Wickramasinghe made a startling discovery: the meteorite had signs of fossilized life.
Wickramasinghe and his team published a paper outlining their discovery of diatom in the sample. These are microscopic phytoplankton that scientists use to monitor environmental conditions from the past. Diatoms preserve extraordinarily well in even the most extreme conditions. Wickramasinghe supposedly found multiple samples in the meteorite, which were in turn studied by diatom expert Patrick Kociolek, who verified that the microscopic creatures were diatoms, but noted that they shared similar evolutionary traits to diatoms on Earth. That means either the rock wasn't a meteorite, or life out in space took a similar evolutionary route to life on Earth.
Other scientists threw out the claim, believing that lightning actually formed the rock. Another hypothesis came forward that the rock was from both space and Earth, having been blasted into orbit during a bombardment event in the remote past. Among mainstream astrobiologists, Wickramasinghe's results are not taken seriously, but nobody has proven a better idea, so for now, consider him we shall.
9. Conrad's skull
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Around 360 million years ago, Earth entered the Carboniferous Era, when carbon and swamps covered large parts of the land. Generally, life was becoming more modern during that era, with large plant populations and fish with the same characteristics as their modern brethren. However, no hominid samples have been traced back to that era, except for one mysterious skull found by Ed Conrad.
Conrad discovered the skull in 1981 in Pennsylvania. The skull was in an area of prehistoric coal, indicative of the Carboniferous Era. Conrad, and others, believe the skull had the same normal features of a human skull, but with one major complication: there was no evidence that hominids existed in the Carboniferous Era, hundreds of millions of years before the first known hominids appeared, roughly 4.5 million years back.
After doing more research on the skull, Conrad was sure that it was human and came from the Carboniferous Era, and dated it as roughly 280 million years old, but mainstream science did not support his claim, citing the whole "no humanoids back then" factoid most people just accept by now. In 2011, however, a study from Taiwan concluded that Conrad's fossil was, in fact, a human skull. Oddly enough, the story was picked up by creationists to show that Darwin was wrong when dating human life, though they seem unwilling to admit that this also means that a Biblical interpretation of the origins of life (that the world and everything in it is only 6000 years old) is also false.
10. The Nampa Stone Doll
Most people don't think of Idaho as a hotspot for archaeological mysteries, but it's actually the home of a mysterious figure that remains unexplained. The figure was dug up in 1889 when workers were digging a well in Nampa, Idaho, right outside of Boise. Resembling a human doll, but made of stone, the figure was buried 320 feet below the surface of the Earth. Finding a stone doll is weird enough — finding it that deep is a spine-tingling mystery.
The rock around the doll dated to two million years ago, far before any hominid made it to Idaho. This was also millions of years before Homo sapiens or comparable species walked the Earth, period. Paleontologists assume that only Homo sapiens have the ability for this sort of workmanship, but they only appeared 200,000 years ago. Here is a stone doll that was at least a million and a half years older, with ornate designs that were clearly carved by hand. The right arm is even cemented to the doll, showing clear signs of artistic workmanship. This was certainly created by ancient humans that should not have existed at the time.
So, how did it get in the rock? Of course, skeptics have proposed a variety of mechanisms, but to this day, the doll remains unexplained. If it is evidence of ancient humans in Idaho, it would completely rewrite the evolutionary timeline of humanity, showing that Homo sapiens — or a currently-unknown, comparable species — existed way before we expected it. Idaho could become one of the most interesting spots for ancient human origins, marking one of the few times "interesting" and "Idaho" get mentioned in the same sentence outside of potato conventions.
11. UC Riverside's mysterious circles
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In 1986, scientists at the University of California-Riverside found a mysterious rock in Wisconsin, dated to back when the state was covered in water. The rock had mysterious circles on it, raised above the surface and perfectly circular. Scientists studied the weird rock for awhile and then, stumped, filed it away as an unsolved mystery.
Jump forward to 2015, and the fossil was still a mystery. Nobody could explain what could make perfect circles in the sea bed 450 million years ago. At a complete loss of ideas, UC Riverside scientists did what scientists rarely do: they opened it up to the internet and asked Reddit users to propose theories. Ideas ranged from sarcastic (typical for Reddit) to shockingly well-thought out. Some theorized that these were the work of prehistoric snails. Others though that jellyfish or sea sponges could have caused the shape. Overall, while the social media involvement was a success in brainstorming possible angles, none of the theories perfectly fit. All we know is what we already knew: 450 million years ago, something was making perfect circles on the seafloor in Wisconsin.
12. The Nevada giants
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The Paiute Indians in Nevada tell stories of the Si-Te-Cah, a race of red-haired giants that had lived in Nevada for thousands of years before the Paiute settled the land. Other Indian tribes throughout the United States tell a similar story. According to the Paiute, the tribes unified to defeat the giants and finally kicked them out of their homeland after a protracted war.
Settlers to the West did not originally believe the Indians, dismissing the legends as pointless stories. That changed in 1911 when miners discovered Lovelock Cave while trying to harvest bat guano for fertilizer. The cave was huge, and the miners could see that it was previously inhabited. When they began digging, they discovered hundreds of ancient artifacts, along with huge bones that looked human, but that had to come from people nearly ten feet tall. The site garnered intense interest, and soon amateur archaeologists and paleontologists swarmed the area, discovering more huge bones that seemingly came from giants. Digging also revealed fossilized hand-prints that were much bigger than any human hand print.
The most interesting find, however, was the skulls. Each skull found had an oddly shaped jaw bone, and elongated features. Besides being bigger than a human skull, the features all point to a strange new species that existed in the Lovelock caves. The skulls are now held at a nearby museum, providing evidence that the Native American legend might be real. If so, that means at some point in the distant American past, there was an epic battle between Native Americans and giants. If that's not a movie in the next five years, humanity has officially failed itself.
Submerged cities are, by their very nature, baffling to behold, but sometimes these underwater towns are discovered under especially mystifying circumstances. From unexpected scientific encounters with ancient fabled societies, to strategically pinpointed subaquatic findings, here are some underwater cities which were found in unexpected, mysterious places.
1. The Yonaguni Monument
Archaeologists can't quite seem to agree on whether the Yonaguni Monument (called the Yonaguni Pyramid, by some) is man-made, or a coincidentally sophisticated construct of nature. If this giant stone monument is a relic of a civilization past, as some suspect, it could be the creation of a complex society of human beings that existed between 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.
The potential ruins were discovered by divers in 1986, near Japan's Yonaguni Jima island near the Ryukyu tip, and is estimated by those who believe it to be a city structure which sank into the sea after an earthquake around 2,000 years ago. The reason some scientists believe the site is of human design is that it consists of sharp angles in the stones, apparent cascading staircases, and even some potential cultural indicators like animal and character monuments discovered in and around the sizable structure.
Those who believe it's simply a product of natural governance, however, point to how there are also no discernible seams in the sandstone, which is known to geologists to fragment at sharp angles. For them, this could indicate that even the most convincing edging might have been done by Mother Nature, rather than mankind. There's also the fact that, given its location near Japan, the timing of its construction would run counter to the small type of human communities that were known to exist at the time.
Until proven otherwise, though, divers who visit the site are consistently impressed by the angular structures of the monument and overwhelmed by the powerful sensation that this is an artificial construction of our ancestors, rather than a naturally developed mountain system which was submerged.
2. Cleopatra's Palace
Cleopatra was the last Egyptian pharaoh, and ruled the city of Alexandria for two decades from her perch in the city's fabled island of Antirhodos. However, the site vanished beneath the sea some 14 centuries ago, during a particularly vicious earthquake series. In 1996, it was rediscovered by a dive team led by archaeological explorer Franck Goddio, who used classic Grecian literary descriptions to find the well-preserved site. Once located, Goddio's team unearthed vast amounts of ancient artifacts which were found lurking in the long-abandoned ruins, including royal statues and sphinxes, jewelry, coins, and other temple pieces.
The impact of the massive discovery is vast, as the site contains a literal treasure trove of antiquities, many of which have not been brought to the surface, so Egypt hopes to capitalize on the international interest in the site by launching an underwater museum wherein visitors could view its sunken city first-hand without disturbing their millennium-plus-old resting place by traveling through strategically positioned underwater tunnels.
3. Thonis-Heracleion
A few years after Goddio's discovery of Antirhodos, another lost Egyptian city was discovered by Goddio and his team. This time, it was Thonis-Heracleion, a city that was fabled by both the Greeks and ancient Egyptians for its status as a grand port of trade between the Mediterranean and the Nile River. The city was home to the Temple of Amun and is thought to have been swallowed by the sea in the 8th century A.D. due to natural disasters and left to live on in legends alone until it was rediscovered in the year 2000. Among the recovered objects from the site were statues, a massive temple, and even ceramic pottery pieces, which supported the long-dormant theory that this city was once the site of much wealth.
Goddio told The Telegraph that his findings proved "It was the port of entry to Egypt, so all trade had to go through the city. Furthermore, it possessed a temple where every pharaoh had to go in order to receive the title of their power, as universal sovereign, from the supreme god Amun. So it was very wealthy." Goddio also discovered the lost Egyptian city of Canopus, another major port for Greek trade which had been lost to the depths of forgotten literature before he was able to locate it and reintroduce it to the modern world.
4. Pavlopetri
One of the world's oldest sunken cities is Pavlopetri, which lies beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Laconia in Greece and is estimated to be about 5,000 years old. Some believe it may have even been the inspiration for Plato's mythical Lost City of Atlantis, as it is the first underwater city which predates his myth.
The city was discovered in 1967 by Nicholas Fleming and, later, his team archaeologists from the University of Cambridge. It is considered to be a hugely significant finding for researchers of the Stone and Bronze Ages. "The site is unique in that we have almost the complete town plan, the main streets and domestic buildings, courtyards, rock-cut tombs and what appear to be religious buildings, clearly visible on the seabed," said Dr. Jon Henderson from the University of Nottingham, who used modern sonar technology to return to the site and map it so thoroughly that his team can now imagine what the city would have looked like in its prime.
So what happened to Pavlopetri to make it such a pristine piece of human history? It is thought to have been submerged in full during an earthquake and/or tsunami, but no matter how it happened, the city went underwater and never reemerged to be reoccupied or rebuilt, so it is perfectly preserved in its original state of antiquity. Residents of the neighboring town of Neapolis had an inkling that something existed beneath the sea, but they had no idea what lay beneath was such a vital piece of the historic puzzle.
5. Lion City
What happens when a city is flooded on purpose and then forgotten about? It becomes amazing, that's what. Commonly known as China's own Atlantis or the Atlantis of the East, the city of Shicheng was wilfully flooded by the government in 1959, during construction of the Xin'an Dam and the man-made Qiandao Lake in the Zhejiang province, and it was mostly forgotten about until 2001, when officials funded an underwater exploration of the site.
The city, which still boasts architecture from the Ming and Qing dynasties from over 600 years ago, is stunningly well-preserved by the very water which destroyed it. So much so, in fact, that the forgotten drowned town has become a tourist haven for curious divers interested in learning the secrets of this once-bustling political center, from within its watery time capsule.
6. Dwarka
The name of this lost city of India, Dwarka, means "gateway to Heaven," so right off the bat there's some chilling significance to the accidental finding of what may very well be the world's oldest underwater city. In 2002, scientists happened across an ancient submerged city in India's Gulf of Cambay while measuring pollution levels in the area, and divers later recovered human artifacts from the site, including beads and pottery, along with human teeth that were reportedly carbon-dated to be as many as 9,500 years old.
The importance of the finding cannot be overstated, according to experts. Per the BBC, one ancient civilization authority said that finding a sunken city of this scale calls into question the long-lived archaeological holding that cities of this scale weren't known to exist more than 4,500 years ago when Mesopotamia was erected.
The legendary city of Dwraka, which may have sunk as a result of the last ice cap melt nearly 10,000 years ago, is considered sacred to several religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism, and was thought to have been occupied by the Hindu god Krishna when it was considered the capital of the Anarta Kingdom.
7. Lake Titicaca
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Lake Titicaca was the source of much mythology for the ancient Incas, who believed it to be their civilization's birthplace, so it's a little auspicious that scientists located a 1,000 to 1,500-year-old temple that predated them right there in their legendary waters. The Incas believed in the submerged city of Wanaku and claimed to have originated from the lake itself, when the Children of the Sun emerged from its waters. According to Bolivian officials, the ruins prove that "our civilizations have left more footprints than we had thought." Given the perceived aged of the site, experts believe the temple may have been a worship site for the Tiahuanaco, which eventually assimilated into the Inca civilization, so that Children of the Sun myth doesn't sound so crazy anymore, does it?
8. Atlit-Yam Haifa
Another chance encounter with an amazing ancient underwater civilization happened in 1984, when marine scientists spotted the 7,700-year-old remains of a sunken city during their search for shipwrecks near the Bay of Atlit in Israel. Later explorations revealed that the site contains rectangular houses and a circular stone well, indicating that Atlit-Yam may be one of the earliest known villages that used agricultural and marine resources to subsist, sometime between the years of 6900 and 6300 B.C. Among the remains discovered at the site were the first confirmed humans to have contracted and died from tuberculosis, the first evidence of olive oil creation, and, most importantly, the first known discovery of a civilization which used situ burials.
The city is believed to have been suddenly abandoned after a volcanic collapse caused a tsunami swell, which led to the evacuation of the town. Atlit-Yam, like so many others of such pre-historic origins, has often been called the "Neolithic Atlantis."
9. Baiae, Italy
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The Roman city of Baiae was once a home away from home for some of Rome's most powerful (and controversial) figures, including Julius Caesar, the emperor Caligula, and the philosopher Marcus Cicero. The once-vibrant city existed as something of an elitist pleasure resort of the Gulf of Naples, which included baths and possibly even an ancient variation of a Las Vegas casino. The city was mostly abandoned in the 8th century A.D., after Muslim raiders wrecked the city. It was later completely abandoned, once malaria arrived a few centuries later, and volcanic activity is considered to have sunk the city sometime after it was emptied of its inhabitants.
However, the underwater city was rediscovered in the 1950s by an Italian archaeologist, after its above-water portions were concealed by 15 feet of vine overgrowth. The city is now one of the world's only official underwater parks, and attracts divers who can get up close and personal with an ancient sunken nymphaeum.
'Triangle Of Lights' Spotted Hovering In The Sky Of Arkansas
'Triangle Of Lights' Spotted Hovering In The Sky Of Arkansas
It seems more advanced, bigger and brighter than the TR-3B.
This is a military black project, I have seen a few in southern Ohio close to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base over the last few years. It's a military anti-gravity tech, and it's American.
A teenager in England captured some curious UFO footage of a rather odd craft in the sky near a British air base. The interesting video was taken by a young man named Lucal Budel, who told a newspaperin England that he had been sitting at his computer when suddenly a bright flash in the sky caught his attention.
Although he initially thought the anomaly had been a meteor entering the atmosphere when he looked closer and began watching it, he was amazed to see it was not descending, but performing elaborate maneuvers.
Hubble fotografeert de nasleep van een kosmische botsing
Hubble fotografeert de nasleep van een kosmische botsing
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500 miljoen jaar geleden botsten twee sterrenstelsels tegen elkaar. In het samengesmolten sterrenstelsel zijn de gevolgen van deze kosmische crash nog steeds zichtbaar.
Sterrenstelsel NGC 3256 is honderd miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en is ongeveer even groot als ons eigen sterrenstelsel. NGC 3256 heeft een paar flinke staarten, die om het sterrenstelsel krullen. In deze gasarmen bevinden zich veel jonge blauwe sterren.
Veel sterren zouden niet zijn geboren als de twee sterrenstelsels niet tegen elkaar botsten. Door de botsing zijn veel gas- en stofwolken flink opgeschud, waardoor er massaal nieuwe sterren ontstonden. NGC 2356 huisvest sterren die veel infrarood licht uitstralen, waardoor het sterrenstelsel oplicht in het verre infrarode spectrum.
Er is nog veel meer te vinden in NGC 3256, zoals meer dan duizend helderde sterrenclusters. In het centrum zijn twee heldere kernen te zien. Dit zijn de overblijfselen van de kernen van de oude sterrenstelsels. Een van de twee kernen wordt omgeven door donkere nevels en is daarom alleen goed zichtbaar op andere golflengten.
Ook het Melkwegstelsel en het Andromedastelsel botsen in de toekomst. Dit gebeurt over zo’n vier miljard jaar. Zodra de stelsels met elkaar in botsing komen, duurt het nog zo’n twee miljard jaar voor de twee sterrenstelsels helemaal één zijn geworden. Sterren in de sterrenstelsels komen door de botsing waarschijnlijk in nieuwe banen terecht. Ook de zon wordt wellicht naar een nieuw deel van het sterrenstelsel verhuisd. Tegen die tijd zijn we waarschijnlijk allang verkast naar andere (exo)planeten, want de zon verandert de komende miljarden jaren in een rode reus.
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Humanity's quest for the stars will be the death of countless alien species if they exist, a scientist has claimed.
Theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin of the National Research University of Electronic Technology in Russia has published a new paper outlining what he calls the "first in, last out" theory of space travel.
"No present observations suggest a technologically advanced extraterrestrial intelligence has spread through the galaxy," he writes in the paper, published online.
This seems unlikely, he says, because of the sheer number of stars and galaxies out there - suggesting humanity might be the first to do it.
And though that sounds like good news, Dr Berezin says it isn't, unless you like the idea of being responsible for a galactic genocide.
"What if the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?" he writes.
Much like how the Vogons obliterate Earth to make way for a space highway in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels, we just won't care for comparatively primitive species on other planets.
"I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilisation would consciously wipe out other lifeforms. Most likely, they simply won't notice, the same way a construction crew demolishes an anthill to build real estate because they lack incentive to protect it."
Dr Berezin said he hopes he's wrong, but there's only one way to find out.
"We are the first to arrive at the stage. And, most likely, will be the last to leave."
WE Are The ALIENS: We are Made of STARDUST From Galaxy Far, Far Away
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Take a VR journey to an exoplanet with NASA’s new ‘Travel Bureau’
Take a VR journey to an exoplanet with NASA’s new ‘Travel Bureau’
NASA/JPL
NASA has opened a new Exoplanet Travel Bureau, a place where you can journey through the cosmos and imagine what it might be like to stand on the surface of an alien planet.
The website offers an intergalactic vacation in the form of interactive visualizations of planets beyond our solar system. No actual images of these planets exist, of course, but the artistic conceptions are based on observations from the Kepler Space Telescope.
The 360-degree visualizations are available for desktop or mobile devices, as well as virtual reality headsets.
Accompanied by cool retro-style travel posters, there are three planets to visit, with more on the way. The “nightlife never ends” on PSO J318.5-22, because it doesn’t orbit a star, but wanders freely through space. The latest entry, Kepler-186f, has a setting that lets you toggle atmosphere on or off.
“Because Kepler-186f and the majority of Kepler-discovered planets are so distant, it is currently impossible to detect their atmospheres — if they exist at all — or characterize their atmospheric properties,” said NASA scientist Martin Still in a blog post.
“Consequently, we have limited knowledge about what these distant worlds are really like, but these surface visualizations allow us to imagine some of the possibilities,” he added. “Current and future NASA missions, including TESS and the James Webb Space Telescope, will find the nearest exoplanets to our solar system and characterize their atmospheres, bridging the gap between speculation and what’s really out there.”
The Travel Bureau was designed by NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Although hundreds of potential exoplanets have been discovered so far, scientists arte particularly intrigued by those in the “Goldilocks Zone,” the orbit in a temperature range that could support liquid water and, possibly, extraterrestrial life.
The Kepler spacecraft, which trails the Earth in an orbit around the sun, has produced most of the exoplanet discoveries, but it’s out of gas and about to end its mission. However, the just-launched TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope are both specifically designed to search for exoplanets, and thousands of alien worlds await discovery.
A topographical chart centred on Groom Lake and the base known as Area 51
Ancient Aliens looks at the infamous United States Air Force known as Area 51 and wonders if its very notoriety could be aiding a much wider cover-up, extraterrestrial research taking place all over the globe.
Area 51 is remote base lying in the Nevada Test and Training Range and over the years it has fired the imagination and interest of both the media and conspiracy theorists.
Officially known as Homey Airport and Groom Lake, the base has been called Area 51 since a CIA document revealed it was the term they used for the facility.
This CIA document from the Vietnam War refers to Area 51
Its very existence was only official acknowledged by the CIA in 2005, when a freedom of information request saw them release various documents pertaining to the base and its function.
The secret development of many advanced aircraft has taken place at Area 51 over the years, with the likes of the A-12, U2, D-21 and the F-117 all being tested there.
Area 51 warning signs advise that lethal force is authorised, but every country needs secrets…right?
However, there are also various theories about the base and its use for storying and test extraterrestrial technology and even aliens themselves. Theories range from it being a meeting place for talks between Earth and alien government through to being a place where crashed UFOs are reverse engineered.
There is also a theory that the attention given to Area 51 is a very convenient distraction from much wider research being done into alien technology, in multiple locations.
If you’re a big fan of this topic be sure to check out our new site, Paranormal Papers, that runs daily news on UFOs, the paranormal and other interesting topics.
Ancient Aliens: Area 52 airs at 9:00 PM on History Channel.
The clip shows a UFO travelling at pace not too far from a militay base.
It was captured by Junelyn Bitalac, who says she noticed the phenomenon after dropping her mum off at work.
She immediately pulled over and recorded it, baffled by what it could be.
After reviewing the video, captured in Hastings, Australia, Junelyn still had no idea what it was, so she has now taken to the internet to solve the mystery.
YOUTUBE
BIZARRE: Could this be a secret project?
“Most likely a secret governmental black project craft”
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After sharing the clip on her YouTube channel on May 31, she has already racked up 2,500 hits.
But the video really gained popularity after being shared on conspiracy page secureteam10, where it has gained more than 100,000 views in a matter of hours.
And many were quick to speculate what it could be.
One comment read: “Most likely a secret governmental black project craft.”
And another added: “Obviously some sort of experimental aircraft, possibly military.”
Before a third pointed out: “Right next to the military base – must be a drone.”
NASA Is About to Have Its Closest Encounter Ever with Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA Is About to Have Its Closest Encounter Ever with Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this photo of Ceres on May 16, 2018, as it approached its lowest orbit ever of the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. At the time of this photo, Dawn was about 270 miles (440 kilometers) from Ceres.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
A NASA spacecraft is about to get up close and personal with Ceres, a giant asteroid that also happens to be the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.
This month, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will shift into an orbit that will skim just 22 miles (35 kilometers) above Ceres at its closest point, allowing Dawn to get its best views yet of the dwarf planet. At its farthest point, the new elliptical orbit will carry Dawn out 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers).
"The team is eagerly awaiting the detailed composition and high-resolution imaging from the new, up-close examination," Carol Raymond, principal investigator for the Dawn mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. "These new high-resolution data allow us to test theories formulated from the previous data sets and discover new features of this fascinating dwarf planet." [See Dawn's Amazing Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres]
One target on Ceres is especially tantalizing during the new, lower orbit. That's Occator Crater, a place with strange, bright white spots.
"As a bonus objective, scientists would like to study the elements in one of their favorite places (and perhaps one of yours as well): Occator Crater, site of the highly reflective salt deposits, famous not only on Ceres but also on Earth and everywhere else that readers follow Dawn's discoveries," Marc Rayman, mission director and chief engineer for Dawn at JPL, wrote in an April 29 blog post. "Studying this one crater and the area around it (together known as a geological unit) could reveal more about the complex geology there."
At its lowest point, Dawn will be 10 times closer to Ceres than the probe has ever been. In fact, Rayman said it will be the closest Dawn has been to an object in the solar system since it launched from Earth.
"The last time it was that close to a solar system body was when it rode a rocket from Cape Canaveral over the Atlantic Ocean more than a decade ago," he said.
This NASA diagram shows the initial orbit of the Dawn spacecraft around Ceres (outer green ellipse) and its near-final orbit (center green ellipse), with the blue lines indicating the probe's path in between.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In addition to photos, Dawn will use its instruments to understand the chemical composition of the top layer of Ceres' surface.
The Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting Ceres in the asteroid belt (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) since March 2015. NASA launched the mission in 2007, sending Dawn first to the large asteroid Vesta — the second largest object in the asteroid belt after Ceres — before moving on to Ceres itself. Dawn is equipped with a fuel-efficient ion drive that allowed it to fly between asteroids.
In 2016, the probe went into a high orbit above Ceres to study the dwarf planet from a distance that ranged between 2,800 miles (4,400 km) and 24,300 miles (39,100 km). Dawn spent much of the last year in that orbit and began lowering its path around Ceres on April 16 of this year, Rayman said.
Finding an orbit that would both get close to Ceres and allow for good science observations was a challenge for mission engineers, NASA officials said. Engineers ran through more than 45,000 potential variations before hitting on one that worked.
NASA's $466 million Dawn mission is in its second extended phase and will end its days in orbit around Ceres. After launching in 2007, the spacecraft headed to Vesta and spent a year orbiting that asteroid (from 2011 to 2012).
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik.
Experience a Soyuz Spacecraft Landing with This Amazing 360-Degree, VR Video
Experience a Soyuz Spacecraft Landing with This Amazing 360-Degree, VR Video
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
When astronauts return home from space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, you can be sure NASA will be there with live video of the landing. But what's it really like to be there when a spaceship touches down?
Wonder no more. NASA's got you covered with a new 360-degree video suitable for any virtual-reality device. The video is a great primer ahead of the next Soyuz landing, on Sunday (June 3), which will return NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Norishige Kanai home from the International Space Station.
"How'd you like to stand on the snowy ground of Kazakhstan to retrieve a crew from the International Space Station?" the video description reads. "If you'd like to do it without having to wear a parka, check out this 360 VR video captured in February 2018 and join NASA personnel on the last leg of the trip to pick up astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin at the end of Expedition 54 after five and a half months in space." [See Awesome Photos of Their Soyuz Landing!]
The 4-minute video chronicles the last leg of NASA's trip to pick up Acaba, Vande Hei and Misurkin when their Soyuz landed on the chilly steppes of Kazakhstan on Feb. 27. At the beginning of the video, recovery crews wait at an airfield to board Russian Mi-8 helicopters or all-terrain vehicles to make the trek out to the Soyuz's drop zone. Another scene shows what it's like inside one of the Mi-8 helicopters.
The scene then jumps to the Soyuz just after it's landed. Just after touchdown, recovery teams swarm to the landing site to extract the space crew. Sometimes, a Soyuz capsule rolls on its side after landing and has to be moved upright for extraction.
In the NASA video, the capsule is upright, and the recovery team has already set up a three-legged access ladder to reach the crew from the Soyuz's top hatch. You can watch as the astronauts ride a little slide off the Soyuz. (That's right, after their fiery plunge through the atmosphere, parachute descent and bumpy landing with retrorockets, space crews finally reach Earth on a little slide!)
Once the space travelers are pulled from the Soyuz, they take a break in special couches set up outside. If you explore the 360-degree view in the NASA video, you can see the crew mobbed by photographers and videographers as they sip water or make calls to family. This is the last photo op before the astronauts are moved to nearby tents for health checks to make sure they're OK after months in space.
After the medical checks, the station crewmembers begin the trip home. This means a helicopter ride back to the airfield in Kazakhstan, where the crewmembers are given a traditional Kazakh welcome ceremony and presented with gifts. This is where the Russian and U.S. crewmembers typically say farewell.
Surrounded by members of the search-and-rescue teams, NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (left), Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (center) and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sit in reclining chairs outside the Soyuz MS-06 space capsule after their landing on Feb. 27, 2018.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
For Expedition 54, that means Acaba and Vande Hei returned home to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Misurkin headed back to Star City in Russia, home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
You can watch the next Soyuz landing live on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, this weekend. The webcast coverage begins Saturday (June 2) with a change-of-command ceremony in which NASA astronaut Drew Feustel will take charge of the orbiting laboratory as Expedition 56 commander.
Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai are ending their Expedition 55 mission to the space station. NASA will webcast their return to Earth Sunday starting at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT), when they bid farewell to Feustel, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, who will remain behind as the Expedition 56 crew.
The Soyuz returning the Expedition 55 crew to Earth is scheduled to land at 8:40 a.m. EDT (1240 GMT) on Sunday. Three new space station crewmembers are scheduled to launch June 6 to restore the Expedition 56 team to full size.
Visit Space.com Sunday for complete coverage of the Expedition 55 crew's landing.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik.
Un porte-avion américain suivi pendant des jours par un ovni, selon un rapport du Pentagone
Un porte-avion américain suivi pendant des jours par un ovni, selon un rapport du Pentagone
Selon un rapport du Pentagone cité par la presse américaine, un ovni de la taille d'un avion de ligne mais de la forme d'un «œuf allongé», est apparu à proximité d'un porte-avion américain, plusieurs jours durant en 2004.
Un rapport du Pentagone révélé par la chaîne de télévision américaine KLAS fin mai et amplement cité par la presse anglo-saxonne, livre de nouveaux détails sur un objet volant non identifié (ovni) qu'ont observé, plusieurs jours durant en 2004, des militaires américains au large de la côte californienne. Le New York Times avait publié une vidéo de l'incident en question en décembre dernier, dans un article traitant du programme d'étude des ovnis financé aux Etats-Unis par le Pentagone.
Selon ce rapport, l'objet, de la taille d'un avion de ligne et de forme ovale, a été repéré une première fois par le radar de l'USS Princeton, un porte-avion américain, alors qu'il volait à 60 000 pieds (plus de 18 000 mètres). Il a alors subitement plongé vers la surface de l'océan, pour l'atteindre en quelques secondes seulement. Peu après, l'ovni s'est éloigné à une vitesse si impressionnante que les membres d'équipage ont pensé qu'ils s'agissait d'un missile balistique.
Deux jours plus tard, toujours selon le rapport du Pentagone, l'objet est à nouveau apparu près de l'USS Princeton et a cette fois été pris en chasse par deux F-18. Mais les pilotes ont expliqué qu'ils avaient été incapables de l'intercepter, l'ovni s'étant brusquement rendu invisible. Il pouvait cependant toujours être détecté, à cause de l'onde visible à la surface de l'eau créée sous lui, «d'environ 50 à 100 mètres de diamètre».
L'engin a été décrit par un des pilotes comme étant «blanc uni, lisse, sans bords, uniformément coloré, sans nacelles, pylônes ou ailes» et ressemblant à «un œuf allongé ou un Tic Tac». D'après le rapport du Pentagone, un avion de surveillance E-2C Hawkeye a réussi à détecter l'objet mais sans pouvoir le «verrouiller», ce qui laisse penser qu'il était capable d'esquiver le radar.
Le rapport se conclut en confirmant que l'engin ne correspondait à «aucun avion ou véhicule aérien actuellement connu dans l'inventaire des Etats-Unis ou de toute autre nation étrangère».
Angleterre : Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d’une base militaire
Angleterre : Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d’une base militaire
Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d'une base militaire
Un inquiétant phénomène inexpliqué et inconnu est apparu dans le ciel au-dessus d’une base militaire britannique. Les habitants de la région ont été déconcertés par ces images époustouflantes.
Lucas Budel, âgé de 19 ans, a déclaré avoir repéré cet OVNI chez lui à High Wycombe, dans le comté de Buckinghamshire. Cette ville abrite une importante base administrative de la Royal Air Force. Dans cette station militaire, on retrouve le HQ Air Command ainsi que le Groupe aérien européen (une force aérienne multinationale européenne).
Mais cette base a également été utilisée pour enquêter sur les observations d’OVNI, ce qui a donné lieu à de nombreuses théories.
Lucas a pris des séquences vidéo de ce phénomène inexplicable. Sur ces images, on peut voir cet orbe blanc effectuer une multitude de mouvements inhabituels. Derrière lui, il laisse une traînée blanche et épaisse dans les airs.
Lucas raconte : « J’étais simplement assis dans ma chambre devant mon ordinateur quand j’ai vu une lumière extrêmement brillante tomber du ciel. »
« J’ai d’abord pensé que c’était un météore qui tombait, ce qui est déjà assez inhabituel à voir, jusqu’à ce qu’il s’arrête de se mouvoir pendant quelques secondes et qu’il remonte vers le haut. »
« J’étais tellement impressionné que je n’ai pas eu le temps de le filmer. Il a ensuite disparu. »
Mais quand l’OVNI a réapparu, Lucas était prêt.
« Je suis retourné à mon bureau et j’ai pris mon téléphone portable. Dès lors, quand je l’ai revu, je l’ai utilisé pour le filmer », a-t-il ajouté.
« La meilleure façon de le décrire était qu’il ressemblait à un nuage électrique se déplaçant continuellement dans des directions alternées. »
« À un moment donné, il semblait que des étincelles rouges ou de l’électricité s’en échappaient. »
« À un autre moment, il a semblé qu’il avait perdu toutesa puissance et il a commencé à tomber en direction sol avant que ses ‘moteurs’ ne redémarrent et qu’il reprenne de l’altitude. »
Lucas prétend également avoir vu l’objet se diviser en deux.
Il a ajouté : « Je suis certain que c’était un phénomène inexpliqué. »
« Cela pourrait êtrede la foudre en boule, des essais militaires secrets ou quelque chose d’origine extraterrestre. Cela ressemblait à un nuage électrique en train de s’évaporer. »
« Quelqu’un a aussi dit que ça pourrait être un avion télécommandé mais d’après ce que j’ai vu, ça ne ressemblait pas du tout à ça. »
« Je n’ai jamais rien vu d’autre de pareil, surtout
dans ma région. »
La boule de foudre est un phénomène atmosphérique inexpliqué et dangereux. Il se présente sous la forme d’un objet sphérique lumineux pouvant atteindre plusieurs mètres de long.
EXPERT SAYS HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH — WE WERE BROUGHT ON THE PLANET BY ALIENS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
EXPERT SAYS HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH — WE WERE BROUGHT ON THE PLANET BY ALIENS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
Do you believe that maybe we are the aliens we are looking for all this time? Some experts say that people were most likely crossbred with other 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-Uhaymirit was a modern day in Iraq, in the area of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish. 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.
They discovered that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Yushu’s. Yushu’s successor is called Kullassina-bel. This is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”.
This ancient document is the writing of the Sumerians and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
The ability to write this language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
We know that humans developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species still haven’s.
No other species on earth can show this good and unique achievement in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species on earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
Can you imagine, if, for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there? Experts say that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Scientists say that people are not very capable to have a big range of environments. Humans are very limited when it comes to our planet.
People, unlike animals, have fascinating intelligence. Biologists have found the contrast between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Experts say that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby giraffe when is born is able to walk and function almost independently. A human baby can not, which makes us quite helpless. We are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Human beings did not evolve alongside other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book written by Dr. Ellis Silver, you can see him going through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity. 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 what do you think, where do we come from?
There are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis says that “mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. Maybe the Earth is a prison planet since we seem to be naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis thinks that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Where did Rh negative blood come from?
Is it possible to explain this by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t, in fact, one race, but a hybridized species.
Sepehr thinks that when one race dies, another has taken its place. With a few holding on to the memories and knowledge of the past race.
People think that we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology. We are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. Sepher thinks that we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, learning to reclaim our forgotten past.
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POURQUOI DANS CETTE IMAGE LA NASA DIT-ELLE QUE C'EST UN FOSSILE OU UNE CRÉATURE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
POURQUOI DANS CETTE IMAGE LA NASA DIT-ELLE QUE C'EST UN FOSSILE OU UNE CRÉATURE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
Nous pensons qu'il est plus que curieux qu'une page du Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la NASA fasse de tels commentaires concernant les images obtenues de Mars. Mars a toujours été lié aux théories des civilisations extraterrestres de la part des théoriciens extraterrestres, mais jamais sur une page officielle.
L'image correspond à une image de la mission Mars Odyssey 2001. Informations sur l'image : Instrument VIS. Latitude 82,4N, longitude 314,5E. Résolution de 40 mètres / pixel.
Selon les notes techniques, cette image visuelle THEMIS n'a pas été calibrée radiométriquement ou géométriquement pour cette version préliminaire. Une correction empirique a été faite pour éliminer les effets instrumentaux. Un déplacement linéaire a été appliqué dans la direction transversale et descendante pour approcher le mouvement de l'engin spatial et planétaire. Les images entièrement calibrées et projetées géométriquement seront lancées à travers le système de données planétaires selon les politiques du projet à un moment ultérieur.
NASA sur le site officiel a mis ce qui suit
Retour à la demande populaire : THEMIS ART IMAGE # 73 Ces dunes polaires du nord semblent étranges, comme une plante, un fossile ou une créature extraterrestre. Vous pouvez le vérifier à partir d'ici
Si nous regardons plus en détail l'image ressemblerait à un fossile animal ou quelque chose de très similaire, mais même si c'était le cas, nous ne le saurons jamais.Bien que cela semble curieux, la NASA a apparemment écrit cela après les commentaires des internautes
Mais quand la NASA a ignoré les théories extraterrestres ?En saura-t-il plus ou tentera-t-il simplement d'accroître l'incertitude s'il y a de la vie sur Mars ou pas ?
The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?
The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?
We have no idea what’s behind these weird incidents because we’re not investigating.
By Christopher MellonMarch 9
Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He is a private equity investor and an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for Arts and Science.
In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004.
The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies. Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15 fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest .
A third declassified video, released by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science , a privately owned media and scientific research company to which I’m an adviser, reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015.
Military jet video tracks high-speed UFO
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
Is it possible that America has been technologically leap-frogged by Russia or China? Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization?
Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.
I served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and as staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I know from numerous discussions with Pentagon officials over the past two years that military departments and agencies treat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation. A colleague of mine at To the Stars Academy, Luis Elizondo, used to run a Pentagon intelligence program that examined evidence of “anomalous” aircraft, but he resigned last fall to protest government inattention to the growing body of empirical data.
Meanwhile, reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes. There is no Pentagon process for synthesizing all the observations the military is making. The current approach is equivalent to having the Army conduct a submarine search without the Navy. It is also reminiscent of the counterterrorism efforts of the CIA and the FBI before Sept. 11, 2001, when each had information on the hijackers that they kept to themselves. In this instance, the truth may ultimately prove benign, but why leave it to chance?
(A Pentagon spokesman did not respond to requests from The Washington Post for comment, but in December, the military confirmed the existence of a program to investigate UFOs and said it had stopped funding the research in 2012.)
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.
Footage shows encounter between U.S. navy jet and unknown aircraft
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
From my work with To the Stars Academy, which seeks to raise private funds to investigate incidents like the 2004 Nimitz encounter, I know they continue to occur, because we are being approached by military personnel who are concerned about national security and frustrated by how the Defense Department is handling such reports. I am also familiar with the evidence as a former Pentagon intelligence official and a consultant who began researching the issue after the Nimitz incident was brought to my attention. On several occasions, I have met with senior Pentagon officials, and at least one followed up and obtained briefings confirming incidents such as the Nimitz case. But nobody wants to be “the alien guy” in the national security bureaucracy; nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for drawing attention to the issue. This is true up and down the chain of command, and it is a serious and recurring impediment to progress.
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 chest-thumping 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.
Lately, 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. The real issue, though, is not a long-gone earmark, helpful though it may have been, but numerous recent incidents involving the military and violations of U.S. airspace. It is time to set aside taboos regarding “UFOs” and instead listen to our pilots and radar operators.
Within a roughly $50 billion annual intelligence budget, money is not the issue. Existing funds would easily cover what’s needed to look into the incidents. What we lack above all is recognition that this issue warrants a serious collection and analysis effort. To make headway, the task needs to be assigned to an official with the clout to compel collaboration among disparate and often quarrelsome national security bureaucracies. A truly serious effort would involve, among other things, analysts able to review infrared satellite data, NORAD radar databases, and signals and human intelligence reporting. Congress should require an all-source study by the secretary of defense while promoting research into new forms of propulsion that might explain how these vehicles achieve such extraordinary power and maneuverability.
As with Sputnik, the national security implications of these incidents are concerning — but the scientific opportunities are thrilling. Who knows what perils we may avoid or opportunities we might identify if we follow the data? We cannot afford to avert our eyes, given the risk of strategic surprise. The future belongs to not only the physically brave but also the intellectually agile.
Fatima set a precedent for so-called sun miracles that continue into modernity. However ancient goddesses were able to "spin" the sun. This is why, in L.A, Marzulli's opinion; Fatima was a harbinger of deception!
L.A. Marzulli recently went to Portugal to investigate the event, which has been called the "Miracle of the Sun" that took place on October 13, 1917 and witnessed by 70,000 people in a field in Fatima.
Word had spread about the apparitions the children were seeing, and Lucia had been told that a sign would be presented for all to see on the 13th.
After a morning of rain, the clouds parted, and the sun came out. From out of a cloud an object appeared, spinning on its axis, as it cast vibrant colors over the crowd.
Then, the disc-shaped object descended, before flying low over the gathering.
Rather than a holy miracle, Marzulli has concluded that it was a UFO of demonic origin that the crowd witnessed. The following video shows some of these “Sun Miracles” including images of the 1917 Fatima incident.
Dwarf Ceres Index that NASA has put up for the public has been taken down. There was once hundreds of photos, but now there are only there. If you go to the link and click on Dwarf Planets, you will see only three photos. This Is NASA trying to hide the true nature of Ceres white spots from the public. Many times I have reported these white spots looking like structures, but now NASA has removed them in hopes of preventing the public from investigating this further. As I said before, the reason NASA was created 50 years go was to hide the existence of alien life from the public. They are on a mission to drip feed the public useless scientific facts that change nothing...they drip feed the public so that the public gets some satisfaction about learning about space...and keeps the public in the dark. Scott C. Waring
Aliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says
Aliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
If mankind is destined to meet aliens, we are probably also destined to destroy them (according to one Russian physicist).
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If you've ever looked up into the unfathomable night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" then you are not alone.
About 70 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked a similar question: "Where is everybody?"
There are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, Fermi reckoned, and many of them are billions of years older than our sun. Even if a small fraction of these stars have planets around them that proved habitable for life (scientists now think as many as 60 billion exoplanets could fit the bill), that would leave billions of possible worlds where advanced civilizations could have already bloomed, grown and — eventually — begun exploring the stars.
Now, Alexander Berezin, a theoretical physicist at the National Research University of Electronic Technology in Russia, has proposed a new answer to Fermi's paradox — but he doesn't think you're going to like it. Because, if Berezin's hypothesis is correct, it could mean a future for humanity that's "even worse than extinction."
"What if," Berezin wrote in a new paper posted March 27 to the preprint journal arxiv.org,"the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?"
In other words, could humanity's quest to discover intelligent life be directly responsible for obliterating that life outright? What if we are, unwittingly, the universe's bad guys?
First in, last out
In the paper, Berezin called this answer to Fermi's paradox the "first in, last out" solution. Understanding it requires narrowing down the parameters of what makes "intelligent life" in the first place, Berezin wrote.
For starters, it doesn't really matter what alien life looks like; it could be a biological organism like humans, a superintelligent AI or even some sort of planet-size hive mind, he said.
But it does matter how this life behaves, Berezin wrote. To be considered relevant to Fermi's paradox, the extraterrestrial life we seek has to be able to grow, reproduce and somehow be detectable by humans. That means our theoretical aliens have to be capable of interstellar travel, or at least of transmitting messages through interstellar space. (This is assuming humans don't reach the alien planet first.)
Here's the catch: For a civilization to reach a point where it could effectively communicate across solar systems, it'd have to be on a path of unrestricted growth and expansion, Berezin wrote. And to walk this path, you'd have to step on a lot of lesser life-forms.
"I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other lifeforms," Berezin wrote. "Most likely, they simply won't notice, the same way a construction crew demolishes an anthill to build real estate because they lack incentive to protect it."
For example, a rogue AI's unrestricted drive for growth could lead it to populate the entire galaxy with clones of itself, "turning every solar system into a supercomputer," Berezin said. Looking for a motive in the AI's hostile takeover is useless, Berezin said — "all that matters is that it can [do it]."
A fate worse than extinction
The bad news for humans isn't that we might have to face off against a power-crazed race of intelligent beings. The bad news is, we might be that race. "We are the first to arrive at the [interstellar] stage," Berezin speculated, "and, most likely, will be the last to leave."
Stopping humans from accidentally obliterating all rival life-forms would require a total culture shift spurred by "forces far stronger than the free will of individuals," Berezin wrote. Given our species' impressive talent for expansion, however, such forces could be hard to muster.
Then again, this is all just a theory. The paper has yet to be peer-reviewed by fellow scientists, and even Berezin is rooting against his own conclusions.
"I certainly hope I am wrong," Berezin wrote. "The only way to find out is to continue exploring the universe and searching for alien life."
Are All Energy-Intensive Civilizations Doomed To Self-Destruct? Scientists Model Alien Planets To Find Out
Are All Energy-Intensive Civilizations Doomed To Self-Destruct? Scientists Model Alien Planets To Find Out
By Rosie McCall
Billions of galaxies and trillions of planets populate our universe. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, ours is the only one to host living organisms. As we hurtle down a path of climate change and possible self-destruction, some scientists are asking the question: Is it actually possible to build a sustainable energy-intensive civilization or are all doomed to fail?
Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues published a study in the journal Astrobiology looking at the various possible pathways open to alien civilizations (or "exo-civilizations") as they develop, exploit their planet's resources, and deal with the ensuing climate change.
“Given that more than 10 billion trillion planets likely exist in the cosmos, unless nature is perversely biased against civilizations like ours, we’re not the first one to appear,” he wrote in an article for The Atlantic.
"And just as most species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct, so too most civilizations that emerged (if they emerged) may have since ended.”
The study involves mathematical models built from laws in physics, chemistry, and simple population biology. In the end, they found there were three distinct trajectories a civilization may take. But be warned, it makes for rather grim reading.
The Die-Off
This "cosmic Easter Island"-type scenario was, Frank points out, disconcertingly the most common. Here, the civilization uses the energy available to it and grows exponentially as a result. However, by doing so, they change the environment. The planet can no longer sustain the population and so a "die-off" occurs, killing as much as 70 percent of the civilization until it achieves a viable – and sustainable – state.
The Soft Landing
The best possible trajectory for a civilization that has "out-grown" its host is the soft landing. As in the previous scenario, the population grows and the environment changes but together the civilization and planet reach a new equilibrium, thereby preventing a mass die-off.
The Full-Blown Collapse
As you might tell from the name, this would be the absolute worst outcome. It could happen if the planet is unable to cope with the changes to the environment and the conditions change rapidly, causing the civilization to "nose-dive" into extinction.
It's worth noting that the model is fairly simplistic. Frank says they made the equations as straightforward as possible and calls it a "first stab" at the science of exo-civilizations. However, the more accurate and detailed we can get the climate physics and the models, the more accurate and detailed we can get the results.
"[I]t’s too early to answer the question, 'Does anyone make it?'" he explains. Then adds, "Even though our initial models were simple, they still revealed a radical truth about the challenge we face as we push the Earth into its human-dominated era."
UFO disk flying in the sky over Hastings, Australia, the UFO follows a certain flight path and is clearly under intelligent control.
Witness: on May 30, 2018 I dropped my mom to work that day and on my way home saw this strange object flying in the sky, so I pulled over on the side of the road and took a video of it.
Area 51 under scanner again? Continuous UFO sightings in Nevada desert sparks alien debate
Area 51 under scanner again? Continuous UFO sightings in Nevada desert sparks alien debate
The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.
Conspiracy theory channel 'Disclose Screen' has recently released a video featuring a UFO in the skies above Nevada desert. The object spotted in the video moves erratically before it disappears into thin air. Interestingly, the video was apparently shot somewhere near Area 51, the most confidential military site in the US. Now, conspiracy theorists have started saying that the government is testing secret alien experiments in the base, and the increasing number of UFO sightings in the area is a clear cut evidence of this.
The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.
In the same video, the conspiracy theory channel shared the visuals of another weird sighting. In the second video, a white snake-like object is seen flying across the sky, and adding the mystery quotient, it moves in such a way that all the laws of physics have been defied.
As the video went viral, viewers started putting forward various theories explaining the weird phenomenon.
"The first group of objects certainly were strange, but without extreme zoom and clarity, we're stuck once again, without any definitive answers. As for the second one, I was expecting either someone to come rushing by, having snagged their shoot in mid-air or I was trying to figure out what other man-made objects it could be other than a long cut of fabric or paper and if it was either, where did it come from, as it was not floating but falling," commented Headon Enterprises, a YouTube user.
Most of the viewers who watched the video strongly argue that aliens are in constant touch with the government, and they used to visit military bases like Area 51. They even claim that these extraterrestrials are now gearing up for a disclosure which will reshape the entire course of humanity.
The new video was released just a few days after another clip showing an alien-like figure took the internet by a storm. The uploader of the alien video argued that the clip was shot from the S4 Base medical laboratory in Papoose Lake near AREA 51, Nevada. After watching this video, many conspiracy theorists stated that many aliens are being kept as captives in Area 51 after their UFO gets crashed.
UFO'S/Lights over the luxor light, Vegas May 20 (Disclose Screen)
How Area 51 became the center of alien conspiracy theories
Intriguing footage has emerged of a bright, circular UFO moving over Leeds last weekend.
The object had no wings, made no sound and appeared roughly 300 meters above the ground. It was described as being a pure "ball of white light" and moving with "absolute purpose" across a clear sky.
Evidence of the strange object was captured on a smartphone camera by Leeds resident James Goldman, 30, who was at a loss to explain what he was witnessing.
"It definitely wasn't a plane and it was too low to be a satellite. I know what drones look like and it just wasn't a drone either. I doubt it was a military craft because they wouldn't be flying something like that over a populated area," he told Mirror Tech.
A zoomed in image of the UFO that was spotted over Leeds last weekend(Image: James Goldman)
As the footage above shows, the UFO appears smaller and dimmer than the nearly full moon that was also present in the sky.
Gary Heseltine, a retired Detective Constable and UFO expert, verified the footage and was also unable to come to a conclusion over what it might be.
"It was an interesting piece of footage and based on the information supplied by the witness it appears to be anomalous," said Gary, who also runs UFO Truth Magazine which documents unexplained sightings.
This particular UFO was spotted at 10.30pm on Sunday night and moved at a speed Mr Goldman estimates to be around 200kph (124mph) - putting it beyond the speeds of any commercially-available drone.
"It was just a round bright white lit ball slightly metallic in nature," Mr Goldman said, likening it to the kind of light you see when metal is being welded.
It also bore a striking similarity to the Death Star space station from the Star Wars film series.
"I couldn’t believe such an object would fly so low," Mr Goldman said.
The UFO was spotted flying fast and low over Leeds
The question naturally arises whether or not the object was extra-terrestrial in nature and Mr. Goldman confirmed that he had nothing against that idea.
He told Mirror Tech that he had never seen a UFO before and had always been sceptical of mainstream media reports of alien visitors.
But witnessing the object in the sky at the weekend has made him more uncertain.
"It was much clearer with the eye than what the camera has captured," he said. "After I stopped recording it continued to move at a 45-degree angle upwards and disappeared into the distance. It didn't blink out suddenly or anything like that, it just petered out into the distance."
UFO(Image: Photographer's Choice)
They may often be sidelined as the hobby of conspiracy theorists, but the British government has actually been taking UFOs seriously for many years.
In 2008, the government started to release its UFO files to the public in the hopes of being as transparent as possible.
But while the release process was expected to take three years at most, three files still haven’t been made public, according to Nick Pope, a former employee at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Mr Pope said: “Having worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project and having written many of the documents that have already been released, I'm extremely disappointed that ten years after the release of the first files, the project is still incomplete.”
Nick Pope, a former employee at the MoD
Why the Government is withholding the files remains unclear, but Mr Pope explained that the files have been sent backwards and forwards between the MoD and The National Archives at least twice, adding to people's suspicions.
Mr Pope said: “A lot of people think the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and this unfortunate situation is only adding fuel to the fire with regard to these conspiracy theories.”
Mr Pope added that while he and his colleagues took the issue of UFOs seriously, they were often forced to ‘spin’ the subject for the media, ‘disingenuously stating that the subject was of "no defence significance"'.
Do you have any idea what the Leeds UFO might be? Let us know in the comments below or get in touch on Twitter.
How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream
How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream
JAZZ SHAW
If you know about Tom DeLonge, you probably recognize the name first from his work as the frontman for Blink-182 and classic albums such as Enema of the State. But as the popularity of the band decreased, DeLonge began using his good fortune to pursue another interest of his. That was the paranormal, including everything from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster was on the table. But what the singer was really interested in was UFOs and extraterrestrials. The odd thing is, people began taking him seriously… and that includes people in the United States government.
As I wrote about just before Christmas last year, DeLonge was part of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science which brought forward news of a secret government program which had been studying possible extraterrestrial phenomenon and led to the release of military videos showing flying craft which nobody could quite explain. But a number of military pilots thought they had an explanation: aliens. Still, given all of the politicians, military personnel and scientists who were involved, the question still remains… how did a rock star wind up playing such an integral role in making this happen? The Washington Post dug into that curious arrangement this week and came up with at least a few answers.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Reading this story it becomes clear that there was nothing particularly magical or mysterious as to how DeLonge managed to pull this off. It was just tenaciousness. He had made a fair amount of money (and plenty of contacts) through his work in music and publishing and once he launched into the UFO question he just didn’t give up. He was willing to talk to anyone – really anyone – who claimed to have information and he gained a foothold through some people with both government and military contacts. And then he kept on digging.
The biggest barrier DeLonge faced was the fact that there’s an unspoken rule about possible UFO phenomenon. Whether you’re in the government, the military or the media, you don’t talk about it. At least not seriously. To do so is a career death sentence and you’ll be mocked for it relentlessly. But Brad DeLonge had nothing to lose on that score and he kept digging, eventually finding some people willing to share information from inside the government and also some fighter pilots who had questions they knew they weren’t supposed to be asking. What were these things that they had been seeing?
DeLonge’s group has promised that there are more videos and reports being reviewed which will be released. None of it is conclusive… at least not yet. There could still be some perfectly acceptable terrestrial explanations for what they’ve found, though it would likely mean there is technology out there which most of us can’t even imagine and aren’t being told about. Perhaps it’s all U.S. black ops work. Or worse, something from the Russians or the Chinese. Or, just maybe… from somewhere further away.
Good for Brad Delonge. We don’t know what, if anything, he’s actually found yet. But these are questions worth answering and a very improbable agent was the guy who brought the conversation out into the daylight for examination.
Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, and other researchers are actively searching for Pluto’s replacement in the elusive Planet Nine. It’s about time Pluto got some good news.
According to a new study published in the journal Science on Thursday, the surface of Pluto is more geologically diverse and dynamic than had been expected. One surprising find is that Pluto has dunes that give the demoted dwarf planet “Earth-like characteristics” rarely seen elsewhere in the Solar System. Outside of Earth, dunes only exist on Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and, somewhat randomly, Comet 67P.
Led by Matt W. Telfer, Ph.D., of the University of Plymouth, and the team first identified Pluto’s dunes from images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Unlike the sandy hills found on Earth, Pluto’s dunes are made from solid methane ice grains, found on the dwarf planet’s mountainous Sputnik Planitia region.
Dunes (black lines) at the margins of western Sputnik Planitia. Prominent wind streaks are marked with orange lines.
“When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere,” said Jani Radebaugh, Ph.D. and co-author from Brigham Young University. “However despite being 30 times further away from the sun as the Earth, it turns out Pluto still has Earth-like characteristics. We have been focusing on what’s close to us, but there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system too.”
While Pluto’s dunes, situated at the edges of mountains near visible wind streaks, certainly give off an Earthly vibe, the dwarf planet’s atmosphere is considered too thin to actually pick up the tiny grains of methane to form these dunes. Dunes normally require a lot of wind-power to form, and it’s still unclear how Pluto’s methane dunes got there. Telfer’s team posits that methane grains could have been sent into the atmosphere due to the melting of nitrogen ice, or blown down from nearby mountains in Sputnik Planitia.
The age of Pluto’s dunes is also forcing researchers to reconsider what is known about the shamed former-planet. As observed by Telfer and Radebaugh’s team, these methane dunes appear largely undisturbed, which suggests that they were formed within the past 500,000 years or earlier. If they have, indeed, formed in the recent geological past, it would mean that Pluto, at 4.5 billion years old, still hosts an active and changing atmosphere that produces geologically young landforms.
While Earth-like characteristics might not bring back Pluto’s planet status, the rarity of this find means the dwarf planet still has a lot of insight to offer scientists. This discovery means researchers now must rethink the role of a space object’s atmosphere in shaping the surface landscape.
Aside from a stray asteroid whizzing past Earth every now and then, our little corner of the Milky Way may seem pretty peaceful. But in reality, our galactic neighborhood is being held together by an army of the most destructive and mysterious beings in the universe: black holes. Now, for the first time, NASA has captured this terrifying squad in living color.
We first got a hint of how many black holes formed this squad in April, when a Naturearticle revealed estimates that the center of the Milky Way is home to tens of thousands of black holes. In April, when InverseinterviewedChuck Hailey, Ph.D.,the co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory and lead author of that paper, he explained that this mob of black holes occupies an area only three light years away from the supermassive black hole that also resides at the center of our galaxy — Sagittarius A*.
Now, thanks to NASA we no longer have to imagine what the gaping jaws of death in the Milky Way’s core look like. On Thursday, the space agency published an image of the black hole cluster it rendered from data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
All black holes are completely invisible to us because they don’t emit or reflect light — they just gobble it up. Luckily, the region of space shown above is also inhabited by tons of stars, gas, dust for the black holes to feed on. For us to capture images of these perplexing, insatiable life-suckers, they need to be constantly feeding on these celestial bodies.
As debris from nearby stars spiral into a black hole, they form an accretion disk, which is a rotating disk of superheated particles. The debris in these discs heat up to millions of degrees and emit powerful X-rays before disappearing into oblivion. Telescopes like Chandra can pick up on those distant X-rays, which are represented by the bright white spots in the image.
While this image, with its numerous white spots, might seem more surreal than informative, astronomers can tell the relative sizes of some of the black holes by comparing their accretion disks. This also offers insight into how these monolithically destructive forces are transforming the core of our galaxy.
It’s a sobering thought: If you’re ever feeling stressed out or sad by minor Earth things, just remember that our existence is held in the balance by 10,000 to 20,000 black holes.
Ze bestaan niet uit zand, maar uit korreltjes methaanijs.
Onderzoekers ontdekten de duintjes op foto’s die ruimtesonde New Horizons in juli 2015 maakte terwijl deze langs Pluto scheerde. De duintjes bevinden zich aan het randje van Sputnik Planitia – een gigantische gletsjer – en lopen min of meer paralel aan de bergketen al-Idrisi Montes. In totaal ontdekten de onderzoekers in een vrij klein gebied meer dan 350 van deze duintjes.
Vraagstuk In eerste instantie geloofden de onderzoekers hun eigen ogen niet. Want hoe konden in de dunne atmosfeer van Pluto krachtige winden ontstaan die in staat waren om materiaal van het oppervlak op te pakken en elders weer neer te leggen? Om dat vraagstuk op te kunnen lossen, gingen de onderzoekers aan de slag met onder meer computermodellen. En ze denken er nu uit te zijn: het materiaal wordt opgezwiept door sublimatie, waarna de zwakke winden op Pluto het alleen nog maar mee hoeven te vervoeren.
Duintjes op Pluto.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
Methaan Volgens de onderzoekers zijn de duintjes opgebouwd uit methaanijskorrels die ongeveer net zo groot zijn als zandkorrels. En die methaanijskorrels kiezen het luchtruim door sublimatie. Je moet bedenken dat het oppervlak van Pluto bestaat uit methaan- en stikstofijskristallen. Wanneer die sterk genoeg door de zon verwarmd worden, verdampen ze. De gassen die zo ontstaan, haasten zich weg van het oppervlak en lanceren de methaanijskorrels die ze onderweg tegenkomen. Eenmaal in de lucht kunnen die methaanijskorrels – mede dankzij de beperkte zwaartekracht op de dwergplaneet – gemakkelijk door Pluto’s zwakke winden (met snelheden tussen de 30 en 40 kilometer per uur) worden meegevoerd. Waarna ze vervolgens aan de rand van de grote ijsvlakte die aan de voet van het gebergte ligt, worden afgezet.
Afgaand op onder meer de tamelijk onverstoorde vorm van de duintjes, denken de onderzoekers dat deze nog vrij jong zijn. Ze zouden in de afgelopen 500.000 jaar zijn ontstaan.
'We roeien aliens uit vóór we ze kunnen ontdekken'
'We roeien aliens uit vóór we ze kunnen ontdekken'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met die opmerkelijke verklaring voor de Fermi Paradox komt een Russische onderzoeker op de proppen.
Voor zover we nu weten, komt er alleen op onze aarde leven voor. En heel lang werd onze planeet dan ook als heel bijzonder beschouwd. Maar hoe langer astronomen het heelal in turen, hoe duidelijker wordt dat zowel onze zon als onze planeet en de chemie die aan het leven ten grondslag ligt, helemaal niet zo bijzonder is. In andere woorden: het lijkt zeer aannemelijk dat er elders in het heelal leven te vinden is. Het roept natuurlijk de vraag op waarom we dat buitenaardse leven dan nog niet ontdekt hebben. Het wordt de Fermi Paradox genoemd.
Verschillende oplossingen Over de oplossing van die paradox hebben heel veel intelligente mensen al heel lang nagedacht. En het leidt tot verschillende visies. Zo denken sommigen dat het feit dat we nog geen aliens gevonden hebben, bewijst dat zij er niet zijn. Anderen denken weer dat we geen aliens kunnen vinden, doordat zij reeds zijn uitgestorven.
First in, last out In een nieuw paper – dat nog peer review moet ondergaan – komt de Russische onderzoeker A.A. Berezin echter met een heel andere – en ietwat teleurstellende – oplossing. Hij heeft deze de ‘first in, last out-oplossing’ gedoopt. “Wat als de levensvormen die als eerste in staat zijn tot interstellair reizen automatisch alle competitie uitroeien om hun eigen expansie mogelijk te maken?” zo vat hij de oplossing samen. “Ik suggereer niet dat een hoogontwikkelde beschaving andere levensvormen bewust uit zou roeien. Waarschijnlijk merken ze het niet eens, net zoals bouwvakkers een mierennest vernietigen om een gebouw neer te kunnen zetten en een motief om dat mierennest te beschermen, missen.”
Wij zijn de eersten In de vergelijking van Berezin zijn wij niet de mieren. Nee, wij zijn de bouwvakkers. “Wij zijn hier, onze planeet en onze ster zijn nog relatief intact en we denken reeds na over de eerste interstellaire sondes. Als we aannemen dat bovenstaande hypothese (de first in, last out-oplossing, red.) klopt, wat betekent dat dan voor onze toekomst?” Berezin gaat er vanuit dat onze aanwezigheid erop wijst dat wij de eersten zijn die het interstellair reizen onder de knie gaan krijgen – want anders waren we in lijn met zijn hypothese toch al uitgeroeid door aliens? Wij zijn de eersten die dit stadium (het stadium van interstellair reizen, red.) bereiken. En zeer waarschijnlijk ook de laatste.”
Het is een behoorlijk droevige oplossing, vindt ook Berezin. “Het voorspelt een toekomst voor onze eigen beschaving die nog erger is dan extinctie.” Hij schrijft dan ook dat hij hoopt dat hij er met zijn oplossing naast zit. “De enige manier om daar achter te komen, is door het universum te blijven verkennen en naar buitenaards leven te zoeken.”
Wetenschap onthult waar we op Mars gefossiliseerde aliens kunnen vinden
Wetenschap onthult waar we op Mars gefossiliseerde aliens kunnen vinden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In ijzerrijke gesteenten nabij oude meren.
Die conclusie trekken onderzoekers van de universiteit van Edinburgh in het blad Journal of Geophysical Research. Ze baseren zich op een vrij uitgebreid onderzoek, waarbij eerst gekeken werd waar we hier op aarde zeer oude fossiele resten kunnen terugvinden. Vervolgens werden in het lab de omstandigheden op verschillende plaatsen op Mars nagebootst om vast te stellen waar we het beste kunnen gaan zoeken naar gefossiliseerde Martianen.
Gesteente Het onderzoek wijst uit dat sedimentaire gesteenten die bestaan uit modder of klei de grootste kans hebben om fossielen te herbergen. Deze gesteenten moeten zijn ontstaan op de bodem van meren. Ze zijn rijk aan ijzer en een mineraal dat siliciumdioxide wordt genoemd en bijdraagt aan het behoud van fossiele resten. Deze gesteenten ontstonden tussen de drie en vier miljard jaar geleden. In die tijd was er op Mars waarschijnlijk zeer veel water te vinden waarin eventuele levensvormen konden gedijen.
Goed bewaard Wanneer we in deze gesteenten op zoek gaan naar fossiele resten, hebben we één groot voordeel, zo stellen de onderzoekers. De gesteenten zijn namelijk veel beter bewaard gebleven van gesteenten van een vergelijkbare leeftijd op aarde. Dat komt doordat op Mars geen sprake is van platentektoniek die er door de tijd heen voor zorgt dat gesteenten – en eventuele fossiele resten die daarin zitten opgesloten – vernietigd worden.
Missies naar Mars Het onderzoek kan letterlijk richting geven aan toekomstige missies naar Mars. Denk dan bijvoorbeeld aan de volgende Marsrover die NASA – rond 2020 – naar de rode planeet wil sturen. Deze zal actief op zoek gaan naar sporen van leven op Mars. Daarbij is het de bedoeling dat de rover gesteenten verzamelt die in een later stadium terug kunnen worden gebracht naar de aarde. En ook de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie werkt aan een soortgelijke missie. Dit onderzoek kan de ruimtevaartorganisaties helpen bij het kiezen van een geschikte landingsplek. “Er zijn veel interessante plekken op Mars waar we op zoek zouden willen gaan naar fossielen,” stelt onderzoeker Sean McMahon. “Maar aangezien we niet naar al die plekken een rover kunnen sturen, hebben we geprobeerd om de meest veelbelovende afzettingen op basis van de beste informatie die we tot onze beschikking hebben, op een rijtje te zetten.”
Vervolgonderzoek kan dat rijtje met veelbelovende plekken mogelijk nog wat overhoop gooien. Zo wijzen de onderzoekers er in hun paper op dat er nog moet worden uitgezocht hoe eventuele Martiaanse levensvormen onder de omstandigheden waarmee de rode planeet 4 miljard jaar geleden te maken had, fossiliseerden.
Het sterrenschip van de toekomst evolueert onderweg
Het sterrenschip van de toekomst evolueert onderweg
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Vergeet de Enterprise en Voyager. Echte interstellaire ruimteschepen zullen er héél anders uitzien en bovendien continu veranderen.
Op dit moment zijn we nog druk bezig met het verkennen van ons eigen zonnestelsel. En het moet worden toegegeven: daar valt ook nog genoeg te ontdekken. Maar het lijkt een kwestie van tijd voor we het verderop gaan zoeken; de interstellaire ruimte lonkt. Voor een reis naar andere sterren hebben we echter heel andere ruimteschepen nodig dan de exemplaren die we nu of in de nabije toekomst gebruiken om naar het ISS, de maan en Mars te reizen. Grote vraag is natuurlijk hoe zo’n interstellair ruimteschip er dan precies uit moet zien. Een onderzoeksgroep aan de TU Delft doet daar, onder leiding van Angelo Vermeulen, momenteel onderzoek naar. De studie zal niet resulteren in de bouw van zo’n sterrenschip of het ontwikkelen van de benodigde hardware, maar stevent af op een conceptueel ontwerp waar de eerste interstellaire reizigers over enkele decennia of in de loop van de volgende eeuw wellicht hun voordeel mee kunnen doen.
Apollo-missies De afgelopen decennia heeft de mensheid behoorlijk wat ervaring opgedaan met ruimtereizen; we bouwden een paar ruimtestations, zetten mensen op de maan en organiseerden tal van onbemande missies naar andere planeten, planetoïden en kometen in ons zonnestelsel. En er is zelfs één onbemande ruimtesonde die ons zonnestelsel reeds verlaten heeft. Al die ervaring komt natuurlijk van pas wanneer we een bemande interstellaire ruimtereis gaan uitstippelen. Maar tegelijkertijd moeten we ons realiseren dat zo’n interstellaire ruimtereis in niets te vergelijken is met wat de mensheid tot op heden in de ruimte heeft uitgespookt. “Dat heeft vooral te maken met de schaal van het interstellaire reizen,” vertelt Vermeulen aan Scientias.nl. “Tijdens het Apolloprogramma en ook de missies naar Mars zie je dat we stapsgewijs naar ons doel toe werkten. Eerst cirkelden de astronauten om de maan heen, tijdens een latere missie naderden ze het oppervlak, om vervolgens toch weer terug te keren naar de aarde en tijdens een volgende missie pas op het oppervlak te landen. Dat is een heel zinvolle strategie, die je in staat stelt om de risico’s in kaart te brengen. Bij interstellair reizen gaat dat niet. Je kunt niet een stukje interstellair gaan en dan weer terug.”
Neil Armstrong zette in 1969 voet op de maan.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Waar Armstrong gewapend met een draaiboek naar de al uitgebreid in kaart gebrachte maan ging, zullen de eerste interstellaire reizigers een veel onzekerdere toekomst tegemoet gaan. Ze weten niet wat ze buiten ons zonnestelsel tegen gaan komen en dus ook niet wat ze aldaar nodig zullen hebben. Wat ze wel weten, is dat ze niet op de aarde hoeven te rekenen. Een reis naar de interstellaire ruimte duurt decennia of misschien zelfs eeuwen. Even teruggaan om een probleempje of tekort op te lossen, is geen optie: waar de interstellaire reizigers ook tegenaan lopen, ze zullen het zelf moeten oplossen. En met dat alles in het achterhoofd ga je als vanzelf heel anders nadenken over het ruimtevaartuig dat zij daarbij nodig zullen hebben. “Ingenieurs moeten iets ontwerpen zonder dat ze weten waar het in de toekomst mee te maken krijgt.”
Een sterrenschip zoals we dat kennen uit sciencefiction. Mooi om te zien, maar wellicht niet zo praktisch als we denken.
Evolutie Hoe pak je zoiets aan? “De biologie heeft er een antwoord op,” stelt Vermeulen. Sterker nog: eigenlijk komt de natuur met twee antwoorden. “De eerste oplossing is redundancy. Je ziet dat veel bij bloemen en vissen. Zij produceren heel veel zaden of eitjes, in de hoop dat een klein percentage daarvan het gaat redden. Dat is een manier om met een onzekere toekomst om te gaan.” Een andere manier is: evolueren. “In dat scenario is er een compleet ontwerp, dat zich vervolgens middels evolutie aanpast aan de veranderende omstandigheden.” Het is een effectieve manier waarop je een onzekere toekomst kunt omarmen in plaats van eraan onder door te gaan. Vermeulen en collega’s hebben zich dan ook door deze oplossing van de natuur laten inspireren: ze denken momenteel na over een sterrenschip dat evolueert. In dat scenario gaat het ruimteschip zich bijna gedragen als een levend organisme dat gaat roeien met de riemen die het heeft en materialen die het in de ruimte aantreft, gaat gebruiken om zichzelf aan te passen en de overlevingskansen te optimaliseren. Dat klinkt prachtig. Maar hoe gaat dat dan in de praktijk? Daar buigen Vermeulen en collega’s zich momenteel over. Voor nu steven ze af op een ‘asteroid starship‘: een sterrenschip dat uit een kleine ruimtesteen verrijst.
Een 3D-model van een interstellair ruimteschip dat op een kleine ruimtesteen verrijst.
Afbeelding: Nils Faber & Angelo Vermeulen.
Planetoïde Wanneer je een ruimteschip wilt laten evolueren, heb je vanzelfsprekend grondstoffen nodig. En dat is een uitdaging, zo vertelt Vermeulen. “Bij interstellair reizen ligt je snelheid heel hoog. Je kunt dus niet zo gemakkelijk afremmen om wat grondstoffen te verzamelen en daarom moet je eigenlijk ruwe materialen meenemen.” Dat klinkt logisch. Maar hoe zwaarder je ruimtevaartuig is, hoe duurder het is om het te lanceren. Daarom stelt Vermeulen voor om die grondstoffen kort na de lancering in de ruimte op te duikelen. Heel concreet: hij wil een proto-ruimteschip op een ruimtesteen laten landen, waarna die ruimtesteen eigenlijk deel uit gaat maken van de interstellaire missie en dienst doet als bron van grondstoffen. Die grondstoffen worden bijvoorbeeld gebruikt om het proto-ruimteschip groter te maken (dat zal nodig zijn naarmate de populatie aan boord van het ruimteschip groeit). Maar ook om levensondersteunende systemen verder te ontwikkelen (ruimtestenen bevatten water en organisch materiaal) en het ruimteschip aan te passen aan de grillen van de interstellaire ruimte (denk bijvoorbeeld aan straling en inslagen van kleine stofdeeltjes, die door de grote snelheid heel wat schade kunnen aanrichten). In feite wordt de planetoïde zo langzaam maar zeker uitgehold, terwijl het ruimteschip groeit en verandert. Daarbij is overigens een cruciale rol weggelegd voor 3D-printers die de ruwe materialen om kunnen zetten in datgene wat de interstellaire reizigers nodig hebben.
Hier zien we de verschillende modules van dichtbij. Je ziet dat ze verschillende kleuren hebben. Deze vertellen iets over het materiaal waarvan de modules zijn gemaakt. Ook staat op elke module een icoontje dat meer vertelt over de functie ervan (zie inzet).
Afbeelding: Nils Faber.
Het is een prachtig idee dat Vermeulen en collega’s op dit moment verder verkennen. Want er valt nog veel te onderzoeken. Zo wordt momenteel met simulaties bekeken welk type ruimtesteen nu het meest geschikt is om tijdens een interstellaire ruimtereis mee te nemen. “Daarbij kijken we niet alleen naar welke materialen er in een ruimtesteen aanwezig zijn, maar ook hoe ze over de ruimtesteen verdeeld zijn.” Met behulp van simulaties wordt ook bestudeerd hoe een sterrenschip het beste kan evolueren. “Voor nu richten we ons op een modulaire architectuur.” Oftewel een uit verschillende modules opgebouwd sterrenschip. “Dat leent zich goed voor het uitbouwen. Maar evolutie gaat verder dan dat: evolutie herschikt ook. En dat kan met de modules heel goed.” Verder moet ook nog gekeken worden wat de drijvende kracht achter de evolutie in de ruimte moet worden. En wanneer deze aanpak wel en niet werkt.
Reacties Je kunt dan ook rustig stellen dat het conceptuele ontwerp – helemaal in lijn met wat Vermeulen voor ogen heeft – nog volop evolueert. Maar de reacties op de voorlopige resultaten van de onderzoeksgroep zijn overwegend positief. En recent werd het concept zelfs door ESA gepubliceerd als Technology Image of the Week. “Mensen vinden het mooi dat wij de verbeelding aanzwengelen en dat ons werk tegelijkertijd wel verankerd is in concrete data en concreet onderzoek. Dit is in die zin dus geen puur speculatieve studie.”
Dat de mens ooit de interstellaire ruimte ingaat, daar twijfelt Vermeulen geen moment over. Of daarbij gebruik wordt gemaakt van een evoluerend sterrenschip? Die kans acht hij groot. “Als gekozen wordt voor een systeem dat niet evolueert, zul je zien dat interstellaire reizigers het onderweg toch moeten veranderen. Alleen zal dat dan op veel primitievere manieren gebeuren dan wanneer je kiest voor een evoluerend ruimteschip.” Hij ziet dan ook eigenlijk geen reden om het evoluerende sterrenschip niet in te zetten. “Als je toch weet dat je dingen moet gaan veranderen, kun je het maar beter omarmen en ermee werken.” Het zal een behoorlijke ommezwaai worden voor de huidige ruimtevaartsector. “In de ruimtevaart heerst toch een cultuur van controle. De dagschema’s van de astronauten in het ISS zijn bijvoorbeeld tot op vijf minuten bepaald.” Heel anders zal het zijn tijdens de eerste interstellaire reis: aardbewoners zullen al spoedig niet meer weten wat de mensen aan boord van het sterrenschip aan het doen zijn en alleen maar kunnen gissen naar hoe het sterrenschip waarin de interstellaire reizigers vertrokken er na een paar jaar uitziet.
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Interview met Angelo Vermeulen Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: Nils Faber & Angelo Vermeulen
Finger-print like pattern observed near al-Idrisi Montes mountain on Pluto.
Credit: NASA.
For some time, scientists have been intrigued by strange, regularly spaced ridges, that stuck out of Pluto’s cold, dark plains like thumbprints pressed into ice. Now, a new study suggests that these formations are actually dunes made out of methane “sand,” which is striking considering the dwarf planet’s extremely thin atmosphere.
“When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere. However despite being 30 times further away from the sun as the Earth, it turns out Pluto still has Earth-like characteristics. We have been focusing on what’s close to us, but there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system too,” said Dr. Jani Radebaugh, Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University.
Earth is not the only place in the solar system with dunes. Previously, scientists had spotted them on Mars, Titan, and even on a freaking comet. Now, Pluto, a place few expected could harbor such formations, joins the list of dune-bearing worlds.
“We knew that every solar system body with an atmosphere and a solid rocky surface has dunes on it, but we didn’t know what we’d find on Pluto,” said Dr Matt Telfer, Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Plymouth, lead author of the new study published in Science.
The dunes were first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 when it found methane mounds nestled beside the massive glacier that makes up the western half of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia, the famous heart-shaped region. The mounds stretch for more than 12 miles and occupy an area equivalent to twice that of Utah Lake.
Pluto’s heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia.
Credit: NASA.
The frozen sand whose features resembles earthly dunes is shaped by winds blown on the glacial plain from the direction of a mountain range found along Planitia’s border. Scientists know this because of the shape of the piles of sand whose dark streaks allowed them to retrace the direction from which the wind blew.
This was a surprising observation. With an atmosphere 100,000 times thinner than on Earth and an average temperature hovering at about -230°C, it’s difficult to imagine the wind blowing anything there. The surface patterns recorded by New Horizons don’t lie, though.
Researchers modeled the conditions they saw and concluded that the ‘sand’ is made of nitrogen or methane ice. There’s plenty of nitrogen ice adorning the glacier nearby from the dunes while methane is likely sourced from the snowcaps of nearby mountains like al-Idrisi Montes, which drifts down into the plane.
Once airborne, the particles are pushed by winds that blow between 18 and 24 miles an hour. The winds may be powered by the sublimation of surface ice which turns from solid directly into gas when sunlight hits. The upward force is what drives the piles of particles at the surface.
“On Earth, you need a certain strength of wind to release sand particles into the air, but winds that are 20% weaker are then sufficient to maintain transport. The considerably lower gravity of Pluto, and the extremely low atmospheric pressure, means the winds needed to maintain sediment transport can be a hundred times lower. The temperature gradients in the granular ice layer, caused by solar radiation, also play an important role in the onset of the saltation process. Put together, we have found that these combined processes can form dunes under normal, everyday wind conditions on Pluto,” said Dr Eric Parteli, Lecturer in Computational Geosciences at the University of Cologne.
The researchers also think that the dunes are young, rather than ancient, and might still be active. For instance, Pluto’s heart-shaped central plain has a peculiar polygonal pattern which resembles the surface of gently boiling water. This feature is the result of slow convection in the thick layer or nitrogen and other ices over hundreds of thousands of years, according to one hypothesis. If this is true, the dunes have to be more recent than the action of this convection otherwise they’d be churned apart by it.
Personally, I find it remarkable every time we get to see familiar Earthly features on alien worlds, be them tall mountains, vast deserts, or undulating canals. Sights like these, including these most recent findings on Pluto, remind us that, in some respects, our world isn’t that special at all.
Govert Schilling neemt je mee naar een fascinerende bestemming, op 4,2 lichtjaar van onze aarde.
Met een onvoorstelbare snelheid vliegen we door het heelal. De zon is achter ons ineengeschrompeld tot een heldere ster. Voor ons, oogverblindend fel inmiddels, schittert Alfa Centauri. Maar ons werkelijke reisdoel is dat onopvallende rode sterretje rechts daarvan, pas sinds kort zichtbaar met het blote oog, nu we al aardig in de buurt komen. Dat is Proxima, de ster die het dichtst bij de zon staat, op 4,2 lichtjaar afstand.
Onze geigertellers slaan op hol wanneer een tsunami van geladen deeltjes ongehinderd op het planeetoppervlak inbeukt
Het wemelt in het Melkwegstelsel van de rode dwergen. Proxima is de dichtstbijzijnde. Nauwelijks groter dan de reuzenplaneet Jupiter, maar wel minstens honderd keer zo zwaar. Veel energie produceert hij niet; het oppervlak is nog geen 3.000 graden Celsius heet. We brengen ons ruimteschip in een baan rond de dwergster. De cockpit hult zich in een mysterieus oranjerood licht.
En kijk, daar cirkelt planeet Proxima b rond, op slechts 7,5 miljoen kilometer afstand van zijn ster. Een wereld die vergelijkbaar is met de aarde. Proxima b is weliswaar een slag groter en zwaarder, maar heeft ook een kern van ijzer en een rotsachtig oppervlak. En er heerst een aangename temperatuur. Wie weet stroomt er water op deze planeet. Misschien is er leven.
De remraketten gaan aan; we maken een zachte landing op het buitenaardse oppervlak. Gehuld in beschermende ruimtepakken stappen we even later de ladder af. De omgeving ligt bezaaid met rotsblokken. In de verte is een hoge bergrug te zien. Het terrein is kaal en ruig; het oogt zwartgeblakerd.
Op Proxima b valt de nacht. Rechtsboven de rode dwergster Proxima fonkelen piepklein de sterren Alfa en Bèta Centauri.
De blik gaat al snel omhoog, naar die vreemde zon. Proxima b staat zo dicht bij zijn kleine moederster dat die aan de hemel toch nog twee keer zo groot lijkt als de zon vanaf de aarde. En ondanks de relatief lage temperatuur is Proxima veel te fel om in te kijken. Dit mag dan een zwak dwergsterretje zijn, het blijft een gigantische bal van gloeiend heet gas, aangedreven door kernfusiereacties in het inwendige.
En dan gebeurt het. Vanaf het oppervlak van de ster schiet een gigantische tong van vuur de ruimte in. De explosie breidt zich binnen een paar minuten uit over het hele steroppervlak. Proxima verandert in een kolkende zee van energie. De ster straalt steeds feller en feller, tot hij uiteindelijk bijna zeventigmaal zijn oorspronkelijke lichtkracht bereikt. We knijpen onze ogen dicht; zelfs het donkere planeetlandschap is nu oogverblindend helder.
Een uur lang baadt Proxima b in een allesverzengende vloedgolf van uv- en röntgenstraling. Gelukkig bieden onze ruimtepakken afdoende bescherming, anders werden we levend geroosterd. Even later slaan onze geigertellers op hol wanneer een tsunami van geladen deeltjes ongehinderd op het planeetoppervlak inbeukt. Tegen dit kosmisch geweld is geen enkel organisme opgewassen.
Na een paar uur is de supervlam gedoofd, en keert de rust weer. Opeens is het niet langer zo verwonderlijk dat Proxima b zo’n getormenteerd uiterlijk heeft. Dat de dampkring die de planeet misschien ooit had al lang geleden weggeblazen is. Dat geen enkel complex molecuul, laat staan een levende cel, het lang uithoudt in deze hel.
’s Nachts straalt er een heldere ster aan de hemel: onze zon, op een afstand van een slordige 40 biljoen kilometer. Ook die vertoont af en toe uitbarstingen en explosies, maar vergeleken bij Proxima is zij de rust zelve. Met weemoed denken we terug aan onze paradijselijke aarde.
Leven is er niet op Proxima b. We moeten elders zoeken. Verder. Gelukkig heeft het heelal nog veel meer voor ons in petto.
Figure 1 Principle of range measurement using laser
Afstanden meten met lasers, nieuw is het niet. Toch is er vandaag veel te doen rond een geavanceerde vorm van de lasermeettechnologie.
Een van de heetste technologieën van het moment is één waarvan je wellicht nog nooit gehoord hebt. En toch heb je het binnenkort mogelijk zelfs in huis staan – of liever: in de garage. LIDAR of LIght Detection And Ranging of Laser Imaging Detection And Ranging blijkt een cruciale bouwsteen te zijn voor autonoom rijdende auto’s. Dit verklaart ook de plotse toename in start-ups die rond LIDAR werken en de grote overnames die rond de technologie plaatsvinden. LIDAR is ook de achterliggende reden waarom Uber in een bits juridisch gevecht verwikkeld raakte rond een ingenieur die het wegplukte bij zijn Amerikaanse rivaal Waymo.
Radar met licht
LIDAR is een paraplu waaronder verschillende technologieën schuilen om snel en accuraat afstanden te meten. Je zou kunnen stellen dat het een verre verwante is van de lasermeters die doe-het-zelvers gebruiken in plaats van rolmeters, maar dan wel heel wat geavanceerder. Lijkt de naam wat op ‘radar’? Dat is geen toeval, want LIDAR lijkt er wat op. In plaats van radiogolven worden laserpulsen uitgestuurd. De tijd die nodig is om een weerkaatsing te ontvangen, geeft aan hoe ver een object zich bevindt.
Een fotodetector in een LIDAR-eenheid kijkt echter niet enkel naar directe reflecties, maar observeert hoe het licht dat terugkeert verstrooit. Het ziet hiermee hoe een laserstraal ‘breekt’ op een object. Door te werken met miljoenen laserpulsen en verschillende frequenties wordt zo een 3D-beeld van een object gevormd. Met meerdere lasers en door deze te plaatsen achter een bewegelijke spiegel wordt het mogelijk om heel de omgeving te scannen.
LIDAR-technologieën bestaan al decennia. De NASA paste het zelfs toe voor één van de Apollo-maanmissies. Sinds de jaren zeventig wordt breed ingezet, bijvoorbeeld om zeer nauwkeurige kaartdata vanuit vliegtuigen of satellieten te creëren. Er zijn systemen die vanaf extreme hoogte toch in staat zijn om objecten van enkele tientallen centimeters groot te detecteren.
Het is die extreme nauwkeurigheid dat LIDAR zo aantrekkelijk maakt voor autobouwers. Op korte afstand is de technologie veel preciezer, waardoor niet enkel een menselijke lichaam kan gedetecteerd worden maar ook delen er van, zoals armen en benen. Als je denkt aan scenario’s zoals een autonoom rijdende wagen die een fietser moet voorbijsteken, dan is dat wel belangrijk. Maar er is nog veel werk aan de winkel, want het moet nog sneller, nauwkeuriger en goedkoper kunnen. Daarom dat er nog veel ruimte is voor nieuwe start-ups, naast oudere LIDAR-bedrijven, zoals Velodyne. Die laatste begon al tien jaar geleden met LIDAR in kader van een robotautorace die de Amerikaanse defensie organiseerde.
Velodyne was tot voor kort de enige die een LIDAR-systeem kon produceren die goed genoeg was voor gebruik op de openbare weg, maar er zijn nu uitdagers zoals Luminar (verbonden met Toyota en uitvinder van een systeem die in één blik 120° graden bestrijkt) en Innoviz (die samenwerkt met BWM en LIDAR maakt zonder bewegende delen). De uitdaging blijft LIDAR voldoende betrouwbaar te maken voor zelfrijdende wagens van level 3 (conditionele automatisatie met chauffeur die kan ingrijpen) tot level 5 (volledig autonoom).
Recente ongelukken met (semi)-autonome wagens verhoogt de kans dat overheden hier nog strenger op zullen toekijken. LIDAR kan daarbij ook de oplossing zijn. Tesla is één van de weinigen die LIDAR links laat liggen en camera’s in combinatie met slimme software toepast voor afstandsmeting van objecten rondom de auto. Het bedrijf van Musk heeft echter af te rekenen met enkele incidenten waarbij een Model S verongelukte in autonome modus, wat Tesla onder druk zet om toch ook LIDAR te implementeren.
Welke zijn de Top 5 gebruiken van LIDAR? Waarom is LIDAR zo belangrijk?
An artist’s illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet in a distant solar system. Credit: NASA GSFC: JAY FRIEDLANDER AND BRITT GRISWOLD
We've all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons?
In a paper forthcoming in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Queensland have identified more than 100 giant planets that potentially host moons capable of supporting life. Their work will guide the design of future telescopes that can detect these potential moons and look for tell-tale signs of life, called biosignatures, in their atmospheres.
Since the 2009 launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists have identified thousands of planets outside our solar system, which are called exoplanets. A primary goal of the Kepler mission is to identify planets that are in the habitable zones of their stars, meaning it's neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water—and potentially life—to exist.
Terrestrial (rocky) planets are prime targets in the quest to find life because some of them might be geologically and atmospherically similar to Earth. Another place to look is the many gas giants identified during the Kepler mission. While not a candidate for life themselves, Jupiter-like planets in the habitable zone may harbor rocky moons, called exomoons, that could sustain life.
"There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the Sun's habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems," said Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. "Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look."
The researchers identified 121 giant planets that have orbits within the habitable zones of their stars. At more than three times the radii of the Earth, these gaseous planets are less common than terrestrial planets, but each is expected to host several large moons.
Scientists have speculated that exomoons might provide a favorable environment for life, perhaps even better than Earth. That's because they receive energy not only from their star, but also from radiation reflected from their planet. Until now, no exomoons have been confirmed.
"Now that we have created a database of the known giant planets in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties. Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life," said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR's graduate program in the fall.
The title of the paper is "Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone." In addition to Hill, who is the is lead author, and Kane, other contributors are: Eduardo Seperuelo Duarte from Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Ravi K. Kopparapu from the NASA Goddard Flight Center in Maryland; Dawn M. Gelino from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech; and Robert A. Wittenmyer from University of Southern Queensland.
Human Brains Are Too Small To Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe
Human Brains Are Too Small To Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe
The universe is so huge that it boggles the mind when thinking about it. In fact, the true scale of the universe is so big that human brains cannot truly understand the full scale of it and perhaps never will.
The Universe Extends Tens of Billions of Light Years
The universe extends over many tens of billions of light years. For many people this is incomprehensible. Perhaps the easiest way to begin to grasp it is if it is broken down into smaller steps with the first of these steps being to gain an understanding of the size of Earth.
Start with how big the sun is it is around 100 times the size of Earth in diameter. Now consider the fact that when flying from San Francisco to Dubai on a non-stop flight it is about 8,000 miles. This is about the same as Earths diameter. Then consider the fact that the distance in-between the sun and Earth is even bigger, about 100 times bigger as it is roughly 100 million miles. This alone is overwhelming, but in reality, it is a measurement in astronomy. An AU or Astronomical Unit is the “radius of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
Things get even more complex going on when talking about size and distance. The Voyager 1 spacecraft went into space in 1977, and it traveled at about 11 miles per second and was 137 Astronomical Units away from the sun. Then we come to think about the stars, and the closest of them is 270,000 Astronomical Units away, 4.25 light years in fact, and this is the Proxima Centauri star. To put this distance into perspective, the distance is equivalent to the distance of 30 million suns. This is truly overwhelming and difficult to grasp.
The Moon Is As Far As Humans Have Got In the Universe
While space exploration has sent men to the Moon, this is as far as man has got in space. This should come as no big surprise as the distance to the closest star is so vast. There are numerous stars twinkling away in the Milky Way, around 300 billion of them and the average distance between them is four light years. This is something that is difficult to comprehend when sitting on the front porch staring up at the night sky. However, the reality of it is that the Milky Way is vast with a diameter of about 100,000 light years.
Many of the stars in the Milky Way that are like the sun have orbiting planets, and many of these are at a distance and have a size from their parent that suggests they may be capable of hosting life. Many people believe that we are not alone in the universe, but finding the truth is another matter and an almost impossible task as it would take 75,000 years for a spacecraft to arrive at Proxima Centauri, which is the closest of the stars.
The Universe Cannot Be Explored until Suspended Animation Arrives
Space travel is one of the main scenarios in science fiction. TV shows and movies show humans traveling into far-reaching space and coming across aliens. The only way they can make people believe it is possible to go so far into the universe is by coming up with “states of suspended animation.” In the Alien movies, the humans went into suspended animation while they traveled into space. Of course, there was never a happy conclusion in these movies, so perhaps it is good that it is only science fiction. Another successful TV series “Star Trek” featured being able to travel at the speed of light or warp speed.
Centuries ago, astronomers mapped out the measurements of the galaxy, and the true scale of the universe became apparent. It was overwhelming and for the time being science fiction is the only way that humans can travel deep into space to reach other planets.
Light from Stars Astronomers See Has Travelled 13 Billion Years
Astronomers use telescopes to peer deep into the sky and pick up light that comes from galaxies that are distant. Bear in mind that the light picked up has traveled for around 13 billion years they are so far away. The nearest neighbor to Earth is an astonishing 2 million light-years.
The enormity of the universe comes when considering what lies outside the boundaries of the universe seen. Just because humans cannot see it, it does not mean there is nothing there. The universe extends forever, and this is something almost impossible to grasp. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a US astronomer, said 'The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.' For many people this is so true, it is unfathomable.
Earth Is Just One Small Planet in the Universe
Science fiction writers can only guess what is out there and many do not understand the vastness of the universe so they cannot expect to capture the true scale. Earth is only one small planet in the entire cosmos, and this is something that has been a challenge to comprehend by not only science fiction writers but also astronomers and everyday people alike. The reality is that the human brain is too small to be able to understand the full scale of the universe.
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?
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Ancient man’s method of moving large blocks is only one mystery. Another surrounds the techniques of their stonemasons. How did prehistoric civilizations cut such intricately designed patterns in solid granite?
In Palm Springs California, master stonemason and sculptor Roger Hopkins uses a variety of advanced tools to cut and shape hard stones. Powered implements such as diamond-tipped wires and polishers enable him to fashion works of art out of huge granite blocks obtained from nearby quarries.
Yet even with these high-tech tools, Hopkins cannot replicate what ancient civilizations accomplished thousands of years ago. Could these advanced engineering methods be the smoking gun that proves humans had help from alien beings? The precision on some of the work that I’ve seen is just incredible.
It’s possible to do by hand, but it would take an incredible amount of time. Plus, you have to have years of experience to be able to pull it off. In my opinion, the most tangible pieces of evidence that we have regarding possible extraterrestrial technology is when we look at the ancient stone-cutting techniques. Because in some instances, we ourselves today could not replicate what our ancestors allegedly accomplished with stone masonry.
Puma Punku is a large temple complex located on a high plateau in Bolivia. Mainstream archaeologists date the site from approximately The people who lived here had neither a written language nor the wheel, yet somehow they built one of the world’s most complex structures. Ancient alien theorists view Puma Punku as clear proof of extraterrestrial influence. The ruins we find at Puma Punku are simply extraordinary.
Puma Punku defies logic.
The interest of Puma Punku is not so much that the individual stones sorted together perfectly, but the fact that the stones, as such, are of such tremendous design that it requires concepts of mathematics which are far beyond anything we are actually using right now.
Yet somehow in the past, somebody has made that for a specific purpose, and in a way which even computer programs today would kind of go, how is this possible? In the highlands of Bolivia, Puma Punku– some of these blocks are over What can you tell us about this? Boy, they had their stone-cutting abilities pretty well fine-tuned for 5,000 years old. I mean, it’s almost unbelievable.
But these cutting planes that they have on here are very impressive. And some of the incised cuts– see, like in here, all these interior cuts– very hard to do.
I mean, it would be difficult for us with our equipment to get that kind of precision. The inside boxes are a hell of a piece of work.
I mean, if we were to do something like that today, we’d use– what they have, these computer-driven CNC machines which have diamond tips.
And you have a template that, you know, the computer follows. Even then, it may not come out as perfect.
Because even though you can tell that obviously, this piece broke off. Nowhere in here can you see any imperfection. When you’re there, if you go with your finger over these edges, and you put a little pressure on your fingertip, you can cut yourself. This is how sharp the edges are. But where could the ancient peoples have developed such technology? Is it really possible that extraterrestrial visitors provided different construction methods and tools? When I saw these blocks, I didn’t really think that they were cut.
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The first thing really that I thought of was this appears very similar to Frank Lloyd Wright’s textile block system of construction, which he used in his California houses in the early 1920’s. Now what he did was– he took concrete, poured it into molds.
There actually are ancient Incan legends that suggest that they had the capability of softening the stone. At Sacsayhuaman, for example, we find these gigantic stone blocks, gigantic stone walls, where it looks as if those stones were molten, put into place, and then the stone hardened again.
Several hundred miles north of Puma Punku, Machu Picchu sits high atop the Peruvian Andes. Built by the Incas in the 15th century, this stone citadel was suddenly abandoned about 100 years later.
Like Puma Punku, Machu Picchu also has signs of advanced engineering and possibly, molded stones. I can’t help but think that whoever was behind this thought the process through from beginning to end.
They didn’t quarry the rock, and then decide, “How the heck are we gonna transport this?” They knew from beginning to end what needed to be done with whatever techniques and technology they were going to use, so that this was no big deal.
In industry today, there’s a kind of an adage: Keep it simple, stupid. Based on his experience, Mike Dunn believes the simplest way to build the great walls of Machu Picchu would have been to transport small rocks to the site, then melt them, and use molds to fashion exact size and shape needed.
That would solve a lot of difficulties of constructing this wall. First, you have your shapes, all the same size, each shape. So you’re guaranteed that they would fit together as opposed to being cut by different artisans.
Melting the rocks, and then pouring them into place would take and an incredible amount of heat just to spool off pieces of stone. I have a stone torch which I use for sometimes shaping granite. And, I mean, it generates a temperature of in excess of When we look back at the ancients, and we see a technology that they couldn’t possibly know, there’s only two possibilities then: either God did it– which we really don’t think happened– or some high-tech civilization from another planet came and showed them how to do it, then took their materials and tools and went back home.
The idea behind that is that none of these ancient monuments were constructed or manufactured by extraterrestrials.
It was us humans who built it with extraterrestrial technology. It’s entirely possible that there were visitations, that they pointed out ways to do things, and that they wanted to leave some kind of a record.
I mean, if you’re gonna leave a permanent record, the only way you can do that is in stone. But if advanced beings from another planet really did bring their technology to Earth, might the ancient astronauts have left one of their tools behind? The methods used to build huge megalithic structures such as Puma Punku and the pyramids of Egypt remain a mystery.
But what about the tools used to build them? Where are they? And might they provide a clue as to how these enormous stone structures were created? A lot of the real ancient mysterious work was done at a time when there was no steel, and the copper they had was, yeah, they could harden it by cold-hammering it, but still, it wouldn’t make a dent in rocks like basalt and granite.
So they would have had to use, you know, much more laborious techniques othey had some sort of advanced technology which escapes me, and I’ve been in the business 40 years.
The tools and machines must have been equal to the task of actually building the pyramids, crafting those statues to such a high order of precision crafting those boxes to a modern-day precision that you find in our inspection lab.
And the big question: Where are the tools? In the late 19th century, British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie scoured Egypt, looking not for the biggest items, but the smallest. Petrie was absolutely fascinated by the technical achievements of the Egyptians, particularly the early Egyptians. He constantly was looking for how they made things, how they developed things, how they continued to sort of basically perfect their tools.
We’re normally taught that the ancient Egyptians had simple tools, and what Petrie brought out is information that seems to actually argue against that notion. This is an example of a drill hole. You can see the very fine lines on it. You can see the technology that’s made to use it. You can see how it’s a perfect hole almost all the way through, but it tapers at one end. This is a fragment of a diorite bowl.
It’s one of the hardest substances, and you can see on this, on this fragment that there’s a, a lathe mark, which is really interesting that they managed to make such a mark in such a hard material.
Among all the tools discovered by Petrie, however, one stood out from all the rest. While working inside the Great Pyramid, Petrie stumbled across a tubular drill made of granite. Tubular drills amongst the ancient Egyptians were actually fairly common. I mean, Petrie found quite a few of them.
The interesting thing about the one that he found in Giza is that it’s such hard stone that was so carefully carved, precisely grooved. As you can see, it’s got very, very fine markings on it, basically lines, literally a couple of millimeters apart.
You can see it goes all the way round very, very accurately, hardly any waves at all. He was absolutely amazed by this. He kept returning to it throughout his life. His theory was that the Egyptians must have had access to diamonds or some kind of jewel that would have cut it. The interesting thing about Petrie’s theory about how these drill lines are made was that he never discovered any diamonds in ancient Egypt.
So where were they? Where did they go? We don’t know.
If the ancient Egyptians didn’t possess diamonds, how were the precision grooves cut onto the granite drill? Did Petrie accidentally discover a tool made by extraterrestrials? Machinist expert Chris Dunn attempted to answer this question by creating his own granite drill using the known tools and techniques of the ancient Egyptians.
In order to test the Egyptologist theory about how the ancient Egyptians drilled into granite, I took a tube and I fixed a crank on it, and actually used sand and silicon carbide, and after many hours of turning and drilling into this piece of granite, finally got deep enough that I could actually pop a core out.
And the reason for that was to actually look at the surface, not just of the whole, but of the core.
The next step was to use a high-tech industrial microscope to compare his drill core to a latex copy of the one at the Petrie Museum.
We have under the microscope the core that we drilled with the copper tube and sand.
And as you can see, the surface of the core, the striations are not very clear.
There’s nothing really distinctive in terms of the feed of the tool marks using sand and, and copper.
Now bring in the latex that they took of the core in the Petrie Museum, and we see something totally different.
The striations are very clear and they’re quite deep.
The devil is actually in the details, and the details of this particular artifact are what I consider to be a smoking gun in terms of what level of technology we give the ancient Egyptians credit for.
Intrigued by his discovery, Chris Dunn performed other experiments using his precision instruments.
As you can see, this is an inspection surface plate, probably ground to within 2/10,000 of an inch.
That is one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.
Now, I was really amazed when I went inside the Serapeum and put these gauges up against the surface, and found them to be within what I consider to be the tolerance of these particular gauges.
If you would put a piece of paper under one edge of that blade– just a piece of paper– you begin to see that there was would be light leaking through.
And so, the precision on the inside of the granite boxes in the Serapeum are, I would say, within 2/1,000 of an inch, which is incredible because those tolerances can’t just appear by accident.
It was very shocking. It was astounding to me to go to Egypt and, uh, go into a facility that was supposedly same kind of precision. Dunn was amazed.
Dunn had seen evidence of the carvings on granite done in Egypt, and they did they did it with little shards of, uh of quartz. He believes they would have just scratched away the stone with that.
That that’s one possibility, but I mean, that’s a heck of a lot of work to do that. I mean, we’re talking, somebody would devote years to doing something like that.
But precision-cut stone monuments are not the only enduring Middle Eastern mysteries. Engineering experts have also examined the Bible story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.
Just how did they survive for 40 years in the desert? Could they have possessed intricate machines with extraordinary abilities, used not for building, but for man’s own survival? In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Exodus describes how the Jewish people suffered as slaves living in Egypt.
Then sometime in the 14th century BC, the ruling pharaoh feared their growing numbers and ordered the killing of all first-born Jews living in Egypt.
In an effort to save her son, one mother put her child in a small basket and set him adrift on the Nile River. That child was found by the pharaoh’s family, who named him Moses and raised him as their own. As an adult, Moses discovered his true identity and demanded that the Pharaoh free the Jews. When the pharaoh rejected him, Moses helped the Jews escape from Egypt.
Historians believe that Moses and his people crossed the Red Sea and made their way into the Sinai Desert.
According to the ancient text, God grew angry at the Jews for idol-worshipping and forced them to wander the desert aimlessly for 40 years before allowing them to enter Israel.
During this time, the Bible says the Israelites survived by eating a single food source: Manna. But what is manna? A naturally abundant food provided by God or, as some believe? In the Bible, it explains how the Israelites got from Egypt, where they’d been slaves, to the Promised Land.
They had to cross the Sinai Desert. And inevitably, given that there was a lot of Israelites and very little growing, as it was a desert, they ran short on supplies.
God stepped in at this point and sent manna from heaven.
This took the form of some kind of seeds that rained down upon the desert. And then they were collected the next day. And they provided food for the Israelites, except Friday, when there was a double portion, because on Saturday, being the Sabbath, it didn’t fall. While the Hebrew Bible fails to give a clear description of manna, another ancient Jewish text provides an alternative clue.
The Zohar is a collection of spiritual commentaries and interpretations of the Torah and is central to the mystical Kabbalah belief written in the 13th century.
The Zohar describes what is called the Ancient of Days as providing the manna, but what was this Ancient of Days? A man, a god or something else? The text speaks of different-sized brains, different-sized faces that were connected with different tubes and different light sources. Theologians have suggested that this is a description of God.
However, when looked at from a modern perspective, what is described in the Zohar isn’t necessarily a god figure, but rather a type of machine.
Intrigued by this information, two electrical engineers, George Sassoon and Rodney Dale, used the anatomical descriptions of the Ancient of Days to design what they called a manna machine.
This really is-is the key diagram of the manna machine, as we built it up from the text. For instance, one here is the mouth, but it’s actually the air intake, which carries what is described as the breath of life.
The air goes up this tube here, which is described as the brain of the Ancient One but is actually a dew still. So that although we’re talking about the great sea and the hairs of the beard and so on, at the same time, we were able to work out their relative positions and build out the specification of the machine, and find that we had something that was biochemically viable.
The machine took in the moist morning air and condensed it in the part of the machine that looked like a Plexiglas dome.
From there, it mixed with an algae culture. The algae culture was treated with energy, such as a strong laser light, in order to speed the growth. Of course, it needed energy for cultivating the algae. And this was produced, we postulate, in a small nuclear reactor, which would produce both heat and light as required. The manna machine was a very dangerous device. We suspect that the reactor that powered the machine was transported in the Ark of the Covenant. We have multiple references in the Bible that whoever came close to the Ark of the Covenant and didn’t know how to operate it was smitten to death.
And sometimes people, after they encountered the Ark, started to lose their nails and started to lose their hair. So we have evidence of some type of radiation poisoning which was in direct correlation with the Ark of the Covenant.
And so, the Ark of the Covenant housed an extraterrestrial device which was given to the Israelites during their 40-year wandering through the desert. The manna machine is believed to have supplied a highly nutritious form of green algae, or chlorella, as its food source. It’s yet another theory supported by modern science.
We found that work in the field of space travel had already been done, where the green algae– chlorella– was bred in tanks and fed to people living in a closed environment and kept them alive.
Research studies done by NASA in the 1960’s and life could be sustained for extended periods of time by consuming chlorella algae and nothing else. If it’s possible for astronauts to survive on algae, could the Israelites have done the same? The manna machine was a sensitive device. In order to function properly, it had to be cleaned once a week.
On that day the machine was taken apart and cleaned. So it’s possible that the Sabbath we have today actually originated from cleaning this machine.
One theory that one could put forward of course is that the machine, although they knew how to maintain it and make it produce the manna, that it did after a time pack up, not work anymore. And that was why they came out of the desert.
But if the Israelites’ survival depended upon the manna machine, where did they get it? Some believe they had stolen it from the Egyptians prior to their exodus.
Others suspect extraterrestrials gave it to them as a humanitarian gesture, to prevent their starvation in the desert.
Either way, the answer, like the Ark of the Covenant, seems lost to history. Today, scientists have successfully pioneered a process that produces a substance high in protein by means of solar energy, water vapor, and chlorella algae.
Could this be a duplication of alien technology from thousands of years ago? They actually built a machine, a machine based on algae culture producing some type of super food.
And we can find a similar type of technology described in the Zohar. Is history repeating itself? One of the big questions is “where did the machine come from?” And I suppose there are two answers to that.
Either it was built on Earth, which is a theory I can’t really subscribe to. The other question, of course, is that it might have come from outer space somewhere. Now, that’s quite a big leap of imagination, but of course, the interesting part is that it actually produces food as is used by spacecraft. If the ancient world contained manna machines, giant mega-saws, and sophisticated aircraft, what was the energy source for all of this technology? The answer may be hiding in plain sight.
Of all the ancient structures located around the world, perhaps none is more mysterious or as enduring as the Great Pyramid at Giza. At a height of 471 feet, the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world until the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. But while other pyramids and temples contain walls filled with hieroglyphics describing their purpose, the Great Pyramid lacks even a single marking.
What was its function? Why was it built? And what secrets remain hidden inside? Nobody has been able to explain the interior design of this pyramid. It simply doesn’t make sense, according to our logic.
You have narrow tunnels that you have to crouch. You emerge in grand galleries that are nine meters high. You have chambers that made of granite, where granite doesn’t come from in the area. You have to ship the granite by barges 600 miles away.
It’s an anonymous site.
Not a single inscription.
Not a single hieroglyph.
Not a single anything.
It’s just there.
Some people speculated that it was a temple and an initiation chamber, where people would go to the king’s chamber and become enlightened.
There are anecdotal reports about people who have been inside the pyramid and have come out absolutely shaken and– because it was haunted.
Egyptologists believe that the pyramids were built to bury the dead pharaoh.
The problem with the accepted view is the fact that not a single dead pharaoh’s body has been found inside a pyramid, even when the pyramid was completely sealed.
Not a single grave robber could have entered it.
The Egyptologists say it’s to conceal the body.
Well, why advertise it? I mean, there’s nothing more visible than a pyramid for miles.
And to this day, you would have thought, in this modern age, with all the knowledge we have, we should be able to explain this pyramid. We cannot explain this pyramid. Engineering expert Christopher Dunn has been on a personal quest to unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid since the late 1970’s. According to him, there are specific clues in the design and construction of this mega-monument that can help answer exactly why it was built.
When you look at the Great Pyramid and look at the culture that built it, they’re brilliant, brilliant engineers. In fact, a lot of engineers say we couldn’t build the Great Pyramid today. And it was built, supposedly, And it was built to the precision of a machine.
When I started to do the research and I examined the Great Pyramid with the eye of functionality, um, it was built like a machine.
Perhaps it functioned like a machine.
The interior design of the Great Pyramid features four inclined air shafts emanating from the king’s chamber and the lower queen’s chamber.
Like the Great Pyramid itself, their presence and purpose cannot be easily explained. The difficulty of building those shafts is incredible. It’s a bit like building a chimney at an incline across a house. I mean, as a construction engineer, it’s a nightmare.
In 2002, a team of engineers and Egyptologists sent a small robot into one of the airshafts connected to the queen’s chamber. After 65 meters, a stone door blocked its path.
A hole was then drilled through it. On the other side was a small room with yet another door leading further up the shaft. Since the discovery of the door, we’ve had every university, archaeologist, anthropologist, every engineer you can think of– nobody has been able to explain the purpose of the shafts.
But were these shafts ever open? And if they were, what might they have been used for? The early explorers that went into the queen’s chamber found that the walls were coated with a layer of salt.
That kind of gelled with a theory that I had developed.
You had a dilute hydrochloric acid solution coming down one shaft and hydrated zinc coming down the other shaft and when they combined in the queen’s chamber, they created hydrogen. Hydrogen.
It is one of the most powerful energy sources in the universe. In the mid-19th century, it was hydrogen gas that helped lift some of mankind’s first airships, called zeppelins, into the sky. Today, it is used as a fuel to launch rockets into space.
And if thousands of years ago, the Great Pyramid was actually producing hydrogen, that would make it one of the earliest power plants known to man.
The Giza power plant theory is essentially the drawing of energy from the Earth through the Great Pyramid, and converting that energy into microwave energy.
So the chemicals actually come in through the shafts into the queen’s chamber, and then they combine and mix and hydrogen boils off.
The hydrogen is then lighter than air and it will flow into all the upper chambers. The energy from the earth is then vibrating the whole pyramid. The vibrations are picked up in the Grand Gallery.
So it was proposed the Grand Gallery was a resonator hall and there are 27 pairs of slots that actually go up the length of the gallery and then the resonators were mounted in there vertically.
Christopher Dunn is theorizing that with resonating galleries, the pyramid shot a microwave out of one of the shafts, and once you started up this power plant, it would have gone on for years, decades, even hundreds of years without stopping and creating the microwave.
And that was a usable energy that could be captured. Now we can speculate where it goes from there. It could be collected in the immediate vicinity or it could keep traveling off into space. We don’t know.
That’s the mystery. But if the Great Pyramid was actually a power plant producing energy, was it doing it alone, or was it part of a larger network? And are there any clues that could tell us what all of that energy was being used for? Perhaps the 20th century’s most influential inventor was a Serbian-American named Nikola Tesla.
His patents on alternating electrical currents and distribution helped establish the commercial electricity industry. He also made contributions to robotics, radar, and computer science. But while Tesla can be credited for many scientific advances, one idea that fell short was his attempt to create a wireless electrical grid. Tesla’s project was to have these towers around the United States and around the world. And they would broadcast electricity like a television station. Instead of having to string power lines all over the place, you just transmit the energy through the air or through the ground.
There were a number of demonstrations of this device for wireless power transmission during Tesla’s lifetime.
So, we know the device worked. It appears that he was using the conductivity of the ground or the air to carry the electric current.
Basically in the air, if you put enough voltage on it, you’ll get an arc across it. I mean, you see that all the time in a fluorescent light bulb. In the ground, you have water, minerals, salts that can also carry the ions along, and therefore carry the electric current.
But while Tesla’s power towers proved popular in theory, the project ended in financial failure. But could Tesla’s idea of wireless electricity have been a rediscovery of an ancient technology? I believe that what Tesla was doing was trying to recreate what was an ancient power system that was used around the world, and the way they did this was the use of obelisks.
Obelisks as monolithic, granite towers, which are one solid piece of crystal, and the obelisks themselves were cut to special sizes and tuned like a tuning fork.
Could these ancient broadcast towers really have sent electricity up into the atmosphere? And if so, how was the electricity generated? Each of these obelisks would have required some kind of generating power station similar to what we have today.
Electricity is created by rotating magnetic fields. So rotating magnetic fields generate AC power. The very first power station was built by Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls.
You’ve got to have some sort of power that’s spinning the rotating fields, and in this case would be water.
So every obelisk would have had to have had a power station similar to like the one at Niagara Falls. It’s generating power, but the obelisk itself is putting the power into the atmosphere, making it useable.
And this is similar to Christopher Dunn’s theory of the Giza power plant because he believes that the Great Pyramid was actually sending a microwave beam to a satellite that was in orbit around the planet.
That satellite then could have been taking microwave power and then it could transmit it again, in theory, to some other location on the earth, such as, say a remote island like Easter Island or something like that.
From some of the descriptions of ancient flying machines, it’s possible that some form of power beaming might have been used. And in fact, for a lot of the schemes that you see, it actually would make a lot of sense because you could put the power beaming station on a mother-ship in orbit.
You’re just beaming energy to the vehicle, where it’s absorbed and turned into propulsion thrust. It actually makes a lot of sense because you’re taking the energy system, the power system, off of the vehicle and locating it remotely.
Electricity power tools mega-machinery And the ability to explore the heavens Have these technologies been available for just the past few centuries? Or are they of ancient origin, only recently rediscovered? Were our ancestors capable of these incredible achievements? Or might they have come from another source, one much more out of this world? Civilizations were much more advanced than we give them credit, and literally, as advanced as we are today.
In my view, we need to take this seriously simply because of the scale of the work.
We’re looking at monuments that took, perhaps, a century to build. Even today, we have difficulty in considering such a project. It just boggles the mind.
And really, to look at those artifacts and to go back in time and say, how did they do it? We are kind of cracking the lid open a little bit and looking inside to try and see just what happened in our history.
It’s a question which is a scientific question. And you constantly have to ask it. And the possible answer of have aliens visited in the past could be a potential yes. It’s a very specific reason why all of this stuff was built in stone: For posterity.
So it would last. So that a future generation would have to stumble across these monuments. We are that society who can look at these ancient monuments and finally recognize that all of this stuff was built as a message for us to see that our past is way different than what we’re being taught in school.
Deep-Sea Volcanic Springs Aid the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Deep-Sea Volcanic Springs Aid the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
ByABBY TABOR, NASA'S AMES RESEARCH CENTER
Dramatic jets of ice, water vapor and organic compounds spray from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this image captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in November 2009.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano — a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life.
Here, NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog. Lessons learned in both fields will be mutually beneficial and could help design future science-focused missions across the solar system.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are thought to have liquid oceans and hydrothermal activity under icy crusts. Locations on Earth with key similarities to future deep-space destinations are called analog environments. SUBSEA’s target, the springs emerging from a volcano forming the next Hawaiian island, called the Lō`ihi seamount, is an analog for these ocean worlds.
Artist rendering showing an interior cross-section of the crust of Enceladus, which shows how hydrothermal activity may be causing the plumes of water at the moon’s surface.
Credits: NASA-GSFC/SVS, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute
When NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn discovered a plume of water erupting from beneath the icy surface of Enceladus, the characteristics of the plume told scientists what conditions might be like on the sea floor. This included the temperature, pressure and composition, and suggested the presence of hydrothermal activity. Scientists think these moons are good places to look for potential life, because water interacting with rock on their sea floors could yield chemical reactions that would make microbial metabolism possible.
Lō`ihi is an especially good place to test predictions about seafloor hydrothermal systems and their ability to support life. Previous research focused more on locations where tectonic plates come together, but the Lō`ihi seamount involves molten magma erupting from the middle of one of these plates. This is the type of volcanic activity scientists think could be similar to seafloor volcanoes that may exist on Europa and Enceladus. The zones where plates meet may actually be too hot to provide a realistic representation of hydrothermal activity on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Throughout the 2018 SUBSEA expedition aboard the vessel Nautilus, the team’s scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and various academic institutions will study the conditions around Lō`ihi’s seafloor springs across a range of pressures and temperatures. What they learn here will increase our understanding of the potential for conditions that could support life forms on other ocean worlds.
Researchers from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science have now created a biohybrid robot — a robotic device that incorporates living tissue — that remained functional for more than a week. They published their study Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics.
Video Credit: 2018 Shoji Takeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
The first step to create a biohybrid robot: to construct the robot skeleton. The researchers created theirs using 3D-printed resin. They gave it a joint and added anchors where they could attach living tissue. Electrodes they could use to stimulate the living muscle, causing it to contract, were the final touch.
Building the living muscle was the next step. For that, the team used myoblasts, a type of stem cell that eventually matures into different types of muscle cells. They incorporated these cells into hydrogel sheets, poked holes in the sheets to attach them to the skeleton’s anchors, and added some striped structures that would encourage the muscle fibers to grow between the anchors.
Image Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
“Once we had built the muscles, we successfully used them as antagonistic pairs in the robot, with one contracting and the other expanding, just like in the body,” study corresponding author Shoji Takeuchi said in a news release. “The fact that they were exerting opposing forces on each other stopped them shrinking and deteriorating, like in previous studies.”
The bot’s signature (and only) move is bending its “fingertip” up and down. It may be awfully reminiscent of the creepy REDRUM finger motion that kid makes in “The Shining,” but it’s enough for the bot to pick up a tiny ring and place it on a peg. Working in harmony, two of the robots can lift a small square tab.
Admittedly, engineering a “biohybrid” finger doesn’t seem like the most efficient way to accomplish this task. But according to the researchers, robots like these could serve other, more practical uses in the future.
Image Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
First, we could create more complex robots, and then study those to glean new insights into how the human body works and how we might treat medical issues. “If we can combine more of these muscles into a single device, we should be able to reproduce the complex muscular interplay that allow hands, arms, and other parts of the body to function,” said lead author Yuya Morimoto in the press release.
Second, we could start using these robots in the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers could test drugs or conduct other experiments on the muscles of biohybrid robots, which could eliminate the need for animal test subjects. This would be similar to the organ-on-a-chip technology, which is also in development.
While the biohybrid robot finger might have limited uses for now, the future of medicine may end up in its (sort of) hands.
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Hubble’s Galaxy Cluster Cornucopia
Hubble’s Galaxy Cluster Cornucopia
At first glance, this image is dominated by the vibrant glow of the swirling spiral to the lower left of the frame. However, this galaxy is far from the most interesting spectacle here — behind it sits a galaxy cluster.
Galaxies are not randomly distributed in space; they swarm together, gathered up by the unyielding hand of gravity, to form groups and clusters. The Milky Way is a member of the Local Group, which is part of the Virgo Cluster, which in turn is part of the 100,000-galaxy-strong Laniakea Supercluster.
The galaxy cluster seen in this image is known as SDSS J0333+0651. Clusters such as this can help astronomers understand the distant — and therefore early — universe. SDSS J0333+0651 was imaged as part of a study of star formation in far-flung galaxies. Star-forming regions are typically not very large, stretching out for a few hundred light-years at most, so it is difficult for telescopes to resolve them at a distance. Even using its most sensitive and highest-resolution cameras, Hubble can’t resolve very distant star-forming regions, so astronomers use a cosmic trick: they search instead for galaxy clusters, which have a gravitational influence so immense that they warp the space-time around them. This distortion acts like a lens, magnifying the light of galaxies (and their star-forming regions) sitting far behind the cluster and producing elongated arcs like the one seen in the upper left part of this image.
NIKOLA TESLA WAS BROUGHT TO EARTH FROM VENUS, MENTIONS DECLASSIFIED FBI DOCUMENT
NIKOLA TESLA WAS BROUGHT TO EARTH FROM VENUS, MENTIONS DECLASSIFIED FBI DOCUMENT
The letter mentions how Nikola Tesla successfully invented a device that could be used for Interplanetary Communication.
It explains that Tesla Engineers built the device after Tesla died, in 1950, and have been, since that time in close touch with ‘Space-Ships’.
Furthermore, the document from the FBI mentions how Tesla was a Venusian who was brought to Earth as a baby, in 1856 and was left in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Tesla in a mountain province in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, modern-day Croatia.
Everyone loves a conspiracy, and what better conspiracy than to suggest that Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest scientific minds who ever lived on Earth was an alien. And no, it’s not something we came up with, it is not fake news, but this is in fact mentioned in a declassified document by the FBI, freely available here.
Declassified documents published by the FBI in their online Vault mention a number of interesting things about Nikola Tesla.
The document is freely available at the FBI’s online Vault, and is dated to June 14, 1957, and titled “Interplanetary Session Newsletter“ mentions a number of controversial subjects.
The Documents transcript:
Dear Friends:
We have not issued a Newsletter since May 1, 1956 because we have no Space news we could consider authentic. However, now we have some good news to pass along to you.
LECTURE – by George Van Tassel and Dan Fry, in Ballroom of Hotel Diplomat, 110 West 43 Street, New York City, 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20, 1957. Donation $1.25.
George Van Tassel operates the Giant Rock (California) Spaceport and Airport and has been host at four annual Spacecraft Conventions. He is the author of two books: I Rode A Flying Saucer, and Into This World and Out Again. He is also published in Proceedings magazine, usually issued monthly. Back Issues of Proceedings have been reprinted in one volume. Address George Van Tassel, P.P. Box 419, Yucca Valley, California.
Dan Fry is the author of The White Sands Incident. On this book, he tells the story of a trip which he made in a flying saucer from a desert spot on the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to New York City and return, in 32 minutes.
Dan Fry and other gentlemen are now en route to New York by automobile. George Van Tassel and Art Aho will arrive in Mr. Aho’s plane. They all plan to be in New York City at Hotel Diplomat on June 17. They will probably be heard next week on Long John’s program on Radio Station WOR, from 12 midnight to 5:30 in the morning, nightly except for Sunday.
This letter will not reach you in time to sight flying saucers over New York on the night of June 13, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. But there will again be full-scale operations of flying saucers over all American areas on July 1. This will be in three phases as follows: New York Areas, July 1, 9a.m.; Washington, D.C. areas at 9:25 a.m.; general North American areas, after 9:25 a.m.; Central American areas, 9:30 a.m.; South American areas, 9:35 a.m. Second phase: Same areas as above, beginning at 12 o’clock mid-day, July 1. Third phase: Full-scale operations over all American areas beginning at 7 o’clock on the evening of July 1. The above information has been supplied by George King, editor of Cosmic Voice, 88 The Drive Mansions, Fulham Road London S.W. 6. Also, please note that George King has also published back issues of Cosmic Voice in one volume price of $1.00 plus postage. This is beyond doubt the finest “buy” saucer messages that we know of. George King is considered the best telepathic contact which the space people have, although George Van Tassel is the finest we have in America.
Margaret Storm has been assigned to certain work with the Space Popel, as follows: She is writing a book – Return of the Dove — as a story of the life of Nikola Tesla, scientist, and the part his inventions will play in the New Age. Much of the data for his book has been supplied to Mrs. Storm through transcripts received on the Tesla set, a radio-type machine invented by Tesla in 1938 for Interplanetary Communication. Tesla died in 1943 and his engineers did not build the Tesla set until after his death. It was placed in operation in 1950 and since that time the Tesla engineers have been in close touch with the spaceships. The Space People have visited the Tesla engineers many times, and have told us that Tesla was a Venusian, brought to this planes as a baby, in 1856, and left with Mr. And Mrs. Tesla in a remote mountain province in what is now Yugoslavia.
Obviously, the most eye-catching detail mentioned in the FBI document is the following:
“…The Space People have visited the Tesla engineers many times, and have told us that Tesla was a Venusian, brought to this planes as a baby, in 1856, and left with Mr. And Mrs. Tesla in a remote mountain province in what is now Yugoslavia.”
The above details and transcripts can be verified by visiting the following link:
George Washington Van Tassel was an American contactee, ufologist and author. Van Tessel an aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who at various times between 1930 and 1947 worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, and Lockheed.
Van Tassel claimed to have been in contact with a spaceship from Venus. He was invited on board where ‘Aliens’ verbally and telepathically gave him a technique for rejuvenating the human body. The device was eventually built and called the “Integratron” and was supposedly partially built on the research by Nikola Tesla.
George King was the founder of the so-called Aetherius Society, a religious movement based on extraterrestrial contact. King claimed that the Aetherius Society was the result of alien contact whom he referred to as the Cosmic Masters.
The Aetherius Society combines UFO claims, yoga, and ideas from various world religions, notably Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
The Book ‘Return of the Dove’ was dedicated to Nikola Tesla and–according to GoodReads–provides the scientific answer to the great spiritual needs of today’s world. Contents: Now and In the Beginning; The Days Just Ahead; The End of Man’s Crucifixion; This Cosmic Moment; The Nikola Tesla Story; Farewell of the Dove, etc.
The book written by Margaret Storm is considered–nowadays–as a work of fiction providing no evidence whatsoever to back the claims that Tesla was either from Venus or another dimension. However, many readers agree that Storm provides an entirely different view on Tesla, his life, his origin, and his work.
Kwam Nikola Tesla van Venus? De FBI heeft dit geheime document online gezet
Kwam Nikola Tesla van Venus? De FBI heeft dit geheime document online gezet
Nikola Tesla wordt gezien als één van de grootste ingenieurs en uitvinders aller tijden. Bij het grote publiek is hij vooral bekend als de uitvinder van de wisselstroomgenerator en andere belangrijke onderdelen van het huidige elektriciteitsnet.
In een groot online FBI-archief, The Vault geheten, is een interessant document te vinden over Tesla.
De FBI heeft in het archief een ‘Interplanetary Session Newsletter’ opgenomen die dateert van 14 juni 1957.
Interplanetaire communicatie
In het document wordt vermeld dat Tesla een apparaat had uitgevonden dat zou kunnen worden gebruikt voor interplanetaire communicatie.
Dit apparaat zou na de dood van Tesla zijn gebouwd door zijn ingenieurs, om precies te zijn in 1950. Het zou vanaf dat moment zijn gebruikt om contact te leggen met ‘ruimteschepen’.
Venus
Maar dat is nog niet alles: in het FBI-document wordt verder gesteld dat Tesla van Venus kwam en in 1856 als baby naar de aarde is gebracht.
“De ruimtemensen hebben de ingenieurs van Tesla al vaak bezocht en hebben gezegd dat Tesla van Venus kwam en in 1856 is afgeleverd bij meneer en mevrouw Tesla, in wat nu Joegoslavië is,” klinkt het.
What’s the latest news from Mars? NASA’s InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats are on their way to the Red Planet, a tiny helicopter will hitch a ride with the Mars 2020 rover mission, and Curiosity’s drill is back in business! For more Marsexploration updates, visit https://mars.nasa.gov .
Thanks to recent advances in medical technologies, the human brain has become one of the great frontiers of modern science. Brain scanning devices, artificial intelligence networks, and experimental wearables are allowing qualified scientists and amateur “biohackers” alike to begin tampering with the mysteries of the human mind and unlocking hidden human cognitive potential. We might soon find ourselves in a future where the human brain itself becomes just another dataset to be manipulated, uploaded, and stored like any other digital data.
It turns out, though, that the human body might be home to another ‘brain’ entirely, one involved with one of the most important things we do each day. Well, each day for many of us, anyway. Eat your fiber, folks. According to a press release from neuroscientists at Flinders University in Adelaide, the human gastrointestinal tract houses a system of millions of neurons which control the rhythmic muscle contractions which help waste travel through the digestive system.
Nick Spencer, one of the scientists behind the study of this “second brain” published in The Journal of Neuroscience, says“these findings identify a previously unknown pattern of neuronal activity in the peripheral nervous system,” making the gastrointestinal tract “the only internal organ with its own complete nervous system that can operate totally independently of the brain and/or spinal cord.” Spencer and his colleagues even suggesting that this “second brain” might be actually the “first” human brain because it likely evolved before the central nervous system. That is, humans were able to produce bowel movements long before we were able to think about producing bowel movements.
Assidere, ergo sum
The enteric nervous system, as the “second brain” is known, has been known to science for some time, but this study is the first to identify this neuronal activity. While far from discovering an actual second brain, this research does reveal that there are still far more mysteries hiding within the human body and mind than we likely realize. What secrets will the neuroscientists of the future be able to unlock?
Japanse sociale media in de ban van ‘UFO-jongen’. Kan deze dertienjarige telepathisch contact maken met UFO’s?
Japanse sociale media in de ban van ‘UFO-jongen’. Kan deze dertienjarige telepathisch contact maken met UFO’s?
Japanse sociale media waren afgelopen weekend in de ban van nieuws over een 13-jarige jongen die op telepathische wijze contact zou kunnen leggen met UFO’s.
Hij maakte het afgelopen jaar een aantal foto’s van onbekende vliegende objecten, die veel aandacht hebben gekregen.
De 13-jarige Haruya Ido wordt in de Japanse media ook wel ‘UFO-jongen’ genoemd, omdat hij ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten zou kunnen oproepen.
Adamski
Toshitaro Yamaguchi, een bekende paranormale onderzoeker en de man die Haruya’s foto’s als eerste met de wereld deelde, zei dat het jongetje een zogeheten contactee is met het vermogen om telepathisch contact te maken met UFO’s.
Haruya zou vorig jaar op vier verschillende plekken in Japan UFO’s hebben weten te fotograferen. Op zijn website documenteerde hij de waarnemingen.
“Het reflecteert op de straatlampen langs de kant van de weg, ik vraag me af of het een UFO van het type Adamski is,” schreef hij over de UFO die hij op 29 maart 2017 op Awaji in de prefectuur Hyogo fotografeerde.
Wit gat
Foto’s (Haruya Ido)
Op 21 april 2017 fotografeerde de jongen een sigaarvormige UFO in Nozaki in de prefectuur Osaka.
“Er ontstond een wit gat en ik zag zeven dingen die mysterieuze bewegingen maakten,” zei hij over een foto die hij op 30 december vorig jaar maakte. “Ik denk dat het een object is, maar ik weet het niet zeker.”
Aangezien er op Japanse sociale media veel aandacht is voor de jongen, gaan we vast meer van hem horen.
De inwoners van het Deense eiland Bornholm zijn geschrokken, want er is iets dat hun eiland doet trillen en schudden.
Niemand weet wat het is, maar het zijn definitief geen aardbevingen want seismografen registreren helemaal niets.
Bij ons misschien niet zo bekend, maar bij onze oosterburen is het Deense eiland een populaire vakantiebestemming. Het ligt op een strategische locatie in de Oostzee zoals te zien op het volgende plaatje.
Het begon allemaal ongeveer een week geleden toen vooral de bewoners aan de oostkant van het eiland het gevoel kregen alsof het eiland onder hun voeten bewoog. Dit tezamen met een soort geluid dat afkomstig leek van diep uit de aarde zorgde ervoor dat mensen zich verschrikt afvroegen of ze getroffen waren door een aardbeving.
Echter, wat het ook was, definitief geen aardbeving omdat de seismografen helemaal niets registreerden. Het trillen en schudden begon vorige week woensdag en ook op vrijdag gebeurde er weer hetzelfde.
De aarde trilde onder hun voeten, alsook de ramen in hun sponningen en dieren gedroegen zich heel onrustig alsof ze een bepaald gevaar waarnamen.
De Deense geoloog Jorg Butzbach heeft er ook geen enkele verklaring voor en zoekt het antwoord voor dit raadsel dan maar in de lucht zoals gewoonlijk wanneer niemand weet wat het is.
Het is altijd het standaard verhaal: er zal wel een vliegtuig door de geluidsbarrière zijn gevlogen wat het harde geluid en de trillende ramen heeft veroorzaakt. Echter, navraag bij de militaire instanties leert dat er op de momenten dat dit werd waargenomen geen vliegtuigen in de lucht waren die dit veroorzaakt konden hebben.
Hieronder volgt een video van Tyler van Secure Team die nogal wantrouwig is ten opzichte van de geoloog Butzbach. Dit, omdat deze er alles aan doet om de aandacht af te leiden van waar het zich werkelijk afspeelt, onder de grond, en omdat hij maar blijft hameren op een oorzaak in de lucht.
We noemden al eerder dat Bornholm op een hele strategische plek ligt in de Oostzee, dus is het misschien de bedoeling dat Butzbach inderdaad de aandacht moet afleiden omdat er onder de grond allerlei activiteiten plaatsvinden? In de Oostzee, op grofweg 800 km van het eiland, is bovendien een onbekend object gevonden al een paar jaar geleden, waar wij uitgebreid verslag over hebben gedaan, wat mogelijk een buitenaardse herkomst heeft of een basis onder de grond/zee. Het lijkt een grote afstand en mogelijk is het inderdaad te ver weg, maar voor UFO's zijn dit soort afstanden een wandelingetje naar de buurtsuper.
ZULLEN RUIMTESCHEPEN BIJ SATURNUS EEN ROL SPELEN BIJ DE EVACUATIE AARDE ( VIDEO )
ZULLEN RUIMTESCHEPEN BIJ SATURNUS EEN ROL SPELEN BIJ DE EVACUATIE AARDE ( VIDEO )
Dat in de bijzondere tijden waarin wij leven er dito dingen staan te gebeuren, staat buiten kijf.
Zo hebben we gezien dat komeet P67 radiosignalen uitzendt, maar dat is iets dat ook de planeet Saturnus doet, de plek waar zich enorme ruimteschepen bevinden.
Een komeet die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA miljarden euro’s aan uitgeeft om die te onderzoeken.
Ogenschijnlijk kwam er enkele weken geleden een einde aan de Europese ruimtemissie naar de komeet 67P
Op 30 september 2016, om 12.38 uur crashte Rosetta gecontroleerd op de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Om 13.20 uur (Nederlandse tijd), kwam de bevestiging binnen dat Rosetta gecrasht is. Deze vertraging werd veroorzaakt doordat het 40 minuten duurde voordat de data de aarde bereikte. De sonde werd in overeenstemming met internationale afspraken automatisch uitgezet vlak voor de landing, dit om te voorkomen dat de zender als een stoorzender in het zonnestelsel zou gaan werken en andere observaties zou gaan storen. De crash betekent het einde van de succesvolle missie van Rosetta.
Echter, de dag voordat Rosetta crashte, zijn er toch nog wel een paar interessante opnames gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat die komeet toch wel even iets meer is dan men ons wil laten geloven.
Zoals op de volgende opname te zien, hangt er een grote UFO boven de rotsmassa van komeet 67P.
Maar komeet P67 is niet de enige plek waar radiosignalen vandaan worden opgevangen en waar UFO’s worden waargenomen.
Dit gebeurt ook op Saturnus, waar het volgens Scott Waring lijkt alsof de ringen rondom deze planeet fungeren als een soort versterker. Hij zegt dat het voor mensen waarschijnlijk ondoenlijk zou zijn om deze te ontcijferen omdat ze permanent variëren en dat je, om dat te kunnen doen, waarschijnlijk een vorm van AI (Artificial Intelligence) nodig hebt.
De volgende video geeft een indruk van het soort boodschappen die vanaf de ringen van Saturnus worden opgevangen.
Wie denkt dat er niets gebeurt op Saturnus komt bedrogen uit, want naast de transmissies van deze planeet zijn er ook enorme ruimteschepen waargenomen. Schepen die zo groot zijn dat ze in staat zouden zijn om een flink deel van de mensen op aarde, zo niet iedereen, van de aarde te evacueren als dat nodig mocht zijn.
Zijn de signalen van Saturnus misschien een boodschap voor de mensheid om ons te laten weten dat ze klaarstaan en komen als dat nodig is?
Hierbij een deel van een artikel van jaren geleden, waarin duidelijk wordt dat er zich grote ruimteschepen nabij Saturnus bevinden.
Rondom/in de ringen van Saturnus bevinden zich ruimteschepen die wellicht bedoeld zijn voor de evacuatie van de aarde.
En het zijn geen kleintjes; zelfs het mindere formaatje van deze megaschepen heeft een lengte van bijna 12.000 kilometer.
We weten dat er veel meer gebeurt in de ruimte dan de officiële kanalen zoals NASA ons willen vertellen.
Maar toch, ook zij maken fouten en slagen er niet altijd in om alles voor ons verborgen te houden.
Zo verscheen in 2007 onderstaand foto, genomen door de Hubble ruimtetelescoop, met daarop de ringen van Saturnus en nog iets anders...
Naast één van de ringen zie je duidelijk een gigantisch ruimteschip. Ook een foto, gepubliceerd destijds in een Franse krant, laat heel duidelijk deze geweldig grote exemplaren zien rond de ringen van Saturnus.
Iemand die heel veel onderzoek gedaan heeft naar deze grote objecten rondom Saturnus is Dr. Norman Bergrun. Hij heeft ook een boek geschreven over dit fascinerende onderwerp, genaamd “Ringmakers of Saturn”.
In dit boek wordt veel bewijsmateriaal geleverd, afkomstig van NASA ruimteschepen en/of telescopen, die zonder enige twijfel aantonen dat er gigantische ruimteschepen actief zijn rondom/in de ringen van Saturnus. Als we zeggen gigantisch, dan is dat ook precies wat we bedoelen. De lengte van deze cilindervormige schepen variëert van ongeveer 12.000 kilometer voor de kleinste tot meer dan 50.000 kilometer voor de grootste. Even ter vergelijking: de doorsnede van de aarde bedraagt iets minder dan 13.000 kilometer.
In een recent interview verklaart Dr. Bergrun dat er een foto bestaat waarin te zien is hoe wezens één van die schepen verlaten. Het merkwaardige is volgens Bergrun dat ze pikzwart zijn en een lengte hebben van ongeveer 2,5 meter. Een ander interessant gegeven is dat er in de jaren '70 een “contactee” was met de naam Dan Fry die dingen vertelde over Saturnus die hij destijds niet uit beschikbare informatie kon hebben gehaald.
Hij vertelde dat er gigantisch grote ruimteschepen waren die zich verborgen hielden in de ringen van Saturnus. Wat de aanwezige buitenaardsen aldaar hem hadden meegedeeld was dat ze straks een rol zouden spelen in de overgangsperiode van de aarde. Het meest interessante wat ze vertelden was dat wanneer de grote schoonmaakoperatie eenmaal goed zou beginnen, deze schepen gebruikt zouden worden om tijdelijk mensen vanaf de aarde te evacueren.
Eén ding lijkt duidelijk uit alle beschikbare documentatie: er bevinden zich enorme objecten rondom/in de ringen van Saturnus. Het idee dat deze ons komen halen in het geval dat nodig mocht zijn, is natuurlijk wel een hele prettige gedachte.
A UFO found in a forest in the Fujian province of China prompted an immediate investigation, determining that the object really did come from space.
The UFO, however, did not have aliens crawling out of it nor did it come from a planet a million light-years away. The investigation on the once-mysterious object revealed its true origin, disappointing alien hunters.
A crashed UFO was found in a forest in China by a pair of power plant employees while on their way to work. The discovery prompted an immediate investigation, determining that the mysterious metallic object really did come from space.
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UFO In China Identified
There have been several strange UFO sightings since the year started, so there was immense hype upon the release of reports that a crashed UFO was found in a forest in China.
The large metallic object was found by a pair of power plant employees while on their way to work. The workers initially thought that it was a fragment of a wrecked UFO and contacted the police to investigate it.
The investigation of the alleged UFO confirmed that it did indeed come from space, but its origin was from Earth. The object was determined to belong to the Long March 4C rocket, which recently launched the satellite named Queqiao or Magpie Bridge. The satellite will be the first one to operate from the dark side of the moon.
The launch of the Long March 4C rocket and the Magpie Bridge satellite went fine, but apparently, officials of China's space agency lost track of where the rocket's nosecone will land.
The rocket's nosecone is what the two workers discovered in the Fujian forest. The location where the spacecraft component crashed is mostly woodland, but it is near some populated villages. The locals were actually recruited to help carry the once-alleged UFO for safekeeping, and then the authorities retrieved the nosecone and transported it to the launch center.
Recent UFO Sightings
The UFO spotted in China, even though it was not real, continues the trend of UFO sightings in 2018.
The first alien sighting of 2018 was in Mexico, where a vertical UFO was spotted hovering in the air. This was followed by an alleged UFO crash in Antarctica.
Pilots also reported a UFO with a reflection in the border of Arizona and New Mexico, and the most recent UFO sighting was during a lightning storm in the Czech Republic, when a triangular UFO was spotted.
Perhaps the most intriguing report on a UFO sighting so far this year, however, was the newly declassified video that showed U.S. Navy pilots in a run-in with a white UFO over the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. The UFO, which moved very fast, made one of the pilots scream in horror.
A comprehensive military report reveals confounding new details about a UFO incident that took place off the coast of California in 2004.
A Las Vegas TV station has revealed a leaked military report detailing strange UFO sightings in 2004. The report claims the UFO can fly at supersonic speeds and make itself invisible.
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In December 2017, the New York Times made a huge splash when it first reported that military personnel onboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier have detected anomalous aerial vehicles that exhibited technologically advanced behavior no human-made aircraft had ever shown. The report came on the heels of the Pentagon releasing three fuzzy videos showing how the UFOs engaged with the team onboard the aircraft carrier.
The military has since remained mum on the issue, leaving much of the incident in the dark. However, Las Vegas TV station KLAS reports they have obtained a copy of a 13-page reportprepared by the Department of Defense that analyzes the events related to the incident 14 years ago.
Tic Tac UFO Incident Of 2004
In late 2004, the USS Nimitz and its group of ships detected mysterious objects traveling the surrounding skies at supersonic speeds. Even the AN/SPY, a highly advanced radar that can track a golf ball traveling at 100 miles per hour, could not lock in to the UFOs. On Nov. 14, 2004, the supporting ship USS Princeton sent brand-new F-18 jets to further investigate.
"It takes off like nothing I've ever seen," says retired pilot Dave Fravor, head of the elite Black Aces unit and pilot of one of the F-18s. "One minute it's here, and off, it's gone."
The report says the Tic Tac-shaped UFO was solid and smooth, with no visible edges. There were no pylons, nacelles, or wings. Instead, it looked like a "white, candy-coated shell, almost like a white board."
The UFOs, the report says, were able to drop "very rapidly" from 60,000 feet down to 50 feet in a few seconds. Then they would hover unmoving on the radar before they left as fast as a bullet leaving a gun.
Highly Advanced Technology Not Made By Humans
Among other revelations, the report says that even the world's most advanced radars had difficulty locking in and engaging with the vehicles. However, the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) on the F-18s could detect the UFOs when stationary or moving at low speeds.
The report also states that the mysterious vehicles were able to stay stationary at the same altitudes for long periods while being able to take off at supersonic speeds, which suggest highly advanced "acceleration, aerodynamic, and propulsion capability." There were no visible control surfaces or any other means to generate lift.
No aircraft in the United States or anywhere else in the world is known to have exhibited the same qualities, according to the report.
What is highly astounding, however, is that the report states that the UFOs were possibly equipped with "cloaking" technology, allowing them to become invisible to the human eye as well as man-made sensors.
Rendezvous With A Mysterious Underwater Object
As noted by one of the F-18 pilots, the sky that day was clear and blue. The ocean was calm, and there was unlimited visibility. The pilots spotted a water disturbance on the surface of the ocean, which looked like "frothy waves and foam as if the water is boiling."
The disturbance was round-shaped and spanned 50 to 100 meters in diameter. One of the pilots who flew over the area said the disturbance looked like a sinking ship or a submarine. It is possible that the disturbance could be the area of a shoal where corals or an island is barely submerged, but as he flew away, the pilot said the disturbance was gone and could no longer tell where it took place.
The pilot did not see any object in the sky or underwater that could have caused the disturbance, which means that the vehicle could have been able to cloak itself and remain invisible when its pilots want it to.
Fravor also witnessed the disturbance. According to the report, he attempted to get close to the UFO, which he said was hovering above the water disturbance. However, as he started his descent, the object seemed to have detected Fravor closing in and changed its axis to point at him. It was at that moment that the disturbance disappeared, and the UFO took off at a supersonic speed.
Is It A Bird Or A Balloon Or None Of Those?
Since the incident was revealed, the pilots have become the subject of ridicule by armchair experts who postulate that the UFOs were more likely a bird, a balloon, or an objected created by human error.
However, Department of Defense intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who previously headed a secret Pentagon program to investigate UFO incidents, urges everyone to let the data speak for itself.
"Let the information we receive from the electro-optical data; electro-mechanical mechanisms be the tool in which we look and compare what the eyewitness testimony is saying," Elizondo says.
A video apparently shot by a teenager in the skies of Wycombe, UK is now the hottest point of debate among conspiracy theorists. The video shows a UFO flying in the skies in an eerie manner leaving trails of white smoke behind.
Lucas Budel, the 19-year-old teenager who captured the video revealed that he spotted the mysterious flying object near his home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, an area nearer to the Royal Air Force base. Interestingly, the UK government had used this Air Force base to probe alleged UFO sightings reported in the UK.
"I was just sitting in my room at my computer when I saw an extremely bright light falling from the sky. I initially thought it was a meteor falling, which is already quite unusual to see, until its motion stopped for a few seconds and went back up. I was so in awe that I didn't have time to record it. It then disappeared," said Lucas Budel, Daily Star reports.
As the video went viral, most of the viewers strongly argued that the UFO is from outer space. As per these theorists, the object spotted in the video has made some unusual movements in the sky which no human craft can do with the current technology.
However, a section of conspiracy theorists claimed later that the object might be actually a secret military spacecraft flying with the help of alien technology. After closely analyzing the video, Budel suggested that the object might be an electric cloud.
"The best way to describe it was like an electrical cloud moving in alternating directions continuously. At one point it looked as if red sparks or electricity was flying out of it. At another point, it seemed like whatever it was lost its power and started falling to the ground before the 'engines' started back up," explained Lucas.
The new sighting was reported just a few days after another UFO was spotted above the skies of Area 51, the alleged secret military base in the US. The video clip of the incident showed a bizarre flying object hovering across the skies, and at times, it pulsated in a very bizarre manner.
Now, fresh details about the bizarre backstory to one of these unexplained incidents have emerged, courtesy of a recently leaked confidential military reportthat describes "several occasions" where the US Navy detected Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) in late 2004.
But as the document makes clear, the incident wasn't just a one-off, but a week-long series of strange run-ins with AAVs, which "would descend 'very rapidly' from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds".
Once these AAVs dove, "[t]hey would then hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates".
In most circumstances, advanced sensors on board the USS Princeton would track the AAVs during these manoeuvres, until they went out of range.
But in one incident – now immortalised in creepy video footage you can freely watch online – two F/A–18s were vectored to intercept one of the AAVs, with visual contact confirming "an elongated egg or a 'Tic Tac' shape with a discernible midline horizontal axis".
According to the pilots, the craft – if that's what it was – was "solid white, smooth, with no edges… uniformly coloured with no nacelles, pylons, or wings" and estimated to be approximately 46 feet in length.
Per the military assessments made in the document – which at least one observer claims may be a document prepared for the Pentagon, not by it – the AAV was not a known aircraft or vehicle in the inventory "of the United States or any foreign nation … with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift".
But perhaps the most astonishing new details from the report concern is an account of water disturbance on the calm ocean surface, observed in relation to an AAV incident, estimated to be between 50 to 100 metres in diameter and in a round shape.
"It was the only area and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded [the pilot] of images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or ship sinking," the report reads.
"It is possible that the disturbance was being caused by an AAV but that the AAV was 'cloaked' or invisible to the human eye."
Freaky stuff. For now, it's hard to definitively ascertain the report's authenticity, but commentators online are saying the new details demonstrate that "something totally strange did indeed occur."
As for an official explanation of what the report alleges, there is none, with one Pentagon source telling government secrets blog The Black Vault: "We are not able to confirm the authenticity of the document".
Video grab of underground work in progress at a Walmart store. (Youtube)Youtube
Residents in the United States have been reporting some strange underground booms for the past few months, and now, UFO researcher Tyler Glockner has come up with an explanation for the strange phenomenon.
The researcher in a video shared on his YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' said the booms could be due to the secret underground tunneling project under progress.
Tyler Glockner said something really sinister may be happening underground and it could be the handiwork of the elites with the help of government agencies who might be preparing for a nuclear apocalypse. The conspiracy theorist also suggested that these underground tunnels are being made to connect supermarket stores like Walmart so people can survive the doomsday with access to food.
"These massive booms might be linked to an underground tunneling system and your local Walmart store. The theory is that these massive tunnels built underground are all connected to a store. Just think, if something ever did happen, you will have these massive tunnels below the surface which link to these stores that could easily be converted to camps," said Tyler Glockner in the video.
As the video went viral on the Internet, several theories have surfaced to explain the weird booms.
"It is not a wild theory. My local Super-Walmart had construction going on for 2 years on the northwest side of its store. When they were done, nothing changed on the outside or inside of the store. Not even the parking lot changed. There were large storage containers randomly around the construction site that seemed to serve no purpose, other than to hide their work," commented one 'Earl's Daughter' on Youtube.
Some conspiracy theorists believe that these tunnels may have a connection to the secret underground base at the Denver airport so the elites can easily save their lives during the times of an apocalypse. They even claim that there is a secret railway line too, running between the White House and the Denver Airport.
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